Okay… what am I suppose to do again? sweat-drops Um, yeah, another chapter…. So anyway, read and enjoy, whatever… I'm trying to put in more description to it by reading actual fics! XD
Chapter 4: Hidden Abilities!
After a long sleep at the Pokémon Center, another day arrives. Um, that means, it's the next day… Anyway, in a room with two beds and a small table in between, Avegaille woke up from her sleep and looked around. She noticed that May wasn't around anymore. She then looked at the clock above the table and knew she was late in waking up. She quickly dressed up and packed her things. Then, the door opened as May went inside.
"Sleepyhead, you woke up late," May remarked as she went closer to Avegaille. She sat down on the bed as she watched Avegaille continuing packing her stuff.
"Yeah, you could have at least waken me up," Avegaille said irritably as she closed her backpack and carried it in her arms. She watched May stand up from the bed.
"Now that you are done, you are happy to know that today we're heading off to Petalburg," May said out as she and Avegaille went out of the room.
"I heard a lot of trainers mistake the gym there as the first one," Avegaille interrupted as she and May continued to walk to get downstairs. "So, how will you defeat that gym once you get there?"
"Um, uh, let's talk about that gym some other time," May replied out nervously as she started to sweat. She looked away from Avegaille as both of them walked through the stairs.
"Why? Is there a secret about the gym that I should know?" Avegaille asked out as she looked at May suspiciously. She was starting to doubt the trainer as both of them finally got downstairs and saw Brendan and Phil waiting for them.
"You guys are always slowing us down, as always!" Brendan remarked sarcastically as he looked at the girl trainers approaching them. He knew May is going to be furious at him again if he keeps making sarcastic remarks, but he didn't care. He was beginning to enjoy it whenever May shouts at him.
"Err… no comment," Phil murmured out as he noticed May's furious look again. "Anyway, we're all here, so let's just all go, okay?"
"Yeah, I'm trying to know what's in the Petalburg Gym," Avegaille started out as she looked at May, who was starting to calm down.
"Oh? You never knew May is the daughter of Norman, the gym leader in Petalburg?" Phil asked out to Avegaille.
"Now that you mention it." Avegaille looked at May as May backed away from her. "If you were the gym leader's daughter, how come you're not living in Petalburg?"
"Um, there's no more room there," May replied out as she sweat-dropped. "I thought you were going to ask me some serious questions."
"I'll bet it'll be easy for you to beat your own father," Brendan remarked.
"You don't even know a single thing about him," May murmured out as she looked at Brendan.
"Doesn't matter, anyway, we have to go now," Brendan said carelessly as he walked out and went out of the Pokémon Center.
As Brendan got out of the Center, Avegaille and Phil noticed that May is started to get furious over the boy again. Both of them looked at each other and sighed.
"Um, come on, May, let's go," Avegaille said nervously as she took May's arm and pulled her. Phil was following them while Avegaille continued to pull May until all of them got out of the Center and saw Brendan waiting for them.
"Yeah, let's just get to Petalburg before night time," Brendan said to them as he started to walk off.
On to Route 104, filled with trees and grasses where a lot of wild Pokémon live. The blue sky made it even better for the trainers to continue their walk towards Petalburg. May thought it would be now the time to catch a Pokémon of her own. She noticed a group of Wrumples by the corner covered up with grasses. But then, she looked at everyone else who were too unaware of what is around as they just watched where they were going.
"Has anyone have any idea of where we are going?" May asked as everyone looked at her and stopped walking.
"Um Petalburg?" Brendan replied out as he looked at May. "Girl, are you all right?" He looked at May with a doubt.
"Yeah, I'm fine!" May exclaimed out furiously. "I was talking about of which way we're going, not where we are going!"
"Not again…" Avegaille murmured out to herself.
"This is getting a bit out of hand," Phil said to himself as he went in between Brendan and May to stop any more further arguments. "Okay, it's useless to bicker in the wild… and besides, your arguments don't make any sense."
"Well, she started it!" Brendan exclaimed out as he pointed to May.
"Whatever," May murmured out. She took out her Pokédex and a Pokéball. "I'll be catching a Pokémon for a while to get off this argument." She looked at Avegaille.
"Um, okay, I'll go with you," Avegaille said nervously as May headed out of the tall grassy way. She quickly followed her, leaving Brendan and Phil behind.
Seeing where May and Avegaille have landed themselves, knowing that they were a lot of distances away from Brendan and Phil again, both of them quickly went to search out for a Pokémon they could catch. While May saw the group of Wrumples she saw before, Avegaille sat down behind a tree as she took out the Pokéball of the Zigzagoon she caught the other day out from her backpack. She tossed it out in the air as the very young Zigzagoon came out and looked at her. The Pokéball quickly went into her hands as the Zigzagoon blinked twice and looked at Avegaille.
"Oh, hello, we meet again," Avegaille greeted out as she smiled at the Zigzagoon. "I almost forgot to give you out a nickname, by the way…" She laughed nervously as her Zigzagoon looked at her curiously.
"Guguuh…" the Zigzagoon cried out as he started to come near Avegaille and snuggle besides her.
"Oh?" Avegaille took out a Pokédex and started to scan more about Zigzagoons. Then, she saw that it evolves into a white fur with brown stripes, which is a Linoone. "You want Linole as a nickname?"
The Zigzagoon nodded happily as he looked at Avegaille. Then, Avegaille noticed that May isn't back yet after ten minutes. It didn't take Avegaille more than ten minutes to catch a Pokémon, so she knew that something was up. She quickly stood up as Linole followed behind her. Then, Avegaille saw that May is being attacked by more than one Wrumple and Terra can't seem to handle all of them, even with Ember.
"Um, Avegaille I could use a little HELP!" May screamed out as she continued to back away from the angry Wrumples.
"You should ask them before you engage yourself in catching them…" Avegaille told her as she took out a Pokéball.
"Now that is the most ridiculous advice I have ever heard," May said sarcastically as she quickly ran and got behind Avegaille.
Terra on the other hand, tried to get out of the circle of an angry mob of Wrumples. Then, Linole jumped inside the circle to help out Terra. He started to charge up, as surprising as it is, electricity, and discharged it around the Wrumples, shocking them out and also fleeing them out. Avegaille and May looked at each other as Terra quickly went to May and hid behind her.
"Gee, since when Zigzagoons learn Thunderbolt?" May asked as she looked at Avegaille. "You didn't happen to have a TM and teaching it to him, did ya?"
"I don't know, I never even know that he knows Thunderbolt, I just caught him and there," Avegaille replied out as Linole went near her. She picked him up and carried him in her arms.
"Oh, great, how am I suppose to catch a Wrumple now?" May asked as she went away from Avegaille and looked at her.
"Well, you still have another chance," Avegaille said as she pointed out to the direction where she spotted a Wrumple munching though some leaves.
"Okay, I think that Wrumple is a she, but it'll do!" May exclaimed out. She looked at Terra and pointed out to the direction of where the Wrumple is. "Okay, let's get him— I mean, her!"
"Tooorchic!" Terra exclaimed out as she quickly ran and went in front of the Wrumple. She was determined and ready to attack as the Wrumple turned around and saw her determined look.
"Okay, Terra, use Scratch attack!" May exclaimed out as Terra held out her claws and began raking through the wild Wrumple.
The Wild Wrumple began tackling Terra as Terra tried to avoid it and continue to attack more. With the consecutive scratches she did, the Wrumple was starting to weaken out as May quickly tossed out a Pokéball to finally get that Wrumple. The ball quickly bumped into the Pokémon as it opened and shrunk the Pokémon inside. Then, it fell on the ground as it shook a little until a red light signal out in the middle of the ball and also made a sound.
"Yeah! I caught a Wrumple!" May exclaimed out as she quickly ran to get the Pokéball lying on the ground. Then, she held it in her arms as she looked at Avegaille.
"I'm kinda wondering, why did you want a Wrumple so badly?" Avegaille asked as she looked at May curiously. She raised an eyebrow as Terra went behind May and looked up at her trainer.
"I want it to evolve into a beautiful Beautifly, that's why," May replied as she started to day-dream of what her Beautifly will look like. She started to dance as Avegaille and the Pokémon watching her, sweat-dropped.
"Okay, enough with the dancing, let's just go back before the boys complain to where we have been again," Avegaille quickly interrupted as she grabbed May's arm and made her stop dancing.
"Weird…"
"What's weird?" Brendan asked as he looked at Phil. He was starting to doubt his new friend with all of the things he's been doing.
A few distances away, Brendan and Phil were waiting for May and Avegaille to come back from their Pokémon hunting. Both of them were sitting down behind a large tree in which both of them have agreed on.
"Here I am, waiting for girls, I have captured six Contests Pokémon which are currently at Lilycove but I have to start everything all over again to join the Pokémon League," Phil replied as he looked at Brendan. "You didn't expect me to be a rookie trainer, now did you?"
"Uh, yes," Brendan replied out slowly. He looked around as the silence of the surrounding started to get to him. "If you aren't a rookie, that means you know to train Pokémon easily."
"My point exactly," Phil exclaimed out as he stood up. "But I never judge anyone by their looks or their acts. Especially Avegaille."
"Huh?" Brendan was starting to get confused. "I don't get it."
"Avegaille knows more than any of us. She just doesn't want to show it. Have you ever wondered why she wanted to be a coordinator?" Phil asked as he looked at Brendan.
"No, but tell me, please…"
"It's because it's going to be too easy for her when she start to challenge gym leaders," Phil replied out. He looked away from Brendan. "I'll see if I can join the Grand Festival this year. Maybe then, I'll try to do my best and win the competition."
"To take down Avegaille, right?" Brendan asked.
"That's probably one of those reasons, I can see," Phil replied as he turned around and looked at Brendan.
From a distance, the bushes started to ruffle which Brendan and Phil thought that some Pokémon is going to attack them. The quickly took out their Pokéballs and sent out their Pokémon as the mysterious thing revealed themselves. They were May and Avegaille who just came back from the Pokémon catching.
"Cool! A battle!" Avegaille exclaimed out as she took a Pokéball and sent out Linole, her Zigzagoon. "Okay, Linole, use—"
"We're not going to have a battle," Brendan quickly interrupted as Avegaille sweat-dropped. "We thought you were a bunch of Pokémon that are about to attack us…"
"Oh, um whatever," Avegaille said sheepishly as she picked up Linole. "Linole is a pretty cute Pokémon anyway." She started to stroke Linole's fur with her hands.
"Um, are we going now?" May asked everyone as she looked around. "This place is giving me the creeps."
"Yeah, I think we should go now," Phil remarked as he sent back Terk to his ball. Then, he clipped the minimized ball into his belt.
After five hours of walking though Route 104, the four of them have finally managed to see from a distance the city of Petalburg. With high buildings and houses around the city, they were itching to get to the city fast. It was almost dark when the finally reached the city. Their first stop was the Pokémon Center so that they could heal up their Pokémon.
As they entered the Pokémon Center, they heard a lot of trainers talking about the Pokémon League and also Pokémon Contests. Then, they saw two posters from the side telling more about the details. May took a closer look on the Pokémon Hoenn League Challenge poster.
"Hmm… if I win the Hoenn League, maybe I'll be able to prove something against Brendan," May said to herself as she looked at Brendan who was talking with Nurse Joy.
"Who are you talking to?" Avegaille asked, who was right behind May.
"Huh? Um, just myself, you know," May said nervously as she turned around. "Don't you want to join the League?"
"Maybe some other time," Avegaille replied out. "My dad wants me to join the Kanto League when we get back there after a year of my journey."
"Oh? Now I know why," May murmured to herself as she looked at Avegaille, who was reading more into the Pokémon Contest Grand Festival poster.
A few distances away, Phil and Brendan were at the counter where they could heal up their Pokémon. While they waited, they were looking around and saw a lot of trainers renting out rooms in the center for the night. As Nurse Joy got back with their Pokémon, Phil wanted to know what's going on.
"Well, it's the same thing as usual," Nurse Joy replied. "Trainers come and stay here for the night which sometimes, we ran out of room to rent at."
"So, do you still have rooms left?" Brendan asked.
"Well, there is only one more room left, with two bunk beds, if you are interested," Nurse Joy replied as she took out the key.
"We'll take it then!" Phil exclaimed out as Nurse Joy gave to him the keys. "I just hope May and Avegaille wouldn't mind if we all slept in one room."
Then, May and Avegaille quickly approached them as both of them tried to know what they just did. While May tried to get some answers, Avegaille wanted to heal up her Pokémon for a while.
"We got a room for the night," Phil told to May. "Since it's the last one, we all sleep together in one room. There are four beds, so don't worry."
"Well, that's good news, at least," May murmured to herself as she folded her arms across her chest. "But you guys have to keep your distance!"
"Don't worry, we will," Brendan said as he looked away from May.
End of Chapter 4
Um, uh, I was a bit early… well, there's the chapter anyway! Expect another one next time!
