Chapter 9: Glittering Cave

(Alex's POV)

I walk towards the fossil museum, and I meet with Leo again. She tells me that I have to ride a Rhyhorn to get to glittering cave. I, of course, ask if I can ride the bird that seems to always be next to her, but the bird shakes its head "no". I make a mock-frown and run up the stairs to the exhibits. Pyro and Psy want to look at the fossils, but I say that we need to make it to the next gym. They frown and pout, but I stand firm. I threaten to put them back in their Pokéballs if they don't behave. They sullenly follow me out the door to a dirt road. I come to a part of the road where there are spikes covering it, and they do not look very safe at all. I hear sort of a grunt from behind me, and I see a Rhyhorn standing there, with a saddle on its back. I jump up on top of it and motion for Pyro and Psy to do the same. I decide to let Cyclone out for this one. He jumps on top of the Rhyhorn's head. I guide the Rhyhorn through the spiky trail, I come to a bunch of large boulders. I tell the Rhyhorn to turn around, but instead it smashes right through the boulders. I then let the Rhyhorn do the work, and eventually I come to the entrance to a cave. A sign in front of it identifies the cave as Glittering Cave. Pyro, Psy, and Cyclone get off the Rhyhorn. Psy looks a little sick, but Cyclone seems to have enjoyed it. I look at Pyro, who has no expression on her face. I look back to Psy. "Are you OK, Psy?" I ask. I'm fine, just a little ride-sick. "What about you, Pyro?" No answer. "Pyro?" I say, worried. I shake her. "PYRO ARE YOU OK?!" I yell. IM FINE! I SAID IM FINE! Arceus… "No you didn't. Did you hear anything, Psy?" Psy shakes her head. "What about you, Cyclone?" Negative. I frown at Pyro, who looks exhausted. "Hey, Psy, can you scan her? She looks a little… drained." Psy does and gasps Oh, no… "What is it?" She is psychically weak, she needs rest. None of us have gotten any sleep in almost 2 days! I frown. "Fine then, let's go into the cave and find a place to rest. It is getting dark anyway, but in the morning, we get up and go." I walk into the cave entrance. There are two paths, and looking at my map, the right one is the way deeper into the cave, but the left one leads to a small cavern. Here is a good as place as any. If there was a boulder or something I could use to block off the entrance… I walk to the left, and inside and look around the cavern. I find a boulder that would work very nicely as a door. I roll the boulder over the entrance and set up camp. I set out bedrolls for everyone, then I plop onto mine, and sleep.

I wake up to the sound of grinding stone. I open my eyes slowly, and see a figure run into the cavern, while another one pushes the boulder open further. I see the figure creep up to Psy and quickly put its hand over her mouth. I sit upright quickly. I put a hand to my belt, feeling for the thing that can help me.

"What are you doing?" I ask. The figure quickly grabs Psy and makes for the door. Everything is happening in slow-motion now. I pull out the thing, which is a wooden bar. I press the button and the bar explodes, and I now have in my hand a thirty-gauge, double-barreled shotgun. It has the word "Boomstick" and three tally marks written on the stock of it. I raise it to my shoulder and pull the trigger. A loud "BLAM!" echoes through the cave, and the figure drops instantly. Time returns to normal as I run up to Psy to make sure she is O.K. But instead I find a pulpy mass of flesh where she was.

I wake up screaming. Everyone else quickly wakes up screaming as well.

"Oh my Arceus that was horrible!" You don't know the half of it! Pyro's voice in my head. I wait for Psy to say something, but instead I hear sobs. I quickly run over to her, but she yells GET AWAY FROM ME! I realize that we must have had the same dream, and in that dream I had shot her. I back off, a little angry. Suddenly a figure, much like the one in my dream jumps down from the high ceiling wish a slight "whoosh". The figure is wearing a black shroud, with a deep cowl. My hand drops to the metal bar, but it is not there. The figure looks at my hand then holds up the metal bar. I take a few steps back, my eyes are wide. The figure disappears in a blur, and reappears behind me, with a sword that emanates wisps of darkness and shadow. The figure charges at me, sword raised. As the sword begins its downswing a blinding light fills the room, and the figure stops. Another figure falls from the ceiling, only it lands on the ground with a THUD that shakes the entire cavern. The figure is wearing gold-plated armor, a red cape, and leather-banded sandals. He carries a gray double-headed axe, whose edge reflects a rainbow color. That axe is made from tungsten covered in titanium, Pyro says in my mind. I gulp. What is going to happen next? The two figures rush at each other, weapons swinging. The light figure swings the axe underhanded, knocking the shadow figure's sword from it hand. The light figure then swings the axe overhanded, splitting the shadow's head in two. The shadow figure's shroud falls away, revealing Leo, with her head in two pieces, blood spilling everywhere. The light figure's light darkens until only the light figure itself is glowing. It looks at me and roars, axe swinging. I pass out again. When I wake up, I am outside, with Pyro shaking me. I am in a large crater, surrounded by police and emergency vehicles. I look at Pyro, who is suddenly dragged away by a nearby policeman. Another policeman yells through a megaphone, telling me to get up and put my hands behind my head. I stand up, look around, wondering why I am here, what happened to the cave, and why I am under arrest. I look in right hand, and I find my shotgun, with four tally marks now. I open the chamber with a button on the side with my thumb, and a bunch of police raise their weapons. A few of them have Pokémon with them. Powerful ones, not some low-levelers. I check the both chambers, and they are full. I drop the weapon, and it instantly turns back into the bar, and attaches itself to my belt. I look at it with wonder. I look at the policeman with a megaphone and glare. The policeman's orders slow to a stutter as he cowers behind the police car door. I look in my other hand and I see a blue glow. I look at it with some confusion, and it disappears. I walk up to the nearest police car and get in the back seat. The policeman immediately floors it, and in no time at all I am herded towards a police station. I am locked inside a metal room, with a desk and two chairs on either side of it. I sit down in one of them, and a couple walks in. I look at them in confusion, then I realize the couple is my mom and dad. Both have fearful looks on their faces.

"Mom, Dad, what are you doing here? What happened? Where is Pyro? And Psy? And Cyclone? Why am I under arrest? What was that crater? How on earth did I get a shotgun? What was the blue sphere in my hand?" I ask rapid-fire. They only stare at me. Another person walks in, this time it is professor Sycamore. He has multiple expressions on his face, including wonder, fear, anger, crafty, curious. I must have the same expressions on my face as well. One more person walks in and its some detective that I don't know. She whispers a few things to my parents and they leave. The detective walks to the desk and sit down. She looks a bit nervous, but Sycamore puts a hand on her shoulder, and that seems to help her a bit.

"All those questions will be answered in order; I do not know what happened, your Pokémon are on the other side of that mirror, you are under arrest for mass destruction, that crater was caused by you, I don't know about the shotgun, the blue sphere was (I think) some sort of powerful energy." She says. "Let me show you some footage that even I have not seen yet," she pulls a remote from her pocket and clicks it. A T.V. plays a video. It is aerial, and it is taping the cave that I was in. All the sudden, the entrance to the cave illuminates a bright light, then, about 10 seconds later, my Pokémon run out of the mountain, then only 2 seconds after that, the mountain explodes. Rocks and dust go everywhere, and when it finally clears, in shows me, only my left hand is glowing blue. I hold my shot gun in my right hand. The light figure is on the ground, but is no longer glowing. He gets up and he charges me, axe raised. I raise the shotgun and fire it twice, both ripping limbs off the figure. I reload my shotgun, but instead I raise my glowing hand. Out of it fires a black beam of energy. The figure is hit then is crumpled into dust. I collapse to the ground, and that is when police and other vehicles arrive. They surround the crater. Pyro, Psy, and Cyclone try and force their way through them, but only Pyro gets through. She begins shaking me and I wake up. A big policeman runs up and drags Pyro away. I get up, and look around. I glance at my shotgun, drop it, and watch as it turns into a metal bar. I look at my other hand and see the sphere, as I do so it disappears. I glare a policeman holding a megaphone, then I get into the police car. The detective then clicks the remote again, and the T.V. shuts off. I tell her what happened, even the dream I had, all the way up until I blacked out. She looks at Sycamore, who looks flabbergasted. She mutters a few things and walks out. Another person walks in, and it is Diantha. She releases a stunning Gardevoir. Both look at me, Diantha's jaw drops open, and Gardevoir faints. I look at them in confusion. I then notice that Diantha is not staring at me, she is looking past me. I turn around and see Arceus, who is sparkling a bit.

-End of Chapter-