Hey, guys. This'll be a shorter chapter than more reecent ones. I wanted to avoid splitting Mt. Moon between two chapters, and this chapter had taken me plenty of time. Apologies, but this might be a recurring trend with Calculus and Physics. At any rate, let's respond to reviews.
Jango: That was quite the noise, arilneko90.
Amber: Yeah. Riley and Yellow...
Jango: And is that a... double smile? You have two mouths? or is it a double chin?
Amber: Jango!
Jango: What?
Me: Shut up Jango. Anyhow, glad I was able to convey all of those emotions at once, Raven. I am glad you liked it. Yes, the pink fire was random. I realized that based on how team rocket worked in my story, having them NOT doing anything to Growlithe would have made little sense. Thus, Growlithe got demeaning pink fire that looks absolutely ugly (like the speed scarf in TAC).
Amber: Phillip Harbindinger is praising you for imputing a detail you forgot into the next chapter rather than in the A/N.
Me: Is he now?
Amber: Yep. He's also calling himself ADHD. Well, hope he enjoys this chapter.
Jango: That's it for reviews.
Me: Chapter start!
Chapter Nine: Frenzy
BOOM!
"Gah!"
Riley's exclamation brought the attention of Yellow, and more importantly right now, Scarlet. Amber was up and about again. Each paralysis was working less and less, and now the wall was damaged. So was another one.
Amber was getting faster.
"How long did you say this would last!?" Riley exclaimed, struggling to contain the much stronger and more volatile eevee that was giving even Riley trouble containing her, though he had become practiced at catching her at this point… At least in the small and enclosed room.
"About a day now!" Yellow called back. Both humans were utterly exhausted. Yellow had discovered how much the eevee had eaten of the breadsticks and had decided that the eevee's time as a ballistic missile that was barely conscious would last a day and a half instead.
Yellow was hurriedly packing their stuff, not caring who had more stuff to carry any longer. They had to get out of this city before the damage caused would rack up more money than either of them could afford.
"Out! Out!" Yellow shouted as she and Riley carried the struggling eevee out the door and straight out of the center. They had to move, move, move!
They were out of the city in record time for Yellow. Scarlet was having trouble hanging on, so she got rather close to the thrashing eevee. Not a safe place to be standing, but it was better than being left behind in the panicked state that the others were in. Riley wouldn't dare leave her, but Amber might escape.
It turns out that running for a mile is not so difficult when you really, really need to. Yellow and Riley skidded to a stop together once they had gone far enough. "Okay!" The uncharacteristically panicky teenage girl exclaimed "Let her loose!"
Amber erupted from Riley's arms like a cannonball. A bouncy and hyper one. Riley checked to make sure he had his staff and everything. His things were in order, surprisingly enough. Amber was gone.
Riley cursed. "How are we going to find her?" he growled in annoyance and a little pain. His chest would be shredded if he had not been wearing his silver clothing underneath his normal clothing. His normal clothing, however, had a large clawed out hole in it. Very messy looking, and it exposed his cloth-like armor.
"If we see her go forward, we go forward. She'll stick around us, most likely" Yellow began slowly looking about for the eevee, "If not, we don't move a muscle, and she'll show up again. We know she can't be caught, and has no tracker. We just do it this way for the rest of the day, but we have to stay awake. You ready for an all nighter?"
Riley looked her in the eye. "Not really."
"What?" Yellow asked in surprise, looking over to see the boy shrug. "The ever indestructible poke-boy can't handle a little all nighter?" she teased.
"I need my beauty sleep. Keeps my focus up." Riley replied casually, brushing off the teasing until he realized that Yellow already had bags under her eyes. "You don't look so awake" he commented.
Yellow blinked. "Was it that obvious?"
"Yeah."
Yellow blushed slightly, which was obvious enough on her fair skin. Riley had been paying quite close attention to her, then. Riley, on the other hand, was completely oblivious to the result of his words, but he was not thinking in any such way. He was trying to help. Yellow's blush went unnoticed.
There was a crashing sound behind them. Riley began to move, but Yellow stopped him. "No, no going backwards. No moving unless we see Amber move in a certain direction." she ordered, forcefully removing her thoughts about the situation.
They warily watched both sides of the road, into the treeline. There was occasionally a crash around them. What kind of damage could she be doing? The teenagers still looked about, paranoid and worried. Their little eevee was getting herself in trouble and was strong enough to keep doing so.
"There!" Yellow darted forward, Riley following suit. They ran as fast as Yellow could, Riley unwilling to leave her behind. They came over the hill to see Amber sitting next to a tree. A fallen tree. Amber was near it's base, tail swishing happily. The crash they had heard… the dust was still settling.
"Did Amber just…" Riley stammered, caught unawares about the enhanced powers that the pokemon under the effect of the breadstick frenzy.
"Yep." Yellow replied between breaths.
"She just…" Riley repeated, flabbergasted. "She just knocked over a tree!?"
Amber bolted, thankfully ahead of the group. Riley noticed that Yellow was already tired, and promptly grabbed her and ran. Yellow yelped in surprise at the action, realizing that he had her bridal style, and began blushing. So much for putting it off of her mind.
"He's just helping." she reminded herself.
This did not fully stop the heat she felt in her cheeks. She cursed her freaky reactions to the boy that made no sense. What the heck was even going on between them? That was a question for when they weren't chasing after a zubat out of hell eevee.
"Gravvy! Get that tree out of here and follow us!" Yellow yelped, tossing her pokeball that unleashed the golem right next to the tree before the ball automatically flew back to her hand. The rock type nodded and used his impressive strength, along with the move strength, to pick up the rather large tree and chuck it back into the woods.
"I can't see her anymore! Stop!" Yellow shouted, and Riley skidded to a halt immediately, letting Yellow down to her feet. Yellow was almost disappointed to not be carried anymore. That was ridiculous. She was quite capable of carrying her own weight.
"Right…" Riley muttered to himself, absently tapping his staff on the ground "Amber is in trouble, and we can't do anything about it…"
"If we do our job right, she will be near us when it begins to wear off." Yellow assured the boy. Said boy was currently panicking because he thought he was about to fail his first real life bodyguard mission
and lose a good friend in the process.
Riley was not to be deterred in his worries just yet. "She could be in danger of being caught by rockets…" he fretted. Yellow marveled at how he was so worried for somebody else; a person who was currently quite strong and fast and capture would be a pointless venture.
"If we can't catch her for more than a few minutes, nobody can." Yellow tried to assure him again. This time, Riley's tense shoulders did sink a little bit.
"Probably…" he admitted "But I don't like taking chances. At all."
Yellow put a hand on his shoulder, startling the boy. "We don't have a choice, Riley." she reminded him "And we'll get her back. You can have at any rocket member you find along the way."
Riley smiled a bit. "Interestingly enough, that makes me feel loads better," he replied.
Yellow smiled in return. "I thought it would."
As the boy retained his vigilance, Yellow tried to remember what was ahead. "Okay… There is a split in the road that we need to stop at. One path leads to a pokeball factory, and the other leads to mt. moon." she recalled.
Riley looked over to Yellow. "A pokeball factory?" he asked
"Factories make things in bulk. There are probably thousands of pokeballs in their different types in that building, in boxes, on assembly lines. There will be workers. If Amber gets in there…" Yellow shuddered "There will be absolute chaos."
"It'll turn into a massive pileup of pokeballs?" Riley asked.
"It'll turn into the world's largest ball pit."
"Huh?"
Clueless red haired boy aside, Yellow thought that everything should go well if Amber just avoided the pokeball factory.
Which meant that an hour later when they made their slow and painful progress towards the crossroads, Amber turned left immediately.
Yellow cursed to herself. Of course. Was it really going to happen any other way? "Welp. We're going to the arceus-damned pokeball factory." she muttered, and hurried left after the eevee. Thankfully, Gravvy had caught up to her by this point. Yellow facepalmed as she ran, and let Dody out of her pokeball.
"I thought I was going to have to say something." Dody muttered as she let Yellow quickly mount her and continue running. Riley, glad for the change of pace, sprinted along as well.
"Sorry about that." Yellow apologized to her dodrio "I was a bit freaked out about the situation."
"Yellow, panicking is unlike you." Dody mused.
Yellow sighed. "I know… It's been stressful lately. I don't know-"
Dody turned one of her heads to look Yellow in the eye. "You don't know? It's pretty clear that you are being distracted by Riley. Very distracted."
"W-what's that supposed to mean?" Yellow whispered back, a slight blush on her cheeks. "W-we're just travelling together."
"Stammering's not like you either." Dody noted. Yellow flinched at that. Dody was right. She was utterly distracted. The girl frowned a bit and looked away. Riley was distracting her, whether he was trying to or not. Well, that wasn't quite the correct thing to say. Yellow was at fault here. Riley was completely oblivious to Yellow's predicament, but Yellow was certain; she should be able to ignore whatever was causing her to be… distracted.
"Let's focus on Amber." she decided, and Dody nodded the head that was looking at Yellow. Having three heads was quite a useful thing. Dody could keep watch, eat, and sleep at the same time. Her eyesight was good as well, which was what allowed Dody to know that the eevee was still running about.
They stopped several more times over the next twelve miles until they saw the spires of the pokeball factory. "Yellow?" Riley asked, dropping out of the trees right next to her as the blonde yelped and leaped two feet in the air.
"Don't do that to me!" Yellow exclaimed, smoothing her hair down again. She had almost cleaned the boy's clock. "I almost flattened you!"
Riley looked away. "You'll have to try a lot harder than that…" he muttered. He was watching for the eevee again. Dody and Yellow followed suit, as Yellow thought that Riley was forgetting what happened when he woke up after almost getting himself killed.
However, she decided to bug him about it later. Why she was feeling like that was also odd to her. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he could actually take a punch. Maybe Yellow was going mad. The former seemed more likely.
Big red doors marked the entrance to the pokeball factory. Obviously enough, the door had a sideways pokeball image with a brighter red and a white. The ball's black colored seal lined the door so that the ball would separate as the door opened.
The rest of the building was rather a grey color. It was somewhat simple, which basically dulled the effect of their fancy door.
Yellow and Riley ran forward and slammed their backs into the door. It moved apart despite their attempt to hold it together, in the attempt to keep the eevee from going in. It struggled against Riley, but Yellow was pushed away. Even with Gravvy helping, it slowly pushed itself apart.
"What the heck are you kids doing?" a large burly man grumbled, walking out of the widening doors and forcing the children away. Dody looked away to see a telltale flash of brown in the trees away from the building, across the parking lot.
"Yellow, she's coming." the three headed bird warned her trainer, who flinched.
"Sir, please. You have to lock the door right away. There's this eevee going mad and it's headed this way!" Yellow exclaimed, trying to explain herself to the man.
The main blinked before chuckling. "An eevee? We can handle a rogue eevee, missy." he replied. The two teens looked at him, startling the guard with the panic in their eyes.
"No." Yellow said
"You can't" Riley finished "Amber snuck some food from us in a restaurant, and…"
Now the guard paled. he knew all about what happened when the mix of ingredients in one of those breadsticks made it's way into the system of a pokemon. Now he knew why these two were so frightened.
"Does it have a pokeball?" he asked, hoping beyond hope that the two kids had come prepared for this.
"Not one that we could hope to get." Yellow told the man, who whipped out a radio from his pocket.
"Lock down the building. Immediately."
Alarms blared as the other end of the radio beheld a now panicking guard, who was panicking because the other guard was panicking, and being his brother, he knew that the door guard was not the type to panic.
The doors slammed closed after a moment with the three humans outside of it plus one pichu. "We will keep an eye on the eevee. If we are gone for more than five hours, open the door. If we are nearby, do not open that door until next morning. I trust everyone inside knows what is going on?" Yellow inquired.
The guard nodded. "Total lockdown is only initiated in this factory for the most dangerous of situations. Large groups, and I mean terrorists, or pokemon under the effect of those horrid breadsticks."
Riley shook his head. "You people are nuts. Why is it even legal to make food that does that to pokemon? I don't even know if Amber is properly in control. What if she's scared?"
Riley's concern brought concern for Amber in Yellow. Yellow had not personally met a pokemon who had been under it's effects. Most events occur in southern Kanto. Pewter only had a few really disastrous events. Two of them, actually. Before Yellow became involved in the police force.
Amber showed up after five minutes. She sat in front of the three humans and Scarlet, tail swishing about at incredible speeds. Her eyes were big and adorable, her posture straight. She was shivering with energy. How much chaos she could have caused.
Amber viewed the group, head tilted slightly. What was the thing behind them? What was in it? Was that a pokeball on the door? Who was the third bloke? Why did Riley and Yellow have apprehensive looks on their faces? Was there food somewhere? Where had the tree she had knocked over gone?
As Amber's mind went at a thousand miles per hour, Riley crept towards Amber. "Hey, Amber. You recognize me, right?" he asked slowly. Amber's ears flicked rapidly. She never blinked. Riley. Riley was in front of her. Riley was getting close to her. Riley was-
Amber stopped thinking about him and shot off to look at the door. She was there in seconds. She sat in front of it, tail still swishing as she looked sideways to see the pokeball properly. "Ooh! That's a pokeball! A big pokeball! I wonder i it catches pokemon still. I bet I could fit in this one easily!" Amber's rapid thoughts were somewhat guessable.
Amber jumped and slammed her skull into the pokeball, and to the horror of the three humans that were outside and to the horror of the person listening at the other side of the door, her headbutt dented the door.
"That's insane." Riley frowned "There is no way that she could be that strong."
They began to panic when she did it again. Clang. The door dented further. "Damn it!" Riley cursed, running forward and grabbing the eevee before she could attack again with her new monstrous strength. Unfortunately, as said, she had monstrous strength. Riley got himself a good beating that even he couldn't handle, and would probably have bruises all over his face and chest afterwards.
Amber hit the door again after she jumped away from Riley. the reinforced door actually broke, allowing the hyper eevee into the building.
Three humans stared after her, unable to get through because the hole was too small. "Well…" Yellow murmured, and the guard grunted.
"Shit." Riley finished.
When the doors were finally opened in panic and hope of reinforcements, the place was an absolute mess.
People were screaming and running. Conveyer belts were destroyed and spilling pokeballs of all types along the ground. Boxes of pokeballs were destroyed and spilling onto the floor while Amber shot around like an incredibly bouncy cannonball. It only took a moment to understand why.
Amber had gotten ahold of a moon ball, a ball used to catch certain pokemon well, and they and many of the things they touched were less affected by gravity. A side effect of the technological feat used to built it. Moon balls were particularly rare because of their cost to make and buy.
Amber bounced around, destroying anything and everything in her path. The ground was covered in ankle deep amount of pokeballs of all different types. Horror filled the eyes of everyone surrounding the room as they hid and cowered.
Amber took a little break, still shivering with energy and still wide eyed, landing on Riley's head and laying there as if sleeping.
Things stilled. Riley stopped cold. "Don't… Move…" Yellow whispered "Don't move a freaking muscle."
Riley obeyed, being as quiet as possible even with the amount of pokeballs on the floor increasing slowly. They were at knee height now in this room. There were so many pokeballs. So many…
Amber was pretending to be asleep. her mind was racing, but she was waiting, waiting for Riley to try and grab her again. beating him up was fun! And his hair was comfortable and his hair was orange like fire and he wasn't moving!
Needless to say, Amber's mind was not in a good way at the moment. Gone into a drunken hyperdrive, the eevee was about as volatile as lightning. Vibrating with energy, she was bound to get bored eventually.
Yellow was apologizing to the manager in the building about the chaos. The damage was not extensive, but it would be expensive. "I can cover the costs sir." she told him "I am willing to take full responsibility."
"Don't be ridiculous." Riley told the girl immediately.
"You don't have the money to fix this. I do. Stay still and shut up." Yellow retorted immediately "And I will also cover any future damage if we can't get Amber out of here without more damage being caused."
Her promise pacified the fire spitting manager somewhat, which led to Yellow turning back to Riley. "Okay, Riley, try to slowly walk towards the door. Very slowly." she ordered.
Riley found it difficult. He was in a mess of pokeballs at this time. Every twitch brought about a clatter that had him wincing. Having an eevee on his head was not a problem. Having a volatile, hyperactive, supercharged eevee with monstrous strength and speed at this current time now, that was a problem.
Wading through the pokeball pit was slow and stressful going, but Riley neared the door eventually. The eevee was still pretending to sleep. Yellow kept a hand on the boy, making him walk a certain pace consistently.
Amber still waited for the boy to try and grab her so that she could pummel his face into the ground.
Finally, they were out of the building and they closed the doors quickly. They saw us off while the began to clean up the mess around there. It had been two hours since they entered the place. Yellow still regulated Riley's pace.
Riley personally felt like he himself was on a leash. If he did anything he wasn't supposed to, he suffered the consequences. Yellow didn't let him do anything at all for two hours, around which time they needed some food. Breakfast had been quite... conservative.
Finally, Yellow gave a mutter. "Okay, try to get her off your head."
"...Yeah. Scarlet, could you paralyze her?"
"I-I can try" came the mildly frightened reply. Scarlet reached a paw to Amber's shoulder and sent as powerful of a thunderwave as she dared into the body of Amber, hopefully paralyzing her. The eevee, getting what she wanted, tried to leap up and jump Riley, only to realize that her muscles weren't working at all again.
She struggled, her mind going into overdrive as Riley pulled her off his head and promptly stuffed her in a non-airtight bag made of leather that Yellow had produced from somewhere. Then Yellow had given Riley another one, and then a third. "Why on earth have you got three super strong leather bags?" Riley asked after Amber had been thoroughly trapped by the strong material.
"Well… I've had to grab small pokemon before when in a rush, and they usually fight. Last time, I saved a rattata that way and it just ate it's way out of the bag. So I got these." she explained.
"And… You didn't think to use these bags when Amber first started going nuts?"
Yellow froze, and then blushed. "...Oh."
"Oh." Riley repeated.
"Yeah…" Yellow muttered, embarrassed "Oh."
Amber slowly recovered from paralysis much slower than normal. The weird affect on her body seemed to randomize her ability to recover. She was sick. Her mind racing and such. however, there was enough coherent thought for figuring out a few things.
While Amber began struggling to plan out her escape so she could run some more, the teenagers talked as they ate. "How much stuff is inside of that pack of yours? I swear you have more things than your bag can actually hold." Riley told her.
Yellow shrugged. "I'm very good at packing things. There are some really expensive bags that can actually hold far more than they appear physically capable of, and of course there are those item balls that we use for our most important items. I have several holding tools for police work if I need it, weapons to defend myself in case my pokemon are unavailable for some reason, and the key items for… well… anything."
Riley's eyebrow rose. "Weapons? As in a sword or a spear or a staff?" he asked.
Yellow shook her head. "No, I mean a pistol and a submachine gun in case I really, really need it. I have trained at aiming and using the weapons, so…" she shrugged. Riley blinked. This girl in front of him had the capability to pull one of those gun things out of her bag and take things apart with it.
"I understood the gun part of 'pistol and submachine gun'" Riley told the girl.
"A pistol is a more precise gun you can use with one hand easily, and the submachine gun is more along the lines of spray and pray. Basically, point and shoot." Yellow informed him.
"Got it." Riley responded, taking a bite out of his sandwich.
Somehow remaining casual despite knowing that the female of the two could riddle somebody with bullet holes anytime she wanted to, they turned their attention to the bag with the struggling eevee in it. "We should try and feed her…" Riley murmured.
"Not safe." Yellow argued "She can go hungry until that wears off. She is quite an odd eevee, so it might happen sooner. For now, it is way too dangerous to even try."
Riley said nothing for a time as he watched Amber struggle. Finally, he sighed. "You're right, as always. I hate it, but you're right. She can go hungry for a day. Besides, she ate some of my hair while we were walking out of there.
Yellow started. "Did she?" she asked, peering closer to Riley's hair. Some of the hairs in front looked clipped. She started to giggle. "Yeah, she did! And you didn't say anything?"
"Any motion or sound might have triggered her." Riley explained. Yellow considered his reasoning. He was correct of course. For some reason, Yellow kept underestimating the boy. Perhaps it was due to his lack of any sort of human education.
As Yellow nodded, Riley packed up the materials they used for lunch after cleaning them to the best of his ability with the water jug that they had. It was quite large, so they needed an item ball for it. Riley had elected to carry that one.
Stuffing the blue ball with the white 'I' on it into his pack again, he also put away his equipment. Yellow did all of the cooking, but he did the heavy lifting. Yellow had no intent on repeating what had happened in Delia's house, and Riley had agreed wholeheartedly.
Riley hefted the little bag over his shoulder and the two departed at a normal pace once more, confident that things would go better for a while. These bags were (according to Yellow) really, really strong.
But to the pokemon who had the energy in her body to topple trees, Amber had other plans. She was only able to form a coherent thought once every few minutes, but she slowly, very slowly, came up with a plan to get out of there in her state.
"Let's see…"
"..."
"I could chew my way out."
"..."
"Nope. Been chewing for five. no luck."
"..."
"Wait, didn't I do something to Riley that time?"
"..."
"He was all hurt and had weird hairs on him after my dream…"
"..."
"my dream was really weird and my necklace shone"
"..."
"...could I do that again?"
The eevee tried to focus, but it was difficult. She would go mental every few seconds, and thrash about a bit, before gaining some (yet still hyperactive) sense of thought. There was energy in her body, like the kind that had been described as evolution, but she wasn't evolving. Why was that?
She focused on that energy, pulling it forth. Then, once she had that energy, she thought she had a choice. Blue, red, or yellow. Just as she was about to make her choice, she lost it all and went mindless for a bit.
Amber finally chose her energy, deciding to go with bright and yellow, and felt energy fill her body as she lost it again. She grew, and unleashed some energy in her mindless state.
Riley felt it, all right. The bag was not broken, but electricity soared through it, giving Riley a proper electrocution as he roared in pain and quickly applied his staff to the bag, letting it take that pain instead. As he breathed heavily, Yellow looked on in shock. "Amber know's an electric move?" she asked, before rushing to help Riley back up.
Amber, however, had felt her energy fade away quickly, leaving her exhausted as she shrank again. She pushed against the bag, to no avail. Her power built back up into her quickly, though not incredibly so. It would be another hour before she could try again.
Riley and Yellow walked on, refusing to open and check the bag for surprise jolteons, but Riley had felt the bag by pressing his hand against it in multiple places, and he confirmed the presence of an eevee in the bag. Utterly confused, the two dropped it and continued on.
"We will be at the mountain in a few days." Yellow told Riley eventually "after the mountain, getting to cerulean would take another day."
"And how long does it take to go over the mountain?"
"Oh, we're not going over." Yellow replied, pointing to the looming mountain in the distance "That thing is covered in snow. We're going through it."
Riley blinked and looked at her. "Through the mountain?" he asked, confused. They could go straight through it? They didn't have any pokemon who could dig, and definitely not dig that far.
"Oh, there's a tunnel." Yellow explained, looking as if she was thinking about something. In fact, she was thinking. Thinking about the fact that there were an impossible amount of zubat in those caves. Zubat are one of the more instinctual pokemon. While they are capable of thought, the only thing they don't attack on sight are the cleffa, clefairy, and clefable for some reason.
"It is long, and it should take us a day and a half to get through. Lately it is used quite a lot, so money went into making it a proper path with torches and everything along the sides. It's properly maintained. You know, there was a pokecenter right outside on this side of the mountain, and now it's spanned into more of a small town. Kane town, after Walter Kane, who donated most of the money needed for its construction."
"Huh." Riley looked on ahead as if expecting to see buildings arise out of nowhere. "Wait, the bloke named a town after himself?" he asked. Feeling self important, was he?
Yellow laughed. "No, not at all. He actually protested against the name, but the people who actually worked on it and the mountain to make travel safer had other plans. They were more than happy to call it Kane town after the new improvements made homes, jobs, and a dangerous path much, much safer for travelers in one fell swoop."
Riley nodded. "Well, I get the first and last parts, and I suppose you humans use your 'jobs' to make money, right?"
Yellow nodded. "Right. There's this whole economic thing that I need to run you through before I leave."
"…leave?"
"I have my own job to get to." Yellow nodded, looking serious "After you leave cerulean, I will have to go back to my job. I will check up on you regularly of course."
Riley was silent for a moment. Yellow was leaving him? That felt… weird. Yellow was the one who was basically supporting him. She knew what to do, and now there was a deadline? Riley felt odd about it. What could he possibly say in the face of that?
"I… What would I be able to do without you?" Riley asked, causing Yellow to feel strangely elated. "I mean, I have no idea how to handle your complicated human world." he continued.
"I know, I don't really want to leave you hanging, but duty calls eventually." Yellow told the boy sadly "I do intend for us to stop in Cerulean for several days, and I can use those days to teach you the basics, and we can stay in touch. We have each other's cell numbers."
Then Yellow smiled. "If you even remember how to use your phone." she giggled.
"Oi!" Riley protested towards the laughing girl. "Curses. I don't have a good retort." Riley thought to himself as he fumed. Yet, he still wasn't really that angry. More of the 'hide oneself metaphorically in the corner and weep' kind of thing, as his pride had been wounded.
While he struggled to find a response, Yellow finished her little laughing fit and decided to continue walking. Riley quickly picked up the pace to follow her. They walked… and walked… surrounded not by forest but by cliffs with trees up top now, like a ravine.
"We used up a lot of daylight." Yellow commented eventually as they travelled. Riley squinted up at the sun. "No kidding." he grumbled.
The back of his shirt suddenly felt hot. The bag… it was freaking hot! "OW!" Riley exclaimed, again absorbing some fire energy from the bag before the bag could disintegrate, thankfully being able to remove the energy when the energy was close to the thinner surface. Riley quickly dispelled the flames and checked on the bag.
Once again, after feeling the thrashing bag, Riley informed the group that it was indeed an eevee inside of the bag. "What the actual fuck?" Riley muttered, before slinging it unceremoniously over his shoulder again. Amber could handle being roughed around a bit.
Then they continued for several more hours.
Amber was struggling to get her mind back for long enough to try her next form to try and burst out. She felt hazy when she was capable of thinking about it, but she was able to think for longer. Like a stage two. She was weakening some as well.
But she had another chance, and enough energy to try again. She got an inkling of how she could do it… It would be another few hours before she could do so.
Nothing interesting happened during that hour, though Yellow and Riley were paying close attention to the bag. The thrashing had begun to fade. "Amber is recovering remarkably fast." Yellow commented. Riley nodded and adjusted his arm that was holding the bag.
But while the two were quiet besides Yellow giving Riley information that she knew she would have to give him again later. Amber finally pulled energy into her body from her necklace once again. Her body started to grow, her bones creaking and some pain experienced as her body grew in size and weight. Her tail grew much bigger. She opened her mouth to try and blast her way out… And promptly filled the bag with water.
"What!?" Riley exclaimed, looking at the bag he was tightly gripping, it looking like a large ball, which was trying to expand. Then, it stopped. Riley had put his hands on it tightly to avoid any trouble, but it grew slightly lighter as it shrank slightly.
Riley felt at the balloon of a bag. "I think it's full of water…" he muttered. Then, his eyes widened. "Oh shit!" he exclaimed, and at Yellow's quick panic as she realized, Riley promptly dumped the bag opened, spilling out an eevee-... and quite a bit of water.
Amber began coughing as Riley checked on her. He pumped her stomach once, and she spit out quite a bit of water right in his face. Riley didn't care. He wrapped the eevee in his arms, making sure she wasn't dying at all.
She weakly began to squirm, but as said, she was weakened. Riley was able to safely hold her. "All right… All right, I think that's it. Whatever she's doing, it's using a lot of energy." Riley decided.
"Maybe that's why she's recovering so quickly. She's using so much of the energy her body is building up." Yellow figured. "Maybe she'll recover quickly."
"Hopefully. Her strength's down anyhow." Riley sighed with relief.
Yellow gave a wry smile. "Not used to being beaten up by tiny foxes?"
"Why's you have to bring that up?" Riley asked, doom and gloom about him as he leaned away from yellow, facing a tree and having his hand on the trunk while holding the squirming eevee in the other.
"Because that look of yours when you lose is funny." Yellow admitted. It was his own little quirk, she supposed. It certainly made his intimidating appearance more along the cute side of his persona. Under the muscle and the mad fighting skills that let him take on human and pokemon alike, he was kind of an emotional softie, especially when verbally burned.
Not that he would show it to anyone but the people he travelled with. They were the only ones who knew how to burn him like that anyhow.
Amber had started to giggle five minutes later. Giggling uncontrollably. "It's her mind resetting as her body recovers from what she ate" Yellow commented "She must have used up an incredible amount of energy doing… whatever she was doing to electrocute, burn, and almost soak you.
"So what the heck did she actually do?" Riley inquired, holding the eevee up by her shoulders before holding her to his chest again.
"Dunno. Some of her evolved forms know those moves, but she didn't evolve. She's still an eevee." Yellow pointed out. Riley looked again at the eevee struggling in his arm.
"Definitely an eevee." he nodded "She's a weird, sassy eevee with now apparent superpowers that make no sense, but she's an eevee."
They walked on for a while. Amber had stopped struggling, but wasn't talking. Finally, finally, the eevee was nodding off. Riley went back to holding her like normal, in his crossed arms. There was enough space for Scarlet to also snuggle up.
"Aww…" Yellow cooed, rubbing the heads of the two softly while they slept. They were both adorable, rather than adorable ribbon wearing pichu and equally adorable freaking monster.
"So then…" Riley turned to Yellow "What was Amber actually doing?"
Yellow expressed her confusion with a single word. "Dunno."
Amber stirred. It was really, really warm. She tried to remember what had happened. She stole some food from Riley, something he probably let her do. That bread had been absolutely delicious, but what happened after that? She remembered starting to play around in the restaurant, and then… it was all fuzzy.
The eevee slowly opened her eyes. The reason she had woken up was the warm sunset… or sunrise, on her eyes. The orange was quite beautiful. So was the yellow color.
"Riley's probably got me in his arms. The usual. That's why it's warm."
Scarlet was against her, also sleeping soundly. She snored quietly. Amber was cross. "I don't want to share…" She thought to herself, before wondering at that. What was up with her mind? She felt groggy. She wanted to be the one Riley was holding.
"Ew. Not in that way."
She meant hogging the warmth of his arms when she slept to herself. Amber guessed that the pichu next to her was fine with sharing warmth. It wasn't like Amber had any nightmares at all. Not that night.
She stirred herself, looking at where they were. They were surrounded by trees, and a road travelled across a ways away, as Amber could tell as her ears detected a car. They were camping within the trees; Riley had chosen a tree branch and Yellow had put her tent up.
Amber twisted to lay with her stomach on Riley's chest, so that she was looking at his face. Still held by his arms but still laying in her new position, Amber brushed her head against his chin and twisted again, her head pressed against his chin while he slept. He didn't so much as wake up at all.
Why Amber took that action, she didn't know. She just did.
Yellow was the next to wake up. She had started waking up earlier because she had been ambushed a few times, hence keeping the guns around just in case. The girl sat up slowly in her tent and slid from her sleeping bag.
She quickly opened the tent and got out. She wore her clothes to be all of the time, of course. After collecting her pokeballs, careful not to wake the sleeping pokemon within, Yellow was ready to go just like that.
Noting that Riley was both still in the tree and asleep as well, Yellow quickly packed her belongings away and put away the tent. She was glad for his tendency to sleep; she didn't want him to question the second sleeping bag she had decided to put out next to her for some reason.
It wasn't as though she could say "In case you got cold during the night or something" And have it not be awkward.
So instead, Yellow proceeded to pack up totally and then unpack the things needed for breakfast: Two plates and bowls for the pokemon, bags of pokemon food and a package of muffins. Riley hadn't had these yet.
"Better than breadsticks…" Yellow thought to herself, mouthing the words but not saying them. mixed chocolate muffins and poppy seed muffins. What else for breakfast… "I know." Yellow decided, and promptly pulled out a bag of pistachios to add. Such a random breakfast, but it would do. High levels of protein could probably wait until lunch. They needed something good after Amber's little trip.
Riley's turn to awake came next. Hearing Scarlet's snoring, he assumed that he was one of the first awake. He was wrong, but at least he was thinking about it. He then detected a pressure on his chin, and avoided looking down.
Scarlet's snoring was further away than the pressure, so it was probably Amber. What was she doing pressed up against him like that? By the feel of her small paws, he deducted that she was on her belly, with her head turned and pressed up against his chin. What led her to do that?
Riley gave a mental shrug and started to decide how to get this furball off of him without waking her… if she wasn't already awake. She must be asleep however. Her breathing was even and she was unmoving.
But she wasn't the best actor on the planet. A twitch of the paw told Riley all that he needed to know. "Bugger…" he muttered, bringing a hand to lift the eevee up to his face by the scruff. She was definitely wide awake.
"Hi." he greeted in a deadpan, looking into her eyes.
"Hey. Mind putting me down?" she asked. She seemed more subdued today. Maybe she was clearing her head of the final effects of that breadstick.
"Since you asked so nicely." Riley told her and set her down on his chest, where Scarlet quickly woke up.
"Is that food?" she asked hopefully, sniffing the air. She bounded away from the others to run straight down the tree and out of view behind the leaves.
"So what's up with you being all friendly?" Riley asked, a tilt to his head.
Amber gave the equivalent of a shrug. "Dunno. Just… Woke up like that." she lied. Could she really say that she had consciously put herself in such a… close position to his face? "Hey, it's not like I was sleeping on top of your face."
"Point." Riley conceded, poking the eevee in the chest "Because if you had, I would have suffocated to death in that collar."
Amber laughed at him and promptly jumped on his face in response, smothering him with her fluffy collar. Riley just breathed through his nose. That is, until Amber tickled his nose with her tail.
"Whatchoo!"
"Riley's awake." Yellow thought as she prepared the pokemon food for everyone, especially a very excited Scarlet.
Riley had caught Amber before she could slide off of him and down, and kept her to his chest. Amber wondered what she was doing, but Riley hooked his legs on the branch and swung down.
Yellow looked at the origin on the rustling sound as Riley shot out of the tree, stopping when his waist was at the line of leaves. Amber was right side up in his arms. "Mornin'" the boy called from his upside down position, and Yellow found it incredibly funny as an image. She burst out laughing and giggling and generally having an excellent time watching the two before reaching around her and bringing out a camera.
"What's that?" Riley asked, head slightly tilted at the sight.
FLASH!
"Oh…" Riley muttered, blinking the spots out of his eyes. "You trying to knock me out of this tree?"
"Just taking a picture of you and Amber. You two look ridiculous!" Yellow laughed, putting the camera back behind her where it was never seen again by the two photography subjects. Riley promptly fell out of the tree (on purpose of course) and flipped to land on his feet.
Setting Amber down, he traveled to where Yellow was setting out breakfast. "And these are?"
"Muffins." she replied as Amber began her feast "And pistachios."
"Never heard of 'em." Riley replied, sitting down on the grass and looking at the food. "Not another thing that will drive Amber mental again, right?"
"Hmm?" Amber's head rose from her food. What were the humans talking about? Her going mental? "Nah" She thought to herself, assuming the pair themselves were nutters.
"No." Yellow answered "but they're good. Really good. We deserve it after yesterday."
"Damn right." Riley responded, plucking one chocolate muffin and one poppy seed muffin out of the bunch and proceeded to bite into them. "brilliant." he complimented the girl, his mouth full.
Yellow sighed. "Where are your manners?" She asked.
Riley gave her a blank stare.
"Oh… Don't give me that. I know Delia put a few things into your head." Yellow retorted to the unspoken comment. Riley muttered for a bit before continuing to enjoy his breakfast. He could probably eat the entire package, so Yellow carefully set out two more on a paper towel for him before surreptitiously putting the food away. They needed enough for another breakfast at least, in case they were stranded for another day before they could restock. On the other hand, they should make it to the pokemon center before Mt. Moon
"That she did. I just don't remember most of it." Riley admitted, rubbing his neck.
Yellow, Amber, Scarlet, and even Yellow's pokemon sighed in unison. "Of course." the muttered together in a group.
"Oi!"
"Yeah, Riley." Amber teased, sticking her tongue out "It's that obvious."
"Oh, like you're any better."
"I have an excuse!" Amber retorted, waving a paw above her head. "Look, Ri! No hands! Just paws!"
"Did you seriously just call me 'Ri'?"
"You bet I did!"
"C'mere, you!"
"Ack! Yellow, help me!"
Yellow laughed as Riley gave Amber one of his endearing yet crushing hugs that had the eevee breathless. Riley let her go so that she could flee, leading to her capture by the playful butterfree known as Kitty, who had wanted some fun after being in the pokeball for so long.
"Put me down!" Amber cried out as Kitty took to the skies and flew around a bit. Amber liked going through the trees at fast speeds with Riley, but she didn't know how good Kitty was at carrying people, even if she was much larger than the typical butterfree, enough to carry a human like Yellow.
Kitty giggled much like Yellow does and started circling in the air as fast as she could, but to the displeasure of the eevee in her grasp. There was much yelling and threatening.
Riley and Yellow finished their muffins, riley finishing all four of his before Yellow had her two done. "Excellent stuff." Riley complimented, patting his stomach, which seemed not to have distended at all. He proceeded to grab the bag of pistachios. "And these are?"
"Pistachios. Not native to this continent, so they're expensive, but good. You have to take the shell off first!" Yellow then exclaimed, seeing Riley about to toss the entire deal into his mouth. The orange haired boy froze and then proceeded to snap the little shell off of the nut.
"So?" Yellow inquired as the boy chewed. He was smiling quite broadly.
"These are fantastic!" he exclaimed, proceeding to grab a massive handful and begin the process of removing a shell again.
Yellow quickly took some for herself and hid the bag. "Now, now, we need to save it for the trip. It's not like they're cheap either." she said, muttering the last part.
Riley's new favorite food went away slowly, only because he had to remove the shells. Yellow stored that little fact that he loved it so much in her mind for later, just in case she needed to bribe him to do something.
"Wow. What is wrong with me lately?" Yellow questioned herself.
Riley reluctantly gave Scarlet and Amber one each, though they didn't like it as much. The two proceeded to finish their breakfast themselves. The pokemon and the humans finished their food about the same time.
So they packed up and continued on. Kane town was the destination, and they had another day of walking ahead. They could perhaps reach the town by nightfall. They elected to walk, partly because Riley was quite hesitant to get to the point where Yellow had to leave to do… whatever she was going to do. It was also partly because Yellow was hesitant to do the same.
But mount moon loomed in the distance. The kids walked on, jabbering to each other with conversation mostly involving economics and how Riley could possible handle himself without his super helpful guide in Yellow.
Scarlet had fallen asleep in his arms, and both Yellow and Amber stole glances at her as they walked. Amber herself was feeling tired. Yellow, sensing this thought, had told her that it was liekly because her body had not properly recovered from using so much energy while under the effects of that breadstick.
"Never stealing food from you again…" Amber muttered, though she only intended to keep that promise in regards to the freaky breadsticks.
Riley, however, was fooled. "One good thing came out of this then." he commented, taking another drink from a water bottle. Yellow snorted quietly. He was ever so dense, wasn't he? He could be smart at times, but other times? No way. No, Amber was only going to avoid stealing breadsticks from this day forward.
But even though they were different species, the girls would stick together this time. Let the dense boy continue to be dense. Scarlet was more neutral, but she didn't know Amber quite like the others did. She was clueless as well.
"So… What happened while I was out?" Amber inquired, and the lot of them stumbled and nearly comically faceplanted. Amber didn't remember?
"Eh…" Yellow muttered.
"You were-" Scarlet began
"Asleep. You were recovering from the breadsticks." Riley lied to the eevee.
Yellow raised an eyebrow at the boy. Her eyes asked why Riley was lying to her. Riley shot Yellow a look that described how much he did not want the eevee to know how much she had beat him up when she was stronger than him.
That Yellow understood Riley and Riley understood Yellow spoke volumes to the girl, but Riley, once again, let the implications fly over his head as he happily walked along. Yellow sighed and followed along.
"Yellow, may I run around?" Dody requested
"I'd like to be out too." Chuchu thought, and Yellow was confused at how the two knew each other that well. At any rate, she let the two out of there. Chuchu was on Yellow's shoulder quickly, enjoying the breeze while her dodrio walked along with them right outside the gate... or pokeball.
"Dody wants to run." Yellow informed Riley.
"Yes! More running!" Amber cheered, pumping her paw in the air.
Riley nodded. "Well then, get on Dody and I'll take to the trees." he replied, and leapt up into the nearest branches with the pokemon on his shoulders getting into position to hang on. Yellow nodded and mounted her dodrio.
For this reason, they made it to the town before sunset. Riley darted through trees while the three headed bird pounded down the dirt with her large feet. The two pokemon with Riley had enjoyed the ride of course, ears blown back by the wind, fur being ruffled by the speed of which they were moving.
Yellow stopped at a cliff ahead of the small town called Kane Town, with the sun setting beyond it and the mountain looming to the left. It was an excellent spot to watch a sunset, or in their case, have some dinner.
"Unless, of course, you want to have dinner in town, but it will be late by then." Yellow finished after explaining all of this to Riley. He frowned at that.
"We made up a lot of time, so we have extra food." he commented, using the pokemon mentality of 'thou shalt not waste food'. Yellow shook her head.
"None of what we have will go bad." she reminded the boy. "We have the choice of eating conservatively and not paying as much for food, or going hungry for a bit longer, getting some real food at the town, and having to stock up less. Admittedly, buying food would be less expensive in theory if we are conservative with our money."
"Which depends on whether the restaurant is expensive." Riley finished.
Yellow nodded. "You are learning."
Riley's head tilted slightly. "Did you expect otherwise?" he inquired.
"Yes." Yellow and Amber teased simultaneously.
Riley pouted a bit and reached behind him to yank something out of his pack, a snack bar, which he quickly devoured. "I say we buy dinner" he decided "Not expensive."
"Sure." Yellow replied as Riley shifted his pack on his back. They watched the sunset for another while, before Riley began the process of walking away. Yellow, slightly disappointed that Riley didn't want to stay longer, also set her pack back up and continued on with Dody walking beside her.
Chuchu eventually gave Scarlet a ride on her head. The two were absolutely adorable looking as the girls spun on Yellow's hat, Scarlet carried by Chuchu. Like several of her pokemon, Chuchu was larger than most normal pikachu.
"Tell me, Yellow…. Why are your pokemon mostly bigger than the normal pokemon of their species?" Riley inquired.
"Oh, I feed them properly, and I have this connection with them that increases their abilities, and being around me for years let them grow bigger and stronger because of it." Yellow explained. Chuchu nodded and stopped spinning about on the girl's head.
Yellow readjusted her hat and the two pokemon got off of her head and back to her shoulder. Amber was now the only one on Riley's shoulder. Amber found time to bat at Riley's ears while the boy tried to figure out what he possibly wanted for dinner.
Food on the minds of Riley and some of the pokemon on Yellow's belt, random shenanigans in occurrence by some others like Amber and Scarlet, and Yellow trying to figure out her emotions, which she used to understand, they reached the limits of the town.
"Riley!" Yellow protested upon seeing the state of Riley's ear that Amber was batting, who accidentally used her claws a few times. "When you start bleeding, you're supposed to say something!"
"Huh?" he asked, putting his hand to his ear and pulling it back slightly bloody. "Huh."
Yellow comically faceplanted. "Idiot!" she yowled, ripping bandages out of her pack, from a rather easily accessible pocket, and began putting bandages on his ear. She glared at Amber.
Amber leaned back "hey, it was an accident. I forgot I had my claws out for the first few bats, and Riley didn't say a thing, so it couldn't be so painful." she protested before Yellow decided to find a way to punish her without angering Riley.
Yellow sighed eventually. "Fine. Just be more careful." she told the eevee. She stalked away, disappointed in their shenanigans. Why didn't Riley care about getting hurt? Blood loss was a serious issue!
"How about dealing with dinner instead?" Riley offered, distracting the girl from his shenanigans. Yellow nodded with her back turned, trying to think of a place. Last time she had properly stayed here was several months ago, and new restaurants might have popped up, but it was late; past dark.
"Well, it looks like we're doing fast food tonight. You'll have to do some extra exercise tomorrow." Yellow decided.
"I can do that." Riley replied easily. Of course he could. he could burn three times that in a few hours if he wanted to.
His tall, strong body was testament to constant training. Yellow kept finding herself either looking at his arms or his hair. He looked like his head was on fire. The image of Riley running about, actually on fire, and was conflicted. Laugh, or hope it never happens in real life, or both?
The second option was probably nicest to do, so that is what Yellow went with. It also involved not saying anything at all. That was also a plus.
So fast food it was. Riley would enjoy having a burger and fries again. Yellow reminded herself to find a place where the fries were bottomless, because they would have to be refilled several times. The boy could eat so much food…
After they ate, the lot of them travelled to the pokemon center. Pokemon centers have rooms like a hotel does, and they are specifically for trainers or perhaps police officers in the right circumstances. These two counted as both, really. Riley did have his own pokedex, even if he only ever used it on Amber.
Rooms in pokemon centers were often occupied in larger cities. Here, there should be several rooms available. They were less expensive than hotels and tended to be quite nice anyhow. Pokecenters get most of their money from a central fund that keeps pokemon centers all over the world running for the most part.
"Hello, dears." Joy greeted the two, who, in her eyes, looked like normal trainers. That is, until she recognized Yellow, at which point she started. "Oh! Hello, Yellow." She amended.
"Hello, Nurse Joy." Yellow greeted in return. "We have come to stay the night, before we travel through mount moon." she explained.
"Yes, of course. would you like me to give your pokemon a nice rest?" she asked, gesturing to one of the machines behind her. Yellow nodded and returned Chuchu and Dody and put her pokeballs down for Joy to put them in the machine, which began to hum.
Riley was understandably worried for the pokemon. "Yellow, is that really a good idea?" he asked, taking a step back.
"Nurse joy would never do anything to the pokemon. It's her job to heal them after all." Yellow assured the boy. Riley had no reason to distrust Yellow of all people. However, he was not about to entrust Amber or Scarlet to the woman.
"Amber and Scarlet will stay with me." he insisted, having tensed up a bit. Joy noticed that his distrust was mostly gone, as he trusted Yellow, but was too protective of his pokemon to let anyone else care for them.
"Would you like a room tonight?" Joy inquired.
"Just for tonight." Yellow nodded.
They paid the small amount, showed proof as was required that they were trainers (their pokedexes), and walked through a hall through the large buildings to get to the guest rooms. Yellow and Riley each got their own room, with a bed and a bathroom to the side. It was quite a nice room. There was even a desk as well.
Riley ignored the desk, tossed his pack and outer layers away so that he only wore his silver metal shirt and sweats and flopped unceremoniously into the bed, where the pokemon had decided to go while he did that.
Scarlet chose to sleep near his neck, and Amber was in his arms again. Sleep came quickly for them; it had been a long day, and Amber had worn them all down, no matter how much she remembered about her shenanigans.
Ambers dreams were that calm white again. Nothing came to her and did something to her with energy. Nothing scary happened. Riley was going to keep her in good health today. And so Amber relaxed. She wondered how travelling through a mountain would be like. Yellow had said that it had been turned into a proper path.
Tomorrow would tell. Otherwise, they didn't have much to go on.
Riley woke to Amber slapping him repeatedly. "C'mon! Wake up!" she shouted at him "Yellow couldn't wake you for breakfast!"
Riley blinked hazily at her. "So you were… slapping me?" he yawned, before turning to see Yellow at the door, giving him an apology with her eyes, but she was not so happy with Amber.
"She didn't even let me try to wake you." Yellow told him, walking forward. "She saw me and decided that she had a better way to wake you up. Also, you forgot to lock your door."
Riley frowned. "Locking the door?"
"Yeah. Lock. turn the fancy thing above the knob of the door and nobody can get in." Yellow explained, and Riley face faulted.
"Oh." he replied dumbly.
"Oh?"
"Oh."
Amber giggled in his face. "Get up, sleepyhead." she told him, poking the boy in the forehead with her paw. Riley grumbled and sat up in bed. Amber wound up on his head, having decided that it looked like a perfect bed for the moment. Even if she had woken a happy and fully rested eevee, she was still content nesting in his orange hair.
Scarlet was a bit more respectful, running up his clothing to be on his shoulder. However, both pokemon had to jump off (reluctantly) as Riley had to put his outer layers on. Amber grumbled as she was forced to go back to the floor for a little bit, but was eventually picked back up again along with Scarlet.
Riley put them back on his shoulders and gave Yellow a smile before shrugging his pack back on. He walked right out the door past yellow, and the girl followed. Together, they said goodbye to Nurse Joy and departed. Before the town surfaced out of nowhere, the center had been relatively small and stationed literally right next to the entrance to the mountain cavern.
Now it was a major structure nearer to the center, though still towards the back of the town near the mountain. It was the tallest building around still, though the only viable record is the fact that it was the tallest right now. being the tallest building around is not impressive if it is the only building around.
Yellow and Riley walked to the entrance of the mountain, a gaping opening in a flat rock wall. There were lights within, dotting the sides as they bathed the rock walls in their electric glow. The mountain truly had been renovated to make this path easier to traverse. It was impressive how much. Unless they left the general path, they would be just fine.
"Right. Mt. Moon." Riley said, looking the entrance over "Big mountain to walk through. How long will this take?"
"'Bout a day and a half's worth, even with the path. They had to mostly use the pre existing path when building it, so it is still twisty and goes up and down. They just made it safer really. Don't enter any tunnels that the have signs in front of them prohibiting it." Yellow replied.
"I like that. Do we have all we need then?" Riley asked, and then remembered. "We needed to shop for food, right?"
"I did it while you slept."
"...Oh."
"Oh?"
"Yes. Oh."
"Let's not start that again. In we go." yellow asserted, and all of them plunged into the depths of the mountain. Daylight gone; they left it behind, the two continued talking and walking and enjoying themselves. A trip like this was supposed to be fun, after all.
So why not enjoy themselves? Mount Moon was supposed to be safe nowadays.
All right! That's that! Next chapter is Mt. Moon and other various shenanigans if I can fit them. This chapter was shorter than most. Well, it was longer than the first few, but they were increasing in length. I explained why earlier, but i don't want to split Mt. Moon in half in terms of chapters.
But other than that, I can think of very little that needs to be said. Please review this chapter, tell me yor thoughts, and enjoy the future chapters of New Age and TAC2!
Thank you all for reading, and have a nice day.
-Hyperjade.
