Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or any of the characters, I wish I owned Paul though. :K
Chapter 3.
Dawn sighed, she knew Paul was a jerk and all but she couldn't just leave him, not in the pain he was in. She felt she needed to help him, if he did not want her help so what. It was not her fault that he got injured. Popup looked at its trainer.
"Piplup pip?" Dawn snapped out of her dream.
"Huh what? No its ok Piplup I'm fine, really." The pokemon disagreed.
"Piplup piplup pip." Dawn glared.
"I was not thinking about Paul, how dare you say I was!" Piplup ignored her
"Piplup pip lup." Dawn stopped arguing looking at her Pokemon.
"You want to help him too, even though he's a jerk?" The pokemon nodded.
"Why do you want to help him out though?" Piplup gave a smile.
"Piplup piplup pip." Dawn grinned
"You agree that he's a jerk but I'll need help to help him." Dawn gave a shrug smiling at Piplup.
"Thanks Piplup." Piplup gave a nod heading back into the direction of the cave.
Paul used the wall to support him lifting himself up he managed to stand up gradually. He gave a grin knowing he could do it and started walking. He got a few steps before groaning in pain, it was worse than he thought. Collapsing he leaned against the wall it was to painful to even try that Team what were there names again? It did not matter, how did he cut himself? Looking back to the wound he noticed the scarf. Why did she give it to him? He didn't like her or her friends she travelled with the breeder and the overenthusiastic trainer. Sighing he leaned back against the wall, she was rather nice to him though he was pretty mean to her. Arceus why did he have to snap at her if she was still here maybe he could have a better chance of getting out.
Dawn approached the cave, she was worried Paul might snap at her but she was not going to take no for an answer. She would help him out as much as possible. Walking into the cave mouth she noticed he had moved, probably trying to get out. Paul looking up at her a bit surprised she had came back.
"What are you doing here, I thought you were leaving?" He gave her a glare.
"Well sorry for wanting to help now come on stop being an idiot and let me help you up." Paul gave his usual reply a "hmph" before letting the girl help him. Piplup looked uneasily at Paul it wasn't that sure it wanted to help him not but if Dawn was helping him it might as well try. She managed to get him up standing before letting him lean on her.
"We got there eventually." Paul nodded taking in breath.
"Thanks." Dawn gave a smile before heading off into the forest with Paul.
Ash sighed "This is taking forever where could she be?" Brock nodded this was taking longer than he expected. Staraptor appeared landing in front of Ash.
"Staraptor." Ash grinned
"Staraptor has found her, thank you Staraptor show us where they are." Staraptor flew up in the air with Ash and Brock following.
Dawn smiled they had gone quite a bit from the cave without needing to stop. Paul was determined to show Dawn that he could keep going without needing to rest.
"Hey there she is Dawn." Ash noticed Dawn and ran up to her with Brock and Staraptor. Dawn gave them a smile.
"Hey guys, sorry I got lost again." Brock noticed Paul was in pain and walked over to him. Paul gave the two friends a glare what where they doing here? Well looking for the girl of course, this just made things a whole lot worse. Dawn helped Paul sit down before smiling.
"Well this will be much better now that we have you guys to help." Paul glared no way was he getting them to help him, Dawn was enough. Brock came over to him
"May I take a look at your leg." Paul wasn't so sure but he really had nothing against the breeder.
"Go ahead." Brock took Dawn's scarf off his leg before looking at it.
"That cut looks really deep, what happened?" Paul sighed
"I fell." He was not going to tell him the full story. Brock knew that would be all the information he would get. Taking out a first aid kit from the bag he wiped the wound clean before putting a bandage over it.
"That should be a lot better than a scarf, come on let's get you to the Pokemon Centre." Paul was to annoyed to argue but he let Ash and Brock help him while Dawn carried their stuff.
Tada don't worry it's not nearly finished. I tried to make it as realistic as possible knowing Piplup wouldn't dream on helping out Paul. Please r & r I'm going to try to update daily if possible so keep reading the next chapter will be up tomorrow.
