p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Heeeeeeey guys! Eh heh! Been a while huh? Sorry, but college comes first. But to make up for it, I'm posting two new chapters! Enjoy!/span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sounds and Signs"/span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Bells. Why-oh, the mid-morning bells. The tower rang with a happy, peaceful melody, as I tried to get more comfortable. It wasn't possible, considering I was in a hard-backed chair. I groaned and opened my eyes. The lights were still on and Tonio was asleep on the floor. I slowly slid out of my chair, following his lead. I crumpled onto the hard ground and closed my eyes. So much better then the chair...Muffled voices filtered through my half-awake mind./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Tonio? It's Alice!" Nooooo, I want to sleep./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry to bother you!" Was that Dawn? Yea/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Y/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ea/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"T/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"hat's Dawn. I shifted, rolling from my side. I twisted to see Alice, Dawn, Ash, and/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Brock walk through the oaken doors./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Tonio?" Alice caught a glimps of his feet from behind the desk and gasped. "Tonio! Are you alright?" They all crowed around him, as Alice knelt and started to shake him. Quietly, I rolled over completely and got to my knees. I paused, and watched the scene unfold with a smirk./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Oh, Alice! Good morning!" Tonio smiled. Annoyed, Alice dropped his head from it's cradled position in her arms./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Well! Don't sleep on the floor!" The trio grimaced at the site./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry." He chuckled. "I found a reference to the nightmare in Godey's diary last night. Wish I could have one." I grimaced. No he didn't. Darkri's nightmares were frightening. I had fallen asleep next to him more than once and it wasn't pleasant. He didn't mean to and I didn't blame him, but they were awful./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Not only that, I found a picture of your grandmother! It shows her with Godey." Dawn's Piplup, waddle/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"d/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" over to me, and I p/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"a/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"tted it's head. Pikachu and Chimchar followed after. I smiled and let Chimchar climb onto my arm. I petted his head, while Pikachu stood in front of me looking at Piplup. I saw it on a chair and starts to get up. Piplup maneuvered it's head under a music disk's cover and flipped it backward. Pikachu caught it, but wobbled from the weight. He hopped on one foot to regain his balance, but ended up bouncing backwards, toward me. Pikachu tripped over a wire and the disk cover flew. Luckily, my arm shot out before it could hit the ground./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""That was a nice save, I guess." Ash said, coming up behind me. I nodded and stood, replacing the cover. Pikachu rubbed the back of his head embarrassed./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash looked up at the rows of music disks above my head/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""What are those?" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash asked. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Dawn and Brock had joined him./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Music disks." I /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"answered/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""'Scuse me?" The three looked at me./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""That's how the towers music is able to play!" Tonio clarified. His clothes were crumpled from his night from the floor, the green vest showing small streaks of dirt near the hem. The darker green v-neckline hit what dirt there was near the top. His white undershirt was rumpled, but manageable. Apparently, he had dusted off his arms. His brown pants showed no wear whatsoever./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Oh! Can I try?" Dawn asked./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""But to do that, we'll need to walk all the way to the top!" Tonio exclaimed./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Dawn placed her left hand on her heart and s/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"miled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""No need to worry!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"She announced. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Piplup copied her and I smiled. Alice agreed and told Dawn to pick a disk. I helped, s/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"i/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"n/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"c/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e I knew how they were /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"cataloged/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;". After that, we made our way up to the surface. We walked to the stairwell and started up. A comfortable silence descended as we continued. We were a quarter of the way up when Dawn moaned/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Me and my big mouth."/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" She frowned./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" I chuckled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Come on, move it! Run! Race ya to the top, Dawn!" Ash yelled. He ran by me and I /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"winced/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;". Poor kid, he didn't know what he was doing. The rest of us continued up, until we reached a platform that held Alice's air balloon./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Should we?" Tonio inquired. Dawn, Brick and Alice nodded. I just sighed./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You guys go on, I'm gonna make sure Ash makes it up alive." I said./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Tonio paused, unsure./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You sure, Dantspan style="font-family: Verdana;"é/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri;"?" Alice voiced the question. I nodded again./span/span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""I need the /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"exercise/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;", anyway." I smiled and patted my stomach. She and Dawn giggled. As they got in the balloon, I stared up. I'm gonna regret this./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"It was a while before I caught up to him. Ash was panting and sweating. He looked over his shoulder at me./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Whe-where are the o-others?" He managed. I opened my mouth to reply, but was cut off by Alice calling out to us./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey, guys!" They were smiling and waving. Horrified, Ash /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"stopped./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey, let me on!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"He yelled up. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"They laughted and Ali/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ce just waved. /span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry, but you were fast!" Alice apologized./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You can climb!" Brock taunted. Ash just groaned and continued up. I giggled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Cheer up, you've got me!" He looked at me, non-plused. I smiled and/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" reached for my belt./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Here, maybe this will help." I took out my pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"balls and tossed them up. Light poured out and formed my beloved Absol, Haunter, Umbreon, and Houndoom. They greeted me in their /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"varied/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" ways and I looked at Ash./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Okay, that's pretty cool."/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"After about an hour or two of walking, we made it to the top of the stairs. I had long ago returned my Pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"mon, more for my sake, then their own./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""And here's our own beacon of hope, now!" Brock said, amusement coloring his voice. What? Obviously I had missed something./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""FINALY!" Ash cried. He stood panting, hunched over, leaning in the railing. Brock just smiled at us, while I moved to the control panel in the center of the room. They followed, Ash having fully recovered./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Normally, it's set to play on the hour, but if there's something special you want to play..." Tonio spun the lever that controlled the circle if disks. Then he popped out the disc in front of Dawn./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You put in the disks you need!" Alice finished. She took out t/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e disk and stepped back to allow Dawn room. As she stepped forward, Ash /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"interrupted/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey! I wanna do it!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"He cried. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I rolled my eyes. A little to late./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""No way! This was /spanemspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"my /span/emspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"idea!" Dawn rebutted. He groaned in disappointment, but stood back, letting Dawn continue. She placed it in the grove, and Alice instructed her to push it down. When she did so, Alice gave her disk to Brock./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I walked over to her and helped her pull the lever down, making electricity jump from the conductors on top of the control panel. As every thing turned on, music slowly started to build. It sounded like a celebration. Happy and triumphant./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You see, this is also the largest musical instrument as well!" Tonio informed them. I swayed to the sound and closed my eyes./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Come on, let's go down! I'm starving!" Alice called. I smiled and helped set the ballon up for flight. When all crowed in, Chimchar let loose and got us moving./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Ya know, balloons rock!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash said. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I laughed at /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"the boy /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"and nodded. The music continued as we slowly floated to the ground./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"When we finally got there, we saw the same three trainers outside./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""If it isn't Ash. So let's battle again!" The /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"black trainer/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" said./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""I need someone to play with Torrtera!" Called the brown haired man./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Me too?" The female asked. Dawn and Brock accepted gleefully. As she took her place and called out her Infernape, Dawn and Brock released Sudowudo and Buizul./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Every one settled into there battle stances, with the exception of me, Alice, and Tonio. We stood on the sidelines, content to watch./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Pikachu, get movin'!" Ash yelled, pointing at the dark-haired guy's Empolion. The little mouse creature ran forward and leaped into the air, intent on attacking./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"A small beeping made me flicker my attention to Tonio, who held a small device in his hand. He gasped and ran inside. I furrowed my brows. What was wrong? A pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ball started to rattle. Absol. I started to unclasp his ball, but stopped when I felt familiar air waves move my hair, making it almost float around my shoulders. What the-/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Pink. blindingly it light lit up the sky. I cried out in shock and snapped my head upwards, watching the rippling lights. My mouth was hanging open I amazed shock. It lasted for a good two minutes, before it paused, turned slowly, and then got sucked up, back from the point where it came from./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"We stood in a group, staring at the sky in-between the two towers, silent until Ash spoke up./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""What was all that?" His Pikachu echoed his question./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""The sky just lit up!" Dawn added./span/p
p class="p"emspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"'Go away.'/span/ememspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /span/emspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I stood rim-rod strait. I knew that growling voice. Why was he here, in the middle of the city? He never came here!/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I slowly turned and saw /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"him/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Darkri was floating right behind me./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.0000pt;" /span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sounds and Signs"/span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Bells. Why-oh, the mid-morning bells. The tower rang with a happy, peaceful melody, as I tried to get more comfortable. It wasn't possible, considering I was in a hard-backed chair. I groaned and opened my eyes. The lights were still on and Tonio was asleep on the floor. I slowly slid out of my chair, following his lead. I crumpled onto the hard ground and closed my eyes. So much better then the chair...Muffled voices filtered through my half-awake mind./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Tonio? It's Alice!" Nooooo, I want to sleep./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry to bother you!" Was that Dawn? Yea/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Y/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ea/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"T/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"hat's Dawn. I shifted, rolling from my side. I twisted to see Alice, Dawn, Ash, and/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Brock walk through the oaken doors./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Tonio?" Alice caught a glimps of his feet from behind the desk and gasped. "Tonio! Are you alright?" They all crowed around him, as Alice knelt and started to shake him. Quietly, I rolled over completely and got to my knees. I paused, and watched the scene unfold with a smirk./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Oh, Alice! Good morning!" Tonio smiled. Annoyed, Alice dropped his head from it's cradled position in her arms./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Well! Don't sleep on the floor!" The trio grimaced at the site./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry." He chuckled. "I found a reference to the nightmare in Godey's diary last night. Wish I could have one." I grimaced. No he didn't. Darkri's nightmares were frightening. I had fallen asleep next to him more than once and it wasn't pleasant. He didn't mean to and I didn't blame him, but they were awful./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Not only that, I found a picture of your grandmother! It shows her with Godey." Dawn's Piplup, waddle/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"d/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" over to me, and I p/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"a/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"tted it's head. Pikachu and Chimchar followed after. I smiled and let Chimchar climb onto my arm. I petted his head, while Pikachu stood in front of me looking at Piplup. I saw it on a chair and starts to get up. Piplup maneuvered it's head under a music disk's cover and flipped it backward. Pikachu caught it, but wobbled from the weight. He hopped on one foot to regain his balance, but ended up bouncing backwards, toward me. Pikachu tripped over a wire and the disk cover flew. Luckily, my arm shot out before it could hit the ground./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""That was a nice save, I guess." Ash said, coming up behind me. I nodded and stood, replacing the cover. Pikachu rubbed the back of his head embarrassed./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash looked up at the rows of music disks above my head/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""What are those?" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash asked. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Dawn and Brock had joined him./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Music disks." I /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"answered/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""'Scuse me?" The three looked at me./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""That's how the towers music is able to play!" Tonio clarified. His clothes were crumpled from his night from the floor, the green vest showing small streaks of dirt near the hem. The darker green v-neckline hit what dirt there was near the top. His white undershirt was rumpled, but manageable. Apparently, he had dusted off his arms. His brown pants showed no wear whatsoever./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Oh! Can I try?" Dawn asked./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""But to do that, we'll need to walk all the way to the top!" Tonio exclaimed./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Dawn placed her left hand on her heart and s/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"miled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""No need to worry!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"She announced. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Piplup copied her and I smiled. Alice agreed and told Dawn to pick a disk. I helped, s/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"i/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"n/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"c/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e I knew how they were /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"cataloged/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;". After that, we made our way up to the surface. We walked to the stairwell and started up. A comfortable silence descended as we continued. We were a quarter of the way up when Dawn moaned/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Me and my big mouth."/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" She frowned./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" I chuckled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Come on, move it! Run! Race ya to the top, Dawn!" Ash yelled. He ran by me and I /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"winced/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;". Poor kid, he didn't know what he was doing. The rest of us continued up, until we reached a platform that held Alice's air balloon./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Should we?" Tonio inquired. Dawn, Brick and Alice nodded. I just sighed./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You guys go on, I'm gonna make sure Ash makes it up alive." I said./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Tonio paused, unsure./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You sure, Dantspan style="font-family: Verdana;"é/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri;"?" Alice voiced the question. I nodded again./span/span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""I need the /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"exercise/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;", anyway." I smiled and patted my stomach. She and Dawn giggled. As they got in the balloon, I stared up. I'm gonna regret this./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"It was a while before I caught up to him. Ash was panting and sweating. He looked over his shoulder at me./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Whe-where are the o-others?" He managed. I opened my mouth to reply, but was cut off by Alice calling out to us./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey, guys!" They were smiling and waving. Horrified, Ash /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"stopped./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey, let me on!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"He yelled up. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"They laughted and Ali/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ce just waved. /span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Sorry, but you were fast!" Alice apologized./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You can climb!" Brock taunted. Ash just groaned and continued up. I giggled./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Cheer up, you've got me!" He looked at me, non-plused. I smiled and/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" reached for my belt./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Here, maybe this will help." I took out my pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"balls and tossed them up. Light poured out and formed my beloved Absol, Haunter, Umbreon, and Houndoom. They greeted me in their /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"varied/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" ways and I looked at Ash./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Okay, that's pretty cool."/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"After about an hour or two of walking, we made it to the top of the stairs. I had long ago returned my Pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"mon, more for my sake, then their own./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""And here's our own beacon of hope, now!" Brock said, amusement coloring his voice. What? Obviously I had missed something./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""FINALY!" Ash cried. He stood panting, hunched over, leaning in the railing. Brock just smiled at us, while I moved to the control panel in the center of the room. They followed, Ash having fully recovered./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Normally, it's set to play on the hour, but if there's something special you want to play..." Tonio spun the lever that controlled the circle if disks. Then he popped out the disc in front of Dawn./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You put in the disks you need!" Alice finished. She took out t/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"h/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e disk and stepped back to allow Dawn room. As she stepped forward, Ash /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"interrupted/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Hey! I wanna do it!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"He cried. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I rolled my eyes. A little to late./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""No way! This was /spanemspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"my /span/emspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"idea!" Dawn rebutted. He groaned in disappointment, but stood back, letting Dawn continue. She placed it in the grove, and Alice instructed her to push it down. When she did so, Alice gave her disk to Brock./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I walked over to her and helped her pull the lever down, making electricity jump from the conductors on top of the control panel. As every thing turned on, music slowly started to build. It sounded like a celebration. Happy and triumphant./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""You see, this is also the largest musical instrument as well!" Tonio informed them. I swayed to the sound and closed my eyes./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Come on, let's go down! I'm starving!" Alice called. I smiled and helped set the ballon up for flight. When all crowed in, Chimchar let loose and got us moving./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Ya know, balloons rock!" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Ash said. /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"I laughed at /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"the boy /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"and nodded. The music continued as we slowly floated to the ground./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"When we finally got there, we saw the same three trainers outside./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""If it isn't Ash. So let's battle again!" The /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"black trainer/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" said./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""I need someone to play with Torrtera!" Called the brown haired man./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Me too?" The female asked. Dawn and Brock accepted gleefully. As she took her place and called out her Infernape, Dawn and Brock released Sudowudo and Buizul./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Every one settled into there battle stances, with the exception of me, Alice, and Tonio. We stood on the sidelines, content to watch./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""Pikachu, get movin'!" Ash yelled, pointing at the dark-haired guy's Empolion. The little mouse creature ran forward and leaped into the air, intent on attacking./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"A small beeping made me flicker my attention to Tonio, who held a small device in his hand. He gasped and ran inside. I furrowed my brows. What was wrong? A pok/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"e/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"ball started to rattle. Absol. I started to unclasp his ball, but stopped when I felt familiar air waves move my hair, making it almost float around my shoulders. What the-/spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"Pink. blindingly it light lit up the sky. I cried out in shock and snapped my head upwards, watching the rippling lights. My mouth was hanging open I amazed shock. It lasted for a good two minutes, before it paused, turned slowly, and then got sucked up, back from the point where it came from./spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /spanspan style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"We stood in a group, staring at the sky in-between the two towers, silent until Ash spoke up./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""What was all that?" His Pikachu echoed his question./span/p
p class="p"span style="font-family: Calibri; letter-spacing: 0pt; font-size: 10pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;""The sky just lit up!" Dawn added./span/p
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