Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Rejected ❯ Drown with Me ( Chapter 6 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Sorry about the confusion in Chapter 6 for those that read the original, non-modified version...

I originally wanted to have Mewlt (the main character) have a split personality complex... but while it looked great in the plan... when I got to actually writte the story, the complex just got in the way of the main plot.

As such, I'm dumping the idea. Not a great loss since the complex actually hampered the progress of the story.

Well, that's all. Enjoy!

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CHAPTER 6: DROWN WITH ME
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When I awoke, the forest was dark... way too dark...

Ominous grey stripes covered the sky, keeping the daylight from reaching the ground.

The air was humid and smelt foul. Every part of my body and soul was gripped by instinctive fear...

I felt the physical contact of a furball... I tought it to be Cherlie so I ignored it... but then, I caught sight of something...

Cherlie stood before the leader of the Pikachu pack, that moronic Raichu Electy, speaking about something...

Wait a minute! If Cherlie's there... then who...

I turned to face the furball that was grasping the tip of my tail. Gripping it with all of his limited strenght like a terrified puppy, Spark, the child of Zapple, cried in it's sleep...

Spark opened his or her eyes... Ugh! Cannot guess Spark's gender and this annoys me!... and asking a child's gender isn't quite... appropriate either.

Anyway, I'll call Spark an "he" until I find out what is his true gender.

... why am I being bothered by such a detail? This little Pichu is sleeping next to me when he should be with his mother!... by the way...

I look around... but neither my eyes, neither my psychic senses catch any glimpse of the female Pikachu...

I turned to the Pichu for anwsers. Maybe he knew where his mother was?

"Why are you sleeping there? Shouldn't you be with your mother?" I asked the little child.

The child begun to cry loudly! "Hey! Calm down! Calm down!"

I tried to comfort the little child... and after a short while, he calmed down enough to speak... altought hot tears still poured from his eyes. "Electy got angry at mommy... Tied mommy to a big rock and dumped her in the river."

Instantly, I felt as my spine had been encased in ice. I felt my whole body shaking with horror and disgust...

That rotten Raichu... why? Why did he killed an innocent mother? Why did he executed such a gratuitous act of cruelty by murdering this child's mother?

I closed my eyes... and I tried to ease my heart by telling myself that I had the most rotten luck of all times, meeting a pack led by a rotten heartless Pokemon who tought he had the right to kill, just like that, for apparently no reason...

But what about the child? Why did he came to see me? He should have seeked comfort from his father... not from some random stranger, like me! Sure, I saved his life... but... what about his father? He cannot be... an orphan, doesn't he?

"Spark... where is your father?" I asked.

Spark wiped the tears in his face and then pointed at Electy, the Raichu who murdered his mother...

"He's not my uncle... he's my daddy... but he'll kill me if I say it in front of me. I'm an Omega, an undesired child born by accident..." he said.

As his words reached my mind, I understood why the little Spark was so hopefull that the Raichu would increase the rank of his mother and himself, thus granting them rights... but I figured out that this Raichu had only wanted to unleash his reproductive instincts on a random female and that Zapple ended up being the victim of his fever... and now, he eliminated the evidence. No one would ever be able to confirm whenever or not Spark truly is the son of the leader...

SLAP!

"OOOOW!!!" screamed the Raichu as Cherlie slapped him with all of her strenght!

Cherlie turned away from the Raichu. "DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK TO ME, FEMALE!" he yelled.

Cherlie didn't anwsered... and then, the Raichu jumped off the tree stump. His face... was out of a nightmare. His eyes seemed to glow with psychopatic fury... his grin... was one of a maniac...

I stepped foward, now fully awake, Spark following me and still gripping on my tail, as not to lose me in the crowd of Pikachus and Pichues...

Noticing I was approaching, Electy turned to me... "This is none of your business, stranger!" he said.

"Leave Cherlie alone." I said. My tone was calm and serious but not threatening... but I knew that if someone looked into my eyes, he would guess that I meant business. I was not going to let this Raichu do as he please.

"You have nothing to do with us, psychic Pokemon! Leave this matter to the hands of our pack!" he said.

"Cherlie is not a member of your pack." I stated.

The Raichu's grin widened... "Lone females that enter our territory are automatically accepted into the pack. As such, that Minun is now technically under MY authority!"

"Oh no! I don't think so!" said Cherlie, anger visible all over her face.

The Raichu laughed. "Hahahaha! Oh come on! You have nowhere to go, besides here! I'm being nice, after all! Unstead of rank Omega, I'm offering you a Delta position. Heck! If you accept to do just a few little... "tasks"... then maybe I could even give you Beta rank, right away! Really, it's not an opportunity that you can refuse!"

That... that DISGUSTING NO GOOD... I can't believe this! So much arrogance... This Electy is a MONSTER!

"I already am in a pack. Take your offer and shove it where the sun doesn't shine!" replied Cherlie harshly. Her voice was calm... but sharp... and her eyes and lowered ears were physical signals of her internal fury.

The Raichu grinned. "Members of other packs are not allowed on our territory!... but well, since you're pretty, I'll let you here! But... first, I want to see another member of your pack. After all, you could have made up that to escape my authority!"

Cherlie turned to me. I nodded.

"Mewlt is a member of my pack." she stated.

The Raichu raised an eyebrow. "Huh? Who is Mewlt?"

Cherlie pointed at me. "Mewlt, say hi."

I waved at the Raichu and smiled... but despite my best efforts, my smile turned out cold and my eyes still glowed with hatred and disgust...

"Huh? You are..." The Raichu's eyes widened, his ears stood up. Then... he laughed. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHAA!!! Very funny! VERY FUNNY! You're with this kitty?!?"

She nodded. The Raichu smiled. "Well... you sure are a weird pack if you accept kitties in your pack!... or maybe you were accepted in a psychic Pokemon pack? Anyway! What's your relationship with that Mewlt guy?"

Cherlie was obviously very annoyed by the Raichu's insistance. Her right ear rose straight up while her left one fell to the side. Her eyes widened with frustration. "Why would it matters?!?"

Raichu grinned. "Heh! Well... I'm just interested. Curiosity, they say!"

Cherlie didn't anwsered. "Not in the mood to talk? Fine then!"

The Raichu got back on the tree stump and shot a thunderbolt into the sky, gaining everyone's attention.

"OK! Listen up, everybody! I just spoke with the two strangers... and it appears that they're visitors, sent by another pack... altought I do not know which pack and don't even know what type of pack it is. Nonetheless, I believe we can trust them... so be nice to the cat Pokemon and the Minun or be banished!" he announced.

He turned to Spark and grinned evilly... "Also... we will show the visitors that we know how to manage a pack correctly, let us go to the river!"

With that said, the Raichu jumped off the tree stump and everyone followed him. Cherlie, Spark, and I, stood there for a while however...

Spark had restarted sobbing...

"What's wrong, little guy?" asked Cherlie.

"It's... it's the cleaning day!" sobbed the Pichu.

"And...?" asked Cherlie, still confused as why the child cried.

"I'm an orphan!" he stated.

Cherlie's eyes widened... Sure, it was sad that his mother was dead and that his father was a jerk but... why did he sobbed at the idea of that "cleaning day" or whatever it is?

"Cherlie... what is the cleaning day?" I asked.

Cherlie gulped and stood there, as if struck by horror... and then, after what seemed to be an eternity, she anwsered.

"For the good of the pack, weak Pokemon which slow down the pack are eliminated. This includes the handicapped, old Pokemon who are no longer physically fit, the seriously injured, and the orphans." she explained.

"This is... terrible... but Spark, you are safe." I said. "He may be a jerk... but Electy is your father."

The child sobbed even more loudly. "He doesn't love me! He doesn't even aknowledge I exist! Nobody does!"

I felt a wave of sadness rising within me... and I seen Cherlie do so as well. Cherlie picked up the child and hugged him, trying to comfort him... "Calm down... calm down... we care about you. We care about you..."

The child stared at Cherlie, not sure... "You... care about me?"

"Yes we do." anwsered Cherlie. She turned toward me. "We do, don't we?"

I nodded. "Yes, we do. We won't let that Raichu kill you."

The child closed his eyes, as if thinking... and then, he looked to Cherlie. "Daddy will get angry if we don't catch up... please... let's go."

This was a good idea and as such, we walked out of the clearing and into the forest, toward the river...

The trees had grown in size in the forest and the ominous grey stripes in the sky had turned black. The whole forest was plunged in darkness now despite the fact that it was the day and the trees had grown black, the leaves forming a veil of darkness. Everywhere, I had the feeling that wicked Pokemon stared at us, grinning and laughing insanely...

It was so... creepy... it felt identical to the march toward death in the Defect Center... when the Defects gathered at the edge of their cages to stare at the Defects doomed to death throught battle or just plain execution...

After what seemed to be forever, we made it back to the river. It was as clear as ever... but it seemed creepy to me for some reason. All motivation to swim in it was taken out of my mind... for this was not a river... it was a guillotine and a tomb.

Standing on the edge of the river was several Pikachus. Two of them were old, one had an ear missing, the fourth one seemed normal, the fifth and final one had it's legs completely crippled.

The first ederly Pikachu was crying. "Why are you doing this to us? I'm not weak! I can still make myself useful! Please!"

The other ederly Pikachu turned to the other and smiled, despite his situation. "Do not cry, my friend. The time has come to return to the Earth which gave birth to us... and it is better to do so in such a way than to wait for the cold hand of Death to do so herself."

The normal Pikachu turned to the elders. "It's easy for you to say! You lived for fifteen years! I'm just a year old! I barely reached maturity! I won't even live to see my daughter being born! All that becease that my thunderbolts are so small..."

The third one closed her eyes. This female had only one ear... "I was born with the hearing of a human unstead of the fine hearing of a Pikachu... and becease of this, I will die. They ignore the fact that like a human, my vision developped to make up for my hearing!"

The elder Pikachu closed his eyes... it was true... "I am... saddened by your fate. However, you should be thankful. It is better to die at the hands of your own people than to wait for the cruelty of Nature to do so." he said.

The fifth one remained silent. He struggled against the pain of his injuries... and didn't really cared about it all... but judging from his face, his pain was more emotionnal than physical despite his legs being basically gone.

Slowly, other Pikachus approached the five, carrying a huge, heavy rocks with them. They placed the rocks next to each one and then took out vines which they had found in the forest. Electy took the vines and tested their resistance... they were of a fine quality.

Pikachus took the vines and tied the hands of each Pikachu. Then, they tied their right leg to one rock, one for each... well, exept for the fifth. They tied his neck to the rock.

The Raichu stood in front of the five... and then turned to me.

"As you can see, we know how to cleanse the pack."

He shoved the injured Pikachu into the river.

SPLAAAAAASH!!!

Spark screamed in terror, covering his eyes and hiding behind me. Most of the Pikachus watching the scene were in a state of shock...

Then, the Raichu moved to the Pikachu with one ear... "Please!"

She fell to her knees. "Have mercy! PLEASE! I can make myself useful! I can see! I can see!"

"We need hearing, not vision." replied the Raichu as he shoved the female into the river.

A male Pikachu in the crowd burst into tears... and both I and Cherlie guessed that he must have been the female's boyfriend or lover...

The Raichu walked in front of the fourth Pikachu...

"I just want... to see my daughter's birth... before dying..." he cried. "It is my last wish... please... just wait the extra day..."

"No." replied coldly the Raichu, shoving him into the river as well.

More tears, this time from a pregnant female. Another male approached her and placed his hand on her shoulder. Tears were visible in his eyes as well. "We will all miss him..." he stated.

The Raichu approached the two last Pikachus.

"DON'T!" begged the first ederly Pilachu, as the Raichu shoved him.

"NOOOOOO!" he screamed, as he fell...

SPLAAAASH!!!

"GLYAAAARGLOGLOGLGLOGglogloglog..." his voice faded as he drowned, joining the others...

Electy stood before the last Pikachu. He was hesitant for some reason... and seemed troubled...

"Father..." he whispered.

"Electy... I had a full and happy life. I have no regret..." he said.

The Raichu stepped backward...

"Electy... my strenght left me. I cannot jump into the river... the rock is too heavy." he said.

The Raichu gritted his teeth.

I was shocked... for the very first time... Electy shown emotions... his heart, which I had assumed gone, was still there... and mercy and regret could be seen in his eyes. For a second, I seen in his eyes how he hated this life... how he hated doing this... and then, I begun to ask myself... what lies behind the leader rank? Who made those pack rules? Why?

The Raichu stood before the elderly Pikachu and then, hugged him. "I won't forget..." he slowly said.

The elderly Pikachu turned, facing the water and then spreaded his arms, closed his eyes, and awaited...

The Raichu shoved his own father into the river. I saw the yellow furball plunged into the transparent liquid and sink before vanishing into the depths...

The Raichu stood there, staring at the river for a while, in a state of shock... and then turned to face the other pack members. His face was distorted with rage.

"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!? BRING ME THE OTHERS!!!" he screamed.

Altought he tried to sound tough, I could tell that the act of killing his own father brought a sharp, very sharp blow to his confidence...

The carnage carried on. Children, females, handicapped, injured... all those that didn't fit the criterias of the pack were thrown into the river... nearly twenty souls fell into the water, never to return. Each time, each death was greeted by the desesperate cries of the loved ones, the shock and horror of the crowd, and with the Raichu's maniacal grin.

The more he killed... the less he seemed sane to me. He looked... litterally insane.

Then, the last soul was thrown into the water. I turned to face Spark and used my telepathy... "It is over..."

Spark's eyes were full of tears... "No... not yet..."

Of course it was over! That Raichu didn't noticed the Pichu, hiding behind me... and besides, I believe his mind to be too warped, too twisted to notice... and anyway, the people are chatting, preparing to leave. Obviously, the cleaning is over...

... but then, the Raichu turned to Spark.

"YOU! COME HERE!" he yelled.

My eyes widened and so did Cherlie's!

Spark walked toward Electy and stopped in front of him.

"Where are your parents?" he asked.

"Mommy... is in the river..." he anwsered.

"And your father?" he asked.

Spark turned to me, in tears... His goggly eyes of his shattered my heart... the Pichu then turned to the Raichu.

"Daddy..." he whispered.

"Yes? Where is he?" he asked, more insistent this time.

The Pichu pointed at Electy. "DADDY!"

Everyone gasped. Instantly, a female and her two Pichues made it throught the crowd. The female's face... it was filled with hatred!

"Do not lie, you worthless runt! The great leader would never mate with a lowly Omega runt such as your ***** of a mother was! Isn't it, dear?" she said.

She turned to Electy, her eyes were terrible... and the Raichu grew all tense and panicked... and also, sad. As for the female... she was most obviously Electy's official wife... and she also looked terribly cruel. Her two Pichues were so fat and arrogant-looking... they had the perfect look of tyrants-to-be. They stared at their father, bored.

"ISN'T IT?!?" asked the female again.

"Just kill that runt already." said the first Pichu. "I don't want to waste anymore time here! You promised me that we would go see the thunderstorm brewing at the edge of the forest."

Such cruelty coming out of the mouth of a mother and a child... I was baffled. Those people were just as worse as the Pokemon trainers! They were just as bad! I hated them!

The Raichu gritted his teeth, staring at the Pichu... "I love you, daddy..." said the small Pichu.

The Raichu closed his eyes and tought about the situation... Then, he turned to the Pichu.

"A father cares for his child. I don't care about you. No one does." said Electy.

Spark stood there, in shock, as the Raichu tied his hands and then, his right foot to a huge, heavy rock...

"No one cares." he repeated.

I stared into the eyes of the small Pichu... no one cares if Spark lives or not? I care... and I sent him a telepathic message to tell him this... and instantly, a sweet smile appeared on his face despite the fact that tears still flowed out of his eyes.

The Pichu turned to the Raichu and whispered... "You are... wrong... Someone does care..."

He turned to me again... and this time, the Pichu used the telepathic link I had formed to make one final request... "I know that you care... and for that, I am thankful. Do not stop caring, do not turn away... Watch me live... and die."

I stood there and then, I broke the telepathic link. Cherlie turned around and covered her eyes as the Raichu pushed the child off the edge and into the river... but I watched... to the very end.

I seen Spark's tiny frame dragged into the water by the weight of the rock. I seen him open his mouth and start to hold his breath as his body pierced throught the surface of the water, sending clear drops of water flying everywhere.

Then... I sensed as if I had entered a trance... and then, everything became blurry and wavy as I stood, underwater, next to the Pichu.

The Pichu opened his eyes and stared at me, holding his breath as his body floated a bit above the bottom of the river, becease of the rock to which he was tied. He smiled and I seen my reflection in his eyes...

I was there, tied to a rock too and on the bottom of the river... but I was different. My head had changed... it was more like one of a cat and not like a helmet... but my ears had changed shape, taking the form almost of horns. arms were now extremely short and chubby... and unstead of three delicate fingers, my fingers were like large balloons... My legs had been shortened quite a bit... in fact, it was as if I only had feet and no legs. My chest had changed... for it now looked like an actual chest unstead of an armor. My tail had been extended a lot more and was a far weaker and thiner... but it became so articulated that I could believe it. Also, my fur was all of a single color unstead of having my belly and tail different. My fur was totally purple with slight shades of black. My eyes were no longer purple... they now were saphire blue... and most of all, my size had been halved. I was now the same size as Cherlie and a bit larger than the Pichu...

The Pichu stared into my eyes... and then, I felt his growing pain... and I sensed that what was happening to the little child... was happening to me as well.

As the Pichu's lungs begun to burn as he ran out of breath, so did mine... and then, a tear came out of our eyes and we both became tense.

My eyes widened and so did Spark's... and then, we relaxed, opening our mouths, swallowing the water, breathing it...

I was not afraid... and neither was he. As everything begun to fade, we drowned at the bottom of the river, both dying...

... and as my brain consumed the last ounce of oxygen in my bloodstream, my heart stopped...

"Mew... you are... Mew..." said the Pichu's voice... or is it? His body had stopped moving, his heart was not beating... and how could I hear his voice if I had shared his fate?

...

I suddenly awakened, tears pouring out of my eyes...

"I can't believe... that he dared to do this..." stated Cherlie, turning to the Raichu.

The Raichu turned toward us... His right eye, was twitching furiously... and for some reason, I knew that something in his brain had snapped...

"The show is over! Go home!" ordered the leader.

The Pikachus begun to make their way toward the clearing.

I felt so... dirty... I had done nothing to help Spark but watch...

Then, I felt Cherlie reaching to me and putting her hand on my right leg since she wasn't tall enough to reach my right shoulder... for the transformation in the vision where I had seen Spark die remained just that... a vision. As such, I was just as I had always been...

Nevertheless, despite the fact that she could not reach my shoulder, the physical contact had the same effect... "Mewlt... you know what will happen if you use your hidden power. There was nothing we could do. Please..."

I turned to the Minun, tears filling my eyes... She got closer and then hugged me... and as she hugged me, I felt my sadness and frustration being washed away. It's weird how much easier it is to deal with sorrow when you have people like Cherlie around. I'm glad I got to meet her...

I turned to look into the celing, the sky... and then, the black clouds slowly turned white and it begun to rain...

"The sky... Derlank used to say that sometimes, it would take away the sorrow of Pokemon and cry for them..."

I stood there... and I felt as if it was true. The water... it seemed as if the sky was crying... and then, the clouds slowly disappeared, revealing the beautiful sun... Everyone was wet by now... but it hadn't bothered anyone. No one had gone to seek shelter... all had remained there, in shock from the child's death...

I knew that I was free... but my first contact with the wild Pokemon made me fear... I feared that if I continued on, I would find out the Pokemon were just as bad as the humans...

"Relax, Mewlt! You're so tense..." stated Cherlie, seeing me so tense from the intense fear I felt...

She tried to comfort me... but I knew she needed comforting just as much as I do. As such, I lifted her with my psychic powers and gave her a hug. She smiled and hugged me back...

"Cherlie... we are both in shock... and we won't recover just by standing there. Let us let the Pikachu pack alone. Let us continue our exploration of the forest..." I said.

Cherlie nodded... and then, I slowly placed her back on the ground, turned around, and faced to the north, toward Pewter City.

"They say that Mt.Moon is a good place to visit. I wouldn't mind gazing at the stars from the summit of this moun..." I couldn't finish my sentance.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!" screamed a voice that belonged to a female Pikachu!

Neither I, neither Cherlie hesitated. We both ran as fast as our feet... and my psychic powers... could carry us.

As we made it to the base of a tall tree, we both stopped. My eyes widened in horror...

"Oh great Ho-oh..." whispered the Minun next to me.

Electy's mate was covering her eyes, screaming hysterically. His children stared, their jaws dropped...

Electy stood there, grinning maniacally, not moving at all... and with a vine tied to his neck as he swayed to the left and right, a few feet above the ground.

Electy killed himself... he hanged himself... but why? Why... did he do that?!?

The female stopped screaming, noticing us... she turned toward me...

"It's... IT'S YOUR FAULT! Yeah! I'm sure of it! Hahaha! How could it happen, otherwise? You are just like this evil Mewtwo Pokemon from those legends... and you manipulated my husband with your dark, unholy powers, I'm sure of it! Hahaha! Yes! YES! It's you who forced him to fall in love with that Zapple ***** and then, it was you that helped that runt, Spark, get a Thunder Stone for my mate! You setted him up! You forced him into a situation where he would grow to love this lame excuse of a family more than me and his two sons! You setted him up so he would become insane and kill him!... and now, you're back to get me! But I won't let you!" she said.

She slowly approached me... "I will kill you before you get me!"

But then, a thunderbolt came out from behind the nearest bush and shocked the female Pikachu! She screamed in pain, standing there.

I stood there... and watched as more and more electricity was being forced into the female's fur.

I saw her scream louder and louder until she ran out of breath... and then, her breath turned black and I seen the inside of her mouth, all black and burnt... and then, the Pikachu stopped screaming and collapsed, her skin and fur totally burnt. It was most obvious that she had been shocked to death...

I saw a male Pikachu and a female Pikachu slowly come out of the bush, out of breath...

"Wheeze! Well... serve... that heartless... insane hag.. right!" said the male.

The female sat down and smiled. "I guess... that this means... that we're the new prime family!" she stated.

The male grinned. "Hey! You'll have... to wait three months.. for the children to... come... you know! We barely... mated, just... now!" he said.

The female grinned. "No need... to tell them! It's... our private... life!"

The male smile's widened. "I'm glad... that we did... it here and now! We couldn't... have finished... her off... if we hadn't... done it here!"

The two stared at each others and then burst out laughing... and finally, they could catch their breath. They turned at the two Pichues, smiling in an eerie way... then, they stared at their mother and then turned to me...

"Err..." said the first one.

"We didn't do anything!" stated the second one.

"Please have mercy!" said the first one.

"We'll leave the pack forever and find ourselves new parents!" said the second one, starting to cry.

"Please! We'll be good! We promise! We won't ever try to avenge mommy!" stated the first one.

The couple of Pikachus approached the Pichues... they stumbled and begun to yelp in fear.

I stepped foward. I had enough! Enough death for today! Enough cruelty!

"ENOUGH!!!" I screamed. My voice was loud, deep, scary and resonated with the strenght of my anger and disgust!

A few Pidgeys could be heard, escaping the area as my voice echoed loudly... and I saw Cherlie, grasping her ears in pain and whispering "Man! Your... voice... is... LOUD! Watch it!"

The male turned to me. "Oh no! Strangers won't determine what we'll do and what we won't! Go home, psy kitty!"

With that said, the male grabbed the first Pichu's head at the same time as the female grabbed the second Pichu's. They rotated the heads in a full circle, instantly breaking the neck of both baby Pokemon. They fell without a noise afterward, already dead.

"Now, leave stranger. The old prime family accepted strangers on it's territory... we do not!" stated the female, as they both left.

I instinctively placed my hands together... and begun to control my anger... but despite my best efforts, a sphere of pure darkness begun to form between the two hands...

Cherlie turned to me, her eyes filled with tear. I could see it, in her eyes, that she was begging me to stop...

"I couldn't save them... either... and I won't let those monsters escape! Those deaths... will be avenged!" I stated.

"Do not throw away your honor for them... it's not worth it..." she begged.

I trembled, my heart aching from the anger and sadness... and finally, I crushed the sphere of darkness and the dark energy subdued. I wiped the tears from my eyes and placed a fake smile on my face. If I couldn't kill the sorrow... then, at least, I would kill Cherlie's by making her believe I had recovered...

"You don't fool me..." she stated. "... but knowing you're trying make me feel better."

She closed her eyes. I stood there, smiling for a while... and then, after more uneasy seconds... she spoke. "Mewlt... you spoke of going to Mt.Moon. This place is rumored to be one of the most beautiful in the world. Let us see it..."

My smile became sincere. Yes... let us leave this pack of insane Pikachus behind. Cherlie was right, when she spoke to me last night... Those are just a random pack of Pikachus. There's no way all the wild Pokemon in the world could be like them...

I stared into her eyes... she stared back... and she smiled back.

We begun the journey north, leaving our sorrow and pain behind. We both knew that we had to pass near Pewter City... but I was not worried. No one will notice us and anyway... as long as Cherlie is with me, I don't care.

The journey will be long... but it will be worth it, I just know it! I can't wait to stare into the stars from the summit of the mountain... to visit it's rumored to be magical caves... to see the Clefairies living inside... Truly, this will be much more pleasant that this experience with that pack of Pikachus...

=TO BE CONTINUED