Friends and Love

So here is chapter 7 sorry for the late post, I had things to do. So it took time. Please enjoy.

Red, Volta and Netsu made their way through Tokiwa forest. They happily walked side by side. Then Red stopped and others stopped to look at looked at Netsu.

"Listen hitokage, I'll be spending the rest of the day with pikachu, so you don't mind returning to your ball?" he asked as he prepared his pokéball.

"No I don't mind," Netsu said shaking his head.

"Thanks buddy now return," Red pointed the ball at him. Netsu gave Volta a smile as the laser from the ball come upon him and he transports to the ball.

Volta also smiled as she watched him leave. Then she continued walking a few steps before she noticed Red was not moving. She turned to look at him.

"What's the matter," she asked Red. He didn't answer her then he took off his bag unzipped it and took out his note book. And held it up for her to see.

Upon seeing it she understood and looked at him angrily. The moment he saw her reaction he placed his other arm forward to defend himself.

" Woah girl, it's not what you think, yes I admit I plan to have our bond day but it's not to make us closer teammates and friends. It's to make us good companions and friends."

"What?" she gave him a confused look.

"Listen pikachu, before I leave this forest I want to make good memories with you. So I would really appreciate it if you have a fun day with me. If that's alright with you."

"So that's it huh."

After listening to his reason Volta gave him a friendly smile. "Okay sure," she said happily.

"Alright," he said pumping his fist up. He zipped his bag and strapped it back on, he looked at pikachu.

"Hey pikachu do you know where the clearing is , it's in the middle of the forest, a place where there is a lot of free space with little to no trees covering it. We could play here but I need to get to the next city, so I want things to get moving. Plus you will also get to be with your friends quickly." He asked.

" Yes," she nodded and signaled with her tail to follow him. Red followed her to the direction she was leading him.

Elsewhere

Charge was making his way back to the new pikachu territory he stopped half way and sighed.

"Volta I really wish I could escape your magic," he smiled a little before continuing on his path. As he soon reached home he saw Thunder standing outside of one the enterance to the territory. He was smiling in a friendly way at him.

"Well it's looks like he found out, took him long enough. There was no point in running away from this, I totally saw this coming. I wish I was strong as you Volta," he thought and smiled back at Thunder. His leader signaled to follow him into the territory and he did, retaining the smile on his face.

After hours of walking Red and Volta finally reached to mid of the forest where the clearing was. Red examined the land.

"Well this is exactly the perfect spot. We can definitely play here," he said looking at every inch of the clearing.

He opened his note to see the planned schedule.

"Okay pikachu according to this, we have only three games. Yeah it's only three but we will have so much fun that we won't know the time passing. Plus if I had brought out the whole team we could have played games like 'Hana Ichi Monme' or 'Statue'. But I will do it some other day, let's spend our time together." He said and then put the book on the ground.

"Pikachu let's play rock paper scissors!" he shouted excitedly. "What's that?" she asked confused.

Red knew she won't know what the game is so he started explaining. " Okay girl, it's a game in which we form three objects with our hand," he placed his right hand towards her. "Like rock," he tightened his hand into a fist. "Paper," he opened his hand wide "and scissors," he made a V shape with middle and index finger while keeping the others closed. " Get it?" He asked to which she replied with a nod.

"Good, now think of it like type advantages, like fire can beat grass and bug. Here rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper and paper beats rock." "Paper beats rock?" she said then she focused on her right paw, closing and opening it trying to understand how paper beats rock. She failed and gave Red a questioning look. He understood.

"Well I don't know either. When I was five I asked my grandfather, but he gave a weird answer. He said, " Rocks are hard so they use tissue paper to feel comfortable and get soft." I didn't get it but for some reason grandma slapped him." He said looking upwards thinking, with his right hand index finger on his chin. He shrugged his shoulders, "Oh well I guess that's how it is. Anyways it's like a two persons game, on the count of three we place our hand forward simultaneously. We can't change our choice and our hands must not collide. So are ya ready?" He asked excitedly.

"Yeah I get the rules, let's do it," she answered nodding.

They both got ready, preparing their hands. "Okay one, two, three GO!" he shouted and they both put their respective hand and paw simultaneously forward almost touching each other separated by a small distance. Red made paper whereas Volta made scissors. He started clapping for her.

"Wow, you won your first match, congratulations," he said but Volta didn't seem very happy.

"Hey don't worry this will get more fun when we do more." Red told her and they continued playing more rounds. 30 minutes of playing at least 300 rounds which,Volta won most of them, had past.

"Wow pikachu your already a pro," Red said cheerfully, but Volta on the other hand was getting bored, her paw was getting tired. Red noticed this and removed his smile.

"Okay so this is not exciting for you, well let's play something else," he went to get his note book. "Can we do something which doesn't involve movement of our hands or in my case paws?" she asked almost bored to death.

Red opened his note book to see what's next, he put his finger on the next activity and looked back at Volta, "Oh well it looks like we have jump roping next." " Wha?" he said confused when he saw that she was laying on her back.

"Hey, what's wrong," he asked concerned, then he heard her stomach growl.

" Food," she said weakly. Then Red's stomach started growling.

"Well we had gone through a lot just in the morning so let's eat." He said rubbing his left hand at the back of his head, laughing a bit.

Back with Charge

Thunder and Charge were sitting at Thunder's nest smiling at each other for hours.

"Charge you must be wondering why I am so happy, right?" He asked.

"No I am wondering why you won't stop fake smiling and get to the point," he smiled, " You fat*** ," he shouted at him angrily. Thunder didn't say anything he just smiled at him.

"ANSWER ME," Charge was getting impatient.

"Charge my boy you don't need to get angry, you failed to get that impure pikachu, you..." "HER NAME IS VOLTA, YA B****" Charge shouted at him not letting him finish, his face was red.

"Okay, Volta, yes you're right we both are pure enough to say her name," he said calmly. Charge was about to say some more, but Thunder put both of his paws on his shoulders to stop him.

"Charge please let me finish," he said in a friendly way. Charge calmed down a bit but started to glare at him.

"Charge you failed to get Volta, now it's okay for you to fail. But there is something I would like you to do at night in front of the whole group." He told him with a cheerful smile.

Steam blew from Charge's nose, " Okay fine I'll be at my nest if you need me," he got up and walked away angrily. Thunder just calmly smiled.

Back with Red and Volta.

Red let everyone out so they could eat, Red was eating rice balls while his pokémon ate their pokémon food.

Netsu who sitting next to Volta asked, "So how is it going with Red?" She looked at him and said, "Well he decided to have a play day with me. We played something called rock paper scissors it was kinda boring." She answered.

"Oh well...you still have the whole day right so maybe you'll find something really fun," he told her.

"Well let's see, Red seems very energetic so he might find something." They continued eating.

After lunch break Red returned everyone but Volta to their respective balls.

"Okay let's jump rope," he said excitedly and then took out the rope from his bag. he untangled it and showed it to Volta.

"See this pikachu, the objective of jump rope is jump with both feet together while you avoid the rope to touch your feet as it moves around you." He then started demonstrating, " Like this.

"Jumping around a rope, how is that fun, " Volta looked unamused.

Red stopped his demonstration, " Yeah it's better for exercise and doing with more people and a longer rope. Let's try something else" he threw away the rope.

He looked at his notebook to see something else. " I know how about kanchō, oh wait that's a prank, I guess when I was writing I remembered my kindergarten years with Green we use to do this to each other a lot." Red smile remembering his past.

"Um.. Red," Volta called which brought him back from memory lane.

"Oh sorry," he looked back at his note. " Oh I know let's play hide and seek. It's a game in which one person hides and the other tries to find them." He explained to Volta.

" Hide...find...," she murmured, then she started to remember all the days she spent hiding from Thunder's men as they tried to hunt her down and kill her. Anger started to show on her, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME," she shouted and used body blow ( tackle) on Red knocking him down and sending his note book flying from his hand which landed further away from him.

Volta was breathing heavily before she realized what just happened.

"Oh my god, Red!" she ran towards him. She stood next to him, "Red I am sorry, I..I didn't mean to...I mean..it's just a game you wanted play with me, just harmless fun.." she tried to explain herself but Red stopped her.

"No..wait, it's okay I get it you preferred to walk, I get it." He said as he sat and looked at her.

"I guess my games were not fun for you. And you must really just want to end our journey to get back to your friends. It's okay I won't force you to play anymore." He smiled sympathetically at her. " You know, I'm glad I met you pikachu you helped me grow," he said.

"What?" she asked confused.

"Pikachu you made me realized that pokémon also have families, so I should ask them to come along with me from now on. Thank you, now let's get going your family and friends are probably waiting" he said and got up.

" Wow the tone of his voice, he sounds so nice and kind, I should have tried to enjoy playing with him." She started feeling guilty.

Red went to get his note book to put it back in the bag, Volta saw this and stopped him.

"Wait Red let's play, I want to spend time with you," she said as she jumped on the book.

" What is it girl, is something the matter," he asked. She looked down at the book and then towards him and smiled.

Red was surprised, "What you want to play?" "Yes," she nodded.

Red started to tear up and said, " Thank you pikachu for giving me another chance." He wiped his treat and said, " But you know what forget the book, I know what we're gonna do," He ran to his bag and started searching through it.

Volta just watched him curiously, soon Red took a huge piece of cloth. He went towards Volta and smiled.

She looked at him wondering what was he about to do. Red tied the cloth over his eyes to use it as a blind fold.

"Okay pikachu here's the game. I will be blinded by this cloth. So you have to jump around and call to me. I will try to catch you, sounds fun right," he said.

"Wow, this game I played it Plug when I was a little pichu, with that sweat band thing we found one day. So humans know this game too. I thought Plug invented it. I guess not because would humans really learn this from pokémon. Or maybe they did." She thought to herself.

"Hey pikachu want to play or not," he asked concerned thinking he might made her angry again.

"Sure let's do it," she said happily. The tone of her voice relaxed him. "Oh, good well let's begin," he said clapping his hands.

" Over here ," she called. Red tried swoop her but she moved out of the way. " No over here," she said. Red ran towards her direction, but she moved to the side. She started laughing with joy. Red heard her and took the opportunity. She saw him coming and jumped over his head and ran away from him through a little distance.

" Can't catch me," she said joyfully. " You're enjoying my foolishness aren't you?" He smiled and laughed. He charged towards where the joyful voice came and dived. Volta jumped out of the way and Red crashed face first. Volta gasped.

Red lifted his head up lifted his blindfold up and looked at Volta. He smiled and started laughing." Oops crazy me," Volta also started laughing.

The whole day passed it was sunset. Red and Volta spend their time taking turns and trying to catch each other. They got exhausted and sat on the ground panting. Red then took of the cloth and looked at Volta.

"Well that was sure fun, glad we did that," he said as he wiped the sweat off his face with the cloth. The next thing he noticed that Volta was hugging him by the stomach. " Huh?" he expressed.

Volta looked at him and smiled, " Thanks for taking me back to my memories with Plug, she maybe gone but was one hell of a friend a girl can ask for. Thanks Red," she continued hugging him.

Red smiled and pat her on the head, " I enjoyed as well pikachu," now let's start camp. Volta released him from her hug. He got up and released the others.

" Okay guys let's start camp, now let's search for wood. Hitokage and Volta you guys are one team. The rest of you came with me."

Netsu and Volta were off in one direction.

" So how did it go?" he asked her. She smiled, "It was great I will always remember Red, thank you Netsu for making me see who he truly is." " No problem." And they continued their search.

Back with Charge, Midnight.

Every adult of the pikachu group were gather around a boulder. Thunder was standing on it with Charge. At each corner were some of the defender pikachus whose jobs were to protect the group.

"Okay is everyone here, good now listen up everybody we are here tonight to see Charge confess is innocence," Thunder announced and pointed towards Charge.

"What do you mean by that Thunder?" He looked at him crossed.

"Charge, you are like a son to me, I thought of you like that after we healed when the impurity escaped and attacked us 2 years ago." He said placing his hand on his shoulder.

Charge pushed his hand away, he snarled, "She has a name."

"Oh ho ho ho, I know but the people here are not pure enough to hear her name." He said calmly. "Now, just remember our conversation, remember your exact words. Wait how about I just tell everyone."

He looked at everyone attending the meeting, he cleared his throat.

"My fellow pikachus you all are aware of that day, two years ago, when me and Charge were about to destroy the filth girl born among us. You know that she escaped and attacked the both of us. She managed to put damage on both of us. I was able to get up but she ran for it and I wasn't able to catch her. Now I know what you're thinking and no she is not stronger than me but her strength came from pure anger. She did get stronger from her time of running but I am always two steps ahead of her. Anyways Charge and I came back to the safe area from the fire to rest. After we healed I had a conversation with Charge and he said words that brought me pure happiness.

Flashback ( Tokiwa Forest) 2 years ago.

Thunder and Charge recovered from their injuries. Thunder instantly started to prepare for a group to hunt down Volta. Charge came up to him and bowed.

" Thunder please let me join you, that filth made me fall in love with her. I feel so impure," he hit the ground with his fits. "Your words of purity reached my heart. I wish to be as pure as you and I want your plans to become a reality. Please let me stand by your side and be your equal." He then got up and bit his hand hard. His hand started to bleed, he put hand forward and allowed the blood to fall in front of Thunder.

"I present you with my impure blood, I also went near the trash a lot so I need to remove it, please tell me when I am done." He was about bite himself more but Thunder stopped him by grabing him by the shoulder.

"Stop boy, I can understand from your words and actions that you will show absolute loyalty to me and I will accept you by my side. I see potential in you, I will call you my son." Thunder told him, he had fire in his eyes.

End of flashback

"From that day forward Charge had helped me find the impurity. She always managed to give the slip. Anyways Charge step forward and explain that you are no traitor," he gestured him to come forward with a smile on his face.

Charge moved forward and said calmly, " Listen up everyone, I want you to know that," he moved his eyes through the crowd before shouting."Thunder is a fat***, you are all dumb*****. I was never loyal to you. I only joined Thunder so I could mess up things and I love Volta. She is amazing. If it were was someone else I wouldn't care. Also everything I said to Thunder was a f****** lie. My penis is small and I am proud of IIITTTT," he ended with lifting his paws in the air and giving everyone the middle finger.

Everyone was shocked, their eyes were anime style white eyed shock.

Charge proudly continued giving everyone the middle finger. The next thing he knew Thunder gave a vicious body blow from behind, he fell to the ground on his belly hard. He weakly moaned trying to get up.

"TEAR HIM APART," Thunder ordered the defender pikachus. One by one they took turns body blowing Charge's body into the ground. After each impact, Charge could fell his spine breaking, he also coughed out more and more blood. When he was on the verge of death Thunder ordered his men to stop, he told them to carry him to cage they stole from the humans so he could die slowly in their.

"All of you listen, if you even try to help that filth then your faith will be worst than that traitor," he hissed at everyone and they all flinched.

He then jump off the boulder and landed on his feet. "Listen everyone, it's time to end this once and for all, I am going to visit our group's biggest shame," he said with an evil look in his eyes.

So that was chapter 7 again sorry for late update. Also sorry for ambiguities. Next chapter will be the end of the Tokiwa forest arc. Chapter 8 "Fight for freedom, V.S Thunder"