As soon as I hear Samantha's scream, I feel mixed emotions. I feel mostly fear because I am not sure what is happening to her, for all I know she could be attacked and hurt right now. I feel anxiety, sadness, and yet I feel heroic at this moment. I feel heroic because I am truly in love with Samantha and have tried to hide it for a long time now. I'm tired of hiding it, and I want to prove it to her by saving her right now. I couldn't get my hopes up too much because as much as I want to believe that I can save my best friend, I could be mistaken. I know of two pokemon that can change their shape and imitate other pokemon or people they happen to be zorua and zoroark. I had a suspicious feeling growing in my stomach, and it doesn't take me too long to get to where the scream is coming from. I have my guard up as I am doing this because I don't want to risk leaving Samantha alone and hurt, but I am also aware that it might not be her. As I am getting there, I run past the trees as fast as possible. I am running so fast that the trees are blurred in my vision as I pass them. I don't know why I am looking at the trees as I am running past, but it makes me dizzy and then I want to stop and close my eyes. I decide to stop for maybe a second or so and sit down. As I sit, the ground rushes up to me, and I collapse. Am I exhausted? What is going on? I start to panic, but then I realize that the dizziness is gone and I am feeling normal again. Okay, that was nothing...I hope. I'm hoping that she can find her way to me, but then as I am about to get up and search for my friend, I hear the rustling noise again. Oh god, not again! I growl as I prepare myself to attack a possible enemy. I look at where the noise is and I see a tree. I know the pokemon is hiding behind the tree, and I want to go see what it is but then I feel myself growing extremely tired. I look up and see the moon becoming more transparent. Oh...is it becoming daytime again? I see that the sky has become lighter, and the stars have started to disappear. I know what this means: it means that nighttime has ended and that it is becoming daytime. I groan in disappointment, and then feel that exhaustion and dizziness creeping up on me again. Now I understand it better, but then I'm not sure why it went away. Is it because I want to keep going and my determination is driving the tiredness away? I need to find Samantha, but I am feeling so tired and weak that I need to take a rest! I also want to make sure that I'm not attacked by any pokemon while I'm asleep. Usually Samantha and I take watch over one another when we sleep, but then I didn't have my lovely friend with me so what could I do? My best bet is to climb up into a tree and maybe try sleeping there. It could definitely lower my chances of being attacked because there aren't too many pokemon that can climb trees, but I think I am one of them. I look down at my dark feet which have claws hidden underneath the paws. My claws come out of my paws as I look at the tree and prepare myself to climb it. If I ended up attacking a pokemon then I would just have to do it, I couldn't be perfectly safe but it is definitely much safer than sleeping on the ground. I walk towards the tree and then dig my claws into the tree gently and lightly so they don't get stuck in the bark. The bark feels wet and smells damp but I decide to breathe out of my mouth as I climb the tree. I climb the tree as fast as possible, and then I look around to see myself getting higher and higher from the ground. I look down and scream as I see how far down the ground is. How do I get down without hurting myself? I would just have to climb down as slowly and carefully as I am climbing up now. When I get to the highest part of the tree, I look down and around my tree as far as I can see. I see a zoroark in the area where I believe I heard Samantha's scream and then I feel a hot white anger boiling up inside. I would deal with that pokemon later, but now I had to rest. The pokemon hasn't seen me yet, and I want to keep it that way so I decide to grab some nearby leaves and cover myself up. The warmth that came from it was comfortable yet uncomfortable as well. I can explain this: the leaves were wet and damp so I felt warm but wet. I shudder as the leaves stick to my beautiful black fur, but I know that there is nothing I can do about it now. I close my eyes and before I know it, I fall into a deep slumber.