Here's Chapter 7, sorry I took so long. I had school and stuff... Have fun reading!
I DO NOT own Pokemon
"Sa sa!" Teddiursa came running into the cave with a bunch of ice; tied in the handkerchief Paul gave her. She heard Ash yell something and rushed in to see what was going on.
Paul had his arms up, protecting his face and Ash was lying down on the ground in front of him. He quickly looked up, obviously wondering why he wasn't hit with burning wood chips and ashes. He then realized that Ash had collapsed once again, after piecing the situation together he instantly knew what had happened. 'He protected me...!?' Paul grabbed Ash's shirt collar and spun him around to look at him. "What's the matter with you!?"
"W-what? D-did you g-get hit...?" Ash said while staring at him with blank, but tired expression.
"That's not the point, Idiot! Why did you do that!? you could make your condition worse!" Paul yelled.
"Uhh..." Ash shrugged. He just knew that he reacts fast when someone is in danger. "...it just happened, ya know?"
"Ugh!" Paul threw Ash aside, as if he were a rag doll. He was beginning to become very annoyed.
Ash hit the ground hard, but he caught himself so that his head wouldn't hit the cave floor. "Hey! Why'd you do that!?" Ash tried to push himself up, but the action caused him to re-injure his wrists and fall back down. "Gh...!" Both had tiny cuts and received a bad sprain from the pokemon trap when it clamped down on him.
Paul didn't answer him.
Ash managed to get into a sitting position, "Well!?" He asked rudely.
"Do you ever shut up!?"
"You're the one who's yelling, Paul!"
"At least I make sense!"
"Paul, you never made sense. Why do you hate me so much!? I never did anything to you!" Ash began to feel a little nauseous from yelling like that, but he didn't care. He didn't understand why he was so cold and rude to everyone, especially him.
"..." Paul closed his eyes.
"Did you even hear a word I said!?"
"..." He then clenched his fists.
"Paul...!?"
"..." Paul was now trembling with rage. His face was in a snarling position and all that could be heard from him was a very low growl.
Ash relaxed a little, wondering if something was wrong with him. "Paul...? Are you alr-"
Paul whipped around to face him, now standing on his knees. "WHY DO YOU KEEP ASKING IF I'M OK!? WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF! YOU'RE JUST LIKE MY BROTHER, PUTTING OTHERS FIRST, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT!? REGGIE'S NOTHING MORE THAN A GOOD FOR NOTHING PATHETIC LOSER WHO BEAT EVERY GYM IN KANTO, JOHTO, HOENN, AND SINNOH! HE CHALLENGED AND BEAT EVERY FRONTIER BRAIN, EXCEPT BRANDON! REGGIE DIDN'T WIN BECAUSE HIS POKEMON WEREN'T RAISED WITH STRICT TRAINING! HE'S GONE SOFT! BEFORE THAT BATTLE AGAINST BRANDON, I THOUGHT REGGIE WAS THE STRONGEST TRAINER ALIVE! LOOK WHERE HE IS NOW! HE GAVE UP! I'M GOING TO CHALLENGE BRANDON AND WIPE THE FLOOR WITH HIM AND HIS POKEMON, TO DO WHAT REGGIE COULDN'T DO WITH HIS PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A POKEMON TEAM!"
Ash didn't know what to say. He could only stare with his mouth slightly agape.
Paul was huffing and panting from from the entire scene he just made. Tears had managed to form in the corners of his eyes without him knowing, but they never fell.
"Paul, uh..." Ash started, but was interrupted by the sound of running.
Teddiursa was running to Paul. She heard it all. She sat there, where she was, and listened the entire way through, not understanding what exactly he was so upset about. Teddiursa just wanted to comfort him, or at least attempt to calm him down.
Paul looked up to find Teddiursa jumping towards him. She landed face first into his stomach, causing him to almost fall backwards. The movement made Paul notice the pain in his ankle, but it didn't matter much right then.
Teddiursa hugged Paul as tightly as she could and he soon returned the hug, leaning forward a little so that her feet could touch the ground.
Ash closed his mouth. He didn't even hear Teddiursa come into the cave, but he was kind of glad that she cut in when she did. Paul looked as if he was going to punch him. Ash couldn't really understand why Paul was so upset, but he could at least try to. "...Paul, I can't help the fact that I remind you of your brother, but... Um..." Ash felt another wave of nausea coming on and was suddenly at a loss of words.
"...Never mind it." Paul sighed, then slowly released Teddiursa and gave her a pat on the head. "Thank you, Teddiursa." Through this, he kept a straight face. When Paul turned around to get back in a sitting position, he winced, but it was barely visible. It actually seemed like he was just going to blink, but Ash knew what he saw. Paul's ankle was probably killing him from moving around so much. As soon as he was settled Teddiursa sat down in front of him and leaned back, resting her head against his stomach. Paul sighed again, but this time it was a loving one. He really did appreciate Teddiursa's kindness.
Ash crawled over to him, trying desperately not to fall over due to his terrible case of vertigo and injured wrists. When he finally made it, he sat down beside Paul. Ash placed a hand on his shoulder, unable to say anything to or help him any other way. He couldn't understand Paul's feelings at the moment, but Ash felt that he could at least show him that he cares.
Paul slowly lifted his head to find Ash's hand on his slumped shoulder. At first his expression was a disgusted frown, but then he relaxed by taking a deep breath and letting it go as a small sigh. Paul didn't know if he were mad at himself, his brother, or Ash.
Randomly and out of nowhere came loud grumbling noise that echoed slightly in the cave. Everyone froze.
"...W-w-wh-what was that...?" Ash said, clearly shaken, allowing his eyes to scan the cave.
"...?" Teddiursa looked up at Paul. She seemed to know where it came from. Ash followed her gaze to Paul, who was wearing an undeniably hilarious poker face. Sweatdrop, dilated eyes, everything!
"...uhh." Paul didn't move, but he knew that both Ash and Teddiursa were staring at him.
Ash couldn't help but laugh. "Paul,..." he chuckled, "...w-was that you!?"
"Ursa sa sa sah!" Teddiursa was laughing as well.
"...yes." Paul answered turning away to hide his blush tinted face. He couldn't help the fact that it happened. Paul hadn't eaten anything since before he left to walk in the forest. He didn't have any food with him at all.
"HAhaha-" Ash clutched his stomach and fell on his side, groaning in pain. "ooooooooooohh..."
"Ash!?" Paul turned around and saw that Ash was on his side, trembling. "What's wrong!? What happened!?"
"Rwa rwa!?"
"Stomach...hurts...killing me,...f-feel like I'm gonna-Urk!"
"Gonna what?"
"Ursa!?"
Ash got up and sprinted to the cave entrance, then immediately turned left.
Paul and Teddiursa leaned forward, trying to see where he went. All that could be heard were gagging noises. Paul cringed, "Ugh, what did he do to make himself so sick...?"
"Pika pika!"
"Do you see the top, Pikachu?" Brock asked, looking up, but not really able to see what was there.
"Pika, Chaa!" He squealed. Pikachu was very happy, now they could get out of the ravine and continue looking for Ash.
"Piplup!?" Piplup held the flashlight throughout the middle of the ravine. How come he got to find the top? Pikachu just got the flashlight back a few minutes ago. Piplup was hoping to be the hero this time.
"Really!? Can you see it, Brock?" Dawn asked, her arms were getting tired and she couldn't wait to get back on her feet.
"No,...but if Pikachu sees it, then it must be there..." Brock kept climbing up until he reached what looked like the side of a cliff.
Pikachu pointed ahead. "Chu Pika!"
"Pip-piplup..." Piplup mumbled to himself, clearly jealous of Pikachu's discovery.
"Well, Dawn, it looks like we found the top." Brock glanced over his shoulder, "I'll pull myself up, then help you up, okay?"
"Okay, go for it!"
Brock allowed Pikachu to jump off and then prepared to hoist himself up. He timed it perfectly, moving quickly, but carefully as he shifted to flat land.
"Ok, now me." Dawn said, climbing up further to reach Brock.
Pikachu held the flashlight downward so they could see.
"Right." Brock anchored himself with his bad arm and helped pull Dawn up with his good one. While doing this he felt a little light headed, but he didn't let it bother him due to the current situation. "Alright, grab on."
Dawn held onto Brock's wrist and he did the same to hers, so their hands wouldn't slip. "Gotcha Brock! Hang on tight Piplup."
Piplup nodded, "Piplup."
Brock helped Dawn until he was sure that both of them were a safe distance from the edge.
"Piplup, look! We made it!" Dawn cheered, removing Piplup from her back twirling him in the air.
"Pikachu Pi-ka!" Pikachu also cheered as he danced around the both of them.
Brock sighed and walked under a nearby tree to lie down in a patch of grass.
"Brock...?" Dawn jogged to his side and leaned over him. Pikachu did the same. "Why are you down there?"
"I'm just resting for a moment..."
"Oh, okay." Dawn smiled. She sat next to him with Piplup sitting in front of her. Pikachu placed the flashlight down on the ground. He then climbed onto Brock's chest and sat in an upright position. "Where do you think Ash could be?"
"I don't know, but let's hope he at least found some shelter." Brock said as he scratched behind Pikachu's ear.
Dawn picked up some grass and flowers. "Brock...?"
"Hmmm,...?" Brock continued to pet Pikachu.
"Do you know what time it is?" Dawn asked while tying and braiding the foliage in her hands together.
"Hmmm,... probably midnight or one in the morning..." Brock wasn't really sure of the time, but it was really dark outside, besides the light of the moon, so, he could only assume that it was the middle of the night. "We should probably get back to searching for Ash, though. He could be in real trouble."
"Ok- ...and done!" Dawn revealed a flower crown from her hands and placed it on Piplup's head. "Aww, it looks great on you, Piplup."
Brock sat up to see what Dawn was talking about, holding Pikachu so he wouldn't fall. "Wow, Piplup, that is a very nice crown you have."
"Pika-pika." Pikachu agreed. It did look very nice.
Piplup waved his hand in an 'oh, due go on' kind of way, then flashed Pikachu a 'you jelly?' face.
Pikachu frowned. "Pika-"
"Oh, and I made one for you, too."
Piplup fell to the ground in shock, knowing he wasn't the center of attention anymore.
"Here Pikachu." Dawn neatly placed a slightly smaller crown on Pikachu. "Now you both match!"
"Pika-Cha!" Pikachu smiled and twitched his tail. He then flashed Piplup a mocking face, 'Jealous?'
Piplup folded his wings and turned away. This earned nervous laughter from both Dawn and Brock.
"Okay, Dawn." Brock stood up, regaining his lightheadedness once again. "Let's go find Ash." He held out a hand to help Dawn up.
"Right." She nodded. Dawn took Brock's hand and stood up as well. Piplup jumped into her arms and Pikachu held the flashlight, getting onto Brock's head again. "Let's go!" Dawn said as turned towards the forest, and with that, they were gone. Unaware of the dangers it had in store for them.
I meant to fix Chapters 3 and 5 for very few grammar errors, some of the sentences weren't worded correctly, I'll probably never do it, though. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, Dawn and Brock are out of the ravine and walking through the forest. What will they find?
