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. Chapter Five -

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(Okay, I'm not going to put anymore last fic thingies. You can always go back and read em yourself, can't you? ^^; )

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The sky was very dark and cloudy when Brock and Misty woke up the next morning. Ash had been gone for a few days now, and they were losing hope in him coming back on his own. They both were very worried about him and Pikachu, and hoped that they were both still alive.

"So, should we go look for him?" Brock asked Misty as he started some breakfast, made of berries and fruits that he collected the day before. Misty didn't answer his question right away. She looked off in another direction, unsure of what to say.

"I think we should, Brock." she answered at last, and Brock nodded in agreement. He walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. "We'll find him."

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"Hey, Jesse? Do you know where Meowth's ran off to?"

"Nope."

"Have you even seen him this morning?"

"Nope."

"*sigh* Do you even care?"

"Nope."

"Hmm. Well, I do. I'm a little worried."

"Why? Meowth'll be okay, we normally leave him by himself right?" Jesse said, but not before she crammed one of their few rice cakes into her mouth. James looked into their balloon's basket, and examined one of Meowth's yarn balls.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." James said as he stared at the yarnball. He set it down and sat down next to Jesse who was still eating rice balls. He reached for one, but jesse sort of snarled at him and he quickly took back his hand. "It's just he's been acting wierd lately."

"You--" Chew, chew, "--Worry too--" munch, chew, "--Mmm, much James."

Jesse finished stuffing her face with what was some of the last bit of their small food supply and folded her arms. "We should be going now anyway. We still have a mission to finish, remember?"

So they both left the campsite and traveled into the forest.

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"Umm.... hello?" Meowth cautiously approached one tree after another, desperately trying to find the tree that he talked to just the other night. There were things that he wanted to talk about, like how the tree was able to speak to him without it having a mouth.

"Hello?.." another tree, ".. Hello?" and another "..Hello?!?" and yet another. None of the trees spoke him, not even a whisper or even to tell him to go away. Nothing. The only thing he heard was the wind blowing through the trees, and a few Pidgey a few feet away.

Finally, he gave up. The trees just weren't going to speak to him today. Maybe it was only that one tree that spoke to him, and not any of the others. How in the world would he find the one that wanted to be his friend? Or maybe it was his imagination. Being left alone must have driven him into temporary insanity or something. Yeah, that was probably it.

Meowth kicked a nearby pebble a little further ahead of him. He decided that he would go back to the balloon. Jesse and James were probably waiting for him. He walked and walked, back to the campsite. He listened to the wind as he walked, along with the Pidgeys, the Spearows, a faint voice calling out "Hello?", and the--

He stopped there in his tracks and listened. Again he heard a faint voice, that seemed to be coming from somewhere to his left. Meowth listened harder, and it sounded like the same voice that he spoke to last night. It had to be. He ran through the forest as fast as he could, toward the voice. "Hello?" Meowth called out. He didn't want the tree to think that he had abandoned it.

"Where are you?" he heard it say.

"Where are YOU?"

"I'm over here!"

"Over where?"

"Here! Over here! Where are you?"

"Hold on! I'm coming--"

Meowth bumped into something and landed hard on his (errrr) bottom. He heard the thing he bumped into fall as well. When he opened his eyes, he was face to face with a beautiful girl with long brown hair. He gasped and turned away to keep from showing his blushing face. He had the urge to say he was sorry, but the girl beat him to it.

"I'm sorry," she said as she helped him up. Meowth covered his face with his paws as he started to blush anymore.

"No, it was my fault." he said through his paw. He heard the girl giggle.

"I was umm.... looking for...." she trailed off and looked around.

"Err, yeah. I was looking for a..." Meowth looked up at her, and she looked at him. "So... You were looking for a ... a tree?"

"How did you know? Are you the tree I was talking to--" she started but someone interrupted her.

"Meowth!" Meowth turned around to see Jesse, who was soon followed by James. Both of them appeared shocked to see him there.

"So there you are!" James said, and he smiled. "I was worried about you. Where have you--"

James looked from Meowth to the girl, maybe three times before he asked, "Who's this?"

Meowth looked at her and she took a slightly frightened step back. He heard her say something under her breath, but not low enough that it couldn't be heard. He wasn't sure if she was saying it to him, or anyone at all. "Who are these people?"

"What the..." Jesse stared at the girl, like she didn't understand a word that the girl spoke. It was then that he realised the girl wasn't speaking English, but she was speaking in Poke'mon language and he understood her.

"Go away!" the girl said, this time in english. She sounded like she was having trouble speaking it. Jesse and James didn't move. They looked at each other and then back at the girl.

"Tell us your name kid," Jesse said to her.

"My.. name is..." she started. Meowth shook his head.



'Please... PLEASE, don't let her name be--'

"...Sau." she said, and Jesse and James grinned at each other. Sau obviously didn't like them being that happy about her saying her name.

"Do you think you can come with us little girl?" Jesse asked in a false sweet voice. James nodded in agreement.

"It would really help us if you would." James chimed in. She girl shook her head. Meowth sighed in relief. This girl was really the 'tree' he had been talking to. That ment that she wanted to be his friend! His very one friend who he could talk to and play with and--

"I said come here little girl!" Jesse said, and her sweet voice seemed to vanish into thin air. She ran over and grabbed Sau's wrist and Sau screamed. She then started bitting at Jesse's hand, and Jesse let go, cursing while Sau ran in the other direction. Meowth wanted to follow her, but he couldn't seem to move. Jesse finished cursing and she dashed through the trees after the girl. James stared at meowth, and then ran after Jesse, but not before he grabbed Meowth and carried him along with him. Meowth was still unable to move, speak or anything else.

'My only friend in the world... and ... and...' the thought circled in his mind over and over again as he stared at the blurs of green and brown rush past him.

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T_T that's it for this chapter. I'm tired of typing. Sorry if i haven't updated alot. I'm busy with school and everything... ^^;

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