Welcome - Ch.10 Meeting The Trainer

As Richard was taking Lily to Master Hand's office for her sign up, he watched her looking at the scenery of the hallways. Of course the mansion has an unique sceney in all places, even he was in awestruck earlier, but not only that, the mansion has all sorts of rooms.

The Smash Mansion was divided up into several floors; ground floor was all of the main rooms (like living room, dining room, kitchen, study, etc.), as well as home to the game lounge, ballroom, other entertainment rooms, and the library. Second floor was the fighter's suites, offices, brawl room, gym, running track, and training simulators(Multi-Man fights for example), and the third floor was the spa level/clinic. In the basement were various rooms that led to the mansion's computer systems, electrical systems, water systems, and heating ducts, and the roof could be accessed via the third floor that's what Master Hand told him.

"Well, here we are." said Richard as the two of them reached to Master Hand's office.

"So, I just have to sign in and that's all?" Lily asked him.

"Well, Master Hand also wants to know your speed, attacks, defense, etc. And he has to give you your room key number like this." he explained and showed her a piece of paper that said '3-C' written on it and a room key clipped on it. "He also says if all the newcomers have signed in, a few of the brawlers are going to demonstrate us what to do in a match."

"But...I don't know to fight."

"It's okay. Master Hand told me that a few newcomers don't know how to fight either. Just go inside and sign in, okay? I'll wait for you out here as soon as you're done."

"Okay. Fine." said Lily as she opened the door and went inside Master Hand's office.

As Lily went inside, Richard leaned against a wall and began whistling a tune as he waited for her to exit the office.

"I...I had a dream like this from last night." he remembered the words that Lily said before she fell from the cliff.

Ever since when the two of them and Mew arrived at the meadow with white flowers, she said those words which surprised him and Mew.

"Was it a vision she meant to say? Of course not, she said it was a dream. Was it?" he thought to himself. He put one of his fingers to his lips and started remebering hard, until Lily exited the office.

"I'm back." she said.

"Already? It took me at least 10 whole minutes to get out of there. And you just barely got out for like...2 minutes?" Richard asked her in surprise.

"Probably because you were with Mew by the time when you were signing up." she pointed out.

After hearing that, Richard remembered that both Mew and Master Hand were taking forever to finish their conversation for him to go back to the infirmary to see if Lily was awake from earlier. "Anyways, did Master Hand gave you your room key?" he asked her. She nodded.

"Yup! I got it." she said and showed him a piece of paper that said '4-E' written on it and a key clipped on it.

"'4-E' huh?" said Richard and gave her suitcase back after she woke up from her unconscious. "I guess we should unpack our stuff since we're staying here for a while. Well, I'll meet ya again as soon as I finish unpacking."

"Okay, I'll see you again soon." said Lily as the two of them walked away in opposite directions as they headed to their rooms.

"Okay. So my room is 4-E." Lily thought to herself as she arrived at the fourth floor of the fighter's wing side. As she strolled down the floor and looked at the numbers printed on the doors, she heard the sounf of crying. "What's that noise?" she wondered and placed her suitcase on the floor and went towards to the sound.

When she reached to the sound at the end of the floor, it turns out, the sound was a little Squirtle crying as he has a small pile of dirt on his head and some dirt on the floor surrounding him.

"Oh, you poor little thing. What happened to you?" Lily asked him as she held him in her arms.

The Squirtle didn't answer. He just kept on crying and keeps on rubbing his eyes.

"Don't worry. Just tell me what happened, and I'll help you." she whispered to him trying to soothe him with her words.

(While I was looking for my trainer, I accidently bumped into a flower pot and got some dirt in my eyes! And it really stings!) the Squirtle explained trying to get his words sound clearly.

It took a short moment for Lily to figure out how to help Squirtle, then she had an idea.

"Squirtle, can you use your watergun attack on yourself to clean your eyes?" she asked him.

When he heard that, he nodded and sprayed his watergun attack in the air and landed on his face. Once the water got on his face, he started rubbing his eyes and blinked a few times, suddenly, the dirt got out of his eyes.

(Hey, my eyes don't hurt anymore! Thank you! Thank so much!) he exclaimed and hugged Lily.

"Your welcome." she laughed and hugged him back.

When they let go, the two of them heard someone saying, "There you are, Squirtle!"

Then, the two of them saw a boy who looked about 14-years-old and he has brown hair and eyes. He was also wearing a black shirt under a red vest, a pair of sky-blue pants, a pair of red, white, and black shoes, a red and white cap, a pair of black wristsbands, and a yellow backpack.

(Master!) Squirtle exclaimed and jumped into the boy's arms.

"Oh. So that Squirtle belongs to you." Lily realized.

"Yeah. He's my little pal." said the boy. "Where have you been, Squirtle? I was looking all over for ya."

"Well, he was right here looking for you too, but he then he accidently bumped into a flower pot and got some of the dirt in his eyes. That's what he told me." Lily explained.

The boy's eyes began to widen. "You can understand him?" he asked her in surprise.

She nodded. "Yeah. I can talk to all animals and animal-like creatures. And from the looks of your pokemon, he looks just like a turtle." she said. "I also helped him to clean his eyes from his watergun attack."

The boy looked at his Squirtle and laughed a bit. "I guess you're right. He does look like a turtle." he said.

"An adorable turtle I should say." she mentioned which gave Squirtle a blush from the compliment. "By the way, my name is Tiger Lily, but you can just call me Lily. What's your name?" she asked the boy.

"..."

"Is something the matter?" she asked the boy again.

"Actually, whenever I come to this place, my name is 'Pokemon Trainer'." he answered.

"I know. I've heard of you, but…I was just wondering if that was your real name." she explained.

"…" The trainer didn't know if he was being mocked or not, but he didn't say anything.

Lily took a closer look at the trainer as her eyes scanned at him.

"Can I just call you 'Red?'" she said to him.

"Red?" he questioned. "Sure, if you like. But why Red?"

"Because you're wearing red clothes."

He snorted. "I have alternate colors too you know."

"Yeah, but your clothes are mostly red and the name really suits you, if you don't mind me calling you that. Besides, it's cute."

The young trainer began to blush. "You...You think I'm cute?"

Lily also began to blush. "Eh? N-No! I meant the name! I-I'm sorry! I put it in the wrong way! I'm sorry!" she panicked.

The trainer stiffled a laugh. "Red is not any more of a name than Pokemon Trainer." he said.

Lily's blush faded away. "Well, it's a little easier to pronounce it than calling you Pokemon Trainer." she mentioned.

He smiled at her. "Hey, Lily."

"Yeah Re- I mean Pokemon Trainer?"

"It's okay. I really like the name Red. And thanks."

"No problem, Red."

"I think you meant to say was, 'That's what friends do for each other.'"

"Friends? We're friends now?"

"Of course. For finding Squirtle and our conversation, I say we're friends."

Lily smiled at the trainer. "Then I'm gald we're friends." she said and waved good-bye to him and Squirtle and headed to her room.