Chapter 3: Through the Woods
KS90: Welcome back everyone to a wonderful chapter of XYZ Adventure! OK, I've been a bit curious as to why this story is getting no reviews. I mean it's getting views and people are liking it, but why doesn't anyone comment on the story. It would help me out a WHOLE lot.
DD23: Are you asking or begging for reviews man?
KS90: A bit of both actually. Anyway enough about reviews and other junk like that. Let's talk about some other serious stuff. Like the story.
MM014: The audience doesn't wanna hear your rants anymore.
KS90: I was just gonna recap. OK, so what happened last time was the new Pokedex holders of Kalos had to learn how to catch Pokemon and due to Willow's assertiveness, they HAD to. Well some of them. Thomas and Shauna had a battle to which Shauna lost. Just barely. But after the battle Thomas was being a bit down for no one could solve why. Oh well, I guess that's how life works.
DD23: It is a strange way indeed.
MM014: Right... Now on with the Chapter.
The Way of Life (ZnK Evolution):
rifujin de mujun darake no yononaka
hekondari kujiketari mo suru sa
dakedo tada fuman kazoete itatte
omou you ni kawaru koto wa nai sa
nakitaku natta yoru wa namida kareru made nakou
kabe ni buchiataru toki wa betsu no michi yukeba ii kara
itsuka wa tsukiru inochi da kara ima o akiramezu ni agake
ikite'ru sono imi o sagashitsuzukeru
sore ga ikiru koto sa kitto
Translation:
In this world full of fallacies and contradictions,
of course we'll cave in or be crushed from time to time.
But, if we only keep count of our dissatisfactions,
then the winds will never change in our favor.
When we feel like crying at night, let's cry until our tears run dry.
When we run into a wall, we just need to try a different path.
Since our life is limited, let's keep fighting without giving up.
We keep on searching for the very meaning of our existence,
and that is precisely how we have to live our life.
The group was running into the forest to finally start their journey. On their own. Sort of. They were still together but they were gonna have to split up soon.
When they entered the forest they saw Willow just standing their looking around. "Willow?" Eli asked. "What's the matter?"
"Something's not good. It's a bit mysterious if you ask me."
"How is it not good?" Jeremiah asked.
"Beats me. Oh well, let's just walk around the forest." She went on ahead as everyone else sort of... drifted apart in separate directions. That is except for Jeremiah and Shauna.
"Hey Jeremiah." Shauna said, "Would it be alright if I went with you for a little while?"
"Of course Shauna. Anything you need." Jeremiah replied.
"Great! I promise I won't slow you down!" They walked off into the forest together. Just strolling without a care in the world. "So Shauna, what do you want to be when you get older? Or better yet, what do you want to accomplish on this journey?"
"Oh me? I'm not to sure yet, but I know I wanna be something good. How about you?"
"Hmm... I don't know yet. At first I thought I just wanted to fill up the Pokedex like the letter said, but after battling a wild Pokemon, I like to battle a lot. Because it's a great way to keep my Pokemon in good shape and learn a bit more about how others think... I guess. Sorry, I read some of that out of a novel by the author Shauntel."
"No! I think what you said was great!" Shauna stated, "But that was pretty deep Jeremiah. I'm glad I get to call you a friend."
"Yeah. I'm glad I get to call someone like you a friend too. You're a very nice girl."
"But sometimes I wonder if the dreams we have are the ones we want."
"What makes you doubt?"
"I dunno." Shauna answered all dopey and child like.
Thomas was walking by another section of the forest, alone in his own thoughts. 'Dusk...' He remembered to when Shauna's Pokemon burned his Pokemon's cheek. And what he didn't expect was an actual answer back. 'Don't worry! I can still go on!' His Froakie had said. Why did the Pokemon actually talk to him? How could he understand it? None of this made sense to him.
He was just still minding his own business when a bird of some sort came flying out toward him. The bird was a reddish orange mixed with gray. The bird had black spots of feathers too. "Ugh what? Go Dusk!" Thomas threw his Pokeball and out came his Froakie. The Pokemon hopped with glee to see the trainer. "OK. I get it. Great to be out, but we kinda have a situation here." Dusk looked up to see what his trainer meant and saw the wild Pokemon flying around them wildly. "Dusk, get 'em down with a Water Gun!"
Dusk did as he was told to and struck the bird. The bird countered with a small tornado of wind. Dusk flinched a bit in pain. Thomas just stared as his partner battled. "Now use Tackle." He said rather than cried. Froakie tackled the bird with amazing speed and the bird fell down on the ground. "Go Pokeball!" He threw an empty Pokeball at the bird and attempted to catch it. The ball wiggled a few times until it finally clicked. The data of the Pokemon was added into Thomas's Pokedex.
Flecthling, the Tiny Robin Pokemon: It may seem docile and friendly, it can mercilessly strike intruders that enter it's territory.
"So that explains why Fletchling attacked me. It must get defensive of it's home." Thomas conducted.
Meanwhile Willow was walking in the woods by herself. She was just so uncomfortable right now. Like she was being followed or something. 'It's OK Willow... Keep it cool...' She thought to herself. Then a flash of white in front of her made her scream in surprise and fear. She fell to her knees on the ground and was panting heavily. "Willow!" Elijah cried out. He came out from one of the nearby bushes. "Are you alright?"
"Not really." She sighed.
"Hey, is everything alright?" Thomas asked as he came out to Willow.
"Geez girl, you got lungs of steel to be screaming like that!" Dese stated.
Jeremiah, Shauna, Rika, Tierno, and Trevor came out of the bushes too. "Oh I'm sorry." Willow said, "A Pokemon just probably startled me. No biggie. Now I'm all embarrassed that I caused all this trouble."
"Don't be." Rika said, "It's good to know you weren't harmed in any way." She said.
"Yeah. After all, it would be bad if you did get hurt. I mean, how could someone live with themselves if a friend got hurt and they couldn't do anything to prevent it?" Jeremiah said.
"... That's a way to put it." Thomas added.
"Thanks guys~." Willow said all happy.
"OK ok. Just let's get you up." Elijah said, holding out his hand. Willow grabbed it and pulled herself up. Then rustling around the group made them weary of something. Then they heard a low growling sounds. "Uh... PLEASE tell me that was someone's stomach..."
"Wasn't mine." Jeremiah said shakily.
"Um... Now might not be the best time to be joking." Dese pointed out.
"Brace yourselves," Rika said, "There's trouble brewing."
"No duh!" Thomas exclaimed angrily.
Then from one of the bushes, a small orange worm Pokemon came out. It had a spike on it's head similar to Caterpie's antennae. "Oh it is just a Weedle." Trevor sighed. "I know because I caught one earlier."
"It's actually kinda cute~." Shauna said. Then another Weedle came out. And then another. "Uh... But I'm not sure I'd like all of these Weedle at once."
This time, Pokemon like Scatterbug, Caterpie and other bugs were starting to crawl out from the grass. Each of them having a very agitated or angry expression. "Do you think they're here because they were driven out by the exterminator?" Thomas joked.
"I appreciate your attempt in trying to be funny, but now is NOT the time!" Jeremiah said.
The Bug Pokemon dove and tried to strike the 9 kids. They started to run in the opposite direction to avoid the attacks. "I've gotta say, these Pokemon are bugging me!"
"Now is not the f***ing time!" Dese shouted.
"Why are they attacking us?!" Rika asked.
"Maybe because we intruded in an area we weren't supposed to!" Trevor answered.
"That, or these things gotta bug in there home!" Thomas added.
"Seriously?! No one listens to me!" Dese stated. The group kept running avoiding the bug types just barely. But Eli stepped over a stone and tripped. Trying to regain his balance he grabbed onto Willow's shoulder but it did him no good. Instead, they both fell to the ground. But on the good side, the bug Pokemon ignored them completely.
Willow sat up and turned to Eli. She gave his wrist a good smack. "Ow! What was that for?!" Eli exclaimed.
"Why you do that?"
"Do what?!" Eli asked confused.
"Why you do this?!"
"What this?!"
"This offense. Why you do this offense?"
"Oh... Well... It was uh... Trying to save you. And it worked." Eli answered.
"Oh Ok then. Oh no the others!" Willow stood up and turned but she couldn't find them anywhere. "Huh? No... They're too far..."
That's what it seemed like. However, it turns out that it was just a hill that goes down. The rest of the Kalos children were running down the hill like crazy people. (KS90: Or Black Friday shoppers trying to get to the last item on the shelf). "That's it. I'm not becoming a bug's next meal!" Thomas declared.
"But they aren't gonna eat us!" Jeremiah panted in between breaths.
"Just shut up and go!" He pushed himself and Jeremiah out of the way. But to their misfortune, they started to tumble down the hill in an opposite direction from the rest of the kids. When they got to the bottom, Jeremiah now had an egg with a red white and brown pattern while Thomas wound up with a fluffy yellow spider on his head.
"Way to go genius." Jeremiah declared, "Now we're lost with no sense of direction."
"How is this my fault?!"
"If you didn't act so rashly, we wouldn't be lost and I wouldn't be yelling!" Jeremiah now had his fists in the air which dropped the egg to the ground. "Huh?" He picked up the egg and inspected it for any damage. To his luck there was no damage to it. Gladly seeing that it wasn't harmed he rubbed the egg gently.
"What are you doing?" Thomas asked.
"Rubbing the egg to calm the Pokemon inside down. Letting it know it'll be fine."
"Why?"
"Do I ask why you have bugs on your head?" Thomas touched his head to find that their was definitely something on his head.
"What kinda Pokemon is this?" Thomas took the bug off his head and looked at it. "Oh. My. Gosh."
"What is it?"
"It's so adorable!" Thomas said in an unusually high voice. To which Jeremiah gave him a curious look as to 'how' and 'why'. But as an unexpected turn of events the bug shocked him. Jeremiah went wide eyed, but when the bug stopped he broke out into laughter. "Oh haha, very funny." Thomas gave him a very tired expression.
"Can't help it if it's this funny."
Thomas gave the younger boy a 'hmph' despite Jeremia being taller. Thomas then tapped the Pokemon with a Pokeball and the bug went inside. The ball wiggled three times and the Pokemon was caught with ease. A beep from the Pokedex and Thomas examined it.
Joltik the Attaching Pokemon- 'These Pokemon attach themselves to larger Pokemon and absorb the static electricity needed, since they do not generate their own electricity.'
"Well that makes sense." Jeremiah said, "No wonder Joltik was attached to your head. It was trying to take any static electricity."
"But I don't produce static."
"Well, our fall must have generated enough electricity to attract Joltik."
"Say what?"
"Never mind. But... We should try finding our way back to the others."
"Wait... You hear that?!" Thomas shot up. It was silent to Jeremiah for a while until Thomas went charging off with Jeremiah scrambling to get up, with the egg mind you, and rush after Thomas.
Meanwhile the remaining kids were still running. And they were getting tired. "How much... longer..." Trevor heaved.
"I think we're tiring them out." Dese stated the only one determined to keep going.
"Them or us?!" Shauna asked.
"At this point I'm willing for anything that'll help us!" Dese said. But just little ways down she could see a fork in the path. "Quick! We need to deviate from the path! It might work!"
"Are you sure?!" Rika asked her.
"Well, judging by the stampeding Pokemon, I imagine it would be hard for them to-"
"Just do it!" Dese commanded. The five Kalos Kids (MM014: Official Dub now) Literally jumped for the next path and landed on the ground grouped together. The Bug Pokemon kept going down the other path, to which the kids sighed in relief almost in unison.
"Finally, we can rest..." Tierno sighed. He sat up with his hand over his chest and breathed in and out carefully.
"We can rest later." Dese declared, which sounded like madness to the four others with her. "We need to find the other half of our group, remember?"
"Yes but we won't be able to find them if we are incapable of even going to them." Rika stated, trying to reason with Dese. "We need at least a moment to get ourselves rested to look. Why is it important that we find the others in such a rush anyway? They've got their Pokemon with them and then some."
"It's just... I feel like I am responsible for losing them. I was rushing ahead while the others, even my brother, were separating from us. I was being stupid and narrow-minded..."
"Well glad to know that you got your mistakes pointed out." Shauna said sarcastically, "How on earth are we gonna find the others if we don't know our way around this forest?"
"Oh.. you're right... then we just backtrack until we find a clue or something."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Shauna said.
"No." Dese stated bluntly. "Only me and Rika can go. You guys wait a while until we get back. It wouldn't be smart to travel in a big group, for obvious reasons."
No matter how they could put up an argument, Dese made a good argument, no matter how base. "Alright then. Good luck you two!" Shauna cried out to them as the two took off without a moments hesitation.
My Wind will Blow Tomorrow
Chotto matte mite dare datte
Kinou to maru de chigau
Chotto mite mite
Yokogao no shiruetto mo otona sa
Chotto kimi kimi
Iiwake wo shitai kimochi mo wakaru
Datte yo no naka kore ja
Maru de natte nai jan
Da ne! kimochi ii kuuki wo
Ima! suitakute
Shou ga nai shou ga nai
Ashita wa atashi no kaze ga fuku kara ne
Sekaijuu no doa akete oite hoshii
Ashita wa atashi no kaze ga fuku kara ne
Kimi no sono yowamushi wo
Mouretsu ni fukitobasu yo
Goojasu na jinsei wo!
Translation:
Try to wait a while, anyone is
Totally different from yesterday
Try to look for a while
Even the silhouette of the side of your face is mature
Wait [you],
Your wish to make excuses can be understood
Because if the world is like this,
Nothing's is going to get done
Right! The good breeze
Now! want to breathe
Can't be helped, can't be helped
Tomorrow my wind will blow so
Keep the doors in the world open
Tomorrow my wind will blow so
Your cowardice
Will [be] be blown away completely
A gorgeous life!
KS90: What events will unfold in this tale so far? Find out next chapter.
MM014: What are you doing?
KS90: Obviously giving off mysterious words of premonition. Duh.
DD23: Wow. Even that is a bit corny.
KS90: Maybe so. But it does fill the air with that good stuff.
MM014:... Well see you all next chapter.