Me: The time has come at last! Spring, you ready?

Spring: Not really...

Me: Great! Disclaimer!

Spring: PokeSpencerMan...doesn't own Pokemon...

Chapter 4: Spring the Snivy

I don't know what it was that made me raise my hand. Perhaps it was that I wanted to get back at that monster Pokemon who destroyed my new home. But I've only lived here for two days. Was it that I wanted to help my new friends? Probably, but I've only just met them. To be honest, I've no clue.

"Hey Spring," I snap out of my trance. Zach is watching me with a small bag slung across his shoulder. "You seem distent. Is everything alright?" Every part of me wants to scream.

"NO! Of course not!" But that's not what I say. Instead I nod emotionlessly. Zach smiles at me happily.

"Good. Sparky and Blazer are by the stream. You all set?" In response, I pick up my small sack filled with food and equipment. It took a lot of convincing to get my mother to pack lightly. I'd never keep up if I had the load of clothes she tried to stuff into my bag.

"I think I have everything I need." Zach smiles again as a signal to get going. I pick myself up off Zach's chair. He opens the door and I follow him down the ladder. I take one more look at Zach's treehouse. I notice how big the door is. Five feet tall at the most. I wonder why Zach would need a door that size. I shake the thought out of my head as I reach the forest floor.

"Stream's this way." Zach tells me. "You might want to hurry. Sparky and Blazer aren't known for their patience." A vision of Blazer raging flies into my head. I shiver and pick up the pace.

I stare at Zach for no apparent reason and wonder once again what I'm even doing. I slowly breath in through my nose, catching the scent of smoke.

"Smoke?!" I shout in realization. Zach is already running ahead.

"BLAZER! WHAT HAPPENED?!" I hear him shout. I rush toward the smoke and see Blazer and Sparky surrounded by flaming trees!

"I swear! It wasn't me!" Blazer shouts back at Zach who is trying to put out the fire using Hydro Pump. "Something attacked us! It used moves I'd never seen before!" I notice a shadow jumping out into the clearing. It tackles into Sparky and bounces back into the woods. Sparky lands head first into the water!

"Aggh! I don't like to swim!" He shouts. Luckily, it seems the water isn't very deep, and Sparky is fine. I suddenly feel a blast of heat hitting my back. I spin around to see flames circling me, but I only catch a glimpse as the next thing I know, everything is black.

(Zach's Point of View)

"Spring!" I shout, as I spot said Snivy falling to the ground. I pull out my scalchop and leap at the shadow. My razor shell cuts into it's arm and when I see it there's blood on the tip. I turn my attention back at the shadow. I've knocked it onto it's back. I can now recognize that the Pokemon is a Flareon. Blazer walks over with eyes that screamed death.

"You've got a whole lot of explaining to do!" He roars. The Flareon trembles. "WHY DID YOU ATTACK US!?"

"Some other Pokemon offered me a reward if I brought in a Snivy named Spring. Don't know why or who it was." I frown.

"You didn't see them?"

"I've only heard of him really. The Pokemon who offered the job said she worked for him. She was wearing a cloak that hid her face, but it was most definitely a girl." Me and Blazer shoot glances at each other.

"Um, I don't mean to alarm anybody, but Spring is kind of..,bleeding." I react quickly to Sparky's voice and turn to Spring. She is indeed bleeding.

"She needs help. We have to get to the next town. It's close." Blazer grunts, still staring daggers at Flareon.

"What do we do with this clown?" He asks, eager for payback.

"We leave him." I demand.

"WHAT!?" Blazer shrieks at the top of his lungs.

"Would you rather Spring die?" I ask, carefully pulling my friend upwards. It's not a question.

"Fine." Blazer reluctantly grumbles. "Listen. If you dare come and attack us again, I'll have no problem ripping you to pieces!" I start running to the next town with Spring in my arms. Blazer and Sparky are close behind.

Me: Oh...my...Arceus. I DID IT! I wrote another chapter! Review!