Everyone woke up early to start searching for Crystal.
"Crystal!" Snoflake shouted.
Jolt searched every tree and found something unexpected. "Mother come here!"
"What is it? Have you found her?" Dawn asked, anxiously.
"No," he said, gravley,"something worse."
There was a broken branch and crushed berries everywhere.
Daisy broke the silence, "There seems to be signs of a strugle."
"I can smell a faint scent of Crystal," she paused,"and a Mightyena."
"Well there isn't a body to show proof of her death," Dusk announced, "We'll keep looking, let's follow her scent, no matter how faint it is."
"I'm so hungry," she complained.
"Me too," Shiloh said wearily, "Maybe we could get something to drink while we're at it."
Crystal told him, "Let's look around for something to eat. There aren't too many trees around. We must be close to getting out of the woods."
Maybe we should have gathered some food for the long trip ahead. Now there aren't as many trees to pick berries from.
Charmander thought,"Hey! We could eat the berry you're carrying!"
"No way!" Crystal argued, "I told you it's not for me! We only have one of these."
"Oh well," he sighed.
Then Crystal suddenly had a flashback:
Dawn was licking her clean, inside their cave.
Dawn told her,"When we're done, we'll plant the ones we have little of in our Berry Garden. The rest we'll store for later."
End of flashback.
"I have an idea!" Crystal exclaimed, "We could plant this berry and grow more!"
Shiloh responded, "I don't know how to plant or grow things." Crystal said, "But I do."
"Ok, first we need to find a soft patch of dirt,
to plant this in."
"But I don't see one," he said.
"Then we'll make one. Let's start digging!"
They picked a soft patch of grass and started digging with their paws and claws. When they were finished there was a flat layer of dirt.
"Whew, that was hard work," he said, "Uh oh,
I just remembered something. These berries take a very long time to grow. We may have to find different berries."
"We may not be able to plant anything if the sun doesn't show. We haven't seen any sunlight since we got out of the woods."
Crystal's ears perked up.
"Do you hear that?" she whispered.
"No what?" he whispered back.
"I hear Poke'mon. Come on let's go check it out"
"Okay," Shiloh agreed.
They traveled a while untill they came to a large clearing. Many Poke'mon were laying down, sick or injured, such as Tailow, Swellow, Pigey, Pigiotto, Pigiot, Skarmory and many others.
"What happened?" Crystal asked.
"Enemies!" a Swellow shouted.
"No! We're not enemies, we're just passing through!" Shiloh argued.
"We will not listen to reason, we are warriors!
We do not back down from a fight, especially if you're on our territory!" he spat.
"If it's a fight you want then it's a fight you'll get!" she challenged.
"Tavius!" a female Swellow screamed, "We are to weak to fight, stop this at once! We need not more injured warriors!"
"Fine then, you may pass."
"What happened? Why is everyone sick or injured?" Crystal asked.
"This does not concern you."
"Tavius tell them, perhaps they can help us"
she said, "My name is Aren and this is Tavius.
We are in danger from neighboring clans and a deadly sickness. Could you help us?"
"Now how could we turn down an offer like that? Right Shiloh?"
"Yeah, of course we'll help," Shiloh agreed.
"What are clans?" Crystal asked.
"I believe clans are the same things as tribes."
he whispered "Oh."
Aren said, "We are Feather Clan. The neighboring clans are Thunder Clan, River Clan,
and Shadow Clan. They found out that we were weak from sickness and saw it was a chance to attack."
Shiloh asked her, "Why would they do that?"
"We are rivals and they plan to take over our territory. That's why Tavius was so territorial"
Aren said with a smirk.
"Sorry," he apologized.
"So then why are you sick? Don't you know how to plant berries? They could help cure the diseases," Crystal informed them.
"We plant them but they do not grow. The sun does not shine so they all die," she said sadly.
"Do you know why the sun does not show?"
"No, we-" "Tavius!" Someone came running toward them. It looked liked a Skarmory.
"What is it, Damon?" asked Tavius.
"Shadow Clan is attacking the northern border!"he was panicking
"We are out numbered, they are invading!"
Crystal offered, "I can help!" "Me too!"
"Huh you?" Tavius sounded surprised.
"We promised to help and that's exactly what we'll do!" Shiloh argued.
"Fine then, let's go"
i'm woking on chapter 6. i'll make it longer.
please R&R, your reveiws are what keeps me going. : )