They woke early the next day, but decided to stay a little long on the island. They were on rotation today. They had decided when they fist set out that three of them would be in the air, one flying low, and the fourth in the water. It was Seth's turn in the water. Lily was to be the low flyer, and Kip and Gaby were in the high flying positions. They did this for safety reasons. If one of their Pokémon got too tired, their rider would go onto their partner's Pokémon and recall theirs(This was the only way Gaby would agree to fly relitivly close to Kip.
About midday they left the island. They were quiet today, not talking much. They flew for a couple hours, mostly over open water, but they spotted an Island now and then.
About 3 hours after they had left, the air started to get chillier. This was strange since they were flying south. Gaby and Lily were the first to notice. Gaby went down to Lily's level.
"You feel that?" Gaby asked Lily, looking concerned.
"Yeah...What do you think it is?"
"No idea...But I don't like it."
Seth overheard their conversation and stopped. Kip did also, and Gaby and Lily stopped too.
"Why has it gotten so cold? Aren't we getting near Hoenn's southern tip?" Kip asked.
"I don't know..." Seth said, looking worried.
"Oh, Shit!" Lily said suddenly.
"What?" Everyone asked.
"I've been through these... We've got to find land as soon as possible. There's a storm coming, and by the feel of it, it's a bad one. And I mean REALLY bad. I've only gotten through one of these, and I was nearly killed."
"I'll check it out," Gaby said. She grabbed a Pokéball from her bag and levitated off Trouble(who she had been riding on). She returned him, threw her bag to Kip, then dove into the water.
Gaby dove down(Still in human form) very deep, so she couldn't see the surface. She then transformed, and dove to the floor with amazing speed. She monitored the underwater currents. Her eyes widened. She dove back up, transformed while she was still underwater, then levitated back up.
"Damn! Lily's right, this is going to be one hell of a storm. We have to find shelter, and fast."
She went back up to Kip, grabbed a Pokéball, released it, then jumped back on Trouble.
Everyone sped away forward, scouting from their positions to find land. Half an hour later, they hadn't seen a single island, and it had started pouring. And I mean POURING. The rain was coming down so hard, even Gaby was having trouble flying up high, let alone Kip. His Noctowl was not used to flying with a passenger at all, and the strong winds and limited visibility made everything worse. They were all being battered around like dolls. Except for Lily. Lily had given up riding Kip's Lapras, and was now flying low on Arrow, her Salamence. And Lily was the only one flying regularly, her Pokémon being trained for hard-weather flights.
"We can't weather this much longer!" Lily yelled over the pounding rain. "We need to land!"
"Well, in case you haven't noticed, there is no land!!" Gaby said, frustrated.
"I know, it's just that you guys can't weather it. I've done this before. But I don't think Kip and Seth could make it!"
"Hey!"
"Sorry, but it's the truth. I doubt you'd survive a cyclone!"
"CYCLONE?!" Everyone said, looking at her.
"Uh, yeah...Did I forget to mention that?" Lily asked, trying to remember. Everyone else got little Anime Sweat Drops.
"Cyclones. Great. Just what we need!" Gaby said. Then she looked behind her to yell at Lily, but stopped. She looked away into the distance.
"L-Lily...Look behind you...!"
Lily turned around. Gaby and Lily, being Pokémorphs, had superior eyesight. Those two Pokémon both happen to have great sight. And what they saw they didn't like.A HUGE cyclone was coming towards them at an alarming rate. Gaby and Lily looked at each other. All they could do was run.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're sorry to interrupt your flight, but FLY AS FAST AS YOU CAN IN THIS GENERAL DIRECTION!!!!" Lily said, streaking forward as fast as possible. Gaby followed with both Kip and Seth at her side. They caught up to Lily quickly. The boys had guess that there was a cyclone coming towards them. And from the looks of it, it was coming fast.
They flew, but the winds made it impossible for them to go fast. The cyclone, however, had no problem cutting through. In a matter of minutes, it was almost upon them.
Kip was lagging behind. Nightflyer was giving out. It had never flow this far so fast with a heavy weight on it's back. Gaby, realizing this, flew back to her partner. He jumped, trying to get to Gaby, but the wind blew him off course, and he missed and fell. Gaby grabbed onto his wrist just in time. She jumped off Trouble, levitating, then returned him, bringing out Dragonsong(Bringing out a Charizard would be a bad idea in such wet weather). She hopped on and swung Kip on behind her. Kip returned his Noctowl.
By now, Lily and Seth, not knowing that Gaby had doubled back, were far ahead of them, and the Cyclone was almost on Kip and Gaby. Dragonsong flew as fast as he could, trying to catch up to Seth and Lily, but the Cyclone acted like a vacuum, drawing them back in.Now the Cyclone was less then 50 feet away and drawing them in closer. Dragonsong managed to break free of the Cyclone's grasp and fly towards Seth and Lily, who by now had realized Kip and Gaby were missing. They doubled back and caught them.
"You guys ok?" Seth asked. Gaby, Kip and Dragonsong nodded.
"Right. So-" Lily started, but she was cut off by the Cyclone. It was now drawing them all in.
"FLY!" Lily cried. Everyone tried to fly out of the Cyclone's grip, but they just went closer and closer. Soon it was right on top of them. Kip was now clinging onto Gaby, and Seth and Lily were staying close to each other to make sure they didn't fly off their steeds.
But the Cyclone was winning. It drew them in, until they were 15 feet away. Suddenly Seth flew off his Flygon. Having enough sense, he grabbed a Pokéball and returned his Pokémon before he disappeared into the Cyclone.
"SETH!" Lily cried. But then the winds pulled her off her Pokémon. But Lily opened her wings and rode the winds, and managed to stay straight and return her Pokémon. Then the winds took her too, dragging her out of sight.
Now Gaby and Kip were left. They knew they wouldn't make it for long. Kip was now full-on clinging to Gaby. Gaby looked surprised at Kip, but then looked determined. There was no way she was going to lose him.
But the winds wanted to change that. It sucked Kip off of Gaby and tried to take him away, but Gaby grabbed his hand and held on tight.But Gaby herself was pulled off Dragonsong. Dragonsong, being smart enough to realize that Gaby couldn't return him, touched his Pokéball and returned inside.
"Gaby..." Kip said, looking at her. She was struggling to stay in one spot(using her Psychic powers) and hold onto Kip at the same time. "Don't let go..."
"Don't worry, I have no intention of doing that!" Gaby said. With that she smiled.
Now the wind was pulling at her fiercely. She struggled, her silvery hair blowing all directions, but the wind won. Gaby, still holding on to Kip, was sucked into the Cyclone.
I won't let go...
Kip opened his eyes. He was on...Someone?
"So you're awake?" a familiar voice said. Gaby? Kip thought. Gaby's head turned around to the side to see him.
"Gaby...Why am I on you?" Kip said, still delirious.
"Would you rather be floating in the water?" Gaby said. Kip looked down. Gaby was standing on the water. In fact, she was in the middle of nowhere.
"No-thanks."
"Alright, then," Gaby said. "Do you have any idea where we are? I think we're about 75 miles southwest of where we were when the Cyclone picked us up. Near anything?"
Kip sat for a moment, trying to remember. Finally his brain woke up and remembered.
"Yup, we're probably about 10 miles east of Pacificlog...Yeah, see?" Kip said, pointing to a small mound in the distance.
"Right. Hold on!" Gaby said. She leapt into the air, then flew along, high in the clouds.
Seth sat up, rubbing his head. He was on land, that he knew, but where he didn't know, or care at the moment. He looked around. Lily was lying unconscious a few feet away. Seth rushed over to her, and tried to shake her awake. She opened her eyes. Unfortunately, Seth was right over top of her, and to Lily, it didn't look right.
"I was trying to HELP YOU!" Seth said, rubbing his face, which now had a red handprint on it.
"Sure!" Lily said, not believing him at all. Then she looked around. "Where the hell are we, anyway?"
"I have no clue."
"I'll check it out," Lily said. She opened her wings to try to fly, but when she did, she fell down again, wincing.
"What's wrong?" Seth said.
"Dammit!" Lily said. She unfolded her left wing. It had a long, deep gash in it, and it looked infected. Seth went over and looked at it.
"This could be a problem..." Seth said, looking it over carefully.
"No, you think?!" Lily said angrily. The pain was almost unbearable. Seth looked around. He spotted some trees with long leaves and went over. He jumped up and grabbed one, then went back to Lily. Slowly and carefully, he bandaged it up, Lily wincing all the way. When he was done, Lily looked at him.
"Uh...Thanks," She said. Seth nodded.
"We still don't know where we are," Lily said.
"No problem!" Seth said, reaching for his Pokémon. Lily looked for hers, just to make sure they were there. They were. Seth had his, too. He grabbed one, threw it up in the air, and climbed on his Tropius. He flew up, looked around, then came back down.
"I think we're just south of Pacificlog town. This must be one of the islands close to it."
"You go on ahead," Lily said, trying to stand up. She fell, but Seth caught her.
"I'm not going anywhere until you're healed," Seth said sternly.
"Fine!" Lily said, sitting down. She didn't show it, but she was glad he wasn't leaving.
Seth smiled too. He didn't show it, but he was glad he wasn't leaving either.
