Chapter XLVI- The Ilex Forest Disaster
I got up the next morning about 7:00, enough time to sneak down stairs and grab
something to eat for the trip. I took three apples, two bannana's and a stack of pankcakes
for me to eat there in the buffet area. After I finished, I walked back up stairs, took a
shower, since everyone, including Noki was still asleep, and got changed. I caused
enough comotion to wake up a Snorlax Erika said and I pointed out what time it was.
"7:45!! I've only got 15 minutes! Hey everyone wake up!!!" She yelled and Noki and
Jarod did. They all rushed to get dressed, and ran down stairs to eat. After everyone was
done, we all met out by the front door. I called Raichu back into his pokeball so I
wouldn't risk losing him, and Noki let out Sylebi.
"Ok everyone. Who want's to go first?" Noki asked.
"I will." Erika asked bravely. "It is going to work right?"
"Oh you'll be fine. You will definetly land somewhere near Ilex forest. The problem is is
that Sylebi has never been there, so you'll be randomly transported to a spot in the forest
that we went to last night." Noki explained.
"How many spots did you visit?" Jarod asked.
"About 6."
"Ok. So we have a 4 in 6 chance of finding each other in the maze called Ilex Forest?"
"Well it's not that bad!() You make it sound like we'll be lost forever or something. Don't
worry. If we can't find each other within an hour, I'll have Sylebi transport all of you out
after she finds you." Noki explained.
"All right. I'm ready." Erika said and Sylebi transported her there.
"I'll go next." Said Jarod and I let go of his hand. "Don't worry." And he was gone.
"Send me!" I said quickly.
"Don't worry. I was going to go last anyway." Noki said and Sylebi transported me across
the landscape. It was an odd feeling to be hurtled across a mass distance in a minute
amount of time. Next thing I knew, I was in clearing in the middle of the forest. I looked
around and behind me, I found a little shrine dedicated to the protector of the forest,
Celebi.
"If I'm lucky, I won't run into one." I said to myself. I let Raichu out of his pokeball and
he sniffed around. I followed him until we were deep in the forest, and there were
shadows all around us. It was impossible to see the clearing at all now, but I continued to
follow him, until I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I turned, but there
was nothing there. I started to walk again, and a tree infront of me began to shake. I
stopped and Raichu pulled back. The stripes of it's bark shifted and contorted to form a
Gengar like face. I screamed and picked up Raichu, running back the way we came. But it
was no use, I looked around then heard something. Somthing moved in the bushes, and I
was about to run when I heard Jarod.
"Angel.....is that you?" He asked quietly.
"Jarod, what's wrong?" I asked and he walked out of the bushes, falling over his own feet.
Unable to stand, he fell into my open arms, that Raichu had jumped out of. "Jarod!?
What's happend?" I asked as he began to breath hard.
"You.....you know that....pokemon that I....wanted to find....well....I....found it...." He
began to sweat and I took his heavy jacket off. "I...I was....about to....catch it, when...it
used stun spore....I tried to run, but...I turned around and the trees....had been playing
tricks with me....I knew it was only an illusion, but I....was startled, and fell
back....and....some of the stun spore touched my skin...."
"You got stun spore on your skin!? Jarod we have to get you out of here! If your fever
gets any higher, you'll collapse, and I won't be able to do anything!"
"Dont worry....we'll wait....an hour........for.....Noki to...."
"We can't wait an hour! You know what will happen to you if we wait that long??" I
asked franticly. "Come on. Can you try and stand up?"
"What.....are you....going to....do?" He asked.
"Don't say anyhting. You have to conserve your energy. Just stand still..." I said as I
wrestled him over, so that he was almost on my back.
"You can't.....carry me....."
"Well....I'm sure gonna try." I said and began to walk forward, hoping to run into Noki
somewhere along the way. I shuffled him around and gave him a sort of piggy-back-rid,
though he was a rather large piggy. I tried not to think about what would happen if I didn't
get him out of the forest. I just kept walking straight. I began to breath harder and harder
as my legs turned to jello.
"Marcy......go on....put...me down.....you're going....to....kill yourself...." He continued to
plead with me. But I continued to move on, breathing harder and harder, my legs hurt, my
head was spinning, and there was a massive pain in my chest. I finally fell to my knees
which hurt badly. I put him on the ground on his side. And I layed down next to him the
same way. His eyes were closed, but he was still breathing. I closed my eyes for a little
then realized, if I did that I would probobly colapse. So, I triped to my feet and tried to
pull him up again, but it was no use.
"Jarod....plaease....say something....to me...." I asked, but he didn't say anything. I took a
few deep breathes and picked him up again, now harder than before, I shuffled him onto
my back again and moved on. I soon came to a place where it looked like a few braches
had fallen down, and I looked up to see part of a black wing. A Merkrow....in this forest?
It can't be...wait....it has.......oh no.....!?? "Erika!!" I yelled up and realized she was
unconsious in the tree. "She must have fallen from quite a height." I said and sat down on
a large fallen tree branch. I layed my head against the trunk of the tree an put Jarod in my
lap. "Jarod....what....am I....to...do..." I said and collapsed.
To my dismay, I woke up a few minutes later. Or at least that's what I thought. I
looked around and realized my wings had appeared. Erika wasn't in the tree, so I assumed
she was the one who had woken me up. I tried to get up, but my head still hurt and I
realized Jarod was still in my lap.
"Oh! Jarod! Jarod come on! Open your eyes! At least one..?" I said and put my hand on
his forehead. He was still really hot, so I pulled him off me and sat him up against the tree
truck I had been laying on. I slowly got up, my wings still there. I spread them out and
flapped hard, but I couldn't get off the ground. I barely had enough energy to stand, let
alone fly. I tried one more time, and flapped hard, and got off, tword the hole in the
forest's canopy. It was the only way through because the trees had grown into each other. I
took a quick look around, looking for any sign of Sylebi, but there was nothing. Then, I
noticed something small and red in the canopy to the right below me. I flew down and
landed on a brach above the forest. I pulled at vines and pushed aside leaves to find tons
of little red berries. There were berries in Jhoto that you can give to your pokemon to heal
them of poison, paralysis, and other things. I grabbed the few that were there, and flew
back down through the hole to Jarod.
"A-Angel...." I heard him say softly.
"Jarod!! Oh my gosh you're awake!?" I suddenly yelled, forgetting about my wings.
"A-Angel, did you....d-did you find anything...." He asked. I realized that he heard me fly
up over the trees and looking around.
"I found some berries...." I asked and put them into his hands. He carefully looked at
them, sorting them out, occasionally dropping one on the ground.
"This one...this is...." He said and compleatly fell over.
"Jarod!!" I said and began to cry. I took the berry left that he had in his hand and said to
him, even though I was sure he couldn't hear me, "Eat this." I put it in his mouth and he
ate it. I sat down next to, him, hugging him. His fever was so high, his forehead was as
hot as a Charizards flame, and his hair was soaking wet. I hugged him tight as I continued
to cry. Suddenly off the the right, I heard someone, or something. I took Raichu's pokeball
of of my neacklace and got ready to hurl it into the bushes.
"Marcy! It's just me!" I heard Erika yell. "So, you finally woke up." She finished and
walked out of the bushes into sight.
"...Erika..." I cried, and my voice cracked as I said her name.
"What's going on? Did something happen to Jarod?" She asked quickly.
"...Erika...he got stune spore on him...and he hasn't gotten up yet except to...eat a berry I
gave him...but, he said it was 'that one' whatever that ment." I said and put Raichu's
pokeball back on my neacklace.
"Stune Spore!?" Erika shouted. She took out Vaporeon's pokeball and dropped it on the
ground. "Vaporeon, see if your Heal Bell will work on Jarod." She commanded and
Vaporeon came over to us. She touched her nose to Jarod, then pulled back because he
was so hot. She used Heal Bell, but it didn't seem to work. "Sorry Marcy..." Erika said
teary eyed. "I thought it would work too...." She added and called back Vaporeon. "Come on, let's
see if we can find Sylebi." She said and I let go of Jarod.
"But, we can't just leave him here...." I said.
"Leave Levathin with him." She suggested.
"All right." I called Leviathin out and told him, "If he gets to hot sprinkle him with your
water gun. GENTLY. And if you hear or see any pokemon around, attack them." I said
strictly. He abliged, and I went to get up. Erika gave me her hand and I gladly took it. I
quickly got up, bad idea(), then fell back down.
"You all right?" She asked.
"Yeah. I think....I think I just got up to fast." I said and tried again to get up.
"I hope none of that stun spore rubbed off on you." Erika said and grabbed my arm.
"What are you doing?" I asked as she put my arm around her shoulder, and her other arm
around my waist.
"I'll help you walk. You have better eyesite than I do. You have to come with me." She
said as we began to walk. "What were you doing that got you so tired?" She asked as I
looked around.
"I was....carrying Jarod...." I said and breathed deep, "when I found you....I was so, tired,
I.....collapsed under the tree..."
"You carried him!?" She asked.
"I...had to. I was afraid....that the vileplume....might come back and.....stune spore me
too..." I said. "Then, when I woke up again, I noticed you were gone, and....I could get
through the hole in the canopy, so I.....flew up there..." I said as my eyes began to blur.
"Hm..." I thought she found something, but it was just a bush she said.
"Erika...leave me here..." I said.
"Are you nuts!?" She shouted and stopped.
"I...I can barely see anything...I'll probobly faint soon anyway....so...just leave me here..."
I said couragously. She sat me down on the ground as she kneeled infront of me.
"What if you just rest for a while?" She asked.
"...no good.........E-Erika...take care...of Jarod...." I said and fainted.
"Marcy.....? Marcy? I knew I shouldn't have used Sylebi. Marcy!? Come on! Open your
eyes already! Mom, you're worrying me!" I could barely hear Noki talking to me.
"Marcy?" I could hear Erika. But everything was black. Maybe because I have to open my
eyes^_^(). I slowly opened them, adjusting to the light. "Oh! Noki! Marcy's awake!" I saw
Erika standing next to me, but she was still a little blurred. "Marcy! I was so worried
about you!" She said and hugged me.
"....w-what....time is it?" I asked as I realized we were all back in the room of the hotel we
were staying at.
"............" She paused. "8:00.........am." She said.
"What? How can that be?" I asked. "That would mean that this is wednesday?" I said and
she looked at me with a worried face. ".........." I was astonished.
"Well, you were sort of with it last night, but I don't think you remember..." Erika said.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Well, I was sitting by your bed cheaking on you and you murmured Jarod's name..."
"OH!! Jarod! Where is he!? Is he ok!?" I sat up and looked franticly around.
"Marcy...take it easy..." Erika said and grabbed my shoulders.
"(gasp) Where is he!?(gasp)" I asked and pulled back my covers.
"Marcy...if you don't calm down you'll start hyper ventalating....()" Noki said. I got out of
bed and fell on my knees, not being able to realize in bed how much my legs hurt.
"ahg...." I said and stumbled to my feet. I walked into the bathroom, then as I got used to
the pain, I sort of limped/ran over to the balcony. I swung open the doors and pushed back
the curtins.
"Marcy!" I saw Jarod and began to cry again. "Marcy! You're awake! I was worried about
you Angel!" He said and hugged me tight as I fell onto my knees again. I didn't say
anything, I just cried. I was happy that Jarod was all right, and I was happy that he was
happy that I was all right. It was all rather confusing at the time.
I got up the next morning about 7:00, enough time to sneak down stairs and grab
something to eat for the trip. I took three apples, two bannana's and a stack of pankcakes
for me to eat there in the buffet area. After I finished, I walked back up stairs, took a
shower, since everyone, including Noki was still asleep, and got changed. I caused
enough comotion to wake up a Snorlax Erika said and I pointed out what time it was.
"7:45!! I've only got 15 minutes! Hey everyone wake up!!!" She yelled and Noki and
Jarod did. They all rushed to get dressed, and ran down stairs to eat. After everyone was
done, we all met out by the front door. I called Raichu back into his pokeball so I
wouldn't risk losing him, and Noki let out Sylebi.
"Ok everyone. Who want's to go first?" Noki asked.
"I will." Erika asked bravely. "It is going to work right?"
"Oh you'll be fine. You will definetly land somewhere near Ilex forest. The problem is is
that Sylebi has never been there, so you'll be randomly transported to a spot in the forest
that we went to last night." Noki explained.
"How many spots did you visit?" Jarod asked.
"About 6."
"Ok. So we have a 4 in 6 chance of finding each other in the maze called Ilex Forest?"
"Well it's not that bad!() You make it sound like we'll be lost forever or something. Don't
worry. If we can't find each other within an hour, I'll have Sylebi transport all of you out
after she finds you." Noki explained.
"All right. I'm ready." Erika said and Sylebi transported her there.
"I'll go next." Said Jarod and I let go of his hand. "Don't worry." And he was gone.
"Send me!" I said quickly.
"Don't worry. I was going to go last anyway." Noki said and Sylebi transported me across
the landscape. It was an odd feeling to be hurtled across a mass distance in a minute
amount of time. Next thing I knew, I was in clearing in the middle of the forest. I looked
around and behind me, I found a little shrine dedicated to the protector of the forest,
Celebi.
"If I'm lucky, I won't run into one." I said to myself. I let Raichu out of his pokeball and
he sniffed around. I followed him until we were deep in the forest, and there were
shadows all around us. It was impossible to see the clearing at all now, but I continued to
follow him, until I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I turned, but there
was nothing there. I started to walk again, and a tree infront of me began to shake. I
stopped and Raichu pulled back. The stripes of it's bark shifted and contorted to form a
Gengar like face. I screamed and picked up Raichu, running back the way we came. But it
was no use, I looked around then heard something. Somthing moved in the bushes, and I
was about to run when I heard Jarod.
"Angel.....is that you?" He asked quietly.
"Jarod, what's wrong?" I asked and he walked out of the bushes, falling over his own feet.
Unable to stand, he fell into my open arms, that Raichu had jumped out of. "Jarod!?
What's happend?" I asked as he began to breath hard.
"You.....you know that....pokemon that I....wanted to find....well....I....found it...." He
began to sweat and I took his heavy jacket off. "I...I was....about to....catch it, when...it
used stun spore....I tried to run, but...I turned around and the trees....had been playing
tricks with me....I knew it was only an illusion, but I....was startled, and fell
back....and....some of the stun spore touched my skin...."
"You got stun spore on your skin!? Jarod we have to get you out of here! If your fever
gets any higher, you'll collapse, and I won't be able to do anything!"
"Dont worry....we'll wait....an hour........for.....Noki to...."
"We can't wait an hour! You know what will happen to you if we wait that long??" I
asked franticly. "Come on. Can you try and stand up?"
"What.....are you....going to....do?" He asked.
"Don't say anyhting. You have to conserve your energy. Just stand still..." I said as I
wrestled him over, so that he was almost on my back.
"You can't.....carry me....."
"Well....I'm sure gonna try." I said and began to walk forward, hoping to run into Noki
somewhere along the way. I shuffled him around and gave him a sort of piggy-back-rid,
though he was a rather large piggy. I tried not to think about what would happen if I didn't
get him out of the forest. I just kept walking straight. I began to breath harder and harder
as my legs turned to jello.
"Marcy......go on....put...me down.....you're going....to....kill yourself...." He continued to
plead with me. But I continued to move on, breathing harder and harder, my legs hurt, my
head was spinning, and there was a massive pain in my chest. I finally fell to my knees
which hurt badly. I put him on the ground on his side. And I layed down next to him the
same way. His eyes were closed, but he was still breathing. I closed my eyes for a little
then realized, if I did that I would probobly colapse. So, I triped to my feet and tried to
pull him up again, but it was no use.
"Jarod....plaease....say something....to me...." I asked, but he didn't say anything. I took a
few deep breathes and picked him up again, now harder than before, I shuffled him onto
my back again and moved on. I soon came to a place where it looked like a few braches
had fallen down, and I looked up to see part of a black wing. A Merkrow....in this forest?
It can't be...wait....it has.......oh no.....!?? "Erika!!" I yelled up and realized she was
unconsious in the tree. "She must have fallen from quite a height." I said and sat down on
a large fallen tree branch. I layed my head against the trunk of the tree an put Jarod in my
lap. "Jarod....what....am I....to...do..." I said and collapsed.
To my dismay, I woke up a few minutes later. Or at least that's what I thought. I
looked around and realized my wings had appeared. Erika wasn't in the tree, so I assumed
she was the one who had woken me up. I tried to get up, but my head still hurt and I
realized Jarod was still in my lap.
"Oh! Jarod! Jarod come on! Open your eyes! At least one..?" I said and put my hand on
his forehead. He was still really hot, so I pulled him off me and sat him up against the tree
truck I had been laying on. I slowly got up, my wings still there. I spread them out and
flapped hard, but I couldn't get off the ground. I barely had enough energy to stand, let
alone fly. I tried one more time, and flapped hard, and got off, tword the hole in the
forest's canopy. It was the only way through because the trees had grown into each other. I
took a quick look around, looking for any sign of Sylebi, but there was nothing. Then, I
noticed something small and red in the canopy to the right below me. I flew down and
landed on a brach above the forest. I pulled at vines and pushed aside leaves to find tons
of little red berries. There were berries in Jhoto that you can give to your pokemon to heal
them of poison, paralysis, and other things. I grabbed the few that were there, and flew
back down through the hole to Jarod.
"A-Angel...." I heard him say softly.
"Jarod!! Oh my gosh you're awake!?" I suddenly yelled, forgetting about my wings.
"A-Angel, did you....d-did you find anything...." He asked. I realized that he heard me fly
up over the trees and looking around.
"I found some berries...." I asked and put them into his hands. He carefully looked at
them, sorting them out, occasionally dropping one on the ground.
"This one...this is...." He said and compleatly fell over.
"Jarod!!" I said and began to cry. I took the berry left that he had in his hand and said to
him, even though I was sure he couldn't hear me, "Eat this." I put it in his mouth and he
ate it. I sat down next to, him, hugging him. His fever was so high, his forehead was as
hot as a Charizards flame, and his hair was soaking wet. I hugged him tight as I continued
to cry. Suddenly off the the right, I heard someone, or something. I took Raichu's pokeball
of of my neacklace and got ready to hurl it into the bushes.
"Marcy! It's just me!" I heard Erika yell. "So, you finally woke up." She finished and
walked out of the bushes into sight.
"...Erika..." I cried, and my voice cracked as I said her name.
"What's going on? Did something happen to Jarod?" She asked quickly.
"...Erika...he got stune spore on him...and he hasn't gotten up yet except to...eat a berry I
gave him...but, he said it was 'that one' whatever that ment." I said and put Raichu's
pokeball back on my neacklace.
"Stune Spore!?" Erika shouted. She took out Vaporeon's pokeball and dropped it on the
ground. "Vaporeon, see if your Heal Bell will work on Jarod." She commanded and
Vaporeon came over to us. She touched her nose to Jarod, then pulled back because he
was so hot. She used Heal Bell, but it didn't seem to work. "Sorry Marcy..." Erika said
teary eyed. "I thought it would work too...." She added and called back Vaporeon. "Come on, let's
see if we can find Sylebi." She said and I let go of Jarod.
"But, we can't just leave him here...." I said.
"Leave Levathin with him." She suggested.
"All right." I called Leviathin out and told him, "If he gets to hot sprinkle him with your
water gun. GENTLY. And if you hear or see any pokemon around, attack them." I said
strictly. He abliged, and I went to get up. Erika gave me her hand and I gladly took it. I
quickly got up, bad idea(), then fell back down.
"You all right?" She asked.
"Yeah. I think....I think I just got up to fast." I said and tried again to get up.
"I hope none of that stun spore rubbed off on you." Erika said and grabbed my arm.
"What are you doing?" I asked as she put my arm around her shoulder, and her other arm
around my waist.
"I'll help you walk. You have better eyesite than I do. You have to come with me." She
said as we began to walk. "What were you doing that got you so tired?" She asked as I
looked around.
"I was....carrying Jarod...." I said and breathed deep, "when I found you....I was so, tired,
I.....collapsed under the tree..."
"You carried him!?" She asked.
"I...had to. I was afraid....that the vileplume....might come back and.....stune spore me
too..." I said. "Then, when I woke up again, I noticed you were gone, and....I could get
through the hole in the canopy, so I.....flew up there..." I said as my eyes began to blur.
"Hm..." I thought she found something, but it was just a bush she said.
"Erika...leave me here..." I said.
"Are you nuts!?" She shouted and stopped.
"I...I can barely see anything...I'll probobly faint soon anyway....so...just leave me here..."
I said couragously. She sat me down on the ground as she kneeled infront of me.
"What if you just rest for a while?" She asked.
"...no good.........E-Erika...take care...of Jarod...." I said and fainted.
"Marcy.....? Marcy? I knew I shouldn't have used Sylebi. Marcy!? Come on! Open your
eyes already! Mom, you're worrying me!" I could barely hear Noki talking to me.
"Marcy?" I could hear Erika. But everything was black. Maybe because I have to open my
eyes^_^(). I slowly opened them, adjusting to the light. "Oh! Noki! Marcy's awake!" I saw
Erika standing next to me, but she was still a little blurred. "Marcy! I was so worried
about you!" She said and hugged me.
"....w-what....time is it?" I asked as I realized we were all back in the room of the hotel we
were staying at.
"............" She paused. "8:00.........am." She said.
"What? How can that be?" I asked. "That would mean that this is wednesday?" I said and
she looked at me with a worried face. ".........." I was astonished.
"Well, you were sort of with it last night, but I don't think you remember..." Erika said.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Well, I was sitting by your bed cheaking on you and you murmured Jarod's name..."
"OH!! Jarod! Where is he!? Is he ok!?" I sat up and looked franticly around.
"Marcy...take it easy..." Erika said and grabbed my shoulders.
"(gasp) Where is he!?(gasp)" I asked and pulled back my covers.
"Marcy...if you don't calm down you'll start hyper ventalating....()" Noki said. I got out of
bed and fell on my knees, not being able to realize in bed how much my legs hurt.
"ahg...." I said and stumbled to my feet. I walked into the bathroom, then as I got used to
the pain, I sort of limped/ran over to the balcony. I swung open the doors and pushed back
the curtins.
"Marcy!" I saw Jarod and began to cry again. "Marcy! You're awake! I was worried about
you Angel!" He said and hugged me tight as I fell onto my knees again. I didn't say
anything, I just cried. I was happy that Jarod was all right, and I was happy that he was
happy that I was all right. It was all rather confusing at the time.