||Discontinued|| A New Journey Together | Ikarishipping Fanfic

Searching For A Lost Someone Ch. 7

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS BELOW!!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Just a heads up before we start with the chapter. I will be changing this fanfic's name to "A New Journey Together." I don't really understand what to do with the title right now, "If Words Meant Anything," because it doesn't really make sense with the story. The next time I update, that's what this fanfic will be called, so watch out!

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS ABOVE!!!! ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Dawn's POV

"So, what does he look like again?" The purple Mienshao named May asked me.

We all had split into groups to search for Paul in the forest. Ever since I was successfully captured by Crystal, we decided that the first thing that we'd do the next day was set out to look for Paul. Me and May went one way, Ash and Serena another, and then Drew and Crystal. May told me that Drew was Crystal's first pokemon. Ever since he was a baby riolu to now.

"His name's Paul. He's a Zorua but has purple fur instead of red," I explained.

"That's weird. I thought that shiny Zorua had blue fur," May said.

"Well, he's not a shiny. He's got strange fur like me. Shiny Skitty are salmon colored while I have dark blue fur."

She nodded and we kept searching.

I shouted out his name multiple times, but every single time it was met with silence. May would search on the ground while I jumped through trees. May kept commenting about how unfortunate the forest fire was since we saw the burnt trees. I agreed and randomly wondered about what happened to the other pokemon.

"Paul!" I shouted on a high branch.

My eyes searched the other trees and the floor. There was no sign of him. Or any other pokemon around.

Is he searching too? Or did he abandon me...?

That thought hit me as hard as Waterfall. What if he did? Maybe he just needed food and shelter so he stayed with me... What if all we went through meant nothing to him. What if our friendship wasn't real?

I climbed down the tree and too May who was looking through a couple bushes.

"Did you find anything, Dawn?" She asked me as she turned around.

I shook my head. "We should probably get back now. Crystal told us to wait outside of the Pokemon Center when the sun starts going down," I said.

May nodded and we set back off in the direction we came from.

As we were walking, May gasped.

"Look at that huge tree!" She exclaimed.

I turned to look at what she was talking about and saw my old home.

"The Fire must've been really strong to be able to burn that..." May muttered.

"This used to be my old home. Before the fire, that is..." I said.

I walked towards the tree and into the hollow. When I walked in, the first thing that I noticed was the lack of berries. The last time that I was here, I left some berries for any other pokemon to eat if they found the hollow. A few berries were gone from the pile.

"Maybe someone was in here..." I muttered.

I looked around the empty space some more and my eyes landed on Paul's bedding. I walked over to the bedding and sniffed it, trying to see if I could at least smell his faint scent. But what I smelled shocked me. I smelled Paul's scent, but it was fresh. Or at least, recent.