Hey guys, sorry for the slow updates. I mean, I had fiftey exams. XDDD No, not fiftey, but a lot. Plus geography projects and whatnot kept me busy. So to make it up to you, I put an extra part in here that wasn't there before(After the second line thingy). So this chapter is part two of chapter eight and is much longer. XD Well not by much, four hundred words, but still. X3 So the title One, Two, Three, actually comes from the pokemon in this chapter so... They're mentioned a lot more, too. And why is there a _ _? I'll explain that in a bit.

Chapter eight
One, Two, Three: Part two
White

"No thanks..." I said to salesmen around the area. Everyone was trying to sell something, it seemed. I looked at my watch. It was four. One hour before I needed to go to the cafe.

Looking around, everything was so different... I was basically one hundred years from the past so it wasn't a surprise that there were a lot of changes but... Sometimes I wondered... What ever happened to Bianca and Cheren? And even Skyler? Once we go back home, it will be like nothing happened but... Because we weren't there, how did it go for them? I wanted to know so much but it wasn't like I could to and ask them. They were dead in this time...

"I'm probably going to forget everything so I better call Black to tell him what I know. He has the better memory," I said, reaching into my bag to bring out the communication device, my Xtransceiver. Oh... Where was it? I stopped in my tracks to look more efficiently. No, it wasn't in my bag and it wasn't like Keith, May, or N would have taken it. "I must have dropped it..." I looked around the area. I had it before we got in the town, I must have dropped it maybe when we were on the hill because I don't remember hearing my normal beep coming from it during the time I was here in the city.

I took another look around the area before going to the hill.

"I won't be long," I reassured myself as I walked to the large, grassy hill.

When I arrived there, it was just as we left it. It was if no one came up here. No one picked the flowers, no one stepped on the grass, no one plucked the pokemon from their homes. I looked around there but I couldn't see it at first... Then...

"Oh, there it is." I said, starting to run. It was on one of the sides of the hill. As I went there, I saw three pokemon huddled in a circle, giving me worried looks. I slowed down a bit to get a look. The pokemon were the three elemental monkey pokemon. The spray pokemon, Panpour, the grass monkey pokemon, Pansage, and high temp pokemon, Pansear. It was rare to see three of them together, as well as those pokemon in general to be in the area. No matter, I sped up again to get my Xtransceiver. Last thing I was expecting...

I felt the ground under my feet sinking, not able to keep my screams to myself. A loud shriek came from my lips when the ground fully disappeared. I grabbed onto a large root that was hidden underground. I looked over the wall of the newly formed, and seemingly deep, hole. My Xtransceiver was still there so it hadn't fallen in like me... Good, those things were expensive. But... How was I going to get out of this.

I looked down, my dangling feet scaring me. I was always afraid of heights. The worst thing about this was I was had strong will power, not strong arms. I could have held on for a little while longer but I wasn't able to pull myself solemnly, nor stay there forever.

I heard some cries from pokemon, maybe those three monkeys, but they quickly faded away. They must have fled. Well with the world suddenly disappearing under their feet, I wasn't surprised.

Maybe a half an hour passed of me trying to do something to get out of the hole. The walls were too steep with nothing to step on to get out. I fought and fought but nothing good was coming out of it. I felt my hands starting to slip. Maybe the hole wasn't that deep? Oh who was I kidding, this was a sink hole for crying out loud, I could land in water, where I couldn't swim, and drown. Either way, I was going to die. I silently smiled to myself.

"Bye you guys..." were what I thought to be my last words as the last of my grip let go.

"You're giving up now, when we need you, huh?" I heard a familiar voice as someone took my hand. I slowly opened my eyes to see N, pulling me out of the hole. When my feet felt the ground again, I basically collapsed into N's open arms. Though I was going to go peacefully, it didn't mean I was scared.

"But how did you know?" I asked, now grasping N's turtle neck sweater, it was a step up from a cracking branch. N chuckled.

"These three monkeys came and told me you were in trouble." he said. I looked at both N's and my feet, the three pokemon gathered around us. "I can talk to pokemon, you see." N explained. I was just going to ask that... But talk to pokemon, is that possible? Whatever.

"Well thanks..." I said, letting go of N and brushing the dirt off of my outfit. I hated being dirty. N's gently smile quickly turned into a smirk.

"So..." he started. I got a bit confused... What did he want? "Do I get a reward?" N childishly asked. A reward?

"What do you want?" I suspiciously asked. Before he could answer, May and Keith came along. A little bit of talking went by and we headed back to the campsite.

I sat beside N who was busy daydreaming while staring into the flickering fire.

"Thanks again." I said, petting the Pansear. The three pokemon decided to tag along with us, you see. N leaned in closer, making me blush.

"What about my reward now?" he asked. He wanted a kiss? I had to think about it for a while... I didn't like anyone, nor wanted to, and I didn't want to waste my first kiss on anyone. Sure, N wasn't just anyone but I wasn't sure if I wanted to give up my lip purity to him yet. I flicked his forehead to stop him.

"Save your breath." I smirked, slanting in the opposite direction. N laughed.

"I guess I'll get that later, huh?" he asked. Don't count on it, dude.

Maybe this guy wasn't so bad after all... Maybe we could trust him...

Maybe he was just messing with me...

So when I said _ _, I meant the sink hole If you don't know, sink holes do exist and they're pieces of land that just... Sink. By the way, if you're caught in one and you fall in, likes are you're going to fall in some water so tread in the water or go on floating objects and CALL FOR HELP. That's all I can tell you. They're rare though. So I'm going to explain to you now why there was a sink hole because it might get confusing into the story.

Because of the disappearance of the artifacts(By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this before but if I keep spelling it artefacts, it's because of the automatic spellcheck on my computer and my system locale is in Japanese so it's screwed up), it's somehow screwing up people's lives. This is because each artifact represents something. One represents peace and this one has been stolen so peace in the regions is being corrupted. One represents balance(Between pokemon and humans) and this one has been stolen too so that's getting out of whack as well(This brings in N's personality from the game, you see) and other things. So because the peace artifact was stolen, people have become more and more distant and they set booby traps around each city and village. The sink hole was one of them. So when White had thought no one was up there, she was wrong.

Anyways, thanks for reading~ And sorry for the late update again. I'll get better at updating faster.