Pokémon Platinum (Currently being rewritten as Pokémon: Platinum Chapter)

Chapter 19: Rise of Darkrai

The three of us walk down the path. Dawn and I are holding hands and Barry walks beside us with Grotle. I look into Dawn's eyes. She's so adorable. "Alright, love birds. We're an hour away from Alamos Town."

I look at Barry. "Great, so we're almost there."

He smiles. "I can't believe I'm finally going to this place. I've heard so much about it."

He starts to run off. "Hey! Wait up!" I yell, taking off after him.

"Here we go again," Dawn groans.

[An hour later]

I trudge along the path when I see a lake surrounding a town on a hill. We all gasp as we see a huge tower near the center of town. It has two towers rising up on either side of it. As usual, Barry takes off, leaving us behind. "Last one there's a rotten egg!"

I smile at Dawn. She sends out Kirlia. Kirlia smiles. "What is it, Dawn?"

"Use Psychic on Barry to freeze him in place."

Kirlia nods and holds her hands to her head. "Kir-LI-A!!!"

Barry stops dead in his tracks. Dawn and I run past him, Kirlia snickering at him on our way through. Barry gives us a death stare as we pass by. "I'll get you for this!"

After a two minute head start, Kirlia releases Barry from her psychic grip. In about a minute, Barry passes us up. Kirlia sighs, not wanting to stop him again. Prinplup seems eager to start off. "Go ahead, Prinplup."

Prinplup looks at me excitedly. "Prin, prin."

She starts off down the path. Staravia flies faster as well. "They seem eager to get going."

Kirlia teleports to sit on Dawn's shoulder. "Not me," the psychic type says.

Dawn and I hold each other's hands again. "You two are so cute together," Kirlia, Mesprit, and Uxie say.

My face gets hot immediately after they say that. Dawn is blushing as well. We pick up the pace as we see Barry looking at the lake. We run down the hill and see no way to the city. We all sigh. I release Dawn's hand and open my map. "We're on the wrong side."

"What?!" Barry says, agitated.

"Do you want a lift?" I hear from up above.

It's a woman's voice. I look up and see a woman and Chimchar in a hot air balloon waving at us. I nod. "Yeah."

The hot air balloon lands and we all get on. Kirlia stays on Dawn's shoulder and I hold onto the side of the basket, afraid. Dawn looks at me, worried. "Are you okay?"

"I only said yes because I didn't want to walk. Otherwise, I would've walked. I do NOT like heights."

Dawn giggles. The woman looks at us. "My name is Alice. I'm a tour guide here in Alamos Town."

"I'm glad we're finally here."

I hear Uxie in my head. "I do not feel Team Plasma here. Can I come out?"

I nod, confusing Alice. I throw Uxie's pokéball into the air. Uxie appears in front of us, observing the landscape. Alice watches in awe as Uxie flies around the balloon. "Is that a Uxie?" she says.

Uxie looks back. "Yes. I am the Legendary Pokémon, Uxie."

Uxie looks at Dawn and Barry, who release the rest of the Lake Trio. All three Legendary Pokémon fly around looking around at the area and pokémon. Uxie suddenly raises her arms in defense with the other two. I hear a boom, which shakes the balloon. I scream and put my arms around Dawn, afraid of falling. I hear Dawn's breathing as I hold her. Dawn hugs back. Kirlia giggles when I start to take notice of my surroundings. I let go of Dawn, blushing a deep red. "Sorry..."