The Secret of the Unknown [Rated: G]

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This is the strangest thing. I hear hardly any noises of any animals. Only that strange humming noise and that of the grass and trees... and footsteps...of a man...along with the buzzing noise of a bug pokemon with wings...one of the scyther line I believe... Ronike stood, turned towards the sound, and opened his eyes to see a man in a blue coat along with a Scizor within shouting range. Ronike grinned.
"Yep, still got it HEY!!!! OVER HERE!!!!" He shouted to the pair, rather unneeded as the two were already headed towards him, and began to walk in that direction.
When the two trainers met, Ronike offered his hand to the trainer
"Salem I would assume? I am Ronike Tapcast, vagabond of the continents and winner of 32 different badges. Now, would you mind telling me where the h*** we are and how we ended up here?"
 
Patience turned to see the lone pokemon making a rukus and then calming down as it talked with a psychic pokemon that appeared from the host's belt. She watched the conversation and looked at the pokemon. I can't imagine what they were talking about, but it didn't attack so it must be a tamed pokemon. Did it lose it's trainer? How could someone leave it behind. I would feel terrible if I ever left any of my pokemon or even wonder how my pokemon would feel. She was brought back from her thoughts when she heard a voice.

She instantly turned her head and turned to walk after him. "I'm coming."

She stood near Gardevior and turned to look at the lone pokemon one last time before she turned and entered into the ruins after Ryozo. She still couldn't believe she was the only one that showed up and to make it worse, he had to be a guy. Why her of all places? She had her reasons hidden from the world about guys and she wasn't going to be too happy about this, but she would try to enjoy the history of this Ruin.
 
"Yeah, I'm Salem. I believe this is the Unkown Realm, we were transported here by the Unkown. Though I've studied this place before, I can't remember how it functions. Only a handful of people have ever seen it,"Salem said to the Ronike. "I think that it's a representation of people's inner most thoughts and desires, which must mean there's a lot more than grass and trees here. We've only just climbed into the rabbit hole, there's still a long way down."

Salem was happy with his Wonderland metaphor, but not as happy as he'd be to get out of this crazy place. In his mind he was struggling to remember any facts he could about the Unkown Realm Essays, and how they'd help him escape.

"Listen, Ryozo probably didn't get any of our messages. For all we know the excavation could still be going on and we'll have quite a few more friends here soon," we have to get out of here and warn him. Remember, time goes slower here, we may be able to get there just in time to stop him."Scizor nodded in agreement with his partner, then they both stared at Ronike for a reply.
 
"Realm of the Unown, eh? And its a place which represents people's hopes and desires? Thats probably why I recieved your message, as I wanted to find another person here. And time moves slowly? I thought it was just my gear had a virus or something. Well if thats the case, we are pretty far out of the service range I would guess and Im surprised I even managed to get your message, so Ryozo almost definetely has not. As for getting out, we definetely need to find something out of the ordinary. Any exit would be somehow remarkable and not just this orange grass. The exit must be tied somehow to the ruins as it has that information to do with the unown... We should start walking and trying to find this "weird" area, I think better when walking anyway." Ronike awaited an acquiescence from the other trainer.
 
"Well I think that last time people actually got out, the legendary pokemon Entei was involved. I can't remember how, though. But if they are directly related then we may be in trouble," Salem replied, his head hanging down, his hat shadowing his face. "Let's start walking, I guess."

He didn't want to end his reply on that sour note, but he couldn't think of anything else to do. Why couldn't he just remember what was written in Ketchum's essays! It was driving him crazy. And how did it take a Ronike and his inner most thoughts and get this world, surely they didn't just think of orange plants and a pink sky. Then Salem realized something terrible, something grave.

"My inner most thoughts..."he whispered, too quietly to hear. Scizor was the only other who knew of Salem's darkest thoughts and secrets. His greatest desires. And how terrible it would be if they came true in this world. Scizor was the only one that Salem had ever told, and had realized what danger this could put them in at the same time Salem had. "We have to get out of here, and fast. If a hunch of mine is right, that is..."
 
I stopped right before I entered the ruins. "All right, people, This is a private excavation, please, I have cops all around, no intruders."
I looked towards the guards that I had payed to protect the members of my team, but with only the one girl, I knew it would make her feel safer with the natural suspicians of his grundgy appearance. I turned towards the girl.
"Well, that's a real spirit-breaker. I mean, I've been planning this for about two years and your the only one that showed up. Oh well, I'm here, and that's the important thing. I am Ryozo." I said as I offered my hand. I smiled when she shook back.
"Well first we're going to the latest chamber that has been unlocked. So, just trust me and follow me, it may get boring so we may need to chat to stay awake. So, if you have any questions, please ask."
I grabbed the torch out of my back pocket and lit it on one of the torches that were oddly already lit.
 
As she walked, she was slightly surprised to see him stop quickly which made her gasp a bit. She had nearly bumped into and had managed to stop herself before she made a fool of this. She was already uncomfortable with him, but bumping into him would make it more complicated. She smiled falsely and looked down to his hand and shook it.

However, she felt better when he told her about there being more she sighed and relaxed a bit. "That's okay I guess. You really put a lot of effort into this discovery didn't you?"

Her tone was soft and gentle as he started in. She followed after him.

"Yes, you told me your name already." she murmured softly as she looked around ruin walls. She was slightly surprised, but partly uninterested. Going on a discovery ruin wasn't really her thing, but she had agreed she would go to learn "more" as the professor put it.

"Gardevior is very beautiful and looks to be strong and graceful. You take good care of it don't you?" she commented to pass the time away. She really didn't want to have to walk in silence. "How did you two meet and when did you two become an official team?"

This was what always interested her. When ever she saw a pokemon that was strong and beautiful, she had to ask the trainer all about their pokemon partner as if it were a popular star and she was a crazed fan. She had grown excited in this question as she awaited his answers.
 
Unown World:
"A hunch of yours? Mind sharing? If not, I understand, but it'd probably help us survive this..." Ronike drawled out.
This landscape is really starting to get boring... I mean its just orange grass after orange grass after orange grass with a few trees mixed in. And I'm glad and all that I found someone else here, but I just wish that Shales were here. It'd make it just a wee bit more inter... He suddenly stopped and turned.
"I heard something... like a crash... over there" Ronike pointed off in the distance and then started walking that way.
Real World:
*sigh* I wish I knew where Ronike was. moaned Shales What if he's been attacked? I'm not there to protect him! He could be in danger! I have to help him... but how?
Suddenly, the letter C appeared before him...
Great, now I'm hallucinatin. Bloody fantasti...wait, isn't that an unown?
Of course, having asked the question, a flock appeared around Shales.
What the?!?
The flock began to spin around Shales, and began to slowly lift into the air
Oh... bugger came the cry of the distressed behemoth, moments before the flock and Shales disappeared, leaving naught but a flash behind.
 
"I love Nightmare, she's like my best friend." I walked a little bit ahead of Pat and turned to face her. "Watch this."

My feet slowly lifted off the ground and I was levitating. I could see her face turn to horror as I started to laugh.

"Don't worry, that was Gardevoir, I'm not some freak of nature.
"Nightmare and I met like the fourth day of my journey. Of course, she wasn't my first pokemon, but she was my strongest and favorite. I couldn't manage all six of my guys and very reluctantly, I let them all go..." I looked at Nightmare. "...Except Nightmare."
We reached a fork in the road and read from the walls.
The main hall you've already passed.
Turn left for misery, turn right for salvation.
Whichever way you choose follow your heart.
And you may be rewarded...
...Or not.​

The oldest puzzle in the book. I looked at Pat, "The oldest puzzle in the book, I know for a fact that the Unown created the Secret of the Unown to help the people, not to create misery. So right is the way to go."
 
"It's nothing, let's just keep on walking,"Salem shrugged, beginning to walk faster toward the noise, his head hung down low. "We need to find out what that crash was!"Salem said, beginning to run toward the source of the noise, wanting to get away from any questions Ronike would want to ask. Scizor followed him closely.
 
"Whatever floats your boat, man." Ronike yelled as he started to run towards the site as well.
Geez, wonder whats gotten into him?
When the two finally reached the point where they could see what had crashed, they saw a crumpled, dark silver, metallic mass, which Ronike recognized instantly.
"Shales!" Ronike exclaimed, and began to run towards him. He was so relieved and surprised to see his partner, he didn't even hear the sound of the flames behind the behemoth pokemon...
 
OOC: Sorry I've been playing Diamond for awhile...

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Barry found himself in an unknown world, what is this place he wondered? He got up holding his head in pain. He closed his eyes and started to pant. His Charizard started to growl in shock.
It looked like he was in some sort of weird landscape where everything is of different abstract colors. Something about the place made Barry feel better about himself, like more powerful, as if he is in control.

"I kinda like it here.." He grinned.

His Charizard who is still waking up growled back at him. His upper lip twitched in anger and he struck his Charizard.

"You big lug! You got us here! If only you were more powerful! I trained you for nothing!" The Kindler yelled.

The Pokemon moaned and then roared in anger, the Charizard started to shoot fire everywhere causing a big scene.

"Yes, that's more like it! No one is here to stop us! I don't know where we are but let's have some fun! Hahaha!" Barry laughed as he began to dance within the Charizard's fire.
 
"Listen Ronike, this Metagross is seriously injured, we need to get it healed...but in the mean time I think I know who may have done this...Look over there..."Salem said pointing toward their new arrival, Barry. "I guess that Hothead decided to show up after all! Let's do this, Scizor". A grin ran across Scizor's face as he positioned himself for a rematch against Barry and his Charizard. "Show him no mercy,"Salem said with an evil look in his eyes.

Barry hadn't yet noticed him, obviously Charizard wasn't expecting a slash from behind. Scizor was much powerful than any of the trainers around him thought, the black Charizard went flying nearly 30 meters despite his large size.

"I guess we get to have our little battle after all, Barry" Salem said now that the fiery trainer had noticed him and Scizor.
 
Pat watched as he hovered in the air with the look of surprise then out of anything else. She was not afraid or horrified by this. She had her own psychic Pokemon friend who loved to play tricks and would do so with such stuffs that she had gotten used to it and her psychic Pokemon had to figure out a new way to get to her.

"That is so cool." she said after her slight surprise and smiled getting excited. "I don't think you're a freak of nature or anything. But. . . You let go your friends?"

She didn't know how to feel about this as they came to a fork. She read the passage and followed after him. She had no idea what the Unknown would or wouldn't do, but if she were alone, she would have taken the path that had nothing to do with death or being hurt or anything containing to the hurting of the body, mind or soul.

"It must have been hard for you to let your friends go." she commented feeling her own sad story about her Poochyena who evolved to help lead the pack of Poochyena to keep out of trouble and also protect them.

It was one of her hardest thing to do, because she loved all her pokemon equally. She faked a smile as they walked.

"Okay, what the unknown like? What history do they have?" She curiously asked trying to not get so bord with the expedition as it wasn't her thing.

But she was insisted to go as she would "learn more things" as her professor put it. She would rather be working on more moves and learning new ways to appeal her pokemon's attacks with combos.
 
"Ooh, that's a tough question. I was young then, about 16, and I don't really remember them well. I knew it was hard but six pokeballs at my belt was never my thing." I sighed. I never really thought about how my old Gyarados was doing, but it was strong enough to fend for itself. Pat then asked me a question about the Unown.

"The Unown are a very mysterious pokemon, seeing as they only one move, Secret Power, but I have a theory. When the Unown use Secret Power a bit of matter is produced. I think that the Unown, when they get together and focus on certain elements, shapes, and colors, can create anything they want, a power unique only to them. That's why I believe the Unown's story. Do you know the story? I'll tell you anyways." I smiled because I love talking about the Unown. I took a rest to catch my breath.

"It is said that when times were rough, in the olden times of Johto, that the "Beings of Letters" listened to peoples cries for help and granted them any wish, that was a physical object." I looked at Pat with an inquisitive eye. "Which works with my theory of their matter creation." I got back to the story. "When times were rough though, when the human population was declining at a dangerously steady rate, the Unown, taking on the role of protecters of all things decided to help all those in need by creating the ultimate power. The Secret of the Unown. No one knows what it is but the Ruins make me jump with excitement. Here, I'll read off a random hyroglyph."

Power and Life, that is what we gave it
But it took it back.​

"Isn't that awesome." I stopped for a second and looked at the wall. I tapped the fourth brick from the top of the seventh hyroglyph, which opened a secret chamber.
"Here we are, the latest puzzle piece in the challenge."
 
SHALES!!! Ronike ran over to his pokemon, still not having noticed the flames that were begining to surround around the groud. He dropped to his knees besides the pokemon, eyes wide with horror.
SHALES!! Wake up! Wake up!!!
"Listen Ronike, this Metagross is seriously injured, we need to get it healed...but in the mean time I think I know who may have done this...Look over there..."
Ronike obediently looked and saw the trainer and his Charizard.
He looks familiar... why? Ronike shook his head and returned his attention to his wounded pokemon. Salem's right, Shales is too injured. I need to get it to its pokeball... Ronike drew the dust covered pokeball from a pocket in his coat.
Return and rest up dear friend, I have a feeling we shall need you soon Ronike returned the behemoth pokemon and finally noticed the flames.
"What the?! Where'd these f-flames come from???" Ronike's voice cracked sligthly as he spoke.
Need to remain calm.... Breathe, Ronike, Breathe... its Ok, you'll be fine, and Shales'll be fine. Nothing to worry about.
He glanced back at Barry and Salem, and the trainers identity finally clicked.
Its that trainer from before, the one that was picking fights at the ruins! I'll teach him to play with fire!
"Hey hotshot!" Ronike yelled in a deep voice filled with rage as he stood. "Fire's not a toy, it kills people."
The fire glinted off of Ronike's eyes as he walked toward the trainer, ignoring Salem completely. There was no sympathy in those eyes, only rage.
"Lets see how much you like the fire when you are in it." Ronike growled in a voice completely unlike his normal tone.
 
It was time to get out my natural puzzle solving gifts. I got as close as I could to the wall, and eyed what I thought would be important. I noticed gridlines like on the map in my pokegear, so I traveled to the axis of the pictures. To my satisfaction, there were Unown starting from the bottom going up all the way to the top, all 28 of them in order. Same as on the the x-axis.

Right in the center of the entire grid was one word.

BEAUTY​

I knew exactly what it meant. I turned to Pat so she could catch up.
"Hey, I'll explain my train of thought, see how the Unown are in that pattern? Well I'm thinking of a coordinate plain, and see the word beauty... I think those are cordinates... Here let me show you."

I texted on my Pokegear "[B,E][A,U][T,Y]"

After I heard the beep on hers, I signaled for her to solve it. Hopefully she knew basic math.
 
Pat caught up easily and stopped watching him work. She rose her right brow in uncertainty and sighed rolling her eyes a bit. It was one reason she hated histroy stuff. Because the person who abviously discovered it was always having their nose into it instead of the world around them. This was something she felt pity for though would never show it.

She looked to him as he spoke and blinked putting on a smile. She looked down to her poke' gear and pushed the button. She looked at it and then the row of lines for the unknown alphabet lined up and the word beauty in the middle. She looked back to the poke'gear screen again.

"Okay, you've showed me." she said looking back up to him.

When she realized he wasn't responding she slightly drew her eyes together in a slight downward motion. "You mean you want ME to figure that out?" she exclaimed as she growled and turned her back to him thinking about it.

It was his discovery and he wanted her to do work? She had thought this was going to be a show and tell. Basically, the guide shows the ruins and then tells about them. She never dreamed they would ask her about doing the work. She sighed finally defeating herself as she looked down to the poke'gear. She was puzzled and had no idea what he wanted.

She turned around to look at him. "I have no idea what you want me to do with BE, AU, and TY. It doesn't make sense to me. Besides, how am I supposed to know how to do it, when there are no instructions?" she asked firmly glaring up at him.

It was quiet clear that she did not like math or cared for it.
 
Charizard got back up, it seems that the slash wasn't enough to knock it out in one hit. It returned to Barry where he rose his hand, the Pokemon immediately cowarded, however he began to laugh the Pokemon gave a sinister grin and began to shoot more flames.

"Draco! FLAMETHROWER!" Barry commanded.

The Black Charizard reared its head and blasted out a beam of flame towards the Scizor, engulfing it in a blaze.

"Bwahahaha!" Barry laughed madly. He began to bring his hand over the fires that he is making and began to move his hand around the flame, almost petting it. A flame flickered, hitting his finger, he took it back with at first a face of pain which quickly turned to a smile.

"They are messing with my head! How you toy with me with your dancing!" He spoke to the fire, "This place... this field. It all looks like a dream. Don't you people feel it? Don't you feel the power? Oh, I feel it. I can feel the fire within me burning!" Barry told everyone.

"Grr... why don't you people just let me be. Can't you see that I like it here?" He began to get angry.

Suddenly the ground began to shake. This man is tainting the Unown Realm, someone really needs to give this Kindler some water to cool off...
 
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"Double Team, Scizor"Salem said calmly as the flames shot toward his pokemon. Immediately several images of himself appeared around Charizard, no one knowing which one was real. He turned back to Shales one more time as Barry ranted.

"Ronike! It wasn't him Barry who hurt Shales! Look at the burn marks!"Salem shouted pointing toward the Metagross. The burn marks across Metagross read a single word. "Beauty".

Suddenly the plain began to rumble violently. The orange grass began to wilt and darken to black. The sky went from pink to blood red. A thunderous roar could be heard from every direction.

"What's going on?!"Salem shouted toward the other two, despite there was no way they could hear him. Scizor left his copies behind, and seemed to just appear by Salem suddenly, still poised for battle
 
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