Chapter 40: Grandpa Birch

We walked up to the lab.
"Are you okay?" Natalie asked.
"I can't shake the feeling that something bad has happened."
"Should I go in and look?"
"Take Pikachu with you."
"Pika!" the little electric mouse looked ready to fight anything that was inside.
"Come right back out if you don't find him."
"Okay."
I kissed her, and she went inside.
I waited. And waited. After about fifteen minutes, I knew that something was wrong. I pushed open the door and went inside.
"Natalie? Is everything okay?"
"No." I heard her wisper from the front room. "Nothing is okay. Nothing at all."
I stepped into the room. And what I saw would haunt my dreams forever.
My grandpa, Professor Birch, who had seemed like the invincible grandpa in my childhood, looked not so invincible now.
Proffesor Birch lay on the floor, dead from a blast of fire to his head.