The growl from her stomach broke the awkwardness in the air and Iris got off of Cilan quickly.
She helped Cilan up and mumbled under her breath, "I'm hungry…"
Cilan stood up straight, brushing himself off, adjusting his bowtie, and closed his eyes slowly.
"Are you…in love then?" Cilan asked quietly, his eyes remaining closed, and the tone of his voice seemed so serious but Iris could tell he was just teasing her.
Her body jumped slightly, feeling her cheeks take on the color of a crimson red, and she shook her head in denial. "What are you talking about?"
A smirk appeared on his face once she paused to hear a reply from him and his eyes still remained closed as he crossed his arms. "If I do recall, I remember that you said that love makes you hungry. So, that's why I press the question."
Iris's face flushed more as tiny gasp escaped her mouth and she shook her head stubbornly.
"WHAT? NO! Well, yeah, seeing others in love makes me hungry, but not when it comes to me!" Iris clarified with much frustration in her voice and her cheeks remained a crimson red.
"Ah, I see… So, have you ever been in love Iris?" Cilan asked her in his smooth voice, opening his eyes, and he stared down at Iris.
Iris's mouth hung open as she took a step back timidly and blushed.
"W-Why do you care?" Iris stuttered, trying to show the fierceness in her voice, but trying to hide the nervousness in it at the same time.
Cilan put a finger on Iris's forehead with a smirk forming onto his lips and replied playfully, "Just curious."
As soon as his finger made contact with her forehead, chills ran down her spine, and she swiped his finger away from her forehead.
"What is with you today?" Iris demanded while adjusting her hands onto her hips and scowled.
He ran his fingers through his hair.
"Whatever do you mean, Iris?" Cilan asked gently with a smirk and closed his eyes.
Iris's sweat dropped as a sigh escaped her mouth and she muttered, "You really are a pain…"
She then looked straight ahead, seeing a gigantic apple tree facing them, and her hazel eyes sparkled in admiration.
"Wow, how did we not see that tree, Cilan?"
Cilan looked straight ahead, examining the tree, and sniffed the air. "Ah, so many dishes I can make with these apples, and not to mention flavors."
An annoyed expression could be seen on Iris's face. "Is all you ever think about is cooking food?"
Cilan turned to look at Iris and winked at her. "Hey, I don't have to cook for you, you know."
Iris's body jumped, feeling herself blush slightly, and she gulped.
"Uh, yeah, sorry…" Iris apologized while laughing nervously.
Emogla abruptly came out of her poke ball, revealing a mischievous look on her face, and rushed over towards the apple tree.
Iris's eyes grew wide and she shouted, "Emogla get back here!"
Emogla brushed off Iris's words and leaped onto one of the branches of the tree.
The purple haired trainer scowled as she adjusted her hands onto her hips and called in a demanding tone, "Now Emogla!"
Emogla continued to ignore her trainer and started eating a bunch of apples.
Iris sighed as she let her arms hang while looking down towards the ground and mumbled innocently, "It's hopeless…"
Cilan turned to Iris and grinned. "Not quite."
The ground suddenly started to shake and huge thuds could be heard from the distance.
The two humans tried to keep their balance as Cilan almost fell; however, Iris pulled him up.
Iris then looked up towards Emogla in the tree and grew worried.
"Emogla please get down!" Iris pleaded and rushed over towards the tree.
Just about when Iris was about to climb a tree, a Beartic appeared from behind the tree, and stomped over towards Iris.
Fear had immediately struck Iris as her body started shiver and she felt paralyzed. Her eyes grew wide as her mouth hung open speechlessly and she took a tiny step back.
W-Whats a Beartic doing here in a area like this? Iris thought frighten.
The wild Beartic roared, lifting up its right arm in the air, preparing to use a Slash attack on Iris.
Cilan's eyes widened at seeing this scene.
"Iris!" Cilan screamed fiercely and he sprinted in front of her just as the Beartic was moving its arm.
"Cilan!" Iris cried as the Beartic slashed Cilan's arm instead and he fell to the ground while holding his arm in pain.
Cilan groaned in pain as an expression full of anguish could be seen on his face while his eyes were struggling to open and he bit his lip.
Iris gasped as she sat down and gently held her injured companion.
"Cilan, a-are you okay?" Iris asked panicking and her hazel eyes trembled.
He coughed, trying his best to smile at her, and nodded.
She then saw that blood was starting flow out of Cilan's arm as he held it and her eyes widened.
"Y-You're bleeding!" Iris shrieked, trying to fight back tears, and she shook her head.
"EMOGLAAAA!"
The two of them looked up to see that Emogla had a serious expression on her face and she used to the move Attract on Beartic.
The ice-type's eyes instantly turned into pink hearts and stared at Emogla in infatuation.
"Emogla!" Iris exclaimed happily as her eyes sparkled.
"GLA!" Emogla unleashed a powerful Discharge on the Beartic and the ice-type Pokémon fell to the ground.
The huge Pokémon cried out in pain as it lied on the ground and Emogla unleashed another Discharge on the bear-like Pokémon.
Beartic stood back up, but was still in love with Emogla, and the flying squirrel Pokémon threw an apple at Beartric's forehead by swinging her tail like a baseball bat at the bear.
As soon as the apple made contact with Beartic's forehead, the ice-type immediately fell to the ground, and fainted.
Iris's eyes lit up as she looked up at Emogla that was now standing a tree branch.
"Emogla you did it!"
Emogla looked down at her trainer for a moment and then quickly turned around to eat an apple.
Iris sighed as her sweat dropped and she then looked back down to Cilan.
"Are you okay?" Iris asked him innocently.
"I'll be alright," Cilan replied weakly as he tried his best to stand while holding his arm and he almost fell back again; however, Iris caught him.
"No don't move, Cilan!"
"I assure you that I'll be-"
"If you move too much, you'll lose a lot of blood!"
"Iris-"
"No!" Iris shouted, tears running down her cheeks, and she shook her head.
Cilan frowned and whispered gently, "Iris…"
"This is my fault! If I wasn't scared of ice-types then you would be okay and…" Iris couldn't finish her sentence and more tears streamed down her cheeks.
Enduring the pain, Cilan wrapped his arms around Iris's small frame, and pulled her into a hug.
A smiled crept onto his lips as he whispered gently, "I would have saved you either way…"
Iris's eyes widened as she felt her heart flutter and tried her best to fight back tears.
She started to feel the blood from his arm drip onto her shoes and that made a tear slid down her cheek.
"You dork… Thank you…"
Author Note: Yes, I finally updated! It's weird though, because I'm sick, and I felt like in the writing mood, so I started typing.
Anyways… Gosh, I'm so SORRY for not updating in like forever! I had a lot of stuff going on and my computer is slow and I'm a lazy butt-
And yeah, you get the picture…
Oh yeah, reviewers, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! If I didn't reply to your review through private messaging, I'm sorry because my computer is rather slow, and I had no time to reply to some of them. Thank you all so much though! Every single review really does make my day! I really do appreciate it!
Yeah, if you guys have been keeping up with the Anime, I used some Anime references in here, like Iris saying that love makes her hungry, that's from episode 32, I think, and Iris is scared of ice-types so yeah.
Well, thank you all for reading!
I'll update when I can!
Thanks again!