The Sacred Forest. NOTE: Please don't go hard on me because of the mistakes you will find. English isn't my native language, and since i'm only thirteen it's very hard to make a story in correct English. CHAPTER 2: THE FOREST. James' P.O.V. Last time : * KRRRR* The sound was coming from behind me, i turned around. 'Huh?' I was suprised to see who was there. ' You? What are you doing here? That was definetly the last person i was expecting. ' Where are your little friends?' It was the twerp, Ketchum. He was looking at me like i was something he'd never seen before, well actually that's impossible. 'What are you looking at?'.' Where are Jessie and Meowth?'. I wanted to tell him that i didn't know but then again i realized that he is the twerp. ' I asked first!' Ketchum was blushing a bit as he answered angry.' Well i'm a bit lost, and that's all i'm gonna tell you! Now it's your turn to tell me your story.'. ' I'm also a bit lost, hmph...'. When i thought that he would turn around and walk away, he hold out his hand.' If we're gonna get out of this, i guess we have to work together.' Was he offering to help me out? Or was he thinking that i knew the way out? Anyhow, i didn't have much of a choice but to work together with him.' I guess so.' We shaked hands, and we walked on. Trying to find a way out of this eternal darkness... Hoping that our friends would return to us soon. ' Jessie... Please, find me.. ' ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Jessie's P.O.V. It was 7 o'clock. I yawned while i opened my eyes, today we were going to find James. Or die trying. Okay, that was a bit dramatic... ' Meowth, wake up.' I pulled his blanket off, that always worked. ' HUH? What?' Meowth looked around, scanning the room that was still dark. 'Jess?'. ' Yeah, i'm here.' I opened the door to the hallway,' Let's go downstairs.'. Meowth nodded in agreement as we climbed down the stairs. Ai was already dressed up, she was waiting for us in the dining room. ' Finally, you guys woke up!' She smiled when she putted down the breakfast, it was nothing special, tough. The three of us silently ate our breakfast. ' Okay, i'm ready to go!' I wore my jeans and my standard Rocket-top.' Have you packed all the stuff we need?' Ai showed us the bags that had all things that we could need, like a knife, a first aid-kit, of course food and drinks, and more usefull things. 'All right!' Ai was extited, i couldn't see why. But hey, you can't blame it on me! ' Ready James? Here we come!' Meowth and i looked at eachtoher and shook heads. ' She's nuts...' he whispered. I nodded. She is quite wierd, but still she is right. James, we're going to find you. No matter what it takes i will find you and save you! But i'm not going to tell them... Not today... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Ai's P.O.V. They have to be reunited. That was the only thing i could think of. We were walking down the road, on our way to the place that is cursed, the Sacred Forest of Darkness. ' This way.' I somehow felt resposible for bringing James back to them. Was it because i lost my own love in that terrible place? I was always just like Jessie, denying love so much that you start to believe your own lies. Thinking that love is for the weak, but you have to be a very strong person to gain the strenght to tell someone that you love him... ' Here it is...' I saw their faces, their expressions... I don't want to rember! No, not a stupid flashback! FLASHBACK (^_^*) It was dark. Koru and i, we were lost in the darkness. But i wasn't scared of the darkness, i was with my love. 'It's going to be O.K.' Koru was trying to cheer me up, even tough i wasn't scared of darkness, i still was scared of something else. Scared of the thought that my mother died the other day, and that we were now lost in this forest. ' As soon as we get out of this mess, it will all be O.K.' He was still trying to comfort me, but i couldn't help it. I started to cry. ' Koru, i'm so scared. What's going to happen?' Then we heard a sound it was coming from behind us. Koru turned around, his voice was calm when he told me this. ' Ai, i want you to run away as far as possible. And whatever you do, don't look back.' I wanted to ask him what's wrong, but he stopped me, as he was able to read my mind. 'NOW! Run!' I thought that he was just kidding me, so i decided to play the game with him and i runned. And runned. After a while i turned around to see the most disgusting thing in the world. A monster. A Pokémon. Whatever it was, it had Koru in his claws. ' Ai, please remember--- AHHH!' The monster was tightening his grip, he was squeeshing him. I wanted to scream, i wanted to yell, i wanted to cry. But my body wasn't able to. ' Ai, don't forget that i---ARGHH!--- i love you!---Now run, and find your way out of this cursed woods!' I runned, following his orders blindly. I was crying, crying so hard that all the people from the nearby towns could have heard me. Finally i found my way out of the forest. I was so tired of everything, i just kneeled down on the road. 'No...' i started to cry silently. Losing the only two who i cared about, in two days... I thought it was all my fault, it must be that i was cursed. A few hours later that day, an ol' woman found me crying on the road. She took me with her to her village. The village that i now live in. That was five years ago. I looked at Jessie and Meowth again, Koru also looked that scared when we were about to enter the forest. But he was trying to be strong, to make me proud... A tear fell on the ground. But this time, we will return! 'Jessie, Meowth, it's time.' We entered the forest, with our hopes up high. We were all set on finding James, but all with different reasons. Meowth because he was his friend, i because i feel resposible and Jessie, because of her undying love for James, i could make a great poetic, if i do say so myself. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* James' P.O.V. Because the twerp was hungry, he took a sandwich out of his bag. He started to eat it. And you know, food plus me is drool. So i started to drool over his sandwich. He looked at me and said. 'You want some too?' I nodded, he handed over a sandwich. When we were done eating, he asked me something. ' Are you missing Jessie and Meowth?'. I blushed.' Well... Sort of... And you?'.' Yeah, i miss my friends. Say can i ask you a question?' I don't like it when people ask me if they can ask me a question. But why not, what could it harm? ' Do you and Jessie, well...umm, you know...' he was blushing. ' Do you guys have a thing for eachother?' What was he thinking? That i was going to tell him what i feel for Jessie? 'No way, uhuh, no way!' I wasn't noticing it, but i was blushing madly. It seemed that the twerp was noticing.' Oh, then why are you blushing?' He was teasing me, how mean!' I don't know why i'm blushing, but what's the big deal. Why would we be a couple?' The twerp started to laugh histerically, rolled over the ground.' You don't know that you look like a couple? MWAHAHA! Come on!' Just when i was about to tell him that i didn't know that, when we heard a strange sound coming from the bushes that were standing in front of us. ' Did you just hear that?' Ketchum pointed at the bushes.' It came from over there, what is it?' I was listening carefully, then there jumped something out of the bushes. It landed right on my face. I sorta screamed it of my face, but i felt so stupid when i saw what it was. 'It's just a Spinarak!' Man i was so scared, and it was only a Spinarak. I was thinking that he would burst out in laughter, but he put his hand on my shoulder and told me something. ' We are both a little tensed, i guess it is because we are missing our friends...' I looked down at the ground. I really miss them. I miss Meowth. I miss Jessica...' Or it could be because of the stories that are being told.'.'What stories?' I never heard stories about this forest. ' About the gigantic Pokémon, the one with the huge claws and big teeth!' He was trying to scare me, but that wasn't going to work! ' They say that it eats every person that enters the forest. That's why nobody has ever returned, never...' Okay, it was working now! I was scared.' But it's just a legend, there's no proof.' It was just a legend. Just a legend. When i tucked in my, well okay the one i borrowed from Ketchum, sleepingbag. It was the thought that constanly crossed my mind. It was just a legend. It wasn't really helping to calm me down, though. I tried to think about Jess, but after a few minutes, i already fell asleep... After all that walking i was way too tired to think about our relationship... And that was chapter 2, like it? Comments go to nikki_aino@hotmail.com. Still not too Rocketshippy, but hey! To be continued...