Authors Note: This might sound a little weird, but I might actually turn this into a series. I'm really into this fanfiction for some odd reason. I've never been into a fanfiction for this long, and I usually don't finish them. I'm sorry Chapter 2 wasn't up for so ter 2 wasn'long. Being grounded is not fun. But here it is! Enjoy!

-Chapter 2-

I watched for a while, and so did the customers. But once I realized it was getting a bit out of hand, I jumped into action. Have you guessed it? Cress and Chili were yet again fighting with each other. Angrily I might add. They were shouting things outside, leaving me to tend to the customers on my own. First I apologized to everyone and said that I would just be a second getting them to break it up and come back inside.

But unfortunately it wasn't that way. As I walked outside, I realized it had escalated to more than a simple yelling fight. They were pushing each other down onto the sidewalk and throwing punches that didn't do much to the other since they were sort of weak punches, but those too soon escalated until their noses were bleeding and their lips were split. And here I was, unknowing of how exactly to stop their fights. So just to get them to stop, I pushed both to the ground, glaring at the two. "Stop it now! You're brothers!" I yelled at them as they stared at me then glared at each other.

"Get back inside and work, then we'll talk about it later!" I yelled making sure they didn't attack each other again. Cress got back up with a slight huff and walked back inside after brushing himself off. Chili also stood, but instead of walking back inside, he walked away down the small street then broke into a run once he turned around the corner. I couldn't do much about going after him because once Chili started running, he started running. I would just go find him later.

Walking back inside, I realized Cress was back waiting tables and cleaning them up once people got up to leave and I continued my job of making the food and taking orders at the front. Our Pokémon waited at the door to greet people enthusiastically.

Time passed quickly as my worry for Chili grew to heights it had never had been before. I got freaked out when he cut himself accidentally with a butter knife, but never have I been this worried for my brothers like this before. I should have been all the time, but I hadn't. "Cilan, are you alright?" Cress spoke up at dinner. Chili still hadn't returned even for dinner. His Pansear was probably more worried than I was.

"I'm fine Cress, just worried about Chili. What were you two so fired up about?" I asked him with a frown, sad that they would take it to lengths where they were actually hurting each other. Maybe I wasn't sad. It was a high possibility that I was disappointed.

"Well…I'm not sure why we even started fighting. He brought up something about Mom and I didn't want to hear it. He got mad for some reason…" Cress murmured, but trailed off. I could guess the rest of his story. Either Chili had found out what Cilan didn't want to tell them, or he missed our Mom. I took the latter of the two and guessed he just missed our mother.

"I have to go find him."

"I'll help you."

This was serious. I could only hope that Chili was safe as we got our jackets on after changing into more comfortable clothes which we had neglected to change out of. But pretty soon and pretty quickly we were out of the restaurant and out looking for Chili. We went two different ways, me taking the way I had seen Chili run off before. I only knew two ways that he could have gone, and that was towards the park where he loved to play as a child and…actually the only place he could think about was the park. But as he ran up to it, he found that Chili wasn't there. There was no other place he could possibly be other than the park but clearly he wasn't there. So here I was, searching around the entire right side of the small town for my fiery haired brother, finding there was no trace of him around here. I finally came to the point where I had to stop because I had come to the edge of the forest. Chili wouldn't have gone in there due to fear of total darkness which was exactly what that forest held. Being the near youngest, he had always been afraid of the dark.

Cress hadn't been back to tell him he had found Chili though and on the other side of the town was nothing but a dead end. There really wasn't anywhere else Chili could have gone other than the forest. He didn't have light in there which worried me to where I almost had a heart attack.

I called out for my brother, hoping he would respond. Unfortunately for me, there was none. Cress looked at me with a frown before taking a few steps into the forest. I followed him, eventually moving ahead of him with a sigh. "He's clearly in there, so we should just go drag him out right?" Cress asked.

"This is your fault, Cress."

"How is it my fault?"

"You got in a fight with him in the first place! He could be hurt out there!"

"Right…" Cress murmured as he looked away from me. It was his fault indeed. But wasn't it my fault as well for not stopping them right away?

"Sorry…I didn't mean to get on to you…" I said softly, looking down at the ground. I didn't expect any pity from my brother but Cress decided otherwise and rubbed my back carefully, as if not wanting to trigger a mood swing.

"You're just worried about Chili, you're a little moody right now…right?"

"Right…" I murmured, looking away from him. Maybe I was a little moody…but that didn't matter right now. I had to go help Chili, wherever the bastard was. He was probably irritating an Ursaring somewhere and being chased around.

We spent hours walking around in the forest, passing by Pokemon rangers that were saying they hadn't seen my brother anywhere but would be glad to help. I always responded with an eager yes. They went off somewhere else, all in separate directions. I had started to get a bit nervous in the darkness and pulled out the flashlight the rangers had given us. I knew that it wouldn't help. The light only went a few feet ahead of us and it wasn't very bright.

"Cilan, where did you go?"

"Follow the light," I said as I pointed it in one spot for my brother. It was inevitable we might get lost. Chili probably wasn't having much luck either.

"Cilan, Cress, where are you?" Chili yelled at the sky, knowing his voice would travel further if he did. It wasn't the smartest idea he had running into the forest alone. He should have stayed home with his brothers, but instead he ran here, the last place anyone would want to run into at night.

But no, he had gone against the odds and ran in there anyways.

"Pansear, can you light up the place? Like a flashlight, not a huge fire!" he asked the question but quickly corrected himself. The Pansear in question looked up at him as if saying "I'm not going to start a forest fire. Don't worry."

"We're lost aren't we Pansear?" Chili groaned, looking down slightly at the ground, waiting for a light so he could see where he was going. "Pansear?" the Pokemon looked at his trainer, eyes blinking just slightly. The Pokemon was tired, and Chili could tell in the faint light the small thing gave off. "I guess we better sleep for the night. It doesn't look like we'll be finding our way out tonight," he laughed nervously. He sat up against a tree and his Pansear clumsily ran over and lay beside him, providing him a light so he could sleep peacefully.

"I know this looks bleak Pansear…but Cilan will find us eventually. He's too much of a worrywart to not come look for me."

The Pokemon gave a small noise before yawning and laying it's head on Chili's lap. Their relaxation didn't last for very long as they heard growling and then a loud roar. It forced Chili to his feet and soon he came face to face with an Ursaring.

He backed up, and then screamed.

Both I and Cress looked up when we heard a faint scream to our right. It was almost hearing impaired, but we knew that it was Chili. I ran towards the sound instantly, and Cress seemed worried when the light suddenly disappeared. He did everything but freak out.

"Cilan, where are you?"

Cress had been distracted when I disappeared into the woods meaning that he was officially lost. In deep shit, as Chili sometimes said, Cress stood completely still where he stood, knowing good and well that if he tried to follow me then he would definitely get lost. He would wait for me to return, and turned to a tree for measure, climbing up it with his Panpour for comfort. "Hurry back…Cilan."

I ran quickly through the sharp branches and brush, listening for my brother's screams again as I tried to find my way towards him. Chili had stopped screaming but he could hear the sounds of startled Pokemon, leading him to believe that Chili had run by at some point. I slowly walked now, going at a molasses kind of pace, but somehow knew that I would get nowhere going as slow as I was.

"Chili, if you're nearby just yell! Do something!" I yelled out to probably nothing. My brother was out here, alone; he was possibly being attacked by a huge Pokemon.

I could hear the growls of it through the trees suddenly, and I quickly climbed up into one. Little did I know that my brother would be there waiting for me, tears streaming down his light cheeks. "Chili, are you okay?" I asked, running the tips of my fingers through his hair to hopefully calm him down. My brother had no marks on him as far as I could see that indicated he was injured, which calmed my stressed mind down just bit.

"I'm fine Cilan. The Ursaring didn't hurt me. But where's Cress?"

Shit. Fucking shit! "I don't know, but I'm sure he is safe up in a tree like we are now. I can't leave you here. I'm not going to leave you here Chili," I promised him, "I'm going to take you to where Cress is."

"Cress is smart, he knows not to wander in the woods right? I'm sure he stayed right where he was," Chili replied, looking down to the ground with a small wince when he heard the Ursaring approaching. The Pokemon knew where to go, it knew where they went. It stopped at the base of the tree and looked up at them with eyes that pierced through the night.

Both I and Chili were stuck up here. I didn't want to send Panpour down there to deal with it, but if I didn't, who knew when we would ever get down. My thoughts slowed down. And my brain was going through nerves that were telling me to react – to do something that I couldn't without consequence. If I did indeed send my Panpour, he would get battered to near death. Ursaring were not anywhere near being merciful and would kill whatever they had their sights set on. Low and behold, there it was, clawing at the tree desperately trying to knock them down from it. The tree didn't budge since it was a strong oak, but as I said before…

We would have to get down eventually.

"Cilan, how could you just leave me here? I know you didn't mean it…you're not that horrible of a brother, but it didn't even cross your mind?" Cress was talking to himself up in a tree thinking that he was safe from all the dangerous Pokemon. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. A Teddiursa, the un-evolved state of an Ursaring, had found itself up in the tree. It was terrified of crawling down and was crying for its mother. Cress found it upon himself to either leave it there or help it down, and he chose the latter. He crawled from one branch to the next until he was close enough to the Pokemon that it wouldn't startle and fall twenty feet to the ground. "Hey there little guy, I'm going to help you now…" he spoke softly.

The tiny Pokemon looked at him with wide, tear filled eyes. It made a small crying sound which Cress could only register as a cry of help. He couldn't tell if it was trying to crawl away or towards him; or even if it was just staying still. The darkness of the forest obscured his vision ten-fold. Cress made a reach for the tiny thing, and at first it was aboard with his idea to get it down, at least it was until Cress touched him.

A simple swipe of the Teddiursa's claws to the back of Cress' hand had him recoiling instantly with a yell of disapproval before he went tumbling out of the safety of the tree. He hit the ground back first and gave a small grunt of pain before loosening his tightened eyes, opening them seconds later to see a much larger version of the Teddiursa. "Oh God…"

He froze, unable to move from fear. Cress had no other way to defend himself except with his Panpour who was screeching at the Ursaring in the trees. It desperately wanted to help his trainer but Cress gave it no signal that it could do so. As much as he wanted help, he did not want his Pokemon hurt in a pointless battle where it would be mauled. This Ursaring was most likely dangerous in every way possible, most likely being a male. Knowing that he was ninety-five percent positive that this one Pokemon was male, it made him believe that so much more damage could be done. Water type moves would either do damage or do none whatsoever. Cress was here, under this Pokemon who stared down at him with those piercing yellow colored hues.

The blunette would not be escaping his fate anytime soon.

My outcomes were most difficult to understand, but what I had no choice but to fight back to protect my brothers. Chili was terrified that he might die and Cress was God-knew-where. There wasn't much else I could do but fight. So long as Cress was up in a tree or hiding somewhere that would protect him, I had nothing to worry about except for getting Chili away from the area.

"Chili, I'm going to have you use the branches to get away from here. The Ursaring will follow you if I try to go with you, so I'm going to stay here and distract it. Do you understand?"

I was going to have to protect my brothers whether it meant life or death for me. Because of a simple promise I made to my mother those many years ago.