Prompt: At the end of their story, the hero goes hack to the human world, but the partner follows them!
The nickit started to shimmer as he and his wooloo partner were watching the sunset, both exhausted after the ordeal they had endured the past week. "Heh… guess this is it." he said to his partner, who just nodded.
"It was fun, Nick." the wooloo replied. "Well, aside from us almost dying a few hours ago."
Nick chuckled. "Can you not think of that as us saving the land instead?"
The wooloo pondered for a few seconds. "Nope." She leaned onto her partner. "How about we get that band off of you?" Nick looked puzzled at her. "You don't really need it back in your world, right?"
Nick stared at the spherical sheep. "Well, no… But something to remember from this place would be nice."
The sheep smirked before she started rolling around him, stopping in front of him with a simple drawing in her mouth. "How abouth thish?"
"Wait… You've been running around with that drawing the entire time?" Nick was shocked as he looked at the crayon art of a crudely drawn nickit and wooloo smiling next to one another.
"For luck" she replied.
Nick started to shine brighter as his partner removed the band and he grabbed the piece of paper in his mouth. "Gonna missh you, Mary."
"I will miss you too." Hearing those final words, Nick faded away.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow… Sore." Nick stood up from the grass, his body feeling weird all over. "Huh… Guess I'm human again." he took a look at his hands, and started to pat himself all over. "And I'm what? Ten still?"
He looked at his clothes, they looked slightly smaller on him than he remembered. "Ten and a half, then? Whelp, guess that was four years I got for free."
He took a look around, the trees surrounding the plains were clad in orange and brown leaves, a few being carried away in the chilling wind. "I got taken in spring, so… X and a half years would be good until I know how long has actually passed."
He picked up the drawing, turned around and took his first step towards the line of trees separating these plains with the town his family lived in. "At least mum and pop can tell me how long it's been since Nexus… Urgh, as if the time traveling wasn't confusing enough…"
He emerged on the other side of the treeline and went down the hill, watching the wooloo either grassing or being chased around by a playful yamper. "Good ol Galar." he mused. He noticed a woman tending to an injured wooloo, and he started to approach. "And good ol sis. She could tell me."
He waved at her as he approached, grabbing his sister's attention. "Oh my. Nick!" she called as she waved back. "Is that you? Are you back for real?"
"Yeah. Or, I assume so." He smiled at her.
"Good enough for me." she laughed. "Mum and pop will be so happy to see you. Even after you told us everything, they got real worried when you had to go again." She pulled out a few twigs from the wooloo's wool which bleated happily before rolling off. "And that was the last of that."
The ground started rumbling as soon as she said it, the sound of a large group of wooloo getting louder as the seconds ticked by. "And now for a new problem." Nick snarked as he looked up the hill he came from to see the first row of rolling sheep coming over the top.
"Wot? Afraid of a rollby?" his sister snarked back.
The clump of sheep quickly approached them, barely missing the two as they passed by, with a way too cheerful yamper right behind them.
"So… Where's this girl you were with last time?" she finally said after a moment of awkward silence.
"She…" He clenched the paper tighter. "She was a native, so she had to stay."
"That's a shame. She seemed real nice."
"She was."
The two talked for a little while, Nick learning he had indeed only been gone for a total of six months, and his sister was shocked to learn that he had been gone for more than four years from his perspective, though it would explain why he sounded more mature than someone his age normally did.
"Anyway, how about we head back home. Would not have mum make too little for dinner." his sister finally said, as she noticed the sun setting.
Nick nodded in agreement, and they were about to walk off when they heard a loud "WOOO" from the top of the hill. They turned around to see a lone wooloo standing on top of the hill, looking confused.
"Argh. Seems like the wee one has gotten lost." Nick's sister said. "Better find its flock."
They slowly headed towards it when it noticed them, staring towards them.
"Why is it glaring at us?" Nick asked as they approached it.
His sister squinted. "Not us. You specifically." She barely finished the sentence when the sheep bounced in the air and rolled straight towards it. "Better run, brother."
"Are you havin a giggle?" he yelled to his sister as he ran away from the accelerating ball of wool. He tried to strafe, but the sheep remained behind him until the very moment it collided with him, sending him straight down on the ground, before rolling around him bleating happily.
"Looks like this one has a liking for you." his sister said after she had caught up.
The wooloo rolled a final circle around before stopping with a familiar band in its mouth. "Hold on… Mary?" Nick asked the sheep, which replied with a joyful bleat. "But how?"
The wooloo started talking, but neither could understand her, so they just looked at it. Mary then did her rolling around Nick again and pulled out an envelope.
His sister picked it up and opened it. "Well, this won't help."
Nick grabbed the letter and saw the strange symbols written onto the paper. "Bla, bla, bla, three days, searching, JIRACHI?!"
"WOOLOO!" Mary jumped up and down.
His sister peaked over his shoulder. "You can read that?"
"I was taught it by Aunty Audino when I first arrived in that world." Nick replied. "Anyway, it says that after I returned home, Mary looked for a way to also get here. She managed to locate Jirachi and since I AM reading this letter, it means she found them and got here. What is incredible is that she did that in apparently three days."
Mary bleated aggressively, and struck a pose which Nick recognized as her flexing pose. "Strongest partner I could have." Nick said, having a good guess as to what his partner had said.
"Hold on. You said Mary… So that wooloo is that girl?" his sister asked.
Nick snickered. "Well, she's normally a wooloo."
His sister looked at him, then at Mary, then back at him. "That… I think I'm having a headache."
"I will tell everything when we get back home, deal?" Nick said as he picked up Mary.
"I… Deal." His sister rubbed her forehead. "So, how come she can't talk now?"
"I dunno."
AN: You may leave the pokemon world, but it'll stay with ya.
