Alright, I'm finally here to catch up. Sorry for the delay. And just for my own convenience of not having to go back and forth to the signup topic and pages to see it, I am putting the desc. on the draco crystal and my char.'s hybrid appearance.

Draco Crystal – Is an orange color; will increase the power of dragon type attacks and will turn you into a dragon type hybrid. You’ll be able to change the weather any way you choose.
Hybrid Appearance: Part-flygon. Her hair becomes yellow-green. A long green spike comes out of the top of her forehead, but is a little shorter then one that would be on a flygon. She gains flygon wings, and a tail. Her body in general is somewhat more stream-lined. Her eyes are still the fiery amber color, but there is a certain ruby metallic hue to them. She still wears her two outfits, though she has to find special ways of getting them to fit.


Anyway, time for postage!

..::Kaida Ryuu & Naomi-Draco Crystal::..

I didn't really keep track of the time that went by as we followed the strange red flygon. Darias let out a low grunt, almost like a moan. And I knew it was because he did not really trust following it. But I simply put my arm around his neck as we walked and even though he occasionally grumbled in complaint, for the most part he was quiet.

I was happy to see that Lina, who had been laid on Darias's back near Nagi, was beginning to show signs of recovery. She sat up against Nagi and watched the flygon intently, I guessed that she to did not fully trust the flygon. But it was understandable.

The flygon strutted a few feet ahead of me, and I saw it slowing down and eventually stopping at an opening to the tunnel. It's entire body stiffened, as if in shock. It ran it's small hands through the rubble of rock at the base of the opening. Then it looked up again at the sound of voices.

I almost ran forward and into the room, but I was stopped by the whip-like reaction of the flygon's tail that pulled me back. And peering up I gasped.

The room was a giant chamber, and in the center a huge bird was blowing fire from it's beak. It reminded me almost of the pictures I'd seen of the legendary bird, ho-oh, but this huge demonic bird was a peircing black. And I had no time to watch it longer because as the flames grew stronger, the ceiling crumbled leaving a massive hole. And through the hole the huge black bird dissapeared.

"um...what just happened?" I said staring blankly at the flygon who said nothing, but without warning began to nudge me forward. And then in front of a ring of floating crystals that unless I hadn't noticed them before while being distracted by the giant bird, had just appeared there.

And they were all so beautiful, hovering like specks of rainbow from a chandelier in the sunlight. And I saw one that seemed to pull at me, and the feeling welled up inside me. I stepped towards the crystal, it was a warm amber color. The crystal was so smooth, it's edges ran up, almost resembling a set of horns. And it intruiged me, the light that glinted from torches around the room ran through the smooth shape and into my eyes. Without thinking about it anymore, I reached out and touched it. Sudddenly the burning orange that the crystal had resembled was running through my body and causing my whole body to turn numb. And I felt over powered by it, like my insides were being ripped apart. And with that everything went black...

***Some time afterwards***

"Kaida, Kaida please wake up!"

"urgh...what?" I opened my eyes and blinked as the room began to come into focus.

"Kaida! you are awake! Are you okay?" A strange nasally voice said.

Blinking again, I saw the tiny black form of Lina standing on my chest looking at my with a relieved expression on her face.

"Lina? What happened? wait... were you just talking?"

"I can explain that," The flygon walked into view, and nudged Lina of my stomach. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. I was cofused by what felt like a weight on my forehead, so reching up I felt a hard surface, like a horn. I ran my finger down it, wondering what it was and then I found that it came down to my forehead and was connected to my scalp, and it felt like a jolt of electricity ran through my body and I jumped up in surprise. Discovering also a tail and wings now part of me. As well as my hair becoming a weird shade of light green. I swallowed, I was prepared to scream at the top of my lungs but the flygon quickly stepped forward to stop me.

"Let me explain," It said quickly, then gathered it's breath." first off my name is Naomi. I am one of the pokemon that gaurded the sealed chamber of the evil pokemon, the dark pheonix."

"you mean the giant black bird that blew up the ceiling?"

"Yes... that bird" She said airily before returning to her speech, "anyway. It is now loose and you as well as some others have recieved the gifts of the crystals."

"you mean the orange one"

"Yes," she said annoyed at being interrupted again,"You have become part pokemon, a flygon like myself to be specific. And so as you have discovered, you can comprehend and talk pokemon. I am your gaurdian, it is your mission to defeat the dark pheonix before it lays waste to the world. And plummet it into darkness once more."

There was a rise of tension at the silence that followed but the flygon quickly spoke up again.

"You have been unconsious for to long, all the others have already left."

"Why am I always late!?!" I yelled.

"You can't blame this one on me," Darias piped in from behind.

"Darias!" I shouted turning and leaping to him, wrapping my arms aroud his thick neck. "I am so glad nothing happened to you!"

"Don't forget about me" Nagi mused landing on his back and I nestled my now oddly shaped head into her soft feathers.

"I am so glad you are safe. Who knows what could have happened."

"Well you aren't looking all the same either. What is that glass in your hand?"

"What?" I lookled to see half of the amber jewel embedded into my skin. "woah. But where is the other half?"

"Right here" The flygon said. It held up it's hand, the other half of the jewel was embedded simialarly in it's hand, "Now we have to get going. By listening to the others, I learned of the dark pheonix's appearance in Olivine city."

"Then we have to go and stop it!"

"I think it would be wise to locate the others before confronting the dark pheonix"

"Well don't you think they might have gone to Olivine by now? And even if they aren't there, I am not going to let it get away with this!"

Naomi blinked, and closed her eyes looking down and a small grin passing over her face, "I see Kaida, there is no way to argue with you. But you must take caution."

"I will," I said nodding.

"Then let's go!" Nagi cawed.

I got onto Darias's back, wasn't really sure how to take off. And he knew. Lina got on him behind me, and nagi quickly flapped and began to fly in midair.

"We'll go out through the hole the dark pheonix made, ust follow me!" And Naomi took off out the hole.

With a loud roar, Darias took off, darting up and out the hole with Nagi out only moments after. Naomi was fast, and I cold tell that Darias did not go at full speed because he felt my lack of balance. So Naomi, in turn lagged behind also. I foung what had me off balance, was the odd shape my body had taken on, although I was still human, despite the flygon appendages, I felt as though my body had been flattened and stetched, almost serpentine but wider at my torso.

"I need to try to fly," I said over the whipping winds.

"But you don't know how!" Lina cried, tightening her grip around my waist.

"But I have to try, we'll never get there if I don't."

Lina knew that I couldn't be argued with. Despite the fear I felt, I was set on this. And when I really wanted to do something, I wasn't about to give up. With a quick signal throughout our flight formation Darias flattened himself out.

"Be careful," He said turning to me.

"Don't worry." And I brought myself closer to him, I felt the warm vibration of his hearbeat coming to me, and the force of each wingbeat. It shook through my body, and even went to the tips of my wings. And I let go, they slowed down to stay stationary watching me carefully.

And I let myself freefall for a moment, like the roar of wind had become silent and I was falling into oblivion. But then I realised Lina was still clinging to my waist, sitting on my back. Holding herself tight to me just as I had to Darias. And I felt the vibrations again, going through my body and echoing at last to my wings. My eyes opened to a new light, and I felt myself dive forward. And lifting my wings up and flat they flapped so fast you could not see them and making a tranquille cascade of notes buzz from them like a hummingbird. And I looked at myself in astonishment. It was like being weightless, Lina opened her eyes and looked into mine, and she smiled and I felt myself swelling up.

And I rose up, ascending to the clouds with my new found talent. IT came so naturaully to me, like I already had done this a million times. But I was still feeling the crisp taste of energy flowing around me for the very first time.

I just stayed still, fluttering quickly above the landscape of clouds. The gentle notes echoed only in what felt like my mind. It was as though the entire world had been jammed into my eyes at once. And I let myself fall, just slowly fall limp, but tightening up and diving down. I flitted in and out of the clouds like a mantine diving in and out of the water. It was brilliant and elegant and fufilling. And I came to the center of the formation of Nagi, Darias and Naomi. They looked at me, partly in amazement and acknowledgemt, and partly in joy.

So with a quick nod we were off again. Lina went onto Darias's back, for he could fly with just her faster then I could. And I flew in the front, with Naomi only inches in front of me but stationary at my side. The sound of notes came frm not only her wings, but mine. And it was like some song that had suddenly found a new world, just like myself.

When we neared Olivine, I felt as though a surge of heat crashed into me like a brick wall. The town was ablaze, the huge bird roared out, blanketing the town in flames. And the glorious joy and freedom I had felt was suddenly destroyed. Watching the trainers try there best to attack the bird destroying their town, I felt such anger as the dark pheonix swept them away in a flick of it's massive wing. AS if they were flakes of dust. I could not speak, because I felt like the wind in my lungs had gone dry. But then they didn't need air, because all I exsisted on was the heat boling through my veins. I felt like every inch of skin was crawling with boiling water. It pumped through my veins, and scolded the insides of my skull.

And then I realised that my body was on fire. But it was not burning me, nor was in normal fire. It was more like pulsating energy that was like a cloud of smoke in blades like fire, it glowed blue and red. And then I stared at the dark pheonix, the fire grew and then all the boiling anger poured out of me like water from a teakettle. It shot forward in a stream towards the dark pheonix who just noticed it and cried out in surprise as the blue flames engulfed it and singed it's already night black feathers.

It cried out in rage, a roar that echoed so loud. It was as if it had become the air itself. And the flames catapulted from it's body, the patches were they had been still glowed with blue ashes that faded into it's body. The flames hovered, then sdissapated and the dark pheonix turned to me. My body began to glow, bright pink, and I felt like my body was being crushed.

"Kaida!" My pokemon cried. They didn't stay still a moment longer. Darias began to form a hyper beam, and then shot the mass of energy into the dark pheonix, followed by a shadow ball and a gust.

Then Naomi dived into me, breaking off the pink force that had been constricting me. The dark pheonix slouched, breathing. But it stood up again, recealing that it was more surprised then hurt despite the manuvers of my pokemon.

"Are you okay?" Naomi began, we still flew but she held me in her arms.

"uh... I am okay under the circumstances." I said wheezing.

Darias and Nagi came to fly by her side and then I saw the dark pheonix drawing back it's neck, fire collecting, "watch out!"

But it was to late, the wave of flames washed over us. Lina had ben the only one to react, turning quickly and using ice beam, pushing every once of energy she had to create a wall of ice. The fire clashed with the ice, we bagan to dive. The fire bursted through it and caught us in a tornado of flame. Lina still blew ice over me and the others. But I was loosing focus, my body was singed and burning, screaming with pain.

The last I felt, was us falling. The mist of water vapor from Lina's last attempt dousing the flames but I could not feel any part of me. I wouldn't know what to expect now. I could only imagine hurtling into the earth, to damaged to make it. But even this image was ended abrubtly as I fell into darkness...

That was wayyy long. But I am finally caught up. I admire anyone who read the whole thing.
Interaction or no interaction. I can get on either way, but whichever happens will determine the outcome of certain things. So whew, now I will go pass out