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Have you ever experienced a dream so realistic you felt as though you were truly walking or you could taste the food? Well, at least in my dream it was like that! Let me share my experience about that specific dream with you. Or at least I though it was a dream...
It was Friday at 1:48, and I was skipping down to English, which was unusual. In my mind was Mr. Genakos and me playing Hackysack until the day was over, but what I didn't know was that something would happen in English that would change my life forever.
I went into room 197, showed Mrs. Goldberg my pass and independent reading book, and headed to the door. Mrs. Goldberg, however, had different things on her mind.
She said, "Renee, wait. Where's your Literature map?"
Huh? What Literature Map? I thought. Needless to say, I said it out loud.
"The Literature Map that was due yesterday," she replied.
Oh, that Literature Map! I thought again. This time I didn't say it out loud.
"Well, I'm afraid I can't let you go unless you have your Literature Map," she said.
What!?! I've been looking forward to going to Mr. Genakos' place ever since last Friday, and she blows it off like that!?! I was both so angry and depressed with this occurrence that I didn't dare argue with Mrs. Goldberg.
I quietly walked over to my seat with tears building up in my eyes. When I was in my seat, I put my books in my desk and secretly cried, but only a single tear rolled onto the floor.
When that single tear hit the floor, I started hearing voices in my head. They all seemed to say, "Renee, we need you!" even though all of them didn't speak in English. At first I thought I was crazy, for no one else heard the voices, but I could here them very clearly. Then the wind came.
First it was a gentle breeze that played through my hair. The voices were gone, but there was a new sound in my head. It was a slow rhythm that matched the wind's quiet howling. There was also a strange noise added to the slow, eerie music. It was a call for me, and I seem to have heard it before, but I was drawing a blank. I looked around me to see if anyone else heard it, but they were all listening to what Mrs. Goldberg was saying for instructions.
The music and the call grew louder as the wind became more ferocious. Now the rest of the class was starting to notice the wind, but not the song and call. Finally Mrs. Goldberg went to the window and closed it, but that wasn't a solution because the window just popped open again.
The music was as loud as ever, and so was the call, but the other people around me still didn't hear it. I felt the need to go to the window where the gust was coming from. I looked outside, and I couldn't believe my eyes. Suddenly, I understood. The strange song, the wind, and most of all, the call, were coming from an animal that was bounding my way, turning murky water into a clear puddle.
I went back to my seat with a pounding headache, thinking about what I just saw. Why is it coming my way? and Why is it real? were a couple of the questions I was asking myself. Finally, Suicune, one of the three legendary dogs on the Gold, Silver, and Crystal Pokemon games, arrived in our classroom.
Now everyone wasn't only startled, but they could hear the music and the call for me. Suicune stared right at me, distinctively, and with telepathy asked me, Are you ready? I felt as though I should answer, even though I had no idea what was going on, so I replied, "Yes. I'm ready."
The wind was all of a sudden directed to me in a cyclone. The other students backed away, but Mrs. Goldberg, though terrified, said to Suicune, "Stop this at once, w-whoever you are!" Suicune continued to control the wind around me but squirted water at her. All of the students, including me, laughed hard.
The cyclone started to quicken up, lifting me off the ground. All of a sudden, Ms. Laliberte walked into the pandemonium and said, "What the-" but she was pushed away by the other students. I was so intoned with the things happening around me that I didn't realize that I was changing.
When I realized, however, I couldn't see myself, but I had a pretty good idea what was going on. My clothing molded into me as I started to shrink. My feet grew larger while my legs disappeared. I grew something like a tail and my vision got blurry. My hearing was disabled and my hair shrunk. At last the painless transformation was complete, the cyclone slowed down and placed me back on my chair, and I was thinking, "What the heck happened?"
Suicune spoke once more, this time it was the last. "Use this advantage to your best use and you shall be able to call on me to transform you again. Goodbye... for now." With that, Suicune left, the wind slowed down to a breeze, and the music stopped. My vision came back, but not yet my hearing.
"Wow," I said, "that was weird."
Everyone was looking at me like I was insane.
"What? What's the matter?" I muttered.
All of a sudden my hearing came back, and I understood why they were awestruck. They seemed to be saying, "You're not who you were!" so I replied back, "What do you mean?" except it sounded like, "Mew mew mew?" I was shocked myself. This is too weird, I thought.
"You got that right," said Frank.
You mean you can all understand what I think? I asked.
"Yes, and you're going to the nurse's office to get you back to-" Mrs. Goldberg started, but she was cut off with yet another distraction.
It seems to have come from the back of the room. The wall started to look wavy, and then it looked normal again. What then happened was something never expected. Two Pokemon jumped out of the wall! The first carried about twenty backpacks on its back. It was very yellow, had red cheeks, and a cute lightening bolt tail. I recognized it right away as a Pikachu. Some other kids also recognized it as Pikachu, too. I guess it was a Melee Pikachu, because it had a little blue party hat on.
The other Pokemon was also a Melee character, because it had blue goggles and a blue scarf on. This one was only carrying about ten backpacks, but it looked exhausted with the weight of them. I recognized as a Pichu, a baby Pikachu.
When they came flying in, Pikachu and Pichu put the bags down and greeted me, but the rest of the class didn't know what they were saying, so I was the speaker for the class. Pichu took a rest.
"Hey, Renee, how does it go?" Pikachu asked me.
"How'd you know my name?" I asked.
"Let's say the wind told me."
I didn't need to translate a private chat, so I just talked to Pikachu normally. While we were talking, Pichu decided it had enough of a break and it started to pass out the backpacks to the other students. After giving Mrs. Goldberg a playful shock when she demanded it to give her one, Pichu gave me a backpack, too.
What's this for? I asked so everyone else could hear, too.
"It's a hang-glider. It's to come into our world. Put them on then follow us," Pikachu explained.
I repeated to the class what Pikachu said, and looked down at my new body. I had short, pink fur all over my body. My ears had grown into little triangles and were now located on top of my head. My eyes had gone from hazel green to an astonishing blue. My arms were half the size they used to be, and my legs were no longer there. I also had grown a long, pink tail to match the rest of me. I knew I should have been confused, but I felt full of life, playful almost. I tried to stand up, but it was trying to hang onto a soap bar in the shower. I almost immediately fell down. Um... a little help here please? How am I supposed to put on my glider if I can't even stand up? I complained. Pikachu thought for a second, and said, "I'm no expert on psychic Pokemon, but how about you try using your powers to fly?" Pikachu questioned.
Ok, but I don't really know how to use them... I replied slowly. I thought I might try small before I tried levitation skills on myself, so I spotted a target that I wouldn't care about if she got hurt. I smiled devilishly, and with all of my concentration, said to myself, Lift up Mrs. Goldberg, lift up Mrs. Goldberg... To my great surprise she was lifted off the ground! Mrs. Goldberg cried out, "Whoever's doing this, put me down!" I laughed severely hard along with the other kids, lost my concentration, and Mrs. Goldberg came down to the Earth with a crash. Everyone became paralyzed with laughter. Sabra Keller was holding on to the desk for support, Anthony Tucci was doubled-up in his seat, and Vanessa Dembrowski was pounding the ground with her fists.
I overcame the laughter, and lifted her up again. This time I could keep her up, despite my laughing level. I then said to myself again, Put her down, put her down... Mrs. Goldberg once again came to the ground though not as roughly as before. Now that I had practiced with her, I tried other objects like pencils, pens, binders, and anything else I saw, although I didn't lift anyone else up. I then made a circle around myself with the objects and juggled them.
Mrs. Goldberg, putting two and two together, said in a rather shaken up voice, "Renee, stop this instant!" Pikachu and Pichu, who had been watching my training session happily, gave her very dirty looks and said together, "You leave her alone, or else..." Mrs. Goldberg, even though she couldn't speak the language, must have gotten the point because she backed off. "Thanks," I said to the electric mice, and caught all of the circulating items before they fell. Once I returned the items to the owners, I said to myself, Allow myself to fly. My feet lifted off the ground, and I hovered two feet off the ground. Whoa! This is awesome! I was overcome with excitement, for it was always my dream to fly. Using my brand new psychic powers, I took the backpack that Pichu was holding, and gently slid it on to my back. There was a string dangling in front of my shoulders, and out of curiosity, I tugged on it. Whoosh! On both sides of me, four-foot pink wings came out of the backpack, along with a pole for me to hang onto. From what it once was, the backpack had transformed into a perfect hang-glider. All of the kids saw what I did, and with a slight pull, they had hang-gliders like mine, except they were yellow as the two mice Pokemon.
"Pikachu, shouldn't you lock up before we leave?" Pichu inquired, putting on a back-glider, as I called them.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot," Pikachu replied, putting one of them on as well. He turned to Mrs. Goldberg with an evil smirk. "I never liked you in the first place, anyway." His cheeks pulsed with sparks of electricity, and despite a desperate attempt to scramble away, Pikachu launched a Thundershock storong enough to knock out Mrs. Goldberg.
We faced and headed into the wall. We were sucked into a rainbow tunnel, and whilst we were in there, I realized that all of my things were still in school and at home. Pikachu, somehow sensing this, said, "Don't worry, all of your stuff from school will be brought with you." We came to the end of the tunnel, and it seems that we were transported into an entirely different world.
"Welcome to Beght, Renee. This is where several video game characters lives, along with other races, such as humans and the gods. It's divided up into four basic sections: Nagushi, or Nintendo, people to the north, Yueksi (Sony) people to the Southeast, Jofniry (Microsoft) beings to the Southwest, and the center is where all other species live. We also have meetings there." Pikachu stated. "We are currently going towards the center for the sorting."
"What's the sorting?" I questioned, curious.
"It's where all of you will be determined if you will stay or not. If they don't think of you worthy, your sent back to where you came from and your memory will be modified so you can't even remember coming here or the incident," said Pichu matter-of-factly.
"So, what happens after you are chosen to stay or not?" I interrogated again.
"You get put into the sections. All of the Nintendo fans go straight, the Microsoft nerds go right, and the Playstation-happy people go left," Pikachu responded.
We arrived at the main house of the central area, where there were three gates, just like Pikachu described. Out of nowhere, a voice said, "Welcome. You are very lucky to be here. Only so many people get to come here. Now the choosing will begin. Please, sit down." As though magically, twenty-seven chairs suddenly appeared with tests and pens.
"Oh, I thought we were out of school!" I whined along with several other kids.
"You are out of school, this is just a questionnaire about you," said the voice impatiently. "Go ahead, take the test."
I looked down at my body. Here's another perfect chance to see what I can do, I though. I really couldn't use my hands to right, due to them being so small, so I picked it up using my powers. I placed my pen on the test, and said to myself, Test. To my great pleasure, it wrote "Test" on my paper. Using this method, I was able to complete my test before anyone else, and that was surely a first.
I occupied myself for the next five minutes by thinking about what had happened over the last twenty-five minutes. I was dissed by my English teacher, met a real Pokemon, transformed into a Pokemon, and taken into an entirely different realm. Boy, my life is strange, I thought to myself. Everyone finally finished there tests, which all disappeared after they were completed, and the voice sent back eleven or so kids through the portal.
"Hey, what's going to happen to them?" I demanded an answer.
"Oh, they will forget that this world ever existed, along with the whole 'you turning into a monster' act. It's for the safety of this world," the voice replied with a slight temper. "Now, go to the door you think is most appropriate for you." I automatically went to the door straight ahead of me. Only a few other people came with me. "Open the door." I floated over to the door, and with my tail, opened it. What I saw was heart-stopping, daring, and terrifying all in one. There was a thin, rickety bridge ahead, and below it was a huge lava pool. The voice semmed to have followed our small group, for we heard his voice state, "You have chosen to live in the Nagushi realm of Beght. To live there, though, you must first test what Nagushi stands for, and that's bravery, courage, and teamwork. Make it to the end, you'll be an official Nagushi citizen. Chicken out, and you may try a different challenge. Shall you fail, you cannot try to become a citizen again, and you shall be sent back home without memory of any of this. Does everyone understand the rules?" All of us nodded, and started to travel over the bridge.
I glided low near the bridge, just in case one of the members got hurt. Everything went perfect, until we were at the end. We were tiptoeing (floating, in my case) across with extreme delicacy, when the bridge started swinging and shaking violently, as though it wish not to be disturbed. I watched everyone, flying a little aways from the pathway, and they held on for their lives. After a minute or so, the swaying/shaking still hadn't ceased, so I racked my brain about what the voice had given to us for intructions. A lightbulb clicked on in my head, and bellowed to my team, "You are going to have to cross the rest of the way! This is what is testing us!" They all looked at me hopefully, and then started to cling to the ropes as they carefully made their way across the rest of the bridge. They got to the very end, and when people started to hastily walk off the bridge with shaking legs. I spun around as I heard one of the cables of the bridge snap, causing a few kids to cling more tightly to the ropes. "Hurry up, the other cable's breaking!" I flew beside the remaining kids, offering them the assistance of my tail. There was a scramble, and the last teenager managed to jump onto the metallic platform before the other cable of that side snapped. The rickety bridge fell into the lava with a little splash, causing hot embers to splatter everywhere below us. I sighed out of relief, and turned around to find myself looking at another metal door. I opened it with a mere flick of my tail, and Pikachu and Pichu were both standing there, waiting for us with huge grins on their faces.

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Have you ever experienced a dream so realistic you felt as though you were truly walking or you could taste the food? Well, at least in my dream it was like that! Let me share my experience about that specific dream with you. Or at least I though it was a dream...
It was Friday at 1:48, and I was skipping down to English, which was unusual. In my mind was Mr. Genakos and me playing Hackysack until the day was over, but what I didn't know was that something would happen in English that would change my life forever.
I went into room 197, showed Mrs. Goldberg my pass and independent reading book, and headed to the door. Mrs. Goldberg, however, had different things on her mind.
She said, "Renee, wait. Where's your Literature map?"
Huh? What Literature Map? I thought. Needless to say, I said it out loud.
"The Literature Map that was due yesterday," she replied.
Oh, that Literature Map! I thought again. This time I didn't say it out loud.
"Well, I'm afraid I can't let you go unless you have your Literature Map," she said.
What!?! I've been looking forward to going to Mr. Genakos' place ever since last Friday, and she blows it off like that!?! I was both so angry and depressed with this occurrence that I didn't dare argue with Mrs. Goldberg.
I quietly walked over to my seat with tears building up in my eyes. When I was in my seat, I put my books in my desk and secretly cried, but only a single tear rolled onto the floor.
When that single tear hit the floor, I started hearing voices in my head. They all seemed to say, "Renee, we need you!" even though all of them didn't speak in English. At first I thought I was crazy, for no one else heard the voices, but I could here them very clearly. Then the wind came.
First it was a gentle breeze that played through my hair. The voices were gone, but there was a new sound in my head. It was a slow rhythm that matched the wind's quiet howling. There was also a strange noise added to the slow, eerie music. It was a call for me, and I seem to have heard it before, but I was drawing a blank. I looked around me to see if anyone else heard it, but they were all listening to what Mrs. Goldberg was saying for instructions.
The music and the call grew louder as the wind became more ferocious. Now the rest of the class was starting to notice the wind, but not the song and call. Finally Mrs. Goldberg went to the window and closed it, but that wasn't a solution because the window just popped open again.
The music was as loud as ever, and so was the call, but the other people around me still didn't hear it. I felt the need to go to the window where the gust was coming from. I looked outside, and I couldn't believe my eyes. Suddenly, I understood. The strange song, the wind, and most of all, the call, were coming from an animal that was bounding my way, turning murky water into a clear puddle.
I went back to my seat with a pounding headache, thinking about what I just saw. Why is it coming my way? and Why is it real? were a couple of the questions I was asking myself. Finally, Suicune, one of the three legendary dogs on the Gold, Silver, and Crystal Pokemon games, arrived in our classroom.
Now everyone wasn't only startled, but they could hear the music and the call for me. Suicune stared right at me, distinctively, and with telepathy asked me, Are you ready? I felt as though I should answer, even though I had no idea what was going on, so I replied, "Yes. I'm ready."
The wind was all of a sudden directed to me in a cyclone. The other students backed away, but Mrs. Goldberg, though terrified, said to Suicune, "Stop this at once, w-whoever you are!" Suicune continued to control the wind around me but squirted water at her. All of the students, including me, laughed hard.
The cyclone started to quicken up, lifting me off the ground. All of a sudden, Ms. Laliberte walked into the pandemonium and said, "What the-" but she was pushed away by the other students. I was so intoned with the things happening around me that I didn't realize that I was changing.
When I realized, however, I couldn't see myself, but I had a pretty good idea what was going on. My clothing molded into me as I started to shrink. My feet grew larger while my legs disappeared. I grew something like a tail and my vision got blurry. My hearing was disabled and my hair shrunk. At last the painless transformation was complete, the cyclone slowed down and placed me back on my chair, and I was thinking, "What the heck happened?"
Suicune spoke once more, this time it was the last. "Use this advantage to your best use and you shall be able to call on me to transform you again. Goodbye... for now." With that, Suicune left, the wind slowed down to a breeze, and the music stopped. My vision came back, but not yet my hearing.
"Wow," I said, "that was weird."
Everyone was looking at me like I was insane.
"What? What's the matter?" I muttered.
All of a sudden my hearing came back, and I understood why they were awestruck. They seemed to be saying, "You're not who you were!" so I replied back, "What do you mean?" except it sounded like, "Mew mew mew?" I was shocked myself. This is too weird, I thought.
"You got that right," said Frank.
You mean you can all understand what I think? I asked.
"Yes, and you're going to the nurse's office to get you back to-" Mrs. Goldberg started, but she was cut off with yet another distraction.
It seems to have come from the back of the room. The wall started to look wavy, and then it looked normal again. What then happened was something never expected. Two Pokemon jumped out of the wall! The first carried about twenty backpacks on its back. It was very yellow, had red cheeks, and a cute lightening bolt tail. I recognized it right away as a Pikachu. Some other kids also recognized it as Pikachu, too. I guess it was a Melee Pikachu, because it had a little blue party hat on.
The other Pokemon was also a Melee character, because it had blue goggles and a blue scarf on. This one was only carrying about ten backpacks, but it looked exhausted with the weight of them. I recognized as a Pichu, a baby Pikachu.
When they came flying in, Pikachu and Pichu put the bags down and greeted me, but the rest of the class didn't know what they were saying, so I was the speaker for the class. Pichu took a rest.
"Hey, Renee, how does it go?" Pikachu asked me.
"How'd you know my name?" I asked.
"Let's say the wind told me."
I didn't need to translate a private chat, so I just talked to Pikachu normally. While we were talking, Pichu decided it had enough of a break and it started to pass out the backpacks to the other students. After giving Mrs. Goldberg a playful shock when she demanded it to give her one, Pichu gave me a backpack, too.
What's this for? I asked so everyone else could hear, too.
"It's a hang-glider. It's to come into our world. Put them on then follow us," Pikachu explained.
I repeated to the class what Pikachu said, and looked down at my new body. I had short, pink fur all over my body. My ears had grown into little triangles and were now located on top of my head. My eyes had gone from hazel green to an astonishing blue. My arms were half the size they used to be, and my legs were no longer there. I also had grown a long, pink tail to match the rest of me. I knew I should have been confused, but I felt full of life, playful almost. I tried to stand up, but it was trying to hang onto a soap bar in the shower. I almost immediately fell down. Um... a little help here please? How am I supposed to put on my glider if I can't even stand up? I complained. Pikachu thought for a second, and said, "I'm no expert on psychic Pokemon, but how about you try using your powers to fly?" Pikachu questioned.
Ok, but I don't really know how to use them... I replied slowly. I thought I might try small before I tried levitation skills on myself, so I spotted a target that I wouldn't care about if she got hurt. I smiled devilishly, and with all of my concentration, said to myself, Lift up Mrs. Goldberg, lift up Mrs. Goldberg... To my great surprise she was lifted off the ground! Mrs. Goldberg cried out, "Whoever's doing this, put me down!" I laughed severely hard along with the other kids, lost my concentration, and Mrs. Goldberg came down to the Earth with a crash. Everyone became paralyzed with laughter. Sabra Keller was holding on to the desk for support, Anthony Tucci was doubled-up in his seat, and Vanessa Dembrowski was pounding the ground with her fists.
I overcame the laughter, and lifted her up again. This time I could keep her up, despite my laughing level. I then said to myself again, Put her down, put her down... Mrs. Goldberg once again came to the ground though not as roughly as before. Now that I had practiced with her, I tried other objects like pencils, pens, binders, and anything else I saw, although I didn't lift anyone else up. I then made a circle around myself with the objects and juggled them.
Mrs. Goldberg, putting two and two together, said in a rather shaken up voice, "Renee, stop this instant!" Pikachu and Pichu, who had been watching my training session happily, gave her very dirty looks and said together, "You leave her alone, or else..." Mrs. Goldberg, even though she couldn't speak the language, must have gotten the point because she backed off. "Thanks," I said to the electric mice, and caught all of the circulating items before they fell. Once I returned the items to the owners, I said to myself, Allow myself to fly. My feet lifted off the ground, and I hovered two feet off the ground. Whoa! This is awesome! I was overcome with excitement, for it was always my dream to fly. Using my brand new psychic powers, I took the backpack that Pichu was holding, and gently slid it on to my back. There was a string dangling in front of my shoulders, and out of curiosity, I tugged on it. Whoosh! On both sides of me, four-foot pink wings came out of the backpack, along with a pole for me to hang onto. From what it once was, the backpack had transformed into a perfect hang-glider. All of the kids saw what I did, and with a slight pull, they had hang-gliders like mine, except they were yellow as the two mice Pokemon.
"Pikachu, shouldn't you lock up before we leave?" Pichu inquired, putting on a back-glider, as I called them.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot," Pikachu replied, putting one of them on as well. He turned to Mrs. Goldberg with an evil smirk. "I never liked you in the first place, anyway." His cheeks pulsed with sparks of electricity, and despite a desperate attempt to scramble away, Pikachu launched a Thundershock storong enough to knock out Mrs. Goldberg.
We faced and headed into the wall. We were sucked into a rainbow tunnel, and whilst we were in there, I realized that all of my things were still in school and at home. Pikachu, somehow sensing this, said, "Don't worry, all of your stuff from school will be brought with you." We came to the end of the tunnel, and it seems that we were transported into an entirely different world.
"Welcome to Beght, Renee. This is where several video game characters lives, along with other races, such as humans and the gods. It's divided up into four basic sections: Nagushi, or Nintendo, people to the north, Yueksi (Sony) people to the Southeast, Jofniry (Microsoft) beings to the Southwest, and the center is where all other species live. We also have meetings there." Pikachu stated. "We are currently going towards the center for the sorting."
"What's the sorting?" I questioned, curious.
"It's where all of you will be determined if you will stay or not. If they don't think of you worthy, your sent back to where you came from and your memory will be modified so you can't even remember coming here or the incident," said Pichu matter-of-factly.
"So, what happens after you are chosen to stay or not?" I interrogated again.
"You get put into the sections. All of the Nintendo fans go straight, the Microsoft nerds go right, and the Playstation-happy people go left," Pikachu responded.
We arrived at the main house of the central area, where there were three gates, just like Pikachu described. Out of nowhere, a voice said, "Welcome. You are very lucky to be here. Only so many people get to come here. Now the choosing will begin. Please, sit down." As though magically, twenty-seven chairs suddenly appeared with tests and pens.
"Oh, I thought we were out of school!" I whined along with several other kids.
"You are out of school, this is just a questionnaire about you," said the voice impatiently. "Go ahead, take the test."
I looked down at my body. Here's another perfect chance to see what I can do, I though. I really couldn't use my hands to right, due to them being so small, so I picked it up using my powers. I placed my pen on the test, and said to myself, Test. To my great pleasure, it wrote "Test" on my paper. Using this method, I was able to complete my test before anyone else, and that was surely a first.
I occupied myself for the next five minutes by thinking about what had happened over the last twenty-five minutes. I was dissed by my English teacher, met a real Pokemon, transformed into a Pokemon, and taken into an entirely different realm. Boy, my life is strange, I thought to myself. Everyone finally finished there tests, which all disappeared after they were completed, and the voice sent back eleven or so kids through the portal.
"Hey, what's going to happen to them?" I demanded an answer.
"Oh, they will forget that this world ever existed, along with the whole 'you turning into a monster' act. It's for the safety of this world," the voice replied with a slight temper. "Now, go to the door you think is most appropriate for you." I automatically went to the door straight ahead of me. Only a few other people came with me. "Open the door." I floated over to the door, and with my tail, opened it. What I saw was heart-stopping, daring, and terrifying all in one. There was a thin, rickety bridge ahead, and below it was a huge lava pool. The voice semmed to have followed our small group, for we heard his voice state, "You have chosen to live in the Nagushi realm of Beght. To live there, though, you must first test what Nagushi stands for, and that's bravery, courage, and teamwork. Make it to the end, you'll be an official Nagushi citizen. Chicken out, and you may try a different challenge. Shall you fail, you cannot try to become a citizen again, and you shall be sent back home without memory of any of this. Does everyone understand the rules?" All of us nodded, and started to travel over the bridge.
I glided low near the bridge, just in case one of the members got hurt. Everything went perfect, until we were at the end. We were tiptoeing (floating, in my case) across with extreme delicacy, when the bridge started swinging and shaking violently, as though it wish not to be disturbed. I watched everyone, flying a little aways from the pathway, and they held on for their lives. After a minute or so, the swaying/shaking still hadn't ceased, so I racked my brain about what the voice had given to us for intructions. A lightbulb clicked on in my head, and bellowed to my team, "You are going to have to cross the rest of the way! This is what is testing us!" They all looked at me hopefully, and then started to cling to the ropes as they carefully made their way across the rest of the bridge. They got to the very end, and when people started to hastily walk off the bridge with shaking legs. I spun around as I heard one of the cables of the bridge snap, causing a few kids to cling more tightly to the ropes. "Hurry up, the other cable's breaking!" I flew beside the remaining kids, offering them the assistance of my tail. There was a scramble, and the last teenager managed to jump onto the metallic platform before the other cable of that side snapped. The rickety bridge fell into the lava with a little splash, causing hot embers to splatter everywhere below us. I sighed out of relief, and turned around to find myself looking at another metal door. I opened it with a mere flick of my tail, and Pikachu and Pichu were both standing there, waiting for us with huge grins on their faces.