"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.

"You say these things as if I have known Eden all my life. Do what you want with him." E sighed, waving a hand. "But thanks for asking, I guess?"

E was unsure how to handle the situation, he felt out of place being here and listening to all of this. Couldn't he just catch pokemon, and not witness this - thing?!

"Did you hear that?!" E looked ahead of him, and to the side. All this commotion, it had attracted pokemon! "Take a look, isn't that a bagon?!"

E heard a few things as he wandered ahead, a few things about dragon type dads or something. Maybe he'll ask about it later, or hear more about it as the journey goes on. Unfortunately, getting away wouldn't so easy. Stopping abruptly, he would look behind him with the most confused look, glaring at Dante as if he was the biggest idiot in the world.

"Uh, for real?!" E would laugh if he wasn't so shocked, "Did you not just hear what I said?"

E sighed, rubbing his temples before taking a step down and holding out his fingers as he began a list of points.

"One. I just said we're here to catch pokemon. I can't do that if I don't have pokemon, I'm not walking all the way down again to a pokemon centre just to come back up. Two. I'm not entering a fight I'll lose, sorry burmy."

The pokemon chirped sadly, but rustled its leaves and got cosy again. "Three, no. I- I can't remember three."

"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?"

"Yes, sort of! I love Dragon Types. Besides this little baby.. I have a Fraxure and a Druddigon. You want to see them?"

"No." E replied curtly, grabbing his things and heading on. This was a waste of time, he didn't want to sit here looking at all the cool pokemon he could have had. No, it was dull and boring. At first it was somewhat inspiring, but when the trainer acts like that, it literally felt like someone was dragging rocks across his face.

Thank god this could be over with quickly.

Eden could stay and listen to all the flashy stories, but E wanted to actually make this worthwhile. What's the point in hiking all this way just to listen to some glorified dragon tamer go on and on about how cool he is.

No thank you!

This is so awkward, E was shuffling on the spot. Did this person just totally ignore what he said, maybe he dodged it somehow. It wasn't a question, but surely he was aware this was not a metapod. E couldn't stop thinking about it. Yeah they're bugs, but they look so different.

"Yes, I am aware he saved you from falling. I was 40 feet away, I saw it all." E pointed to the bottom of the trail, which was in clear sight to where they were now. Did Eden think E was blind? Stupid? Hm, maybe E should be more careful with how he acted around people. Thoughts were ground to a halt when the dragon trainer, Dante spoke, his words as abrasive as the lairy clothing he wore.

E's hair was green? He never thought of it as such, perhaps it looked as such in a certain lighting. "Uh, no. If it's green you're talking about, they're entirely different shades. Mine is dark, almost black. Burmy is much more vibrant, like a tree. It's leaves are literally from trees." E paused to think, tapping his chin. Matching his hair with his pokemon? That does sound sort of fun.

"I think we wanted to catch pokemon. If I wanted to bathe, I'd do so in an actual bath tub. Not in the outdoors. What if a pokemon grabs you and drags you away?" E pointed further up the trail, "You might even get hit by another meteor."

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?"

E didn't want to, but he knew he had to make his way up there sooner or later. If he lingered back here watching, it would make him look weird. Look awkward. That just wouldn't do, he had to show he was also... Cool? Outgoing? Agh, he didn't know the word, and he was already walking up.

Shit. He forgot to stop moping. Why was he trudging?!

Unfortunately, E had already been spotted. Trudging up the trail with his arms hanging low like a slakoth, and face emotionally tired like a Gloom. Already, he was bombarded by a blinding flash of white teeth and an obnoxiously dumb comment about his pokemon.

Sadly, E was a gullible dunce who didn't understand the joke. Did this person not know what a burmy was? The trainer looked equally as confused, raising an eyebrow and slowly pointing to it, "Uh, that's a burmy... Originally from the same region as... Your pokemon?"

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. 

Burmy was securely fastened around E like a backpack, it's strange coils surpisingly long and sturdy. As the trainer ran to catch up, he heard a terrible sound of crumbling stone. It was hard to make out, but that was definitely the sound of Eden screaming for a second under the roar of the waterfall. "Shit!" E shouted before running up, worried ever so slightly.

"Are you o- WHA?"

Standing awkwardly some way away, E watched as a trainer effortlessly lifted Eden back onto solid ground before affectionately(?) lifting his chin up to 'check if he was okay'. Grimacing, E couldn't help but cringe and pull a strange face at the scene that unfolded in front of him. Thank god he was still near the bottom of the trail, this was a conversation he didn't want to be a part of.

Burmy even crept up his back, making a strange sound that only matched E's face. /blockquote]

"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..."

"Lies and fairy tales!" E groaned, reluctantly taking the brochure, but the speed in which he took it said otherwise. A picture perfect view, was it really that nice? "Ok, maybe it isn't so bad."

Was it really hit by a meteor though? Wouldn't that have wiped out a larger part of the area? E did his best to hurry after Eden, making sure Burmy was securely attached first. "Don't run off too far! We didn't exactly stick to the tourist route!"