A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

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OOC: You'll all have to carry on without me for about...5 days. 0_0 *shot* Go ahead and control Riddel if it's nesseccary, when I come back I'll ask for changes and things if need be. Remember, Toxin is a sarcastic and hostile pokemon while Dart is a happy-go-lucky one. Herum's can disappear for awhile as my made up pokemon lives in almost an enviroment beside's water. Sorry about this all, but if I've got something to respond to by 9:00 PM today, then I'll definetly respond to it. Promise! ^^;;
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OOC: Ah, that stinks. Please try to hurry back! ^^;

Toren trudged along, stumbling a little bit as he occasionally tripped over a tree root or something that he hadn't noticed as he walked. A couple minutes earlier, he had even fell flat on his face. He thought that it was a good thing that no one had been around at that moment.

Ah, she's gotta be somewhere are here....Hey, is that her?!

He thought to himself as he saw a figure in the distance. He he cautiously walked closer, the figure became clearer to his eyes and he nodded, smiling weakly as he realized that it was indeed her. He bit lower lip, climbing up into a nearby tree and watching her, hidden in the leaves.

I wonder what she's been doing....She smells kinda bad, and she looks soaked...

He thought to himself, wiping a bead of sweat from the side of his face and brushing the hair away from his eyes so that he could see better. His two Pokemon remained hidden behind the tree, but Volley barked loudly when he stepped on a sharp twig, probably alerting Jen and her group of their presence.
 
A faint barking sound startled me, and cinna somehow managed to unzip my backpack and climb in. I spun around. My heart racing.
"Couldn't have been a seviper or something else dangerous, it was a BARK!" I said, then shrugged and carried on, pulling a trembling Cinna out of my pack.I looked out of the corner of my eye for anything strange, but no one could tell that I wasn't looking straight ahead. I also snatched a green brush, of course, since green is my color, and brushed my fine brown hair as I did eveyr morning. I was now skipping along the path, completely forgetting about the noise, brushing my hair and carrying Cinna all in one. I hummed another made up song, while Cinna got comfortable in my arms.
How was I all of a sudden so happy? I had no clue, but at least I wasn't so depressed. What a good feeling; I don't see how I could've lived being depressed. I guess I would try to be a bit happier from now on. Unless, of course, something tragic happened, like I lost my brush.
 
"Oh, forget it guys, she doesn't care about us..."

Toren sighed softly, leaning back in the large branch he had been sitting in before and resting his head on the back of his arms. His feet were stetched all the way, resting comfortably on the other side. Toren closed his eyes, smiling weakly as the breeze that had been blowing before picked up once again, ruffling Toren's hair and clothes.

"Volley, don't bark anymore. It'll probably scare someone as well..."

Toren said, opening one eye and glancing down at thr Growlithe, who replied with a smug look. The fire dog rolled it eyes, leaping up into the tree and tackling into the trainer, causing him to...fall out.

"AGH!"

Toren screamed out, his body rolling out of the tree and falling down towards the ground, eventually landing with a large "crash" on the hard floow below. Toren groaned, his body in pain and sore. No doubt there would be a couple bruises there. he was pretty sure that anybody within a mile of them would have heard his "scream."
 
I stood there, paralyzed(sp) As the sound I heard. I raised my eyebrow and spun around slowly, and stared back. I whistled at the site, my eyebrow still raised. Toren. Toren! I couldn't tell if I was happy to see him or not- following me all this way. I made my way over to him and I bet I looked like godzilla staring down at him with my hands on my hips. Eyebrow still raised.
I whistled again.
"Toren?! How didja find me?" I asked sarcastically.
"Must've had quite a fall, there." I nodded, eyebrow STILL raised, hands STILL on my hips, and a smile formed on my face. Cinna came running towards me as well as Nida. I just stood there, waiting for his reply. (OMG these posts are being short on me >>; )
 
"Umm, yeah..."

Toren said, slowly standing up and brushing some brown leaves that had gathered in his hair from the fall. He finished brushing off the rest of his body, then limped over to the tree he had falled out of and leaned agsinst it gently, keeping his gaze focused on the ground in front of him.

"I dunno, really, I was just resting in a tree, when Volley tackled me out of it. I hadn't noticed you until only a couple seconds ago."

He said, realizing that he was lying but not wanting Jen to think that he had been looking. The trainer had never really been good at lying, but he was rather proud of how convincing this one seemed to be. he smiled weakly, brushing his strewn hair away from his eyes, once again, as he continued to stare at the dirt.

How convincing.
 
"Yet I walked right past you... curious.." Cinna and Nida stared at Toren. I randomly grabbed a twig off the ground and scribbled in the dirt. I didn't look at Toren, nor my pokemon, but the dirt. I was blushing red, I knew it. I crossed my legs and played with my hair a little, then my necklace, then went back to playing with the stick. Cinna started licking herself, and Nida started eyeing the Scyther, as if she had anything better to do. I started digging the stick harder and harder into the ground, getting more nervous and nervous by the second. Soon I had a flaming stick- well, almost, and a three ft. hole in the ground. Once I realized what I had been doing, I chucked the stick and went back to blushing. Cinna was still licking herself, and Nida was still eyeing Scyther. Silence, except for the wind blowing and the leaves rustling. This is one of those times I wanted to disappear into a black whole.
 
Toren smiled weakly and groaned slightly, his body and muscles still sore from his rather large fall. The tree was unsually tall, and that meant that the fall was even more unpleasant. Well, at least he hadn't cracked his head open; That was a plus.

"Yes...very curious..."

He muttered softly, staring at the ground, like Jen was currently doing. he lifted his head and felt it safe to glance at Jen, considering that she wasn't looking at him. He shrugged his head and rolled his eyes. he really needed to get over that "being embarrassed about every single thing that happened" thing. It certainly wouldn't help him in life.

"Look...I'm sorry about before, I was just a little frustated. I mean, we're out of here in the middle of nowhere, I'm probably going to run out food soon, my feelings for you are becoming more obvious, I'm probably going to be sore all over, chances are we'll get killed by some wild Pokemon..."

OH CRAP! Did I just let the words "feelings" slip? Toren, YOU IDIOT!

He thought to himself, absolutely furious at himself that he had actually said something like that...OUT LOUD. Who knows how in the world she would reply to it?
 
A smile appeared on my face, once again. You could call my face a cherry, now, it was so red. I looked up. Cinna stopped licking herself, as Nida has just said something like
<"Let's leave them alone, for a sec... let's... go find some berries!"> They both ran off, but, of course, I didn't notice. Silence. No leaves rustling. No movements. No sound. No wind. I was totally in a trance. Once I was funally out of it, I reached into my pack for a snack, coming out with two oranges in hand. My face was still like a cherry, as I squeezed the orange as if I were squeezing a stuffed animal. The other orange was for Toren- but I was still in too much of a trance to hand it too him.
 
Toren smiled, reaching out and grabbing the orange, figuring that it was for him. He muttered a soft "thank you" before starting to peel off the skin, then biting into the juicy part of the fruit, throughly enjoying the taste.

He glanced sideways at his Pokemon, notcing that Jen's had run off to go grab something. Toren's own companions got the message, snickering at their trainer as they ran off to follow after the others in their search for some berries.

Toren rolled his eyes at the two creatures, still biting into the colorful fruit that was clutched in his hand. In a short amount of time, he had eaten a surprising amount, for he hadn't eaten since mid-day...yesterday. He was pretty hungry, and an orange was probably not enough.

"So, is everything okay?"

He asked, smiling up at her, but then shifting his gaze up to the sky. The sun had fully risen by now, and was hanging high up in the air, bringing light to eveything down above, There wasn't a cloud in the sky, so it was certain to stay warm and sunny all day long.
 
IC:

My eyelids slowly slid open, and I got a blurry image of the trees in front of me. To tell the truth, I had been hoping to wake up at the orphanage, but it seemed like I wasn't dreaming after all. I slowly looked around, hoping like hell that I hadn't gotten Riddel into trouble again. I had just become friends when the Herum incident happened, probably making her hate me for my idiocity. I leant on my elbows, and then on the back of the tree trunk. I stared around the clearing, and my eyes sapped open.

RIDDEL

She was no where to be found. Vine-trap and Flare-tamer were fast asleep, and I was seriously worried that something had happened to her. I glanced around the clearing, willing for her to magically appear, but no such luck. Finaly, I saw a string, winding its way down a path. Yes. That would be Riddel...
 
IC:Riddel sighed as she glanced around herself. Trees trees trees. Again. There was nothing to fight against that wouldn't hurt herself as well, and had she not been so tired of seeing what was around her, she may have even wished for a punching bag. But presently, she was wishing to get out of this accursed place. Her legs crisscrossed and her chin resting in her palm, this position only made her ever so much more, bored out of her mind.

She let out one groan to emphasize her boredom, and stood up, folding her arms across her chest as she stormed back to the clearing. There was nothing on her mind as she walked back except for her utter frustration. She couldn't help but reprimand herself during the times she felt useless and bored. She very rarely felt bored because she was often thinking about something important, or reading. But now, she was trying to avoid thinking, and there was really nothing to read except the bark on the trees. And she wasn't one of the hippies who could read those things anyway.

Riddel stopped when she noticed that Jake's pokemon were already awake. She craned her head over to see if the boy himself was awake, and sure enough, groggy or not, he was definetly awake.

'Finally!' She thought with relief as a small grin appeared on her face. But before anyone could catch it, she turned around and stuck her thumb and forefinger into her mouth and blew.

The whistle rang loud and clear, and Dart scrambled back along the silk thread as fast as he could, knowing he'd fulfilled his purpose...or at least, hoped he'd had.

<'Hallo Miss!'> He said with as wide a grin as his fang would allow <'Allow me to lead you to the fountain of youth!'>

"Hold on." Riddel said waving her hand as to notion Dart to follow her into the clearing "Dart found a spring-"

<'Stream.'>

She sent a silencing glare toward her pokemon who was absolutely oblivious to it due to his pride in accomplishing his task "But anyway, you ready to go?" Riddel asked Jake as Dart stomped out the fire with all four legs. Collecting all her things into her cream color sidebag, Riddel pulled on her light jacket and draped the strap over her shoulder "Actually, let me re-phrase that, are you coming?"
 
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Once I finally snapped out of my trance- I remembered something. My birthday. Today. I was sixteen. What a present, too. I nibbled some more on my orange, thinking about what my folks back home would do for me if I were there. First, starting in the morning, they would fix me some delicious pancakes-- probably about ten or so. Next, while I hid under the table in embarrassment, they would bring anyone they could ifnd over to the house to sing happy birthday to me. If no one was outside passing by at the moment, mum would force the neighbors to come. After that, the neighbors would most likely stay to celebrate the cake and ice cream. But not just any cake. ANY cake. ANY cake I wanted, my mum would cook it up. Right now i would like a double chocolate cake with that yummy icing on top, rather than an orange. After the traditional "Birthday girl-buries-head-in-cake-then-eats", It would be presents. I always got TONS. ..UNtil now. The only present I got was--well, yeah. No one probably even KNOWS. Oh well, it's not that big of deal.
As I looked back at my orange-well, what was left of it, (One orange slice and the peeling) I pretended the last slice of orange was a slice of cake. nibbled into it-Eww, this is no double-chocolate cake! THIS IS.... an orange. Darn, and I thought that tricked worked...
I shrugged and bit into the last of my orange slice thoughtfully.
 
IC:

"Yes, I'm ready."

I quickly pulled up my sleeping bag, rolling it up into a neat bag, and then shoving it into my own rucksack. I then took my now empty water canteen, allowing with my two poké-balls and headed over to where Riddel was. I was content on letting my Pokémon run free for a while. After all, we had all had a rather eventful previous night. I walked along the path of string that Riddel had made to tell her where she was.

I finally caught up with Riddel, with my two Pkémon at my feet.

"What now?"
 
"That's a good question." Riddel said folding her arms and glancing down at Dart who was now crawling this way and that.

<'This way!'> He said confidently, noticing the duo had been waiting for him <'Stream Ho!'> And with that he sped off.

"I wonder if I should even attempt to catch up with him." Riddel said casually, raising an eyebrow as she treaded carefully next to the silvery string, at her own pace that was certainly not as breakneck as Dart's. But every now and then, Dart would stop. As long as to be able to see just where they were.

<'Not too far from here.'> Dart said turning around to wait for his trainer and Jake. He decided to settle himself down into the crevice he'd found and peacefully waited for the humans. Ah the bitter truth of how sloth-like humans were. Quite literally. Four legs but only walked on two. Dart shook his head and clucked his tongue <'Humans. They're the last thing you'd expect to see dominating the world. But with those big heads of theirs I can't say I'm surprised.'>
 
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I nooded, as followed Riddel, moving with the same speed that she was. Her Ariados went scampering ahead of us, and ofr a minute I was afraid of losing sight of him, but Riddel didn't seem to worry much, moving at the same speed all the time. Flare-tamer and Vine-trap were fidgeting to run after the Ariados, and enjoy time with a fellow Pokémon, and even though I had no objections, they stayed by my side.

"So, do you think the water source your Pokémon found wil be clean enough for us to drink?"

<I hope so. I'm dying of thirst here. Could we pick up the pace?> muttered Flare-tamer.

I too would have liked to move faster, but I didn't suggest it to Riddel, keeping a straight face, and walking just behind Riddel.
 
Soon enough, Riddel could hear the trickle of a stream as it rolled down the incline. Dart was nearly jumping out of his exoskeleton by now, and he soon started rambling about how slow she was, and was attempting to make her go faster by way of his two antennae.

"Come on already Dart, we're nearly there, what's the point in wasting energy to run there?" Riddel asked peevishly "You're going to be going up ahead to look for a way out. I don't trust Toxin's directions."

<'Yes, yes, but we can take a break at the stream, and everything will be- AAND TAAA DAAHHH!'> Dart said, turning around as he felt one of his legs step into cool water.

Riddel sweatdropped as Dart grinned at her "Well, I guess it's okay to drink...But your cyndaquil should boil it first. Do you have any fireproof containers?" She asked, leaning over the water with her hands on her knees as she glanced at the cyndaquil "Because I'd hate to get sick out here."
 
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"Fire proof container? Well, I didn't exactly come out here prepared for cooking, as I expected to be heading to Viridian City, but let me see. The lady at the orphanage might have packed something like tat for me."

Sitting down near the side of the stream, I slipped off my backpck, and unzipped it, rummaging in it for a while. I noticed a pair of extra travel clothing, some biscuits that were now covered with ants. I quickly threw them out of my bag. Looking harder still, I saw a bunch of poké-balls, and my PokéDex. I also saw my wallet that I thought had been lost, and a small first-aid kit. Finally, I found a pan. I wondered what I would need that for, anyway.

"Here," I heaved as I pulled it out of the bag. "I hope it works. Vine-trap and I will go looking for wood, while you gather the water in the pan."
 
"Here, let's go. There's no point in sticking around in this forest. We'll probably strave soon anyway if we don't find a town."

He nodded at Jen, pushing off from the tree and starting to walk off in some random direction, for he had absolutely no idea where he was headed. Volley and Kale seemed to leap out of a nearby tree and land on the ground, taking one glance at Jen before starting to run after their trainer, who was already a couple yards away.

"C'mon, guys, help us try to find our way of here. There's gotta be someway. Hey, Kale, you've lived in this forest a long time, haven't you?"

Torne asked, stopping to turn around, while glancing at the Scyther. The green Pokemon nodded, looking around letting out a mighty roar.

"Well, you know it pretty well, don't you? Maybe there's someway you can lead us out of here..."
 
Riddel nodded and took the pan. It would have to do for now.

"Dart, why don't you look for a clear pathway out of here?" Riddel asked as she let the cool water dip into the pan "It'll be faster and easier if there aren't a whole bunch of bushes and trees in the way."

<'Yes ma'am.'> Dart said going stiff and marching off to look for a clean pathway.

When the pan was half-full, she set it aside, and decided to wash her hands off. She had no soap, but that didn't quite matter. Her hands weren't exactly dirty to an extreme extent, but she thought she should rinse before she picked out twigs from the water in the pan. And that was just what she did. After pulling out all the twigs that were left floating in the pan, she filled it up to the brim, and began the process over again, waiting patiently for Jake to get back.
 
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"Vine-trap, Razor Leaf!"

Vine-trap spun her leaf-like hands about in the air, conjouring leaf-shaped projectiles, and flew forward, right to the tree that she was aiming at. The leaves were sharp at the edge, and bore into the long branch, cutting it cleanly off from the dead tree. It fell with a thud onto the ground, and Vine-trap smiled, as the leaves just disappeared. Together, Flare-tamer and I took the branch, and added it to the many branches that we had already collected. They weren't very big, and thick, but they were dry enough for Flare-tamer's Ember to work, and that was good enough.

The three of us split the wood equally, and walked on, heading back towards Riddel, and the river. It was easy no to get lost, because the constant rumble of the stream was withing hearing-distance, and we really hadn't gone all that far away. We exited our path, and walked into the clearing, where we saw Riddel with the pan and water. her Ariados was nowhere in sight. No doubt it had probably walked off to find us a way out.

"Here are the logs we can use to get the fire going. Also, Vine-trap has lived in this forest, and knows it like the back of her hand. Maybe she should go looking for an exit. At least she wouldn't get lost, and she knows the safer places in the forest," I suggested, dropping my lot of logs with the others, and slowly positioning them in the right position to start a fire.

I waited for Riddel to answer, before starting the fire.
 
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