Story Notes:
I'm having at least 6 Chapters for this story. Most of it is flashbacks, but you'll like it later on.
Weird Mishaps
The Abombasnow had been startled enough to stop it's attack. But as soon as I landed, she went right back to pounding Brandon. However, Brandon had regained his bearing and dashed away in time. "I thought I told you to get away!"
"I'm not about to leave a very good friend behind!"
Brandon was surprised by my remark. He then smiled. "Well, then. Will you help me take this thing down?"
"Yeah." I said, nodding. I dashed forward, having myself covered in Ice and tackling the Abombasnow. I don't even know what I did, but it seemed to have a very good effect against the creature.
"Frost! You know Freeze Blitz?"
"I guess I do!" I said.
"Well, if you know Freeze Blitz, I guess you'll know that she's frozen completely now!" Brandon laughed.
I looked at the Abombasnow. It wasn't moving. I then felt bad about it, and I said "Brandon, can you thaw her out? I feel bad, and I want to apologize and explain things."
Brandon smiled. "I think that's an excellent idea." Brandon pulled out a patch. He then applied it to the Abombasnow, and almost instantly, the ice on her melted off. She was shiverig so badly, for an ice-type.
"Now, I need to know. Why did you attack us?"
Her voice came in grunts, but she said "You hurt child. I attack to defend."
"Well, we didn't mean to hurt your child. We were on our way to Snowpoint, and we tripped over him." I said.
"I tell him time and time again. No lay in snow. Not far from cave, at least. Come. He apologize, and I apologize now. Come and have dinner with family." She said.
"Thank you for the offer. We'd love to." I walked back over to Brandon. "We had just hurt her child. That Snover we had tripped over was her son. She invited us to stay with her and have dinner. I thanked her for the offer. Let's go." I started walking.
Brandon followed close behind. He didn't really know what to make of all of this, so he just kept silent for now.
When we reached the Abombasnow again, she grabbed Brandon and hugged him. "I sorry for fight! I no fight again unless it needed!"
Brandon couldn't breathe, so I said "Uh, Ma'am? I think you're going to squish him!"
She set Brandon down and said "Name not Ma'am. Name Shiela."
"Okay, Shiela. That's her name." I added to Brandon.
"I kinda figured." He whispered to me.
We followed her out of the corner and over to a cave that didn't really show itself very well in this blizzard that was boiling over.
Once we entered the cave, I heard Shiela call out "Family! Guests!"
There were 2 Snover that appeared, and another Abombasnow. This one was male. "Hon. Food?" He inclined to us.
I didn't like how he said the word food.
But Shiela said "No food. They friends! In fact, Carel!" She shouted.
At that, one of the Snovers came into the room and saw us. He then ran behind his mother. "They hurt me." He said.
All through this, Brandon was just standing there patiently, waiting for me to translate.
"No, Carel. They trip. You trip them. You apologize now, or no snow cone." Shiela said to him.
The boy then got a scared face and said "I sorry. I watch where I sleep now."
"It's alright, Carel. Thank you, and I'm sorry from me, and my partner."
"Oh?" The male Abombasnow said amused. "You have life partner of same gender?" He said, chuckling.
"What?! NO! You kidding me? No way!" I said the last part with an apparent blush.
He just kept chuckling and said "So, hon, if not dinner, then what is?"
She smiled. "Kalred."
"AHH! I have not Kalred since me Snover!" he said. "Oh! First, I Grimst." He held out his hand for me to shake, and I did. He then held it out to Brandon as I announced his name to him.
"Nice to meet you, Grimst. You aren't going to eat me, right?" He asked, scared.
At this, he chuckled. "If not for wife, I would." With that, he headed to the kitchen.
"Uhh, what did he say at the end?" Brandon asked me.
"He said he doesn't eat humans." I lied. No way I was going to ruin it and tell him what Grimst actually said.
"Okay." he said with a sigh of relief. "So, what were you and him talking about with you yelling like that?" he said this with a sly grin on his face.
"Uhh..." I hesitated. I didn't like lying, unless it was to save a friend. But, if I lied about this, it wasn't exactly to save a life. So, against my better judgement, I told him the truth. "He thought we were life partners." I said with a blush again.
He just laughed. "Us? Life partners? We're two different species! It'd probably never happen like that." He said with a blush of his own.
Just then, Shiela came out and said "You trainer, right? Call out Pokemon so I can tell how many to feed."
I relayed the message, and Brandon smiled. All of our family would get food. He pulled out all four Pokeballs and tossed them up. "Guys, come on out!"
First, Red came out, then mom, then Caesar, then Derek. When Derek came out, he looked around fearful. He then spotted me, and gave me a quizzical look.
"Call me squirt again." I said in the same dangerous voice I had used the previous night.
Derek got a look of fear on his face, and ran across the cave to the other side.
Mom, however, just knelt down and said "I think you look alot better this way, Frost."
Red just laughed. "Well, I guess I can't fluff dry you anymore. Not without genuinely hurting you."
Caesar smiled. "Well, I guess it's an improvement."
I stuck my tongue out. Then, Shiela said "So, four more. Easy! Plenty of Kalred!"
"Did someone say Kalred?" Derek was then not afraid anymore. "You're making Kalred?"
"Hmm? Oh wait. Do I know you?" Shiela asked.
"Shia?" Derek asked.
"AHH! DEKEY!" She scooped Derek up in her arms and hugged her.
"Shia, can't breathe!" He said.
Brandon smiled, mom translating everything in his head. "Dekey?" he laughed.
Shiela set him down and Derek said "Shia was my babysitter when I was a Cubone. She makes the best Kalred in the world! Shia, what are you doing out here?" he asked.
"Well, family think it better to be closer to snow, so we move here."
"Interesting."
"Very. So, what up with you family? How Tania?" She asked.
"Ahh. Tania. My mom. She died. Rinken Virus."
"Oh dear. So sorry!" She knelt down and hugged him again, but not as hard to where he couldn't breathe this time.
Derek returned the gesture. He then released her and asked "So, do you need help with the cooking?"
"Very much, so! Thankies!"
Derek followed her into the kitchen, and I was left with the others.
'There's something eating in your mind.' came a voice in my head.
"Who's there?" I looked around, but noone was there to speak up.
"Frost, you alright?" Brandon asked.
"Y-yeah. I think so." I said.
I then just shut up.
'It's me. Look to your right.'
I looked to my right, but all I saw was mom.
'There ya go. I can tell you don't want to talk to Brandon about it, so just think to me, and I can hear you.'
'It's just, did you hear the accusation about me and Brandon?'
'Remember, Pokeballs are not soundproof. Of course I heard. You aren't bugged about that. What's really bothering you?'
'Well, when he said that, I started to imagine what it would be like if me and Brandon were to get together, and I thought it wouldn't be too bad. Does that make me a bad person?'
Mom just laughed in my head. 'No, of course not. That doesn't make you a bad person. In fact, I hapen to know that Brandon secretly thinks about being with Derek every now and again.'
'Really? Is he gay?'
'Close. He's bi.'
'What's bi mean?'
'Well, it means he likes both genders. Both boys and girls.'
'There's such a thing?' I asked.
'Yep. Only, don't go asking Brandon about it. It'll only fuel a fire that doesn't even exist yet.'
"Everyone! Dinner!" came the call of Shiela.
"Yeah, and you'd better eat it all! This stuff's excellent!" came Derek's voice.
I hurried to the kitchen, and was met by a very pleasant aroma. It was a type of meat, but not only that, it was pungent with different spices. I could smell mint, oregano, cayenne pepper, and bits and pieces of other stuff that escaped me at the moment as I was lost in the sea of blissful smell.
I saw the table and jumped into a seat at it. As I did, one of the Snover children knocked me off of it.
As I hit the floor, Shiela had turned around to see the act, and said "Dana! Shame! Guests not be treated that way! Apologize!"
"My seat! Not his!" Dana said.
"Apologize, now!" Shiela said.
Derek grabbed me and Brandon, who was just getting into the kitchen and said "I'd stay out of the kitchen for now if I were you. It's going to get pretty messy."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
All of a sudden, there was a gigantic thud. Then, a splatter. Then, silence. Shiela walked out of the kitchen with red stuff covering her hands.
Brandon immediately came to a conclusion and said "Well, I think we've overstayed our welcome, so we'll just be out of your hair now." And with that, Brandon started walking towards the cave exit.
However, Derek just grabbed Brandon and held him still. "Shia. I worked hard on that sauce! Couldn't you have thumped her with something else?"
"Closest thing to me." She wiped the sauce from her hands and splattered it on the cave ceiling.
Just then, the Snover girl came out and said "I sorry for shoving." to me and held out a hand to shake.
I smiled. At least she wasn't dead. I held out my paw and shook her hand.
Afterwards, I asked Derek "So is dinner going to be delayed?"
"Yeah. For another few hours. You guys had better go and get some rest."
"There guest bedroom all made for you." Grimst said, coming out of the hall. "I set alarm so it wake you when food almost done."
"Grim, you think of everything!" Shiela said, and kissed him.
"Just being thoughtful." he replied with a kiss on her forehead.
"Thank you for your hospitality." I said. "I think it'd be a good thing to get some rest."
"Yeah." Brandon replied.
So, with that, we were led to the guest bedroom, and when we saw it, our mouths hit the floor. The place was beautiful for being in a cave. I checked the clock and then my PokEtch. The time on the clock was set exactly to my PokEtch time. I looked around and saw power outlets all along the wall. I then looked and saw two beds. One was a gigantic bed with red sheets, and the other was significantly smaller with Royal Blue sheets.
"I call the Royal Blue!" I said, and hopped onto the bed.
Brandon smiled and went to the bathroom and placed his pack on the floor with a heavy thud.
I soon fell asleep, then so did Brandon.
As I slept, my dreams were filled of mating. I was mating with someone, but I couldn't tell who. Then, near the end of the dream, the figure was revealed.
It was Brandon.
I then knew that I liked Brandon more than as a friend. I loved him. I wanted him to be my mate.Chapter End Notes:Read, rate, and review
"I'm not about to leave a very good friend behind!"
Brandon was surprised by my remark. He then smiled. "Well, then. Will you help me take this thing down?"
"Yeah." I said, nodding. I dashed forward, having myself covered in Ice and tackling the Abombasnow. I don't even know what I did, but it seemed to have a very good effect against the creature.
"Frost! You know Freeze Blitz?"
"I guess I do!" I said.
"Well, if you know Freeze Blitz, I guess you'll know that she's frozen completely now!" Brandon laughed.
I looked at the Abombasnow. It wasn't moving. I then felt bad about it, and I said "Brandon, can you thaw her out? I feel bad, and I want to apologize and explain things."
Brandon smiled. "I think that's an excellent idea." Brandon pulled out a patch. He then applied it to the Abombasnow, and almost instantly, the ice on her melted off. She was shiverig so badly, for an ice-type.
"Now, I need to know. Why did you attack us?"
Her voice came in grunts, but she said "You hurt child. I attack to defend."
"Well, we didn't mean to hurt your child. We were on our way to Snowpoint, and we tripped over him." I said.
"I tell him time and time again. No lay in snow. Not far from cave, at least. Come. He apologize, and I apologize now. Come and have dinner with family." She said.
"Thank you for the offer. We'd love to." I walked back over to Brandon. "We had just hurt her child. That Snover we had tripped over was her son. She invited us to stay with her and have dinner. I thanked her for the offer. Let's go." I started walking.
Brandon followed close behind. He didn't really know what to make of all of this, so he just kept silent for now.
When we reached the Abombasnow again, she grabbed Brandon and hugged him. "I sorry for fight! I no fight again unless it needed!"
Brandon couldn't breathe, so I said "Uh, Ma'am? I think you're going to squish him!"
She set Brandon down and said "Name not Ma'am. Name Shiela."
"Okay, Shiela. That's her name." I added to Brandon.
"I kinda figured." He whispered to me.
We followed her out of the corner and over to a cave that didn't really show itself very well in this blizzard that was boiling over.
Once we entered the cave, I heard Shiela call out "Family! Guests!"
There were 2 Snover that appeared, and another Abombasnow. This one was male. "Hon. Food?" He inclined to us.
I didn't like how he said the word food.
But Shiela said "No food. They friends! In fact, Carel!" She shouted.
At that, one of the Snovers came into the room and saw us. He then ran behind his mother. "They hurt me." He said.
All through this, Brandon was just standing there patiently, waiting for me to translate.
"No, Carel. They trip. You trip them. You apologize now, or no snow cone." Shiela said to him.
The boy then got a scared face and said "I sorry. I watch where I sleep now."
"It's alright, Carel. Thank you, and I'm sorry from me, and my partner."
"Oh?" The male Abombasnow said amused. "You have life partner of same gender?" He said, chuckling.
"What?! NO! You kidding me? No way!" I said the last part with an apparent blush.
He just kept chuckling and said "So, hon, if not dinner, then what is?"
She smiled. "Kalred."
"AHH! I have not Kalred since me Snover!" he said. "Oh! First, I Grimst." He held out his hand for me to shake, and I did. He then held it out to Brandon as I announced his name to him.
"Nice to meet you, Grimst. You aren't going to eat me, right?" He asked, scared.
At this, he chuckled. "If not for wife, I would." With that, he headed to the kitchen.
"Uhh, what did he say at the end?" Brandon asked me.
"He said he doesn't eat humans." I lied. No way I was going to ruin it and tell him what Grimst actually said.
"Okay." he said with a sigh of relief. "So, what were you and him talking about with you yelling like that?" he said this with a sly grin on his face.
"Uhh..." I hesitated. I didn't like lying, unless it was to save a friend. But, if I lied about this, it wasn't exactly to save a life. So, against my better judgement, I told him the truth. "He thought we were life partners." I said with a blush again.
He just laughed. "Us? Life partners? We're two different species! It'd probably never happen like that." He said with a blush of his own.
Just then, Shiela came out and said "You trainer, right? Call out Pokemon so I can tell how many to feed."
I relayed the message, and Brandon smiled. All of our family would get food. He pulled out all four Pokeballs and tossed them up. "Guys, come on out!"
First, Red came out, then mom, then Caesar, then Derek. When Derek came out, he looked around fearful. He then spotted me, and gave me a quizzical look.
"Call me squirt again." I said in the same dangerous voice I had used the previous night.
Derek got a look of fear on his face, and ran across the cave to the other side.
Mom, however, just knelt down and said "I think you look alot better this way, Frost."
Red just laughed. "Well, I guess I can't fluff dry you anymore. Not without genuinely hurting you."
Caesar smiled. "Well, I guess it's an improvement."
I stuck my tongue out. Then, Shiela said "So, four more. Easy! Plenty of Kalred!"
"Did someone say Kalred?" Derek was then not afraid anymore. "You're making Kalred?"
"Hmm? Oh wait. Do I know you?" Shiela asked.
"Shia?" Derek asked.
"AHH! DEKEY!" She scooped Derek up in her arms and hugged her.
"Shia, can't breathe!" He said.
Brandon smiled, mom translating everything in his head. "Dekey?" he laughed.
Shiela set him down and Derek said "Shia was my babysitter when I was a Cubone. She makes the best Kalred in the world! Shia, what are you doing out here?" he asked.
"Well, family think it better to be closer to snow, so we move here."
"Interesting."
"Very. So, what up with you family? How Tania?" She asked.
"Ahh. Tania. My mom. She died. Rinken Virus."
"Oh dear. So sorry!" She knelt down and hugged him again, but not as hard to where he couldn't breathe this time.
Derek returned the gesture. He then released her and asked "So, do you need help with the cooking?"
"Very much, so! Thankies!"
Derek followed her into the kitchen, and I was left with the others.
'There's something eating in your mind.' came a voice in my head.
"Who's there?" I looked around, but noone was there to speak up.
"Frost, you alright?" Brandon asked.
"Y-yeah. I think so." I said.
I then just shut up.
'It's me. Look to your right.'
I looked to my right, but all I saw was mom.
'There ya go. I can tell you don't want to talk to Brandon about it, so just think to me, and I can hear you.'
'It's just, did you hear the accusation about me and Brandon?'
'Remember, Pokeballs are not soundproof. Of course I heard. You aren't bugged about that. What's really bothering you?'
'Well, when he said that, I started to imagine what it would be like if me and Brandon were to get together, and I thought it wouldn't be too bad. Does that make me a bad person?'
Mom just laughed in my head. 'No, of course not. That doesn't make you a bad person. In fact, I hapen to know that Brandon secretly thinks about being with Derek every now and again.'
'Really? Is he gay?'
'Close. He's bi.'
'What's bi mean?'
'Well, it means he likes both genders. Both boys and girls.'
'There's such a thing?' I asked.
'Yep. Only, don't go asking Brandon about it. It'll only fuel a fire that doesn't even exist yet.'
"Everyone! Dinner!" came the call of Shiela.
"Yeah, and you'd better eat it all! This stuff's excellent!" came Derek's voice.
I hurried to the kitchen, and was met by a very pleasant aroma. It was a type of meat, but not only that, it was pungent with different spices. I could smell mint, oregano, cayenne pepper, and bits and pieces of other stuff that escaped me at the moment as I was lost in the sea of blissful smell.
I saw the table and jumped into a seat at it. As I did, one of the Snover children knocked me off of it.
As I hit the floor, Shiela had turned around to see the act, and said "Dana! Shame! Guests not be treated that way! Apologize!"
"My seat! Not his!" Dana said.
"Apologize, now!" Shiela said.
Derek grabbed me and Brandon, who was just getting into the kitchen and said "I'd stay out of the kitchen for now if I were you. It's going to get pretty messy."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
All of a sudden, there was a gigantic thud. Then, a splatter. Then, silence. Shiela walked out of the kitchen with red stuff covering her hands.
Brandon immediately came to a conclusion and said "Well, I think we've overstayed our welcome, so we'll just be out of your hair now." And with that, Brandon started walking towards the cave exit.
However, Derek just grabbed Brandon and held him still. "Shia. I worked hard on that sauce! Couldn't you have thumped her with something else?"
"Closest thing to me." She wiped the sauce from her hands and splattered it on the cave ceiling.
Just then, the Snover girl came out and said "I sorry for shoving." to me and held out a hand to shake.
I smiled. At least she wasn't dead. I held out my paw and shook her hand.
Afterwards, I asked Derek "So is dinner going to be delayed?"
"Yeah. For another few hours. You guys had better go and get some rest."
"There guest bedroom all made for you." Grimst said, coming out of the hall. "I set alarm so it wake you when food almost done."
"Grim, you think of everything!" Shiela said, and kissed him.
"Just being thoughtful." he replied with a kiss on her forehead.
"Thank you for your hospitality." I said. "I think it'd be a good thing to get some rest."
"Yeah." Brandon replied.
So, with that, we were led to the guest bedroom, and when we saw it, our mouths hit the floor. The place was beautiful for being in a cave. I checked the clock and then my PokEtch. The time on the clock was set exactly to my PokEtch time. I looked around and saw power outlets all along the wall. I then looked and saw two beds. One was a gigantic bed with red sheets, and the other was significantly smaller with Royal Blue sheets.
"I call the Royal Blue!" I said, and hopped onto the bed.
Brandon smiled and went to the bathroom and placed his pack on the floor with a heavy thud.
I soon fell asleep, then so did Brandon.
As I slept, my dreams were filled of mating. I was mating with someone, but I couldn't tell who. Then, near the end of the dream, the figure was revealed.
It was Brandon.
I then knew that I liked Brandon more than as a friend. I loved him. I wanted him to be my mate.Chapter End Notes:Read, rate, and review