I'll Always Remember-Chapter 2

May: Thanks for the reviews! The authoress finally stopped crying!

::Has puffy red eyes:: yup, I finally had stopped =D

May: Let's see... ::checks watch:: (does she even have 1? O.o) she has been crying for 50 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds...

Err... sure... anyways, thanks for the reviews! I'm not as naïve anymore! ::takes out a huge cake and celebrates::

May: Er... didn't you tell me you had something else to say?

Er... something else? [Note: I have bad memory T.T]

May: ::takes out notebook from Icy-chan's bag:: here it is... let's see... ::squints:: [Note: I have like the worst writing ever] ... 4? ?.? I can't read... too messy... A?

::grabs it from May:: what do you mean messy? It's perfectly fine! It says:

To reviewers:

Thanks for reviewing!

LH: I'm actually not that great at spelling but I have a friend called MICROSOFT WORD's SPELL CHECK!!! AND WHY DOES FF.NET FICS NOT SHOW THE STAR THINGIES FOR ACTION? THEY ARE SUPER FUN! T.T I MISS THEM!

May: Er... note that she just goes hyper off everything... yes, even air...

::Too hyper to even notice May said something::

Everyone: I know that there is a lot of 'Journey' fics but I just thought it would be 'original' to start off with a 'Journey' fic... so ya, I'm gonna follow the story line-ish but I'm going to add more events to it... (that's how I got the end ya... I finished the end...)

DAT: Sorry, DAT, I was planning this to be a Hoennshippy fic... Sorry! Maybe next fic! (I'm a helpless hoennshipper!) and I think I will try and make this an 'all game' fic...

Breezy & Vokteren: Thanks guys for helping me out, making me not as naïve!

Vokteren: the reason May's mother is April is because I didn't know it was Caroline/Carolyn and since 'May' is a month, so why not April? And I was planning to have Wally in this fic... he's gonna appear in a later chapters and compete for May's heart! (hehe I'm being evil to Brendan because I'm gonna... wait.. I shouldn't tell you the 'surprise!')

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May politely knocked on the door. Mrs. Birch opened the door and lead May into the house.

"Oh, hello. And you are?" Mrs. Birch asked.

"Hi, I'm May, yo-..." May started.

"Oh, you're May, our new next-door neighbor! Hi! We have a son about the same age as you. Our son was excited about making a new friend. Our son is upstairs, I think." She interrupted.

May thanked her politely and went upstairs.

When she first entered the room she saw a white haired boy.

"Pokemon fully restored! Items all packed, and..." Brendan said

'What? White hair? I thought he was supposed to be about the same age as me!' May thought.

"Hey! You... Who are you? Oh, you're May, aren't you? Moved in next-door, right?" Brendan interrupted as he turned around.

'Hmm... he's kinda cute... even with the white hair... I guess it's okay....'

"Yep" May answered, tying to sound cheerful to cover her bad mood. She wasn't in a good mood so she had to be cautious of her attitude.

"I didn't know that you're a girl, Dad, Prof. Birch, said that our new next- door neighbor is a Gym Leader's kid, so I assumed you'd be a guy." Brendan teased.

'Hey, even better that you're a girl, she's hot!' Brendan commented.

"Are you teasing me?" May asked.

Brendan chuckled. "What if I am?" he taunted.

"Well you better be careful with what you say, I'm not in a good mood today."

"Okay... Well, my name's Brendan. So, hi, neighbor! Huh? Hey, May, don't you have a pokemon? Pokemon trainers in Hoenn start at the age of 14, you should be 14 by now..."

"I'm serious! And are you trying to make me mad again?"

"This time, no and if you are so hotheaded, why are you meeting your neighbors? You'll just give them a bad impression... like you already did for me!" Brendan shot back.

"Yeah well you were the one that got me fired up, I was still fine when I meet your mom!"

"I didn't even do anything!"

"Yes you did, you were being mean to me!"

"Well I didn't know you were in your bad mood!"

"Well I told you and you didn't give a good impression for me either!"

"Yeah, well you were the one that started this argument!"

"Okay fine, I'll settle the argument by answering your stupid question! I am 14 and I did have pokemon, all of them but I had to leave them in Johto and Kanto."

"Bragger..." Brendan muttered, "Well if you answered earlier when I'M still in a good mood, I would have asked if you want me to go catch you one... Aw, darn, I forgot... I was supposed to go help Dad catch some wild pokemon..."

"Well are you sure that is what you will say? You just said you would and you 'suddenly' said that you need to help your dad!" May asked quoting with her fingers curled up to look like quotation marks.

"No, I really did remembered then... Ugh! I'm going to be late. Some other time, okay?"

'Some 'Gym Leader's kid' and 'champion' she is, with that hot temper' Brendan thought as he went out of his room.

'Ugh! Stupid old man, making me have such a bad mood now.' She thought as she went down stairs again.

She wanted to 'explore' the town so she went north.

"I can hear someone shouting down the road here. What should I do? What should we do? Somebody has to go help..." said a little boy with blue hair and glasses pointing to the north.

May walked to where the boy was pointing. She saw a black dog chasing a man with a lab coat on.

"H-help me! Hello! You over there! Please! Help! In my bag! There's a poke ball!" The man cried.

'The man is in trouble! Release a pokemon and rescue him!' May's senses told her.

There was a chick pokemon, torchic in the middle, a wood gecko pokemon, treecko on the left and a mud fish pokemon, mudkip on the right.

May picked the torchic's poke ball and threw it.

The wild dog attention flew away from the man to May.

"Go Torchic" May called.

/GRRR.../ the dog growled at May and Torchic.

'Well, Torchic is a chick and fire pokemon. At this stage, it shouldn't have learned ember yet... so should I use that it should have is...'

"Torchic, use scratch!"

/Tor! / It said.

The torchic obediently use scratched the dog. The dog whimpered in pain but quickly tried to tackle the bird.

"Good job, Torchic! Now scratch it again!"

The bird scratched it once more. Now, the dog was weak but it growled at Torchic.

"Torchic, one more shot its dead, go!"

Torchic scratched it one last time and the dog fainted.

"You did it, Torchic, you won!" May said happily, forgetting the incident earlier, as she hugged the torchic.

"Whew... I was in the tall grass studying wild pokemon when I was jumped. You saved me. Thanks a lot! Oh? Hi, you're May! This is not the place to chat, so come by my pokemon lab later, okay?" Professor Birch thanked.

May picked up torchic and carried it to the lab with Professor Birch.

So, May. I've heard much about you from your father. I've heard that you don't have your own pokemon yet. But the way you battled earlier, you pulled it off with aplomb! I guess you have your father's blood in your veins after all! Oh, yes. As thanks for rescuing me, I'd like you to have the pokemon you used earlier."

"Thank you" May replied politely as she received Torchic's poke ball.

"While you're at it, why not give her a nickname?"

"Err... I'll name you... Blaze!" May said.

"If your work at pokemon and gain experience, I think you'll make a darn good trainer. My kid, Brendan is out on route 103 studying pokemon. It might not be a bad idea for you to go see May/Brendan. What do you think?"

'Well... I should go to be polite and he did just give me Blaze...' May thought

"Okay" May answer.

"Great! Brendan should be happy too. Get Brendan to teach you what it means to be a trainer."

'Like he will even be 'nice' and taught me if I was a rookie and I don't even need HIM to teach me, I already know about pokemon!' She thought as she walked out of the lab.

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::Still hyper::

May: O.o anyways, review!