Answers in the shadows
Sluggish memories
As Blitz started to come round from a troubled sleep, he noticed something wasn't quite right. As he looked around trying to get his bearings. As he turned onto his side he noticed Yozora lying mere millimetres away from him. "Holy crap! What are you doing getting that close to me? Blitz asked jumping to his feet and falling over a log, landing with a solid thud.
The sudden jolt got Yozora to open his eyes quickly, suddenly alert, and lash out in the direction if the voice's direction. In an instant, the Umbreon was just millimetres away again, his claw a millimetre away from the water-weasel's left eye. He managed to stop himself in time, though, remembering that he needed the Buizel. Still, "Wake me so suddenly again, Hikage, and my self-control may not be so strong."
"Hey, I'm sorry Yozora, I was just startled to see you that close to me" Blitz whimpered, being able to see Yozora's claw so close. "Yeh know I don't think it would have made much difference if you removed my left eye. I'm sorry any way but, honestly you where only millimetres away from my head" Blitz continued to apologise.
"Hmph," grunted the Umbreon condescendingly, "I hope you don't think anything of it," was next what he adamantly stated. Withdrawing his claws, he asked Blitz, "So what's you plan? Would you have us walk blindly through the forest hoping that we might come across another Buizel?"
"That is precisely what I intended to do. Unless you have a better idea" Blitz snapped. As Blitz got to his feet he couldn't help but, think that the very little emotion Yozora had shown before was just a ploy to coax him into tiring him out. "We'll come on then what's your idea? Blitz pressed Yozora for an answer.
"I was right," condescended Yozora, "You are a pitiful hunter. Think about it. You're a water dweller, in case you haven't noticed. Has it never occurred to you that you should check near the water?" In curiosity, he tilted his head, but his red eyes were still cold as ice.
"Why do you think I was in the river when you attacked me hmm?" Blitz said his own red eyes staring back at Yozora. "I had been searching for Buizels. But since you attacked me I've stayed clear of them" Blitz retorted. Why must that Umbreon be so dim witted to think he would not have known that. "Any way can you even swim?"
"Do you think I would confront a water Pokemon in the water If I couldn't even swim? Of course I can!" snapped the Umbreon. "So you expect to find the others without following the river? How daft." In actuality, Yozora just wanted to change the subject with that last bit. In truth, swimming was not his strong suit.
"Well when you put it that way. It does seem daft to not follow the river" Blitz admitted. "First, we need to tidy this mess up" Blitz said as he gestures to their shelter they had been using for the night. "Oh, there was no need to get snappy either, mate"
"You're the one with paws that can hold things," pointed out Umbreon, not even standing up. "Unless you would like that I simply blast it apart, cleanup is your job here. Once your done, we'll go back to the river and see what we can see, smell what we can smell."
Quite naturally Blitz wasn't happy with this. "I'll give you clean up Kenshi" Blitz muttered under his breath as he began to pick up the remains of their fire. Then he tripped over a rock that was jutting out of the ground, and the fire wood went flying, hitting Yozora. Blitz had to quickly busy himself to prevent himself laughing at the sight. "I'm sorry, I didn't see that rock there" Blitz was honest about that but he could have easily kept hold of the fire wood.
The flying firewood smacked Yozora straight in the forehead, something about which he was not happy. Plus, something in Blitz' tone gave away that the whole incident wasn't accidental. "Hey, look over here!" shouted he after having readied a Hypnosis. As soon as Hikage turned around, he would be out like a light.
"Did you find any Bui" Blitz had turned around to be hit head on by the hypnosis. His world started to spin, and he felt like he was continuously rolling over and over again.
"Fuck that Umbreon" Blitz swore, just as he had finished that sentence he heard another sentence starting with the word "Saatana" Blitz's head snapped to face the direction the voice had come from. A Buizel that looked similar to Blitz was limping to the cave that Blitz had seen last time he fell asleep. "This place seems so familiar to me, but wh..."
All Yozora would have seen was Blitz thrashing about in a frenzy. Then he jolted up right. "I've got an idea where we should be going"
Yozora tilted his head in curiosity, hoping Blitz was alright. After all, he was back to square one in his own mystery without him. The head only tilted further when Blitz woke up so suddenly and cried such a thing out. "What? We haven't even begun to search!"
"Ok first, what the hell where you thinking, doing that to me. second I saw a place where I had been once. I think we should try there." Blitz explained hurriedly. Then h was on his feet and had starting to walk in what he thought was the right direction.
"You coming Yozora?"
"Wha- Blitz! Blitz, what are you doing?" called the night Pokemon, hastily standing up and pursuing the Buizel himself. "You dolt! Where do you think you're going? Talk some sense."
"Oi, I'm not a dolt. This place is a place where I feel I had spent a great deal of time, so I thought we ought to give it a look over" Blitz explained excitedly. 'Could I have just found them?' He thought happily. "And I don't hear you coming up with any ideas where to start looking." Blitz said over his shoulder smiling.