To Wrap My Life in Leaves~Pokémon Watty Awards2014 1st Place Short Story Winner~

Chapter 4: Five Days

"Thought you could hide from us in our own clubhouse, huh? Real predictable, Serphisa."

At the sound of another voice talking to me, my eyes fluttered open to see Aqua standing next to Sketchy, who had poked me awake. Still groggy from sleep, the whole situation confused me.

"Huh?"

"It's been two days, Serphisa. We're talking about Cobalion. What did he say to you back at the guild?" Aqua questioned. At the mention of Cobalion, I became fully awake. "And don't try to lie to us." I sat up and sighed, preparing myself to tell them the truth.

"W-well, you guys remember when Cobalion came, and he wanted to talk to me, right?" I began, trying to worm my way out of the situation.

"Yes we remember. Now go on."

"Right, well, like I said, Cobalion wanted to talk to me, regarding Virizion's death. He told me...he told me that he was going to resurrect Virizion... using my body." A tear emerged from my eye, and Aqua used her tail to wipe it off. I looked up at her face, and saw that she was crying, too.

"When is he doing it?" she asked, her voice glazed over with sadness.

"Four days after today." Aqua used the back of her paw to wipe off the lingering tears on her own face.

"Well, I bet you'll make a great Virizion." She smiled. "Now, up, up, up! If you only have five more days, including today, then we've got to do something fun, explore a little, maybe some sentry duty, if you want!"

"Yeah!" Sketchy added. "We could go on a quest to find treasure, or help out Magnazone and beat up some criminals!" Their enthusiastic moods were enough to make me smile.

"Sounds like we have quite a list. But whatever we do, we need to stop by the guild first. Let's go!" I stood up, Aqua and Sketchy following suit, and we began our walk through Treasure Town. I made sure to take in every detail of everyone and every shop here so I could remember them when I died.

Finally, we arrived at the guild. Sadly, the first Pokémon I saw was a jerk.

"Hey look, it's that cry-hatchling Serphisa!" I groaned as the figure of that annoying Squirtle came into view.

"What do you want, Carl?" I questioned him, wishing he would just go away.

"Sorry, I couldn't help but notice you running out of the guild crying a few days ago after Cobalion talked to you," He said, the stupid smirk on his face made me what to try and Razor Leaf it off. "What, did Cobalion tell you that you sucked at battling too much that you couldn't be part of a rescue team?" Suddenly a torrent of water came from some where behind me and soaked Carl in the face. Thank Arceus for Aqua.

"Carl, no one wants to hear your idiotic remarks so early in the morning," the Vaporeon began, fuming. "And for your information, your guess wasn't even close to the real thing. Figures, you only have a brain the size of an Oran berry seed in that head of yours." The smirk that was on Carl's had transferred to Aqua's, and I heard Sketchy murmur "Jerk." from behind me.

"Well, you're the one who-"

"That's enough, Carl," the Riolu behind him, Marshall, said, sighing. "Arceus's sake, do you need to harass someone every single day to feel accomplished? Just come one, we have missions to do." Marshall dragged the protesting Squirtle away, leaving the third member of their Rescue Team, Ryan the Cyndaquil, behind.

"Um, I'm sorry about Carl," he said, poking his two stubby hands against each other. "Can we just agree to pretend this never happened?"

"Agreed," Aqua replied before I could say anything, "You had no part in this, now go." Aqua ushered him away with her tail as he sputter in confusion. I gave out a small laugh. Sure, Carl was a jerk, but when you put those three together, they were pretty hilarious.

"Now," Aqua said, looking towards me, "Why don't we do something we all know you love. Sentry duty, Serphisa?" I nodded in agreement. Sentry duty was one of my favorite things to do, but we rarely did it because the payment wasn't very much.

I nodded my head. "I'm all for it."