BUMPAGE!
Chapter 6!
Seven Stones of Nature
Chapter 6
Phoenix began to look in the cave, and began to stare at the cold, cold darkness. He began to shiver, and his knees became weak. Chills went down his spine, and he felt like he was about to faint. Umbreon and the others began to walk inside the cave, with Umbreon's sight; he could still see the cave, even in darkness. Espeon was able to see also, but not as good as Umbreon, and Aurora and Buizel for the matter, couldn't see at all. Phoenix still stood there, scared and wouldn't move at all.
"Phoenix! Come on, we have to get the Underground Village!" Umbreon told him, as he began to wait for him.
"I don't want to! Too dark!" Phoenix blurted out, and he began to lie on his stomach.
"Please don't tell me..." Aurora sighed, but looked up. "Look, there's a torch here. I just need to light it." She said, as her mouth began to glow with an aura. She spat out a piece of fire, and it hit a piece of wood, in which it became engulfed. Aurora jumped up, and grabbed the stick with her mouth. The light began to illuminate around the cave, and she looked up. She saw an arrow point towards the underground village. "Follow me." She muffled out, as she began to walk to the pathway. Umbreon and Espeon went on, and Buizel stood with Phoenix.
"Come on, let's go!" Buizel said, as he grabbed Phoenix.
"No! Let me go!" Phoenix yelled out, as he began to struggle. "You can't do this to me! I won't let you!" Of course, sometimes Phoenix's yells are more powerful that his bite, in which he just walked in with Phoenix in his hands, from his tail going up to his head going down. Aurora began to walk, and Umbreon and Espeon followed, with Buizel catching up slowly. Umbreon began to look around the caves, and saw paintings.
“What are these paintings?” Umbreon asked, as he began to look at one. He saw a painting of two spheres, both with landscape on this, but one with a different color to it. Instead of blue, it was red around it.
“These were all cave paintings from old times, there are many mysteries connected to it. Some say it can be the outcome of the hero, and sometimes, the deport of the hero. Of course, I don’t know what it is about, since I was never interested in that stuff.” Aurora explained. Espeon looked to her right, and saw a painting of a hedgehog with a garden on its back. It just stood there, motionless looking towards the other side of the wall, which had another garden to it. Buizel caught up to Aurora, and went to talk to her.
“Do you know what ONE means?” Buizel asked, as curiosity began to strike his mind.
“Well…” Aurora thought, “There is one I’m looking at to get a better understanding of a Pokémon that has never been discovered yet. I want to get that one, so I can finish my Pokémon journal, where it shows information for all of the Pokémon we should know about.”
“Ah…what does it say about me?” Buizel asked, smiling.
“Let’s see…” Aurora said, as she got out her book. “Buizel, the Water Type Pokémon. This buoy weasel has two tails, in which it can be used as a propeller to swim across large areas of water. As an infant, Buizel develop floatation sacs on its neck, and fins on its arm to support swimming. The average Buizels are rather cocky, and can sometimes be flattering too. Buizels always love a good challenge, so it always tries to pick a fight on other Pokémon, or Pokémon that mess with another person.”
“Hmm…sounds accurate.” Buizel said, as he began to think.
“Yep, I did a lot of studying just to get it on Buizel. “ Aurora said, as she began to look around.
Umbreon stopped, and looked at a painting, while Espeon went past him. Umbreon looked at the painting, and his eyes expanded. He saw a dark figure with red coming out of his chest and a white aura from his head. “It looks just like the mysterious figure in his dream, though who is he?” Umbreon thought, as he began to shake his head. “Why is he even after me?” he thought to himself again.
“Hey Umbreon.” Aurora said, close to him. “I wondered something…what was that move you did whenever you were fighting that Aerodactyl? It seemed like a very familiar move.” Aurora asked.
“I don’t know, it just felt like a pulse of darkness.” Umbreon said.
“Pulse…Dark…Dark Pulse?!” Aurora said, worried, “But you can’t possibly learn that move yet! What was that other move?”
“I think Shadow Claw…”
“Shadow Claw! That’s almost banned from most Pokémon except for dark types…unless…”
“Unless what?”
“Did you happen to look at the moon and see it turn orange?” She asked.
“I don’t think so…Why?”
“That is the Water Moon.” As she pointed at a picture of a moon, “The Water Moon has a spirit in it, no one knows why, but if you look at it, you began to feel strange, as if something is being inside you.” Aurora explained, “It also makes them learn moves early, like you.”
“I don’t know…”
“It might be possible, but for now we don’t know.” She said, “Also hurry up! We need to get to that village!” She said. Suddenly, the earth began to shiver below them, and Umbreon loss balance.
“What’s that?”
“Dang, it’s an earthquake!” Aurora yelled out, “Quick, we need to get to that village!” She said as she began running towards the direction. Buizel began to run, and dropped Phoenix.
“Hey, wait for me!” Phoenix yelled out, as he began to run. Umbreon got up and shook out the dirt, and began running. Suddenly, she hears a scream from in front of her. Espeon got her leg stuck in a rock, leaving her defenseless for another rock!
“Umbreon! Help!” She yelled out, as she began to push the rock off.
“Espeon!” He said, as he began to push the rock off of her. “This rock is too heavy…”
“Just leave me, I’ll be fine!” Espeon yelled out in desperation.
“No! I’ll never leave you behind, we’re best friends! Best friends! Never leave, even at the break of death! “ Umbreon said, as he began to push harder. Espeon looked at him, and she began to blush. He pushed the rock out of her, and tried to lift her up.
“Can you walk?” Umbreon asked.
“No, my leg might’ve got fractured...”
“I’ll help you.” Umbreon said, but suddenly, his ears began to twitch. Umbreon got worried, and looked at Espeon. “Look out!” As he pushed Espeon out of the way. Espeon flew back to a wall, and the floor began to crack. The floor collapsed under Umbreon’s feet, and he began to fell.
“No! Umbreon!” Espeon yelled out, as she looked down the hole. “No…” Espeon said softly, as tears began to come down her eyes.
At the bottom, Umbreon was on the ground, unconscious. He hit safe land, but he had a hard fall, making him immobile. A tear from Espeon fell on Umbreon’s face, and soon, more came. Umbreon woke up, and saw a tear came down for his nose. He couldn’t move, and he was injured a lot. He looked at the right, and saw red eyes.
“Who’s there?!” Umbreon yelled out, as he stared at the darkness. Umbreon’s ears began to twitch, and he looked the other direction. He began to close his eyes, and began to visualize the moon. He suddenly began to feel a burst of power, and which he was able to get up. He felt as light as a feather, and shook his head. Umbreon looked over at the darkness, and stared intensely, and dangerously. He began to walk towards the darkness, and soon, his ears twitched. A person screamed from behind him, and he turned around. Umbreon jumped out of the way before he got hit from a claw. He looked at his face, and saw a cut.
“What the…” Umbreon said.
“Who are you?!” The person yelled out, as he began to charge towards Umbreon with his claws. Umbreon jumped over him so his claws couldn’t get him.
“What are you doing? I didn’t do anything to you! Calm down!” Umbreon yelled out.
“I don’t trust anyone here, for all I know, you could be with those Sevipers!”
“Sevipers? What’s that?” Umbreon said.
“A person who doesn’t know about a Seviper? …Then you don’t know what I am, right?” the figure asked.
“No, but I think you’re crazy, considering you’re trying to kill me!” Umbreon said at him.
“Sorry about that mate…” He said guilty, “What are you doing here?”
“I fell down from the upper floor, where are we?”
“We’re on the bottom floor.” The person said, “I never knew how to get out of here…” he said.
“How did you survive down here?” Umbreon asked, as he got closer.
“I had supplies, but now they’re gone…” He said.
“Ah…Wait! I got an idea!” Umbreon suggested, “The Underground Village is close to here! We can get there!”
“Really?” He said, “Well what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” He said excitedly.
“First…”
“Oh yeah, my apologies. I’m a Zangoose that walks around at night. Most of my friends call me Zanny, though I hate that name.”
“Zangoose? Has a nice tone to it.”
“Indeed.” Zangoose agreed, “I also love fighting. I always challenge a challenger…”
“Cool. I’m Umbreon, I go with the legendary hero.”
“Legendary hero?” Zangoose said confused.
“You’ll see soon enough.” Umbreon said, as he began to walk towards the direction of the village. “Follow me.”
“Right.” Zangoose said, as he began to run towards him.
“Where’s Umbreon?” Phoenix asked Espeon, getting worried. Espeon stood silent, and looked away.
“Oh no…” Aurora said sadly.
“You think he’s…” Buizel suggested.
“Don’t say that in front of her!” Aurora said, as she got angry.
“It’s okay…but I can’t believe it…he’s gone.” Espeon said, as she looked back, “trying to save me, not knowing that I love him…” She began to cry again. “I’m going to go somewhere to rest…my heart aches.” Espeon said gloomy, as she began to walk towards the inn.
“What should we do?” Buizel asked.
“Well…I don’t know. Should we look for him?” Aurora said to Phoenix.
“I don’t know…I know Umbreon can’t be gone that easily.” Phoenix said, “He always took the heavy hits, ya’ know?” Phoenix explained, “But also, we have to get the stones, even if he is gone.”
“Right…life goes on.” Buizel said, and Aurora nodded. “You think Espeon will get over this?”
“Of course not…” Aurora said, “If one of my closet friends died, I’d never get over that.”
“Yeah, and I’d never get over it either.” Phoenix said, “And ya know, she does LOVE him.”
“True…” Buizel sighed, and he looked around. “There’s the temple, we got to talk to the head boss.”
“Right.” Phoenix said, as he began to run over there. Buizel began to walk over there, and saw that Aurora didn’t move.
“Hey, aren’t you going?” Buizel asked.
“Nah, I’m going to look around this place, it has been a long time, you know.” Aurora said, as she began to walk towards another direction. Buizel shrugged, and went towards the temple with Phoenix. Espeon stood in the inn, on the bed, looking outside the window.
“Why did you have to die for me?” Espeon said, as she looked up. “Even the sun can’t get through these ruins…If only I could’ve done something different, we both could’ve survived, or I could’ve saved you.” She began to think back when they were both Eevees.
“Come on! We’re almost there!” The young girl said, as he began to run up more to the mountain.
“Hold on! I can’t run that fast, you know!” A guy Eevee said who is carrying most of her stuff. He began to get closer up the hill, and the girl Eevee stood at the top of the mountains. Soon, he got up, and lied down.
“You okay?” the girl who would become the Espeon asked him as he looked at him.
“Yeah…” the pre-evolved Umbreon said, as he sat up.
“So what do you plan to be when you evolve?” she said to him.
“I don’t know yet…maybe a Jolteon, just like my grandpa!” he said, “He always used to tell me about stories about how Jolteons served in the war against the psychic types that went against electric types!”
“Heh, that probably fits you anyway.” The girl said, as he looked up at the sun. “I want to become an Espeon! I think they’re pretty!” She said, as she looked up at the sun. “I think I’m happy enough.” She said, “At least, I do.”
“That would fit you I guess.” He said, as he looked out from the cliff. “Sometime I wonder what is outside of the village.” He said, “My grandpa used to go to the Electrica Port, and I have no idea what that is.” He said.
“Hey, maybe one day, we could go outside the village!” She said happily.
“Yeah! We two make a good team! No one can stop us!” He said.
“Besides, no one can hurt you, you’re too cool to hit.” She said.
“And you’re too pretty for someone to hurt you, and if they do, I’ll be there!” He said, “Best friends forever! Never leave anyone, even if near the break of death!” He said.
“Yeah!” She said, as she began to open up a can of soda.
“…There was soda in there?” He said, getting gloomy.
“Yeah, you should really become nosy sometime.” As she giggled.
“Shut up…” As he began to cry.
“Back then, we both agreed that we would never leave each other’s side, and we’d go out on an adventure outside of the village. I even remember when he evolved.” Espeon said, as she began to lie down on the bed.
Espeon finally became evolved, yet, her best friend still couldn’t evolve. She always caught him training outside, struggling to evolve.
“Hey.” Espeon said, looking at her best friend.
“Hey Espeon…I still can’t evolve!” He said, “I’m not strong enough, I can’t even get a thunder stone!” He said, looking down. “But I bet if I train hard enough, I can become one without one!” he said.
“You always seem to be working hard, do you?” Espeon said, smiling. “Well, good luck then.”
“Right.” He said, as he began to practice more.
‘Soon, he began to practice at night, and something happened.’
“I can do this…” The Eevee said, as he began to run towards a rock. He tackled it, and it broke on impact. “This is too easy now…” He said, as he looked up. Suddenly, his ears twitched. He looked behind him, only to see a pack on Houndooms.
“Hah hah, what do we have here?” The leader of the pack said, as they began to surround him.
“Seems like a small fry, boss.” As one of them began walking around him. The Eevee began to look at them, and got worried.
“Aww, where’s your daddy? Are you gonna cry?” One of them said sympathically, but then later cracking up. “No kid, no one is gonna save you now.”
“Get away from me!” He said, as he began getting into a battle stance.
“Oh, so this little squirt thinks he can defeat us?” The boss said, “Show them who’s boss, boys!” The Houndooms began to go towards the Eevee, and he smirked. He used a quick attack, in which he disappeared from the air and a shiny light came from the air. It came up, and hit one of the Houndooms in the head. The Houndoom fell, with its consciousness gone.
“What the?!” The Houndoom said, as he stepped back.
“Don’t step back! Get him!” The Houndoom leader said, but it wouldn’t move. “Dang, you are useless! Guess I have to handle this squirt…” The leader began to go fast, and use head butt, which knocked the Eevee towards a rock. It broke, and he fell to its back. He got up, only to see the leader coming towards him with a Zen Headbutt! It hit him, and he flew more into the air. He began to felt faint, and he landed with a hard force. The Eevee got up, with a scratch on him.
“Hmph, so much for tough! You’re gonna die right here, kid!” As he began to step hardly on the floor, which sent a pulse coming towards him. The Eevee tried stepping back, and he ran towards the Moon’s direction. He looked at it, and he heard the voice of someone. ‘Step into the darkness…’ The Eevee shook his head, and realized he had stopped. The pulse came towards his feet, and it began to suck him up.
“Ahh! Help!” As he began to scream in pain. He began to cry, and suddenly, his eyes became blink. His body became engulfed from the darkness, and it faded into the ground.
“What the?” The Houndoom leader said, as he looked around. “Where did he go?!” Suddenly, a shadow came from in front of him. “…The heck?” Suddenly, a figure came up as a dark Eevee arose, and sent back the dark pulse towards him. The Houndoom flew back, and before he knew it, he was on the ground. The Eevee shook his head, and his eyes began to become red.
“What’s happening?” He said, as he tried to shake it off. His fur began to become black, and he began to grow bigger. His tail changed shape, and so did his ears. A stripe went on his ears, and tail. Soon, a circle of red came on his head, which soon turned yellow. He opened his eyes, and saw the moon.
“What did I become…” He thought. Suddenly, Espeon came out and looked at him.
“Espeon? Espeon!” Umbreon said, as he ran towards him.
“You evolved?” Espeon said, smiling.
“I think so…but what am I?” He asked, confused.
“I think an Umbreon…” She guessed.
“An Umbreon…”
“Soon, he was picked on for being the only Umbreon. He always stood inside his home, thinking his thought away, and being isolated from anyone…except for me. He always looked at the moon from that point, and he never fell asleep except for the mornings…” Espeon said, looking outside the windows. He looked outside, and saw Buizel.
“Espeon! Espeon! Get out here, quick!” Buizel yelled up from the bottom floor.
“What’s wrong?” Espeon said, as he began to go downstairs.
“So where are you from?” Phoenix asked Zangoose.
“I lived under a cave near here…” Zangoose said, “I never knew how to get out of it though…”
“No wonder why, you should bring a flashlight.” Aurora said.
“Hey!” Zangoose said to her, “How could I?! I fell from a bridge!”
“Well, tell me! How did you get through here without one? You probably can’t even see!”
“Shut up!” He said, sticking his claws in front of Aurora.
“Ha, bet you can’t even get close to me with that, Mr. Grumpy.” Aurora said.
“Oh I’ll show you!”
“Hey, hey!” Umbreon said, trying to get them apart. “We don’t need to start a fight!”
“She’s asking for one!” Zangoose yelled out.
“Hmm…say, Zangoose? Do you want to join my group?” Phoenix asked.
“Join? Why?” Zangoose asked back.
“We’re trying to get the seven stones, to get rid of the evil in this world.”
“That’s actually real?!” Zangoose said, surprised.
“Yeah, So far we got 4 so far…”
“Sure…you don’t have any physical attackers anyway, I’m a useful one.” Zangoose said, raising its claws. Umbreon looked around.
“So anything I miss?” Umbreon asked.
“Nope…” Phoenix said.
“Well…” Aurora said, “What about Espeon?”
“Oh yeah! Where is she?” Umbreon asked.
“She’s at the Inn.” Phoenix said, “We’ll lead you there. Come on, guys!” As he began to run over to the inn. Zangoose and Aurora stared at each other with a hating stare, and looked away from each other, and ran to him.
“Those two aren’t gonna get along well.” Umbreon said, as he began following Phoenix.
“You won’t believe who came back!” Buizel said to Espeon.
“Umbreon?!” Espeon yelled out, “Where is he?”
“Phoenix is with him, I think they should be coming.” Buizel said. Umbreon began to see the Inn, and the rest of the group. And in the front? Espeon.
“Espeon!” Umbreon yelled out.
“Oh my god…Umbreon!” She cried out, as she ran up to him. Espeon ran faster, and jumped on Umbreon with joy. “I thought you were gone forever!” As she began to cry happily.
“I’m fine, believe me…” Umbreon said to her, “I wouldn’t die because of that.”
“Uhh umm… Right.” As Espeon got off of him, blushing.
“Hey, why are you red?” Umbreon asked her.
“Nothing…” Espeon said, as she began to smile at her, and she began to cry happily. Umbreon began to rub his head in embarrassment, thinking he did something wrong.
“You know…that Espeon sure is cute.” Zangoose said, looking at Espeon. Soon, Phoenix, Aurora, and Buizel began to look at each other.
“Something is gonna happen…” Phoenix said, in doubt.
“Yep…” Aurora said.
“I hope they don’t brawl it out.” Buizel said.
“You guys better not be talking about me.” Zangoose said, looking at them.
“We’re not!” They all said at the same time.
“…Though actually, you are kind of smelly. Take a bath!” Aurora said to him.
“I don’t smell that bad!” Zangoose said.
“Yeah you do! If you been in a cave for weeks, then you smell bad!”
“And this isn’t gonna end well either…” Phoenix said to Buizel.
“Yep. Five members already, fourth stone already, and there are already arguments.” Buizel agreed.
“Hey, guys! Stop goofing off! It’s almost night time, we need to get rest.” Phoenix yelled out, and Umbreon and Espeon came back. Aurora and Zangoose stopped fighting, and paid attention.
“Okay let’s see…we’ll wake up tomorrow. First thing, we’re heading out of this village.” Phoenix told them. They all nodded their heads, and then they headed towards the Inn.
Espeon and Aurora were in a spa, which Aurora was not in the water.
“Come on! This won’t hurt you!” Espeon said to Aurora.
“Oh shut up! Water, BAD!” Aurora yelled at her.
“That’s only water attacks. Besides, it’s relaxing.” Espeon said to her, as she began to sink deeper in.
“…Whatever.” Aurora said, as she began to get in. “At least you know Umbreon is still alive though right?”
“Yep…that made me so happy to see him.” Espeon told Aurora.
“So when are you going to tell him?”
“Tell him what?”
“You like him, of course.”
“I dunno, I’m not good at this stuff.”
“And? Do it anyway?”
“You don’t know how it feels.” Espeon said bashfully.
“Meh, I can care less.” Aurora said doubly. “But seriously, it’s better if you get some lines ready. He probably likes you too.”
“Eh, I doubt it…He always has the same tone with me…”
“That how he always is! You have to get him at the right time, maybe!” Aurora advised.
“Hmm…maybe you’re right…I’ll try to get some lines soon!”
“I’ll make sure I’m there.” Aurora said, as she began to snicker.
Meanwhile, Phoenix, Zangoose, and Buizel were in a swimming pool. Phoenix was on a floater, considering he can’t really swim that well, so he just sits around on his chair.
“Hey, where’s Umbreon?” Phoenix said, as he began drinking his juice.
“I think he’s in the room. He really needs to get out more.” Buizel said.
“I know, though he is kind of different sometimes.” Zangoose said, “He seems more different if he’s alone.”
“Yep.” Phoenix said, “Well, at least Espeon and Umbreon got back together.”
“Wait, what?!” Zangoose said to Phoenix, “You mean, the both of them are going out?!”
“Well, not yet…” Buizel said, “What’s the problem?”
“Yeah! I like the Espeon, unlike the Umbreon…”
“Well you’re out of luck, because the Espeon likes the Umbreon.”
“Dang, good point…I guess I have to do something.”
“Nah, you’ll find someone else eventually, besides, I’m not even gonna go look! I mean, I’d rather stay single.” Phoenix said, “I’m too young!”
“Heh, yeah. And most of the ladies like me, though that Bayleef back in the grass village is crazy for me…” As he began to shiver.
“So, which village are we going to next?” Phoenix asked.
“I dunno, I think there’s a port around here.” Zangoose said, “It leads to an electric city, and a flying city.”
“Sweet! Maybe that’s where the next two are!” Phoenix said, as he got out of the pool. “Hey, I’m gonna go ahead and fall asleep. Good night, guys.”
“See ya, dude. ”As Buizel began to get out himself. “Well, that’s enough swimming for today. I might as well hit the hay myself. Good luck on that stuff, Zangoose.” As he began to go upstairs to his room, which was shared with Aurora and Phoenix. Zangoose thought for a while, and then got out. He went to see if the girls were coming out yet, and Espeon just happened to go through.
“You will be mine…” Zangoose said, as he began to go upstairs to his room. Umbreon was looking out of the window, in which Zangoose came in and jumped on his bed.
“Well, I’m ready for adventure tomorrow!” Zangoose said, as she began to fall asleep. “Good night…”
Soon, Espeon came in, and looked at Umbreon.
“Hey, Umbreon…” Espeon said.
“What is it, Espeon?” Umbreon responded. Espeon stood silent, as she began to stare at him.
“Uhh…I want to tell you something.”
“Okay, go.”
“I…well…umm…I uhh…I almost got worried because of you!” Espeon yelled out.
“What?” Umbreon said.
“You almost made me thought you were dead!”
“Well sorry, it’s not my fault…”
“Yeah, right!” Umbreon just stood silent, looking guilty. Espeon began to look away, and then turned back.
“Uhh…sorry…that came out right.” Espeon said to him.
“It’s okay…”
“…Good night, I guess.” As she smiled at him. He smiled back, and nodded.
“Good night.” As he began to lie down. Espeon looked at Umbreon, and soon became lost in thought. ‘When am I ever going to tell him…’ Espeon thought.
Mike's PokePet
Phoenix the level 45 Eevee! Pokemon: Diamond 1418 6113 6217
Pokemon: Battle Revolution: 1633 1577 5793