Hello everyone and welcome to chapter four of Hoenn Adventures! I hope that you enjoy and, if you do, leave a review voicing your opinion whether it be good or bad!
"Hello and welcome to the Pokemon center. I'm Nurse Joy and I'll help you and your Pokemon in any way I can, what can I do for you?" Nurse Joy said in a really cheery voice like this was her dream job.
"Yeah, can you heal our Pokemon and can we get a room with two beds?" May asked, she had told Brendan that she would do the talking since she was used to using centres.
"Of course I can, May. I'm glad to see you finally going on a journey." Joy said as May and Brendan put their pokeballs on a tray and she pulled a key from under the counter. "There you go, room 103 just on your left" Joy said pointing to the hallway next to them. She then noticed Brendan. "Oh and who's this? Your boyfriend?" Joy said causing both of the trainers to blush.
"N-no, just f-friends!" Brendan said waving his hands in front of him.
"Oops, sorry!" Joy giggled, "You do look like a couple though, the way you stand so close to each other." May and Brendan noticed this two and both took one small step away from each other. Joy giggled to herself as she left the room.
"Err..." Brendan said confused, "Is she always like that?"
"Yeah, she's always been chatting to me since I came here so often. Sorry about that." May said.
"Don't be. I liked the idea of it." Brendan said with a smirk causing May to blush and hit his arm playfully. This time with a little more power. "Ow! No need to get so angry, babe." Brendan said causing him to start balling out laughing when he saw May's embarrassed face. Many of the people in the center looked at the two with confused faces.
"I'll get you for that!" May mumbled. After Brendan had stopped his laughing fit for the second time today, the two decided to explore Oldale Town a little before heading off. Brendan was trying to put off going to Petalburg as much as he could. It was only a day's travel away. He wasn't looking forward to having to sneak around Petalburg. He was even more worried that they'd have to spend the night there since their next destination, Rustboro City, would take 3 days travel from Petalburg. Sure they could camp out on Route 103 so they didn't have to enter Petalburg, but May had said that she wanted to explore Petalburg too. She promised not to go anywhere near the gym and stated that they would be safe in the center. Brendan agreed but still worried about it.
After about two hours, they got back to the center. Brendan had visited the Poke-Mart, a building similar to the center but instead with a blue roof, and stocked up on supplies such as potions, antidotes, burn, ice and paralyze heals and pokeballs for himself and May. Meanwhile, May had released her inner feminine side and gone shopping for clothes, make up and perfumes. Brendan just thought it was a waste of money since May would barely wear them all in the first place, but he kept his opinion to himself as he didn't want to hurt her feelings or face the wrath of her anger which he was still trying to avoid. Nurse Joy gave them their pokeballs and they had gone to their rooms putting down their bags and made their way to the centre's cafeteria. It was jam-packed full of trainers and there was only one table free. After getting their dinner, May's being over-sized as he was informed, they sat at the empty table and began to talk. Mostly about what was ahead. While Brendan was still worried about walking through to Petalburg, he felt safer knowing that May was there with him. After Brendan had barely finished half of his food, May had gone up to get seconds. Brendan was silently dreading having to cook for his travelling partner. When May sat down, a very timid boy walked over to them.
"H-hello?" The timid boy asked "C-can I s-sit here p-please?"
"Sure." Brendan moved up so the boy could sit down next to him.
"T-thanks." He replied.
"Don't mention it. I'm Brendan by the way." Brendan held out his hand to the boy.
"I-I'm W-wally." Wally replied shaking Brendan's hand.
"And I'm May." May said her mouth full of her dinner as she stuck her hand out at Wally which he shook too. Wally had green hair, greenish-blue eyes, very pale white skin, a light blue button up jacket with a white polo underneath, grayish-blue pants and white trainers.
"You could at least swallow before making first impressions." Brendan joked. May kicked him playfully under the table. "Ow, no need to kick. Your mother was right, you don't know table manners." Brendan joked again tempting fate and receiving a slightly harder kick. "How did I not expect that?"
"Anyway," May said turning to Wally after swallowing her food, "what brings you to Oldale Town?"
"I'm going to challenge the Petalburg gym!" Wally suddenly stood up and it was like his shyness never even existed. Brendan froze at the sound of the Petalburg Gym. Nearly everyone around him looked at him in confusion. Wally noticed this too quickly sitting down. "S-sorry."
"Well, you're determined, I'll give you that." May said. She noticed that Brendan was emotionless. "Hey? Brendan? You alive? I didn't kick you too hard did I?" May joked. Brendan stood up and walked away.
"I just need a minute." He said before he walked away.
"D-did I-I s-say s-something w-wrong?" Wally looked to be on the verge of tears.
"No, no, Brendan's just got a...history with the leader of the Petalburg Gym." May said wanting to not reveal Brendan's secret without his permission.
"Oh." Wally said quickly going to eat his dinner. He looked up and saw May eating barely taking breaths before bites. He burst out laughing drawing attention to himself once more.
"What?" May said once again with a mouthful of food. Wally didn't stop laughing. "You change quickly. One minute shy then next confident or insane." May said quickly returning to her food. Once she had finished, she got up and took her tray to the kitchen. She went back over to Wally. "I'm just gonna go check on Brendan, be back in a sec, K?" May said to Wally who had calmed down. Wally nodded. May wandered around the center for a good 10 minutes. She had looked in the main room and the room that she and Brendan had booked. She was going to try to look on the battlegrounds until Brendan walked in again. "There you are!" May said running over to Brendan, "I've been looking all over for you! How're you feeling?"
"Better." Brendan said in his cheery attitude, "Did I hurt Wally's feelings when I walked away?"
"No, I told him that you had a history with the Petalburg gym leader and left it at that. I didn't want to tell him about the reason thought without your permission." May replied.
"Thanks, May."
"No need. C'mon, Wally's waiting for us." May said as she led Brendan back to the cafeteria. Wally was still sat at the table where he was before. Only difference was that he was talking to two other boys. "Guess he already has friends waiting for him. Let's not interrupt their conversation." May said and Brendan nodded. They were about to leave when they heard.
"Give it back!" A voice that sounded a lot like Wally's shouted. Brendan and May turned around and saw that these two weren't Wally's friends, but just two bullies.
"And what's a wimp like you gonna do about it if I don't?" The taller of the two said. He wore a rest sleeveless top showing what he thought were his muscly arms, he wore a necklace around his next and wore blue jeans. He had brown shaggy hair with brown eyes the same shade.
"Hey! Leave Wally alone!" May shouted over to the bullies.
"Hey look boss, it's a girl. Pretty too." The other, shorter bully whispered in his "boss'" ear. The shorter bully wore an outfit almost identical to his boss', only difference was that the vest was green and his hair was black and his eyes were brown too. Wally quickly ran behind May.
"You two! Don't you have anything better to do with your lives than pick on other people?!" May shouted. Brendan was finally seeing May's temper that Linda had spoken of rising, if these two weren't careful, then the "hell" that Linda described would be let loose.
"Hey, hey, no pretty girl needs to be helping some wimpy kid. Why don't you come and hang out with me instead?" The taller boy said trying to seduce May. Brendan heard this remark and he, too, was angry.
"Hey! You dare talk to her like that again!" Brendan said helping May defend Wally. May smiled at him before quickly turning back the two bullies. The taller bully noticed the smile May gave to Brendan.
"Whose dis guy, babe? Your boyfriend?" The taller bully snickered and so did the shorter bully. May went bright red so couldn't talk back to him but Brendan acted as if he hadn't heard the comment. Brendan had dealt with people like this his entire life, so insults like that didn't faze him.
"You shut your mouth!" Brendan retorted even angrier.
"Oh! Boss! You hurt his feelins'! He's mad now!" The shorter boy told his taller friend.
"Alright, I'll give you dis." The taller boy spoke to Brendan, "We battle for the girl's heart. You win, you keep the girl. I win," He shifted his eyes towards May giving the girl an unsettling look "and we have some fun at my place. Deal?"
"Not a chance!" Brendan replied immediately. "I can't be the one to decide who May goes with." May's heart fluttered when she heard this. "You just go on and leave here. Or else." Brendan said trying to calm himself down.
"Sorry, boy, I don't listen to those younger than me." The taller boy replied.
"Well if you're older than me, then act like it!" Brendan countered. The taller boy didn't like this remark.
"Ohhh, he's gonna get it!" The smaller boy snickered in anticipation to see what would happen.
"You think you're a wise guy, eh? You don't scare me! I'm the Petalburg Gym's star trainer! No one gets past me! Not some wimpy kid like you!" The taller boy smirked in his own confidence.
"Then what if I told you that this 'wimpy kid' was the son of the Petalburg Gym leader?" May said. Brendan didn't react. Everyone who was watching from the sidelines gasped.
"The Petalburg Gym leader has no son! He calls me the son he never had!" The taller boy retorted. That was the last straw.
"You said you wanted a battle, right?" Brendan said in a calm, yet clearly, angry tone.
"Yea, what about it?"
"I accept."
"Brendan...!" May said in shock.
`Bout time! Meet ya on the field in five. Be there or you'll know about it!" The taller boy said walking off with the shorter boy following.
"B-Brendan?" Wally asked. "A-are y-you O-OK?" Brendan didn't reply. "Brendan?" The whole room waiting for Brendan to speak. The look on his face looked like he wanted to scream every curse world in the world: even some of the worst. But he was resisting the urge to. He just simply walked off.
"Brendan! Wait!" May said following Brendan. Brendan put his arm up telling May to stop.
"I need time to myself." Brendan said before walking off once again. Brendan needed a place where he could let out all of his anger. He walked out of the Pokemon center and out onto route 101. He walked deep in the forest where no one would go. "What did I just do?" Brendan asked himself once he saw no one else around.
"You fought for your friends." A familiar voice said.
"Who's there!?" Brendan said clearly still angry about before.
"I'm hurt." The voice said "You don't remember me? I'm sure Tailow does." Brendan recognized the voice.
"Steven?" He said. Steven suddenly jumped from one of the trees.
"The one and only." Steven joked. Brendan didn't laugh. "I saw what happened. You did well to hold back your anger. You didn't let your friends see your darker side."
"What am I supposed to do now though?" Brendan asked now only sadness came through in his tone. "I've gotta fight this guy and I don't know how strong he is or who he is! And to top it all off if I don't win then he'll take May and..." Brendan dropped to the floor, tears streaming from his eyes. "I couldn't think straight and now I've not only messed up my life, but May's too! I knew I shouldn't have gone on a journey!" Brendan said as he hit the floor.
"Brendan, while yes, you were a little dumb when you spoke," Brendan gave Steven a frightening glare. "Sorry. What I mean is, you made the right choices, just said them the wrong way. But I'll tell you right now, no matter how strong the opponent is, a trainer never backs down. You want to be the champion right?" Brendan nodded "Then a champion can't run from a fight." Steven explained.
"I'll do it." Brendan stood up, "I'll kick his ass!" Brendan said in an angry, get more confident tone of voice.
"That's the Brendan we all know and love! Go "kick his ass"!" Steven said encouraging the trainer even more.
"Thanks Steven!" Brendan said running back to the center.
"Anytime!" Steven waved to the running trainer. "Reminds me of myself."
"Meta." A deep, cyber voice said.
"Oh come on, don't you see it too?"
"Gross meta."
"Ugh. You always were like my father."
Brendan ran back to the center keeping his confident attitude with him. Not listening the the grunts of people he sped past saying "Watch where you're going!" or "Whoa, how fast was that guy?!" he just kept what Steven said to him in his head. When he got to the center, he went inside. It had gone quiet when he walked in. The first thing that people noticed was Brendan's attitude change, before he looked like he was about to use Dragon Rage, but now it looks like he wants to use Rain Dance with such a big grin on his face. He quickly went to the battlefield and saw May and Wally there. Before he could speak to them however, the two boys spoke.
"Took you long enough wimp! Get in position I'm very busy person!" The taller boy said.
"Oh I'm sure you are, but one quick question?" Brendan said. May, Wally and the two boys noticed a dramatic change in his attitude.
"What is it?" The shorter boy asked for his boss.
"Your names, what are they?" Brendan asked with a friendly smile.
"What's it to you?" They replied together.
"Nothing, just want to be able to know the name of the person that I'll be destroying today." Brendan got to his side of the field.
"Smartass. It's Kyle and Rick." The taller boy said gesturing to himself and the smaller boy behind him, respectively.
"Well, good to meet you Kyle, Rick. No hard feelings?" Brendan asked once again with a smile.
"Shut your mouth! Ralts, pummel this punk!" Kyle called releasing his first Pokemon to the field.
"Ohh a Ralts. I love that Pokemon!" Brendan gushed, waving to Ralts. The Feeling Pokemon waved back shyly as it dropped its head trying to hide its slightly red cheeks. "What gender is it? If male then I hig-"
"SHUT UP AND RELEASE YOUR POKEMON!" Kyle said in pure anger.
"OK, OK, just making friends." Brendan reached for his pokeball. "Poochyena! Battle stance!" Brendan threw his pokeball releasing the dark type.
"Pooch!" Poochyena howled as it entered battle.
"You plan to beat the boss what that thing?! How clueless are you?!" Rick said laughing at Brendan's apparent idiotic nature.
"You hurt my feelings!" Brendan joked.
"SHUT IT THE PAIR OF YOU! RALTS CONFUSION!" Kyle said even angrier. Brendan just stood there and smirked. "Idiot." Kyle said before the attack hit. The attack hit but Poochyena just scratched behind its ear, unfazed. "What?!"
"Oh dear, Kyle…" Brendan tutted, his voice teasingly disappointed. "Even I know that Psychic type attacks don't effect Dark types! What's that? Your Ralts' only other attack is growl? How pitiful." Brendan threw a fake frown on his face.
"How'd you...?" Kyle asked before seeing May with her PokeDex.
"What? I've never seen a Ralts before, it just happened to tell me its moves. Guess Brendan heard it as well." May said as she blushed. Brendan gave her a thumbs up.
"Let's end this quick Poochyena, Fire Fang!" Brendan called. Poochyena ran over to Ralts with flames in its mouth.
"R-Ralts dodge it!" Kyle panicked. Ralts tried to move put tripped up. The fire fang hit causing Ralts to faint. "Pathetic Pokemon."
"Pathetic trainer, really." Brendan said corrected. "Maybe if you showed Ralts some love and trained it, it might be able to defend itself."
"Shut it! Go Zigzagoon!" Kyle shouted as he released his second Pokemon. It has brown and white zigzag patterns all across its body except for around its brown eyes, they were around it like a bandit's mask.
"You can have the first move." Brendan said with a short bow.
"Double Edge!" Kyle shouted without hesitation.
"Double what now? Poochyena dodge with quick attack and go in for a bite!" Poochyena ran towards Zigzagoon with increased speed as the normal type began to form itself around an orange sphere, it then began to run straight for Poochyena but the dark type immediately changed directions avoiding the attack and quickly shot behind it and bit into its sides causing it to whimper in pain.
"What the...How did...?" Kyle said in disbelief.
"And here I was worried you'd be a stronger trainer! You just call attacks not thinking of the consequences!" Brendon chuckled. "Poochyena, finish this with Tackle!" Poochyena quickly jumped away from Zigzagoon and ran at it with its entire body. Poochyena knocked it to the ground causing it to faint.
"I'll get you for this! Go Mudkip!" Kyle shouted as he released the Mudfish Pokemon. Brendan stood there in shock.
"It can't be..." He said staring at the water type.
"Yeah, he's my strongest by far, you'l-" Kyle began before being interrupted.
"It is! You're the Mudkip I met in Birch's lab! In that case, I'd better make this a happy reunion! Poochyena return!" Poochyena became red particles and entered its ball. "Treecko! Battle stance!" Brendan said releasing his grass type.
"Mudkip!" The Mudfish Pokemon walked over to Treecko.
"Treecko!" Treecko replied hugging Mudkip.
"Awww, how sweet!" May gushed, looking at the pair.
"Yeah, kinda feel bad for breaking it up. We could just call the match here if you'd like." Brendan said looking at Kyle. "Oh, he's pissed."
"MUDKIP! GET STOP HUGGING THAT LANKY THING AND BEAT IT!" Kyle shouted at the top of his voice.
"Mud?" Mudkip looked at its trainer then back at Treecko. "Mudkip!"
"Treecko ko!" Treecko said then he turned to Brendan. "Treecko ko ko treeko." The grass type said pointing to Brendan's belt.
"Really? You don't wanna fight Treecko? You'd rather be on my side? Whaddya say Kyle? Will you force your pokemon to attack one of its friends or will you let it do what it wants to do?" Brendan looked at Kyle. His face was red, full of anger.
"MUDKIP, YOU STUPID POKEMON! I DISOWN YOU!" Kyle threw Mudkip's ball to the floor. "IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN, YOU'RE DEAD!" He said to Mudkip and Brendan.
"Take that as a yes?" Brendan said but didn't receive an answer.
"B-boss wait!" Rick said. He turned to Brendan. "You're in for it now! BOSS WAIT!"
"Well that was different." Brendan said as he walked over to Mudkip's ball. "You sure you wanna travel with me?" Mudkip nodded. "Alright then, Mudkip, return! You too Treecko!" He turned around only to be tackled to the ground. It was May.
"Thank you Brendan!" She exclaimed.
"No need to, it was fun." Brendan said as he returned the hug. May realized what she had done as she quickly got up and blushed as she helped Brendan up. "Aw, I was enjoying that." May playfully hit his arm making him act like the hit really hurt. May
"When you said that you'd let me choose who I wanted to be with..." May began as she looked at Brendan, "...did you really mean it?"
"Course I did. I couldn't let me be the deciding choice of your life." Brendan said. May gave him a quick peck on the cheek before blushing again. "May, you can let go of my hand now, I'm already off the floor and have been for about half a minute." Brendan said causing the trainer to go even redder as she let go of Brendan's hand. He looked over the bench, Wally had disappeared. "Where'd Wally go?"
"He went back inside." May said returning to her senses. "C'mon, let's hit the hay. I'm tired." May said before yawning. Brendan nodded and they went to their room they had booked. When they were walking to their room, Wally appeared.
"Hey B-Brendan?" Wally asked in his usual shy self.
"What's on your mind?" Brendan asked.
"C-can w-we b-battle?" Wally stuttered.
"Sure, thing but, mind if we have it some other time?" Brendan answered, yawning.
"Okay!" Wally said before darting back the hallway to his room.
"I've had a very strange day." Brendan said looking in the direction Wally sprinted it off too. "Now it's time to end it." May giggled. The two walked into their room and got ready for bed. May went into the bathroom first due to Brendan being his usual gentlemen self and let her use it before he did.
"No peeking, K?" May giggled.
"May, you know me better than that! Course I won't!" Brendan joked back.
"Just making sure!" May said as she closed the bathroom door. Brendan shook his head before he decided to let out his Pokemon.
"Hey guys, had a good day?" Brendan asked his four new friends. They all called back in which Brendan theorized as all of them saying "yes". "Oh, I forgot, guess you haven't met each other yet. Of course, Treecko's met Mudkip and Poochyena, but the rest of you haven't gotten to know each other, so chat for a little while. You're gonna wanna become friends if we're going to challenge the league." The Pokemon nodded. Treecko started the conversation and it led off from there. Brendan lay back on his bed thinking of all that had happened today. Heading out from Littleroot, walking across Route 101 and battling Poochyena, entering Oldale Town, meeting Wally, having his first trainer battle. All of which he did with May. "This'll be a good journey. I'm glad I came with May to experience it all." Brendan said in a quiet voice making sure only he heard it. May walked out of the bathroom, she was wearing a yellow top with yellow shorts. She noticed that all of Brendan's Pokemon were talking.
"Torchic, Wurmple, you join in too." May said as she released her two Pokemon. "Go and chat with Brendan's Pokemon for a while, K?" The Pokemon nodded and joined in the conversation. Brendan got out a set of clothes and walked into the bathroom after May.
"No peeking from you either!" Brendan said before closing the door shutting it before he saw May's face.
"Brendan!" May playfully shouted. Brendan couldn't help but laugh. He quickly took a shower, brushed his teeth and changed into his bed clothes. He wore a red shirt with blue pyjama pants. When he came out of the bathroom, May was flicking through the channels and stopped when she saw a movie that caught her interest.
"Whatcha watching?" Brendan asked as he sat on his bed.
"It's a movie I used to always watch as a kid." May began still looking at the screen. "It's about a Froslass and Gardevoir who are sisters but the Froslass has these dangerous ice powers which only she knows about since both of their parents went missing when they were young and Gardevoir had her memory wiped of Froslass' powers. They hadn't seen each other in years until the day in which Froslass was going to be crowned Queen of Pokelantis but then Froslass accidentally makes the entire kingdom enveloped in ice so she runs away so Gardevoir, Gengar, who is a local ice miner, and his "friend" Stantler go looking for her whilst Gallade, who Gardevoir is "in love" with, is looking after Pokelantis in the meantime." (A/N Basically, Frozen but with the main cast swapped out for Pokemon).
"Must be pretty old if you watched it as a kid." Brendan smirked knowing it would get May angry.
"I would hit you but I'm too tired to do so. Don't think I'll forget though. It'll come though." May replied.
"I could make an age joke there, but that'd be too easy." Brendan laughed as May soon caught on to what he was talking about. The two laughed and talked for what seemed like hours when it really was minutes before going to sleep. The only sound was very quiet chatter and light breaths.
And that's the end of that chapter! Stay tuned for the next one!
