Charlie jumped out of the front door on to the street, she took a few steps forward before then turning to look back at the house. Kay was struggling to get away from her mum as she fussed over her putting different items in her black shoulder bag. "Now be sure you don't lose this bag." Erin repeated for the twentieth time. "And spray this repel around you when you approach the long grass, the Pokémon should leave you alone, especially while Charlie has that strong blastoise in her party. Now where did I put that scarf?..." Erin let go of her daughter and turned to search the coat rack. Kay quietly turned around and began to tip toe out the door. "Wait right there young lady!" Erin called from the coat rack.

Kay closed her eyes tight and sighed before relaxing and turning around once more. "Mum come on!" She groaned. "I will only be a couple of towns over, we'll be back in no time." Charlie sniggered at the family's small quarrel.

"Now, now Kay." Erin said as she wrapped a long black scarf around her neck. Kay rolled her eyes impatiently and Erin smiled. "Okay fine, you can go."

Kay couldn't get out the door fast enough, she grabbed Charlie's arm and dragged her down the street, tripping along the way. "Bye mum!" She called waving back at Erin who was now leaning out the door watching them run down the street.

...

"Are you sure you've got everything?" Charlie mocked jokingly. She was strolling alongside the trees that lined the path of Route 2 holding her bright yellow bag firmly over her shoulder.

Kay walked alongside her rummaging through her own bag. "Oh be quiet Charlie." She laughed. "I just wish mum hadn't packed so much! I mean what is this?" Kay asked, pulling out a small white sheet of paper which seemingly had a red circle in the centre of the page surrounded by squiggly lines.

Charlie glanced back at it. "I don't know." She said grabbing the paper looking more closely at it. "Aren't you meant to give it to a Pokémon or something?"

"Well what use is that to me?!" Kay complained turning back to her heavy bag and continued to dig to the bottom. "I don't even have a Pokémon, nor am I allowed one."

Charlie laughed. "I think that's kind of the point, doesn't it repel Pokémon in some way? I don't know how it works." She folded it in half and shoved it into her own bag. Kay suddenly came to a stop. Charlie looked back at her. "Whatever is the matter with you?"

Kay smiled shyly. "Er… long grass." She pointed to the grass just in front of her that rose up to her knees. Charlie then noticed that she was already walking through it.

"Oh. Doesn't matter, come on." Charlie urged, she then noticed that Kay looked absolutely terrified. "Don't look so scared! Spray that stuff over yourself! There's nothing here anyway." Charlie then turned around to continue walking through the grass when she made eye contact with a pair of red and yellow glowing eyes. She shrieked, stumbling backwards away from the watchog and collapsed on the floor at Kay's feet.

Kay stared down at her cousin who was now cowering at her feet with her hands pulling the Snorlax beanie over her face. "Nothing here huh?" Kay smiled as the watchog scampered away, further into the grass.

Charlie looked up at her little cousin and sat up to straighten out her hat before standing up and composing herself. "That is merely how you would have reacted to that Whatever-it-is in my position." She then glanced back at Kay who was smiling. "Shall we walk around the long grass?" Charlie pointed toward the small path which conveniently went around the grass. Kay nodded happily and began to follow her cousin down the path.

The two of them had no trouble walking down the footpath, they both easily jumped over the ledges and were not interrupted on their journey by the Pokémon trainers who usually lined the route. "Where is everybody?" Kay asked. She sat down on the edge of the last ridge before slowly lowering herself down to the next level of the trail.

"Not sure." Charlie answered placing her hand on the edge of the ledge before jumping down after her cousin. "It's probably too early for them. Who gets up in the morning now-a-days?" She brushed the dirt off her hands then continued to walk towards the entrance to the next town.

"I think you will find that most people do." Kay stated. As they turned the next corner they saw the entrance to Accumula town. "Yay we're finally here!" Kay said excitedly almost jumping for joy, she sped up, trying to get to the small town as quickly as possible.

"Kay hold on!" Charlie shouted after her. "You're acting as if you've never been here before."

Kay stopped in her tracks and turned to wait for Charlie. "Well… I haven't." Charlie stared at her in complete shock and Kay couldn't help but laugh at the expression on her face. "I wasn't allowed to because of the long grass. Sure you can skip past it on your way here, but you can't on the way ba-" She paused as the realisation hit her. "How are we going to get back!? There's no way I will be able to go through the long grass without a Pokémon!

Charlie could see that she was starting to panic. "Calm down will you? You have that repel, they won't come near you with that!"

"I only have the one though." Kay replied now biting her thumb nail through worry. "And that's for Route 1!"

"Okay, okay! We'll go to the Pokémon Centre and find a shop. They're bound to sell some there." Charlie reasoned, she could see Kay was going to interrupt. "Ah!" Charlie held out her hand to stop her. "I will loan you the money." Kay smiled shyly and nodded. The two of them then continued into the town.

...

"What do you mean you don't have any repels!?" Charlie shouted at the shop keeper, slamming her hands on the desk.

The shopkeeper put his hands up in defence, looking weary of her. "Well because of the jigglypuff on Route 2." He began to explain. "A lot of trainers are sung to sleep then being woken up to a horde of wigglytuff's."

Charlie glared at him for a good couple of minutes before deciding he was telling the truth. "Fine. I believe you." She muttered, finally straightening herself out.

He finally relaxed, but then glanced behind her. "Erm… would you mind moving?" He asked, when he saw her glaring again he stepped back. "Only-only because there are some customers behind you!" He stuttered.

She glanced over her shoulder to see that Kay wasn't even with her anymore but making her way down the long line to apologise to all the other customers. She quickly turned back to the shop keeper again. "Well I'm a customer." She said defensively. "And if you give me 6 Pokéballs I will forgive your rudeness."

He stared at her for a moment in shock then sighed reaching beneath the desk to grab 6 Pokéballs. "Here." He passed them to her. "That will be ¥1200." Charlie nodded then handed over the money and finally walked down the long queue to catch up with her cousin.

Kay noticed Charlie walking over to her. "Finally done pestering him huh?" She then noticed the Pokéballs in her hand. "Why did you buy all those?"

"He said I wasn't a customer. I was not prepared to deal with his sass." Charlie answered. She opened her bag and dropped them inside. "And I was not pestering him! The customer is always right!" Charlie huffed and folded her arms angrily. "You were no help at all! Thanks for abandoning me in my time of need!"

Kay ignored her shouting and was trying to ignore all the customers in the line staring at them. "Come on Charlie, we have to get to Nuvema town." Kay grabbed her by her bright red sleeve and began to drag her out of the Centre.

Charlie kicked and screamed like a toddler having a temper tantrum resulting in everyone in the centre to stop and stare, which was exactly her intention. She loved the fact that Kay was now bright red in the face, and once Charlie was finally pushed out the door she went quiet again. "So… which way now?" She asked walking past Kay away from the centre.

Kay chased after her. "I do wish you wouldn't do that." She whispered with a smile on her face. "Though it does make everything more eventful." Charlie smiled cheekily as the two began to walk on to Route 1.