Parallel Hearts Chapter 18

After the long battle from the chandelure, the ghost pokemon magically disappears, and the door to the entrance opens. Breaker walks in with big concern about the well-beings for his friends, "are you guys okay? What happened?"

"We were battling a chandelure for our spirits," Mega explains, "now I think is the best time to get some sleep now." Everyone agrees to his statement with Rose and Zero leading to the bedrooms.

It didn't take long for the sleeping arrangement to be settled: boys in one room, girls on the other.

Midori, Beauty, Knolla, and Rose decides to stay up a little later, "so, you want to be Mega's big sister?" Knolla asks, knowing that the boys were already asleep.

Midori nods in response, "after all the suffering he went through for a year I think he at least deserves a big sister." Much to Beauty's and Knolla's relief on hearing that, because they didn't want anymore competition.

"I hardly know you, but I feel you can be a older sister figure to me too," Rose says to the snake pokemon, making her blush in embarrasment, "thank you, and I hope you get accustom to being my little sister." With their conversation finished, they decide to fall asleep.

When the sun begins to rise, the group wakes up to restock their food supplies from the garden in the front. Zero was leading the group again with Knolla pointing to the directions they're suppose to go.

Mega decides to ride on Breaker this time along with Diggy behind him, "thanks for the ride, Breaker," Mega praise the tauros below him.

This makes Breaker smile in response, "you're the only pokemon I'll be more than happy to give a ride," as they continue the conversation, Diggy falls asleep from the soft fur he's on.

"We just slept and yet he's tired," Mega says as he looks back.

"After a big battle from that chandelure, I'm not surprise," Breaker says and looks at the waterfall that came into view, "we're almost there."

Midori decides to walk with Beauty this time, "so you and Knolla have a crush on Mega too?"

Making the eevee blush in embarrassment, "yeah, he keeps surprising us with that incredible strength of his, we even went to get honey once."

The snake sighs at the statement, bad enough that Rose has feelings for a dense pokemon, but now she knows that there are two more pokemon interested that very pokemon... talk about bad luck.

"How did Mega get that cape anyways?"

"He got it off some smeargle after he painted Meggy," Midori was happy that Mega can easily make friends as she watch him ride on Breaker's back... she knows the pikachu can give a happy smile despite what happened to him.

"So you're giving up on me?"

Fast Star just shrugs at the question, "I already gave up because I know you have a thing for Mega," making Rose blush at that fact.

"I'm glad you did... otherwise I would have him pummel you again."

This makes the buizel turn his head, "yeah well... I'm glad you want to find happiness with your best friend," he turns back to her, "but we can always be friends."

The buneary nods for agreement to Fast Star, "good, because you guys are the only thing I have left." With that said, the water weasel walks ahead of the rest of the group to avoid anymore conversations.

By the time everyone finished their conversation they've reached they next destination, Mount. Waterfall, "here we are," Zero shouts with his arms in the air as he hears the roaring water crashing against the rocks below, "come on everyone!"

Mega shakes Diggy to wake him up, making the swinub to rub his eyes from the annoyance of being woken up, "are we there yet?"

After recieving a nod from Mega, Diggy immediately wakes himself up rather quickly, jumps off Breaker's back and goes up to Zero, "do you want me to lead this one?"

"Yes, you're the only one that knows the way, I trust you with this one."

Given the command, Diggy puts up a serious face, "alright everyone," he shouts to get everyone's attention, "from this point on, I'm leading, and if you don't do what I say, you WILL die."

Everyone, except those who already knows this, gulps at the sudden warning... they took him as serious as they should.

"This way," he walks in front and leads them down the dirt road towards the bottom of the waterfalls. When they reach the front of it, Diggy turns back to them, "anyone who is a coward can leave now while you can," everyone looked at each other for a moment, then looking back at Diggy, Zero, and Midori.

"I got nothing to lose but you guys, so I'm going," Fast Star steps forward with a determined smile and walks up to them.

"You guys can't possibly get this far without my guidance, so I'm going," Knolla was next to go to them.

"Do you think I'll stop at this point?" Mega says and walks up.

Rose thinks about it... she could leave, but she wants to be happy being with Mega, and she knows he'll protect her in there no matter what, "I'm in," she says and hops up to them.

The last two, Beauty and Breaker, gave each other a look, before nodding and turning back to them, "we'll go as well," Breaker says as they walk together up to the group of pokemon.

Zero smiles at the devotion that everyone has put... Mega knows which friends to make to be a MegaZero member, that's also what he's good at... apparently.

Diggy gestures everyone to follow him as he goes through the waterfall in front of them, Zero and Midori goes through the raging waters first because they know what's on the other side, Mega and Fast Star goes through it next due to curiousity, Breaker just charges in there like it's no big deal, the two other girls hesitates as Rose puts a paw through before entering.

"Are we really doing this?" Knolla asks as she walks along side with Beauty, "apparently," is all the eevee says before they go through the waterfalls.

The water falling against them was strong and heavy, they could barely breathe (except Fast Star considering he can breath underwater) as the water enters their lungs, their bodies feel heavy, but despite all this, Diggy still leads, unfazed by the sudden change of environment.

Everyone could see a light at the end of the other side of the waterfalls, "we're almost there," the swinub shouts to the rest of the group behind them, despite the heavy case of water going through out his entire body.

Everyone hearing this, dashes as hard as they can to get out of the roaring waters heavily raging against their entire bodies, it didn't take long for them to jump out and feel the air around them to fill their lungs.

"That...was...hard," is all Knolla says between breaths.

"Yeah...I hope... we never... have to...do that...again," Beauty says with everyone nodding in agreement as they enjoy the oxygen in the air.

Mega was the first to recover and looks around: they're in some kind of cave, filled with sticks on fire lighting the way to who-knows-where.

Diggy jumps put of the waterfalls with Fast Star by his side, breathing heavily, but not as heavy as the others. He turns to Mega looking at the lit room leading somewhere, "ok everyone, like Zero said, it will take us two and half days to get out of this cave," Diggy says and waits for everyone to catch their breathes.

They turn towards Diggy to lead the way, "ok this way," he walks past them. Breaker was behind everyone to make sure they don't get hurt from behind, "are there any bat pokemon in here?" He asks, looking around, thinking about those blood-loving suckers.

"There might be," was the all the reply Diggy says. He sighs and tries to think about other things, not one of them helping getting rid of the bat pokemon idea.

While Zero walks with Midori, she tries to hold the treecko's hand without him noticing, "remember the last time we were here?" He asks Midori remembering the last time.

"Yeah, you tried to make friends with a sandshrew, who used Sand-Attack on your face afterwords," she giggles under the memories.

He turns to her in annoyance, "I thought she would like dry food, that's why she used Sand-Attack on me," this made Midori laugh louder, "you weren't helping either when she did that," she rolls her eyes as he says the last part.

"You're not good at making friends," she says, still trying to sneak a hand-hold, "but how you managed to make me your friend is beyond me."

Zero looks back her with annoyance once more, "you know I made friends back at the research facility."

"Yeah, mainly because you promised everyone freedom when we get back."

Zero scratches the back of his head, "everyone deserves freedom, Midori."

She couldn't help but smile at his ego, "you deserve friends, despite that these guys were originally Mega's."

Zero smiles at that comment, "yeah... he's good at things that I'm not sometimes... I'm glad you want to be a big sister figure for him, someone he can trust," the snake girl blushes at that, "y-yeah," she stutters as she decides to give up on the hand-holding idea.

Knolla decided to walk next to Mega this time, "don't you remember me at the village inside the mountain?"

That raises more questions for Mega as he turns to her, "you used to live there?"

Knolla sighs at the question he gave her, "yes, I was a togepi back then," she turns to him, "don't you remember? I used to be at the library all the time."

Mega turns forward and thinks about it... there was a library, but he doesn't remember a togepi.

Then something popped in his head, "oh yeah," he opens his left palm and hits it with the side of his right fist as he glues the pieces together, "pokemon all over used to call you 'Book-Worm Togepi'... you helped tutor those who were behind in class."

Knolla blushes as she was called by her old title, "now you remember... do you remember the first time we officially met?" She recieves a response from Mega with a head shake, only to make her sigh, "it happened when we were at gym class as you were battling that jerk again..."

A pichu was pushed back by a punch in the face, while a togepi was ignoring it and writes in her journal, "give up, you little rat." This was an order from a machop cracking his knuckles, behind him was a meditite and a monferno. "You know I'm stronger than you'll ever be!"

The pichu just growls in response. "I'll never give up!" Sparks begin to form from his red cheeks, "Thundershock," he unleashes a small amount of thunder that aims the machop.

The machop just simply side-step to dodge the attack, making the volt of electricity aim at a new target... the writing togepi.

When the attack hits the unexpected togepi, she screams in pain and collapse after it quickly ends. The pichu runs up to her, feeling guilty from what he did as the machop just walks away laughing.

When he reaches up to her he immediatley pick her up to a good leverage, "are you ok? Sorry I did that," he sees her stirring to get up and helps her up.

"I'm ok," was all the togetic says.

The pichu relieves himself to know she's ok, but still feels guilty, "I'm so sorry," he mutters up, making the togepi look at him, "I want to become stronger, but I don't want to hurt innocent pokemon."

She looks as tears starts to form from his eyes and wipes them away with her hands, "I'm ok... thank you for your concern, I know you didn't mean it."

He still looks at her, "is there anyway I can make it up to you?"

She shakes her head in response, "I don't want anything from you, I forgive you," she puts up a cute smile, making the pichu smile and bow his head, "thank you."

...ever since that incident happened, I became more aware of my surroundings," Knolla says and looks back at him, making him feel guilty again, "I still feel guilty for shocking you like that." He suddenly remembers all of the flashback.

She giggles as she knew that he would say that, "if you want to make it up to me," she blushes at the next part she was going to ask, "then... will you hold my hand?"

Mega notices she's getting red at the mention of holding hands with him, but decides to ignore it and lend out his hand. Knolla happily accept the offer with her blush deepens, "are you ok? You're face is red."

She immediately replies to answer, "y-yes... I'm fine," she sighs as she feels how surprisingly soft his hands are. Mega doesn't have a clue what's going on, but decides that he had enough talking right now.

Rose and Beauty looks at the two holding hands with a jealous look written on their face, "how can she be so bold as to hold his hand?" Beauy asks as she heard the entire conversation.

"I don't know, but I think she has a lead against us, " Rose reply, making Beauty look back at her.

"What do you mean 'us'? You have the biggest lead compare to all of us," she droops at the next part, "I can hardly get him to hug me."

The bunny girl couldn't help but feel sad for the eevee, "I'm sorry to hear that," then an idea came into her head, "why don't you try to get a sitrus berry? That'll get him to notice you."

Beauty stops drooping and digs through her bag on her back to find what she's looking for, "oh Meggy," she shouts with a teasing voice.

Mega hears a voice shouting for his nick-name behind him and looks back to see Beauty holding a sitrus berry with her left paw. He lets go of Knolla's hand and runs up to her, only for the eevee to hide it underneath herself, "I can't just give you a sitrus berry for free," she says with innocence in her eyes.

"Fine, what do you want?" Mega was just staring at the delicious, sour berry behind her, "I want a hug like you promised me... and a piggy-back ride for not keeping your promise,"

Mega looks at her and thinks about it... he was planning on giving her a hug when they reach a stop, but he suppose he could get a free sitrus berry and give a ride, "ok, deal."

Beauty lends out her front legs for a hug offer, which he accepts and hug her back, then after given the sour berry, he crouches to gesture her to get on. She climbs on his back with her front paws on his shoulders to get a grip when he gets up and walks. She feels excitement and just wants to kiss his cheek for this kind offer, but she ignored her urges and enjoy the ride.

After a few more hours of walking, Diggy turns towards them, "this is where we'll rest... good night," and falls asleep on the spot.

Everyone sweatdrops at the sudden sleep in motion and soon follow his gesture. They each lay down at a spot they think is comfortable and fall asleep, only to think they have another day and a half to deal with.