Gosh, I love this chapter with a ridiculous passion. It's terribly funny. I love Carry, guys. Just, just by the way.

ENJOY!

Chapter 23

TheEspeon

"Today we need to head to Surrounded Sea," Austin said to Dark, Jared, Heather, Wylie, Ashy, and I as we ate breakfast that morning.

"To find which legend?" Heather wondered curiously.

"Manaphy," Wylie said, then took another bite of his apple. That was all he was eating.

Noticing it, I frowned. "Shouldn't you be eating more than that? You didn't have dinner yesterday, either."

Wylie admitted with a shrug, "I haven't been hungry at all. I'm still not."

"It's a side effect of the drug I used to keep him out," Ashy explained. She looked him in the eye and said sternly, "I explained to you the side effects and told you to tell me."

Wylie nodded. "I know. I'm eating now, though."

"An apple," Austin said, raising his eyebrows at his friend.

"I'll give him something later," Ashy sighed.

"Um," Jared started.

We all turned to him. Wylie asked, "Is there something you'd like to ask?"

"Yeah," Jared said, nodding. "Why can't we just call all the legends over so they can give Dark his memories back?"

Dark flinched visibly. "That would hurt."

"It's a smart idea, but impossible," Wylie said. I noticed how Austin frowned and knitted his eyebrows together in confusion at the idea of impossibility. Wylie continued, saying, "As Dark just said, all those memories hitting him at once wouldn't feel so great. Also, the only way to contact all the legends at once would be to emit a special signal. That signal would alert all the legends, with us or against us, of our position. That isn't preferable."

"Okay," Jared accepted this with a nod.

"How did you know all that?" Austin wondered, still frowning.

Wylie closed his eyes, thinking.

"It's part of his power," a voice explained. Celebi teleported into the chair next to Wylie. He opened his eyes and smiled.

"Good morning," Wylie greeted. The rest of us echoed something similar.

"Can you explain what exactly Wylie can do now?" Austin wondered.

"That would be helpful," Wylie agreed.

"You have inherited all of Uxie's powers," Celebi began. "You have all of her intelligence, her abilities of telekinesis and telepathy, and an interesting part of the longevity."

"Uh, the last part again?" Austin asked. He looked lost. I had pretty much stopped listening considering I stopped understanding when Celebi teleported in. How had she known what we were talking about? A question that would never be answered. It was probably some weird part of her Celebi-powers.

"I don't have to eat much to survive," Wylie explained. "I didn't know that. Shouldn't I have?"

"All the information will sink into you as you sleep," Celebi clarified. "You don't know everything she does as of yet. You still should eat at least once a day to remain healthy, Wylie. I said called the part strange because you don't feel hungry partially because you aren't and partially because it blocks it from your mind."

"So it isn't a side effect of anything?" Ashy wondered, tilting her head in curiosity.

Celebi shook her head. "I don't think so, no."

"Good to know," she said. Austin nodded in agreement.

"So," I said. "Can we go now?"

"Let's," Wylie agreed.

As we all shifted to get up, Austin said quietly, "Wylie, I think you should sit this one out."

"What?" Wylie asked.

"You haven't fully recovered yet," Austin observed, nodding at his pink scars and the purple stitches. "And you're still getting used to your powers. Maybe you should stay here."

"I agree," Ashy put in.

"Well," Wylie said, considering. "Alright."

Austin smiled. "Cool. Have fun here."

"We'll see," Wylie sighed.

"Let's go," I insisted again, edging close to the door.

"We're coming," Austin said as he and the others walked towards me and the door. "The dungeon isn't going anywhere."

TheEspeon

We headed through the wet dungeon, Austin leading. Jared and Heather chatted happily behind him, enjoying the cool dungeon air. I walked behind the two with my head down and mouth full of foul words. Dark walked silently behind me, like a shadow.

"I hate water," I muttered. "Why are we always going in dungeons that are so..."

"Wet?" Jared finished, smirking with amusement.

"Yeah," I said, my sharp voice clearly showing my disgust.

Jared laughed.

Picking my head up, I demanded, "Are you laughing at me?"

The kid stuck his tongue out towards me and then skirted ahead.

"You...!" I shouted, then speeded after him, narrowly avoiding all the puddles.

"Guys! Wait!" Austin called, but neither of us paid attention.

Jared yelled obnoxiously, "Watch out! Wet cat on the loose!"

"You're gonna regret saying that!" I barked. (Barked. Great description. I'm a cat.) I roared. (Yeah. That's better!)

Jared turned his head to face me and smiled happily. "No, I-" he began, then ran into a wall at full force.

"Nice job!" I said, then bursted out laughing. Jared peeled himself off the wall, tripped, and fell into a puddle. Steaming, he stood up and held his nose in his paws while it probably throbbed.

"What happened?" Austin demanded, rushing over here.

"Is everyone alright?" Heather asked, coming to a stop behind him. Dark sat behind her, looking a bit worried.

"No!" Jared whined.

"Yeah, he's fine," I managed to say through my laughter, which had only increased at the sound of his voice turned all nasally because he was holding his nose.

"So what happened?" Heather asked.

"Karma happened," I answered. Dark cracked a smile, catching the human joke, while Austin and Heather stared at me blankly. "Never mind," I muttered. "Human thing. Jared made fun of me and then smashed into the wall."

Austin smiled broadly, obviously unable to contain it. "Good job, buddy!"

"Guys, he's hurt!" Heather said in his defense. "Stop laughing at him!" But she could barely hide the smile on her face.

"But that the whole reason as to why I'm laughing," I said. My laughs had subsided; I was now smiling to my ears.

Jared narrowed his eyes at me in a glare.

"Jared, you can't possibly look intimidating when you're holding your nose," I said snidely. I was now smirking.

"Damnit," Jared muttered, putting his head down in defeat.

"Let's keep moving now, shall we?" Austin asked, still smiling.

"Yes," Jared said, and got up and stomped away.

Smirking, I got up and ran over to match his pace. "Now who's a wet cat?" I asked.

"I'm an otter!" Jared barked, but he knew he was beaten. He hung his head low in defeat and slowed down while I held mine high and kept at my pace, bathing in the glory of beating Jared.

TheUmbreon

Just when Carry was about to beat someone in anger at being so wet, we reached the end pit. It was basically a sliver of sand and a big pool of water. I stayed at the back of the cave, wanting to meet the legend before getting close enough for the memory to activate as you had to be a certain distance for it to work. I'd figured so anyway, considering the process didn't activate right away when we met Uxie.

"Who goes there?" a very masculine voice demanded.

"Celebi's Chosens," Austin responded. "And friends."

There was a short silence before the voice responded, "Okay." From the big puddle emerged a small blue creature who I recognized as Manaphy.

"Hello," Austin said, then ducked his head in respect. The rest of us copied.

"Greetings," the Manaphy said.

"Wait, you're a boy?" Carry demanded with an open mouth and wide eyes.

"Yes!" Manaphy said, sounding annoyed.

"But you're so cute," Carry observed.

"I'm a man! Hello, MAN-aphy?" the small blue thing yelled, turning red with anger. "And I'm not cute!"

"That's just my opinion, no need to freak out," Carry muttered, rolling her eyes.

"Well, your opinion is WRONG!" Manaphy shouted.

"Opinions can't be wrong, they're opinions!" Carry argued. I could tell she was having fun with this, sitting so calmly while she completely pissed Manaphy off. I had started to think she had some sort of power of annoyment or something wonky like that. Nothing had proved me wrong yet.

"Whatever," Carry said, rolling her eyes.

That did it.

Manaphy yelled, "Don't roll your eyes at me! I'm a legendary pokemon, and what are you? You're an espeon! A stupid, worthless espeon who-"

"Has been chosen to protect one of the most important pokemon on the planet," Carry finished. "I was also brought to this world by celebi who trained me herself. And who are you again?"

"I'm important, too! I have a memory and I-" Manaphy started yelling again.

"Pokemon!" Austin shouted above Manaphy's loud voice. "We're here because we need that memory. Give it to Dark,, please, and we'll go."

Manaphy took a moment to close his eyes and collect himself. He shot Carry a glare before looking at me and saying, "Take a step towards me so the memory can activate."

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before standing and stepping forward. The wave of a memory hit me like a slap across the face, and darkness befell me.

Now do you guys see why I love it so much? This was a lot of fun to write, that's for sure! I hope it was just as fun to read!

And Wylie's newly gained powers are yet another interesting thing, are they not? We'll see what else he needs to do, hint hint.

None of you probably got that, but whatever. You will soon.