Chapter Nine — Incoming Storms


"Okay, okay, so now that I feel better and my sweat has washed away, tell me all about what happened between you and your future husbands!" Blue babbled, wiping her face with a towel as she finished getting dressed.

All the girls were dressed in their summer pajamas; Blue in her usual night gown, Yellow in shorts and a t-shirt, Crystal in a short romper, and Sapphire in a grass skirt and bra she made out of the nearby leaves since her old one was thrown out.

"Oh shoot. I totally forgot about the guys," Yellow said, facepalming because she realized her mistake in coming in those showy clothes. "I only packed shorts since it gets hot out here..."

"It's okay, I only packed shorts too," Crystal informed, hoping it would make her situation less embarrassing. It didn't really matter to her since she always wore shorts so there wasn't really a difference. "Plus, Sapph is in her grass outfit so there's nothing to be shy about."

"Please tell me you have underwear on," Blue said, forgetting about the guys for a split second when she saw the crazy getup.

"Nope," Sapphire answered quite proudly.

Blue gave her a thumbs up. "Y'know what, I should put you in tent with Ruby tonight," she suggested.

Sapphire's face turned slightly red at the thought of it. The girl slapped Blue's thumbs up and retorted with a, "G-GROSS!"

"Uh Blue, don't you remember? You burnt down our tents," Crystal stated in a matter of fact tone.

"Crys, when are you going to ever give up that grudge?" Blue inquired.

"It just happened though," Crystal responded.

"I know! Get it over it already! I'm sure Yellow has," Blue stated, pointing at the blonde.

"Well Yellow wasn't the one who set up the tent!" Crystal retorted.

"Guys, stop it," Yellow said, interrupting the two. "We should just hurry up and go down the hill. I have a bad feeling."

"The leaves tellin' ya somethin' or what?" Sapphire asked.

Yellow always had a connection to the forest for some odd reason and every time something bad happens, the leaves somehow 'tell' her, or so she says. But usually Sapphire and the other girls has trust in her since bad things usually happen when Yellow says something happened.

"You don't think the guys ate our food without us or something, do you?" Blue said in an extra worried tone.

The three other girls sweatdropped.

"Really? That's what you're worried about?" Crystal said, speaking for the three of them.

Yellow let out a nervous laugh. "Well, I can't really see the leaves or feel anything so I don't really know. I just have a really concerned feeling for the guys."

"Oh you mean for Red, right~?" Blue said, snickering as the blonde started to blush.

"F-For everyone!" Yellow corrected, putting her straw hat on top of her wet hair. "C'mon, let's just go back quickly."

Blue started to snicker again, and Crystal shook her head disapprovingly at her actions.


"What. The. Hell. Happened?!" Crystal shouted, looking at the disaster right in front of her eyes.

The food was gone, the place was completely trashed, the backpacks were ripped to shreds, their clothes were scattered everywhere, and the guys were up in a tree when they had found them. Now they're currently climbing down the tree after the attack.

"Yikes. This is even worse than what I did," Blue commented, trying not to laugh.

She didn't really have a problem with most of the situation since it was already gloomy to begin with and since the girls took their stuff, only the guys' stuff got wrecked and shredded. The only concern was the food but she found some berries down from the spring and picked some with her so it wasn't much of a big deal.

"Why were y'all in a tree?" Sapphire asked, finding it strangely odd. It was pretty normal to her but it was just weird seeing the other guys (like Green or Ruby) up in the tree. "Was it fun up there or somethin'?"

"Of course not!" Ruby answered, now holding the pieces of his clothes. Small tears formed at the edge of his eyes as he answered her dramatically, "Ursurings came and attacked the camp! My designer clothes that I made are now ruined!"

"They raided the camp and everything. We couldn't get to our Pokémon since we ran up that tree instinctively," Red explained. "They left calmly after eating all of the food though. Everything literally ended two mintues ago, right before you guys came back."

"What? Ursurings entered the camp? Didn't you guys put the food up?!" Crystal scolded.

"Wah! Wah! Stop scolding!" Gold said, picking his ear with his pinky childishly. "It wasn't our fault. We were going to tie up the food but then they came before we did!"

"Yeah... this was probably our fault, sorry," Yellow apologized, feeling guilty for leaving them alone for the task in the first place. "Is anyone hurt?"

"My heart is crying right now," Ruby announced.

"Hasn't it been crying this whole time?" Sapphire stated in an insincere tone.

"Shut up, you barbarian! Unlike you, who wears leaves for days, I don't have anything to wear anymore! And this outfit is already covered in mud and I'm dying!" Ruby snapped.

"Well it's not much of a problem! I can make grass clothes for all of y'all guys!" Sapphire offered, pointing at the tree.

"I'd rather go bare naked than wear those!" Ruby whined.

"Well at least our boxers didn't get damaged..." Red said optimistically, picking up some. "We sleep in them most of the time anyways."

"Dude, I don't want to sleep half naked in front of them. What happens if they have crazy hormones and try to rape me?" Gold said jokingly, earning him a smack on the head by Crystal and a giggle from Blue. "Ow, geez I was kidding!"

"Woah, you guys stink," Blue said, now noticing a strange odor.

"We didn't get to take a bath this whole time," Green snapped, a dark aura growing around him. "First, I get forced to come onto this trip, second, I end up being forced to sleep outside, and third, my clothes are now shredded and nothing goes my way. Screw this." He threw down his half backpack. "You, Pesky Woman, go make the hammocks for sleeping and clean up this mess while I go take a bath in the springs." And with that, he stomped his way to the direction where the girls came.

"Wait, it's too dangerous since it's darker than before!" Yellow warned.

Silver was beside her, giving him a glare, saying, "Don't order Blue like that."

"I don't care," Green responded without turning around, the dark aura seeping out in his speech.

"Woah. And I thought Ruby was the sassy one," Blue commented quietly, snickering.

"... I think he's mad," Gold concluded.

"Wow. I wonder how you figured that out," Emerald said sarcastically.

Crystal turned and bent down to Emerald. "Hey Rald, you didn't get a bath either right? Why don't you go with Green and clean yourself up?" She looked up to the other guys too. "You guys should go as well."

"No way~!" Blue shouted all of a sudden.

Everyone looked at her oddly. "Why not?" Emerald asked.

"Because it isn't fair that we should be the ones in charge of cleaning up the camp when you guys let it trashed. We literally just showered and doing more work isn't what I planned," Blue said, standing up for herself.

"Blue, stop whining. They were up in a tree for about an hour the whole time," Crystal reasoned.

The brunette quickly slapped her mouth to cover her laugh at the thought. Sapphire burst out in laughter bluntly though, earning a glare from Ruby.

"Thanks for bringing it up," Red mumbled, still embarrassed.

"It wasn't that funny," Ruby snapped.

"Yah, it is!" Sapphire argued back in between laughs. She wiped a tear. "This is even more funnier than what happened earlier when ya fell into the mud! Ahahahaha!" She stopped laughing for a second after regaining her breath. "So Prissy Boy, ya want ta go back ta the house? Ya can go back and go take a nice shower and even change yer clothes. The car is there. Ya can just quit before ya cry anymore, y'know?"

Ruby stubbornly turned his head the other way and did a 'hmph'. "As if," he began, crossing his arms and turning the other way again, "I will win this bet and make you my model even if it kills me."

"Good luck on that. Nature's on mah side right now," Sapphire stated, looking triumphed.

"Guys, this isn't the time for that," Red said, sweatdropping. He turned to Yellow and Crystal. "Are you sure we can go take a bath? Do you want us to help out first?"

"Uh it's okay. It's kind of dangerous to go out now since the sun just finished setting but it isn't fully dark yet and as long as you have light, you shouldn't get lost or anything. It's literally straight that pathway," Crystal informed. "We can do it. Our tents got ruined before so Yellow and Sapphire made a small shelter for us."

"I'm going," Silver announced, already walking in the direction with his shorts.

"'Kay if something happens, make sure you bring your Pokémon," Red advised, following him.

"I'm totally going," Ruby agreed, running after them.

"I'll try to come back fast and help you Crystal," Emerald reassured.

"Good luck! I hope you gals can survive in this manly state," Gold said.

"Please. Sapphire is more manlier than all of you put together," Blue bragged, flipping her hair behind her shoulder.

"Be careful out there," Yellow called as they vanished into the woods. She turned around to the sorry state their campsite was in. "I feel bad for them."

"I wish I could've seen it," Sapphire said.

"I know right," Blue agreed, high fiving her.

Crystal ignored them. "Well the least we could do right now is just clean this up and make the hammocks like what Green said. Eating can wait for later. It's a good thing I packed some in backpack when I left for the springs. For now, Yellow, Sapph, can you make the shelter or beds? Blue and I will clean up the camp."

"Okay, let's do this," Yellow said, nodding.

"Yay! It's been awhile since it was just the four of us!" Blue cheered.

"What are you talking about? We literally spent the last hour with each other alone," Crystal deadpanned.

"I mean, I know, but I meant like a team thing," Blue corrected. "Teamwork with the guys ended pretty horribly and Green kept picking fights with me when I tried to do a peace treaty."

"Blue, you threw a stick that was on fire at him," Crystal pointed out.

"Okay, so the peace treaty didn't exactly work but I still tried to!" Blue said.

"This whole trip has gone to poop," Sapphire commented.

"Mm... well it might be bad now but it'll get better. We still have like two days before we head back. Today was just ruff. Tomorrow will be a new day and then we can have fun and enjoy ourselves," Yellow said optimistically, trying to bring the mood up.

"You sound like Red in a bad situation," Blue commented.

"Stop bringing Red up!" Yellow said, turning the other way to hide her embarrassing blush.

"Ya're right, Yellow! I'm going ta make this whole trip so horrible that Prissy Boy will go down on his knees and beg me ta help him!" Sapphire declared, laughing at the image of it.

"Not exactly what I meant as fun but whatever works for you, Sapph," Yellow said, sweatdropping. "Ooh, but in the morning, let's race on the vines!"

"Of course!" Sapphire replied, pumping up a fist excitedly.

"Thanks for the invite!" Blue interjected sarcastically.

"You actually wanna go?" Crystal asked, raising an eyebrow and looking at her skeptically.

"Well not really, but I would still want to be invited," Blue answered.

"Blue, stop whining. We already know you're going to be practicing your script the whole day," Crystal said, remembering the other times they come out to the woods. She sighed. "Anyways, start working. The guy will be back soon."

"Aye, aye, sir!" they said simultaneously, saluting her.

"Help us out too, guys!" Sapphire called out, throwing her pokeballs out in the open.


"On the bright side, it's actually kind of hot out here," Red commented as they walked down the hill in their boxers since that's the only clothing they had left. Some had pants or shorts on since they were small enough not to get ruined. Silver, Green, and Emerald were the only ones who were lucky enough while Ruby, Red, and Gold ended up in their boxers.

"What's hot are those boxers," Gold joked, snickering at Red's pikachu boxers. "What is up with you and Pokémon fashion?"

"What are you talking about? You're wearing 'Hello Skitty' brand," Red shot back, pointing at his boxers that were printed with skitty tails.

"They're a manly brand. I saw Green have some," Gold defended.

"Shut up," Green snapped, secretly embarrassed but not showing it.

"I told you guys not to wear that stuff in front of me," Ruby said. His boxers were just plain red with small gem designs that he embedded himself.

He let out a loud sigh. "I wonder if there's more stuff at the campsite," he muttered, thinking that there might be a pair of shorts deep in his backpack or something. He didn't bring it since it was mostly ruined and he couldn't look at the shredded clothes anymore.

"Speaking of which, I wonder whether the girls are finished," Emerald commented. "I mean, I know Crystal is in charge and she insisted but making hammocks out of things in the woods instead of cloth is kind of hard to do. Especially since it's dark to see the trees."

"Yeah Green, that was harsh to make the girls do all of that," Red added.

"I was just really pissed off at the moment. Anyways, it's not much of a big deal to do. If they end up not making the hammocks like I said then we'll just sleep on the floor. No big deal," Green stated.

"Uh, there's a huge deal!" Ruby complained.

"Well you're a city boy so of course you have a big deal," Gold said. "Me and Yellow were basically born in the countryside so this isn't a problem."

"Then why are you so horrible at camping?" Silver questioned, earning a glare from the boy.

"Hey Silv, where's your hard work? Oh yeah, it got burned down by Blue earlier," Gold stated in a sassy tone, looking triumphed.

Silver punched his shoulder hard, making him cry an 'ow'. "Shut up. At least I did something. I bet all of that food that the ursuring ate were mostly gathered by Sapphire and Yellow."

"Well, he isn't wrong," Ruby stated, thinking back to how much food him and Gold gathered.

"Hey! I gathered a very good amount too!" Red defended.

"Stop shouting! You're way too loud and wild Pokémon might hear you and we'll get attacked. Again," Green scolded. "Finally, we're almost here."

He shoved the last branch in his way and entered the camp grounds again. He and the other guys behind him stopped to take in the scene that happened while they were away.

Unlike before, it was much better. The place was cleaned up nicely, the campfire was still going, some hammocks made out of blankets were attached to the trees and their Pokémon were everywhere, munching on food. The girls were sitting around the campfire on logs eating on something.

"Wow, you would've never guess the camp was trashed," Red commented. "Hey, you guys did a nice job!"

The girls stopped their conversations then turned to the see the guys approaching them.

Blue flipped her hair behind her shoulder. "Of course we did! We've been camping for awhile now," she bragged.

"Yet you still tried to make a fire by rubbing sticks together," Green deadpanned.

Her eye twitched and she switched moods quickly. "Hey! Are you trying to pick a fight with me?!" she snapped.

"Now, now, we shouldn't ruin the good atmosphere," Yellow said, interjecting.

"Yellow's right," Red agreed, nodding.

"You would agree with her," Blue stated, smirking.

"I-I'm just saying!" Red stammered as he awkwardly looked the other way and scratched his cheek.

"Anyways, turns out we still have our blankets for the tent in our backpacks still so we decided to just use them for the hammocks," Crystal informed.

Gold ran over to one of them and started to pound on the blanket as hard as he could to test out its weight. It actually stayed surprisingly and it was pretty hefty. He turned to the girls. "I'm impressed."

Blue flipped the other side of her hair. "We already know," she said with a sweet smile.

Yellow yawned and covered her mouth with her hand. She stood up from the log then rubbed her eyes as she tried to keep them open. "I'm going to get some sleep. I feel exhausted," she said, walking over to one of the hanging hammocks.

"She's always tired," Emerald stated, sweatdropping at how fast she went from eating to sleeping.

"Well she did do a lot of work with Sapph," Crystal reasoned. "It's natural when she overuses her energy."

"Wait Blue, there's only five hammocks and there's ten of us," Red piped up when he realized the low number.

"Don't worry. We tested it out! At least two people can sleep in the hammocks," Blue replied. "Speaking of which, you wanna sleep with Yellow?"

"Blue!" Crystal said, smacking her arm for the inappropriate comments. She looked at Red at gave him a reassuring smile to stop the teasing. "She's just kidding. We already made arrangements. Two girls will sleep with each other and vise versa for guys."

"Woah, wait, there's something wrong with your plan," Gold interjected.

Thinking he might have some sort of perverted idea, she shot him down, "You can sleep on the floor if you complain so much."

"Ouch," Ruby mumbled, giving sound effect to Gold's feelings probably.

"I'm just saying! Isn't there something wrong with putting two shirtless guys in their boxers together in a tight hammock? To be honest, these guys might be close to be attractive to me but they're not enough to make me go gay for them."

"What are you talking about? You're like the ugliest one here," Silver stated. "Both inside and out."

"Shut up!" Gold said, punching his shoulder in which he received a harder punch back. He pointed at Blue as his next retort to not look stupid. "At least I didn't burn down the tents!"

"Why do you guys keep bringing that up?!" Blue exclaimed.


The Next Morning

After everyone went to sleep last night, it was actually peaceful despite the interruptions and constant fighting. Sapphire even got to enjoy the look of everything and didn't argue with Ruby much so it gave her good vibes.

She was the first one to wake up, or so she thought. As she climbed out of hammock, it took her a few seconds to realize that the person she slept with, Yellow, was missing. But her question was soon answered when she saw Yellow at the edge of the river already fishing. The girl was already dressed her casual attire away from Hollywood life in a white sundress, and she wore her hair in a side braid. Her straw hat rested on her head like usual and she laid back nicely against a nearby tree with a sketch book on her knees. She held a fishing rod with one hand and with the other, a marker.

"Yo, Yellow," Sapphire greeted as she ran down to her.

Yellow snapped out of her concentration and turned to the girl with a smile. "Oh, good morning, Sapphire," she greeted back.

"Who did yer hair?" Sapphire inquired. She was used to seeing Yellow in a dress a few times at home and on vacation since the girl felt somewhat comfortable in some of them, but she never saw her hair in anything but a ponytail or just plain down. "It looks really nice."

"Really? Thanks! It was Ruby," Yellow answered.

"Oh..." Sapphire mumbled, twisting her face in an irritated grimace already at the mention of him. "Where is he? I don't see him."

"Um I think he said he was going up to the spring to do something," Yellow answered, looking unsure. "I was sort of daydreaming the whole time so I'm not too sure, but that's most likely the place he'll be at besides here since he doesn't know the area that well."

"I see," Sapphire said firmly.

Yellow smiled and raised an eyebrow. "Are you going to go after him?" she asked, somewhat feeling like she was in Blue's shoes.

"More like mess with him ta make him go home," Sapphire corrected immediately. "I only have one more day and if I lose and he doesn't go home or feel the want to, then I have ta be his slave! And I saw him design more girl stuff so there's likely a chance I'll have ta be his model." She stuck out her tongue in disgust.

"Wait Sapph, but didn't you already wear his clothes and try them on for a shoot? What's the difference?" Yellow inquired.

"Well that was okay since it was for a job and it was somewhat comfortable. Don't get me wrong, I mean, I like cute things and like cute clothes and admire how nice they look but usually they're really uncomfortable and Ruby is really picky when it comes to fashion and that's an annoying trait. The other day he kept telling me how I tuck mah shirts in wrong but there's only one way ta tuck in yer shirt!" Sapphire complained. "Besides, I don't think fancy girly stuff are mah style."

"It's okay, I feel the same," Yellow said. "I cross dress all the time as a boy because it's easier to hide in crowds and other issues, but when I come out as a girl, it feels awkward. It's okay though since I don't really pay attention to genders much anyways."

"Speaking of genders, how was Red's response to you? Blue told me he freaked out after being oblivious for two years," Sapphire said, gaining interest in her senior's life.

"Yeah... that was really awkward now that I think about it," Yellow mumbled, feeling embarrassed of the memory. "Gold was running away from Crystal because he got her mad from a prank and he happened to stumble in the Kanto Drama Set, which is where I was when I was talking to Red. He accidently ran past me and knocked me down and then my hat fell off and everything was just really quiet and awkward. Well, that was before I lived with Crystal so she didn't know either. Red just kept pointing at my ponytail. Ugh, now I feel bad."

"Sorry," Sapphire apologized for making her recall the memory.

"It's okay, I got over it and I'm pretty sure everyone else has," Yellow reassured. "Anyways, you should go to Ruby fast. He moves a lot when it comes to things."

"Uh yeah, thanks," Sapphire said, about to head out.

"Good luck with him," Yellow called out as she nodded and left.


Sapphire rushed through the forest easily as she swung by vines and jumped from branch to branch as fast like one of those anime ninja. She wanted to see Ruby quickly and she didn't know why, but she just had a random urge.

When she had finally spotted him, she jumped down and landed on the bush nearby him.

Ruby jumped up as well but in shock when she had suddenly appeared before his eyes. He quickly put on his hat sloppily, grabbed a nearby shirt, and wore it.

"You scared me! Can't you appear like a normal human being?! I was taking a bath!" he exclaimed, slightly relieved that he had his pants on the whole time. "This is just like that bathroom! You just waltz up wherever, don't you?!"

"W-Wha!" Sapphire cried, turning beet red just thinking about the embarrassing scene again. "What are ya talking about?! Ya were the one who walked in on me! And besides, there's no doors in the forest if ya haven't noticed!"

"I think I already know that," Ruby spat.

"Anyways, why do ya have a shirt?! I thought yer clothes got ripped!" Sapphire shouted, pointing at the shirt. She just quickly wanted to change the subject.

"This is my shirt from yesterday," Ruby responded in a matter-of-fact tone. "I came to the spring to rinse the dirty mud because I forgot to do it last night!"

"Oh," Sapphire mouthed. She was about to comment on it until her eyes trailed off somewhere else. She stared at him with a blank look.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that? I know I'm fabulous but you're giving me the creeps right now," Ruby replied, hugging his arms.

Sapphire rolled her eyes at how attractive he thought he is. It's just like the Gold thing all over again.

"It's yer hair!" Sapphire replied, pointing at his forehead. Part of his black hair was showing due to his hat not being properly on all the way since he had rushed it earlier because Sapphire appeared so suddenly.

Ruby quickly grabbed his hat and yanked it down to cover it. "You saw nothing," he stated.

"No, I did see something! I wanna see more now!" Sapphire said, getting curious. She waltz over and jumped on Ruby, trying to yank his hat off.

As the boy tried to pry her off of him and get his grip on his hat, he shouted, "Hey! Sapph! You're getting my shirt dirty and I just cleaned it! Get off!"

When she heard the word 'dirty', she remembered something. Obeying, she got off of him and stood up from her spot. "Oh yeah, that reminds me! I forgot ta say something ta ya!"

"What is it now?" Ruby grumbled, obviously not in the mood for it. He got up and dusted himself nicely.

"Get out of the forest now," she stated bluntly. "You're going to fail and end up dying."

"Thanks for the encouragement and compliment," Ruby said sarcastically. "Look, I might be dying inside and also crying, but there's no way I'll turn around after what happened last night. We're going back tomorrow and all I have to do is just survive today which is no big deal. I'm going to win the bet and you're going to become my new model, and that's that."

"Ya seem so confident in yerself," Sapphire commented. She placed her hands on her hips. "But ya are a fool! It gets harder in the daytime since Pokémon are lurking everywhere!"

"I can handle Pokémon, I basically live and work with them," Ruby stated, giving her a look that said she was stupid.

"But it's different! Gold told me you have a weakness of bug types!" Sapphire said, pointing at him.

"No, I don't," Ruby replied, giving her another look that said she was crazy.

"..." Sapphire didn't have anything to say since that was her best chance to get him out. Plan B. She grabbed some dirt from nearby then tossed it above him.

Ruby let out a girly shriek as it fell down on him. He later turned to Sapphire with a sharp look. "That was so not cool!" he shouted in disgust. "And I thought Gold was an asshole!"

"How dare ya compare me to him!" Sapphire exclaimed, feeling offended. She grabbed a handful of dirt again and held it up next to her.

Ruby narrowed his eyes, already predicting her next moves. "You wouldn't dare."

"I would," Sapphire said, giving him a challenging look.


"Where are the loud ones?" Red asked as he realized something was missing.

"Who?" Blue inquired, confused. Everyone here was pretty much a loud mouth to her.

"Ruby and Sapphire," he replied.

"Wait, what they're gone?" Blue said, looking around. She clasped her hands together. "OH MY GOSH, THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER! I BET THEY'RE DOING A SECRET MEETING AND IS IN LOVEY-DOVEY MODE RIGHT NOW THANKS TO THE BONDING TRIP! AHHHH!" She let out a girlish squeal, fangirling.

"What are you talking about? If anything, this trip got us in an even worse condition," Green pointed out. "We're basically homeless people right now."

"Greenie, I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Crystal," Blue paused for a second before letting it all out, "LET IT GO! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" She breathed then continued before Green could retort. "Any who's, don't bother me for the next three hours."

"That should be my line," Green stated, looking irritated.

"Wait, why not?" Red asked, curious.

"Because I will be doing my morning ritual," Blue replied. She grabbed her backpack. "See you guys! I'll be back at sunset. Try not to make out so much while I'm gone!" And with that, she ran into the woods like a crazy maniac and Green and Red watched her with an odd expression.

"I can never get her," Red stated.

"She's insane, that's why," Green responded, shaking his head disapprovingly.

"Hey, do you guys want to do something or you're going to stay here?" Crystal asked as she put out the fire with lake water she collected. "It's okay to explore the wilderness as long as you know your way back. This is vacation after all so you're free to do whatever. I just need to know to keep track of everyone."

"Explore? That sounds fun!" Red said, nudging Green.

"As if. I'll be on the hammock, reading a book I brought under the shade and enjoy quiet company," Green responded.

"Well it's kind of hard to do that when you're next to Gold." Red let out an awkward laugh and pointed at the hammocks direction to show what he meant.

Gold, Emerald, and Silver were the only ones who were still asleep surprisingly. Silver and Emerald were sleeping together in one hammock (thank goodness it was large) since the two didn't want to be with Gold and just shoved Ruby with him. The two were sound asleep quietly and they faced opposite directions, barely taking any room. In contrast, Gold was in the nearby hammock, snoring loudly and tossing all over the place while drooling all over the sheet.

Green's eye twitched when he saw the scene. "I'll just tune him out like what I do with everyone else," he declared, sighing.

Red chuckled. "I'm actually surprised how Ruby could sleep with him."

"We all do."

"So you're just gonna read? That sounds boring, Green," Red commented. "Don't you want to check out the different Pokémon in the forest? I heard this forest has some special Sinnoh Pokémon! I wanna see them!"

At that, Green perked up. "Research on new Pokémon could help me understand their weaknesses better," he reasoned. "Okay, I'll go."

"Yay!" Red said, pumping his fist up.

"Okay, so you two will be leaving then?" Crystal confirmed.

"Yes."

"Lets see... Ruby and Sapphire are at the spring; Blue is off to her usual things; you guys are exploring; Rald, Silver, and Gold are sleeping; and Yellow... she's doing her usual thing too," Crystal concluded.

"Wait, what? Where's Yellow? I don't see her," Red inquired, looking around.

"She's over there," Crystal replied, pointing near the river.

It took Red a few seconds to find where she was since she looked different and was sitting against a tree that was blocking his view. But he could see her. She was there in the pretty attire, fishing under the shade. Immediately after seeing her, he turned to Green.

"Green, you're on your own," Red stated flatly.

"What? You're the one who wanted to do exploring the most!" Green retorted.

"Well yeah, but I feel that this should be a bonding trip where we relax and get to know each other. I've known you for the past few years and I only know Yellow for about a year? I don't remember, but I think it's much shorter than that," Red tried to reason.

Green rolled his eyes. "I never thought the Pokémon maniac would turn it down, but it's okay," he replied. "I want to take a quiet nature walk anyways."

And with that, he went to tell Crystal that he was leaving then left. Crystal also left as well, saying that she wanted to gather more things for dinner and also 'train' something. Red assumed it was a Pokémon but wasn't specific. After she left, it was just him, Silver, Gold, and Yellow at the camp. Emerald left later on since he wanted to get some dirt samples of the land for some reason. Red didn't question it and headed over to Yellow who was dozing off.

"Hey," he greeted.

Yellow widened her eyes and tensed up slightly when she heard his voice. "Red!" she exclaimed. "Sorry, I was daydreaming for a second."

"That's cool. I did come suddenly after all," Red said, shrugging it off.

He leaned closer to her and tried to get a glimpse of her sketchbook to see what she was drawing. Yellow noticed it and quickly pulled it away from him.

"Can I see it?" he asked when he met her eyes. "I heard Blue told me you're a great artist!"

Yellow shook her head. "Sorry but I'm too embarrassed," she denied, a blush creeping on her cheeks. "Anyways, are you planning on doing anything later? You have the whole morning and afternoon to yourself in the forest so you should enjoy it."

Red laid his back against the ground and used his arms as a pillow behind his head. "I don't know. I don't really have any ideas of coming here and this is actually my first time camping," he admitted. "I sometimes come here for the Pokémon though."

"Oh," Yellow mouthed. "Well, do you want to try fishing? There's a lot of water Pokémon you could meet and I have an extra rod."

Red nodded and smiled. "Sure."


"Sapph, you are such a barbarian!" Ruby cried, feeling hurt from earlier with the mud attack. He grimaced as he tried to scrub his shirt with the sponge he brought for emergencies.

"It was an accident! I wasn't actually going ta do it so stop whinin'!" Sapphire snapped.

When she had gotten the mud in her hands to attack Ruby, she was just trying to intimidate him. But that didn't go as planned when a Pokémon popped out of the bushes and surprised Sapphire. The girl had accidently hurled it onto Ruby's shirt when she had jumped out of the way to get away from it. Luckily, it turned out that it was just a small caterpie and she was mistaken.

"It doesn't matter! My clothes are still gross," Ruby stated.

"Yeah hu— huh?" Sapphire stopped her bored, not caring tone when she realized something salty in the air.

"What?" Ruby asked, seeing her reaction.

"I have a feeling it might rain soon," Sapphire responded.

"As if," Ruby retorted, looking up at the skies, only to find a bright, hot sun and no clouds present. "You might be a caveman but I don't think you can predict the weather. The skies are clear."

Sapphire opened her mouth and looked very offended. "Shut up! I'm just getting a feeling, okay?"


"Gary! I told you a million times! You can't keep doing these things! I don't care if Fire isn't here! Just don't do it!"

Green heard a furious voice filled with passion from behind the trees when he went to go look for Pokémon. Curious, he went towards the voice. There was Blue in a middle of an open space next to a dirt hill. She was holding a script and yelling at a tree, practicing her lines.

He mentally slapped himself for not realizing those are the lines from the drama and that he didn't recognize her voice right away.

"No good..." Blue muttered to herself as she took out a pencil and started to mark down notes.

He hid behind a tree, feeling surprised. Usually during rehearsal or something, she would always fool around and get her character right away. Since they've been living in the house, he hasn't seen her do it there either, so he thought she slacked off. But instead, the girl actually practiced seriously.

DRIP.

A dot of water made Blue's paper seek through. She looked up when she saw it. Gray clouds formed around her spot and before she could realize it, it started sprinkling even more.

"Where's the camp?" Green asked, popping out of the woods like it was no big thing.

He had asked so that he could walk back together with her instead of just following.

"Green?" Blue finally realized he was there. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to look for Pokémon but I got lost," he lied.

Blue looked at him with smug look as if she won something. "Hohoho~! So even 'The Great Green' gets lost, huh?" she said.

A tick mark appeared on his forehead even though he expected it. "Anyways, it's about to pour. Let's go back to camp," he suggested.

A second later it started to pour heavily before she got to reply.

"No! My script!" Blue exclaimed, shoving the piece of paper in her bra to give it protection.

"What is wrong with you?!" Green said, looking the other way to be polite.

"I spent the last hour doing this! I'm not going to give it up! Now c'mon, let's go get shelter!" Blue said, grabbing his hand and yanking it forward.


"Hey guys!" Crystal greeted as she entered the campgrounds. "Is everyone okay? It's raining pretty hard!" She used her backpack to cover her from the rain.

At the camp, everyone was taking cover. Since they lost their waterproof tent for situations like these, they had to use to the blankets as shield, which wasn't exactly the best idea since it was still seeping through but it was better than being out in the open. Gold, Silver, and Emerald were under the hammocks as well.

Yellow was wearing the jacket that Red wore yesterday for protection next to him.

"Crystal!" Red shouted, charging over to her.

"Here, use this!" he suggested, putting someone's jacket around her shoulders.

"Wait, who's jacket is this?" she questioned as she and Red ran to the mini-shelter they made.

"Gold's."

Crystal stopped running all of a sudden. Red turned to her with a confused look and she answered it, "I'm good." She took it off and handed it out to him.

"What are you guys doing?! Dang, why is it raining so hard?! My hair was just perfect five minutes ago!" Gold said, running out to them.

"You weren't even awake five minutes ago!" Red deadpanned.

"Just hurry up and go!" Crystal scolded, running to the array of hammocks. When she got there, she sat down next to Yellow and squeezed her pigtails to release the water in them. "I should've looked at the weather forecast before we came. I can't believe I was so carefree!"

"It's okay, Crys," Gold said, sitting down next to her much to her dismay. "You needed to loosen up more anyways!"

"Shut it," Crystal snapped.

"Crystal, are you okay?" Emerald asked worriedly to which she nodded.

"I'm just wet," she replied. She turned to Yellow. "Ruby and Sapphire are at the springs, right?"

Yellow looked in the direction. "Yeah," she nodded absentmindedly. "It's somewhat far from here so I'm kind of worried. I hope they're okay... Blue and Green aren't here yet either."

"I hope she's okay..." Silver mumbled. He wanted to go earlier but Red kept stopping him and reasoning that Blue would get worried if she came back and he got lost.

"Don't worry, this is them we're talking about. They'll be fine and the storm will let up in minutes!" Red reassured.


"I TOLD YA!" Sapphire shouted, trying to be louder than the pouring rain. She looked up at the sky. "I hope thunder doesn't come."

"Who cares?! C'mon, we have to find shelter!" Ruby said, yanking her wrist.

She ripped off his grip. "Don't touch me!"

"This isn't the time to be fighting!" Ruby scolded with small mutters of 'my clothes'. "Which way is the camp?!"

"That's a long way!" Sapphire shouted back at him. "I know a close place! Come with me!" She bent down as if she was going to give a baby a ride.

"I'm not getting on your back! I might want to avoid mud but that's so wrong in so many ways!" Ruby responded, refusing her invitation.

She got up and yelled at him, "Yer way too slow and the place I have in mind is in a high place! Since ya have no jumping ability and is going ta drag behind, ya might as well do as I say since I'm actually being nice here! You know what, screw it! Who cares about what you think!"

Without Ruby's consent or permission, she scooped him up bridal style and dashed for the woods.


A/N — I'll be honest and say that I wanted to stop the story at a later spot but then the word count was way overboard and I ended up doing a lot of scenes with the girls. Sorry about the inequality of lines guys! I put Yellow in the limelight on accident a lot since she's my favorite character and put characters like Silver with less words bc he doesn't have a person to ship with YET. She's there, but she hasn't appeared YET. I'll try to even it out soon, one way or another. LOL well anyways, I wanted to mention to one of my reviewers that mangaquestshipping isn't really in this arc much because I forget to add it and wanted to focus on franticshipping in this arc since it's mostly about them (though I can never write it) but it will be somewhat in the limelight in the next arc I will be writing after this. I'm literally trying to do franticshipping with a secondary shipping in the arcs LOL.

But like yay, I'm almost done with the camp arc introductory! I think it'll last about 1-2 more chapters? I'm not sure on the amount since I haven't decided yet but I don't want to let it drag on WAY too much bc I have a beautiful arc planned after this! XD I'm totally in writer mood guys.

Anyways, replies to the reviewers time!
Guest — LOL yes, but it's Hollywood and it sometimes happens oops.
Sakura fields — Thank yew XD The next chapter should come out sooner since I have more backups and whatnot.
leontinees — LOL thank you :) Also, I can't exactly get Blue's cunny personality right but I think she's a lovable dork when she's with Green LOL. Anyways, I wonder about the Pokémon thing bc there are scenes in the anime where Ash eats meat but then there's no animals but just Pokémon... I mean, I know I'm probably think a lot but idk.
jake97531 — *gross sobs* THANK YOU I LOVE YOU TOO TT^TT Your review totally made my day and it made me feel a lot better, especially since I was doing horrible testing for four hours! :)))) It was so sweet! I'm actually really happy you said that bc I tend to get sloppy (or I feel it) with my writing since I went on a slight month hiatus. Thanks again XD
Just Another Kid — LMAO JERKWAD (aka Green)! YOUR REVIEW KILLED ME LOL. I love your reviews haha! Your comments are so funny :) Also, yes, you lose ALOT of man points when that happens. Ruby somewhat has them left. LOL. About your field trip, it's okay. I totally know how you feel when you said you were like Ruby. My personality is somewhat like him (I'm very whiny when it comes to nature things) so I can relate lol. Also, WE ALL NEED A BREAK FROM SCHOOL OMG. I just finished a state exam and I'm almost done for the year. Thank you Summer for being there! Also, yeah, it IS lighthearted and I want to keep it that way since I feel better writing it. But yeah, sorry about not putting Blue bugging them. I mean, I made moments for specialshipping but then I wanted her to focus on the upcoming oldrivalshipping moments XD Blue needs some romance in her life LOL. Anyways, thanks for reviewing and giving me your comments :) I'm really interested in them! Tbh it was hard thinking about how the guys were going to get out so I just let the situation subside oops. LOL.

THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING! :))))))))))))
I enjoyed all of your reviews and appreciate them sooooo much and you guys are so sweet! I LOVE YOU GUYS XD Hopefully I can get a faster update! This one only came out slightly late bc I thought I posted it two weeks ago LOL.