A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

[Memory]

I was too polite to scowl at Toren.
"Yes, that's my name." I nodded.
"Thanks, you're a big help, Nothing like Riddel, the Ariados girl."
Just the thought of her made it feel like the Ariados was crawling up my back now, the chills.
"I knew it wasn't a pokemon!" I glanced over at Toren, holding a pokeball in my hand. "I was about to see what you were, with my pokeball." I stared into the bright red and white orb, very plain. I could see the reflection behind me... and it wasn't just trees....
A blue pokemon was staring straight at me. I gasped and spun around.
Nidoran.
"Nidoran." I chuckled.
"Female." I nodded and put the pokeball to my chest. "Cinna, tackle!" Cinna was confused for a second, but then she leapt from my arms and charged towards Nidoran. The nidoran used tackle it self. Eevee prevailed. The Nidoran laid on the ground with a leg twitching. I softened up. "Hope you aren't hurt.." I closed my eyes and threw the orb at the female Nidoran.
My eyes were gleaming when I opened them. Going once... going twice... sold, to me. A new pokemon. Yes.
"Eevee!" I ran over and hugged my pokemon like I never had before. I let her loose of my grasp to go grab the pokeball.

"Sweet." I held it, in awe, at how fast I had captured my first pokemon.

 

[Zelos]

"Nice job."

Toren said, clapping his hands for a moment before shrugging his head and remaining in the tree, staring off into the sky. It was a bright blue color, as usual, and the sun peeked through the small clouds that surrounded it. He smiled, but then close his eyes again and rested comfortably, his arms crossed as before across his body.

Growlithe, whose ears perked up at the sound of a battle, watched as Cinna battled with the female Nidoran and finally prevailed, then seeing the human girl capture the Pokemon in a red sphere. He started to bark out loud, glad to see her winning a battle. He then lied back down and looked around cautiously, a little bored at just sitting in the tree with nothing at all to do but watch the humans around him act silly.

 

[Memory]

-------------"Thanks," I sighed and patted Growlithe's head.
I finally took the bandages and everything else from Jake, and smiled sweetly.
But then I blacked out. Had no Idea what happened. I had gotten dizzy, fallen onto the ground-- was that the end of me? Was I bleeding so badly for so long, that the loss of blood ended my life? I fell onto the ground motionless. I can vaguely (sp?) remember my pokemon's rough sand-paper tongue licking my face, saying, <Don't go, please, jen...>
And then I closed my eyes, not knowing if I would ever open them again.

 

[Zelos]

Toren stared wide eyed at Jen for a moment, then sighed and hopped out of the tree, taking a couple steps forward until he was standing over top of her body, looking down and motioning for Cinna, who was currently licking her and whispering something to jen, to back away while he bent down and inspected her body.

Hmm, she can't possibly be dead, can she? She did lose a lot of blood, but that should've only knocked her out...

He thought, looking at Growlithe who had hopped out of the tree and was currently running towards the group, his tongue hanging out and panting once he stopped beside of Toren, staring curiously at Jen and wondering why she was lying on the ground with her eyes closed.

"Umm, Jen?..."

Toren said, shaking her body slightly and trying to see if she had just tripped or something. he really hoped that she wasn't dead, for that would prove to be a very big problem. Growlithe tried to ask go up and lick her Jens face, but Toren stopped him and whispered for him to stay away with Cinna.

 

[Memory]

I was barely breathing, yet heavily breathing. Anything anyone said was just a blur of sounds. The bandages were loose in my palms, and I gave an attempt to get up. No luck. Gravity forced me to stay where the bugs were. Great.I hate gravity.
One thing's for sure- I'll have to get some other clothes on when this is over with. I felt some more licking on my face, and I felt a shadow over me. If it was Riddel, she was probably nagging at me that I should've used her first-aid kit. Toren, he would porbably do nothing at all. Jake, he might do something. Y'never know.

 

[Zelos]

Toren sighed and continued to shake her, wishing that she would just wake up. She did have plently of injuries strewn all over her body, and a heavy loss of blood, so the chances of her getting just by the shaking of her body was pretty slim chances, or so Toren thought. He shrugged his head and sat down on the ground, watching as Cinna desperately tried to wake Jen up with her tongue. Toren merely shook his head and sighed.

"C'mon, wake up. You seemed stronger than this back at Viridian..."

He said, watching as Growlithe crawled cautiously at jen's body, barking rather rapidly and loudly to see if he could get Jen to wake up. However, he was disappointed to find that his loud noises had absolutely no effect. He lied down on the ground and started to whine, thinking that Jen didn't like him because she wasn't responding.

 

[Memory]

I saw darkness. I had nightmares about what might happen to me. I woke up and gasped in an instant. I sat up, as if I was home, about to get a drink of water from the kitchen. Cinna backed off worried-like, and afraid. Still breathing heavily. I had a feeling that Toren had said something.
"My cuts have gotten bigger and bloodier, and I admit I'm a wimp and I'm sensitive." I turned around and started crying into my bloody hands. "I said something to me.... seriously need a body of water right about now," I said. The blood was stained and mostly dried up. It felt horrible and looked horrible. The raw wounds just made it worse. I sighed and thought how I could get medicine from a tree.
I grasped the bandages and started wrapping them furiously around my legs and arms. When I was done, my clothes were still bloody, but the raw wounds weren't showing, at least. I had extra clothed in my sack. "I really need to find a body of water, Now." I squinted into the daylight as I had just been looking at darkness and blood for the past five minutes.

 

[Deathspector]

IC:

I looked from Jen, to the Growlithe-boy, to the bush behind which Cyndaquill was battling, and back to Jen, ad sighed. The three of us humans here really were an odd group, and I would never have imagined that we'd be relying on each other for simple needs of life. I looked down at Jen's roughly done up bandages, and sighed. My brain began to think.

"Listen, Toren. One of us needs to stay here with jen, and help her redo her bandages so that they actually stop the blood flow, and be ready to recall Cyndaquill if he gets too weak, and the other one of use should go off in search for water. There's no use in dragging Jen along on this wild goose chase if we don't find any water. Who do you think it should be?"

 

[Zelos]

Toren stood up and looked back at Jake, who in Torens eyes seemed to be acting like some sort of leader over all of them. He clenched the two of his hands in fists for a moment, before sighing and walking away, whistling for Growlithe to follow him as he did.

"I'll go look for the water, you make sure that Jen's okay."

He said emotionlessly, continuing to walk with his back facing the two of them. Growlithe stood there for a moment, his head darting in every direction and his eyes traveling in between Jake, Jen, and Toren, pondering what to do. Since Toren was his trainer, he barked a little then whined as he began to chase after Toren, his tongue waving around wildly and panting.

Water....water....where could it? Could be anywhere...

He thought, looking around cautiously as he walked. He had absolutely no idea where he was, and had dropped a couple pieces of a torn cloth so that he wouldn't get lost. Growlithe folowed eagerly after him, though he did look back a couple times to see if Jen and Jake were still in sight....which they weren't.

 

[Loki]

OOC:I never told you my name Diamon~Star ^_^ Jen doesn't know Riddel is Riddel.

IC: Riddel was nothing but pissed. Here she was, on the start of an accursed journey, and she didn't know where the h*ll she was! Her brow furrowed as she tried to think of a plan. For some odd reason, her compass was flying everywhere now, and much help it was to her.

<'You know Riddel, I think we should stop. It feels kinda late.'> Dart said as his antennae waved themselves around <'Not as warm as before.'>

"If this place is cold during the night I may as well just kill someone." Riddel sighed as she permitted Dart to hop down the tree they were in "Are you sure it's getting late?" She asked looking through the canopy "It looks pretty daytime to me."

The spots of light passing through the leaves certainly weren't pink, and instead they were the usual color of blinding white.

<'Fine, if it's not late, then it feels late. I'm pooped!'> Dart said shooting a string shot onto a sturdy branch and scuttling up it <'Night!'>

"Hey, you can get into your pokeball you know!" Riddel said notioning toward her waist.

<'Naw.'> Came the sleepy reply.

Riddel sighed and looked around herself. She was in a tiny clearing, no larger then the size of herself spread across the ground. There wasn't much to do, so she gathered a few sticks, and lined them with tightly woven rocks and stones. It would be a small fire when it was started, but Riddel didn't quite care at that present moment.

She would dig out her flint stone and her pocketknife later.

As she sat against the rough bark of a nearby tree, she thought. Thought of anything but her past of course. Thought of how she dearly wanted to be anywhere but here. She truly wanted to be home, as that bloodied girl wanted to be. But did she impose her wishes upon the others? Perhaps her semi-okay wishes, of wanting the girl to clean up her wounds. But her blood trail would make it too easy for big pokemon looking for a nice meal to follow. And personally, Riddel didn't feel like dying in the sad sad way of being apart of the food chain.

Rash or not, the girl hadn't accepted Riddel's attempt to 'help' but it didn't quite matter. If she was going to let herself bleed to death until her boyfriend found her again, Riddel quite frankly, didn't care. She was no help to Riddel when they were traveling, simply a burden that she and Dart had to carry. Perhaps had she been even in the slightest way useful, then Riddel may have decided to be even in the slightest way, nicer.

That girl needed to learn how to take orders without questioning them. It was the easy way out of life, but no! She had to complicate things by making them 'feel guilty' about 'being mean'. Perhaps she had been under the impression that Riddel would run after her, and apologize. If so, had she not seen the look on Riddel's face? Had she not heard the cold and bitterness Riddel had in her voice when she spoke to her?

Dart snorted and shifted in the tree rather loudly, and came crashing down, hanging by his abdomen with a thin thread of string.

"What an idiot." Riddel said smiling at him.

What a great companion.

 

[Memory]

OOC: Sorry, Naoko XD; I'll just say the Ariados girl.
IC: I was still dizzy from the fall, but at least my wounds were covered.
"Okay, I'm going to go find a body of water myself. Don't worry, I will redo my bandages after I clean myself up. The Farther away from that Ariados girl I get, the better off I am." I refrained from using any cussing words in that sentence.
My eye twitched just thinking about that girl. Sound of water... smell of water... anything! I needed water, and I needed it bad. To my relief, I heard the faint sound of water splashing or flowing, could've been a creek, maybe even a waterfall.
I asked Cinna to sniff it out for me, and I followed wherever she led.
<There. We're really close now!> Cinna started running and I limped closely behind, through the green grass. There were now more trees, and I was staring to see vines above my head. I rushed through those parts.
<There ya go. One creek right there.> Cinna puffed out her chest proudly.

"Thank you Cinna!" I was about to huggle her, but I decided to wash myself off first. I hurried into some clean clothes after washing off for a few minutes, and started scrubbing my dirty ones hard with water and rocks. I was hoping I had a swimsuit, I could use a little break. I searched my bag with everything in it now strewn all around the riverbank. "Darn, nothing." I hurried here and there to pick up all of my belongings. Oh, how I wanted to take a dive into that beautiful clear creek. I sat down, enjoying the sound and smell.

 

[Zelos]

Toren sighed and started walking back towards the area where Jen and Jake were, disappointed in himself for having absolutely no luck in finding any water whatsoever. He normally was good at finding things, but ever since he had been teleported to this place in the middle of no where everything that he ahd known had gone topsy-turvy.

"Hey, I couldn't f-.."

He said, pausing beside a large tree as he noticed that Jen was no longer in the clearing, but had walked off somewhere, leaving Jake just standing there. Toren sighed and turned away, muttering "stupid" to himself as he walked away. Jake had let Jen walk off by herself, and who knows what could happen out here? never know when some Pokemon will jump out and shred you to pieces.

As he walked along, Toren kept letting his eyes dart in every direction to see if he could spot Jen. He had not been gone that long, so she couldn't have walked off that far, but then again, he might be walking into the complete opposite direction of where she was, he had no idea where he was, after all.

Then, suddenly, Growlithe's ears perked up as he heard the faint sounds of rushing water in the distance. Without warning to Toren, the little dog began running off, leaving a dumbstruck Toren to just stand there and stare. Finally, he gathered that Growlithe knew where he was going and so started chasing after him.

Once Growlithe had stopped around a huge clump of trees and was now sniffing around. He had been following the sound of water and Jens scent, but now it had disappeared, however, it seemed like the water was right beside of them. Toren shrugged and walked around the trees, breathing a sigh of relief when he saw Jen, along with Cinna.

"There you are...."

 

[Memory]

Startled, I turned around.
"I'm not one to stay still for so long, and I don't need babying, either." I was looking down at my bandages, now tightly in place.
"I can do things myself, I'm fifteen, after all."
I could still hear the running water behind me, and my bloody dirty clothes were laying right next to me in a puddle of water with some pebbles on top.
"My mum gave me five chores each day. One was washing laundry, that's one of the reasons I started my pokemon journey--no more chores,"
I sat there with my arms wrapped around my legs.

 

[Zelos]

"I never said you needed babying, nor did I say that you couldn't do things."

He said, hopping up into the tree he was leaning against and staring down at her, wondering why she seemed be acting like she HAD to stick up for herself at every turn. Toren may have been a little cold towards her earlier, but he was a little angry about being teleported to the middle of no where, after all, who wouldn't?

"Look, I'm sorry about before, I don't normally act like that, I guess that I'm just a little frustated..."

He said, sighing and crossing his arms, then closing his eyes and lying down in the tree, wishing that this all could just be a dream. Growlithe shrugged and prepared for a minute, finally gathering enough never to attempt to jump into the high-up tree, which he did, surprisingly. He barked happily when he made it and curled up in one of the large branches, closing his eyes and resting comfortably as well as Toren.

 

[Memory]

My back was turned to Toren.
"I'm sorry, too. I just want to prove that I'm not a girly-girl, I'm a tom-boy."
I sniffled.
"Everyone thinks that a girl is a wimp, and can't do anything for themself. I want to prove that theory wrong," I sighed and sniffled.
"It's not fun having everyone babying you,"
At that I stopped speaking.
I sat there in silence, with the sound of the creek racing.
What was I going to have to do to prove myself? I'm not a girly-girl!
I thought, and my body stiffened all over.
Cinna was scraping the side of the tree, wanting to get up there herself.
I still had my back turned. If I wanted to prove myself, I wouldn't do it weeping and sitting in silence by a creek. Then I realised it: The girl was right.
"I have to go apologize to The Ariados girl and the Ariados. She was right," I stood up and Cinna hopped into my arms,putting her paw on my arm and whimpering, <"I want to go up there with Growlithe...">

 

[Zelos]

"Well, come on then. Although I really don't think that she is going to really care about your apology."

He said, sitting and uncrossing his arms, staring down at Jen for a moment before hopping out of the tree and shrugging his head. Growlithe stared curiously at Toren for a moment, before twitching his ears for a moment and then leaping out of the tree and landing gracefully on the ground, barking a little bit to relieve himself then looking around.

Toren sighed and walked away a little bit, then stopped beside of a diferent tree a couple yards away, waiting on the others to follow. Growlithe whined a little bit then shrugged, starting his legs up and chasing after his trainer.

 

[Memory]

Cinna was still in my arms as I began to follow Toren. That girl... was mean... she didn't understand the meaning of fun... but she was right. Absolutely right. I had to do it. The only thing that I wondered was where she actually was. It terrified me to think that all of us were split up in a place that we had never even seen before.

As I limped through the woods, I thought about someone. My mom, who was in Utah, right now. If she knew what I had done to myself, she would be furious with me. I was also thinking about my computer... and how long it would be until I started drawing again... until I was home. Some place that I know of,some place that I'm used to. How far was I away from home? I had no clue, nore did anyone else. There was constant rustling in the trees, probably ekans'. I thought about Cinna and Nida, my new Nidoran, and thought how they felt. If they dream, as pokemon, If they aren't telling me something. If they understand something I don't. Pokemon is like a whole other world. They're all creatures... all animals...
Somethign made me come to my senses. I bumped into a tree. I rolled my eyes and continued limping.

 

[Zelos]

Toren continued to lead the way through the forest, but he paused for a moment and turned back when he heard strange noise. He noticed that Jen had bumped into a treem but didn't seem to be fazed by it and kept walking. Toren shrugged his head and kept walking, but kept that thinking about how he saw that she had been limping, or at least looking like she was having trouble walking behind him.

"Here, lean on me."

He said taking a couple steps back towards her, blowing some if his brown hair away from his face, mainly his eyes because it had been blocking his vision. He stopped beside of Jen, sticking his shoulder out and waiting on her. He shrugged his head and stared down at the ground, his light blue eyes darting in between all the little blades of grass that were dancing by the slight breeze that blew through the area.

Growlithe, who seemed to be througly enjoying himself, hopped around like some sort of maniac and barked at pretty much everyhting he saw. Trees, bushes, the occasional flying pokemon that passed by in the air, anything that caught his eye, really. He was known for having fun despite whatever situation he was in, back at the lab anyway.

 

[Loki]

<'Nrrffghlurgh.'> Dart jerked in his sleep, and the string shot snapped in half. Not because Dart had moved. Oh no, it was much stronger then that. But because Riddel had thrown a well aimed pebble at the string, pushing it in half, and making Dart fall to the ground with a 'thump'.

<'What happened to World War III mommy?'> Dart mumbled through as haze of sleep as he lazily got to his feet.

"Long gone my dear honey bun." Riddel said sarcastically "Let's find some pokemon."

<'What?'> Dart said shaking the haze in his eyes away <'Pokeymon, yeah sure.'>

Riddel sighed as she looked up into the treetops and felt her mouth open slightly in surprise. She'd definetly missed that detail. Hanging from the upper branches were hundreds of Kakuna. And as they always said, where there were Kakuna, there were Beedrill.

<'Oh yeah, seen that have you?'> Dart asked looking up too <'They won't bother us. Not with me here they won't. Know I'm hungry they do.'>

Riddel sweatdropped "Your hungry? What do you eat beedrill or something?"

<'Only if I'm really hungry. I do like Kakuna with a dash of pidge-'> Dart was interuppted by Riddel, who snapped, "TMI! Too much information!"

<'Well it's an Ariados's natural instinct you know, sorta like sleeping, finding a place to live, mating-'>

"You are so discreet." Riddel said sarcastically "Get one of those Kakuna down from the tree will you? I want to see what it can do."

<'It won't do much, it'll just piss off the beedrill around here.'> Dart said shaking his head <'It'll be sure as heck of a smart move to piss of a colony of beedrill.'>

"...Alright alright. We'll wait then. For lone beedrill if there is such a thing." Riddel said looking up at the snoozing Kakuna.

<'No such luck.'> Dart said shooting a stringshot at Riddel's feet.

She had been so enthralled with watching the Kakuna she hadn't even noticed the Ekan's that was crawling around her in a silent circle. Dart had though, and was presently thrashing at it with fury swipes.

It was a short battle, as the ekan's was rather low level, but nonetheless, Riddel tossed a pokeball toward the ekan's as the dot in the middle flashed red over and over, until a familiar 'dong' was heard.

"Tryin' to get a big meal huh?" Riddel asked picking up the pokeball "Should've asked your mom to get it for you. Besides, an Arbok would be a nice addition to the team. But you'll have to do. Nice solo work Dart."

<'Thank you kindly ma'am.'> Dart said saluting Riddel <'ekan's are a pain in the butt, that's all I can say.'>

 

[Memory]

"Okay..." I raised my eyebrow at this. I thought, He was offering me this Why? I shrugged it off and did what he said, telling my pokemon to stay down beside me.
"The wounds may be covered, but that doesn't mean they don't hurt." I flinched about every step I took even with the help of Toren. Cinna walked cautiously behind Growlithe, occasionally looking from side to side to see if she coud spot any dangerous pokemon, so she could run away. None yet.
Cinna was not usually jumpy like this, but then again she's not usually lost in a forest, either.