"How far have we've walked?" Scepter groaned.
Evina looked up at the sun, which was now a bright orange as it started setting, "The sun is almost down, and it looks like we're almost out of the forest," she helped Scepter sit down on a small log, "lets stop to rest."
"Or how about going home?" Scepter complained, "Our home? We've been walking for hours, Mom, Dad, and the other siblings are probably worried sick! Plus, they need our help to gather enough food for the winter!"
"Stop complaining," Evina said, surprised at how calm she sounded as she tried to find out where she was by looking up at the sky, which did not do her justice, "Scepter, you can climb, right? Why don't you distract yourself form all your complaining and find a tall enough tree to find out where we need to go?"
"Where we need to go is home, which, if we retrace our steps, isn't too far from here. Why don't you climb the tree?"
She showed him her little hands and feet, "I can't climb."
Scepter sighed, "Fine…" he went over to the nearest tree and started to climb while muttering to himself, "Stupid, selfish Pokemon always having to do everything for her…"
If he was not climbing, then he was jumping from branch to branch to get to the top faster. Along the way he started to get tired and sat down on one of the thicker branches for a rest.
"Evina…I don't understand why you can't accept us as a family…" he said to himself, "Your egg was found in our nest, obviously your mama and dad didn't want you, so why go out of your way so you can be so disappointed?"
His thoughts were interrupted when he heard rustling in one of the branches. He stood up and quickly scanned the area, hoping there was not a predator nearby
The rustling started again, except it went from one tree to the next. Scepter was beginning to get frightened and started climbing down the tree when all of a sudden…
"EMOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGA!"
He was startled so badly by that noise that he fell from the tree, hitting every branch that crossed his path. When he landed, Evina did not even react to his plummet down blow, instead she went up to him and asked, "Did you find where we were supposed to go?"
"Yes but…Evina, there's something up in that tree that tried to kill me!" Scepter said, scared out of his mind. Suddenly the creature appeared right in front of them from the sky. When she recovered from the fall, which she looked like she was used to, they could see that she was a little Pikachu-like Pokemon with a brown head save for her face, which was white with yellow cheeks and big black eyes that were covered with a pair of goggles that looked a little too big for her face. Her body was as white as her face, and she had two "wings" that stretched from her wrists to his bottom. Her tail was brown and jagged. She smiled at them.
"Who…what are you?" Scepter said, still looking at it like it was a demon. The little Pokemon stretched her wings out proudly and said:
"I am the queen of the skies! The master of flight! I am the flying thunderbolt! I am Emonga!" she then went on all fours and came up to the still-frightened Treeko, "But you can call me Emmy instead."
"I've never seen you before…" Scepter said, calming down a little bit, "In fact, I don't even think you're from here!"
"That's because I'm not," Emmy said, "I'm from a region far away called 'Isshu.'"
"Bless you," Evina said.
Emmy laughed, "No, I didn't sneeze. Isshu is a real place! In fact…" she skittered over to Evina, "Your kind is from there! How did you even get here, are you a world traveler like me?"
"A world traveler?" Scepter asked.
"Yep! It's my goal to explore all the areas in the world! And I'm assuming you have the same goal since a Tsutarja like you could never come over here the way I do. Did you use a boat?"
"Actually, I was born here."
Emmy was shocked, "How were you born here? There are none of those Tsutakeeku here!"
"All of these names are giving me a headache…" the Treeko complained.
"I'm trying to find that out, too," Evina replied, "I was adopted into Scepter's family, but I'm a lot different than them, despite what my family says. I have different methods of getting food…"
"And eating it!" Scepter interrupted, "She swallows them whole!"
Evina shook her head, "…and I have different attacks. Why, yesterday, I was trying to do Leaf Blade when I managed to create a tornado of grass and leaves!"
"Yeah, that was FUN to clean up…" he said, sarcasm in his voice.
"Yep! You're a Tsutarja alright! Are you trying to go to Isshu?" Emmy asked. Evina thought for a brief moment, was her family really at this place called Isshu? She wondered about the Tsutakeeku, and the attack she said she did yesterday, or her eating habits, were they really normal back in Isshu? She did not want to be different anymore, she agreed with Emmy to go to Isshu to discover who she is.
"Alright! I need to go back there anyways, I haven't been there in a year or so."
"Well, this is all fine and dandy, but…how are we to even GET to Isshu in the first place?"
"That's easy!" Emmy blurted out, "Pokemon researchers usually take airplanes to get from region to region while trainers take boats. It really doesn't matter what method of transportation we take, as long as we take the right one."
"But that would mean knowing the language of the Trainer Pokemon!" Scepter said, "No matter where we go, we'll have the risk of getting captured!"
Emmy smiled, "You know, trainers aren't as bad as you think. Sure, there are some REALLY mean ones out there, but you have a better chance of finding Mew than finding a trainer who won't love or respect you."
"That's what you think!" Scepter retorted, "Why? Have you met a Trainer before?"
Emmy looked a little sad, then she cleared her throat and tried to get her mind off of whatever she was thinking, "Anyway," she started, "it isn't too far from Petalburg City from here. If we hurry now, we might make it there by sundown. Come on!"
Thus began their adventure to the region of Isshu, where they would take the trip that would change each of their lives in some way. But you may be thinking; what about Leena and Treaver? Well, they grew worried about the two not returning, and they both, especially Treaver, ran to find them, not knowing that they would be going someplace far beyond what they ever imagined.