It was morning before I moved again and it took me a while to move much more than just the bare minimal at first. Are'ea had already moved from my lap a while ago and as I looked around I noticed that the fire was still going but not much more really than hot coals that occasionally flared up as something blew into the pit. Kandy also wasn't where I'd left her so that got my mind moving and I was about to go looking for her when Are'ea came bounding towards me with Kandy just a step behind. Sighing with relief I sat back down and waited till Kandy had sat down again before telling her what had happened. She smiled and nodded then went on about explaining what exactly she'd been doing flying a plane.
Her story went as; she'd been lost and spotted the plane sitting in a clearing with no one about, so taking up on the opportunity and thinking it wouldn't really be hard that to fly a small plane she 'borrowed' it for a while. After initially getting used to the controls it'd been easy enough and she was having fun as she flew around in no particular direction. Then it'd started to rain and she found out why exactly the plane had been landed in the first place. She hadn't been able to find somewhere to land in time and the plane running out of gas had pretty much nose dived straight into the trees leaving her as she was when I found her.
First thought at her stealing a plane was that she was an utter moron. But looking at her and thinking of the last time I'd met her I started thinking that this was probably something that happened quiet often, not stealing planes but doing extremely stupid things. At least she was grateful for being found, though more than a little surprised by who. Her head had still been spinning somewhat after she woke up she said but it'd quickly passed and she'd gotten somewhat of a shock at seeing where she was compared to where she'd last been. Being the impulsive person she was she hadn't woken me up and gone looking for where the plane was, Are'ea had sensed her getting up and followed after her, showing Kandy the plane before bringing her back again.
Now was the point where we didn't know what to do next. I hadn't actually told Kandy how I'd come to be here, just that I'd noticed the wing of the plane when trying to shelter from the rain. So I had no idea where to go, and so far I hadn't exactly seen much that I recognised. Not that I'd actually had much of a chance to look around yet.
As I looked around again and got up for the second time I noticed that Kandy had her bag with her now, she must of gotten it when checking out the plane earlier. Well at least now we had something, I inquired what she had inside of it and she went red before going over some utterly useless things. She also only had two pokemon on her at the moment as she'd left the rest at the last Pokemon Center she'd been at. Those being the Feraligatr I'd met previously sorta and a newly caught Mankey. Couldn't help but think that Kandy had a taste for tough pokemon, which you wouldn't really guess from the look of her. Really a first impression would think Kandy was one of those people who went all starry eyed over Clefairy and baby pokemon. Maybe she did and I'd just been catching her with the rougher sort of pokemon but I wasn't really so sure about that. Shrugging it off I looked at Kandy a moment and asked her when and where was the last place she could remember the name of she'd been to.
Turned out we were in Kanto and not that far from Celadon, no more than three days walk. I couldn't help but be surprised at exactly how far I'd gone through that caves teleporting system. It must of shown on my face because Kandy gave me a quizzical look but I changed the subject and announced we I was going to Celadon then and Kandy could come if she wanted, I wasn't too fussed about wether or not she did. Of course Kandy agreed to come with me, seeing as she thought I knew where I was going and she was lost and she couldn't use her arm properly with the gash in it.
So me, Kandy, Are'ea and Kandy's two pokemon got to get to know each other a little better and more so than I thought we would as it happened that it took five instead of three days to get to Celadon. Those last two and a half days with Kandy whining like mad and threatening to go her own way which didn't work too well as I was most happy to let her walk off on her own. That was about the worst of it except for one time when Kandy had her hands a little too close to my head and I somewhat freaked and stopped talking to her for a couple of hours which made her a somewhat offish for a while and made her think about what she was going to do before doing it around me. The general fact of me not liking people to touch me at all and vice versa got across to her fairly quick as well though got more of the result of her taunting me more than anything else.
I hadn't actually been to Celadon properly before and neither had Kandy as I found out she was from Johto and knew her way around there better, a reason why she was continually getting lost so she said. So neither of us really knew where to go and the fact Celadon is so large didn't really help that much. But we eventually found our way to the city's Pokemon Center and got ourselves some accommodation.
Having found the Center's catering room a little full for my liking both Kandy and I had found a small outdoor restaurant type of thing to eat out at as we hadn't exactly had a good selection of food to eat while out in the forest and I got to hear for the first time what had happened to the kids that'd been chasing me back at the Historical place. A group of people in suits were moving past and talking so loud it was rather easy to pick up on their conversation. As it happened it seemed that three of the people going after me had broken free of the scientists and other people that'd been trying to hold them back and managed to get their way into the darkness that was the entrance to the cave room. Of course seeing as they hadn't known where to go it hadn't taken them long to step in the wrong direction and be transported to somewhere else. Two of them had been found still within a couple of miles of the city but the third wasn't found for over a day as they'd reformed in between two houses and his cries for help had been muffled and gone unnoticed by the occupants of the homes as they'd just thought it was noise from their neighbours. It'd taken one of the peoples young children playing with the house pet that'd discovered the boy stuck between the two houses and they'd had to call the emergency services to get him out.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud which got a lot of odd look from people sitting around us but I was feeling too good with myself to care what they thought. Kandy asked what I was laughing at and I didn't think to lie so I told her, she didn't see what was so extremely funny about it but did laugh a little herself.
I'd nearly finished eating when a thought struck me, I'd bumped into someone on my way out of the blackness but there had been no one who'd reached me while in the room and for some strange reason anyone who walked in wouldn't meet anyone who was walking out and the same went for the other way. So who had I met inside the blackness? Maybe there had been someone who'd gotten through as well... But how was I going to find out. Then it hit me. Bob! I needed to get my things anyway, I could ring him and ask for my stuff back and at the same time ask if anyone else had gone through after me or anything.
I was getting up while Kandy was still only halfway through her second dessert and with a few mumbled words I left her with a surprised look as I left and went running back to the Pokemon Center. I wanted to ring Bob as soon as possible, this was the first time since it'd happened that I'd even thought of getting my stuff, or even anything really to do with the event as seeing as I hadn't told Kandy about it it hadn't crossed my mind at all.
I was back inside the Pokemon Center and standing in front of a phone when I realised I didn't know how to call Bob, I'd never thought to get his number or anything seeing as I was spending each day with him and Marcus and they'd called to get me to come. So I was stuck as to what to do now... Not for long at least as a Nurse Joy walked past me and I asked her for help. In the typical friendly manner she showed me a phone book and I said my thanks before looking up the Sidan Technical Center.
There was only one reference in the book so I took a wild guess at it being right and rang it up on the video phone. A receptionist answered the phone and I asked to speak to either Bob or Marcus, using their full names of course as you wouldn't expect someone looking like me would call either of them by their normal everyday names. I gave my name when asked and it wasn't much longer before I was switched to Bob's office and I got to say hello to a very tired looking Marcus. Though for once he seemed very pleased to see me, that didn't last very long as I got to stand for the next five or ten minutes as he went off his head at me about running off like that and leading all those other kids to the site and having some of them run into the cave as well and a whole heap of other things that I didn't exactly catch as I found myself turning somewhat deaf.
Lucky for me Bob finally came into the room and he stopped Marcus's ranting as he told me he was very happy to see me alive and well. Also that he did have my stuff and if I'd like him to send it to me which I said yes to straight away. Marcus also put in a comment that they'd had a look through my sketch book and Bob seemed somewhat embarrassed about that and apologised about not asking first. My mind raced for a moment as I thought over what was inside the book but I realised nothing all that important really, all of those pictures were in a hidden pocket at the bottom of my backpack and so I accepted the apology with a genuine smile. Bob seemed relieved at this and wiped his brow, I just smiled even more.
So we got talking for at least an hour or so more, mostly about what'd been happening since I'd gone and the troubles they'd gone through because of what'd happened with me. It seemed that it was actually a good thing I'd disappeared while going through the darkness. I asked if anyone else had actually gotten through like me but Bob said no one else but the three students had gotten through and no one else had been allowed in the whole day as everyone had been put to work in finding where those kids and me had gone. No one but Bob and Marcus seemed to know that I knew my way through the darkness and they hadn't been obliged to tell anyone that they'd taught a kid how to so they'd gone along with it, plus Marcus had fully believed that I wouldn't of been able to tell where I was going by the way I'd rushed into the cave in the first place. Which was pretty much true, it had been mostly luck that I'd gotten through in the first place.
I was listening to Bob talk about a breakthrough he'd made with some of the writings on the walls of the cave when Marcus interrupted and asked me why the students who'd been chasing me had been so insistent that my name had been Jamie and not Damon. I was searching for an answer to this with both Marcus and Bob looking at me intently when Kandy suddenly showed up and I had an opportunity to change the subject. So I introduced Bob and Marcus to Kandy and Kandy to them. Bob said something along the lines of, "Oh yes I've seen you before, never properly introduced though have we?" Marcus merely nodded but Kandy beamed at him, couldn't honestly see why myself, personally I didn't think he was really that what you'd call the 'attractive' sort, but maybe that's cause I'm a guy and don't really think about that sort of thing when looking at other guys...
Anyway I went about wrapping up the conversation and made sure that Bob would send my things to the Celadon City Pokemon Center and to me personally and hung up. Marcus didn't seem all that pleased about it but I was grateful, I still couldn't exactly think of how to answer the last question he'd asked me. The fact Kandy suddenly started speaking a mile a minute after I hung up didn't exactly give me much of an opportunity to think further either.
"Oh I didn't know you were friends with that professor and his assistant! Why didn't you tell me earlier. Oh like, that's so cool. And you're on first names and everything! And they know your name! And and... like yeah I know the older guy is kind of weird or what ever, but I never realised you knew people of that sort. If I'd known that.. well, actually, I don't know.. But whatever, could you introduce me in person next time you go to see them, you will wont you?" And she went on like that for quiet a while, can't be sure exactly how long but I know that a Chansey came up to us after a while and started pushing us so we'd move as we'd been standing at the phone and not using it for too long. That didn't even shut Kandy up and it wasn't until I'd told her I wanted to go to bed that she finally did and realised there was something she wanted to do before she did as well.
I was grateful for the quiet and didn't bother turning the light on as I entered our room. Plus the fact we were sharing with two other trainers who were even younger than me and already asleep put me off turning them on and waking them up. So fumbling and stumbling all over the place I got myself into my bed and tried to make myself comfortable enough to fall asleep. It wasn't easy and I was continually finding myself tossing and turning and just not being able to sit still long enough to fall asleep. I was still doing this when the door opened again and Kandy entered the room, for the first time in at least ten minutes I stopped moving around and pretended to sleep. I didn't want to talk just then. Kandy seemed to get the idea I was asleep and didn't bother coming over to me after a few whispered promptings to make sure I was actually asleep and went to bed herself.
But my eyes were still opening and staring at the ceiling and fifteen more minutes passed before I felt it was safe to move as I could three separate breathing rhythms from the other people in the room and I sat up in my bed. Bad idea I realised as I clutched the top of my head and muttered some to myself, I'd forgotten I was sleeping on a top bunk and I'd hit my head on the roof. Sighing I lay back down and looked out the window next to my head. Thoughts were rushing around inside my head and I just couldn't sleep. Who was it that I'd bumped into when I was trying to leave the cave? Why'd I have to meet Tailor again..? Did Marcus know something he wasn't letting on or was he just genuinely curious as to why they'd called me Jamie? Past memories that I'd rather of forgotten were also flying through my head so fast it felt more like a whirlwind than anything else.
I was still tossing about with both my thoughts and body when I decided I didn't want to sleep. Being careful this time as I sat up I ran my hands around over my bed looking for something in particular. Finding the circular object I placed my fingers tightly around it and muffling the electronic sound with my bed sheets I enlarged the Pokéball and released Are'ea. She yawned and looked up at me in somewhat surprise through a veil of sleep and went to make a noise before I put a finger to my mouth and she got the clue. Placing the empty Pokéball back under my pillow I rolled over again so I could look outside as Are'ea walked up close to my head and curled up at my chest and went back to sleep.
The warmth of her smooth furred body and the familiar touch and smell of Are'ea in general finally lulled me to sleep as most everything else left my mind and I found myself no longer worrying about anything. I was smiling as I curled up pretty much to Are'ea, the last thing that I remember seeing is something black pass over the city buildings closest to the Center, but it wasn't anything to worry me and I forgot about it even as I drifted into a dreamless sleep.
************************ A lot longer than the last one, no? Not much happened though, blah x.X Met Kandy again! And and.... I need to get him out of the city.. I've been cutting on conversations a lot as well haven I? ^.^ I can't be stuffed and this fits better anyways, plus, that'd make it hell of a lot longer x.X; *wavies* ********************* *********************
Her story went as; she'd been lost and spotted the plane sitting in a clearing with no one about, so taking up on the opportunity and thinking it wouldn't really be hard that to fly a small plane she 'borrowed' it for a while. After initially getting used to the controls it'd been easy enough and she was having fun as she flew around in no particular direction. Then it'd started to rain and she found out why exactly the plane had been landed in the first place. She hadn't been able to find somewhere to land in time and the plane running out of gas had pretty much nose dived straight into the trees leaving her as she was when I found her.
First thought at her stealing a plane was that she was an utter moron. But looking at her and thinking of the last time I'd met her I started thinking that this was probably something that happened quiet often, not stealing planes but doing extremely stupid things. At least she was grateful for being found, though more than a little surprised by who. Her head had still been spinning somewhat after she woke up she said but it'd quickly passed and she'd gotten somewhat of a shock at seeing where she was compared to where she'd last been. Being the impulsive person she was she hadn't woken me up and gone looking for where the plane was, Are'ea had sensed her getting up and followed after her, showing Kandy the plane before bringing her back again.
Now was the point where we didn't know what to do next. I hadn't actually told Kandy how I'd come to be here, just that I'd noticed the wing of the plane when trying to shelter from the rain. So I had no idea where to go, and so far I hadn't exactly seen much that I recognised. Not that I'd actually had much of a chance to look around yet.
As I looked around again and got up for the second time I noticed that Kandy had her bag with her now, she must of gotten it when checking out the plane earlier. Well at least now we had something, I inquired what she had inside of it and she went red before going over some utterly useless things. She also only had two pokemon on her at the moment as she'd left the rest at the last Pokemon Center she'd been at. Those being the Feraligatr I'd met previously sorta and a newly caught Mankey. Couldn't help but think that Kandy had a taste for tough pokemon, which you wouldn't really guess from the look of her. Really a first impression would think Kandy was one of those people who went all starry eyed over Clefairy and baby pokemon. Maybe she did and I'd just been catching her with the rougher sort of pokemon but I wasn't really so sure about that. Shrugging it off I looked at Kandy a moment and asked her when and where was the last place she could remember the name of she'd been to.
Turned out we were in Kanto and not that far from Celadon, no more than three days walk. I couldn't help but be surprised at exactly how far I'd gone through that caves teleporting system. It must of shown on my face because Kandy gave me a quizzical look but I changed the subject and announced we I was going to Celadon then and Kandy could come if she wanted, I wasn't too fussed about wether or not she did. Of course Kandy agreed to come with me, seeing as she thought I knew where I was going and she was lost and she couldn't use her arm properly with the gash in it.
So me, Kandy, Are'ea and Kandy's two pokemon got to get to know each other a little better and more so than I thought we would as it happened that it took five instead of three days to get to Celadon. Those last two and a half days with Kandy whining like mad and threatening to go her own way which didn't work too well as I was most happy to let her walk off on her own. That was about the worst of it except for one time when Kandy had her hands a little too close to my head and I somewhat freaked and stopped talking to her for a couple of hours which made her a somewhat offish for a while and made her think about what she was going to do before doing it around me. The general fact of me not liking people to touch me at all and vice versa got across to her fairly quick as well though got more of the result of her taunting me more than anything else.
I hadn't actually been to Celadon properly before and neither had Kandy as I found out she was from Johto and knew her way around there better, a reason why she was continually getting lost so she said. So neither of us really knew where to go and the fact Celadon is so large didn't really help that much. But we eventually found our way to the city's Pokemon Center and got ourselves some accommodation.
Having found the Center's catering room a little full for my liking both Kandy and I had found a small outdoor restaurant type of thing to eat out at as we hadn't exactly had a good selection of food to eat while out in the forest and I got to hear for the first time what had happened to the kids that'd been chasing me back at the Historical place. A group of people in suits were moving past and talking so loud it was rather easy to pick up on their conversation. As it happened it seemed that three of the people going after me had broken free of the scientists and other people that'd been trying to hold them back and managed to get their way into the darkness that was the entrance to the cave room. Of course seeing as they hadn't known where to go it hadn't taken them long to step in the wrong direction and be transported to somewhere else. Two of them had been found still within a couple of miles of the city but the third wasn't found for over a day as they'd reformed in between two houses and his cries for help had been muffled and gone unnoticed by the occupants of the homes as they'd just thought it was noise from their neighbours. It'd taken one of the peoples young children playing with the house pet that'd discovered the boy stuck between the two houses and they'd had to call the emergency services to get him out.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud which got a lot of odd look from people sitting around us but I was feeling too good with myself to care what they thought. Kandy asked what I was laughing at and I didn't think to lie so I told her, she didn't see what was so extremely funny about it but did laugh a little herself.
I'd nearly finished eating when a thought struck me, I'd bumped into someone on my way out of the blackness but there had been no one who'd reached me while in the room and for some strange reason anyone who walked in wouldn't meet anyone who was walking out and the same went for the other way. So who had I met inside the blackness? Maybe there had been someone who'd gotten through as well... But how was I going to find out. Then it hit me. Bob! I needed to get my things anyway, I could ring him and ask for my stuff back and at the same time ask if anyone else had gone through after me or anything.
I was getting up while Kandy was still only halfway through her second dessert and with a few mumbled words I left her with a surprised look as I left and went running back to the Pokemon Center. I wanted to ring Bob as soon as possible, this was the first time since it'd happened that I'd even thought of getting my stuff, or even anything really to do with the event as seeing as I hadn't told Kandy about it it hadn't crossed my mind at all.
I was back inside the Pokemon Center and standing in front of a phone when I realised I didn't know how to call Bob, I'd never thought to get his number or anything seeing as I was spending each day with him and Marcus and they'd called to get me to come. So I was stuck as to what to do now... Not for long at least as a Nurse Joy walked past me and I asked her for help. In the typical friendly manner she showed me a phone book and I said my thanks before looking up the Sidan Technical Center.
There was only one reference in the book so I took a wild guess at it being right and rang it up on the video phone. A receptionist answered the phone and I asked to speak to either Bob or Marcus, using their full names of course as you wouldn't expect someone looking like me would call either of them by their normal everyday names. I gave my name when asked and it wasn't much longer before I was switched to Bob's office and I got to say hello to a very tired looking Marcus. Though for once he seemed very pleased to see me, that didn't last very long as I got to stand for the next five or ten minutes as he went off his head at me about running off like that and leading all those other kids to the site and having some of them run into the cave as well and a whole heap of other things that I didn't exactly catch as I found myself turning somewhat deaf.
Lucky for me Bob finally came into the room and he stopped Marcus's ranting as he told me he was very happy to see me alive and well. Also that he did have my stuff and if I'd like him to send it to me which I said yes to straight away. Marcus also put in a comment that they'd had a look through my sketch book and Bob seemed somewhat embarrassed about that and apologised about not asking first. My mind raced for a moment as I thought over what was inside the book but I realised nothing all that important really, all of those pictures were in a hidden pocket at the bottom of my backpack and so I accepted the apology with a genuine smile. Bob seemed relieved at this and wiped his brow, I just smiled even more.
So we got talking for at least an hour or so more, mostly about what'd been happening since I'd gone and the troubles they'd gone through because of what'd happened with me. It seemed that it was actually a good thing I'd disappeared while going through the darkness. I asked if anyone else had actually gotten through like me but Bob said no one else but the three students had gotten through and no one else had been allowed in the whole day as everyone had been put to work in finding where those kids and me had gone. No one but Bob and Marcus seemed to know that I knew my way through the darkness and they hadn't been obliged to tell anyone that they'd taught a kid how to so they'd gone along with it, plus Marcus had fully believed that I wouldn't of been able to tell where I was going by the way I'd rushed into the cave in the first place. Which was pretty much true, it had been mostly luck that I'd gotten through in the first place.
I was listening to Bob talk about a breakthrough he'd made with some of the writings on the walls of the cave when Marcus interrupted and asked me why the students who'd been chasing me had been so insistent that my name had been Jamie and not Damon. I was searching for an answer to this with both Marcus and Bob looking at me intently when Kandy suddenly showed up and I had an opportunity to change the subject. So I introduced Bob and Marcus to Kandy and Kandy to them. Bob said something along the lines of, "Oh yes I've seen you before, never properly introduced though have we?" Marcus merely nodded but Kandy beamed at him, couldn't honestly see why myself, personally I didn't think he was really that what you'd call the 'attractive' sort, but maybe that's cause I'm a guy and don't really think about that sort of thing when looking at other guys...
Anyway I went about wrapping up the conversation and made sure that Bob would send my things to the Celadon City Pokemon Center and to me personally and hung up. Marcus didn't seem all that pleased about it but I was grateful, I still couldn't exactly think of how to answer the last question he'd asked me. The fact Kandy suddenly started speaking a mile a minute after I hung up didn't exactly give me much of an opportunity to think further either.
"Oh I didn't know you were friends with that professor and his assistant! Why didn't you tell me earlier. Oh like, that's so cool. And you're on first names and everything! And they know your name! And and... like yeah I know the older guy is kind of weird or what ever, but I never realised you knew people of that sort. If I'd known that.. well, actually, I don't know.. But whatever, could you introduce me in person next time you go to see them, you will wont you?" And she went on like that for quiet a while, can't be sure exactly how long but I know that a Chansey came up to us after a while and started pushing us so we'd move as we'd been standing at the phone and not using it for too long. That didn't even shut Kandy up and it wasn't until I'd told her I wanted to go to bed that she finally did and realised there was something she wanted to do before she did as well.
I was grateful for the quiet and didn't bother turning the light on as I entered our room. Plus the fact we were sharing with two other trainers who were even younger than me and already asleep put me off turning them on and waking them up. So fumbling and stumbling all over the place I got myself into my bed and tried to make myself comfortable enough to fall asleep. It wasn't easy and I was continually finding myself tossing and turning and just not being able to sit still long enough to fall asleep. I was still doing this when the door opened again and Kandy entered the room, for the first time in at least ten minutes I stopped moving around and pretended to sleep. I didn't want to talk just then. Kandy seemed to get the idea I was asleep and didn't bother coming over to me after a few whispered promptings to make sure I was actually asleep and went to bed herself.
But my eyes were still opening and staring at the ceiling and fifteen more minutes passed before I felt it was safe to move as I could three separate breathing rhythms from the other people in the room and I sat up in my bed. Bad idea I realised as I clutched the top of my head and muttered some to myself, I'd forgotten I was sleeping on a top bunk and I'd hit my head on the roof. Sighing I lay back down and looked out the window next to my head. Thoughts were rushing around inside my head and I just couldn't sleep. Who was it that I'd bumped into when I was trying to leave the cave? Why'd I have to meet Tailor again..? Did Marcus know something he wasn't letting on or was he just genuinely curious as to why they'd called me Jamie? Past memories that I'd rather of forgotten were also flying through my head so fast it felt more like a whirlwind than anything else.
I was still tossing about with both my thoughts and body when I decided I didn't want to sleep. Being careful this time as I sat up I ran my hands around over my bed looking for something in particular. Finding the circular object I placed my fingers tightly around it and muffling the electronic sound with my bed sheets I enlarged the Pokéball and released Are'ea. She yawned and looked up at me in somewhat surprise through a veil of sleep and went to make a noise before I put a finger to my mouth and she got the clue. Placing the empty Pokéball back under my pillow I rolled over again so I could look outside as Are'ea walked up close to my head and curled up at my chest and went back to sleep.
The warmth of her smooth furred body and the familiar touch and smell of Are'ea in general finally lulled me to sleep as most everything else left my mind and I found myself no longer worrying about anything. I was smiling as I curled up pretty much to Are'ea, the last thing that I remember seeing is something black pass over the city buildings closest to the Center, but it wasn't anything to worry me and I forgot about it even as I drifted into a dreamless sleep.
************************ A lot longer than the last one, no? Not much happened though, blah x.X Met Kandy again! And and.... I need to get him out of the city.. I've been cutting on conversations a lot as well haven I? ^.^ I can't be stuffed and this fits better anyways, plus, that'd make it hell of a lot longer x.X; *wavies* ********************* *********************