The Lost and Found
Chapter Two
The Lost

As far as me being a god, it could've happened. Lotram later told me of her chores that day. This is what I got out of it.

Lotram decided to start off with her first chore: collecting water. She dreaded this chore the most since she had to collect a lot of it.

However first she would put it off for a few minutes by walking through the colony to see what everyone else was doing. Actually, she wanted to find out what people would think of General Furozeru's son living in the colony. Regardless of what people thought, however, she was still escaping with me. It would only make it easier if people respected me.

She walked to the first house where Ludibre, a wise old Ludicolo lived. Lotram often depended on him for good conversation. He didn't seem to be doing anything when she came.

"Hey Ludibre, you've got nothing to do today?"

"Well, I did, but, well my back's acting up again. I'm getting to the point where I'm gonna have to hire somebody to do my work for me."

"Well that's too bad. Uh, could you tell me about General Furozeru's family again?" she asked.

"Again? Why on earth would you want to hear it again?"

"Well, I want to know about the son that escaped." Lotram admitted

"'Kay, what do you want to know?"

"Well," she slowly became more confident with speaking openly, "Well, what would happen if say, he came back?"

"If the son of Furozeru came back!?" he shouted, eyes wide open, "If he came back, then he'd be highly respected of course. Why ever ask such a silly question?"

"Uh, no particular reason. Just stalling to do my chores" (which was true).

"Ah, of course," he said with a chuckle. "Well now, run along and get to your water collecting."

Lotram bid him goodbye and set off towards to direction of the lake, so Ludibre wouldn't get suspicious, then made her way to Tad's cave, Lotadia's current employer. He was a tall Lombre, probably at maximum height. He is strong, almost as if he could evolve into a Ludicolo without a Water Stone, but of course, that is impossible.

Lotram was in for a very unpleasant surprise. Not only did she see Tad inside, but also...Lotadia.

They were lying on the floor, fiercely conjoined at the mouth. This could only mean one thing; something has happened, or something will happen. Which ever it was, Lotram was about to find out.

"Lotadia! What the hell is going on here?"

Lotadia was startled by Lotram's abrupt appearance, "Don't you dare take such language with me!"

"Okay then, what were you doing?"

"That's none of your business!"

"Well I'm here now, so it is my business, isn't it?" she retorted with a smirk on her face.

"Well," Lotadia seemed cornered, "So what? We were making out. What's it to you?"

"Oh really? That all you were doing?"

"Of course."

Lotram wasn't fooled. Upon the floor she saw drops of sweat and whatever you get when love juices mixed (I didn't think about that one too much).

"So what's all this, here on the floor?"

"So...so what's it to you if we mated?"

"Your still young to be a parent, plus not to mention the small fact that you both ARE STILL LOMBRE!"

"I'm telling mother and father." Lotadia threatened.

"Go ahead! See if I give a crap! Because you know what Lotadia? I don't care about you, mother, or father. I don't care about the colony and its over-protective life. And you accuse me of doing something illegal with Buizel. As soon as he escapes, I'm going with him--" Lotram froze.

Fatal mistake. Lotram had forgotten that Tad was still in the room, listening to the entire conversation. He stood up.

"Buizel? The intruder? In your cave? Lotadia, did you know about this?"

"Of course not! Why would I keep such secrets?" Lotram looked shocked and angry at the lie Lotadia just told.

"You liar! You knew! You said we had 24 hours to get him out of here!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about. Why are you trying to get me into trouble?" She was good. She actually seemed innocent.

"You don't understand. It was all an accident!" Lotram screamed, her eyes on the verge of tears, "And do you know who he is? He's General Furozeru's son. He should be honored instead of punished."

"Oh and how do you know that?" Tad asked, with a sober grin on his face.

"Because he told me." she said with a slight falter in her voice.

"What does that mean? How do you know he didn't just make that up?" That's what Lotram had been afraid of. Of course she knew that it was true. But she didn't have any solid proof.

"Who cares!" Lotadia blurted out, "Why are we just standing here? We should find him at my cave. He should be there...right Lotram?"

"I'm not saying anything." she solidly declared.

"Come on, let's go get everyone else, and I'll bring you to my cave." Lotadia and Tad jogged out of the cave, leaving Lotram alone, helpless. Then she too ran out, but immediately ran to her cave.

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Being bored to death, just sitting around, I decided to explore a little. I sort of wish I hadn't though. I crept up to the wall, closest to the outside. I noticed a crack in the wall. It was a fairly big crack; I could see light coming through it.

I heard voices coming through it. I could barely see figures moving when I bent down with my eye looking through the crack. However, I could make them out to be Ludicolo. Somehow the voices seem to get louder. They must be approaching the cave; what could that mean?

"This cave?" asked the first Ludicolo.

"That's what I heard Colodun." answered the other.

"But...but this is where the leader's daughters live. Why would they be hiding something like an intruder here?"

"I don't know, but you know them. Ain't nothing like their father, nope not at all. The little one, Lotram is weird, and I have heard the older one, Lotadia is a slut."

"Hey Breloda, there's only one reason you know that--"

"Hey shut up, will ya?" Breloda said embarrassed.

"What's gonna happen now?"

"I heard the store keeper, you, the young Tad, is getting the whole colony together, to get the intruder out."

"I also heard it was General Furozeru's son."

"That was a lie, Little Lotram said that to keep him out of trouble."

"Where are they meeting anyway?"

"In the colony's forum."

"Let's go then." Both Colodun and Breloda walked away to the point where I could not hear their voices any longer.

Damn, the plan must not have worked. There was nothing I could do, considering, they were already coming to get me. I flinched and almost had a heart attack when I heard quick footsteps."

It was only Lotram.

"Don't scare me like that!" I said.

"Sorry, but this is not the time, Buizel, do you realize what's happening?"

"Yeah, but what're we going to do?"

"Let's go now, we'll have to escape through the gate."

"But," I faltered, "Didn't you say the gate was blocked by guards?"

"Well, it's better than just sitting here. And besides," she stopped moving frantically, "I made a promise to you. I said, as long as I know you, I promise to keep you safe in this colony, and see to it that you continue your search home."

I was touched by her promise that I almost forgot about. Now something deep inside me said that this was going to happen...and go right, of course.

"If we're lucky, the guards would have gone to the forum like everyone else. But we need to go now!"

She grabbed my hand and we sprinted out of the cave, there was nobody else around. We ran to the unexplored (by me of course) part of the colony. I took a quick peek back and could barely see the spot where me and Lotram met that morning. Now it looked right before noon. In the few hours I've known her, I've grown closer to her than to anyone I'd ever known.

I could see the colony gate approaching, however, I could also see a shadow next to it--a Ludicolo's. Lotram seemed to notice too and skidded to a halt, knocking me backwards.

"Wher d'you thin' your goin' y'un' lady?" asked the leader of the colony--Lotram's father.

"Dad, I'm escaping with my friend, Buizel." Lotram answered confidently.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't my little intruder friend." he took advantage of me being on the ground by placing one of his feet right on my stomach, rather strongly too, "and my little slut of a daughter--"

Lotram didn't seem to notice me, "It's Lotadia that's the slut!" she yelled. "I haven't done a thing with Buizel except save the innocent, and GET OFFA HIM!" she seemed to have slipped into her father's accent.

"Nothing huh? Save the innocent huh? Nothing except maybe a little pleasure?" At this point, his foot slipped down to my tender region, and it hurt even worse. Lotram panicked. She backed away, I stopped feeling pain for a second; what was she doing?

Suddenly she charged forward, "Get off him you bastard!" right as she reached him, she jumped up and kicked him right in the stomach. Her father got the wind knocked out of him, he went down cursing and uttering random murmurings. "Lotram, go! Who the 'ell in this family needs ya?" Then he blacked out.

I was in awe, "Where did you learn a fighting type move?" I had recognized her Hi-Jump Kick, but how? Nobody I knew from the Lotad line could learn that.

"Uh," she blushed, "I don't know. Just picked it up." something told me she wasn't being totally truthful, or maybe she didn't know why. Well, whatever the reason, I wasn't complaining.

"But come on!" she said, "We have to go now, before they catch up to us!" Then we tore out of the gate back into the dense forest where I was I before.

Except now, the thing was, I didn't know where we were. We were probably on the total opposite side of the forest...for all I knew.

We started to walk slowly, but something made me uneasy. "Lotram, why is it so quiet here?" I was wondering where all the usual Pidgey chirps or Kricketot songs were. Not even a rustle from a Caterpie, Weedle, or Wurmple.

"Well actually, if you really want to know." she paused, I noticed she was whispering, "We're in an illegal area."

"What!" I yelled.

"Shh!" she immediately hissed. "Listen to me. They're sleeping now but if we're quiet they won't wake up."

"Who?"

"The Seedot, Nuzleaf, and Shiftry that rule this part of the forest. They're our mortal enemies. We're always competing for land. Right now, we're winning, just a little.

"So these are the kind that were involved in the war?"

"Yes."

"They're the ones that killed my family?"

She hesitated, "Yes."

"Well, it appears the sumwon knows their his'try." a mysterious voice said with a British accent, a rather nasty one at that.

"Uh, who was that?" Lotram asked, scared.

"Ow, it's naowon, jus' the gad of this pa't of the forest."

"Guard, huh?"

"I'm suppose' to keep illegal al'ens like yaou outta heeya."

"Illegal?" Lotram asked pretending not to know.

"Damn rawt it's illegal. This is no plaice faw a Lombre tabee."

"Oh?"

"Don' yaou act dum' wit' me y'un' lady! Yaou know very well tha' only Seedot, Nuzleaf, and Shiftry, can be haire." The Shiftry guard started to become impatient. "Yaou knaow, I'm starting to gaet really annoyed with taou. Yaou the leader's dawter, ain't ya?"

"That's no business of yours, " she answered bluntly.

"Denyin' it huh? Well then it mus' be traue." He turned to look at me, "Ah, an' who ivwee got 'ere? Gen'ral Furozreu's son ain't it?"

I was planning on following suit, but was too surprised, "How did you know?"

"Ah, I nahva forget a face. I saw yaou with your fam'ly a wawile back." He started to laugh ominously, "Yaou knaow, befaw aye keeled dem." at this point the laughed straight out loud. The anger built inside of me. This is the bastard who killed my family is it?

For over a year, I've wanted to know who killed my family. Now I knew, but I wish I hadn't. Suddenly, I did something I couldn't control. I lifted right off the ground.

"Buizel, no!" Lotram shouted.

But it was too late, I was already heading for the guard, like a rocket. I was actually pretty surprised--an Aqua Jet. I'd been trying to master this for weeks. But I realized now was definitely not the time to master it. 'Cause really, aqua jetting an angry plant is not the best thing to do.

I was rushing towards the Shiftry, but I couldn't tell for how much longer, since I closed my eyes. Regardless, when we collided it hurt. The Shiftry was sent backwards into a tree, causing several sleeping Seedot to fall right onto the ground.

Now the Shiftry was angry. He called a few others to help him. There were about a dozen Seedot, Nuzleaf and Shiftry surrounding us.

"What shall we do with them?" one asked.

"Well she's the leader's daughter in the colony down there. How about a little ransom?"

"What would we ask for?"

"Well land of course you idiot!"

"We could get some of the forest!"

"No, we could overpower and rule them!"

While all this conversation was going on, Lotram and I were huddled in the center of everything, wishing it would stop.

"Silence!" the guard finally shouted to end the fight. We shall naut ahsk for rahnsum. Oiy don' thin' the leader would cahr enawf about' 'is dawter to give up aneethin'" Lotram lowered her headm realizing he was right, "We shall nawt ahsk faw anee rahnsum at oll! We'll send them bahk, to 'umiliate the Lotad line.

"How do you propose to do that?" Lotram shouted. "How is sending us back going to humiliate my family?"

Another Shiftry stepped up, "Oh don't think we're just going to send you back the way you are. We know everything that goes on and we know that that Buizel is a trespasser!"

"So?" Lotram asked, one eyebrow raised.

The Shiftry seemed amused that she didn't understand yet. "You still don't get it? Good, let's keep it that way for a little while. Me and Shiffillous have a little planning to do, don't we?" he asked the guard.

"aww caus' faw nau, we're jus' gonna lock yaou awp faw a little' wawile.

As they carried us away, I was worried about our fates. What were they planning to do? How were they going to humiliates Lotram's family? Did it involve me in some way?

There was only one word that could describe my situation best, lost. I was lost from my trainer, wondering if I would ever see him again. I was lost as the son of Furozeru, since now everyone who worships him, hates me. I was lost wondering what was happening now, wondering if I would lose my life. Now I wasn't just lost...I was The Lost.

To Be Continued...
The Lost and Found
Chapter Three
Tad's Double IdentityChapter End Notes:Well, here's chapter 2! I have chapters 3, 4 and 5 already finished (they were finished a month ago, or earlier, should anyone want to know). I'll post a new chapter weekly right around Friday, so there you go. Hope you enjoyed it