Ohhhhhhh eff bros! Time for chapter 6! By the way, gonna throw in another OC in this one just letting you guys know!
Ch.6: Saviours
"Dude it came from over there!" Frank said as he pointed in the direction that the yell had come from.
Hayden had already begun sprinting towards the person in distress. "Let's go see if we can give em a hand. C'mon!" He yelled back at Frank.
The two had ran through the woods for about a minute or two before coming to a dead end at the edge of the cliff. They just stood there wondering if they were both just hearing things at first. Until...
"HELP! DOWN HERE!" the person yelled.
"Wha...oh man bro look!" Hayden exclaimed as he pointed over the edge of the cliff.
A small boy had apparently slipped off of the edge and was now clinging to a protruding rock on the side of the mountain for dear life.
"Oh shit man...what do we do!?" Frank asked, panicking.
"I think I have an idea...but you won't be happy about it." Hayden said as he began to step off the side of the cliff to hang on to the edge.
Frank's pupils had begun to dilate when he realized what Hayden was doing. Frank had a huge fear when it came to crazy heights.
"Dude...you can't seriously be talking about the human ladder trick!?" Frank asked.
(If you don't know what it is go look it up :p)
Hayden had already begun getting into position. "I'm sorry Frank but we gotta help this kid, so come on man! We've done this before and you've never had a problem with it!" Hayden yelled.
"Uh yeah! To get on the roof of our houses! That's only like ten feet high, but this...we could die from this bro!" Frank was literally freaking out now, even hyperventillating a bit.
"And so could he!" Hayden had pointed towards the kid who was clearly beginning to slightly lose his grip.
"Please! Please don't let me fall guys!" the kid yelled.
Frank had started to pace back and forth rapidly. "Hayden...oh man I-I-I don't..."
"Frank just calm...down man. You can do this. We gotta hurry before he loses his grip! Look...just pretend that it's the side of our house that we're climbing okay? Don't think of it any differently...and DON'T look down."
"Ok ok...I can do this...I can do this." Frank thought to himself as he began walking towards Hayden. "Let's do this thing."
Frank had begun to climb down Hayden's body, until he reached his feet. After, he then hung from Hayden's ankles and stretched his body as far down as he could, until his feet were close enough to the boy's hands.
"Hey! Grab my feet! We're gonna get you up there okay?" Frank said as he motioned his head towards the top of the cliff that they were both hanging from.
"I...Ahh! I don't know if I can!" his grip was now clearly starting to weaken, as well as his confidence. "God I never should have chased after that stupid Pidgey...this is all my fault."
"No! I promise kid we're gonna get you out of this okay? Just do EXACTLY as I say, do you understand?" Hayden raised his voice a bit, though it was only to get the kid's full on attention.
"O-Ok m-mister...I will." the boy said, his attention now on Hayden.
"You can do this alright? We believe in you! You...Can...Do...This. I promise!" Hayden said, trying to rebuild the young boy's confidence.
"Y-Yeah...Yeah! Alright!" the boy said with a new, more determined look on his face.
"Ok, here's what I need you to do. Grab Frank's legs and pull yourself up from that rock with your arms one by one. Make sure you have a good grip on the rock so that you don't slip when you let one of your hands go. Try to grab one of his legs with one hand before you let go of the rock to grab with the other, then start to work your way up the both of us. You need to pull yourself onto Frank's back, then you have to climb up our bodies until you can pull yourself onto the ledge and get to safety." Hayden was clearly focused on saving this kid no matter what.
"Okay I-I'll try." The young boy had finally begun to let one of his hands go, successfully grabbing onto one of Frank's legs. After he got a good grip, he had let the other hand go and pulled it onto Frank's free leg. "I got it! But...how am I supposed to get up there?" he motioned towards the top of the ledge.
"The best way to put it is to just pretend that Hayden and I are one big ladder, and you are simply climbing that ladder to the top of this cliff." Frank said, reassuring the boy.
"Okay...l-like this?" he asked as he had began to scale up the human like ladder that the two had created.
"Yes! That's great...you're doing great kid!" Frank smiled the best he could.
After some thirty seconds or so, the boy had finally made it to the top of the edge.
"I got it guys! Oh my gosh thank you so much!" he said as he layed on the ground from the exhaustion.
"No prob kid! Now Frank this is fun and all, but I'd really like to live another day so could you please get your ass up here!" Hayden yelled.
"Got it bro!" Frank began to make his way back up Hayden's body, albeit a tad easier than the young boy did. After he had made it to the top, Hayden began to make his way up as well, though...he wasn't as fast as he needed to be.
*crack*
"What the he-" Hayden had then slipped as the part of the cliff he was holding on to had broke off.
"Huh...OH FUCK, HAYDEN!" Frank had then turned around, barely catching a glimpse of Hayden falling. Thinking that he had just lost his best friend forever, tears had clearly begun to form in his eyes. But luck was definitely on their side today, especially Hayden's, for when Frank had gotten to the edge of the cliff, Hayden was seen hanging by the skin of his teeth off of a small branch that was sticking out of the cliff.
"Shit dude pull me up! PULL ME UP!" Hayden was clearly in fear of losing his life. "Gahh this stupid bush has thorns on it or some shit and they don't feel too great so pull me the fuck up!"
At their current age, it was very rare for Frank or Hayden to drop the old 'F' bomb. If they ever used it...it was definitely for something on a more serious note.
"Hang on man I gotcha! You are NOT dying on me today!" Frank had then dove onto the ground and reached his arms over the edge towards Hayden's. But Frank had dove a bit harder than he should have, causing the contents of his backpack to hurl out and over his shoulders to take a plunge straight off of the side of the mountain. A few of the berries had even hit Hayden. "Aw shit dude my stuff!"
"Ow come on man your stupid Pecha Berries hit me in the face! I don't need any more of those stupid things!" Hayden yelled.
"Sorry dude! But all my shit fell out of my backpack!" said Frank.
"Screw your stuff man we can replace it, just...just pull me up dude please!" Hayden begged.
"Right! Here dude grab my hand!" Frank said as he extended his arm towards Hayden.
"Got it! Now pull my arms, I'm gonna try to walk up the wall and use your arms like a sort of rappelling device." Hayden said as he began to climb up the wall.
After a few good pulls, Frank had finally gotten Hayden to the top. The three of them had all layed there on the dirt for a good twenty minutes, in an attempt to get a bit of their strength and energy back. They had all laughed a bit after everything was said and done, thankful that they still had their lives, feeling as if they had all sort of 'cheated death' in a way. With all that, they had decided that is was time to continue on their journey.
"Well, I guess we should be heading out now. Man...I can't wait to tell our moms about th-"
Hayden immediately interrupted. "Oh hell no Frank! You know they would flip out if we told them bro...like FLIP...OUT."
"Heh...yeah I guess I didn't think about that one too much." Frank said as he scratched his head a bit.
Hayden had then turned towards the boy. "Well, I guess we should probably tell you our names huh! Im Hayden. Hayden Mirambell." he said as he shook his hand.
"And I'm Frank! Frank Hyler. Aaaaat your service." He gave a joke like bow, before shaking the boy's hand.
"Hah! You guys are pretty awesome! My name is Ian Miller." he said with a smile.
"Cool man! So how old are you anyways?" Hayden asked.
"Me? I'm 14. How about you guys?" Ian asked them.
"Whoa you're 14? You're kinda short for 14, that's crazy!" Frank joked.
"Yeah man no offense but I thought you were like 11! Sorry for calling you kid so much back there. Oh, and to answer your question, the both of us are 15." said Hayden.
"It's no probs guys! I hear it all the time with a lot of the people I meet, so I'm used to it!" he said with a thumbs up.
"That's a relief! So...where are you headed Ian? If you don't mind me asking." said Frank.
"Well before I got sidetracked trying to capture that Pidgey, I was just on my way to Pewter City." said Ian.
"Well wouldn't you know it, that happens to be exactly where the two of us are heading!" Frank said excitedly.
"Feel like tagging along till we get there Ian?" Hayden asked.
"You kidding? Of course I'll tag along, you guys saved my ass back there!" Ian pointed towards the cliff.
"Yeah, we saved the rest of your body too!" Frank said jokingly.
After the three of them shared another laugh, they had began heading down the road towards Pewter city. After about three or so hours, Ian and Frank had started to notice that Hayden was beginning to act wierder and wierder.
"Haha dude...I love Butterfrees. Frank...Frank have you...you ever seen one of em do that stun spore thingy? Like whaaaaat?! I mean how cool is that stun spore, that's like a go to move for any psychic type pokemon right?" Hayden asked, slightly stumbling.
"Uhhh...Hayden? Butterfree is a bug type, most definitely not a psychic type. Shouldn't YOU of all people know this? And why do you keep stumbling like that? Was there something wrong with one of those sodas we had earlier or something?" Frank asked.
"What? What the hell is a Butterfree? I'm over here talking about your charmander dude!" Hayden said, clearly not being in the right state of mind.
"Bro. I don't even have a Charmander. The hell is wrong with you? Did you get hit by a branch full of stupid when we were walking through the forest?" Frank asked, clearly not amused by the way Hayden was acting.
"Frank...I think something may be wrong with him." Ian sounded pretty concerned.
Frank just shook his head. "Yeah, it's called being dropped when he was a b-"
"Frank look!" Ian said as he pointed towards Hayden's hand.
His hand hand gotten a deep purplish color over the course of them walking. What did he touch when they were walking through the forest? Did he hit his hand on something?
"Hayden...what the hell is wrong with your hand bro?" Frank asked.
Hayden just giggled. "Pfft whaaaat? Man there's nothing wrong with my hand! The only problem that I'm having right now is figuring out which Frank to look at...but ya'll keep tryin to talk to me at the same time...when did you get a twin anyway? I never even...knew that...you...had..."
*Slam* Hayden had fallen to the ground, out cold within seconds.
"Oh man this can't be good. Uh...now isn't the best time to nap Hayden, it's kinda getting dark!" said Ian.
"Crap." Frank had run over to Hayden to see what was wrong with him, obviously checking his hand first. "You know...I remember earlier when I was pulling Hayden up, he had said something about his hand hurting I think. Something about the root he was grabbing having some thorns on it or something like that."
"Hmm I can check the local flora around here on my pokedex, see if we can find anything about it. If you saw a picture of the branch that he was holding...would you recognize it?" Ian asked.
"Y-Yeah...I think so." Frank said as he tried to recall what it looked like.
Ian had flipped open his pokedex and began scanning through the trees and plants that were local to the region. After a minute or two of flipping through them, Frank had spotted what they were looking for.
"That's it right there Ian." he said as he pointed to the picture. "Click on that one, see what it says."
"Alright let's see here...ah ok. It's called a 'Canis Root'. Says here that they're commonly found on the sides of mountains, or growing out of rocks at mid to high altitudes. Also says to avoid touching the thorns that protrude from the root. The tips on thorns contain a very potent...POISON?" Ian was shocked when he read the word aloud.
Frank looked back towards Ian when he heard what he had just said. "Ahh...I'm sorry, did you just say the thorns contain friggin poison?"
Ian shook his head. "I'm afraid so."
"Oh you have got to be shitting me. We don't even have any medical supplies because they all fell out of my stupid ass backpack earlier when I helped Hayden!" Frank said, throwing his arms into the air.
"Yeah and it says here that it only takes a few hours for the poison to take full effect and if it does...I-I don't want to say it out loud." Ian said as he let Frank read what he had just read.
Frank's face showed defeat when he had seen what Ian had meant. "Great...so now I get to watch my best friend die, when we've only been on this journey for a few days. This is...this is just fantastic!" Frank clearly was starting to cry a bit.
"M-Maybe we can get him to the pokecenter in Pewter in time!" Ian tried to reassure himself as well as Frank.
"Not going to happen. Pewter is at least another 5 hours away. And that's with a steady pace. There's no way we can carry Hayden that far. RRRAAAGGH! If I wouldn't have dropped all of my shit out of my...wait a second..."
[Flashback]
"Ow come on man your stupid Pecha Berries hit me in the face! I don't need any more of those stupid things!"
[End Flashback]
"That's it!" Frank yelled as he began rummaging through Hayden's backpack.
"Uhhh...what exactly are you doing?" Ian asked him.
"Jeez bro you sure packed a lot of underwear and stuff...and...AHA!" Frank said as he pulled out the extra Pecha berries Hayden had grabbed before Viridian. "You are a genius Hayden! I knew something good would come of these!"
"Uhh what are you talking about Frank?" Ian was totally confused.
"Well you see...to make a long story short, Hayden and I rescued this Gible who was trying to get some Pecha Berries from a bush on a rock, but he fell so I sprayed him with a potion and grabbed a few berries to give to him since he was trying to get them...but then I decided to grab a few to take along the way since I'm the one who carries the medical supplies while Hayden just carries the food and clothes and things like that...BUT! Hayden had decided to grab a few as well just and case we needed them and he was all 'oh you can never have too many bro' and I'm all 'haha you know it' and well...here we are!" Frank was completely out of breath after explaining everything in a matter of seconds.
"Uhhh...that's...good...then?" Ian asked, confused.
"Yeah! Don't you see? Pecha Berries contain a very potent natural cure for poison!" Frank stated.
He then began to force feed Hayden one of the berries and sure enough, after a few minutes had passed by, his hand had gone completely back to normal, as well as his sanity and composure.
"Uhhhh...what...where am I?" Hayden asked.
"How do we know he's really okay now?" asked Ian.
"Hayden...you okay dude?" Frank asked him.
"I'm fine... but why are you holding me? You trying to make out with me or something you friggin weirdo?" Hayden said jokingly.
"Yep. He's fine." Frank assured.
Frank laughed a bit, knowing now that he wasn't going to lose his best friend...not on this day. Not as long as he was around to do something about it.
"C'mon, let's set up camp guys. It's getting pretty dark out." said Ian.
Frank had glanced at his pokedex. "Yeah I agree. It's already 7:37. We can continue tomorrow to Pewter, but for now, I'm gettin tired."
Hayden yawned, signaling that Frank wasn't the only one who was tired. "You got that right. Let's go."
They had begun to set up a small camp after they found a quiet spot, not too far from the road. Nothing fancy, just the usual 'grab some firewood and make a small fire' type thing that they had always done when camping out.
"You guys hungry?" Hayden said, flailing around three packs of ramen noodles.
"Oh, you already know it." Frank nodded.
"Count me in!" Ian gave a thumbs up.
After they had their dinner and cracked a few jokes about how Hayden was hallucinating from the poison and whatnot, Hayden had cleaned up and set up his sleeping bag, as did Frank and Ian. Before they fell asleep they had pointed a few constellations out and talked about them, as well as talked about how awesome it would be to go to space. When they had finished their conversation, they had decided it was finally time to hit the hay.
"Ahhhh...this is nice." said Ian.
"You said it man." Frank agreed.
"Me three!" Hayden laughed.
Frank just smiled lightly. "It's good to have you back bro."
"Night guys." Ian spoke out first.
"Night bros." said Frank.
"Night ya'll" Hayden followed.
After a few minutes had passed, they had all gotten pretty comfortable and close to falling asleep. But we all know that wouldn't last long would it?
*shake* *shake* A loud rustling was heard in the bushes near their backpacks.
Hayden shot up quickly at the sound, as well as the other two. "Oh great, what now?"
Yeeeeeaaahhh I heard yall liek cliffhangers...so yeah...cliffhangers. Buuuuut on a serious note I really hope you guys continue to read and review my story, it definitely fuels me! I hope you all enjoy the way I've been writing so far, I'm trying my hardest to make it the best that I can for you all! By the way the new OC "Ian" is most likely only going to be in this chapter and the next a bit, though I may use him in the future (but who cares right?). Anyways I'm gonna begin writing the next chapter a bit tomorrow, so it should be up in a few days as always!
Thanks again for all the support so far guys, it means a lot to me :)