This story's been fun to write! Hope you enjoy this chapter!!
With the girls…
Suicune trudged beside Kyogre, her eyes scanning for any leaves. Kyogre on the other hand strained her ears to hear any signs of water.
Suddenly, there was a small 'plop plop' noise coming behind a bunch of low hanging branches and bushes. Kyogre turned towards the sound and with her water expertise said, " That's water in a stream."
"I wish I could use my old useful Gust attack to clear a way up so we would remember this place…" Suicune sighed, placing her hands on her hips.
Kyogre patted her on the back sadly, " We all do." She murmured.
Suddenly, Suicune felt a blast of wind slap her hair across her face. She felt an old, familiar sensation stir in her. With curiosity, she allowed the sensation to take over her. She didn't notice her eyes were closed but when she opened her eyes, about 20 feet of vegetation was cleared, the strong wind died down to a shy breeze, Kyogre put her hand down and her wide eyes scanned the place. Not a piece of debris laid on the ground, a wide and shallow stream gurgled a few feet in front of them.
A perfectly curved piece of wood, measuring to be about 5 feet long and 4 feet wide lay beside a large boulder beside the stream. The piece of wood was an eye shape, it had a pretty deep dip in the middle and had a small gap on each end.
Suicune ran towards it and peered cautiously inside. There was 12 half a coconut shells piled in it. Suicune pulled one out and inspected it carefully, the flesh was cleaned out and the hair on the outside was gone, there was a thinner side of the coconut shell, it kind of stuck out a little bit. By this time, Kyogre had caught up with her and was looking at another coconut shell but this one was much different.
It was bigger than the other and it had a stiff and smooth piece of wood tied to it with a vine. The piece of wood curved out at the tip and the flesh was also cleaned out, the hairs were gone too and there was a bigger area of thin shell and it stuck out more than the others.
Suicune left the coconut shell inside and ran her hand down the wooden boat thing. Her hand slipped inside the gap and found the edges smooth, there was still a lot of space for her hand.
" Why not we use this Kyogre?" Suicune asked looking up.
" Well… It is big and it is sturdier than a leaf and it does come with ladles and ' cups '… I guess we could use this…" Kyogre nodded, her eyes not leaving the container.
" Alright. Help me carry this up and dip it in the water would you?" Suicune heaved the container up.
Kyogre slid her hand in the other gap and heaved it up. Together, the two waded in the stream and filled up the container.
Than, Suicune and Kyogre half dragged half carried the water filled container with the coconuts and ladle floating about inside towards the cave.
With the other girls…
Celebi swatted away a fly that buzzed around her ear, angrily. Arceus walked behind her carrying on her back a vine basket that Celebi had made in a record 30 minutes out of vines. It was obviously green and had two straps to hang on Arceus's shoulders. The basket itself reached from below Arceus's shoulders all the way down her back to her waist. It was almost as wide as Arceus herself.
Suddenly, Celebi gasped and dropped to her knees in front of a huge tree. The tree had little white stuff all over it. The others peered closely over her shoulders in confusion. " Mushrooms! And Edible ones too! Boy, these are yummy!" Celebi smiled.
" Well I guess we should collect all these…" Arceus slipped off her basket backpack and gave it to Celebi. Celebi placed the basket beside her and started to pick everything, the others soon joined it in a frantic picking spree.
By the time they were done, a quarter of the basket was filled with white mushrooms and the girls were muddy and sweating.
" Ok. Let's move on. Cresselia, your turn to carry the basket." Arceus handed the basket to Cresselia.
Cresselia sighed and slipped it on her back and followed the others. It wasn't about 5 minutes when it was Arceus turn to react. She halted and hushed everybody; her eyes were set on the rustling bush. Than, came hopping out about 6 hares, they had no idea of the girl's presence.
It was than Arceus had a wild feeling stir inside her heart. For the long of meat, Arceus allowed the feeling to get out but just a little bit. She felt her legs work up, she bent down quietly and picked up a particularly sharp edged rock and her leg muscles itched really badly. With no warning, she sprang forward and slashed at the rabbits with her rock. When she was sure the rabbits were dead, she kept the wild feeling in and skidded to a halt, a line of where she ran still burned with little flames.
The other girls stared wildly at her. " Arceus… You used Extremespeed…" Dialga commented.
" I don't know… but we'll leave it for later. It's almost noon and we've haven't got much and I don't think the others would like to eat berries for dinner." Arceus said calmly, she bent down and picked up the dead rabbits. She tossed them in the basket that Cresselia gratefully slipped off and laid on the ground. Celebi went and picked some leaves and tossed it in the basket, " To keep the meat from rotting and smelling." She explained.
Dialga picked up the basket and carried it while Cresselia rested her fragile shoulders.
The four continued on when I was Cresselia's turned to see something. She scampered over to a little pond and squealed In delight. She crouched on the bank and literally became a statue. Suddenly, she sprang, her arms crashed into the water and snatched up something silver. She held it with both hands and wrestled it until the thing squirmed one more time before falling limp. She stood up and turned holding up her prize, " Fish!" she winked, very UN -Cresselia like.
She turned again and repeated the same process, until she caught another 3 more fat silver fishes. She lay them in the basket and skipped off as poor Celebi had to carry the half filled basket.
The four than trudged down a hill, sweaty from the intense heat the sun gave out. It was near sun set and they were heading back to the cave when Dialga saw something. She stopped and watched something hanging from the tree. The others stopped and watched Dialga take a deep breath and gave out a big, loud roar towards a bee hive.
The roar stopped the bees in mid flight. Dialga quickly climbed up the tree and took the 3 feet long and 2 feet wide bee hive. She stuck her hand inside the entrance hole and pulled out all the bees and left them on the ground gently and walked away. She dropped the hive in the basket and dusted her hands. The other's watched in amazement save Arceus that is. Dialga shrugged, " Can't live without honey." And continued towards the cave with Celebi now dragging the basket with her.
With the boys….
Giratina and the others have been looking for moss for a long time. The sun was near setting and they have just reached a big pond with a big waterfall crashing down.
The team slumped down and drank some water. They laid their many armfuls of bramble down. And with Darkrai's and Mew's new found physic powers and Darkrai's from Sleep Talk was able to carry two armloads of bramble. Giratina carried bunches and bunches of cotton they found, some in his pockets, some he was carrying and everbody else's pockets were stuffed with cotton. Mew sighed, " Boy, I'm going to go in the pond for a while." And waded in, he went for a large boulder and squeled girl-ish ly.
Darkrai shot up, Giratina could not because of the fear of loosing their cotton. " What?" Darkrai called.
" Moss! And a WHOLE LOT of it!" Mew called back. He scraped it off only to find about five arm loads of moss. He activated his powers again and carried it towards the shore.
" Woah Mew, your actually useful!" Darkrai commented.
"Hey!" Mew protested.
" It's the truth. I mean, you've been complaining 5 minutes after he left the cave!" Giratina added in.
" Hmph!" Mew huffed.
Suddenly, someone jumped out of the vegetation carrying a pile of soggy stuff. When he landed, he looked up, " Hey guys! I'm back. I found some moss…" he looked at Mew, " Well, I guess you guys already found some but extra wouldn't be bad." He shrugged.
" Welcome back Raikou." Giratina said, he looked up at the orange sky, " We should get going. Come on."
" Yeah sun set's really near. We should get going." Darkrai said and used his physic attack to carry all the bramble while Mew carried all the moss and some cotton.
It took them around 20 minutes to reach the cave again, they were exhausted and sweaty, Darkrai's energy was running out and most of his energy was focused on carrying the bramble. Mew was in the same situation and Giratina? Well, his arms were literally falling off.
When they reached the cave. Mew totally lost consciousness and dropped on the ground. The moss and some cotton plopped in front of him. Darkrai laid the bramble down and collapsed to the ground in a big heap, Giratina dumped the cotton a side and plopped onto a rock, rubbing his sore arms.
Celebi turned to the pink cat used to be and gasped, "Mew! You OK?" she heaved the boy up and dragged him in. Palkia got up and carried the moss and cotton.
"NO! PALKIA! DROP THE COTTON!" Dialga screamed.
Palkia dropped the now soggy cotton to the floor. " You dummy! The moss was WET!" Dialga scolded picking up the cotton.
"Er…Oh… Sorry…" Palkia scratched his head.
"Sorry isn't going to do anything! You've wasted a lot of cotton!" Dialga yelled.
"Hey! Cut it would you? Leave the kid alone, he didn't know!" Darkrai defended, he paused and chuckled," he does have an IQ of a 6 year old."
" Hey!" Palkia glared at the white haired teen.
"Sorry kid but it's true." Darkrai shrugged, flipping away another annoying bang of white hair.
" Can we stop bickering and get on with it??" Arceus's voice commended.
" Alright. Celebi and Cresselia, see if you can make blankets of the cotton. Darkrai and I will make the beds. Arceus make a big fire." Giratina tossed a little metal bar thing that he was holding behind the cotton to Suicune. " Suicune, Kyogre and Dialga roast up something edible with that. Palkia you can to er… help pick the rocks around here for Arceus. Raikou, Sweep up the place. There's some coconut leaves outside that you can use. Sweep up the whole place before we start, we don't want to be breathing dust while sleeping." Giratina instructed.
Raikou ran out and came back with a bunch of coconut trees leaves tied with vines. He quickly swept up the place while Arceus took the food basket outside while he swept so that no dust would get in the food. When he was done, everyone got to work.
Celebi and Cresselia took vines and ripped them into really thin threads that took them and connected al the cotton puffs together to make thin blankets for everyone but it was just as warm. Arceus gathered dried grass and piled them in a pile while Palkia got some rocks and made a circle, she than reached in her pocket and found a red plate thing. She felt the surge and this time it was her throat that was itchy, she opened her mouth open and faced the dried grass, a little stream of fire poured out. Like a blast at first but she contained the feeling and only let very little seep out so the fire dimmed. It wasn't long before a big fire was crackling. Arceus dusted her hands contently, she went over to Cresselia and Celebi to help them with the blankets.
Suicune, after seeing the fire burning, took the metal thing Giratina found and placed it over top the fire after putting taller rocks on two sides. Dialga used her metal claw thing to cut out the fur from the rabbit. She gave it to Kyogre who, learned from Suicune, found the urge and blasted it clean with Water Gun. She than handed it to Celebi and asked to stuff it with some cotton and give it to her to use as a pillow. Dialga pulled out the fat from the rabbit and gave it to Suicune who smeared it carefully so she didn't burn herself on the metal bars. Dialga than dragged out the guts, took it outside and set it aside, inside a bush. When she came back, she chopped the meat into 12 equal chunks and gave it to Suicune to roast. After that, she helped Kyogre clean some mushrooms to roast as well.
Darkrai and Giratina decided to leave the moss on the rock near the fire so that it'll dry. They would use the brambles for the base because it was stiff and they had more of it. Darkrai grabbed an armful and dumped them in a pile near the left wall of the cave. Than, he spread the bramble so it was even and flat, he made sure one end of the bramble bed had a small hill for the head, after he was done, he went to work on the next. Giratina took the dry moss and spread a good inch of moss on top of the bramble bed. Raikou kept on flipping the moss or adding more or taking the dried moss and piled it aside to cool so Giratina could take it.
Palkia was sent nearby to gather 12 big rocks and to set it in a big semi circle around the fireplace, facing the entrance.
By the time everybody was all cleaned up and done, the moon was high in the sky. Everybody gathered around the fire and collected their share of food from Cresselia ones of which consist of rabbit meat and mushrooms. Everybody ate chatting quietly; some other people went to the water container and took drinks of water from with the ladle because they didn't have any cups. The shells were used for bowls to put their food in.
When Kyogre and Suicune was done cleaning up the bowls, everybody picked a random bed to sleep in because they were too tired to figure out who sleeps beside who.
The beds were in around the walls, two beds were in the center, nearest to the fire. Cresselia slept on the one closest to the right end of the entrance, Celebi in the one below her, Dialga on the one in the center closest to them, Suicune below Celebi, Arceus below Suicune , Raikou below her, Darkrai below him , Giratina below him, Palkia below him, Mew below him . The last one to go to sleep was Kyogre, she was worried for Groudon who still has not returned and everybody had just forgotten about him.
Kyogre's eyelids were very heavy, she fought to stay awake but failed. She sat in front of the flame, her head resting on her arm which was resting on her knee, sleeping.
Groudon walked through the curtain of vines silently despite his bulkiness. He saw Kyogre sleeping, sitting up beside the fire. Groudon went over to the fruit pile and gulped down 5 berries. He went over to Kyogre and stood beside for a while watching her lips curve into a smile, her face looked so peaceful…so…pretty. Groudon shook off the thought and was about to turn around when Kyogre fell side wards towards him. Groudon quickly caught her in his arms, he lifted her head and her legs up and gently laid her in the nearby bed, the one closest to the entrance. He pulled the cotton blanket over her.
Kyogre blinked her eyes open slowly and yawned, " Huh….Groudon? Where…did you go?"
" Oh er… Lost. Now you just go back to sleep, we'll talk about it…" Groudon pretended to cough, " I hope not." and turned back to Kyogre, " Tomorrow, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
Kyogre nodded sleepily and fell asleep again, on her side. Groudon patted her shoulder, turned and went to sleep himself.
Yeah, I added a little bit of fluff in there. Hope you liked it!! I'll have the next chapter up when I have another day idea. See you soon!
