Chapter 1
Friday, Jun 29
Leanne
"Brady! Leanne!" Oichi, the junior warlord of Auroura screamed to wake up her two twin warlords,"today's that big camping trip!"
"What camping trip?" Brady asked.
"Brady...you've posted it everywhere!" I said,"I even wrote it all over your body, check your forehead or hand."
"Leanne," Brady whined to his twin sister,"I can do it myself!"
"You didn't even remember in the first place!"
"It's not like it was today or anything!"
"Yeah it is!"
"Says who!"
"Brady, read your hand!"
Brady looked down at his hand and said,"Oh, I guess it is today, it says June 29 at 9:30AM, meet at Yaksha Castle. Bring Pokemon and trail mix. Put water in your canteen and trail mix in your satchel. Bring some kind of weapon for hunting.
"Um...it's 9:25," Oichi said.
"WHAT!" The warlords screamed in unison.
Both of them rushed out of bed and got dressed. The good thing was, they all packed the night before. They quickly threw their pajamas in their suitcase and bounded out the door.
Brady had 3 suitcases, one full of clothes, a canteen (I had no idea if Brady put water in it or not), and a satchel, another with personal belongings, and the last one with something that I didn't know about. He didn't tell me. Brady brought his Espeon and Flareon.
I had one suitcase and a bag. The suitcase was for my clothes, a canteen filled with water, and satchel the Lord of Yaksha, Kotarō, told us to bring. The bag was for personal belongings. I brought my Umbreon and Glaceon.
Oichi brought the same things as me. Suitcase, bag, canteen, satchel. Oichi brought her Wigglytuff.
We quickly got on a blimp and were riding to Yaksha.
"It's already 9:40!" Oichi said, freaking out.
At about 9:50 we landed in Yaksha and ran into the castle.
"Sorry we're late!" Oichi screamed.
"Relax," Kotarō said.
"We were waiting on you," Gracia said smiling,"I wouldn't let our group leave without you."
I smiled to Gracia. She was always a thoughtful little girl.
"Shall we get a move on?" Mitsuhide asked Kotarō.
Kotarō nodded.
We started walking out to one of Yaksha's dark forests for the annual camping trip. Brady and I became warlords a couple years ago and because of the war with Nobunaga, we didn't have the camping trip.
I heard a lot of excitement among the warlords. Gracia, Kai, Kunoichi, Ina, and Aya ran up behind me. Their pokemon followed them. Oichi and all of them, were my best friends.
"Are you lady's ready to camp!" Kai yelled, she was very loud, but she was very sweet and caring.
"This is gonna be so much fun!" Kunoichi yelled.
"Especially with the group of us together!" Aya said, smiling.
"Daddy said I if I stick with you guys, I could stay with my best friends the whole time!" Gracia happily said.
"It'll be fun to be with my friends rather than Lord Ieyasu and my father!" Ina said.
Oichi smiled,"A few nights with my best friends."
She sighed happily.
"This is gonna be awesome!" I screamed.
All of us followed Kotarō into the forest laughing, giggling, and setting of into 3 groups. Kotarō told us to settle into 3 groups of our choice.
One group devised of Gracia, Kai, Kunoichi, Ina, Aya, Oichi, and myself. We were deemed Group A.
Another group was devised of boys. They were deemed Group B. Brady, Hideyoshi, Hanbei, Muneshige, Kanetsugu, Yukimora, Magoichi, Masamune, Mitsunari, Kiyomasa, Masonori and Ranmaru.
"Does the B stand for boys?" Hideyoshi asked Kotarō.
Kotarō gave a simple no.
The last group was devised of Motonari, Motochicka, Ginchyio, Kanbei, Yoshimoto, Kenshin, Shingen, Ujiyasu, Nene, Hanzo, Okuni, Nō, Ieyasu, Tadakatsu, Mitsuhide, Nobunaga, and Kotarō. They were Group C.
Kotarō led the 3 groups to a clearing about a mile into the woods. Keji was waiting for them. The clearing was small but had a little river running near it.
"Hi," Keji said. He was reading off of a little notecard.
"Welcome to t-the camp out," Keji read,"I will show the groups to t-th-their area."
Keji first took Group C west of the clearing. Then, he took Group B northwest, and finally Group A (my group) north of the small clearing. He took us a half of a mile and told us to stop once we see a sign that says Group A.
He handed Ina the map. It showed all the camp sites were pretty far from that clearing and each other. He gave us a compass if we get lost and a survival book for this particular forest. He also gave us an extra canteen, a knife, two tents, and a bucket for who knows what.
"Remember, the objective is bonding with one other, taking roles, and seeing if you can survive," Keji said,"here's a flare gun if you feel you can't take it anymore. We're seeing how long each group can survive, the group that stays the longest gets a prize. If two groups or every group makes it until August 1st, everyone will get a prize. You cannot conspire with other groups or I WILL BEAT YOU DOWN! Happy camping!"
We stared at him like he was more mental than he already was.
"Buh-Bye!" Keji said,"I'm going to my hut, it's somewhere here."
Keji started going of into the woods, he appeared to be searching for his hut.
We walked about 7 miles to our camp site. It was a clearing bigger than the clearing where we met Keji. The thing that freaked us out though was that there was apparently no source of water by the clearing except for Keji's clearing. We smelled smoke west of here.
Gracia checked her watch, it was about 2:00PM.
"Shall we get the tents set up," Aya suggested.
"Yes, Aya, you and I will set up the first tent, Oichi and Kunoichi, you'll set up the other tent, Leanne and Kai, you'll gather fire wood."
Everybody nodded and got to their jobs right away. Kai and I went out into the woods, we picked up as much wood as we could that was suited for a fire.
We got back to our camp to see the two tents set up.
Ina had lined a place for the fire with rocks. Ina pointed to it and we put some of our wood there.
"Okay, who's sleeping in what tent?" Kai asked,"maybe we could store our stuff in the tents and sleep under the stars."
"That's not a bad idea," Kunoichi said.
We all agreed.
Since the sun never rose in Yaksha, we had to rely on Gracia's watch for the time.
"It's really dark," I said,"lets build the fire."
Kai's Darmantan got to work on the fire. Gracia's Gothitelle made sure the flames didn't go out of control.
The fire looked perfect.
For many more hours lazed around and talked about girl stuff since most of us hadn't seen each other in a while. In Kunoichi and Aya's case, on friendly terms because Shingen, Kunoichi's leader, and Kenshin, Aya's leader and younger brother, always fight 24/7.
Eventually, it was 10:00PM.
We were all getting ready for bed.
I said,"I think we can win this camp out competition! If we work together, which we will!"
"Agreed," Ina said.
All the girls agreed, we would win this together!
Brady
After Keji left, we eventually found our campsite. It was a clearing two times the size of the one we just came from. We were about 9 miles from it.
"I still wonder what the B stands for," Hideyoshi grumbled.
We decided to set up the 4 tents Keji gave us. Each of us called a tent, we were 3 people to a tent.
Hideyoshi, Masamune, and myself were in a tent together. We put our stuff in the area of the tent we called and grabbed our satchels and canteens. We all went out side and started drinking some of our water because of our 9 mile walk. I didn't have water in my canteen though. I put chocolate milk in instead because its way better than water. We didn't drink all of our drinks though.
Hideyoshi said,"We really should get some fire wood. It's really dark out here."
Kanetsugu said,"I think it's night."
"Yeah, I agree," Yukimura said.
"Does anyone have a watch?" Muneshige asked.
None of the boys had a watch.
Magoichi and Masonori volunteered to get the fire wood and successfully brought some back.
"I can get it started," Hideyoshi volunteered,"Infernape! Fire spin!"
The fire spin was too much. The fire started to spread. Instead of setting of our tents on fire first, a forest tree was set on fire. We would've caused a forest fire if Kanetsugu hadn't saved the day with Alakazam's psychic abilities.
"I hope that never happens again," Mitsunari said,"Hideyoshi! You almost killed my Bisharp!"
"Fainted!"
"Same thing!"
"I have an idea, how about we elected a leader to advise us so nothing like that ever happens again!" Magoichi said,"this is a competition and we really want to win don't we?"
"Yeah," Kiyamasa said.
"Hanbei's a strategist," Hideyoshi offered,"he should be leader."
Hanbei was made leader because everybody accepted the proposition.
Since Hanbei was currently sleeping, I was made vice leader.
After a couple hours Muneshige walked up up to me and said,"Brady, since I have a Staraptor, I had it fly to Violight and its grabbing my easy bake oven.
"We have nothing to cook though."
"Staraptor is also bringing back ingredients."
"Sounds good!"
"In the mean time," Magoichi said listening to the conversation,"maybe we should roast some marshmallows that I brought."
"We could use Flareon's fire to do it!" I said,"Espeon did that once! Right Espeon!"
Since Espeon was psychic, it could understand me and nodded in agreement.
"Espeon and Flareon burned some of my hair, but I'm fine now," I said.
They roasted marshmallows until the whole bag was empty. Hideyoshi got the last one. Hideyoshi usually lights them on fire and blows it out when it gets close to his mouth.
"Hideyoshi," Hanbei said,"have you ever gotten burned?"
"Never!" Hideyoshi told everyone proudly with Infernape by his side.
"Uh," Magoichi said, he sounded worried,"Hideyoshi, if you haven't noticed, half of your mustache is on fire."
"What!" Hideyoshi screamed.
Hideyoshi was running around screaming and trying to put out his mustache.
"HELP!" Hideyoshi screamed.
He was still running around yelling.
Hideyoshi's screaming sounded like a wild pokemon.
Eventually, Hideyoshi put his hand to his face to put out the fire. That went all wrong.
"GAHH!" Hideyoshi screamed when he accidentally pulled off the left side of his mustache.
Good thing was, the fire was out.
"Ugh," I said in reaction.
"Guess what!" Magoichi said,"I had my watch all along!"
Hanbei jerked up and said angrily,"You had your watch the whole time!"
"Yeah. It's 10:30PM," Magoichi said.
Hanbei's eye twitched,"I've been wanting to the know time all day! And you tell me right now that you had your watch the whole day!"
"Yeah."
"Raichu!" Hanbei said angrily and pointed at Magoichi,"VOLT TAKLE!"
Motonari
We walked (and flew on our pokemon) for the ten miles to our campsite.
It was a huge clearing, but it had no source of water. Luckily, we had Motochicka and his Samurott for an abundant source of water.
"We should set up our tents first," Okuni said.
Everyone agreed with her. We set up the 6 tents Keji gave us in a perfect circle. We lined a place for the campfire with rocks and Mitsuhide and his Articuno immediately went to go get fire wood.
Kenshin, Shingen, and Ujiyasu took Shingen's axe he brought and cut off a big part of the tree. Kenshin brought a carving knife in case they needed it and the three started carving a table and some chairs.
Ieyasu, Tadakatsu, Kotarō, and Nene volunteered to gather some extra food, berries preferably berries.
Motochicka, Yoshihiro, and Nobunaga volunteered to dig a hole to make a little lake for water.
Hanzo, Okuni, and Nō decided to keep watch for wild pokemon.
Ginchyio, Yoshimoto, and Kanbei decided to put together who sleeps in what tent.
I went to go get herbs for pokemon food. I found some mushrooms that looked absolutely perfect for the pokemon dinners. I hurried back to the camp to get cooking after I picked up some herbs for our dinner as well.
When I got back everybody was either back or just coming back. The fire was cooking something. Somebody obviously found some meat, I thought.
Nene went to her tent (she was bunking with Nō and Okuni) to unpack the plastic re-usable plates she brought.
Once all the meat was cooked, Nene and I seasoned it with some of the herbs and herbs for seasoning I'd found. Somebody'd put logs around the fire so we could all eat around the fire because the table wasn't ready get. Nene gave us real silverware she'd also packed.
"Eat up!" She said,"or you'll get no dessert once I find something dessert worthy!"
I smiled to Nene,"Thanks Nene."
She smiled back and said,"We wanna have fun don't we? This is more about the bonding too!"
Even Kotarō smiled for once, but, like anytime he smiled, I didn't know if he was happy or of he was planning something.
Shingen and Kenshin weren't bickering, Mitsuhide and Tadakatsu weren't being worry warts about their daughters! That's a first for all three.
Nō wasn't asking everybody how she looked or bragging about her looks. Yoshimoto wasn't talking about Pokemari!
This was absolutely perfect!
Later, at about 9:30PM (I had a watch) we all went to bed. Mitsuhide and Nobunaga offered to get food for breakfast in the morning. I was bunking with Motochicka and Kotarō. I fell asleep smiling. Everyone else smiled too.