Chapter 9

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Sani shot back.  "I think this definitely qualifies as a need!"</div> <bR> <div>     The Mew stopped struggling when an echoing voice rose from the depths of the shaft.  "Sani?  Are you still up there?"</div> <bR> <div>     Sani cried out in happiness, "Destiny!  You're alive!"  The Mew dashed back to edge of the shaft and squinted into the darkness.  "Did you get hurt when the hook snapped?" she yelled down into the blackness.</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny shouted back up, "No, I was already on the ground.  It didn't snap until I tugged it to signal you to came down.  I almost got brained by the hook when it fell, though!"  There was a short pause.  "I'm going to look around a bit.  Try to find another way down here.  There's some more of those wall hooks down here, so I'm going to tie the end of the rope to them so I can find my way back if I get lost."</div> <bR> <div>     "Okay, Dest!" Sani called.  "We'll see you as soon as we can!"  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>      Down in the depths of the mine, Destiny fumbled through her backpack for the flashlight she had packed away.  Now that all the Clefairies had left, there was no more light from their Flash attacks to see by.  As a result, Destiny had to dump out almost everything in her backpack before she finally found the item in question.  Once on, the flashlight cast an eerie glow onto the surrounding rocks, lighting the cavern, but not by much.</div> <bR> <div>     Still, Destiny knew it was best to press onward.  Tying the rope to one of the wallhooks, Destiny set off down the nearest tunnel, wondering to herself exactly what it was that she was looking for.  </div> <bR> <div>     Strangely enough, she thought she heard something, like a rock hitting another rock.  The sound did not repeat itself, though.   Destiny just hoped that she would not hear that kind of sound again, followed by a cascade of rocks falling on top of her.  <I>Yes, cave-ins are definitely to be avoided if at all possible,</I> she thought to herself.</div> <bR> <div>     Tripping over a rock, Destiny fell to the ground, where she remained for a moment.  Rubbing a bruised knee, Destiny grumbled to herself and wondered how in the world she had been unlucky enough to have so many misadventures.</div> <bR> <div>     "So," an evil-sounding voice rang out, making Destiny jump.  "You've decided to follow me, have you?"  Destiny quickly waved her flashlight around the tunnel to find the source of the voice, but she saw nothing.  "Well," the speaker continued, "it won't do you any good.  We're almost ready to open the portal, and when I do, ultimate power will be ours!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Who are you?"  Destiny asked the empty air, hoping for an answer.</div> <bR> <div>     "I suspect you will find out shortly."</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny waited a moment, but the sinister voice said no more.  "What's that supposed to mean?" the girl growled.</div> <bR> <div>     "It means that you've been surrounded by our army and that you are now our prisoner."  Destiny looked around wildly, but still saw no one.  "Oh, believe me, they're there.  But even if they weren't, I wouldn't need their help to keep you under control."</div> <bR> <div>     "I think you're lying."  Destiny shot back.  "I don't think you're half as tough as you say you are.  Why else would you be afraid to show yourself?"</div> <bR> <div>     "I do not fear; I cause fear.  But if you're in doubt about my power, then I suppose I must show you my strength."  The voice came from behind her this time, and Destiny turned to look.</div> <bR> <div>     Before she could react, something snatched the flashlight from her hands and turned it off, leaving her in total darkness.</div> <bR> <div>     "Now, you will come with me!" the voice hissed in her ear.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>     In the meantime, Sani, Rhalii, and the four Clefairies were gradually working their way down through the mines.  However, Sani had noticed that Goodheart was starting to fall more and more behind.  Finally, she decided to see what was wrong.  Calling a rest stop, she picked her way across the uneven ground and helped Goodheart get over a large pile of rocks.  She put an arm around him, then jerked it back as he stiffened and yelped.  "Goodheart!  Why didn't you tell us you were injured?"</div> <bR> <div>     Sani tried to look at the wound, but the Clefairy turned away.  {It's not that bad, just a scratch.}</div> <bR> <div>     Grabbing onto him, the Mew managed to get a good look at the nasty slice the rusty hook had given to Goodheart when it had snapped.  "Oh, that doesn't look good at all!  Strongwind, come here!"  The Clefable bounced over, having much less difficulty with the rocky terrain than Sani had.  "Look at this cut that Goodheart got."</div> <bR> <div>     The Clefable inspected the injury, then shook his head.  {That's a bad wound.  You won't be able to keep going much longer with a slice like that, Goodheart.}</div> <bR> <div>     {I'll live, Chief.} Goodheart assured Strongwind.</div> <bR> <div>     "Of course you will," Sani said, "but only if you stop running all over the place.  You're going to pass out if you keep going with us."</div> <bR> <div>     {What would you suggest doing, then?} Goodheart shot back.  {Would you rather leave your friend down in the darkness while you get me safely back to the tribe?  I'm stronger than I look; I can keep going.}</div> <bR> <div>     Sani looked to Strongwind for support, but the Clefable just shook his head.  {He's right.  We're so far down now that it could take an hour to get him back to the surface, and it would take both Moonstone and Rosebud to carry him back.  It would probably be better to find Destiny first, since she's big enough to carry him by herself.}</div> <bR> <div>     "Yeah, I guess." Sani reluctantly agreed.  "I guess Destiny packed some medicine before we left too.  Maybe she'll be able to bandage him up."</div> <bR> <div>     {Then we go on?} Goodheart asked hopefully.</div> <bR> <div>     "We go on." Sani declared.</div> <bR> <div>     And on they went, Sani helping Goodheart along the way.  Strangely enough, the six of them found a rock stairway leading farther down into the mines.  Odd carvings adorned the walls. "You know, this actually looks older than the rest of the mines," Sani noted.</div> <bR> <div>     {That means we're getting close,} Rhalii said, pointing at the marks on the wall.  {This stuff has been down here longer than anything else.}</div> <bR> <div>     "So we're about to go straight into the lair of the Rock Demon?"  Sani asked.</div> <bR> <div>     {Not unless we can get past them first,}  Strongwind said, pointing down what appeared to be a long rock hall with as much debris in it as the rest of the mines.</div> <bR> <div>     "Who?" Sani inquired, scanning the room for whatever it was that the Clefable had referred to.  "I don't see anyone."</div> <bR> <div>     {Look at the rocks.} Strongwind insisted, pointing.  Sani glanced at the debris, just in time to see around twenty Geodudes come to life and dart towards them.  The Mew stumbled back, almost pulling Goodheart over.  Something grabbed her before she could get far, though.  She turned to find a Geodude holding her by the arm.  Its other hand flashed toward her face, then all was blackness...</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>     Sani awoke to find herself in a torchlit room with Destiny kneeling over her.  "How're you feeling?" the girl asked her.</div> <bR> <div>     The Mew sat up and immediately wished that she hadn't, because she was greeted with a stabbing headache.  She winced and held her head.  "Not good, Destiny," she moaned.  "Tell me, is the room really spinning, because I sure feel like it is..."</div> <bR> <div>     "Sorry, it's stable."  Destiny helped the Mew to her feet.  "We've been captured by the Geodudes that live down here, as you probably saw.  There's something else here too, though.  I'm not sure what it was, but it was talking to me before they grabbed me and brought me here."</div> <bR> <div>     Sani gave their "cell" a quick inspection and found that there wasn't even a door.  "Um, Dest?  Why don't we just walk out or something?"</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny shrugged, "Go ahead if you want.  I've done it.  There's guards all around, but as long as I don't try to make a break for it, they let me go just about everywhere around here."  Destiny nodded at the door, "Come on, everyone else is waiting for us."</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny led Sani through the twisting tunnels, which were covered with the same carvings the pokémon had spotted earlier.  "There's carvings all over the place down here," Destiny explained to Sani.  "I don't know if the Geodudes have carved them over the years or what.  Some of them have pictures of strange pokémon I've never seen before, and then there's others that I know, like Clefairies and Pidgeys and Squirtles.  It's really weird stuff, and I'm not sure what any of it means.  Ah, here we are."</div> <bR> <div>     The two entered a large chamber, where the rest of their companions awaited them.  "Clefairy, fairy fairy?" Goodheart inquired.  Sani was glad to see that he had been bandaged up, probably by Destiny.</div> <bR> <div>     "Yeah, she'll be fine," Destiny answered.  "Sani's tougher than she looks."</div> <bR> <div>     "Nice that you think so," Sani put in.  "Now, if I may ask in return, how are you, Goodheart?"</div> <bR> <div>     The Clefairy shrugged, "Fairy fairy-clefairy fairy."</div> <bR> <div>     Sani nodded, "Yep, sure you are.  How's he really, Dest?"</div> <bR> <div>     "Actually, I think he really is all right.  I just gave him a Super Potion a little while ago.  Of course, I wouldn't want him to battle anytime soon; but if he takes it easy, he should be ok."</div> <bR> <div>     "I'm glad to hear that," the voice Destiny had heard earlier echoed around the room, still seeming to come out of nowhere.  "I would rather our new subjects be strong and healthy so they can serve us better.  Cripples are of no use to us."</div> <bR> <div>     "Who are you?!" Destiny demanded to the air.</div> <bR> <div>     "We are the rulers here." the air answered back, but in a different voice than before.  "The Geodudes that live here all serve us in everything we command.  In time, you shall also learn to serve us.  But first, we will finish what we have begun."</div> <bR> <div>     "Now there's two of them," Sani muttered to herself.</div> <bR> <div>     "There have always been two of us,"  The first voice whispered in the Mew's ear.  "You just didn't know that."</div> <bR> <div>     Sani whirled around, then growled when she found nothing.  "Stop toying with us and show yourselves!"</div> <bR> <div>     "What do you think, Fright?  Shall we show ourselves?"  The second voice asked.</div> <bR> <div>     There was no reply for a moment.  "Well...  Sure, why not.  They won't be able to stop us anyway!"  A moment later, two pokémon wavered into view.  One was a Misdreavus; the other, a Haunter.  The two ghost-types hovered around their prisoners, looking them over.  "Not a very impressive bunch, are you?  A human, a Wigglytuff, a Clefable, three Clefairies, and... whatever you are."  The Misdreavus stared at Sani, "Well, I may have no idea what you are, but you'll serve us as well as anyone else."</div> <bR> <div>     "I'll never serve you!" Sani declared.  "I'm a Mew, and I could beat you in a battle any day of the week!"</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny poked her friend, "Um, Sani?"</div> <bR> <div>     "Not now, Dest."  The Mew pointed at the two pokémon that were hovering around her.  "Come on, I'll take you both on at once!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Sani!"  Destiny exclaimed, "You can't fight them now!  What if Mewtwo.."</div> <bR> <div>     "We accept!" the Haunter interrupted.  "But I'm afraid it's going to be a short battle."</div> <bR> <div>     "Yes, Spook!  Very short!" the Misdreavus agreed.</div> <bR> <div>     Sani started to object, but the Haunter whirled around, his eyes flashing.  "You will sleep now, yes!"  The Mew tried to keep her eyelids from drooping, but it was no use.  In a moment, she was asleep.</div> <bR> <div>     "Now, allow me!"  The Misdreavus giggled.  "I'll give her such horrible nightmares!"  The ghost hovered over Sani, cackling to herself.  The Mew moaned and squirmed, as if trying to get away from something.  "Yes, yes!  Bad dreams you can't escape!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Leave her alone!"  Destiny yelled at the ghost-types.</div> <bR> <div>     Surprisingly, they did, turning to face Destiny instead.  "You'd like to know what we're going to do, wouldn't you!" Spook declared.</div> <bR> <div>     Destiny blinked at the unexpected change in subject.  "Well, uh, yeah."</div> <bR> <div>     "Well, we're not gonna tell you!" Fright told her.  Destiny scowled at the two ghosts, disliking them more and more.</div> <bR> <div>     "No!  That wouldn't do!" Spook agreed.  "We must SHOW them, yes!"  Spook latched onto Destiny with one hand and grabbed the unconscious Sani with the other.  "Come, come!"  Dragging the two friends along after himself, he merrily floated down the nearest corridor.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>     The Haunter continued to pull them along after them until they reached a dusty tunnel, where a team of Geodudes was working to clear a wall of fallen rocks.  By this time Sani had woken up again, and was feeling irritable from being dragged all over the place while she was asleep.  "Where are we?" she demanded.  "What is it you're doing here?"</div> <bR> <div>      The Haunter released the two friends and pointed at the laborers, "They're our servants, working to clear the passage.  Behind those rocks is the portal, yes!  Me and Fright know it's there.  We've gone through the rocks and looked at it, but we can't get the medallions to it without clearing the way first!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Nope, can't make them go through the rocks!" Fright chimed in, coming up behind them with the rest of their group.  "Metal doesn't go through stuff right, no it doesn't.  We're almost through now, though!  Yes we are!"</div> <bR> <div>     Rhalii darted forward, yelling at the ghosts.  "Wig wigglytuff tuff wiggly wigglytuff!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Yeah, you can't open that portal," Sani added.  "You'll release the Rock Demon!"</div> <bR> <div>     "Rock Demon?" Spook asked suspiciously.  "What's that?"</div> <bR> <div>     "It's a raging monster that lives behind that portal you're trying to open," Destiny informed the Haunter.  "It eats Clefairies and Jigglypuffs and anything else it can."</div> <bR> <div>     "Oh, really?" Fright considered that for a moment.  "Oh well, no problem!  It can't eat us anyway!  But look, look!  They're about to clear out the top of that pile of rocks!  Then we can get the medallions through and open the portal, yes!"</div> <bR> <div>     Everyone turned to look as part of the rocks suddenly slid down, Geodudes darting away from the falling debris.  "Now is the time!"  Spook declared, leading them all through the gap the miniature rockslide had created.  They came to a stop at a dead end, with the same carvings on it that they had seen everywhere else.  "We'll open the portal and get ultimate power and rule the world and everyone will serve us!"  </div> <bR> <div>     "They're both crazy," Sani told Destiny, making sure not to project that particular sentence to anyone else.</div> <bR> <div>     "You can say that again," Destiny answered.</div> <bR> <div>     "Say what again?"  Spook wondered, not having heard Sani's comment.  "That we'll become all-powerful and rule the world?"</div> <bR> <div>     Fright looked puzzled, "Yeah, didn't you hear it right the first time?"</div> <bR> <div>     When the girl didn't respond, Spook simply waved a hand in dismissal.  "Anyway, now we can get through here," he said, pointing at two depressions in the carvings on the wall.  "All we need to do is put the medallions there!  Yes!"  He looked around for a moment.  "Hey, where's the medallions anyway?"</div> <bR> <div>     "You left them back in our throne room," Fright reminded him.  "Don't worry, I'll go get them!"  The Misdreavus sailed through the rock ceiling, leaving them alone with the Spook and the Geodudes that were still clearing away rocks.  </div> <bR> <div>     Destiny studied the dead-end wall for a moment, noticing the strangely even cracks running around the sides and top of it.  It was obvious that it was a door upon close inspection; but if she had been in a hurry, she never would have noticed.  "So, why don't you just float through here like you do with everything else?" she questioned the Haunter.</div> <bR> <div>     "Tried that, tried that..." he explained.  "Too powerful or something.  We couldn't go through it.  Nope, not at all."  The ghost gave the wall a shove, indicating that he couldn't pass through it.  "See what I mean?"</div> <bR> <div>     "Yeah, weird."</div> <bR> <div>     Spook said nothing more, so they all stood there in silence for a good fifteen minutes, until Fright came back down with the medallions, and something else..</div> <bR> <div>     "Look what I found skulking around in our throne room!" Fright growled, as two Geodudes followed her through the crack in the rocks holding a Cleffa in their grasp.  "Another spy!"  The Misdreavus drifted over to Destiny.  "So, you thought that you could distract us while she made off with our treasures, huh?  Nope!  Can't fool us that easily!"</div> <bR> <div>     "But I don't even know who she is!" Destiny protested.</div> <bR> <div>     The little pokémon broke free of the Geodudes and ran to Goodheart, giving him a hug.  "Cleffa cleffa!" she said, hiding her face against him as Spook floated down beside her.</div> <bR> <div>     "He's your daddy, huh?" the ghost stated.  "And who are you?"</div> <bR> <div>     "The Cleffa jumped toward him, with a determined look on her face.  "Clef cleffa, cleffa clef clef cleffa!"  At that, Goodheart pulled her back, and whispered something to her.  Her eyes widened and she hid behind her father.</div> <bR> <div>     Spook grinned, peeking around Goodheart at the Cleffa.  "Starlight, huh?  And you want to beat me up?  Well, you can't hurt me, because I can disappear and you can't.  And you know what else?  Your daddy is my servant now, and so are you!"  Suddenly, the Haunter stopped smiling and looked concerned.  "Don't worry, though; we're not mean.  Nope, not at all!"</div> <bR> <div>     "What about trying to conquer the world?  Isn't that a bit mean?"  Sani grumbled.</div> <bR> <div>     "No no!  That's not being mean, that's being powerful!" Fright claimed.  "We won't be mean to all the people if they obey us.  We're nice to the Geodudes, aren't we?"  At this, the Geodudes that had been holding the Cleffa nodded quickly.  "See?  They like us!"</div> <bR> <div>     "It doesn't matter," Spook reminded her.  "We can get them to like us later, but we need to open the portal now.  Did you get the medallions?"</div> <bR> <div>     "Yeah, yeah," Fright nodded, as the two items in question floated in front of her.  "I got them.  Are you ready to open the door?"</div> <bR> <div>     "Dest, we can't let them do it!" Sani blurted out.</div> <bR> <div>     The two ghosts frowned at the Mew.  "Who asked you?" Fright growled.  "We can open up that door if we want and you can't stop us!"  Saying that, the Misdreavus started towards the door, ready to open it.</div> <bR> <div>     "I think I can!" Sani shot back.  "Dest?"</div> <bR> <div>     "I guess it's necessary in this case.  Psychic away..."</div> <bR> <div>     Suddenly the two ghosts halted.  "Psychic?"  Spook asked almost reverently.  "Psychic did you say?"  When Sani nodded he started giggling.  "She wants to Psychic us!" he laughed.  "Well, Fright, I guess you'll have to take care of her if she tries to do that, since I can't."</div> <bR> <div>     Fright laughed at that.  "Yes, it's no good being half poison-type, is it?  Not when this happens!  All ghost is better sometimes!  Psychic's not as good on me, nope!"  Unexpectedly, she tossed a ball of dark energy at Sani, knocking her off her feet.  "Like that?" the Misdreavus giggled insanely.  "I can do this too!"   A bright light hit Sani, and she looked around in a daze.  "Yes!  Confusing is fun!"  Sani tried to get back up, but she tripped on her own feet and fell over again, making the ghosts laugh harder.</div> <bR> <div>     "That's fun, fun!"  Spook exclaimed.  "And now she can't Psychic me!  Good!  I'll open the door now!"  Before anyone else could do anything to stop him, the Haunter had thrust the two medallions into their indentations.  With a dull rumble, the wall started to sink into the ground...</div> <bR> <div> <B>To be continued...</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>