Yay, longer chapter! IThe full name of this chapter is "We find some new freinds, and lose some old". Now you can finally meet Faron and her little posse of three! I've been waiting a while to put them in...
When I got back to the rock the others were waiting at the edge, Elektra with the pack on her back. When I got to them I just walked past them into the woods, head down. We had no idea where we would go so there really was no reason to strategize. After a few minutes I let Alec take the lead because I was likely to run us off a cliff because I refused to look up. Actually I guess I would see the cliff better that way, wouldn't I? Random thoughts such as these ran through my mind in an attempt to help keep out the grief, which was finally setting in more fully.
I don't know how long we walked, but eventually the sky was dark and Alec led us to a secluded clearing. They got out berries to eat and I sat in a corner. I knew that I should be doing something since this was my fault, and someone would probably start yelling at me if I didn't do something soon, but I would allow myself some grief.
Kalle came and sat by me, also looking sad. It just occurred to me that they were forever banned from the pack, because of me. And they could never see their father again. I felt guilty yet again and stood up confidently. I went to help the others, whose sad looks I now saw, with a scanty dinner.
After that we were all exhausted from walking so much, at least to us because we couldn't have been walking more than a few hours. It was getting cold, so we all curled up together in the middle of the clearing.
I was awoken by Kalle roughly shaking me. When I opened my eyes it was still dark. I couldn't remember what I had been dreaming about.
"What?..." I said sleepily. Kalle smiled.
"Good, you're awake. You were whining in your sleep, like you were having a nightmare." I groaned as I remembered what I'd been dreaming about. It was a replay of the night before, but this time I wasn't put to sleep. I had to watch helplessly as the fossil Pokemon's scythe had killed my mother. I told Kalle, and she looked worried.
"You sure you're okay?" She asked, and I just nodded. However frightening that had been, I couldn't dwell on it. Kalle seemed to believe me and we both managed to get a few more hours of sleep.
This time I was awoken by a frightened screech from Kalle, who was sleeping right beside me. I opened one eye sleepily and saw her staring in horror at a dark, bird like shadow in the trees. That woke me up pretty well. I took a defensive position to fight the thing, but it turns out I didn't have to. A column of flame came out of the forest and would've fried the bird if he hadn't moved.
"Bajo!" Came a halfheartedly enraged voice from the forest. It belonged to a female Charmander, who smiled at what I now could identify as a Murkrow as it had flown down from the trees to land on a small bush that somehow managed to hold his slight weight. He was eye to eye with the Charmander.
"Yes, Faron?" He asked, also smiling. The Charmander looked mock stern.
"You know you're not supposed to scare random people like that! What would Pablo think?" She said. Then there was a voice from nowhere. I knew that I would never get used to those.
"I don't know why you even bothered dragging me into this. You know I think it's hilarious." A purple blob with hands floating in the air said. The Haunter smiled at his Murkrow friend.
"Nice job there." He turned to Kalle. "Nice scream to. You've got yourself a pretty nice screech there if you keep working on it." The Haunter laughed. I growled. He stopped laughing, but still looked amused.
"Ah, and who have we here? Como te llamos?" he asked. I stared at him blankly. The Charmander, Faron, shot a harmless fireball that he didn't bother to fade away to avoid in his direction.
"Not everyone is used to your random Spanish! Geez, we have been away from society to long." She ended in a mutter. Pablo sighed.
"That we have, my dear Charmander." Faron spit another, larger fireball at him. This time he faded out and reappeared behind her.
"Boo!" He yelled, causing the Charmander to flinch slightly. "I can't believe that still works!" the Haunter cackled as Faron scowled.
"It's not that bad…" she muttered, and this time the Murkrow, Bajo, laughed to. I felt bad for the Charmander until she started laughing to. Then, without warning, her claws glowed purple and she jumped at Pablo, leaving shallow claw marks on his side. It probably would've hurt pretty bad, but he just laughed it off. This was probably a pretty common exchange, but I was getting confused. They seemed to realize this and turned to us.
"Since you might as well learn some Spanish, Como te llamas means what is your name. The proper response is 'se llama whatever your name is', but you don't need to say that. So, what are your names?" Faron asked. I thought about this a moment.
Could we trust them? Surely they couldn't hate us, they didn't even know us! And they seemed so friendly, and they hadn't commented on my fur color…I don't know why I decided to trust a couple of strangers after what had been done to me, but I decided these guys couldn't be bad. I stepped forward, in the position of an Alpha introducing his pack. I half expected Alec to take the spot instead, but the other three just stood in formation behind me.
"I'm Trinexx, and this is Kalle Demos, Elektra, and Alec." I said, gesturing to each one as I said their name. Faron nodded, but before she could say anything Pablo cut in.
"You probably already know our names, but I'm Pablo, and this is Faron." He said. Bajo shot a dark pulse at him that hit him in the back. Pablo grunted and faded out to behinf Faron as Bajo flew forward.
"I'm Bajo, as this rude Haunter seems to have forgotten." He said, not at all mad. The Haunter rolled his eyes, then appeared above Bajo, knocking him out of the air. The Murkrow hit the ground laughing.
"I didn't forget you, idiot, I was excluding you. You might even say I was bullying you, were my sctions repeated." Faron spit a small fireball at him. "Oh yeah they do tend to be don't they?..."
"Well I'm just as likely to go with the first option."Bajo said. He turned to us. "He doesn't have that great a memory" he said in a way that normally would be used to tell someone something without someone else hearing, but this was obviously meant to insult Pablo. Then the light in the clearing randomly dimmed.
"What the heck?..." Alec said, confused. I looked around the clearing to find that Faron had dimmed her tail.
"I'm tired, you two. Pablo, you may not need much sleep, and Bajo, you may sleep on my shoulder half the time, but I am a living, breathing, working Pokemon," she added the last to cut off Bajo's objection, "And I'm tired." She ranted. She turned to me. "We can stay in your clearing, right?" she asked. I could think of no reason to say no, so I nodded. She nodded back gratefully and curled up at the edge of the forest and was promptly asleep. Pablo sighed and faded out, presumably to sleep. Bajo yawned and went to roost on a tree branch above Faron's head. The rest of us let out a sigh of relief.
"They're certainly interesting." Alec commented. I nodded my head in agreement. "But if they wanted to, I think we should let them come with us. If they don't mind whatever danger we attract, that is." He said. Elektra also nodded in assent and Kalle had fallen asleep.
"I guess you're right."I said. "They seem like good fighters, and they're a welcome change from hateful dogs." The other two nodded once more and we all fell asleep.
This time I was allowed to sleep as late as I wanted to. When I did wake up, everyone else was in a circle eating berries from our supplies. I assumed that Bajo and Faron hadn't eaten in a while, judging by the way they ate their berries quickly and then stared sadly at their paws (or talons, in Bajo's case). I saw Elektra sneak them extras when she thought no one was looking.
When Pablo came back from wherever he had been, he looked comparatively refreshed. I guess sleeping in the air beats the ground.
"I guess we have to get moving then…" he said sadly. Faron and Bajo also looked sad. I realized it must get lonely, spending time with only the three same people, no matter how great of friends you were. I stepped forward.
"Actually, we were wondering if you maybe want to travel with us." I offered. I saw the group's eyes light up. "You've got to accept that you're traveling with me, though. That isn't particularly safe.." Bajo snorted.
"We've had to deal with shinies before." He said. Then he tried to slap himself. Failing at that, he asked Pablo to slap him, which the ghost complied to happily. Then the three faces of our new friends turned sad.
"What happened?" Kalle asked softly. Pablo shook his head (er, body).
"Nothing, lovely Kalle." I sent a Thunderbolt in his direction, but he just faded out to avoid the attack."Maybe eventually there will be a reason to tell the tragic tale, but for now just forget this idiot crow," he said, gaining some of his humor back, "said anything." Kalle didn't seem to want to make it any worse and let up on questions.
"So are you coming or not?" I asked. I was probably paranoid, but I could swear I heard frenzied barking in the distance. Just in case, I didn't want to find out if I was delirious or not. "We should go soon." Bajo nodded.
"Yes, we shall come."He said, his and Faron's moods cheering up also. I smiled; though I wouldn't admit it, I was glad they had decided to come. I would miss them if they didn't. Sort of like Duodo… but I pushed thoughts of my friend from my mind. Probably wouldn't see him again, so I shouldn't worry.
"Trinexx…" I heard from behind me. It was Alec, and he and his mother were looking determined. "We're not going to stay with you. We are going to go find a new pack, or somewhere else to live." So this is what they had been talking about. "Elektra is not in the best health, and we can't find anything to do for her. I hope we will see you again." It was so straightforward, I couldn't believe it. But I could understand not wanting to travel with me, despite how they had always been there for me, and if Elektra was sick… yes, I could completely respect their decisions. Kalle looked sad, but I guess they had already told her. With a polite nod Alec and his mother walked into the forest, leaving our bag of supplies behind. When they were about twenty yards away, Alec turned around and said something only I could possibly hear.
"Take care of my sister or else." Were his parting words. I nodded in acknowledgment. Then I turned to my little band.
"So, who's going to carry the pack now?"
