Chapter 2: Dangers. . .

That night, Genevieve and her family picked a spot to rest for the night as the next day will be nothing but traveling to the Great Valley. Genevieve and her family were in their mightyena forms as Balto was sleeping on a high boulder but was alert in his sleep in case of danger that might come to his family. Genevieve was sleeping on her mother's head as she slept beside Jenna, Genevieve was sleeping perfectly fine even with the bugs that began to buzz around them.

Genevieve was sleeping when suddenly she gasped awake when something bumped on her head, she looked up in surprise to see a croagunk before it turn into disgust when the croagunk open it's mouth to show it's chewed up lunch. It then jumped away toward a tunnel that held a rock slide formation that goes down a pond. Genevieve quickly got up and followed it with a playful look on her face as she giggled.

"Hey, croagunk, come back!" Genevieve giggled as the frog pokemon looked to see the that Genevieve was following him but he wasn't interested of the poochyena, as soon as Genevieve appeared, the pokemon hopped away down into the pond . .

"Hey!" Genevieve yelled again as she climbed into the tunnel and was about to go after it when suddenly, Buttercup in her human form came running as she pushed the poochyena back.

"You again?! Go away! That's MY croagunk!" She said with a smirk before she turn to follow the croagunk while Genevieve glared before she too shifted form.

"I. .I saw him first!" Genevieve stated with a glare as she crossed her arms on her chest as Buttercup stopped and smirked at her before she continue to walk to the slide.

"Well, he's in MY pond." She stated before she slid down the rock slide formation where the croagunk was sitting there, it glared at the girl who was about to catch it when she was pushed into the water as she sat up and glared at Genevieve who only smirked at her.

The frog pokemon then got scared and went down into the water, it was then a really big bubble bubbled up to the surface and it seemed to have a goldeen inside of it as Buttercup jumped on it but the goldfish pokemon immediate went back in the water as she looked surprised. Genevieve then saw a bubble near her with an image of a wopper inside but she let it pop with a giggle.

Genevieve then moved out of the way when she felt a bubble began to bubble up with an image of a magikarp inside it as she walked somewhere else as Buttercup pounced on it before pounced on another bubble that had a image of a squirtle inside of it. .

"Over here!" Genevieve laughed as she pounced on a bubble as Buttercup laughed with her.

"Hey, this is fun!" Buttercup laughed as she pounced on another bubble.

Both girls were having fun as they laughed with each other that they didn't notice a shadow was looming over them as loud footsteps couldn't be heard over their laughter. . then suddenly the ground and water began to shake as the girls stopped and looked around in fear before Buttercup turn and screamed, "URSARING!"

Ursaring roared as he chased the two girls as they changed form quickly, "HELP!" Buttercup screamed as she tripped as Genevieve jumped on her as they slid through the water.

"MOTHER! HELP!" Genevieve screamed as she jumped off Buttercup as they both ran as ursaring stepped where they have fallen before chased the girls to a thorny cavern as they hid from the ursaring who roared in anger at losing the girls. Ursaring got close to where the girls were hiding but decided to look somewhere else. .

Ursaring found a hole where he could fit his head down as he sniffed down to the girls who were under a thorny vine as they quickly lowered themselves as Buttercup closed her eyes in fear while Genevieve watched as Ursaring started to sniff somewhere else. .

"Go!" She whispered to Buttercup as she pushed the shieldon forward as Buttercup and her walked away from the ursaring as they soon came up to different paths and Genevieve knew which one to take the one to the left because it was the way out.

"This way." She whispered as she jumped to the left but Buttercup shook her head before started to run the other path, but that was her fatal mistake as Genevieve began to chase the shieldon and shouted which was another mistake.

"COME BACK! YOU GOING THE WRONG WAY!" She shouted as Ursaring heard her as he roared and chased after the two girls. He jumped in the thorny cavern when he saw Genevieve as Buttercup screamed.

Suddenly Genevieve got stuck in some thorny vines as she tried her best to get out as she saw that Ursaring's head was right behind her as she finally got out but she accidentally show the thorny branches into Ursaring's eyes which made him jump out and roared in pain as he held his face before turn to the see the two girls running and screaming. .

Ursaring growled as he jumped right behind the girls which made them fall down as he was about to enjoy his meal, a paw came out of nowhere and knocked Ursaring away. Genevieve looked up and saw it was her mother, she and Buttercup quickly got up and ran underneath Lady.

As Ursaring was struggling to get up, Genevieve looked at her mother, "Mother?"

Lady then nudges her daughter and the shieldon, "Run! Run!"

Ursaring got up as he ran toward the mightyena and tried to chop off her leg as she raised her body up and knocked him with her paws, she lifted one paw up as Buttercup was underneath as Genevieve gasped before she quickly pushed Buttercup out of the way, "LOOK OUT!"

Lady roared at the Ursaring as he roared back and came running toward her as he chop his teeth threateningly at her, Lady glared as she turn and knocked him back into a rock wall with her rear legs as she walked away with the girls underneath her. They never saw the Ursaring jumped up in the air and jumped on Lady's back and took a chuck off of her back.

Genevieve and Buttercup watched and screamed in horror before they ran when Lady managed to get Ursaring off her back but she was bleeding pretty back, once more she knocked the Ursaring into a ditch with her rear legs then with good measure she knocked some rocks too before she ran with the girls

The girls stopped as the ground started to shake and rumbled violently as the ground started to breaking in half under their feet with Genevieve was in the middle of the ever growing crack before she quickly jumped away from it before they ran after Lady who stopped as she was over a ledge.

The girls stopped and gasped as they looked at each other with fear in their eyes. Ursaring roared as he got up and started to chase the girls as Genevieve and Buttercup ran but suddenly Ursaring was above them as he stepped on the cracking ground when he stepped near the girls which made them jump on his leg as Genevieve gasped in fear.

Suddenly Ursaring stopped as the ground in front of him cracked opened as steam blew up in the air which knocked the girls off the Ursaring's foot. The ledge began to rise up as it made the girls slipped toward the edge but was blocked by a part of the land with Ursaring was struggling to stay up. When suddenly they gasped when Ursaring was slipping down toward them as they grabbed on to the pokemom's leg as they were falling toward the abyss of darkness below them.

"HELP!" Both girls shouted while Ursaring was struggling to climb back up.

"MOTHER!" Genevieve screamed in fear and terror. .

Lady was laying down on the ground and was bleeding baldly as she was breathing heavily but when she heard her baby girl yell for help, she had enough strength in her to go help the two girls that were in trouble. Genevieve and Buttercup quickly jumped up on the Ursaring and use his body as a bridge as they ran up the ledge that was soon crumbling away. . Ursaring roared as he tried to take the girls with him but he kept on slipping.

Genevieve and Buttercup ran up but Genevieve only slipped once but she immediate got back up on her feet and continue to run. Suddenly Ursaring opened his mouth as the girls almost slipped in but a paw came out and swatted him away but knocked the girls down but quickly Lady grabbed both their tails in her mouth and pulled them up as they watched Ursaring roared as he was fell down in the deep, dark canyon. .

Once the girls were safe, Lady let go of them as Buttercup ran a different direction than Lady and Genevieve, Lady nudged her daughter toward the direction in some water as Genevieve jumped into the water as she ran with her mother while Buttercup let out a distress call.

John heard his daughter's distress call as he roared back, meanwhile Jenna and Balto both were up as they looked around for their daughter and granddaughter with the shaking ground while some sneasels ran by them, when suddenly Jenna and Balto were raised up by the ground. .

A herd of rapidashs were running away from a wave like force in the ground but failed as one of the horse pokemon got in the wave's path and was rolling down a hill. Buttercup saw her family and two mightyenas across a ledge.

"DADDY!" She screamed as she tried to get to the other side but the ground crumbled beneath in front of her as she shriek and ran back as she almost fell in the canyon. We now see the whole land was breaking apart and falling apart. .

"In this time of the great disasters, a great earthquake split the land , Herd were divided, families were cut in two. Genevieve was separated from her grandparents. ."

The dust cleared as the land appeared to be like a rock was thrown to the ground and got split in half. Buttercup ran to the edge of the cliff where she was on and looked up to see her family looked down at her.

"BUTTERCUP!" John and Sandra yelled in the distance for their daughter.

"MAMA! DADDY!" Buttercup yelled in the distance as a couple of pidgeys flew past the middle of the land as it began to grew night. .

"Buttercup was on one side of the divide. . Her parents were on the other. . "

As night began to come, it brought the rain as in some rock formations that was formed after the big earthquake, we see a familiar poochyena as she was yelling for her mother, "MOTHER!"

She was climbing on a ledge of a ditch that was form and was looking around for her mother. She hopes that maybe calling her mother, she will appear or call back.

"MOTHER!" She yelled as she jumped over a ledge to another rock formation as she looked around for her mother.

"MOTHER! WHERE ARE YOU?!" She yelled again before she heard a painful groan as she turn and saw her mother in her mightyena form laying down in a pretty shallow ditch created by the earthquake as Genevieve gasped before she slid down to her mother's side.

"Mother!" Genevieve yelled as she went to her mother's fallen form as she was bleeding to death while Lady tiredly opened her eyes to see her crying and whimpering daughter.

"Mother?" Genevieve asked softly as her mother groaned in pain, "Please get up. ." She whimpered out as Lady looked at her daughter with a painful look on her face.

"I-I'm not sure I can. . Genevieve . ." Lady said with painful gasps of pain as Genevieve started to cry as she shook her head, her mama couldn't leave her, she taught Genevieve everything . .

"Yes you can. . Get up. ." Genevieve whimpered as she tried to help her mother up but moved out of the way when her mother fell down in the process, breaking the rock ledge she was on. Lady was fading fast as she was breathing slowly and they were no way to help as Genevieve laid next to her mother's face and looked at her with tears running down her face. .

"Dear sweet, Genevieve . . Do you remember the way to the Great Valley?" Lady whispered tiredly as Genevieve whimpered as she nuzzled her mother's face.

"I guess so. . But why do I have to know? You're going to be with me. ." Genevieve whimpered out as she looked at her mother while Lady was crying with her daughter. . She didn't want to leave her baby poochyena but she didn't have any strength in her anymore. .

"I'll be with you. . Even if you can't see me. ." Lady whispered as she tried to say awake at least to comfort her daughter even if she was dying in front of her. .

"What do you mean if 'I can't see you.' I can always see you. ." Genevieve asked confused as Lady coughed up some blood that was washed away with the rain as she try to look at her daughter. .

"Genevieve. . Let your heart guide you. . It whispers . . So listen closely. . Sweetheart. ." Lady whispered her final words before she slowly closed her eyes for the final time. . Genevieve shook her head, no her mother couldn't be. .

"Mother? Mother?!" She screamed as the thunder echo through out the land drowning out her cries and screams of sorrow. . She shook her mother but to no avail as her mother was gone. . She changed form to rip off her necklace of her mightyena as she glared a it. .

She remembered when she first got it and how her grandpa always told her to be proud of who she was. . How could she be proud of herself. . Because of her, her mother is dead!

She stood over her mother's dead body as she grasped her necklace while it rain and lightening lighten her tear stained face before she angrily threw her necklace over her mother's body and screamed before she ran from her mother's form as she ran through the night before the day came as she was tired of weeping and lack of sleeping as she was walking along a ledge, as she rubbed her eyes but with her eyes red for the lack of sleep she slipped and fell onto a lucario by mistake.

Genevieve tried to get up but she couldn't until she heard the lucario telepathy talk as she jumped off him in fear and shock, "Hey! What's going on here?!"

Lucario stood up and turn to see a human girl with no wooden pendant who was on the ground whimpering and crying, as he glared at her, "What's your problem? You're not hurt." He said telepathy as Genevieve glared at him through her tears before she yelled at him.

"It's not fair!" Lucario looked surprised at the young child who yelled at him, as Genevieve rubbing her eyes angrily "She should have know better! That was a ursaring . " she then glared at the ground, "It's all her fault!"

"All whose faults?" Lucario asked yet got a good feeling of what or who the young girl was talking about. .

"Mother's" Genevieve whimpered out as she teared up again as Lucario nodded and had a look of understanding on his face as he knew what was wrong with the child. .

"Oh, I see. . I see." Lucario said as he placed a paw on the girl's head in understatement as Genevieve cried.

Genevieve rubbed the tears away form her face, "Why did I wander so far from home?" she whimpered out before looked up when she felt a paw lift up her face to meet the lucario's face as he smiled gently.

"It's not your fault, it's not your mother's fault. Now you pay attention to old lucario." the pokemon telepathy said as he gently cleaned up the girls' face.

"Ok but. ."

Lucario smiled gently at the child, "It is nobody's fault. . The great circle of life has begun. . but you see, not all of us arrive together at the end." Lucario tenderly said telepathy as he reassure her that there was nothing to be sad about.

"What'll I do? I miss her so much. ." Genevieve whimpered as she continue to cry as lucario chuckled as he stood up and helped the young girl up as well.

"And you'll always miss her, but she'll always be with you. . as long you remember the things she taught you. In a way, you'll never be apart for you're still a a part of each other. ."

Genevieve start to stop crying as she looked down as she tummy rumbled lightly, "My tummy hurts. ." She whimpered as lucario chuckled as he gently patted the girl's head.

"Well, that, too will go in time. Little one. . Only in time. ." He said as Genevieve whimpered before she launched herself into the pokemon's arms as he was surprise as the young child hugged him. .the lucario reminded her of her grandfather, Balto. . Lucario chuckled as he held the child for a second before placed her down and walked away with Genevieve watching him leave. .

Genevieve waited a few seconds before she too continue her own journey. .

On a tree stem with a single small cherry-berry was hanging from it till a small nuzleafs came and picked it off the branch. Until his brother came and snatched it away from him. It was now a game of "Take-Away-Keep-Away" as those two nuzleafs and five others were fighting for the berry.

It ended with all but one nuzleafs falling into a wooden hole in the log they were on as the last one got the berry and thought he won till a vine-whip attack came by a nearby bulbasaur as he fell in the hole as all they came up and sighed in sadness at the berry munching bulbasaur.

Till they all jumped back and chirped happily at seeing their mother a shiftry came up with them a leaf of berries and gave each one a berry before started to lead the little ones away when one nuzleaf saw Genevieve just lying down, depressed. .

The nuzleaf waked away for a minute before came running back with a smile as he gently offered the cherry-berry toward the poochyena who smiled sadly .

"At first, Genevieve could only think about her mother, she hardly notice her hunger, where she was, and forgot about the Great Valley and that she must somehow reach it. ."

Genevieve smiled lightly at the nuzleaf, "Go on, you have it. . I'm not hungry. ." She whispered as the nuzleaf looked at her with a look as she lightly giggled before she pushed the berry toward the nuzleaf who then with a happy chirp before picked up the berry and began to follow his brothers and sisters

Genevieve smiled, 'mama would have be proud . . ' she thought with a sad sigh as she turn her head away from the walking baby pokemon following his family.

We now fade where Genevieve's mother had fought the ursaring, as we see a cherry-berry with a wooden pendant of a mightyena floating down with a leaf parachute as it blew with the wind while we hear a voice that echoed with the wind. .

"Genevieve. ." The voice echoed as it blew the leaf parachute toward a set of paw prints. . .

The cherry-berry kept on floating to where Genevieve who was in her poochyena form was rubbing her self in her mother's paw-print in the sand as she was whimpering and crying. She looked at the paw-print before she started to walk away when suddenly she heard her mother's voice as a beam of sunshine shined down as the shadow of the leaf appeared.

"Genevieve. ."

Genevieve gasped as she turn at seeing the leaf parachute and back up in fear before she walked up cautiously. . she gasped in amazement and shock at seeing the cherry-berry and her mightyena pendant. . she changed form and gently picked up the wooden necklace as water began to collect on the leaf forming a little puddle of dew. .

She looked at it questionably and amazement in her eyes as she saw her reflection in the puddle. .

"Dear Genevieve. . " She gasped and jumped back at hearing her mama's voice as she looked at the puddle of dew, "Do you remember the way to the Great Valley?" Her mama's voice asked as Genevieve slowly shook her head. . she had forgotten about the Great Valley. .

"Follow the bright circle past the great rock that looks like a meganium and past the mountains that burn. ." Lady's voice whispered as Genevieve nodded as she understood what she need to do.

"I'll be in your heart, Genevieve . . Let your heart guide you. . " Lady's voice whispered as Genevieve nodded again before she picked up the cherry-berry and placed it in her rose for safe keeping before she tied her necklace back around her neck with a smiled and she knew that deep down in her heart, her mother was watching her. .

Genevieve now in her poochyena form was standing on a ledge of a rock formation, now knowing where she must go but as she looked up she saw a shadow of a mightyena on the side of the mountain in front of her from where she stood. . .

"Mother?" She gasped out with a smile before she jumped up and down in excitement, she thought her mother had come back as she smiled big.

"Mother!" She giggled before she ran down the rock formation she was on toward the shadow which made the shadow run away as Genevieve chased after it. She thought her mother was running away from her as she giggled after it. .

"Mother! It you! Wait, Mother! Wait!" She screamed with happiness but as she got closer to the shadow the smaller it got till she stopped to see that it was only her shadow. . the bright circle was playing tricks on her. .

She lowered her head in sadness as she let a tear fall before she continue on her journey to the Great Valley . . alone. .

"And then Genevieve knew for certain that she was alone. ."

Genevieve was now walking along the edge of the canyon that the big earthquake had split the land as she tried to continue to find the Great Valley so she could find her grandparents when she saw a familiar person that was going the opposite way than her in her human form while Genevieve was in her poochyena form.

"And that though the Great Valley was far away. . .And the journey was perilous . . She would have to find a way or the chain of life would be broken. . "

"Buttercup!" Genevieve yelled happily as she ran toward the other girl while she changed form, Buttercup was looking at edge of the canyon before she got annoyed when she heard Genevieve yelled her name.

"Buttercup, Hello!" She said happily as she got close to the shieldon while Buttercup looked at her annoyed that the poochyena who was once again in her present.

"What do you want?!" Buttercup snapped as Genevieve giggled nervously as she looked at Buttercup..

"Nothing. Where are you going?" She asked as Buttercup rolled her eyes as she looked over the canyon trying to find a way down as Genevieve looked down with her.

"I'm going to find MY OWN KIND. They're on the other side." She said as Genevieve shook her head as she looked down at the deep canyon she didn't want Buttercup to get hurt since she couldn't find a way up the other side. . .

"I've looked all over here. . You can't climb up the other side." Genevieve said and jumped back when Buttercup got in her face with a glare.

"Maybe YOU CAN'T!" She snapped before she found a path-like rock structure that looked a good way down as she began to climb down carefully as Genevieve suddenly got an idea.

"Wait! I'm going to the Great Valley we could-"

She stopped when Buttercup was climbing down and yelped in fear when she nearly slipped. .

"Help each other." Genevieve finished as Buttercup climbed back up with a grunt as she glared at Genevieve.

"A bastiodon that I will soon turn into does not need help from a poochyena!" She snapped a she threw some dirt in to Genevieve's face which was a mistake because it made her slide down the path as she screamed in terror.

Once she was down with a few rocks sliding next to her, Genevieve looked down with a sad look, "Well, at least we wouldn't be alone!" She yelled as Buttercup got up with a grunt before she looked up with a glare.

"Well, when I find my sisters, I won't be alone! So go away!" She yelled back as she did a little jump before she dusted off her dress as she turn around and lifted her head up with a hpmh!

"Bastiodon can be very dangerous! And they only talk to other bastiodons and they only travel with other bastiodons!" She yelled as she walked away while Genevieve looked away with a sad face, feeling more alone then ever as she continued on to her journey on following the great bright circle. . . . .