Chapter 2
Battle Thy
Neighbour!
all right! so we're back for some more of PMTTL? yayness…XD well read on to the next chapter!
Last Chapter
May has saved Professor Birch from
a family of Wurmple she woke by accident, and chosen her starter to
be Mudkip. Now she and Brooke are going to Route 103 to meet the
Professor's kid, Brendan. Now read on…
"Argh! Why are there so many Ninjasks around? I'm sooooo itchy!" May yells to Route 101. Her companion, Brooke, shrugs her shoulders.
"That's what you get when you travel. It's expected…do you want some Pokemon Repellent?"
May rolls her eyes, "Of course you don't mind, you've been a trainer for half a year already! And plus, you see those Rangers and Campers a lot, don't you?" she added slyly.
"Come on May…"
They stopped at Oldale Town to heal Brooke's Pokemon after the battle with the Wurmple. The PokeCenter here was peaceful, "unlike the ones at Slateport," Brooke says. After resting the Pokemon , Brooke decides to restock on her supplies, dragging May much to her protest along with her to show her some of the things a trainer should have at all times. In front of the Mart, however, a PokeMart attendant walks up to May and asks if she is a rookie trainer.
"Yep, I just got my starter Pokemon!" she replies, pointing to Mudkip's pokeball on her hip pack . She then frowns, making Brooke and the attendant frown too. May cracks up due to Brooke's weird frown, with her nose squished up and her eyebrows pushed up against each other.
"Brooke, don't make me laugh…please," May says with difficulty.
The PokeMart attendant looks at both of them weirdly, but turns to May anyway.
"So you're a rookie trainer? Okay, I'd like you to have this as a promotional item," she hands May a Potion. May looked at the Potion like it was a Martian or something close to that.
"What's this for?" she asks quizzically. The Potion had a label, but May couldn't see it.
Brooke looks at her like SHE was the alien.
"This is a POTION, for healing your Pokemon when you're not close to a PokeCenter…" Brooke replied with a hint of fascination.
May shrugged, "Oh well, not like I was a genius at being a trainer like you…"
Brooke smiled and flounced off to Route 103.
"But when you actually act like you're a genius, that's the problem," May muttered when Brooke was well out of ear-shot.
Out on the noisy Route 103, the grass was being blown around into shapes by the wind, while the snow white hair of a 13 year old boy was lifted up past his bandana. His hair was, hence the last sentence, bound close to the hairline with a Hoenn Pride bandana, with the Hoenn League symbol printed on it. In fact, he was completely dressed in Hoenn Pride gear, with blue and yellow tracksuit pants and a black jacket with red stripes. He was staring at a tree, muttering under his breath what type of Pokemon could be found here. May and Brooke were at the other end of Route 103, having fun battling and catching a couple of Pokemon on their way to meet Professor Birch's son, Brendan. Just before the ledge that appeared with a patch of grass, a Zigzagoon jumped May!
May looked the wild Pokemon, confused. "So you want a battle? That's weird, I never knew wild Pokemon would want challenge trainers…anyway, go, Ice! Use Water Gun on the Zigzagoon!" May yelled as she released her Mudkip, nicknamed Ice, "uncreatively", as Brooke had commented, and commanded it to use Water Gun.
Mudkip obeyed commands, and blasted an icy cold jet of water at the Zigzagoon. The Zigzagoon, even though scared, stood its ground and cutely Growled at Ice. Ice's attack was lowered, which caused May to rack her brains as to do what next.
Hmm…if I use Water Gun, the attack won't be as effective…I might catch it, seeing as it's so weak now… "Go, pokeball!" May threw a Pokeball at the Zigzagoon, sucking the Raccon Pokemon up into the depths of the pokeball. After a few tense heart beats, a small Ting! was heard. Brooke started celebrating.
"Yay! Your second Pokemon caught, May! Woohoo!" she shouted to the Route. May looked at her weirdly.
"Brooke, I don't see it as a big deal…it's just my first Pokemon caught…" May started slowly…
Brooke shrugged and continued to walk along, only to realize something and dash back to May.
"If you're having a battle with the Professor's son, aren't you going to heal your Pokemon first?" Brooke asked.
"Maybe I should…come on, let's go back to Littleroot Town, to see my mum and to heal up before going for the Brendan dude,"
"Awww…the long walk back…" Brooke complained. May broke into a run, using the Running Shoes she had received from her mum just before she left Littleroot Town. Reading the instructions, she said them aloud to Brooke, who was running beside her with normal Cool Trainer shoes. "Press the B Button to run, and go for the great outdoors with them on!…that's weird, I'm not going to the great outdoors, I'm travelling with Pokemon!" May frowned.
Brooke continued to run with May, not even huffing, since she had gone through training before joining officially to the Cool Trainers. May was starting to get really puffed though, since she was used to having her bike in Petalburg City. Brooke looked at her and laughed.
"Come on May, get those fat legs of yours moving!" she grinned.
May was insulted. "Hey, my legs aren't fat! See what I can do!" She turned the dial on the shoes up to high, and managed to beat Brooke by a couple of seconds back to the lab. Smiling broadly, May turned to Brooke to see her downfallen face, but instead, saw a triumphant square face. May's expression turned to a stunned look.
"What is the matter with you, Brooke? How high is your self-esteem? Must be unbeatable…" May commented breathlessly. She grabbed a small bottle of water from her bag, and took huge gulps out of it, almost draining the whole bottle. She then offered it to Brooke, who was already pouring her own red bottle over her head, to try and cool it down. May's eyes bulged. She looked at her bottle with barely five gulps left, and poured it over her head too, screaming loudly in the process. All the residents of Littleroot looked out of their windows at the brown haired girl that was running around in circles on the damp grass while pouring the last drops of water over her head. Two Routes over, a white-haired boy looked over his shoulder, disrupted from his research by an audible scream he was sure came from Littleroot. There weren't any girls living in Littleroot, so he shrugged this off. May, on the other hand, had calmed down from the freezing cold water, and was now standing there, dripping water onto the red flowers that grew in Littleroot. Brooke was staring at her, dumbfounded by her behaviour.
"What was up with you? And by the way, you cheated!" She said, stunned. May was grinning stupidly now.
"Just trying to copy you! And I didn't cheat…it looked like fun, pouring water over your head, but I forgot I had freezing cold water…" May turned red with embarrassment.
Brooke shook her head. She motioned towards the lab, and walked off. May meekly followed her all the way on the pressed track down to Professor Birch's laboratory. Entering the new sliding glass doors, Brooke said a quick hello to her uncle, Professor Birch's assistant, and walked up to Professor Birch's office.
"Hello? Professor Birch? Are you there?" she called.
May was trying her best not to drip onto the floor, but there was still a puddle of wetness just next to her feet. Desperately May looked for a towel in her backpack. Brooke paid no attention, apart from a glance, and walked around slowly trying to find the Professor. Her uncle came up and told her he was at home, one of the rare occasions he was at home, actually. Brooke nodded slowly and stopped May's search for a towel. May started to gabber something, but then quickly walked back home, to have a shower and get a fresh outfit. Brooke followed quietly.
Upon arriving home, Mrs Sapphire came up and stopped herself just in time, as she was about to give May a hug. The dripping May was sulking, and she ran upstairs to find a new outfit and a towel. Brooke sat down in the kitchen, drinking lemonade. Half an hour later, steam began to come out of the bathroom door, indicating something was happening, but Mrs Sapphire said "not to worry, she does that all the time", so Brooke settled down and watched TV. A red May came out of the shower, dressed in her other Hoenn outfit another half an hour later. Uh oh, I must've been really long in there… May thought, as she noticed the look on Brooke and her mum's face.
Saying goodbye to her mum, May made her way along with Brooke to Oldale Town again, training her newly caught Zigzagoon. Busy thinking of a nickname for it, May ran out of ideas and asked Brooke.
Brooke just frowned. "I have no idea why you want to give your Pokemon nicknames. We don't, we just refer to them as their species," A tinkling sound came from nowhere, captivating May's attention. She walked towards Route 103, wanting to see what was making that sound. Brooke hurried to catch up with her. Eventually, she ended up staring at the person too, just like May was. Surprisingly, there had been no wild battles while they were walking through the Route. The person was a white haired teenage boy, playing an instrument known as a triangle. A tinkling tune was in the air, and May was suddenly mesmerized by it. Brooke wasn't though.
"May! Wake up! This is probably Brendan, you need to battle with him!" Brooke shook May hard. May woke up slowly from her trance. She looked at the Hoenn Pride clothes that the boy was wearing, and guessed that he was Brendan Birch too. She walked up to him and asked him a simple question.
"Are you Brendan Birch?" May asked. The boy turned around and stared above May at first, then at her.
"Sorry, I was expecting somebody taller. And yes, I am Brendan Birch, why do you ask?" Brendan replied, throwing and catching a pokeball in his right hand. In his left hand was the instrument May had seen, which she now knew was called a triangle. May was looking like she was still in the trance. Brendan frowned and waved his hand in front of her face, causing a blush from May.
"Sorry, I was thinking about that music, but anyway, my name is M-May, and I'm supposed to be battling you…Professor Birch told me you were his son."
Brendan looked mildly surprised. "Dad sent you? That's weird, he hardly ever does…he must think you have potential! Let's get this battle started, then!" He ended his statement by throwing the pokeball towards a flat grassy area near where he was standing. Brooke took up the referee role, and stated the rules.
"You will use one Pokemon each, no time limit, and no items allowed. Start."
May sent out her Mudkip, Ice, while Brendan released his Treecko, nicknamed Arrow. May decided to go first, and commanded a Tackle on Arrow. Brendan countered this by asking for a Pound. Both attacks hit the offending Pokemon, and the health reduced by one third. May bit her lip and thought for a while, giving Brendan time to command another attack.
"Pound, Arrow!"
May gasped and quickly told Ice to use Tackle. Arrow's attack hit first, because of it's speed, and Ice really was tired by now. It crashed into Arrow weakly, and crawled slowly back to May's side. May was getting very nervous by now, and tried her most unfamiliar attack, Mud Slap. It wouldn't be of much use, but lowering accuracy was important.
"Use Mud Slap, Ice! It's our last chance!"
Ice fired a small Water Gun at a patch of dirt, to create mud, then dipped its tail in and flicked the entire lot at Arrow. The Treecko's accuracay was lowered, and gave a moment of panic to Brendan. He recovered quickly though, and commanded a Pound attack at Ice.
"Dodge, Ice! Quick!"
But by this time, Ice was so tired its reaction had become very slow, and couldn't dodge fast enough. The Pound hit it from the head first, then the attack's feeling went right down to its tail. Ice collapsed in a faint, from pure tiredness.
"Mudkip has fainted, the victory goes to Treecko!"
May held out the Pokeball for Ice and whispered a few words of encouragement to it. "You did your best, ice, that's all I needed." May grabbed her wallet, and started to open the zip to give Brendan his prize money, but he held out a hand and stopped her.
"It won't count this time, okay?" He grinned, "It's only your first trainer battle, isn't it? Well…let's get back the lab and tell Dad about our match!" He walked to Oldale Town, and disappeared into the PokeCenter. May stared in awe.
"He's cool! And I can't believe he's also a good musician too…" May trailed off…
Brooke looked at her, and decided not to say anything, just to save herself from being killed. They walked off together into the PokeCenter, just as Brendan was leaving.
"Oh? I might wait for you, we can go back to the lab together." He offered.
May smiled and agreed. She went inside and gave her Pokeballs to Nurse Joy, commenting on how contented she was today. Nurse Joy hid her smile, as both May and Brendan had told her that, except separately. Outside, the trio began the long walk back to Littleroot Town…
Well how was that? XD 5 and a half pages, is that long enough (for now)? Thanks for all the random ideas from my great friend neopolis3 off SPPF!
