"To be honest, it does feel like Pokemon. Just travelling around on foot, except we have no Pokemons. Does that make sense? Autumn asks me while we have lunch!
" I don't know. Do you like Pikachu?" I ask her
"Of course! He is the cutest!" She squeals. I give her a 'meh' look and say-
"Well I am one of those f*ckers who think he is extremely overrated and I really want him to evolve into Raichu. It is time now that he does!" I say and lo and behold Autumn is giving me the exact surprised and disgusted stares that I expected.
I just narrow my eyes at her and give her a bored look and take a bite out of the sandwich. Ohh so delicious!
"K, you don't deserve to live after spitting such blasphemy!" She says in the most serious voice I ever heard of her. I couldn't really tell if she just said it at the moment or if she really wanted me to die!
"What? You say like I committed the biggest sin!" I reply, taken aback.
"Ohh, you did!"
"Don't be silly now. Are you literally gonna throw our friendship aside over that electric mouse?"
"Stop insulting him!"
"What now? He is an electric mouse, isn't he?" I say, getting more absurd as the situation passes by.
"What is your fav. Pokemon then?" She questions.
"Ohh, I like a lot of them! Bulbasaur, Squirtle, all Eeveelutions, Pikachu-
"What? You insult Pikachu and yet you like him?" She screams.
"Will you stop screaming? I never insulted him and yes I do like Pikachu, I just feel he is overrated!" I say.
"Well, you know what?" She says sassily. Oh boy, where is she going with this now?
"I like Bulbasaur too and also eevee is soooo cute!" She squeals!
"Autumn...you...nothing." I just smile and softly shake my head. She is so pure. If 'wears her heart on her sleeve' was a person.
"I guess, we should move now. You got the map, right Autumn?"
"Yeah, here it is."
"How long does it show till we reach that small town?" I ask
"Well, by walking it shows 2 days and by.... this thing? Idk, is this a belt?"She gets confused.
"A what? It... does look like one. With the belt, it says it would only take a few hours. Really?" I look at her for confirmation.
"How tho? How with a belt? This sounds absurd!" I ask surprised.
"Not to me. I feel like anything can happen in this world!" She answers before continuing
"Anyways, I think we should just move ahead for now. Let's think about this later!"
"Yeah, right."
We continue our journey and it felt peaceful for a while until I felt something eerie around me.
I look around myself, feeling uneasy. Something isn't right! Autumn notices my discomfort!
"K?"
"Shh, Autumn just follow me" I whisper to her. There is something wrong! I feel something, a presence. I will make this person show themselves out!
We continue moving forward, trying our best to act calm. I take a left turn, taking a detour. I can sense it. Sweat drops off my head. I really don't like this feeling! I take another left turn. They are still behind us!
"K, what is happening?" Autumn asks tensely.
"Shh."
I take another left turn and from somewhere in the tree branches, an arrow shoots out right before my left foot before I could take another step! I knew it! Autumn screams a little. To be honest I would too if I didn't sense their presence already!
"I didn't think you would be spatially perceptive enough! You sensed me. You both didn't look really smart when talking about Pokemon a while back." A voice says. It was near.
"Oh, come out now! What do you want from us?" I ask looking around.
Then we see a girl jump down from where she was hiding on the branch of a nearby tree. She was agile! She held a bow and arrow in her hands. Ohh so she is an archer! Great! How did we offend her?
"It was you who sensed me right?" She makes straight eye contact with me.
"So what?" I reply back.
"I knew what you were doing. You were taking four left turns and completing a square. You wanted to make sure whether I really was following you."
"And when you realised we are aware of your presence, you decide to show up! What is it that you need from us?" I give her a sharp glare.
"I want to just talk!"
Huh?
"That... is it?" Autumn asks equally astonished by the whole situation.
"You are from Earth, I am too!"
Our eyes widened!
"How did you-
"You were just talking about Pikachu so loudly, it was hard to miss!" She said giving us a condescending look. I don't like her!
"Don't you know how vulnerable and dangerous Kwangya is? Openly revealing your identity can put you in a risky position. And do you know whom you should be the most scared of?" She asks.
I remember Diablo saying "First of all don't reveal that you are not from here. The majority of people in Kwangya don't know about Earth's existence but those who do, don't like you outsiders!
"Kwangya people?" I answer.
"Well, there are some of those too but NO! Whom you should be the most scared of is your own humanity! Your people from Earth!" Autumn and I visibly get tensed.
"Then...are you here to?"
"Don't worry." She drops her bow and arrow.
"I will gain nothing from hurting you. Just know that Kwangya is polluted with greedy people! They can go to any lengths to get what they want!"
"How can we believe you?' I ask.
"Well, believing me is up to you. I just hope we can share intel. Or rather trade intel. You tell me something of importance and in return, I will tell you something else of significance! What say?"
Autumn and I look at each other before saying an 'alright'.
"I will go first. How did you get here, to Kwangya?"
Ohh, not that again! We explain to her how we were brought here, from Felix to the portal opening and us just jumping right here and the way her eyes ogled out, I can guess she didn't get there the same way.
"What? So you mean to tell me a fallen angel got you here? You gotta be shitting me. Like, hell I believe that." She remarks and huffs.
''Well, believing us is up to you." I say repeating her statement from earlier. She makes a 'tch' sound and said
"Fine, your turn. What do you want to know from me?" She says. I look at Autumn and we discuss amongst ourselves what to ask her. To be honest I am not really interested in knowing how she got here. I mean knowing that would be beneficial too but I want to know more about Kwangya and she looks like someone who has been here for a while.
"Well, Do you know about a belt? That helps you transport or something? It is some sort of tool. And also you could tell us your name." Autumn says politely. Patient of her! I already dislike this girl's arrogance.
"Do you mean the transportation belt? It is a belt that one when wears, their bones get hollow making their body mass lighter. Now when your body mass is lighter, the gravitational force on your body will also be lesser. If you take a jump in the sky, you can get really high because of the aforementioned cause, then you have to bend your body horizontally, in a streamlined shape like a bird. It has little wings attached to it. They flap and let you fly. Tho it has to be charged regularly. You can charge it with a KLEAR. If you know what that is!" She smirks and rolls her eyes.
The attitude!
"Oh, and by the way, I am Irene and you guys..." She raises her eyebrow.
"I am K and this is Autumn and yes we know that KLEAR is the highest upgradation yet of mobile phone devices in our world." I spit at her. I was literally so furious that Autumn started rubbing my elbow to calm me down. How was she putting up with her?
Upon hearing my answer, Irene looked surprised! Her name leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, like her personality.
"K? This alphabet is your name?" She makes a comical look.
"Why? You don't like it? Leave it. I don't care for your opinion." I say bitterly.
"It surprises me that you know about KLEAR but not the transportation belt!" She says condescendingly. What is up with this girl?
"Listen you, I was putting up with you until now cause we are from Earth and we could possibly understand and look out for each other but you ought to respect us! If that is so tough for you to do then leave! We have nothing more to talk about." Autumn says sternly.
I look at her. Even her patience bailed out!
Irene looks at her.
"I guess, we can make allies. I won't hurt you and you people can not hurt me." She says, though this time she didn't sound patronising but confident! I mean she is an archer and also really agile. If it were to come to a physical battle, she would outdo us easily!
"But it is just her that gives me the hostile vibes." She looks at me and again says in a snobbish way.
"I? Did you just now reverse our roles?" I was so angry at this point. What problem does she have with me? She was so civil towards Autumn just now but towards me...
"K, stop it!" Autumn says to me. I look at her and she pulls me aside.
"We need her. We don't have to be friends with her. We can just make use of her and then let her be. She goes her way and we go our way."
"Fine."
We turn around and she looks at us before saying
"We did propose to make an alliance but....what can I possibly get out of you two? It doesn't seem like you have been here for a while. You don't know much. Tell me, what will I gain from this alliance?" She asks standing her ground.
Pretty smart!
"Well..." We didn't know what to say. We could possibly tell her about clair but we only have one! What if she snatches that from us? We would be really vulnerable then!
"I thought so. Well then bye. I am not wasting more time here. Be careful from now onwards." She flips her hair and turns around to leave. "Whatever. Autumn take out the map, please. What route to take to reach La Lune Violette from here?" I say.
Irene stops.
"Wait, you guys are going to La Lune Violette?" She asks, a little astonished!
"Yeah."
"And, you have a map?"
"Seems so." I say.
"That is where I am going, however, I don't have clear directions. I would like to join you guys too. In return, I will share the intel I have of Kwangya. Whatever you ask." She offers. Even though her demeanour looked calm, her voice betrayed a hint of urgency.
Hmm, and this doesn't sound like a bad deal either.
"Fine, but you also have to keep your arrogance in check. We will talk and act respectfully towards each other!" I say.
"Sounds good to me." She replies back.
And like that, we have now become a trio going towards La Lune Violette. Now, this really feels like Pokemon.