Hello, everyone! we all know what day today is, so happy Thursday to you all! So, as a present this Thursday, I think I may just give you all chapter 6 of the Journey of a lifetime, but before we start let's respond to some reviews.

Okay, now that that is done, let's get one with the show!

Chapter 6

When Jake was young, he had barely any friends. He was lonely. The only friends that he had were his Parents' Pokèmon: Terra the torterra. Abba the empoleon, Elvis the Houndoom, Survivor the luxray, David the Staraptor and Typhus the Typhlosion. Whilst he got on well with Terra, who saw him as her own child, he spent most of his free time with either Elvis or Typhus who would help him with his life, like: how do I stand up to bullies? How do I make friends? Well, except for the friends part. Making friends in fire type society is very different than in human society, so even if he did listen to his friends' advice, it wouldn't work anyway. So, when he went to sleep, which he often did, he was visited by a 'friend' called Alexander. He figured Alexander to be a fragment of himself. A friendlier version of himself, seen, very obviously earlier on, he has no social was a guy who had medium length ginger hair, owned a bow similar to Jake's, and wore very strange grey clothes. These clothes were loose, but still covered Alexander up properly and provided him proper protection from the elements. When Jake first 'met' Alexander, he had owned a Treecko called Pan and a Crobat which he told Jake had supposedly been passed down for generations, starting with his many greats grandma, the warlord of Viperia, Nene. As Jake had grown, so had Alexander, each year, Alexander had seemed to grow nearly the same amount as him, despite being a "figment of his imagination". The weird thing is, though, the closer to him starting his journey, the less Alexander 'visited' him. Jake just thought that this was due to him aging and becoming more mature, not that Alexander was real, and on an adventure himself…

"Now where is that nest? I was told it would be around here somewhere..." muttered Alexander, his treecko,. just shrugged "well, there's no point in staying on the ground if we are trying to find a rowlet nest... Geez, I knew it would be hard but not this hard...ok, Pan, jump on"Alexander Ordered, causing Pan to hop onto his trainer's back as Alexander started to climb the tree "hmm not here" Alexander jumped from tree to tree, looking for his prey, but to no avail. It was then, he heard a scream ring out through the forest What was that? Alexander thought to himself as he stopped his present hunt and started a new one, one to find the source of the scream.

As he neared the source of the scream, he saw a mess of red fabric with wooden pegs and iron rods scattered through it.

'That's the source of the scream..' He thought to himself as he jumped out of the tree and went to aid the inhabitants of the tent until he heard two female voices arguing

"If you'd just pitched it properly it wouldn't have been a problem!"

"Oh, yeah? Well if your Zorua wasn't so afraid of the Fireworks, I would've been able to!"

Similar comments continued flying away from the tent, as he neared the tent, he cautiously started moving the pegs off of it.

"Hello? Are you alright in there?" He asked the females

"No. We aren't.. Our tent collapsed on us thanks to someone not putting it up correctly!" The first voice replied.

"Alright... I'll help you out…" He Sighed as he started to take pegs and rods, throwing them onto the damp forest floor next to the tent.

"Hey.. could you be a little quicker?" The first voice asked him

"No, I can't. I'm going as fast as I can." Alexander replied, his anger growing.

Eventually, the all of the rods and pegs had ended up on the forest floor.

"There. You're free." He declared to the two females in the tent, who had climbed out of the red mess of fabric. "You should really learn how to pitch a tent." He joked in an attempt to lighten the mood.

"Yeah, whatever." The first voice replied. It belonged to a girl with messy blonde hair and a black tracksuit. Chloe. "Look, , I thank you for your help, and I'm glad that you're not Jake-" she said, before being cut off by Alex

"Jake? As in Jake, Jake? Brown hair, brown eyes and a kinda western look about him?" the hunter asked.

"Umm.. yeah.. How do you know him?" Chloe replied, bewildered that Alexander and Jake knew each other.

"He and I go way back… when we were both younger, we'd see each other loads.. Almost on a daily basis, even." The Ginger stated.

"Every day, huh? Well, you don't look like a local. If you were his friend, you'd have started his journey with him. So, what have you to say about that?" Chloe interrogated

"Well, you see, I'm not from around here.. Around here, people have a much paler complex.. I was born in Hoenn, like my dad, hence the tanned look about me. My mother, though? She's an entirely different story. She's actually the confluence of the viperian and Avian royal blood lines!" Alex exclaimed.

"So, one of your grandparents was a bird?" Chloe teased

"No! Of course not! I mean the nation of Avia, in Ransei."

"So, you're also from Ransei?"

"Kinda… my ancestors actually fled from Ransei after the great war between Locke and Nobunaga... This resulted in my Mother's side of my family actually being from Hoenn for the past hundred years. But believe me, I am of Viperian heritage." The ginger assured the blonde

"Fine.. I believe you, you do seem to have a royal heir about you. Now, do you know where Jake is? He did kinda ditch us."

"Not exactly, but I can find him if you want me to. The nearest town is… solaceon, right? That's where he'll be. He doesn't seem like a guy to sleep on a wet ground."...

Jake slowly awoke, feeling a wet sensation on his cheek.

'Huh? W-what? Why's my neck so sore?' he asked nobody in particular as he slowly rose into a sitting position.

'Oh.. hey.. Phoebe..' Jake muttered as he realised his loyal fox was beside him. He received a yip of excitement from the little vixen "when did you wake up?"

he asked, obviously not expecting an answer. "you just got out of healing, and you felt severe separation issues, so when you saw me, you wanted to wake me up?" he asked, joking around with his Eevee but receiving a disappointed look from her in response.

"So that's a no, then… but why did you wake me up? because dawn had broken?"

at that, the little Eevee danced around in excitement.

"Okay.. so we should go and find Chloe and Senju?"

Jake stood up, stretching his arms. from there, he picked his bag up and slung it onto his back.

"Thanks for healing my Eevee, nurse.. and for letting me sleep in the lobby."

He shouted at him as he left the hospital, and heading North once more.

As Jake travelled back up the singular street, he saw the remnants of the presumably ancient festival, and read the various banners, a few such examples were:

'see if your Pokèmon really likes you'

'read your Pokèmon's mind, see what they really think!'

'you there, person, come and see my stall!'

The common theme of being close to your Pokèmon continued, making Jake wonder: 'why were there fireworks?' He stopped and looked down the street, causing Phoebe to look up at her trainer with worry.

"Oh. sorry, Phoebe, I got lost in thought, there.. wondering why there were fireworks for a Pokèmon friendly festival. I guess I don't have all of the answers, do I? But who needs all the Answers?" He pondered, walking once again and continuing to read the signs.

'Unleash your inner Pokèmon'

'the pokè life is the best life! Try some poffins Today!'

These signs continued until he saw one that said:

'what is your eeveelution?' with a shadowy figure beneath it.

"what is he still doing here? The festival was last night, wasn't it?" Jake asked the eevee, receiving a confused noise in return

"whatever… I didn't go on an adventure just to find out what my Eevee would evolve into. I already know what I would like you to evolve into… an Espeon!"

He proclaimed, ignoring the stall.

As he neared the outskirts of the town, he met with three figures. his two dear friends and Alex.

"Hey, God-girl, hey Chloe!" he shouted, greeting them "who's that ginger guy?"

he inquired "wait.. Alex?"

And it is done! Don't forget to leave a review, because that section up there seemed a little empty. Also, be sure to tell me what you thought this chapter was poking fun at in the last half. Well, that was me for this week, Locke out!