Well look who's back after being gone for so many months. That's right: me! Hard to believe I haven't updated since May. For how long I'll be back to write is hard to say. I've been hooked on World of Warcraft and finding events to partake in. And then there's YouTube. I've been watching Pokemon from the beginning and just receently got through the third season, the Mewtwo special in Johto, the Third Movie, and just got started with Johto League Champions. So yeah... that's been keeping me from writing, along with some other stuff that I won't go into. But that shouldn't really be any excuse not to write.
Any who, there are two things to add to this, the first being that I have the rough draft of Chapter 40 written out. All I need to do is rewrite it on Doc Manager. Hopefully I won't take too long on that. Depends on my mood and what if I don't allow myself to be distracted. The rough draft for Chapter 41 is currently being written, though that's taking some time.
In any case, the other thing to add is that, being that Season 4 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and a new Doctor Who are both coming out on the same day, I thought it'd add to the excitement by posting up the new chapter! There's no doubt though that there will be a Season 5 for MLP. And they're probably already getting that underway. I do have an OC of my own that I would LOVE to have on the show, though I'm not sure if any OCs will be accepted.
But enough about that. Ya'll came here to read the new chapter so... read away. And please leave plenty of reviews if you wouldn't mind.
Geromino, Allonz-y!
Chapter 39: The Klan of Insanity
Thonk!
"Ow!" I cried out as I rubbed the sore spot upon my head. Upon the pain subsiding, I looked up at what I had walked into, a rather tall pole of some sorts before me. Tall, thick, and definitely made out of wood, similar to that of a tree. Following the pole up, a second pole was attached to it, this one running parallel with the ground before connecting to another pole like the one in front of me about a yard from where I stood or so.
"You ok, Zack?" I heard my master ask me as I turned to see both him and Laura looking at me. Feeling embarrassed that my attention wasn't focused, I thought quickly of something to say. Why I felt the need to do so I hadn't a clue.
"Who put this here? I demand to know!"
"Not feeling completely on par with yourself, are you, Zack bro?" Ted asked from nearby to break the awkward silence I had put myself in. As always, I turned about, startled, as I found him leaning against the pole I had just walked into.
"Huh?" I asked him. "What do you mean?
"You've been acting rather quiet since our battle against Adzel's team," Ted replied as he propped himself off the pole and walked the few short steps towards me. "What's weighing on your mind, Zack bro?" I shifted my gaze, an uncomfortable feeling settling in as a memory from the past threatened to dig its way to the surface. I felt Ted place a paw upon my shoulder, causing me to look back at him. "Zack, I know you know what's bothering you. You can choose to not tell me, but by doing so, it will just continue to eat at you and make your life miserable."
I let out a sigh, knowing that I knew that he knew that he was right. But alas, it just wasn't easy to talk about. "It's hard to," I admitted to him. "I want to tell you, but I just find it difficult to. And it's not because I don't want to. It's because... because..."
"Because it's something you feel embarrassed by even though you had absolutely nothing to do with the current situation you were in at the time?" Skitty just randomly said from next to me. Seriously, where do they all come from? I just stared blankly at her, shocked that she had managed to finish my thoughts, almost like she had been there that day.
"E-exactly!" I had managed to say after several moments of stunned silence. "H-how did you-"
"I don't know," Skitty replied with a shrug, turning around to follow our trainers who were already walking into town. "It just came to me."
I stared after her, unable to comprehend how she knew how I felt, having to turn to Ted for a reasonable explanation. "It's nothing to worry about, bro" Ted said with a small smile. "You'll just hurt yourself if you think about it too much."
"Right," I said, following our trainers as well with Ted right beside me.
"Getting back to the matter at hand, whatever happened in the past is the past. There's no point in going back to change what happened. All you can do is hope to get past it and move on towards the future."
I managed a smile in Ted's direction, feeling less awkward about what had happened back then. "Thanks, Ted."
"Anytime, Zack bro," Ted said with more of a smile as I began to tell him why I felt uncomfortable around Roselia.
"Yee haw! I cried out as I found myself sliding down a rather steep hill upon a huge leaf that was slightly larger than I was. I had no idea how many times I had rode the leaf down or how long I've been going at it. All I knew that after about the umpteenth time sliding down, I finally noticed the sun had long set and the moon already rising. "Dark already?" I wondered thoughtfully to myself. "Aww! And I was having such a good time too!"
I sighed as I picked the leaf up in my mouth and made my way back up the hill again. "Guess I'll have to find a place to sleep for the night," I thought as I reached the top and turned around to look back down the hill, my eyes feeling the exhaustion of not sleeping the past couple of nights. I dropped the leaf and straightened it out, smoothing it over with a paw before moving it to the very edge of the drop before turning about and walking off, stopping at a fair amount of distance from it before turning around again and crouching down, readying myself for an all-out full sprint. "But not before I slide down it again!"
I drew my body in, tensing my muscles as I checked to make sure I was lined up properly with the leaf, my body anticipating the wait. After checking to make sure I was directly in the leaf's path, I dashed forward, going straight into a full-out Quick Attack as I came upon the leaf in mere seconds, leaping on it and causing it to slide over the edge, the speed doubling from how I was originally zipping down earlier. I grinned as the wind rushed past me, the leaf nearing its journey's end for the night as the excitement took hold and the strange creature that had popped out from underground in front of...
Wait, what?!
I barely had any time to register what was happening before I found myself sailing through the air, having been knocked off the leaf as I found myself some good distance from the hill. It wasn't long though before my slight came to an abrupt end as I made contact with the ground, bounced back into the air, landed again only to bounce into the air again, but not as high before finally grounding myself, sliding several more feet before coming to a stop, blacking out in the process.
When I came to some time later, the first thing I noticed were the stars in the night sky, the moon shining high above. I could feel my head swimming about as I tried to recall what had happened, even though it was on the tip of my tongue. I shut my eyes and moaned as my entire body ached with pain. "The creature!" I suddenly heard a voice say from nearby. "It awakens!"
"What do we do with it?" a second voice questioned as I opened up my eyes and made the attempt to get up when I felt something binding my feet together. Looking down towards them as best I could, I saw that my feet were in fact all tied together, rope binding them.
"I don't know," the first voice replied. "I thought you knew what to do with it." "Well somebody has to do something about this... whatever it is," the second voice said as I looked around to see just who my captors were. Despite it being dark, I could make out a rather large size group of pokemon, all of whom were short in size and holding a pair of roses, one in each hand.
"Well we could just leave it here and find another location," a third voice spoke up.
"And let someone find it and release it so that it can tell its rescuer what it knows about us?" the first one asked snippily. "I think not!"
"Why don't we bury him?" a fourth voice asked. "That way he won't escape."
"Do you know how long it would take to actually dig a hole?" the second one questioned. "We'd have to dig a deep enough hole for it not to escape and besides, I don't want to get my roses dirty."
"You could always just pu them down," the first one stated.
"I beg your pardon! Put my roses down and dig? These hands are not meant for such things! If anything, YOU should put YOUR roses down and dig."
"Are you crazy? I will do no such thing! Plant types such as myself do not dig. Rather, they live off the very nature of which they were born from."
"We're all plant types here, you ding bats!" a fifth voice spoke up, entering the fray. "And regardless of that fact, we still have this problem to deal with here. I vote we kill him."
"Are you out of your mind?" a sixth voice asked. "We're not barbarians! We just can't go killing others just because they stumbled upon our secret clan and learned of what secrets we possessed, can we?"
"I don't know!" the first plant type exclaimed. "Why not ask the leader?"
"Who is the leader anyway?" the third voice questioned, causing a moment of silence to pass by. For me, however, my ears were still ringing from all the constant, pointless babbling these plant types were having.
"I thought you were the leader," a seventh voice piped up.
"And I thought he was the leader," the fourth plant type said. "He's the one that gave the opening speech."
"Well this is just fan-freaking-tastic!" the fifth plant type said with annoyance. "We neither have a leader or a decision made for this creature's fate."
"So then what are we to do?" the second plant type asked.
"With what?" the sixth plant type asked.
"With anything, I suppose," the second plant type replied back.
"Well I would think we deal with this intruder here," the first plant type commented. "Then we can decide what to do after that."
"And just what are we supposed to do with it?" the seventh plant type asked.
"Why don't we let it join us?" the third plant type suggested.
"This is a Roselia cult only," an eighth voice spoke. "No other pokemon allowed."
"We could just hang him," the second plant type spoke.
"Isn't that a bit overkill?" the seventh plant type asked.
"How can you overkill someone if they're already dead?" asked the sixth plant type. "It makes no sense."
"We could just burn it," the eighth plant type said. "That way we don't have to worry about it telling anyone what it knows."
"And you don't think a fire will attract others to our location?" the first plant type asked.
"Will someone please just make a decision!" the fifth plant type snapped.
"Um... may I make a suggestion?" I finally asked, having enough of all the uncertainty going around. All the Roselia fell silent as I felt their eyes all rest upon me. I gulped nervously, realizing that opening my mouth was the least smart thing to do. What was I thinking?
"How dare you speak within our presence!" the first plant type said after a momentary silence. "You will remain silent!" Or else I will do something very bad to you!" I felt a rose being pressed into my face as he spoke, catching the nervousness in his voice.
"Like what?" the sixth plant type asked.
"What?"
"What bad thing will you do to it?"
"Um..." the first plant type responded, uncertain how to answer. "What do you think I should do to it?" I sighed in exasperation, growing quite annoyed by how pointless their arguing was.
"We could paralyze it to the point where it'll be unable to walk or talk," the third plant type suggested.
"Or we could poison it and throw it into a nearby creek," the seventh plant type offered. "It'll really be swimming with the fishes then."
"Or how about encasing it in a block of ice?" the eighth plant type asked. "By the time someone thaws him out, the world will have long been ruled by grass type pokemon. All other enemies will be striked down and-"
"Don't be telling it what it needs not to hear, you fool!" the fifth plant type yelled. "Regardless of that, we really need to deal with this creature before the sun rises and some human or pokemon stumble upon us!"
No sooner had he said that than a giant beam of light suddenly shone down from the sky above, everything turning white in an instant as my eyesight was blinded. "We've been spotted!" I heard the first plant type cry out as he removed his rose from my face. "Quick! Everybody, scatter!"
I could hear the plant types all running off in multiple directions as I was left to lie there. Binded, blinded, and quite traumitize.
"Turns out the light was from one of those flying contraptions," I said, wrapping my story up. "It just so happened that there was an escaped criminal in the vicinity at that moment. Luckily for me, he managed to trip over me and sprained his ankle in the process, leading to him being captured with his screaming and leading me to be freed."
"You certainly have some odd luck about you," Ted said with a hearty chuckle. All I did was roll my eyes in response and returned my attention to where I was going when out of the corner of m eye I caught someone running directly in our direction. I went to turn to yell out a warning, but was a second too late as Ted was hit from the side by him. Food went flying into the air, scattering upon the ground upon coming down. An apple bounced off Skitty's head and landed next to her. All she did was remain standing there for several seconds before looking up into the sky.
"Is the sky falling?" she asked.
I simply shook my head and turned my attention back towards the little incident that had just occurred as Laura and my trainermade their way over. "Ted! Are you all right?" she asked as Ted sat up and rubbed his head.
"Wasn't expecting that," was all he said as I glanced over at the one who ran into him. Looking him over, I took note that his upper body half was yellow while his lower half was brown, save for his feet which were yellow. He appeared chubby, maybe, if not fat. And to top it all off, he had a long, droopy nose hanging from his face. How was he able to stand without falling over?
"Why don't you watch where you're going?" he yelled as he got up and began to pick up the food that was spilled rather quickly.
"My apologies, bro," Ted said. "I'll make sure to pay better attention."
"You better," the pokemon said as he gathered up what he could and took off.
"What was that all about?" my trainer asked.
"Not sure," was all Laura said as Ted got up.
"What's his problem?" I asked as I watched after him. "He ran into you."
"It matters not, Zack bro," Ted said. "Better to be the one to admit than to make a scene, even if you didn't do anything."
"I guess," I said as Skitty looked back down at us.
"Guys, I think the sky may be falling!" she said. "That or there's someone throwing things at us from within a cloud. They shall pay!"
No sooner had she said that than a loud clash was heard from teh direction the pokemon had come from. "What's going on down there?" Laura wondered out loud.
"Only one way to find out," my master said as he and the rest of us went to investigate.