My Little Journey
By: DragonMist1: (This is done by my sister, its just going to be posted under my name cause she doesn't write much anymore, I was suprised when she sent this to me. I'm Blink)
Disclaimer: this will be the main disclaimer for the entire story, if I decide to keep going on with it; so, I don't own anything to do with pokemon, any pokemon, or pokemon characters that were not created by me, mainly Mairaie (my-ray), Nate, Ronald and Terri for the moment. If there are new characters later, I will ad a disclaimer for them as well in the chapters that they come up.
Prolouge I: When Mairaie meets Nate
!-Its those special little moments that bring people together-!
The shop was busy with the sounds of pokemon when he opened the door, hearing a little chime and a young woman in her early twenties walked up to the desk wearing a pink apron, a pink handkerchief was holding back her lavender hair as she peeked into the sunlight trying to see who was at the door, a Butterfree was sitting on her shoulder looking over at him.
"…Um…Hi!" He rubbed the back of his dark blue hair, causing parts of it to fall into his face, making him blow them out of his eyes.
"Hello." She said, clenching her hands together nervously. He's kind of cute. I hope that he doesn't notice. He grinned and looked around.
"What is this place?"
"This is my adoption agency for pokemon that want good homes." He watched as she fluttered about like her Butterfree from one area of the room to the other describing the different areas and pens that held the pokemon. "…and Nidorina and Nidoran just love to have little things like logs in order to burrow under them…" She's really pretty; look at that hair, bouncing as she moved such a nice lavender color. "…Magikarp, they like to have a lot of water and Pecha berries seem to be their favorite…" Such pretty grey blue eyes…wait eyes! "Are you even listening to me?" He rubbed the back of his hair, nodding, "Yep, yeah I'm listening to you, Nidoking and Magcargo and…"
She stood their with her hands on her hips scowling at him. "You weren't listening were you?"
"No, I'm sorry."
"Well, I guess I could forgive you."
"Really?"
"No."
"But why?" He whined.
"Because I don't feel like it, and I can't forgive someone that I don't even know their name."
"Nate."
"What?"
"I'm Nate Hunter, 'hunter extraordinaire' at your service." He said, bowing with a flourish. She blushed a little.
"I'm Mairaie Sora, owner of this adoption agency."
"You're the owner?"
"Yep."
"Wow. You must really love pokemon a lot to give them such a wonderful place to live." She blushed harder. "Well, I have a little help from my assistant Ronald." Nate suddenly looked a little colder. "Ronald?"
"Oh, yes, hey Ronald, can you come here for a minute, I have someone I want you to meet." She looked back over at Nate. "Ronald used to be a famous Pokemon watcher, but now, he just helps me to learn how take care of so many pokemon. His grandson is living with him too, cute little bugger."
"Grandson?" Nate seemed to perk up when he heard that answer, and then when he saw that she had caught him he looked a little sheepish. "How old is he?" "He'll be three in August, his name is Terri, and Chansey is looking after him right now with the rest of the baby pokemon. Do you want to see them; we just had a litter of vulpix that just finished hatching yesterday."
"I didn't come here to adopt anything, actually I brought someone that wanted to look for a good family." She blinked a couple of times trying to understand what he just said.
"Oh, who?"
"Her." He pulled out a pokeball and released the pokemon that was inside. A beautiful little Eevee sat there scratching her ear. She squealed. "Oh how Cute! Just look at her little ears, she's just the prettiest little thing." She reached down and scratched behind the ear that she had been scratching and the Eevee purred and leaned into her hand. "She is so sweet. Where did you find her?"
"I came across her as I was traveling. She didn't want to stay as a wild pokemon anymore and wanted to come with me, I had another pokemon, a Dustox that had been abandoned by their trainer that I was going to take to the nearest pokemon center, but I found your little shop and decided to bring them here. I'm glad I did." Suddenly an older gentleman came into the room from one of the side doors.
"There you are Mai, can I borrow your Butterfree, there is a little bit of a scuffle going on between a couple of Sneasel and a Seviper upstairs."
"Sure Ronald, Butterfree, go help him calm them down."
"Freeee!" He flew off into the room that Ronald had just left and Ronald followed him back inside.
"Sorry about that, sometimes they get a little rambunctious now and then." The Eevee kept rubbing herself on Mai's leg, purring a little.
"She really seems to like you."
"She does, doesn't she? I really like her too." She leaned down and gave her an Oran berry from one of the berry trees that were growing in pots at the edge of the room. The Eevee sat down, munching on it while sitting close to Mai. "Is it okay if I take a look at the Dustox that you found?"
"Oh, sure, I was going to ask you if you could find a place for it." He quickly fished out another pokeball with a blue dot on the top.
"We try to find all of our pokemon good homes, but sometimes that just doesn't happen, it's been harder lately to get people to come and look at our pokemon." She looked sad.
"Have you ever heard of Professor Oak?"
"I've heard a little about him, not much. Do you know him?"
"Yep, he gave me my first pokemon, Growlithe, who is now an Arcanine. Oak is a great professor, he really knows what he is talking about with pokemon! You should try calling him; he might know what to do, maybe he can advertise for you."
"Oh thank you!" She ran up and hugged him, then suddenly let go and backed away. "I'm sorry; I just go so caught up in…" She stopped when he hugged her.
"There, we're even, stop apologizing." She turned as red as a Tomato berry. And he grinned.
"Oh!" she jumped, realizing that she was still holding onto the pokeball. "We need to go and have a look at this little guy. Chansey! She said into a little walkie talkie that she had in her pocket. Could you come into the exam room 2 please?" She started walking down one of the hallways. "Follow me, you should be there too, it's your pokemon." They went into a smaller room, Chansey was already there prepping the examination room and Mairaie released the pokemon from the pokeball.
"Dustox dustox ox!" The Dustox flew around the room a couple of times then settled itself on the top of Nate's head, its dust causing him to sneeze.
"Dustox, could you come and sit on the table here please?" It softly flew over and landed on the table, waiting for instructions. "Thank you. Now let's have a look at you." She examined him, asking him to stretch his wings for her, and move each of his feet and his feelers. "Well, everything looks to be healthy; you just need to eat more. We'll get you set up with some Leppa berries here in a second; Ronald makes a great slushie out of those! Could you stay in here with him for a second while I get an area set up for him in the bug room?"
"Sure." And she quickly left the room as Chansey started tidying up. "There, see, it wasn't so bad buddy was it?" The Dustox shook its head no. "Ox! (No.)" "Now Eevee," The little Eevee looked up at him while finishing up on her Oran berry. "Its going to be your turn soon, you behave, not like when I gave you a bath the other day." The Eevee's eyes started to sparkle with mischief as it remembered that, he caught her mischievous look. "I don't want a reoccurrence of that anytime soon, there were too many Carvanha in that pool for you to be knocking me all the way out there, and I can still feel all of those teeth!" The Eevee was giggling as Mai came back into the room with a tray full of slushies and set them down on the counter.
"Hi everyone, I'm back! Here." She set down a slushie for Dustox, and another for Eevee, she gave one to Chansey too, then one to Nate and had one for herself. "They are always really good. I love slushies." Everyone was happily drinking their slushies. Once they were done, Mai collected all of the glasses and set them back on the tray.
"Okay Eevee, it's your turn, come on up here." The Eevee jumped up onto Nate's lap and then onto the exam table. "Alright, it might feel a little funny when I am examining you but don't worry, it's not something that will hurt." "Vee! (Okay!)" After the examination, she looked over at Nate.
"This Eevee is pregnant." "She's what?" "She is going to be laying a litter of eggs soon. I'm glad you brought her here in time, sometimes really small pokemon like Eevee can have a little trouble when they are laying eggs." She lifted Eevee up and gave her a hug. "Congratulations Eevee!" "Veee! (Thanks!)" She set her back down; Chansey came over and led Dustox off out the other door towards the bug room. "Okay, let's take her to one of the nesting rooms where the other expecting mothers are at, we have a couple of them." They walked back into the big room and then down another hall and into a room that had several little alcoves, a few that had some pokemon in them, one was quartered off from the rest of the room with a small set of gates that were about two feet high, there was a larger vulpix lying on a cushion in the back watching as five little vulpixs were toddling around the enclosure playing. A little toddler boy with red hair was in the enclosure as well, playing with the little kits.
"That must be Terry." "Yes, this is Terry, and this proud little mama is Ember, a vulpix that has been here for a while, her owner abandoned her when he found out that she was going to be having kits." "That's terrible!" "Isn't it?" She turned to the next alcove; a beautiful Persian sat there grooming herself in the sunlight from the window. "This is Felicity, Her owner had died and no one was left to take care of her, she should be giving birth in a few days, Tom, her mate should be coming back soon with the other kittens." "They have more?" "Yes, three little Meowths, some breeds of pokemon can have many litters in a single year, Persians may only have at the most two or three, but pokemon like Rattatta can have as many as six a year." "Wow." The next alcove was empty but the farthest back on that wall had a low lying pool and a ledge at the side, a Milotic with bright shining scales was laying in the pool with its head on the ledge panting slightly. "Oh dear, Melody, is it time?" The Milotic gave her a quick nod and then layed back down panting a little. "Nate, could you put Eevee over there in the empty alcove and then go and get Chansey for me?" As he left, she quickly ran over to the changing room and changed into her bathing suit and got into the pool with Milotic, calmly rubbing her head as another contraction began. Mai set up a warm blanket in a large shallow impression filled with warm water that was on the ledge to put the eggs in after they are laid. Just as Chansey was running back in with Nate, the first of the eggs was delivered and Mai set to quickly washing it off with the water and set it in the warm padded pool. Nate just sat over by Eevee watching as Mai and the Chansey worked to help Milotic deliver her children, soon eight beautiful little eggs with pink markings were lying in the warmed little pool, the mother nuzzling them softly crooning to them every once in a while with a little song.
"Wow, I have never seen anything so amazing."
Mai jumped when she heard Nate. "Oh, Nate, I didn't realize that you were still here." She blushed when she realized that she was standing in front of him in her bathing suit and quickly ran over to the changing room but she tripped on the edge of the alcove, Nate quickly dove and grabbed her before she could hit the floor, turning so that she would land on him instead, she was mesmerized by his green-blue eyes, lying on his chest while they both fought to catch their breath. This little moment was just the beginning of a beautiful future together.
Soon after, Nate left on his journey once more, determined to rescue more abandoned and abused pokemon, not just so that he could see Mairaie again of course.