Raging winds and torrential rain!
Towering waves!
The lone passenger ship gave up resisting the disaster!
It surrendered to the ravages of nature's overwhelming might.
By now, the tourists in the dining hall had lost all their earlier composure. Their faces filled with terror, they released their Pokémon to guard them, grasping with both hands at anything that might keep them steady.
Yong huddled in a corner of the dining hall, bracing his feet against the wall and tensing every muscle.
Swampert watched the scene outside with a grave expression, shielding Yong behind him.
How could a tiny passenger ship stand against a natural disaster like this?
Huge waves whipped up by the storm kept crashing into them.
Before everyone's despairing eyes, the ship finally gave way. The waves overturned it and tore it to pieces!
As the world flipped upside down, Swampert wrapped both arms around Yong, sheltering him against his chest!
Then darkness fell!
Whoosh...
Whoosh...
Waves struck the reef. The hard rocks had been polished smooth by seawater, reflecting a cold gleam beneath the dim sunlight.
Scattered fragments of wood littered the shore. The twisted wreckage could just barely be recognized as the remains of a ship.
Several human figures lay nearby.
Judging by the unconscious Pokémon beside them, they were most likely Pokémon Trainers.
A long, long time passed.
At last, one of the boys stirred.
"Ugh!"
Aching all over, his limbs weak, Yong opened his eyes. The discomfort coursing through his body drew an involuntary groan from him.
"Where... am I?"
He turned his head with difficulty and surveyed his surroundings: the ship's wreckage, shattered planks, unconscious humans and Pokémon, gray rocks, and hazy mist.
Turning back, he could not make out the sky's color at all.
"I'm not dead... seriously..."
Swampert lay beside Yong,