(Quick)<br/><br/>Behind Jake the passage out was barred, for now, by the hovering cloud of dust that glistened forbiddingly - until it had settled.<b>The Glade</b>lay before him. It was nearly 100 feet across, the trees about its perimeter twisting and reaching high above, knotting and growing into and across one another. There were no branches reaching into the glade's center from the living wall that encompassed it,  the forest beyond unable to enter the place. The ground was soft beneath Jake's feet. A thick layer of green moss spread across the earth beneath the golden rays of sunlight. Small saplings sprouted from the moss, their leaves small basking in the rays above. Tiny flying insects darted through the glade, appearing golden, shimmering sparks of light as they passed in and out of the sunlight.<br/><br/>There were three gaps in the mossy floor, like holes. Within were pools of crystalline water, likely fed from some underground spring and filtered through the earth. There was no smell of foulness to them, and the water was cool and clean.<br/><br/>At the center of the Glade rose a mighty tree, its trunk broad, the bark upon it old and gnarled. It rose up through the center of the glade, and spread its branches into the sky above, but was not so dense that it hid the brilliant blue from sight. Upon the tree's trunk were crystals like the bark of the tree, gnarled and veined. They seemed to grow not around, but as if from within the tree, as if a part of the old bark. The crystals had a green tinge, their surface semi-translucent, and within a distinct, though pale green glow.<i>Leafstone</i><br/><br/>Stranger still, the base of the tree had grown up around something large that Jake couldn't readily identify. It was impossible to be certain as the roots of the tree had all but covered and twisted around it, but it looked as if to be the remains of some great Pokemon from an unknown age past, fossilized or petrified, left here and forgotten by time. Were it a Pokemon, it would not be one Jake recognized.<br/><br/>Something stirred in the glade at the foot of the great tree. A large green bud, like that of a flower waiting to bloom jostled slightly, a short teal arm reached out from beneath, stretching its tiny clawed toes. The<a class="externalLink" href="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbasaur_(Pok%C3%A9mon)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bulbasaur</a>shifted and yawned, roused from its slumber. Laying comfortably on the mossy earth it turned its head in Jake's direction, eyes blinking sleepily. The large red eyes opened slowly as it realized something else had come into the Glade, it stared at Jake.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>