Okay this is a total Re-write because I felt as if this story was….lacking.
May: Second times the charm.
Drew: Its third times the charm.
May: Oh well.
Me: I'm terribly sorry about the inconvenience but I hope you like this better then the last. Oh and Drew will still have an adopted sister….it'll just be a surprise of who it is!
Drew: Oh no.
Me: Oh yes!
May: Rolyn does not own pokemon.
Moving
The morning Sun quietly crept up the sky in the horizon illuminating more and more of the vast land that was LaRousse city. It was still early so not many cars passed along the streets and not many of the moving sidewalks and block robots have all been activated yet. Most of the technology advanced city was dead asleep; however one person had stayed wide awake throughout the entire night. The night held such an overpowering temptation that it seemed impossible to fall asleep and miss the look of the shimmering stars that shone brightly just beyond the outskirts of the city on the beaches and the crescent moon wasn't such a bad sight either.
Now the sun was rising, taking away the moons time and bringing darkness into light as the day came. The mixture of colors filled the distance and the crystal blue water crashed against rocks and lapped at the sand before quickly dragging back out to the vast sea. There was a gentle breeze that moved the chartreuse locks of a figure seated in the white sand, close enough to the water that it caressed his bare feet but far enough not to get his entire lower half soaked.
His half lidded eyes were drowsy and heavy, threatening to close off the view of the emerald orbs that were his eyes. His eyes actually resembled his hair to some extent. Despite the chilling breeze, the boy only had on a simple green t-shirt and baggy gray pants that could suffice as pajama bottoms. A silver chain with a glimmering emerald encrusted 'D' on it twisted around as it hung from his neck and a simple diamond stud earring glimmered in the growing sunlight. Next to him in the sand were his black flip flops. His apparent age seemed to be at least fifteen.
The boy played with the white sand unconsciously by picking it up in a fist then letting the grains drain back to the ground through his fingers as he opened them. Even though his eyes held the tempt to close the boy focused out into the vast waters that were also known as the Rayquaza sea. The sea seemed boundless and had an amazing shimmer that even the most priceless gems could not compare to.
That was the reason the boy was there.
To gaze at the beauty that was the sea. Its hypnotizing movements and gorgeous, transluscent color held a calming sensation over the boy. The beach was a place where he could unwind and be alone to let himself think and let his mind wander on the topics that his everyday life would be classified as foolish. Away from the judgment, the annoyances, the pressure, and the responsibilities are what made the water so special. It made him feel free.
He shut his eyes and took in a deep breathe of the sea salt air. The music of the waves eased away all of his tension and made it possible to get away.
"Rosel."
Well, all good things must come to an end.
The boy snapped his eyes open and looked to the right to recognize a creature no more then two feet tall with spikes on its head, roses for hands and a completely green body.
"What's up Roselia?" He muttered in a calm tone as he directed his gaze to the sea again. Roselia lifted his black flip flops then pointed to the watch around the boy's wrist. It read 7:30. The boy released an exasperated sigh. His parents and sibling were bound to be up very soon and he didn't want them to look in his room and notice he was missing…then again he did tell them not to enter his room at all in the mornings during the summer but he had to be wary anyway.
"Let's go then." He said getting up from the sand and brushing any remains of the grains off. He slipped on his flip flops then produced an orb out of its pocket. It adorned the colors red and white with a black streak going around it and a button in the center. He pressed the button then pointed it at the Rose creature known as Roselia. The pokemon was then engulfed by a red light that came from the ball and it disappeared. The boy stuck the pokeball in his pocket before heading back towards the city.
The sun was just making its way up in a more southern area. The dim light was still enough to overwhelm the small city that is known as Petalburg. It was a simple area with simple people who all seemed to know each other and have a kind feeling towards one another. It seemed like the ideal place to live if you wanted to raise a family that consisted of four.
Well it was ideal…until something more appealing came along.
In a medium sized house that rested right next to the city gym, everything was packed up in boxes. Nothing was left out except for some furniture that hadn't been sent to the new location of where they would now reside. It was blatantly obvious that whoever lived in this home was moving and if you guessed that, then you are entirely right. This household, also known as the Maple Residence was now going to be vacant while the Maple family moved to another city more up north in the region. Some in the family were completely up to the idea while others detested the fact that it was occurring.
The sun was now coming into full view, warming up the chilly feel of the night that hung over the small city. Ray's of golden sun dripped into a shadeless window of one of the rooms of the Maple household revealing that the entire room was empty except for some stacked boxes, some old furniture and a twin sized bed that had a red quilt over it. Next to the bed was an old nightstand that had only a lone Mew Alarm clock resting on it.
In the bed was a small lump curled up into a ball and a delicate fair skinned hand with red painted nails stuck out from under the red quilt. The lump had a rhythmic rise and fall signaling that it was breathing which tells us that whatever was in the bed was obviously alive.
The Mew clock changed its ticking hands so that it was now exactly 7:30. The two bells on top of the clock were then struck rapidly filling the room with the high pitch sound of the alarm. A low grumble came from under the quilt and the hand that was exposed began to swat at the air around the clock aimlessly. After about twelve swats the hand finally came in contact with clock with a nice hard slam, but that didn't stop the ringing.
A much louder growl came from under the quilt as the hand bawled into a fist and began to strike the top of the clock rapidly; still it rang, filling the small bedroom with such an aggravating ringing sound that it could drive you insane. Out of pure frustration the hand got a hold of the clock and gave it a nice hard toss at the wall opposite to the bed. The clock hit the wall with a thunderous crash and fell to the hardwood floor reduced to pieces; the annoying ringing was put to a merciless end. A small content sigh could be heard as the lump under the red quilt shifted.
"MAY!"
Well, the silence was good while it lasted.
The lump in the bed jerked up to reveal a girl with frazzled coffee colored hair and fair toned skin. Her messy bed head covered her eyes making them non-visible. The girl shifted her head from side to side. The girls head was then directed at the door which slammed open to reveal a very upset woman. The woman also had hair that had a brunette color but hers were stuck in two ponytails that defied the laws of gravity. Her normal, kind, cobalt eyes were full of rage and annoyance. She adorned a pink robe that was over Beautifly pajamas and on her feet were matching slippers. The girl sitting up and bed pulled the hair out of her face to show a sheepish smile and eyes that resembled the crystal sea.
"Morning Mom. Did you sleep well?" The girl known as May said pulling up the strap of her fire red pajama top that had a picture of a Torchic smack dab in the center. The woman in the doorway also known as "mom" to the girl rolled her eyes and walked over to the dismantled alarm clock that was shattered all over the ground.
"That was the seventh clock we've bought you May." May's mother also known as Caroline said avoiding her daughter's question. She bent over and picked up the pieces of the clock. "I know you said you wanted to wake up on your own but how will this ever happen if you keep massacring the clocks we give you? Honestly, if you kept this up the smashing sound on the wall could be my alarm clock."
"Heh…sorry about that." May said rubbing the back of her head sheepishly. Her mother disposed of the clock then turned back to her daughter. "Maybe I should get a new alarm clock!"
"Or maybe you should reset it instead of chucking the clock against the wall and making me jump out of my sleep!"
"Hey...thats a great idea!" May exclaimed stupidly. Her mother rolled her eyes.
"But that doesn't matter now. At least you're awake on time. We have a long day ahead of us." Caroline said standing at her daughter's bed side. May groaned and fell back into bed while pulling the quilt over her head. Caroline rolled her eyes once more and sat on the edge of the bed. "C'mon May, there is no way to avoid this."
"Yes there is!" May exclaimed from under the quilt. Her voice came out a bit muffled. "We could just stay here and not move, that would solve my problems."
"May, we can't stay. Everything is already set. Your father will be a frontier brain now and we'll be living in a new place where you'll be able to try new things and meet new friends..." Caroline coaxed trailing off, trying to lean May over to the side about moving out of Petalburg.
"New things suck." May stated simply poking her head out from under the quilt. Caroline frowned at her daughter's words.
"Sweetie, LaRousse isn't that bad. There are beautiful beaches and wonderful national parks; you would be able to train and go surfing, not to mention skate boarding and roller blading." May let out a sigh of defeat and crossed her arms.
"Fine…I'll get up but don't expect me to be little miss sunshine." She grumbled throwing her feet over the side of the bed so that she was now sitting next to her mother on the edge. Caroline wrapped an arm around her and gave her a soft squeeze.
"I wouldn't have it any other way." She cooed giving her a kiss on the head before getting up and heading for the door. "Now wash up and get ready."
May nodded and her mother gave her look before exiting the room, to awaken May's younger sibling, Max, no doubt. May got out of bed and yawned while throwing her hands up for a good stretch. May was no where near ready for the day's events. Today was the day that her and her family moved about thirteen hours away from Petalburg to live in the high tech city up north known as LaRousse. It all started when her father, Norman Maple, had returned from the gym with and ecstatic smile on his face; he announced to the family that he had been offered the job of being the frontier brain for the battle tower due to the fact that the old brain had embarked on an important journey in another region.
May had been against the idea from the very start. She complained and argued but would always end up losing no matter how much she pouted or whined or said that her entire life was in Petalburg….she had no way to win this battle and now here she is, willing and ready to move…despite the fact that she was gonna mope till thy kingdom come. The only upside was that it was summer and that she wouldn't have to miss any school while the move took place.
"May! I don't hear you getting ready!" Caroline called from down the hall. May rolled her eyes.
"I'm goin!" She called back as she headed to the bathroom that was just a door away. She flicked the switch to let the blue themed bath come into light. She went to the shower first; taking her pink Kirlia towel and slinging it over the bar of the shower. She removed her clothes then entered the shower to take a long warm bathe to ease away her tense, uptight feeling.
She exited the shower with her once frizzy hair now sagging with water and the Kirlia towel was securely wrapped around her like a dress. She went to the mirror which hung over the sink and began to blow dry and brush her chocolate colored locks giving them a sort of shiny, soft curled look. Her hair gently fell on her shoulders having a silky, clean feeling to it as she combed her fingers through it.
She washed her face and brushed her teeth before re-entering her room to put on the already picked out outfit for the day: A strappy dark jeans dress that came down to her knees, a red and black striped off the shoulder top that came down to her elbow and red and black runners. She put a red ribbon bow clip in her hair to hold it out of her face, matching fingerless gloves and black pearl heart shaped studs. She wrapped a red, loose belt around her waist that had ten empty pokeballs on it.
Satisfied with her look she smiled and exited her room only to crash into her younger brother who was four years younger than her making him ten and making her fourteen. Even though he was fully dressed in a green polo shirt and tan knee length shorts and looked ready to go, his groggy, tired expression seemed long. He pushed up his black rimmed glasses and gazed at his older sibling. The young boy had navy hair and coal eyes mostly resembling his father unlike May who took after her mother.
"Hey Maxy," She said ruffling his hair. He glared at her for using the God forsaken nickname on him again. "Why do you look like you've been up the whole night?" She commented.
"That's because I have been up the whole night. I couldn't sleep at all due to the fact that today is moving day" He explained spitting out the last two words like distasteful food. May shrugged, having got over her whole, 'I'm not in the mood to move' phase.
"Eh, get over yourself." She muttered pushing past him to head downstairs. Max grumbled some incoherent words about his sister before following. The two of them were greeted by the smell of bacon and eggs cooking on the stove as their mother prepared the last meal that they would have in this house. Their father wasn't there to join them due to the fact that he got a head start to LaRousse to check up on their new home that would be filled with new furniture.
"May, when you finish, you and your brother should go and check on your pokemon in the backyard and get them ready to leave. I want to be outta here by 8:00." Caroline said as she gave her two children a full breakfast the consisted of eggs, toast, bacon and sausages. May finished hers easily while Max on the other hand nibbled the food until it was reduced to nothing.
The two siblings went out the back door into the fenced backyard that connected their home to the gym they once had control over. Max's six pokemon came running to him happily. His pokemon consisted of a Ralts, Beedrill, Granbull, Zigzagoon, Slackoth, and Wailmer. He returned them all to their pokeballs and re-entered their home. May whistled then a rush of ten different pokemon came at her.
"Hey guys!" May said happily as she gazed at her small group of pokemon. She has a Wartortle, Munchlax, Beautifly, Delcatty, Blaziken, Ivysaur, Aireon, Chikorita, Meditite, and her newly evolved Charzard who had red bows on its horns showing that it was a girl.
"Wartortle!" The medium sized water pokemon chimed happily jumping into its trainer's arms. May giggled and snuggled close to the turtle like creature.
"Nice to see you too." She said setting it down on the ground with the others. "Now today we get to move!" She said with fake enthusiasm. All the pokemon smiled. "I'll need you all to stay in your pokeballs until we get there, okay?" She asked. They all nodded and she returned each one of them, one at a time, Aireon refused to go in though.
"Come on girl." May said to the Eevee evolution. It shook its white head at her then gave her pleading eyes with her sky blue orbs. May sighed and let the pokemon stay out. Aireon is a special Eevee evolution due to the fact that it was the air type of the evolution line; a very rare evolution due to the fact that air stones weren't easy to find. The dog like creature had air light fur that was as white as clouds and its eyes, tail, paws and ears that reached its paws, were all a sky blue.
"May! We're leaving!" Max called from the back door. May picked up Aireon and looked at her old backyard and the old gym on more time before dashing into the house to see the movers carry boxes out the house and into the truck that was parked right behind her mother's car.
"You ready honey?" Caroline asked as she placed a hand on May's shoulder. May smiled lightly up at her.
"Do I have a choice?" Her mother rolled her eyes then the two made it to the car where Max was already waiting. May sat in the back on the right hand side and Aireon sat on her lap. May stared out the window and soon enough the car began to pull away from the house. She stroked her faithful friend with a gloved hand and watched as her house shrank smaller and smaller until it was out of view.
"Goodbye Petalburg." She mumbled qiuetly to herself as she slumped in her seat.
Much better then the old first chapter...Right?
May: Absolutely.
Drew: Sorry, wasn't paying attention...and since when is my ear pierced?
Me: Since now!
May: PWEEZ REVIEW! Thank you.