Sorry that I had to make you guys wait so long, but I have finally finished chapter three! Yay! So anyways, there will be a few characters being introduced in this chapter. I decided to leave the other two characters for chapter four. Otherwise, this chapter would be very long. But one of the characters that will be introduced in the next chapter, is hinted at somewhere in this chapter...You'll just have to guess who it is. (Although, I think we all will know who one of the mystery characters is.)
Oh, and I will not make Brendan evil in this story! I don't write bashing stories, so he will be nice in this fic. Okay? Nice! But for those of you who love a little CS vs HS, there will be some...But if I end up getting "I hate Brendan" Flames, then the Contestshippping versus Hoennshipping, will be deleted from the story! I don't like flames. Or extreme bashing. So please. Keep that stuff to yourself. and I can't tell if he has white, black, or whatever color hair, so I'm just gonna go with white, because that's what I see. I don't care if it's just a hat that has a very close resemblance to hair. In this story, it's going to be hair!
And, since I don't read the pokemon mangas, the Ruby in this story isn't the Ruby in the manga. The only thing I can say is: The ruby in this story is a girl.
Now, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, and blah blah blah.
Claimer: You know who I own. It's written in the first two claimers.
Chapter Three: One New, Two Old
July 31 – 10:39PM – Littleroot Town, Hoenn
The ferry entered Littleroot Port at exactly 6:00PM. Being the middle of summer, the Sun was still pretty far up from the horizon.
May and Misty had walked down the hallway in the ferry, being followed by May's newly formed fanclub. Misty had decided to put them to use, so she ordered the ones that didn't have any arm injuries, to carry all of May's gifts and chocolates off of the ship and drop it off at the Pokemon Center near the middle of town. They had called the Nurse Joy that ran the center there ahead of time, so that she wouldn't freak out when she saw the large crowd of over fifty boys enter the center carrying chocolates and flower bouquets.
Concerned for the two girls, Nurse Joy insisted that they eat dinner in their room, and stay there until morning. May didn't like the idea, since she had been stuck in the cabin on the ship for six hours straight. Fortunately, Misty was able to reason with her, asking her if she would want to be stuck in one room until morning, or be mobbed by hormonal teenage boys.
Now they were in their rented room in the pokemon center. Nurse Joy had been grateful enough to send one of the Blisseys that worked there, to deliver food to the girl's room. Misty told Nurse Joy that she could mail the fanboy gifts to May's home in Petalburg.
"Misty, how are we going to stay away from the fanboys?" May asked, laying on her bed.
Misty was laying on her bed staring up at the ceiling, "I don't think that will be possible May. We'll just have to run from them. But on the bright side," she turned her head to face May with a smile, "We'll get some exercise!"
The brunette groaned and then mumbled a goodnight and fell asleep.
August 1 – 10:00AM – Littleroot Town, Hoenn
May and Misty left the Pokemon Center at 9:55AM, planning on running as fast as they could to Littleroot Spas and Resort, which was only a ten minute walk away from the Center. Or a five minute run.
When they entered the large building, May could've sworn that she saw a patch of green walk down the hallway to the right of the front desk. Was that...? No, it couldn't be. Why would he be here? Contests don't start until next month...But if it was him, why out of all places, would he be here? I'm probably just seeing things. I need to relax. I'm on vacation at one of the greatest spas in Hoenn after all!
The lobby of the resort was quite large. The carpeted floors traveled throughout the room and entered the long hallways. The walls were painted a light cream color, with hanging waterfalls on each of the walls, giving the room a calming atmosphere. In the front corners of the lobby were powder-blue chairs surrounding bamboo coffee tables. The front desk was also made of bamboo, and behind it stood a man in his early forties. He was the manager.
Misty walked up to the desk and gave the manager their names, expecting to receive a room.
"I'm sorry, but there is no record of a Misty Waterflower or May Maple reserving a room in our resort," The manager said, looking through files on his computer.
May gaped and her eyes grew large, "What?! But we have a gift certificate! Right here!" She rummaged through her fanny pack and pulled out a piece of paper. Handing it over to the manager, she preyed that the guys didn't forget to sign up their reservations for a room.
"Yes, you have a gift certificate to visit our spas, but if you wanted a room, you would have had to of called before time." He stated, handing back the gift certificate.
Misty looked hard into the managers brown eyes, "Well, then we'll just get a room now."
Again, he looked through the computer, and said, "I'm afraid our last room was just given away."
"No!" May shouted, making everyone wince, "No! I came here, to get some rest and relaxation! I have the media and fanboys on my tail, and now I don't have a room to one of the greatest spas in Hoenn, and I have a gift certificate!"
Staying calm, the manager said, "Maybe you should call the person who gave you this. They'll be able to tell you if they reserved a room for you or not."
"Oh don't worry. They'll be receiving a call, whether they want it or not!" Misty shouted as she dragged May out of the five star resort.
As they started walking back towards the pokemon center a voice called out, "May?!"
10:05AM – Field Near Littleroot Spas and Resort, Littleroot Town, Hoenn (a few minutes before May and Misty storm out of the resort)
The sun shone brightly in the cloudless periwinkle sky. It's rays warmly kissed the fields of Littleroot Town. In one grassy field, two girls were talking.
"Dawn, this looks like a good place to let our pokemon out for some fresh air," A girl of around twelve years with flaming scarlet hair said to a younger girl with midnight blue hair.
"Okay! And there's a pond over there for Piplup and Buizel to play in," The girl with blue hair, Dawn smiled as she grabbed four pokeballs from her belt and threw them up into the air. Each pokeball twirled in the air before opening to let out a red light. The light traveled down to the grass ground, and started to take form of creatures.
The first, shaped itself into a small bird-like creature. Its blue head was almost as large as its small body. Two large eyes were on its head, with a small yellow beak in the middle. Connected to its blue body, were two small light-blue arms, and a pair of small yellow feet.
The second light turned into a small creature with long brown ears, ending with a small light brown fluff on the tips. Its arms were of the same brown color as its face and ears. The lower part of the pokemon's body was a light brown color and resembled a cloud.
One light took shape of a squirrel-type pokemon. The head was much larger than its small body, with pointy turquoise ears, and yellow circles on its cheeks. A pair of small paws with three fingers were connected to its pastel blue body, and it balanced on a pair of pastel blue feet. Its curly tail was much longer than the pokemon's main body, and had three spikes.
The last red light turned into an orange pokemon with a large yellow ring around its neck. Two blue fins were connected to its long arms, and its tail split into two separate tails. There were two parallel lines on the pokemon's cheeks.
Dawn gave a warm smile to her pokemon, as her friend with flaming scarlet hair also threw four pokeballs into the air. The red and white capsules, spun around in the air, before releasing four red lights towards the ground, just as Dawn's pokeballs had done only a minute ago.
A tall primate-like pokemon appeared after one red light disappeared. Its fur changed from brown to white, with yellow circles connected to its joints. At the end of the arms and legs, were dark blue fingers and toes. The flame on the top of the pokemon's head was large, almost resembling its trainer's long wavy hair.
Another red light disappeared and created a small grass-type pokemon. It's yellow face was surrounded by pink Cherry-blossom petals, with two deep pink orbs near the top of its head. The body was covered in the same pink pedals that acted as the pokemon's hair.
The third red light took form of a fox-like pokemon. This pokemon had six curly orange tails, and three curly tufts of hair on the top of its head. The body was a light brown color, with a darker shade covering the ends of its four feet. The pokemon's ruby red eyes matched its trainer's eyes perfectly.
The last light shaped itself into a pokemon with blue and black fur. It had two yellow rings around each of its front legs, while its back legs were covered in black fur. The end of its tail had a yellow four pointed star. The black fur around the pokemon's neck acted as a mane, and it had oval shaped blue ears.
Dawn walked over to her pokemon and said, "You guys, you can go play with Ruby's pokemon for a while, okay?"
Her pokemon, Piplup, Buneary, Pachirisu, and Buizel, nodded their heads and ran over to the other four pokemon.
The older girl, Ruby, watched as her Cherrim, Vulpix, and Luxio chased Dawn's pokemon in a game of tag. Her Infernape, the oldest of all the pokemon, walked over to a nearby tree and swiftly jumped on to one of its many branches; being careful as to not accidentally set fire to the leaves with his flame.
"I'm glad that they're all such great friends!" Ruby smiled and motioned a hand towards the happy pokemon.
Dawn nodded, "and I'm glad that Brendan let us stay in the guest house this month!"
Ruby laughed, "Why would he not let us stay? I'm his cousin for crying out loud!"
The two giggled, but were interrupted by someone shouting, "They'll be receiving a call, whether they want it, or not!"
Dawn and Ruby turned their gazed to the spa resort not far from the field that they were standing in. Two older teenage girls stormed out, one with her ginger hair in a side pony, and the other wearing a red bandanna over her shoulder-length light brown hair.
Ruby automatically recognized the girl with brown hair, and shouted, "May?!"
The two girls turned around, and a smile was brought to one of their faces, "Ruby!"
Misty watched as two girls ran up to them. One was dressed in a short, black and pink dress, wearing pink boots on her feet, and a red scarf around her neck. A white cap with a pink pokeball design covered the top half of her head full of dark blue hair.
The other wore a spaghetti-strapped red shirt underneath a white shrug. She was wearing denim capris and red sandals. Her wavy hair was up in a ponytail and came down to her mid-back, while her bangs covered the right side of her forehead. When she ran, her hair almost looked like a fire that was burning on her head.
Ruby ran up to May, Dawn following close behind. The two trapped each other in a large Ursaring hug, and giggled as they pulled apart.
Misty looked at the young ruby eyed girl and smiled, "So you are the girl that talks to May until four in the morning!"
The scarlet haired girl smiled sheepishly as she shyly mumbled, "Uh...yeah. Sorry about that,"
"Not a problem," Misty laughed and held out a hand, "I'm May's friend Misty."
Ruby shook the outstretched hand and smiled back, "I'm Ruby,"
She then motioned a hand to the girl next to her, "May, Misty, this is my friend Dawn. We traveled through Sinnoh together last year."
"It's great to meet you two," Dawn grinned as she shook the older girls' hands.
"When did you get here, Ruby? The last time I talked to you, you were in Sandgem Town, right?" May asked.
Ruby motioned for them to follow her, as she started making her way back to the field. Her Infernape had been watching over the smaller pokemon, waiting for the two trainers to return.
As she and Dawn returned their pokemon, she said, "Yes, I was in Sandgem Town. It was my birthday after all! I had to be home. My party wasn't very big, but Lucas gave me a Vulpix named Kinda, and this beautiful necklace!"
She lifted the pendant around her neck up, so that the other three could get a better look at it. It was a ruby, in the shape of the sun. Connected to the jewel was a golden chain that hung loosely around her neck.
"Ruby! That's so pretty!" May squealed in delight.
Dawn narrowed her eyes and asked, "Are you sure your best friend gave you that, and not your boyfriend?"
"He isn't my boyfriend!...Yet," Ruby blushed as she muttered the last bit.
Misty wasn't in the mood to talk about each other's love life, and instead asked, "So where are you guys staying? And how long are you going to be here?"
Ruby's face cooled down as she answered, "We're staying at my cousin Brendan's guest house. We'll be here for this whole month before we start off on our journey through Hoenn."
"Brendan was so nice, to let us stay in the guest house for the whole month," Dawn added.
May giggled, "Same old Brendan. Just as kind and generous as ever!"
Ruby turned her head away from her friends and seemed to be in deep thought. She turned back around and said, "If you guys don't have any place to stay, you could live with us! There's two extra beds in the guest house anyway. And I'm sure Uncle Dan and Brendan wouldn't mind two extra girls staying in the house across the street from their's."
"Thank you so much, Ruby. We just found out that a friend of ours forgot to reserve rooms for us back at the Littleroot Spas and Resort, but we still have a gift certificate to attend the spa area." Misty thanked the younger girl.
"It's no problem," Ruby giggled, "Besides, the more the merrier!"
11:00AM - Birch Household, Littleroot Town, Hoenn
A young boy of around thirteen years sat in an armchair in his family's living room. In his hands was a copy of the most recent edition of Coordinator's Weekly. His best friend, May, was a coordinator, and since she didn't call much anymore, reading a magazine that talked about her a few times was one of the only ways to keep up with the accomplishments in her life. But what the magazine currently had to say about her, he never would have expected.
"May is the hottest female coordinator under 18 from Hoenn?!" His ruby eyes grew wide with surprise. Never once had he thought that the cute little girl that he had been friends with since birth, would be holding a title like that. Sure, she was pretty, he would admit that. But to have all of Hoenn – and probably Kanto, Johto, and Sinnoh - think that very same thought, overwhelmed him quite a bit.
Ding dong...
He looked up from the flimsy magazine, towards the hallway that led to the front door. The house was pretty big, his father being the Professor and all. It's probably Ruby asking for more toilet paper or something... He thought, walking to the front of the house and opening the door. What he saw made him gape in surprise.
"Brendan!" A young brunette squealed as she wrapped him up in a large hug.
He was shocked. How big of a coincidence was it that the girl that he was just reading about was standing on his front porch hugging him?
"May?! What are you doing here?" He asked as she let go of him and took a step back.
"Max and the guys gave Misty and I a gift certificate to Littleroot Spas to use for the whole month!" She beamed and then frowned, "Unfortunately, they forgot to reserve rooms for us, so we have nowhere to stay. But then we saw Ruby and Dawn, and they said that we could stay at your guest house, right across the street!"
Brendan looked behind his friend and saw his cousin, Dawn, and an older ginger-haired girl that he had not yet met.
She walked up to him and stuck out a hand, "I'm Misty. The other girl that was also sent on this trip,"
"Brendan Birch," He replied while shaking her hand.
Ruby then walked up to her cousin and asked, "It's alright if they stay, right?"
Brendan looked down at his younger cousin. She was only a couple inches shorter than him. "Sure! But don't let anymore people stay, Ruby. There's only four beds in there."
"Brendan, I'm twelve years old. I think I know not to let boys sleepover." She laughed and ruffled his spiky silver hair, then lead the others across the street to the Birch guest house.
He watched the four girls enter the house and close the door behind them. Entering his own house and locking the door behind him, he thought over what had just happened. Ruby and Dawn invited May and her friend, Misty to stay at the guest house for the whole month. She invited May and her friend to stay there for the whole month. In my guest house. Ruby invited May. May. May. May.
His heart started beating at a rapid pace. May, the girl who he hadn't talked to in over a year, was staying in the guest house that his dad owned. May, the girl who could have probably changed a lot during a year. May, the girl who he had lost his heart to long ago.
Well, there's the little One-Sided Hoennshippy bit. The Contestshippy parts will be coming soon! The preview in the last chapter was sorta off, because I had to take out a lot of the trouble part and put it into chapter four. But not having reservations for a room is troublesome...right?
In the next chapter:
Two old "friends" run into May, and she isn't the least bit happy about it. At least, that's what she says on the outside.
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