About an hour after the two settled in their room, the ship was already leaving. There was no out burst or strange group of people walking around, and Cadence couldn't hear any rumors of a missing Pokemorph. But neither of them were satisfied with this, Noah himself felt a sense of danger if they just accepted that no one was told about his appearance to the public. For their lunch, Cadence had to sneak some food back to the room. Dinner was about the same, but Cadence could only bring in three apples and a candy bar with everyone in the dining rooms. He was capable of getting Noah a bottle of water from a vending machine. Both meals were less quality than Noah was use to, but he didn't bother complaining.
That night, when everyone was probably asleep, Noah went outside. Cadence was asleep as well, almost completely knocked out.
Noah opened the large metal door slowly, each movement gave a low metal screech, but it didn't seem to wake anyone up. Noah repeated the process to close it and walked away from any possible windows that were visible. Out of sight (that he knew of,) Noah looked over the deck. In the cold wind, he was enjoying the view of the calm dark blue ocean moving away from him as they moved. In the distance, it blurred with the black sky so well that the line of horizon couldn't be pointed out exactly, just a large area of black. Above the ocean's surface was the familiar white stars. Noah just leaned against the metal rail and soaked in the view. "Cadence was right, it can't be really put into some words or a single image," he said to himself. Noah just wanted to stay there all night and daydream even more. It felt good, thinking about the future, about what achievements he could do, who he would meet, and the Pokemon he'll actually see. For a split moment, Noah honestly thought that it would come true.
"Hey, are you…um…Andrew?"
The voice was right behind Noah, causing him to spin around in surprise. In front of him was the Eevee girl, the one from the woods. "Oh, I surprised you, I'm sorry," Drew apologized, her cheeks blushing under the fur.
"No, that's okay, I just didn't expect anyone was awake," Noah quickly remembered that he stated his name was Andrew.
"Oh." Drew walked up to the rail, to the right of Noah, and leaned on it. Noah soon followed in the same gestured. She was looking out at the ocean, so Noah just did the same to avoid staring. "Lovely view, isn't it?" she asked, Noah felt her tail rub against his pant legs softly.
"Yeah," Noah agreed without looking at her.
Drew remained silent, just staring out into the sea. "You know Andrew, I was thinking about something since we met earlier. Did you by chance go to any academy?" she asked, not moving from her position. Noah felt her tail move again on his pant legs with an even softer touch.
"Um, no. Why do you ask?" It was hard to keep a straight face without Noah biting his lip after saying it.
She was silent for a moment again to give some more thought of what she was about to do. "You see," Drew started, "I kind of have a photo memory that is so sharp that I can easily identified something from a long time ago. The uniform you're still wearing, it is almost an exact replica of the ones at the nearby academy we met. Then, well, I have never met a Lugia morph before in my entire life."
Noah didn't say anything. He was caught before he even got started as a trainer. The thought of suicide, just for a split second, came to him to just avoid his father. "I won't tell," the girl's Eevee ears drooped, "I'm also good at keeping secrets, under two conditions."
"Conditions? What conditions?" Noah didn't care what the conditions were, they were probably better than being stuck in a stone fortress.
"First, I just want to know your first name. Second," she paused a moment to wet her lips, "When you start training, could I come with you?"
Looking at the edge of his eyes, Noah could see the girl looking at him now. With a sigh of relief, Noah just took whatever she was trying to do, "My name is Noah Alexander, although I don't really like my last name anymore. And…yes, you can come with me."
Drew's ears perked up and she gave a joyful whistle. "Alright," her voice a little louder than Noah was comfortable with, "So you're probably starting in Kanto, right?"
"Yeah, I think I am. It is either that or Johto. But I doubt we'll spend so much time traveling to get there."
"We? Is that man also traveling with you?"
"Cadence? Yeah, but I don't think he'll be sticking around for very long. He said that he'll help me get my first Pokemon. But Cadence never said anything about that." Noah started to relax now. He trusted Drew now, not in a way like he does to Cadence who seemed reliable. It was as if Drew was by now, Noah wished he was positive about it, was like a friend. This actually made Noah feel good for once, not how his dad would compliment him by downgrading his other students or a self accomplishment, but as if he was in a peaceful world. It just made his entire body completely relaxed and Noah almost didn't care about the past, or the future to worry about.
"Hey, Noah?" Drew interrupted Noah's slight day dream.
"Yeah?" The two stared at each other. Noah was looking into her brown eyes. He could feel his entire body heat starting to rise at each passing second. Drew then broke the trance and looked out to the ocean, Noah did likewise.
Drew first gave a small sigh and started to lean on the rail. Finally she said, "Well, can you tell me about your life? I'll tell you mine."
With a gulp, Noah started to think of where to start. It wasn't that he didn't know where to start, but that Noah didn't know how he wanted it to sound. Should it sound happy and go lucky? But why would he have left it? But if he sounded like a dark gloomy person, he could appear to whinny. "Well," Noah quickly thought of how to start, "I guess you could say I was real lucky in some things, but poor in others. I can't remember my birth and no one would tell me about it. So I was left clueless. I knew I wasn't blood related to my dad at all, but I'm still a bit blank about everything. All I have is a birth date, February twenty-six. But most of my life was studying for school and my 'future' job. I don't know what life was for the other kids, but all I had were books to read and all of them were about facts. I guess school was easy for me and everything seemed fine to me at the time, but I kind of grew depressed about being left out. See, I had no real friends to rely on. I guess that is it till now."
In a bit of a rhythm, Drew nodded to each word, taking them in one by one and not a single one leaving her mind. She was quiet for a moment as well, but she could only say one thing in a weak breath, "Thank you." She didn't say anymore, just stood up. Noah looked at her eyes and he saw her eyes sparkling in the small light. He didn't say anything, he didn't know what to say. Perhaps he did the wrong approach after all. As quietly as she met Noah, Drew started to walk back to the other side, saying one last thing to Noah, "I'll see you sometime, maybe I'll be in Pallet town when you get your Pokemon."
With one thing coming into Noah's mind, he released as fast as he could. "Night," he said. Drew looked back at him and stared at him for a moment. She waved, and Noah waved back, then she left. That wasn't what he wanted to say, Noah wanted to say something else. "I guess I better go to," Noah mumbled and walked back to his room. He probably had a lot of traveling to do in the morning.
