Feels like forever since I updated this. XD
Amy47101 does not not own pokémon or Witch and Wizard, which this story is loosely based off of. She only owns Jade, Onyx, Opal, and Orange.
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The Jade and Onyx Arc
Part Two
The Exposed
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Chapter Four
"Where's Blue?"
Those were the first words out of Greens mouth as Onyx approached them alone and looking slightly beat up. Everyone was silent as they looked for their mischievous friend. Onyx reached up and rubbed the back of his neck, letting out a low chuckle.
"We were about fifteen stories up, going fast, but then, um, a Griever grabbed her ankle and... uh..."
"And what?" Silver growled out. Onyx swallowed.
"Whipped her around and threw her."
"Is she okay?!" Yellow asked. "We should get her to a hospital!"
"Did you leave her with those things?!" exclaimed White, horrified. Onyx grinned.
"You didn't let me finish. Erm..." he looked over his shoulder. "How much time would I have to run?"
"None." Green responded. "Because I'll make sure my Charizard burns you to a crisp before you even can take a step."
"Well, shit." Onyx muttered before bringing his head up to look him in the eye. "The Grievers grabbed her by the ankle, whipped her around, and threw her out the window. The glass shattered upon contact. By the time I got back up there and eliminated them, she was already out of my sight."
There was a long moment of silence, as if they were trying to process the information. There was a flash of red, and then a crack. Onyx's head snapped to the side, practically twisting him around as he fell to the ground.
"Oooow..." Onyx muttered. "Ah ha ha... ha... Fuck, you hit harder than Green."
"You were laughing." Silver growled out fist still clenched tightly as Onyx crossed his legs. "Blue might be dead and you. Were. Laughing."
Onyx stood.
"Second punch to the face." Onyx said, holding up two fingers. "You guys gotta stop that, or I'm gonna look all ugly when I see my little sister and Jade again."
"That's all you can think about?! Blue is probably dead." Gold exclaimed.
"Um, nope." Onyx rolled his eyes. "You guys seem to have a tendency of cutting people off when they're trying to explain something."
"Then spit it out all ready!" Sapphire shot back.
"I think she's alive." he tapped his nose. "I've got a mighty fine sniffer, you see, and I didn't smell any blood. Plus..." he trailed off, glancing at Green. Green knew the pendant was still glowing under his shirt, and it was beginning to get warmer and warmer. "Well, who has a little thing called 'gut instinct'?"
"Then why are we standing here?" Ruby exclaimed. "We need to find her!"
"Blood or no blood, a fall from fifteen stories will surely be fatal." Platinum stated.
"Plus the sun is coming up." Yellow said. "If we change now, the sun should be up fully and we should be safe from those Grievers, right?"
"Grievers hate the sun, so yep, we'll be safe." Onyx said. "Just don't hit me anymore." he stretched. "I say lets check into a pokémon center or something, change, and begin searching."
"Who put you in charge?" Sapphire asked defensively. Onyx yawned.
"Got a better idea?" no one answered. Onyx grinned. "Good." He walked off, everyone reluctantly following him. Green hung back a bit with Silver, the two narrowing their eyes as everyone else went after him.
"Do you trust him?" Silver asked, watching Green out of the corner of his eye. Green waited for everyone else to get ahead, then began walking after them.
"Onyx? I'm not sure if I should or shouldn't trust him." Green responded. "One minute he's a cool, great guy the next he's taking charge of the situation, then the next he's laughing everything off."
"I'm trying to figure out if he's bipolar or has multiple personalities." Silver told him. "He's got to have something wrong with him mentally."
"I can't be to sure." Green responded. "I think he's been honest with us thus far. We have a plethora of reasons to distrust him, but something is telling me that we should trust him for the timebeing."
"Timebeing being the key word here." Silver said. "You're having your doubts."
"Aren't we all?" Green responded. "One minute he saves us, next he lets those things throw Blue out a window." he shook his head. "But lets focus on our priorities. We need to find Blue, quickly."
"Lets just hope we find her alive."
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A pair of light pink eyes blinked themselves awake, glancing around. Her eyes took in a nice room with sunlight filtering through the windows, a dresser sitting in the corner, a mirror to the right, and a lamp with a fan whirring around above her. She groaned, turning over and burying her face into the soft pillow.
"Wait." she muttered, thoughts registering before she bolted up, blinking. There were no beds or pillows in the N.O. holding facilities! Then where...?
She heard doorsteps approaching the door, and she tensed. Who was waiting for her? The door eased open, and she gripped the covers tightly. An elderly man walked into the room, donned in a lab coat and slacks with a colorful tie. He was bald, with a mustache under his nose and sunglasses over his eyes.
"Good morning, Opal." he smiled. "It's good to see you awake."
Her brain barely registered his gentle tone. He knew her name. He had on a lab coat. He was a bad guy. A scientist. She watched his lab coat shift as he moved towards her. Her eyes shot around the room again. She didn't see any needles or probes, but that didn't mean that he didn't have any in his pockets...
"Is something wrong?" he asked. Opal swallowed.
"The coat." she muttered. "Could you take it off, please?" he cocked his head to the side, as if curious by the request, then walked out into the hallway. Opal stiffened. Was it all just an act? A cruel trick by the N.O.? What was his reasoning for leaving? Was he going to get his needles now?
He came back in without the coat, bringing a drink with him.
"Here." he said, passing the can to her. She studied it. It didn't seem tampered with... "My name is Blaine. Are you aware of where you are right now?" Opal shook her head, cracking open the can and taking a hesitant sip. It was the most delicious thing she's had to drink in... Arceus knows how long.
"No." Opal shook her head. "No. What's going on?"
"Currently, you're in on the Sevii Islands, Kanto. We found you on Cinnabar Island."
"Cinnabar...? Why aren't we there, then?"
"What do you mean? Cinnibar is a barren wasteland, destroyed by the volcano. It made national news about four years ago. How did you not know?"
Opal didn't answer.
"Are you okay if I ask you questions?" Blaine asked. Opal shrugged.
"How do you know my name?"
"When we found you, you were muttering 'My name is Opal Kokuyōseki. I am searching for my big brother. They're after my big brother. They're going to capture him. I escaped from hell. But they let me go.', quote on quote, word for word. I believe it was from a brief mental collapse because you seem fine now, but..."
"I don't want to talk about it." Opal muttered.
"Understandable." Blaine nodded. "May I ask where are you from?"
"The Tolerin region."
"Who's your big brother? What's he like?"
"Erm... His name is Onyx. And he's two years older than me."
"Is he... like you?"
"Like me? What are you talking about?" Blaine paused, then walked out of the room again. There was a moment of silence as Opal pondered what he meant. Her mind was so foggy... It was like she was swimming through cotton candy...
Blain walked in again, holding a small hand mirror.
"Could you possibly," he held up the hand mirror, passing it to her. She looked into it. At what she saw, everything suddenly snapped back. Who she was, what she went through, and what she was. "Explain this to me, Opal?"
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Blue groaned out in pain as she moved slightly, feeling an immense pain shooting up and down her spine as she shifted. She fluttered open her eyes, blinking as she realized that she was moving about slightly. A slight bobbing action as if she was riding upon Jiggly. Had the first pokémon she ever received saved her from an early death?
"J-Jiggly?" she muttered as she opened her eyes.
"You have a Wigglytuff nicknamed Jiggly too?" a voice said. She blinked her eyes a bit, turning her head to the left, seeing a young woman around eighteen with light brown hair that fell to her lower back. Her legs were folded to the side, and she was smiling at her. Blue wasn't to sure if it was a dream or something, but she swore this girl looked strikingly like her, with the exception that her hair was light brown and her eyes were a bright turquoise. She closed her eyes, bringing the back of her hand to her mouth as she laughed. "Heeheehee! Well, what a coincidence! My Wigglytuff is named Jiggly too!"
"You..." Blue blinked. "You look a lot like me." She blinked.
"Do I? Heeheehee! This day is full of crazy coincidences!" she smiled. "My name is Turquoise, and you, of course, are Blue Ao. Everyone knows you."
"What's going on?" Blue asked, blinking in confusion.
"Well, I saw you falling out of a building last night, and I got Wiggly," she patted the pokémon affectionately. "To grab you before you hit the ground. You're probably exhausted and terribly confused."
"Are we still near Celadon? Where are the others?" Blue asked, sitting up.
"We're above Saffron right now." Turquoise said. Blue did a double-take.
"Saffron?! Why?!"
"Heeheehee! Because Green would worry oh so much if you suddenly up and disappeared on him, and I think it would be fun to make him squirm." Blue blinked for a moment, scooching over so she was closer to the girl.
"Why Green?" she asked, nudging her with her elbow. Turquoise snickered.
"Because I know something you don't~!" she laughed. "But seriously, though, look." she pointed over the edge, and Blue blinked. Through the clouds and trees, she barely saw a blond head of hair. She blinked, the image becoming clear, and she could barely believe she could make him out from a distance.
"Kristoff!" she exclaimed. Turquoise winked.
"Bingo. We're following him."
"How did you know that we needed to find him?"
"Orange told me."
"Okay." Blue sighed. "And how, exactly, does Orange know?"
"Well, he was with Yellow when Jade got taken. Haven't she or Onyx told you about him?"
"Well, no. With so much that's happened, I suppose it slipped their minds." Blue said, rubbing her temples.
"Well, he's helping to search as well. I'm keeping contact with him. Currently, he's heading to Cinnabar to pick up Opal and bring her back to Onyx. He thinks that the N.O. agents will send one after Opal and one after Onyx, and they probably have Jade locked up somewhere. Once they acquire all three of them, they'll high-tail it back to Tolerin."
"Are you working with Jade and Onyx? You sound like you know a lot..." Blue trailed off, eyeing the girl warily, albeit, curiously. Turquoise laughed.
"No, we're not working with them. We know of them, but we aren't exactly working for them yet. But don't worry." she flashed a grin. "We're on your side." She paused a moment, taking in Blue's appearance. "Anyways, you can't be running around in your pajamas when we're on a stealth mission, and it seems you don't have any extra clothes with you..." she trailed off, tapping on Jiggly. It began moving down, as if preparing to land. As they moved down, she began digging through her bag. "Hopefully you don't mind borrowing some of mine. We seem to be pretty close in size, so it should fit."
"Thank you." Blue said, taking the articles of clothing.
"Besides, I was planning on landing soon anyways. The trees are starting to become less dense around here, and with one glance, he could see us. It's kinda hard to miss a huge pink blimp in the sky. You can change, then we can continue to follow him on foot."
"Sounds good to me." Blue smiled, hopping off of Jiggly as Turquoise followed, returning the Wigglytuff to it's pokéball.
"Don't worry, I won't peek, heeheehee~!" the young woman said as Blue went behind a tree. Blue glanced at the outfit, slightly surprised to see that she had unfolded a little black dress. Slipping off her pajamas and pulling the dress over her head, she tugged it on, surprised that it fit her perfectly, but not entirely unsurprised. She and that Turquoise character shared the same body type, after all.
In fact, now that she thought about it, she and Turquoise were similar in more than just body type. With the exception of her eyes and hair, Turquoise was the spitting image of herself! She snickered as the next thought flitted through her mind. Turquoise looked like her, yet had Green's hair color and their eye colors mixed together! Oh, the fun she'd having teasing him when she brought this up later.
But in all seriousness, she would've just brushed it off, saying it was some sort of fangirl, and if not, it was a strange coincidence, but yet... yet something tugged at the back of her mind that there was a deeper connection to this girl.
"But I'm sure I never met her before in my life." she muttered as she smoothed down the black dress, grinning. Oh, sweet, sweet nostalgia.
She moved around the tree, grinning.
"All done~!" she sang out. Turquoise grinned, holding up a pair of black ankle boots.
"My spare. I need those back later, though." Turquoise grinned. Blue slipped them on. They were a little tight, but she could deal with it. "This way," Turquoise muttered, waving her forward. The two girls headed after the direction that they had seen Kristoff walking.
Soon, they were just behind him, watching his tench coat billow around him as he walked. Blue widened her eyes, grabbing onto Turquoise's elbow.
"He's going towards Celadon!" she whispered. Turquoise ground her teeth together.
"He's got to be going after Onyx, then." she muttered. "But he's surrounded by the dexholders, so he should be safe. I know he's a newly awakened host of the Darkening, but I'm pretty sure that Onyx, with the other dexholders, can handle him. What could he want, then?" Blue widened her eyes.
"Red." she said. "Red's in a coma!" Turquoise snapped her head around at her.
"Crap." she stood thoughtfully for a moment. "Time for a diversion. We're going to be attracting attention to ourselves, but..."
"I'll do it." Blue nodded in confirmation. Turquoise grinned at her.
"Lets get his attention. He'll focus on us, and hopefully, the sound of battle will attract some one or even one of the other dexholders. Willing and ready?"
"I'll do it." Blue nodded determinedly. Turquoise grinned, then turned, stepping out of the foliage with Blue behind her with a hand cupped around her mouth.
"Hey, stupid!"
Immediately, Kristoff whipped around to look at them. Blue opened her eyes and took a shuddery gulp. His eyes were completely black, no pupils or iris's or anything. Just complete darkness.
She suddenly really, really hoped someone will hear them.
"You." he stated simply. His whole body was surrounded in a shadowy darkness, and she was sure that the shadows were dripping off of him, like water or something. He raised a single arm, hand extended towards them, towards Turquoise. "You as well...?"
Blue wasn't sure what he was talking about, or if he said 'You too,' directed towards either her or Turquoise or 'You two,' towards the both of them. Either way, she had a sickening feeling he's kill them both is moment permitted.
"What?" Turquoise shot back, confidently. "Jade wasn't enough for you?"
"Submit yourselves to the N.O. or I will be forced to eliminate you from this planet."
"Cool!" Blue exclaimed cheekily. "I always wanted to live on Mars!" Kristoff narrowed his eyes.
"Then so be it." the shadows shifted around him, suddenly shooting at them at sharp points.
"Dodge!" Turquoise shouted. Blue stepped to the left, nearly shrieking when one of them flew by her cheek, nearly cutting off a lock of her hair. "We can handle this! We've got this!"
Was she really sure about that? Blue had no idea what she was doing. She didn't have any pokémon on her, hell, she didn't even have a weapon, and she wasn't to sure what Turquoise managed to fit in her tiny little bag on her hip.
Suddenly, a roar pierced the air, rising over the trees. It didn't sound like a pokémon, but it barely sounded human.
Oh Arceus, what did she manage to get herself into?
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"Okay, so I want a couple of you to station yourselves around the city. I want Black and White to stay in the city and search around to see if she got through or she's wandering around. Check all the landmarks, including the department store." Green said once everyone was changed and prepared for a search.
Everyone was eagerly waiting for a job to do, hoping to find their senior and friend as quickly as possible.
"Platinum, Pearl, and Dia, head onto route sixteen and search there. Tell the guard there that if they spot her, stop her and contact you immediately. The same goes for Sapphire, Ruby, and Emerald and route seventeen. If any of you spot her, contact another group as quickly as possible."
He turned to Gold, Silver, and Crystal. He had opened his mouth to tell them to help search through the city with Black and White, when a single thought seemed to burn into his mind.
Don't leave Red alone.
"Earth to Green? You there Green?" Gold asked, waving his hand in front of his seniors face. Green blinked a moment, them shook his head.
"Sorry. I want the three of you to go watch Red."
"But isn't Blue our main priority?" Crystal questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"I just want a couple of us stationed outside the hospital. I think they're going to try to kick us while we're down, and I'm not willing to risk it."
No one questioned it, waiting for anything else.
"Onyx and Yellow, both of you will come with me to search for her, starting where she fell. Okay?"
"Right-o, Big Boss." Onyx said, giving him a two-fingered salute. Yellow clenched her fists to her chest in obvious worry, nodding. Green turned to look at the rest of the dexholders. "We don't know what condition she's in, so treat the situation gently."
With a chorus of agreements, they split up. Green led Yellow and Onyx back to the hotel. Of course, they had checked earlier, but found nothing but broken glass. They were going back to do a recheck, look over what they had to see if they missed anything.
Coming upon the scene, they saw nothing had changed.
"I guess they either didn't notice or the people who were hired to clean it up haven't gotten here yet." Yellow muttered, glancing about. Green leaned down, picking up a random piece of glass.
"Something's bothering me." he muttered. "Shouldn't there be blood or something? The glass should've cut her up something good, and even if crashing through it didn't, falling through all these trees and landing on glass should've at least left a little blood evidence."
Onyx glanced about, then began climbing into a tree.
"What are you doing, Onyx?" Yellow asked, watching as her got to the higher branches.
"Getting this from a more creative point of view." he grinned, leaping from one branch to another, till he was out of sight. Green, feeling as if he was standing in the center of the scene, eyed the spot where he supposed Onyx was.
"What do you see?" he asked.
"Something interesting!" Onyx laughed. He jumped from the high branch he was on, getting a gasp of fear from Yellow and a twitch of surprise from Green, both watching as he did a front flip, laughing in a carefree manner, then landing, quite literally, on all fours, his arms and legs bent slightly as his joints reacted to his meowth-like landing. Standing up, he pointed at the ground. "Notice how the grass is undisturbed here. Now don't ya think that if Blue landed somewhere here, it'd be even the tiniest bit disturbed from her landing and then herself either getting up and walking off or dragging herself away?"
"He's right." Green muttered as he stared at the ground where the glass was scattered. "The dew's still fresh."
"Plus, there's a huge empty space around here. Like a circle. So something big and circular caught Blue before she hit the ground." Onyx added on. Yellow widened her eyes.
"Jiggly? Maybe it carried her off." Yellow pointed out. Green responded by opening Blue's bag, which hung from his shoulder, and held up her belt of pokéballs.
"All six of them are here." he stated, hand gripping a certain one. "Including Jiggly." he glanced at the six pokéballs. "And even if it was Jiggly that caught her, why would Jiggly carry her off? Or why would Blue order it to take her away from here without checking up with us? I know Blue is carefree, but she has to know we're concerned about her, right?"
"It makes sense." Yellow stated. There was a brief silence.
"I say we search around here. She fell out when the sun was rising, right? It's barely six in the morning, so whomever saved, or kidnapped her, has to be close by." Yellow bit her nails nervously while Green rubbed his temples.
"I don't know if I can stand another kidnapping right now." he muttered. Onyx opened his mouth, as if ready to cheerfully say something, then shut his mouth abruptly. He took a whiff of the air, as if smelling it, then growled like a pokémon. His fists were clenched as he bent his head down, the growls becoming increasingly louder. With this came the equally growing sense of fear that sank into Green's stomach.
Something was wrong, that, or something was about to go terribly wrong.
He stood up, turning in a random direction while Yellow stared at in the same direction, shaking. Onyx didn't move.
"Do you feel it too, Green?" Yellow whispered fearfully. There was a long pause after Green nodded in confirmation. Onyx clenched his fists in fury. Then he snapped his head back, roaring.
"KRISTOFF, YOU DAMN BASTARD!" he roared as a wave of heat washed over the two other dexholders. Yellow shrieked fearfully while Green took a hesitant step back from the raging teenager.
Onyx whipped around and bolted in the direction where the two felt the dark, unusual presence.
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"Why are you holding back, Blue?!" Turquoise exclaimed, Blue could hardly believe what she was seeing with this girl. She didn't want to believe it.
"I'LL FUCKING MURDER YOU, YOU STUPID BASTARD!"
Blue whipped around and saw Onyx crashing through the trees, roaring in rage as he rammed a flaming fist into Kristoff, or at least, attempted to. Kristoff sent him flying back by sending several of his shadows at him. Regardless, Onyx leapt back up, growling like a feral beast.
"I did not expect to have two of them pop up. You," he nodded towards Turquoise, "Weren't even registered! How very sneaky, you little girl."
"You'll never take me alive!" Turquoise shot back. Onyx snarled, leaping at Kristoff again.
He was sent back again, crashing into a tree, then grabbed by the ankle. He got whipped around, and thrown into a tree. Sliding down, he landed on his side, practically whimpering.
"When will you learn that," Kristoff grabbed him again, slamming him into another tree. "Irritating." Slam. "Me." Slam. "Is." Slam. "A very, very bad idea!" SLAM, SLAM, SLAM, SLAM.
"You trying to kill him?!" Turquoise exclaimed, snapping open a book that seemingly appeared out of no where. Holding up her hand, something exploded near Kristoff.
"You persistent, low-level witch!" Kristoff snarled, suddenly appearing in front of her and grabbing her head with his hand. "Just die already!"
"Turquoise!" Blue shrieked. She couldn't quite explain it, but somehow, an unbridled rage began to course through her veins. She was shrieking something as she lunged at Kristoff, mixed with growling. She recalled tearing out chunks of his hair and trying to shred his jacket from behind. Kristoff suddenly sent her flying back. The wind went flying from her as she landed against the tree, sliding down in a heap.
"Blue?!" she came to when she heard his voice. Yellow had her hands over her mouth, eyes wide with an emotion she couldn't quite detect, and Green just looked flabbergasted, mouth agape, eyes wide, a complete turnaround from his usual glare.
Slowly, Blue raised her head from the ground, seeing Green and Turquoise protectively hovering over her, both with their eyes transfixed on what was before them. She felt a blast of heat, and again, heard feral growling.
What... What on earth had Onyx done?!
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Just one spark is all it takes...I tried so hard but it all goes up in flames. This is not the way that I thought I would turn out to be. Tried to get but all that I got was more insanity. Broken everything that I touched, just gone against me. I can't get away from the fire that burns inside, consuming. I fight to stay alive but I can't breathe. The voices scream, the enemy takes over everything. This is the madness in me!
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Madness in Me
Skillet
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So this is rewritten chapter 4.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed!
Amy47101 signing off! ^.^