I'm sorry about the very long wait for this chapter. I had a very large
case of writer's block on this chapter. I just didn't have inspiration to
write for some reason. For your patience you can pick up * points to a
table that has a huge pile of chocolate bars* a free chocolate bar. Enjoy
your chocolate and this chapter.
Chp.6
"I'm bored" I whined. We have been walking for hours ever since the sun came up. The sun decided to pop in early with her bald yellow head shining light down on us.
"Where's that city you were talking about?" Erin ignored my whines. "All I have seen are trees, trees, the occasional attacking pidgey and even more trees." I continued to complain.
"Shut up. I don't want to hear your whining right now. So the city was farther than I thought. I know we are going in the right direction at least." Erin said groggily.
"How do you know we are going the right direction, huh?" I challenged. Erin just glared at me.
We kept walking and walking and walking in the same boring direction with nothing but the same boring green trees surrounding us on all sides. After what seemed to be forever of pointless walking, I started smelling something interesting. Something that made me remember a forgotten memory of long ago. It was something that recharge my memory of happy times, times before I was left in the forest. Times with my master.
The more we walked towards the same direction, that smell became stronger and stronger. The smell had to be from the city Erin was talking about.
"What is that smell," I muttered to myself.
"What smell?" Erin asked.
"I keep smelling the same thing. It reminds me of something, something long ago." I said starting to sniff. "It's very close, that's all I know." Then a simple thought triggered everything. I wondered what would my master be doing then everything flowed in like the rushing waters falling from a cliff. That smell was my master's.
I stared running full speed, ignoring everything in my path.
"Flare, where you're going?" Erin said with his voice fading in the distance.
"I know where he is, I know where my master is," I yelled back hoping he heard me.
"Well, wait up" I continued running leaving Erin behind the same boring forest.
I ignored him running still as fast, with the trees becoming a single green blur. Still following the same scent. The forest was starting to thin out; they weren't as packed as before. I could barely hear Erin's voice still yelling for me.
Then skyscrapers popped out of nowhere, along with cars speeding by in the packed streets. People crowded on one sidewalk all following one direction. There were noises everywhere with the honks of the cars, people screaming and talking. The entire place was total chaos. I had run into the middle of the city.
I decided to ignore the chaos, going back to relocate my smell. After spending some time introducing the sidewalk to my nose and bumping into various people along the way, I found the smell.
I ran again, becoming the same red streak weaving in and out of people, going the same general direction. That's when I saw him, my master. The smell led right to him, but he was different, very different.
He was much older, the one I knew was maybe twelve but he looked like a thirty-year-old. The light brown hair was now this darker brown, almost black. His young, light face was now more mature and darker. He was wearing a black suit, sitting on a park bench.
How could that person be my master? Was Pixie right? That I had waited for my master for that long a time now? The thoughts plagued my head confusing me more and more.
Slowly, the crowd thinned out leaving only me and him. I shook my head, trying to get the thoughts out of my mind. This was my master, I know it.
So, I ran up to him saying that I'm Flare, your growlithe. My master looked strangely at me, like I was a stranger, someone he didn't know.
"What do you want?" He said angrily. He was starting to get up out of the bench.
"I'm Flare, your growlithe, your pokemon. Don't you remember me?" I said slowly, confused.
"Go away, you stupid growlithe," He said, standing up. Looking down at me haughtily, as if I was yesterday's trash tossing around in the wind.
"Why don't you remember me, WHY? I'm Flare, your growlithe. YOUR POKEMON." I yelled at him. How could he forget me, how? All that time we spent was a waste.
"Leave me alone," Then a brown shoe just materialized out of thin air, kicking me in the side. I was slammed hard on the grass. The person who kicked me was my master, of all people, it was him.
I felt water building up in my eyes, ready to drop down to my red fur. This was my master, but he isn't the same person now. Pixie was right, completely right. I was abandoned; he just left me there out in the forest to rot. He was never coming back to that ripped off stump. He lied to me.
"Flare, Flare, FLARE, WHERE ARE YOU?" I heard Erin yell out in the distance.
"Flare?" My master said in a mixture of shock and confusion.
"ERIN, I'm over here" I yelled back.
"Flare, what happened to you?" Erin said seeing me on the ground in front of my master.
"This was my master." I said getting up slowly with the painful ache in my side. "I got kicked, he doesn't remember me. He doesn't know who I am at all," I continued slowly full with a mixture of regret and cold anger.
"So, that's your wayward trainer," Erin said slowly, eyeing my master. At this time I got up and very slowly limped out of the park.
"Excuse me, boy." Master said to Erin. (From the rest of the story he's just called master. I don't want to keep calling him 'the master' or 'my master')
"What?" Erin said in surprise and confusion that someone wanted to talk to him.
"That growlithe, is he yours"
"Um…. no?" Erin said with lack of words. "Why do you want to know?" Erin said continuing to be uneasy.
"Because, when you said the name 'Flare'. I thought could this be the growlithe that I left in the middle of the forest, after all his name was Flare." He remembered me only after Erin said my name. Something is up. He seems more interested in Erin than me.
"Well, I think that's your growlithe, but I don't think he wants you anymore since you kicked him." Erin said started to walk backwards away from Master.
"How did you know I kicked him? I might have done something else" Master continued to inquire Erin. Erin ended up walking backwards into a tree.
"Ok, um……" Erin paused looking for an excuse he could use to get away from this odd conversation.
"You know, I have to take Flare to the pokemon center and get him treated." Erin said quickly trying to walk away from Master. Master grabbed his right shoulder before he could go any further. Erin was suddenly shaking when Master did that.
"He's not hurt that badly. You know the pokemon language don't you?" Master said in a monotone voice.
"Like I said," Erin said lifting the hand on his shoulder. "I have to go" Erin said as he rapidly walked towards me and out of the park.
"What was that about?" I asked when we were back on the street.
"Let me put it this way, something is not right with your master. He seemed excited when I was talking to you. He already knows that I speak pokemon but I don't know why he was so excited by that." Erin answered keeping his eyes on the sidewalk.
"Maybe it's because you can prove that you speak pokemon. I mean no one else saw me getting kicked by him." I suggested.
"No, it seems more...what's that word?? Diabolical. It's like he just found the missing part in his plans. I have a feeling that's me."
"Diabolical?? You mean like evil?" Erin nodded. "That can't be. He would just go around collecting badges and doing what he thought was best."
"That's your problem, Flare. He was your trainer. It's hard for pokemon and people themselves to think that their loved one is evil or abusive. Besides that, the last time you saw him was maybe around twelve to twenty years ago. It's possible that the day you got abandoned that was the day he changed his ways. People can change a lot with that much time."
We just fell silent, walking on the empty sidewalk. I started developing a weird feeling that wouldn't go away. Everything was just too quiet. As time wore on, the feeling grew worse and worse. We were in a big city but this street we are now walking on was empty. No cars, no people, no sound. It was absolute silence.
"Erin, when was the last time we saw a person?" I asked looking both ways at the sidewalk.
"I don't know" Erin said pausing at every word. "It's only one in the afternoon and no one is here." Erin started looking down the street the same way I was.
"Something bad always happen whenever a street is empty." Erin said. Sure enough, a black van with tinted windows started driving up the street.
"Ok, Flare is it me or do you have the sudden urge to run right now?"
"Let's see the street is empty, we just talked to my master that could have an evil plan and a black van is coming up to us that came out of nowhere. Running is a good idea"
Right after I said that, Erin and I ran full out. As we were running the van picked up speed also. We crossed several streets before turning left and right and any direction we could think of, the van continued to follow us with every direction we took.
"Do you happen to have anything valuable with you?" I yelled as we ran changing directions at every curb.
"Not that I know of," Erin yelled back.
"Ok, the van is either after you or me. Do you think it would help to split up?" I asked still running.
"I don't think so. I think they're after me"
"We can't keep up this speed." I said looking back. The van was quickly gaining up on us.
"They're getting closer."
"I don't know how much longer I can run. Why aren't there any people here?"
"Don't ask me. I'll try to stop them." I said when I stopped running.
"Ember" I yelled as I sent out a fireball to the tires. The van was going too fast that when the fiery sphere was sent out the van already past me.
"ERIN, RUN. IT DIDN'T WORK," I shouted at the top of my lungs. I could only hope that he heard me where ever he was.
I started running, chasing after the van as I continued to shooting out embers. The van was slowly getting farther and farther. My embers didn't travel far enough to stop the van. I continued to chasing the night-colored vehicle, ignoring the fatigue and pain growing on my legs. Then I started getting closer to the van, how could this be? I asked myself. I'm still traveling the same speed or even slower so why is the van closer? I continued to ask myself.
Then I saw it from another block away, Erin had stopped running and collapsed on the pavement. The van stopped right besides him as a large man roughly grabbed him. Erin was then thrown in the van and the door close.
"NO!! ERIN!" I yelled. The van started up though and drove off. Before I took another step, my legs gave out exhausted from all of the running before. I watched helplessly as the black van drove off becoming smaller and smaller.
"ERIN!! ERIN!!"
* Bites off a piece of chocolate* Ok, I know people will hate me for this cliffhanger, but I'm the authoress so accept it. Please hit the review button below and tell me what you think.
Chp.6
"I'm bored" I whined. We have been walking for hours ever since the sun came up. The sun decided to pop in early with her bald yellow head shining light down on us.
"Where's that city you were talking about?" Erin ignored my whines. "All I have seen are trees, trees, the occasional attacking pidgey and even more trees." I continued to complain.
"Shut up. I don't want to hear your whining right now. So the city was farther than I thought. I know we are going in the right direction at least." Erin said groggily.
"How do you know we are going the right direction, huh?" I challenged. Erin just glared at me.
We kept walking and walking and walking in the same boring direction with nothing but the same boring green trees surrounding us on all sides. After what seemed to be forever of pointless walking, I started smelling something interesting. Something that made me remember a forgotten memory of long ago. It was something that recharge my memory of happy times, times before I was left in the forest. Times with my master.
The more we walked towards the same direction, that smell became stronger and stronger. The smell had to be from the city Erin was talking about.
"What is that smell," I muttered to myself.
"What smell?" Erin asked.
"I keep smelling the same thing. It reminds me of something, something long ago." I said starting to sniff. "It's very close, that's all I know." Then a simple thought triggered everything. I wondered what would my master be doing then everything flowed in like the rushing waters falling from a cliff. That smell was my master's.
I stared running full speed, ignoring everything in my path.
"Flare, where you're going?" Erin said with his voice fading in the distance.
"I know where he is, I know where my master is," I yelled back hoping he heard me.
"Well, wait up" I continued running leaving Erin behind the same boring forest.
I ignored him running still as fast, with the trees becoming a single green blur. Still following the same scent. The forest was starting to thin out; they weren't as packed as before. I could barely hear Erin's voice still yelling for me.
Then skyscrapers popped out of nowhere, along with cars speeding by in the packed streets. People crowded on one sidewalk all following one direction. There were noises everywhere with the honks of the cars, people screaming and talking. The entire place was total chaos. I had run into the middle of the city.
I decided to ignore the chaos, going back to relocate my smell. After spending some time introducing the sidewalk to my nose and bumping into various people along the way, I found the smell.
I ran again, becoming the same red streak weaving in and out of people, going the same general direction. That's when I saw him, my master. The smell led right to him, but he was different, very different.
He was much older, the one I knew was maybe twelve but he looked like a thirty-year-old. The light brown hair was now this darker brown, almost black. His young, light face was now more mature and darker. He was wearing a black suit, sitting on a park bench.
How could that person be my master? Was Pixie right? That I had waited for my master for that long a time now? The thoughts plagued my head confusing me more and more.
Slowly, the crowd thinned out leaving only me and him. I shook my head, trying to get the thoughts out of my mind. This was my master, I know it.
So, I ran up to him saying that I'm Flare, your growlithe. My master looked strangely at me, like I was a stranger, someone he didn't know.
"What do you want?" He said angrily. He was starting to get up out of the bench.
"I'm Flare, your growlithe, your pokemon. Don't you remember me?" I said slowly, confused.
"Go away, you stupid growlithe," He said, standing up. Looking down at me haughtily, as if I was yesterday's trash tossing around in the wind.
"Why don't you remember me, WHY? I'm Flare, your growlithe. YOUR POKEMON." I yelled at him. How could he forget me, how? All that time we spent was a waste.
"Leave me alone," Then a brown shoe just materialized out of thin air, kicking me in the side. I was slammed hard on the grass. The person who kicked me was my master, of all people, it was him.
I felt water building up in my eyes, ready to drop down to my red fur. This was my master, but he isn't the same person now. Pixie was right, completely right. I was abandoned; he just left me there out in the forest to rot. He was never coming back to that ripped off stump. He lied to me.
"Flare, Flare, FLARE, WHERE ARE YOU?" I heard Erin yell out in the distance.
"Flare?" My master said in a mixture of shock and confusion.
"ERIN, I'm over here" I yelled back.
"Flare, what happened to you?" Erin said seeing me on the ground in front of my master.
"This was my master." I said getting up slowly with the painful ache in my side. "I got kicked, he doesn't remember me. He doesn't know who I am at all," I continued slowly full with a mixture of regret and cold anger.
"So, that's your wayward trainer," Erin said slowly, eyeing my master. At this time I got up and very slowly limped out of the park.
"Excuse me, boy." Master said to Erin. (From the rest of the story he's just called master. I don't want to keep calling him 'the master' or 'my master')
"What?" Erin said in surprise and confusion that someone wanted to talk to him.
"That growlithe, is he yours"
"Um…. no?" Erin said with lack of words. "Why do you want to know?" Erin said continuing to be uneasy.
"Because, when you said the name 'Flare'. I thought could this be the growlithe that I left in the middle of the forest, after all his name was Flare." He remembered me only after Erin said my name. Something is up. He seems more interested in Erin than me.
"Well, I think that's your growlithe, but I don't think he wants you anymore since you kicked him." Erin said started to walk backwards away from Master.
"How did you know I kicked him? I might have done something else" Master continued to inquire Erin. Erin ended up walking backwards into a tree.
"Ok, um……" Erin paused looking for an excuse he could use to get away from this odd conversation.
"You know, I have to take Flare to the pokemon center and get him treated." Erin said quickly trying to walk away from Master. Master grabbed his right shoulder before he could go any further. Erin was suddenly shaking when Master did that.
"He's not hurt that badly. You know the pokemon language don't you?" Master said in a monotone voice.
"Like I said," Erin said lifting the hand on his shoulder. "I have to go" Erin said as he rapidly walked towards me and out of the park.
"What was that about?" I asked when we were back on the street.
"Let me put it this way, something is not right with your master. He seemed excited when I was talking to you. He already knows that I speak pokemon but I don't know why he was so excited by that." Erin answered keeping his eyes on the sidewalk.
"Maybe it's because you can prove that you speak pokemon. I mean no one else saw me getting kicked by him." I suggested.
"No, it seems more...what's that word?? Diabolical. It's like he just found the missing part in his plans. I have a feeling that's me."
"Diabolical?? You mean like evil?" Erin nodded. "That can't be. He would just go around collecting badges and doing what he thought was best."
"That's your problem, Flare. He was your trainer. It's hard for pokemon and people themselves to think that their loved one is evil or abusive. Besides that, the last time you saw him was maybe around twelve to twenty years ago. It's possible that the day you got abandoned that was the day he changed his ways. People can change a lot with that much time."
We just fell silent, walking on the empty sidewalk. I started developing a weird feeling that wouldn't go away. Everything was just too quiet. As time wore on, the feeling grew worse and worse. We were in a big city but this street we are now walking on was empty. No cars, no people, no sound. It was absolute silence.
"Erin, when was the last time we saw a person?" I asked looking both ways at the sidewalk.
"I don't know" Erin said pausing at every word. "It's only one in the afternoon and no one is here." Erin started looking down the street the same way I was.
"Something bad always happen whenever a street is empty." Erin said. Sure enough, a black van with tinted windows started driving up the street.
"Ok, Flare is it me or do you have the sudden urge to run right now?"
"Let's see the street is empty, we just talked to my master that could have an evil plan and a black van is coming up to us that came out of nowhere. Running is a good idea"
Right after I said that, Erin and I ran full out. As we were running the van picked up speed also. We crossed several streets before turning left and right and any direction we could think of, the van continued to follow us with every direction we took.
"Do you happen to have anything valuable with you?" I yelled as we ran changing directions at every curb.
"Not that I know of," Erin yelled back.
"Ok, the van is either after you or me. Do you think it would help to split up?" I asked still running.
"I don't think so. I think they're after me"
"We can't keep up this speed." I said looking back. The van was quickly gaining up on us.
"They're getting closer."
"I don't know how much longer I can run. Why aren't there any people here?"
"Don't ask me. I'll try to stop them." I said when I stopped running.
"Ember" I yelled as I sent out a fireball to the tires. The van was going too fast that when the fiery sphere was sent out the van already past me.
"ERIN, RUN. IT DIDN'T WORK," I shouted at the top of my lungs. I could only hope that he heard me where ever he was.
I started running, chasing after the van as I continued to shooting out embers. The van was slowly getting farther and farther. My embers didn't travel far enough to stop the van. I continued to chasing the night-colored vehicle, ignoring the fatigue and pain growing on my legs. Then I started getting closer to the van, how could this be? I asked myself. I'm still traveling the same speed or even slower so why is the van closer? I continued to ask myself.
Then I saw it from another block away, Erin had stopped running and collapsed on the pavement. The van stopped right besides him as a large man roughly grabbed him. Erin was then thrown in the van and the door close.
"NO!! ERIN!" I yelled. The van started up though and drove off. Before I took another step, my legs gave out exhausted from all of the running before. I watched helplessly as the black van drove off becoming smaller and smaller.
"ERIN!! ERIN!!"
* Bites off a piece of chocolate* Ok, I know people will hate me for this cliffhanger, but I'm the authoress so accept it. Please hit the review button below and tell me what you think.