Yeesh, all my old chapter need re-done... well, this one's had a major renovation, so now it should be tolerable. Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 4: Silver Wings
After the battling the Pidgey in Silver Forest, the small bird was brutally injured by Spike's unusual yet effective battle strategy, and Sky had turned the small bird over to Nurse Joy and left it in her care. The brown -haired trainer and Spike waited in the lobby for a the redheaded nurse to return, and it wasn't until an hour later when she did.
Sky noticed almost immediately the distempered look the Nurse wore, and knew what was coming next. "Oh no..."
Once she approached, Sky knew he was in for it. "How did you let that poor Pidgey fall into this condition?" she demanded through angered green eyes.
"You know, I knew you were going to say something like that..." Sky claimed arrogantly meeting her gaze without a single trace of remorse.
This only furthered infuriated the fuming nurse. "That does not answer my question!"
Sky sighed. "Oh, boy, and it starts..."
"Now please tell me what happened," the nurse demanded once more with the determination that showed she would simply keep questioning if he denied an answer.
"Okay, okay..." the brown-haired trainer gave in at last. "My Totodile here," he pointed to Spike who was busy wolfing down a bowl of PokeChow. "Battled that Pidgey in the forest, and he tricked it into crashing into a tree. I didn't know it had a broken leg. If I did, we would have left it as it was." When they had first brought the injured Pidgey into the Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy almost immediately pointed out it's leg was injured.
The still irritated Nurse held her gaze with Sky's, "In that case, you should better control your Pokemon." she finished in a scolding tone, though it seemed to soften.
"Yeah, yeah..." Sky waved a hand dismissively. His arrogance and overconfident nature was sure to cause him problems. "Anyway, where is the Pidgey?" he asked with a sudden curiosity as he stood.
Nurse Joy let out a sigh and gave up on the matter. "In the back. I'll lead you to her."
Sky nodded. "Okay, thanks," he responded sincerely and Nurse Joy's expression lifted slightly as she noticed Sky was not a completely neglectful teenager. She lead them into a small room with Pidgey fast asleep on a small bed. To wait for it to wake, Sky sat on the bed's edge patiently and Spike began to vividly and curiously exam every inch of the room
Pidgey had finally awaken from her sleep long after the trainer and Totodile had entered the room, and it was now late night, and both Sky and Spike were asleep.
The Pidgey climbed to her talons and glanced around the room, before a pain stuck her head. "Ughh...my head..." she groaned and held a wing to the pain, before continuing her examination of the room. "...Where am I..?" she asked herself quietly and noticed a sleeping Sky on the edge of the bed. He was sitting but his head was tilted down with his back against the wall the bed stood near.
"That human... I remember he was carrying me after I was almost killed by that crazy blue alligator..." she realized, trying to answer the flood of questions that came to her mind. She stared at him a while longer before relaxing. "He saved me... I think I can trust him,"
Suddenly a voice startled Pidgey that seemed to come from nowhere.
"You're awake; finally," remarked Spike with bitter annoyance in his voice as he glared at the Pidgey. He sounded as if he had waited for hours.
"You!" She hissed, her surprise turning to alarm and anger. "You're the crazy alligator who tried to kill me!"
"I'm a Totodile," Spike informed, his tone still uninviting. "Anyway, you're the one-" He held back his protest, recalling how much damage he had done to her. "...Okay, I am sorry." he apologized and his tone steadily began to lighten. "I attacked you because you attacked first, and I was suppose to be training." he explained.
Pidgey was skeptical, but somehow she knew she could believe what he said was true. "...Okay.. The only reason I attacked was because you were getting a little too close to the nest where I was born,"
"Makes sense." Spike responded and even grinned slightly.
"Good." Pidgey also agreed, seeming more cheerful. Before she turned to look around the room again. "Now.. Where are we...?"
Spike explained they were in a Pokemon Center to heal for any injuries, and who the humans there were.
The Pidgey nodded. "Right, so this is a Pokemon Center, and these- "she referred to the cast and bandages, "-are suppose to heal me, right?" she asked curiously.
"Yep. At least that's what Sky says," Spike replied, resting on the soft mattress underneath him.
At first Pidgey seemed confused then she quickly realized Spike must have been talking about the sleeping human next to her. "Sky...? you mean him?" she pointed towards the sleeping brown-haired boy.
"Yes," Spike began to sound annoyed at the questions. "he's my trainer."
A look of sheer confusion ran across the Pidgey's face. "What is a, trainer?"
Spike finally could not take the ambush of questions and growled in annoyance before saying, "Okay, no more asking me things!!" He snapped, "After this, no more questions!"
The Pidgey was taken aback by Spike's outburst before replying with, "Well you don't need to yell at me!" Pidgey jumped defensively. They both stopped fighting once a sleepy groan was hear and saw Sky finally awake after hearing their shouting.
"Hey, can you two keep it down?" he pleaded, still half-asleep. "I'm trying to–" He realized they both stirred.
"Hi there!" Sky greeted jovially, "Good to see you're okay, and judging by the shouting, you've met Spike already," Sky presumed, and the Pidgey turned to throw Spike a stunned look by his nickname.
Spike uncomfortably shifted his gaze to mattress, embarrassed,. "You'll get one too," he warned ominously.
Pidgey was confused again, "Now what do you mean?"
"He wants you on the team; I can tell." Spike informed, seeming half-irritated to answer more questions, and seeming half-excited to have another Pokemon on the team if she agreed to it.
The Pidgey held Spike's gaze for a moment, then turned to the floor lost in thought. "...For a human, he does seem pretty trustworthy. I'll join his team if he wants me." She replied gladly and nodded.
Spike's expression brightened, "Yes!!" he cheered excitedly. Now that he had another Pokemon as a companion for this journey.
Sky simply watched the two Pokemon babble a stream of non-understandable gibberish. He was glad to see the two Pokemon getting along, regardless of the battle they had only a few hours ago.
Then before another word could be spoken, Nurrse Joy entered the room, followed by a brown furred human-shaped Pokemon that was about half the nurse's size carrying a spoon.
Sky's eyes widened in surprise at the Pokemon since Nurse Joy and the Pokemon entered unexpectedly. "The heck?! What kind of Pokemon is that?!" Sky shouted startled.
The Pokemon narrowed it's eyes in annoyance.
Nurse Joy yawned, obviously she was tired and didn't feel like giving long explanations. "This is Kadabra. He's a Psychic Pokemon, and if he uses recover on Pidgey's behalf, we won't have to wait three weeks for her to heal." Nurse Joy explained dull with lack of sleep.
Sky settled down, "Oh... Well okay, then.." he agreed.
"Right, then. Kadabra, use Recover." The pokemon nurse ordered. And as ordered, Kadabra walked closer to the now uncertain Pidgey and placed a hand on it's shoulder. Soon after, Pidgey began to glow a light neon blue color and stopped a few seconds afterwards.
When the glowing stopped, Nurse Joy removed the bandages and cast from Pidgey, and smiled. "There you go, good as new!" she cooed encouragingly to comfort the bird. "Ggod job, Kadabra."
Kadabra simply nodded, and without a word left the room.
Pidgey examined her leg and noticed most of the pain from it had vanished and all the pain in other areas was gone completely.
"How do you feel, Pidgey?" Sky asked.
Pidgey gave a loud and cheerful purr while flapping it's wings. Apparently a lot better than from before.
"Great! Now that that's over, I suppose you'll want to stay the night," The Nurse assumed.
"It's late, and I'll only get lost in this town at night..." sky figured, thinking briefly. "I guess we'll stay." he answered.
Nurse Joy nodded. "You can sleep in the bed next to this room." she told Sky and began to leave. "Your Pokemon can both sleep here.
Sky seemed confused. "Both?" he echoed.
"Of course, you really should take this Pidgey with you. It obviously like's you.' she said, and Sky glanced down and the Pidgey who was smiling at him.
"Hey, do you want to join our team?" Sky asked anxiously, hardly able to contain his excitement.
Pidgey purred again in a overjoyed matter while fluttering her wings about again.
"Great! You'll travel with us starting tomorrow morning!" He stated eagerly and began to follow Nurse Joy out the room. "G'night, Spike. G'night ... Sora!" he called to his two Pokemon before shutting the door and leaving to his room.
The Pidgey now dubbed as Sora stood puzzled. "...Sora?" she echoed.
"Told ya," replied Spike who was curling up comfortably on the bed, trying to fall asleep.
Sora glanced over at Spike, realizing he and Sky were whom she would travel with from here on. Excited about their adventure, Sora could hardly wait for tomorrow.
"Sora..." she repeated. "..I like it!"
Okay, there was a tiny name problem in this, and I apologize to the people who are new to this and saw it before I could. I seriously thank the person who pointed that out. Anyway, I hope you will all continue to read this, and once again: sorry.