I do not own any pokemon or anything related to them. The story is my idea. Everything belongs to its original owner.

The next morning I woke up and felt like I was still dazed from waking up. When I awoke, I didn't hear anything hitting the top of the tent. I waited to hear the thumping of the rain but it never came. I poked my head out and saw that it was sunny out! I felt this was as good a time as any to get going. I woke Mudkip and Ralts then packed up the tent. It seems that Mawile was already awake as well.

I had left Mudkip out as well as Mawile and Ralts so that they could all get to know each other better. It didn't seem to work to well. Mudkip and Mawile were at each others throats. So as a small kind of punishment I put them back in their pokeballs. I had gotten to Petalburg City after not too long so a found a nice spot and let the other too back out.

They were each placed on opposite sides of me and then were fed. Ralts picked up her bowl and sat between me and Mawile. At this I took interest in what she was doing and got intrigued. I went to a small lake nearby to get some water; she was watching me. But then someone or something ran into me.

I looked over and it was a girl. She was sitting on the ground holding her knee. She looked to be in pain so I had to at least try to help.

"I'm so sorry I got in your way, I had no idea that you would be coming this way." I stutered trying to apologize

"It my fault. I should have paid attention." She attempted to get up and go but couldn't."Ow, Ow" She cried

"Are you okay? Mudkip bring me my bag!" I called over. He ran over to me with it. "I'm gonna try to help you." I reassured her. I did what I could to help her leg

"Thank you." The girl said

I got a kind of makeshift splint on her leg and we got up and tried to move.

"Do you live in this city?" I asked curiously

"Yeah my house is right there." She pointed to a borwn colored building

I started over that way helping her walk over. "Wait, this is the gym. Does that mean your the leader?" I asked while looking shocked

"Haha no way I'm that strong. My dad is the leader. We live there." The girl said while laughing

I walked her in and saw a man standing there as if waiting for a certain challenger. I assumed it was her dad

"Oh May what happened?!" The man yelled. "What did you do to her?!" He looked ready to strike me.

"STOP!" May yelled. "Dad he did nothing. I fell and he was nice enough to help me out." She explained to him.

I had went outside and called my pokemon over. We all went inside. May was telling her father everything that had happened. He seemed to calm down quite a bit. I set up evrything for my Pokemon to eat again. I talked with May and her father for quite a while. He told me to call him Norman.

Later on I decided that it was time to get going and I thanked them both for their hospitality. So I started toward Rustboro City and I heard my name.

"Tony!" It was May.

"Yeah what is it." I was confused

"Well, um... I wanted to know if you wanted to, you know... travel together."

I didn't really know how to respond. "Are you just starting your journey?" I had to say something.

"Yeah why?" Now she was confused

"I was headed to Rustboro not Littleroot. Beside I'm 15 and since your just starting that means your probably 10. It would be a little weird and I don't think your parents would approve." I tried to explain to her.

"Oh, so you don't want to... you could have just said that." She seemed so hurt. She turned to walk away.

"May wait." I changed my mind. I couldn't see her hurt like that. "If you want to travel together than we can work something out."

She spun around. "Really you want to? That's so great." Her whole face lit up.

Just then I felt a tug on my leg.

"Ral..."

She was crying. I didn't even know what I did wrong. Then she let go and walked away. This was the first time I had ever seen her willingly not cling to me. I was shocked but knew something was up nonetheless. So this time I stopped her.

"Ralts is something wrong?" I asked with worry in my voice

"Ralts" she wimpered. Just then she slapped me.

I couldn't believe it. And it hurt too. My own Pokemon hit me. I kept looking at her and she walked away, went over to Mawile. Then I saw her put her head in her hands.

-Ralts Point of View-

"Mawile, it's not fair." I was trying to fight back the tears.

"What's not?" She asked confusedly.

"I li... like him." I couldn't fight it anymore. " I have n... no way to te... tell him either"

"Who? Mudkip?" She asked.

"N... No" I studdered.

"Then who? Who else could it be?" She seemed impatient.

"M... Ma... Master." I looked at her.

"Your kidding me, right? I don't believe this. Your on your own." She was angry.

"No please, I need my friend." She walked away from me. "Please come back."

My best and only friend, she just walked away when I needed her help. My mother figure, she just left me here when I needed her support.

"Why does the world hate me?"

I was ready to cry again. My whole world just fell apart. I can't communicate with or confess my feelings to the one I love. I hit him. He's bringing another girl with us on the journey; a girl who obviously likes him as well. To top it all off the one who I have considered my mom just left me to cry. I guess I'll just have to try harder.

-Back to Tony-

"She always clings to me and trys to lay close to me at night. When I went to talk to May she tried to hold me back. After I told May that she could come along, Ralts got upset and hit me." Then it hit me. (Or so I thought.) She didn't like change. With that in mind I went over. I got down and did what I could to comfort her.

About 5 minutes later she was ready to go. She said good bye to her dad and we hit the road.

"Hey Tony, I'm really glad that you let me come with you. It's no fun to travel alone." She said in a calming way.

"Yeah I know what you mean. So do you know who your going to pick?" I said with some enthusiasm.

"No not yet. But, I'm thinking about Torchic." She said slightly unsure.

"Oh nice Torchic evolves to be very versatile in battle." I told her trying to encourage her.

"Oh I'm not really into battles. Honestly I'm nont sure what I want to do." She seemed to be very nervous.

"Oh alright I hear ya." I decided to just take her word for it.

We just walked and talked about her picking her first Pokemon,and before we knew it, we had gone through Oldale Town already. Then we looked up to the sky and realised that it was night time. We decided to set up camp so I let everyone out.

The relationship between Mudkip and Mawile had still not gotten any better so I had decided to put them in their Pokeballs for the night. Throughout the night Ralts seemed to stick to me like a magnet. I had thought that it was just her normal routine so I didn't pay it much mind at all.