Chapter Eight — Follow The Rules And You Won't Die


"Are we almost there yet?" Gold asked in a whiny tone.

"For the millionth time, no. No, we're not there. We weren't there fifteen minutes ago, and we weren't there ten minutes ago. Or five minutes ago, nor now," Crystal answered him in irritation, annoyed that he asked if they were close every five minutes.

No one could blame him though. The boy was carrying a large backpack filled with a lot of questionable things and also carrying a duffel bag that was really heavy. They were walking for about thirty minutes already after packing the car at the gas station near the entrance to the forest since there was no more road to drive on.

"We should be there soon though," Yellow assured, looking around at the trees before squealing, "I can't wait to go fishing!"

"Tree swinging will be the best," Sapphire declared. The blonde nodded and smile, agreeing with her greatly. Sapphire walked a bit closer to Ruby to talk to him, "Looks like ya haven't died yet. Congrats."

Ruby rolled his eyes. "Oh please. I can survive a thirty minute nature walk," he said. "But is there a clearer road without dirt because my shoes are getting dirty." He looked down and grimaced at his now mud-covered shoes. "I really need to clean them when we get there."

"Well ya might've survived the beginning, but ya won't survive the whole trip! Sleeping outdoors might be peaceful, but it'll kill you slowly," Sapphire commented.

"Nice to see how supportive you are," Ruby said sarcastically dry.

"Yer welcome," she responded, ignoring the sarcasm.

"Wait, is that it?" Red asked when he saw light shine between the path of trees they were heading towards. After they cleared the trees, they entered a large flat area. Like the picnic spot they went to before, it had a large river next to it. Because there was a lot of trees surrounding it, it surprised the guys that there was such a clear, big area in the middle of the forest.

"Finally! We're here!" Emerald shouted as he ran out to the middle of the area and dropped his baggage on the floor.

"I was about to die," Gold mumbled, doing the same action. "Finally, we can relax."

"What are you talking about, relax?" Crystal said, placing her hands on her hips. "This is the beginning! We need to start setting up camp before it turns dark."

"We left before sunrise though! There's about eight hours till sunset, chill," Gold replied, making her snap.

"Crys is right," Sapphire agreed, backing her up, "Every time we come here, the first thing we do is set up the camp, get food, and also start a fire. Usually Crys starts the fire, Blue makes the tent, and Yellow and I go look for food and all."

"Wait, food? Aren't we supposed to pack some?" Red inquired.

"Ya don't feel like yer apart of nature unless you get natural resources," Sapphire replied.

"Also, we have rules you need to abide by. Rule #1; don't get eaten by an ursaring. Rule #2; if you don't contribute, you won't get food. Rule #3; no free time or playing until you finish camp, or until tomorrow. So, with that said, let's hurry up and set camp," Crystal said, trying to guide them.

Green sighed, feeling irritated that he had to wake up so early in the morning then drive for hours with annoying people in the car. "I'm going to go get firewood then," he volunteered.

"Alright, we should divide up the work," Red suggested.

"Red's right. Since we have more people, it'll be faster too," Crystal said. "Okay, umm... Yellow, Sapphire, Gold, Red, and Ruby, you guys go get the food. Green, go collect the firewood while Blue make the fire, and I'll set up the tent with Emerald and Silver I guess. Any objections?"

Blue raised her hand to complain about being with Green, and the boy did the same action. Ruby did as well because he disagreed with being with Sapphire and going into the woods longer than he had to.

"Okay, no questions. Let's hustle," Crystal announced, ignoring them. She was happy to have pick the people so that she didn't have to deal with Gold for hours.

This was partially on purpose. With Blue's obsession with her and Gold lately, she's been stressing out since the brunette breathed down her neck the whole time. She knew that she and Green wouldn't get along, and decided to let them have the job. Maybe they'll become besties or something during the trip. Blue's personality was sometimes effective, or so she assumed.

"Do you fish for food? Earlier I saw you bring a fishing pole, so..." Red said.

Hearing that, Yellow made a horrified face. "No way! I could never eat that! I just catch them for fun... I don't think I can ever eat a magikarp..." she said grimly.

"I bet Red could," Gold joked, snickering.

Yellow made an uneasy face about the Pokémon being eaten and turned around. Red sent a demon glare at Gold, making him feel a chill go up his spine.

"Well you can't really blame people. There are lots of people who eat things besides Pokémon like the previous left over animals that are still surviving," Ruby said.

Before Pokémon appeared, there were still some animals on earth that still survived. But then the Pokémon and humans would feed on those animals and most of them have been extinct. Most people don't really worry about it much though because Pokémon is like a different mutated animal that could fight, and thought it was better than normal ones.

"Like Sapph for example," Ruby suggested, using her as an example.

Sapphire let out a gasp and a very offended look. "For yer information, I am a vegetarian, ya jerk! Okay, I'm not like ya!"

"Please, I've never ate a Pokémon in my life," Ruby said, crossing his arms.

"None of us has," Red interjected. "They're way too lovable to."

"Okay! Let's head out to go look for food! It'll get dark soon," Yellow reminded, pointing at one end of the woods. The subject of eating Pokémon made her feel like throwing up.

"Hey, let's go vine swinging in that direction!" Sapphire suggested, shaking Yellow excitedly. Yellow nodded vicariously happily and ran in the direction with Sapphire.

"W-Wait!" Red said, following behind.

"Bye guys," Ruby called out, waving at them even though they couldn't see him from their view.

"Ruby, stop being so prissy and have fun," Gold said, snickering at his efforts to stay behind.


"Greenie~! My arms are tired," Blue whined, "Here, hold this for me." She got the firewood she collected, and lightened her load by a hundred percent.

Green's eyebrow twitched when he saw her hold nothing. It was obvious that she was just getting him to do all the work, considering he was the one who found the firewood and is carrying all of it. Sure Blue carried some for about three minutes, but that didn't count to him. Deciding it was best not to complain because it would start a conversation with her, Green continued to walk down the trail.

"You know, you should wipe that grumpy frown off your face or your face will be like that forever," Blue advised, chattering on the way.

"I was born with this face," Green responded, not caring. He knew that she would throw a fit if he gave her the silent treatment.

"I'm just saying! Ever since we came here, you've been in the worst mood!" Blue stated.

"Well, I kind of was blackmailed into coming here and doing something I don't want to do when I could've stayed at a café and drink coffee like usual. Gee, aren't my reasons unreasonable?" Green asked sarcastically, the bitterness in his voice showing.

"That's what you do in your free time? Then why don't the whole group go there and hang next time?" Blue suggested, feeling that it'll bring up his mood.

"As if. I go there because it's quiet, and I read a book," Green rejected, "Quietness is the only gift I like."

"You're boring," Blue pouted.

"And you're a pesky woman," Green retorted.

"I don't get why you're upset. I mean, I know we're in a different surrounding, but you basically brought an electronic portable coffee maker, so isn't it the same?" Blue reasoned.

"How do you know about it?" Green inquired cautiously, growing suspicious.

"Well I totally didn't look in your bag to steal your money," Blue stated, purposely exposing it.

"I change my mind. You're not a pesky woman, but a nosy woman," Green said. "Oh wait, you're both actually."

"I feel the love over here," Blue said sarcastically.

Usually she would get mad and start a one-sided fight with him (whereas Green would just ignore her while she shouts and complain to him), but the great outdoors and the monthly camping trips always made her so relaxed, and she felt it would be a better chance to make Green in a better mood. She was the most peppiest one out of the group anyways, so she wouldn't give up yet.

"What books do you like?" she asked to start a conversation with him.

"Can you shut your mouth for three hours?" he replied, groaning.

She might break, but not yet. Or at least that's what she told herself.


"Do you guys need help?" Crystal asked.

Since she was finished with setting up the girls' tent in three minutes, she decided to go over and help Silver and Emerald out. Emerald had knowledge of setting up tents but was too short to reach the top and poles so Silver had to do it. She was slightly concerned about it.

"Nah, we just finished," Emerald said proudly, showing off their barely standing tent. The poles were not secured at all.

"That was fast," Silver mumbled.

"Yeah— Wait, you guys set up the camp there?" Crystal exclaimed, widening her eyes when she realized the spot.

"Yeah, what's wrong with it?" Silver inquired, seeing her surprised, horrified expression.

Just as he asked that, the poles subsided because of the unstableness and the wet, muddy flooring, and the whole tent fell apart, sliding down the small mud hill next to it. They were quiet as they watched the whole tent collapse into the nearby lake.

Crystal slapped her forehead. "You don't put it on hills because the ground isn't as stable and even," she informed.

"I hope y'all know how to swim because I certainly don't," Emerald said, breaking the silence.


"Ruby, raise me higher!" Gold commanded in a superior tone, reaching his arms up for some berries he found on a tree.

"You're heavy!" Ruby retorted, barely managing.

"No, it's 'cause you have the strength of a girl scout!" Gold shouted back. Just as he said that, Ruby lost his strength and the balance in his legs, and fell back onto the dirt. Since Gold was on his shoulders, he also fell with the younger boy. It didn't take a second for Ruby to spur up from the floor, immediately wrinkling his face into a grimace.

"Ew! Ew! Ew! My pants!" he exclaimed, pulling onto it to see the wound. "And it was wet mud too!"

A burst of laughter was heard from behind. He turned around swiftly, only to see Sapphire pointing and laughing at him with her free hand and holding a mountain of berries and other things in the other. Yellow and Red were also next to her, awkwardly sweatdropping at the scene. Red and Gold tried their best to suppress their laughter and Yellow genuinely felt bad for the boy.

"Ruby, are you okay?" she asked, rushing over to the boy, steadying her pile of food.

"It's official. Gold's an asshole," Ruby stated.

Gold stopped snickering and got up from his spot. "Hey, don't be such a downer! Didn't you pack like ten more pairs on this two day trip?"

"Really?" Yellow inquired.

"I had a strange feeling that I would be cover by mud by the time this trip is over," Ruby said. "You always have to be prepared."

"What are ya talking about? The only outfit I brought is the one I'm wearin' now and I don't even wear underwear 'cause it's uncomfortable and not needed!" Sapphire announced, making them sweatdrop at the sudden outburst.

"... Nice bold statement, Sapph," Red complimented since that's what she intended for, though it was awkward.

"Okay, you have some serious hygiene issues along with clothing issues," Ruby announced, Gold nodding with him.

"Nuh-uh! I take baths everyday!" Sapphire retorted.

"There should be a small spring of clean water near the campsite and sometimes we swim with the water Pokémon in the lake," Yellow explained.

"That doesn't mean you should go commando!" Ruby reasoned. "Where's Blue when I finally need her? She would agree with me that this is gross." In his group, it was Red, Yellow, Sapphire, and Gold. Red was a playful, adventure guy who didn't care about getting dirty, Gold was someone who didn't care about a lot of things as long as he didn't have to do something he didn't want to, Sapphire was made in the jungle, and Yellow was a quiet nature lover who would roll on the floor voluntarily in Ruby's opinion. Everyone wouldn't exactly agree that being dirty was a problem.

"I think that's enough for the day. Why don't we head back to camp so that Ruby can change his pants?" Yellow suggested.

"Thank you," Ruby promptly said, while Red patted his back playfully.


"Okay if I understand, you put this and this together like the movies..." Blue muttered, rubbing two random twigs together really fast.

Green stared at her peculiarly. "You watch way too much movies," he commented, snatching the twigs away from her. "There's no way you're going to make a fire like that. Don't you know how to?"

"Of course I do! That's why I did that," Blue said, snatching the twigs back. "It's just my first time doing it since the others do it all the time. I watch them and do the exact same thing! If I rub it fast enough, it'll create a fire."

"Friction could create heat, but it'll take way too long," Green stated. Without warning or permission, he slapped the twigs out of Blue's hands and made them fall on the others. Then afterwards he reached towards his belt and pulled out an enlarged pokeball. He clicked the button and tossed it beside him.

An orange salamander dragon-looking creature came out and let out a roar, "Zard!"

"Charizard, blow a small fire for us. Don't do it too big," Green ordered.

The charizard did as its master told him and blew a small cough. A tiny ember came out and made contact with the wood. It set the whole piece on fire and when it did, Green returned it to its pokeball. Blue quietly watch the whole thing and didn't talk until it was over.

"H-Hey! That's cheating!" she accused.

"How?"

"We were supposed to use our own abilities!" Blue stated.

"If we used your abilities, we would never get a fire in the first place," Green commented.

"H-How rude!" Blue said, breaking her nice face. She grabbed one of the firewood that didn't get burned all the way and aimed it at Green. Quickly, Green ducked a split second before and it flew somewhere else.


"Finally, finished the tents!" Crystal happily announced.

"... Even though it's really soggy and gross," Silver added, looking at the damp, disgusting tent that's barely holding up with all the mud soaked in.

"But it's finished so it's okay!" Crystal positively said. She was slightly more positive than them since the girls' tent was the one who didn't fall into the lake.

The three looked at their work, just happy that it finally done since the lake problem was out of the way and Crystal got passed the fact that she was covered in the mud and water in her underwear. It was a good thing that she wasn't wearing white or anything light where her undergarments were visible.

While staring at the progress, a piece of wood that was on fire came out of nowhere and landed on the tents. Slowly, a fire grew.

"W-What?!" Crystal exclaimed, surprised. She turned around to face the source while Emerald and Silver tried to put it out with his feraligatr. Blue was there, running away from a pissed off Green, screaming for her life. She joined the chase and tried to attack Blue as well, blaming that the mess was probably her fault.


The food collecting gang came back and found this both awkward and amusing. Yellow ran over to help out with the fire, Red did the same, Ruby ran over to the tent where the fire was spreading to his backpack full of extra clothes, Sapphire followed, and Gold raised an eyebrow, still confused on what was happening on the side. Crystal was dripping head to toe and was chasing Blue with Green and he felt he had missed something funny.


Yellow, Red, Ruby, and Sapphire dropped the collected food aside and tried to get the things out of the way while the fire subsided slowly.

"Put more pressure!" Silver commanded, finding it too soft.

The feraligatr did as commanded and let out a hard burst of water. Only that it was way too hard that it literally ripped a hole in both tents along with soaking Ruby and the others in the process.

"Stop!" Silver shouted when the fire disappeared.

The result of stopping everything was ruined tents that couldn't stand up anymore and were torn, half of the clothes Ruby packed gone because of the fire spreading, and some of the others' survival things burnt to ashes. The four that came to the scene were also soaked to their underwear due to the water going out of control.

Yellow brushed her droopy bangs out of the way. "Well... at least we still have a fire and... food."

"Y-Yellow! Help!" Blue shouted, running in their direction.

Without a moment to prepare herself, the blonde was shoved down by the brunette tackling her and the two slipped and fell into the lake together.

"You can't escape that easily!" Crystal shouted, diving in as well.

"Woo! Catfight in the water!" Gold cheered, which Green slapped the back of his head in return.

While Ruby was sulking about his lost clothes, Sapphire asked, "What the heck went wrong?"


"Okay so in the end, we don't have a tent to sleep in," Red summarized.

Everyone sat in a circle around the camp fire to discuss their 'dire' situation. Yellow, Blue, and Crystal were soaking wet and currently feeling gross from falling into the lake.

"It's all your fault," Green accused, glaring at Blue for the earlier incident.

"Hey, it wasn't a rule or anything to throw firewood when it's on fire!" Blue horribly retorted, crossing her arms.

"Because it's something so stupid that we don't have to make a rule for it," Crystal stated. "But just in case of future references, I'm adding another rule. Rule #4; don't throw firewood when it's on fire. There, you happy, Blue?"

"Very," Blue replied dryly.

"Wait if we're following the rules, then you don't get to eat, Super Serious Gal," Gold piped up, earning an eye twitch and a request to elaborate. "Because if you think about it, there's that rule whereas you don't contribute then no food, right? Since your tents didn't contribute, nor as Emerald and Silver, then y'all don't get food."

At that, Crystal's eyes went on fire while Emerald and Silver gave him glaring eyes. "I contributed! It just got ruined because of someone!" Crystal said.

"Crys, you don't have to keep it anonymous. We all know it was Blue," Sapphire stated.

"It could've been Red for all we know!" Blue retorted, pointing at the black haired boy beside her.

"Really? I was literally the only one who was on your side because of the mistake! Why are you blaming it on me?" Red exclaimed, feeling slightly hurt that she would accused him. In his eyes, he seemed like the one who took the least damage since Green was the almost victim; Crystal's, Silver's, and Emerald's tent was sabotaged by her; Gold is cool with blaming anyone as long as he doesn't get blamed himself; Yellow was shoved into a river by her; Ruby got his clothes wrecked by her; and Sapphire... well, Sapphire just blamed it on her just 'cause it was her fault. He also slightly blamed on her, but believed it was an accident so he let it go.

"No offense Red, but you're very klutzy," Blue commented.

"W-What?" Red exclaimed, shocked.

"Red, don't worry! Blue is just saying things to confuse you," Sapphire said, trying her best to cheer up her senior, "and Blue, we all know it was you. We have a witness." She tilted her head to Green to give her a hint who the witness was.

"Okay guys, let's just get pass this! We won't get anything done by placing blame and moping around!" Yellow suggested. "The sun has almost went down already and we should prepare places to sleep. I'm okay with sleeping on the floor, but what about you guys?"

"Well thankfully, we didn't put the blankets and pillows inside the tents yet, so we still have some comfort I guess," Crystal optimistically said.

"We should go take a shower first so we won't catch colds," Blue suggested, squeezing the water out of her tank.

"I call first," Ruby said, raising his arm.

"No way! Girls should go first," Blue reasoned. "Or, if you want to, go wash yourself in the lake. That water is clean!"

"Wait, if you're not going in the lake, then where are you going?" Red asked.

"To the spring that's about ten minutes from here," Blue replied. "I was thinking that the girls should bathe there while the guys bathe in the lake here."

"Woah, woah, woah. Why do you get the springs and we get the lake?" Emerald questioned.

"Because I have a lot of embarrassing pictures of you guys that I can make into a scandal. Example A!" Blue dug into her backpack and pulled out one of her pictures, which was a picture of Red in his pajamas scratching his behind like before. Yellow seriously blushed at the picture and covered her eyes. Some people like Gold burst into laughter while others grimaced and facepalm (Green for example) at how stupid it was.

"Okay! Okay! We get it! Put it away," Red said.

"Great! I'm so happy we could compromise so well," Blue said, clasping her hands together. She grabbed her bag like the other girls. "We'll be back soon!"

"I thought it was bad to go out at night in the woods," Sliver stated, slightly worried for Blue getting injured.

Crystal pulled out a flashlight and turned it on for pre-caution. "Don't worry, we do it all the time. We just wanted a campfire there so that we can know the location back to the camp just in case we get lost or something. Plus, it's not fully dark yet since the sun is half up."

"We'll be back soon. Make sure to put the food in a place where no one can reach it," Sapphire advised.

"Yeah, yeah, we got it. Just go," Ruby said, waving them off.

After the girls nodded and disappeared into the woods, Gold stood up from his place. "Well, I think I should go too. Y'know for protection and all," he said, about to tail them. At that moment, Silver grabbed his head and yanked it backwards.

"Go and you die," he threatened, dark aura flowing from his body.

"Where's the food? We should tie it up," Green suggested, remembering what Sapphire said.

"Nah, we should take a bath first. It's norma— AHHHHHH!" Gold's amazingly sudden girlish scream gave everyone heart attacks (even Silver and Green) as he ran to Silver and clutched onto him.

"Hey, get off!" Silver said, pushing him away.

"What happened?" Red asked.

"B-Behind y-y-you!" Gold replied, pointing at the direction.

Everyone turned around in the direction while Silver just turned his attention to there. At that moment, everyone besides Silver and Gold froze. Upfront in their faces was a giant ursaring with sharp claws who looked grumpier than Green.

"N-NOOOO!" Ruby shouted, immediately running to the big tree near the lake.

Red, Green, and Emerald scattered and followed as the bear started to rampage while Silver shoved Gold onto the ground and left the boy to run for his life. Gold got up afterwards and chased him, shouting, "No! Don't leave me!"

As a precaution, all of the boys followed and started to climb up the extremely large tree as the ursaring chased them to the tree and started to bang against it. And to make it worst, more ursarings came out of the bushes and raided their campground, making it messy and tearing everything up.

"NOOO!" Ruby shouted again, weeping over his backpack and the tearing noise coming from it.

"UR!" the ursaring from earlier cried, punching the large tree and clawing it.

"We're going to be eaten by ursarings!" Emerald predicted, hugging onto the tree tightly. "I don't wanna die like this! Why couldn't this had happened when I was dying over the deadline for my song?!"

"Rald, pull yourself together! For all we know, the berries might fill them up," Red suggested, nodding over sadly to the crew who was munching on the berries. "The food we took seven to eight hours to get..."

"Relax. If Pokémon attack you, attack Pokémon with Pokémon," Green reasoned, reaching over to his belt for a pokeball. He froze when he realized his pokeballs weren't there then looked over to the camp, only to find it on the ground next to the campfire. He facepalmed when he realized he had dropped his belt because he was currently undressing to bathe before the whole fiasco happened.

"Does anyone have any on them?" he asked, looking slightly hopeful and miserable at the same time.

"I left them in my backpack," Gold replied.

"Same for me," Red said, Emerald nodding in agreement.

"Yeah," Silver answered.

"How could I possibly let my Pokémon be expose in this dirt? They're staying at a spa hotel getting groomed at the moment," Ruby said.

Green facepalmed again. I can't believe I had hopes for those idiots... he thought. But then again, he couldn't say something at this moment considering he also forgot them.

"Oh look! I think we're safe! The ursaring stopped hitting the tree and went to join the others!" Red exclaimed, pointing at the bear Pokémon.

"We're not safe! We're probably the next thing on its menu after those berries are gone," Emerald said.

"Wait, are ursarings even carnivorous?" Red asked.

"It's a Johto Pokémon," Green replied.

At that, all four boys turned to the other two guys, Gold and Silver. The two were in a Johto region drama, and since it was natural in the drama to interact with the region Pokémon and learn about them, it was natural that the two should know about it.

"Dude, don't look at me. I don't know," Gold confessed, making their hopes drop once again.

"Last time we tried doing a forest episode in the real forest, they chased us off of the set and we never got to work with them," Silver explained the reason for their lack of information.

"Okay, everyone here is useless," Green announced.

"This is what I get for trying to 'get to know nature'," Ruby grumbled, letting out a long sigh afterwards.

"Dude, you didn't try to get to know it! You literally cried at making contact with the mud!" Gold said.

"And who was the asshole who made me?!" Ruby shouted back, glaring at him.

"Guys, let's not do this! It'll only make us have a war against ourselves!" Red suggested, trying his best to stop it. "We should think about dealing with the current problem!"

"Our best bet is that the girls will come back and chase them away. They did take their backpacks and all of their stuff with them, so there's a good chance that they have their Pokémon with them," Green stated.

"Yeah, but they just left. It takes twenty minutes to get there and back plus their bath time. That could take forever! Blue literally takes an hour or longer in the bathroom," Ruby reminded. "I bet this branch would probably break before they come back."

"We're doom," Emerald stated, facepalming and hugging the tree while balancing on the branch he was sitting on. "I don't want to die single!"

"And I don't want to die before beating Sapphire at the bet!" Ruby mumbled.

"You guys are seriously killing me here," Gold said, sighing at them. "I didn't want to say this, but I have a smarter solution. Why don't one of us jump down and get the Pokémon to fight the ursaring? We need a volunteer, or better yet, a tribute."

Silver patted his shoulder. "It was not nice knowing you."

"What the heck? First, you should say that it was nice! And second, why me?!" Gold exclaimed, surprised he'd be the first sacrifice.

"Well you are the one who suggested it," Emerald suggested.

"And you are the most athletic. I probably would've died just jumping from this tree," Ruby stated.

"Gold, good luck!" Red said, giving him the thumbs up.

"Even you, Red?!" Gold said. He turned to Green for support and tiny hope.

"You made me come onto this trip. You're dead to me whether you're living or not," Green stated.

"Woah, that was cold, even from here," Red mumbled to Ruby, who nodded in agreement.

"If you didn't want to be sacrificed, then why did you suggest the plan in the first place, you idiot?" Silver questioned.

"Well to be honest, I thought Red was going to be nice enough to be the volunteer, but I was wrong," Gold answered.

"Look dude, I'm sure the ursarings could kill me, or at the very least, claw my eyes out. Either way, I will be in deep pain, and I really don't want that," Red said. "I might be nice, but I prefer to avoid excessive pain. I already go through that with Blue on the set. I swear, she slaps so freaken hard!"

"You shouldn't be complaining. I get slapped like seven times in every episodes plus even more on the set when she thinks it wasn't hard enough," Green stated. "You only get hit like once every season."

Silver would defend her precious sister in the situation but he couldn't decide whether she was being insulted or not. Though he has never experienced the pain of her hits, he was pretty sure that she was strong for her own good.

"Well I rather get slapped by Blue a few times than be in this situation," Emerald muttered to himself while watching the ursarings.


"Woah, what was that scream earlier?" Crystal asked, looking back at the direction they came from.

"Don't worry about it, Crys," Sapphire waved off, "That girly scream was probably Ruby's (though unknown to her, it was Gold's). Ya shouldn't worry about it. He probably got mud somewhere again."

"Sapph, I think you're underestimating Ruby a bit. I know he's somewhat a clean obsessed person and tends to overreact, but I think he's stronger than he looks. Or, at least that's the vibe I get from him," Yellow commented. "It's a weird spiritual thing, y'know?"

"Yellow, no offense, I always trust yer spiritual predictions and stuff, but I think ya're wrong 'bout this," Sapphire said. "He was literally crying on the set last time because it got on his clothes."

The blonde laughed lightly while Blue snickered. "Well, I don't know. But you shouldn't look down on him," Yellow warned. "It's not right."

"Oh, speaking of him, what was that bet you talked about earlier, Sapph?" Blue asked. "I'm interested."

"We just betted on whether he could survive the forest life or not," Sapphire replied.

"Mm... I don't think he could, but I think he could tolerate it, I guess," Crystal said.

"Ya believe he could win?" Sapphire asked, shocked.

"Only time will tell," Crystal responded. "Anyways, I hope the guys already tied the food up. I feel kind of bad that we didn't do it for them, but I wanted to take a bath as soon as possible."

"Oh yeah, last time we didn't do that, ursarings came," Yellow mumbled.

"Luckily we had you and you befriended them, but the guys will probably have a hard time communicating with them," Crystal said.

"Stop being a worrywart guys! You sound like old ladies," Blue commented. "We should get our minds off them and just relax for once on this trip. Besides, Crys added that stupid rule for them and I'm pretty sure most of them will follow it."

Usually Blue would try and get the scoop on them with her current shippings, but she felt really exhausted after what happened with Green. She even had to run away from two demons (an angry Crystal and Green) today and she was wiped out for anything.

"Which one?" Sapphire whispered to Yellow, confused.

"The 'don't get eaten by an ursaring' rule," she whispered back, which Sapphire nodded in understanding.

Crystal softened up. "Blue is right for once. We should be enjoying ourselves," she agreed. "I mean, with the tent already destroyed and all the events that happened, what could be worse?"


A/N — I'm not dead guys. Surprisingly, I survived the exams and testing and projects... I apologize for leaving all my stories on hold for like 3-4 months, and I am very sorry to return with this short chapter (considering it's shorter than what I usually write). I wanted to end it there, so... well anyways, I wouldn't say I'm back for sure, but I am currently trying to catch up with my stories as much as possible! Though I have updated this story, I will be working on the other one (and updated the Keyblade Pirates last week) but will most likely not update till April or so, and I apologize for that. Thanks for those who keep tabs on my stories when I am absent. For those who only read this one and not the others, luckily I probably could update this one every month considering I already have pre-written chapters for it already.

But LOL, tbh Ruby in this chapter is like my inner character.

Anyways, responses to my reviewers!
leontinees — LOL, about Blue's sex appeal, I think she indeed is really pretty but I try not to do anything too 'inappropriate' in my opinion (like if Gold were to comment on her butt or something lol) and try to make the guys focus on the shippings bc I seriously hate love triangles. Anyways, thanks for the nice comments and all :) I was really happy with the ideas and such! Anyways, Pokémon WILL come to play in this mini camp 'arc', so don't worry.
mysteryreader6626 — Aw thanks for reviewing! Your reaction was funny, lol. And yes, I bet failed saving or forgetting happens to literally everyone (including me) Anyways, sorry for leaving you hanging for SO LONG! I'll try to do my regular updates as best as I can!
Just Another Kid — LOL, haha, I always love your reviews :) They're so sweet and hilarious! LOL, I was going to make Gold get hit in the face but then I wanted more interactions between White and Black so I put Black in the poor spot (sorry Black!) Also, this is SUPER late but yay for your field trip (lol, sorry) LOL about the fanart stuff though XD Yeah, but I'm pretty obvious when I try too hard to put humor because the humor got lost in My Online Life after the events happened and The Keyblade Pirates barely had any due to the serious events. Thanks for reviewing like usual :) I always like reading your reviews!
ODSdragon — Mangaquestshipping doesn't seem to have much of a role in here much, but it's the first chapter so don't worry. I stirred up some more mangaquestshipping stuff in the later camp chapters, so don't worry! They're one of my fav shippings too :)

BUT SERIOUSLY GUYS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOLLOWING, FAVORITING OR REVIEWING WHEN I WAS GONE ;) Y'all make me cry LOL.