Chapter 20: Why?
"Damien!" Sarah yelled, walking into the cave. "Take your bad mood someplace else!"
"Huh?" said Damien, waking up and sitting up.
"You were asleep?" Sarah asked, amazed. "Sorry!"
"It's okay."
"What about his bad mood?" asked Anakin.
"He froze up the water again!" Sarah accused.
"Not me. I was asleep."
"Then who was it?" asked Sarah.
"I don't know. Could you leave me alone? I'm not feeling so great."
"Sorry." Sarah left. The rest of them finished eating. Ben told them to go outside and let Damien sleep. They did.
The person freezing up the water was a boy named Josh. Josh was one of Damien's friends, had heard he had left the planet, and was looking for him on the nearby planets. He saw Pikablu and knew that there was somebody with Pokemon around there. He decided to ask someone if they knew Damien.
He walked up to the nearest person, but he didn't have to say anything before Cathy said, "You want Damien? In there," she said, pointing to his cave.
"Uh, thanks," said Josh. He went inside the cave. He had a belt full of Pokéballs, which is how Cathy had guessed he was looking for Damien.
Damien was facing away from the door. He was asleep, so Josh woke him.
"Who is it?" asked Damien, slightly annoyed.
"Your best friend," said Josh.
"Tim?" asked Damien.
"Tim?" said Josh, but Damien had fallen back asleep. "I have to find this 'Tim' person," said Josh. He went to Cathy and asked where Tim was.
"You know Tim, too? I think he's in Lee's cabin right now." Cathy pointed to Lee's cabin.
Josh walked into Lee's cabin.
"Can I help you?" asked Lee.
"Which one of you is Tim?" asked Josh.
"I am," said Tim.
"Come with me," instructed Josh. Tim looked at Lee, shrugged, and followed Josh out of the enchanted forest.
"You're Damien's best friend," Josh informed him.
"I am? Cool! Anyway what does that have to do with you?"
"I'm Damien's best friend. I think we have a problem here."
"What?"
"We can't both be Damien's best friend."
"Why not?"
"Because!" said Josh. With that, he swung back and punched Tim in the face, missing his nose slightly. Josh was very weak, so it didn't hurt Tim much, but it did surprise him and made him lose his balance.
Josh left Tim on the ground and ran back into Damien's cave.
"Who's your best friend now?" he asked. "I punched Tim's lights out!" (A slight exaggeration.)
"You punched Tim?" asked Damien, fully awake.
"Yeah! Aren't I great?"
"You know what, Josh?" asked Damien, getting to his feet. Josh shook his head. Damien punched him where he had tried to hit Tim, in the nose. It started bleeding. "Never punch my friends," Damien warned. He picked up Josh by the shirt collar and threw him out of the forest. Josh quickly got up and raced off.
"Now I know why I was leader of my gang back home," Damien laughed. He went back to bed.
Meanwhile, Anakin was starting something that was going to get him into a lot of trouble, but since he had already started his training, he had no reason to be good.
"Anakin, leave me alone! You're annoying!" Jacen said.
"Why?"
"Because you're annoying!"
"Why?"
"Because you are!"
"Why?"
"Stop it!"
"Why?"
Jacen got up and walked away, not wanting to deal with Anakin's stupidity right now, or any time for that matter.
Anakin had succeeded in making Jacen mad, so he decided to try another person.
"Hey, Anni!" Tim called. "You're not doing anything. Can you help me?"
"Why?"
"Because this wood is heavy."
"Why?"
"I don't know. I think it's something about density and stuff. Can you help me?"
"Why?"
"Forget it," Tim muttered.
Anakin was always willing to show off, but never to do any work. He decided to try his "why" trick on Ben.
"Anni, you should have helped Tim," said Ben.
"Why?"
"It's the right thing to do."
"Why?"
"Being helpful is something you need to learn."
"Why?"
Ben put his hand in front of Anakin's mouth. He used The Force to keep him mouth shut. "That should keep you quiet."
But it didn't. Anakin projected his "why's" into people's heads, so that they were not only annoyed, they were confused. He began to do this to Jaina and Jacen the most, until they had had enough of it, and put a "bubble" around his head, so he couldn't project any thoughts.
He was really mad then. He went into his cave. He was so mad, he began to knock over things. He knocked over the table and every chair. He messed up the beds and kicked dishes off the counter. He finally kicked Pikablu and Togepi's cage.
Damien was a sound sleeper, but not that sound. He heard the noise Anakin was making, but didn't care. He pulled the blankets over his head and tried to sleep again. He did.
Anakin was still really mad, so he started stomping all over the place. He jumped about three feet in the air, and crashed down on whatever happened to be under him. But, he jumped too far. Even he didn't mean to do what he had just done.
He got up, stunned. He had jumped on Damien. Maybe he won't notice. Anakin thought. He was wrong.
Damien sat up, rubbing his chest where Anakin had landed. He glared at Anakin. Anakin gave one of his innocent smiles. It had no effect. Damien picked Anakin up, just as he had done with Josh. "Never do that again," he sneered.
Anakin nodded nervously. Damien dropped him in a crumpled heap on the floor. "Now, clean up," he said sternly. He gave Anakin a small kick with his foot. He went back to bed, and Anakin went outside.
Anakin refused to clean up, and since Damien was in a bad enough mood, Jacen decided to clean for him. It took very little effort, anyway.