Chapter 6: Search and Rescue: Part One

OOC: Point of view switch. I think the 'new main character' will be obvious, and if you can't figure it out ... well you should be able to. Trust me, I'll make it really obvious.

"Fairy! Desire has been gone all night, and all morning. Where is she?"

My wife looked over at me, her eyelids barely staying open. "I don't know," she moaned worriedly. "I've been looking for her all night, but I can't find her. Miracle is missing too. The two might be trying to run away. Remember when they tried to pull that off before..." Her voice drifted away until her lips were moving, but she uttered no sound.

"Yes, I remember that well," I said while retrieving the memory from the back of my mind. My daughter, Desire, (OOC: Can you guess who it is now?) had been mad at us. So she and Miracle decided to run away. Problem with their plan was that they ran away into our backyard, and soon came inside because it was too cold. Maybe the same thing had happened again, but they got smarter. I wanted this to be true, and I wanted to believe it, but my mind was telling me that wasn't what happened.

"Well, nothing we can do except look. We checked around the neighborhood last night, so let's check the woods." Fairy walked off, dragging her paws. Very rarely did Fairy mope around. She was high class, bred professionally, and trained to be entered in contests for beauty. She never got around to that though; her owner had lost her in a large crowd during a department clear out sale. That's where I met her, in the woods right outside the city. She maintained a prancing walk no matter where we were. She greeted people professionally, and it was rare to see her greet anyone with anything more than a polite handshake, besides me of course. Any foot misplaced in her stride would worry me.

"Not now. You need to rest first," I said while leading her to our room.

"I can't," she moaned while trying to pull away. Luckily for me, she was bred for looks, and not for physical strength. "My baby girl is out there, maybe all alone. She will think we deserted her."

She continued to babble on about how bad of a mother she was, but passed out as soon as her head hit the pillow.

"Good-night," I said while licking her cheek. (OOC: Yes licking, these are dog-like Pokemon we are talking about.)

I stood there a moment, thinking about where Desire would be. She was adventurous, and always came up with new tricks and ways to fool people. If she was simply playing a game, she would choose somewhere nearby, but not obvious. Something like inside a hollow bush. Being sneaky always gave her the upper hand in hide-and-go-seek and she always bragged about how she would outwit her friends, outrun her friends, out-everything her friends.

"That's it," I said aloud. She would be in the woods, somewhere were it was be difficult, but not impossible to find her. I knew it wouldn't be somewhere completely dark; she didn't particularly care for the darkness. Maybe a bush, or a hollowed out log. Anything that would allow light to seep through was possible. She would never be in the back of a small cave. She didn't have the nerve to be alone somewhere like that for long, and I couldn't really blame her. Nobody really could.

I didn't want to travel alone though. I often overlooked details, and details were crucial to finding a missing Pokemon. Fairy was good at that sort of stuff, and I considered waiting for her. No, that would take too long. I wanted to get as far as possible on my own. Desire was impatient, always wanting to get through everything quickly. I didn't really want to keep her waiting. Chances were she was waiting for me right now.

I set out on my own, careful to note details. Trees were around me, none of which seemed to have been scratched upon. If Desire were to have climbed into something, I would be able to see her claw marks. I searched around until I noticed paw prints in the soft ground. I placed my own pale purple paw (OOC: He is an Espeon, not Eevee) beside a print. Desire's paw was about half the size of my own. Sure enough, the slightly smudged paw print, most likely from running, was half the size of mine. They lead to a weird assortment of boulders, shrubs, and grass, but the paw prints came back out, and then led me further down the path, where they met up with another set of prints.

"No..." I moaned. A little while after the dirt had scampering prints ... and footprints of two humans. After the chaotic mess of prints, the Eevee prints no longer continued, and only the human prints walked off. Further down, the footprints turned into tire marks.

"I need to get Fairy..." I dashed off the way I came. I tried to figure out in my head how I would explain this horrible mess to her. Desire was kidnapped. No, too straight-forward, might give her a massive heart attack. Desire was playing, and went into the woods, and then hid. No, too much talking about what happened before. Desire hid, met up with another Eevee, maybe Miracle, and then was kidnapped by humans. No, but it was the best I had, and I could only hope that it was good enough.