K.M:

So if you guys have noticed I'm sort of updating faster, which is awesome by the way, BECAUSE...

Wait for it...

I'M MAKING A SEQUEL!

Yeah...I'm almost done with this, there's really only a couple chapters left, so I'll have the second part to this in the sequel, this was more of a part 1 of season 1.

So I hope you're all ready for that!

Anyway on to the chapter!

I don't own Pokemon, because if I did there would be more of Gary, I own Kunie.

Em's P.O.V:

The clearing was quiet, Kunie on one side of me, and Rune on the other, though they were a bit far, I knew they were avoiding each other, and I found it quite ridiculous, because a couple of days ago I couldn't even get her to even let me near him.

I glanced at Rune from the corner of my eye, his face was down in shame, like it had been for the past couple of days, looking ready to cry, I knew this was hard for him, he was still only a pup, too childish, and naive to control himself, much less the stones. Truthfully I knew nothing about the stones, how they worked, what they did, anything, but I knew they needed help.

Things have gotten hard, really hard, we had to travel to the closes city that wasn't Driftveil city, so we headed into the forest, eventually leading off to a mountain, a steep mountain, most of the days we had been on the run had been spent up there, but I knew I needed to get them to the city, we had no supplies, and Kunie, and Rune were growing children in need of food, and water...Okay I was one too, but I was most certainly more matured than the two next to me, and could survive a little longer, we'd only been surviving off of the berries around, and small lakes, and rivers on the mountain, and even then we had walked nonstop.

I knew they wouldn't last very long, with their dark bags, and hunched tired figures anyone could tell.

We weren't going as fast as I'd hoped.

I turned to Kunie, her face gaunt, and tired, but I knew that fire of hers was still there...

I stood, having had my fill, "We should move on if we want to make it to the city before dark..." Accumula town should be close, we just had to scale down the mountain and we'd be in the forest near there, we could get home, get supplies, get out of there...

I turned to look at Kunie again, she stood almost emotionless and nodded.

I glared at her, her little pity party was getting on my nerves...

So I told her.

"Oi, you're little pity party is getting on my nerves trainer. Honestly, I thought that you'd be stronger than this, knowing I have such a weak trainer is humiliating..." I said in the haughtiest voice I could, I wasn't trying to be mean, I was just telling her how embarrassing it was to be around her, and it was, we'd be in the city soon, I needed her to grow a spine, and get confident again, not just for her sake, for Rune's too, her ignoring him was really hurting him.

I didn't have time for this.

She stared at me, her hazed over neon green eyes trying to look me in the eye but failing. I sighed in irritation.

"Tch, how disappointing..." I needed to find a better way to help them, I needed to be the strong one of the group, Arceus knows they won't be.

"Fine then stay here and rest your pathetic weak bodies, I'll be back by nightfall. We leave first thing tomorrow..." I said as I started walking away, going towards the edge of the trees on the clearing we were in.

I looked back one second to find both looking at me hopelessly, Kunie bowing her head in defeat.

Hmph, they should learn by now that I won't pull their weight, they either pick themselves up or I leave them behind...

Not that they had to know it was all a bluff for them to woman up.

Walking through the mountain that had a thick growth of trees was hard, but one with no trees seemed even harder, the trees helped me hold on and grab onto ledges and hills easier, without trees around I had to rely on my vines to help me reach the ledges, I needed to get this done as quickly as I could, and get back.

I waited for a rustle, it was bound to happen in this rough, and wild terrain, while not one I would prefer, definitely perfect for a rock type...

I didn't have to wait long. Because minutes after that the Pokemon called Sawk, appeared before me, I let my eyebrow rise in question, I should have really expected this Pokemon to be here, they always liked to challenge themselves, what better way than the uneven, and rough terrain in the mountains?

He gave a malicious smirk as he inched towards me with his hands raised in a menacing manner, I knew he was out to hurt me.

"What is such a small Pokemon like you doing here? Don't you know that being so small is what get's you-guh!" I didn't hesitate to jab him in the gut with my spiked tail as hard as I could, he fell down fainted in one fell swoop, making a small crater where he fell, I stared at his sprawled form for a moment before huffing in relief, thank goodness he wasn't all that strong. I let a confident smirk up my lips.

"If this is how strong the Pokemon here are, I'm definitely going to have to climb higher."

"Oi!" I turned, and my eyes widened as I realized I was surrounded, different Sawks everywhere. I took a step back, and let out a shuddering breath.

"You messed with our sparring partner? We're going to have to teach you a lesson, starter Pokemon!" the others made sounds of agreement, and they all took a step toward me in unison, I gulped before smirking wide.

"How noble of you, yes, I, as you say, 'messed' with your sparring partner, if this is indeed him on the ground here. I'd love to see what sort of lesson you have to teach me, though I warn you." my grin grew wider, "You better not be as weak as your friend here." I said to the, the one from before gave me an enraged look.

"And why is that?"

"Because you'll wish you'd had abandoned him."

Kunie's P.O.V:

Silence. It had never bothered me, I'd find myself in it often, only for someone who hated it come and pull me out, but I didn't hate silence, I'd lay on my bed all day sometimes just staring at the ceiling, not talking, not drawing (horribly), or playing soccer, just doing nothing, in silence, not a single sound...

I didn't mind silence.

But I did this time.

I couldn't stand it. I couldn't bear it. I just couldn't stay in it. It was suffocating. Deafening. Hear-wrenching.

It hurt.

But as much as I hated this silence, I couldn't find the courage to break it, just break it, and make it stop.

The guilt in my chest was almost drowning me.

I could hardly believe I had fallen so low, I had placed so many walls around me to make sure this very thing didn't happen.

And then that stupid fox had to come in, and make them fall like dominoes.

It hurt, a lot. And the only thing I wanted to do was hug the living daylights out of that dumb fox, and tell him it would be alright, and act all cool, and stuff, just like him because it used to calm me down whenever I was scared, and had something on my mind, it helped to know that he would always be-

But he wasn't.

I couldn't expect him to come and fix my problems like he did back then.

That's why I had built those 1000 feet titanium walls around my heart.

But he never did, did he...

He never built walls to take away the pain, he accepted it, and moved on, why couldn't I be like him?

Strong, brave, loyal.

I was weak, a coward, and a traitor.

I couldn't break this silence, because I would never be like him.

("Because you're not me.")

I was silent as those words echoed in my head.

("You're you.")

Louder, louder than Rune when he falls down the stairs, louder than dad when he guffaws at a not so funny joke, louder then me when I win a trophy.

Louder than that silence.

I looked next to me, eight feet away, silent, just like me, he couldn't break the silence either. I stood up, he looked at me, his eyes looked so silent, so blue, I wanted to open my mouth, say something, anything, if it would stop making him look at me like that.

But I didn't.

I just smiled.

The silence was thick now, tense, and scary.

But it was okay.

Because for a minute, a second, probably less, it was okay...

Because he smiled back.

3rd person P.O.V:

"Humans are heartless monsters who live only to injure Pokemon, they hurt your friends, take away their happiness, starve them, abandon them, hurt them, Pokemon shouldn't be in the hands of humans were they will only be mistreated."

Teary slate blue eyes cried for the Pokemon as it whimpered, the healing balm doing it's job, but not fast enough for the young boy. The boy pet the Pokemon's head, hoping to soothe it's cries of pain, this wasn't the first Pokemon to come injured and tell him tales of it's pain, and it wouldn't be the last. Not unless those humans were stopped, and by Arceus he would stop them.

These were his friends, his special, dear friends, that meant everything to him, were always there for him, and loved him.

He would stop them, each and every one. He would save his friends from the unjust agony they were being put through. He looked up to his father, so like him, his father gave his a stern serious look.

His father never smiled at him.

"One day Natural Harmonia Gropius, you will be king, when the time comes, you will change the world to what it should be."

But he believed in him, that was all he needed.

"Yes father..."

Anthea, and Concordia walked up to him, standing beside him, he smiled at them, smiles which they returned, together, him, Anthea, Concordia, and his friends, they'd change the world, and free Pokemon.

N smiled feeling a sense of freedom.

He hadn't had those weird dream last night, of pain, and sadness. Nope, he slept peacefully that night, and best of all he had woken up with his new friend by his side, it was a Minccino, he was very pretty, but sometimes he was rude, N didn't mind, he was just happy he was better now.

He told Anthea, and Concordia of his dreams, they weren't the first time he had them after all, and having them continually was bothering him a bit, though he didn't want to bother his sisters, he still didn't want to have to be worrying about what they meant.

"If you have a dream that bothers you, maybe it's trying to tell you something, and you're not listening." Anthea said wisely.

"Yes, maybe N has gotten a bit to arrogant and now doesn't want to listen to the people in his dreams like he used to." that bothered him.

"I don't want to be arrogant, I just want the dreams to stop turning bad, if I only have to listen to them I will!" he had said almost determinedly, but the reaction wasn't one he expected, his sisters instead of saying they believed he could do it, only laughed, almost hysterically.

"Oh N you silly boy." Concordia giggled.

"We are only teasing." Anthea admitted as she covered her face with her hand.

N huffed, a little embarrassed his sisters had tricked him so easily.

"Do not feel bad N, we were merely having some innocent fun to make you laugh. But if these dreams are really bothering you then we should certainly do something of them." Concordia said, slowly growing more serious, and gentle, than laughing and teasing.

"A tea maybe, to make you sleep better." Anthea suggested quietly.

Concordia smiled softly, and nodded, "Yes, and some meditation exercises perhaps." N could only scrounge up his nose.

"But you're teas taste funny, and meditation means I can't play with my friends." N tried not to whine, but those teas of Concordia and Anthea really did taste funny.

"Well you could always ignore us, and get back to those bad dreams of yours." Anthea said in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone.

N frowned, those teas were icky, and meditation was boring, but he didn't want bad dreams, and he certainly didn't want to hurt his sister's feelings.

He sighed to himself before agreeing reluctantly. The two sisters smiled simultaneously, and dragged him to the tea room, where they made him tea, forced him to drink it, and then made him cross his legs on the floor.

If only there had been away to make bad dreams go away.

Concordia was there, but Anthea had left, he would wonder why, but Concordia had said not to think of anything.

"Tell me N... what do you see in your dreams?" She asked, the room only being quietly interrupted by bird Pokemon chirping through the window, he longed to go outside.

"A girl." he said without hesitation.

Concordia blinked at him in surprise, but he didn't see, he was too busy looking out the window.

"A-and what is she doing?" Concordia stuttered in confusion.

"She's crying." he said again without hesitation, remembering the little girl perfectly, the image burned in his mind.

"Why is she crying?"

"Because...because she lost someone..."

"Is she lost?"

"Yes...but no...outside she know where she is, but her mind..."

"Is lost?"

"Yes."

"Does she know she's lost?"

"Yes, she knows, she wants to stop being lost...but can't..."

"Why?"

"Because she's scared she'll forget him if she does."

"...What does she look like?"

N stopped at this one, he couldn't really answer this one.

"I don't know, she looks different every time..."

Concordia's eyebrows raised, "oh?"

"...Not physically, but sometimes I see her with her hair up, sometimes down, sometimes it's really short, sometimes it's all the way to the floor..."

Concordia stared at him with wide eyes, "her...hair...?" N looked at her and blushed deeply.

"Umm...well...it was really pretty...so I sometimes get..."

"Distracted?"

"...Yes..."

"So you don't remember anything else?"

At that N looked up, trying to keep his blush under control.

"She had beautiful green eyes!" Concordia blinked at him, wondering why he had shouted it, N never shouted...

"..."

Again the blush came back raging madly.

"I'll go now..."

"...Right..."

"...Don't tell Anthea..."

"...No promises, this is your first crush after all."

"..."

"..."

"...I really don't like you..."

"Bite me."

K.M:

That's the end of this chapter, finally N made an appearance! Kyah! Not gonna lie, I love that little tea-haired guy, he's adorable, I love him, and he is my hubby.

N: 1# Yes I am, 2# I love you too, 3# No I'm not.

K.M: Yes you are. If not... I can easily delete you from this story...

N: ...

K.M: Back to what I was saying. N made an appearance, as have Anthea an Concordia. It was actually really hard doing N's sisters because there's just not enough content on them, so I just imagined them to be very joking, and teasing in private, but also very motherly considering they practically raised N, in return I also imagined N to be more serious in front of his father, but more childish around his sisters, and friends.

So yeah, Em ran off to fight random Pokemon, Kunie is slowly healing, Rune is still scared of himself, but is glad his best friend is giving him a second chance, you also got to hear more of Kunie's past in that last part there, for those who didn't know, and yes, N has gotten a cute little crush on her, I thought it'd make sense, since I imagined Kunie being a beautiful girl, and she's the only other girl that N has seen besides his sisters.

That's basically it for chapter 16, as I've said before part 1 of this story is almost finished, so we'll be going to part 2 soon enough.

Please review, or PM me, tell me what ya think, go ahead with any questions you have.

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To Guest: To answer your question, Kunie won't be going around catching random Pokemon, because as you all know, she still dislikes Pokemon, so her going out to find a Pokemon is very impossible at the moment, but if a Pokemon was forced upon her, or something, she'd warm up eventually, and keep it much like what happened to Em. SO if you guys have read the one-shots or the latest chapter at least, like I hope you have, you'd see a character that will be showing up real soon, so get ready for that.

To AveragePichu: You already have yours answered, yup, she's gonna have a sibling.

To RedIronFang: Yes there will be more characters from the manga, show, and game, so you can be excited for that!

To RedIronFang: At the end of the note, Kunie just stopped reading, she didn't want to hear anymore on the matter, she she pushed it away, like she does with most things.

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Besides your questions I want to thank my kitties for pointing out those little rookie mistakes I make/made (which you can't blame me for cause that's what I am).

So thank you Flusion, Y-ko, Kingex11, and AveragePichu. You guys are totally awesome!

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Okay so I'm going to tell you a weird story about my dog, recently we got this golf cart, so me and my siblings jump in and drive around in it like locos, often almost crashing or hitting the chickens that are pecking around at the grass, now our dog is still just a puppy, so he sees us, gets excited...and jumps right in front of the golf cart! Do you know how much of a scare that gave me?! And when I told him to back off he ignored me, and lays down, right. in. front. of. us! He at first used to be terrified of the thing, and wouldn't go near it, and then he starts jumping in front of it! After the initial fear of the golf cart goes away he started jumping inside with us, but the minute we started driving he jumped off like a hooligan! So we forced him to stay inside instead of jumping off the minute the pedal is pressed (which ended up being the worst mistake we could make), eventually he stays longer, and longer, till it comes to the point that he loved the thing, and every time we went outside we'd find him waiting for us right in the thing, as if asking "hey we going on a ride now?", of course I didn't want to say no to his adorable puppy eyes, but at the same time there are other things I wanted to do than just drive around a golf cart all day, but my dog seemed to have a different idea, a couple weeks ago the golf cart broke, of course my dog didn't know that...so everyday he'd stand in the thing and look at us when we went out, as if asking "hey why haven't we gone for a ride?" "we going now?" "jump in guys, let's go!" "guys don't leave me hanging" "why are you trying to get me off the fun car thingy?" "guys come on, stop pushing me off!" guys just get on already!"

And that's the end of my story...Hope you enjoyed it!