"I ...Have...never...seen... a ...pokemon... vomit... so much!", under uttered under his lost breath, wiping away sweat from his forehead. The two had made it out of the forest, but there was no dashing city in front of them. No, they had run towards a mountain path further away from petalburg city.

"Oh, damn!", Eden looked around in frustration pulling out his map. "We ran the wrong direction. We won't reach Petalburg today anymore", the orange light of dusk gave Eden's hair a reddish shimmer. "Rain! Rain is coming", the alarm on Eden's pokedex started to go off.

"Can't be helped! We should look for shelter?", Eden said turning to his new friend. "Is your munchlax okay?", this pokemon was more confusing than a psyduck just recovering from his vomiting attack, the munchlax now sniffed on a large stone, ready to bite into it. Eden was glad his pokemon had never caused him such confusion... although they had their own quirks.

"Well it eats a lot, so it will vomit a lot." E replied with a confused expression, surely that made sense to anyone. Munchlax was now put away safely, and the trainer was ready to call it a day. 

Only, there was no city to go back to.

...

"NOOO!" E threw his hands up in the air and groaned in frustration, a flock of unseen bird pokemon flying away after being startled. Slumping down to the ground in defeat, E clutched at his hoody for comfort. "I really wanted to go back in my warm bed. And food, I already ate everything, even though I was meant to save it for the journey to the next town..."

A disaster. 

"I'm sorry Eden. We're going to die here. Starvation, hypothermia, eaten alive..." E threw himself back onto the ground, closing his eyes and sprawling out like a starmie, "It was a good life..."

Litwick and Eden looked at each other with question marks on their faces. Was this guy for real? "Ehm...have you never camped before E?", what kind of trainer was he? Sleeping outside with nothing but one's pokemon companion and the stars was the most natural thing to a trainer.

"We will be fine. I still have some rations we can share. I am sure there must be a cave somewhere. Come on up! Let's look for one. Do you have a sleeping bag with you?", a bed surely sounded nice but a cave would do the job, too. After all those nights, Eden could wait one more night before he finally experienced comfort again.

The thought of having to 'camp', sleeping under a sky or curling up next to a rock. It sounded awful, cold and uncomfortable. 

"I'd rather die." E said nonchalantly with a straight face, rolling back over to one side and picking at some grass like a bored child during sports class. 

Very dramatic, but obviously not true. "I didn't bring a sleeping bag, just some mats and things." It was enough, but not exactly luxury. "Go, go on without me, random trainer I just met. Live a life worth living..."

He held up a hand to his head, dramatically posing under the last of the sun's rays. 

Not fully understanding E's theatrics, Eden simply turned slowly, walking towards the mountain: "Okay, take care!". This guy surely was strange; the trainer thought as he spotted the perfect shelter from the rain: a small recess between two mountains covered by a big ledge. A perfect place to set up a little fire and camp out the night. The view must be spectatular. Considering it would overlook Petalburg forest and maybe parts of the city.

What?! How terrible, abandoned by the lone warrior of the forest. This was no dashing knight here to save E, it was a mere NPC who didn't know how to save a fellow in need. Ugh, how tragic, even after E had saved them both from the atrocity of a garbage monster.

"Oh, the pain!" they dramatically cried out, leaning up and brushing off the dirt, "You wound me so."

With a newfound skip in his step, E quickly hurried after Eden all the way to the destination. Some kind of shelter, apparently, but to E it looked like everything else they had walked past. "Are you used to this kind of thing? Did you not live in a house? Maybe you're like one of those wild humans who get cut off from society... Interesting. How did you learn to speak?"

"You mean - learn how to camp? Isn't that sort of the basics of becoming a trainer? You leave your home to explore the world: just you and your pokemon. My dad once told me, the coolest pokemon live the furthest away from humans", Eden said nonchalantly, smiling at the trainer that just caught up with him.

"Have you never camped? Is this the first time you leave home?"

"I know how to camp. I just know there's a much more comfortable bed waiting for me at home. Hot water, an oven, etcetera etcetera." E trailed on about how indoors is better, making several hand gestures as he did so.

"And that is why I will choose to return to my humble abode. Outdoors is nice, I visit and then I go back."

E had tried to be a trainer before, but got bored and went back home to study. He got the best of both worlds as a student, and could get a little bit of everything. But he had to remember why he was doing this in the first place...

"Can I have some food please? I'm starving."

"You don't get that view at home, though", Eden said, passing over some protein bars. In front of them unfolding a symphony of rain, thunder and the glowing city - like a firework of light and water. It was beautiful! And the depth of the dark that unfolded in front of them, a swarm of Skarmory passed by their voices echoing along with the thunder.

"Thank you, Pentagram, for the fire!", having prepared a little camp fire Eden took out some ration of can ravioli to warm them up. "They will be done in a minute!"

"You can't get this view, no." E shrugged, "That's what I'm saying. Come out for a bit, look at it, then go home to bed. You don't gain anything from sleeping outside apart from dirty hair and a cold."

E wriggled in a little further, trying to get away from the rain as much as possible. "It must be handy having a portable fire with you at all times, huh?"

He held out a little finger to Litwick, wriggling it around in front of it. "Don't these things kill people?"

"Haha, you funny!", laughing at E's high maintenance, Eden poured some ravioli into a cup. "Here you go!", Eden said passing on the food before padding Pentagram in gratitude. "I think Litwick are just misunderstood", as E would get closer to Litwick, part of his life force would be pulled. "Pentagram", Eden raised a brow immediately, causing the Pokemon to stop. "I think people often fear what they don't understand! Anyways, would you like some food to Munchlax?", Eden prepared another little cup for E's partner. "Do you have more pokemon than Munchlax?"

"Misunderstood?" E looked down, staring at the litwick whose fire grew brighter somehow. He failed to realise it was he who caused such a feat, thinking his sudden drowsiness was from too much walking and not enough eating! "Ah, thank you."

Taking the pot, he started eating, calling out his munchlax as well. "I have pokemon food for him, don't worry." Munchlax already knew where to go, fumbling about in the rucksack and grabbing a large bag, "Don't eat all of it again!"

E sighed, having to eat the ravioli quickly before spinning around and wrestling the food bag out of munchlax's firm grip. "Uh, yes! I do have another!" Using a foot, he pushed munchlax away, who had already had more than his share of the food. "A burmy!"

E stated, leaning back and looking at Eden upside down again, a big food bag in his lap.

"Haha, your munchlax seems really hungry", Eden said while cleaning his messerkit. Litwick locked tired crawling into Eden's lap. "Oh well! Time to sleep. Back into the Pokeball Litwick", with his friend safely stored - Eden started to roll out his bedroll.