Well here is the next chapter. I don't really have a lot to say on the chapter other than that it just has some good character building and that it will introduce a new character. whether that character is important or not I won't tell you because I like tormenting people like that, just kidding. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far and thanks to those who tell me everything that needs improvements on the story I really do appreciate it and it does help out a lot. Anyways enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 19: Hesh

Point of View Black

The rain was finally stopping and now I could possible dry off. The sun's rays shined down and slowly warmed up my cold body. The sun's rays brought the world around me back to life. I continued walking down the route I have been following all day. It was now late afternoon and I knew I was bound to find civilization soon enough.

After about another hour of walking down a muddy path I couldn't help but notice the giant mountain blocking the routes main path. I observed the mountain more closely and noticed that the path I've been following went straight through the mountain. It was kind of a neat design I thought. The path also went around the mountain as well. The mountain had very little vegetation compared to the area around me and it was mostly just rocks on the mountain. I followed the path and came up to the entrance of the mountain. It was pitch black in the mountain and I didn't like the look of it. Next to the entrance of the cave was a flashy yellow sign with one of those weird human symbols on it. The symbol looked like a dot with a line on top of it. Sadly I was illiterate and I couldn't read it so I just didn't pay any attention to it.

I cautiously entered the cave and made my way through the dark abyss ahead of me. I may have been use to dark areas since I was a nocturnal pokemon, but this was dark even for me. I concentrated a little bit and made the blue rings on my body emit their natural blue light. I usually didn't use the rings on my body unless it was an emergency or I was exposed to the moons lunar lights, but this was an exception. There is no way in hell I was going to walk around this mountain. I slowly walked through the cave watching every step carefully. The blue rings on my body made the cave faintly glow blue around me and made it much easier to see. Everything in this cave was dead silent except for the occasional sound of water falling of the ceiling of the cave and hitting the ground here and there.

I then heard a creepy laugh from above me. I looked up but I saw nothing but darkness. "Look at what I found" a scratchy deep voice said from above me. I got into a defensive position and prepared myself for an imminent attack.

"Whoever is there show yourself or shut your mouth up" I said in an intimidating voice. I just heard chuckling coming from every direction around me and that's when I realized I might be in trouble. The laughing continued on and got louder and louder and more obnoxious with every second that passed by. I then began to feel nervous since I didn't know what I was up against.

"Behind you" I heard a faint scratchy voice whisper into my ear. I quickly turned around but there was nothing there. I gave a small sigh of relief and then looked towards where the exit was.

"Grahhhhh!" a duskull screamed at the top of his lungs in my face. Every nerve in my body jumped and I felt my adrenaline pump up as I lost my balance and fell down. I was now breathing really heavily from the jump scare the duskull gave me as he just laughed obnoxiously. The duskull looked like any other duskull. He had a skull mask on or I hoped it was a mask and his body was kind of like a black smoke with a pointed head and had two arms.

"The hell is your problem" I growled at the duskull.

"Sorry I couldn't resist it. You should have seen your face though it was priceless" the duskull said in an obnoxious voice as he laughed uncontrollable at me. I felt extreme annoyance from him laughing at me and for him wasting so much of my time, but I decided I was going to keep my temper under control and not instigate a fight with this creep.

"Well now that you had your laugh I'm leaving" I said as I continued my way towards the exit.

"Where do you think you are going little umbreon" the duskull said as he popped up in my face again and caused me to jump back a little from my natural reflexes.

"Getting the hell away from you that's where I'm going" I said with an insulting voice. The duskull then for some reason began laughing hysterically as if I told a hilarious joke or something.

"You want to tell me what's so funny?" I asked in annoyance.

"You aren't leaving this cave alive umbreon" he said as he began hysterically laughing. My face then went from annoyed to flat out serious.

"Is that a threat" I said in a serious voice. Then a lot more duskull's started coming out of the darkness. There was now at least twenty duskull's in this cave surrounding me and I was honestly now scared. I observed my surrounding and there was nowhere to go and I was comepletely surrounded and had nowhere to go.

"Sweet mother of Mew" I said out loud nervously. The horde of duskull's then all began circling around me at a high speed. I could tell they were doing this to confuse me and it was actually slightly working. I began charging up a shadow ball and I then launched it towards the big horde of duskull's circling around me. I saw a big explosion of dark matter hit the horde and I saw a few of them fall and hit the ground followed by a satisfying thump noise. I took down three of them in one blow but it hardly made their numbers look any smaller. Then a few duskull's left their horde and began gliding towards me. I quickly jumped out of the way but then they all began charging me at once, once I made my move. There was nowhere for me to hide and there was no way I could stop them all in time. I was then tackled by every duskull. Getting hit by one of them was hardly even noticeable but when you get hit by twenty of them it hurts like hell. After getting hit by all the duskull they all began circling around me again and I was barely standing after getting bombarded by so many of them at once.

I slowly began to think all of my options through carefully so I could make a logical choice that wouldn't get me killed. After a few seconds of thinking I came up with the brilliant idea of running for dear life. I charged up a shadow ball and began running towards the horde of duskull's and blasted a big hole in their defense. I quickly ran through and began running at max speed towards the exit. I could just make out the light far off in the distance where the exit was.

Then one of the duskull's caught up to me and tackled me from my right side and sent me to the ground. Sadly for me I hit my head on a rock and I was now slightly dazed, but then my luck got better and the rest of the horde of duskull's all tackled me at once. I felt myself almost black out for a second and I knew I was about to lose this battle and Mew know's what they'd do with me. The duskull's all surrounded me and made it so I had no escape from them. They all began laughing like it was funny watching me suffer. I just lied their defenseless and prayed that this would be over fast.

Then I saw a small flash of light and half of the duskull's floating around me where electrocuted by what appeared to be lightning and they quickly fell to the ground. I then saw another bolt of lightning fly towards the remainder of duskulls. All but one successfully flew away from the attack. The one duskull that didn't move in time was struck by lightning and fell to the ground and passed out or possible died, I could honestly care less at this point. Then off in the distance I saw a pikachu running towards me. I was actually surprised that someone was here just in time to save me.

"Don't worry I'm here to help you" the pikachu said to me as he finally reached me. The remainder of duskull just cautiously floated around us keeping a safe distance from the pikachu.

"Are you able to stand up" the Pikachu asked me in a serious voice while keeping his eyes on the horde of duskull. I attempted to get up but I fell down almost instantly. I didn't really have the energy to stand after getting assaulted that badly. The Pikachu noticed my struggle and grabbed onto my back and started dragging me. It did hurt since he got most of his grip on me from my fur but I wasn't about to complain that he was saving my life.

"You are heavier than you look" he groaned as he exerted all of his strength as he pulled me. He continued to slowly drag me towards the exit slowly. Then one of the duskull's charged towards him. He sent out a lightning bolt and zapped the living hell out of the duskull and the bugger fell straight to the ground.

"Don't worry you are going to be alright" he said in an attempted to make me feel better about the situation. The pikachu then let me go for a second so he could take a break from pulling me. I would imagine that it was hard since I was probably at least four times his weight. I then decided to try and get up again. I slowly got up with my wobbly legs and stood there for a few seconds just trying to keep my balance.

"You sure you can walk" The pikachu asked me. I just gave a weak nod and we slowly walked at my pace towards the exit while keeping a close eye on all the duskull's around us. They were still following us even though they were afraid of the Pikachu that saved me. Finally after a few minutes of me slowly walking towards the exit I finally made it. Once I was outside my eyes where strained for a few second as they adapted to the sunlight outside. Luckily for us the duskull's wouldn't follow us outside since it was day and duskull's don't come out during the day so we were now safe. We were now on the side of the mountain and there was no plant life up here and it was mostly rocks. There was a path that led down the mountain and led down to a small little town on the side of the mountain. There was also a nice gentle breeze blowing through the sky.

"Are you okay" the Pikachu asked me in a concerned voice.

"Yeah thanks to you" I said. I was originally in a horrible mood earlier today but since I was saved by him I'd try and at least act like I was in a good mood.

"That's good, but why in the hell did you go into that cave?" the Pikachu asked me.

"How was I supposed to know there was a bunch of killer duskull's in there" I said in a defensive voice.

"umm the warning sign outside the cave entrance duh" the Pikachu said in an annoyed voice.

I then remembered that strange human sign outside the cave entrance and I quickly realized what it probably meant. "Oh so that's what that strange human sign meant" I said in an awkward voice.

"How the hell did you not know that, it's just a yellow sign with an exclamation mark on it how did you not know that" the Pikachu said in an annoyed voice. If he didn't just save me I would have so made a snide comment towards him.

"Well I'm illiterate for one and two I'm a wild pokemon and besides I know now so it's fine" I said while trying to not get angry at him criticizing my lack of literacy.

"Well I guess no real harm was done just be careful in the future okay."

"Sure I can try that" I said.

Then a thought just popped into my head "Hey what where you doing in that cave then if it's dangerous" I asked him.

He looked at me for a second before responding "I was looking for some pokemon that have gone missing recently" He said in a serious voice.

"Missing pokemon?" I said, hinting that I wanted to hear more.

"Yeah a lot of pokemon have been going missing around this area lately and no one knows what happened to them" the pikachu said.

"Why" I asked curiously wanting to hear more.

"No one knows why. I'm just trying to find them before something bad happens to them." The pikachu said.

"How many have been taken" I asked wanting to learn more about these abductions.

"Six as far as we know, but there could be a lot more that we don't know about" the pikachu said.

I actually kind of felt bad for those pokemon since I was literally in the same situation as them. Except I've been running from my abductors. "Hey you did help me out back there big time so maybe I can lend you a hand looking for those missing pokemon" I said, hoping that maybe I could help out at least a little.

"You want to help? You don't even know me or those pokemon" The pikachu said in a confused voice.

"You didn't know me when you saved me and I wouldn't mind helping out a little since you saved me. Besides I got nothing better to do with my life." Sadly I was telling the truth, I didn't really have a lot to live for at the moment so I figured I could at least do something beneficial with my life while I still have it and this sounded like a good way to keep my mind occupied since all I could think about was the friends I had.

"That would be awesome thank you" the pikachu said in a happy voice.

"No prob" I said with a smile.

"My name is Hesh by the way" the pikachu said with a smile on his face.

I then realized I was going to have to tell him my name and I wasn't even sure what name to go by at this point. "My name is Black" I blurted out saying the first name that came to mind.

"Black? That sounds like a name a trainer would give to their pokemon" Hesh said to me with a smirk on his face. "Do you have a trainer" he asked.

"No me and my trainer were separated awhile back" I said trying to stay off this topic at all cost.

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that" Hesh said sounding pretty sympathetic.

"Why don't we head down to town and get some food and we can head out to look for the missing pokemon" Hesh proposed. I was not going to argue with that I was starved. I just hoped to Mew that the food he spoke of was free.

"Sure that sounds like a plan" I said with a smirk. Hesh then started leading me down the path towards the town that was on the side of the mountain. The path was pretty rough and was hardly even safe. There was rocks and over it and the incline would change often so it was easy for me to lose my balance even on four legs. Hesh on the other hand moved down the path like it was nothing while I slowly inched my way down praying to Mew I didn't slip and break every bone in my body.

After fifteen slow minutes of slowly inching my way down the mountain we finally reached the town. There were probably around five houses built in this town and a few other building such as a pokemon center, a lab building and a market. I could see why this town was so small I mean they built it on the side of a mountain I would imagine it would be hard to get funding to expand this town. My question is what the hell would they do if there was a land slide on that mountain, this town would be destroyed. There was basically one path down the entire village and all the building's and houses were following the path until there was no room on this spot of the mountain.

"Welcome to Ambrette town" Hesh said to me.

"Thanks" I said trying not to sound rude. All I really cared about at the moment though was food or those missing pokemon I could care less about this town. At the moment I was trying my hardest not to mope around and sound depressed like I truly felt inside. I really wish I could just head back and return to my old pokemon team and not have to start over again. On top of that I wasn't even sure if it was safe for me to be in the open like this with dangerous pokemon after me.

"Well what do you say we grab some grub" Hesh said as he signaled me to follow him. I followed him down the main street of the town. Eventually we were behind one of the pokecenter that was right next to the cliff so we had a nice view of the ocean from where we were. Behind the pokecenter was box that was covered by a tarp. Hesh walked up to the box and took off the tarp and revealed a lot of pokepuffs.

"My Mew that is a shit ton of pokepuffs" I said in amazement of what I was seeing.

"Yeah it's my stash" Hesh said proudly. "Just don't come back here later and jip me" Hesh said.

"Well I can't really steal the crate I have no thumbs to carry it with" I said jokingly as he handed me a bunch of pokepuffs"

"So I'm guessing you are a wild pokemon" I asked even though the answer was obvious.

"Eh I wouldn't call myself wild, I do technically live here. I just don't live with any specific humans." Hesh said as he stuffed his face with food.

"So you are kind of like a hobo" I said jokingly.

"Umm yeah sure" Hesh said awkwardly.

Then Hesh looked at me oddly for a second "Where were you before. Like what did you do with your life and all that" Hesh asked in an attempt to learn more about me.

I ate some of the pokepuffs as I thought of a good answer to tell him "No were noteworthy. At the moment I'm just mostly wondering so I have nothing to really do with my life at the moment" I said trying not to get into the details of my background.

"What about you" I asked trying to redirect the conversation.

"Well, I've lived here most of my life so I'm no one interesting honestly. I've always wanted to go see more of the world but I've never really had a decent chance to leave though since I have friends here and all" Hesh said educating me on his background story.

"Ah well I've seen quite a bit of Kalos. Not all but quite a bit of it. I actually grew up outside of snowbelle city, which is on the other side of Kalos" I said.

"You lived near snowbelle, isn't that place like extremely cold" Hesh asked me.

"The winters are pretty cold but when spring would come it is one of the most beautiful places ever." I said as I reflected back at my old home.

We pretty much had small talk throughout the rest of our meal for the next fifteen minutes or so. Once we were done we decided to get started on out search for the missing pokemon.

"Where are we going to start our search" I asked curiously.

"I don't know there are a lot of places we can check. I was going to just mostly check around the mountain for today and then check the more hard to get places tomorrow" Hesh said.

"Okay that sounds fair" I said as we began our search for the missing pokemon. I just really hoped that I wasn't going to regret volunteering myself to help find these pokemon.

Chapter End

Author Note: Well that concludes yet another chapter. So this chapter just focuses on Black. You all may of noticed that he seems to have cheered up a bit but that is mostly because he is just hiding his emotions and he is trying to put on a semi happy face for Hesh since he did save his life. So don't think I forgot about that. So I bet you are all wondering what is up with the pokemon abductions. Well I will say that it will lead up to some interesting things that are relevant to the overall story. Also what do you all think of Hesh so far? It may be to early to get a opinion on him but I think he will be a cool character. Things may have calmed down a lot compared to the chapter 15 area when Black and his team was fighting Vincent and his group but things will be getting spiced up soon enough. Thanks for reading and I am happy to hear what most of you think about the story and I am always happy to listen to any idea's you guy's may have for the story.