"Aidan! Wake up!" Aria screamed, leaping on him again, although her jumps seemed very frantic.

"What is it?" he snapped. He heard the worried voices of other pokémon coming from outside. "What's going on?"

He jumped up rushed outside, shoving through hoards of curious pokémon, receiving numerous mumbles referring to his lack of manners. Once he got to the front of the crowd, he clearly heard the loud roaring of a crying mother venusaur.

"My baby! What's wrong with him?" she wailed noisily.

A small bulbasaur lay as still as a stone, with its eyes wide open and lifeless.

"You there, with the fiery tail! Could you lend a hand and warm him up a little?" snivelled the venusaur.

Aidan carefully sat near the bulbasaur and waved his tail slowly side to side, like the pendulum of a grandfather clock.

"What the hell happened here?"

"I know exactly what happened!"

The crowd made way for the cat-like creature as he walked unflinchingly through them on all fours.

"It's them seviper."

Oh, Christ. Not you again, Aidan thought to himself.

"They've been spreadin' this around, I tell ya! The curse is all their fault."

"Well, that sounds awfully biased coming from a zangoose, doesn't it?" replied a swellow in the back of the crowd, waving her wings in anger.

"You just gotta trust me on this! Them seviper have been poisoning the little minds of the little pokémon around the area. Not too long ago, they killed a ton of riolu at their home in Crystal Cave! Look at those cowards…gotta hide in a freakin' cave…can't face the crap they get for their evil deeds," Zangoose explained. He looked at Aidan for a second, as if he recognised his face. "Didn't we meet not too long ago, Charmeleon?"

"Yeah, we did. And I met a seviper not too long ago." Aidan felt reluctant to continue. "You're right. They're assholes. They tried to attack me and my friend, so I threw him into the sea," Aidan replied, crossing his arms as if he had accomplished an amazing feat.

The surrounding crowd had mixed reactions to his actions; some clapped. Others whispered to each other about how stupid he was attempting to fight a poison-type with a deadly bladed tail. Others were too busy worrying about the little bulbasaur.

"I can't trust seviper's largest enemy with that information. Sorry," mumbled a Medicham nearby.

"Fine! But just you wait...The seviper will take down the lot of ya! And you there, Charmeleon..." He made his way over to Aidan, lifting his head with his claw, "I'll be watchin' your back if you even decide to go for them seviper."

The zangoose fled in the direction of the forests. Aidan looked down at the bulbasaur, who still remained inanimate.