BlizzardNinja's Corner:
Hey everyone! Here's chapter two of A Sibling Rivalry! I hope you all enjoy it as it was fun to write and has some adventure and feel good moments in it. This chapter is essentially the beginning of their journey as they are on the road and gives some good character development.
I'd like to take a moment to thank any reviewers, readers, and followers of my story both now and in the future. I enjoy coming up with the ideas for different stories like this and I'm glad that I have finally started to write a story and post it online for all of you to be able to read instead of keeping them in my head and as notes on my computer and phone. Ha ha ^_^' Honestly though, I am appreciative of any and all people who take the time out to read, review, and/or follow my story. Speaking of reviewers, I'd like to thank DuplexBeGreat for giving me my first review for the story and pointing out some areas I can improve on or clarify in purpose as the story progresses.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon, the series, games, or any of the merchandise associated with it. They are fully owned by Nintendo, Game Freak, and the Pokémon Company. However, the original characters that I create are made and thought of by myself.
Now with the author's note and disclaimer out of the way, chapter two is front and center! Hope you all enjoy the chapter!
Chapter Two: A Rocky Start to an Eventful Journey
Raveena, Felix, Nick, and I walked down Route 45 at a casual pace as we tried to take in as much of the surrounding environment as possible. Felix and Nick had never been on this route before so everything on it was pretty much new to them. The twins were amazed to see how tall the pine trees were up close and how high the mountain peaks actually were when walking beside the mountains. There was a musky yet clean smell that came from the mixture of the pine forests, the mountains, and the river we were walking along on the route. We would occasionally see different pokémon climbing the mountains and hanging in the trees as we walked by. Most of the pokémon continued what they were doing not even noticing us. Others would stop and watch us walk through; some of them even seemed to be seeing humans for the first time.
I was amazed at the differences and how it felt to be travelling down Route 45. However, I was not as overwhelmed as the twins since I had traveled briefly on the top edge of this route before unbeknownst to my siblings and mother. Despite that, I still found the contrast between the overall serene nature of Route 45 and the bustling atmosphere of Blackthorn City to be quite hard to comprehend, especially considering the proximity they had to each other. Despite being surrounded by mountains except for the field like opening to this route, Blackthorn City was not exactly what one would picture as natural. There were a lot of trees and grassy areas in the city, but it was not the same as being out in the real mountain paths. In Blackthorn City, there were always people walking around at their brisk pace trying to catch a fast lunch before having to return to work. There were people talking on their phones, people running around the city, and even the odd coordinator or trainer commanding their pokémon to perform certain tasks in their efforts at training. Compared to the quiet that was being felt in the calm nature of this route, the city was incredibly busy.
Snatch was in a relaxed daze on my shoulders as he laid his head against mine with his eyes closed. He was just quietly listening to our footsteps on the rocky path as he started to drift into sleep. However, we soon felt a sharp tremor come from a part of the mountain we had just passed. Upon looking, we saw a group of graveler fighting among each other beside a pile of berries. Each of us quickly concluded that they were fighting about the food and that we should hurry along further down the path. As we were about to turn to walk back down the path at a quickened pace, Raveena saw something out of the corner of her eye.
When she looked closer, she could see a little teddiursa peaking around one of the nearby boulders of the fighting graveler. Raveena happily squealed when she saw it as she had always wanted to capture one. Quickly, she grabbed a pokéball and let out the pokémon inside. "Ivy, see that teddiursa up there?" Raveena asked her pokémon as she pointed towards said teddiursa. After receiving a nod in reply, Raveena smiled. "Can you use your vine whip attack to try to grab it for me? I want to try catching it!"
Ivy chuckled before smiling and sending out two vines from underneath her flowering bulb on her back as quietly as possible. The vines stretched the thirty feet to teddiursa and silently but gently wrapped around it. Upon being grabbed, teddiursa let out a startled cry and quickly grabbed an old grocery bag beside it that was stuffed with berries. The graveler turned towards the sound of teddiursa's cry. Upon seeing it, the bag full of berries, and then the connecting vines to Ivy, they became irate very quickly. Ivy quickly pulled the teddiursa to the ground by us before letting it go and quickly backed up. Ivy lightly grabbed Raveena's wrist and started pulling her back as well. Some of the graveler remained at the top of the hill staring at us while a few of them had rolled down and began to walk towards us.
Seeing this, teddiursa sprinted towards us, jumped into Felix's arms, and then vaulted over him before running as fast as possible down the route, the plastic grocery bag full of berries still on its back. The four of us and our pokémon just looked at each other stunned at the weird reaction and the speed that teddiursa had displayed. Snatch and Ivy quickly snapped out of it and made us realize the situation we had been thrown into. The group of graveler on the hill were scowling at us and shifting towards us. The other group of graveler were barreling towards us using a rollout attack to cause as much damage to us as possible.
Raveena quickly returned Ivy to her pokéball and we dashed further down Route 45 but we all knew we had to try to get away from them somehow. Obviously, we had to try to throw them off of our tails and the best way I thought that was possible would be by getting them to take an alternate route. Seeing the path split up ahead, I decided to dash to the right as that was the further path from their current direction.
Upon seeing us diverge onto different paths, the higher group of graveler called down to the other group to stop for a minute. I watched the higher group slide down the hill and begin to formulate a plan with the other group. After a brief glance in their direction, I dashed down the path and hopped over the ledge. I glanced back before hopping over and saw the brigade of rolling graveler split down the path. The ledge I had hopped over stood about ten feet from the previous and next level of flat ground. Taking a moment to look around, I realized that I had been split up from my siblings. To make things worse, I heard the sound of frantic footsteps dashing towards my location and a low rumbling sound behind it. The footsteps stopped and whatever was making them had completely silenced. I looked up and saw Felix standing on the ledge above me. He had a glazed look of fear in his eyes as his hands and legs started to tremble.
"Felix! You have to jump down the ledge," I called to him frantically as I saw him staring at the edge of the ledge like a frozen stantler in the path of a hyper beam attack.
"B-but," He began before being cut off by me.
"No buts! Just jump down here and I'll protect you from there!" I commanded as I readied myself to try to jump back up there in order to get him to move.
He looked at me and gave me an analyzing look for a moment as if he were looking for verification in what I had told him. Seeing me ready to climb back up, he stepped forward precariously. Gulping, he jumped and landed with his knees bending as he embraced the impact before they buckled under him. Quickly, I pulled him up and dragged him so that we were underneath the edge of the cliff.
"Laila, what do we do now? We're separated from Nick and Raveena, we have a horde of graveler rolling towards us, and our only form of defense is Snatch!" He asked me as he began to outright panic at the situation we were in.
"First off, we have to stay as silent as possible and stay as close to the wall under this ledge as we can until the graveler roll over and passed us. Secondly, Snatch," I asked looking at my aipom. When Snatch looked back at me and turned his head to the side curiously, I continued. "I want you to stay on Felix's shoulder and protect him until we meet up with the others, got it?" I narrowed my eyes at his slight frown to emphasize that I meant what I told him to do.
Snatch nodded and switched to Felix's shoulder with a frown still on his face as he looked at me worriedly.
"Are you sure?" Felix questioned me as he glanced at Snatch and then back towards me.
"Yes, now be quiet. The vibrations in the ground are getting more intense which means the graveler are nearby," I instructed them with a fierce look to reinforce the message.
*Third Person POV*
Raveena and Nick were running as fast as possible down the left path on Route 45. Some of the graveler had stayed on their trail while some had followed after Laila and Felix towards the right path of Route 45.
The group of graveler following Raveena and Nick barreled down the hills and actually used the ledge as a jump to increase their speed. As they ran, Raveena noticed a bend in the rock formation to their right up ahead and a long patch of grass following it. She smiled as she had a plan in mind. Silently, she reached for Ivy's pokéball once again and whispered her plan to her encased pokémon hoping that she could hear the plan. She then threw Ivy's pokéball towards the clearing and waited. Upon seeing Ivy's vines reaching for her, Raveena quickly pulled Nick so that he was against her and put her hand over his mouth to silence him. Ivy quickly wrapped her vines around them and pulled them to her side so that they were hidden by the large rock formation that they had just been running beside. Ivy then chucked two large round boulders down the path in the direction that Nick and Felix had been running and gave them a push to get them rolling. The graveler neared where the two humans and Ivysaur were, but they were distracted by the boulders that were substitutions for the two. They continued rolling past the trainers and pokémon, set on catching what they had mistakenly taken as the humans they associated the teddiursa to be working with.
Raveena thanked Ivy for saving them and managing to pull off the plan she had created. She pet Ivy's head and gave her a pecha berry, which was her favourite, as a reward for successfully doing it. Raveena and Nick then sat down against the rock walls and tried to catch their breath while Ivy ate her berry. When she was done, Raveena returned her and the two trainers began walking towards New Bark Town again.
The graveler soared over the ledge that Felix, Snatch, and I were hiding under and continued to barrel further down the hill. Unfortunately, as they continuously sped over the same area of the ledge the ledge began to weaken due to the amount of weight and the magnitude of the vibrations due to their rolling. It began to crumble and after the last one leapt over the ledge we were hiding under and continued on down the hill, the ledge began to fall and was about to pin us. Luckily for Snatch and myself, Felix realized this and pushed me out of the way and then leapt forward. Snatch and I were safe but Felix's ankle got stuck between parts of the rubble. Snatch and I carefully moved the debris away from Felix's ankle so that he could remove it from the pile and we could move him to a better location. Upon moving his ankle, he gritted his teeth in pain but finished through with the action. I went to his right side and helped him hop over to lean against the rock wall to our right and between the two ledges.
"I knew I had a reason for disliking those ledges," he tried to joke before wincing as he shifted his weight so that he could sit against the wall.
"Yeah, I guess you did have a reason for it. However, if you let a little hill stop you, how do you expect to make it into the Pokémon League and to win it? Remember, you're supposed to be challenging mom for your eighth badge and then battling me for the title in the league?"
"Yeah, mom would probably be devastated if none of us ended up challenging her for a badge when we get back to Blackthorn City," he laughed as he began to picture how she would react to finding out that none of her four children decided to challenge her gym.
"She prides herself on her title of gym leader and all of us. She loves telling us stories of the different kinds of battles she's had. If we fight her, she'll probably talk about it for years." I realized, both with a sense of happiness and dread. She just loved to retell her favourite gym battles until everyone around her could recite the story themselves.
I looked closer at Felix's leg and saw some red seeping through the right pant leg of his jeans. Carefully, I rolled the jeans up a bit so that I could get a better view of his ankle but not constrict the blood flow or put any further pressure on his leg. He had some scrapes down his leg and on the ankle. I knew that despite being painful for him, I needed to clean his wound and bandage it to reduce the risk of infection until we could have it checked and treated properly in New Bark Town. At this moment, I was extremely glad that I had taken the first aid and journey preparation classes that the Blackthorn City Community Center offered. I quickly opened my bag and pulled out a cloth, a bottle of water, and a first aid kit. I poured some of the water onto the cloth and gently patted it against Felix's scrapes in the best effort to clean the wound with what we had on us. After successfully cleaning the wound, I patted it dry with the dry part of the cloth. I then pulled out the tensor bandage that was in the first aid kit and began to wrap it around the base of his foot, slowly and lightly working up the ankle and the lower part of his shin. I pulled it tight each time I wrapped it around but watched his face to make sure I did not wrap it too tightly. When I finished wrapping it, I secured the end in place with the two metal clips and then pulled out a small piece of tape and taped over the clips to secure them. Quickly, I assessed the overall tightness and wrapping and smiled in approval before repacking the first aid kit in my bag. We decided to share the water and wait until we could see our siblings before we progressed any further down Route 45.
Felix stared at me as I was being quieter than normal and had a distanced look in my eyes as I was thinking. They all knew that this was not a good sign as it often meant that I was over thinking about something and would not drop it until I was satisfied. Sighing, he asked me the question on his mind, "Okay, why are you spacing out on me Laila? Usually you start to over analyze things when you have that look in your eyes and we all know that it's not safe for you."
I looked at him, stunned that he could pick up what I had been doing so easily. "Alright, I'll ask you what's been on my mind for the last half an hour or so. Why did you push me out of the way?"
He blinked as he stared at me. "You really have to ask that? I did it because you're my sister and I care about you. I realized the part we were standing under was about to fall and you apparently didn't so I pushed you out of the way and then jumped. If I hadn't, you'd probably be a pancake right now and how am I supposed to battle a pancake in the league? Besides, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I saw a chance to save one of my siblings and didn't do anything to try to save them. I don't want to put one of you in the hospital again, whether it be by accident or on purpose." He then rolled his hands into fists and started listening to some music through headphones to calm himself down.
'I don't want to put one of you in the hospital again..?' My eyes snapped open as I remembered the incident I was pretty sure he was referring to. It had been about 5 years ago, back when the boys were 8 years old. Mom had recently defeated a challenger by the name of Ash Ketchum and was determined to train her newly evolved dragonair. She had left me in charge since Raveena was out traveling the Johto region for a bit. While I was in the washroom, the twins had snuck out the back door and secretly tailed mom to the entrance to the Dragon's Den. After watching her get on the hidden boat she had near the entrance, the twins had begun to formulate ideas to continue following her. Meanwhile, I had just come out of the washroom when I realized they were both gone and so was Snatch. Walking outside, I saw Snatch perched near the top of the tree in our front yard watching something. After a bit of watching, he hopped down and grabbed my hand with his tail as he pulled me to follow him towards the Dragon's Den. Inside the den, the twins had decided to attempt to swim across since they were both good at swimming. Unfortunately, Felix accidentally kicked a gyarados in the head. The gyarados then breached the surface and was in a frenzied rage at the two as one of them had had the nerves to kick him. He started to use thrash and sent Nick flying across the lake. Luckily, when Nick hit a rock that stopped his flight, he fell to the ground at the base of it unconscious. The gyarados then turned and glared at Felix, readying a hyper beam. Felix tried to swim back to the shore and to safety as soon as possible. gyarados started to aim at Felix and was about to fire when a barrage of stars struck him in the neck. As a result, the gyarados shot his head up in pain accidentally firing his attack into the sky. Felix quickly swam back and pulled himself onto the ground at the entrance of the Dragon's Den. He then bolted and hid behind me, peaking around my side to see what would happen next. Snatch continued to fire barrages of stars, thanks to his swift attack, at the gyarados to keep it distracted while I took him to safety and asked him where Nick was located. He had pointed across the lake at a bright red bump that was not moving. Gulping, I nodded and told him to go back outside the cave and wait with one of the guards mom had assigned to watch the entrance during the day. I also ordered him to explain what was happening and what they had done to the guard in hopes of getting help. Luckily, mom soon came back to the entrance of the cave after seeing the hyper beam attack fired into the air. She sent out both her Dragonite and gyarados to defeat the raging gyarados and quickly did so. She turned and saw me at the entrance, starting to drive the boat towards me but stopped when she saw me pointing across the water. Seeing Nick bent and unconscious on one of the pieces of land, she revved up the motor and ran to him. Quickly and carefully she brought him back to the boat and steered the boat back to the dock. She pulled Nick out of the boat with her, handed him to me with a stern look, and quickly tied the boat to the dock. Nick was immediately taken to the hospital where he remained in a coma for a week. He had to stay there for another week after waking up as he needed to practice basic skills needed to live again such as walking. After that incident, Felix became more quiet, calculating, and protective of us but he kept an extra close eye on his twin who had remained as bubbly and social as ever.
After a while, Snatch began to shout further down the route. Hearing his calls, I snapped out of my reverie about the past and got up to look. We saw Raveena and Nick walking onto the path in front of us from the other path they had gone on when the graveler were following us. They seemed unaware of both Snatch's and my calls so I decided to try another tactic. Snatch used his tail to bounce further into the air and sent a swift attack for just in front of where my siblings were about to go. Seeing the barrage of stars, they immediately stopped and turned towards where they thought the stars had come from. They saw both me and Snatch waving frantically and approached the lower edge.
"I'm glad that both of you are safe," I commented as I looked them over for any injuries they may have obtained. Upon seeing that they had no injuries besides a few minor cuts and bruises, I released a sigh of relief.
Nick narrowed his eyes and immediately looked at me as he detected an obvious absence. "Where's Felix?" He questioned me as he worried about his twin.
"About that…"
"I'm alright. I injured my ankle from the ledge though," Felix replied as he finished the answer for me while he started to get up.
"What do you mean you injured your ankle on the ledge? Did you twist it, break it, or scrape it?" Nick started to fire out questions.
"How about you find me a long stick to act as a crutch and have Ivy help me down with vine whip to see for yourselves?" Felix retorted as he started to get annoyed with Nick's multiple questions.
Nick was about to retort to Felix's orders but realized right now, his brother was right. "Okay, hang on a bit while I go look for one." Nick said as he walked back down the path he had just been on. Raveena called for him to wait and sent out two of her pokémon, Grant and Ivy. Grant was instructed to go with Nick to find a suitable crutch for Felix while Ivy stayed with us and used her vine whip to help Felix get down the next two ledges with my help.
After helping Felix and me down and getting him settled, we began to discuss what happened after we split up. Raveena told us about how she had managed to get the graveler to roll by them and talked about how proud she was of Ivy. Ivy chuckled nervously at the praise and started pawing at the ground in embarrassment. Seeing this, Raveena kneeled down and started to pat Ivy's forehead and managed to calm her pokémon.
Nick then came up to us with Grant at his side and a tall well-built man wearing mountain climbing gear and a beige fedora with a red feather sticking out of it. The man stood around 6'4" and towered over Nick. The guy had a large scruffy dark brown beard and a cunning grin on his face as he looked at Raveena. Nick was oblivious to the man's actions as he walked over to Felix and handed him a stick that would be a good height for a makeshift crutch and then helped his brother stand up. Raveena was eyeing the hiker and Smooch and Ivy were in front of her in a protective stance as if to say she was off limits to him. Snatch was watching the hiker as well while I went to help out Nick and Felix.
"So, are you going to introduce us to the guy you brought back with you?" Felix questioned his twin. They had developed this habit a while ago after Nick would wander off and start chatting with some random person. Felix would then have to go and try to pull Nick away or would be roped into the conversation by his brother. It looked like this time it would be the latter, whether Felix liked it or not.
"This is Michael. He hikes around these mountains and lives over in Cherrygrove City, which is just south of here. He found me looking for a suitable crutch and when I explained what happened, he said he would help me get you to the gate between here and Route 29, which splits off between the gate, Cherrygrove City, and New Bark Town." Nick explained with a huge grin on his face while Grant nodded silently. He then turned to Michael and introduced each of us to him and we gave a greeting to him as Nick pointed to each of us.
"I agreed to help you, but you never told me about the ladies here," Grant commented with a smirk on his face as he looked at Raveena and me which caused us both to become more protective of our bodies. "Ladies, you and your pokémon can relax. I have a wife at home and I would like to remain faithful to her. However, I still think that the blonde would be a good potential girlfriend for my son." He said before he looked down the road where you could see a grassy field and a small glimpse of a building, which I assumed to be the gate house leading to Route 29, peaking out of the forest at the bottom of the ledge filled and mountainous Route 46.
Raveena stepped forward at that. "First of all, you said you would help my brothers. Are you actually going to help them or are you just going to stand there and stare at me and my sister in that creepy manner? If it's the latter, I cannot allow that and will have to use my pokémon's attacks on you. Next, I'm eighteen years old. I think you're son would be way too old for me and I doubt it would go well since I'd be meeting him through his father who I don't fully trust right now." She informed him sternly with a fierce look in her eyes.
Michael looked at Raveena for a moment longer then burst out laughing. "Darling, my son is twenty! I'm only forty-five. We're not some old creepy guys who have nothing else to do besides hit on women. Also, I think it would be dumb for somebody to blindly trust someone they just met. I like your guts for admitting it to me and trying to protect your siblings though." He reassured her as he looked at the mountain closest to us. "Now than, if you want me to help you all get to the gate to Route 29 and pretty much bypass Route 46 than you better follow me." He informed us as he started walking down Route 45 and eventually crossed a wooden bridge across the river in the middle of Route 45. After crossing the bridge, he approached a rock wall with a large fallen boulder leaning against it and sent out his golem. golem went to the boulder in front of us and began to use his strength to push the boulder aside. After doing so, Michael thanked his pokémon and walked into the tunnel. We quickly decided to follow him and after we went inside, his golem pulled the boulder back into position. Soon after we were enclosed in the darkness of the manmade tunnel, Snatch started to panic. I quickly tried to settle him down but it was to no avail so I decided to return him into his luxury ball.
Nick looked at me with a concerned expression on his face. "Why did Snatch start to panic? He's normally rather calm unless he's in one of his hyper modes."
"I'm not sure why he did. I've never seen him react like that. I don't know how but I'm going to try to get this figured out. That way I can hopefully manage to calm him in whatever situation makes him panic like that," I replied back as I stared at Snatch's pokéball trying to figure it out.
Raveena thought it would be a good idea to try to get my mind off of Snatch's odd behavior. "So, how did you know about this tunnel?" she asked Michael curiously.
We all looked up wondering that as well. It was obviously man made as there were support beams and mining lights strung throughout the tunnel. Also, the entrance had been blocked by a boulder in an obvious attempt to keep pokémon and unknowing trainers out.
"That's easy. My son decided to make it with his pokémon so that we could travel farther and faster through the mountains if we wanted or needed to do so. It wasn't that hard for him to do since he's a black belt, has a machoke, and is going to Violet University for the Architectural Engineering program." Michael informed us with a proud smile on his face. "I bet he sounds like a good catch now, eh, Raveena?" He asked with a smirk as he nudged our sister.
We all stared at Michael silently as we processed what he told us. We were still in shock when we reached the end of the tunnel and waited for golem to create an exit. When he finished moving the boulder, we walked back into the open air of Route 45. Raveena had a slight blush on her face and chuckled nervously when we all gave her an inquisitive glance about the cause of it. "Now I understand why Laila told me to stop trying to set her up on blind dates. It feels pretty awkward, but was it that awkward when I tried to do it compared to Michael who we just met?" She inquired to me about my past feelings about her matchmaking attempts.
"I can't say since I haven't had someone I just met try to set me up on a date. You know what they say about karma, right?" I replied back and walked away laughing as I followed closer to Michael.
"Raveena, you just got burned!" Nick called out as he threw a burn heal he had pulled out of his bag at her. He then caught up to me as he burst into laughter. I knew he was going to hold this story against Raveena for a long time.
Raveena clenched her fists in flustered humiliation and was about to retort back at us when Felix looked at her. "Before you do or say anything more, try to remember this. Revenge is often bittersweet." With that he continued to hop along cautiously through the tunnel as he let Raveena think about his words.
We were now on Route 46 and could easily see the gate to Route 29. We could hop down the ledges or we could follow Michael who headed for another rock wall with a boulder leaning against it and another boulder down at the bottom of the hill by the gate. We quickly trailed Michael through the tunnel and twenty minutes later we walked into the gate between Route 29 and Route 46.
"Well, it was nice to meet you, kids," Michael said as he readjusted his backpack.
"Yeah, same to you," Nick replied and we nodded along with him. "Also, thanks for helping me get my siblings to the gate quickly and safely. I'm not sure how long it would have taken us to reach the gate if you hadn't helped us."
"No worries, kid," Michael told him as he placed a hand on Nick's shoulder. "You did what any concerned and caring brother would do and I'm always happy to help someone in need, especially if they're in the mountains."
Michael then walked over to the counter and asked for two pieces of paper and a pencil. He wrote down his phone number and name on one of the papers and handed the other to Raveena. He then gave his number to Nick and explained that it was for if he ever needed help from him again. Raveena tried to hand back the paper with her name and cell number to Michael but he asked for our numbers as well.
"I would," Nick began, "but unfortunately we have to reject your request since Laila, Felix, and I don't have a Poké Cell of our own yet."
Michael nodded in understanding. "If you do get a Poké Cell, give me a call and I'd be happy to register you in my phone. That is, if you want to do so."
He was about to walk away when Raveena stopped him. "Would it be alright with you if I took your photo so that I can put a display picture with your contact information?"
"Only if you'll let me do the same," he replied with a grin.
She quickly used her phone's camera to take his picture and registered it as her display picture for his contact information in her phone. Now if she got any calls from him, it would show his picture and name when she received the call before she answered it. She then walked over to the three of us and Snatch and pulled us into a group photo with her. Nick and Felix were on the outside while Raveena and I were in the middle with Snatch's face being in the middle between Raveena and me on the lower part of the photo. We were positioned close together and smiled at the camera. It was actually our first picture together since we had left on our journey and it made me realize another thing I wanted to do.
While Raveena was talking with Michael about when not to call and asking for a copy of the picture, I quickly pulled out my list of things I wanted to do while on the journey through Johto with my siblings and jotted down the newest ideas: buy a Poké Cell, buy a good camera, and take a lot of pictures while on our journey.
After finishing their exchange, Michael said farewell to us and walked out of the gate house towards his own home in Cherrygrove City. Raveena talked to the guy behind the gate desk and asked about the fastest route to New Bark Town for tomorrow and asked if we could use one of the sleeping rooms for the night. The guard gave us permission and we followed him upstairs to one of the resting rooms for travellers and were shown where the washroom was located.
After re-entering the room we would be staying in for the night, we all put our bags down by the edge of the bunk beds. In the room, there were two bunk beds, a nightstand for each, and an alarm clock. We quickly chose where we would each be sleeping and finished our bedtime routine. Raveena set the alarm clock for 9 AM tomorrow morning and then we all went to sleep for the night. We fell asleep quickly from the exhausting events of the day and we knew we had a busy day planned for tomorrow. Tomorrow we were headed to New Bark Town where we would get Nick and Felix's starter pokémon and hopefully, some desperately needed answers about Snatch.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed chapter 2! Just for future reference, if I have the siblings split up again the story will go into third person POV if Laila is not around unless I specify otherwise.
E.g. At different section, it may say something like:
*Nick's POV*
