Hroondeel's Notes
Sorry for the terrible wait! I was so busy with school and all anyways, I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO FINALLY BE DONE! So here is Chapter 5, and a big thanks to all of those readers who keep on reviewing and staying in tune with my story! I keep track of all of you !
The first thing that May felt from falling onto the ground was the hard fall that was slightly less painful from the soft grass that wet with dew. She tumbled onto the ground, and felt a sharp pain in her shin. She muffled a cry and sat straight to examine it. Since her legs were bare, it had scratched onto a the window sill and a shard and then to make it worse, had fell onto the ground. Now she had a huge, gash-like cut on her leg. She managed to get up, and run on the tips of her toes to the path to Route 101. As she was trudging along, she heard the high-pitched voice of her mother in the distance. "Maayyy! Come help me unpack this box!" She decided to stop and listen. There was a pause. "MAY? MAY!" her mother screeched. Wow, her voice sure is loud; May thought. There was another pause, probably Mrs. Birch climbing up the stairs. May braced herself for it. "EEEEEEEEKK!" screeched Mrs. Birch. She probably saw the open window… May thought, swallowing. She wanted to listen more, but was starting to feel guilty. She held her head down and walked rather quickly further down the path.
It was a bit of time now, that she felt something in her bag vibrating. "Huh?" she said, and stopped walking. She unadjusted her bag and opened it. To her surprise, her Torchic's pokeball flew out. The pokeball's button hit the ground, and a burst of red light shooted out, followed by her Torchic. "Torchiic!" it cried, jumping up and down. "Torchic? Why'd you get out…?" she said, raising an eyebrow. "Torchic-tor!" it cried, jumping once. May sweatdropped. Suddenly the Torchic started running around in circles at top-speed around a tree. "What the…" May started. The Torchic then noticed something moving in the bushes. Without thinking, the Torchic fired an ember at the bush, and a cry came from a Pokemon. Wrinkling her nose at the smell of burnt bushes, she noticed the Pokemon was a Poochyena. She sighed and said to Torchic, "How 'bout going back into your pokeball?" and a red beam withdrew Torchic. May sweatdropped and strapped her bag back on, trying to follow onto the path. "Yes! It's already Route 101!" she cried, stretching her arms as if she had just woken up. In a quite strange fashion, she climbed up a tree, swiftly grabbing onto branches, and jumped from a branch to a nearby branch belonging to another tree. She felt so full of energy…and so happy too. For once, she felt free. She spun her arms around and cried, "Whoo-hoo!" and jumped down from the tree, spinning around gracefully. In such a short time, she made it into Oldale, the next town. I guess the saying "Time goes by quickly when you have fun." Is really true.
Oldale seemed to be a tiny town, May noticed. It was maybe even tinier then Littleroot! (And that was TINY) "Hey, at least it has a pokemon center." She shrugged. "And that place. It looks like a Pokemon center except with a blue roof. She cocked her head, curiously. Nosily, she went around to the back, and stepped up on a box, trying to peek into the small, tinted window. A plump worker with curly brown hair and a big blue apron was scanning a pokeball. "Wretched things don't scan." He grumbled. May grinned. She felt like she was watching a reality-based sitcom. Slowly, her smile turned into a frown. The worker slowly turned around and spotted her.
She froze, petrified. To her huge surprise, the worker made a big, toothy grin and said, "Why hello there, lassie! Whatcha doin' over there, eh? You should come up front!" he said. Not wanting him to cry at her, "Get the hell outta here, you junior delinquent!" like what a big, muscled guy who was moving boxes in the Goldenrod Mall said to her when her curiosity got the best of her, she quickly walked over to the front. The front door slid open, revealing the worker from earlier. "Why you're a new face! We had a kid come by here your age! He bought approximately 5 pokeballs! He looks like he was preparing for a journey or somethin'! You know him?" May knew him very well, but quickly shook her head. "Anyways, come on in!" he urged. She followed him wordlessly. It looked like a mini-mart with shelves, racks, and hooks of Pokemon related things.
"This, miss, is a pokemart. You could find us in almost all of the cities on this planet. Sometimes, in those REALLY big and busy cities, you could find a Pokemall, with EVERYTHING Pokemon."
"Like Goldenrod." May thought.
The worker chuckled, and he said, "Oh, I know! I'll give you a sample!" he fished in the front pocket of his smock and found a purple tube-like container with a pokeball imprint. "This here is a potion. You can use it to heal your Pokemon in some tough battles. You just spray it on their wounds and it makes them instantly feel better."
Oldale people are so outgoing and generous! Maybe because they don't get too many visitors in such a tiny town… May wondered. She thanked the worker and went outside. She noticed that the houses were very tidy and few, and very small ones as well. Somehow, she felt guilty, like there was something very little with a deeper meaning to it. She then saw a Pokemon center, a place she knew very well, being from a busy city like Goldenrod. But when she went inside, she noticed it was a tiny bit different. Instead of the familiar Johto map she was accustomed to hang on the wall, it was a map of Hoenn. The interior design was also slightly different. A few people cast her some funny looks. This is getting old. Back in Goldenrod, everyone was used to her strange attire.
"Hmph." She sniffed, and walked over to Nurse Joy, who was in her usual spot at the front desk. "Um, I'd like to get my Pokemon healed." She said. The Nurse Joy turned to her, and surprisingly, she didn't flinch. "Alright, then. Please hand me your Pokemon belt and they'll be looking good in no time." May flinched.
"Uhh, I don't have one." She said quietly.
"That's too bad. But I'll still heal them, just give me the pokeballs, then." May sighed in relief as she handed her the pokeball containing her Torchic.
"Thank you very much! Meanwhile, you should go and meet some trainers around here, maybe you could make some friends." She said.
"No thanks. I'll just stay here." She said, shaking her head.
"Be as you wish, it will probably take five minutes or so." Nurse Joy said.
A bit later, May returned to the Pokemon-center. She was busy trying to find some berries or herbs to eat and take along her journey, but only succeeded in some soft, pink and rather sweet ones.
"Thank you for waiting! Here is your Pokemon, and we hope to see you again!"
Sometimes May wondered how Nurse Joy maintained her cool and cheery self. May took her pokeball and left the center. She decided to go on the left route and went for quite some time before deciding to find a place to sleep. May didn't have a sleeping bag, so she relied on the shelter of the inside of a tree trunk. She crawled inside and hugged her knees to her chest, watching the path. After some thought, she released her Torchic out of its pokeball. "You should run around for a while, and be free." She said to its happy, eager face. Torchic did so, without any hesitations. May sighed, and found that she couldn't sleep. She called, "Torchic? Where are you?" but she had no reply.
"Torchic? TORCHIC!" still no reply. "Argh!" she cried, throwing her hands in the air. Suddenly, she heard a twig snap in the distance, and stormed over there. "Torchic! Don't do that!" she said as she pushed apart some bushes. Automatically, her cross face fell. Sure enough, there was her Torchic. But it wasn't her Torchic that was making her flinch. It even wasn't that it was getting its whole face black from eating berries. It was that beside her Torchic was the gym-leader's son himself, Brendan Petalburg.
Hroondeel's Notes
So the wait was rather worth it! I am rather impressed myself! I have written a decent, normal-length chapter! And also, please note that when some text is in italic, it is what May is thinking. To those Brendan-fans, you'll be seeing him a lot next chapter on! Anyways, please review!