Uh, yeah, what was this again:sweat-drops: yeah, it's a new chapter… let me get my guide then before I start typing then:gets guide from upstairs:come backs with a guide besides her:
All right, let's get started! Here's chapter… uh, what chapter am I on again :sweat-drops:
Chapter 8: First Contest Hall! In The Woods!
Last time we left…
A wild furry gray dog jumped out from the bushes as it looked at Brendan furiously. May quickly ran off to Avegaille and Phil, who were both trying to get unnoticed by the wild dog. Brendan backed away a few distances away from the Pokémon but the Pokémon was somehow trying to come near him. He didn't know what to do next. But somehow, there was something that is urging him to catch the wild Pokémon.
Brendan quickly took out his Pokédex and got the data of the wild Pokémon. It was a Poochyena. He thinks that the Poochyena might be a great addition to his team. Everyone else looked at the wild Pokémon curiously as the Poochyena stopped walking and gave out a skeptical look.
"What do you want?" the wild Poochyena asked.
"What!" everyone exclaimed out except for Avegaille. "You can talk!"
The wild Poochyena sweat-dropped, knowing that the humans it was encountering were rookie trainers. As soon as everyone saw the Poochyena sweat-dropping, they also sweat-dropped.
"Actually, I'm not the only Pokémon who can talk, but go ahead, send out your Pokémon and see if you can force them to talk in front of you," the wild Poochyena explained as everyone looked at the dog nervously and decided to do what it wanted.
They all sent out their Pokémon out of their Pokéballs. All of the Pokémon quickly gathered in a circle, having a secret conference somehow. The trainers gave out a skeptical look as they watch their Pokémon huddling together to form a compressed circle.
"Should we do it?" Kipp asked as he looked at Charlie.
"Yeah, they'll know it anyway," Charlie replied. Then, he and Linole quickly approached Avegaille.
The rest did the same and went back to their trainers. All of them seemed to be a little nervous of talking to their trainers for the first time.
"Hello, May, how are you doing?" Terra asked as she looked at May nervously.
"And yeah, by the way, did you know that you forgot to gave a nickname…" May's Wurmple added out as she turned her view away from May.
"Oops, so sorry about that, I was too worked up with catching you I forgot to give you a nickname," May said nervously as she looked at her Wurmple. "Is it okay if I called you Wilma?"
"Any nickname will do for me," Wilma said as she looked at May again.
"Hey, Phil, don't you know that Avegaille has a crush on you?" Terk asked which caught Avegaille's attention. "She even—"
"Uh… these Pokémon these days…" Avegaille quickly interrupted as she covered Terk's mouth. She laughed nervously as she looked at Phil.
Charlie and Linole sweat-dropped as Terk tried to struggle his way out of Avegaille's grip. Phil looked at Avegaille as Avegaille quickly let go of Terk and decided to mind her own Pokémon for a while.
"Yeah, okay then, Terk, thanks for the info…" Phil said slowly as he looked at Terk. "So, do you know any reasons why you can talk?"
"We were born this way," Terk replied as leaned his back against a tree. "Pokémon in this generation anyway…"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Avegaille asked as she looked at Terk.
"Ugh, enough with the chit-chat! I want to catch you!" Brendan exclaimed out to the Poochyena, also interrupting everyone's conversation.
"All right, but I won't be so easy to catch as you think!" the wild Poochyena warned out as it smirked at Brendan. He backed away a few distances from Brendan.
Kipp jumped in front of the battle scene as the wild Poochyena began to tackle him. Then, Kipp couldn't even start to attack since his trainer hasn't given him any commands yet.
"All right, Kipp, use water gun!" Brendan called out.
"Yeesh, you should have said that earlier…" Kipp remarked sarcastically as he blew out water from his mouth.
The wild Poochyena was quickly attacked off by the water as it was lying on the ground. It then stood up again, ready to fight.
"Hey, one more thing, what's your gender?" Brendan asked to the wild Poochyena. He quickly tossed out a Pokéball, hoping to aim on the Pokémon.
"A girl—" the Pokéball quickly opened as red light came out of it and took the Poochyena inside it. Then, it quickly closed and fell on the ground. It shook a little and then it stopped as a right light appeared on the middle of the ball.
"Yes! I caught her!" Brendan exclaimed out as he jumped with joy and started to dance on his place.
Everyone seat-dropped, including the Pokémon as the continued to watch Brendan do his victory dance. Brendan stopped dancing as he noticed that everyone was staring at him blankly.
"Uh, yeah, whatever…" Brendan murmured out as he quickly picked up the Pokéball lying on the ground.
After everyone had regained their senses, Avegaille decided it was time for her to get some sleep since she had too much excitement for one day. Phil went back to his spot which was located besides Brendan. May sighed to herself as she watched Avegaille sleeping on her sleeping bag with her Pokémon besides her.
"I guess I should be sleeping too," May murmured to herself as she tucked herself inside her sleeping bag. Terra and Wilma went besides her and snuggled themselves besides her. Then, all of them started to make snoozing sounds.
"Meh, since Avegaille's asleep I might as well tell Terk, to keep his business off between me and Avegaille," Phil said, trying to make Terk look at him.
"What? It's the truth, isn't it?" Terk asked.
"I know it too, but you don't have to sound obvious to Avegaille," Phil answered back. Then, he sighed. "Anyway, let's just forget about this, okay?"
"Fine, I need sleep anyway," Terk murmured as he took a position on Phil's sleeping back and lied down. Then, he closed his eyes and started to make sleeping sounds.
"Yes! Let's see what shall I call my newly caught Poochyena," Brendan exclaimed out as he sent out his Poochyena.
The Poochyena looked at Brendan with a bit of irritation in its eyes.
"Hey! What's the big idea of catching me by distracting me with a question?" the Poochyena asked.
"Can I call you Miles?" Brendan asked as he looked at the Poochyena.
"Fine, if you must," Miles murmured out. "But right now, I'm tired from all the battling. Let's get some sleep."
"Yay! A new friend!" Kipp exclaimed out as he quickly approached Miles. "Hi! I'm Kipp! How are you?"
"Hey, my first friend!" Miles exclaimed out as she looked at Kipp. "I'm doing fine. But right now, we need sleep, okay?"
"Okay, then," Kipp said in agreement as he saw Brendan tucking himself in his sleeping bag. He and Miles quickly approached him and lied down besides him.
Soon, all of the trainers and their Pokémon are fully asleep as they await for the new day to arrive.
The next day, it was so early in the morning when all of the trainers, except for Avegaille, woke up. All of them were starting to pack up everything in the camp site when Avegaille just got up from her sleep. She quickly jumped out of her sleeping bag when everyone else was done with their own part of the packing.
"Hey, why didn't anyone wake me up?" Avegaille whined out as she looked at everyone.
"You never asked any of us to wake you up," May replied as she looked at Avegaille, who was already packing all of her things in her backpack quickly.
"All right, next time when we go on a sleeping thing like this, wake me up first thing in the morning!" Avegaille exclaimed out as she took two Pokéballs and sent Charlie and Linole back.
"Well, let's get going, Rustboro is a long way from here!" Brendan called off to everyone as Avegaille stood up straight and went near the group.
"I'll have Terk around so that he can see where we're going," Phil said to everyone as she took out a Pokéball and sent out Terk. He picked Terk from the ground and placed him in his shoulder.
"Oh, goody, where are we off to now?" Terk asked sarcastically as he looked at Phil.
"Rustboro, but first, we're going to visit a special place within the woods," Phil replied out.
Walking inside Petalburg Woods, the gang had a hard time to see where they were going since the place was shaded with all of the trees. Phil decided to take out his Pokénav to see where they were now. He saw in his map that right now they were in the middle of the woods. Avegaille looked at the Pokénav curiously and wanted to see what else it can do.
"Here, why don't you use it for a while?" Phil told Avegaille as he gave to her his Pokénav. "Once we get to Rustboro, I think you might get your own soon."
"Aren't those things expensive?" Brendan asked as he looked at Phil.
"Where is the exit of the woods in this map?" Avegaille asked as she continued tapping on the Pokénav screen.
"Let me take a look," May piped in as she looked at the screen. She saw a yellow dot indicating where their location is. Then, she saw on the left side corner a gap in the map. "I think we have to go left if we want to get out of this woods."
"Well, then, let's get going!" Brendan exclaimed out as he walked off with everyone else following him.
A few minutes later, the gang was getting tired of walking around and around the woods, getting them out of nowhere. They stopped walking for a while and rested down on the ground.
"May, are you sure you read the map right?" Brendan asked as he looked at May with a skeptical look.
"Why don't you try reading it!" May exclaimed out as she gave an irritated look to Brendan.
While Brendan and May were arguing to each other, Avegaille saw a light coming towards her face from a distance. She quickly stood up and followed the light while Brendan and May still fight about their map readings. Phil was trying to cut off their fight, so he didn't notice that Avegaille left off. Terk on the other hand, decided to follow Avegaille quietly.
"Hey, where's the Pokénav?" May asked as she looked around. "And where is Avegaille?"
Brendan and Phil sweat-dropped as May quickly stood up and ran off to the direction where Avegaille went off to.
"Hey, where's Terk?" Phil asked as he stood up from the ground. Brendan did the same. "He must have followed Avegaille."
As Avegaille continued to walk further, she noticed a building near the exit of the woods. She quickly went to the entrance of the building and tried to know what was inside it. As she was about to enter the building, she felt that something or someone is tapping her leg.
"Huh?" Avegaille turned around and saw Terk standing below her. "Terk?"
"Yeah, I'm here," Terk replied as he looked up on Avegaille. "Why leave the group, as always?"
"I don't know, I just want to see more things that I don't want anyone else to know," Avegaille replied as she picked up Terk and placed him on the side of the stair edges. "And why did you leave Phil without any other Pokémon with him?"
"Meh, he has friends with him anyway," Terk murmured to himself as he sat down. "Anyway, do you have any idea of where we are?"
"No, not a single clue," Avegaille replied as she shrugged.
Then, from a distance, Avegaille can spot someone running towards her. As Avegaille saw the person getting closer, she noticed that she knew the person and it was May. She started to pant as she got in front of Avegaille.
"Hey, what's the idea of leaving the group?" May asked out after she had stopped panting. "And where are we?"
"Uh, I'm not sure and I don't know," Avegaille replied out to both of questions May asked.
"Well, anyway, I think we just got separated from the group," May remarked. Then, she noticed Terk sitting near the stair ledge. "And why is Terk with you?"
"He followed me," Avegaille replied as she shrugged. "Maybe the boys also followed you to be right behind you." She pointed to the direction behind May as May turned around to have a look.
"So, here we are, finally," Phil said as he went in front of the doorway of the building. He looked at Avegaille as Terk jumped off the stair ledge and went near Phil's leg. "Welcome, to the first Contest Hall in Petalburg Woods!"
"Do they have rooms here?" May asked as she raised her hand. "just in case we might not make it to Rustboro by the night."
"Uh, yeah," Phil replied as he gave May a skeptical look. "I think we should reserve some now when we get in."
"Well, what am I supposed to do while we stay in that contest building you're talking about?" Brendan asked as he went closer to Phil.
"Uh, you can always go with May while I tour Avegaille around the hall…" Phil whispered out.
"Fine then, let's get inside the building then," Brendan murmured as he opened the glass door and went inside.
After a few minutes of settling their rooms for the night, Phil had just started showing off Avegaille around the contest hall, starting with the stage. While both of them were off to the main stadium of the hall, Brendan and May were at the food shop. May was browsing through her cards on one table while Brendan was sitting on another, away from the girl trainer. Since he doesn't have anything else to do, he walked up to May.
"What do you want?" May asked to Brendan, without even glancing at him. She continued to sort out her cards and placed some of them on the box that was on top of the table.
"Are you really that obsessed with Pokémon cards?" Brendan asked as he sat down on the other chair in front of him.
"Not that much, but what's your real reason for being here?" May asked as she cocked her head and looked at Brendan with a skeptical look.
"Do you want, like, to know you, eat dinner together later on?" Brendan asked as he was starting to get nervous.
"Dinner, together?"
End of chapter… uh, what chapter was this again?
:gets smacked by a ban stick: Hey! What was that for:sweat-drops:
Well, can I ask if that is a cliffhanger or not, because I feel like it is one…..
