Chapter 4: Grovyle's Goodbye

Normal POV

There was a flash of light and suddenly the four Red Lotus members stood in the small but comfortable living room of Femke's adoptive mother, who looked up from her book as the light disappeared and suddenly her adopted daughter and three for her unown people stood in the living room.

"Whenever will you learn to knock before barging in?" She sighed as she placed her book down and got up.

"Glad to be home as well." Femke joked as she gave her adoptive mother a hug, then looked around. "Where is that lazy husband of mine? I had thought he would come jolting down as soon as he heard me." Femke said after she had pulled away from the hug, careful as to not get Ming Hua squeezed in the process, knowing she hated that.

"Well, he hasn't shown himself in quite some time, he told me he had some things he wanted to work out. He seemed a bit sad you were gone for so long." Femke's mother, named Anna, replied with a sad look on her face, since she had been sad herself as well that her daughter had been gone for such a long time.

"I know I was, mom, I am glad to be home at last." Femke smiled as she now looked at her friends, who had been patiently waiting to be seen and introduced. "But the portals were locked. I couldn't get through until now." Femke explained as she put Ming Hua on the bench, who slowly started to wake up a few minutes later.

"Where are we?" She asked as she looked around.

"My house on Earth." Femke answered with a smile on her face, which made Ming Hua look at her firmly.

"Not funny." Ming Hua said as she looked up at her friend angrily, but when she saw her friends nod, she turned sighed, since their nod had obviously meant Femke was telling the truth.

"Mom, I want you to meet my friends and fellow Voortrix members; P'li, Ming Hua and Ghazan." Femke smiled as she pointed to each of her friends while saying this.

"Welcome to earth, it's an honor to meet you all." Femke's mother smiled as she gave them each a hand.

"Everybody, this is my mother Anna." Femke said to her friends who smiled at her friendly.

"We're also anarchists who almost got our world messed up. But we're off that path now." Ghazan said calmly. This made anna giggle.

"Well, that isn't the first time femke went on rampage. You should have seen her before I adopted her." Anna said as she got a photo from the nearby closet and handed it to them. showing a very skinny and filthy version of Femke, pointing a gun at the camera with a scared look in her eyes.

"You look like a real threat. Nice." Ghazan said as he looked at the photo with a small grin on his face.

"That was Femke a few days after i adopted that she was the most feared enemy of the police." Anna said as she showed the Red Lotus members her old identity paper that had a mark in it "MFEOP" it said. "She knew no mercy for those that crossed her path until that fateful night." Anna said, this made that Femke turned red from ear to ear and went to stop her mother.

"Mom, they don't have to know that." Femke said firmly as she looked at her stepmother with a scared look in her eyes.

"Come on Femke. We want know now. We told you ours." Ghazan said, which earned him a glare from Ming Hua.

"If she doesn't wants to tell, don't force her to speak." She snapped, then looked at Femke who now smiled. knowing they would find out sooner or later. It was for the best she told them now. Now she could tell her own version of the story.

Femke's POV

"Well, Toph is my daughter but I think I never quite mentioned who her biological father was." I started to tell.

"No, you didn't." Ghazan calmly said.

"That's because I'm quite ashamed of how it happened." I said as I looked down.

"One night stand?" Ming Hua managed to ask, catching on fast like she always did. I nodded, unable to say the words myself.

"Not something I expected from you." Ming Hua commented as she looked at Femke.

"Yeah. Though later he and I found each other by accident and we started to search for Toph and her brothers and sisters." I said.

"So Toph has siblings, huh? That means Lin and Su have aunts and uncles." Ghazan said as he looked at Femke with a bright smile.

"How many?" P'li asked, which made me scratch the back of my head in a thinking look.

"Don't ask how but...sixteen." I said as I kept scratching the back of my head with a sheepish smile on my face. "At the same time."

"What." Ming Hua said to me with a gasp as she and P'li looked at me with widened eyes.

"I really have no idea why but according to Daniel it was a side effect of me being bitten by that werewolf. right before that one night stand." I said as I remembered that was the only thing he had been able to come up with as explanation for what had occurred, especially since all sixteen babies looked different as well.

"After the birth, I was broken. It was February and it was cold. I hadn't eaten properly for days. I thought I was dying." I said as I looked down with a sad look

"So I gave the babies away to good people to at least save them." I said as I shook my head to shake the bad memory away from me

"So that's how Toph ended up by the Beifongs." Ming Hua said as she put a water arm on my shoulder.

"Yes. The youngest; Dylan died because of someone who worked for Lord Darkar. Daniel and I tried to save him but..." I started, but stopped as I heard my own younger voice call out.

"Daniel! NO!"

"That must have been awful for you." P'li said as she wrapped her arms around her best friend in a comforting way.

"Yeah, I was heartbroken. That was, until i found Grovyle with whom I saved this world." I smiled, remembering the Future of Darkness and how Grovyle, Cristie, Leda, Celebi,Dusknoir (after he redeemed himself) and I beat Primal Dialga in the future, saving humanity from a fate worse than death, during which Grovyle and I had gotten married and got a daughter whom we named Christie, Leda,Celebi the thief, after our friends with whom we saved the world.

"That is amazing. You saved the world from a disaster like that, fought an amazing strong creature and won." P'li beamed after I had told them the story.

"Not just any strong Pokémon. This one was considered a Deity. The Deity of Time." I corrected her, which made all of them gasp in shock. Even Ghazan.

"A Deity? Really?" He beamed as I nodded and got up.

"Yes he was, come on! I can't wait to introduce you to them" I now beamed as I took P'li by her hand and pulled her on her feet.

"But if there not here, where are they then?" P'li asked as Ghazan got up as well, while Ming Hua bended some of the water that was in the air around us to make water arms and legs, so she could get up as well.

"In the encampment, which is nearby. If you like we can walk there." I smiled as I led them to the door. "Then you can also see Earth." I smiled as I opened the door.

"Mom! I am off! See ya later!" I called loudly.

"Just be careful, dear!" My adoptive mom Anna called out of the living room.

"Never!" I teased, after which I closed and locked the door and walked out before my friends towards the camp.

"Looks just like in our..." Ghazan said in a lax way, but he stopped mid sentence as a plane swooshed over them. "Was that a plane?" He asked as he pointed at the Airplane. "No way they can be so big yet go so fast."

"It's a jet. A big plane to transport passengers and cargo over the world faster than with an airship." I explained smiling as I pointed to it. "We're using them so much we've got special places for them even; airports." I explained.

"Sounds better than an Airship, if you ask me." Ghazan smirked as he looked at Femke who stopped for a red traffic sign.

"Yes, it sure is. Much faster." I smirked.

"Why don't those things have an engine?" P'li asked as she pointed to the bicycles that rode past us, which earned her some looks from people.

"Next time whisper questions like that. People here aren't used to visitors from other dimensions." I whispered to my best friend. "That was the bicycle I told you about." I smiled as I pointed to some others that were riding by on the bicycle road that was marked pink ore with white stripes next to the car road.

"Nice." both P'li and Ghazan said calmly while Ming Hua rolled her eyes.

"After we have seen Grovyle and the others I could teach you how to ride a bicycle" I offered with a smile on my face as we crossed another road before we walked through a small forest.

"Good, since I now remember that is what you promised." P'li smiled as we reached a clearing near a beautiful river were many tents in the forms of Pokémon stood, while many Pokémon walked around working.

"Femke! It's so good to see you again." A large Blastoise called as he walked to me and gave me a hug. "Megoron, you overgrown turtle, you're squeezing the life out of me." I groaned as he hugged me a little too tight.

"Oops, sorry." He grinned as he let go.

"These are my friends. Everyone, this is Megoron. I named him after my father." I grinned at him, since I had teased my starter a lot with that fact ever since I learned to understand the language of Pokémon as well as the animal language.

"Nice to meet you all." The Blastoise said waving his big paw a little, though they probably only heard him say his own name.

"These are my friends; P'li, Ming Hua and Ghazan " I told Megoron with a small smile on my face before I started look around for Grovyle, thinking it was odd he hadn't shown himself yet. When Megoron saw me look around, his face turned sad as he took something from his bag and handed it to me.

"A letter from Grovyle. He said I had to hand it to you when you came back. If you came back." He said as he handed me the scroll, then headed back to work.

"What was that all about?" Ming Hua asked as soon as Megoron was out of hearing distance.

"I introduced you guys, he handed me a letter from Grovyle, then left." I said as simply as possible as I opened the note and looked at the Unown writing on the paper.

"Is that this world's language? Looks nice." Ghazan smirked when he saw the Unown writing Grovyle had used to write his letter in, which was so him. He loved to use it even if it was only to tease me with the fact he was better at it then me.

"Not quite. It is a rare, ancient language, but many legendary Pokémon know and use it." I said as I took a moment to recall which letters were which again, then started to read out loud.

Dear Femke

If you find this letter that means you have come back from the Avatar realm at last. But it will also mean I have left for the future. I know we promised each other our ever lasting love, but I can't help feeling you have found someone else out there and forgot all about me. So I have come to the decision this might be for the best. Maybe humans and Pokémon weren't meant to mix.

(They are, he is just being paranoid.

signed, Dusknoir)

Anyway, I hope you are going to be very happy with him and that you can forgive me if I was mistaken.

I am sorry, this is for the best

Love,

Grovyle.

PS: Don't worry, Christie is with me. She will be perfectly happy with me and know her mother loved her.

'Grovyle, no…' I thought as I looked at the note with tears in my eyes. "Femke..." I heard P'li softly say behind me, after which I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up through my tears and P'li walked to me with her arms opened to hug me but before she could grab me I had ran the other way.

Normal POV

"That was cold. Poor Femke." Ming Hua stated as the three of them looked after the place Femke had ran of to with a sad look in their eyes.

"Talk about a way to dump someone." Ghazan tried to lighten the mood, which earned him a faul glare from Ming Hua.

"You really don't know when to keep that mouth of you shut, do you?" Ming Hua asked in an annoyed way.

"Hey, whatever it takes to lighten the mood." Ghazan smirked. Meanwhile, P'li went after Femke, finding her near a big, beautiful waterfall, her head between her knees as she was crying.

"Hey, Femke." P'li said softly as she walked up to her best friend and placed a hand on her back.

"Go away. Leave me alone." Femke called from out of her knees.

"I understand. You're hurt. I just wanted you to know that we're all here for you if you need us." P'li said as she sat a little bit away from her in a tree and watched Femke cry her heart out. When she had calmed down she just sat there, recalling memories of Grovyle and her, not speaking until P'li came down and told her they should probably head back since it was getting late. Femke nodded and got up, not saying a word as she walked along to the encampment were Ming Hua and ghazan were hanging out. both of them looked up when P'li walked to them with Femke.

"How is it going?" Ming Hua asked as she walked to Femke, who looked up sadly and shook her head, still not saying a word as she walked by them and into one of the tents, returning with four sleeping bags, before she went to gather some firewood.

"She got it bad. She refused to speak ever since she saw that note." P'li said as she looked at her friends with a sad look in her eyes, looking as Femke started the campfire, while Megoron walked around her and looked like he was trying to cheer up the heartbroken girl.

'There has to be something that will cheer her up but what?' P'li thought as they all started to help Femke now, before they started to make marshmallows around the campfire.

"Just like in old times." P'li grinned as she blew on her marshmallow which was half burned on one side.

"Still a terrible cook." Ming Hua teased her best friend as she got her own marshmallow out of the fire, completely burned.

"Rich, coming from you. Zaheer was the only one who knew what he was doing." P'li smiled as she got a new marshmallow and thought for a moment before she looked at Femke.

"Femke, want to see a neat Combustion Technique?" P'li smiled as she held the marshmallow a few meters away from her, then used a small Combustion Blast to fry it. Femke smiled at it weakly, then tried to do the same which resulted in a huge, sticky explosion.

"Okay, next time you're doing that, warn me about it" Ming Hua said as she rubbed the goop from her face.

"Sorry." Femke muttered under her breath as she looked to the side with a sad look.

"It's alright. You couldn't know yours would blow up. Right, Ming?" Ghazan asked his best friend sternly, trying to sign to her that they had to try and cheer up Femke, not push her into the ground even more.

"Whatever." Ming Hua replied dryly to Ghazan, who sat against a log they had placed around the campfire, looking at the stars with a small smile on his face.

"You know, the stars here are pretty much the same as in our dimension. I already see three constellations I remember from prison." Ghazan brought up with a smile on his face.

"They are, you all have different names for them though." Femke silently said as she looked up.

"I re-named them like a thousand times. In jail, I had nothing else to do except for hoping Zaheer or someone else from the Red Lotus would find me someday soon." Ghazan said as he looked at Femke. "How do they call them here?" He asked, interested. At this femke looked up at the sky with a pondering look.

"Well, I remember a few. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Taurus, Gemini, Aquarius and Libra." Femke said as she pointed each of them out in the night sky above the encampment, which was so dark all the stars and constellations were very visible.

Femke's POV

"Well, that is very good of you." A voice called out of the dark all of sudden, making all four of us look up.

"Who said that?" I called as I got up and got the revolver out of my pocket that I had always kept since the day I had stolen it from the man that later became my stepfather, when I was still on the streets, though the thing was busted and didn't worked anymore. I love to use it very often to bluff my way out of difficult situations. "Come out! I 'm warning you! I have a weapon and I'm not afraid to use it!" I called, trying to keep my voice from shaking.

"On quit the act, Femke. We all know that thing is worthless." Ilena called as she came out of the shadows together with her two friends and an (to me) unknown man and woman, who looked at Ghazan, Ming hua and P'li with a small smile

"Hello everyone, long time no see." The woman said as she walked past the older male and to P'li, who gasped when she saw the two.

"Tziza! Master Xai Bau!" P'li called out as she looked at the two, gasping.

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Dun Dun Dun! And another chapter done! Next time we will see what master Xai Bau and Tziza came for! If you want find out, you gotta keep reading!

A/N:

So, yeah. Grovyle the thief from the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games was her husband. But now they broke up due to a misunderstanding. Since Femke and Zaheer aren't a couple but Femke had been gone for so long he assumed she had found a human man there and decided maybe it was for the best he disappeared from her life forever, taking Grovyle, Dusknoir and his daughter Christie along to the future. I sure hope the note did sound a little like something Grovyle the thief would write (I did study his character a lot, since I played all the games) but don't hate me if it isn't like him at all. Break up scene's just aren't my specialty.

Since Femke is out and about traveling a lot I thought her stepmother would be used to Femke barging in unannounced by now, which resulted in the hilarious first scene of the chapter as I made it up. For more info about Anna, you can read my other fanfic "A Trix Story"

I thought it would be natural for Femke to stop talking for a little while as a result of a broken heart, and we sure see more of this in upcoming chapters (unless Grovyle would come back at some point and they would patch things up)

That was all for now, thanks for reading, don't forget to thank paranoidgirl for being such a awesome beta reader and to REVIEW!