Ask Freja: the shiny gardevoir

Loki stared blankly into the forest from his position on the hill. "She... took him." His eyes widened. "She's going to give him to Freja. It's my fault..."

At first Sayomi was silent, looking at Loki. After he spoke, a few more moments of even more silence followed, only the sounds of the night and forest could be heard. In the meantime she was able to untie the knot, which kept her foot trapped. Her leg hurt a bit, but she was able to stand up and walk over to him, placing her hand on his shoulder. "Don't give the blame all to yourself. It was my fault too. You trusted me. But I was unable to keep my promise." Another moment of absolute silence followed. "I know, you won't trust me a second time. I could understand that. But..." She suddenly stopped mid sentence, taking a deep breath. "I-i..." Her voice sounded weak and was more of a stutter. "We, will get him back. I can't promise it. But we can at least try. What do you say?" The suggestion sounded a bit braver, than her stuttering before.

"I was the one who told him to make flower crowns. I- Just didn't want him to be in the house all day. We need to save him!" He gets up and looks at Sayomi. "She must have took him to Freja. We need to catch up to her before she gets there. We will save him. Together."

Murmuring more to herself but definitely noticeable: "... why doesn't he want Baldr in the house with him...?" In her mind, she made a few theories to it and spent some more thoughts on it as well. Then she quickly shook her head, to leave those kind of thoughts. Concentrating on what Loki had to say, she nodded immediately after. "Yes, you're right. We should not waste any time. Which direction should we go to get closer to her?" She asked him, looking around. Basically being lost, because she had no clue where to go. But what she kept to herself, was her doubts. First of all, why did he still trust her. And why was he so sure, to get Baldr back so quickly. Knowing that, that wasn't the time to worry, she tried to get rid of those thoughts once more.

"They must have gone north. They have the lead but we have teleportation. You have teleportation, right?" He asked as he turned to her.

"The north?" She repeated, imagine it a bit cold and snowy there. Then she was distracted from her imagination, stuttering: "T-teleport? Uhm.... Well." Trying to get some time, well knowing she hasn't got that move. Her shoulders sank down a bit, her voice lowered. "I am sorry, but no. I don't have it, in my moves."

"What gardevoir doesn't have teleport-?!" He started to criticize, but then he breathed deeply ans closed his eyes. "Nevermind. I will teleport us both, but I'll it will shorten the length of the teleport..." He said quickly, wanting to leave as fast as he could.

When he criticized her, she looked away for a moment. Then to the ground and in the end back to him. "I am sorry. I just never learned it." But then nodding in agreement, that they had to go now, they had to hurry. "Let's go."

He grabbed her hand. "Ok let's go." He said as the hill around them blurred. when the haze lifted they were at a forest. The one near the hill. "Just 10 more to go." He said, a bit flustered.

At first she was a bit surprised and almost blacked out. It was her first time teleporting and it was a bit too fast for her, so she was a bit dizzy. When they arrived at the forrest, she looked around. "Don't you think walking would be more effective? You will get tired to easily." She said, worrying about him.

"No..." He said as he readied himself for another jump. "The gourgeist moved using shadow sneak, she is too far gone for us to follow her on foot. I just need a bit more energy... Do you have a healing or status moves?" He said as he turned his head to her, hoping.

She stumbled back a bit, and was once more surprised about his question. Looking away in shame, because she didn't even had that. All she could do was attacking and using protect. That's it. Her answer took a while, and it was a simple head shaking. "I'm sorry..."

He murmured a bit and teleported again. they were now in a different part of the forest. "How big IS this forest?!" He asked in frustration, but the looked at an incoming dark figure. From the shadows a phantump emerged.

Sayomi went silent for a bit longer, worrying about him even more. "I know time matters, but you should save up your energy..." She lay her hand on his shoulder. Then she noticed the phantump right beside Loki. "Watch out" She warned him, Pulling on his arm. "It's one of them." When she pulled Loki out of the way, she was ready to attack the Phantump, but hesitated a bit.

"Get the f#ck out of my forest you little fairy asses." The phantump said in a monotonous voice.

"Wha?" Loki said as he raised an eyebrow area.

"Your forest? This forest belongs to everyone! And you should be the one who will give us Baldr back! He doesn't belong to you!" She shouted at the ghost Pokemon, still not really moving.

"Who the f#ck is Baldr? Now get out of my forest before I kill you when you are asleep and then murder your family."

"Let's kill him." Loki whispered.

Sayomi twitched when she heard his question. "They doesn't know about Baldr..." Then she heard Loki and nodded. Even she couldn't loose any more family members anyways. In a blink of an eye, she moved and summoned a thunder from the clouds over the trees, directly at the Phantump.

"Holy crap!" He said said, still without emotion, as he moved aside. "You could have killed me. Again. I was just f#cking kidding. Eesh. That's how you act towards a poor lost kid who died alone in the forest?"

"Died? Are you sure you weren't murdered?" Loki asked. "Sayomi. we need to keep going."

More hesitating followed and Sayomi stayed still. Leaving her attacking pose. "You died here?" She wondered. Then looked at Loki. "Wait, maybe he speaks the truth and isn't our enemy. I only attacked because he could have been our foe or an ally of them, but he seems harmless." So she looked over to the little pokemon and waited for their answer.

"Yeah, you crazy bitch. You are a monster for hurting a poor, defenseless kid. I am scarred for life. Why does everyone walk on my grave. Gourgeists and gardevoirs are so f#cking rude." He said, floating around.

"L-listen... I am sorry..." She said to him, looking aside and holding her arm. "B-but did you said... Gourgeist? Where are they?!" That note caught a lot of her attention and she was quiet alarmed, looking at the floating ghost.

"She, some flying disco balls and a dimwit are at the edge of this forest, east of here, in front of the new forest that was planted. Now can you friggin leave?" He said, remaining expressionless.

Loki looked at Sayomi. "They are here!"

She grabbed the little guy quickly. "Thanks a lot, this information helps us. I am sorry again for attacking you, I-" She heard Loki speak and stopped talking immediately, looking up to him and letting the the ghost pokemon go. "H-here...?"

"Don't touch me, hoe." The ghost said and disappeared.

"They are at this forest. We need to get Baldr before they leave." Loki said as he headed east.

"Then we should lose no time." She said, following Baldr quickly. "That little kid was really rude, but at least he helped us." Adding this quickly, looking around. "But why do we need to find them, before they leave the forrest? It's their area. They will have the advantage once more..."

"Because once they leave, they will reach one of Freja's secured complexes. And then I will never see Baldr again." Loki said, with a bit of fear. "We need to catch them quick. And we need a plan."

"Don't think that bad. Even if they manage to flee, we'll get him out of there. I'm sure of it." She told him, thinking about a stretegy, to get him back as soon as possible. "What about we catch them off guard? We need someone to distract them and then attack them from behind. If it's necessary, I can use protect... if you’re close enough."

"Well, if we can see them I can teleport us to behind them. Then you can use protect while I grab Baldr, reach you and teleport away." He said, resting his finger on his chin.

"Your plan sounds better. I was always bad at making plans in the first place." While she said that, she looked away, scratching her arm once. Sighing. "I am sure, we’ll get Baldr back with that strategy."

"Good, now we just need to find them." Loki said as he kept going. quietly.

"The kid said, they are to the east of the forrest. We should arrive there soon." She were looking around for light or anything simmilar, which could be an exit from the forrest.

The two arrived near the edge of the forest. Far from them, resting on a tree, were Oboldra and Baldr.