A/N: Thanks to my only reviewer! Not much to say in this chapter but once the story gets going I'm willing to get plot suggestions from my readers. I've only written up to Chapter 10 (I like to be at least a couple chapters ahead) and now I have writer's block. If you guys have any suggestions, PM (personal message) me and I just might use your idea and give you a couple spoilers… Hehehe. Thanks
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon. I really wish that I did, but I don't. Once again, if I did the battle would a lot more bloodier.
Summary: May and Merrick are still lost, but find a safe place to rest for the night. Kinda of short with a little humor at the end.
Pokémon: Maverick from the Dark
Chapter 2
They followed Absol for an exceptionally long time. Merrick noticed this and said, "Absol, are you sure that this is the right way?"
The Pokémon looked back at him and nodded. It was getting dark, and the sky was tinted orange by the setting sun.
"May, I think we should stop for the night." Merrick said, "We can find Ash and Brock in the morning."
Looking up towards the sky, May said, "Yeah, I think you're right. We'll never find them now. Where do we set up camp?"
Looking off the trail and into the trees Merrick spotted a rock formation. "I think over there would do nicely." He said leading the way. May and Absol followed.
Walking through the trees, they finally came to the rock formation. It formed an arc facing away from the trail. He walked into the center of the formation and put his hands inside his coat. May a heard two loud clicks and Merrick pulled out two packs from inside his jacket. "What are those things?" She asked.
"These?" He said, "They are my packs, I don't carry a back pack so this is where I put my things, Poké Balls, potions, and other items. You catch my drift? Anyway they are quite heavy I do not wish to keep them with me while I'm walking about the camp."
"Oh, okay." May said. They were similar to the pack she carried around her waist, but not as bulky.
"Sol." Merrick's Absol made his way past May and started to dig a hole in the ground in the center of the camp. His Sneasel was up in the trees chopping of branches from the trees with its claws.
"What are your Pokémon doing?" May asked, puzzled at the Pokémon's strange behavior. She set down her things next to Merrick's.
He chuckled, "Can't you see? They are getting the camp ready. Absol is digging a hole to contain the fire, and Sneasel is getting the wood." May was surprised at the initiative that Merrick's Pokémon were taking. His Pokémon were completely loyal to him.
"Okay." She reached into her pack and pulled out her sleeping bag and set it near the rocks. Merrick was just about to leave the camp. May asked, "Where are you going, Merrick?"
"I don't want my Pokémon to do all the work. We are equals, so I do my fair share. I'm going to look for some berries. I'll be back soon." He left the camp and disappeared into the forest.
May knew how he felt; he didn't want to use his Pokémon as tools, so he treated them as if they were human. She walked over to where Sneasel was dropping the wood from the tree above. She took the wood and placed it in the hole that Absol had dug. Pulling out her Poké Balls she tossed them all in the air, "Come out, guys!"
All of May's Pokémon appeared. Going over to Combusken, she asked, "Combusken, could you light the fire for me, please?" Combusken walked over to the fire and let out an Ember attack. Slowly, but surely, the fire started, lighting the camp around it. It was already nightfall and May didn't like the dark.
May took advantage of Merrick's absence and started to change into her sleeping clothes. Kneeling down, in her underwear, she went looking into her pack for a top to wear. "Oh, damn it, where did it go?"
Merrick walked back into the camp with his arms full of an assortment of berries, "Where did what go?" He asked, not noticing that May was in her underwear. He was already by the fire when he noticed that. He dropped the berries in shock. "Oh, excuse me!" he said and turned around.
May was blushing scarlet. "Um, uh. . . Oh!" she said trying to cover herself up. She quickly went through her pack and found her clothes and put them on. "Sorry about that," she said, "I just wanted to change while you were gone."
Taking an experimental look behind him, he said, "No, it is I who should be sorry." He turned around and faced her face to face. He looked sincerely into her eyes. "Will you accept my apology?"
May mumbled, "Yeah . . . okay. Um, sure." She couldn't help but get lost in his dark eyes. She stared at him for a couple moments. When she finally realized that, she look away from him and asked, "Did you get the food?"
Turning around and picking up the berries from where he dropped them, Merrick replied, "Yes, I found quite a variety of them growing off a couple trees and bushes a little deeper in the forest. He sat down cross legged by the fire and sorted through the berries. "Okay let me see. 6 Oran berries, 5 Sitrus berries, 3 Chesto berries, and 15 Lum berries."
Sitting down next to him she said, "You really know your berries." She was impressed that he knew which berries were which by sight alone.
"Well, if you are trying to raise a contest Pokémon," he said, "You need to know what berries make good Poké Blocks, and what berries are good to keep your Pokémon healthy."
"Okay, guys come over here, its dinner time!" May called out to her Pokémon. All her Pokémon plus Merrick's gathered around the fire.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to take the Chesto berries for myself." Merrick said, standing up and walking over to his packs. He sat down and started munching on the berries.
"Sure," May said, "I don't mind. I'll just take 2 Oran berries for me and let the Pokémon have whatever they want." Walking over to her pack, she reached inside it and pulled out the Poké Block dispenser. "Come over here Munchlax." The other Pokémon who were trying to keep Munchlax away from the berries sighed with relief. Popping out three Poké Blocks, May gave them to Munchlax, who ate them immediately. The second he swallowed, he became bloated and fell over on the spot, asleep.
May, Merrick, and the Pokémon finished eating. May yawned and went to her sleeping bag and snuggled in. The rest of the Pokémon found places around the fire and laid down. Absol and Sneasel went to lay down by there trainer. But they didn't go to sleep.
May turned around in her sleeping bag and faced Merrick. Neither Merrick nor his Pokémon were sleeping. Absol was laying down watching the moon; Sneasel was laying against a boulder with a rock in its paw sharpening the claws on her other hand. Merrick was just sitting there seemingly searching through his Pokédex's database.
May sat up and asked, "Merrick?"
Looking up from his Pokédex, Merrick said, "Yes?"
"How come your Pokémon aren't sleeping?" May asked, "And why aren't you sleeping either?"
Putting his Pokédex in his pocket, he said, "Well, as for my Pokémon, Sneasel and Absol are of the Dark type. That makes them nocturnal." May nodded. She understood that. But why isn't he sleeping? "As for me, I just ate 3 chesto berries. Normally, for Pokémon, chestos awaken a Pokémon from sleep. I can't go to sleep for a while because of the effect it has on me. Go to sleep, I'll watch out for wild Pokémon."
"Okay, 'night." May said, closing her eyes.
"Goodnight." Merrick said.
May might have had her eyes closed, but she wasn't asleep, not yet anyway. Merrick sure is a mysterious guy, but he is so polite. I wonder what the rest of his Pokémon are like... Maybe Ash and Brock are looking for us... Well whatever. I still can't believe that I got caught naked without my clothes on today! Twice! What a day, I need to sleep. I'll worry about this tomorrow. May yawned, and fell asleep.
Noticing that May was asleep, Merrick said to his Absol, "It's okay, you can go now." Absol stood up and bounded into the forest. "You, too, Sneasel. If you'd like." He said to his other Pokémon. Sneasel gave him a nod and leapt into the trees and disappeared.
Merrick looked around the camp and watched May and her sleeping Pokémon. Her Munchlax was snoring loudly; a snot bubble was inflating and deflating steadily. Her Combusken was snoozing next to the fire. Her Squirtle was sleeping next to her silently snoring; every so often a bubble would escape its mouth a drift through the air and pop, obviously using a Bubble attack in a dream. Her Eevee was cuddled next to May's sleeping form, asleep next to its trainer.
Merrick's mind drifted to the Pokémon that he left at his house in Riktor City. Tomorrow I'll get to see them again. I hope Christian and Daniel are taking good care of them. Merrick got up to get is Pokédex out of his pocket. Searching through its database he found the Pokémon that he was looking for.
Picking up where he left off when May interrupted him he continued reading; his Pokédex was linked to his database at his home by a wireless network. It was like a mini computer. Merrick considered himself lucky that he had more advanced technology than other trainers, first his Pokénavigator and then his Pokédex.
Finding no sufficient information on the Pokémon he was researching, he decided to lie down. He had no problem lying with no sleeping bag because he has roughed it before and he wasn't going sleep. He stared up at the moon for the rest of the night, lost in his thoughts.
"Wait up!" Sneasel said, calling out to Absol. Absol was running along the forest floor, jumping left and right to avoid passing trees. Sneasel was jumping from tree to tree with extraordinary agility, finally catching up with its fellow Dark Pokémon.
Stopping, Absol looked towards the trees, "What do you want, Sneasel?" He asked. Sneasel leapt from the trees to the ground in front of Absol.
"We need to find the other trainers that Master Merrick was looking for." she said.
"And what do you think I'm doing?" Absol said sarcastically.
"I thought that you were hunting or something." Sneasel said. She genuinely didn't know. "I've got nothing against berries, but I'd rather have some Pidgey eggs or something like that. Thinking back to earlier that day," she said, "Or maybe some of those Poké Blocks that fat-ass Munchlax took from me."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. Right now, I'm so hungry I could eat a Rapidash." Absol chuckled. "Too bad that there aren't any around here."
"Have you been following the scent Master gave you?" she asked.
"Yes, unfortunately." Absol took a whiff of the air, concentrating on the scent of dirty unwashed underpants.
"Did you see Master's face when he took the human's underwear?" Sneasel asked, "I almost fell off his shoulder from laughing so hard. And you kept gagging."
"Yeah, whatever. You're lucky you don't have sensitive nose, otherwise you'd be sniffing that repulsive stench with me." Absol started walking away. Taking another whiff of the air, he said, "We're close."
"I'll go up ahead and look." Sneasel jumped off the ground and into the trees again. Absol took this time to go over to a tree and do his business.
Liting up a hind leg, he relieved himself on the tree. He sighed with relief. "I've wanting to do that all day, today."
Sneasel came back bounding from tree to tree. "Hey, Absol, I found them. They're sleeping by a fire in a clearing not too far from here. Let's go back to Master and tell him." Sniffing the air, she added, "Do you smell that?"
Knowing what she was talking about, he started kicking dirt onto the tree bark trying to hide the scent of his piss. "No, I don't smell anything." He said hoping Sneasel didn't notice it. "Now that we found the humans, I can go hunt. Do you want to come with me?"
"Going after a Pidgey?" Sneasel asked.
"No, there aren't any Pidgey in the area. I do know that there are some Spearow around here." He said, trotting along the forest floor.
Sneasel followed him and said, "Spearow eggs don't taste as good as Pidgey eggs. But hey, you've got to work with what you got."
"I don't care about the eggs, it's the meat I'm looking for." Absol said, licking his lips.
"Yeah, let's just be back at camp before Master wakes up."
"How many times do I have to tell you to call him Merrick? His name is not Master. You act is if he treats you like a slave." Absol said.
"Sorry." Sneasel and Absol went deeper into the forest looking for food.
A/N: Please review! Please! I'm welcome to suggestions fot the plot.