The Power of Two

chapter 9

Cherry came back and climbed back into the water in her underwear, making her husband stare at her. "Well, I don't know what that's about... But they're alive and hopefully we can—" she looked to Forte. "WILL YOU STOP STARING AT ME!? I'M FREEZING!"

Forte blinked to her. "Okay..." he said, obviously not listening to what she said.

Cherry growled, taking his tail coat, then wrapped herself in it, making him frown.

"Get her back in the boat." Mo said.

Forte pulled Cherry in. "A-A-Are you alright, Cerise?"

"I'm fine..." Cherry said a little soft for a change. "I don't know what the heck that wave was... If they don't get off that boat soon, they'll fall, crash, and die... "

"Let's follow them." Atticus said.

"Charles, GO!" Cherry commanded.

"How about please?" Forte looked to her.

"How about I open your rib cage?" Cherry threatened.

"Going, going!" Forte nodded, rowing over for them to get closer to the island.

"Never going to get on her bad side," Atticus said. "And best of all, we haven't been encountered Frank yet."

The merpeople met up together.

"We haven't found them." Urchin said.

"Neither have we... I'm starting to think maybe I was just seeing things..." Melody sounded like she wanted to give up on their search.

"Would that help us find them?" Vincent said, while pointing to a water like tornado going to an island.

"What is that thing, Mom...?" Melody whispered.

"I-I don't know..." Ariel muttered, a little scared. "I-It can't be from Daddy..."

"Oh, poor Akito, Estelle and Felicity, this must be dreadful for them!" Eloise cried.

Vincent began to follow the water-like tornado to find out if his gut was right. Melody went after him and so did Eloise.

"Kids, look out!" Urchin yelped.

The water-like tornado then sent the boat flying to an island where a shrine was at. There was a Slowbro who appeared to have a shell crown on its head. He spoke to the group, pointing somewhere that would help guide them on their journey.

"He can talk?" Ash and Emi asked in shock. 

"Pika Pika." Pikachu reminded his trainer of the spheres he currently had.

"Oh, right." Ash took them out as they glowed with their elements inside. 

"Pikachu!" the yellow Pokemon squeaked and scampered up the steps.

Ash, Akito, and Emi all followed Pikachu. Pikachu led them to another stone temple that was above the snowy grounds. 

Ash looked instinctively inside the mouth, expecting the final sphere to be in there, but it wasn't. He looked further though and saw a volcano in the distance however that had a holder by the window. "Fire Island..." he placed the sphere in, then looked ahead again.

Akito put this sphere in it this time. "Lightning Island..."

"So, you're Ash and Akito?" the Slowbro came right behind the boys, startling them.