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CHAPTER 55:

The sun rose up over the region as a light snowfall was taking place. Inside the tent of our little group, they were asleep… and they are waking up… but Yugo is first because story plot. Yugo woke up, feeling the warmth of Emma she held him close to her… but he also felt a furry part. He slowly unwrapped himself and looked up to see…

"Reeka?"

He whispered silently as he saw his Lucario there, sleeping in front of him against the tent canvas. He needed to know how she got back and where she went, but he'll just have to wait 'till she woke up. He got out of the tent and breathed in the cold, snowy air of the month and took a view. He was already two months into his adventure and the tournament is as good as his.

He turned back to the tent and standing at the entrance was Reeka, bruised… blood scabbed… and cut up severely. She took a few steps up to him as he asked, "Reeka?"

She gave a strange, but warm smile, "Yeah, I'm here."

"So… where did you go?"

"Mm, my own business."

"Yeeeaaah, 'you time'?"

"I wouldn't call it that, but… let's just say no more troubles from the robot."

"Oh… nice…"

It was an awkward silence as Yugo asked, "Um, listen, I was, uh, kinda thinking of actually challenging a gym leader today."

Reeka reminded, "I thought the reason why you couldn't was that I…"

"Yes, but then I thought why not have it where you were the leaf clothes? ya'know…"

She whined, "I hate clothes period, I'm not wearing any of that."

"Hey, if you want to show yourself off, you gotta be decent. Besides, if go around naked you can get raped, arrested, or knocked out and then impregnated. It's for safety."

She turned her head away, but agreed, "Fine, I'll wear it when I fight."

"Yeeeaaah, all the time."

"NO!"

"Reeekaaaa, behave."

"No, I'm not wearing it 'all the time'. I like my body to breathe… besides, how will you be able to 'play' with me?"

She gave a smirk as Yugo gave his own, "Well, if you don't want to then I won't play with you at all."

She turned to him and gave an unamused growl, "Really? Want to test me?"

"Totally."

They got in each other's faces, only for someone to clear their throat, "Ahem."

The two looked to see… Emma standing there. She had her arms crossed as she looked down at the two. To some degree, she was really not enjoying Reeka taking Yugo from her like this. But then again, when she thinks about it… Reeka was the only reason he is alive… now she hated the fact of that.

As her sanity dropped, Reeka asked Yugo, "Do I really need clothes?"

Yugo questioned, "Do you want to fight?"

"Yes."

"Then…"

He asked, "Emma?"

She looked at him, "Yes Yugo?"

"Could you make some leaf clothes for Reeka like Ghezirha?"

She breathed out heavy under her breath, then told him, "A reason I should?"

"So I can get you all into another gym? Gotta get five more badges."

She turned away as Yugo bribed, "I'll let you fight. You want to impress me, well… let's see if you can win at least one fight against a gymleader."

Emma tried to avoid it… but the whole "impressing Yugo so Reeka gets dumped" thing did bother her so…

She sighed, "Alright, I'll do it."

He nodded, "Thank you. Now, work your magic."

Emma rolled her eyes and wrapped several leaves around Reeka quickly, and the result was… Reeka just covered in leaves. She then took some vines and strapped them around as the leaves bundled together. Finally, Reeka was in an outfit similar to Ghezirha… except she was feeling tight in one area. She complained, "It's too tight."

Emma snickered, "Oh, sorry, your butt's too big. I didn't account for it."

Reeka gave her a stare of "Shut up bitch" as Emma gave a smirk, then she resized it as Reeka now had room. She breathed out, "Finally, now that I got this crap on, can I kick someone's ass?"

Yugo nodded, "Absolutely… once everyone gets up, eats, and doesn't assassinate me in the process."

(Meanwhile in Rocket's new country…)

As Yugo prepares his girls for the gym, Giovanni was stuck dealing with his biggest issue… wasn't Elimination… wasn't his own Team… it was these people… crazy… nutty… insane… illogical… and unreasonable politicians… all blabbering about problems against him and the country they work for. He popped in his mouth two aspirin and hoped he'd die of stomach lining damage. Then popped into the large room was a figure, climbing up the stands up to Giovanni. The leader exclaimed, "Italy! Thank Arceus you got your ass here! I can't stand these idiots!"

Frank looked at the crowd of the politicians that survived the Rocket shootout, "Yeeeaaaah, one reason I don't bother in American politics anymore."

"I need you to decipher what the hell they're saying. They said I'm going on Twitter… what the hell is a Twitter?!"

Frank facepalmed as this was going to be a long morning. He told him, "Alright, I'll help you get through… the point of what exactly they're talking about."

"Political… or this Twitter?"

"The latter."

"Good."

After half an hour, the room was half filled with the remainder of the government, now in a clamor and uproar. Giovanni tapped a guard, "Fire your gun."

And the goon fired the rifle at the ceiling, holding the trigger for a second. It got everyone's attention as Giovanni announced, "Ok… so here I am finally in the spot of ruling this place."

Someone shouted, "Fuck you!"

"I'll find where you are and have you executed. Now then, there has been talk on tearing apart the system you once loved and abused, and replacing a system that only my organization love and abuses so all of you follow my commands. My answer is final, don't fuck with me. Now, questions?"

A few raised there hand as Giovanni pointed to the woman up front, "Ok, woman, go."

The woman stood up and began, "Mr…"

"Giovanni."

"Giovanni… this is considered an act of war which you have brought upon everyone and you have no rights here to go and say you're the president…"

"President? Shit, I was thinking more like supreme ruler of… eh… Giovannia… eww, on second thought we'll just use The United Rocket Sta…"

"You have no authority to do so, after yesterday's strike, the evidence of your attack has spread about the world…"

"Good, I intend to make my appearance a success. Next!"

"I don't…"

"NEXT!"

Another hand raised. "Ok, go."

The man stood up, "Aside from the obstacles of this whole invasion… what are you even going to do about the country?"

"That's of your concern… and only I know… but of course, if you want to know I want to make sure I'm the one running the show."

"Mr… Giovanni… we have rules and amendments…"

"Oh, yeah, that old shit that looks five million years old, I'm giving it to Ttis douche over here so unfortunately I'm the one who'll be making a new set of rules."

A new uproar erupted as the guard fired the gun. The crowd stopped as Giovanni stated, "My first rule is that anyone who protests against my rules will be immediately arrested."

The senator argued in fury, "You can't arrest…"

"Arrest him!"

A Machoke went up and grabbed the man, then dragged him out of the room as the senator went screaming. Giovanni asked, "Would anyone else like to get dragged off?"

Nobody budged as the Rocket leader nodded, "Very nice. Now, I'll write up a new amount of rules that this country will follow. If anyone argues against it, you will be thrown in a prison."

Giovanni asked Italy, "Can I make one of these states a prison?"

Frank answered, "Use a square looking one, saves money."

"Mmm, good point."

He looked back to the crowd, "Ok then, from here on out… uhh…"

He went back to Italy and a whispering spree began, then Giovanni returned back to the crowd, "The state of Colorado will be the state of where all prisoners will go! Eh, in that case we'll have to go through the entirety of your prison system for the prisoners who will go there."

The Colorado senator protested, "There are civilians who live in that state…"

"Well fuck 'em. Now, I will get an update from Maxie to see how the takeover of Cauliflower is doing."

Frank corrected, "California."

"Whatever."

Giovanni punched in the digits and Maxie appeared on scream, distressed, aggravated, and not in the mood. Giovanni asked, "Let me guess, takeover failed?"

Maxie yelled, "We had the entire Magma force literally go from our home region to this… this… insanity land, and the first thing we find is shit literally all over the streets!"

"Uh… one moment."

He told the senators, "I'll be back in ten minutes, nobody move! Guards, ensure that!"

All the rocket guards pulled their guns out as the entire room was now armed.

Meanwhile Giovanni and Italy, who was getting dragged in with this, went into the hallway as Giovanni asked, "Ok you home-owner dictator, what the hell's going on?"

Maxie screamed, "This place is full of idiots!"

Frank shrugged, "It's California, it's normal."

"Look, the only sensible folks here are the old people… and even then I feel like I'm talking to a bunch of weirdos. The colleges are full of deafening idiots, and apparently I… mis-gendered somebody? I don't know, I said ladies and gentlemen, announcing of my reign, and that is the first fucking thing I hear them complain about… what the heck?!

"And just to top it off… this whole place is filthy! I mean, homeless people I can clean up and enlist but… can I kinda set up shop in another state… or area? I don't feel like executing half the people here."

Frank told Maxie, "Look, try to clean it up."

"Well I'm not cleaning the shit off the ground… and I can't use the people here for that anyway… and I don't want to spend half my day shooting them either."

Giovanni told him, "Ok, I'm not part of this in anyway, so once you and your in-law Captain Archbeard can fix your troubling populous centers, it's your problems. Bye."

And he turned off the screen as he asked Italy, "Italy… how many of these states of yours are like this?"

Frank shrugged, "Depends on where."

"Thanks for your uselessness."

(Back to Yugo)

He was in Luminose as he only got Rebecca brought along, but at least nobody started a riot. At the gym center, Rebecca cheered, "I'm heading for my own badge. Good luck to yours!"

She ran off as Yugo took in a sigh and asked Reeka, "Ready?"

She smugly smiled, "Oh yeah, I'm ready to kick ass."

"Well… this one shouldn't be bad."

They walked into the "Steel Gym" and upon entering, they saw a man standing across from them on the opposite side of the gym. He said his monologue, "As steel sharpens iron, a master sharpens a student. And you will be the student! Belsheir!"

Out came a Bisharp, armed and ready to fight. Reeka jumped on as she pulled a bone rush out. The man yelled, "Iron blade!"

The Bisharp charged right at her as Yugo yelled, "You know what to do!"

Reeka instinctively ran at the Bisharp, having the two then clash with both blades sparking. Reeka swung the rush, but the Bisharp dodged it quick, and sent a glare to her, which didn't affect her one bit. The leader yelled, "Dark blade, psych 1!"

Yugo muttered, "Oh shit, not that crap. Reeka! Set a shield up, quick!"

The Bisharp was forming two shadowy blades as Reeka made a shield… then the opponent sent the blades going right into her shield, busting into the other side. Reeka charged and swung the sword about, but it missed and the Bisharp jabbed her in the back. Reeka went onto the floor, but she flipped and hopped back up, grabbing the shield and bashing it against the Bisharp's head, throwing him to the floor.

The man yelled, "Fall back, psych 2 blade!"

Yugo was sweating a little, "Reeka! You have to dodge those blades!"

Reeka hollered back, "Thanks the tip idiot!"

She charged at the Bisharp again, only this time it formed two larger blades and sent them flying and twice the speed, Reeka dodged one and her rush barely blocked the second one, but it broke the rush. She landed on the floor and this time just tackled the damn steel type, sending the two into a skirmish fist fight.

The leader and Yugo had no idea who was winning as the dust… exploded, and the Bisharp was sent flying, crashing into the floor, and barely able to fight. Reeka strut down the floor with another rush in hand as the Bisharp stood up, wobbling, and the leader yelled, "Use another psych 1 blade!"

He struggled to make one as Reeka formed a small aura sphere and sent it flying into the partial blade, exploded and knocking out the opponent. The leader sighed, "Dammit. Well, Belsheir, return."

The red light sucked in the Bisharp as the man said, "Well, a fine fight I see. Let's see how well it can take on a Klinklang!"

Another ball came flying out, sending out a Klinglang onto the field. The man announced, "Now, if your Lucario can handle this and then my little surprise at the end… Then I might do the two score claim."

Yugo asked, "Two score?"

"Meaning I throw another three Pokémon at you. But we'll see… Klink, use metal blast!"

The gears spun rapidly and then a shock of metal went flying Reeka's direction, but instead of blocking, she charged at it with her shield protecting her. The wave of metallic bits rattled against the shield, but Reeka wasn't going to putts around and ran at it, attempting to smite it… but it failed as the thing simply float a foot up… wow.

The living gears then swarmed around and hit Reeka in the head, but she jumped and tackled it to the ground, and hit it… and she now had her paw bleeding. The gears fired a tiny pulse that threw her off, and they attempted once again to float away, until the man yelled, "Psych 1, metal shock."

Yugo yelled, "Reeka, shield now!"

She made a shield and the gears threw a beam of metal shards and shredded it, injuring Reeka and throwing her off by a couple of feet. The leader smirked, "What's wrong? Little Riolu can't take some iron?"

Reeka pulled out her actual sword and charged at the Klinklang. It went soaring out, but Reeka used an aura sphere and turned her sword into a guided missile, that followed the Klinklang and…

It exploded off, blasting in midair. The Klinklang fell to the ground with an easy shot. The leader didn't explode just yet, but he did sigh in an unhappy tone, "Alright then, we have an abnormal Lucario fighting today… and of course I need to get those two trained more..."

He smiled, "But I think Mara will have a fun time with your Lucario."

He threw the third ball and out came a strange being… but the light died down and it showed to be a Gardevoir… with some unusual genetics.

Yugo asked, "What kind of Gardevoir…"

The leader explained in pride, "One hell of a deal. She's Gardevoir… and Arrgon... and she will kick your Lucario's ass."

"HA, let's see her try."

"Well, it's too big to miss."

Reeka took offense and yelled, "Jerk!"

The Gardevoir took her own offense and formed two razor sharp iron blades, and charged at her. Reeka formed her sword…

The Gardevoir already tackled her to the ground and sent an iron blade almost at her head. Reeka slipped out by a fraction and slung the sword about…

The Gardevoir teleported off and the sword got stuck in the floor. Then she reappeared behind Reeka and bashed her head on the back of Reeka's. Reeka flipped about while the Gardevoir kept on attempted to land hits. Every hit was blocked by Reeka, but the increasing speed only made her worry and start fidgeting.

The leader told his Pokémon, "Give her a nice scratch… on the neck and back."

The Pokémon teleported around and teleported again… and again… and again…

Reeka was getting dizzy as Yugo was worrying and yelled, "Reeka, keep focused!"

The teleporting was scrambling her sense of direction… then the Gardevoir took the initiative and jabbed Reeka in the back, and she went down with ease. Reeka, now knocked out, lay there as the psychic type walked away. The leader chuckled, "At'a girl Mara. Let's see the next the character he brings out."

Yugo dragged Reeka next to him as he flicked out another ball and yelled, "Jacques!"

The ball opened up and the Lopunny hopped out, set in armed position. The leader yelled, "Mara, take that Lopunny out!"

Yugo yelled, "Jacques, go forward and kick it!"

Jacques ran up as the Gardevoir sharpened her blades, then when he got up, she teleported around him and make a cut on his leg. He went down from the sting, but pushed on…

And got knocked in the head. Yugo yelled in fury, "C'mon! That's BS!"

The leader chuckled, "Oh, fighting types are much easier to…"

Jacques sprung back to life and kicked the Gardevoir in the head and sent her flying a few feet. She set herself back up and rearmed herself as Jacques stood up, both with a head pain and a nick on the leg. He lunged forward, she teleported off again as Jacques stopped and turned around seeing her simply walking slowly to him.

He charged forward as Yugo yelled, "Aim for her body, not her head!"

Jacques third attempt failed as she teleported out of the way and teleported back, making a couple more nicks, injuring Jacques enough, then she went for the main blow, using a metal fist, and hitting his head multiple times, mainly doing the same teleporting maneuver. Jacques's head was beginning to feel each blow, migraines were forming, he couldn't even see straight.

She landed one more punch and Jacques was barely standing. As he wobbled, she walked a little closer, flicking her blade around, then Jacques made a bare scorning look, as he did a roundhouse and flung his foot right into her head. The split second motion sent the opponent flying multiple feet and landing on the ground, unmoving.

Jacques walked up as the man wasn't changed one bit by it. Yugo, however, gladly cheered, "Yeah! Third badge for me…"

A psychic blast shot the Lopunny, sending him flying into the wall of the room, and landing down, and knocked out. Yugo slapped himself as the man laughed, "Ahh, the beauty of faking. Or whatever the term might be. Of course, even though I may lose, at least I'll have some good laughs at your failure on your last two… and possibly your third one."

Yugo looked at the Gardevoir as she looked like she could take on another, but she was worn down significantly. And that last blow must've limited her psychic abilities, but how much Yugo didn't know. And now he had two choices: dare and let Elene go so he doesn't let the attention hog around Reeka and Emma… or use Emma as a way to make sure he doesn't lose.

He took in a deep breath and yelled, "Emma I choose you!"

And with that cliché line, Emma came out and both opponents were shocked… a little. The leader whined, "Oh great, first the Lucario that could've looked like a hooker… and now a Serperior who is OBVIOUSLY a hooker."

Emma made both swords in offense to it. "And Mara is going to lose to it. Or is she?"

The Gardevoir pulled the iron blades out as Emma charged right at her. The psychic teleported around and bashed Emma in the back, making her swing the swords around, missing the opponent, then the iron blade almost her it leg, but it did hit her lower back. The teleporting mess was confusing Emma as much as Reeka, but Yugo this time had a tactic to use. He screamed, "Leaf tornado!"

Emma made a tornado that wiped off the Gardevoir, and sliced her up, throwing her to the floor in pain and exhaustion. Yugo them yelled, "Use Leaf Storm!"

Emma sent a huge barrage of sharp leaves swirling around the Gardevoir and when it exploded outwards, making a huge dust cloud… then settling down as Mara was knocked unconscious. The leader sighed, "I see… alright, it seems you've won… get over here and I'll give you the damn badge."

He walked onto the field, putting the Gardevoir away, as Yugo did the same, and put Emma away. At the middle, the leader punched out the badge from one device and it was scanned to Yugo's. Yugo asked him, "This is the… Rocker's badge?"

The man nodded, "Yeah, kinda stupid name considering I'm supposed to be the steel gymleader here. Anyway, I'd like to know exactly how you got those two 'mons of yours."

"Reeka and Emma?"

"The bitches."

"Yeeaah, Reeka is my starter…"

"The… Lucario?"

"Yeah, and Emma… she came on a lot later."

"Alright… and the reason of why they are…"

"Emma was naturally effed up like that and Reeka's… been boosted in a sense."

"Boosted?"

"Yeah uh… she's also an anthro… but very mild… and she got boosted… that's it."

"And where did she get this boost?"

"Why do you…"

"Uh… let's just say I'd like Mara to…"

"My grandfather has it."

"Oh… well… never mind then."

He turned around and told Yugo, "Now, if you please mind, leave so the next one can come on in and lose, thank you very much."

Yugo nodded and turned around, thinking, 'No bets, nice.'

He left the place, and outside, impatient and holding herself, Rebecca was there as she asked, "Finally, how'd it go?"

Yugo told her, "Got the third badge, you?"

"Well…"

She held a pocket book that showed…

"Five badges?!"

Yugo exclaimed as Rebecca laughed. "You got five badges that…"

Rebecca chuckled, "No you dumbass, I got my fifth one. I did badges long before I joined up. Since they redid everything, you no longer have to be a validated 'Pokémon trainer' in order to challenge a gymleader. Sure, they'll bitch… but hey, I'm waaaaay ahead of you."

"Hold on, how did you beat the gymleades… if you just got your Pokémon…"

She nervously answered, "Yeah, uh… those times I used my mother's Pokémon… and my father refused to do so… and once I was caught… I was told by both my parents to… not go fight a gym until I'm an adult or whatnot."

"Aaaaand… you are, how old?"

"Eh, almost 18."

"So 17?"

"Yeah, nobody can tell the difference."

"Well, we can talk about the rest of your life story some other time. It's getting dark, cold, and the wind's picking up. So, let's go."

"Ok, ok."

(Meanwhile in Rocket's US…)

Giovanni was sitting in the Oval Office as he twirled a pen about, "At least I got half the antiquated trash out of this place… surprised that Italy even bought it. But no matter, I got a country to myself and if anybody denies it, I will do whatever I like."

A goon came in saying, "Sir, we have a problem."

"And?"

"It involves the… whole thing about… this EU they talk about."

"Threaten these… EUians with a couple missile strikes."

"But… they have about 30-ish countries with them..."

"Strike that, let's take a second route… um… well, schedule a talk with these EUians, and preferably the rest of the damned planet, and see if we can assess the situation in the most appreciatable manner… or else I'll blast the shit out of everyone."

"Understood sir."

The goon left as Giovanni flipped his phone and called Frank again, this time asking, "Italy, I have problems."

Frank asked, "Yeah?"

"These EUians are beginning to send threats to me."

"The EU? Yeah, just ignore them. I'm surprised they're still alive."

"Why?"

"Long story."

"Fine, fine, I need help though!"

"You debate on a level of a three year old and was able to manage the army of a couple braindead buffoons. You'll do perfectly fine."

He hung up as Giovanni then realized, "Oh shit, speaking of brain dead buffoons, I have to get Maxie on here."

He dialed up Maxie and called, "Maxie, status report."

Maxie went on and explained, "Everything's been sort of fixed."

"Well, better than nothing. What is the status on the… *looks at name list* West… Coast."

Maxie answered, "Well, stretching through these… states we managed to get the place partially cleaned up. Homeless, jobless, and protesters were all put to work on cleaning this damn place up."

"Alright…"

"However, many of these fruit rings we either arrested or shot… and we did the latter more than the first."

"Fine, anything of value?"

"A giant prison nobody's using… um, this huge technological place we took over, nice… and there are some of these cannabis fields we captured and plan to sell off… aaaand… nothing else."

"What about public works?"

"Uh, describe?"

"You'll be running those states on the Western Coast thing, any public works you'll be keeping?"

"Like schools, government buildings, and the hospitals?"

"Yeah."

"Well, there was a school named Berkeley we burned down… well, blew up is a better term, and then… there was another school we blew up… and most of the schools we either jailed, enslaved, or executed the teachers because they were weird ass mother fuckers."

"I see… and how's the overall quality of the people?"

"It depends on where you go."

"How bad?"

"Depends… we've had normal people, crazy people, people who need mental analysis, and some who even scared a Ghastly away… and do you know how hard those things are to scare."

"Alright, I get the idea."

He dialed out and contacted Archie, "Archie, any news?"

Archie responded, "Bored as hell, but we got the city under control."

"Alright, any issues?"

"Depends, what issues?"

"People, public works, maybe even the actual city?"

"Eh, it's fine."

"Fine?"

"Yeah, we just stuck everyone on some boats and they went bye-bye."

"Cute, politicians?"

"We executed them all and… threw some in jail."

"I see… well, continue the further takeover… and also try to get any information on what an EU stands for."

"Uh, ok… but shouldn't you…"

"Ask the other guy? He's busy cleaning up this 'so-called' mess. Any who, back to looking important."

He turned off the screen and sat there, looing important.

(Meanwhile in a Kalos bar…)

Italy was in a bar getting plastered. He hung up quick because he felt the third shot of bourbon hit his forehead. As he looked around, the bartender asked him, "Professor, I know you seem to be in a dismal state, but maybe instead of drinking away your health to the shambles, actually attempt at fixing it."

Frank snickered, feeling a little tipsy, "Sir… if your wife just disappears… and literally packs the bags and goes 'bye-bye'… how can I fix that?"

"Well… maybe write a letter and a…"

"You're a bartender, how'd you know how to fix somethin'?"

"It's called assumptions based of stories. But, I got customers to attend to. Don't go messing up my bar."

He left off to the other people as Frank sat there by himself. He muttered, "Great… now I have to get my wife back… *sigh* oh well… divorce can't be that bad… right? Nah… probably will cost me one of my testicles."

He got up with his fourth shot and barely stood straight. His walking was slurred and so was his mind. He walked all the way to the other end of the bar, putting his shot glass on a random table, and looked around as he tried to find a way out.

Instead, he bumped into somebody, and nearly fell onto the table. Once standing up, he slurred out, "Heeeey… jeerk, ya'know I'm… a guy… you don't… wanna… mess with… ooor… uuuhh…"

He stopped as he was blurrily seeing some white figure, making out to be a Gardevoir, and he asked, "saaaay, you… look familiar…"

The Gardevoir, slurred out herself drunk and unstable, "Aaaaah, you… sound liiiike someoooone… I don't knooow… if you want me… to kick your… aaassss…"

"Guuuurrl, I'll beeat your braaains out… of a boooowl… maaaan."

He went up and grabbed her as she grabbed him and asked, "Want to come with meeee?"

Frank nodded, "Suuuuure."

He picked her up and carried her out the door, guided by the bartender as so they don't crash into a table or into a crowd. And off into the night they went… and soon they'll find out who they really are.

(At the Kanto/Johto border…)

And speaking of night and "off into it", crossing the border of Kanto was a line of emigrants. They were leaving Kanto, full of war, and moving into Johto, seeking out the peace they once knew. Within this caravan of travelling people, we find four distinctive people travelling as a group… of course, these are the "famous" characters of Kanto: Brock, Misty, Delia, and Gary. They, like their neighbors and the rest of the region, were stuck having to leave with only the necessities, and some extras for the journey.

They stopped and relaxed for a small moment as Delia told them, "I'll be… a little bit by myself."

Gary nodded, "Yeah, I don't blame you. *lights a cigarette* I'll be over here doing the same."

She went off into the shrubs, just a little far, and sat down on a fallen tree. She sighed, seeing the nightmare that was once her land, her home, and all she could do now was move on. As she sat there, a light breeze just went past her, almost seemingly unnatural, like someone took a deep breath and exhaled.

She looked around and saw the breeze make the branches sway, then she made a soft smile, "I know you're there… somewhere…"


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