What? You already know what's going to happen in this chapter? Well, then I guess that you don't need to read this next chapter then, don't ya think?
Chapter 9: Get Ready, Here Comes… Trouble!
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Last time we left…
"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?"
"So how about it?" Brendan asked as he waited for May's final reply. "Dinner together for the night or not?"
"Well, all right then, just this once, since I'm not doing anything for the night anyway," May finally said to Brendan as she started to place all of her cards back into the box on the table.
"Yes!" Brendan said happily under his breath.
"What was that again?" May asked to Brendan as she looked at him.
"Uh, nothing," Brendan replied out nervously as he stood up from his seat.
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At the lobby of the Contest Hall, Phil and Avegaille were at the registration counter so that both of them could register for this year's contest events that will be happening all over the Hoenn region. The clerk gave them out a Coordinator's ID and a Ribbon Case so that both of them will be recognized as coordinators.
"Once you have earned five ribbons of different types, you'll be able to go into the Grand Festival and witness the makings of the greatest coordinator of all time!" the clerk said out loud to Avegaille and Phil.
Avegaille and Phil sweat-dropped as both of them looked at each other and then back at the clerk. The clerk finally registered their names into the computer as she handed to them their cards.
"There you go, and have fun in appealing out the audience!" the clerk said to them with a smile as Avegaille and Phil looked at their cards and then back at her.
"Thanks, and we will," Phil said in return.
After that, the two of them went off to the canteen of the Contest Hall. As they got inside, they saw Brendan and May sitting together at a table at one corner of the room, eating dinner together and even talking about stuff.
"Do you think we should disturb them?" Avegaille whispered as she looked at Phil.
"Maybe not," Phil replied out as he went out of the room.
Avegaille quickly followed him until she eventually caught up with him at the lobby of the Contest Hall where she saw some people carrying baskets of berries into one room. She saw that Phil was receiving some kind of a case from the clerk that she encountered earlier. Then, Phil went near her as he gave to her the case he got from the clerk.
"What is this?" Avegaille asked out as she stared at the thing that Phil just gave to her.
"It's a Pokéblock Case," Phil replied. "I'll show you what it's for when we get to Slateport. For now, just keep it in your bag."
"Okay then…" Avegaille watched Phil run off to a room as she stared at the Pokéblock Case more. She finally gave up guessing the uses of it as she placed it inside her backpack.
As soon as Phil was gone, Avegaille took out her Coordinator's Card as she looked at it carefully. She smiled to herself as she walked in front of a sofa that was on the other side on the lobby, in front of the registration counter. She sat down on the sofa as she admired her card more.
"I can't wait for Slateport! I'm going to do my very first coordinating there soon!" Avegaille said confidently to herself as she looked up and watched the trainers and coordinators pass by.
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The next day, the group left the Contest Hall Building very early so that they could get to Rustboro quickly. Phil had finally found the way out of the woods. It was just a few meters away from the building. This time, May had woken up Avegaille just as soon as she got up so that no more interruption will happen. But as soon as the group finally got out of the woods, they noticed that someone was missing.
"Hey, where's Avegaille?" May asked as she looked around.
All of them turned around and noticed that Avegaille was no longer behind them.
"Running off somewhere again?" Brendan grumbled. "Maybe we should just leave her there or just wait for her to come here."
"That's not nice!" May exclaimed out furiously as she stared at Brendan with her angry look.
"Hmm, she must be caught unaware while we were walking out here," Phil stated out. "I think we should go back in there."
"You go, both of us we'll wait here," Brendan told to Phil as Phil walked back inside the woods.
As Phil got inside the woods, May was totally unsure of why Brendan wanted to be alone with her. She already did him a favor last night by having dinner with him. Then, she thought of an idea to burst Brendan's bubble.
"While you're here, how about a ranting lessons on what you should do and not do while I'm around," May said to Brendan with a smirk.
"Oh, boy, here we go again…" Brendan murmured helplessly to himself.
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Avegaille was very sleepy as she got out of the Contest Hall Building and decided to take a rest for a while so she could recover some energy at least. She didn't even notice or even know she was going on a journey with her friends at that time. While sitting down in the steps of the building, she noticed a guy wearing a green tuxedo searing around the bushes for something. She got up from the steps as she approached him.
"Um, sir, what are you doing?" Avegaille asked sleepily as the man turned around to look at her.
"Oh? Me? I'm looking for a Shroomish, I really love those little critters. Tell me, have you seen one?" the man asked excitedly.
"Um, no, but uh—"
"Hey Devon researcher!" a voice called off from behind them.
"Wha?"
Avegaille and the so-called Devon Researcher turned around as both of them saw a man dressed in a black and white striped shirt, wearing blue long pants and a blue bandana with some kind of 'A' symbol in his head.
"I had to wait for you a long time outside the woods, so I decided to come here and get you myself!" the man exclaimed out irritably. "So hand over those research papers, why don't ya?"
"Eeeee! You're a trainer, right?" the researcher asked out nervously as he quickly went behind Avegaille.
"Well, not exactly, but if you want me to beat out this guy, I guess," Avegaille replied out, finally recovering from her tiredness.
"So, you dare meddle with Team Aqua's affairs?" the grunt asked out. "Fine, get ready to suffer the consequences!"
Avegaille took out a Pokéball from her backpack as the Team Aqua grunt sent out a Poochyena. Avegaille tossed out the Pokéball she was holding and out came Charlie.
"Use Tackle now, Poochyena!" the grunt called off.
"Charlie, dodge and use Ember!" Avegaille quickly called off.
As the Poochyena was getting closer to Charlie, Charlie walked out of its way and started spitting out fire from its mouth, aiming at the Poochyena.
"Argh! Poochyena, use Tackle again!" the grunt called off furiously.
"Charlie, jump over the Poochyena and use Starch!" Avegaille commanded.
"You want me to jump over the dog?" Charlie asked as he quickly looked at Avegaille with a skeptical look.
"Gee, isn't that one weird thing to do," the Poochyena added as he stopped charging to Charlie. He then smirked at Charlie. "Let's just see if you can jump over me!"
"We're going through a training session later!" Avegaille murmured out irritably as she slapped her face with her hand.
"Let's get back to the battle, shall we?" the grunt interrupted as Charlie and the Poochyena looked at him.
"Fine, then, Charlie, use Ember quickly!" Avegaille commanded out.
Charlie started to spit out fire from his mouth as the grunt tried to think of how he could attack the Charmander. The Poochyena had no time to defend itself and was waiting for its trainer to give out a command at least. After a few moments, the Poochyena fainted on the ground.
"Poochyena, return!" the grunt murmured out as he took out a Pokéball and a red light sent back the fainted out Pokémon. He then looked at Avegaille. "I wish I could battle longer but I'm out of Pokémon. And besides, I've got something bigger to get at Rustboro."
After that, the grunt quickly ran off, leaving the researcher and Avegaille speechless. Then, the researcher went in front of Avegaille and to thank her.
"If it wasn't for you, that grunt would have gotten his hands on these papers," the researcher said to Avegaille. Then, he took out something from his pocket. "Here's a Great Ball as a thanks for saving me."
"Gee, you're welcome sir," Avegaille said shyly as the researcher handed to her the ball. She quickly placed it in her backpack as Charlie went near her.
"Oh, my goodness, did that grunt says something he's going to get something bigger at Rustboro?" the grunt asked as he looked at Avegaille panicked-stricken. "I better get to Rustboro quickly!"
After that, the Devon Researcher ran off to the roadway of which is in the right side of the Contest Building. Avegaille sighed to herself as she looked at Charlie.
"Hey, do you still remember what I'm supposed to do?" Avegaille asked as she lifted Charlie in her arms.
"Um, train me?" Charlie replied.
"No, that's not it, I'm sure I'm forgetting something," Avegaille murmured to herself as she paced around, with Charlie still in her arms.
"Hey! Avegaille!"
"Huh?" Avegaille turned around to where of the direction of the voice came from. She saw Phil coming near to her, which made her remember everything.
"There you are, I thought I could never find you here in the woods anymore," Phil said as he got to Avegaille. "Good thing you didn't ran off far from the contest Building."
"Yeah, I guess, but, before you came, somehow I forgot I was even travelling with you guys…" Avegaille murmured as she slightly blushed.
"Well, anyways, Brendan and May are waiting for us outside the woods," Phil told her as he took Avegaille's right arm, leaving her holding Charlie with her left arm.
Charlie quickly climbed to Avegaille's shoulder as Phil dragged her off.
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"…and one more thing! If I ever see you with another girl that I have never heard off, you are so getting a big slap attack from me or my Pokémon!" May finally ranted out to Brendan.
Brendan was sitting down on the ground while he had to suffer May's ranting rules. Then, Brendan noticed two shadows coming out from the exit of Petalburg Woods. He quickly stood up as Avegaille and Phil finally managed to get near them.
"Finally, I thought both of you would get lost inside there," Brendan said with a sigh of relief as May looked at him with a doubt.
"Don't worry, I know the way out here anyways," Phil told Brendan as walked besides him.
"Now we can get to Rustboro finally!" May exclaimed out as everyone looked at her.
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After three hours of walking on the road towards Rustboro, the group has finally managed the city that they have all been trying to reach. May quickly noticed the gym and wanted to challenge the gym leader first. On the other hand, Brendan and Phil were planning to do some training and Pokémon catching on Route 116. As Brendan and Phil walked off, Avegaille noticed that May was looking towards the gym door excitedly.
"Hey, Avegaille, I might want to go inside the gym first so that I can find out who the gym leader is here," May told her as she quickly entered through the gym doors, leaving Avegaille speechless.
"You should have done at least some training before you challenge the gym leader…" Avegaille muttered under her breath as she turned her view away from the gym building.
"That kid will never learn the basics of training unless someone teaches her how…" Charlie added out to Avegaille. He was still holding on to her shoulders and resting his feet in her backpack.
Then, Avegaille noticed a shady character towards her but quickly made a quick turn going towards the other exit of Rustboro. Then, she noticed that she recognized the person chasing after the thief.
"Hey! Wait, please! Give those good back!" the researcher called out as he quickly ran after the thief.
Avegaille and Charlie sweat-dropped as both of them looked at each other.
"Do you think we should help him out again?" Avegaille asked to Charlie after the researcher left off.
"Yeah, I think he's helpless…"
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Inside the Rustboro Gym, May noticed something about the looks of the gym. There were a lot of tables and chairs used for classrooms. Then, she saw that in the far middle a teacher's desk. She was getting all nervous and even thought of not battling the gym leader at all. Then, she saw a woman wearing a blue dress with long pink matching socks and her split hair tied up together with a pink ribbon. She was carrying some books and papers as she went to the desk and placed it all down there. Then, she noticed May staring at her.
"Oh, hello, are you here for Pokémon school?" the woman asked.
"Um no, I thought this was a gym and I should be battling someone, so, uh, I'll be going now…" May murmured as she slowly crept towards the exit.
"Hold it right there!" the woman called off.
"Yes, Miss—"
"Call me Roxanne," she told to May. Then, she pressed a button from her desk, which started to move the tables and chairs aside the gym and also revealed a place for Pokémon battling.
May gulped as she looked at the wide stadium and went to one side. Then, Roxanne took out a Pokéball as she smirked at May. May slowly took out a Pokéball from her bag and looked at it nervously.
"If you have been training your Pokémon, you wouldn't be this nervous, now would you?" Roxanne asked out to May. "By the way, what's you name?"
"May Maple," she replied as she looked at Roxanne nervously.
"Well, then, Miss Maple, you're about to learn a lesson that you won't forget!" Roxanne exclaimed out as she tossed out the Pokéball she was holding and came a Geodude.
"Now I'm doomed," May murmured to herself as she gulped.
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End of Chapter 9…
Now that is what I call a cliffhanger! Yayness! Please R&R, people! And uh, yeah, the next chapter will be up by one week, so expect for it soon!
