Journeys: Red, Green and Blue//ON HOLD//

Chapter 13

A/N: Hello, I'm back. So, this chapter was supposed to be ready Monday, buuuuut I caught the flu. And then I caught pneumonia. Fun times. Everything sucks right now, including this chapter probably, but I wrote a lot of it while I was either in the middle of exam week or sicker than balls. I didn't take as much time as I'd like to edit, but *insert generic excuse here*. I hope all the manga fans who actually know who Blue and Yellow are don't hate me. I'm pretty sure I did a terrible job characterizing Blue in this chapter, and then there were also other things that I changed outright because I thought it would fit better with how I want this story to flow. Another thing, I have been using the Blue is the girl and Green is the guy version of the names. Does that confuse anyone? I do it like that because the first time I read the manga was a weird translation that kept their Japanese names, so it was Green Oak and Blue was the girl. It's just how I see them. However, I know that a lot of people think it as the opposite, so should I change it? Finally, I'm going to add on the character's teams onto the end of this chapter. It's been brought to my attention that with four main characters, it might be hard for people to keep track of the teams. I won't put it in every chapter probably. I think every time there's a major change to a team like a capture or an evolution, I'll add an updated version of their teams to the chapter. That way if anyone is confused, they can just go look.

Blue had absolutely nothing against Viridian Forest. She never had and probably never would. However! Did the forest have to have so many freaking bugs? Blue didn't even dislike bugs. There were just so many of them.

"I hate this," she grumbled after about the millionth Caterpie. All she wanted to do was get through Viridian Forest, but every five milliseconds, bam! Another bug. It never ended, like one of those godawful sitcoms that all the middle aged women preached about. Except with bugs.

Blue's attention was brought away from her frustration and over to her Pokemon beside her when Fushi nuzzled against her ankle. When she looked down, the small Bulbasaur had the absolute cutest look on her face, and Blue really couldn't find it in herself to stay mad when her partner looked like that. And Fushi knew it too, putting on the adorable look as a way to comfort the brunette girl. Not that she wasn't cute normally, but the way she grinned with all her little teeth showing and the sparkle in her eyes that accompanied it was just irresistible. Blue smiled back to the Pokemon, grateful for the comfort. As hard of an exterior she often put on, she always knew how to appreciate cute Pokemon.

"Thanks. All these bugs can't be good for either of us," Blue said, reaching down her hand. It prompted Fushi to reach up with a vine as well, wrapping it around Blue's fingers. It was really the closest to holding hands they could get. The constant reminder that Fushi was there with her was a comfort in itself, so they'd decided to start doing this to help with all the annoyances of the world ever since the small Pokemon had learned Vine Whip. Most useful move so far, especially since Fushi wouldn't learn Poisonpowder for quite some time. That's really all she'd gotten to use her Pokedex for so far, looking up Fushi's moveset. She hadn't had the time to really explore the features what with the whole Team Rocket thing.

They kept marching through the forest, making Blue glad that she'd made the decision to wear pants rather than her usual dress. She never would've made it in that. At some point while she was musing about that, Fushi stopped for some reason, tugging on Blue's hand with her vines.

"Is something wrong?" she asked, looking down at the Pokemon.

Fushi made a croaking sound and rolled over with her eyes closed, as if to imitate a human resting. While the meaning was fairly clear, she needed a bit of help from Blue to get back up.

"You want to take a break? But we're almost there," Blue protested, "Come on, we'll rest when we get there."

Fushi rolled her eyes but kept going with Blue, apparently resigned to her trainer's stubbornness. To Fushi, a lot of this forest probably looked the same, having grown up in captivity, but Blue had trained her eyes to spot the telltale signs that they were nearing their destination. There were landmarks she recognized that most people would glance right over, such as oversized rocks or oddly deformed trees. To any normal person living in one of Kanto's bustling cities, the idea that people would live in a place like Viridian Forest, where there might be dangerous Pokemon around every corner, would be completely out of their realm of thinking, but there were definitely plenty. Blue had been through often enough to know that, although she had often been escorted by someone else. Thankfully, she didn't need that anymore with Fushi around. One of those people, who lived deep in the forest where people didn't often go, was who she was looking for, a man who had supposedly been born here and who had taken the name of Viridian for himself.