After a night of restless sleep, I finally decided to get up. It wasn't long before Jon started to stir. "Good morning." I said, handing him a cup of coffee. "It may not be as great as Terr's, but it's something."
"Good morning." He said, accepting the cup with a smile. "Did you have a good sleep?"
"Yes." I lied, not wanting him to worry. "How about you?"
"It was pretty good. Here, let me prepare a little something to eat." Jonathon said, noticing both Riko and I had a hungry look in our eyes.
He prepared a quick breakfast, which we ate in blissful silence before he suggested we continue on to Striaton City. It wasn't long before we reached the city edge, we set up camp just outside the city limits so we wouldn't have to walk too far to get here. "Hey J, do you know where the Pokemon Centre is?" I asked him, confused about the lack of one.
"The Pokemon Centre?" Obviously as confused as I was. "Umm, I, actually have no idea." He admits.
"Some help you are." I said, teasingly. "Let's ask a local." He nods at the idea. I spot a random person walking by and quickly ask him for directions to the Pokemon Centre. He points east of where we are and we thank him for the advice.
"I forgot." I admitted in defeat.
"Don't worry. I forgot that the Pokemon Centre and Pokemart were crammed into one building." Jonathon assured me. It didn't help much, but knowing that someone else didn't remember made me feel a bit better.
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After an eventless stroll through the town, we finally made it to the Pokemon Centre. I told Jon to wait for me, as I had to call Prof. Birch. As I stepped foot into the Centre, I saw two familiar figures standing at the counter.
Well this is going to be awkward. "Hey Terry, hey Flo." I said almost inaudibly. Tidal was the first to notice me. He jumped off of Terr's back and ran over to me. I bent down and picked him up. "Hey little guy."
"You know, I think he likes that." Terry said, above me. I stood back up and handed Tidal back to Terry. Flo was right beside him. "I just want to say, I'm sorry about yesterday. I said some things I shouldn't have said. And-"
"It's alright." Florence interrupted me. "I shouldn't have tried to talk you into believing something that you don't." she accepted my apology. "Anyway there's another Pokemon professor in Striaton. Professor Juniper gave me something to give to her." She's just as quick to change gears.
"Alright, I have a call to make, but you two go on ahead, Jon and I will catch up with you." I said, heading over to the Comm station.
"Alright, but don't take too long, we don't know how long that meeting will go." She said with a snarky smile.
As the two of them left the building, I turned on the Comms system. After inputting Professor Birch's number and waited a couple of seconds. The screen flicked to his image and he spoke up. "Ah, Stormy, good to see you again."
"Good morning Professor Birch." Jonathon greeted the Professor. I turned around, surprised.
"Ah, good morning to you as well my boy. I'm surprised you two know each other." He tried to make small talk.
"You're surprised?" I half yelled. "How do you two know each other? I mean, I knew J had lived in Hoenn, but he told me he moved to the Sinnoh region before he was able to get a Starter."
"That's true, but back then, his family lived in the house beside mine. Well, a relative of mine anyway." He explained. "Anyway, let's get back to what you wanted to talk to me about Stormy."
"Oh right, Professor, I need you to send a couple of my Pokemon, some of the lower level ones if that's possible." I explained to him what I needed.
"Oh? And why don't you just catch some of the local Pokemon?" He asked. "It could help me out with some more information." He added off-handedly.
"Well, it feels like I've been neglecting my other Pokemon. I only took Riko with me and I'm sure he's feeling lonely about now. Right Riko?" He nodded in agreement.
"Alright, I'll concede this time, but remember, you can catch the local Pokemon too. It won't hurt them to have a trainer from outside the region."
"I know, I know." I said. "So, can you send Novak and Maren?"
He sighed and pressed a few buttons on his tablet. "Alright, your Nuzleaf and Mawile have been sent to you. Is there anything else you need Stormy?" He said, defeated.
I thought about it a while. "Alright, how about an upgrade for my Pokedex as well, I'll catch you some local Pokemon."
He visibly perked up at the thought. "You got it Stormy."
"You know, I haven't seen anyone manipulate Professor Birch that easily." Jonathon was impressed. "That whole apologizing thing with Flo-"
"No, don't worry. That was real." I assured him.
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"So, why are we here? Out on the streets? Not talking to that other Professor?" I asked, with a hint of ice in my voice.
"Well, you see-"
` "You got lost, didn't you?"
"Not necessarily. You see, we just wanted to see the sights."
"Right, right. See the sights. So that's why we're on the exact opposite side of the city right?"
"Umm, yes?" I put my palm to my face.
"Well, if you'll give Jon and I whatever Professor Juniper wanted delivered, we'll head to the address." I said, extending my hand for the parcel.
"Alright, alright. We're lost. I just didn't want to confess to it!" Flo cried out.
"Well, we know the way, follow us." Jonathon said before I could rip into Flo some more.
We started walking ahead of them. "Sure, ruin my fun why don't you?" I said playfully, poking Jon in the side.
"Well, it was either that, or just stand around taking shots at one another." He said sheepishly.
"Didn't you travel with anyone back in your day?" I asked him? "Didn't you learn that the best things that friends do it take shots at each other?"
After ten minutes of playful teasing, we finally reached the other Professor's house. On the outside, it didn't look too special, it just looked like another house. We all looked at each other for a second before heading up to the door.
Once we reached the door, I brought up my arm and knocked twice. It didn't take long before a young mother opened the door. "Oh, would you be the children that Professor Fennel told us about?" She asked in a sweet voice.
"Ahem." Flo cleared her throat. "Yes, we are here to speak to Professor Fennel?" Her hand shot up for a handshake.
The woman happily took that hand. "I'm sorry to say, Professor Fennel went out for some research."
"You're not Professor Fennel?" I asked.
"Nope, she runs her lab from upstairs." The woman cleared. "My name is Penny, her neighbour. Please come in."
One by one, we go through the door way. In the house resided a child and, presumably, his grandfather.
"Do you know when Professor Fennel will be back?" I asked Penny. Her father and son took notice of us.
"Young travelers I presume." The old man spoke up. "The Professor said she'd be back in half an hour. I belief that was about half an hour ago." A look of worry flashed across his face. "If you young people would be so kind as to check the Dream Yard."
"We'll go." Jonathon said. "Terr, Flo, stay here in case she comes back. Stormy, let's go." I guess it's decided.
"Roger." I saluted.
"Stop that." We both headed out the door.
"Have fun you two!" Jon and I both blushed.
Outside, we were both looking around. "You know, it might just be me, but maybe we should've had the two Unovan's check out a Unova town." I said to Jon.
He was scratching his head. "Yeah, I should've thought this through." He laughed. "Well, um, let's go that way." He pointed to our right.
"If only there were helpful signs pointing out the Dream Yard." I said, noticing a sign close to where he was pointing.
He laughed. "If only." We both started walking towards the Dream Yard."
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Well, here's chapter 3. I've finally decided to start on writing again. I've already finished chapter 2 for Plight of the Dwarf King, I'm working on the next chapter for GGO, though Files is on a hiatus. I've got a bit too many projects going, and not enough time. I've been trying to get going for my music, so I've been working on some of the music, making it sound good. Also, I've been reading the SAO light novels, to get some inspiration to write again. I think it's working. Anyway, some upcoming stuff, I've been working on a Hatsune Miku fic, as well as a could RWBY ones, one of them based on an aborted DND campaign my friends and I were going to do, and the other is based on Mountain Glenn, which was referenced in Vol. 2. That's it for now, leave a like and favourite if you want.
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Stormy: Hey! We're back!
Terry Jon and Flo: Huzzah!
Stormy: So, how long until our next chapter, do you guys think?
Flo: I'm calling it, next year.
Terry: 3 months from now.
Jon: Hmm, 6 months.
I'll try, I'll try. Starting from the next chapter, it will be all new content, it's not a rewrite of the original story, so there's that.
Stormy: Until next time!
