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Chapter Two: A New Home
After walking from sunrise to sunset, with only a few breaks and almost no talking, we decided to set up camp. Chloe was getting leaves for beds I was trying to start a fire with two rocks, some twigs and dead pieces of wood. Chloe broke the silence by asking, "What are you planning to do now that, well,"
"This... whole thing happened?"
"Yeah." I thought about it for a few seconds, but couldn't come up with an answer. "I have no idea." Chloe looked down at her feet at my response. "Well, you could always come with me, I think I have an idea about what I want to do."
"What's that?"
"Well, there's this abandoned cabin deep in the woods, even deeper than we are, maybe ten miles further in. Only me and a few friends know about it, and I have never seen a Pokèmon that lives that deep into the woods. I'm going there, and plan to live there. You can come with me." This was amazing. A cabin for shelter, and the reds would probably never find it. "I would like that."
"It's settled then. We are heading for it first thing in the morning." About ten minutes later, I finally got the fire to catch, and Chloe had gotten some hefty piles of soft leaves for us to sleep on. We lied down, and I soon fell asleep.
4 Hours Later, October 18th, 11:45PM
My parents dying. Over and over. Watching their throats get slit. The blood slowly pouring out of them. Killing six Pokèmon. In one day. Watching myself murder them. Over and over. Images of the horrible things that have happened in the span of forty-eight hours. I shot up out of my bed with a small scream. I sat with my knees in my chest, hands on the sides of my head. I was trembling slightly. The fire was almost burnt out.
Chloe started to stir. She slowly got up, looked around, and saw me. She ran over to me, and put an arm around my neck. "What's wrong?" I replied in a shaky tone, " My parents are dead. Everyone I know is dead. I killed six Pokèmon. I'm never gonna-"
"Don't worry about that, just know that-"
"How can I not worry about it!" Chloe looked taken aback from my outburst. "I'm sorry, I'm just-" Her look of shock disappeared.
"It's okay, I probably would have done the same thing if I were you. You just need to calm down and go back to sleep."
"Okay..." I hesitantly replied. I slowly lied back down, Chloe still by my side. Once I closed my eyes, I flt her rub my arm, then walk back to her bed. Shortly after, I fell asleep again.
8 Hours Later, October 19th, 8:36AM
I woke to the feeling of Chloe shaking my arm. I slowly sat up, and heard her say, "Let's get moving as soon as possible. I want to get there as fast as possible."
"Good idea." The fire had burnt out long ago, and we didn't need to unmake our beds, so all we did was grab the bags and start walking.
The walk was a rather uneventful trip, we saw no one and only stopped for a short break once. The most exciting thing that happened was when I attempted to get an apple I saw on a tree by climbing it, only to fall down halfway up. We got there in about three hours, good time considering it was ten miles away and we walked the entire time. Once we were near it, Chloe led me to the beginning of a small, not so worn trail that seemingly started randomly in the middle of the woods. "Not much further, we'll probably be there in a minute or two." She was right, and soon we were at the cabin.
It was made out of logs stacked on top of each other, like Lincoln Logs. There was not a significant amount of damage, considering it was abandoned. Not even a broken window. There were two stories, making it more of a house than a cabin. There was a well about fifty feet away from the house, and an outhouse about a hundred away. A shed was next to the house. It was located in the middle of a clearing in the forest, with many tree stumps scattered around it. The house seemed to be about three thousand square feet, two thousand on the ground floor and one thousand on the second floor. "I think cabin was a bit of an understatement." Chloe paused for a second, then responded, "Maybe."
After looking at the house for a few more seconds, I began to walk towards it. Chloe soon followed. I slowly opened the door, looked in, making sure there were no possible dangers, and then walked in. Chloe walked past me and started looking through the rooms on the first level. I walked into the living room and put the bags down.
The interior of the house didn't look bad either. The walls were painted a light tan color, there was some furniture with a few small rips in it throughout the house, and there was a hardwood floor with some dents and scratches, but overall, it didn't seem like it had been abandoned for very long. Of course, there were no electronics, because the house was in the middle of the woods, and it didn't get any electricity. There were half used candles scattered throughout the house for what I assumed was light. Being in a house reminded me of home, but I pushed that thought out of my head.
My train of thought was broken by Chloe calling me into the kitchen. I walked in there, and saw Chloe sitting on the counter. "I'm going to check upstairs, if I remember right, its in slightly better condition than-" There was a thumping noise upstairs followed by what sounded like muffled voices. Me and Chloe looked up, then at each other. Chloe looked past my shoulder at the bags, and I understood what she meant. I was in no way looking forward to having to use a gun again, and Chloe must have noticed by the change in facial expression. She walked towards me and whispered in my ear, "You don't have to, I'll take the lead and you follow behind me. Just take the small one with you just in case."
"Thanks," I whispered back.
She slowly walked up stairs after I had gotten the handgun and was walking towards them. I followed her up the stairs, about five feet behind. For the second that Chloe had turned the corner at the top of the stairs and I couldn't see her, I heard two voices saying "Chloe!?" and "Alyssa!?" at the same time. When I turned the corner, I saw Chloe and Alyssa looking at each other. Chloe broke the silence and said, "Guess we had the same idea."
"Yeah, and we weren't the only ones. Felix! Hazel!" An Absol and a Dewott walked into the hallway from two different rooms. The Absol spoke, obviously male and therefore Felix, in a sarcastic tone, "Oh look who's here! Wonderful!" The Dewott, Hazel responded, "Don't be so hard on him, he never knew any of this would happen! What did you expect him to do? Wander the forest and get killed?"
"We have no idea how many were killed because of him!"
"Could you just stop talking about how much you hate him for two seconds!?" Chloe interrupted, "Could you two stop fighting for two seconds?" Felix looked over at Chloe and gave her an angry look. "You are responsible for this too! If you hadn't decided to be a hero and bring him to the village, none of this would have even happened in the first place! He would have just died in town and none of us would have even been bothered!" Hazel interrupted again, "That's in the past now! What use is holding a grudge going to do!?"
"What am I supposed to do? Forgive and forget that he got our friends killed?" Chloe joined in again, "We both had no idea any of this would happen!" Alyssa walked past me and down the stairs. On the landing, she turned around towards me and said, "Might as well come with me, when those three get into it they really get into it." I looked back at Chloe, Hazel and Felix, then walked down the stairs with Alyssa. "Are you mad at me like Felix?"
"No way. I'm with Chloe and Hazel. You had no idea this would happen. And, the preservation of humanity should be your first concern." I had never thought about it this way. I had always been pessimistic about this, thinking that humanity had already lost. The thought that humanity could still be saved never even crossed my mind. "You think we still have a chance?"
"Yeah. There is now way that they could have gotten every one of you. If you are smart about it you could make it out of this." I stayed quiet for a while. We were now in the living room, sitting on two different couches. I broke the silence by asking, "So, you think they won't find us here?"
"I don't think they will. At least not for a while. I've never seen another Pokèmon out here and it's far from the beaten path. I'm pretty sure we're safe." I was comforted at her thoughts. It night not be as hard to survive as I initially thought. "So, what do we do out here? It seems pretty boring."
"I don't know. If I were you I would just be glad I wasn't sleeping in a tree trying to hide from merciless Pokèmon trying to kill me."
"You bring up a valid point." To avoid awkward silence, I decided to make small talk. "How did you meet Chloe?" Alyssa looked up for a second in thought then came up with the answer, "I don't remember. Me and her have been friends for a very long time. Since we were kids. She is the first friend I remember having."
"I never had many friends growing up. The first friend I remember having was Foster, and I met him when I was seven. When I was sitting alone on the playground, like I usually did, a few kids walked up to me and started harassing me like seven year olds do, calling me stupid and ugly. When I didn't respond they started threatening to beat me up. When I got up to walk away, they pushed me down and started kicking me. Foster saw and ran over to help me. He punched a few of them, kicked a couple, I don't remember exactly how it happened but in short, he saved me. He got in trouble for fighting along with the other kids, but he didn't mind. We were best friends ever since. Over the years, three or four friends came and went, but only Foster stuck with me thick and thin." I looked down and my eyes started to tear up. "He's probably dead now."
Alyssa walked over and sat don next to me and said, "I'm sorry." I continued looking down. Then, Chloe, Hazel and Felix walked into the room.
Chloe and Hazel stayed in the doorway while Felix walked forward. Chloe nodded towards me, and Felix walked up to me. I looked up at him with my still watery eyes, and he looked away quickly, then back. Then he started talking in an apologetic tone, "I'm sorry I got so mad at you. I understand now that you never intended for any of this to happen, and that you have been through more in the past couple of days than most of us could handle. If it means anything, I am now okay with you staying here." And the he walked quickly back upstairs. Alyssa looked at them, then said, "Wow, how did you get him to do that?" Chloe rolled her eyes and then said, "The same way we all get each other to do stuff. We argue until we're sick of arguing and one of us just gives up."
"Could've guessed." It was nearly sunset now, and Me, Chloe, Alyssa, and Hazel were all sitting in the living room in silence. Hazel looked at me and in a cheery tone asked, "How was your day?" I looked at her in confusion and said, "Fine... I guess." Chloe looked at me with an apologetic look and said, "Sorry, she isn't the best with... people in general." Hazel looked offended. "I'm not that bad with people!" Alyssa cut in and told Hazel, "Its fine, just let it go." Now I interrupted. "Do you guys always fight like this?" Alyssa responded, "Not always. Things are just a bit... tense because of recent events." I nodded in understanding.
We sat again in silence, and when it started to get awkward, Hazel spoke again. "So is it true that you saved Alyssa from a Tyranitar?" I bit the inside of my cheek, a habit that occurs whenever I start to talk about something I don't want to talk about. I felt a pang of guilt knowing that I killed him. "Yes.", I said with a small nod. "And you killed him?" I bit down harder. "Yes."
"And you-" I got up and walked upstairs, surprising everyone up the room. I leaned against a wall in the hallway that the bedrooms were connected to and looked out a window. I felt so much guilt about killing six Pokèmon. They were probably only misled. Some of them were probably nice, just brainwashed. I could have just ran away when the Scrafties came by. I could have probably saved Alyssa without killing the Tyranitar. But I killed them anyway. Even though they would have killed me, I still felt like I could have spared them. Even though they helped along the way to killing everyone I knew, I still felt guilt. I was just so shocked at the time that I didn't really think about what I was doing.
Chloe walked up the stairs. She looked at me and said, "Hey."
"Hey."
"Sorry about Hazel, like I said, she isn't the best with people. She really is nice, you just have to get to know her before you start to like her." I just nodded, then looked out the window again. The sun had nearly gone below the horizon, and I hadn't realized how dark it was until now. I looked over at Chloe and asked, "Do we have anything to start candles with?"
"There's a lighter downstairs. Come with me." She started to walk down the stairs. After a couple of seconds, I started to follow her. Once we were both down the stairs, Hazel walked over to me from the kitchen and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know that was a touchy subject with you."
"It's fine. You didn't know." Hazel walked back into the kitchen, when Chloe came over to me and handed me the lighter. Then, my stomach rumbled. I blushed a little bit out of embarrassment, and the said, "I'm pretty hungry. Do we have any food?"
"Lets find out." She walked into the kitchen, followed by me. Hazel was sitting on a counter eating what looked like an oran berry. She pointed to the pantry and said, with her mouth still full, "Food is in there if you're wondering." Chloe responded, "Thanks" and then walked over to the pantry and grabbed two handfuls of assorted berries, and started to walk up the stairs. "Follow me if you want to eat." I followed her up the stairs. She walked over to a door at the end of the hallway, and opened it. "They say nobody is using this room." I followed her in, and looked around.
It was a room that seemed to be about ten by fifteen feet, it had a queen sized bed that was in excellent condition, a nightstand with a couple of candles on it, a dresser, and a mirror. I walked over to the nightstand and lit a candle. "Much better."
Chloe sat on one end of the bed and set down the berries in front of her. "Come on," I walked over and sat on the other end of the bed. She picked up a berry and started to eat it, while I just inspected one. It was about three inches in diameter, like most of the berries Pokèmon eat. It smelled indescribable, like no fruit I had had before. Chloe noticed me and laughed a little bit. "Go on, it won't hurt you." I took a bite, and chewed on it for a couple seconds. It tasted sweet, but was slightly bland. I shrugged and ate the rest of it. I took a bite out of another, and this one tasted slightly bitter. After about seven berries, I was full. Chloe had already finished and was just watching me.
She looked down at the bed and said, "Guess we'll have to stay in the same bed, cause I sure as hell ain't sleeping on that floor." I nodded in agreement, then asked, "You tired now?"
"I am if you are."
"Then we both are." She lied down on one side of the bed, and pulled a sheet that was on it over herself. "This is comfy. I've never slept in a human bed before." I nodded my head slightly, then lied down next to her. I pulled another sheet over myself. I was about a foot away from Chloe. I turned over to face the wall, then closed my eyes. I heard Chloe blow the candle out, then I fell asleep.
This is about the length I want all of the chapters to be. That's all for now.
