It's been a while, hasn't it? I apologize for that. Massive writers block + the last bits of school aren't the kindest of situations. Well lets get on with it.

Ps: I just noticed Takoe went into avatar trance in chapter 2. Didn't even mean to do that.

Red silently crept out of his tent trying not to wake up the strange, short man that was snoring loudly inside his tent. He released Charizard and flew away. Thankfully he had no trouble flying, because it was quite a beautiful morning. The blizzard had died down and the skies had cleared up overnight and the sun was shining bright on the horizon.

"Thank goodness I got away from that guy. I've never heard such ramblings in my life!"

As Red was flying down Mt. Silver he spotted something from the corner of his eye. It looked like a giant snowflake that was floating down the mountainside and coming towards him at a fast speed. When it got close to him he saw that it actually was the strange man, just floating down a mountain, sipping from a mug of damping coffee.

"Ah, There ye are. Finally caught up with ya." "Oh, lord. Here he goes again…" Why did ye suddenly leave? I thought we would have a nice talk about what is going on."

"Weren't you asleep" Red asked, clearly ticked off by the man's presence.

"Oh, so my 'snoring' woke ya up. I wasn't really snoring. It's just that one's breath tends to get a little heavy when he's pouring disinfectant in his eye socket. Sorry about that."
Red flinched at the mental image. "Where were ye going to anyway? Ye haven't even had breakfast. And ye seem ta live on that mountaintop, so why leave. I hope yer pets are all right. Anyway, now that I'm here let us sing something to warm up our tongue. Because yer not very talkative. The lyrics aren't that hard. It's quite a sing-along actually."

And then the man burst into a song about 3 drunkards who ruined their lives. At one point he somehow made 3 copies of himself so he could do both the music and the singing. 10 agonizing minutes of barbershop singing later they landed on route 28.

"Okay, I have a proposition." The man said. "Lets go have some proper breakfast since you've had nothing and I've only had a cup of kaffa. Thank the titans that bear thing didn't like the smell of it. Do you know a place where we could settle down for a few hours?"

Red nodded, pulled his foldable bike out of his backpack and set off. The man had to work hard to keep up with Red because his legs were small. But he compensated for this by teleporting ahead and making 1 second sprints that left fire in their wake. "I'm going to have to ask him about how he does those things when we're at the pokécentre…"

After 5 minutes of sprinting through the pine woods at the foot of the mountain where Jeod and the teen had landed they stopped at a house with a red roof. "Maybe I can get a proper eye patch here… It looks kind of like an infirmary. Or is this some kind of inn?"

The teen gave him a glare, said nothing and walked inside.

"That guy really needs to cheer up…"

"That guy really needs to calm down…"

The inside of building looked equally infirmary like, complete with slick, white walls and floors. At the center of the floor there was a mosaic of the weird sphere the teen had used. At the far edge of the room there was a counter with a nurse standing behind it. Probably a priest since she was wearing white-pink cloth.

"Hello Red, how are you? What brings you down here? Gold finally got the better of you?" The priestess asked.

"What kind of idiot parent calls their child after a colour?"

"No, he did." Red pointed at Jeod.

"Impressive! No one has ever beaten Red in a battle."

"Oh, but yer wrong there lassie. That pesky little rodent of his knocked me out in one attack. Well, technically I wasn't knocked out, but paralyzed by an electric tackle of some sorts. It wasn't very helpful that I lost some blood because some punk bear slashed ey eyeball out of its socket either. You got an eye patch or something? I could use some breakfast too. And a nice spot for us two to sit down and talk about what in the name o' the Titans is going on."

"How has Red not set you ablaze yet?" The priestess asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Same thing my wife used to do when I came home drunk at 2 AM."

"What?"

"Beats the hell out of me!" Jeod burst into laughter while the other two sweatdropped.

After Jeod and Red had found a table, eaten breakfast and got patched up (literally) it was time for their little talk.

"Let me start with asking where I am." Said Jeod.

"The pokécentre at the foot of Mt. Silver, which lies on the edge of the Kanto and Jotho regions."

"Never heard of it."

"Who are you?"

"Ah, now THAT is a good question!"

"Oh god, why did I ask. Now he's going to tell the whole story of his life."

"No need ta make such a face." Jeod said as if he had read Red's mind. (Which he had.) "I'll try and keep it short. My name is Jeod. Jeod Highbranch. I'm a Dwarf, the race mind you, and I was born in Dun Morogh, in the Khaz mountains. I was magically gifted so I tried to become a priest, but neither the forces of light or darkness seemed to like me. So I joined the mage college in the Human city of Stormwind. After I finished college I started adventuring so I could help out my Dwarven brothers. After an occurrence which I don't want to be reminded of I made a friend in the enemy camp. A Tauren called Takoe. Together with him and another friend of us, a Night Elf known as Geor Winterstrike, we jumped through a portal I made in a hurry which apparently led to your world. How do I know I'm not in my own world anymore? Well, a small hint was a bear firing lasers from its mouth. Does this answer all your questions?"

Red nodded.

"Okay, here are my questions: What are those pets of yours? Do you have any idea where my friends are? And what is your story?"

Red let out a small sigh. "In chronological order: Others are better at explaining that than me, but they are called Pokémon. No. I defeated a crime syndicate when I was 10, defeated my idiot rival Blue, took his title of champion which he had held for precisely 15 minutes and went to Mt. Silver to train and wait for a worthy challenger to arrive. It took about 3 years for someone to find me, and ever since he's been trying to beat me."

Nurse Joy was flabbergasted. Red had spoken more than 3 sentences! And even that was considered a rare sight!

Jeod looked satisfied "See, talking isn't that hard."

"Don't get used to it." Red replied angrily. He'd sworn to himself not to get 'chatty', but Jeod's cheerful mood was too infectious.

"So. Have ye got any plans for the future?"

Red shook his head.

"Well, I think you've lived in a tent for far too long. As I mentioned yesterday I was planning on building a Dwarven city here. You could help me dig, and I could help you get a proper roof."

"Fine by me."

"Great! But first you have ta take me to that guy who can explain Pokémon te me."

"Ok then. Lets go find Professor Oak.

"What is it with names in this world! People are named after colours, emotions and now trees too! This is ludacris. Not the rapper."

"If you thought our names are weird you haven't seen a thing."

Well, that's that. I'm quite happy with this chapter. (Even though it took way too long to write.) Characters are developing and so is the plot. Next chapter we'll go check up on Geor.