Forte's Mystery Dungeon pt6

"Okay, first off, Forte, we need a team name!" Sora said as we walked across the bridge from Pokemon Square.  I glared at her.

"Why should I care?" I asked pouting.  I have to keep up my mean reputation.  I'm a strong NetNavi with power beyond belief.

"C'mon, Forte!  Work with me here!  I'm trying to get you to think!  Thinking makes my brain hurt, so I don't do it that much, I'm just good at remembering things." Sora said turning around to look at me.  She noticed my glare and shot one back at me; her glare held the same amount of venom I was sending.

We stood in the middle of the bridge glaring at each other with enough venom in it that other Pokemon started backing away.

"You've got a wicked glare." I said not letting up with mine.

Sora burst out laughing and tackled me with another hug.  "You're so much fun, Forte!  I'm glad I've got a friend like you!"

"Hey, that's what I'm here for...  Well, actually, I don't know why I'm here, I just sort of am." I said from under Sora.  She laughed and helped me up.

"Well, let's get back to your house and we can think up a name, and maybe a strategy to go by, too.  Should we work for money, or just anything?" Sora asked.  I thought about it for a moment.

"Well, if we work for only money, then we're bound to wind up in trouble.  How about we just work for anything, and if they don't have anything --"

"Oh my gawd, Forte, if you don't wonna work just because someone doesn't have anything, then you're one of the most selfish Pokemon I've ever met!" Sora shouted at me as we walked into my front yard.  She had turned around and I walked into her.

"I wasn't gonna say that!" I shouted back at her.  "I was gonna say that if they don't have anything to offer, we can do those missions that others don't want to."

Sora looked at me, thinking.  "So, you mean that we do the jobs that other Teams don't want to because pay is low?"

"Exactly.  That way, we get good practice and we can help others." I added.  Sora looked to the ground thinking.  I saw a glimmer of pain in her eyes as she looked down.

"Okay!  Sounds good to me!" She said looking up to me with a large smile on her face.  Again, she tackled me with a hug.

"Hey, Sora, is there something you wonna tell me?  I heard Bellsprout and Lombre saying something about you losing your home in a fire?" I asked from under Sora.  She got off of me and backed away.

"You don't have to worry about that, Forte.  It happened a long time ago.  The past isn't important.  I'm worried about what the future has set for me." Sora told me.

"But you know I will." I whispered to her.  We both stared each other in the eyes as if they would speak for us.

"It won't work, Forte.  I lost everything in that fire.  My parents, my brothers, my sisters… Everything.  Even if I could find something to replace that void, nothing can bring them all back." Sora whispered back to me.

"And there's not a day that goes by that you wish you could turn back time to fix it all?  And you wonder how you can keep going because the horrid memories are so painful that you can't move?" I asked in a whisper.

"Yeah...  How'd'you know?" Sora whispered back to me.

"Because I know how you feel.  My father left me just after I was created." I told her.

"Wow...  Hey, created?" Sora asked cocking her head to one side.

"Yeah, I'm a NetNavi.  We're not born we're created.  But we still think of the day we're created as birthdays because to someone, we were born." I explained.

"So, you were abandoned.  That's sad...  How old were you when that happened?" Sora asked as we walked into my house.  I thought about it a little.

"Not very.  Just a month, I guess." I said as we sat down on my bed.  Sora looked up to me, confused.

"How old are you, Forte?  To remember something that happened when you were a month old must make you really young." Sora said lying down next to me.  She was warm.

"I'm sixteen." I told Sora.  She looked up to me and giggled.  It was then did I realize we were both the same height.

"Wow, you don't seem like you're sixteen.  Four years older than me!" Sora said cuddling my cheek.

"Well, I had no idea you were twelve.  I thought you were my age." I said resting my head on Sora's.

"Hey, what's our name gonna be?" Sora asked.

I couldn't help but to laugh at Sora's persistence on finding out what our Team name would be.