Here's the next chapter for you guys :)
It was after four when Mia's Egg had finally hatched. Mia and Sora had decided to take a break along a river to have lunch. After lunch was over, the two tried to do some fishing in the river with the two new fishing rods that Mia had bought back at the Poké Mart. And once fifteen minutes went by, the two had managed to get a bite. After a brief period of trying to reel in their catch, both Mia and Sora had caught a Magikarp and Feebas respectively. But instead of releasing them back into the river, the two caught them—giving them the names Neptune and Bellona.
It was then that Mia's Egg started to glow, right after they had put Neptune and Bellona's Poké Balls into their packs. Mia, caught off guard by this, dropped her pack and stared at the Egg for a brief moment. When she got over the shock, she rushed over and pulled the Egg out of it's container.
"Can we make it to the Pokémon Center?" Sora asked.
"Don't think so," Mia said. "We'll just have to hatch it ourselves. No need to worry, I've helped my aunt hatch plenty of Eggs before."
"Well, don't we need warm water and towels like when Prim hatched?"
Before Mia could answer though, the Egg glowed brightly. When it died down, the Pokémon that was sitting in Mia's lap was a small turtle-like Pokémon with light blue skin, and a tan shell with a lighter shade for an underbelly, and a squirrel-like light blue tail. Pretty soon, the Pokémon slowly opened it's eyes, then looked up at Mia.
"Squirtle!" it smiled, upon seeing her.
"Oh you're so cute!" Mia smiled, hugging the newly-hatched Pokémon. "I'm gonna call you Blu. That okay with you little buddy?"
"Squirtle!" it replied, hugging Mia back.
"I think that name's a keeper," Sora snickered. Sora reached over and petted Blu on the head. "Nice to meet you Blu."
In response, Blu blew some bubbles into his face that popped, leaving behind some sparkles in their place.
"Aw, that's adorable," Mia giggled. "He already knows how to use Bubble."
"Who knows, maybe you just got yourself a new Contest performer."
Mia laughed. "Maybe. Hey, Blu, want to play in the river a bit? Would you like that?"
Blu cried happily and even jumped out of Mia's arms as it ran towards the water. Sora and Mia laughed at the act.
"At least we won't have to worry about that bath now," Mia giggled as she watched Blu happily swimming in the river. "Blu looks pretty happy now."
Sora nodded then took out his Pokédex and scanned Blu.
"Squirtle—the Tiny Turtle Pokémon. It shelters itself in it's shell, then strikes back with spouts of water at every opportunity."
"Well, looks like we just got three Water-type Pokémon in what? Twenty minutes?"
Mia busted out laughing. "Yup, looks like it. Anyway, once Blu's down swimming around in the river, we better continue on our way to Bellister City. It should only be an hour away by now."
"Awesome, we can get there before dinner."
"Thinking with your stomach are you?"
"Shut up!"
Mia just continued laughing.
All during the walk to Bellister City, Blu walked alongside Mia, after refusing to go back into his Poké Ball. Mia just let him walk alongside her while Sora carried the remaining Egg. From time to time the two even talked to the Egg a bit, telling it that it was the only Egg left that needed hatching and how they couldn't wait to meet whoever hatched and such.
Sometimes Blu would jump for joy at some of the comments. Mia joked that maybe he couldn't wait to see who hatched from the Egg as well.
It was like that for the rest of the walk down the Route. But when they had reached the hill that overlooked Bellister City, they stopped to marvel. Even from far away, Bellister City was a great looking city. From their spot on the hill they could see the lush parks, grand buildings, and such.
Blu must have gotten excited because he ran down the hill and towards the city.
"Blu wait!" Mia called as she raced after him. "Blu!"
"Just hatched and a handful already," Sora chuckled as he ran after them. "Reminds me of Prim in a way."
By the time Mia finally caught up with Blu he was happily splashing around in a large fountain. Mia sighed then picked him up and out of the fountain. She then scolded him about running off like that and such for about a minute.
"Now that we got all that settled with," Sora said. "Should we head to the Pokémon Center first or just head straight to the library?"
"Pokémon Center first. Blu needs a check-up anyway."
Sora nodded and the two headed towards the Pokémon Center, which, it turns out was merged with the local Poké Mart. While Mia went to get Blu and the Egg a check-up, Sora wandered around the city, trying to locate the library. He managed to find it after twenty minutes, thanks to the help of a fellow Trainer he had met that had a Pikachu riding on his shoulder, then headed back to the Pokémon Center. When he got there he found that Mia was done with both the check-ups. Sora told Mia where the library was but decided to have dinner first before heading towards the library. Sora suggested a restaurant that he had discovered while searching for the library. The food was great, like the restaurant itself, but unfortunately unknown to the two, Blu and Prim had actually followed them to the restaurant.
Turns out, the two Pokémon had been causing trouble in the kitchen while their Trainers were eating. When they came out of the kitchen riding on a runaway cart being propelled by Blu's Bubble, Mia and Sora raced after throughout the restaurant. After ten minutes the two had finally caught up with them, and thankfully there wasn't much damage to the restaurant. The only harm mostly being done was some food being spilt on either the customers or waiters/waitresses. The two spent another ten minutes apologizing for their Pokémon's mess then left the restaurant.
Once back at the Pokémon Center, Sora and Mia scolded Blu and Prim on their actions. Course they couldn't scold for long because the two Pokémon soon started crying so they had to stop. Then the two just spent the rest of their time with their Pokémon outside the Pokémon Center. Though while they did they remembered about the Contest and rushed off to register for that.
Pretty soon it was already seven so the two got ready for bed. Sora and Mia planned to head to the library in the morning and try to find out as much as they could. Though despite how much or how little they find out, the two planned to prepare for the Contest, since that was only the day after tomorrow.
"Whelp," Mia yawned. "Time to hit the hay. Sooner to bed, sooner to rise."
"Meaning the sooner we can get some real answers hopefully," Sora said, climbing into his bunk on the right side of the room.
"Yeah that too," Mia replied, climbing into the bunk on the left. "If we're really going to find any answers, it's going to be at that library. Cause I can't think of any other place to find any."
"Yeah," Sora agreed, laying his head down on the pillow. He had to admit, the bunks they had at the Pokémon Centers were really comfy. He liked that fact, but if made him think too much of home. Sora had been gone…five? Maybe six or even seven days? He couldn't help but wonder how his mom, Riku, and Kairi were holding up since he disappeared. Knowing Riku and Kairi, they were probably pulling all their resources to try and find him. He wondered if they had alerted the King and them about his disappearance yet. It was only a matter of time.
Still, least I won't have to worry about running into any Heartless or Nobodies, Sora thought to himself. If there were any, I would have run into some by now. Guess that's a good thing. No real need for the Keyblade.
Sora sighed then ran his hands through his hair. He looked over at Mia to see she was completely knocked out. Sora then glanced at the clock to see it was half past nine. Feeling he had spent enough time thinking to himself, he readjusted himself then closed his eyes and allowed himself to get dragged into a dreamless sleep.
The library was a lot bigger than the two teens had first thought. Which was a bit of a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. Good because that meant more books that could be of some use. Bad because that made it a tad bit harder to find said books.
When they entered the library, Mia went straight to a librarian and asked where they could find books about legendary Pokémon—particularly Palkia. The librarian directed them to the right section then left them alone to scavenge through the books. For the first twenty minutes, Sora and Mia picked out books that might contain info they might need. So far, they had managed to collect fifteen books all revolving around either legendary Pokémon, Pokémon legends, and other things.
The two soon flipped through the books, scouring them for information. So far, after looking through five books, they learned only things about Palkia they already knew, or things that only Pokédex didn't already know.
"No wait! I think I got something!" Mia announced, jumping up from her seat. "It says here that Palkia can sometimes be sighted within this region. Mostly on the highest point of Mt. Worlsep (which happens to be the tallest mountain within this region) when the moon is at it's zenith." Mia let out a long sigh. "'Though this is merely speculation due to sources being labeled unreliable. It is also highly recommended not to further investigate this information for Mt. Worlsep is known to be the most dangerous mountain within our region.'"
Mia blew some of her hair out of her face as she closed the book then placed it on the table.
"And there's our best lead to finding Palkia," she said, sitting back down.
"Doesn't sound too bad of a lead if you ask me," Sora shrugged. "Well, minus the whole 'sources being labeled unreliable' and that 'Mt. Worlsep is known to be the most dangerous mountain within our region.'"
Mia looked to Sora. "Think we can make it? I've traveled along the bottom of that mountain before but never actually going up it."
"I've faced worse in my travels," was all Sora said.
Mia snickered. "Then looks like we're heading to Mt. Worlsep."
"Right, so…what all do you know about Mt. Worlsep?"
"Well, it's known as the most dangerous mountain in our region, as the book just said, most people are too scared of the strong Pokémon that are said to live within the mountain to really go near it." Mia looked around, as if making sure no one was listening in on their conversation then whispered, "And that sometimes Aura Guardians train there."
"Sounds like a great place to go then."
Mia laughed. "And with that we have a set course."
"Right…but uh, where is Mt. Worlsep?"
Mia quickly left then returned with a map. She pushed the books aside then laid down the map. She pointed to the tip of the region (which was just one large island). "This is where the mountain is." Mia then pointed to a spot located on the lower part of the island. "And sadly, this is where we are. So obviously…we got a long way to go."
Sora shrugged. "Least it's better than nothing."
Mia rolled up the map. "Yeah that's true. Well, time to put these books back then."
Sora sighed. Well, this was going to be fun.
Sora watched as Mia's Pokémon practice their combinations for the upcoming Contest. Sora was already done practicing with Avis and Prim, so now it was Mia's turn to practice with her Pokémon. Though Sora figured she and her Pokémon didn't need all that much practice. After all, she had been doing this for so long. It came natural to her. Her and her Pokémon.
"So, you gonna keep practicing the same combinations?" Sora joked.
Mia rolled her eyes. "It is so not the same combinations!"
"Kind of looks that way to me," Sora smirked.
"Oh whatever," Mia grumbled. "Guess that's enough practice for today anyway. Good work you guys."
Fatmir gave Mia a hug while Starlight jumped around. Blu, who had been running around playing tag with Prim, soon jumped onto Mia's back. Before long, the rest of Mia's Pokémon popped out of their Poké Balls and started to pile on top of Mia until she fell to the ground. Sora burst out laughing when he saw Crimson happily waving his tail once the little "dog pile" was over. Course him laughing was short since apparently his own Pokémon wanted to copy this because pretty soon Sora got tackled to the ground by Nicolai, then Avis landed on Nicolai with Gen following after. Their little dog pile ending with Prim jumping on top of the pile.
"Okay you guys," Mia said, her voice straining a bit from all the weight on top of her. "We're feeling the love and all that but you mind getting off? It's getting hard to breathe."
"Same here," Sora added.
All the Pokémon let out roars of laughter, least that's what it sounded like, before they finally allowed the two Trainers to get up. Mia, probably trying to be funny, did a comedic act of gasping for air. Crimson just laid his head on top of hers and blew a small ring of smoke.
"Oh boy, we're never going to have a dull moment on this journey," Sora chuckled. "That's for sure."
6 pages for this chapter. Also, I kind of forgot to address this in the last chapter: No Sora and Mia will not actually meet up with Ash and the others within this story. The reason for this is because I don't plan on really involving them in the story (except for cameos, if you read this chapter carefully :P). However! I am planning on doing something else. I plan on writing special chapters, like extras really, that aren't a part of the main story that do have it where they meet up. I already have a few scenarios planned out I just haven't started them yet. So for those of you who keep asking if they'll meet up, there's your answer.
Anyway, I've already got the next chapter going so until next time! :)