A: "Now it's your time to choose a path, Harrison. Should we keep continuing on our way or should we take the right turn?"
H: "Hmm.. We've been walking a lot you know.. I think it would be better if we would return. The agreed half hour is probably over right now."
A: "You know, maybe you're right. lets go!"
Out of the sudden, the excitement of Bonsly changed into an incomprehensible fear. You see, after Bonsly his short nap, he again began to show excitement and with his new buddy Weavile, he walked around aswell. But now he returned into Andrew's arms to hide. Weavile too began to show some fear. He kept looking into the sky as if something fearsome would appear out of it. But this wasn't all, a lot of signs were showed in the meantime. The Pokemon that remained in this route, after the previous storm ,were all showing fear in different ways. Some wild Zigzagoon and Linoone dug up holes to hide in, a few Teddiursa, Sentret and Bidoof ran away as groups and bug Pokemon like Spinarak and Ariados covered themselves with their string shot in fear while they were hanging on several trees. Andrew and Harrison began to grow suspicious and followed Weavile as they looked at the sky. The clouds began to turn darker.
A: "Are the Pokemon afraid of the weather?"
H: "It appears to be. Maybe another storm is upcoming. Pokemon tend to feel when something bad will happen before humans."
A: "Well, lets hurry up then. Back to where we're supposed to be!"
The storm began to start. Some Whismur started crying loudly. Most of the strings the insect Pokemon made broke as a hurricane took pokemon with it.
H: "Hypno, come out!" The Hypno of Harrison came out of his pokeball.
H: "Hypno, psychic! Control the hurricane!"
With extreme difficulty, Hypno managed to control the hurricane for enough time to make the insect pokemon escape it. After, it lost the control of it and let it go. Lucky enough for everone inside the route, the hurricane began to follow its path of destruction somewhere else.
H: "Good job! Thanks Hypno. Come back, both of you." The Hypno retreated as well did the Weavile of Harrison.
H: "It's too dangerous for the Pokemon to stay outside. Aswell for us, so we need to go back now!"
A: "That won't happen. Look behind you, Harrison. The hurricane destroyed everything in our path. There's no way to go back the same way."
Harrison looked back and saw the disorder caused by the storm. Trees were literally piled up on one another to block the path. The only way they could go at this moment was to the right, as Andrew suggested before. Without speaking, they turned right. Bonsly crawled into Andrew's shirt to be save.
The route that Andrew and Harrison entered now had a disturbing look. Destroyed nature, empty territory and a menacing silence. It was just like a haunted and abondaned town, minus the buildings. But it didn't stop the travellers to continue walking.
A: "I wonder what happened to the other groups of people.. Do you think they're safe?"
H: "I don't know, it doesn't really matter, no one is really safe right now. And the worst part is, I don't even know what we're supposed to do.." Less than a minute of silence occured
H: "I mean.. I know we're supposed to look for some source of all of this. But where? Where are we supposed to find something? We know nothing about these occuring events. The only thing we can do is just walk around, lost, like we are doing now. And it frustrates me, even though we're just lost for a few minutes."
Harrison let out deep sigh. Andrew knew what he meant and he began to think about the situation as it was, just like Harrison did.
Almost two hours later, the route did not yet seem to stop somewhere. The travellers decided to take a rest. Bonsly already crawled out of Andrew's shirt. Another disaster on their path seemed to be unrealistic. The sun even began to show. And the pessimistic mood began to disappear slowly. Both Andrew and Harrison were still thinking the same thing as before. But now they enjoyed the weather, not knowing when it would turn around again.
H: "Weavile, you can come out now!"
Weavile and Bonsly began playing with eachother. Andrew opened his backpack to grab some food after the growling of his stomach got noticed by everyone. He also grabbed the bottle of Bonsly and prepared some food for him. His dad showed him how to prepare food, suited for Bonsly. Andrew slightly began to miss his dad. Something he never felt in his life.
His dad was always around, so there was never a possibility to miss him. And after his mom died, his dad began to get on his nerves. Andrew began to get irritated over the simplest things. He just never had the time to get over his mom's death. He rememberes the expedition his mom went on clearly. Live without his mom was not so hard at first. Life just went on, a bit different than usual, but still no trouble from his side. She would come back from the expedition and everything would be as usual. Then it happened, his mom finally came back, but not unharmed. She was very sick and days after her arrival, she passed away.
A vague flashback starts in Andrew's mind. His mother is shown, laying in her bed. Utterly miserable and gravely ill as she was, she tried to light up the mood when her son stood in front of her. But on her last even she began to lose the will to light up the mood. He forgot the last thing his mother said to him. She whispered something vague in his ear and at the time he could understand half of it. She could barely talk on her last day alive, shivering and stuttering after every word she pronounced.
H: "Andrew? Are you still there?" Harrison noticed that Andrew was in his own little world. After no response, he decided to leave him be. In the meantime, Harrison began to think again about the situation they were in.
If Andrew had as much food in his backback as himself, they could survive for a week if they spared enough, Harrison thought to himself. It would take a day at the very most to arrive in another city. They will need to find shelter for when the night appears before they arrive. Not just a shelter, that would be too dangerous. A solid shelter, which they probably don't have at the moment. A moment of fear creeped in his mind again as Andrew woke up out of his daydream.
A: Yo Harrison, I think it's time to get up and start walking again, don't you think?
H: Yeah, lets go!
In just less than an hour, they finally arrived in a small town. The town itself didn't interest Andrew and Harrison. They just went to the Pokemon center. It began to get dark and after talking to the nurse, they were allowed to sleep in a room located inside the center. Harrison let his fear go. They finally found a safe town, a place to spend the night and there was no way this night could end bad. Andrew and Harrison went to their room after a small meal and talked the whole night until they fell asleep. Tired from today, Andrew and Harrison began dreaming. Mostly dreaming of tomorrow, and hoping it would not again be a miserable morning as the one before.
Just stating that Harrison is the same Harrison that battled Ash in the Johto Silver Conference with his Blaziken. It will be stated in the story itself as the story continues.
Also, again sorry for the late publishing, I just can't help it. Hope you guys still read the story. I'm working on chapter 5, maybe it'll be published in a week from now.
And ofcourse, suggestions and all are welcome.
