Broken Crystals, and War breaks out (INVITE)

[Deathspector]

OOC: Nope, no problems with your posts. In fact, they're pretty good. of course, You'll have to wait until we're all at Cinnabar before heading off in search of the temple. We do not find out about the powers of the Crystal shards, or even know that it is a part of a crystal until our Pok?mon tell us. Also, I write in first person, so...

IC:

The windy pathway of Route one looked forbodeing as I stared across its vast emptiness. I was glad that I wasn't forced to travel across that pathway. It sent shivers down my spine, eventhough I was standing several feet away from the begining of the path. I looked back over my shoulder.

There, placed in the groudn was the very reason I was here. It was a small gem of sorts, no longer than the length of my middle finger, and no thicker than the width of my thumb. Yet it seemed to draw me closer and closer. I bent down, and scooped it up.

It felt warm on my numb fingers. It was winter in Pallet Town, and the winds were reaching record high speeds. It was a good thing I was wearing my cloak, or else I would surely have been frozen by now.

The gem looked like it had been broken, but broken with such perfection that it was hard to see that it was actually broken. For a split second, I believed that the jewel was meant to be like that.

I turned the jewel back an forth within my hands, and suddenly, light errupted from within it, sending messages to my brain. i couldn't believe wat they were saying...

 

[Arach]

It was half a day's walk from Viridian to Pallet; with the ice and howling wind, it was twice that. So Toby had left as soon as he could, taking off right under his mother's nose. While he felt bad about running away (which was basically what he'd done), it wasn't as if he could tell her he was going to Cinnabar on the advice of a jewel. Besides, route 1 pokemon were nothing worse than Raticates or Spearow, and with Briggs to keep warm and Clover to keep him company, he'd be fine. Occasionally he let out Window to be sure they were on the right path, but the chances of getting lost were slim.

"Show me jewel, again." Cleo pleaded, speaking telepathically to her friend. A bit reluctant, he gave it to her, but almost felt it wince at her strong psychic presence.

"Don't hold it for too long, Cleo. I don't think it likes you."

"It's so pretty though...I think I should know what it is, but...I don't."

Toby considered asking Window, but she probably wouldn't know. He took the shard away from her, and beside him, Briggs said something in Growlithe he didn't understand, but made Cleo giggle.

Tobias considered the gem in his hand, hitching his scarf up with the other. The jewel looked like it'd been broken off from something--broken off perfectly, with clean strikes. It was brown-orange, like amber, and pulsed with a faint yellowish, golden glow. He could feel the reassuring presence of it through his mitten. It wasn't warm per se, just...comforting. It wrapped around his mind like a strong hug, and he remembered when he'd found it, hidden in a drawer at the police station. He hadn't meant to steal it, but it had asked him to--who was he to refuse? He tenderly slipped it into his inner coat pocket, for fear of losing it or having it stolen.

Pallet town, a small community, was coming up ahead; already he could see thw windmill spire of profesor Gary Oak's lab. Minutes later they had left the tall, frozen stalks of grass of the road and entered the well-tended, flat fields of the small town. If he continued southwards, the jewel told him, flashing a picture of his itinerary into his mind, he could take route 21 to get to Cinnabar.

Suddenly, the shar sent sparks of color bursting in his head almost painfully. It wanted him to notice something nearby. There was someone...important? Clutching his aching head, he looked around, trying to find the source of the shard's excitement.

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((OOC: He's noticing Eliadon, technically, or Ivory, if you wanna make her appear in Pallet in your next post, Naoko-chan. I'm leaving that open for y'all. n_n))

 

[Loki]

OOC: Ivory's already at Cinnabar, so I dunno why she'd wanna back-track...???

IC: "Hey where are you going?!" Ivory asked frustrated as the shard zoomed all over the forests surrounding the volcano "What are you looking for anyway?!" She was done with this wild goose chase, and she made sure of that as she grabbed the shard from the air "Pick one path, and we'll go that way." She commanded.

It wriggled in her hand for a few moments, then glowed an eerie blue, and what it did next made Ivory yelp and let go of the shard abruptly. It had phased through her hand!! Literally!

"What are you anyway?" Ivory muttered, still totally freaked out and wondering whether she'd just imagined her hallucination. The mild winter in Cinnabar was to be thankful of, as she didn't have to wear a heavy jacket, unlike in places like Lavender, or Saffron. But this was ridiculous! It was smoldering hot after chasing around a shard she could barely see, save for the blinding flashes of sunlight reflecting off the smooth angles.

It flashed a few times to answer her question, though it was quite vague in the blunt answer of 'What do I look like?'.

"I can't believe I'm talking to a rock." Ivory muttered to herself.

"I can't believe I'M talking to a nut." The shard seemingly 'said' with more flashes of light.

<'Rock got your undies in a knot?'> Shade asked popping out of his pokeball <'Poor Rockie Wockie, it's gonna die soon!'> The Cacturne collapsed in laughter at the expression on Ivory's face.

"What a retard pokemon." Ivory mumbled through a haze of heat and frustration "Oi! Rock! I thought you wanted to go to the SOUTHERN part of Cinnabar!" Ivory shouted to the glint of light far ahead of her as she pointed behind her. In other words the opposite direction they were going.

 

[Deathspector]

IC:

The lights flew around me in circles, like some crazed sort of flying creature, desperate to get inside my brain. Slowly, and carefully, I let my guard down, and immediately pictures and words rushed to my brain, with such force that I fell to the ground, clutching my head. The pictures were indicating a pathway to Cinnabar Island, across the water, and then from there, it was showing me another pathway, that led further out to sea, and suddenly, I was staring at a temple. After that, everything went blank.

I looked up, and felt the presence of another living thing. How I could do this, I didn't know, but I knew that someone else was there, and that he or she was important. I slowly got up, and holding the jem with trembling hands, I began to walk towards whoever was there.

But before I could take a single step, my pokè-belt began to vibrate, and one of them snapped open, flooding the surroundings in a pallid light. The light slowly took the form of my ever-faithful Typhlosion.

He stood up, towering above my cloaked figure, with menacing eyes, and his flame alight, I knew that he was not happy with something that I had just done. I cowered before him, and wimpered.

"Yes?"

Typhlosion sighed, and grinned a wide and toothy grin, <I'm not trying ti intimidate you, Eliadon. All I want to do is ask you something. Reccently, and I mean in a matter of half an hour, I've been feeling an odd source of power emanating from you. What is it?>

I had to tell him...

 

[Zelos]

Toren leaned over the railing of the boat, staring down into the deep, blue water. Both of his parents had always gotten seasick when going on a boat or even thinking about a boat, but for some reason, Toren felt calm and relaxed as they moved through the endless sea.

Hale, who seemed to have been flying in circles around the boat, chirping softly to itself, noticed Toren by himself and then landed gracefully on his right shoulder. It cooed a little bit, cocking its head at Toren and wondering what was wrong, but Toren just smiled at her and whispered to her that she could go back to playing. She shrugged her head and zoomed back into the sky, never understanding why Toren actd so starnge, but then again, most humans did.

Ivan was currently swimming in the water alongside the boat, wishing that he could go on ahead. The boat wasn't moving that fast, and he would have been able to easily race ahead, but Toren gave Ivan one, tiny glare and he automatically knew what Toren meant...no.

"Erm, Captain, how long exactly is it going to take before we reach Cinnabar Island?"

Toren asked, turning around and walking towards the "captain", stopping beside of him and watching as he steered the boat. It was just one of those old run-of-the-mill steering wheels, but Toren noticed that it looked aged, as if it had been steering the vessel for many, many years.

"Oh, I'd say 'at we'll be 'ere in around an 'our half, maybe two 'ours. You just sit back and relax, we'll take 'are of everythin."

Toren rolled his eyes slightly, sighing and then walking quietly back to hir former spot. Hale continually watched him as she flew, and Ivan looked up occasionally from his swimming, but they eventually grew tired of it and focused on whatever it was that they were doing.

 

[Loki]

"Alright you dumb rock where do you think your going now?" Ivory asked, very POed now as the rock continued it's journey north "Do you have some issue with the cardinal directions?"

It merely flashed in the sunlight as it waited for Ivory to catch up "Because South isn't North!" She said stomping up to it.

It continued after Ivory barely caught up, and soon stopped at the edge of...the pier?

"Hey, I'm not going to be seen talking to a rock, so either you keep us away from civilization, or I ignore you." Ivory said, already getting a few strange looks from passerbys.

'Too bad.' It said floating into the crowd. An invisible force pushed Ivory through the crowd, following the Crystal Shard "Hey what's the big idea?!" Many people shot indignant looks at her as the invisible hand pushed her right into them, often shoving them aside, making them think it was Ivory who did so.

"This is cheating!" Ivory said as she was pushed through the throng of people.

The stupid rock led Ivory all the way through the pier, and back to her neighborhood, which was extremely close to the port of Cinnabar, making it rather hard to even get out onto the streets sometimes, but this was ridiculous! Now she was phasing through everybody like the Rock had to her hand! And they didn't even notice!!

"Hey, peabrain!" Ivory said "You just took us in a huge circle. Where the h*ll do you want to go?!"

'We wait for the others.' It said flashing brilliantly now in the open sea sun.

"Others?!" Ivory said "There are other rock heads like you? This is getting insane." She would've left right there and then, but it was hard as she was somehow glued to the ground underneath her. It was totally unfair! She had no choice, no say, no opinion in this stupid...mission, or whatever.

'When they come we go South and search. It 'said'. As it anxiously (as anxiously as a rock can get) floated around Ivory waiting for it's 'pals' she glare at the rock and resolved to never talk to inanimate objects again. Excluding this thing, as it was too late for that.