Chapter 6
Yffum: Sorry! I'm really late! I've been busy… the next one might come out tomorrow, but you can't really trust me… It's all planned out, though! I'll leave it at that… Bustman, please point out an error next time because I'm a horrible speller! Now, since there's been a total of two votes for Munchlax guess who the disclaimers gonna be! We now enter a… what do you know. A cafeteria! So unpredictable.
Munchlax: (Gobbles down food like there's no tomorrow).
Yffum: (Waits ten minutes). Munchlax?
Munchlax: Hmmm?
Yffum: Can you read the card… NOW!
Munchlax: Oh right! (Gulps down all the food in his mouth). You don't own anything, but the fic because if you did, I would have eaten it already.
Day two.
Electabuzz got up and yawned cheerfully after finally having a good night's sleep. He didn't even want to think about yesterday, but now that he did think about it he couldn't remember what happened last night. How they got here, where they were and how he had gotten to sleep. He was about to dig deeper into his bag of memories when-.
"So you're up." Electabuzz sat up and saw Dusknoir sitting on a log. They were in an abandoned alley in a town. Electabuzz sat down near Dusknoir and they chatted for a while. The town woe up before the others. There was lots of noise coming from all around them. Probably villagers tending to their daily jobs and chores. There was a big yawn.
"Man, does that light feel good on my fire!" Magmar smiled happily.
"Light, that's it!" Electabuzz shouted.
"What, what happened?" Magmar looked worried as if he had done some thing wrong. What had actually happened was the word "light" had triggered Electabuzz's memory of what happened last night.
Electabuzz looked at the ground for a minute and then looked back up. "Nothing… it's just… I'm… happy that you're feeling so well!"
Magmar ignored his pause and guessed everything was fine. Electabuzz didn't know why he didn't tell Magmar the truth. There's no reason he shouldn't know. Maybe it was just because he didn't want to think about it anymore. With that weird purple pokemon and… it's not something he'd like to think about anymore.
Not long after that Paras woke up and they were on their way. They walked through town, fortunately for Electabuzz not through where the light led him the night before. On the outskirts of town Electabuzz noticed a flyer against an old house with the top left corner hanging of.
"Guys." He gestured to the poster and they walked over to it. Electabuzz straightened it out.
WANTED FOR ACT OF LARCENYIt showed a black and white picture of a dark shaded treecko with a smug grin and grass blade sticking out of his mouth. They looked at it for a few minutes, but Dusknoir passed it on. On another day they might have cared, but not today. All that mattered now was saving Magmar. Electabuzz sighed at the chance to stop villainy. He felt almost guilty. That's what he usually did in his spare time with Dusknoir and Magmar. Help around places, but all that was over.
"You sure?"
As expected Dusknoir answered "Yes."
They walked on for hours and the trees started to become sparse. They found a rare stream and Dusknoir said that they should fill up their bottles with as much water as possible. The others nodded. They needed to space out their water carefully, now that they were entering the Sahara Desert. Electabuzz wiped some sweat off is forehead. The heat had increased. Now just mildly, but soon the land would be ablaze… literally.
They stood on the semi-grassy ground and rested for a while. Electabuzz saw something move in the trees from where they came through. Magmar seemed to notice it too and signaled Dusknoir. Dusknoir hovered towards the trees, and so did the rest of them.
"No!" Dusknoir whispered angrily. "Don't get… up." They looked back to find all of their bags and water missing."
Electabuzz tried to apologize, but Dusknoir hushed him.
"Fire at will," Dusknoir whispered. He winked and stared through the bushes. Eventually a treecko emerged.
"Didn't see that coming." Magmar rolled his eyes and fired a flamethrower. It just missed the treecko and hit the tree that stood directly behind him.
"Oops." Electabuzz thumped the back of Magmar's head and launched at the treecko furiously.
"My work here is done." The treecko smiled and climbed up another tree.
"What's the plan?"
Dusknoir talked very fast. "I'll try to turn out the fire so it doesn't spread, you three chase him through the path we just walked through."
They nodded and ran they chased for a couple minutes and realized they were getting nowhere.
"What
do we do?" Magmar asked. "…Well?"
"Okay, I've got
it."
"Great what do you got?"
"Treecko's are fast right?"
"Correct."
"So there's no point chasing him evenly. We need to get the upper hand and I think I know how. The trees are still parted."
"Not for long."
"Exactly why we need to hurry. Treecko isn't going in a straight path because there aren't enough trees to do so. His general direction is west so instead of going zigzag like he has to because of the placement of the trees-"
"-We go straight and get ahead of him."
"Now you're talking!" They stopped following treecko and started going in a straight path and slowly got more and more ahead of him. "Okay," Electabuzz panted, "Do you think we have enough of a lead to catch him on the trees?"
"Probably." They climbed up the tree to come face to face with Treecko who stood on a tree a little farther back.
"Huh?" The treecko said, caught off guard.
Electabuzz thought that this surprise could be enough to get him, but the treecko snapped to his senses.
"If you send a flame you could easily make a gigantic fire. The trees are less parted now," The treecko mocked.
Magmar growled even though he knew that was true. "What do we do?" Magmar whispered into Electabuzz's ear.
"I don't know!" Electabuzz whispered back, worried.
"Well, you batter make up your minds," he interrupted. "Come on hot head! Through a blast, I'm so scared!" He stuck his tongue out and for a second Electabuzz thought Magmar was actually going to go straight into his trap when there was a strange cracking sound. Treecko's tree looked like it was starting to tilt and Electabuzz yelled as their tree started to fall, but then he realized he had perfect balance… it was Treecko's tree that was falling! There was a big thump and some sounds of Treecko struggling. Electabuzz stepped down and slid down the tree, followed by Magmar. They went and looked over where the tree fell to find a paras wrestling with a treecko. They went over and helped knock Treecko out.
"I can't believe you guys forgot about me!" Paras said, smiling. They laughed and started walking back to Dusknoir.
This was a short story chapter, one that doesn't have much to do with Poké Isle. Tell me if you'd like to see more or less of them. Out of ten chapters how many short story chapters would you like to see?
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