"Damn it..." Hikari muttered as pain shot up her back, Lance had seen her and began to follow her lead, Clair heading into the Pokemon Centre to check on Vaxen. Verity had jumped her heights to reach to the top to chase Umiko. The dragons had settled down and began to return to their homes. Hikari reached the top of the cliff and set off after them, the pain giving her speed.
Atreyu turned his head, pressed against the glass, and saw the change in him. "Wha... what is this?!" he yelled. "What happened to me? What in the world's goin.." Atreyu began to think to himself (Is this from that incedent when I was a child??) Atreyu calmed down as his eyes returned to normal. "Forget it, it's nothing."
Verity seemed almost beast like-her speed beyond human boundaries. Suddenly Umiko disappeared, Verity looked around, left, right, front and back, even up. Nothing. Hikari was still trying to catch up and the red headed man not far behind her, she collapsed. Hikari slid to a stop beside her and Lance picked her up. "Hey, girl, are you alright?" He said to her, her features back to normal. "Verity, whats wrong?!?" questioned Hikari. Lance picked Verity up with no difficulty and Hikari pulled the hair off Verity's face to see it calm and not in pain. They began to walk back to the Pokemon Centre and when the arrived there, the destruction of Blackthorn became obvious. Lance carried Verity into the Pokemon Centre and Hikari sat down on a couch, her body slumped over, gritting her teeth because of the pain.
CK slowly walked into the Pokemon Center, totally beat. She stayed behind to make sure the last of the Dragons left. Her Typhlosion followed her with a slight limp in his front left paw. Ninetales had the golden Magby slung over her shoulders and her beautiful coat had been covered in dirt. Arcanine was carrying the Houndour twins, and his fur was ruffled badly. All of them were exhausted, but the Dragon Pokemon were finally gone. She had no idea how it happened, but didn't care anymore.
CK plodded up to the front desk, returned all her Pokemon to their PokeBalls and handed them to Nurse Joy. CK then made her way to and slumped down on the cosy chair near the stairs. Her eyes closed and she started to fade away from the world around her. She couldn't make out any of the voices around as they turned fuzzy and her vision turned to darkness.
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"I don't know, she was chasing after a girl when the girl disappeared and she just collapsed..." Lance said to Atreyu. Hikari's face twitched as she tried to deal with the pain until she cried out, her back was red, she slumped over even more. The attack had left a great wound and suddenly blood began to trickle down her back.
Votun rushed down after Atreyu and went to sit down next to CK, though she didn't seem conscious. (Man, poor CK, she's out cold after all she did... and I was out pretty much the whole time just 'cause I wasn't watching my back, damnit all.)
Acri stumbled into the Pokemon Centre after trying to calm down all the local Pokemon who were very upset about the nights events. She was carrying Hikari's Pokeballs for she had dropped them when she chased after the mysterious person. "Nurse Joy...Can you heal these Pokemon too?" The nurse nodded and Acri leaned against the counter, her eyes closed.
Votun went over to Hikari, "Hey, is there anything I could do for you, Hikari? I'd like to help if that's alright?" he said with a light look on his face.
"I see. Well, I guess all we can do is to let her rest and get better... this was too big an ordeal to deal with on our own... but thanks to Vaxen it's over..." Atreyu said as he looked over and saw Acri come in and over to Nurse Joy. "Hey, Acri, you doing okay?"
Hikari winced, her legs began to ache too, her whole body hurt. She had pushed herself too much chasing after Umiko. She leaned back, it hurt more than slumping over, she closed her eyes and let he head rest on the back of the couch. "Urggh...My back is killing me..." She muttered.
"I'm alright...I sorta tripped on the way back to the Centre" Acri laughed. Lance put down the unconcious Verity next to Hikari and began walked out of the Pokemon Centre.
-- Edited by A Psychic Espeon at 05:41, 2007-02-16
"Hmm, clumsy as usual, I see." he said with a smile on his face. "Not to worry though, if you hit anything when you fell, I'll be glad to help with treating it."
"Back hurts... got it, I'll get some more pillows for you to lean on, sense that's all I can do for you..." Votun said as he walked over to Nurse Joy and asked her for more pillows. She said there were more in the back, but she didn't want to leave the front, so he went back there himself. (Alright, if I was out then, I'll shine now, everyone deserves my help, some time today...) He said as he entered the store room and got the extra pillows. "Alright, got 'em" he said as he rushed back out to the main room. "Hey, Hikari, I got those pillows for ya, here ya go, now just sit up a sec, and I'll position them comfortably for ya." he said with a caring look in his eyes.
Acri's eye twitched and she laughed. "I'll be right thanks...". She walked over to sit next to Verity and Hikari. "Hey...Hikari, are you alright?" She asked the dark blue headed girl whos eyes were closed. "Yeah..." She said without moving or opening her eyes in recognition. Acri frowned when she realized who she was sitting next to. "Oh my god, i cant beleive i didnt realize it was you Verity..." Verity stirred out of hearing her name and she lifted her head. Opening her eyes slightly they seemed to be red but when she opened them fully they were a deep ocean blue.
Hikari winced again and stood up allowing Votun to put the pillows on the couch for her. "Thanks..." Her face began to become red and she bit her lip. Then out of nowhere she hugged Votun, then not long after she let go and sat down, still blushing.
Atreyu watched Acri, as she walked over to sit down, and saw his sister awake when Acri spoke to her. "Verity, are you okay?" he said as he rushed over to her.
Votun stood there for a second, (Umm, did she just, huh, I kinda liked that...) "Umm, hahaha, thanks Hikari, I'm glad you appreciate my help" he said with a light look on his face and a nervous tone in his voice.
Verity breathed deeply. "I feel really strange...My head hurts" She raised her hands to her head, covering her eyes. Between her fingers her eyes seemed red...
Atreyu froze in discontent, as he saw Verity's eyes were also red. "Wh..." Atreyu got freezing chills down his back, "What...in the...." he stopped for a second, completely frozen.
Hikari coughed and shiffted forward, the pillows behind her were crimson. "Not really, i feel worse...My head feels so heavy..." She seemed completely disorientated as she walked over to Nurse Joy to ask for a room. She began to stumble up the stairs...
Verity blinked and lowered her hands revieling blue eyes. "Whats wrong Atreyu? You look like you've seen a Dusclops" She muttered rubbing her forehead with her hand.
(N...not at all? Man, I can't even help outside of battle... what good am I? I mean sure, I'm a Frontier Brain, but if I can't help out my friends, what's the use of that title?) Votun thought to himself as he walked outside, slamming his fist into his hand, nearly breaking it.
"I....I.... no, it's nothing, I guess I just had my eyes playing tricks on me.." he said as he saw Votun leave the center. "Hm?" Atreyu went after Votun.
Hikari fell onto the bottom bunk of one of the beds in the room, on her stomach. Her back was covered in crimson liquid. The sight of the wall exchanged with Darkness.
Acri stared blankly at the floor as Atreyu and Votun went outside. "Come on Verity, we'll leave CK to sleep and see what the boys are up to..." She grabbed Verity's wrist and dragged her outside.
Verity blinked stupidly. "Are you mentally challenged Votun? You arnt useless at all. We all have out moments when we feel that way but your not. You know your not so stop pretending to think you are useless!" Acri looked at Verity, surprised by her outburst. "Uh...Here we go..." Acri thought. A cry came from upstairs of the Pokemon Centre, a cry of pain.
"Don't kid me, I wasn't able to help at all this time around, which is the only time, so far. And why were you eavesdropping on us anyway?" he said as he heard the cry from the pokemon center. "That sounds like Hikari. You guys better go help, it's not like I need to go. I wouldn't be able to help anyway."
"Oh please, man, don't hand me that bull, if not for you giving me Flygon we may not have even been able to get through this. Although you went down in the first round your actions were enough to make the difference. Now I don't care if you think I'm right or not, but you don't just leave the one you like hanging like you're about to do. Just get in there and help the girl you like. And don't deny it, just go."
"Ugh....U...Umiko..." Vaxen muttered loudly as Atreyu and Votun were having a conversation. Vaxen started to sweat and he clenched his crystal ended chain so hard his hand started to bleed. He started to groan as he had nightmares and memories of his childhood friend , Umiko.. the girl who controlled the dragons.
I finally got away.. But before I could leave I went back and snuck into the pokemon center without anyone noticing. I went and searched until I found Vaxen's room , with another trainer in there... "Dammit... I'm going to have to knock him out or paralyze him with a pokemon.." I said in frustration. I got out a pokeball and let out my butterfree. "Use a sleep powder , but only on that kid..." I told it. It flew into the room behind the kid's back and knocked him out with a powdery attack. I ran towards Vaxen who was sweating alot and clenching the childhood crystal I gave him. I took off my special ring that was my good luck charm and put it on his bed. I was about to leave but I paused. I looked at his face for a moment and thought he got cuter. "I'm sorry about the Hyper Beam , Vaxy-kun..." I said as I kissed his cheek lightly and jumped silently out the window with my butterfree , making sure I was unnoticed except for the sleep powder. I dashed away towards the direction of Mt.Silver without a trace.
Votun followed Acri and Verity upstairs, to Hikari, but when they got up there they saw that she wasn't awake, so Votun said "I think you guys should go back down and check on CK, I'll stay here if Hikari wakes up and needs anything." he said as he grabbed a chair and pulled it up right next to the bed.
Verity looked at CK, she seemed peaceful. "I'll watch CK, you can go to bed Acri." Verity said to Acri. She nodded and began to walk upstairs and into the bathroom to get changed. She walked back into Hikari's room and climbed up to the top bunk on the other bed so she could keep an eye on her sister to Votuns annoyance. Verity sat down on the couch after taking the pillow to the laundry and looked over to CK who was still asleep/unconcious, she couldnt tell which one.
"You mean this?" Verity asked, her eyes turning red then changing quickly back to blue as she blinked. "I dunno...I can only make it work for a few seconds...What happened when i chased after Umiko...I couldnt quite control myself..." Verity was deep in thought.