Parallel Hearts Chapter 2

As dawn of the new day approaches for the pokemon in the forest, it still seems that there's still a certain pikachu that remains asleep. As his body is spread lazily across the not-so-mysterious nest in the barely lit room. He couldn't help but squirm in his sleeps as the memories of the past still haunts his dreams.

In a forest where there's mainly sharp rocks, thin trees with hardly any berries, and predators roaming around as if they ruled the place. In the middle of it is pikachu, unlike how he is today, he's wasn't skin in bones but the scar still remains on his chest. He looks up to see a shadowy figure above one of the sharp rocks.

"Stay here and train for a year," the shadow figure commands him, "then go to the southern part of the forest and I'll meet you there a month after." After finishing, it jumps into the forest and disappear. As pikachu looks at the vanishing shadow figure, he couldn't help but feel sad that he'll have to wait a long time to see his friend again.

That, however, has to change when the sound of growling enter his ears from behind him. The pikachu turns around to see a pack of arcanines and growliths ready to strike. They begin circling around him, waiting for the opportunity to strike.

He smiles at them and says, "sorry, but it seems that you won't devour me today," and start charging his left fist with electricity, "Thunder Punch!" Swinging an upper cut at one the arcanines.

The moment when he was going to upper cut the arcanine, he found himself punching air instead. He looks around and found himself in the mysterious room again, which questions him as to how he got in here again mainly because he doesn't remember falling asleep. He decides to shake his head to fully wake up. Feeling more aware of his surroundings, he decides to go downstairs to the main room. He suddenly had to cover his eyes from the radiant light the crystal from yesterday is giving off. "How is it glowing brighter than the last time I saw it?" The mouse pokemon asks as he covers his eyes with his right hand.

"That's because the crystal glows brighter when day comes, but dims when night comes, that goes for the tiny crystals in our rooms as well." An answer came from behind him.

This sudden outburst made him jump three feet off the ground and land next to the mysterious crystal. He turns around and look up to see the buneary that sheltered him yesterday laughing at his misfortune.

"Geez buneary, don't scare me like that," he says to her.

"Sorry, I thought it would be funny to answer your question like that," she answers back to him, "which it is."

As she's busy laughing at him, he turns back at the crystal and asks himself how someone can get such a crystal and just leave it with someone else. He really wants to touch it, but that wouldn't be such a great idea, considering it's rude do so without permission.

That thought was interrupted when she yells to get his attention, "hey," this made him turn back around to look back at her, "lets go outside and eat, I'm kinda hungry." The mere mention of food makes his stomach growl, causing her to giggle even more, "it seems your stomach does all the talking for you, c'mon lets get going."

He goes to the straight staircase that leads outside with the bunny girl. At least one of his questions was going to be answered as to where they are exactly, but the biggest one is whether he actually living there or not for the time being. As he's thinking these questions, he was walking side-by-side with her. They weren't talking, but the silence is comfortable since they can enjoy the company the other is providing.

They climb up the top of the straight stairs and buneary opens the door by a handle for some kind on the right-hand side. This made pikachu's assumption correct about this leading outside, as they walk outside, she closes the door and hid it with a couple of bushes she found outside the door. As she was, pikachu looks back to see what the hideout exactly is. Turns out it's just five trees, thicker than the rest of the trees in the forest, two in the back and two in the front, all squared around the tree they were coming out of.

As she finishes hiding the door, she says to him, "I know a lake we can go to, is that ok?"

He turns back to her and nods with a smile. They begin their walk side-by-side across the forest with glances of rattatas running around, bidoofs working on a bridge of some kind, combees pollinating flowers, and other kind pokemon greeting each other happily. Pikachu couldn't help but feel happy and relief about only meeting kind pokemon so far in the southern part. His instincts keeps him cautious about every pokemon here, he can't help but be on guard because of every pokemon in the northern part he met were either trying to eat him or just simply kill him for fun.

"Hey there, buneary," they both turn around to see a marill walking up them, pikachu's instincts telling him it's female.

"Oh hey, marill," buneary greets back with a smile on her face.

The marill then notices the pikachu next to her, "I've never seen you around, are you new here?" The pikachu nervously nods in response to the question, making the marill smile wider, "well in that case, welcome to the Southern Pokeball Forest and I hope you can be happy here." With that said, she turns around and walk away from the two companion pokemon, relieving the pikachu's anxiety towards the other pokemon around here.

The two continue walking towards their destination, letting the pikachu look at the pokemon around them. He sees a slakoth just laying on the ground, doing absolutely nothing. His response to the pokemon is shaking his head. How can it be so lazy, yet has a second evolution that does nothing but fight to tire itself out to sleep, only to evolve into being a very powerful, but equally lazy pokemon as it once was? Weird how the world works sometimes...

When they finally reach their destination, the mouse pokemon couldn't help but stare at what's ahead of them; a lake filled with pokemon greeting one another in an open area for water pokemon to walk on land, pokemon playing games, pokemon sun-bathing, and pokemon eating all kinds of berries. Pikachu mainly focuses on the food, but still, it has a relaxing nature to it and he wants to be part of it. If he wasn't glad to alive before, then he is now.

"Here we are," buneary states happily as she walks up to the lake with him, " I think you should eat before washing yourself," that confuses him as he looks at her, but she continue, "given the state you're in, you should eat until you're a strong, healthy pikachu again."

He thought what she said... he was planning on washing then eating, but after thinking about it: if he eats he'll be filthy again... so why not? "Sure, sounds like a excellent idea," he says with a shrug then walks away to gather food for himself.

Buneary couldn't help but feel guilty if she made him wash then eat, because he really needs to get nutrition badly and she didn't want to be in the way of that. She walks to the side of the lake and start to gathering water on her paws and poured it on herself, rubbing her face to get rid of the sleep from her eyes, and rubbing her body to get rid of the dirt on her body. She was finished in no time at all, and shined like a star, well in her head at least, and begins to drink the water in the lake with her paws. Quenching her thirst after waiting so long to drink was worth the wait after sheltering the pikachu for a short time.

This gives her other questions about him, is he going to live with her and her friends? Will he get along with them? Does he have any trauma about his previous life style? All these questions makes her head spin as she needs to concentrate on drinking the water.

When she finishes her drinking, she looks for the mouse pokemon that can answer these questions, only to jaw-drop when she found him: he was at the edge of the lake with a pile of berries big enough to feed twenty pokemon, everyone staring at him wide-eyed as he eats like no tomorrow, paying no attention to anyone at all. That pikachu is practicly inhaling the berries like it's air as he shoves them into his mouth from his hands.

In the middle of the now somewhat skinny pikachu's eating, he couldn't help but feel happy and cry in tears of joy, he was already done with half of the pile and yet he doesn't want to stop. He doesn't know what kind of berries he picked up to eat, nor does he care! It's too delicious to even look at the food. Who knew food could taste this delicious?

He eventually has to stop at one point for a breather and sighs in relief before taking a look around. Now noticing the pokemon around the lake are staring at him, he asks, "umm... why are you guys looking at me like that? Do I have something on my face?"

"Because you eat like a munchlax," one of the bystander answers back.

The pikachu realizes this and couldn't help but blush in embarrassment, "oh," he looks back at the pile of berries and continue to eat, but in silence.

"Pikachu," looking back, he sees buneary hopping over where he's at, making him blush even more when she came around.

"Heh, heh, I bet I look pretty stupid, huh?" He asks her while scratching the back of his head.

"No, you just don't know any better," she answers back, "I mean, you have been in the nothern part after all."

Unfortunately, everyone heard that statement, and have a look of shock on their face. Then that look turns into excitement as they shove buneary out of the way and start surrounding the pikachu with verious of questions.

"Is that true?"

"Are the northern pokemon really as cruel as they say they are?"

"How did you survive all this time?"

"Is that how you got that scar?"

All these questions were making pikachu uncomfortable as all he wants is to have a good meal to get back into shape. So he decides to answer all the questions, "yes, it's true," he answers one of the questions, "they are worse than what pokemon say, I survived by fighting and eating the lack of berries the north harvests, and no, that's not how I got this scar... that's a little too personal." With their questions satsified, the gathering pokemon walk away, leaving pikachu to enjoy the rest of the piled food.

After eating the meal he thought he deserved, pikachu begin to look like a regular pikachu again. The only down part of it though is that the scar still remains, he stands up and says to the buneary, "thanks for letting me stay with you for the night."

Buneary's response to the sudden gratitude is to look back at him, "you're welcome pikachu," she replies, "and you're more than welcome to live with me and my friends if you want."

This snaps something in his brain as he was just referred as to what pokemon he is and crosses his arms, "Mega."

Confusion consumes her to the one word he just randomly said, "what?"

"My name is Mega and I would be more than happy to live with you and your friends," he introduces himself.

This is a rare occasion, mainly because pokemon don't have names, they're just refer to what species they are. Buneary couldn't help but feel that his nature seems... familiar, but what is it?

"So this the new campanion you were talking about last night, buneary?" Her thoughts interrupted when she and the now-named Mega turn towards the owner of the voice. They see an eevee and a togetic, but by Mega's instincts tells him they're both female, "hello there, don't worry, I don't eat other pokemon." The eevee says to Mega, this surprising him as he heard predator pokemon can be raised to eat only fruits and veggies, but this is the first time he actually sees one.

"H-Hello there, Mega, I-I hope we can get along," the togetic says as she bows.

"Hello to both of you," Mega says as he walks to the lake to take a bath and drink.

The three girl pokemon just watches as he walks away, until he was out of hearing range. "Okay, girls," eevee says immediately, "I think Mega is a rare cutie, so outta my way."

"No fair, eevee, you always do this when you want the same thing I do," togetic answers back frustrated by her friend's announcement.

This shocks buneary as she just realize her friends have interests in Mega, "girls, calm down," she says as she begins to stand up. "Why do you get to decide who dates Mega?" She asks the eevee, "isn't that also his decision?"

Eevee thinks about why buneary is being defensive about this situation for a minute, with only one idea in her head, "well it seems to me that you also have interests in Mega," making buneary blush deeply as she looks at her friend.

"What!?" Was all she could shout by the statement.

"Don't think I didn't see it just now, for the fact you're blushing, it's true," There was no sign of hiding it, so she pulls her fluff from around her waste and hides her face with it. Then there was a spashing noise from the lake behind her.

"Hey there buneary, my cute little bunny girl." Great, just great, this is last thing she needs in this situation.

As Mega finishes with his bath and quenching his thirst he says to himself, "what a nice bunch." He turns around to see his new friends, but to also see a buizel, instincts telling him that it's male, asking buneary questions, and her rejecting all of them. He decides to walk up to them and listen to the conversation.

"How about we-"

"No!"

"Then how about-"

"No!" Each question before being finished, were answered 'no' but the buizel refuses to give up.

"Then how about-"

"No!" But before he could ask another, she angerly denies, "no, no, NO!"

"Awww, why not?" The buizel asks somewhat annoyed.

"Because I don't like you, so stop asking," she yells, turns around to hop away from him. Until she was grabbed by the arm.

"I won't give up," he states as he picks her up over his shoulder.

"Hey, let me go you jerk," buneary screams at the weasel pokemon as she tries to pull away.

Mega walks up to the buizel from behind and tap him on the other shoulder with his finger, making him turn around and- "Thunder Punch!" Nail him with a electric charged fist in the face. Making him fall to the ground and buneary airborn, Mega simply lend out his arms afterwards and catches her, "are you alright?" He asks her as their noses are almost touching.

Was Mega really holding her? She couldn't help but blush as she stares into the beautiful black eyes that belongs to the hero that saved her just now, "I-I'm fine... thank you." Buneary could feel the glares her friends are giving her, but for some weird reason, she couldn't careless. Mega puts her down to her feet and refocuses back at the buizel that's coming back with fire in his eyes.

"How dare you hit the fastest pokemon in the forest," the buizel said as he was rubbing his face where he was punched at.

"Well you deserved it," Mega says flatly as he gets ready in a battle stance, "and plus I think you could be useful for some light exercise."

Everyone in the lake area could hear that comment and silence befall for the two of them... did he just referred the fastest pokemon in the forest a weakling? Feeling his pride has been hit, anger begins to build for the buizel because not only did the pikachu stop him from getting what he wanted, but also calling him a weakling as well.

"Don't take me lightly, RAT!" Mega ears twitches in annoyance as he hears the word he doesn't like being called, but he learned to control his temper as it could be dangerous for the buizel.

As the buizel gets to his battle stance, they could feel the pokemon around the lake watching intensely at the two of them. They know why though, because they want to watch the battle. Let them. They look at each other in the eyes, ready to attack the other and not a moment later. As they feel the breeze of the wind, a leaf was riding on the wind between them. Slowly, it swirled around them and wondered onto the water of the lake and lands on top of it gently. Like it was the signal, they charged at each other with speed and power.

"Quick Attack/Aqua Jet!" they shout in unison, Mega charges directly at him on all four with great speed, for the buizel, he surrounds himself in water and flies after Mega with tremendous speed.

Just as they were going to hit each other, they turned, Mega turned right and buizel turned left. Still using their attacks, they raced each other, sharp left turn to avoid a tree. Mega jumps over a boulder by by using his back paws. This continues until another tree was in the way, but instead of avoiding, Mega decides to climb it with his tremendous speed still going. He look to his left and still see the buizel flying next to him going up the tree as well. When they reached the top, they jumped and cancelled their attacks, looking at each other and nod while in the air.

"Your pretty good," Mega said as he begins to fall.

"you're not bad yourself," buizel replies to the compliment. They both smiled because they knew this battle is going to be fun.