Chapter 7 - Different perspectives


Kyouhei's POV

She runs fast. I ran out of the gym and try to look for her but there are too many people.

"Hm..." I put a hand to my chin. It was careless of me to forget, I didn't expect my comment would chase her away. Of all the people I have come into contact with, she is on top of the...No, I need further information. Remembering back to Floccesy Town and Virbank City, she starts acting weird when she meet with Team Plasma and even at the name of it. Is it because she share a connection somehow? Or just traumatized by Team Plasma's wrong doings two years ago? It's either one of the two and there is that little incident in Virbank... Just who is she? She doesn't seem to like any attention given to herself yet she shows she have great abilities in battle even if the situation is working against her favor and also that nervousness and change in her personality... No matter, I need to keep up my act if I want to acquire further information. It's about time I got something interesting.


Mei's POV

I stop running after arriving at a dark alleyway and walking deeper into it.

"Looky here." I hear a menacing voice behind me. Turning around, I see two men dressed gangster like.

"What's a little girl like you doing here?" The second asks, both approaching me.

"N-none of your business." I reply nervously.

"It is now." The first one replies. "Ya see, this is our turf."

Suddenly, I'm pinned against a wall.

"And nosy kids like you should stay away."

"But ya know, you're pretty cute so we'll go easy on ya." The one that had me pinned to the wall said. I shake in fear, trying hard to suppress what is to come. In these kinds of situations, I know what happens when I let myself go. Suddenly, my pokemon pops out from their pokemon. Servine wrapped the man that had pinned me, releasing his grip on me.

"Ele Elekid!" Elekid says, charging for an electric attack.

"Tch. Let's get outta here!" The first one says and in a matter of seconds, they rush off. I fall onto my feet, gasping. Servine and Elekid look worriedly at me.

"...I'm sorry." Tears begin the form around my eyes. "I'm sorry that I couldn't do much with you two...I just don't know how to..."

I started to curl up, my back against the wall. My head in my arms so that they won't see me crying. I just wish he was here...he would know what I should do...he was the one that taught me the good of pokemon.

My pokemon started to cuddle around me trying there best to give me comfort. I saw my necklace dangling so I held it and take a closer look. It looks familiar somehow, I tired to remember where I had seen it before but I can't seem to remember where.I just have a feeling that I should keep it safe.

...

"There you are!"

I took that by surprise and hid away the necklace. I look to see Kyouhei.

"What's that?"

"J-just my necklace that my mom gave me."

"Why are you hiding it then?"

"I...I just...I just want to keep it safe from harm."

"Anyways, you know I was just joking about what I said earlier right?"

I sigh. "Honestly..."

He extends a hand to me to help me up, smiling at me. Hesitantly, I take it and he grips it tightly. I should've known it was a trap!

"Now let's go find a place for you to train!" He grins then drags me away.


Kyouhei's POV

I found her in a narrow alleyway with her pokemon besides her. Seeing that she is looking at what must be the necklace her mom gave her, it must be important. A clue perhaps?

"There you are!"

Upon being startled, she quickly hid away the object, thinking I hadn't saw it.

"What's that?" I ask innocently.

"J-just my necklace that my mom gave me."

I already know that.

"Why are you hiding it then?"

"I...I just...I just want to keep it safe from being damage."

Well, it was worth the shot. She does seem hesitant when answering. I won't be getting anything from that conversation anyhow, I need to take a closer examination at the necklace.

"Anyways, you know I was just joking about what I said earlier right?" In a way, yes.

Mei sighs. "Honestly..."

Why don't you be honest as well?

I extend a hand to her and smile warmly. Let's see...

She hesitantly takes it. I smile inwardly. A bite.

I grip her hand tightly and she wore an expression of fear on her face.

"Now let's go find a place for you to train!" And assess just how strong you really are. I showed a grin and drag her away while she wears a mortified expression.

...

Let's see now...I led her to an isolated Casetlia Park where is no one except us, our pokemon, and wild pokemon. She caught an Eevee as well as her Elekid had evolved. I assess her battling style, when up against an opponent with a type advantage over her, she uses other means to defeat them, taking into account her surroundings. She is above the average beginner who uses brute strength to try to defeat they opponent though she had only started the journey a short while ago. Interesting. Outside of battling, however, I don't see any other interaction with her pokemon, it's as if she doesn't know how to.

"Kyouhei, can we stop?" Mei asks, breaking me from my thoughts. "I'm tired."

"Of course."

Suddenly, a Sewaddle fell from a tree and landed in front of her face, holding on by a strand of webbing. She stood frozen for a moment then scream to the top of her lungs, scaring the Sewaddle away. In the next second, she hugs me tightly though I don't think she knows. I smile inwardly, I didn't even have to try. Before she lets go, I carefully remove the necklace from around her.

"It's only a Sewaddle."

"But but..." She replies, trembling still.

"Why are you terrified of them anyways?"

She pursed her lips. I see, no answer. Guess I need to gain more trust from her. But she is kinda cute, the way she acts. Okay, work over everything else, gotta keep that straight.

"Anyhow, sleep on it, you look tired."

"O-okay..." Her and her pokemon felt asleep against a nearby tree. I look at the necklace more closely, it is in an odd shape, like a puzzle waiting to be solved.

I took my X-Transceiver and snap a shot of it, data starts streaming in but nothing in there is even the least bit useful to my search.

"What could it be...?" I mutter and glance back at Mei. "Maybe she knows something."

I thought of something then grin mischievously, That's definitely going to startle her.


Mei's POV

"Wake up sleepy head."

"Whuh?" I open my groggily eyes to see the face of a Sewaddle is inches from mine. My heart skip a beat and I start to panic.

"AAHHH!" I scream, jumping up and quickly climb up the tree behind me. I then see Kyouhei snicker and holding the bug that scared me.

"W-what did you do that?!"

"Couldn't help it." Kyouhei stick the tip of his tongue out at me, trying to be innocent.

"Anyways, you should get down." He says, letting the bug go.

Righit. Get down...get down...get...down... I sweatdrop. How...?

I look down from where I am to the ground then look at Kyouhei. "Um..."

He raises an eyebrow. "You coming down or not?"

I shake my head. He puts his hands on his hips.

"In other words, you can't climb down."

I nod.

"Then how you manage last time in Floccesy Ranch?"

"I slipped and fell onto the ground." I deadpan.

"You looked fine from doing that last time so why not just do that same?"

"Because that was an accident and I don't want to do that again!" I whine. He sighs and mutter something before standing under me.

"Let go."

"W-what?!" My hair stand on end.

"Let go."

"W-Why?!"

"I'll catch you."

I hesitated.

"You don't trust me?" He says, tilting his head. Before I can answer, a gust of wind picks me off and I'm now at the mercy of gravity. I close my eyes thinking that this is going to hurt but it didn't. Kyouhei was smiling at me when I open my eyes.

"I'll be there to catch you when you fall."

I stare at him with wide eyes then he sets me down.

"By the way, you dropped this."

He holds up his hands and from it, is a dangling necklace...wait...that's mine! I snatch it from his hands.

"How..."

"It was on the ground so I picked it up from where you had trained." He replies. "What is that anyways? It looks kinda weird."

"I already told you, it's the necklace that my mom gave me." I snap. "And I don't know why it's in an odd shape though it does..."

I mutter the last part, I didn't really want him to hear that.

"Let's head out to Route 4."

"Oh okay..."

"Leave your pokemon by your side." He says after seeing that I was about to return them to their pokeballs.

"Why?"

"So that you can spent more time with them." Kyouhei states. I don't get it, isn't battling with them enough? Regardless, I kept my pokemon out and we head in the direction of Route 4. Before that, Kyouhei bought me a casteilacone since I wanted one before the gym battle. As we walk, I enjoyed my cone, taste as great as the first time I tried it. W.e reached the central part where the streets are connected into one huge central circle with a fountain in the middle.

"Hey Kyouhei." I turn to-"Huh?"

I look to the spot where he should've been. He isn't there...HE ISN'T THERE!

"Where did he go?!" I yell, running back and forth, my pokemon stared at me and sigh, people around me gives me weird looks. Suddenly, I bumped into somebody and fell on my behind.

"S-sorry!"

"Hello again."

"Huh?" I look up to see it's the man with the weird hairdo. "Hi um..."

He takes notice of my pokemon. "Interesting, your pokemon display self-confidence and strength far more higher than any others that I have seen so far." He notes something in his tablet.

"Um..."

"So sorry, my name is Colress and I am a scientist researching about pokemon's potential." He says, adjusting his glasses. "Will you give me the honor of battling you? I would like to look into this further."

"Uh.."

"I'll be looking forward to it." He takes a little bow. "Meet me in Route 4."

With that, he leaves, leaving me in the wind.

"But I didn't get to say anything..." I sweatdrop. I look at my pokemon. "Should we wait for Kyouhei or go on? And should we fight that man?"

My pokemon stares and shrug, leaving me to decide which is a horrible idea sine I'm indecisive.

"Okay first, I need to get you guys back into your pokeballs before we get separated." I got them all back into their respective pokeballs...except Servine, for some reason she refuses and takes the pokeball right out of my hand.

"What's wrong Servine?" She turns her head to one side. I can't seem to figure Servine out, is it because she doesn't like me?


Servine's POV

I took the pokeball right out of my Mistress's hand before she puts me inside. At this point, I am reluctant to go in, if only she can understand what our language. I cannot trust her to go off on her own, she is far...hmm...I cannot fine a word that can describe her at the moment, absentminded? No...that isn't the right one.

"What's wrong Servine?"

I sigh and turn my head as she asks me this.

Mistress must need someone by her side to guide her for now until she learns more about traveling, if only we hadn't gotten separated from that boy. I would feel a little less worry about her.

Hm?

I notice a group a girls then look closely to see what they are making a commotion of.

...On second though, it would be more troublesome. I put a hand on my forehead and shaking my head a little in disapproval.


Mei's POV

"What were you looking at Servine?" I notice that she was concentrating at a certain spot and giving a little disapproval shake. I look in that direction.

"Urk..." My eyebrow twitched. "So...that's where he is..."

Servine sighs.

"Let's just go on without him." I pout and walk away, Servine following close behind, towards the direction Colress head to which is probably Route 4...I hope.

...

Okay so, I'm on Route 4...Now what? I walk and look cluelessly around the sandy around as a desert storm start brewing.

"Maybe we should..."

"Ah, I been waiting!"

I whirl around to see the scientist...his hair remain unmoved by the wind...okay, just how much gel did he used?

"H-hello." I said nervously.

"No need to be so uptight, it's only a battle." He states.

"About that..." I said, about to make a point.

"But first things first." He states, holding up some kind of device, working a few buttons on it, the rocks behind him - that I hadn't take notice till now- moved and out comes-

"Eek!" I jump into a startle position, looking fearfully at the huge eyes of the bugs. They crawled away with the boulder size rocks on their backs.

"Those were not actually boulders but Crustles." Colress explains.

"I preferred it if they were actually just rocks blocking the way..." I mutter.

"But why were they laying there seemingly out of energy?" He asks no in particular.

"Cuz...they're sleeping?" I answered anyways.

"In the middle of the road? With boulders on their backs?"

I shrug then take a look at the pokedex. "Could happen, the boulders are their homes so I guess they were just sleeping right at home."

"A very logical theory...blahblahblah..." Whatever he rambled on about after that didn't go into my head so I didn't bother.

"Let's just go." I whisper to Servine who agrees with me.

"Hold on just one second."

"Eep!" A spark lightning stops us in our tracks. Dark vertical lines appear under my eyes as I turn to look at Colress. "Are you trying to kill me?!"

"No need to be so dramatic, it was just a little spark." He states. "Besides, we haven't had that battle yet."

"I-I never said-"

"Begin!"

For Arceus's sake! No one listens! I pout as His Magnemite and my Servine jumps into battle


Kyouhei's POV

I sigh as I walk around. "Took me a while to get them off my tail..."

Somehow, I manage to get myself surrounded by a bunch of girls wanting to hang around with me. I blame my gorgeous appearance...just kidding. But I was too careless and lost sight of Mei. I hear a stampede and whirl around to see the group again.

"Sorry ladies, got somewhere to be." I smile then leap off, hopping higher and higher on buildings until I got on top of one. Turning on my x-transceiver, I scroll through a list of numbers. Too bad I don't have her number registered.

I picked one and wait for the other end to pick up.

"Hello?" A man with black hair appears on the screen.

"Are you in the desert resort yet?"

"Almost."

"Man you're slow."

"Hey!" He starts to get angry. "Who do you think you are?"

"Your superior." I smirk. He blows his head off at that comment. I was assigned a partner a few days ago though I'm not particularly happy about it. Heh, at least he's entertaining.

"Why do you want me to go in the first place? Haven't you already checked it?"

"It's for you're training in harsh conditions as well as reinvestigating the relic castle." I reply calmly. "When I went into the Castelia sewer the other day, I found a passage similar to that of relic castle, also, the ruins they found that halted the construction on Route 4, I want you to find the connection."

"Roger..." He grumbled and the call is ended.

...


Mei's POV

"This sandstorm is getting stronger!" I exclaim, holding an arm in front of me to block the sand. After beating Colress, I continued on the desert area.

"Wah!" The wind blew me over and I went tumbling backwards.

"Ser servine!" Servine exclaims, running after me. I crash into something and stop.

"S-sorry." I start to apologize but then see a huge red bird pokemon laying unconscious in the sand. "Hey, are you okay?"

I shaking the pokemon but no use. "Servine, help!"

My pokemon comes into view and helps me carry bird pokemon to a near by ruin buildings that is everywhere in Route 4. We gently place the pokemon on the ground. I take out my pokedex to see what kind f pokemon it is.

"A Braviary." I read off. "Why would one be in a desert? And it looks hurt."

I thought for a moment then turn to Servine. "How do you treat a injure pokemon without going to the pokemon center?"

Servine falls down anime style.

"I know!" I said, suddenly having an idea. "I'll ask Cheren!"

I turn on my x-transceiver and look at the list of numbers registered.

"Huh? Bianca registered Prof. Junipers too?" I ask no one in particular then shrug and pressed Cheren's number.

"Hello?" Cheren's face shows up.

"Cheren, I have a question."

"Hi Mei, what is it?"

"How do you treat a injured pokemon without going to a pokemon center?"

"...You really don't know?" He deadpans. I nod blankly. He puts a hand to his forehead and sigh. "You heal them by using potions as well as other healing items depending on the pokemon's status."

Someone taps me on the shoulder and I look around to see Servine holding up a potion that mom packed in my bag.

"Oh."

"Looks like Servine knows more than you." He states.

"Eheheh..." I sweatdrop. "Well thanks anyways, bye."

I turn the device off.

"Thanks Servine." I said, taking the potion from Servine's vine and spraying it on Braviary. The pokemon winces at bit in the beginning.

"You're awake!" I said happily as Braviary opens his eyes.

"Brav..?" He looks around, confused then glares as he sees me.

"Eek!" Chills went down my spines and I move away from the Braviary. Servine steps up to Braviary and explained what happened through poke-language. His hostility disappears from his eyes and I relax a little. After a moment of silence, I decided to peep out from the ruin.

"Looks like the storm subsided, let's head outside." They nod. "Braviary, can you fly?"

Braviary tries but his wings still hurts.

"I guess potions doesn't work all the way, we'll take you to the next pokemon center and have Nurse Joy look at you." I said. "I don't know more to do at this point."

Servine agrees. Together, the three of us walked out of Route 4 and into a huge building but...the inside's completely empty except for pots of plants.

"What is this place?" I ask no one in particular as I look around.

"Hello there!"

"Huh?" I look to where the voice is to see a man in a suit accompany by two more.

"Hm...you look like a responsible trainer." THe man in the middle says. "I decided!"

"Heh?" I ask blankly, oblivious to what he is talking about.

"I'll leave the Joint Avenue in you're care!" He explains. "If you have any questions, ask these two! I'll be off now bye!"

"W-WHAT?!"