The team decides to have another team meeting, while in a big forest known as the "Greeny Forest" due to the fact that it has lots of trees and grass and that it's a huge forest. During the meeting, Max tells all his friends that he recently contacted his sister and parents, by a pay phone, before they came to the forest they're in and got the info he was looking for, when it came to how much his sister knew about his bad past. Vivi tells Max that she kinda knows what it's like to care about some one and then having them leave you. She tells him and the rest of the team an interesting story from her past.
The team is sitting by a camp fire and at exactly 5:55 pm, the team meeting begins. Max starts talking to the rest of his team first.
MAX: Back in the town of Kattle, all of you decided to go to the movies and i told you i didn't want to go because i had some personal business to take care of, that involved my past.
VIVI: Yeah and you told us that you would tell us eventually, what that business was.
VIVI: So what was it?
MAX: Every one, i got good news and a little bad news.
ZET: (sounding slightly optimistic) Please give us the little bad news first and then the good news!
MAX: Okay!
MAX: The little bad news is, i called my sister on a pay phone, while the rest of you were at the movies and i asked her why she mentioned my past, 2 times before i left for Kalos to start a new journey and she told me that she knew i was beating up kids with some of my former friends.
ZET: (feeling slightly shocked) You mean she knew you were in a violent gang?
MAX: Well, yes and no.
MAX: You see it's a lot more complicated than that.
MAX: I asked her specifically, why she mentioned my past before i left for Kalos and why she started talking so weirdly when i asked her those 2 times, why she kept bringing up my past and she told me that she knows that i used to be a violent anti bully.
MAX: Just so you know, an anti bully is a bully that targets other bullies.
MAX: You see i was kinda like that back then when i worked for Mack.
MAX: I was an anti bully.
MAX: An anti bully is some one that bullies other bullies.
MAX: Any ways, May told me that she caught me and some of my former friends, beating up on Rodd while he was all alone, on the play ground, twice.
ZET: That many times?
MAX: Yes and when we were younger, she would walk me home from school some times, since our parents didn't like the idea of me walking home by my self at such a young age.
MAX: She told me that when she was about to come and get me after my school day had ended, on 2 occasions, she caught me, Ling, and Vaison beating up Rodd really badly and saying mean things to him while doing it.
VIVI: (feeling shocked) No way.
Max's mood changes slightly.
MAX: (stoic) Yes way and the reason why me, Ling, and Vaison never saw her on those 2 occasions was because there were a lot of bushes around the play ground area and the 2 times she saw what me and my former friends were doing to Rodd, she hid in the bushes because she was horrified at the sight of what we were doing and saying to him.
ELLIE: (being and feeling cautious and curious) Ellie wants to know what type of stuff you, Ling, and Vaison said to Rodd.
MAX: (stoic) We said stuff to Rodd like "Bullies like you make us sick to our stomachs with your desire to prey on those that are shorter than you.".
MAX: (stoic) I told him that i enjoyed watching him suffer.
MAX: (stoic) Vaison said to him "You're a disgrace to humanity." and "You shouldn't even continue to live.".
VIVI: (feeling slightly shocked) Wait a minute.
VIVI: (feeling slightly shocked) Isn't Ling that same kid that was shot and killed when he decided to take a bullet for Vaison, due to the fact that Gran was trying to kill Vaison?
MAX: (stoic) The same.
MAX: (stoic) Any ways, i told May that i was sorry that she saw what she saw and she told me after seeing what me and my former friends did to Rodd, that she didn't feel safe around me and kind of resented me.
MAX: (stoic) She went on to say that she knew that from the time i began going to that school at the age of 4, to the time me, at the age of 7, and her started traveling with Ash, Brock, and pikachu, that i sort of resented her too.
ZET: What makes her think you resented her for that long and why didn't she tell your parents that you were an anti bully, when she saw what you, Ling, and Vaison did to Rodd, those 2 times?
MAX: (stoic) We had arguments almost every day back then and when that stuff with Vaison happened, my family knew some thing was up with me because i wasn't eating and sleeping properly for a few days after Kevin was killed and she told me the reason why she didn't tell our parents what she saw, was because we were siblings and siblings have a habit of covering for each other, when they do some thing wrong.
MAX: (stoic) I was good at acting like i was okay, even though i wasn't at the time.
MAX: (stoic) I also kept my distance from May, after Kevin's death, because i wanted to isolate my self from those around me and sort through my thoughts all on my own.
VIVI: So was May right when she said that you resented her?
MAX: (stoic) I won't try to deny the fact that i hated being around her.
MAX: (stoic) It's just that, for those 3 years, i didn't love or hate her.
MAX: (stoic) I told her that i didn't hate her and that i liked being all by my self some times.
Max's mood changes slightly again.
MAX: We simply existed in the same house.
MAX: Any ways, the good news is that when i asked her what else she knew about my past, she said nothing and then she asked me if there was some thing else she should know about and i said "No!".
ZET: (feeling slightly relieved) That's good to hear.
MAX: I talked to my parents too and they we're kinda mad at me for not getting in touch with them sooner, but they calmed down and asked me how i was doing.
MAX: I told them that i was traveling around with new friends, seeing the sights.
MAX: I also told them nice things about all of you.
ZET: That's nice.
ZET: What else did you say to May?
MAX: I asked her how things in Johto was going and she said "Not so good.", since she had lost a few pokemon coordinator contests.
MAX: She asked me what i was up to in Kalos and i told her that i was traveling around, seeing the sights, with 4 friends and that they were named Zet, Vivi, Ellie, and poochyena.
MAX: I didn't tell her every thing about you guys and what we were really doing here in Kalos.
ZET, VIVI, and ELLIE: (interested) I see and what else did you tell her about us?
POOCHYENA: (wanting to know too) Poochy poochy poochy!
MAX: I told her that Zet cooks as good as my friend Brock.
ZET: (feeling flattered) I do make some good ramen noodles.
MAX: I told her that Ellie is extremely smart when it comes to technology, for only a 6 year old.
ELLIE: (feeling flattered) Thank you very much, Max.
MAX: You're very welcome, Ellie.
MAX: I told her that even though poochyena is annoying some times, he really is good at protecting us and being a member of the family.
Poochyena walks out of Zet's lap and bites Max on the arm and then licks him on the face. He returns to Zet's lap.
MAX: (feeling a little mad) What was that for you little mut?
POOCHYENA: (half mad and half happy about Max's comment) Poochy poochy poochy poochyena!
MAX: (feeling a little mad) Biting some one and then licking their face is not a good way to act.
VIVI: If i had to guess Max, i think poochyena is half insulted and half flattered by your comment.
MAX: You may not have the ability to under stand pokemon language, but you're probably right Vivi.
VIVI: Any ways, i bet your sister was surprised to say the least when you told her that i was traveling with you, since i asked my family if i could travel to a different region and they said yes.
VIVI: What did she say about me?
MAX: She said it was strange how you and me crossed paths again.
VIVI: What else did she say about us?
MAX: Nothing at all.
VIVI: She had to have said more than just that.
MAX: (blushing a little) It was really nothing more.
VIVI: (getting curious) I get the feeling that you're not telling me the whole story.
MAX: (blushing a little) Just drop it Winstrate.
VIVI: (getting curious) Why is your face turning a little red?
MAX: (blushing a little) It must be a fever and can we please change the subject!
VIVI: (starting to catch on) Oh, i think i know what's going on now.
ZET: What's that?
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) May probably told her little brother here that it was fate - the reason why me and Max met up again and that we are to be boy friend and girl friend.
MAX: (blushing) Don't be silly, weird girl.
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) Max, did she say some thing like that or not?
MAX: (blushing) I admit that she did say some thing like that, but she's a romantic.
Max and Vivi have been siting next to each other, ever since the team meeting began.
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) Oh, so you admit it?
MAX: (blushing) Yes!
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) Even though you have a strange new look, especially with the blue hair, i still think you're cute Max.
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) I think you looked better with those big glasses that you used to wear, but you still look very attractive to me.
MAX: (blushing) Vivi, not only are you addicted to gambling with your life and money, you also seem to have a bad flirting addiction.
VIVI: (having fun and flirting with Max) Oh, did i do it again?
VIVI: (grabbing Max's hand and holding it) I'm such a naughty little girl.
Max's face gets a little redder and the rest of the team is just stareing at them and trying not to laugh.
VIVI: (holding Max's hand) Max, you know me so well.
Max's hand starts to sweat and he can barely move and talk, since Vivi is moving slowly closer to his face.
MAX: (blushing and trying to slowly move away) You're creeping me out Winstrate.
VIVI: (holding his hand and getting very close to his face at the same time) Just close your eyes and you'll be fine.
Max quickly frees his hand away from Vivi's hand and quickly crawls back a few inches.
MAX: (yelling and blushing while being a little farther away from Vivi) VIVI, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?
VIVI: (laughing out loud) HA HA HA HA!
MAX: (blushing while being a little farther away from Vivi) What's so got darn funny?
VIVI: I wasn't really going to kiss you.
VIVI: I was just testing you to see how close i would have to come to your face, for you to get nervous and back away.
MAX: (going back to the original spot where he was sitting next to Vivi and still blushing) Very funny Winstrate.
ZET and ELLIE: (laughing out loud) HA HA HA!
ZET and ELLIE: She got you real good.
POOCHYENA: (laughing out loud) POO POOOOOOCHYENA POOCHY POOCHY!
MAX: (blushing and frowning) Very funny every one.
VIVI: Don't be so mad Max.
VIVI: I was only having fun.
VIVI: I already know that i don't really think of you as a boy friend and you don't really think of me as a girl friend.
MAX: And you also know that i'm still in love with some one else.
VIVI: (starting to sound a tiny bit jealous) Oh, i know about that.
MAX: I'm glad to hear that you were just pretending, even though i found your acting kinda disturbing.
VIVI: (starting to sound a little mad) Max, you have got a lot to learn about girls.
MAX: They say "Ignorance is bliss.".
VIVI: (sounding a little mad) Just what does that mean, know it all?
MAX: It means that some times you're better off not knowing some thing.
ZET: Max, you're a boy of immense intelligence.
MAX: Why thank you.
ZET: You're welcome.
MAX: I still hate my self for some of the things i did a long time ago.
MAX: You all can think badly about me for saying this, but in the end, i stopped hating Mack Yenrai.
MAX: He may have led me to a path of crime and violence, but before he was killed, he had people looking for me, when he refused to believe that i had been killed.
MAX: Also, right before he was killed by those people Vaison hired, he was working to make peace with other syndicates and finally put an end to some of the pointless blood shed.
MAX: To sum it all up, Mack was like a second father to me.
ZET: I think i speak for every one when i say that, since you put it that way, we do under stand your respect for him.
VIVI: That's true.
ELLIE: Truly true.
POOCHYENA: Poochy poo.
MAX: Thank you all.
VIVI: I can under stand your unwillingness to move on from the past.
MAX: What do you mean?
VIVI: Waten Hagus Masato.
MAX: Huh!
VIVI: I wonder why i suddenly thought of him out of the blue like that.
VIVI: Say, do you want to know a secret about my past Max?
VIVI: Well do you?
Max yawns and Vivi frowns at him.
VIVI: It all started 3 years ago, when me and my family were on a train ride, after our vacation was over.
VIVI: That's when things went badly.
VIVI: The train was defected, but the captain didn't know about it.
VIVI: The train began to increase in speed as it was about to turn and it crashed into a wall, as the captain tried to stop it, since we were at the train station when it happened.
VIVI: The train wreck was awful, but no one was killed.
VIVI: There were a few that were severely injured and i was one of them.
VIVI: My family ended up okay.
ZET: (feeling shocked) No way.
VIVI: Yes way and it was so bad that i was in a coma for 4 months.
MAX: I hate hearing that.
VIVI: To add insult to injury, when i woke up i had amnesia.
VIVI: My family had a huge debt to pay for all that the nurses and doctors had done for me and the hospital wouldn't let me go until they were paid in full.
VIVI: That's when i met Waten.
VIVI: The nephew of Doctor Bacus.
VIVI: Bacus was the doctor that brought me out of my coma.
VIVI: As for Waten, he was a 9 year old boy that really connected with me when i was in the hospital and after that.
VIVI: Waten told me that he watched over me when ever my family wasn't at the hospital.
VIVI: I'll never forget the day me and Waten first met.
VIVI: That day when i was laying in a hospital room, all alone, he came in, introduced him self, and gave me a flower.
VIVI: He told me at the request of the tedius insurance company, that he was asked to some how help me out with my situation.
VIVI: He told me that me and my family had been in a serious train wreck physically and financially.
VIVI: He also told me that i was like sleeping beauty.
VIVI: That night, while my family was in another place, i snuck out of the hospital.
VIVI: Eventually that night, Waten caught up to me on his bike.
VIVI: I told him that it was unreasonable for them to choose to resuscitate me and then expect me to pay the debt.
VIVI: (smiling) He then comforted me and said that we could handle the debt slowly, that my memory might come back one day, and he would help me in any way he could.
VIVI: (smiling) What he said next, really touched my heart.
MAX: What was it?
VIVI: (smiling) He said that and i quote "If you keep searching for your memory, you might meet some one new and wonderful.".
ELLIE: That was very nice.
VIVI: (smiling) After that, he gave me a ride on his bike, back to the hospital and talked to me on the way there.
VIVI: After i was cleared to leave the hospital, i still had amnesia and i still have amnesia to this day.
ZET: (feeling shocked) You've had amnesia for 3 years?
VIVI: Yes and it burdens me to this day.
VIVI: I can't remember what my life was like before the train accident.
Max, Zet, Ellie, and poochyena are in a state of shock after hearing Vivi's last sentence.
VIVI: (smiling) I started to date Waten right after i got out of the hospital.
ZET: (feeling shocked) Your father actually allowed his little girl to date?
VIVI: (smiling) Yeah and he didn't even threaten him either.
VIVI: (smiling) Me and Waten spent time doing lots of stuff together.
VIVI: (smiling) He would take me out on picnics, take me for rides on his bike, take me to the library, go with me to my doctor's appointments, buy me clothes, take me dancing, and he even kissed me on the hand once while we were dancing.
ELLIE: He was one bromantic romantic.
POOCHYENA: (agreeing with Ellie) Poochy!
VIVI: (smiling) That he was.
VIVI: (smiling) He treated me like a princess.
VIVI: (smiling) That wasn't the reason i fell in love with him.
MAX: Than what was the reason?
VIVI: (smiling) You should know that better than any one Max.
VIVI: (smiling) Even though he was 5 years older then me, i fell in love with him because he was special.
VIVI: (smiling) Just like you know who was once special to you.
MAX: (feeling a little depressed) I under stand now.
Vivi's mood changes.
VIVI: (stoic) Then one night, i was on top of Waten while he was pedaling on his bike, when a girl on a bike approached us and stopped us right on our tracks, near my house.
VIVI: (stoic) She called Waten "Watty" and asked me what i was doing with him.
VIVI: (stoic) I told her that i was his girl friend and that i was riding with him on his bike.
VIVI: (stoic) She then went on to say that her name was Monley, that she was 7 and a half, and that i was too young for Waten.
VIVI: (stoic) I then went on to say that my name was Vivi, i was 5 and a half, that i was his girl friend, and that it was none of her business.
VIVI: (stoic) She then told me that Waten was her boy friend and that she didn't know what was going on, but she didn't like it.
VIVI: (stoic) Both me and Monley had 2 things in common.
VIVI: (feeling angry) We both were angry at Waten and wanted answers.
VIVI: (stoic) He told us that he didn't want to break any one's heart and that he loved both of us.
VIVI: (stoic) That's when Monley gave him an ultimatum.
VIVI: (stoic) It was either me or her.
VIVI: (stoic) He picked Monley.
VIVI: (stoic) Monley told me that i could do better in some ways and that i should just leave and not look back.
VIVI: (stoic) I told Waten that i hated him for lying to me.
VIVI: (stoic) Before he and Monley left on their bikes, he told me that there was one thing that he did tell the truth about.
ELLIE: What truth was that?
VIVI: (stoic) That he fell in love with me while i was sleeping.
VIVI: (stoic) He said he fell in love with sleeping beauty.
MAX: That was a very interesting story of lost love.
VIVI: Yeah and the reason i was working for that crook Gordon was because i was trying to earn a lot of money for me and my family to pay off the remains of my medical debt.
VIVI: To this day, even though the hospital was nice enough to let me go, despite my family not having enough money, they still are forced to give a little money to the hospital every month.
MAX, ZET, and ELLIE: We're all sorry to hear about that.
POOCHYENA: (also feeling bad for Vivi) Poo poo poo!
VIVI: That means a lot to me.
VIVI: Thanks every one.
MAX, ZET, and ELLIE: You're welcome.
Later that night, the team has dinner, talks about TV, and goes to sleep. At 11:38 pm, Max wakes up and notices that Vivi is missing. He goes looking for her, with out waking up the others. After 5 minutes of searching, he finds Vivi sitting near the lake, stareing at the stars. He walks up to her and sits down next to her.
VIVI: Well look who's here.
VIVI: (flirting) You must really want me back.
MAX: Nice try.
VIVI: (flirting) You were jealous.
MAX: In your dreams.
MAX: I just got worried when i saw that you were gone and wanted to know what you were doing and where you were.
VIVI: I was just stareing at the stars and looking for answers.
VIVI: I'm still in the dark.
VIVI: I really hate this situation i'm in.
VIVI: I may never know any thing about my past.
MAX: Doesn't matter.
VIVI: Easy for you to say.
VIVI: At least you have a past.
MAX: And you have a future and that's all that counts.
VIVI: Thank you for the advice Max.
MAX: You're very welcome Vivi.
Max and Vivi stare at the stars some more and then go back to camp, with out waking up any one and both of them go to sleep.
Seems to me that Max, Zet, and Vivi have experience when it comes to lost love and getting their hearts broken. May be they, along with Ellie and poochyena, will find future romance. That remains to be seen though. Please type up your reviews for what you thought about this chapter! Stay curious my friends!