Budew sat contently in the arms of Rose, the picture of serenity while her trainer still squealed and jumped at every sound she heard in the forest. Rose loved nature so why was she so skittish in the forest, usually the most peaceful place one could think of. It wasn't the forest itself that scared her but the things that were lurking in the undergrowth. She wasn't the most experienced pokemon trainer she would be the first to admit that. Together with budew she'd participated in a handful of battles nearly of all which she lost. The small pokemon was still a bit too frail to go up against pokemon that had already evolved and knew powerful moves. Her brother told her it was close to evolving and after it turned into a Roselia it would have a better chance in pokemon battles. Rose was worried the bug pokemon in Viridian Forest could seriously hurt her Budew. Bug pokemon evolved very quickly and she might have to face a fully evolved pokemon. 

Hopefully she could get in some practice before that happened. 

Rose was so lost in her own thoughts that she wasn't looking where she was going. Suddenly her Budew jumped from her arms landing on the ground, making tiny noises to draw the attention of her trainer. Rose realized her tiny bud pokemon was no longer in her arms and looked down at the ground and raised her brows in surprise. There was a small green caterpillar laying on its back on the middle of the path. It was a Caterpie and it was in very bad shape. Its eyes were closed and Rose could see his chest going up and down slowly but very faintly. It had a nasty mark on the side of its tiny body. It looked like the mark of a stinger but Rose didn't touch it, afraid she'd hurt the pokemon even more. 
Budew gently nudged Caterpie's head with one of the vines on her head. It slowly opened his eyes but couldn't do much else. 

Her heart went out to the tiny bug and Rose immediately began to rummage through her messenger bag to find the potions and the antidotes she bought earlier. Caterpie probably got poisoned by one of the other pokemons in the forest. If the cashier hadn't advised her to get a couple of antidotes she wouldn't have been able to help this Caterpie. So it just goes to show that you need to stock up regardless, you never knew who needed it. Rose momentarily forgot about her surroundings, no longer bothered by the lack of light filtering through or the creepy shadows of the trees. She very softly sprayed some of the antidote on Caterpie's side before she fed him the potion through its mouth, all with great care and gentleness.  

It took only a couple of minutes and Caterpie was up and walking again.....well crawling was more like it but hey. Rose was amazed at how fast the medicine worked and she smiled happily glad to see Caterpie was okay again. She rose from the ground and smoothed her dress, all the while Caterpie kept looking at her with his large doe eyes. 
"So where did you come from?" Rose asked the tiny pokemon at her feet. Obviously it did not say anything back. 

She took a good look around her, there were trees and bushes at both sides of the path. [i]What should I do with him now? [/i] Even though it would be fun to have a new pokemon Caterpie would probably be best of in the forest until it evolved. It wasn't easy to train a fragile pokemon like Caterpie she knew from experience. 

Budew began to play with Caterpie teasing him with her vines and running circles around it. It didn't seem to mind much, in fact judging from the gleam in his eyes he seemed to enjoy it. Rose bent down to their level and scooped Caterpie up in her arms much like she always carried Budew around. 
"Alright enough you two" She said to the two pokemon, trying to sound firm but failing miserably. Rose could feel Caterpie sticking to her arms but she wasn't grossed out by it, he was harmless really. It would probably be best to put him into the trees where he could munch on the leaves. Determined to bring the bug pokemon back where it belonged Rose carefully stepped into the bushes to the nearest tree. She tried to get Caterpie off of her but he held on tight with his sticky feet. It tickled when she tried to move him. 

Rose laughed as she tried to get Caterpie to let her go.
"Come on Caterpie you can't stick to me forever" She giggled and shook her head finding its clinginess quite adorable. "You have to go home"
When she finally got him on a steady tree branch she was suddenly looking into a pair of sinister black beady eyes. A cacuna had lowered itself from the top branches to see what all the noise was about. Without realizing Rose let out a scream, one she immediately regretted. She quickly covered her mouth, her eyes widened. It would be pretty stupid to wait around and see what happened so without further thought she snatched Caterpie back from the tree, grabbed her bag from the ground and put Budew back into her poke ball. She made a mad dash for the path and kept running without turning back, Caterpie still in her arms.