Chapter Two: Viridian Man

Dino was upset. He sat against a tree in Viridian Forest, completely and utterly sullen while a tear slowly succumbed to gravity and ran down his face. The events that had transpired just moments before, had crushed poor Dino. After talking to the girl, Dino ran away, somewhat childish, and dramatic, but he did it none the less. He ran straight into the depths of Viridian Forest. Which... in all honesty, is also dramatic, but we can't really question him right now; he's grieving. Doing so would just be mean, and besides, I hardly know the guy. Let his brother question his actions if anyone, or his parents. But they are still gallivanting somewhere, so let's just stick with the brother.

But Ebo was nowhere to be found, and Dino's Absol didn't know where he was. Hence, Dino sat in peace. It's quite sad really, not very amusing. Even holding up an amusing picture of a Mew and remarking: "How a-mew-sing." probably wouldn't' even get a laugh from Dino at this point. But that might in part be the joke, and not Dino. Needless to say, Dino was upset, and angst-ing like a normal teen.

Dino had what seemed like a great plan: pretend that his Absol had run off after the female Absol, chase after it, and meet with the owner of the other Absol. Who just happens to be someone that Dino is attracted to. Flirting would ensue, and they could take it from there.

But none of this happened. Well, Dino chased after his Absol, which in fairness, made his Absol look desperate to the other Absol. But then again, he probably was. After all, his Absol really only liked other Absols, which is a major problem when you're an Absol living in Kanto. It's hard enough when in Hoenn or Sinnoh. Plus there's the fact that every other Pokémon thinks your some dark and evil earthquake causing Pokémon.

If you didn't think that already, then please don't start, we don't want to perpetuate the stereotype. In Hoenn or Sinnoh, just seeing an Absol makes people quiver in fear. But not all Absols appear just in relation to natural disasters, and at least in Kanto, no body knows that any do. So lets play this down. But back to Dino.

Dino was up against a tree, but while he knew something was wrong in his world, he felt something was wrong in the depths of the forest. The bushes rustled, causing Dino to look up innocently. As he peered up, somewhat scared, something stumbled out. Something large, and fleshy. Also: human-like. It was Ebo.

Ebo was an interesting brother: strong, bold, and mildly humorous. He also saw himself as somewhat of a protector of Dino. Which as far as brothers go, having an older brother that looks out for you is rather nice. But that doesn't mean he can't try and find jokes where he can. Ebo was also rather attractive. He was small and ever so stalky, but had a cute, yet manly nose and a head full of sun bleached white-ish hair. A fair amount of muscles too.

"Dino?" Ebo said in confusion.

"Ebo......?" Dino responded. "Why are you in the forest...? You know this is my place to run off too! Stop copying me....."

Taken aback, ever so slightly, Ebo felt he had to explain why he was in Viridian Forest. But he didn't. After living with Dino for so many years, and looking after him while their parents explored the Pokémon world, he could tell when something was troubling Dino. The tear trickling down Dino's face also tipped him off. But it was probably mostly the living together thing. But this caused Ebo to casually try and help Dino, rather than explain himself.

"Dude... You look... Sad." He said. "Like... really sad."

Dino tried to answer his brother, but he couldn't. It wasn't because his brother didn't ask a question. It was something deeper. It was because he knew his brother was right. Even in spite of all their adventure and fun together, for the first time in years, Dino was actually sad. And Ebo had just caught him in the middle of it. While this isn't an embarrassing thing to be caught in the middle of, and in contrast, there are some considerably more embarrassing things to be caught in the middle of, it was still somewhat odd. After all, who runs away to a forest when they're sad?

But Dino did respond, with the truth. "It's just.... Girl problems."

Ebo laughed briefly and mused: "I didn't know you knew any girls".

"Yeah, well... I saw one." Dino responded "She even has an Absol. If we got together... That would have been like, a storybook romance."

While Dino's head was spinning with this great idea, something bad filled his head. Something rather unfortunate. It was that he knew that his brother was right. He knew that he didn't really know any girls. Even worse, he hadn't had much experience in the field. And Ebo knew this too. And while Ebo was fine with it, Dino wasn't very proud of it.

So Ebo walked over to Dino, and sat next to him. And while what Ebo said would have been more embarrassing coming from his father, he felt like he needed to know.

"Let me teach you about girls Dino" Ebo told Dino. "Let me teach you about the birds and the Combees"

And thus began Dino's first lesson in women from his brother. Dino was pleased by their exchange, not only did he get to learn, he got to bond with his brother. Even better, there was no awkward moments, and no nervous laughter.

There was some bad jokes however, and some horrible analogies. While his similes were like a bad metaphor, and his metaphors where like a glistening rose filled with bad analogies. The point is that as talented as Ebo was in being a brother, he was not talented in teaching about this particular field. Dino is unaware of this however, meaning that in the future, Ebo's advice might just push Dino into some rather unfortunate, and rather embarrassing, situations.

While this is unfortunate for Dino, it might just be funny for us. So it all levels out. But then again, they may not get to do what they want to, because there seems to be something shiny in the bush over there, huh.... I wonder what that could be.

To be continued.....