A Maiden's Voyage
Chapter 14: Snow Land Assault
Drayke shook me awake. My breath was frosty and I began shivering from the cold.
"Get up, Evelyn!" I rubbed my eyes and sat up on the mass of sheets sprawled out underneath my body. Rotom was buzzing frantically overhead and Vance was nowhere in sight. Sight was the other thing. Everything was dim and seemed like we were still in the night but I got significant sleep so that wouldn't be the case.
"What's going on?" I yawned. My teeth rattled once from the cold, so I wrapped myself a poncho from one of Vance's blankets.
"A blizzard!" Drayke said, running around. There were no pokemon lying asleep, instead the chamber was empty except for myself, Rotom and Drayke, who ran to the entry to the main cave. He stared into the mouth where we had come in from and said some things to himself, inaudible to me.
"What's going on?" I looked at Rotom.
"I don't know, the kid woke me up yelling about a freak snow storm."
"But it's summer." I yawned again. "What time is it?"
"Way early in the morning. We got like a good four and a half hours of sleep." Rotom looked weary while floating in the dim cave. I rose up and went over to where Drayke was standing. At the mouth of the cave, I saw Vance and his three fire pokemon trying to melt the snow, but it kept advancing nearer into the cave. His Flareon was blown by a massive pile of airborne snow and I watched as it shook icy cold from its small body and bolted over to the mass of snow.
"What the hell?" I said aloud. Drayke looked up at me, nervous and I jogged over to Vance and his pokemon.
"Vance where did this snow come from?" When he saw me he just pointed with his chin to the mass of snow blocking our exit. Vance's Blaziken was vigorously kicking flames with its powerful legs, while the Houndour blew embers onto the fragile crystalline snowflakes to melt them.
"Evelyn." Vance said finally, after the snow kept blowing further into the cave. "This snow must've collapsed into our chamber during the night. I felt the cold and began fighting it off with my pokemon. Drayke is freaking out so why don't you take my Flareon and find another way out of here. This snow can't be too bad but I'm gonna try and melt the rest of it. Careful not to get lost, please." Vance said worrisomely. His Flareon yipped up at me and wanted me to follow.
First we went back into the chamber where Drayke was sitting on the ground, shivering. I picked up a blanket and wrapped him with it. It was still warm from when I was sleeping on it and Drayke's face lit up when I wrapped him. His Dragon pokemon were probably kept bundled in his pokeballs.
"Dragons are really weak in the cold." He shivered. Rotom floated near Drayke's head unable to do anything. I told him that after he warms up, to go help out Vance because he was in shorts and was probably freezing as well. From our little chamber I could hear the grunting of Vance's Blaziken and the barking from his Houndour. Drayke looked up at me with fearing eyes and I assured him everything would be alright.
"Drayke, you're a brave little kid, and I believe in you. If you feel better, you should go help
Vance because he needs you right now. Your Dragons can really make a difference." I kissed his forehead and ran off with Flareon and Rotom. I looked back once to see Drayke sitting there red-faced, then bolted deeper into the cave. The cold receded but everything became dark and I couldn't see a foot in front of me. Rotom's light wasn't enough to make me able to see down the rest of the tunnel we were running through.
"Rotom, Flareon, anyway we can light up this cave?" I said to the two pokemon. They both understood and used Discharge and Flamethrower, respectively. The attacks revealed the cave to be a straight line that angled downward. It became dark again, but I figured there must be another entrance. I could hear the breathing of Flareon as we ran and shortly nearby Rotom made several buzzing sounds. A light appeared at the end of the cave and my running pace changed to a dashing sprint.
Nearing the exit we zoomed through the rest of the cave, which was devoid of any Bat pokemon, and ran outside. It was very cold, as the entire ground was covered in snow. I looked up at Mt. Coronet and saw thundering clouds and snow falling on the other side. The pokemon and I had run into a small valley in between Mt. Coronet and other mountains that separated the region in half. Though, I still couldn't understand how we were getting any snow in the middle of summer.
"Please let them be okay." I huffed and could see my icy breath before me. I looked behind me and saw that Flareon and Rotom were both growling at something. When I looked around there wasn't another person or a pokemon in sight.
"What's there, Rotom?" I looked at my Ghost pokemon, trying to make sense of what was happening. We were in a crisis situation but something is happening here that doesn't quite add up.
"There's something here."
"Something?" I winced from the cold. Then something behind me growled and both the pokemon turned to face me. When I turned around I gasped when I saw a floating phantom staring me in the face, watching as it floated in the air like Rotom.
"R-Rotom? What is that thing?" I asked Rotom when the pokemon advanced nearer to me. I had never seen this pokemon before and since my poketch had been destroyed by the Society there wasn't anything I could do to gather information about my adversary. The icy pokemon was small like Rotom, and covered in snowy white. It had long white, stringy arms that grew into wing-like appendages where its fingers sprouted out of. Its head sported two ice horns and its eyes were a deep blue. Its eyes were fixated on all three of us, but it gave me a frightening aura that caused me to freeze with fear and from the cold. The most defining piece about this mysterious pokemon was the red ribbon tied carefully around its waist.
"Froslass." Rotom spat the word out like it was dirt. "She's an Ice as well as a Ghost type."
"Frosss," The Froslass growled. Flareon became enraged, and ran after the elegantly frightening Ghost pokemon. It was two against one and both of my pokemon had attacks that Ice and Ghost pokemon were weak to.
"Wait maybe we can try and reason with her before we fight. We probably stumbled into her territory and she's angry because we won't leave." I said looking at the Froslass trying to reason with her.
"Frossss." The Ice/Ghost pokemon continued growling. She then raised both of her arms above her head and gathered energy into a dark sphere that oscillated between her skinny fingers.
"That's a Shadow Ball!" Rotom yelled. She released the ball of energy which launched at Rotom. Rotom was able to dodge, but I had to move over because it seemed like she had flung it at me. Flareon screeched and barked at me.
"Use your flamethrower!" I pointed into the direction of the Froslass but she just twisted her body and spun around the flames before the attack could make contact. Flareon charged at Froslass, releasing more and more flames towards the fragile ice pokemon.
"Friss!" The Froslass growled. She raised her arms and fired another Shadow Ball at Flareon, sending it flying backwards. It got up with great difficulty from a powerful Ghost attack.
"Rotom help out Flareon! Use Ominous Wind!" I ordered Rotom to attack the pokemon, but she just flew around the murky attack like it was nothing. I saw her through the blackish haze and it seemed like she was cackling at us. Or it could've been the howling of the hail she created. The snowstorm grew large and engulfed the entire snowy plane we were on. The rocky terrain was transformed into a snowy battlefield that generated massive ice shards flying through the air. I even had to duck once to avoid being impaled by one of them.
"Flareon! Rotom!" I called out to the pokemon, but couldn't see through the thick snow fall. I wandered through the hail trying to find my pokemon and avoid being impaled by airborne icicles. While walking, Froslass appeared before me in the hail and growled viciously. I turned around and ran away. Rotom was buzzing somewhere nearby and I called to him to use an Ominous Wind to blow away the storm.
"Frossss" The Froslass growled again and followed me through the storm, firing off an occasional Shadow Ball that I had to jump away from. One of her strikes actually struck the snow in front of me and caused a pile of it to get blown into my face. I fumbled, trying to get it out of my eyes and it stung from the cold melting on my flesh. The Froslass was gearing up to strike me, but Rotom used another Ominous Wind that struck the Froslass and blew the hailstorm away. Flareon was facing away from us but turned around and fired a flamethrower once it could see again. Froslass glided underneath the fearsome blast of fire and if she weren't trying to kill us all I would've tried to make friends but that seems impossible at this point.
Rotom was floating chaotically, avoiding ghostly shadow attacks as he tried to make it
closer to her. Once he was close enough I ordered him to release that blue burst of lightning that Rotom was famous for. The Discharge attack was expelled from Rotom's body. Froslass darted underneath the attack and jolted another Shadow Ball which blasted Rotom several feet back until he collided with a snowy solid wall.
"Rotom!" I ran after my fallen pokemon, but Froslass was gliding furiously after me. She prepared another Shadow Ball which blasted snow all around me and this time I was smart enough to cover my eyes. Flareon jumped in front of me and guarded me with its Flamethrower but Froslass just seemed to know exactly where Flareon would direct the flames and carefully managed to avoid ever coming into proximity with those searing attacks.
I slipped back and dug Rotom out of a pile of snow where he lay and thankfully the attack wasn't enough to make Rotom lose consciousness.
"Damn, that was really powerful." Rotom winced but was able to float up into the frosty air.
"Frosssss!" The Froslass roared and her mouth glew a faint blue. Flareon growled and prepared to fire off another series of flames but was stopped short due to Froslass's attack. She used an Ice Beam that froze Flareon solid, before any flames could be used to defrost itself. The Froslass cackled and floated after us, leaving the vulnerable Flareon a standing ice sculpture.
"Froslass stop! We don't want to fight you!" I stood next to Rotom, as she floated, she pumped her arms to intimidate us. I was shocked at how agile and powerful she was, but she must be running out of energy and that would mean she would let us go.
"Friss, Frosssss!" She roared and shot another Ice Beam, this time it was directed at me. The frosty beam of ice was incredibly fast and I wasn't able to dodge the attack. I screamed in pain as the attack froze my entire right leg solid and it was frozen into the ground so I couldn't even move.
"I'm stuck!" I yowled. Rotom was flustered when he saw how Froslass caused me this pain and flung himself at her. She was intimidated by him and when he was within spitting distance, he shot her with a Discharge attack. She countered with her own Ice Beam. The two energy attacks collided and hers was evidently stronger.
Rotom wasn't able to retaliate and thus was blasted head on by her attack. He floated weakly to the ground, and didn't get back up, despite my yelling his name.
"Rotom no!" I yelled looking at my defeated Ghost pokemon. Then the image of the Ice pokemon came into view. She looked at me and my frozen leg, then floated viciously at me preparing to finish me off with a Shadow Ball. I didn't know what would happen once I was struck with that attack but she was cold-blooded and it seemed like after she was finished with me she would kill my pokemon.
"Stop!" I yelled at the icy ghost that was about to strike me down for good and I closed my eyes where the end was nigh.
"Dragonbreath!" I heard from afar. My eyes remained shut but all I heard was the Froslass get shot by an attack that came from up high near the peak of Mt. Coronet. I opened one eye to see the stricken Ice pokemon lying on the ground near me and she got back, then fiercely hunted after her attacker.
"Evelyn!" A familiar voice called from above me. I smiled warmly amid the cold and knew someone had come to my rescue. I, too, scouted the air for Froslass's assailant and saw flying in the air, Drayke atop his Flygon and they were marvelous while the flew. Drayke waved down at me and I waved up at him, and pointed at me injury which began shooting pains up to my skull. My leg was frozen into the ground and my flesh was freezing at subzero temperatures. If I didn't get out of this trap quickly, I would lose all feeling in my leg. I started rubbing and breathing heavily on the ice that coated my leg in any ditch attempt to thaw myself out.
At this time, Froslass found Drayke and Flygon in the air and started firing Ice Beams at them. I watched helplessly as Drayke flew around the icy beams and hoped that he wouldn't get hit. Dragons must be weak to ice which is why Flygon can't be hit by one of Froslass's attacks or else he would topple hundreds of feet and meet a harsh demise.
"Drayke!" I yelled at him. "Be careful!" He didn't look at me and instead guided his Flygon through the nasty attacks that almost would bring him to his death. From the ground I saw him throw a pokeball down near me and his Altaria ruffled its cloudlike wings and purred when it entered the world.
"Altaria, your master needs your help!" I looked up and the Altaria joined me in looking at Drayke flying through the air skillfully as he avoided all of Froslass's Ice Beams while flying on a Dragon pokemon. Altaria waddled up to me and began huffing on my frozen leg and I realized Drayke had flung his pokeball near me so that Altaria could free me while he distracted Froslass. I was also in shock over the fact that Froslass was able to take down Flareon, Rotom and still had enough fight to fire off multiple Ice Beams at Flygon and Drayke.
"Hey, careful," I said quietly to Drayke's Altaria. It looked up at me and tilted its head.
"If that Froslass sees you she'll come after you with her powerful Ice Beam." Altaria acknowledged my observation and looked at Froslass who was busy trying to blast Drayke and Flygon out of the sky.
"Ow." I winced when the cold shot up my body. Altaria and I were breathing heavily on my leg and barely did anything. We really needed a fire to defrost my leg but Flareon was also encased in ice. I looked over at Flareon and it was still immobile from the snow.
"Maybe you should go help Flareon?" I pointed when Altaria looked up at me. It tilted its head again then waddled over to the Flareon trying to avoid being in Froslass's line of fire. Altaria breathed a light dragonbreath at the frozen Flareon and my eyes were glued onto Drayke and his Flygon who began going offensive and shot dragonbreaths down at Froslass. She was able to float around the pillars of energy while she returned her own attacks.
She saw Altaria was trying to thaw out Flareon and I screamed when Froslass shot an Ice Beam at Altaria.
"Altaria watch out!" I yelled. Altaria heard my voice, flapped its wings and was shot upward into the air barely managing to avoid the attack. Froslass backed up to get both Dragon pokemon in her line of sight and I was impressed at her ability to analyze the situation while still fearing for my life. Another wave of cold pain rushed from my leg and I began losing feeling in it. "Shit." I don't want to have to cut my whole leg off but I won't have a choice if it becomes limp from the cold.
"Flareon! Can you hear me?" I yelled at the Fire pokemon encased in ice. It was at this time that I saw Flareon's mouth was almost completely defrosted. It seemed that Froslass had encased Flareon just as it was preparing to launch a Flamethrower and the heat from Flareon's suppressed attack was able to melt some of the ice.
"Flareon!" I yelled again. I watched now as Altaria and Flygon flew around Froslass's coordinated Ice Beams and prayed that neither of them would get struck. Drayke had timed a Dragonbreath perfectly and it hit Froslass when she was busy focusing on Altaria. Froslass was blasted into the snowy ground and another Dragonbreath was about to finisher her off when she darted away. Altaria flew after the fumbling Froslass and struck it from behind with its powerful wings. Froslass tumbled down a snowy hill deeper into the valley, meanwhile Flygon and Altaria landed near me. Drayke hopped off his Dragon and ran over to me. I hugged him and his hand touched my icy leg and he winced from the cold.
"Are you alright?" He said to me. I nodded my head and he looked around for the other pokemon. He saw Rotom lying on the ground and Flareon who was still trapped in the ice. Drayke ordered his Flygon to use another Dragonbreath to melt away the snow that surrounded Flareon. Once the ice got really thin Flareon's suppressed Flamethrower jolted out of its body and furiously pounded into the mountainous wall creating a huge dark spot that melted all the snow.
Flareon looked around for Froslass and stopped when it saw my condition. It ran up to me and breathed fire onto my frozen leg defrosting it. Once I was able to chip away myself from the ground and I sat in the snow, rubbing my leg from the cold.
"Where's Vance?" I huffed from the ground.
"He was attacked like you were." Drayke said. My eyes widened. The Froslass had taken on Vance and his Fire pokemon, defeated them then came after me. This was definitely a sight to behold.
"Drayke you need to go make sure Vance and his pokemon are okay." I looked up at him and stood up.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going after that Froslass."
"Why?"
"Because it hurt Rotom and I want to calm it down before it destroys the entire Sinnoh region." I ran and picked up Rotom in my arms. He flickered his eyes awake and looked up at me as I ran down the snowy hill where I saw Froslass fall down into.
"We're not dead, Aria?" Rotom said while he lay weak in my arms.
"Drayke flew in to save the day. Him and his dragons took on Froslass and she tumbled down this hill." He looked down and searched for her. I knew Rotom would like some payback, too and when we reached the bottom of the hill I saw there was a river amid the snow but no Ice pokemon in sight. That's when Rotom motioned over at a patch of snow many feet away where Froslass was lying on her back resting. She hadn't even noticed that we had come down the hill.
I looked at Rotom who was beginning to fly out of my arms and was able to fly on his own.
"Are you alright? What if she attacks?" I whispered in the snowy terrain we stood in. Rotom and I looked at her and she rested in the ground peacefully. I looked beyond her as something shiny caught my eye. A metal pipe stood lonely in the snow just before the river and looked completely out of place. I quietly went over to inspect it and didn't cross too far when Rotom alerted that the Froslass had woken up. I watched her as she floated to life and growled at Rotom.
I looked around the out-of-place metal rod and noticed a mound of snow directly in front of it. This place must be where the Froslass lived or somewhere nearby. I saw Rotom and Froslass battling now for the second time. Round two of the fight was much slower than before. Both Ghost pokemon were weak from fatigue and their attacks were strained as well. Froslass was trying desperately to avoid all of Rotom's attacks but even his Ominous Wind was able to strike her.
Digging through the snowy mound, I uncovered a large wooden box. I gasped when I realized it must've been a coffin and this was a grave… that I was desecrating. The box was too big to contain a human so I conjectured it must be a pokemon. Then I saw some words etched onto the slab and the letters were kind of hard to read but I could make out most of what it said: Here lies the ... of a mother that couldn't make into the world to … ... of its own. The mother, a lonely Froslass ... me to create this coffin for her ... Snorunt child. Then I saw a name etched beside this epitaph and couldn't really see the first name but I definitely understood the last name as: UNDERWOOD. Wilbur. He was that wacky first Gym Leader I faced and defeated. He must've built this coffin for Froslass long ago when her baby died. I immediately felt a wave of sadness rush over me as I watched her fight Rotom. A single tear rolled down my face and I ran up as it struck the wooden coffin and made a single spot of the wood damp.
I ran quickly yelling frantically at the two altercating Ghosts to try and stop them. They both stopped attacking and I was shocked when the Froslass ceased.
"Froslass you need to stop fighting, we're not your enemies." She looked at me with squinty eyes and waved her arm up at the storm that Rotom and I looked up at. Did she think we had caused the storm?
"Listen I know you're scared but you need to know-" I wasn't able to finish because she flung another Shadow Ball at me, then floated off. I saw that she was floating into the distance where Oreburgh City lay. The storm Froslass was talking about was directly over the calm city and lightning was violently striking the city. I couldn't see very far but I did see blizzards were bombarding the buildings as well and people were probably in distress.
Rotom and I regrouped with Drayke and Vance, who was very worn out from moving snow and being attacked by Froslass.
"She hit me with one of her Shadow Balls and I think I would've died if Blaziken hadn't taken her attention off of me." He huffed.
"All my pokemon were defeated by an Ice pokemon." He pounded his fist into the snow. I tried calming him down but Rotom looked frantically at me. He looked in the direction of Oreburgh and I relayed this to Drayke and Vance.
"What do you think she wants with Oreburgh?" Vance looked at me funny.
"I'm not sure but somethings not right here. How can there be a snowstorm in the middle of summer?" Drayke nodded at me when I said this.
"Evelyn's right. That doesn't make sense." Drayke added.
"Well that's not part of our mission. We need to head on over to Floaroma Town and avoid confronting the Society again."
"Vance we have to go and help the people in Oreburgh, this snowstorm is vicious and that Froslass just wandered into town. She's going to cause trouble down there. Please we need to help what if that was your home she was attacking?" I persuaded. He nodded at me and shook his head saying this was a bad idea. The four of us bolted down the same snowy slope where Froslass and Rotom battled for the second time and followed an icy trail that led to the city limits.
When we approached the city, the fences that surrounded it were torn to shreds. Vance kept us from just wandering and we quietly snuck in through the side. When we entered the city I noticed everything was the same from when I had first come to get my Gym badge only everything was desolate. There were no people and everything was coated in a thick layer of ice. Houses were encased in solid ice and people were probably trapped in buildings whose windows and doors were frozen.
When the weather became unbearable we found a pokemon center in town and quickly
entered but Rotom had to force it open with a Discharge attack. Once inside we felt some warmth if you can call it that. The entire pokemon center was covered in ice and the floor a slippery slope. There were some people inside the center but they were icy statues. Nurse Joy was standing at the counter and her whole body was frozen as she was bending over to pick something off the front desk. I peered through her into the back room and saw a shaking body wearing a hat with a red cross sported in the center.
"Hey is someone there?" Drayke called from behind the counter. The shaking body turned out to be a Chancey who was afraid it would be frozen just like the others. The Chancey approached us and was frantically yelling about things I couldn't understand.
I whispered to Rotom. "What did she say."
He whispered back. "Spacemen came in and froze everything. And she saw a Froslass through the ice, float quickly over towards the mine."
I asked the Chancey if she could heal our pokemon and she happily obliged. The machines that this pokemon center used to heal pokemon was frozen solid but Chancey was able to heal all of our pokemon with her Softboiled egg. Even Vance looked energized when he took a bite out of the egg. We all came into the back room where the Chancey was hiding and began resting. I decided there was no time and opened my big mouth to relay what Rotom had translated from the Chancey.
"Guys, Team Galactic invaded this place. They're responsible for this devastating ice storm." I relayed to Vance and Drayke later when everyone got comfortable.
"They must be trying to conquer Oreburgh, severing Hearthome City from the rest of Society Sinnoh." Vance analyzed. "Everyone seems to be either frozen or trapped in their own homes. What about that Froslass?"
"Chancey said she saw Froslass float into the mine." I told Vance, after a quick look at Rotom who urged me to get up and leave.
"Let's go after her." Drayke piped up.
"No, I'll go after her." Vance said, standing up. "My pokemon and I are well enough to take her down once and for all, and I'm not putting you guys in danger." He said all heroic and annoying at the same time.
"Vance, we're a team so cut the hero act, we're coming with you." Drayke said, surprising even me. I agreed with him and Vance scolded Drayke as we all walked out of the center. I waved back at the Chancey who helped us but I could see her hospital hat working underneath the desk to try and defrost her master, Nurse Joy.
We ran through the storm which started to clear and after a few minutes of running I led the boys around another block and soon the Oreburgh Mine came into view. We ran underneath the frozen mine machinery that held coal and hid when we saw Galactic Grunts outside the mine shaft, guarding it.
"Drayke and I will distract them, Evelyn, you go on in. You've had the most experience dealing with Froslass." Vance said.
"Be careful, Evelyn." Drayke said and the boys broke out of hiding. The Galactic grunts attempted to apprehend the boys but their pokemon got in between and a battle ensued between the Bridge and Galactic Grunts. Rotom and slipped through the frozen metal and got into the mine undetected.
Torches were hanging in metal rings bolted into the walls that illuminated the whole mine. As we got deeper I saw Froslass had her back to us. Directly in front of her was a Galactic operative that when they saw me laughed a very maniacal and familiar laugh.
"Wow I thought I'd never see you here, Aria." The lips of Geraldine Swan (A.K.A Galactic Jupiter) were plump and red from before. I thought I'd never see her again but that was short lived.
"Geraldine." I said, the word like dirt. "Why did you bring a snowstorm to this city?"
"Do I need to remind you that we are at war? It's about time the land started switching sides and this place was ripe for the taking. This city and soon all of Sinnoh will be reunited under Galactic Rule. We're not going to let you or anyone else get in our way so back off. And call off your frosty little snowfreak she's pissing me off." Geraldine motioned at Froslass who was returning an icy stare back at Geraldine. "Is this your friend, who is trying to intimidate me? Because I'm not afraid of a little Ghost." With that Froslass launched and Ice Beam directly at Geraldine. She moved to the side as the wall behind her was completely frozen. She threw a pokeball that released a monstrous pokemon I had seen only once before when she fled the Galactic Headquarters in Eterna City.
"Rhyperior, use Earthquake in this filthy rotten mine! Blow it to smithereens!" She roared. The Rhyperior she sent was a giant rock pokemon that shook the entire mine with its powerful rock body. The ground underneath me shook violently and I lost my footing once and fell to the ground. Rotom floated near Froslass and used an Ominous Wind at the Rhyperior. Both of the Ghost pokemon were floating, thus immune to the Ground-type attack. Rhyperior flung rocks at Rotom which kept him at a distance and Froslass wasn't idly standing by. She charged after Rhyperior and fired off Ice Beams. They harmed Rhyperior as far as I could tell but weren't enough to topple the giant rock beast.
"Let's kill this damn Ghost once and for all, use Rock Wrecker!" Geraldine roared. The Rhyperior dug its drill-like arms into the wall of the mine and excavated a giant stone which it flung fiercely at Froslass. She wasn't able to dodge the large and fast rock as it smacked her frail body into the ground, but she wasn't squashed, I saw her limp body roll down into the fissures generated by Rhyperior's previous attack.
"I'm gonna stop whatever you're doing here, Geraldine!" I yelled at her and her pokemon. Rhyperior smirked at Rotom as he was delivering an icy glare. Geraldine placed one hand on her hip and looked at us like we were lost kids.
"Earthquake and let's get out of here, Rhyperior, we have things that need to be done." She grinned and started walking away. Before we could advance any further Rhyperior shook the ground violently once more, this time the floor itself collapsed in on itself and a huge pit started emerging around my feet. My poncho fluttered in the chaotic chamber we were in and I lost my balance, falling into the hole that was the ground.
"Rotom!" I screamed, falling deep into the ground. Rotom didn't see where I fell in and all I could see were the walls of the cave I was in until I hit the ground not too far from the surface. My body rolled down a steep rocky plain and I stopped when I rolled into the side of a wall. It knocked the wind out of me and my whole body was in shock. Pain ran up my entire body and I couldn't feel my legs, my head writhing from being knocked into solid rock. I coughed where I should've been breathing. Little did I know I had fallen right beside the daunting Froslass whose ice body made my throbbing head cold while she laid right above me. We were both sealed into this pit when huge parts of the ground collapsed due to the Rhyperior's colossal attacks. Everything became dark and I slipped away into unconsciousness.