Well maybe now I can give you guy's/gal's some closure on the cliff hanger from last chapter. How will all of this be solved you ask? Well maybe it will be solved or maybe not, you'll have to read and I'll let this chapter speak for itself. So brace yourself.

Chapter 41: right place right time

Point of View Anonymous, 10 minutes before the end of the last chapter

I was now hiding in a patch of over grown grass that hid my entire body. I was in a forest far out in the middle of nowhere following a van that was being driven by a pokemon that knew something I needed to know. It was now pouring rain and it was early morning and the sun was just starting to come up from the night. My gaze was now directed onto the van that had just recently stopped and the blaziken I was tailing got out of the driver seat and walked to the back. The blaziken then walked to the back of the van and opened the back door. Inside the van there was an umbreon that was tied up and appeared to be unconscious. The van that the umbreon was being held captive in was parked on a steep hill and at the bottom of that hill was a lake.

I had no idea who he was or what he did to get in this situation but whatever his reason was he seemed pretty screwed. The blaziken then grabbed the umbreon and spun his body around and revealed a fennekin that was tied up to his back. The blaziken was now talking to the fennekin who appeared to have a muzzle on his mouth, so all I could get out of the conversation was body language and the fearful eyes the fennekin had.

The blaziken then grabbed the fennekin's snout and removed the muzzle that kept him from saying anything and he could now speak freely. Again I had no idea who these pokemon where but I found myself somewhat intrigued on why someone like him would be wasting his time on weak pokemon like that.

Although I guess I shouldn't judge the two since I appeared weak to almost everyone I had met in the past, but little did they know that I was actually a pretty vicious female umbreon for my size. I was one third smaller than the average umbreon and I could even be described as scrawny, which was something I hated being called since it made me feel anorexic or weak. Other than my small appearance I looked pretty much normal, Black fur and gold rings along with a scar on the ring on my forehead.

After a few minutes of watching the conversation the blaziken then put the muzzle back on the fennekin and started talking some more even though the fox couldn't even respond anymore. A few seconds passed by then the fennekin had an angry look on his face that looked as if he wanted to kill the blaziken, although I would feel the same way if I was tied up in the back of a van like that.

After a few more seconds of the blaziken chatting away he then said something out loud that I couldn't quite make out and he then closed the van door. The blaziken then walked to the driver spot and changed the gear of the van and the van started to slowly roll down a hill. I watched it roll away in silence as the blaziken just watched the vehicle roll away down the hill.

After a few seconds of the van leaving on its own with the two pokemon the blaziken started walking away. Once he wasn't facing me I started to follow the blaziken as I stuck in the shadows of the tall grass where I was invisible. Even though I had some serious motivation to go after that bastard blaziken I couldn't help but feel that I should help those pokemon. I mean in no way did I care about them but I couldn't just leave them to die, or I'd be no better than that pokemon and his colleagues.

"Dammit" I muttered below my breath as I turned around and started heading down the hill slowly where the van went. I would have sprinted after them if the blaziken wasn't still in the area and if I was to be compromised now I would have no chance of saving those pokemon.

After a few seconds of walking I got a view of a big lake which the van had rolled into and the van was completely under water by now "Great" I mumbled below my breath again as I got up off the ground and started running towards the van in a hurry to do my good deed for the day.

The shore of the lake was very muddy and it was really bothersome getting my paws covered in mud and Once I reached the water I stuck my right paw into the water to test the temperature and the instant my paw touched the ice cold water I retracted it almost instantly "Even better" I said in frustration as I took a deep breath and jumped into the water all at once and got over the cold temperature experience over with.

Despite the fact that it was extremely uncomfortable to hold my eyes open underwater I put up with it and I eventually made out the van sitting at the bottom of the lake as it settled to the bottom. I swam up to it as fast as I could in my quadruped form and I instantly went to the driver spot to see if there was an easier way in other than the back door, since I couldn't open it easily from the back since I had paws and no thumbs.

Once I looked in the driver spot I quickly realized that I did nothing but waste my time since there was no way into the back except through the back. I then felt my breath running out and I swam up so I could get a quick breath before I attempted to open the back door with my paws, which I had no doubt in my mind that it was going to be challenging.

Once I reached the surface I took in a deep breath and almost instantly went back under to try and help them before it was too late. Once I swam back down to the van's level I began making my way to the back door but then the back door opened on its own, which was going to make my job even easier if I was even needed at this point. Shortly after the door opened I saw the fennekin swim out as fast as he could, he didn't even notice me since he was in such a hurry to get out of there and get to safety, even though it appeared that he left his friend behind.

The fennekin may have escaped but luckily I was smart enough to notice the umbreon from earlier as I swam to the back door and made my way inside to save the straggler. The inside of the van was practically empty and very dark on top of that due to some old cardboard on the windows. My oxygen was now running out again and I could feel my lungs screaming for some mercy. The umbreon I came to save was now floating around in the back of the van unconscious or possibly dead, there was no doubt that he was going to need some form of medical attention after being underwater this long. I then swam in the back of the van quickly and approached the unconscious umbreon. I swam above him a little and I opened my mouth and bit down on the back of his neck fur so I could get a good grip on him. I then began to slowly swim back out of the van with him and then once we were outside the van I started swimming up.

Now at this point I was close to giving in to my need to breathe in oxygen and that's when something sparked inside of me and I started swimming up with him as fast as I could in a desperate attempt to get air. After a few seconds of going into overdrive mode I reached the surface and my first instinct was to take in some fresh air and reward my lungs for suffering that long.

I looked back at the beach to see the same fennekin from before lying on the beach crying his eyes out. I then began to swim to the beach with the unconscious umbreon gripped in my mouth. Once I did reach the beach the fennekin's head instantly cocked up as he looked at me with wide eyes as he saw me dragging his friend ashore to safety.

"B-Black" the fennekin shouted excitedly as he ran in my direction to help me. He then grabbed the umbreon in his mouth and helped drag him further up the muddy shore until we were safely away from the water that possibly killed him.

"Lye him on his side" I then said in a stern voice to the fennekin.

I then grabbed the umbreon's head with my paw and began to observe his condition "How long was he under" I then asked the fennekin.

"I-I don't know like three minutes or maybe four" he said in an unsure voice that was shaky and full of fear.

I then took my paw and opened the umbreon's mouth and I put my head against his chest to listen for a heartbeat but all I did here was silence and the fennekin breathing hard from the anxiety. That's when I decided to take immediate action and I flipped the umbreon flat on his back and lifted his head up so if he could breathe it would be easy.

"Hold him still" I then demanded in a serious voice. The fennekin instantly replied and he used all of his body mass to hold the umbreon down from his shoulders.

I had no idea if what I was about to do was even going to work and I've mostly only seen this in the very few movies I did see. I placed my right paw on the umbreon's chest and then I placed my left paw on top of my right paw and I pushed down as hard as I could on his chest and released the pressure off his chest. Due to the shape of my body it was very awkward doing this and I was now beginning to realize how silly this was for even trying. I then began to push up and down on his chest repeatedly in a steady rhythm in an attempt to get his heart running again.

"Is there anything else I can do" the fennekin said in a desperate voice as I continued to perform a failure of an attempt at CPR.

"I don't even know what the hell I'm doing" I replied bluntly as I continued pushing against his chest. I then remembered something else the humans did when they did CPR and in no way did I want to do this to a stranger but it was better than finding out I could have saved him and I never tried it.

I then took in a deep breath and I began to slowly put my mouth towards the unconscious umbreon so I could blow some of my oxygen into his lungs. I opened his mouth as wide as I could and I locked lips with him and the first thing I noticed was how bad his breath smelled, which made me even more hesitant about doing this. Out of the corner of my eye I could see the fennekin looking at me in a very confused manner as he released his pressure off the umbreon. I then blew all of the air I had in my body into the umbreon's mouth and I moved my head away from him and I took in another deep breath to try again. I then locked lips with him again and I blew all of my oxygen into the umbreon's smelly mouth. Then I heard a gurgling noise from the umbreon and he literally spat a bunch of water into my mouth and his eyes shot open and possibly created one of the most awkward scenes ever in my life as I jumped off him and I spit the water he released into my mouth out as I began to gag on the remaining water in my mouth and on top of that I felt like I was going to die from that actually happening.

The umbreon now wore a look of confusion and terror as he began to cough any remaining water out of his mouth. "Black" the fennekin yelled excitedly as he stood by the umbreon's side and tears began to flow down his eyes again.

"W-Was she just K-Kissing me" The umbreon said in a scared voice and he coughed even more fluid out of his lungs. Then my fears came to life and he misinterpreted mouth to mouth as me making out with his unconscious body, which I was not that type of pokemon.

The fennekin then let out a big smile and tackled the umbreon in a big friendly hug as tears continued to flow down his eyes. Seeing as my services were no longer needed I then decided it was time for me to take my leave before that umbreon accused me of doing stuff to his unconscious body that I didn't.

"Hey wait" I then heard the fennekin call out as I was walking away from the two.

I just stopped walking and looked back at him and waited for him to speak.

"You saved him, thank you" the fennekin said in a sincere voice.

"Just keep it down and get out of here now, that blaziken is still probably in the area" I then replied as I set my focus back on my original mission.

"Who was that guy, do you know him?" the fennekin then asked as he left the umbreon and started walking towards me.

"It's a long story that you have no business in knowing" I then said as I started walking up the hill in the direction that the blaziken left in.

"Well your right, but he did just try to kill me and Black and on top of that he's after my other friends. So you telling me what you can could save my other friends" the fennekin said as he followed behind me.

"If someone like Jack is after you, your best off just moving regions and praying to Mew that your not worth so much he'd travel across the world to get you" I replied as I started picking up my paste to get away from him.

"Wait please" the fennekin cried out. Then I heard a cracking noise in the tree's above me and I instantly looked up to see the blaziken I was after dropping down with a knife ready in his hands that was directed towards me as he fell at a high velocity. I instantly jumped to the side to safety easily dodging his surprise attack. The blaziken's knife was the first thing to make contact with the ground and the instant the blaziken hit the ground he stood up as if he didn't even fall that high.

"Who the hell are you" he then asked as he shot me a death stare.

"You don't know me but I know Jack and all of the monsters he's created" I replied with a growl.

"I asked who, not whether you knew the people around me" the blaziken piped up.

"Me? I'm a ghost from the past, someone Jack deprived of a future" I said with a dark growl that made the fennekin I was with take a few steps back and everything went completely silent as we both waited for each other to make a move and the only sound that could be heard was the wind blowing through the tree's and the rain pouring down on us.

To be continued...

Chapter End

Author Note: So I guess things in the end did work out for Black, for now... So I actually did do a bit of research on CPR for this chapter since I didn't want to break the rules of life just to save him. It is possible to save someone after drowning for that long, its just harder and their is a chance they will have brain damage if oxygen is cut off to the brain cells for to long, and if that happen's someone will die. Although that doesn't mean their is 100% chance that the person will have brain damage. So I just wanted to justify Black's near death experience so you all don't think I just bull crapped it, next time someone almost dies in this story I'll have them brought back through the power of friendship XD JK I'd never do something that corny.

Anyways enough about Black and CPR stuff... Now onto the new character I introduced this chapter. Some key things you may of noticed is that the character is a female umbreon who happened to be at the right place at the right time. I'm not going to give up to much on her but I'd be curious to hear what you think is up with her and why she is following the blaziken. So that sums up this chapter and thanks for reading and I really do look forward to writing the next chapter as things keep getting more and more interesting.

Thanks to anyone who fav/followed/review'd this fic, you all have helped me a lot and motivated me to write as much as I do and this is something I truly do enjoy lol so its nice seeing people read this far into the story!