Okay, this is chapter two obviously

Okay, this is chapter two obviously. Please review and comment.

Disclaimer: I don't own pokémon

Proclaimer: Technically I do own Riley though, so no stealing without permission, nope actually I don't really care.


"Riley, Riley!" I groaned and rolled over. Lucas had been trying to get Jamie and me up for almost 30 minutes now. It's so obvious that I am not a morning person isn't it. I finally sighed and rolled out of my nice comfy bed. Lucas sighed in relief before going to wake up Jamie. I walked over to my bag to grab my cloths before I heard shouting and a loud crash. When I turned around Jamie was laying on the floor glaring up a Lucas who was doubled over laughing. Ah the wonders of traveling companions.

I was already down stairs and eating in the lobby before the boys were finally ready. "I thought girls were supposed to take longer to get ready?"

I smirked when they glared at me. Jamie launched into an explanation about how I had used up all the hot water. Opps, it was better that they didn't know that I had done that on purpose.

After Jamie had practically inhaled all the food that would fit on his plate we left the pokémon center after picking up our pokémon from Nurse Joy. Lucas pulled a map from his back pack and looked intently at it.

"Jubilife is where we should head next. They don't have a gym but they do have a trainer school." Jamie shrugged, and I knew that we had to go that way anyway to get to Oreburgh city.

I estimated that it would take about three to four days to get there if we didn't get slowed down to much.

Time skip

"Riley!" I turned to look at Jamie. I had been staring at the Garchomp scale that my mother had given me before leaving. I had never known my father, and that was something that always bothered me.

"Yeah?" I said. He pointed behind me where Jamie was talking to two other trainers. We had stopped to eat lunch when they had walked up to us. They had originally demanded a battle, but got distracted by the sandwiches that were lying out.

"God, why the hell do you want to battle so much?" I was astounded with Jamie's determination not to battle them. He was the type of person that likes to pick a fight. I stood up and walked over to them.

"I would be pleased to accept the battle." Jamie whirled around to look at me. I had the distinct impression that he did not like the fact that I was completely wasting the time that he had spent trying to get them to go away. The oldest one of the two stared me….well actually we were the same height so he just stared.

"I accept then." He finally said. I nodded and walked a little bit a ways. I pulled Chimchar's pokéball from my pocket. I threw it up and watched as he appeared out of the white light. My opponent threw out a starly.

"Chimchar, use scratch!" At the sound of my voice Chimchar jumped into action. He ran at the starly and aimed for the face.

"Starly dodge and then use tackle!" The boy called. His starly flew into action by taking off into the sky and falling back down.

"Chimchar wait for my signal." Chimchar stood in the same spot waiting for my command. My opponent didn't realize what I was doing until it was too late. "Now dodge."

Starly squawked in surprise when Chimchar jumped out of the way and it ran smack onto the ground. Chimchar did a somersault in the air before landing in front of me.

"Now use ember while it's still down." Small flames flew through the air, hitting the small bird pokémon head on. Starly attempted to weakly push it's self up but only rose a few inches before falling back down. My opponent recalled the poor starly.

"That was a great battle." He said walking up to me. I nodded and took his outstretched hand. When I brought my hand back it contained a small amount of money. Well, trainers have to make money some how, for all the stuff that we needed to buy for our pokémon.

The two boys walked away after getting what they had come for but were leaving with the thought that this was not the way they had expected it to happen. Lucas congratulated me while Jamie lectured me about what I had done.

"You didn't have to battle him you know. He would've gone away eventually." I looked at him in astonishment.

"What is with you?" I said. "You always love a challenge. Why are you quitting now?"

He stared at me for what seemed like forever before stalking off in some random direction. He had made it just barely into the edge of the woods before we heard a crash and his recognizable ouch. I rolled my eyes at Lucas as we went to pull him out from the underbrush. I had to laugh when I saw him. He had fallen into a small ditch that was running along the forest edge. While we laughed at him he sat there cursing profanities at us.

Time skip

I stared lazily at the fire that was popping and cracking in front of me. We had made it half way to Jubilife and if we were lucky would be able to make it there late tomorrow night.

"You want to know why?" Jamie's voice suddenly spoke out through the darkness. Lucas had gone to sleep already and you could hear him softly snoring from underneath his lump of a sleep bag that looked more like a tent with broken polls. "Do you want to know why I quit?"

I didn't answer him; I just kept staring at the fire.

"I never knew my father. He left my mother and me behind when I was only three. Well I guess I did know him, but I don't remember anything about him." I heard him sigh. "He didn't even warn my mother that he was leaving. He just left one day; the only thing that told her why he was gone was a note on his pillow that said "It's too dull." What an asshole."

I raised the scale level to my eyes. Thinking about my own father, to whom I hadn't even been fortunate enough to meet.

"My mother raised me all by herself after that. She never said anything about my father, but you could tell whenever someone would mention him. It still eats at her all the time. She thinks that she did something that made him leave; she thinks that she isn't good enough. Now I'm doing the same to her. I've left her all alone."

"You think that gives you a good reason to quit? You think that you're a horrible person for leaving her behind?" I could hear the bitterness in my voice. "What do you think that she would do if she heard that her son had given up? We all leave people behind Jamie that's part of the grand adventure. Be grateful that you even knew your father for the small amount of time that you did."

I stood and made my way to my sleeping bag. I put my back towards him, but left him with some final words.

"Think about the fact that there will always be somebody worse off then you. Know that you will never have the world's worst problems. You have a mother, and a home to go back to if the need arises. That should be good enough."

He never responded; and I drifted into the inky darkness that was sleep.

Time skip

When I woke up in the morning I was immediately drawn in by the wonderful aroma that was wafting around me. I sat up to see Lucas grilling some food over an open fire in a pan.

"Lucas, where did you get that pan?" he waved to me.

"You need to be more prepared Riley. You never know when a pan might just save your life." I almost fell over.

I looked around the camp. I didn't see Jamie anywhere. I thought that maybe he had taken off in the middle of the night but threw the idea away since his stuff was till here.

"Hey guys you'll never believe this. I just found a whole slue of trainers. I mean there are tons of them. Most of them won't battle me though. I did beat one really priggish kid. You know when I told him that he spit on me." Jamie made a horrible face. "I think it was rather rude of him."

I started choking I was trying to keep from laughing so much. Lucas wasn't in much better condition as he had fallen backwards onto his butt.

"It's not funny!" He exclaimed throwing his hands up in exasperation. I smiled at him knowing that what I had said to him last night had hit home. We packed up all of our things in order to get a move on. We really wanted to make to Jubilife before tomorrow; I didn't say anything about the feeling that we wouldn't.

"Well this just sucks." Jamie said twenty minutes later as we were standing under some pine trees in order to take cover from the rain. I had to agree, this was going to slow us down by a long shot. "I mean really, it just has to rain today."

Even though we were under the pines, Lucas, the wizard of making normally useless things appear out of nowhere had set up a large tent. He had literally just sat his backpack that was bigger than him on the ground and started pulling out the frame work. Jamie and I just shook our heads for he'd been trying to get the tent up for about 15 of the total twenty minutes we had been here.

"Lucas," I had finally started. "If you would put the metal pieces inside of the fabric it would work a whole lot better."

He had looked at me like I was insane until I showed him one the sleeves where the metal could be put in place. With Jamie and me together it took all of three minutes to get it up and staked to the ground.

"Honestly Lucas it's not that hard to figure out." Jamie said shaking his head once we were inside the nice dry tent.

"Well excuse me if I've never been camping before." He said indignantly before turning away from us.

"If you've never been camping before, why do you own a tent?" I asked.

"I bought it specifically for this purpose." He said stiffly, still facing away from us.

"And you couldn't have learned how to put it up before you left?" Cried Jamie.

Lucas didn't talk to us for the rest of the day. It rained all day and therefore we just decided to stay were we where for the night and continue in the morning whether it was raining or not.

Time skip

"Okay, tell me that I am not seeing a guy with a blue bowl cut." My blonde headed companion said from behind his hands. It was a rather disturbing sight. A guy in a tight spandex suit with blue hair in a bowl cut style….yeah we have a problem here.

"Maybe if we blink he'll go away and we can spend the rest of the day convincing ourselves that it was just our imagination." Lucas suggested. We all unconsciously blinked and were distressed to find that the creepy little man was still there.

"What is he even doing?" I asked. In all honesty the man hadn't done anything but stand there since we got here.

"I don't want to know what that is doing. Because something tells me that whatever he is doing we don't need to know about it." Jamie defiantly pushed his way forward and began to walk past the blue haired person.

He stopped when he was about to go completely past the man. You could barely make out a tiny voice speaking.

"Do you children like Pokémon?" He turned to face us. Just imagine someone in a dark room with a flash light shining on their face shouting from behind you and you have no idea that they were there. Yep that was pretty much the feeling that you got from this creep.

"Oh my God; it talked, it's alive!" Jamie cried before pointing a finger at the blue haired man before running off. The blue haired man stared at us, throwing off a really weird vibe. Is it just me or did I feel my eye twitch? (Twitch)

"Well, um….it was nice meeting you um….sir." I pulled Lucas by the side of his shirt as we slowly inched our way around the creepy man. When we finally were farther enough away we took off running. Behind us you could hear the maniacal laughing of the man and the distinct shouting of "I love all pokémon!"

"There you guys are. What happened? Did he do anything, he didn't try and rape you did he?" Jamie pounced on us from behind a sign that said "Jubilife city dead ahead."

Lucas shuddered. "If we ever meet another person like that again, I want one of you to slap me."

We tried to purge the memory of the man from our minds as we made our way into the outer limits of the city.

Again, we had no way of knowing that the meeting we just had was the second step that would lead to the life changing experiences that would be coming in the months ahead.


Okay so some of you may have noticed that I used some big words in this chapter. So just to make sure that you know what they are I'll put them and their meanings below.

Intently- to study something very closely

Profanities- vulgar language such as swear words, and other words that aren't socially acceptable

Wafting- Often pronounced wave ting, its true pronunciation is waff like waffle, and then ting. It is a science term which means to hold a beaker at elbow length then with your free hand wave some of the smell towards you.

Priggish- this is a term used to talk about someone who is rather squeamish or very prudish; which means that they do everything exactly like they should and display socially acceptable behaviors, such as etiquette and fine dinning.

Exasperation- which is irritation or frustration

Indignantly- an angrily or resentful way, or in other words just hateful

Now does anyone else besides me think that the galactic goons do look somewhat like Rock Lee and Gai Maito from Naruto? I don't know, maybe not, it was just a passing thought anyway. You notice I hope that this is different the the game because in the game you don't meet any galactic people until you are in Jubilife the second time and making your way to Eterna City. Please rate review or leave a comment.