Chapter 4

Don't I Know You?

Jagex was the first to notice his consciousness. As he began to peel back his eyelids, he discovered something frightening. "HoSHIT!" He thought to himself. He had his arm around Violet! "Crap. Shit. Fuck. GYAAH. What do I do? I don't know what to do. I GOT IT! I'll slowly…" He slowly started to pick her arm up and peel his own back. With great success, he got up and jumped a few feet back. "Whew…I just hope I wasn't inflicted with poison. Yuck."

He started to gather supplies from James' bag, like the microscopic food container and several spices. With that, he had started to cook eggs on an open skillet over the same campfire from last night.

Lillie was the second one to awaken, from the scent of food. She got up and commented Jagex on how well the food smelt.

"Why thank you Lill."

"No problem. Hey, I'm going to explore for a minute. Be back later!"

"Yeah yeah, just don't be late for lunch!"

With that, she had begun to explore the daylight broken forest. There were many friendly pokemon, and she even found a small lake to take a sip from. As she finished her sip, a dark ferocious form had passed by her and was standing a few yards away. She didn't actually care for the creature however, she knew she could take care of herself. But when she really did get a good look at it, "Echo!"

The gliscor outstretched his arms to embrace the typhlosion's hug. "Lill! It's so good to see you! I take it you and your friends are heading towards Festival City?"

"Mhmm. James thought it would be a great idea before we started to head for our seventh badge."

The gliscor had posed a heroic pose, "Kris is on his seventh~" He had pulled down his eyelid and stuck his tongue out.

Lillie giggled and noted, "Well Kris is the boastful type. He taught you well" she nudged him on the shoulder.

"Hey guys!" The two looked back to see a figure waving to them. It was Kris. He stood roughly the same size as James, but had darker hair, a metal headband, and a jacket with several multicolored straps intercrossing in it. He approached the friends and asked Lillie, "Hey, wheres James?" She pointed in the direction she had come from. "Well cmon, lets go see him!"

When the group had reached the camp, Lillie giggled at how James was still asleep. "Man, he sure can sleep through anything…" Kris stated as he wetted his pinky finger, walked over to James, and shoved it in his ear.

"GYAAAAAAAAAH!"

Several minutes later, everyone was seated for breakfast, James with a trail of drool hanging out of his ear. "So your seventh huh? One more and you can compete in the league."

"Yeah…but I don't think I will."

"Why not?"

"Well, it's not that I don't think Echo isn't strong enough. It's that there are plenty of other very strong pokemon there. I wouldn't want to compete to just lose."

"Well, your not wrong. But still, at least give it a shot!"

"Okay, okay! But still, we're going to Festival City for some R&R."

While the masters had their conversations, the others had talks of their own. "No way."

"Yes way"

"Nuh uh."

"Yuh huh."

"Impossible."

"My ass. I did it not more then a week ago!"

"Nuh uh. Even for a gliscor, there is NO way you picked up a snorlax and flipped him over your body!" Jagex just couldn't believe it.

"Oh pipe down Feather Breath. You defeated a Hariyama just with one focus blast!" Violet retorted. "Besides. Remember when Gaia-"

"Not this again Violet!" Gaia refused to hear the story, yet again.

The group had finally decided to travel to Festival City for the rest of the day. James estimated their arrival at 5 o' clock.

"So, have you guys been doing ok?" Kris had asked the other party that he was now walking with.

"We've been doing great!" James declared. "Looks like you two have been doing good too."

"Yep. Hmm…"

"Hmm? Penny for your thoughts?"

"Hey James. I have a question." Kris had tilted his head James' way.

"Yeah?" James glanced back. At that point, everyone wanted to hear the question as well.

"Well…How long have you had Lillie?"

"Oh well…" James had started to rub the back of her head where he knew she loved it. She started to murr while closing her eyes and throwing her head into the pleasurable scratching. "It's been about five years, two months now. Why?"

"Well…shouldn't Lillie have found a mate by now?"

The whole group had frozen in position. Both James' and Lillie's eyes had bolted open, locked in a trance with each other. Lillie started to turn a dark shade of bright red. She tried to conceal with by raising some of the bow above her snout and throwing her head down.

"Umm…well…" James tried to regain his composure from the very abrupt and unsuspected question. "Well maybe she hasn't been looking for one. Right Lill?" James glanced down with a shade of red of his own.

She looked up slightly and nodded hastily, still blushing. "Anyway, lets hurry up. I think I can see a Ferris wheel!"

Everyone started to run towards their destination. As they arrived, gasps of awe were heard from everyone. There were many different side walks, many colorful shops, a few rides here and there, a pokemon center, a whole shopping mall, and this was only the first sight of this town. The group had to push themselves through a slight crowd in order to be in the center road.

"Holy…" James uttered. When he turned around, he found his whole team looking at him with puppy-dog eyes. "Ok…I know that look…Yeah yeah you guys can go have some fun." Everybody cheered as they started to run passed him, leaving him in the dust. After he coughed up the last of the dust, he called to them, "Remember! Back here at eight o' clock sharp!!!"

He started to turn to Kris, "Meet you at the-", Kris was gone. James turned around to see Kris and Echo dashing off in a different direction.

"Yeah yeah! Pokemon center, got it!" Kris called back.

"…Am I the only one alone here…?"

"Nope~…"

James turned around and got a big surprise.