?'S POV

The memories rushed back to my mind from a few years before in the morning autumn breeze. The place was as plain and crummy as ever. I recalled rushing in and eliminating the enemy I was sent to destroy. I sat down on the mossy terrain and starred at my new yapping partner. He was staring at an object of his own, and it was the old den. His furry face was cute, but disturbing at the same time, or at least to me.

"Hey boss?" the little lillipup yapped when he flipped around to face me. Falcon looked as if he was going to charge right into the place and rip everything apart. His face was an anxious gold mine and I could tell he couldn't control that thing he called a tail.

"What dogs breathe?" I harshly asked, still getting used to the partner arrangement.

"So how do we do this? Do we just charge right in unexpectedly, or do we sneak up and catch them off guard with the element of surprise?"

"Dude, we can't just attack right now, we have to see if they are home, or if someone else is in that floating log cabin. Then we will unravel the plot to get them. The most part is probably that the target will be in there sleeping and we just nab him in a potato sack or something," I explained. I beckoned at him, and we crept up to abandoned bibarel den to spot if anything was out of the ordinary.

I tried to peek through a gap in the cabin, but the only gap that showed anything was too far away for me to be able to look through with my brown eyes. My brown, silky fur started to stick up in worry. If we couldn't see what was happening without being spotted, it would be like us falling off a mountain in an avalanche. Now I wouldn't get my rank upgraded to Leading Veteran, and the most precious prize of them all…

My face filled with envy, but coming back to earth, I recalled the situation we were in, and worry swiped over my face once more. I then was struck with a lightning bolt and an idea raised my hope. I would lift Falcon on my shoulders and he would just describe to me what was happening.

I explained the idea to Falcon, and we agreed. I lifted the rascal on my fluffy shoulders and he peered through the logs. I waited for a response.

"Uh… boss-"

"Shh! Keep it down or they will hear you!" I screamed in a whisper.

"We don't have to, no one is in there, and also there is nothing in there." I nearly gasped at his statement. I ran through the opening that led inside, making Falcon lose balance and fall to the floor. I could hardly care, because something worse was happening.

It was vacant. I was positive it was the place, but it appeared everything was packed up and taken somewhere else. I had to track them down, or else the consequences will follow.

"Falcon, immediate scent search and give an evaluation report, stat!" I demanded. His nose scouted the surrounding area, and then he dashed back to my side to give the report.

"There are traces of two shiny snivys, one that is a male and was six years, two months, eighteen days, nine hours, forty-two minutes, fifty-two seconds, and .6539 Nano seconds old from last time the first shiny snivy was here." Man, talk about precise for Falcon with that scrawny nose.

"The second was also a male and was zero years, zero months, two days, nine hours, fifty-four seconds, and .4387 Nano seconds old from the last time it was here, and a small scent of Oran berries." That snivy sounded like a youngling (and a messy one have at it); so that meant it that he would be easier to assassin.

"They packed some berries in a little carrying case and left in… the south-east direction. They are either heading toward Eterna city, Veilstone City, or the caves in between. They are traveling together in the directions, and so far, they are about in the area of where all those combee live." I was amazed by the pup's outstanding ability.

"Really, you can tell exactly how both snivy's left, when they left, their gender, what they left with, a small trace of berries on one, and around the area where they are at right now, but not where exactly where they are heading to or there precise location?" I asked, partly impressed but a bit angry.

"Duh, you think I know EVERYTHING from a small whiff around the place?" he countered. I raised my splayed paw, and smacked the hound on the head. He whimpered a bit, but he settled down, than hollered,

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" I replied by snickering,

"Because you are so full of yourself, now hurry up and follow their scent, and maybe we'll be able to find them." Falcon ignored the throbbing pain on his head and immediately ran out of the worn down piece of trash. I followed him, and he howled as soon as I exited. He dashed away into the forest, and I ran after him.

Shadow's POV

I could smell a faint trace of honey in the air, so that must have meant we were close to a honey tree or some combee, or maybe both. The forest was getting less humid and more trees started to vanish. The forest was coming to an end and soon we would end up in Eterna city. We passed by an old mansion and were then standing ground on a dirt path. I could see light both ways, but I didn't know which way to go since I never had traveled into the city before.

"This way! This way!" Zeke yapped, understanding Pokémon language a little better over the last day or two. Zeke ran to the right, and he tripped a bunch of times, but soon he was out of sight.

I let him go in his own direction. I knew that he would be okay in the forest; he was born to live in the forest. I heard many weak thud sounds and faint squeals, and finally the noises stopped. Out of sight, out of mind, and I instantly went back to looking for a way to go.

There were three ways. One was to the right; the way Zeke went. The second one was to the left; where I could hear the sound of water splashing against something. The last way was straight ahead; where I could see a lot of people, trees, and tall grass. The water way seemed to have some people, but the path straight ahead had a lot of people as well. I couldn't tell where to go; if I went the wrong way, it would take forever to get to the plane, and I might miss it.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLP !" I heard the grass snake scream, his voice high pitched like a normal baby Pokémon's would be. It came from the eastern area, where he ran off. I felt my body overflow with guilt, and I felt ashamed. I should have known better than to let a two-day old snivy wander off in the forest knowing about nothing to survive. I let my hatred for my weak fear of cuteness and baby Pokémon get wiped out of my mind. I never felt that way before for something, or someone. Uncontrollably, my feet skidded toward Zeke rapidly. That never happened to me either. I soon was able to stop my feet and control my whole body again, but that had to happen when I saw a really bad thing.

There was a hornet of combee surrounding Zeke. He was glued to a large tree trunk with sticky honey. He was about to cry again, I could tell, but before I let him get hit with another attack, anger filled my body. All I saw was red, and I couldn't control anything. I felt my puny grass fingers clench up into a fist and my eyes narrow.

I launched a twister of leaves toward the hive of combee. The weird thing about my leaf tornado was that my unusual color also changed the color of the leaves into a rusty black instead of a light green. The different color didn't really change anything in a battle compared to a regular leaf tornado, but usually it confuses the enemies. The sludgy twister quickly covered ground and dozens of combee were too confused at the color of the leaves to see it coming, and many of them were sucked in, than thrown out. They were flung against the trees and other stuff in the humid terrain and they all collapsed to the ground. Some of them had lain there, fainted, but then most of them slowly flapped their tiny bee wings and they were back up once more.

It was probably my low level and how weak grass types were against bug types why most of them weren't down yet. My reptilian skin started to boil, and I knew I had a chance to attack while some where still distracted. I felt my arm tense, and I pounced at one of the combee with my shadow claw at an alarming speed that even puzzled me during the process. The combee flew down, making me almost get my sharp claws stuck in a pine tree, and then the combee flew close to Zeke.

I saw he was horrified. I realized what I was doing, and tried to control my actions. I finally was able to control the unexplainable rage inside of me, and my vision was clear, my muscles were all relaxed, and even I was horrified at my own actions. What had taken over me, and why did I have those feelings for Zeke. I starred at the combee edging closer to him, and his horrified expression was gone and he seemed to be relaxed. I was worried, but I didn't tense up and was some reason paralyzed in the spot and had to watch. The combee was using bug bite, but not on Zeke. It was tearing off all the honey that trapped Zeke, so that combee was probably trying to help us, but all the others weren't. Maybe she wasn't-

BAM!

A stinging pain snapped onto my dusk-colored tail. I twisted around to see a combee sinking his sharp fangs of a bug bite into my tail. I quickly reacted by jabbing the enemy with a close-range shadow claw. He had been slashed hard, and thrown backward into its fainted status. Immediately I toppled over and fell to the dark grass floor, cringing in pain. I could feel my tail slowly freeze, letting me know that blood was leaking out. I knew that it was my mistake to watch Zeke and that bee thing instead of protecting my own body. My eyes didn't fill with anger, but I just stood there and cringed; I wanted to move, but I couldn't. It was a bit funny; that reminded me of what happened to my tail when I first arrived here, it was in a broken.

All beady eyes of the furious combee were all staring at me. What did Zeke do to anger these angry bees? Were they just angry for Zeke intruding in their territory or did something else happen? There was no way to know during that situation, and I couldn't think with my eyelids growing heavy. Combees' wings were flapping furiously, aiming at me, ready to finish me off. I could even spot one familiar combee; the one that was spitting honey at my den a few nights ago; and he looked angrier than all the others. I closed my eyes, ready to endure the pain, and let them finish me.

I heard a whipping noise, and honey spitting, but I felt only the intense heat of the battle and the settle wind of the forest. I was able to open my eyes, and saw Zeke and that good combee fighting side-by-side. They were able to become friends in that short period of time was my guess. Zeke was using vine whip weakly on a few combee, and the good combee was using there alluring honey against themselves, and she spat it at the enemies wings. I was astounded that Zeke knew how to battle and was able to learn vine whip. A few combees fainted and most of them fell to the ground, covered in the good combee's honey. I was revived from flinching, and used cross poison on a few of the honey covered combees' and most of them have been defeated easily. I couldn't believe that I was fighting along with a baby and a stranger, but I knew I had to accept what I was doing. I used my darkened leaf tornado on a strong combee, and I shivered at the pain in my bleeding tail as more blood leaked out as time passed by. I collapsed to the ground from a sharp pain in my tail, but I climbed back up and kept fighting for the better.

"Hey little combee, you better get out of here before things get ugly!" I screamed at that one combee, right in the middle of me shadow clawing one of the annoying combees.

"And let you have all the fun, no way, I won't even be able to get out of here without being attacked. Plus, just call me Emily," she yelled back in response while she protected herself by making one combee fall to the dust from her sticky honey.

"Suits yourself, but don't say that I didn't warn you," I cautioned. I kept attacking with varies of attacks while I felt my tail losing more blood, and my head grow light. Zeke rested behind me and I tried to buy some resting time for him. Emily than had to take a break as well, but I knew I couldn't go much longer. Many combees fainted and a few combees dragged away some fainted ones from the battlefield, but more just came out of nowhere. I was weak, and was limited to only using close-rage attacks. I tried to surprise one with iron tail, but when I threw myself at a commander combee, the move failed, and I ended up just slapping the three headed bee, making his eye twitch, and sending a sharp pain in my spine. He used bug bite on my right arm, and I instantly was flung back in between the two resting Pokémon. I couldn't feel my arm, my tail was definitely broken, and I couldn't move or attack, helplessly lying on the mossy floor.

I felt really light headed and I felt warm, trickling blood bleed out of my arm. I could see the worried looks on the two Pokémon turn blurry, and then I passed out.

Zeke's POV

I could hardly tell what was going on. My head spinned and the world came to a still. My father that took care of me; that unique colored snivy that looked just like me, has passed out. I didn't know what to do, but hopefully Emily and I will fight side by side and make it through this situation. Even though I was only a few days old, I already knew I was thinking like a full-grown snivy. I also knew that my only two moves, vine whip and tackle, would have to work out and help me in this situation.

"Emily, take care of my father, I'll take this from here," I explained, still stuck with my little kiddy voice. I saw her triple face gasp, and then she nodded sorrowfully and shoved the snivy who I called my father and her into a bush that had a small opening on the inside. I felt my arms and legs quiver, but I managed to edge my way toward the honey bees and took a deep breath. I swallowed hard and I knew this plan had to work; compromising.

"Look, I'm here in peace, I don't mean to hurt you," I tried to negotiate, but there angry buzzes grew in sound.

"We don't listen to your deceiving lies, you attacked us and you call that peaceful?!" the commander combee countered. I felt an icy chill crawl up my spine, and I kept talking.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, I was just trying to get out of this forest, but when I accidently tripped and crush one of you, I didn't know what else to do but fight." I recalled the fond memory of when I was skipping along and didn't see that pebble, and tripped and fell on a combee that was practicing something about flying close to the ground, and partly crushed him.

"LIES! I will not forgive you for your meddling ways, and our queen will surely fall into a buzzing tantrum of your mockery!" I could hardly understand what that annoying combee was saying, but I took a step back in intimidation. It wasn't working, but I knew if I didn't persuade them…

"ATTACK, ATTACK FOR THE QUEEN!" the commander yelled, and immediately, they all swarmed out and used an overpowering super gust. I ran away, but they were too fast. Their gust pulled me in and swished me around, and no later did the bush Emily and my father were hiding in were ripped out of the ground. We were all flung out, and soon all of us and the dead bush was flung into a pile of old honey. It shined like amber, but when we landed, it didn't seem so pretty any more. I couldn't move, and I could barely inch my way out of the current position; my tail stuck high in the air, bending my tail bone, than one of them grabbed the bag of berries that me and my dad gathered yesterday, and flew away with it; what a waste of time yesterday.

My father barely had just become conscious. His eyes were weary and Emily was just the same. My dad had a huge bloody mark carved into his arm and tail as blood stained her furless skin. Around the revolting wounds was puss with deep bite marks. It seemed like he was really hurt from it, and I knew I was too young to see this violence. I wanted to puke, but I kept my lunch where it should stay, and struggled to get out. Buzzing grew closer as I knew the combees were surrounding are area. My father immediately snapped awake, but Emily still lied in a trance, unaware of the enemies.

"Zeke, Zeke are you okay, or hurt at all?" Dad asked, worried.

"I'm okay Dad, I'm just fine," I reassured.

"Okay, first of all, I will figure a way out of this, and save your friend too. Second of all, DON'T call me your father, I am not! My name is Shadow!" I couldn't believe he was talking about how I wasn't his son when I was on the verge of crying. I never felt that depressed and frightened ever in my short life, well, besides the bee attack. Shadow was confusing to say he wasn't my father, but that wasn't the time to talk about it; Shadow and I had to get out and make it to the city.

My heart beat rapidly grew and I felt the sweat edge down my neck. Shadow tried to spring out of the honey, and so did I, but I barely moved and Shadow was able to move just a little more than me.

Shadow's POV

I was alarmed at how sticky this enormous amount of honey was. When I tried to get out, I actually sank a little more. It was just like quicksand that only sucks you in if you move. If there was only a fire or ice type, then it could melt or freeze the honey… or something like that.

Emily seemed to be more alert than what she was a minute ago. She was chewing the honey and flapping her wings, but here wings were paralyzed in the honey and her chewing didn't help much. Then, I was struck like a lightning bolt with a brilliant idea, and my tail was sticking out, so it was perfect.

"Hey honey breath, I bet you can't finish what you started, I know I can defeat you all even though I'm stuck in this golden blob!" I taunted. I didn't know much about combee, but one thing I did know was that they had a low temper. I could already hear there angry buzzes getting louder.

"How could you do that lizard tongue?" the commander combee insulted, but I gave him an evil glare.

"Try me," I teased. They buzzed so loud, it was deafening. They flew towards us, and directly at me. They were doing exactly what I thought they would do. My tail wiggled, and it showed a sliver glow with a rock hard exterior. I used my silver tail by stabbing it painfully into the dirt, and I ignored the terrible torture from the wound. I waited till they were only feet away; then I used my iron tail to rip myself out of the honey, and few of the combee flew right into the sticky prison, unable to stop at their outstanding speed and out of range to attack the kids. I tried not to fall down from the agonizing pain in my tail as the wound was filled with soil, and I partly flinched for a second, but was able to withstand it. Most of the combee were able to dodge my trap, and I used cross poison the second after I was able to withdraw from a temporary paralysis, and most of them dodged my attack by flying up and down, but a few were too slow and they were struck with a shocking amount of poison, and fell to the ground, lifeless.

I tried to use cross poison once more, but all were too far for my attack to hit them. I then tried my leaf tornado, but all of the bees flew high into the tree tops, and my tornado of black leaves was countered with a power gem; causing a small explosion and disintegrating my leaf tornado into dust. That was weird, since combee didn't know how to learn power gem. I attempted to peer into the treetops where they were hidden, and suddenly a huge bee came out, and it was definitely not a combee. It had only one face unlike all the other combees, and was about three times as tall. It had a set of arms with two orange claws on each hand with a gem on its forehead. It had two wings on each side of its body (a total of four wings) and it looked like it had a bunch of the combee attached to the bottom of it. It must have been some kind of queen… ha; it was the hive of combee's queen! I recalled that a combee's queen was called a Vespiquen, and this bug was pretty ugly for a queen.

"How DARE you attack my warriors! I will now seize this opportunity to bury you in the dust after how I was forced to come out of my honey palace to slay a tiny twig and his pathetic posy!" I could hardly understand the Vespiquen with that impressive vocabulary and an England accent. The only words I understood was 'attack, kingdom, slay, tiny twig, and posy'. I knew that even if I used my strong attacks like leaf tornado, cross poison, iron tail, or shadow claw; I knew more about Vespiquens than about combees. Vespiquens had the power to use other combees to their advantage with three strong moves.

If I attack nonstop, she would use heal order; a move forces combee to do something that heals her. If I was about to use a very strong attack, she would use defend order; a move that forces combees to do something that raises her defense, and after she is hit, she would use heal order to restore her health. And last, if she was about to attack, she would use attack order; a move that forces combee to attack someone and lower the opponent, also known as me.

There was only one move I knew about that could at least slow her down. It was frenzy plant, but I could only learn that by being a Serperior and by being taught by a human tutor.

"NOW YOU WILL HEAVE MY WRATH OF A THOUSAND COMBEES AND FOREVER LIE IN THE SHADOWS OF SORROW!" the Vespiquen hollered through the calm and still forest, making starly in some nearby willow trees fly away. I could understand the entire sentence of the angry hornet that time, and knew if I didn't try something, Emily, Zeke, and I would, 'heave her wrath'. I was scared that I might get killed with whatever from that hornet, and I couldn't help but panic. I searched for a hiding spot, but none was good enough, and the Vespiquen would see me run and hide. I thought about it, but than a thick cloud of gas rushed into the room.

The clear air suddenly transformed into a foggy monstrosity. I heard coughing from Zeke, Emily, all the combees, Vespiquen, and even myself. I attempted to find a good place for cover, but I couldn't see a thing. I also couldn't leave Zeke and Emily wide in the open. Somehow, I saw a shimmer of light reflected off what I assumed was that honey glob, and I headed towards it with my broken tail dragging through the dirt.

I found Zeke and Emily on the sides of the honey trap. It would be easy to yank them out, but if I try that, after they were out, the smoke would have cleared up by then, and I didn't have the willpower to find out who caused that smoke cloud in the first place. I couldn't help but panic once more. Finally... there was a battle that would test my strengths and risk lives, but I wouldn't even be able to make it out with everybody still in one piece…

BOOM!

A gigantic explosion came from somewhere within the smoke cloud. I wanted to check it out; see what it was, but it was too dangerous for these pestering kids. I had no other choice but to yank them out. I tried, one of my arms burning with pain, but they were wedged in, and the few combees that were stuck in the honey from my trap were making it even harder to get close to them. The only ways to get them free rushed back into my mind.

Have some Pokémon burn it and somehow melt the honey.

Have some Pokémon freeze it and let it break.

I knew I had no other choice, and I couldn't waste any more time, so I left Zeke and Emily and headed toward the explosion.

I tripped over my broken tail a number of times, but I wouldn't stop. Suddenly I saw a blast of fire shoot out, very close to my face. I quickly jumped back, and tripped on my lagging tail and fell down. The fire was overpowering, and my tail hanged just below it, and I felt my ragged tail being roasted. Finally it stopped after about a few seconds, but it felt so long. Then I startingly remembered what happened when fire and flammable gas meets; explosions.

A line of blasts came from where the flamethrower appeared, from my right. I couldn't help but flinch, unable to move. The explosion blasted my ears and made me partly deaf for a second when I was blown back. I fell hard on my damaged tail, and immediately it burned like hot summer asphalt. I jumped up like I just sat on a cactus, so I checked out my worn out tail, and it was scorched. I wasn't on fire or had a burnt status; I just had a rough burnt mark. I didn't know if it was from the flamethrower cooking my tail alive or the super blast caused from the smoke, or it could have been both, but it was powerful.

I could hardly move from the blast. I saw more beams of fire, and seconds later soon I saw pillars of fire too, fire spin. Then I saw a beam of ice. What in the world could be causing fire AND ice? I didn't want to find out, so I made a run for it. I picked up my lagging tail, all slashed, broken, burnt, and bruised, and began to carry it; so I wouldn't keep tripping the whole time. I ran back the way I came, but I didn't find the honey that the kids were stuck in. I kept dashing away, searching for the little creatures. I could feel my deficient arm bleed out more while I ran in the somber fog, and a hoarse cough broke out, making my neck sore. Then, while my hacking cough was settling down, I finally ran out of the smoke. It was clearing up, and I saw the kids, coughing and still in the honey, but the smoke cloud was so small now that it wasn't surrounding them anymore. Beams of fire and ice shot out of the smoke that still remained, and soon explosions had followed.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, a huge blast of ice shot out of the small amount of murky, foul smoke. It shot straight toward Zeke and Emily. For some reason, I was majorly worried. That feeling was happening all day, but I didn't know why. I didn't feel like I even liked Zeke, and I didn't think I would admire a stranger, but I had this revolting urge to protect them. I dashed over to them, accidently dropping my marred tail, and ignoring the pain, I ran on. I was almost there, and everything was in slow motion to me. I jumped, feeling my sore feet, damaged arm, and injured tail ache and cry out in pain, and then I fell. I lifted my head off the ground, and I found out I was too late; there was no use in jumping. I was being delusional; probably because of all the blood I lost and all the damage I felt. I was still about ten yards away, and the ice beam had hit them.

I limped over to the kids, feeling sorrowful. When I was about a few feet away, I came across some divine news. Zeke and Emily were on the edges of the honey glob, so when the ice beam shot out, it just froze the honey, and didn't even hurt a scale, well except for the poor combee that were stuck in the honey from my trap earlier, they were frozen along with the golden blob of honey. I limped towards them once more, and I felt the smooth, cold surface of the ice.

"S-S-Shadow, get me o-o-out!" Zeke demanded, probably now starting to get a cold or something.

The wounds that I had on my tail and arm were now too severe. I collapsed to the ground, still awake, but unable to move. I shivered in my state, and tried to crawl close to the honey, but my only working arm was weak from shadow claw attacks. I remained about a yard away from the kids, shaking wide in the open and I knew that when the smoke cleared up, I was a goner, and so were the kids.

The smokescreen from a stranger Pokémon in this battle finally cleared up, and what I saw was astonishing. The ground used to be a fine forest green grass with some patches of green and yellow moss, but now piles of grass had been torn out of the ground, most of it scorched and part of the grass frozen in ice, and dark colored dirt is what you mostly saw in the middle of the field. The combee and Vespiquen were bruised and burnt, and most of them were frozen in pillars of ice. Many trees had fallen to the ground, and most seemed to be covered in burnt marks. Tiny embers on the ground were too small to spread to any plant life to start a forest fire, and they went out quickly. The scene was truly gruesome.

I saw one stranger face and one familiar one. The stranger had the appearance of a canine dog, with orange and black zigzag stripes on his fur coat. His tail was a bushy white, and had the same kind of fur surrounding his paws, head, and chest. His grin had two sharp teeth sticking out and it kind of looked like he had a mask made out of fur, and I had no idea what kind of Pokémon it was.

The familiar face was a creature like a blue horse with ribbons as a tail and a purple cape. It had diamond blotches along its blue body and I could recognize this creature anywhere, it was Rainbow, the Pokémon that rescued me from being captured... again, by those scientists in Sandgem town.

"Snivy, is that you?" I heard Rainbow ask. I wish I could quickly hide behind Zeke and Emily and that honey trap, but I couldn't move. I didn't want to say that I broke my tail again after what happened last time when she visited, it would just be plain embarrassing.

"Who's Snivy? My name is Zeke, and he's Shadow," Zeke squealed. I wanted to slap him, but again, I was stuck on the ground.

"What, Shadow is your name now, I thought you said that you were shy and it didn't really match your style," she questioned, making me nervous.

I stayed silent for a while in the awkward state. "Um… no, I changed it…" I managed to say in a hoarse voice, and I coughed after I said it.

"Why?" she asked immediately, making me start to sweat. I knew that she was pretty much my only friend, and if I said about what happened in the forest, and the reason why my tail was broken a long time ago, I might lose her as a friend, and she might have not and tried to help me, and sometimes even the darkest of Pokémon and people need at least some company.

I didn't want to answer her question. I bit my tongue to take in a little more pain. I wanted to faint so I would be healed before I had to tell her, but it wasn't enough. Curse my strong stamina!

"I… uh… I'll tell you why, but first, *cough* I can't tell you with my voice like this, I need to be healed first." I pretended to cough in the middle of my sentence to make it seem more believable.

"Oh you poor thing, you seem to be as hurt as the time before when I came to fix your tail, and look at that, it is broken again." I pretended to cough after she stopped talking, and she pranced off out of my vision, letting me think she went to find some berries of something.

I started to think about what moves they were using in that smokescreen. I saw a flamethrower, so it must have been from the canine dog thing. I knew it had to be from him because from the last time I saw Rainbow, her four moves were aurora beam, blizzard, hydro pump, and somehow ice beam. Suicune's normally don't learn the move ice beam as they level up, so she must have used a TM by accident somehow, or since she was once a test subject in Sandgem town as I was, she could have been given the power from the scientists.

I wanted to talk to Emily; she seemed to come out of nowhere and is really mysterious. She didn't leave earlier when she had the chance, but I couldn't ask her why. That dog thing didn't leave with Rainbow, so he was staring at everything: Emily, Zeke, and the frozen combee in the honey. It was disturbing, but I didn't want to talk to it, than I would have to start a conversation with it, and I didn't want to talk to whatever it was till I knew what it was. I was glad that my eyelids were heavy, so I didn't have to stare at the big dog as much. Finally, breaking the silence, Rainbow pranced back in dragging a big leaf with her. On top of it was an assortment of berries and long leaves.

2 hours later…

I sat up with a full stomach in front of the buffet Rainbow and Hunter. Now knowing that Hunter was an arcanine, I felt much more reassured to talk to him. Finally fully healed and fully fed, and happy that Rainbow forgot about wanting to ask me about why I changed my name.

"I miss Emily…" Zeke said, depressed and poking at his Oran berry.

"I know you miss her, but she had to get back to her combee hive in Floroma town, and you know that is what is best for her," I explained once more, knowing that as a kid, it was hard to say goodbye to someone. I remembered that the only reason Emily stayed around was to have us help her to get home. Finally now that we were fully healed, it was time to head on the road. I knew I didn't have to explain again why we were leaving in the first place to Rainbow, since I know that she will remember that I need to get back to where I belonged.

"Come on Zeke, it's time to go," I told him, and he grabbed the berry and took a huge bite, than he scurried to my side.

"Okay, thanks again Rainbow, and especially for fixing my tail… again," I thanked, checking my tail that was wrapped up in leaves like a cast. Then I was about to gather up the bag of berries that I collected yesterday, and found it missing.

"Uh, Zeke, do you know what happened to the berries and other stuff we gathered yesterday," I questioned, looking in his direction. He seemed to be startled when I asked him, and immediately he nodded, and answered slowly,

"A few combees took it in the battle." I sighed in fustration, than knew that if we stayed another day, we would for sure miss the plane.

"It's okay, let's go." We both got up and started walking toward the direction that Rainbow and Hunter told us to go so we could get to the city. When Rainbow and Hunter were almost out of sight, I turned around, waved and said,

"Thank you for the help, and that was one impressive smokescreen attack Hunter!"

"What smokescreen attack, I thought that was from you!" Hunter yelled back, making me puzzled. Who had made that smokescreen? I thought that a fire type like arcanine could use it, but I guess I was wrong. I would have turned around and talk it out, but I had no time to waste, so I kept walking with Zeke, finally continuing our adventure. I still felt like I should have gone back to talk about that smokescreen mystery, but I knew it didn't really matter. We were safe, and that was all that matters.