Lol yay Cheren's in this chapter...N will be in the next one..
I own nothing and please excuse any odd words in it, I think I got everything but spell check doesn't make my life easier when it comes to typing pokemon names...
Kaimu stared out in the direction Kanto was suppose to be, her elbow resting on the top rail of the boat she was on and her head against her palm. Her half lidded brown green eyes were dull and she was slouching, one foot on the bottom rail. She remembered the time she went to Sinnoh with Cheren and Reiko to find N nearly a year ago. Splash was the only pokemon who came with her and he always had his head out between the rails, his tongue lolling out to the side with his head tilted because he loved the breeze. Kaimu couldn't help but smile slightly as she recalled the memory but she quickly lost the changed facial expression as she caught sight of Vermilion City. She straightened up and sighed as she moved away from the railing, heading to the area where the passengers were to be let off. Moments later they docked and Kaimu got off, heading into the city with no interest in it what so ever. "Welcome to Vermillion City!" she heard someone shout to her but she ignored them, not even glancing in their direction as she headed towards the route that led to Saffron City, her destined place being Fuchsia City.
She put the other strap to her backpack on so it was fully on her back before leaving the town, not bothering to look around to see what was around her. She remembered the way to her destination from when she was little, the last time she had come to Kanto was when she was six to see her grandmother, not knowing it would be the last time before she died. Kaimu couldn't help but let out a yawn as she looked at her xtransever, seeing it was nine in the morning. She had been awake since leaving at two and hadn't taken a nap on the boat. The fact she was tired wasn't new, she constantly had some kind of nightmare that usually kept her up most of the night, but she would usually have had some coffee by now so she would be awake. She just wanted to leave so she hadn't made coffee when she woke up and she didn't want to stop to get coffee so she just continued into Saffron City, stopping when she saw the large building coming up past the roofs of the other buildings. The pokemon trainer blinked a few times before sighing and rubbing her eyes, stepping forward again. "Ow!" she exclaimed as she ran into something, moving her hand away from her eyes as she stumbled back, seeing she had run into someone in a black uniform with a large red R on the front.
"Watch it!" the person grumbled and turned to head behind the building where another person in the same outfit was waiting, watching the Unova trainer with wide eyes. "Idiot!" she shouted to him, making him stop. "That's who we're looking for!" she snapped and the person Kaimu had run into turned to look at her, holding up the picture he had in his hand. Kaimu blinked as she looked from him to the woman as she came to stand by the man who was wearing the same uniform, taking a step back because they didn't look very friendly now. "Oh, you're right." he said, slipping the picture into his pocket before smirking and pulling a poke ball from his waist. "Looks like we don't have to go all the way to Fuchsia City to find you then." he mused. "Shut up and just get her before she releases that samurott!" the girl snapped and grabbed her own poke ball. "What are you talking about?" Kaimu said, taking another step back as she raised her hands up "I don't know you two!" she exclaimed wondering how they knew about Splash. "You might not know us, but we know you." the man replied, sending a raticate out that growled at Kaimu, making her flinch slightly. "Stop messing around." the woman grumbled, releasing an Arbok that hissed menacingly at the Unova trainer.
Kaimu stared at the two pokemon that she had only seen on television or in the books Cheren use to try and force her to read when they were smaller but could tell they weren't going to friendly. "Arbok, get her!" the woman commanded and the poison pokemon lunged at Kaimu but she quickly moved to the side. "Raticate use hyper fang!" the man shouted and Kaimu only had time to turn to look at the other pokemon as it rammed into her side, biting into her arm and making her stumble to the ground. "Arbok use poison sting!" upon hearing the command Kaimu tried to get up but the raticate made her fall back down as the poison sting hit her in the shoulder and the side, causing her to shout in pain and put her hand that had been held down by the raticate over her shoulder, curling up on her side because she could feel the poison spreading. She had been poisoned before while training and a cottonee had gotten a little territorial, releasing a poison powder into her face but Reiko had been there to heal her whereas the people who were attacking her didn't seem like they were going to help her. "Look what you did." she heard the man huff. "We want her alive you know." "Of course. If we gat her to the base she'll be fine but if you just stand there like an idiot then she just might die." the woman answered as she returned her arbok and the man released a machoke that lifted Kaimu up to carry her. Kaimu gritted her teeth as she forced herself to open her eyes, seeing they were starting to go out of the City the way she had came, and noticed no one was around before she had to close her eyes again. No one saw this…no one knows where I am… was the last thing she thought before passing out.
Splash opened his eyes as he heard Dandy running down the stairs, the stoutland making a horribly loud noise that hurt the samurott's head. Splash sighed as he lifted his head, seeing the others were all missing, no doubt looking for Kaimu. The samurott forced himself off the couch, having been able to finally fall asleep around six but the images of Kaimu smiling at him before she turned to the door and of her leaving the town without looking back haunted his dream, making him unable to sleep soundly. "Stouuuuu!" Dandy howled, making Splash jump slightly and look over. He was calling the others back into the house. Splash got off the couch and headed over, pretending to look tired, which wasn't hard, and let out a yawn. "Rott?" he asked, pretending like he didn't know what was wrong. "Land! Stoutland!" Dandy replied frantically, saying that Kaimu was missing. Blitzie, Peace, Minchie, and Terror all came back in from the door and gathered around Kaimu's first two pokemon. Dandy began explaining what they would do, call Cheren and Reiko and then go search Unova for their trainer.
Splash remained quiet, having a feeling Kaimu wasn't in Unova, but didn't say so as Blitzie ran to the video phone between the kitchen and the living room. "Strika!" she whinnied to the others before turning it on by pressing the power button with her nose. Minchie was the second one to it, climbing onto the zebstrika's head to look at the screen as it flashed white. Terror ran over to stand by Blitzie with Peace perched on her back, her feathers ruffled with worry. Dandy hurried over to them, pushing between them so he could see the buttons but his paws were too big to press them. Minchie jumped down onto the keypad and started typing in Cheren's name, her little paws the only ones that could easily touch the buttons without accidentally hitting other ones. Cheren's number and picture quickly popped up onto the screen as Splash came to stand behind Dandy, sitting with his head down slightly as Minchie pressed the 'call' button and went back to her place on Blitzie's head. They all watched with wide eyes as the little phone animation swayed back and forth for a few seconds before Cheren's face finally appeared on it but he wasn't looking at the screen, his attention to something else on his desk that was out of view.
"What is it Kai-oh!" he exclaimed as he looked at the screen finally, seeing it wasn't Kaimu but her pokemon. They all started talking at once aside from Splash who just looked at Cheren from the back of the group, seeing he was slightly overwhelmed by all the pokemon talking at once. "Okay okay!" he shouted, quieting down the pokemon as he rubbed his head, looking at them all. "Alright. Dandy. Tell me what's going on." he said as his tepig jumped into his lap, smiling when she saw Splash but it disappeared when she noticed he was looking off to the stairs. The stoutland started speaking but of course Cheren couldn't understand him but his tepig could, making her let out a gasp of surprise that caught her trainer's attention. She jumped out of his lap and onto the desk, blocking his view of the computer. "Tepig what on earth are you doing?" Cheren huffed with slight annoyance as he watched his pokemon grab in her mouth the framed picture of him, Kaimu, and Reiko, the same Kaimu had on her desk, from the side of his computer. She turned and pointed at Kaimu before putting it back where it belonged.
"What about Kaimu?" he asked, looking back to her pokemon on his screen who all looked worried. "Where is she anyway?" he asked, leaning forward as he started to become worried because usually he would see her somewhere in the background walking by or something when one of her pokemon called him instead of her. He watched as Dandy shrugged, his ears lowering as Minchie jumped down to the ground out of view of the screen only to return a moment later onto the keyboard with a torn piece of newspaper in her paws and she held it up against the screen for Cheren to see. He stared at the big bold letters of 'MISSING' from a pokemon adoption agency who's slogan was 'Does something feel like it's MISSING?' "Missing…?" he said out loud and watched Kaimu's pokemon nod but Splash practically flinched. "Kaimu's missing?" he repeated, more frantically now as he stood up but had his hands on the desk so he was leaning closer to the computer screen. "I'll be right over as soon as I get Reiko. don't go anywhere!" he said as he watched the pokemon nod before ending the call. He turned around quickly and grabbed his blue jacket from off the bed, slipping it on finally because he had been in the process of getting dressed when he was called.
Tepig jumped onto his shoulder as he looked around the room, trying to think of what else he needed, but instead just ran out of his room and down the stairs, nearly knocking his mother over as she headed for her room. Cheren shouted back an apology before he went down the stairs and out the door, running for Reiko's house that was only a quarter mile to the side of his own. He almost ran into Reiko's front door but held out his hands so they hit it instead, making a rather loud bagging noise before he started knocking on it, not going to just rush in. Cheren stopped after about ten frantic knocks to put his hands on his knees, doubled over as he started gasping to catch his breath. He hadn't had to run since the time N had thought it would be a good idea to play tag with a bouffalant almost a year ago. N hadn't thought it would be dangerous until he was head butted into a tree. That was something Cheren had ran for dear life from and he ended up having to ride behind Kaimu on Blitzie to keep away from it.
He hadn't noticed the door open until Reiko asked "Cheren? Are you alright?" He glanced up and put a hand on his chest as he straightened up. "Kaimu's missing!" he managed to gasp out and watched his friend's face turn from worried curiosity to shock and horror. "What?" she shouted, grabbing his arm and pulling him into her house. Cheren just nodded as his tepig jumped down to his feet, looking around for Reiko's servine. "She's…gone." he coughed, finally able to catch his breath. "How long has she been gone?" Reiko asked, practically shaking him to get him to talk faster. "Reiko stop it!" he grumbled, pushing her back slightly as he fixed his glasses. "I came to get you now let's go to Kaimu's house to get her pokemon. Then we can start looking for her!" he said as she started to pout for a moment. "Wait she left her pokemon?" she asked, looking alarmed all over again. "Yes, even Splash." he replied, his voice sounding grave as he turned back for the door after picking his tepig back up and Reiko's servine came down the stairs, going to her side and she started to fill him in on what they was happening as she followed after Cheren.