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I followed the pikachu through the dense forest. With my backpack, sleeping bag and the pikachu in my hands I wasn't able to travel fast, but it didn't really care. After walking for ten minutes we arrived at a very nice clearing. After we descended a small cliff, I was in pikachu territory.
The pikachu stopped and looked around. I was happy the moon was shining, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see a thing. Walking slowly behind the pikachu, I saw some holes. Those must be from their nest... I wondered if they all slept inside or all slept outside at night. Maybe both. We stopped at some kind of burrow, which housed like twenty pikachu. They had dug little holes in the wall, multiple stories high, which they used to sleep in. Some were big enough to house a raichu, some were big enough to house multiple pikachu and some were just big enough for one pikachu. Not all of them housed a pikachu. Most of them were asleep, only one or two were awake and looked at me with big eyes. They saw the pikachu in my arms and his mother on my back and that made them relax a little. The elder then said something to them, which made them go back to sleep. Mother pikachu jumped off my shoulder and jumped in one of the burrows, whispering something. The elder then pointed to the female and then to the pikachu. I gently put him down in the burrow she was in. She immediately started to lick him. I wanted to lay down my sleeping bag, but the elder shook his head and wanted me to follow him. The other pikachu took off to the nest while he bought me over to a spot on a small cliff, behind some bushes with perfect view on the entire colony. "Pika-pikachu." he said. "Pika pikachu, pika pika chu."
"Can't I sleep here?" I whispered. "He shook his head and imitated a pikachu that looked shocked. "Haha, I understand what you mean. I'll try to introduce myself tomorrow..." I said, putting down my stuff and getting ready to sleep. The elder nodded, waved goodbye and took off. "Good night..." I whispered. I got out my sleeping bag and laid it down. Then I grabbed my smartphone, wrote a short message to Oak and got some food from my backpack. I quickly ate it and then wondered what I should do. It was dark, I couldn't see very much. Best thing to do was to get sleeping, so I could do lots of stuff tomorrow. I got into my sleeping bag without even switching clothes. I didn't really care at this moment.
I tried to sleep. Not that I really could - It was just spring and it was about 20:15. Which meant I normally went to bed about two hours later. I am a night person, you know. I don't like getting out of my bed early in the morning. I watched the moon and listened to the sounds around the colony. Every now and then I could hear a rustling. I just turned around in my bag, and closed my eyes and hoped that I would fall asleep soon. After half an hour, I drifted to sleep...
In the distance, I heard a pikachu shouting... But it was far, far away. I wonder if I should check what's happening... Again... A pikachu... But closer and louder this time... How could he move close so quickly...? Rustle sounds... What was happening?
I opened my eyes and sat straight up. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked around, as far as I could, which wasn't very far. It was still night and it was very, very dark. The moon was gone and I couldn't see much except the starry sky. I got up wondering what was happening and looked over the bushes to the colony. There was certainly something going on. Pikachu were coming out of the entrances and made their way over to... Me!
"PIIIIIIKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAA!" I heard loudly near me. I almost jumped when I heard it, because it was really close! I looked around and spotted a pikachu in the trees, his shade contrasted with the sky. "Hey! Don't make so much noise! You're waking everyone up!" I whispered loudly to him. But before I knew it, multiple pikachu reached my sleeping place and surrounded me. More and more pikachu came, all surrounding me and growling. When about twenty of them were around me, I suddenly heard a lower voice. I recognized the elder's voice. He came walking to us and everyone turned around. "Piiika! Pika pikachu! Pikachu! Pika pika pika pikachu! Chu-pika pikachu!" he said with incredible speed. Someone from the crowd asked something, but the elder cut him off. "Pika! Pika pikachu! Chu-pika!" he said angrily. Everyone returned to the colony. Some pikachu watched me for a moment, but then decided they wanted to sleep and returned. The elder watched me and sighed. "Pika pikachu. Pi - Ka." he said and the pikachu in the tree got down and stood before him. "Pika pika pikachu!" he said pointing at me. "Pika pika!".
The elder sighed. "Pikachu pi. Pika Pika-Pikachu." he said while two more pikachu made their way to us. They looked at the pikachu, at the elder and then at me. They also started to discuss with the elder. It was clear the three pikachu that weren't happy with me. They sounded angry and pointed to me multiple times. At last, one of them sighed and turned to me and came over to me. He offered me his tail which I shook. "Pika pi-pi-pikachu!" he said. Again I understood the "My name is" part. But the other part was a riddle to me. He started to talk against me quickly while the other two also introduced themselves. I stopped him quickly. "Sorry, but I don't understand one word you're saying..." I said. "I understood that you introduced yourself and that's about it. What were you discussing about me?" Shit. Now they're gonna tell what and I won't understand a word. The pikachu started a story or something, but one of his mates stopped him. He pointed at me and said something. The other nodded, and then smiled. He said something to the others and looked at me. "Pika!" he said while pointing his finger in the air, as if he was gonna explain me something. He tackled one of his mates gently. After the tackle, he and his other friend held him down and sparked their cheeks. Then, the held pikachu was released and scared away. After he ran off, he quickly returned, pointed at himself and then at me... "So... You wanted to play with me?" I asked questionable. The pikachu stared at me with a "are-you-serious" face and then facepalmed. I smiled. "Alright, you didn't want to play with me!" I said. "Then... You wanted to scare me away." I said. The pikachu nodded happily at me. "Pika pika!" he said while he pointed at himself. "YOU wanted to scare me away!" I said. He nodded again and then pointed at the colony. "Pika pika! Pikachu."
"You called the colony to... Wait, are you guys guards? Do you guard the colony?" Jackpot. All three pikachu nodded and pika'ed at the same time (is pika'ed a word at all?). Then they came close to me and sniffed me. One of them climbed my arms and got on my shoulder. He didn't say anything, but gently licked my neck. He smacked his lips. Did he just taste me? Then he hang to my sweater and also sniffed that. "Pika pika" he said while the other two pikachu replied to him. He got on face height by digging his claws into my sweater and reaching all the way to my mouth and nose with his paws. But I stopped him, grabbed him and held him in front of me. "You could've just asked me..." I smiled. "Pika! Pikachu." he said with a content smile. The other two also climbed me and did the exact same thing. They sniffed me and my clothes and licked me. One also climbed my head and sniffed through my hair and then jumped down. I could feel him jump off as he leaped down my body. "Man, they have such power in their rear legs!" I thought as my head was pushed away when he jumped. I gently put the pikachu down and the other one also jumped from my shoulder.
"But why are you guarding exactly?" I asked. "I mean, the pikachu and pichu (do you have pichu in here? - the pikachu nodded) are all safe underground. Why do you need to guard? One of them sighed. "Pika pikachu." he hissed. "Ah, ekans... those hunt at night, don't they?". They nodded. "So you have to watch for dangerous things and call more pikachu when it gets too dangerous?". They nodded again. "But why alert the whole colony just for me? I'm not that dangerous..." they smiled and looked at each other. "You think different about that. Alright." I said smiling. "Nevermind. I will try to not scare you guys. You can take me out with one thundershock, so what are you worried about..." I said softly. They smiled at me again.
"Well, I'm back to bed..." I yawned. "Gonna be a busy day tomorrow for me. I have to meet a entire colony of pikachu and try to convince them I'm not a big bad guy that tries to hurt or catch them... Wish me luck." I said while smiling. "Which one of you has to guard tonight?". One of them raised his paw. "Alright. If you find a ekans that has my smell on it, wake me. That idiot tried to kill one of yours." I said while I got in my sleeping bag. The two pikachu left the scene, saying goodbye to the remaining pikachu. He walked over to me and asked me something. "I saved him. You'll see tomorrow who it is. I don't know his name yet." I said. "I need to learn all your names... Ehm... He was kinda small, not fully grown yet, I guess about three years old and he got a very fierce but gentle mom. Although she gave him a good scolding when she found him..." I said while smiling.
The pikachu laughed. "Pika pikachu!" he said. I looked at him. "You know who that is?" I asked. "Pika pika-chu..." he said in a tone that sounded extremely similar to "that can only be one...". I smiled at him and gently stroked him across his head. He smiled and purred softly. "Alright, have a good night..." I said as he returned to his work. He jumped the tree he was in when he called for the colony and remained there, checking for potential danger.
I went back to sleep to see what the morning would bring...