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Chapter Three
The next day (Tuesday, November 21st)
Viridian City
3:30 p.m.
Nayana was busy doing her homework. Unlike yesterday, she had been given tons of homework to do from two of her teachers. It was annoying to her.
This is gonna take me all night… she thought to herself as she put numbers into her calculator. And it's just my luck that Dad comes home tonight, eh? We're supposed to go to the mall even, but knowing him, it'll be homework, homework, homework. It's always school over pleasure. I don't like it.
So she then went as fast as she could, wanting badly to go out once her father arrived from the airport. Luckily for her, she was able to finish her math and get almost all of her English homework done before she heard a knock on the apartment door.
"I got it," Nayana's grandma said, rushing to the door. As fast as her old body could take her, she went up to the door and opened it.
The first thing Nayana saw was a yellow mouse run up to her. He was a small thing; the Pokémon didn't even go up to Nayana's knee. With speed the Pokémon then hopped onto her shoulder. Nayana smiled. She adored the Pokémon when he was cute and friendly.
Meanwhile, the man in the doorway turned blue. Everyone seemed to pay attention to his yellow Pokémon before they paid attention to him. First he dropped his bags in the doorway, and then he took the jacket off of his suit.
"Why does Pikachu get more attention than me?" the black-haired man asked, staring at his Pokémon. Pikachu smiled mischievously in return.
"Oh hello Ash," Nayana's grandmother said casually, as if she didn't care if he was there or not.
"Hi Dad," Nayana said with a big smile. Quickly she got up and gave her father a big hug. She was sure to stick out her tongue at Pikachu in the process.
"Sooo… didya get me something?" Nayana said quickly, bouncing on the balls of her feet. "Huh huh huh?" she begged, smiling. Ash glared back at her.
"Be patient. I was getting there, I have to unpack first." The man then picked up his bags, and then walked with them to his room. "Finish your homework."
Slowly Nayana went back to her homework. She had to finish a couple of problems before she was done. They were done with speed. Unfortunately for her, her father was a slow unpacker. It shocked her, since her father was usually sloppy. So the girl then paced outside of her father's bedroom door. Pikachu was sitting outside of the door, waiting for Ash to come out too.
"I bet YOU know what he got me," Nayana said to the mouse Pokémon, quite jealous. "You father hogger."
"Pika Pikapi Pikachu!" Pikachu replied in an angry tone.
"I bet you just insulted me," Nayana said, glaring at the Pokémon fiercely.
Pikachu then stuck his pink tongue out at the girl, as to taunt her. Enraged by the Pokémon's tactics, the girl concentrated and made a sphere of psychic energy. In turn, yellow sparks came out of Pikachu's pink cheeks.
"You're going DOWN you little rat!" Nayana yelled, ready to hit Pikachu with the ball of energy.
Before anyone could attack, Ash came out of the bedroom. He had changed clothes as well. Currently he wore tan shorts and a red Hawaiian shirt. Both Nayana and Pikachu stopped, not wanting him to know they were fighting. He would break it up and they would get in trouble.
"Where is it?" she demanded, holding out her hand in a "gimmie!" fashion. Sighing, the man went back to his room. He had forgotten to get it. Nayana was tempted to kick Pikachu while her father had his back turned, but she knew better. Pikachu would shock her anyway.
Nayana and Pikachu usually got along well. Both of them liked each other's company. But there were at times fierce rivals, both wanting all of Ash's attention. Usually Nayana won, since she was human and his daughter. Humans needed much more attention and care than a Pokémon did, and it made Pikachu jealous. And then there were the few times that Pikachu won, and Nayana would be angry. But they never fought in front of him, for he would be upset and angry.
Soon he came back out, and he gave Nayana a box. It was full of tourist items from Hawaii, where the meeting had been. She found room for it in her currently messy room and went back out to the living room.
Next, it was a trip to the mall. Nayana knew exactly what she wanted as they walked into the immense mall. Quickly she went to the stores that had what she wanted, and she bought various items with her birthday money. And reluctantly Ash followed along. Unless he was doing the shopping, he hated the mall. He still thought that women shopped too much.
The next thing everyone knew, Nayana was out of money. It was time to go home.
They found trouble at the door.
The black-haired girl that had tried to beat Nayana and an older orange-haired woman were walking into the mall. Both of them wore red-violet clothes, and the older woman was glaring sternly. She looked like she wanted to rip something apart.
"But mother, she's purple! She'll rip us both apart if we fight her! I'm not ready to take your place yet!" the black-haired girl insisted, trying her best to convince her mother not to fight. The girl felt that she didn't have the responsibility to take her mother's place.
"No," the woman replied sternly. "The girl must die. I've been training for years for this moment!" she yelled, startling a few people around her. "And you will either fight by my side or go home!"
The girl then followed her mother, still nervous. She knew that she was going to get beaten.
Ash and Nayana then bumped into the hostile strangers. Everyone had gotten hit on the head because of the contact, and then fell down to the ground.
"Ow!" Nayana and the black-haired girl replied.
The orange-haired woman laughed.
"I have you BOTH where I want you!" she yelled joyfully, glad that she had gotten a two for one deal.
At first, Nayana was confused. She had not recognized the woman, but soon it hit her. Nayana didn't like whom she had bumped into.
"What are YOU doing here?" Nayana yelled. "I was having a wonderful day until YOU came in and ruined it!"
"Well, that's what I'm here for, runt," the woman replied. Next, the woman reached into her purse and pulled out a silver handgun. "It's time for you to DIE!"
"Hey!" Ash yelled. "Don't you dare shoot her Adia!"
The woman smiled mischievously. "I was always under the impression that you never gave a damn about what happened to the runt. But then again, that was years ago when she was still an infant. I guess you attitude has changed since then. It'll be nice to see you suffer a bit before you die," she said evilly. She then smiled, thinking about the family suffering. It was her favorite thing to see.
"And how would YOU know?" Nayana yelled.
"I stalk you, simple as that. I wanted you to suffer since day one. Unfortunately you are always too damn happy. Besides, I cannot let you become what you will become!"
"Wha?" the Ketchums replied, confused out of their mind.
Shaking her head, the woman held the gun to Nayana's head. Before she could shoot, the mall security guards came in. Both the girl and Adia went away, not wanting to get caught and go to jail. That was the last thing they needed.
"I hate my mother," Nayana replied. Adia wasn't the caring mother that Nayana always wanted, and it angered Nayana to no end.
The woman was evil. On her long list of horrible things she had done, one was abandon Nayana. Child Services did the DNA tests and took her to her father, who had taken her in. Nayana now wasn't sure how willing he had been but all that mattered was that he was willing now.
Nayana had met her mother when she was ten, and she did not enjoy it. Adia had kidnapped her and tried to kill her. Of course, Nayana was upset. She had always wanted a nice mother, one who cared about her. She had begged her father to get her a mother many times, only to get shot down. He insisted that he had too many things to worry about, let alone trying to get a woman.
The family then sighed and went home. They had things to do.
This chapter took forever for me to get down. Damn my fear of introducing Ash. insert aggrivated smilie here