Parallel Hearts Chapter 19
"WAKE UP, EVERYBODY!" The swinub shouts to wake everybody up from their sleep, which works when they groan and get up, "this is the difficult part... if you don't follow me, you will most likely get lost and die."
This statement made everyone stop groaning, feel fully awake, and look back at Diggy. They know he's been serious since they got here. Dead serious.
Mega got up from a rock he thought was comfortable, but really wasn't as a bunch of pebbles digs into his side. "Why do we need to stop at a certain point? Shouldn't we get past these points and keep moving until we get tired then rest there? Because the longer we go on, the sooner we can get out of here."
Diggy sees Mega's point, but disagrees, "there are dangerous pokemon from beyond this point, unless you want to take watch while everyone sleeps in the middle of the danger zone?"
Mega just shrugs, "sounds like a good idea to me, I can always sleep on Breaker's back when we're on the move."
Making Breaker smile at the idea, "yeah and Rose can watch over him while he sleeps," causing Rose to also like the idea as well.
Everyone else agrees to this idea and have Mega fall asleep on Breaker's back with Rose watching over him, he has his arms and legs all over the bull pokemon's back while drooling a bit from the corner of his mouth. Rose couldn't help but blush as he looks absolutely adorable under her eyes, she wishes she could just cuddle up to him and sleep under his arms, but she has a duty to do.
"Is he sleeping peacefully?" She hears Diggy ask, "yeah, he fell asleep as soon as he got on Breaker," she replies back to the question.
"Good, because I would've knock him out if he wasn't."
Rose sighs at the swinub's violent gesture. She knows this is a serious situation they're in, but even she admits he's being a little aggressive as a leader. Oh she hopes that they leave this cave sooner because she knows that Breaker is a little more nervious than the rest of them are. She then focuses back on the sleeping pikachu right before her... she has to look after him while he's vulnerable.
Midori smiles at Rose's part of looking after Mega while he sleeps, she knows the buneary wants to cuddle on the pikachu's soft fur and strong arms, too bad she can't though.
"Is something the matter, Midori?" Fast Star asks as he decides to walk next to her this time, making the snivy sigh.
"No, nothing's wrong," this staement makes the buizel cross his arms in denial on what she just said, "I can tell when people are lying... you stink of it."
Making Midori sigh once more, "I can't help but feel envy for Rose," making the buizel shock at the comment, "w-what?! You have a-" "no, I don't," Midori interrupts Fast Star.
Fast Star catches on quickly and says, "it's someone else, isn't it? My bet is on Zero."
Midori was shocked to hear that Fast Star is actually smart about this type of stuff and turns to him, "ho-" "how did I know?" This time it was his turn to interrupt, "I'm not an idiot like the others when it comes to romance," he gestures to the other male pokemon on their team.
Sighing once again, Midori says, "yes, I have no progress with Zero, and yet Rose and the others do towards Mega... he's a lucky guy."
Fast Star pats her on the shoulder, "give it time, I'm pretty sure that he'll know eventually," he actually knows what to say compare to all the other male pokemon in the team.
"Thanks, I appreciate the advice."
Zero decides to walk with the eevee this time, "so you were raised by a family of ferrets?"
Making Beauty nod to the question, "yeah, they taught me a lot about medicine, and thanks to them, I learned how to use Shadow Ball."
Zero smiles at the kind eevee, "it's a good thing you're not a pokemon-eating omnivore... otherwise you never would've met us," making Beauty blush.
"Yeah, I'm glad I met Rose... I would've resorted to eating other pokemon."
"You were desperate for food when you met Rose?" Zero questions the last part.
"Yeah, she gave me food and shelter when no one else did," she looks at the bunny girl riding the tauros for a moment, "she changed my life."
The treecko didn't know there was a strong connection between them and thinks it's the same connection between him, Mega, and Diggy. This makes his smile bigger.
They've reached the danger zone after an hour of walking: there's five tunnels from the right and four to the left, making Diggy turn towards them, "be careful, follow me and you'll be fine." He turns back and walks to the third tunnel to the left, making everyone follow him as they are aware of the danger if they don't.
As they do, Fast Star notices a shadow passing by and puts up a serious look towards where it went, "hurry up, or you'll get lost," he hears them, "alright, I'm coming," he says as he runs to catch up.
Zero was right behind Diggy, with Knolla behind Zero, Midori behind Knolla, Beauty behind Midori, and Breaker, holding Mega and Rose on his back, behind Beauty, for they're in a tight spot where one pokemon at a time can fit through a tunnel, barely big enough for the bull pokemon to fit in there.
"It's this way," Diggy whispers to everyone, echoing the words down to Breaker who nods in response, he leads them into an opening, "this would be a safe zone, but since Mega insists that'll he keeps us safe in our sleep, we'll keep moving."
Everyone can agree that Mega can keep his words and they continue to keep going down a big tunnel, "be careful not to make much noise... there are bat pokemon on the ceilings," making Breaker gulps to this warning.
As they continue to walk, they look up to see what Diggy warned... zubats, golbats, crobats, woobats, and other types of bat pokemon. They walk as softly as they could to avoid waking any of them up, especially Breaker, they could feel each other's heart rates increasing with every step, making it harder for them to do what they need to do.
Zero accidently steps on a rock, making crushing noise that echoes throughout the entire tunnel in the process, everyone sweats as they looked up to see if any of them have woken up. Much to their relief, they didn't wake up from their sleep and the group continues.
Diggy could see an opening to leave the cursed bat-filled room and gestures the others to go faster if they can... until a baby zubat wakes up in the middle of their walking and flies in in front of the scared tauros.
He screams in fear, waking up the others in the process and fly around in panic, causing the team run out of the room as fast as they can. When they reach the opening, they were running as the bat pokemon fly all over the place with Diggy still leading them to the next opening they should go to.
Luckily, the bat pokemon didn't follow them to that opening, but they still run as fast as they could, surprised that the sleeping co-ed leader hasn't woken up from all the noise, or the sudden quick in pace for that matter. They've reach an opening to rest and think is safe from whatever is in the cave.
"Al... right," Diggy begins between breaths, "wake...Mega...up."
Rose nods and shakes Mega, "wake up, time for you to look after us," she reaches a sitrus berry from Mega's bag and waves it over his nose, making him wake up immediately, "sitrus berry!" He shouts as a echo repeats his every word.
He looks at the others who are heavily breathing and sweating, "what happened to you guys?"
"Long story, best not to talk about it," Rose replies, "it's time for you to look after us while we sleep."
Mega remembers the idea and smiles at her, "ok, leave it to me."
The others falls asleep as soon as he took watch, but what they've been through is beyond him. He keeps watch around the entire openings, until he notices something strange on Breaker's tail and walks up to it. He finds it's a small zubat hanging onto his tail.
"Hey there little guy, are you lost?" He greets the tiny bat pokemon, which his instinct telling him it's female.
"No, I'd like to taste the your blood... I've never tasted a pikachu's blood before."
That just scratches his head at the reason why she wants to taste his blood, "you want to taste my blood?" He questions her, making sure he heard that right. She nods with a smile on her face in response to the question.
He lends out his left arm and looks away, "ok... make it quick," who happily complies by sinking her fangs into his arm and starts drinking his blood. The pikachu feels like he's being drained while she's doing this and makes him question how pokemon can enjoy the taste of blood.
As quickly as she shank her fangs, she withdraws them, "finish," she says.
He goes to his bag of food for a oran berry to heal the two small fang cuts.
"Thank you, that's the best-tasting blood ever," the zubat says as she flies in front of Mega, making him feel awkward about that comment.
"You're welcome... I guess," she hugs him, "please live here with me."
He feels more uncomfortable about the situation he's in, "I-I can't, I want to have an adventure of a life-time," he replies to the tiny zubat.
"But I love you!" This statement makes Mega feel much more uncomfortable about the situation he's gotten himself into.
Then an idea comes into the zubat's head, "how about I join your journey? I'll only drink a little bit of your blood everyday."
Mega doesn't like the idea of having his blood taken away from him EVERY day, "can't you eat berries?"
The zubat nods, "yeah I can, but it feels much more natural if we drink blood instead."
An idea came into his head, "you can drink a little bit of my blood every three days from now on, how about that?"
The zubat thinks about a counter, "I want to ride on your head too if we're coming to this kind of standard."
"Only if I can get space whenever I need it," he counters back.
The tiny zubat likes the standards and lands on top of his head, "deal."
Hours passed by as the two keeps watch for dangerous pokemon around. So far all they encounter are golbats and woobats, who pass by when the zubat tells them to leave. Seems to Mega they're a family of some kind and they respect the zubat's requests to leave them be.
Mega then explains everything to the tiny zubat as they kept guard for other pokemon, "ok, I understand," the zubat replies to Mega explanation.
"Now we have to come up with a name for you."
A name suddenly pops into her head, "how about 'Luna'?" She asks him, he likes the idea behind the name, "yeah, that fits you perfectly because you love to fly under the moonlight."
He looks at her on top of his head, "your name is now Luna." She smiles at her new name.
Until she hears the others stirring in their sleep, "they're about to wake up," she says and flies off Mega's head.
Everyone begins to wake up to rub their eyes, "man, that was a good nap," Zero says as he stretches his back, making everyone groan in agreement.
When they're fully awake, they hear Mega, "hi everyone, guess what?"
Everyone turn to him and see a zubat flying over his head and a smile on his face, "I made a new friend, say hello to Luna," he introduces the small zubat.
"I-it's a pleasure to m-meet you," Luna stutters nervously to her new companions.
There was a moment of awkward silence between them, until everyone else starts screaming.
"M-Mega w-why did you m-make friends with a zubat?" Diggy stutterly asks, making the confused pikachu look at him.
"What? Did I do something wrong?" He asks, concerned that he did something he shouldn't have done.
"Mega, zubats sucks blood out of pokemon," Zero states the facts, "she'll be sucking all of our blood before we know it."
Mega just laughs at that comment, "Luna will only drink a little bit of my blood every three days and she can eat berries for nutrients too."
Everyone sighs at the pikachu's interests of friends, "fine, she can join... but she can't drink anyone else's blood, got that?" Mega and Luna nod in unison to the new agreement.
Mega is asleep on top of Breaker's back while Luna is sleeping on top of Mega's head. Rose couldn't help but feel disgusted at how zubats live off blood, and she's not the only one thinking this... everyone is talking about how disgusting it is. She wonders why Mega would even consider making friends with a zubat.
She then sighs at the weird pokemon... has the madness from the training made him like this? She doesn't want that to be the answer and watches over the two sleeping pokemon... she wonders what goes through his head sometimes, she remembers that he always talks about having an adventure of a life-time... could this be part of it? Her train of thoughts changes when she sees a light at the end of the tunnel, are they finally at the exit?
Diggy smiles as he sees the light at the end of the tunnel, until something runs up in front of them, "give me some food... please."
He couldn't believe what's going on nor can he see who this pokemon is, "and why should we?" Diggy asks in a hostile manner.
Everything changes when Mega appears out of nowhere and gives the mysterious figure one of his bag of food for the request, "here you go," he says with a generous smile.
The figure quickly opens the bag and eats as many berries in there as possible, "Mega, what do you think you're doing?" Diggy yells at Mega, only to recieve a serious glare from him. This glare makes even the serious leader to have shivers down his spine.
"I know how he feels," he replies with a growl in his tone, "only my pain was longer."
After the figure finishes the food in the bag he stands back up, revealing to be a sawk, "thank you for the humble meal," he kneels and bows his head to the pikachu in gratitude, "is there anyway I can repay you?"
Mega just shake his hands in denial, "I don't need any payment from you."
This makes the sawk look at him with sparkle in his eyes, "I've never met a pokemon like you before, you are truly remarkable," he looks over at the group, "are these your traveling companion?" Mega nods, "may I join your journey then?"
Mega just shrugs, "if you want to be our friend."
This puts fire in his eyes as he takes a pose, "then I'll join your journey... my friend."
Everone sighs at their OTHER newest member... When it comes to making friends, Mega REALLY knows how to make the unexpected ones.
