The Hero Game

KIDS

Chapter Six: Wes, Rui, Tracey, Michael, Jovi

PART WES/ PART RUI/ PART TRACEY/ PART MICHAEL/ PART JOVI

"Run FASTER!" Rui demanded, holding the wrist of none other than Wes, dragging him behind her.

The latter ten year old furrowed his eyebrows in aggrivation. He gruffly asked, "Why are we even running?"

Rui halted to a stop and turned to the boy, eyes blazing with fury at his ignorance. "You heard the Yellow Ditto Man!" She exclaimed, she then looked down and examined the box in one of her hands before putting it back in her pocket. "We have to find them before that pokemon becomes dangerous! And when we find them, We use the box!"

"Yes, I know that much! I meant, We have no idea where we're supposed to be looking!" Wes said smartly, he then asked, "How exactly are we supposed to find kids like this?"

Rui huffed. "I'm following my heart!"

Wes scoffed.

"Do you have to contradict me?" She screamed into his ear.

He glared at her intensely as he nursed his ear. "Look," He finally said to her dejected face, "Why don't we go to the police station and ask if they've seen some of the kids? We can tell them we're babysitters or something."

"That is an amazing plan!" Rui gushed. "Ya see? This is why you're my traveling partner!"

Wes rolled his eyes and started looking around. "Did you honestly drag me all the way to Pyrite Town?" He asked, amazed.

Rui shrugged and they both walked down to the local Police Station. Once inside, they gave the police chief a very vague description of the children that the Yellow Ditto Man had told them about. When finished, the chief rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Are you sure you guys are the babysitters you say you are?" He asked, "Because those descriptions sound an awful lot like the children who've gone missing in the regions." He turned on a TV behind him and showed them one of the various news stations covering the story.

Rui laughed, hiding her nervousness well. "You know what they say!" She exclaimed, "There's at least one doppleganger of you somewhere in the world!"

The chief chuckled along. "Yes, I suppose you're right!" He said, "Sorry for the suspicion! I mean, It's not like you have anything to do with it! You're just kids!"

"Yes." Rui said after the laughter had died down, "We're just kids." Her voice was softer and had emotion clinging to it. Wes looked at her for a moment, taking in her expression. He was brought out of his glance by her saying, "Let's go, Wes." And leaving the station.

They walked in silence, Rui looking at the ground the entire time.

Wes finally sighed and said, "Look, okay! So what if we're just kids-"

He was cut off by a child's voice saying, "You can't just give up because an old coot didn't know anything about what was going on." The voice said the exact words Wes was going to say.

Both travelers looked down to meet the eyes of a young, dark green haired boy holding a sketchbook. Beside him hopped a baby Azurill.

"Tracy, is it?" Rui guessed uncertainly, tilting her head to the side a bit.

The boy, now identified as Tracey, handed his sketchbook to Rui. She flipped through the pictures, examining them carefully. "Are these all the children?" She asked, amazed at his skill.

"Last night I stowed away on a boat from Johto and met a Blue Ditto who disguised himself as a man. He wrote down descriptions of who I needed to find, and I kept drawing them until he told me they looked good enough to be pictures. That's why their looks change over the course of the whole book." Tracey explained.

He started pointing to a picture of a large group of children. "That's Ash, on his back is his cousin, Molly. There's Gary, Misty, Brock, Leaf, Me, and Drew. The girl there is May, holding hands with her little brother Max. That's Dawn, Paul, Michael and his little sister Jovi, Cilan, and Iris. The taller ones are You, Wes, Harley, and Solidad." Tracey identified proudly.

Rui was silent for a moment. "Aren't those kids some of them over there?" She asked, pointing to two young children about ten feet in front of them. One had orange hair that was shooting upwards off his head. He was holding a Plusle with one hand and holding the hand of a slightly younger girl with his free hand. The girl had blue hair that was pulled up into pigtails and was holding a Minun with her free arm.

"Michael! Jovi!" Tracey exclaimed, running up to them. They looked at him curiously.

Wes quickly followed after Tracey and threw him over his shoulder. "What're you doing?" Tracey squirmed.

"Do not go around screaming people's names when you've been on every TV show known to man since Saturday!" Wes hissed harshly.

Rui walked up to Michael and Jovi and introduced herself, explaining about the other children in the process. She took it upon herself to introduce Wes and Tracey as well, who were arguing back and forth like four year olds. But, then again, Tracey was five, and Wes could be really immature when he wanted to be.

"So, we have to go together?" Michael asked, "And find kids?"

Rui nodded. "I'm glad you understand!" She said happily, "Now lets go!"

Wes stopped his arguing and looked at her. "You still haven't figured out that we have no idea where to go?" He asked, putting his hands in his pockets.

Rui huffed. "Well do you have a better idea?" She argued.

Wes nodded. "If the rest of them are coming by boat like him," He said, pointing to Tracey, "Then it would make sense if we went to port right?"

A lightbulb clicked over Rui's head, she held up her pointer finger and exclaimed, "Of course!" She then patted him on the back. "Ya see? This is why you're my traveling partner!" She repeated herself. He rolled his eyes and they all made their way out of town.

See? I didn't forget about FanFiction! You all doubted me, didn't you?

Thinking about chapter 7, have the whole plot planned out now. I feel as if this is my best chapter yet, it's also my longest.

Anybody who knows who Wes, Michael, Jovi, and Rui are get a freshly baked cookie.

Ahh, Wes and Rui are cute. This story will have absolutely no romance between them (well maybe just some fluff, but EVERYONE gets friendship fluff in this story), I'm just saying that I think they make a good couple! :D

Just noticed that Jovi has no diolouge yet... Well, neither does Max, Molly, Drew, or Paul. But they're all with reason. Molly's like 1 in this story. Max happens to be 3. Drew was terrified after his leap off of the van, and has not had a chance to speak yet. And Paul's just Paul. Jovi, however had no exsuse to not speak, seeing as she is 4, and able to talk.

If anyone wants to be a grammer and spell check for me, I'd love it. My computer is broken and I'm using something that doesn't have any spell check. I have checked it over myself, I just wanna make sure I'm not missing anything.

Flames will make a campfire, making me camp. And you know what I do at camp? WRITE MORE! :D

Ahem. Please Review.