A Journey Begins

Ch 10

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About fifteen minutes of driving, they finally made it to a near by Pokemon Center in the woods. The officer Jenny, Rose and Ryo dropped them off as they rushed to the center, with Brendan still holding his arm, blood was coming out. Brendan was just a about to faint when Hikyo caught him. 'Brendan! Are you alright?!'

He only nodded his head. They all got to the center when Brendan had just fainted.

"Brendan!" yelled Steven.

Two Chanseys had just come in with a stretcher and took Brendan into the emergency room. Then Nurse Joy comes in asking what had just happened. Mikuru explained about the Team Magma attack and how Brendan got his cut. As she was doing the stitches, everyone else waited in the lobby, with Steven yelling at Mikuru.

"How can you do this to yourself Mikuru?!" he yelled. "You could of gotten hurt, killed even! Didn't you think once about that?!

She was covering her ears, but she can still hear him. "Stop yelling at me! I knew what I was doing!"

"Steven's right Mikuru!" Ash yelled, suddenly joining in the argument. "You could have gotten killed on Mt. Chimney!"

"Me?! Kill?! Now you listen here Ashy boy! You're lucky I even bothered to save your big sorry as-"

"Mikuru…" said Steven.

"-Your big fat sorry butt." She looks at Steven angrily.

"Anyways, what about the orb?! If they still have it-"

Mikuru took out the orb and showed it to his face. "See, I got it. Now are you done yelling?" Steven and Mikuru stared at each other for a few minutes, angrily.

"Hm, fine then."

"Hey, you said you were Brendan's sister right?" asked May.

Mikuru then turned away from Steven and cheered on to May. "Yup! That's Me! Mikuru Birch! Hoenn's Champion Coordinator at your service!"

"No way! That's really cool! Brendan told me so much about you!" The two chattered on for a long time, until Brendan finally came out of the emergency room, with the stitches on his arm.

"Brendan, are you okay?" asked Ash.

"Of course! I'm not knocked down that easily!" But as he said that, he fell over, again. Luckily, Hikyo ran up and caught him. "Hehe thanks Hikyo." She helped in to the lobby to sit down when nurse Joy came in.

"He seems to be doing fine, but he has a fever and it hasn't gone down a bit." She explained. "Luckily, not a lot of blood was lost from the cut, so he should be fine with that." She walked over to Mikuru and gave her a small bottle of medicine. "Make sure he drink that every night if he wants to get better, okay?"

Mikuru nodded her head and say's thanks. Suddenly, Brock rushes over to Nurse Joy and holds her hand in a romantic way, again. "Oh Nurse Joy! Your love and compassion to humans and Pokemon are just the-"

Then Max starts to pull his ear. "No again…" he says sighing. Mikuru looked a bit scared on what she just saw.

"Uhh, Ash, what just-" she asked.

"Don't ask, you'll get use to it."

Brock made dinner as Hikyo tended to Brendan. He was still dizzy, but refused to say put. "I'm going outside." He said, but was stopped by Steven at the door.

"You're not going anywhere, Nurse Joy said you had to rest."

"So?"

"Brendan, you're sick, and it can get worst!" Brendan was silent. Steven pointed for him to sit back down, and he did. After dinner, everyone was soon ready to sleep. Hikyo was already sleeping on Brendan's lap.

"So you meet her in Rustboro City, and kissed you?" asked Max. The word 'kiss' shocked May.

"Yeah, I was actually going to Devon Corporation when she suddenly popped up. Even though she's mute, I-" he stopped there. He didn't want them to think he was crazy that he has a mental connection with her. "She showed me a picture of a machine Team Magma stole from her. But when we got there, she somehow got sick so I left her with Milotic and Mightyena." As He kept on explaining what happened, the Pokemon were having a conversation of their own.

'Swellow! What was that?! Hikyo! She-and then!' yelled Mightyena.

'Look, I'm not suppose to tell any of you what happened.'

'Why not?!' whined Mightyena.

'It-it's really complicated, you two won't understand.'

'Mightyena may not understand, he's an idiot!' said Milotic.

'I heard that.'

'You were suppose to! But, that Pokemon, and she...' Milotic trailed off.

'I know! Okay,' Swellow looks around the room making sure the other Pokemon don't hear. 'You see…' Swellow explained just to the two of them, as everyone else was about to sleep.

"But why a kiss?" asked Ash.

"How am I supposed to know? She's mute." Brendan said. Either way, I guess she's fine."

"Over at Rustboro City, some girls said you had a girlfriend, is that her?" asked Brock.

'Girlfriend' struck May.

"Well-"

He couldn't finish when May stood up and yelled, "I HATE YOU BRENDAN BIRCH!" and ran out of the Pokemon center.

"May!" yelled Brendan. He put Hikyo down and ran after her.

May ran as far away as possible, which wasn't too far actually, since she was a bad runner. "May!" yelled Brendan, catching up to her.

"Just leave me alone!" She yelled, but then tripped on a rock. "Ah!" Brendan caught up, helping her up, but she struggled to get free. "Let go of me!"

"May, just listen to me for a second!"

"Why don't you just talk about it to your girlfriend?!" she yells. She was still struggling to get free, but Brendan held her.

"It's not what you think!"

"Yes I do! I see how she takes care of you, and how you let her sleep on your lap… and how prettier she is then me…" soon, May started to cry.

Brendan spun her around so now they were fan to face. "Please May! Listen for a minute!"

"No!" she struggled a bit more, until she felt someone on her lips. She opened her eyes and saw it was Brendan. He was kissing her! She stops struggling and let him kiss her. He finally stopped and hugged her.

"May… I don't like her the way you think."

"Then, w- whom do you like?" she asked nervously.

He looked straight into her sapphire eyes again. "It's you silly." He said stroking her hair, and kissing her forehead. "I-I love you May. And you only, promise." She started to cry again. "Ah! May, I'm sorry! Is it something I said?!"

She whipped her tears. "No, it's just that I love you too! And I'm sorry that I said I hated you. I really don't." The two held each other for what to seem to be forever. May looked up at Brendan, she saw part of his headband off and saw a small scar. "Brendan, where did you get that scar?"

"Oh, this." He said. Brendan took of his headband, reveling a scar on his forehead. "You see, when I was little, I saw a girl being attacked by a Salamence. I ran and protected her, but at the same time, it hit me, leaving me with this scar."

"That's funny, when I was little, I was attacked by a Salamence and this boy saved me." They both stared at each other for a few seconds before realizing.

"THAT WAS YOU?!" they both yelled at the same time.

It was silent again, but then Brendan smirked. "You I guess we already knew each other when we were little."

"I-I guess so."

"Come on, everyone else will be worried." He said holding his hand to hers.

She nodded her head. "Yes."

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They got back to the Pokemon center, holding hands. Everyone was still awake, except for Hikyo. Ash and Max looked very surprised at May. "Why are you holding his hand May?" asked Ash.

May couldn't think of anything. Suddenly, Brendan held her close to him. "What's wrong Max? Afraid I may do something to her?" May started to blush really hard.

"Well, I am!" said Steven. "If you even try to pull something Brendan I-"

Suddenly, Mikuru starts prancing around. "Yay! Brendan has a girlfriend!" she held thumbs up to him. "You beat Steven! And He's older than you!" Everyone started to laugh at that comment, but Steven just started to yell at Mikuru more.

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The next morning:

Ash was the first to wake up, getting ready and excited for his next badge in Lavaridge Town, which is just a new more miles away. "Let's go everyone! Wake up!" he yelled.

"Nn, Ash, gos, what time is it?" asked Brendan.

"Who cares! Next gym bagde here I come!" Mikuru got her pillow and threw it to his face.

"Shut up! I got more sleep in Team Magma than here!" she yelled turning around.

"You guys are no fun at all."

"Whatever." Responed May.

After a few mor attempts, Ash was finally able to wake everyone up. As they were about to leave, Mikuru stopped them al. "We can't leave yet."

"Why not?" asked Ash.

Mikuru quickly turns to Brendan. "Remembered your promise big brother?"

Brendan looked confused for a second, but then smiled. "Oh yeah, now I remember!"

"What is she talking about?" asked Brock to Brendan.

"A one on one battle!" exclaimed Mikuru. "You promised me we will battle!"

"And I remember!" the two got in posistions on the battle field, with Brock as the referee, and everyone watching.

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Brendan: So that was chapter 10! Sorry it took so long to update. We were supposed to update it a week ago, but Kikio couldn't finish due to homework. Stupid homework.

Mikuru: Few notes: Ryo and Rose (Mikuru's friends from Team Magma) are now gone. I even confused myself. Second, when Brendan takes off his headband, it's just his headband. His hair is not that black or brown hair color in the manga, just plain white. And yes, the battle between Brendan and Mikuru is next.