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Part II; Whispers in the air

I heard whispers in my ear,
Commanding to walk to this world.
The world of screams, the world of fear,
Wanting me to be, alone in the woods.

I had no choice, I had to move,
The whispers were getting hard to take.
I followed the whispers and reached the woods,
Had to end the voice, for my life's sake.

Darkness prevailed in the thick woods,
Screams of the dead making me lose control.
Crying for some help, searching for a way,
Shouting to myself, "what's the whisperer's goal?"

Not by me, I found it, it's but part of a poem. Only but three stanzas

Prologue II

Xela ran through the woods, alone and in a mess, her short brown hair flying about in the wind, getting in her face, in her green eyes, she pushed it away, but each time she did she tripped, causing her pursuer to get ever so closer.
Leaves and twigs got caught in her hair, rocks and pebbles skid under her bare feet, hurting her soft skin. Her green ragged cloths in a mess as she ran. She looked back over her shoulder at him, mistake that was a big mistake.
She tripped over a fallen tree limb on to her knees, scratching her palms on sharp sticks and stones. Her pursuer was upon her now; he loomed over her, frightening like to the little eight year old girl.
Xela squeezed her eyes shut but nothing came, the man gently took her arm and pulled her up. She unsteadily came to her feet, swaying a little.
"It's okay, I won't hurt you, I want to help you," he said in a soft, gentle voice, but there was weird, tone behind it, like he hid something, brusque.
Xela didn't look at him; she averted her eyes to the ground. She would run away if he didn't have a firm hold in her arm.
"I'll give you a home, a family, anything you want," he told her.
She looked up at him, interested. From what she knew she had no family. Her mom died in childbirth, and she doesn't know the whereabouts of her father. She had no home since she ran away from the orphanage in which she was taken to when she was a baby.
"Ah, I seemed to have gotten your attention eh?" he asked.

Xela didn't respond whatsoever.
"But, in order for me to help you in those ways you have to do me a little favor,"
Xela waited for him to continue.
"I want you to temporary become a Pokémon trainer, I'll let you live in my wife and daughter's old house, they moved, you will go to Professor Birch and get a Treeko to begin your journey, I want you to evolve it into a Sceptile, once you have done that find me, I will be easy to find," he explained.
Xela was only eight but she wasn't as naïve as people made her out to be. "Why?" she asked.
The man paused, thinking. Was he making up an excuse? "It's a gift for my daughter, you see, she is an extremely talented trainer, and Sceptile is one of the Region starters she doesn't have," He seemed truthful enough, Xela believed him, she was good with spotting out lies, but their seemed to be something he was keeping from her.
Xela knew enough about Pokémon and trainers to know that she personally didn't want to, but if it meant getting a home, free food, and maybe even a family? She would do anything. Even if it meant facing her irrational fear of large, intimidating Pokémon.
"But I'm underage," Xela noted.
"How old are you?" he asked.
"Eight,"
The man paused for a moment. "Doesn't matter, your small for your age, you just turned ten, now go towards the forest and you will come to a small, pitiful town, the one next to the lab building is my wife and daughter's old house, it's empty, except for food and furniture, you have it all to yourself, but don't forget my favor," he explained.
Xela nodded. She knew she shouldn't trust strangers, but she was helpless right now. The man turned back to follow a path back to small town Xela passed earlier.
She sighed and turned to walk through the forest to the town he directed her to.

Chapter One

Xela eyes fluttered open to the sunlight casting in through the window in her new large bedroom. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. She looked around. She was exactly where she was when she fell asleep. She was sitting on the carpet surrounded by old Pokémon dolls. The bed was untouched.
Xela stood up and made her way downstairs. She quickly got something to eat before packing up her bag with extra food and such. She exited the house and walked over to the lab building next door without a word.
It was empty except for two scientists. She turned to face both of them. "Is one of you Professor Birch?" she asked politely.
The female shook her head. "He went out for a walk,"
Xela nodded. "Thank you," she said leaving the building.
As she walked out of town she thought of what she had to do. She didn't really know why she accepted this, why the strange man had asked her to do it of all people, when he could have gotten his daughter the Pokémon himself, but, he did look like a busy man.

Xela was too engrossed in her own personal thoughts that she didn't notice a brown haired man wearing a lab coat being chased around by a spiky, striped Pokémon until he saw her.
"Girl! Please help me!" he cried.
Xela saw the Pokémon and jumped back, a little fearful, it wasn't big or intimidating but it did look dangerous. "H-How am I supposed to do that!"
"Catch this, it's all I have left, I haven't been out to catch anymore!" he cried, tossing her a Poke ball.
Xela caught it with both hands and pressed the round button in the center. A lime green, red bellied and yellowed eyed Pokémon emerged. Xela backed a little from it but it went up to her. Xela shook her head and squeezed her eyes shut.
"No, please don't hurt me," she whispered. She opened her eyes slightly and saw the green Pokémon standing before her, yellow eyes wide with curiosity and understanding. She managed a small smile and the Pokémon smiled back.
"Get that Treeko and help me!" Birch cried, Xela assumed that was who he was.
So this was Treeko? "Well, Treeko, I guess it's time to fight," she said.
Treeko looked over at the spiky Pokémon.
Xela nodded. "Uh…" she trailed looking at his claws. "Scratch!"
Treeko ran over to the brown Pokémon and scratched, the Pokémon attacked back but the damage was minimal, the Pokémon fainted in a matter of moments.
Birch looked over at Xela. "I'm a little shaken up, meet me back at my lab with that Pokémon,"

Xela walked into the building, Treeko at her side. Birch walked over to them.
"I'll like to give you my thanks, you may keep Treeko, and this," he said handing her a small gadget which he explained was a Pokedex.
"But you have to do something for me," he said
Great, more favors, Xela thought.
"I want you to become a Pokémon Trainer and gather information on Pokémon with this, collect data throughout all of Hoenn,"
Oh, I can do that, I already have to, well, basically, Xela nodded.
And with that Xela left the building to start working on her favors.

Short chapter, I know, but it's meant to be that way, by the way, Xela is pronounced like Zela.