I said crazy, didn't I?
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Chapter 3:
Dawn prowled around, looking for Shinx, but no such luck yet. She had seen a Bidoof, Wurmple, and some Starly, but no adorable electric mini-lion. Never give up, her mother would tell Dawn. So she took her mother's words to heart and persisted through Route 201, her blue eyes darting around. Come on, come on, Dawn thought to herself as she searched and searched. Maybe if I just walked through, it would show. That happens in the movies in a lot, especially in adventure ones Barry and I like to watch.
No time to think, Dawn thought, being unintentionally hypocritical as she saw a jolt of electricity past two thick trees. Dawn blinked for a moment and slowly edged towards up to where she saw the electricity spark. As soon as she was in front of the three, she put one hand on the trunk of it and peered from behind the left tree, surveying the ground to see if a Shinx was there. Unfortunately, there was nothing, just the grass and few dandelions that were protruding from the ground.
With a dejected sigh, she pressed on.
"Oh," she said, a bit in shock, and bent down to look at the injured Shinx. It was lying on the ground, knocked out with dirt on its face and body. Dawn scooped it up in her arms and began walking towards her destination again, except much faster since the poor thing was badly injured, casting sad glances down at the poor Pokémon.
"Hey you! Stop so we can battle!" A boy with a backwards cap called out to Dawn, waving his hand wildly, beckoning for her to come over to him.
"Do you see what's in my arms?" Dawn replied in a bit of a loud voice, and quickly ran and ran until she reached the outskirts of the city. Dawn took a deep breath a slowed down, just a bit. The poor little Pokémon was moaning now, so she had to speed up once more.
At last she was inside the city. It was huge and so clean, with bustling people and Pokémon everywhere. The buildings were like skyscrapers, and the massive roads just led everywhere. If not of Shinx, Dawn would've just stopped and stared.
There it was; the Pokémon center. She rushed inside and handed the Shinx to Nurse Joy, who looked a bit taken back by Dawn's sudden thrusting of Shinx in her arms.
"Please heal it," Dawn pleaded, gulping and looking Nurse Joy dead in the eyes.
"It would be my pleasure," Joy replied, smiling kindly at Dawn, and then took Shinx to the back for a moment before popping her pink head out of the door. "Just wait here, okay?"
Dawn nodded and sat down on one of the cushions, deep in thought about really everything. Five minutes passed, then ten, and then twenty, all gone like it was nothing, and then Nurse Joy came out with a bounding, and most certainly healthy Shinx at her heels. Shinx gave a playful growl and hopped into Dawn's lap, purred contentedly and then lay down.
"Shinx is all better now, so if you want you can put it in its Pokeball." Joy gave an all-knowing smile to Dawn, who looked from Shinx to the nurse and a large grin split across her face.
"Well, do you want one?" Dawn asked Shinx, scratching it behind its ears. Shinx, in response, got up and rubbed its head affectionately against Dawn's stomach. Taking that as a yes, Dawn pulled out a Pokeball and Shinx almost immediately went inside. The ball quivered for three seconds, and then she could hear the click of it locking, safe and secure inside.
"Alright, we'll be off!" Dawn said, getting up and waving at Nurse Joy. "Thank you!"
~oOo~
Where would Barry most likely be at? Dawn thought to herself, carrying the parcel Barry's mother had given her as if it were glass. If he were at the Pokémon center that would be way too ironic for her taste and, well, the city was just so colossal. Lost in her thoughts, she crashed into somebody whom she did not previously see.
"Oh!" an old man said, rubbing his back, and dropping his cane, which clattered to the side walk loudly. He wheezed a couple of times before quieting down with the loud breathing.
Dawn gasped.
"I'm so sorry!" She cried out, bending down in a flurry to grasp the cane, which she gave back to the man, who gratefully took it and used it to prop himself up back up to his standing position.
"Oh it's fine," The man sighed. "But it's the second time today. A kid came with a scarf a lot like yours and just ran into me and started fining me money. He certaintly was fiery, and then he bolted off to the trainers' school."
"I'm so sorry again!" Dawn said with an apologetic smile. She waved goodbye and bolted over to the Trainers' School, then, slowing down, entered the cute and quaint little school, which was a bit surprising for such a utopia of a city.
Inside there were lots of kids, either battling off to side or taking notes, occasionally glancing up at the blackboard. They all seemed to be in the age range of six to nine, but one person stood out, partially because he was so tall. Barry was right up at the blackboard, most likely studying. Dawn crept up behind him silently, giving away nothing that she was there.
"I have a package for little baby Barry!" Dawn exclaimed in her best baby talk voice.
Barry jumped up in surprise, and spun around, a wild look on his face.
"Hey Dawn, did my mom go on about that? Is that how you know?" Barry demanded, folding his arms, and looking very slightly sheepish.
"I've a got a package, and yes, it very much is. Next time you really should let your mother know, I swear she was going to have a heart attack or something. Plus, it's not so bad, I call you my blond cupcake."
Barry rolled his eyes and grabbing the package. He tore it open excitedly, the brown paper flying in all directions possible, one landing in Dawn's navy hair. She, still watching Barry, brushed it out of her hair and it fell to the ground joining the others.
"Hey look, there's a town map!" he exclaimed, holding the map up to the light quickly, admiring it, before casting a glance down at the parcel. "Wait, there's two, I don't need two, so you can have one," Barry handed one to Dawn.
"Thanks!" She exclaimed, folding it up.
"So, have you decided what you want to be?" Barry asked, leaning against the board, making some of the small children grumble with annoyance. Barry discarded their complainants and kept staring at Dawn, to see what she would say.
"Well, I think I'm either going to watch or compete in the Jubilife Contest, just to see what's up. If I don't like it, then I guess I'll do Gym battles." She said, fiddling with her hair before letting it fall back into place.
"Cool! Can I come too?" Barry asked excitedly.
"Yeah, I guess." Dawn shrugged. "I don't see why not!"
"Awesome!" Barry cheered, grinning a quite profound and congenial smile at his best friend.
"Hey old man!" a little kid called out to Barry, his hands on his hips as he cast a glance at the now smudged blackboard, plainly annoyed. He was one of the children who were annoyed with Barry, and they had elected this little boy to 'beat some sense' into him.
"What old man?" Barry asked, frowning at the child.
"You!" The little kid replied smarmily, trying to fight back a giant grin as Barry's eyes immediately went ablaze and that grin disappeared just as fast.
"I'm fining you 20 million dollars for that!" Barry shouted at the kid, most likely forgetting that it was just an eight year old boy, and not someone his own age. Dawn face palmed as Barry began to rage even more, shouting even more illegible things before repeating his previous statement.
The kid's eyes filled with tears slowly, his attitude rapidly changing. "I- I- I- don't have that kind of money!" he wailed, wiping at his eyes furiously as he glared up at Barry, still obviously sad.
"Barry!" Dawn scolded, then wacked his arm, hard in her opinion, but most likely not. "We're going!" Dawn dragged Barry out of the school by his striped shirt and back outside.
"So where are we going?" Barry asked earnestly.
"To register for the Contest, I've decided I'm going to do it!" Dawn said determinedly.
"Not so fast!" Barry protested, his feel skidding against the side walk as he tried to get out of Dawn's, for the moment, iron grip, but ended up failing. "We need a Poketech!" He shouted as Dawn stopped abruptly.
"Oh my gosh! I totally forgot!" Dawn said, and smacked her forehead once more, and looked at Barry. "So are we-
"Well, come on!" I already got the coupons!" Barry interrupted, digging in his brown messenger bag and show casing two sets of Poketech coupons at Dawn as pride clouded over his face.
"You have two sets of them?" Dawn questioned, looking at them impressed, but still a bit confused on how he got them. What did he do, steal them? I wouldn't be surprised… She thought. "Did you ask for two sets?"
"Yeah, now come on!" Barry yelled, and it was his turn to drag Dawn around, definitely getting revenge for the wrinkles she gave to his shirt.