Now let's see...where did everyone say they were going? Hm. Oh yeah! Leaf went to Amity Square, while Lucus and Daimon went to the contest hall. Aaron just watches me as I look around in confusion. Okay so Amity Square is...? I look behind the gym with a massive sweat drop falling from my head. Eh? The entrance to Amity square is right behind the gym! And the contest hall is right next to it! I should've known...
Okay. we'll find Leaf first. 'Cause the other two are probably gonna flip out over us being there. They'd be all nervous if we were there. Feh. What babies. Aaron and I leave the gym to the square.
As we walk through the entrance, I notice people with pokemon walking around a large area, filled with trees, grass, and little shiny objects that the pokemon are picking up. Leaf isn't that hard to spot, since she's the only one with long brunette hair. She's sitting down on a bench, petting her Clefairy. We walk over to where Leaf is sitting. She looks up at me when I tell her that we're going to the contest hall. Leaf gets up, returning Clefairy to its pokeball as we leave.
The three of us head over to the contest hall, but not before I show Leaf my new badge. She smiles a bit, then ignores me the rest of the way. See! I told ya that she got over it. But ignoring me? How rude! Even Aaron's ignoring me. Is this 'Ignore-Green-because-he-made-out-with-the-girl-that-his-friend-liked Day'? Seriously, is it?!
Yeah, let's just leave that for future reference, okay? We stop in front of a large dome-like building, covered in pink cloth with a rather large ribbon in it. Defiantly, the contest hall. But before we can walk inside, two people come running out of the hall, trampling us. The two were non other than Daimon and Lucus.
sfx: BANG!!
"Ahh! Waddja do that for?!" Daimon and Lucus yell simultaneously.
"Well, waddya think?!" I yell back.
"Sorry..."
We remain silent as the five of us walk back to the hikers' house. See, it is Ignore me because whatever day. The newest national holiday. Yay! Not. I hate it when there's too much silence! I got enough of that during my days as a trainer in Kanto with Leaf! So why in Sinnoh?! Someone tell me! Please!
I look up at the sky. Hm. The sun's starting to set. We'd better get to the house before the sun fully sets. I call out to the others, saying that we should get to the house quickly. My traveling companions agree, so we begin to run. Once the group reaches the house, I knock on the door. Clint opens the door for us, urging us to come in before it gets too dark.
Our little group sits down on the couches, where there are five plates of china, streaked in blue, each with thin crust ham sandwiches with avocado spread in them. Next to the sandwiches are little sugar cookies in the shapes of the Sinnoh starter pokemon, Turtwig, Piplup, and Chimchar. And next to each plate, are pokeball shaped napkins and small cups of apple juice. Mmm! Looks delicious!
Clint tells us to enjoy ourselves, so we do. We begin to eat our tasty dinner happily. As we eat, Clint asks us if we want to hear a story about 'Veilstone's Myth', saying that it might help us on our journey. We agree and he begins.
Clint began, "Veilstone Myth. A young man, callow and foolish in innocence, came to own a sword. With it, he smote pokemon, which gave sustenance, with carefree abandon. Those not taken as food, he discarded, with no afterthought. The following year, no pokemon appeared. Larders grew bare. The young man, seeking the missing pokemon, journeyed afar. Long did he search. And far and wide, too, until one he did find.
Asked he, "Why do you hide?"
To which the pokemon replied, " If you bear your sword to bring harm upon us, with claws and fangs, we will exact a toll. From your kind we will take our toll, for it must be done."
"Done it must be to guard ourselves and for it, I apologize."
To the skies, the young man shouted, his dismay. "In having found the sword, I have lost so much. Gorged with power, I grew blind to pokemon being alive. I will never fall savage again. This sword I denounce and forsake. I plead for forgiveness, for I was but a fool."
So in saying, the young man hurled the sword to the ground, snapping it. Seeing this, the pokemon disappeared to a place beyond seeing..." Clint finished.
"My grandfather would tell me that story every time he came to visit. But sadly, that doesn't happen anymore. I mourn over what's left of what I remember of that story. But any who, you five should get to bed. There's a storm coming in."
After we finished eating, we left to our separate rooms, Daimon and Lucus in one, Leaf in another, and Aaron and I in the last. As Aaron and I began to drift to sleep, I started thinking about the story. How the young man treated the pokemon at first. Sounds sort of like me. Hope I don't do the same. A storm began to blow. The sound of the trickling rain easily put me to sleep.