Rhysoning With One's Heart- Chapter 2- The Road to Recovery is Always Harsh

Story by seikiru on SoFurry

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#2 of Rhysoning With One's Heart


Again I don't own Pokemon, Nintendo does.

If anything I guess you can call unconscious an empty feeling. I guess you can say it was like sitting in a black room with nothing around you. Though I would have to say it was nice, I felt like I was sleeping but also not sleeping.

Though my mind did decide to jolt itself awake with a dream at least I thought it was. The image expanded and started flowing like a movie. I started seeing Pokémon, three to be exact; Palkia the water dragon, Dialga the steel dragon, and Giratina the ghost dragon in his altered form, all flying high in the sky, and racing to a location that at the moment was unknown to me.

They were all laughing about something, and from the looks on their faces it wasn't good. "Start the descent!" Dialga yelled. The others roared in what I figured was an agreement and they all nosed dived towards an island.

The island was a small circle, with a mountain in the center. They dived inside the opening at the top of the island, and my vision shifted. Inside the mountain was ice, nothing but ice, then I realized where they were, they were in Kanto, at the Seafoam Islands, home of Articuno.

At that moment an Ice Beam entered my vision and flew towards Palkia who went farther then the other two. The beam hit Palkia in the leg and he screamed. The ice crumbled off after he slammed his leg into a wall and he flew towards Articuno.

"You'll pay for that!" Palkia roared and fired off a Hyper Beam, which narrowly missed, destroying the island Articuno was resting on. Hovering in the air Articuno fired another Ice Beam, hitting directly. Palkia stumbled backwards, while Dialga flew forward.

"What do you guys want here? You know no legendaries should enter the home of others!" Articuno dodged passed a Flash Cannon. He flew up higher and fired an Ice Shard.

Dialga kicked the shard away and chuckled, "Were here to well, lets just have that be a surprise." Dialga roared and shook the mountain lightly. Ice on the ground was cracking and waves were splashing onto shore freezing into ice almost instantly.

Giratina flew forward to join the fight, and they both launched a Hyper Beam. The beams circled in mid air and combined, moving faster then normal. They slammed into Articuno who flew into a wall and collapsed on the ground, "Now is the time."

Palkia joined the group and they flew towards the semi-conscious Articuno. They crowed around the form chuckling. My vision went black.

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I screamed my voice heavy with fear and sadness as my eyes flashed open and I jolted into a seating position. I winced in pain and fell back my head hitting a soft pillow. I looked around and sighed, I was in the hospital, my mind flashing to the battle with Hunter. I looked over my body and noticed that if anything about half of it was wrapped tightly in a white bandage.

"Hello, anyone out there?" I called my voice now light almost none existence and layered in pain. The room was empty as far as I could tell from my look around. Though from under the bed jumped Tatsuya "BOO!" I tried to jump back, but my body in the condition it was going to far was out the question. Sine all I seem to really to do was roll back into my pillow I was sleeping on. Tatsuya was rolling around on his back laughing at my scared expression.

"I am sorry I couldn't help myself I just came a while ago to see how you were doing today when I say you starting to wake up I just couldn't help myself." he said with a evil grin. " I was wondering when you would wake up." He said smiling as he pushed a button on the wall. "The doctors are on their way, and if I remember right..." Tatsuya stopped and set a paw on his chin, "your mom will be here in an hour or so on her daily visits."

I looked at him shock, "How long have I been out?" I looked at the window the sun was out and clouds were scarce making the day hot and bright. "What about Hunter?"

Tatsuya smiled, "About four days, and Hunter..." Tatsuya looked around real quick, "The doctors say he won't be awake for the next few days, you totally kicked his ass." He smiled and threw a punch in the air as the door opened, a pink Chansey, with a skip in her step, and a Blissey with her white body fluff freshly comb walked in.

"I'm Doctor Bliss, this is my assistant Cherry." They both bowed lightly and Cherry grabbed my chart from the front of the bed and handed it to Bliss. "How are you feeling, according to this you have three broken ribs, a broken foot, and a couple major gashes and burns covering most of your body?" She smiled towards me and handed the chart back to Cherry.

"I'm fine right now Doctor, it hurts though when I move." She smiled as I spoke nodding every once in a while, she knew I was lying. I was actually in pain and could barley make my voice loud enough to talk. Tatsuya sat down and sighed, he probably also knew I was lying, which reminded me of what he once said, "Rhys you suck at lying, even a Stunky would be able to smell you lying, and they smell pretty bad when they lie."

I chuckled at that line and horrible humor. I winced as my bandages were removed my wounds cleaned, smeared with burn cream, and rewrapped. "There we go." Bliss spoke before putting a glass of water to my lips. "Drink this water but don't swallow it just spit it out." I nodded and took a small amount of the water, it was cold against my teeth and made me shiver lightly before I lifted my head and opened my mouth to take more of the water and swish it around my mouth before I spit it back out into cup.

Bliss dropped two pills inside my open maw and ordered me to swallow them. I swallowed the pills and coughed roughly. "Those pills will take effect in about fifteen minuets. You need your rest so please return to sleeping for at least a few hours." Bliss and Cherry bowed one more time and left.

Tatsuya smiled and walked over to me, "I'll tell your mom that you woke up and Crystal will want to know." He smiled one more time, his voice still filled with a hint of worry. I nodded my head and closed my eye darkness taking my vision and I softly pulled myself into a dream state.

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My eyes opened up to a white temple, one that most Pokémon have never seen. The temple was shining filled with what looked like gems of different kinds. They were all sparkling in the sin light and they were practically blinding.

I walked forward, or I should say I was pulled forward. My eyes were half way closed to block what light I could. As I neared the door of the temple it opened. I looked in side and stared in shock.

All around the room were glass cases; they were filled with different colored objects. I walked up to them and looked in side, my mind not finding words or even feelings about what I was seeing.

If anything I can say that I was staring at the World Plates, the plated that gives Arceus his abilities and types. They were rare items in them selves, and people have said that even Arceus couldn't find them, all. I looked around; there were ten out of the sixteen plates. I walked around and looked at each plate and then continued walking down the long hall. I passed six empty cases, possibly for the other plates. My mind raced to how much Arceus wanted these plates, and how legends state that "He who finds the plates and gives them to Arceus, will live in happiness for the rest of his life."

I have never known anyone who has found a plate, and for that matter they are really hard to find, for they seem to blend in to their environment. No one knows if this is just a ploy for Arceus to get the plates, or if he really means that you will be happy.

The door to Arceus's chamber opened, the room was bright white, with the same gems as the front door did, and inside the room was a huge map. It had red dots in most areas, looking at it closely; I realized that the dots were the legendaries were. Blue dots were on the map only in Sinnoh though. I figured they were the plates were found, or if anything were they might be found.

I looked at the back of the room were Arceus was sitting, and walked towards him. I bowed at the base of the steps to where he was, "Arceus, why am I here?"

Arceus looked towards me, and raised his head, "It's about what you saw earlier today." He looked towards the map and removed a red pot and put a black dot in its place. Looking closer I noticed that there were about three black dots on the map. "What you saw, was not something that you should have. In fact I didn't even see it and I see almost every thing." He looked towards me with an evil glare, "Tell me what happened."

I relayed the dream to Arceus and stopped when I was done; he looked at me and screamed. "Damn, I told those three that interfering with the nature's order, would end the world, and do they listen? No!" He yelled and punched the wall, "Leave and forget what you saw, I'm cutting the connection and you should never show up here again."

I turned to leave but stopped, "Get rid of the illness you struck me with!" I don't know why I screamed at Arceus but I did, "It is doing nothing but making me miserable, and I don't see when it will help, no one does." I stamped my foot, my voice getting higher, "How can something that keeps me in bed help protect anything?"

I closed my eyes as a Hyper Beam was sent flying towards me, hitting the ground in front of me. "You are a damn fool, for yelling at me, about what I gave you." He threw his head towards me and started charging another Hyper Beam, "Most people find out why I gave them things in their own time, I won't remove it!" He fired the beam and sent it straight into me. I flew towards the door and was enveloped in white light.

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I woke up again in the hospital bed, my mind heavy with unanswered questions and my body in pain. Doctor Bliss was cleaning my wounds with a stinging solution. I yelped as she touched the wound that was in the location that the Hyper Beam hit and she stopped, "Good morning." She smiled and continued cleaning. "This wound seamed to have opened up, though I can't figure out why."

I knew why myself but wasn't going to actually tell her it was better if she didn't know. I whimpered as she wrapped the wound and then let out a sigh of relief when she was done. "I'll be back to check on you in a few hours, and your friends left you a few things. They should be in to visit around lunch, or a few hours after lunch because of school." She smiled and walked out of the room.

I sat up to the best of my ability and looked at the gifts. Sitting on the table were Violets, and a small card from Tatsuya's parents. From Tatsuya there was a box of berries. My parents left a bunch of random flowers of different colors. Crystal left a vase of Roses, and her parents who didn't like me much left just a small card that said get better. I looked at the card thinking to myself "Well at least they gave me a card this time."

I smiled and then started getting down to business. I need to get to the lake and talk to Mespirit. I had to find out what was going on and I figured that only a legendary would know. When Doctor Bliss came back I asked her when I would able to leave, and my answer surprised me, "A few days." She spoke cleaning my wounds.

I smiled, "Good, I don't want to miss school." Of course I lied; I didn't want her knowing that I was skipping out to go talk to Mespirit. I also planned to take Tatsuya; he would be able to understand what was going on better then anyone.

A few hours later Tatsuya showed up. "As soon as I get out of here, were skipping school and heading to Mespirit." I spoke in a rushed whisper telling him what happened. He looked confused but soon caught up.

"Cool an adventure." His eyes beamed and I smiled. I knew there was a reason he was my best friend and that statement proved it. We sat there for the next hour eating the berries and planning on what we were going to do.

After we planned the escape, Crystal and my parents walked in. We ate dinner in my room and after my bandages were changed again. After that I started to get sleepy. I wanted to stay up later, but my parents wanted me to get more rest. After everyone saying goodbye and Crystal nuzzling me a bit when my parents left first, she quick said "Get better soon" left quickly after that.

After a few more days of resting in the emergency room, I was released. I returned home and with Tatsuya began the plan, tomorrow I would leave for the lake and Mespirit.