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Ok this is only a short prolouge. Chapter 1 should be up by the end of today.
Prolouge
“Yes! It’s true folks! The supposed find of Drake Dragon is true! We are currently above the said location and it is there! This is a grand discovery for all of pokemon!” the television blared. Back then I was a small child just listening to my favorite television show, Pokemon to You. Every show they would find something spectacular and spread it with the world. This time they found a brand new region! And you could tell by the voice even they were amazed. But this island was no normal kind, it was supposedly found years ago by Drake Dragon the 1st. Ever since Drake Dragon 2nd has been trying to prove him right. Just about a month ago the staff of Pokemon to You found the coordinates buried in the rocky sand along the shore of Hoenn. Now they flew in their helicopter over to the island to explore it.
This time they had a live show going on longer than ever before. My eyes were glued to the screen. They showed vast jungles,
huge mountains, vast ravines, and wide-open plains. But surprisingly no pokemon. This dumbfounded all of the staff. How could there be no pokemon on this beautiful, lush, and tropical paradise? That’s why I stood up all night just wondering all about it. The staff explored all day until they were too tired to walk anymore. Then they went back in their helicopter at night. That’s when things got strange. It started out with the camera left on everyone expressing his or her thoughts about the mysterious island. But then on camera there was movement down on the island. They looked over the tape and they knew that there was something down there. Then the helicopter started to lose power, they started to plummet to the ground. No one was severely hurt because they landed in the water. But they kept the camera on all the same holding it above the water.
They were now stuck on the deserted island, with some unknown creature. They set up camp keeping constant lookout. That’s when they found a small print on the paper with the coordinates on it. It looked like a hurried and panicked person had written it. It read:
At this point I have gone insane. I need to get out. The island, it is alive. It is hunting me. By day it is harmless but when night falls, no hope survives. It is like an experienced hunter. Lying bait then killing its prey. I fear for everyone so I send this away. Beware.
Drake Dragon.
Now they know. They were warned not to come. And even I was scared. I felt like the time I watched my first Horror Movie. I was scared to death, the fear rose up on me just as described on the video. I ran upstairs forgetting to turn off the TV because I knew that it had become to horrifying for me. I couldn’t get to sleep no matter how hard I tried. I tossed and turned the fears, the thoughts, they were all closing in on me. Hunting me down. That was 10 years ago. Now I am a strong pokemon trainer. But unlike my friends I don’t go to gyms to try to get gym badges. I’ve devoted my life to finding the truth of that island. I don’t care about a warning. I needed to know or I’d be haunted for the rest of my life by my curiosity. All I had was one clue. One start. I walked into the house of Drake Dragon 2nd and asked “, what do you know about Drake’s Island?”
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Chapter 1 is now up. I know it's short but I make 2 a day so they make up to a normal chapter per day.
Chapter 1
Drake stared at me with anger, I had obviously hurt a nerve where he had been mocked, made a fool of, and questioned for being the one who sabotauged the show I watched so long ago.
Drake asked “,who let you in here?”
I replied “, I walked in Drake.”
Drake lied to me “, I don’t know anything so leave.”
I told him “, I have thought otherwise. Have you recently been in possession of a signed paper written by Drake Dragon 1st?”
Even though Drake had his back to me I could tell he had bit his lip. He did have it. A paper, a supposed second way to find the island.
I said to him “, I know you do and I can get the police here in a second, this time there will be too much evidence against you supporting the fact that you sabotaged the show.”
Drake had obviously figured that out. He walked over to his thick plastered wall an started punching at a certain spot. After hitting it in a few different places it opened. A secret compartment in the wall so thick it didn’t even sound hollow. From there he removed a bottle containing a note. He gave it to me with a furious look on his face. I had done what I had to do. I took it and walked outside. After I left he locked the door behind me. Not wanting to be spotted I went back to my house in Slateport. There I opened the bottle and there lied a note. It was all crumpled and old. Written with what looked like a very small amount of ink. After watching the recorded episode of the last of Pokemon to You over at least 100 times. I could tell by heart that it was written by Drake most likely right before the other one. I could tell this because he took his time writing. He wrote this most likely before the sun went down. Before he knew whatever secret he died with. It read:
Dearest Family,
Great is only one word to describe how I feel right now. Over seas I flew and reached a beautiful, tropical, Island. Read this letter to find how to get to me. Don’t forget to bring a plane or we’ll all be in trouble. On boats you will find nothing because of the surrounding fog. No plane has ever made it here and neither did mine and that’s why I’m stuck here.
No wonder Drake the second had it. He’s a direct descendant from Drake Dragon 1st. But that didn’t make any sense. He told his family to meet him on the island yet he gives no coordinates. And in every letter he ever sent he always signed his name. This made no sense. That’s when it struck me. It had been ripped in half. There was another part to the letter. That part most likely gave the other coordinates to the island. But where to start looking? I was at a dead end. But that’s when I decided that every detail may be helpful in some way. But one thing was still nagging me, he wrote so many unneeded words. Because he knew he had crashed his plane, so why would he waste ink. That’s when I finally started to think straight. It was a clue. The entire letter was a clue. I started to find out possible combinations when I felt like I had struck gold. The first letter of every sentence! I scribbled them down on a piece of paper. G,O,R,D,O,N. It spelled Gordon. Now what could that mean? I searched on my computer for Gordon + Drake Dragon. I knew where I had to go next. I grabbed all my cash, some clothes, food, and my pokemon, and I stuffed it into my backpack. Then I walked outside and brought out Pidgeot.
I told Pidgeot “,Pidgeot, were heading to Mossdeep!”
Chapter 2
Pidgeot replied with a loud coo. Hat meant that she was ready to go and was ready when I was. With that being said I grabbed onto Pidgeot’s back and we started to fly northeast. We crossed over forests and the ocean, even Muaville City. After an hour or so we had reached Mossdeep City. I told Pidgeot to land near a tree that I spotted. Pidgeot obeyed and brought us down safely to the ground. I returned Pidgeot and then stared out into the ocean with only one thought in my head. “Gordon” I walked over to the beach. Then with a quick flick of my wrist I sent out my Swampert.
“Swampert, I need you to go looking for some underwater cave in that direction.” I told it.
I pointed toward a small island. Swampert nodded and swam off toward the island. I sent Swampert there because when I searched online almost nothing gave me any facts at all. But then one site gave me the facts I needed. It turned out that Drake had once tried to create a new word. It was Gordon. He said it meant underwater entrance. He thought it was a great and wonderful idea. But the government refused saying there was no need for such a word that would only ever be used once or twice. But that wasn’t my only clue.
My other clue was in the letter itself. The stamp showed the gym badge for Mossdeep Gym. So then I came here, which isn’t surprising since there are so many caves and underwater caverns. But from there I had no idea. I just sent my Swampert out in hope that he’d find something. Another clue maybe? Something at least to point me in the same direction. I decided to go to the place I always went to when I needed help. That is besides my laptop. The Library.
I walked into the large doors and saw shelves lining the room with thousands of books. I walked over to the front desk where a kid lady met me. By her outfit I could tell she worked here.
“Hello there,” she said to me in a small but happy voice “, what have you come to look for at the library today?”
“I need to find out about the Mossdeep Gym please,” I replied hoping she’d have an answer.
“Oh, well than you’re in luck,” she told me “, because Tate, one of the gym leaders is actually here right now.” For once! A stroke of luck! The gym leader was here, maybe he could help. I walked through the isles glancing over them seeing natural pedestrians going by when finally I turned a corner of an isle and slammed into someone. I fell backwards from the impact, we both did. Finally when I got back up on my feet I saw it was Steven. Steven Stone the previous Hoenn League Champion.
“Oh, hello there,” he said to me “, what may I ask is your name?”
“Hello, Steven,” I babbled “, my name’s uh Thomas. But you can call me Tommy.”
“Hello Tommy,” he replied “, it was nice to see you but I must go now.” Then as I it was nothing he walked away. I snapped out of my state. I had looked like an idiot. If only I didn’t have to record every single Pokemon battle on TV I would be calmer when meeting people.
I turned the corner and there he was Tate looking at a book on a shelf wearing a large blue dress and a bow in his hair. The way he was dressed made him look kind of like a girl. I walked over to him and introduced myself. He smiled at asked me what I wanted in a rude way.
“I need to know if you know anything about this picture besides that its your gym’s gym badge,” I asked him. I showed him the stamp on the paper and he laughed a bit.
“What’s so funny?” I asked Tate.
“It’s just that you wanted to know about the picture except that it’s our gym badge, yet it’s not even our gym badge.” Tate told me.
“What?” I asked now completely shocked. I knew this had to be another clue.
“You see about 3 years ago Liza and I took over the gym for our Father Palin,” Tate explained “, that was his badge. Ours looks sort of the same but is different if you look close enough.” That was strange. Why would Drake put a picture of an outdated gym badge? That’s when I remembered that Drake was an explorer, but also a pokemon trainer. So that meant when Drake went on his Journey he faced Palin, not Liza and Tate.
“Tate, could I see your father?” I asked Tate.
“My father? Sure he is at our home. Come by in about 1 hour while I go get Liza from his training at the gym. Ok? “ He asked me.
“Sure,” I said.
Now I was one step closer to finding the island. I walked back to the shore. After waiting a while I could see Swampert coming back. I asked if it found anything and then t nodded its head no. Oh, well. I may not have found a shortcut, but at least I had a different clue, the gym badge. The hour went by so slowly. It felt like days before I checked my poketch and it was 6:30.
I started walking towards the gym where I found Liza and Tate. Tate spotted me first.
“Hey there Tommy,” he said to me while waving his hand joyfully.
“Liza, this is Tommy,” he introduced me to Liza.
“Hi there Tommy,” she said.
I greeted them both and then we walked over to their house. There was their mother and father. Liza and Tate’s mother was very kind and welcoming but their father, Palin, was the opposite. He despised me.
Finally he spoke up and said “, Tommy, I know why you’re here so lets get it over with so you can be out of my house.” Finally we could begin talking. I walked over and started to talk to him I a separate room.
“Ok Palin. What did Drake tell you?” I asked him.
“Don’t ask questions, just listen.” he told me “, Drake and I, we were the best of friends. Ever since our battle we were rivals who promised we’d battle each other again. As you know we never did. On his last trip he wanted to go to Shoal Cave for some reason. So I took him there and we took our picture. Here it is.”
He handed me a photo. I could see the background of Shoal Cave.
“You can keep the photo.” Palin said to me.
“Is there anything else?” I asked him.
“Nothing. So scram!” he yelled at me. I packed my things and left the house saying goodbye to Liza and Tate. Well there went my last Clue. But now were the times I hated most. The times I had to think.
Chapter 3
I sat down in the pokemon center going over my clues. Just to think that this was all just to find out where to go in the world to find the island. So far I had only 1 lead, which wasn’t much. The first clue was the stamp of Mossdeep to talk to Palin. Then I have this picture from Shoal cave, along with the word Gordon which I know mean’s underwater entrance.
So what could I be missing? I decided the only way I was going to find out was by checking out Shoal Cave tomorrow. I went to sleep thinking about all the possibilities of where to go next and if the clues would ever stop.
The next morning I got up and went outside. It was a bright sunny day. And now it was off to Shoal Cave. When I finally reached the entrance to Shoal Cave I saw Drake Dragon 2nd standing there looking at it.
“Drake?” I asked.
“Oh, its you again,” he said “, what are you doing here? I figured you’d be at the island by now.” I almost fell over in embarrassment.
“Well about that, you see your grandpa left tons of different clues one after another and they brought me here,’ I told him.
“Then perhaps I could help,” he said to me “, I know Shoal Cave better than anyone. Oh, and if we are to work together I’d like to know your name.”
“He didn’t even know my name yet?” I thought to myself.
“Uhh sure, my name’s Tommy,” I told him.
“Now I need to know what brought you here.” He asked me “, you wouldn’t have come unless you had a reason.” He’d seen right through me. So I explained everything to him. Then Drake started to show me around in Shoal Cave. Right now I was dry but as the day pressed forward I could see the water level rising.
“Up right around the bend is where the photo was taken,” he said to me. And he was right. It looked sort of the same except for the water level.
“It’s not right,” I replied “, the water level isn’t high enough to match the picture.” Then we both had the idea, we must have because we exclaimed together “, That’s it! The water level isn’t high enough!”
“But how could we know the exact time it was taken?” Drake questioned me.
“Look,” I exclaimed “, in the photo Drake is holding his watch to the camera.”
“Then were too late,” Drake told me “, the watch says 1:45. It’s 2:30.”
“No were not,” I replied “, we still have 15 minutes.”
“How?” he asked me now interested in what I knew.
“Look, the picture was taken in March,” I said to him “, which means that they don’t have day-light savings like we do.”
“So that would mean…” he said now figuring it out “, that to us we don’t have to be there until 2:45!” I nodded to him. Then I started to scan the wall. Finally I found a slab of rock that letters engraved. They had five names on it. It read from left to right:
Paul Ricky Thomas Gordon Drake
This was obviously a test. And then I thought “, So that’s where Gordon fits into all this. I pressed my hand against Gordon. To my surprise the piece of pressed inward. And after that the ground started to rumble. And a piece of the wall with the names on it literally pushed outwards.
This had definitely been set by Drake. On the side was writing: My family you are close. I had to store this away and test if you were clever enough. Because only the worthy from our bloodline shall be enough to survive on my Island. Rise into the air because any other way will fail. Search for the red X, it will mark your spot. Be quick on your feet or else you will die, you only get one chance a day so make sure to try.
I told Drake about the writing and together we managed to figure out that the exact time on the photo the block would raise revealing Gordon, an underwater entrance. There will be the hint, but according to the message I would only have 1 minute before it shuts itself trapping me in there. Surely I wouldn’t survive a day.
I got in the water with Swampert. We were ready to go.
“Here, take this!” Drake said to me “, it’s a waterproof camera, so just take the picture and go!”
“Thanks,” I replied. Now I at least didn’t have to memorize the writing. As I waited I was nervous all over. This trip had turned deadly, against my best wishes. Finally the block started to rise.
I quickly yelled “, Swampert Now!” And Swampert shot down under the rising block of rock with me holding him. We swam for a couple seconds down a narrow passage then I found an opening above water. I went up to it and saw writing. Without thinking I grabbed the camera and took a picture.
After that I grabbed onto Swampert and we were back in the passage underwater. Swampert tried as hard as he could. That’s when I saw the block was closing. I prayed that we would make it. We were less than 10 feet away now. All we had left was about 2 feet of opening. I tried to make myself as small as possible and so did Swampert. It was going to be close. To be that close to life and death, there’s nothing like it. To not know if it was going to be all right. You feel helpless, ye happy. You also feel confused, worried, and curious. Thoughts race through your head giggling about what would happen.
We had reached the block then as we went through it everything went black. It felt like I was drifting away from everything. Drifting away from life…
