Gary walked sullenly down the road beside Krystal who was talking about water pokemon with Misty; Ash and Brock lead the way. He hadn't forgotten about what happened last night and now wished he hadn't gone to kiss her since Ash was always giving him smug looks and Brock, who was even worse, was always chuckling to himself.
"I see the road that leads down to the Pokemon Centre, its just outside the tree line up ahead," Brock commented pointing to the thinning trees.
"That's good, I was beginning to get really thirsty," Misty said as the left the trees, pausing to look out over the hills edge at the serene scenery below. They were standing on a hill ridge looking down into a lush green valley, situated in the centre was a larger round building, which they easily recognised as the Pokemon Centre Brock had been talking about. On the valley's far side were hills simular to the one on which they were standing also covered in trees.
"Wont be long now Misty," Ash said cheerfully as he and Pikachu took off running down the hill.
"Hey Ash, not so fast, wait for me!," Misty called out running after him, Gary just gasped, he was already exhausted and now they were running.
"Well, here we go again," Brock said as he took off after Misty.
"Please don't you go as well," Krystal heard Gary say as he grabbed her arm, she turned around to see that he looked really worn down.
"Huh, oh no, I wasn't planning on running," she said smiling as he loosened his grip on her arm.
"Oh ok," Gary said having thought she would've.
"Not used to all the walking are you?" she asked as they made their way down the hill at a slower pace then that of the others.
"I think I got too used to getting driven everywhere," Gary said quietly, head lowered.
"Are you alright?" Krystal asked pausing on the road,
"Oh, I'm fine, don't worry," Gary said continuing along the road towards the Pokemon Centre.
"Ok suite yourself," she said not believing what she had just been told.
"Oh Meowth, I'm tired and hungry, cant we stop for a break and eat," James complained as Meowth dragged him and Jesse along road that led through the trees.
"Well if you to hadn't slept in we wouldn't have to run just to keep sight of them, Ah this is better," Meowth said as they reached the hill ridge situated at the edge of the forest.
"Wow you can see nearly every thing from up here, Oo it's a Pokemon Centre," James said looking down the hill at the building situated in the valley's centre.
"Not just a Pokemon Centre you fool but also the twerps new friends, the girl with the Eevee evolutions and what's-his-name with the Umbreon," Jesse told them
"So it is, nice spotting Jesse," Meowth said, "and I'd bet one of my nine lives that Pikachu has already entered the building".
"Alright lets go get steal us some pokemon!" Jesse exclaimed.
"hhhmmm, maybe later, right now I need a break" James said sitting down on the hill,
"Yeh I guess your right, my legs are getting kind of tired," Jesse said in agreement sitting down beside him. Meowth was about to tell them to get a move on when he suddenly felt how tired he was, 'a break couldn't hurt' he thought.
"Hmm... where did Krystal and Gary get to? I could of sworn they were right behind us before we started running," Misty said as she and Ash sat down on a small group of couches in the pokemon centre with the drinks the had purchased.
"Knowing Gary he's probably too tired to even walk the rest of the way let alone run," Ash said taking a sip of his soda. Misty knew that what as said was pretty cruel but couldn't help but laughing along with Ash as they sat there sipping soda's while Brock stocked up on provisions.
"So Misty looking forward to catching a Vaporeon?" Ash asked, "Brock said we're only around a day away now," he told her.
"That is if there are any Vaporeons at the waterfalls," Misty said putting down her soda on a coffee table.
"There's probably one out there just waiting for you to come and catch it," Ash joked and the both started laughing.
"Hey look its Krystal and Gary," Ash pointed out the window at the two people who had just arrived at the Pokemon Centre front doors.
"Hey you two!" Krystal called out as she and Gary headed in through the doors, saying 'hi' to Nurse Joy before heading for the couches where Misty and Ash were located.
"Hey, what took you two so long?" Ash asked for the sake of it.
"We walked, weren't in any real hurry," Krystal said sitting down on the couch opposite Ash and Misty while Gary lay down beside her staring at the ceiling; it was easy to see that they were both pretty tired.