Chapter 5: Dream Mist and Route 3

It was raining...

"Oh come on!" I sighed, looking outside the window in boredom, "All I wanted to do was to go to Nacrene City..."

(Pffft, the Gods probably did this on purpose,) Leafy snorted, looking up from reading his latest book that he'd borrowed from the PokéCenter's library.

"Oh shut it, Leafy..." I grumbled, laying my upper body on the table.

(Well... it couldn't get worse?) Sam offered, tilting his head, just as the thunder roared and lightning shot through the sky.

"Yes, Sam, it couldn't get worse..." I groaned, sinking further into my misery.

(S- sorry...) Sam whined, his head lowering.

(Yes, you should be sorry,) Leafy snorted, still engrossed in his book, but obviously not enough to ignore what was around him.

(You be quiet!) Sam yelped, tackling Leafy to the floor, where they both began fighting with each other.

"KENNY!"

"What!? Did someone die!?" I shouted, my head shooting up and scanning around for who called out my name, soon my eyes landed on Bianca, who was holding onto the door, drenched and looking ready to pass out.

"Uh... d-did something or someone... uh... what happened?" I asked after a while, both Sam and Leafy stopping from their fight due to Bianca's outburst.

"Y-you... you got to... ah... Fennel... she... mist... need... get...!" Bianca panted out.

(Woah, woah, woah, I did not catch a single bit of that, other than 'you got to', so, slow down and talk,) Leafy said, strolling over to her, head held up high and hands behind him, locked.

"I need to stop letting him read all those fancy books..." I groaned.

(I agree!) Sam nodded.

"Huh? Oh, you're telling me to slow down, right?" Bianca asked, finally catching her breath.

(Correct, lass!) Leafy nodded, before strolling back over to me.

"God he's such a pain..." I said, making a face.

(I agree...) Sam agreed, making the same face.

"Ah, Kenny! Um... sorry for earlier but... please come with me!" Bianca said, bowing before grabbing my hand and pulling me out the door, and into the rain.

"Wait! Bianca! My hat! At least let me get my hat!" I cried, my left hand outstretched toward the PokéCenter.

"Your hat can wait! This is more important!" Bianca said, going faster now.

"Please... Bianca..." I whined, my hand falling to my side as I slowly watched the PokéCenter fade away into the rain.

"Okay! We're here!" Bianca said proudly, opening the door and dragging me in.

"Heyheyheyheyhey! You can't just enter other people's homes!" I cried, "That's illegal!"

"Don't worry! It's fine!" Bianca reassured me.

"What the fudge Bianca!" I questioned, "Have you gone insane!?"

"Nope!"

"That does not reassure me whatsoever..."

"D-don't worry! I'm fine with it!" A purple haired woman looking to be in her mid to late twenties, "Oh! My name is Fennel! Doctor Fennel!"

"Uh... nice... to meet you?"

"Sorry Doctor Fennel! Kenny's... a bit shy around new people!" Bianca apologized.

"I am not!" I disagreed, turning to Bianca with a hurt face, which was met with a stuck out tongue.

"Ah yes, my room is upstairs!" Fennel said, showing us the stairs, "This way please!"

"But... um... we're wet..." I said.

"Oh, that's alright! As long as you don't go near the machines!" Fennel answered, leading us up to her room, which was messy with papers and other things scattered all over the place, along with a gigantic machine in the middle with what seems to be... purple mist in it?

"Okay!" Fennel said, turning to both of us once she was next to her desk, "Like I said before, my name is Fennel and I'm a scientist!

"I study trainers and I'm a friend of Professor Juniper! We met in college one day when we were both pretty young. Well, actually, I was-"

"Um... Doctor Fennel, you're getting off topic..." I interrupted, snapping her out of her speech.

"Oh! Sorry! I tend to do that sometimes!" Fennel apologized before returning to her speech, "As I was saying, I'm a friend of Prof. Juniper, and she's asked me to help you two on your journey!"

"Eh? What about Cheren?" I asked.

"Cheren? Oh yes, the boy with glasses!"

"Er, both Cheren and I have glasses..."

"I meant the other guy with glasses, sorry!" Fennel apologized again, bowing this time.

"Er, it's okay... please continue..."

"Okay! So to help you two, here's an HM for you two!" She said, handing both of us a disc labeled 'HM 01 - CUT', "As you see by the title, this is a Hidden Machine that will let you're Pokémon learn Cut!

"All you need to do is buy a TM/HM player - both work - and insert the HM and hit play! Then show that to your pokémon and they should learn the move, if they can learn it! For that, you can refer to the Pokédex!

"With this HM, a pokémon can cut down anything that's blocking your way, be it trees, vines, bushes, anything that can be cut! Also, like a TM, HMs can be used as many times as you want without wearing down, so feel free to teach it to all your pokémon! But! Be warned that it's very hard for a pokémon to forget it once it learns the move!"

"I see..." I said, absent-mindedly putting my hand on something and leaning on it, "This is all very interesting... but... is that all?"

"Kenny! That's not nice!"

"It's fine! I've got one more present for both of you, if you'll just-!" Fennel's eyes suddenly widened in shock, "Oh no! The machine!"

"Huh?" Looking to where Fennel was looking, I realized that the machine was acting weirdly, looking down, I saw that my hand was leaning on it, letting drops of water drip onto and into the machine, upon realizing the problem, I quickly pulled my hand away, "Oh crap! I-I'm so sorry Doctor Fennel! I-I didn't realize-!"

"I-it's fine!" Doctor Fennel reassured me, "Um... Amanita! Can you please come up here?"

"Coming!" A voice from downstairs called up a few seconds later, followed by footsteps.

Soon, a young lady - similar of age to Doctor Fennel - appeared, as soon as she went into the room, she saw the malfunctioning machine and rushed up to it, "OMG! M-my machine! What happened?"

"C-calm down Amanita! It was just an honest mistake! Don't worry! Um... can you fix it?" Doctor Fennel said, stepping in to defend me.

"I can," Amanita said after sighing, "But I'll need more Dream Mist, most of it escaped from the machine."

"I see... well..."

"I'll get the Dream Mist for you!" I blurted out, before thinking.

"Oh! You will? Thank you!"

"No problem! ... ... ... um... where can we get Dream Mist again?" I asked, realizing that I had absolutely no clue where to find it.

"Oh! You can often find munna and musharna wandering around the dreamyard! If you ask one for some, they usually will be nice enough to give you a little, all we need is this much!" Fennel explained, handing me a glass jar.

"Alright! I'll be back soon!" I saluted, before quickly going down the stairs and out the house - the rain stopped! -, right toward the dreamyard before I heard a yelp.

"Come on, don't tell me you actually forgot your pokémon!" Allison sighed, walking up to me with Sam and Leafy in tow and Pidove on her head.

(God I can't stand this woman!) Leafy spat, quickly running up to me.

"Hmph! Why don't you say that to my face, huh?" Allison retorted, huffing, Pidove doing the same.

(Kenny! Did you really forget about us?) Sam asked with puppy dog eyes and tears around his eyes - either he's genuine or he somehow learned Fake Tears -, while wearing my hat on his head, which, if I'm going to be honest with myself, looks absolutely adorable on him.

"Um, no, no I didn't, I was just... scanning the area before I brought you guys there! Yeah!" I lied, sweating profusely.

(Really?) Sam asked, eyes sparkling.

"Lies," Allison said.

"Psst! Sam!" I whispered to Sam, leaning down to his level, "That girl over there is lying, she can't be trusted!"

(Okay!)

"What are you teaching your pokémon!?" She shouted at me, before sighing, "Forget I asked, I really don't want to know..."

"Alright then, off to the dreamyard!" I commanded, turning around and running toward the dreamyard, Sam and Leafy on my tail - Allison didn't come with us.

Passing the sign that said 'WARNING - Dreamyard ahead, wild pokémon will appear', I finally arrived at an old, torn down looking factory or research laboratory thing.

"Who let the vines grow wild?" I grumbled, seeing the vines crawling up absolutely everywhere.

(Maybe their trimmer forgot to show up?) Sam answered, kind of.

(Idiot!) Leafy shouted, smacking Sam in the head, (Can't you see the building is abandoned!?)

"Goddamnit Leafy..." I sighed, walking up to the small tree that had begun growing right smack dab in the middle of the only hole in the wall.

"Well isn't it just convenient that we have to use Cut for this?" I grumbled, taking out the HM.

(No we don't,) I quickly turned to my left, only to see Sam on his hind legs, pushing Leafy up the wall, with Leafy's vines grabbing hold of something on the other side of the wall.

"Th-that's... wait, how am I suppose to get over there!?"

(Eh, we're Pokémon, meaning that other Pokémon will listen to us more than they'll listen to you, so it's better off if I go!) Leafy shrugged, pulling himself up, landing on the top of the wall.

"What about Sam?"

(What about who?) Leafy asked, before jumping over.

"... ... ... damn, I can't fit through there," I said after staring at the tree in front of me for way longer than I should have.

(Over here!) I heard Sam yelp from the far right side, making my way over there, I saw that a fence had been removed.

"Perfect! Thanks, Sam!" I exclaimed, walking right through and after looking around, I realized that this was a dead end.

"Unless..." Walking over to one of the barrels, I tried moving it... it didn't budge an inch.

"Sam!" I called, "Could you try moving that?"

(Okay!) Sam said, leaping back and ramming into the barrel, causing it to dent a little.

"Good job Sam! Again!"

(Hyah!)

BANG

CRASH

BOOM

"Uh..."

(That... wasn't me...)

(Get away from me, you bastards!)

"That sounded like Leafy! Quick, Sam! Tackle!" I commanded, Sam nodding and ramming into the barrel again, this time successfully moving it a tiny bit.

"Alright! Once more!"

Baring his fangs, Sam used Tackle one more time, this time successfully tipping the barrel over.

"Let's go!" I motioned Sam, running past the barrel and into the main part of the crumbling structure, only to see Leafy being beaten by 2 pokémon: a patrat and a purrloin.

"Sam! Bite on the patrat!"

Running up to the patrat, Sam bit down onto it, surprising it and causing it to scream out in pain.

"Hey, you! Is that your pokémon?" The female shouted at me.

"Huh? Yeah, he's mine."

"Hmph! Perfect timing, we're going to liberate your pokémon from you, you abusive trainer!" The male yelled, commanding his patrat to bite Sam.

"Yeah, not happening, Leafy! Vine Whip that purrloin into the patrat, then use Tackle on them both!"

Getting back up, Leafy extended his vines to wrap around the purrloin, who was ready to pounce on Sam, and threw him at the patrat, who had just let go of Sam, causing the two to crash into the ground.

Then, Leafy sprinted toward them, slamming into them and sending them backward, the patrat fainted while the purrloin struggled to get up.

"Sam, finish it off with Tackle!"

Growling, Sam quickly finished the purrloin off with a swift Tackle, before returning to my side.

"Grrr...!" The two growled before a thick mist suddenly enveloped the entire area.

"The hell?" The male started backing away, looking frantically around to see who did it, only to run into... a very large man in a very weird outfit.

"L-lord Ghetsis!" He cried out, as did the female, "W-we are terribly sorry-"

Suddenly, the man disappeared and reappeared in two places, scaring the two, who were now hugging each other.

"Okay... either this is real... or I'm on some very, very high-grade acid right now..." I sighed, my hand holding my head up.

(What's acid?) Sam asked.

(He's probably talking about Acid, the attack, maybe he's allergic or something,) Leafy explained, shrugging.

Suddenly, the man - Ghetsis - reappeared in front of the two again and said something, causing the pair to run off with a terrified look on their faces.

Then, the mist disappeared as suddenly as it came, this time with a hurt munna and a healthy musharna next to it.

(Kind pokémon, I thank you for saving my child here,) The musharna 'spoke'.

"The actual hell? Leafy, helping someone? Unreal," I said.

(But he did, and for that, I must thank him, is there anything you would want?)

(Ah, yeah, could I possibly have some of that pink mist thingy? Just this much,) Leafy said, holding up the jar - wait, when did he take that from me?

(No problem.)

-Pokémon Black-

"I'm back!" I called out as I entered Fennel's home once again.

"Ah, did you get the Dream Mist?" Fennel asked, looking up from her tea.

"Yup, it's right... wait... no..." I said, digging into my bag until I slowly began to realize that it wasn't on me.

(I have it!) Leafy said, strolling up to Fennel with the jar in hand - I mean vine.

"Oh, thank you! Aren't you a kind pokémon!" Fennel said, taking the jar while Sam and I snorted softly.

(Oi, I can hear you!) Leafy glared, looking back.

"Amanita! I have the mist here, do you think you could make those now?" Fennel called upstairs, which was met with a muffled, "Come up!"

We followed Fennel upstairs, where we waited for a few minutes as Amanita worked on something. Soon, she finished and gave us the item, it was a program for our X-Transceiver called the C-Gear. According to Fennel, it allowed us to peak into our pokémon's dreams and do other, 'cool' stuff. I didn't worry about it.

After the long explanation, Bianca and I decided to go find Allison and Cheren, both of whom were staying the night in Striaton. Once we found the two, we all decided it was cheapest to eat at the Striaton Gym - they offer discounts to trainers who have their Badge - and after that, we stayed the night at the Pokémon Center.

With a good night's rest, Allison and I decided that it was now a good time to head out towards Route 3.

"So, you guys live in Nacrene right?" I asked.

"Yup," Allison answered.

(Heyyy!) Sam called back toward us, (There's this weird building over there!)

"That's probably the DayCare! Come one, let's go!" Allison said, running toward Sam, her pidove in tow.

"Eh? Alrighty then." I shrugged, picking up my pace to match Allison's as the DayCare came into view.

"Hey Kenny, I've got a great idea."

"What is it?"

"Why don't you leave your snivy off here?"

"Hahaha, you're funny!"

"I wasn't joking."

"... ... ... Sam!" I called out, causing Sam to whip his head and run over, "Go find where Leafy is."

(Roger!) Sam barked, before running off again.

"Are you-"

"No, I'm just making sure Leafy doesn't get himself into trouble again."

(Over here!)

"Looks like the troublemaker's been found," I said, running over to where Sam was, which turned out to be next to the DayCare.

When I arrived, Leafy was on top of a swing, mocking the other pokémon there.

"Leafy! Get down from there and stop harassing those pokémon!" I called out, earning an annoyed huff from Leafy, who jumped down from the swings and crossed his arms as he made his way over to me.

"You should really keep a better eye on your pokémon..." The breeder who was watching the Pokémon said, walking up to me, "He's been causing a havoc around here."

"S-sorry about that," I apologized.

"HELP!" A little girl screamed, just as two Plasma Grunts ran past me.

"What happened?" Allison asked her, as Bianca of all people came running up.

"Th-they... Team Plasma stole her pokémon!" Bianca managed to say.

"What? Don't worry! I'll go after them!" I said to Bianca, "I'll get the little girl's pokémon back ASAP!"

"I'll come with you!" Allison said, running behind me.

Soon, a cave came into view and Allison and I decided to investigate it since it seemed like a perfect hiding place.

"Shhh..." Allison said as she hid behind a rock at the entrance of the cave.

Doing the same, I peeked over the top of the rock and saw the grunts from earlier.

"Hand over the girl's pokémon!" I shouted, leaping onto the rock, then down, effectively startling the 2.

"Tch, looks like we've got company..." The first grunt sneered, as did the other.

Both of them sent out patrat, while Allison and I sent out Pidove and Leafy respectively.

"Leafy! Vine Whip!"

Extending his vine, Leafy hit one of the patrat, knocking it over, however, the other one managed to close in onto Leafy during the time but before it could attack, Allison's Pidove let out a Gust attack, which blew it away from Leafy.

"Now, Quick Attack!" Allison commanded, Pidove nodding as she flew up to the ceiling, folded in her wings, and diving down, slamming into one of the patrat and knocking it out while Leafy finished the other one off with a Tackle.

"Nhhh..." The grunt grumbled as he took 3 steps back, looking at his fainted pokémon in shock.

"Now, return the pokémon you stole!" Allison demanded, her right hand extended.

"Tch... w- we'll get you next time!" The grunt shouted, throwing the pokéball he stole and running off deeper into the cave with the other grunt close behind him.

"Hmph, I'll return the pokémon, you can go on ahead, I'll catch up later," Allison said, and with that, she headed back.

"... ... ... Alright Leafy, we're catching another pokémon!" I said, determined.

-Pokémon Black-

As I exited the cave, - without having caught any Pokémon - I made my way south on Route 3, passing by the DayCare once more, where the girl gave me a few pokéballs as a gift.

Soon some tall grass that were a different hue came into sight, as did Cheren, who was just walking out of a patch of them.

"Hey, Cheren!" I shouted out, catching his attention.

"Hm, it seems that you've beaten the Striaton Gym."

"Hmph, of course!"

(Not without trouble,) Leafy said from ontop my head.

"Hm... well then, since we both have the Trio Badge, why don't we have a battle to see who is stronger?"

"Alright then, let's go, Leafy!" I said, stepping back a few feet as Leafy jumped off my head.

"Purrloin."

(Hmph, so we meet once again!) Leafy said, puffing out his chest, looking unbearably smug.

(Hn, I'll win this time!) The purrloin huffed, standing up.

"Leafy! Let's use our new move: Leaf Tornado!"

Crouching down, Leafy quickly sprung up again and spun around mid-air, causing a tornado of leaves to circle around him.

"Purrloin, dodge!" Cheren shouted over the blowing leaves, arm shielding his face.

Purrloin jumped to the right, attempting to dodge the Leaf Tornado, however, as soon as his legs left the ground, he quickly sucked toward the tornado.

Releasing the tornado, Leafy landed back down as the spinning mass of leaves quickly traveled and swallowed up the purrloin, doing a considerate amount of damage.

"Purrloin!"

(I- I'm fine!) Purrloin mewed back, standing up after being thrown out of the tornado, cuts and bruises littering his body.

"Assist!" Cheren called out, as Purrloin shot an Ember attack at Leafy, who took it head on, sending him flying to my feet with a bad burn.

"Oh come on! Leafy, Leaf Tornado once more!"

Struggling to stand up, Leafy attempted to launch another Leaf Tornado at the opposing purrloin but failed, the burn becoming more severe now.

"Hmph, Assist again!"

This time, it was a Tackle attack, which Leafy was able to dodge, barely, and retaliate with a Vine Whip.

However, due to the burn, Leafy's Vine Whip was much weaker, only sending the purrloin skidding back a foot or two.

"It looks like your pokémon's reached its limit," Cheren remarked, pushing up his glasses.

"Tch, you just got lucky with the burn!" I shot back, returning Leafy and sending our Sam, who barked with anticipation.

"Sam! Take down that purrloin with Take Down!"

Body glowing a palish white, Sam launched himself at the purrloin, scoring a direct hit on it and sending it flying several feet, eventually crashing into a tree, fainted.

"Hmph." Returning his fainted purrloin, Cheren sent out Tepig next, who let out a puff of smoke from his nose as he pawed at the ground.

(You're going down!) Tepig snorted, tail glowing slightly.

"Tepig, start things off with Tackle!" Cheren commanded as Tepig bolted forward.

"Now, Ember!" Cheren called out right after Tepig made contact with Sam.

I saw a flash of light before a large explosion rattled the area, a cloud of smoke spreading from where Sam and Tepig collided.

"Sam!" I called, but no answer came, "Sam!"

"Wait for the smoke to clear!" I heard Cheren shout over.

After a few seconds, the smoke cleared and in the middle stood Sam and Tepig, both facing each other and growling.

Sam had a large patch on his left side where his fur was badly burnt from the Ember earlier, but other than that, he was fine.

"Sam, are you alright!?"

(I'm fine! I think!) Sam barked back.

"Alright then, Take Down!"

Since the two were so close, Tepig didn't have enough time to react before Sam rammed his face into the tepig's face, launching the tepig back.

"Tepig!" Cheren called out as Tepig flew into the darker tall grass that laid to the right of me.

(I'm not hurt! I can still continue!) Tepig shouted back, jumping over the fence.

"Hmph, then Ember!" Cheren said, Tepig shooting another fireball at Sam, who this time was able to dodge it easily.

"Again!"

Again, Tepig shot another fireball at Sam, however, this time Sam flinched before he could jump, thus allowing the tepig's Ember attack to hit dead on, sending Sam flying backward.

"Ho? Are you sure you've obtained the Trio Badge?" Cheren asked with a smug smirk plastered onto his face.

"Don't start getting cocky just yet!" I shouted back before turning to look at Sam.

He was struggling to stand up after enduring 2 Ember attacks and it also looked like he was burned as well.

"Stop burning my pokémon!" I shouted again, "Sam, can you still fight?"

(Of course!) He barked, although with notably less enthusiasm this time.

"Alright then, Bite!"

Running at the tepig, Sam's fangs enlarged as he attempted to bite down, however, Tepig saw it coming and was able to dodge away in time.

"Ember!" Cheren called out as his tepig once again shot another fireball at Sam, who was in no condition to keep moving.

Quickly, I returned Sam back into his pokéball before the Ember could make contact.

"Oh? Forfeiting?" Cheren asked, again with the smirk on his face.

"No chance, Leafy!" I said, sending out Leafy, who looked considerably better than when I returned him, but there was still that burn, which was going to continue cutting his attack and health.

"Leafy, let's finish this quickly! Tackle!"

Nodding, Leafy quickly tackled the tepig, who was sent back a few feet but was otherwise still fine.

"Damn that burn..." I muttered under my breath, "Leafy! Growth then!"

"Ha, perfect chance, Ember!" Cheren laughed, Tepig smirking as well as he launched yet again another fireball, which was able to hit Leafy, leaving him badly hurt and burned.

Then, I noticed that Leafy's body was glowing a faint green color, Overgrow.

"Leafy! Vine Whip!" Extending his vines as fast as he could, Leafy was able to whip the opposing Tepig several times, injuring it badly.

"Now we're in the same condition." I grinned, sweat dripping from my forehead from the intensity of the battle.

"Not quite, your Snivy is still burned, isn't it?" Cheren said, the smirk remaining on his face.

"Hn, Leafy, let's finish this! Vine Whip!"

"Tepig, Ember!"

As Leafy's vines extended forward, one of them was burned away by Tepig's Ember attack, but Leafy was still able to pull off the attack with the other vine, just as the Ember hit him.

Leafy landed next to me, fainted, as Tepig next to Cheren, also unable to continue.

"Hm, this looks to be a tie," Cheren stated, picking up his tepig and feeding it an Oran Berry.

"This round was, but I won the overall battle."

"No, both sides fainted!" Cheren retorted.

"Ho? Have you forgotten about poor 'ol Sam over here?" I asked, twirling around Sam's pokéball, "In case you forgot, Sam here is still up and kicking!"

"Barely."

"But he still is!"

"Hn, you sound pretty arrogant despite the fact that you almost lost to me," Cheren sighed, a slight smile on his face.

"Well..." I opened my mouth to respond back but quickly closed my mouth once I realized that I had no counter to that, " Alright, fine, I won the battle, you won the argument."

"It was a nice battle, pretty refreshing from all those weaker trainers back there."

"Heyyy, you shouldn't be saying those things about other people behind their backs!"

"Says the one who constantly talks about Allison behind her back."

"Alli's a special case!"

"I'm a special case in what regards?"

"Oh shit, I meant that... um..." I stuttered out, facing Allison who was walking up to us from the direction of the DayCare.

"Anyways, do you have some Potions and Burn Heals?" Cheren asked.

"Why? Did Kenny lose another argument?" Allison chuckled, stopping a few feet away from us.

"Yes, but that's not what the Burn Heals are for, you see Kenny's Pokémon got burned during our battle," Cheren explain.

"Oh you poor, unfortunate soul," Allison mocked as she handed me 2 Burn Heals and 5 Potions, "Remember to always keep stock!"

"Okay, fine, mom!" I rolled my eyes, sending out Sam and applying the Burn Heals to both him and Leafy.

"If I were your mom, then you would not be out here, instead, you'd be working your ass off in some low paying job somewhere in Unova," Allison said.

"Why low paying!? I should be working in some average, if not high paying jobs if I weren't a Pokémon Trainer!" I protested.

"Hey, I'm just being realistic." Allison shrugged.

"I think Kenny may need those Burn Heals now," Cheren chuckled, pushing up his glasses again.

"Both of you shut up!"

-Pokémon Black-

"Hey, how much further until Nacrene City?" I asked Leafy a few hours after Allison and Cheren left.

(I can't see, put the light closer,) Leafy said as I lowered the lantern so that he could read the contents of the map.

(According to the map's measurements and our current speed of walking, we should be able to reach it by noon tomorrow if we rest for the night and start at sunrise!)

"Huh, I've always wondered, how exactly did you learn to read maps?"

(Prof. Juniper has a rather large map on her wall which she uses to keep track of her expeditions,) Leafy answered, folding the map and tucking it into my bag.

"Oh, that's interesting, you think we'll run into her?" I asked, hands behind my head.

(Who knows, she goes all over Unova.) Leafy shrugged, before running to the right and picking up an Oran Berry.

(Hey! That's my job!) Sam barked, running over to Leafy, as did I.

(Well I found it first, finders keepers!) Leafy smirked, holding the berry up so that Sam couldn't reach it.

"Alright, you can hold onto it, you're going to need to for the next Gym," I said.

(Haha, nice,) Leafy laughed, putting the berry away - somewhere.

"I think we should stop here for the night, what do you two think?" I said, stopping by a river that ran by next to me while the sun slowly began to disappear over the horizon.

(Sure!) Sam agreed.

(As long as I'm fed,) Leafy commented, sitting down.

"Alright then, this place it is!"

-Pokémon Black-

(Hey wake up!)

(Wake up!)

"Hngh... what time is it?" I asked no one in particular as I rolled over, expecting to fall out of my bed but instead, I was met by wet grass.

(It's 5:49, the sun's up, let's go!) Leafy answered, jumping onto my back forcefully, waking me up.

"Ow! I'm up, I'm up! Yeesh!" I exclaimed, getting up as I rubbed my back, "Where's Sam?"

(Behind you.)

Looking behind me, I saw Sam still sleeping away. Crawling over, I gently nudged him, causing him to open one eye, (Hm?)

"Time to get going Sam," I said.

(M'kay...) Sam yawned as he got up and stretched, before scratching his ear with his hind leg.

"Alright, Nacrene City's only a few hours away!"

(Alright!)

(Horayyy...)


Yay, Chapter 5 if out! Hope you enjoyed~!

Also, I am aware that the events that took place on Route 3 in this chapter were in a different order than in the game, it was kind of a mistake on my part, but when I realized it I was already pretty much done with the chapter so I left it as, hope it didn't throw too many of you off!

Anyways, see you in Chapter 6!

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