Chapter 4:
It was once again, morning. The sun was shining bright. It was a hot morning, and you could tell by the actions of the pokemon. Some Spearows were hiding under trees, so they wouldn't get heated by the sun. And the Oddish were trying to protect themselves in high glass. Some wild Ponyta were trying to get as much water as they could, by a small watering hole.
But no one was burning hot as the two teenagers. Both dragging their feet just trying to get to the next town. The yellow sun seemed like it was trying to stop the two of them, and it seemed like it was working.
"This sun… why? Why is it… so hot?" Amethyst tried to say out, her voice was dry and couldn't speak.
"I really don't understand either. I think we should stop and rest." Jade suggested.
Amethyst agreed by falling on her back in the grass, "Shade. Shade. Shade." She repeated, crawling on the grass under a tree. Jade questioned at what his sister was telling herself to do. But, followed her under the tree to keep cool.
Both of them sighed as they felt the shade of the tree helping them out of the heat. Both of them did not want to move, or speak a word, just to lay there and rest. There was no wind, no noise, it was quite. Jade looked out into the field ahead of him. He saw other pokemon trying to protect themselves from the heat, he hoped they wouldn't get hurt cause of the heat.
"Swa!" A yell came out, and both of the teenagers jumped. Amethyst's eyes were wide open, "What was that?" She quickly asked out.
"I… I don't know. I think it was a pokemon or something like that." Jade responded back.
Both of them got up from resting and looked around the tree. There was nothing. Nothing was behind the tree. They looked up to see if the noise came from the tree. But nothing.
"What could've made that noise?" Amethyst asked.
"I still don't know, but I'm going to find out." He said back as he left the tree. He walked away from his sister to search where the noise came from.
"Don't go to far!" Amethyst yelled out.
Jade looked around the fields with the heating sun burning his face. This really wasn't the best time for someone to walk in the sun. Jade was starting to get tired, but he had to look for where the noise was coming from. He decided to walk near a huge cherry tree, which seemed to have a lot of shade. He knew this was the best area to rest. He reached the tree and sat down under the shade.
Behind him was a bush, which seemed to shake. Jade was curious at what the movement was, and decided to get up from the nice little shaded area to search the movement. He went to the bush, and moved the leaves to see the moving object.
Jade gasped at the sight of the movement, and ran back to his sister.
Amethyst finally fell asleep after her brother left. The cool shade aloud her to take a nice summer nap. The heated wind blew against her face as she dreamed about her passion in life. She slightly smiled as she thought she won a contest. Joyfully, she jump in her mind as she continued to dream.
"Amethyst! Amethyst! Wake up!" A loud voice came out, she awaken as she saw her brother running up to her.
She yawned as she awaken from her dream, "What?"
Jade caught up with his sister, he was out of breath, and running in the heat really got him tired.
"Come with me. I need help." Jade told his sister.
"With what? What's wrong?" Amethyst asked her brother, getting up from her nap. But, Jade was too busying turning around and running back.
'He really shouldn't run in this heat' She thought to herself as she raced after her brother.
Jade was standing near a bush, digging through the leaves. Amethyst finally got up to him and he pointed out the problem. Amethyst gasped as she saw the object.
It was a Swablu with scars all around it. It seemed to be attacked by another pokemon, or it fell from a tree. Jade slowly picked it up, not to hurt it anymore.
"What happened to it?" Amethyst asked out.
"I really don't know. I'm guessing it got hurt by something. But I don't know." He tried to answer his sister.
"Well, I think theirs only one way of helping it. We need to get it to a pokemon center." Amethyst suggested.
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea. But, where is one?" Jade asked back.
"Hmm. I really don't know. But I could check the guide book father gave us." Amethyst tried answering back while digging in her bag for the book. She grabbed the book out of the bag and she flipped through the pages.
"Come on. We really need to help this Swablu." Jade said while rushing his sister.
"Hold on. I'm still looking." Amethyst quickly said back.
Jade looked at the Swablu in his hands. He could tell that the pokemon was hurt. The cloudy white wings were filled with dirt, probably due to it fell into the bushes. A few cuts were all over its body and a few on its face. The bird was really damaged, and couldn't move. Jade slowly put his hand over the bird's body, to feel if it was still breathing. He could feel the body slowly move up and down. He was glad the bird was still breathing.
"Hey, we're not the far from Evergate City. If you think we can ran there in this heat, we'll make it in about 30 minutes." Amethyst suggested.
"Really? Well, then lets go!" Jade quickly said out. "Which way?"
Amethyst pointed north which was where the path was heading towards. They both looked at each other and ran off down the trail.
The sun was now starting to set, and the air was getting cooler. But, with all the running the teenagers were doing, their bodies were burning up.
"We… better… get there… right now." Amethyst slowly said, trying to get in a breath each time.
"I know, cause… this is too much." Jade said back still holding the Swablu in his arms.
Both of the teenagers stopped as they saw a huge hill in front of them. "The town had to have a huge hill." Amethyst quickly said out as she took in a breath.
"Swaa!" The bird pokemon quickly yelled out.
"Swablu. Are you okay?" Jade quickly asked out. The bird started to shake as it was in more damage.
"We really need to make it up this hill." Jade quickly suggested. Amethyst quickly nodded her head and they both ran up the hill.
It only took moments till they finally made it to the top of the hill. Both teenagers saw the town below, "Don't worry Swablu, we're almost there." Jade tried saying to the bird.
The bird wasn't listening as it continued to shake. The bird seemed to have a fever, and it seem to hurt the pokemon badly.
"We need to get there now Amethyst." Jade quickly said.
"I know." She said back as they quickly ran down the hill.
To Be Continued.
