All right, you guys - I've posted two chapters today! TWO! So if you want to see what happened in the chapter before this, make sure to read that before moving on, or else the one after this may not make too much sense. Then again, it still might. Not that I'd ask you to skip a chapter on purpose.
Anyway, here we have Cyrus reacting to something that happened...*grins*
Chapter 46 - Dreamscape: After-Effects
Cyrus awoke that morning feeling like he had been tossed into a volcano.
The night had started out nicely enough - no thunderstorms; no deep, endless pits lined with hungry Seviper.
And then came the heat.
It hasn't been much, at first - almost unnoticeable, not really anything to worry about. Then it began to increase in strength, annoying the Galactic leader to no end. When it started to become unbearable, Cyrus began to search for the source - which was hard, considering that his dreamscape was the maze that is Spear Pillar.
It seemed to take hours before he finally managed to locate the source: a volcano located in the center of the ruins, spewing out its gases into the already dark sky above. The Galactic leader didn't know when it got there, or how - but he did want it off his mountain.
Unfortunately, the volcano didn't leave. The heat slowly became stronger instead, as the lava began to leave in sudden spurts from the "spring" that had formed there.
Cyrus had swallowed down an upwelling of fear when the lava spring had begun to shake and increase in outtake. Slowly, a single claw of glowing red began to emerge, taking hold of the opening's edge. The Galactic leader had backed up slowly as what was attached to the claw followed it out, eyes widening when he had realized that the monster was the Pokemon Groudon.
Cyrus had steeled his nerves in an attempt to stand his ground and force the dream figment to disappear, but that hadn't worked. Instead, the Pokemon had suddenly increased in size, the heat reaching unimaginable heights. The Ground-Type had then begun to lumber towards Cyrus, its intent clear on its face.
The Galactic leader had been startled of of his dreamscape the moment the Legendary's claws had hit him in the side, sending him careening through the air towards an especially large pillar.
Cyrus, sitting in his bed, started to wonder if actually creating a world in his image had been a good idea...
Yes, yes, yes! The Galactic Goonie is rethinking his own ideas! But will he be the one to reverse everything? You guys will have to find out!