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A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

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"Don't worry, I'm not tricking you or anything. Believe it or not, I CAN be helpful sometimes, contrary to popular belief."

He said, rolling his eyes and continuing to walk along, helping her along and making sure that she didn't fall or anything. Henever felt like he had than before, he didn't really get many chances to help people. Throughout his life, most people had just ignored him and treated him as if he were invisible. It was a pretty sad thing, but Toren had learned to shake it off and act like he was emotionless, which he was pretty good at now.

Growlithe....was still barking at pretty much everything ins ight. Toren rolled his eyes at the little Pokemon, who was standing in front of a large tree, barking at it and thinking that it was a Sudowoodo, which it wasn't Once the dog figured that out, he ran off to a fyellow flower and tried to attack it...thinking that it was a Sunflora...which it wasn't either.
 
Cinna watched with her eyes while the dog went left... then right... then left again... Cinna tried to play along. She curiously nipped at a small bug, then tried to climb up a tree, then she couldn't get down the tree... THEN she fell out of the tree and decided to quit with her tail covering her face.
I just tried to stay up, but it was hard for obvious reasons.
"I can be helpful too, but yet very sensitive." I shrugged and continued limping and leaning on Toren's shoulder... what a weird position I was in.

Now my feet were getting sore, and there was a small breeze.
At least it isn't raining. At that thought, I gasped and hurriedly knocked on a tree. "Knock on wood!" Toren would probably have no Idea what I was talking about, but still...
 
Toren stared curiously at her for a moment, wondering what excatly she was knocking on the tree. Suddenly, without warning, he just burst out in laughter, clutching his stomach as he walked up to her, finally regaining a normal poisiotn and trying to speak in between the bouts of laughter.

"Ah ha ha- Oh, I'm sorry. it just confused me for a moment why you were doing that, but anyway, sorry."

He shrugged his head and stood beside her, his eyes darting between the tree and her, his mind wondering exactly what she had been doing. He then just shrugged his head and smiled, rolling his eyes and turning aroumd, looking off into space.

Growlithe stared at Cinna for a moment, before trotting cautiously over to her and cocking his head as well, almost as confused as Torn was.

<Umm, it's okay. It took me a while before I could get into trees. I'm sure you'll be able to do it...>

Growlithe said,staring up into the tree.
 
OOC:...I don't get it...0_0;;

And, should we wait for Deathspector?
 
OOC:Don't worry about leaving me behind. My character's not much of a talker, anyway. Also, NC, don't worry. I do have time to read all this crap, but maybe try to post longer posts with a bity more expression (That goes for Diamond~Star, ut I can't really critisize because this is her first RPG). I'm not in the mood to RP, so continue doing whateve rit is tat you're doing.
 
OOC: So i'm guessing that means that you're wanting me to post longer posts? XD
IC: I was hoping we would find that girl soon. If we didn't, I might have time to think about apologizing to her. It was lucky that Toren found me; I could've been anywhere. Hopefully none of us will turn up as an ekans' dinner. They creep me out. Big time. Cinna was still back there paralyzed from her fall. "Hold on," I whispered to Toren.
I limped over to my pokemon and she immidiately hopped into my arms, which were now tightly covered in bandages. So while Cinna got the bumpy ride of her life in my arms, I was the one who had to look out for the danger for us two.

The sound of the creek faded. I hope I didn't forget anything... I thought.

The wind was still blowing and the sun was still peeping through the trees.
"We're never going to find anyone at this rate!" I blurted out. Startled, Cinna leaped out of my arms and clung to a tree, trembling.
I sighed. She'll learn...

<'You scare me...'> Cinna's claws were dug into the tree, while I was just standing there, twitching.
"Next time actually try to climb up the tree, so you can find a nice ekans that wants to eat us all."
It was a fact. I was miserable. All my life things were happening that just made my life worse.
Everything and anything I do is wrong, but the one mistake I didn't make, the one out of all, was choosing this Eevee for my partner.
I Was a mistake.

Walking in those woods was probably never going to end, we would probably never find our way out and then starve to death.
 
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OOC: I'm going on a camping trip with the school, and shan't be back until Sunday. I'll post then, but please, do not post more than twice a day. Once will suffice, or even once every two or three days is fine. Just don't let this RPG die...please...
 
Toren stopped in his tracks, watching as Jen held CInna in her arms. The little Eevee then leaped out of her arms and ran over to a tree, clinging to it and muttering something to Jen quietly. Toren watched curiously as she said something about an Ekans eating them all, and Toren sighed, his eyes daring in between the miserable trainer and the scared Pokemon.

Toren walked slowly over to Jen, reaching up and resting his hand on her shoulder for a minute.

"Look, everything's gonna work out. If you're constantly worrying about everything, then there's no hope for us. Just try to stay hopeful, if you're never gonna feel better

He smiled at her then shrugged his head, starting to walk forward, letting his arm drop back down and rest comfortably at his side. He blinked a couple times, for he felt as if something was in them, maybe it was sand or something like that that had been caught in the wind.

Growlithe starded curiously at Cinna, wondering why she had clung to a tree and told Jen that she was afraid of her. He barked a little bit to reassure the Eevee, then shrugged his head and started to chase after Toren, his tongue flailing out wildly and panting.
 
Cinna decided to rest her tired arms. she fell into the bush below her, coming out with five pine needles in her tail, a taillow pecking continuously on her head, and a scowl on her face. Cinna furiously shook her head and the Taillow flew away, out of sight.

I couldn't help but to chuckle. Cinna showed me three shiny and very sharp claws sticking out of her paw. I backed away away cautiously and chuckled weakly. "Sorry, couldn't help it." It was my turn to cling to a tree, now.
Cinna smirked at me and retracted (I think that's the right word XDXD) her needle-sharp claws.
I turned around to face Toren. I just hope we get out of here-- we have no idea how big this forest is, or what's in it. I looked around, as if a seviper was going to slither out from a nearby bush or tree and bring me to my end.
Cinna was now next to growlithe, staring at me.
I stuck my tongue out at her.
She stuck hers out at me.
We continued this for about a minute or two until I heard rustling.
"We'd better go..." I suggested. "Who knows what's lurking around."
 
Toren smiled at Jen for a moment, wondering why exactly it was that she was acting so paranoid at something leaping out of the bushes and bring them all to thier doom. Okay, so maybe he was a LITTLE frightened, but who wouldn't be in the middle of a forest in the middle of nowhere? No one, that's who.

Growlithe cocked his hsead, staring at Cinna curiously. He, like Toren with jen, was wondering why she was behaving so strangely. It seemed that the fire dog was having the same troubles as his human trainer. Guess they're more alike then they thought they'd ever be. Who would have ever guessed that? No one, that's who.

"Jen, let's just go. Don't worry, it's probably just a zigzagoon looking for fruit or something. Just try to not think bad thoughts."

he smiled faintly at her again and then started to walk forward, looking back at Growlithe and waiting on the dog for him to follow. Reluctantly, growlithe nodded and ran after Toren, panting and letting his tongue hang out like most dogs did. Toren shrugged and sighed, wishing that all this could have just been a dream, after all, who wouldn't? No one, that's who.
 
After using a potion on the Ekan's, Riddel decided to do a little training, just to see how much this pokemon could do.

She had wandered away from the clearing she was originally in, attatching a peice of Dart's string shot to her hand as she walked around so she wouldn't get lost. When she'd found just the spot for training, she commanded a Poison Sting from the snake pokemon, which released a barrage of white twig like stings at the farthest tree's bark.

The tree was a good 20 feet away, and Riddel frowned when the Poison Sting fell halfway there. She shook her head. Dart would've made his target easily.

"Good try." She said nonetheless "Let's go a little smaller." She looked up at a tree that was merely 6 feet away, and after sending another array of Poison Sting at the tree, she examined the damage the poison had done.

The poison was much stronger then Dart's though. She noticed this when she fingered the bark, which was burning away underneath her fingertips. Riddel flinched when her skin touched a bit of the melting bark, and cursed "Holy Sh**!" She shouted as she bit the finger in between her teeth.

Ekan's slithered up to Riddel who laughed "Maybe I give a little too little credit." The snake pokemon merely looked at her quizically and poked his forked tounge out once or twice.

"We should think of a nickname for you. You're poison is strong. How about...Toxin?" She asked patting the snake on the head while it rattled it's tail around and slithered up and around her arm, resting it's head on her shoulder "You like it?" She asked grinning as she made her way back to the clearing "We'll test out your wrap on some other pokemon if we run into one."

Riddel promptly stopped smiling when she reached the clearing again though and she quickly began to gape "Dart!!!"

The spider jerked like a little kid caught playing with fire, and quickly scuttled around with a look that nearly said it for him--

<'I didn't know you'd be back so soon!'> He said innocently.

"There's spider webbing all over this place!" She said still looking at the now sticky clearing.

<'Well, I couldn't exactly cut off my string shot or you'd be lost, and I didn't want to stay in the same place and....this is the result." Dart said turning around in a circle and making more webbing.

"Cut it off now, and clean up this mess!" Riddel said slapping her forehead in exhasperation.

Toxin hissed <'Doesn't bother me none.'>

<'Yeah see?'> Dart said, though he'd already begun to gather up the webbing <'Ekan's here agrees with me.'>

<'Thatssss Toxxxin.'> Toxin hissed crawling into a bundle underneath the shade of a tree.

"Yeah, well, you stay here and make sure no pokemon get comfortable here. Me and Dart are gonna go get some firewood." Riddel said looking at Dart who quickly dumped the webbing in a nearby bush and crawled ahead of Riddel.

<'FIREWOOD HO!'> Dart said, pointing his antennae forward.

"It's wood Dart. Calm down." Riddel said raising her eyebrows.

<'I'vvvve an idiot for a companion.'> Toxin hissed with a sigh as he rested in the shade of the tree, the sky turning a light shade of pink mized with the bright blue of day.
 
OOC: I'm back! Sorry about the wait. Right'o, let's get going.

IC:

I shook my head.

Jen and Toren were so uptight and bossy at times that I wondered if I should have made friends with them. Suddenly, one would walk off, and the other would follow without any consideration as to how I felt. I felt rather forgotten as the two of them were friends, and to them, I was just some idiot on the side of the street. I knew that I'd never have a chance of making friends with anyone of the poeple who saw me lose my battle to the Ariads-girl.

I shuddered.

The very mention of the Pokèmon brought back bad memories. And those bad memories brought back something else that I had forotten. Cyndaquill! He was still fighting with the Bellsprout. I had complete forgotten about my Pokèmon, the only true friend of mine. He stuck by me. And I deserted him The very thought made me want to throw up.

I quickly skirted the clearing, and zipped into the undercover of the canopy. Quickly retracing my steps, I walked back to where I remembered Cyndaquill to be. Sure enough, he was there, battling endlessly. But he was weakened, and I could see it. The continuous barrage of Razor leafs was too much. He turned around when he heard me.

<Jake...> I heard him mutter weakly.

"Come on, Cyndaquill, you can do. I believe you. I know that –"

I was interupted as another Razor Leaf cut his face, and he fell to the ground, twitching in pain. I knew that this was not good.

I jumped to his side, but suddenly, there was s light spark on his back. I held my breath. It came again, this time louder. Soon, a small fre was alight on his back. Cyndaquill looked up at the Bellsprout, anger flaring from his eyes. The flame on his back grew in size, until it seemed like the little Pokèmon was made of flames itself.

"Wow.."
 
No matter what anyone said, I was still full of fear. jumping everywhich way from the noises of the forest. That was one thing Me and my pokemon have in common.

I stopped and squinted hard into the forest. A glowing red flame shown between trees and bushed.
"Hey, look over here, maybe it's a friend."
I crept into that direction, still squinting. I kneeled behind a tree nearby to see what it was.
A cyndaquil.
Jake's Cyndaquil.
I finally realised I shouldn't have run of like that. I poked my head through to see if I could spot him-Jake.
Naturally, there he was.
"Hey..." I stumbled out from behind the tree and onto my feet. "Sorry about ditching you earlier..." I looked down towards my feet at the casts
on me.
"Like I told Toren- everyone thinks it's the girls that need babying, the ones that need the most attention."
I hoped Toren had followed me.
 
Toren was sort of ahead Jen, so he hadn't really noticed that Jen wasn't following him. As he walked for a little bit, he realized that he heard no sound behind him and turned back, sweeping around the area though his eyes and his eyes widening as he saw Jen nor Cinna anywhere in his view.

Crap...where did she get to?

He "muttered" to himself in his head, beginning to retrace his steps and look around, his eyes darting in every perceivable direction. Yet, he still didn't see her. Growlithe began to bark loudly and try to pick up on her scent, but it had vanished after she had washed herself in the river where they had found her earlier.

Toren, as his nature usually made him, began to worry and wonder where she had run off too. She probably just walked off because she was anooyed with him, which she probably was. At least, that's what his mind came up with, the ONLY thing it came up with, which waspretty normal. His mind thought that just about everyone who met him would begin to dislike him after only a couple minutes. There's confidence for you, eh?
 
I turned back and saw nothing but mostly green and brown. I twitched.
Is Toren annoyed with me? Trying to get me lost just because I'm weird?
I thought.
I'm sure.
I sighed. How could anyone blame him? I was a freak! I could never make any friends. I never will. I'm just one of those people who just can't act right. It's part of my life. Everything goes wrong. Although Cinna was still by my side; only because she was the same. What was wrong with me?
I let it all go- all at once.
I don't care if I ever get a boyfriend! I don't care if everyone thinks I'm weird! I don't care if people talk about me behind my back! I can do whatever I want- including commiting suicide.
I searched around me for somethign sharp or poisonous. I found just about the sharpest rock I had ever seen.
 
Toren looked around until he finally saw some sort of figure in the distance. He squinted his eyes, not being able to tell who it was, whether it be Jen, Jake, or anybody else who had been teleported along witht him. As he made his way closer, he finally realized that it was Jen who he had been looking at. He breathed a sigh of relief and was glad that he had found her at last. Losing someone in a strange forest was not exactly something that he wanted to be doing.

"Oh, there you are...Hey, what are you doing?"

He asked, walking up to her and noticing that she seemed to be carrying a very sharp-looking rock in her hands. The way that Jen had been acting in the past couple of hours made him realize what she was up to. It seemed that the girl before him was chock-full of depression...which was not a very good think.

"Don't even think about it!"

He said, grabbing the rock from her and hurling it through the air until it landed softly in the grass several yards away with a slight crashing sound. After he pulled his hand back, he winced in pain as he realized that he had cut himself deeply while wrestling the rock from Jen. He looked down at his now-bleeding wound and tried to hide it behind his back as his gaze returned to a no-doubt surprised girl.
 
Riddel sighed as she put wood upon Dart's abdomen. It would be enough to last the night. She tied her jacket sleeves around the bundle as Dart zoomed back to the clearing with incredible speed.

By securing the firewood with stones, she lit a match. A match that only barey managed to light the smallest stick, but she soon had a good fire going. She'd have to use her matches sparingly. To be sure just how cold the nights got, she'd have to use one tonight.

<'Man, I'm pooped.'> Dart said as he returned himself, Toxin doing the same, hissing a 'night' as he did so.

And so Riddel was alone. The peace was nice. The simple crackling of the fire meant that nobody would bother her. It was sort of like home. Just the air was a little too fresh and the air a little too cold for her tastes. Somehow, she didn't feel homesick at all. It wasn't really as though her home was...her home. It was like a place to stay. For a long vacation.

She sighed and wrapped her arms around her knees, and put her chin upon them. It was cold, but she didn't want to take the time to take out the twigs and brambles in her jacket and put that on. So she scooted closer to the fire, feeding it every now and then to kill the time before she felt sleepy.
 
I stared wide-eyed at Toren. What had I done?!
"I was supposed to get cut!" I twitched at the maroon blood on Toren's palm.
I dug up another sharp rock and held it to my arm. I closed my eyes and felt the coldness of the object touch my arm. I gripped it hard.
"The last words I am going to say is that this journey in the forest t ought me a lesson, and for someone to say "Sorry" To That girl for me."
Everything raced through my mind. what about my parents? Friends? Family? Oh wait, I forgot, I have no true friends. So I thought.
I could see the pain in me already. Who cares. No one. I started to dig the rock into my arm when I felt a furry head-butt knock it out of my palm. Cinna.
The one true friend that I have. I forced my eyes open and saw her face, worried-like, almost crying.

"Please..." My eyes started to fill with tears, too. "Just let me go. Don't go and make this harder for us both."
I searched through the rocks until I found it again, with the tiniest bit of blood on the tip.
No turnin' back now. No one can stop me.
 
"Stop it!"

Toren cried out, grabbing the next rock and hurlling it away like he had done with the previous one. A little bit of the blood dropped to the ground as it soared through the air, and he turned his head back to look at Jen, who, to Toren, didn't look well at all.

"I know it seems like I've acted pretty careless in the past few...erm, hours that we've known each other, but I can say that I know that absolutely no one wants you to kill youself, even the Ariados girl. They all care about you, I....I care about you...."

He said painfully, continuing to hold his red hand behind his back. His eyes began to mist up a little bit, but he wiped it away with his blood-free hand and stared into Jen's own eyes, hoping that she would come to her senses and listen to what he was trying to tell her.

Growlithe, who had been following Toren, trotted up beside him and looked around, having no idea what was going on. he looked up at Toren, hoping to get an answer, but Toren just stared worriedly at his companion, biting his lower lip and waiting to see what Jen would do, brining his gaze back to her.
 
My brown eyes stared into his.
"You sure about that?"
I grabbed a pile of rocks-most of which were very dull- and threw them up into the air. My hair blew in my face.
"I want me to kill myself." With that I ran- anywhere, back to the river maybe, to go drown myself. Or maybe to find the arrowhead rocks, and kill myself that way.
"No one cares..." Were the last words I thought Toren would hear me say.
My feet were silent in the damp grass, so it was hard for Cinna to find me whenever she stumbled over a log or something. My green hairclip was still tightly in place in my hair. I jerked it out and held it in my palm. Good luck. Yeah, right. Why did I have to be the center of attention all the time? Why can't I just be normal, fit in?!
I kept running, now for no reason at all.
Toren- caring about ME? HA! That's a joke!
I ran. And ran. And tripped then ran again. I was born weird. Nothing to be proud of when I look in the mirror.
 
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