My sleep was abnormally good taking into account the fact that I had almost been mauled to death by those wurmple .
I began to stir as I felt the warm sunlight on my face. I stretched a bit as I took a look around. Absol was still asleep while Shroomish seemed to have been sunbathing. I'm grateful that it appeared when it did but I'm really not sure on why it's tagging along.
I decided to leave the two of them alone for the time being and head over to Matthias's tent.
As I walked upon him I could see Prism wide awake levitating around the tent as it was surveying the Matthias who was sprawled out and deep in also had a shit eating grin for some reason.
I expected this if i'm being honest. Since from what I had seen Matthias was a carefree soul which eased me into tagging along with him. If it was anybody else asking me to tag along... well I'm not sure whether I would be willing to accept.
"Hey Prism can you get Matthias up already?" I asked.
Prism turned to me but didn't actually make any motion to move. It's eyes seemed to have a dull look at my words.
'Do they have some sort of agreement in place? I would've expected Prism to be eager at the chance at making Matthias's life a living hell but the more you know huh'
Well if the thought of waking Matthias up was such a taboo to Prism, I'd rather not try my luck.
With nothing much to do I walked up to Shroomish who was rolling around on the ground.
"Hey Shroomish mind coming with me?"
Shroomish and I finally reached the place where we encountered the horde of wurmple. The surroundings cerainly seemed to indicate that some sort of conflict took place. Mostly from the unnatural holes and withering trees which I'm guessing had probably been caused by all those poison stings.
There were also white webs decorating the surroundings thanks to string shot which I did my best to avoid.
"Just keep watch Shroomish I'd like to check things out here a bit" I said.
In my opinion the increased visibility of daytime should prevent us from getting ambushed like before. But it could still be dangerous.
Walking from tree to tree. I checked around for any unnatural occurrence's. Bushes, tall grass all seemed to have been mostly unoccupied. One or two wurmple would sometimes jump out but they would immediately bolt when Shroomish would go for a tackle.
I eventually stopped and took some rest. I couldn't make out any substantial evidence as to why the horde of wurmple had come for me. Maybe it was normal for bug pokemon to be territorial like that? No Matthias clearly stated they were cowardly 'bugs' he also didn't say anything about them forming into militia groups.
"Maybe I need to get a second opinion Matthias should be up soon" I spoke to myself.
"Shroom Shroom" Shroomish suddenly began calling out to me.
"Shroomish you find something" I said as I began walking over to it.
"Shroom" It called as it pointed it's body towards something on the ground.
"Huh what's thi- wait" I took the strange object into my hand.
It felt cold and was wet with water dripping.
"This is an Ice shard right. An Unnatural occurrence of ice possibly due to the use of a Pokemon move" I said.
At least I don't think there was any hail yesterday. Well at least I know now that the silhouette of the Lapras I saw yesterday was definitely real.
The Ice shard had melted so I just shook my hand getting rid of some of the water.
"Lets head back, I'll need some time to come to any sort of conclusion" I say as I began to head back with Shroomish.
On the walk back I managed to come up with some theories that would be able to explain as to why the wurmple seemed to be so agitated. But narrowing it down proved to be a difficult task.
"Oh Glaze did you head out for a morning jog, you should have told me I would have joined" Matthias said as he saw me approaching him.
"About that, well I wasn't really sure whether waking you up was going to be a good idea. And anyway I think we might need to have some sort of discussion", I said.
Matthias took a look at Shroomish.
"Oh you caught a Shroomish" He said.
"I guess I could also explain about Shroomish"
"Sure then"-he said as he folded his hands with a sense of curiosity-"begin"
"Since I've come to the forest I've had an ill feeling for some unknown reason. I don't really know what it is but don't you feel odd?"
"From what I've seen I'm guessing it's just nerves, do you have any reason to believe that something is wrong, any evidence perhaps?" Matthias asked.
"Evidence. I might have something" I said as I begin to think.
"But first let me ask you a question: Is Petalburg forest supposed to be so scarcely filled with pokemon?" I ask.
"Now that you mention it, yeah. We haven't really come across any big groups of pokemon. My dad had mentioned to me that we would most likely always have to be using our repels since we would more or less always be trailed by one or more pokemon" Matthias said trying to make sense of this strange anomaly.
"Actually last night I did come across a large group of wurmple who would almost have finished me off it weren't for Shroomish here. Also when I went back there to search for clues I had found ice shards which had probably been the work of a Lapras" I interjected.
"That's definitely strange, from what I have seen and heard wurmple are mostly docile creatures. There are very few reasons that I could think of that would lead them to retaliate. The only reason I can think is they felt threatened which shouldn't be the case since trainers usually pass through here" He said.
"And a Lapras it would be a problem if we would have to deal with one of them. I don't think any of our pokemon have the neccessary ability to engage one" he continued
"Whatever the case may be it's probably better that we be on high alert. If we encounter anything out of our league escape might be necessary"-I took out my pokenav-"Also the signal is jammed I don't think we're going to get any outside help"
"I agree let's just dismantle our tents then head off as fast as we can to Petalburg"
With our discussion complete I headed over to dismantle my tent while Matthias did the same for his. He also ent prism out to go ahead and scout jsut in case.
Things seemed to be getting worse. Was this pokemon thing really a good idea?
Now isn't the time to begin doubting myself I should just focus on making it past the forest.
As I finished packing up my stuff I walked up to Matthias and the two of us began to move.
"Ease up Glaze it will all be fine just look at this weath-" The sound of thunder cut out Matthias's words.
Huge dark clouds began forming ahead of us with heavy downpour that was equivalent to a waterfall. The raindops didn't trickle downwards instead they flowed similar to a stream.
"This isn't natural I'm sure a pokemon must be the reason for this" Matthias said.
"Yeah this seems like rain dance" I said.
"Not just any ordinary rain dance. Look at the sky"
I looked up to see a number clouds being squished together in some sort of peculiar amalgamation. They didn't look like any of the cloud types I had studied about, at least in terms of shape.
"It seems to be that multiple rain dances were used in succession, but even that shouldn't be enough to warrant this heavy rainfall. Come on lets go ahead I'm pretty sure we'll be able to catch the perpetrators since they need to be in range of the clouds to be able to effectively perform this feat" Matthias said
"I agree we need to understand what's going on around here even if it might be dangerous we need to find out who's responsible. "
"Also heading back doesn't to be an option right now the pokemon center at Rustbro is too far away for us to make it in time. And if the pokemon here are as agitated as you said they are I'd rather we take the fastest route available"
"So we don't really have a choice then"
The two of us begin to walk towards the source of the clouds as our pokemon follow us. We kept in mind not to make any loud noises that would alert the perpetrators.
'I really hope we aren't dealing with a legendary pokemon that might be responsible for causing downpours'
As we began to get closer we saw water type pokemon like Psyduck,Barboach,Goldeen,Wooper,Wingull surrounding a Manectric which was in the center. It kept using thunder again and again.
That Manectric wasn't normal though.
"Mega evolution!" I said.
"Mega evolution?" Matthias asked.
"Yeah it's a temporary form a pokemon can take that drastically boosts its abilities... but it can only be accomplished with the help of a trainer as far as I've heard" I said as we hid behind some bushes at the sound of footsteps.
"That's enough for now Manectric you should take some rest. You've helped a great deal in helping us further our goal in creating new habitats for water pokemon" A man in pirate attire spoke as he returned Manectric to a pokeball.
'Team aqua huh'
It seems they've chosen a more proactive method in furthering their vision. But a mega Manectric I don't think we're qualified to be dealing with a threat like that.
"Come on grunts lets head out further we have more habitats to create" The same man spoke once more.
"Aye sir" The remaining team aqua members followed his orders.
This guy with the Manectric seems important. He's definitely up there in the hierarchy.
The aqua members began to walk away following after their commander.
Seeing no one around we decided to come out of our hiding spots.
"What the-" Matthias looked on in shock as we saw a huge lake take the place of what was previously forestry.
Wurmple and other pokemon seemed to be floating among tree branches and other debris that was in the lake.
"Habitat destruction huh? I guess it does make sense in retrospect. The wurmple probably lumped us in with those goons" he said.
"They apparently call themselves team aqua" I said.
"I think I had battled one of them while I was waiting for you. How do you know about them anyway?" he asked.
"Mostly I've heard father talking about them"-I lied-"Also you battled an aqua grunt how did you fare?" I asked
"It was a completely one-sided battle in my favor but then again he wasn't very skilled to begin with. The folk we've seen just now could probably be in a completely different league"
"Yeah well lets just be careful. They probably won't make it easy for us"
Before we began moving forward we tried to help the pokemon that were stranded in the lake. Absol swam into the lake and brought back the pokemon on it's back. Prism did the same by levitating and bringing back any pokemon it could carry.
Shroomish on the other hand couldn't really do much so it preferred to stand beside me and Matthias as we waited for our pokemon to finish their tasks.
After a while we cleared most of the pokemon in the lake. Who didn't seem as scared of us anymore.
"I think that's all of them" Matthias said.
I took a look out at the lake.
"No it seems like we missed one" I said.
Matthias turned over to look at what I was talking about.
"A Slakoth we should get him out of there" he said.
The Slakoth seemed to be resting on a lone branch as it lay seemingly still.
"Go Prism get that Slakoth back to land" he said to Prism.
As Prism began to move Slakoth abandoned the branch and began to swim towards us at exceedingly fast dodged Prism and quickly reached land and reverted back to it's slow pace.
