I woke up, the worries of yesterday left behind. I sat on the edge of my bed, preparing myself for the long walk to the bathroom. Noticing that I was lingering, I finally, and grudgingly, left the still warm bed to go and wash-up.
I slid my feet across the polished wood of my floor. I got to the door of my bathroom and opened it. As I walked in, I noticed the mirror. The reflection in the mirror was not spectacular, disheveled, dark blue hair, blue eyes that always looked unhappy, and wrinkled sky blue pajamas.
"I am Falkner, of Violet City. I run the Violet City Gym, using flying types. Today, I have to go to Sinnoh to meet with the other gym leaders, elite four, and champions of the other regions," I spoke to myself, so that way I remembered. I looked at my calender to make sure that was what I was doing today. Sure enough, it was right there in black and white.
After putting on my all blue clothing, I got my pokeballs, which contained my assortment of flying type pokemon. Although I am a flying type trainer, none of my pokemon could have carried me to Sinnoh, so I decided to take a plane. I said a goodbye and good luck to the my gym trainers.
I looked down the main street of Violet City, it was early morning, but the street still held a few people on it. A bumble-bee yellow car turned the corner onto the part of the street I was on. It stopped right in front of me and the taxi driver came out of the car to greet me. I quietly said hello and put my traveling case in the trunk of the daisy-hued auto mobile.
The taxi trip to the Violet City airport was not long, only lasting about fifteen minutes at most. I paid the cab driver the money I owed and got my traveling case out of the cab's trunk and rolled into the airport.
"Good morning, Mr. Falkner. Here is your ticket for the next plane to Sinnoh," chimed the staff at the front of the airport. " Please place your luggage on the conveyer belt and take a right to have you and your pokemon go through security."
I silently followed instructions and began to walk away.
"Have a great day and flight, Mr. Falkner." the staff had chimed in as she noticed I was leaving. I mumbled something inaudible back to the staff. It may have sounded like "You too!" but that was far from what I had been thinking. Walking amongst the white walls, I waited in line to finally get through the security check-point in the airport. I hadn't done this much, but I knew the drill, put extra stuff in a tub on a conveyer belt and put your pokeballs in a device that could see what was in the pokeball and whether the pokemon could be deemed safe to be out of its pokeball on the airplane. I got through the security check with ease, and I started to where my gate was.
The intercom suddenly sprang to life at my gate. "Attention, may we please have Falkner come up to the front of the gate? Can we please have Falkner come up to the front of the gate? Thank you," the intercom had questioned in a static, but human, voice. I strode up to the front of the gate and looked at the staff member that had called me up.
"Are you Falkner?" I nodded. "Good, let me see here," the rather tired looking staff member had said. "Oh, it looks as if you have been upgraded to first-class on your flight. Huh, that's strange, says that someone from Hoenn payed for the upgrade. Got any friends in Hoenn?" pried the staff member.
"Not any that come to mind immediately, but I figure that someone that I might have met a while ago could have upgraded me to first class," I said as I scratched my head in the act of trying to figure out who would have upgraded me to first-class. The airport staff member nodded and said "Enjoy your trip."
I got onto the plane with the rest of first class as my plane got onto the gate and everyone exited. I kept on walking past the first-class seats and onto the coach. I would have gone to the first seat I had gotten had a flight attendant had not steered me in the right direction to my seat. I had never ridden first-class in an airplane, so I was surprised to how comfortable the sets were. In a short matter of time, the flight attendant that had steered me to my seat got in front of the all the first-class passengers. The plane intercom came on and the pilot started speaking. I calmly listened to the safety demonstration of what to do in the event of an emergency.
The plane began getting pulled backwards and was set neatly on the run way, ready for take-off. I had taken a window seat. I had been so self absorbed that I hadn't noticed until the plane was ready to fly that the seat next to me was completely empty. I looked at the empty seat for a few more seconds, wondering if someone had missed the flight or if the seat was empty. It was not like most flights into different regions to have an empty first-class seat, or even an empty coach seat for that matter. I asked about the empty seat to the flight attendant nearest me.
"The same person that upgraded you to first-class also bought an extra ticket for you to have a pokemon out of its pokeball out on the flight," the flight attendant had answered quite in a bland expression. I thought for a moment to decide on what pokemon to let out of its ball. I decided to let my best friend, pidgeot, out of its ball and spread its wings for a bit.
"Hey, pidgeot. You weren't expecting to be out on the plane in first-class, did you?" the large bird responded by a caw half way between shock and happiness. At that moment the plane lurched forward and accelerated rapidly. Within the moment, the plane was off the ground. The first few minutes of the flight, I watched the surroundings of the plane, but after that, I closed my eyes and fell asleep due to how comfy the chairs were.
"Sir, sir. Please wake up sir, the flight is over. Sir?" I could hear the flight attendant trying to wake me up. That didn't get a response from me as quickly as she liked, so, as any person would do, she had my pidgeot use U-Turn on me to wake me up. That got me awake.
"What is the big idea! I was catching up on sleep since I had to wake up early yesterday!" The more regular and lively part of my personality exclaimed.
"Actually sir, you woke up early yesterday. Here in Sinnoh, it is about thirty past midnight. I was boggled as to how I slept for so long, until I realized that I was sitting in first-class. My pidgeot stared at me for a few brief seconds than urged me to get off the plane. We got off the plane and began to look for my luggage on the luggage conveyer. I stared blankly at the dark blue traveling case that was mine. I was confused because the grogginess of sleep was still over me. I picked up the bag and began to quickly walk towards the door. I would have gotten to the door in a matter of seconds had someone not said "Hello Falkner. Long time, no see." I looked over my shoulder and waited to what was behind my pidgeot as the bird caught up to me. What I saw was behind my pidgeot shouldn't have surprised me as much, but alas, it did. Behind my pidgeot was the latest ex-champion of Hoenn himself, Steven Stone. I wondered how I ever would have missed the hair of Steven. It was so distinctive, and if the hair weren't enough, there was also the suit and eyes that always seemed to grasp everyone's attention in the area. Although Steven was not gym leader, elite four, or a champion, Steven did get to come to the annual meet up in one of the six regions due to his help in stopping both team Aqua and Team Magma simultaneously.
"Why hello to you too, Steven," I greeted, trying not to make a fool of myself. Steven gave his signature smile as he walked closer to me to talk.
"Did you have a good time in the first-class seats?" Steven inquired in a nonchalant fashion. I stared with my mouth gaping like it was asking for flies to enter. I quickly closed my mouth and tried, key word "tried," to regain my composure.
"How do you know about that?" I asked in return. It was pretty hard for me not to notice the smile creeping across Steven's face. I connected the dots in my head "That was you?!" the composure in my expression quickly faulted. "Why would you spend your money on other people like that? Oh… also, thank you," my cheeks began to blush from pale white to cherry red.