A/N: Oh my gosh! It's been forever! I'm so sorry guys that I haven't uploaded I'll explain why after the chapter. Til then read on!

***********************************************

Chapter 8: Hunting time

*Ez’s POV*

I yawn and stretch as I realize my charmander is sitting on my chest. No wonder it got hard to breathe last night. I think as it gets up and jumps off. I stretch my arms as far as they’ll let me and I brush something soft. Not fur though, hair. I open my eyes and see Ty curled up in a ball next my feet. Mo walks in seeing that I’m awake and Ty’s not whispers:

“We’re going hunting in a little bit, wanna come?”

“Of course,” I reply. “Let me wake up Ty.”

She nods and walks back out of the room. I carefully roll off the couch and land softly on my feet. How in the world did we fall asleep on a couch? I wonder as I turn around and kneel down next to the couch where Ty is sleeping and gently shake his shoulder.

“Wake up Ty, we’re gonna go hunting.” I say.

I see an eye open from under his hair and he stretches and sits up eyes wide with excitement. I smile.

“Morning!” He says.

“Morning sleepy head, wanna come hunting with us?” I ask.

“Yea!” He jumps up and runs in the direction of the hallway probably to get a weapon and armour. I grab my sword from my inventory and put it in my hot bar, and walk into the kitchen where everyone is gathered around the counter chatting, except for Mo who was just listening. Ty runs out from behind me with an iron helmet and stone sword and runs up to Sky and gives him a big hug nearly toppling him over.

“Morning Sky!” He cries.

“Morning Deadlox, did you sleep well?” Sky asks trying to keep his balance.

I look at Mo who looks as confused as I feel. Where did the name Deadlox come from? Sky must of saw our confused faces because he spoke again.

“Ty is a nickname,” he said.

“How do you get Ty from Deadlox?” I ask.

Sky pauses a moment to think about it. “I don’t really know, Jerome thought Deadlox took too long to say and he thought he looked like a Tyler but we all thought Ty sounded better.”

Mo shrugs. “Works for me, now lets go hunting!” She says and she bolts out the front door with me close behind.

“Come on ladies!” I call to them as we wait by the edge of the forest.

“I’m not a lady! Imma bacca!” Jerome calls back which causes everyone to laugh as they file out the door. Mo snickers and I let out a laugh.

~Magical Time skip to the Forest!~

We’d killed about 7 cows and 5 chickens and were all just about ready to head back when we hear  Mitch.

“Guys! I found a pig!” He whisper shouts to us.

We’re looking up in the trees to find Mitch and Jerome and I spot Mitch’s hoodie and we walk over to the tree they’re perched in and see the pig standing in the small clearing. Mitch notches his bow with an arrow, pulls back and fires the arrow hitting its mark in the pigs head killing it instantly and leaving 3 pork chops in its place. Ty looks about ready to run and grab the meat when Mo reaches out her hand to stop him.

“Shhh, do you hear that?” She whispers.

We all go silent and listen: “Jeffrey! Jeffrey!?” calls a small voice.

A small boy in a blue space suit with an orange helm (I thinks thats what it’s called…) pops out of the trees with a small green wood geiko behind him, a treeko. The boy looked around 7. He saw the meat on the ground and fell to his knees and began to cry. The treeko walked next to the boy looking confused but it tried to comfort him. We all watched at first, my goggles were telling me that this boy was heartbroken. But why? It’s just a pig. I thought. I saw Mo get up and walk over to him, Sky close behind. The boy looked up.

“D-d-did you kill him?” He asked.

The treeko looks ready to attack if we meant its trainer harm. Mo’s bulbasaur popped out of it’s pokeball and looked at the treeko as if saying ‘touch them and you’ll regret it’ and the treeko backed off. Mo knelt down to next to the boy. “Was Jeffrey the pig?” She asked.

The boy nods. He’s no longer crying as hard but you can still hear him sniffle when he breathes. Sky puts a hand on his shoulder.

“What’s your name?” He asked.

“Jason.” The boy replied.

Mo helped Jason to his feet and Jason put his treeko back in it’s pokeball. The rest of us unhide ourselves from the trees. Jerome and Mitch jumped down from the tree they were in and Jerome went and picked up the meat. Ty walked over to Jason and held out a hand. “Hi, I’m Ty.” He said.

Jason shook it. “Jason,”

Ty smiles happy to meet a new friend. Jason gives a little smile. Jason must’ve been a lonely boy and thats why he made Jeffrey his friend. I think. Maybe.

*Mo’s POV*

After our Jeffrey incident we led Jason back to the base. Ty walked by him still trying to cheer him up but we’d just killed Jason’s pet pig and that would him a little while to get over. Here’s what we learned about Jason. He was 7 years old, he loved space which was why he wore a space suit and he lost his family and home in a fire caused by a group of vicious fire type pixelmon kinda like what happened to me in the forest. When we got back to the base it was almost sundown so we cooked up some steak and I went to my room to get some sleep.

*Mitch's POV*

I feel horrible for shooting Jason's pet Jeffrey. Jerome and I sit on the couch for a little while before we went off to our rooms.

"Biggums? You alright?" Jerome asked.

I look up at him but instead of answering him, I remember how Ryan and I met our bacca friend.

~Flashback~

Ryan and I were neighbors in the village we lived in and we were practically brothers, so when our village was attacked by mobs and evil pixelmon my family asked him to take care of me and they gave us three pixelmon, a Squirtle, an oshawott and a tepig. They then grabbed their swords and rushed out to help. Ryan grabbed my wrist and we ran into the forest. I was 4 at the time and Ryan was 5.

"Ryan, what about mommy and daddy?" I'd asked.

He didn't answer, we just kept running. We ran until we were both breathing heavily and we stopped under a big tree.

"Are you ok Mitch?" He asked.

I nod and ask my question again. "What about mommy and daddy?"

He doesn't answer and even though it's dark and he's wearing a batman mask I can see tears welling up in his eyes. I knew what he didn't want to tell me. We wouldn't see our mommies and daddies again.

Ryan begins punching a smaller tree nearby so we can build a house and get some sleep. While he does that I climb a tree and keep an eye out for any apples and any animals I can hunt. I hear a herd of cows nearby and I jump from tree to tree in that direction getting apples as I go. I reach the cows and put my apples in my inventory and pull out the bow my daddy made me for my birthday and notch an arrow and get ready to fire. Then I see a blur of brown and is that diamond!? Slashing and killing all the cows before I even have time to release and the blur lands right infront of me. It's a tiny furry boy with a diamond axe. I think he's what's called a bacca. I'm so startled I fall back and scream and Ryan comes running over with a wood sword in hand. The small bacca jumps back and grips his axe tighter. He looks more scared than he does vicious and I put my bow down and stand up and walk over to him cautiously, I don't know if he'll hit me or not. His grip loosens on the axe and his face softens while Ryan is quiet and watches.

"I'm Mitch," I say, "who are you?"

"My names Jerome." He says softly, "imma bacca. Your not gonna hurt me?"

I shake my head. "Why would we do that?"

"It's what everybody else does."

I feel bad for Jerome to be judged just because he's a bacca, he seems really nice. "Well we won't hurt you, will we Ryan?"

Ryan just nods and Jerome's eyes brighten up a bit. "Really?"

I nod. "You can stay with us if you'd like."

Jerome puts the axe away. "Yea, that'd be cool. Thank you."

Ryan puts his sword away and walks over to me. "Alright Jerome just follow me," he says and he starts leading us back to the base he made.

"So do you have a family?" I ask Jerome.

He looked away. "I did..." I heard him mutter.

I don't ask him anything else until we get to the house and he lays his axe under his bed. "Goodnight Betty." He said.

Ryan looks confused, "who's Betty?"

Jerome points at the axe. "Betty."

I laugh and Jerome grinned and that was how we became friends.

~end flashback~

"Mitch? Biggums?!" Jerome was waving his hand infront of my face. I blinked

"Sorry biggums, I got lost in thought." I reply.

He smiles. "That's ok!" He whisper shouts. "What were you thinking about?"

I shrug. "The day Ryan and I met you."

"I remember that! We were what 4?"

"And Ryan 5."

We laugh and then go quiet and hear a door creak open and Ez steps out with her hood up and carrots in her hand.

"What are you two doing up so late?!" She scolds.

"Could ask you the same question." Jerome replies.

"Yea, and why do you have carrots?" I ask.

She pauses for a moment. "You guys wanna help me?" She finally says.

"Depends." Jerome says.

"I wanna find a pig for Jason. I feel bad that we killed his."

Jerome and exchange glances. We felt bad too, so here was a good chance to make it up to him.

"Sure, we'll help." I say.

She grins and hands is each ten carrots. "Great, let's go!" She says.

*Mo's POV*

~the next morning~

"Oink." I wake up and a baby pig is sitting on the edge of my bed. Ez and I ended up sharing a room, where is she anyway? I hear our door open and Ez walks in with Mitch and Jerome behind her covering Jason's eyes with his helmet off. The bring him right up to the baby pig and Ez moves over to a corner and gives the guys a nod and they move their hands away from Jason's eyes so he can see the pig. I look in the corner to see Ez grinning clearly pleased with herself. She must've gone out with Mitch and Jerome to find a pig. That was nice.

Jason blinked his eyes open and saw the Jeffrey. Underneathe his helmet he has messy brown hair that comes down just above his eyes and curls up at the ends and he has big, bright, blue eyes that got really wide and happy when he saw the baby pig. He walked over to it and pet it's head and it nuzzles his hand. He looks at Mitch, Jerome and Ez:

"Thank you!" He cries and pulls us all into a hug and I didn't do anything. He let's go and walks out of the room with a big smile on his face the small pig scurrying after him. After he was gone I looked at the three of them.

"That was a nice thing you guys did." I said.

Mitch and Jerome pointed at Ez. "It was her idea," they said in usion.

"Jinx!" Mitch yells.

"Awwwwww," Jerome whines.

I looked at Ez and gave her a smile. She just grinned, "I know. I know." She said.

I stretch and stand up. "Let's go get some breakfast!"

**********************************************************

A/N: Hey guys and gals, like I said I will explain why I disappeared.

1.) School, Ive had a lost of projects and havent had a lot of time

2.) Im gonna be straight out honest, I've been lazy 

3.) I'm actually working on another fan fiction!  So that'll be coming out soon

And yea, those are the reasons i havent updated. Also im not entirely sure where to go with this story.... I think I'll turn it into a prequel maybe I'm not sure. But anyway thanks for being patient readers! Much luv!

Mo