What was once lost...

It has been quite a while now... Since the disappearance of the little ralts named Azeral... Joey's closest friend during the time him and Jak were separated... Azeral was the one pokemon that had helped him through his grievance and loss during that time. Offering him many things ranging from shelter, to training... Most importantly... A friend he could rely on during his losses...

During the time she had been missing... Joey had slowly began to lose hope. He however... never truly lost it. Each night as he slept at the guild... A grim reminder that his friend was still missing...

Each day he had taken some time to search the nearby areas near grassveil... As a promise to the guild-master to not venture to far away. Their fear of losing Joey also...

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Each day Joey would visit the pond... The same pond he had met Azeral for the first time of his life... He sat there silently as the pain still persisted of his lost friend. "Azeral..."

"It's been a long time since I've been back here." A small Ralts hidden by a black cloak said aloud, Azeral made her way towards the large lake no one around her. "I wonder if Joey is ok" The Ralts asked herself as she looked at the water watching her own reflection, Azeral lightly tapped the water as the image shown moves and her face is no longer seen on the water. Holding up her explorer bag she walked around the entirety of the lake slowly.

It wasn't until her eyes saw someone sitting on the other side of the lake, the Ralts watched the figure before stopping in her tracks. "Joey?" Azeral managed to say her voice barely a whisper, moving her hands to the hood of her coat she pulled the black hood off revealing her face. (or part of her face cause ya know the helmet thing.) Azeral just sat there not sure what to say or do at the moment.

Joey remained in his spot as he stared at the water. Half slumped as he sat next to the water. The sky clear as ever. He never moved his view from the lake... As a result, he never noticed the figure on the opposite side of the lake. A sad expression spread across his face. "I... I just wish I knew where..." he choked up.

The pichu was visibly depressed. Despite what others may see when he goes out in public... He was hurting on the inside.

Azeral watched Joey for a moment before looking down at the ground, just how do you confront a friend you hadn't seen for what felt like forever. Azeral waited a moment before walking forward, as she did this she also used her teleport move to go behind Joey. being as silent as possible she walked behind the distracted Pichu.

Standing there for a moment the Ralts just looked at the Pokemon before quickly giving the electric mouse Pokemon a hug, with small tears in her eyes she muttered. "I'm sorry Joey, so sorry." to the Pichu.

Joey didn't hear a single sound as the ralts had ended up behind him. A pair of arms wrapped around him as he heard a voice speak. "I'm sorry Joey, so sorry."

Joey immediately had his ears perk up as this happened. "Az-Azeral!?" he tripped over his own words. "Azeral!!!" he quickly turned around and embraced her. He held onto her tightly as he cried. "I, I... I thought I lost you..." he cried out.

The pichu could not help but to let it all out. All the time he spent searching... She just ended up coming back here.

Azeral couldn't help but smile, she held the Pichu. "I'm sorry, i shouldn't of left you all alone, can you forgive me?" Azeral asked as her face started to get full of tears, she was sad the entire time she was gone leaving a true friend, guilt had built up inside and she felt that Joey wouldn't forgive her for this. "I tried to come back as soon as i could, but that ended up being a long time." Azeral explained still hugging the Pichu while crying.

Suddenly Azeral let out a small laugh. "It's funny, this was the place we first met and we meet again in the same place.

Joey looked up at the ralts as she asked if he would forgive her. "Of course. You came back... Its.. Its all that matters." he said as he continued to hug her. The pichu slowly started to calm down as he continued to hang on to her.


At some point Azeral let out a small laugh about how it was funny that this was the place they first met... It was also the place where they got to meet up again.

He slowly let go as she said this. "Yes, it is one of the reasons I come here each day." he stated as he looked off towards the pond. "So much has happened... I don't know where to start." Joey said as he still was calming down.

Azeral had calmed down herself, Azeral had also let go as Joey did and took note of what he had said. "So much has happened?" Azeral repeated as she watched the lake alongside Joey

Azeral turned her head to look at Joey and smiled. "So, what have you been up to since i was gone." Azeral asked wondering what he meant by a lot has happened.

"Well... At some point Fang had gone missing too... Jak... Hasn't been himself since." he said in a much calmer tone. However he had a slight look of worry. "He has gotten better now... but I still worry about his friend.." he added.

He then looked towards Azeral with a more serious expression that slowly faded to one of worry. "and... umm.." he didn't know what to say... It was actually scary to even think about... He had been pushing it aside for a while now since Jak said he would protect him from it... But how would he say it... "The... the person responsible for my homes destruction... Is somewhere here. We had an incident in town one day... I haven't seen it since." Joey managed to get out...

"Fang's gone also?" Azeral repeated as she looked down, last time she saw Obera she seemed really, really sad for some reason though she couldn't think of why. Azeral was really starting to get a bit worried and also couldn't help but wonder where Noel could be as well. "I'm sure Fang is alright, She's strong i don't think she'd be hurt." Azeral said trying to cheer the Pichu up.

At this Azeral was a bit socked, she remembered his hometown was destroyed but to meet the person who caused it, well it was bad no matter what. "Oh, Well then if you ever run into him I'm sure you and Jak could win, plus if anything happened I'd teleport right over and help." Azeral told Joey trying to cheer him back up. Azeral couldn't help but think back to Noel and Fang, Noel was kind, Fang wasn't but she was a friend.

The little pichu nodded as Azeral repeated the part about fang being gone also. "Others have said that to Jak before... He knew she is strong.. He just couldn't help but worry about her either way..." the little pokemon said in response to the comment about Fang being strong.

Joey hugged the ralts once more as she stated that she would help him if they ran into trouble with that pokemon ever again. "I know..." he said as he closed his eyes. Letting go a little later and just remembered something great to tell her. "Oh yea! I perfectlyed my technique with lightning! I can't get hurt from it anymore! I can even redirect it!!" he said with a bright smile on his face. "It even helped with my static issues when I touch others sometimes!" he added as he jumped with Joy.

Azeral got hugged once again by the Pichu, Azeral let out a small sigh remembering her mother told her not to interfere with others mortal enemies, but for a friend Az would fight until she dropped.

Azeral was surprised, she had remembered that was a problem for the Pichu, well looked like a problem no more. "That's wonderful Joey, sadly i haven't learned anything while i was away. All i figured out how to do is Teleport without wasting stamina." Azeral said thinking it wasn't that great. "Though just by looking at you you've seemed to oh gotten stronger." Azeral said as a complement.

Joey let out a small sigh. "Well, its better then nothing is how I always face things." he said with a smile. "Teleportation sounds fun!" he stated as felt the breeze come by. Just a calm breeze blowing through the area. "I had a little bit of help from the guild. I don't know how strong I got honestly... I do what I can." he said as he looked in the direction of the breeze. A very subtle charge in the air seemed to make him wonder if there was a storm in the distance... It was definitely not visible from here... However sometimes the wind can carry excess energy from one from far away.

"We should try and practice some time." he stated with a slight smile.

"I guess that's one way of looking at it." Azeral said as she looked down, her mind was still slightly paged with guilt but she quickly shoved this away. "It is a lot of fun, though if i use it to much i lose track of where i am." Azeral said remembering one time she teleported into a tree, wasn't fun but it was funny.

"I'd like that." Azeral said as another question popped into her mind. "I know you said Jak isn't doing well but how bad is it?" Azeral asked fearing the worse.

Joey smiled as the Ralts stated it was quite fun teleporting all around. I wonder how you can lose track... the pichu thought to itself. Then Azeral asked about Jak... How bad it was. The pichu looked towards the Ralts with a slight frown. "Honestly... I think its bad... I can tell he is fighting himself inside... The first few weeks Fang was gone... He thought she was just out in a dungeon for a while... Then after that he started to worry... Eventually he started having large mood swings... He didn't seem to have as much control of his anger anymore..." he informed the Ralts... "Now he seems to have better control of those emotions... but I think they are still hidden within... Anything that reminds him of her... Breaks him down it seems..." he ended.