Welcome to pokemon crossing pathes chapter 2
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Eric was sound asleep, he had stayed up pretty well all night in excitement of the upcoming trip, he wakes up to a pounding on the front door and his mother calling him. "Eric!, your friend is here!" She called, Eric quickly got dressed and nearly fell down the stairs, he made it to the front door. "There you are!, you were up all night weren't you!" Emma said a bit annoyed. "Yeah..." eric said embarassed. "Come on!, were going to the forest to train a little, get you some experience." Eric walked outside into the sunny yard.
"Forest?" Eric asked confused. "They call it the forest trials, its the perfect place for beginning trainers to start on there training, and trust me, miltank is going to need a lot." Emma said, Eric nodded, they began towards the road leading to the forest. "Wheres your friend?" Eric asked curiously. "My friend?" Emma asked confused. "That boy you were with when i met you, Vince was it?" Eric replied, almost forgetting his name. "Oh him!, ugh, we're not friends, that kid annoys me all the time, he's all mouth" The two had soon come to the entrance to the forest, as sunny as it was, the forest was very dark and shady, chirps and rustling could be heard as pokemon wandered about out of sight.
"You ready?, call out miltank!." Emma said excitedly. "Ok..." Eric tossed Miltanks pokeball and she appeared in front of him. "Mil!" She cried with excitement. "Alright!, where ready for this!, lets get a move on!" Emma said as the three figures disappeared into the shady woods.
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"Ahhhh! Miltank no!" Eric called as Miltank rolled and stopped at his feet, he was battling a beedrill and losing. "Tell Miltank to use stomp!" Emma yelled. "St-stomp!" Miltank stomped the beedrill who flew away. "Yeah!, we did it Miltank!" Eric cheered. "After getting beat up!, you need to call your attacks, don't expect Miltank to just know what to do all the time!" Emma berated Eric. "Sorry..." Eric said a bit discouraged.
"Don't get down so easily!, it was your first time, it's understandable, besides... its miltank" Emma said as miltank ate a dandelion, the two kids continued along the path until they came across a huge fence of rocks, the other side of the fence was extremely dark, much darker then the forest they were already in.
"We gotta turn back, this part of the forest is dangerous" Emma said crossing he arms, Weavile nodded. "D-dangerous?" Eric said fearfully, "Yep, the deepest area of theforest trials is only open to trainers who have earned all the badges, thats not us" Emma said turning around and walking away. "Eric, you've advancedenough to make me comfortable travelling with you, suppose we head to neplune?" Emma asked, Eric nodded in agreement, Miltank seemed overly happy as usual.
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The two were in front of the entrance to serene town and the town had gathered to see them (Mostly Emma) off, "I'll be back soon Mom!, Dad!" Eric called out. "Were proud of you son!, don't worry about us!" Erics father said. "Remember your cellphone!, call us every week!, you promise?!" Erics mother aid worried. "I will Mom, i promise" Eric said embarassed. "Well, see you later granddad!, i'll get your egg back!" Emma said raising her hand in a wave gesture. "*Sniff* Be well Emma!, don't let your grandpa down!, and please *Sniff* return!" Professor spruce was holding back tears.
Suddenly out of the blue. "I'm going with you!" It was Vince, he ran up to Emma and bent over in an attempt to catch his breath. "What Vince?, no way!, go home!" Emma shouted angrily. "No way i'm letting you get ahead of me!, i'm going with you and i won't take no for an answer!" Viince said stubbornly sticking his nose up."It would seem he isn't going to accept nho Emma, just take him" Spruce said laughing. "Ugh!, why..., fine!, but keep your mouth shut!, you give me a headache!" Emma said, Eric just kept quiet.
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It has been a day of travelling, the next afternoon, the three trainers were tired and at rest in a small meadow near the old farmlands in the herbal forest. "Man, all these weak pokémon, how lame..." Vince complained. "You should go home then" Emma said hopeful, "Nope" Vince said, inciting a loud grunt from Emma who was holding back her fists. "We should camp out tonight, neplune city is pretty far still" Eric said, the three looked up and seen the sky had gone dark as a storm rolled in. "Better fix up that tent fast guys!" Emma said getting the neccessary materials out and sorted, within a half hour the tent was up and the gang had taken shelter, rain began tapping the roof of the tent, soon a downpour as lightning and thunder crashed across the sky. "What a squall! came out of complete nowhere!" Vince said peering outside the tent doors. "Close the doors!, its freezing!" Emma said shivering.
"Thats strange, the weather forecast said it was going to be sunny all day..." Eric said, the rain steadily getting harder. "Those clowns at the station?, they ever get it right, nobody trust them anymore" Vince laughed as he peered outside once again, he could barely make out the background for the rain was now much stronger, they waited and waited and the rain never let up. "Somethings not right now..., the rain should at least be getting weaker, yet its the same, actually i think it's once again gotten worse?!" Emma said looking outside, the air had a eery green glow, giving the farmland a ghastly appearance almost like a zombie film. "Looks really bad, what do you thinks happening Emma?" Eric asked curiously looking out as well. "Maybe a pokemons behind it, or maybe i'm just overthinking things..." Emma thought about it, Eric looked across the landscape and caught a glimpse of what appeared to be something hide behind a tree. "Emma look!, there was something over there!" Eric pointed. "I don't see anything, maybe it was the mist?" Emma said glaring towards the spot Eric claimed to have seen something. "Your just tired kid, take a rest" Vince said laying back on the sleeping bag, Eric scratched his head, worried but agreeing he is a bit tired, he laid down on the bed and started to rest, Emma fiddled on her laptop while the others rested, soon it was midnight and the eery green glow was replaced with a much more sinister blue glow of moonlight.
"This is NOT natural!" Emma said agitated, waking booth Vince and Eric up in an instant. "Geez!, i was having the best dream too" Vince said iritated but laying back down. "You two stay here, i want to check something" Emma put on a heavy rain jacket and unzipped the tent door. "Emma aere you going out in this weather?" Eric asked. "Ihave a hunch, i might just be grasping at straws but i gotta try!" Emma walked out and ran towards the edge of the forest. "Becareful..." Eric said to himself, he looked at Miltanks pokeball and rested once again.
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Emma ran through the thickets and dense shrubbery avoiding the thorns and branches that blocked her way, she came to a gravel path leading to what looked like a large grave stone, in front of the grave stood 3 figures and when they turned they fled, at thefront of the gravestone stood one last figure, one of a pokemon, it's species undeterminable for it was shadowed by the moonlight, in a swift motion it disappeared leaving Emma alone in the dark gravesite. "Could it have been true..." Emma said curiously. "Who were those people, they were definitely human" Emma decided to return to the tent, as the rain had started to stop.
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"Emma the rain stopped!" Eric said excited. "Yep!, my hunch was correct!" Emma gloated. "What did you do, invent a weather machine or something?" Vince joked. "I visited the weather Grave, and there were people there!" Emma explained, Vince raised a brow as Eric stared confused. "You honestly don't believe those stories of a 'Heroic pokemon saves everyone from weather' bologne do you?" Vince rolled his eyes. "What does he mean Emma?" Eric asked. "Alright, sit down because it's a long story" Emma motioned the two to sit down, Vince let an irritated sigh while Eric eagerly sat on his knees.
"There are 24 mysterious grave sites scattered across motova, each represents a heroic pokemon who performed an act of heroism and saved us humans from tragedy, the grave i visited was known as the grave of weather, the story goes that many many years ago, the town of featherin, thats feather town ages ago, was facing a terrible storm, it threatenned to destroy everything and everyone, but a grave little pokemon sacrificed itself to end the storm for good, it became one of the 24 star pokemon..." Emma said ending the story. "Wow!, was this real?" Eric asked. "Nobody knows, it happened so long ago no one from that generation is still alive today" Emma replied. "It's just a kids story, i doubt it would happen, wouldn't the storm have came back?" Vince said skepticaly. "Anyways, we should get back to bed." Emma said laying down. "Why did you think of the grave?" Eric asked. "I dunno, just a hunch" Emma shrugged as she rolled over.
End of episode 2