Chapter 2 – Butting Heads
Last time we saw Kyan and Stoutland racing home to the farm, in order to try and save the life of a Pokemon egg. The contents of said egg were unknown to them, but yet they still fought for its survival.
5 Years Later
(Kyan's POV)
I stood out on the porch, looking out across the whole of Verger Town and taking it all in. It was a beautiful town for sure and the people were kind and welcoming, but did it have to be so boring and full of nobodies? Like seriously, of all the islands in Deltrom everyone knew that Gamma island was essentially for civilians, I hadn't seen another Pokemon in Verger Town in the last few weeks, and if I did it would be a Lapras bred to ferry bratty kids around the harbour. My morning had started off well but now I had just depressed myself, no that's not it, this freaking island as a whole had depressed me. I did a full 180 and walked back through the glass sliding doors into the dining room, I could hear my mum working away in the kitchen and decided to go and look for something to do. I pushed upon the door that connected the two rooms and saw my mum working away, cleaning pots and pans while also baking some-sort of cake in the oven. So, it was going to be one of those mornings.
"Anything I can help with? Since I can see you've got a busy day at the bakery planned." I chuckled as I walked up to the kitchen counter and hopped up on it, sitting with my legs hanging over one end as I looked over my shoulder at my mum.
My mum whirled her head around and snapped at me. "Will you get off the counter Kyan!" but then she quickly regained her composure.
"But yes, thank you, here take this list and go run and get all the ingredients listed on it." I could tell she was stressed out, so I thought it best not to tell her about the e-mail I received from dad, the one where he told me he really wanted to visit me at our home in Deltrom, it didn't matter anyway because my mum would always come up with some excuse as to why he couldn't visit us.
'I wonder which one she'd use this time, maybe that she doesn't want to inconvenience him by coming all the way to Deltrom, or maybe she'd say that she's far too booked up with orders this week, or my personal favourite, the good, old if he really wants to, which we all know means "Fuck off!" I can't be bothered with it today anyway, i'll mention it tomorrow or something.' I lowered myself down from the counter, grabbed up the list of groceries, scanned it quickly and decided which route I'd need to take. I set off for the front door before my mum called out to me.
"You should take Stacie with you and get her out of that bed." My mum giggled after me, I had to crack a smile at that, that girl was always sleeping. I turned around and headed towards the door that led into the hallway, I entered and stopped at the bottom of the stairs that led up to my room.
"Hey Stacie, get your butt moving! We've got a job…" I craned my neck backwards to shout further up the stairs, but then.
"CUUUUUUUUU!" Stacie leapt over the banister at the top of the stairs and plummeted head first down towards my face, her skull collided with me and sent me sprawling to the floor holding my face in pain. I managed to peek through my hands and saw Stacie, my Cubone, standing crossed arms with her eyes narrowed at me. It took me a second to realise why she was so mad.
"Seriously? You're annoyed because I interrupted your joy-dive, you could have broken my nose Stacie!" I feigned anger but couldn't hold it for long, I burst out laughing and Stacie joined in almost instantly.
"Cu, Cu, Cubooooone, bone, bone!" I pulled myself up off the floor and grabbed my bag from the cupboard under the stairs. It was a simple black and dark-blue bag with a large front pocket, I slipped it onto my back and headed back into the kitchen, as I walked Stacie leapt and clung onto the back of my bag before climbing up a bit further to grab a hold of my right shoulder. I said a quick goodbye to my mum before opening the door and heading out into Verger Town.
As I jogged down the stairs leading from my front door to the pathway, I heard a voice calling out to me.
"Good morning, young Kyan." Mr. Chere said to me as he sauntered down the pathway leading past my house. His large, bushy, white moustache muffled his voice as the round, jolly man waved to me, I lazily raised my hand in greeting, I didn't like waving because it was too awkward and it was impossible to find the balance between overenthusiastic and rude, and headed off down the pathway in the opposite direction of Mr. Chere. The town of Verger essentially considered Mr. Chere the mayor, he was normally the one who handled issues in the town, or at least he would be if anything actually happened here. Mr. Chere was actually going in the same direction as I had originally planned to go, but I would rather take a longer journey than have to talk to someone.
"He's in a good mood, probably because of that stupid dance that's happening tonight, bet he thinks he's finally going to get somewhere with Mandy!" I laughed out loud at my dumb joke, and Stacie snickered along with me before she began to nod off and almost fall from my back, I shook my bag and she jolted awake.
"I think you've had enough sleep Stacie!" I joked, but she didn't find it funny and I received a knock on the head from her club.
After a few more minutes of walking and talking, we neared the town market, if there's one thing you could say about Gamma island, it was that the market always had what you needed, although that was probably due to the sheer fact that every family in the town produced and sold some sort of product. I was consulting the list my mum had given me when I heard someone shouting throughout the market.
"Hey! Kid with the Cubone, where's the gym on this island?" the voice shouted. Jeez, I hated it when people caused such a disturbance, have some decency.
'Wait! Kid with the Cubone?' I raised my head and looked for the source of the voice as I realised that the person was calling out for me. As I scanned the crowds I locked eyes with a boy, about a few inches shorter than me, with a green pullover hoodie, tan skin and fiery orange hair.
"Uhm sorry? Can I help you man?" I asked him, I hated talking to random people in the street, but I still wasn't so rude that I was going to ignore him.
"I asked you where the Thrush City gym was, idiot!?" he yelled back at me, this kid clearly had no patience, he was annoying, so I decided that I would take great pleasure in delivering the fact that…
"The Thrush City gym is on Overn island MORON! There are no gyms on Gamma island!" I yelled back with a smirk, I was never a fan of confrontation, but it didn't mean I was going to back down to this asshole. Stacie jumped from my shoulder and began angrily waving her club at the kid while screeching out several sounds, I was hoping that among them was the Cubone word for "Go fuck yourself!"
"You're kidding me! That old man told me he'd drop me off at Overn island!" The boy began stamping his feet on the ground, kicking up dust as he ranted about some old ferryman who gave him a bum deal.
"Screw it! It doesn't matter anyway, I'll head there after I get some practice on you and your Cubone! Let's take them on, Salandit!" He threw a poke-ball at the ground and it bounced before popping open, the energy spilled out from it and formed into a black lizard Pokemon, I didn't immediately recognise it, but I had the assumption it was from the Alola region.
"Wow hey! Wait just a second, we're not battlers you dick!" I screamed at him across the market as his Salandit prepped itself in a battle position, Stacie looked over her shoulder at me with scared eyes, she didn't know what to do, we'd never been in a battle before.
"Don't be a bitch, you can't back down now! Salandit, blast it with Ember!" The boy ordered, his Salandit leaned their head back and prepared a ball of flame within its throat before whipping its head forward and launching a concentrated fireball at Stacie.
How are Stacie and Kyan going to get out of this one? Will they be forced to battle? And who exactly is their opponent? Find out Tomorrow!