Chapter 2--

The Mysterious Piece...

The morning sun trickled through the transluscent glass window and touched Tommy's face. He was in the middle of a dream.

-- I choose you pichu!---

"Pi-pi!" cried his partner.

"Thundershock!" cried Tommy. Pichu's violent bolts stormed the room hitting the opponents pokemon.

"Yes!" yelled Tommy, "we're gonna win!" He clenched his fists and had a huge determined smile on his face.

"The opponents pokemon has lost and is not capable of winning this battle, the winner of the round is..." The referee was stopped by a voice.. Tommy looked up to see a huge keyboard man.

"play me, play me!" it said aloud. Fur Elise was playing in the background.

"you have to play me, you have to play me..."

"But I'm the winner," cried Tommy.

"But you have to play me first..." said the nagging keyboard man.

Tommy ran for his life...

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!" Tommy awoke from his dream.

---keyboard man eh?--

He quickly took out the keyboard from his closet and set it up.

"There,"he grinned, "no more keyboard man." Pichu awakened from the sound of his voice.

"Pichu?"

"Oh, you're awake pichu," he smiled and held his pet in his arms. He touched his stomach,

"Boy, I'm hungry..I never ate dinner yesterday." He went downstairs and found his mother cooking in the kitchen.

"Good morning baby,"

"Good morning mom," he replied, "what's for breakfast!"

"Pancakes!" smiled his mother. Tommy loved his mother's pancakes and plus his birthday was coming in two days!

"Early birthday gift?" asked his father as he came down from the stairs. He went up to his wife and kissed her cheek.

"eww," muttered Tommy, "parent love." The thought of love made Tommy shiver.

"Well, I'm gonna go guys, see ya later." said his father. Tommy Lee's dad worked at the Pokemon convention center, where many trainers went to entertain their pokemon. Tommy was too young to enter and was always disapointed when his dad went to work.

"Bye," muttered Tommy and quietly ate his breakfast. May felt bad for her son and tried to talk him into doing something else.

"Hey, why so glum-chum?"she laughed and pinched his cheek making a mark.

"Oww!" cried Tommy as he touched the mark.

"Well sorry Mr. Sensitive,"his mom laughed again. "you know, if you want you can come with me to 3 Dimension Mall, we can get pokeballs."

"Ok," shrugged Tommy and got Pichu in the hallway.

"Pi-pi-chu!"cried the pet. Tommy gave pichu a piece of pancake and smiled,"We're going to 3 Dimension Mall, and we can get anything we want." Pichu got excited and danced around. Tommy laughed and got ready for the mall.

"Ok guys, are you ready?" Tommy's mom wore a purple sundress and let her beautiful hair down. Tommy nodded as his mother led them to the car. It took them 20 minutes to get to the mall.

finally...-thought Tommy and sighed with Pichu.

"Ok remember guys, stay by my side and remember the rules."

"Ok mom,"answered Tommy, and grinned. They walked inside the huge mall. It was called 3 Dimension mall for a reason and Tommy finally understood why. Everything was 3D, the walls came at you like knives and every thing had a length and width.

"Amazing,"sighed Tommy.

"I know eh?" giggled his mother as she held his hand. "Stay here, I'm going to get something from that shop, ok?"

"Ok mom," he grinned and held Pichu in his arms. As his mother went to the shop, something caught his attention, the sound of the piano, he quickly forgot about the pokeballs. A girl was playing the piece in the music centre. It was so mysterious and yet challenging people to listen to it and challenging them to play the song. It made Tommy so interested that he forgot his mother's rules. He got up with pichu still in his arms, forcing himself to the girl playing the piano.

The piece's dynamics suddenly changed and Tommy became more interested. He made eye contact with the girl and smiled, she noticed him and blushed but continued to play.

I want to learn that-- he thought. the piece was finally finished, and a loud applause came from the small audience. The girl took a bow and smiled at Tommy. He smiled back and wooed with the crowd.

A woman from the audience came up to the stage and hugged the girl.

"Congratulations Nuonnaru!" said the woman and they went off into the mall. The girl looked back and waved goodbye. Tommy looked down, but when he was about to wave back they were gone, she was gone. He went into the music centre, and Pichu was surprised with the music that hit her ears.

Pichu was delighted and started to sing.

"Pi-pi-chuuu," Tommy grinned and looked for the piece that the girl played. He approached the man at the counter asking,
"Do you have the piece that the girl played a few minutes ago?" The man smiled, "why, yes I do." he continued, "It's called Just My Luck, an intruging piece created by.." the man was stopped by a screaming woman that came in to the store. It was Tommy's mother.

"Tommy...Tommy!" she was agitated and looked around non-stop. Finally Tommy made eye contact with his mother. May quickly ran to her son's side and hugged him tight.

"I told you..."she glared at him, "to wait for me..." tears formed in her eyes.

"I'm sorry mom," he hesitated, "I just wanted that piece the girl was playing." The man at the counter was waiting for a response from Tommy's mom. He interupted the mother and son converstion,

"So will you be buying this piece?"

"Yes,"said Tommy smiling.

"Ok," sighed his mother and bought the piece, "but only because it's your birthday in 2 days. They went out of the store and sat down. Pichu pointed at the piece.

"Yes, pichu, this is piece girl," Tommy smiled and opened the package and his mother read the title.

"Just my Luck," she finished, "that sounds scary,"

"I think its mysterious and I can't wait to play it." Tommy smiled and walked with his mom and pichu to the car. He still couldn't get the sound of the piece in his head.

"Get in,"she sighed as she looked at her bank book. When they finally got home she went to sleep. Tommy decided to practise the piece and went up to his room.

"This is so exciting Pichu," he smiled, "I get two presents from mom!"

"Pichu!" cried the cute pet. He sat on a chair and turned on his keyboard. Dang! the keyboard screamed.

--I guess the keyboard's broken from the slam yesterday, dad's going to kill me.--

Pichu covered her ears as Tommy turned it off. Tommy grunted and looked at the mysterious peace.

"Just My Luck," he whispered,

"Dad's going to kill me, he's going to actually kill me."

Pichu plopped down on Tommy's lap and went to sleep.

How am I going to play this piece! Better yet, how am I going to tell dad about the broken $500.00 keyboard!

Hey guys, this is chapter 2, yah, kinda boring but, like it anyway. More coming soon!

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