So here is another chapter. Anyways our characters are now finally beginning to leave Anbrette town. It took awhile for me to finally appropriately be able to get things moving towards them leaving. So you can expect them to be heading to a new area within the next chapter. Anyways I finally noticed that I was spelling Ambrette town wrong the whole entire time. (I was spelling it Amberette town) Anyways thanks for reading and hopefully things can start moving more soon.

Chapter 31: Proposal

Point of View Black

I was now sitting outside of the hotel which Alex was sleeping in. The sun was now starting to come up now and it was bringing Ambrette town back to life after the long night. After our little meeting last night I decided it was best to just stay awake since I wasn't tired at the time and I had a lot on my mind. After hours of lying around though I was pretty tired now as my eyes became heavier and my vision became slightly blurred and I was now beginning to regret my decision of staying awake for so long especially since today was also the day we were leaving Ambrette town and that didn't help either so I was expecting this day to be long and dragged out.

After a half hour of waiting I heard the sound of the hotel room door opening from behind me. I quickly shifted my eyes back and I saw a tired looking fennekin walking out of the room and sat right next to me.

"Couldn't sleep" I asked in a groggy voice.

"Yeah" he replied along with a tired yawn.

"So what's been keeping you up" I asked.

"Just everything that's been going on" Flare replied in a drained voice "Why are you still awake" he then asked me.

I took a second before responding "Thinking on how I'm going to keep us all alive" I replied.

"Well do you have any plans" Flare asked as he looked at me.

"Nothing different than what we were already doing" I said in a quiet voice.

"I see" Flare said bluntly.

"I have a question Flare" I asked as I sat up.

"Sure what is it" he said.

"What would you say about Hesh, Ebony, Blue and possibly that rattata coming with us?" I asked.

"Do they want to come with us" Flare then asked me curiously.

"No, but I was going to ask them if it was okay."

"Well I wouldn't mind them coming with, but that's not my decision alone" Flare said with a small smile on his tired face.

"Well I can ask Kana and I'd rather not talk to Gray but how exactly would I ask Alex" I asked with a confused look on my face.

"I can ask Gray and for Alex umm that's a good question" Flare said with a small chuckle at the end of his sentence.

"Okay, well we will have to do that before we leave later today" I said as I stood up and stretched.

"Why do you want them coming with us though" Flare asked as I stretched out my body.

I took a second to process that question and ask myself why I really wanted them to come with us "Hesh is a good pokemon and I think he can help us a lot and he did say he wanted to travel. And my other reason is because we have a better chance against Genesis if we stick together instead of splitting apart" I said as I paused after those words "And for Ebony… I don't want her to be alone after losing her sister. I guess to an extent I feel responsible for her now since I did watch her sister die in front of me and I do know what it's like to lose family. So I understand her pain" I said in a gloomy voice.

"Well I'm sure they can all come Black so don't worry. And stop blaming yourself I'm sure she knows it's not your fault" Flare said in an optimistic voice.

"If she does hate me though, I wouldn't blame her… When I lost my family one of the first things I did was try to find a way to justify their death's so I took it out on others and accused others for being responsible" I said as I looked off into the distance towards the ocean.

"Well she's not you though and maybe she is smarter than you" Flare said.

"True" I replied bluntly "Wait what… Are you saying a child is smarter than me" I asked him in an offended voice.

Flare then froze up as he realized what he said "N-no I m-meant like she's smarter than you were back then and she will cope with her emotions better."

"Anyways just leave the asking to me and I'll make sure they can come with us" Flare said.

"What about Alex you can't exactly ask him directly" I said.

"Ehh I guess we'll have to play charades with him" Flare said with a smirk.

Flare and I both waited in the hotel room for an hour until the sound of an alarm clock destroyed the morning silence as sound waves blasted through the silent air. When the alarm did go off I was drifting in and out of sleep so it scared the living hell out of me and caused me to jump up with my heart throbbing. Alex slowly got off his bed and smacked the alarm clock that was sitting on a night stand and the alarm clock finally shut the hell up.

Alex slowly got out of his bed and raised his arms in the air as he stretched as I stood silently staring at him as my heart throbbed from the jump scare from the alarm clock. Once Alex was done stretching he then flipped on a light and illuminated the whole room. Then to add to the light he opened the blinds on the window and let in a bunch of natural light that burned my eyes that were used to the nocturnal darkness of the night. Shortly after the blinds opened I spotted Kana tossing and turning at the end of the bed and as she was trying to adjust herself on the bed as the sun's rays made her uncomfortable. I watched her toss and turn until she made the clumsy mistake of rolling off the bed. Hey eyes instantly sprang open as she fell in slow motion and I could see the shock in her shaky eyes as she hit the ground and made a loud thump noise.

The sound of her hitting the ground made me wince a little as I felt the pain myself, a few seconds after I could hear the pained sound of Kana moaning in frustration and minor agony. Eventually I did watch her crawl up to her feet in a sloth like manner. As for the absol who seemed to sleep for twenty three hours of the day he still managed to sleep after all of the noise and light in the room.

"Morning everyone" Alex said in a tired voice as he noticed the few of his pokemon that were awake. I lifted my paw and gave a small wave to him to show acknowledgement to his words. I then saw Flare walking towards Kana and once he reached the drowsy jolteon he took a seat next to her as she yawned and failed to notice the fennekin. Flare then started talking to Kana as she jumped in surprise from not noticing him. I couldn't really hear them and I didn't really have the attention span to pay attention so I lied down on the floor and closed my eyes and started going to sleep even though it was morning, although this would be considered my normal bedtime if I was still a wild pokemon.

"Hey Black we got a big day you can't go back to sleep" I heard Alex holler in an excited voice. I then felt my blood boil from being separated from my precious sleep and I gave him a death stare.

Alex then looked at me funny as I gave him my death stare "Come on buddy we got a long day" Alex said as he walked up to me and gave me a small nudge on the shoulder.

"Mew dammit" I cursed out loud in frustration as I struggled to get up into the sitting position. When Alex wasn't looking though I closed my eyes again while I was sitting and attempted to fall asleep while sitting up. Every muscle in my body then began feeling slightly comfortable as I could feel myself drifting off into sleep and my body naturally slouched down and I eventually lied down out of reflex to my drowsiness as my eyes got more and more heavy.

"Hey Black" I heard Flare obnoxiously yell directly into my ears and I shot up from the natural reflex of being startled. I then felt a solid object hit the top of my head and I fell down and grasped my head and I heard Flare make some kind of yelping noise.

"Owww that hurt" Flare whined in a voice that made his voice sound congested. I then looked up while I held my throbbing head and saw the fennekin holding his nose along with a pained expression on his face. Then I realized that the solid object that hit my head was Flares face, or more specifically his nose.

"Then don't sneak up on me like that and yell in my ear" I said in an agitated voice as I rubbed my throbbing head.

"Anyways… I asked Kana and she said she wouldn't mind if they joined us. Now I just need to ask Gray and Alex" Flare said in his congested voice as held his nose.

"That's great" I responded with a small smile.

"Yeah I'll ask Gray once he gets off the couch and wakes up a bit" Flare said and I gave a nod along with a small smirk in response to what he said.

Point of View Hesh

I was awoken by the unpleasant rays of the sun that stung my eyes as I slowly opened them along with warming up my body to an uncomfortable temperature for sleeping. I was now behind the pokecenter leaning against the building I lived behind. A few meters to my left I could see Ebony curled up in a little ball as she slumbered. After a few seconds of watching her sleep I got up on my two feet and stretched a little and cracked the joints in my knuckles along with the joints in my neck.

"Ughh" I moaned as I tried wiping the morning drowsiness out of my eyes and I then began walking over towards my stash of food and I pulled out some berries and shoved a handful in my face and I began chomping on the berries.

After a few minutes of shoving more food than I needed into my mouth I looked over to my left and I saw Ebony slowly waking up as she uncurled out of her ball.

"Morning" I said with a mouthful of berries as I spat out some chunks of my food between my words. Ebony didn't even respond and I already knew she was still depressed about her sister.

"You holding up okay" I asked as I walked over to her and sat down and patted her on the back in a comforting manner. Ebony just looked down at the ground and I just let her have her silence since she probably wasn't ready to talk about her feelings yet.

A few minutes passed by before I attempted to get her to even respond to me "Are you hungry, I got plenty of food if you want some" I said with a smile on my face. Ebony just nodded her head horizontally and I frowned at her answer since she hasn't eaten hardly since she got away from Genesis.

"Hey Hesh" I heard the familiar voice of Black yell from behind me. I turned around and saw Black walking towards me with Flare.

"Hey, haven't seen you in like… forever" I replied jokingly.

"Try like Four hours" Black replied with a smirk.

"So I take it you're here to say goodbye since your leaving today?" I asked.

"Actually I have a proposal if your willing to listen" Black said with a smirk.

"Sure not like I have any plans today" I said as Ebony noticed Black but didn't bother

Black looked at Ebony in a depressed way and everything fell silent. "So what did you want to ask me" I said breaking the silence.

"Well you once said you wanted to travel right? So why don't you and Ebony come with us" Black said.

The thought ran through my head as I thought of all I would be leaving behind here in Ambrette. Then I thought about it some more and then I realized something… I have nothing holding me here…

"I don't know that's kind of a huge change in my life and that's also a huge choice for Ebony and she already has a lot going on now" I said as I thought through the tempting offer. I did always want to go see the world, I just wasn't sure if I wanted to see it with a pokemon trainer, then again I don't know if that'd bother me either since I did enjoy a good fight here and there. I especially enjoyed winning.

Flare then decided to put in his input "Well it may be good for Ebony to move around a bit. Have something to keep her busy instead of sitting around a town all day with nothing to do but think about her sister" Flare said out loud with a smile.

Black and I both froze and looked at Ebony who seemed unaffected by him bringing up her sister and then we both stared Flare down.

"Flare" Black said dully as he slapped Flare right in his nose with his paw. The fennekin instantly fell down and held his nose tightly.

"Ow! You know that still hurts from earlier" He cried out loud in a whinny attitude as he held his nose.

After a few seconds of watching Flare hold his nose in pain Black and I then went back to our conversation "Anyways, despite Flare being an insensible idiot, he is right but that's her choice just like it's your choice" Black said.

"True we'll think about it" I replied.

"Okay you got some time, but not a lot, now Flare and I are going to ask Blue and Danny the same question, we'll be back afterwards to check up on you" Black said as he started walking away.

Then something baffled me and I needed to get it off my chest "Wait what about your trainer, won't he care and how the heck would you even ask him…" I asked in a confused voice.

"Oh we lucked out on that" Flare said "That detective guy who made Black go back to the Genesis facility showed up and we just had the porygon that was with the detective translate our question to Alex" Flare said with a toothy grin.

"Oh… what did he want from you now" I asked.

"He just wanted to thank us for our help and check up on Black. He's actually an alright guy, when he isn't being so serious all the time" Flare answered.

"Anyways we'll be back soon" Black said as he walked off with Flare.

'Traveling… Would that life suit me' I thought to myself

Point of View Flare

Black and I were now walking down the main street and heading out of town towards Danny and Blue. They were now staying on the outskirts of town on the mountain. After a few minutes of hiking up the mountain we were finally in the opening which Danny and Blue were occupying.

Once we reached the opening on the mountain we saw Blue sitting on a small rock and Danny lying down on the ground being a lazy individual. It didn't take long for Blue to notice us and he quickly looked over to us and gave a nod in our direction.

"Good morning" Blue said.

"Hey" Black replied as I followed his lead towards the squirtle.

"What brings you two up here" he asked as the rattata noticed our presence and got up and looked at us and waved his paw at us.

"Well we have a proposal for you two" Black said as the squirtle waited for him to continue "Would either of you two be interested in joining our team" Black asked.

"No thanks" Blue instantly replied.

Black looked a little insulted as his face flinched at how fast Blue replied "Your not even going to consider it for a second" Black said in a disappointed voice.

"No I already have plan's that's all" Blue said.

"Oh what are you going to do" I asked curiously.

"Actually Danny and I both agreed on doing the same thing. We both want to help find evidence of Team Genesis and find them and expose them to the world" Blue said with a confident smirk as his eyes lit up.

Then Danny took a step forward and shared a similar look on his face "Yeah, after what they did we both want to put an end to them" Danny said.

"Well that's great then" I said with a smirk.

"Aren't you worried you'll piss them off more though" Black added.

"They're going to do what they're going to do and we are going to stop them before they hurt others" Danny added in.

"Well okay then… I guess this will be goodbye then" Black said in a disappointed voice.

"It's not goodbye. Goodbye is used as a permanent parting and I'm sure are paths will intertwine one day" Blue said with a small smile.

"Well thanks for ruining our parting…" Black said in annoyance.

Blue then extended his right hand towards Black "I never did get that hand shake from you back when we first met" Blue said with his hand extended.

Black let out a small smirk and extended his right paw and shook hand to paw with the squirtle. The squirtle then walked towards me and extended his right hand "I hardly got to speak with you, but I can tell you have a lot of potential and I wish you luck on your journey with Black. I'd wish Black luck but after what he survived I can tell he already has enough luck for your whole team" the squirtle said as I extended my paw and shook his hand.

"Catch you guys later and good luck to you guys on bringing down genesis" Black said as he began walking back towards Ambrette.

"Take care" I yelled as I ran towards Black so I could catch up to him. I looked back and saw both Danny and Blue both waving back to us and I gave a small wave along with Black.

"Now we just got to check on Hesh and Ebony to see their opinion" Black said as we kept walking.

End of Chapter

Author Note: Well now only a few things need to happen and our protagonist can make there way towards the second gym. As for Danny and Blue not tagging along, I'm sure they may have a spot later on in this story... or maybe not. Anyways a lot of sleepiness in this chapter lol. When I was writing this chapter it actually reminded me of a funny story of how I was sleeping and the alarm on my phone went off and I somehow mistaked a square fan for my phone... (Note this fan was not small...) And then I got so pissed that I couldn't stop the music from my alarm that I started punching the fan in frustration. It took me a minute to actually realize what I was doing... Anyways I'm not a morning person lol. Anyways thanks for reading and leave a review to give me some feedback or maybe just to show your support for this story. Well this is it until next chapter!