A plastic hospital chair had never felt so good to Selene as the one she sat in did now. Even though she was worried, she couldn't help but appreciate this small amenity. It just felt good to sit down after events such as the past hour.
After she took the poor Meowth from the man, she hurried as fast as she could to the nearest Center. As it turned out all those trips to the Pokeathlon, especially the times mom entered her and their Meowth in the agility courses, paid off. The Alolan Meowth was much heavier than her Kantonese Meowth at home, and the sudden rain that came out of nowhere didn't help either. . . 'You know, some days I can't help but feel that someone up there is laughing at me, especially on days like today.' thought Selene. As if that weren't enough, someone's Toros had gotten loose too and was running a-muk (I'm sorry) in the road right in front of the Mall. So Selene had to go the long way around to get to the Pokemon Center which ate up precious time.
When she finally got to the Center, Nurse Joy was thankfully not preoccupied. The kind Poke-nurse took one look at the Alolan Meowth and agreed that he was in bad condition, so she quickly whisked him away.
All that was twenty minutes ago, which made Selene nervous. Usually when they had to take their Meowth to the pokeCenter it took Nurse Joy all of ten maybe twenty seconds to treat their pokemon. Whatever was wrong with this Meowth it must not be good. . .
" Miss Selene?" came Nurse Joy from the front desk area, breaking Selene from her thoughts. " Is he alright, Nurse?" she asked as she hurried over to the desk. " Yes, your Meowth is fine. Asleep and well." reassured the pink haired nurse. "What was wrong with him then?" Selene asked anxiously, "Shock dear. The poor thing was traumatized by something, but I couldn't tell what. He woke up halfway through the check up and attacked poor Chancy;I think both were equally scared out of their minds. I had to give him a sedative to calm him down enough to finish, so he's still asleep right now."
"Is it ok I if I go sit with him till he wakes up?" wondered Selene, "That's fine with me dear, but I need to ask you some questions first. I just need to get a sense of the patient's background before we do anything else, ok?."
"um, alright, fire away?" "ok, first question: is the pokemon wild? I just assumed that because you didn't bring a pokeball but I've been wrong before." "actually I'm not sure, in fact I only just saw this pokemon for the first time today. . ." "Really, just today? And what makes you unsure that it's wild?" "Well it's because some guy asked me to take the Meowth to the pokeCenter, all he would say was that it appeared injured and needed help, I didn't even know him and I'd never seen him before either." "Ok, could you describe this mystery man to me?" "Sure, he was very tall. Almost inhumanly so, but not skinny or anything like that. Also, I swear he was wearing blue armor from head to toe. . ." "And?" ". . .well that's all I can really say, it's almost strange but that's it." "Hmm. . .Next question: where did you find the pokemon?" " I found him just south of Iki town in a field off of route 1. He was in a crater with that mystery man I told you about."
"Crater? I don't remember any craters on route 1. . ." said nurse joy "Are you sure it wasn't just a small valley or dip? Mele-mele is somewhat full of hills last I checked."
"No, I'm positive it was a crater I found them in. Heck it was almost like they caused it or something. . . but that's just silly, isn't it?" Wondered Selene. "Well, silly or not, thank you for answering my Questions. Feel free to go sit with the patient if you'd like." And with her answers given, Selene went to do just that.
