I liked making this chapter. XDDD It was fun and you read I'll Be Around the Corner... Dun dun dah! XD The only bad thing was my shimejis were walking all around and made it difficult to proof read this chapter. Oh well. I hope you enjoy. It was actually funny because I started writing this and started writing chapter fourteen with the exact same things because I thougth I finished chapter thirteen(This one) and it was something else... XDDD I had to delete it all.

Chapter thirteen
Johto: Log two
White

I woke up, an hour later then I planned. It was nine in the morning. It wasn't bad but I wanted to get to Dusk Forest quickly.

I looked over to see a sad Lyra, looking down at a note.

"What's up, Lyra?" I asked. She handed me the note.

"Read it out loud..." she hesitantly said while I examined the writing.

"Dear Lyra and friends who I didn't have the time to learn your names... Sorry I'm not there, I had to get out of there quickly. Now the thing taped on here is actually an artifact that you're looking for, the one in Johto, not the forest. Actually, I would have stayed longer but I don't get along with that stupid little boy." I paused as Ethan tried to rip apart the letter. I continued reading. "You might be wondering why I have that artifact though. Truth is, I was going to collect them to go back in the past so I'd know when you were going to be sucked into the future. This artifact is the artifact of sound. Either way, happy I got to see you again and I hope I'll see you soon in the past. Ps, I told one of my friends that guards Dusk Forest that you were stopping by. Good luck, Silver." I finished the note. It sort of surprised me to see that Silver had one of the artifacts. What if others started stealing them too? We wouldn't know how to find them.

Artifact of sound, obtained. Number eleven.

"White, if we're going to Dusk Forest, we better get going." N said, putting his hands on my shoulders. I almost pressed the back of his neck again.

"Let's go. Just stop touching me." I said, trying to hold in my annoyance and anger. "Lyra, are you going to be okay?" I made sure to ask before we left. Lyra slowly nodded as Mia helped Black stand up and walk to where we were.

"He's always done jerkish things like this so... It's not the first." she replied. I felt bad about it. We'd soon be home anyways so at least she'd see him then.

"Well let's continue and get home quickly. Where's Red?" I asked Ethan. I then felt someone poking my shoulder, making me jump. Of course, it was Red. "Don't scare me like that, Red." I said, a bit embarrassed.

"Come on..." he silently said. I nodded.

A little farther in our travel, I saw a small entrance. Trees bent in like a cave entrance, as well as a young man stood in the way of the opening.

"Is one of you Lyra?" he asked. I pulled Lyra from behind me. I supposed this was Silver's friend he mentioned. Lyra's eyes shone though. Did she know this guy too?

"Ethan, look!" she yelled, running up and hugging the man. He hugged her back.

"Ian? Is that really little Ian?" Ethan blinked in surprise.

"I take it you know him too?" I asked Ethan. Ethan nodded.

"This is Ian. He lived in a small house where Lyra and I grew up. He hasn't changed in looks, I gotta say." Ethan scratched the back of his head.

"Nice to meet all of you." Ian said, even though none of us introduced ourselves. He then took something out of his bag and handed one to each of us. "If you're going into the forest, you'll need these. They're masks. There are a lot of toxins in the forest and when you see purple, sparkling dust flying through the air, put these on." he explained.

"Thanks, Ian." Mia said, stepping up.

"I can't say much about the forest because I haven't been in there for a long time before but I know you have to be careful, okay Lyra?" Ian made sure to tell Lyra. He must have been close to her before Lyra was sucked into the vortex. She nodded.

"Don't worry about me, Ian. I'll be home in a bit, okay?" she asked back.

A small goodbye and we made it in the forest. Black tied his mask around his neck so it would be easier to access when pokemon released spores, Mia copying him. Ethan and Lyra were too busy admiring the pokemon around them to care about the masks at the moment. Red was... I don't know what Red was doing... Just being himself... I guess. N was being like Lyra and Ethan but admiring the scenery instead.

He picked a small, white flower and brought it to my face.

"For you, princess." N stated. I took the flower and smiled sweetly but because he called me princess, he passed one of my few agitation lines. I twisted his arm and pulled him down. He made a funny noise of pain while he fell. "I take it you didn't like that flower, huh?" he asked. I placed the flower in my hair.

"The flower's fine, it's you." I said, turning my back towards him.

"Come on, White." Black said to me. "Give him a break."

"Whatever, let's keep..." I stopped, my foot hitting something. I looked down and it was a rock with some unknown scriptures. "Mia, can you read these, please?" I asked Mia. She nodded and looked down at them.

It took a minute for her to translate the whole message, mumbling the words.

"You are fortunate to find this message... The dead didn't look and survivor rate has lessened... There must me many things to defend... Your time in this forest will end..." Mia finished reading. "So basically it means there are few survivors and... Maybe because of spores, the people that made this would think travellers wouldn't survive because of the toxins." she finished her thoughts. I nodded.

"Yeah..." I said, thinking a bit more. I got my mask ready, just in case.

We walked a little farther but Red stopped me.

"What's up, Red?" I asked, stopping. He pointed to the side, deeper in the forest. There were shaped bushes all around there. "Bushes?" I asked. Mia looked over.

"But they're shaped as Unknown!" Mia exclaimed, reading them. I examined them closer. They were... They would be harder to read because the bushes were overgrown but we had to know to get into the core of the forest.

"The..." she stuttered, looking closer. "The toxins are harsh and dry, it's time for you to die..." Mia finished and looked surprised. I felt a bit odd too, the sentence sounded off... I then heard a faint yelling coming from the direction we just came from.

"Everyone, put on your..."

Everything went silent. Everyone was coughing and suffering, gathering their masks but when I blinked my eyes... They were smiling, at peace.

Somehow Ian was here and was talking to Lyra, how his life went without her. Ethan was jealously watching from the side. Mia was using the flowers around to make chains, trying to teach Black how to do it without breaking the stems of the flowers. Red was actually being amused by the sight of Black failing. N was moping around... I wondered what was up with him...

Then, a bright light shone behind me. No one seemed to notice... I decided to go towards it. The light led me to a hole... Was it safe? I looked down it. It was deep, dark, but had stairs going down. Was this the core of the forest?

I looked around before going down it. The hole led me deeper into the ground. The deeper I got, the colder it got. Well I was going underground. Everything was so silent though. I couldn't even hear the sounds of my own footsteps. It was as if I was dreaming... Nothing about it seemed real but it... I felt something... Some kind of adrenaline.

Finally... The bottom... And there it was. A small shrine. It was illuminated from the inside. How did they make the small temple so far underground? Either way, I went in. The artifact would be in there.

The shrine was small and stuffy. It had an odd feel to it. Each step I took in the shrine made me feel uneasy though. What were the others doing, I wondered. The thing that stood out so much though... The artifact.

It shone brightly, making everything about me go numb. I reached out for it, making it our twelfth artifact.

Artifact of memory obtained. Number twelve.

Knowledge started flowing in my head but something made me confused. A memory of N and I, it seemed... I was in that castle again but the throne room's wall was caved in. N was saying goodbye to me, promising he'd be back. I... Was crying.

That faded and brought me to another vision. I was drowning in a fast current under a storm. Possible, I couldn't swim. But then... Someone scooped me up on the bottom of the deep river and swam me up to the surface... It was N again...

The last thing I saw was N with some blonde girl. It made me cringe for some reason.

These memories... I had never encountered them but they seemed so dear as if I had. It was like I knew what happened then and how they came to be... Searching for N... Him saving me... Him cheating on me...

I snapped out of my daze, my eyes opened up to see N holding my hand, a painful look on his face.

I looked down, nothing there. I screamed.

"White, calm down and step on the edge." N said, not enough strength to do so himself. I quickly did as he said, jumping onto the cliff where he was standing. How did I end up here? I was in the shrine... Wasn't I?

"So I inhaled some of the toxins?" I asked Ian, confused. I felt fine... Ian nodded.

"Yeah. We all did but for some reason, something must have happened to make you have hallucinations." he said. I looked at everyone with their worried faces for me. Ian, Lyra, Ethan, Red, Black, Mia... Wait...

"Where'd N go?" I asked. Ethan pointed behind him. I peered over. N was in a small ball, peacefully sleeping.

"N inhaled the most poison, helping everyone else put on their masks." Mia said. "Mine broke and he gave me his, then noticed you were gone... He went without a mask until the poison quit..." she added, guilt in her voice.

I walked over and put my vest overtop of him. It wasn't much but... I didn't have anything better.

"White, what happened anyways? You and N haven't told us." Black asked me. I sat down beside the sleeping N and faced the others.

"I guess when I was hallucinating, I found the shrine we're looking for which held the artifact... When I snapped out of it, N was holding my hand, keeping me from falling off of a cliff." I explained. "I guess I was subconsciously walking and didn't realise I was in a death situation."

"Well the toxins do many things to people's minds, so I'm not surprised." Ian said, taking my arm and spraying it with an antidote. I guess there was still a patch of purple on my arm. The toxins seemed to be inhaled and spread throughout the body, changing your skin color and close off functions in the body.

"Thanks again, N..." I said silently, brushing some of N's long green hair out of his face. He smiled in his sleep, the smile of a young innocent child being praised.

It warmed my heart as I opened up to a completely different side of him...

That's what I meant about White and N and I'll Be Around the Corner. Actually, that will happen a lot, just so you know. If you want, you could say this is all before I'll Be Around the Corner. I', not sure yet. Maybe... Dunno... Anyways, I hope you enjoyed~

Thanks for reading~