The Keldeo was not a familiar one. Instead of Sparky's smile
filling his face, this one had a more serious look to him, and was
missing the bell that Sparky always had around his neck. It stopped
as the Deerling ran up to it. "..."
"Ready to go?" The creature gruffly asked the Deerling, who nodded.
She waved to them. "Bye guys, don't eat all the Jazz berries!"
Before both creatures dashed off, seemingly racing each other.
“Huh. I wonder who that was? They seemed a bit more seriousthen the
one I met...” Emerald said as he looked at the leave. He felt like
he had enough Jazz Berries
"Yeah, he's the guy that showed me how to get the message to you,
but he seems like he's no fun. I have not the slightest idea why
that Deerling is hanging out with him." The Deerling had seemed far
too happy-go-lucky to be sticking around someone like that, but he
didn't really know either of them, so what did he know? "Let's
explore the rest of the forest!"
The next area of the forest seemed a lot more....moist? Was that
the word? The floor was covered in flowers and the trees were more
of a bright green as opposed to the darker colors of the last area,
with a little more of a yellow color. Deerling with pink pelts
bounded through this area, and there were a lot more new
sprouts."This is the Spring part of the forest. Supposedly it's
location alternates with Summer often." Winter explained
“Oh Winter...doesn’t this remind of you of some place?” He grinned.
“Doesn’t this remind you of a certain island?” He winked. “Anyhow,
I do think Spring’s my favourite season! It’s my dads too!” He
picked ip some blossom and flung them up around himself and Winter
"Of course! That was the first time I'd ever seen real snow!" He
remembered the experience clearly, the first time ever seeing the
frost on the ground growing into full on white Tundra...he notes to
visit the mountainous regions of the Paradise at some point.
"Apparently there's this really cool thing in the center of the
forest, but Team Eclipse wanted to keep it a surprise, so they
didn't tell me what it was...just not to touch it. Let's check it
out!" He started heading in a direction he thought was the center,
but he really had no idea...
"Well, we're here anyway! We might as well take a look!" As he
dashed along, he happened upon a set of various hoofprints. Two
were clearly running passed here, and one set appeared to be moving
more slowly, while still following the faster ones.
"Interesting..." Winter simply passed them, figuring he'd come back
later. He wouldn't be surprised if the faster hoofprints were from
Keldeo and Deerling, but the third set intrigued him. He kept
heading through the forest. "The center is where all the seasons
meet..." he noted quietly
“That makes sense!” Emerald nodded as he scampered after Winter.
What would be at the center. A secret artifact? An amazing area?
Lots of good food? A weapon? Whatever it is....perhaps he was about
to find out
It seemed they were coming across the start of the Autumn quadrant.
Padding along the border was a strangely colored Leafeon. Not
shiny, but different... it took notice of them
A Leafeon..? It seemed different...perhaps it embodied the season
that it was in? Emerald thought that could be the case as he
continued to follow his friend towards the center. What was there,
he’ll see, he had to know