Me: I don't know what to say...
Mew Hunt
"Why does this shit always happen to me?" Gemma asked herself as she sat deep in an amethyst cave. "I hate this world, I really do." Sighing she looked back at the large 'cave in' in front of her, she couldn't dig her way out without Blaze, and he was back in his Poké ball in their room at the Poké Centre.
Suddenly Amethyst appeared in her area of the cave making Gemma jump and glare at the flying pink cat.
"Mew! Me Mew, Mi?" the Mew said.
"Uh, right, I can read minds but I can't speak Poké speak." Gemma sighed.
I said, how do you like it, huh?
"I hate it! Why the hell am I here!?"
Because I have this feeling that your friends will make Adelle go back to the castle if I keep you here until she does.
Gemma looked ready to pounce and kill, if she could. Then Amethyst disappeared, leaving her alone.
***
"I am not going back to that castle!" Adelle shouted. "I hate it there, I want to be free!"
"Look, not only are you putting yourself in danger, you are putting these innocent trainers in danger!" Hagan said. He and Adelle were alone in the room, the others all anxiously waiting outside for the sky haired boy to convince her to leave.
"NO! I am never going back." Adelle repeated. Hagan sighed.
"Then we are going to have to help them, Del." He said. "You got them into this mess, and you need help them get out of it."
"Alright..." Hagan called them back in.
"Look, we can't force her back to the castle, but she has agreed to help you find your friend." Hagan told them.
"Alright." Ruby sighed. "But, how? We have no idea where she could..."
"The amethyst caves." Adelle said. "She'll be in the amethyst caves."
"And how do we get there?" Walter said, arms crossed.
"They're out in the forest, through the backstreets and passages." Hagan replied. "I used to go out there with my father, he was a miner. But now, it's hard to get out without being shot."
"Great." Leaf groaned.
"I'll come." Ruby said, stepping forward. "I'm not gonna lave my friend like that."
"And you can definitely count me in." Walter added.
"I don't really want to risk it... sorry." Pearl said. "G is my friend, but..."
"I understand." Pearl smiled lightly at him.
"I'll stay with Pearl, maybe we can help Joy with the injured soldiers and Pokémon." Leaf said.
"I'll stay too." Yellow agreed.
"I better stay, being a Pokémon Researcher I know how to treat them." Francesco said. Alessandra looked a bit upset.
"You can count me in! I'm definitely coming." Markus said. Angel agreed with him.
"I'll come." Alessandra said.
"Alright, so we have our groups." Hagan said. "We'll set off at first light. Now, I suggest we all get some much needed sleep." He added, walking from the room and back to the boys. All the boys left and the girls slowly started to drift off to sleep, one by one.
***
The next morning Ruby gave her friends a big hug and got ready to head out on one of the most dangerous things she could ever do. She packed up all her stuff and she, Alessandra and Angel headed down to meet Hagan, Adelle, Markus and Walter in the lobby.
"So, how do we get out without Joy yelling at us?" Walter asked.
"Easy, she's still in bed. Now c'mon!" Hagan said, opening the glass doors and walking out, everyone else not far behind him. They walked slow, trying not to attract attention from the many soldiers hiding. They stuck close to the sides of buildings, when suddenly a round of shots fired over their heads.
"RUN!" Adelle exclaimed, and run they did. Hagan stood by an alley entrance and counted them all in before grabbing a gun from his belt and shooting off a round toward the army before following.
"Where did you get that?" Walter asked, looking back as he ran ahead of most of the group.
"When there's a war you grab any weapon you can. I got it from one of the corpses." Hagan said.
"That is gross!" Angel gagged. "Yuck!"
"Look, in a war you gotta defend yourself!" Hagan spat back. "Now hurry! We don't want to camp so close to the town centre, we have a lot of ground to cover today."
"Fine!"
"You two, stop bickering!" Ruby called back.
"Says the queen of bickerers." Alessandra replied.
"Guys! Stop arguing, we can't let this bloody horrible atmosphere turn us against each other!" Torchix yelled.
"You know, that is the only sensible thing you have ever said." Walter sighed. They all slowed to a walk.
"So, how far is it to the forest?" Angel asked.
"It's a couple of days walk. Once in the forest we're safe from soldiers, but not Pokémon." Hagan replied.
"What kind of Pokémon are in the forest?" Markus asked.
"I better not say, just so none of you run back."
"Great." Ruby groaned. "How much food do we have?"
Walter rummaged in his bag. "We have about three days worth, that's minus the emergency reserves. And we have four litres of water spread between Hagan and I's bags, and another four litres between you girls and Markus." He said after a moment.
"So, we have one days worth after we get to the forest?" Markus asked.
"Yes." Adelle replied.
"Well that's just peachy." The raven haired boy grumbled.
"Look, we have what we have. With any luck we can get into the forest a day early." Alessandra said.
"Alex is right." Angel agreed.
"OK, let's get going." Hagan said, walking ahead of the group, Adelle sticking close to his side. "We need to get at least halfway before nightfall, and we have a long way to go."
***
Gemma sighed, lying back onto the sandy cave floor. She had been there for hours, trying to fall asleep. She had had no such luck. She was tired but the floor was so uncomfortable she just couldn't get herself to drift off. It was dark in there, too, which didn't help her mood.
Suddenly there was a flash, Gemma sat up expecting Amethyst, but instead seeing a pile of pink apples. Wait...
Pink apples?!
Groaning she let her hunger take the better of her, she grabbed one of the apples and ate it. She flinched at the sour taste.
"Yuck..." she muttered, spitting it out. "I'd rather eat my own foot." At this rate I may do just that....
***
Francesco winced as he treated yet another Pokémon that had been shot. He had been prepared for the gore, but not prepared enough.
"Francesco, how are you doing up there?" Joy asked.
"I'm doing OK, so check on the human casualties." He called back. He sighed.
Down on the lower floor Leaf and Pearl were both doing their best to help Joy treat one of the humans, but it wasn't easy for the latter. The blood was making her queasy, and soon she found herself running to the 'little girls' room' to throw up. Leaf stood outside the pink door.
"Per', you OK in there?" he asked.
"I'm OK, just don't like blood." Pearl groaned as she walked out.
"How about you go and take a lie down upstairs?"
"I can't be alone in this place, I feel like I'm gonna be ambushed every time I'm alone." Pearl said, looking at her feet. Leaf smiled weakly, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"How about I sit with you whilst you rest then, I'm sure Joy can do without out 'expertise'." He said.
"I'd like that." Pearl replied. Leaf led her upstairs where she lay on her bunk and drifted off, Leaf sitting by her side, stroking her hair.
Yellow sighed as she delivered food to the many injured soldiers and Pokémon, glaring at any that looked a bit... well, off. When she finished she went up to the girls room for a rest, but as she opened the door she saw her brother looking after Pearl and closed it again, smiling and instead sitting on a couch in the lobby.
***
Sunset...
The Mew group had covered a lot of ground, but were still at least half a day's walk from the forest, maybe more. They all were very uncomfortable in the tents that they had, but that maybe due to the fact they are in an abandoned house, one that not even the bravest of soldiers would come in.
"Do we have to stay in here?" Adelle asked.
"Yes." Hagan said simply.
"It's scary." Angel said.
"You afraid?" Markus asked. Angel nodded. He put an arm around her, Alessandra felt cold when she saw the gesture, remembering when they first got there and Francesco had done that to her.
They all climbed into their tents within minutes of each other, the pairings were like this: Adelle and Alessandra, Walter and Ruby, Markus and Angel and Hagan keeping watch with his looted gun.
No one could sleep.
"Do you think we'll find her without getting killed ourselves, Walter?" Ruby asked as she stared at the tent roof.
"HELL YEAH!" Torchix yelled.
"I didn't ask you."
"Of course." Walter said. Ruby looked at him.
"Truthfully?"
"Yes."
"You're lying. I can tell."
"Maybe."
"Great..." Ruby sighed. She stared back at the top of the black tent. "So chances are we're gonna die?"
"I didn't say that." Walter replied.
"You implied it."
"We will not die."
"You can't be sure of that."
"I know..."
***
Pearl tossed and turned in her bed, Leaf sighed and stroked her hair again, soothing her with a small lullaby. There were bags under his eyes, but he wouldn't leave her alone when she was like this.
Gemma sat on the sandy floor, sighing. Silently she mouthed a tune to herself, thinking of times past. She soon fell to sleep from sheer exhaustion, dreaming of a happier time.
Hagan spun the gun around on his finger, safety on of course. He flinched after a moment and removed his top, showing a large bandage around his chest and one on his arm. Sighing he took them off and slowly replaced them. The shot wounds were deep, but healing.
Adelle was fast asleep dreaming of a sky haired co-ordinator, but Alessandra couldn't sleep. She lay awake, fiddling with her Infernape's Poké ball around her neck. She didn't like it here, she didn't like what was happening. She missed Francesco after not even a day without him, but he had his duty for them, right?
Angel and Markus both slept as peacefully as could be expected in their current location, they had come through here so they could reach a place to rest, but they felt like this may be their final resting place.
Ruby had finally fell asleep with help from Walter's Sceptile's sleep powder, something Walter was now glad he managed to teach the Pokémon, who couldn't actually learn the move. The raven haired 11 year old was sleeping peacefully, Torchix next to her.
Heh, this is the only time Torchix is quiet. Walter thought, smiling lightly before he remembered where his girlfriend was.
Yellow sighed as she finally walked up to the bedrooms, she walked into the girls room and found that Leaf had drifted off on the chair he had been seated on by Pearl, smiling she climbed up to her bed and fell asleep, Wartortle there for comfort.
Francesco pulled yet another bullet from the Primape. He placed it on the tray with the others and started to seal yet another wound, when Joy came in and dismissed him for the day. He thanked her and went upstairs to sleep. He checked his Pokémon were alright, before climbing into his bunk and drifting off.
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Me: How was that chapter? It took me a while. R&R!