[OLD] Luna Mew Light Johto Journey

Chapter 2: Forest. Cherrygrove and Castallia City!

The gang were walking through a big forest.

"This forest is so beautiful," Misty said admiring the forest, "it's very green and nothing wrong at all."

"Uh actually there is." Brock said pointing to some trees.

Some trees in the forest looked dead.

"What happened to these trees?" Luna asked.

"I don't know," Brock replied, "I mean they don't look burned or diseased and it's not autumn yet."

Just then Tomo noticed something. "Hey look at that." He said pointing to a big tree.

The tree had a bipedal, beetle-like Pokémon covered in a blue exoskeleton. There is a long, pronged horn on its forehead. The horn ends in a cross, on either side of the horn is a short antenna with a spherical tip. Heracross has oval, yellow eyes. Its forearms have a pair of spikes, while its thighs have a single spike each. It has two claws on its hands, and a single long claw on each foot, it was sucking tree sap. There was also some Butterfree beside them.

Misty started to freak out because they were bug Pokémon.

"The blue Pokémon are Heracross." Luna said.

Heracross, the Single Horn Pokémon.
Though gentle and docile, Heracross possesses great strength and power. Its favourite food is the fresh sap of leafy trees.

"Do you think they're the ones who killed the trees?" Tomo asked.

"No I don't think the Heracross and Butterfree are responsible," Luna answered, "I mean it's natural for bug Pokémon to eat tree sap, and the bug Pokémon also help trees grow."

"You're right Lu," Brock said, "I think something is going on in this forest."

"Something is going on in this forest." A voice said.

The voice belonged to a middle aged man, with a beard, in a ranger outfit.

"I'm Woodruff." The man said, "and I'm a Ranger of this forest."

The gang introduced themselves to Woodruff.

"So what is going on in this forest Woodruff?" Brock asked.

"The bug Pokémon Pinsir is what's going on," Woodruff answered, "you see this forest belongs to Heracross and Butterfree and Pinsir have their own forest too. But recently something has been driving the Pinsir to move from their forest to this forest. Pinsir eat tree sap too and they have been sucking sap from these trees. If I don't stop the Pinsir and send them back to their forest, well I fear this forest could end up destroyed."

The gang decided that they should do something about this before things got worse. Even Misty agreed to help, even though she doesn't like bug Pokémon, she still wouldn't like to see a forest destroyed.

Woodruff led the way to the forest where the Pinsir lived, and to their surprise a Heracross was following them.

"What does that Heracross want?" Misty asked.

"I don't know," Brock replied, "but let's just keep on going."

They came to a rope bridge, across a gorge, that would take them to the Pinsir forest, but it was broken.

"That's strange," Woodruff said, "this rope bridge was fine when I was here yesterday. Hmm I fear that who or what ever caused the Pinsir to leave their, doesn't want us to enter the Pinsir's forest."

Just then the Heracross, that was following the group, pushed a tree that was close to the rope bridge, and the tree landed across the gorge.

The group used the tree to get across safe and sound.