Chapter 2: Sweet Pink
Thanks to my mom, getting me into a tour of Vaniville, Shauna showed up at my door at seven.
When I passed my moms new room, and I asking if she was awake yet, she responded with a "Muhh!"
"Hey," smiled Shauna as I opened the door, "nice PJs."
I stared down at myself to find I was wearing my Elgyem onsie. I could feel myself blushing.
"Are you ready for the tour?" She asked.
"Five minutes?"
"Sure."
I bolted to my room to get changed. Because I didn't totally unpack at one in the morning the previous night, I threw on the first clothes I could find. A orange and blue t-shirt with the colours making a yin yang sign and brown baggy shorts. I gave my dirty blonde hair a quick brush to the side (yes I'm a guy who brushes his hair!) and slipped a pair of blue shoes on. With cold water I gave my face a splash, and I was ready to go.
"So where first?" I asked.
"We'll check the town square, we can walk past some houses and then we can walk past Dratini Mansion to the edge of Santalune Forest!"
"Dratini Mansion?
"The large mansion on the edge of town. Did you not see it last night?"
I shook my head. Maybe I didn't see it in the dark.
"We'll I can show you it anyway."
Shauna smiled before turning and walking down the path out of my front door. That's my house, she said signalling the home next to ours. It looked very much the same.
"Ever need anything, just stop by."
She bundled down the street, pointing out other people's homes before we came to the town square. In the middle of the square was a garden with some benches. In the centre on the park was a hedge cut to look like someone.
"Who is that?"
"Sir Drago. He is they hero of the town, and his family owns Dratini Mansion. Legend says he held a Honedge and survived.
"Cool," I said even though I have no idea what a Honedge was.
"Oh wait," Shauna said "do you know any Kalos Pokemon?"
I wanted to impress her with a yes, but I had to tell the truth. I shook my head.
"We'll a Honedge is a ghost Pokemon who spirit took over a sword. They are very dangerous to handle, as they can suck the life right out of you." She made a sucking motion with her hand which slightly startled me. "Drago is said to be the only person ever to survive."
"C-cool," I whimpered, hoping to never run into a Honedge.
The two of us walked around the square as she pointed out several shops and buildings. We soon made it to Lickitung's Lovelies. All the writting on the sign was pink and a Lickitung was sitting beside the writting. The shop name sat on the Lickitung's stuck out tongue. Through the shop window is saw a selection of confectionary and sweets. Lollipops, Ice creams and Cipcakes all sat in the window, all pink.
"Dad's in I think."
She opened the pink shop door and a bell chimed. As I followed her I saw a bald man pop up from behind the shop counter.
"Hey Shauna," the man said, walking around the shop counter. He was a tall muscly man wearing a pink apron and glasses. Behind him walked a Lickitung, also wearing a pink apron. Pokemon eventually stood beside him.
"Hiya dad," Shauna smiled. She jumped at her dad an hugged him.
"Who is this?" Her dad asked, referring to me.
"Oh dad, this is Xavier," she smiled standing back beside me.
"I thought Xavier was Linda's four year old son."
I mentally sighed. Was everyone I meet going to think I was four.
"Turns out he's fourteen."
He gave me a look like I had just deeply offended him, before he awkwardly smiled.
"We'll it's nice to meet you," he said, slowly sticking his hand out. I shook it, and I was sure he squeezed it. His Lickitung then processed to lick me, resulting in my clothes being covered in saliva.
This made Shauna's dad laugh. Shauna and the Lickitung laughed as well. The best I could do was smile, but I hated feeling like this.
"I thought Lickitung's tongue paralysed?" I asked, a little worried for my health.
"Not Louis," explained Shauna "He has eaten far to many sweets."
"Too bad," gruffed Shauna's father. I took a glance as Louis the Lickitung. He looked at me with a smile as if we were best friends.
"How about we get something?" Asked Shauna. I checked my pockets to find I had around 1000pokedollars. I brought it out of my pocket and showed it to Shauna. "I was going buy."
"No no," I said," I'll pay for it."
I'm sure Shauna's father said good as he stepped back behind the counter. He brought two fingers to his mouth and whistled with them. From the shops back room floated through four Swirlix. They were pink floating candy flosses with giant smiles on there face. They were about the only Kalos Pokemon I knew, mainly because of Swirlix's Sweeties.
Behind them, hopping along the shop counter was a Vanillite. The ice cream pokemon stopped hopping when it reached the ice cream stand."
Surrounded by his helping Pokemon, Shauna's dad smiled a "what would you like?"
"Vanny," Shauna said to the Vanillite. "I'd like some strawberry ice cream."
The Vanillite jumped into the pink ice cream, and shook around in it. It's icy body quickly turned the pink of the ice cream.
It hopped out of the ice cream and waddled into a cone. After shaking around in the cone it waddled back out and the cone was full of pink strawberry ice cream.
"Sprinkles Shauna?" asked her dad.
Shauna nodded, and the shopkeeper dipped the ice cream in chocolate sprinkles.
"What about you?" Shauna said as her father handed her her cone.
"I'll just have a vanilla ice cream," I said. "Vanny."
The Pokemon only did what was requested when its name was added. Using the same procedure, Vanny jumped into the vanilla ice cream, reappearing moments later the colour of the ice cream.
In moments I had a vanilla ice cream (as I wasn't given the option of sprinkles) and Shauna was enjoying hers.
"That's 600 Xavier," Shauna's dad smiled. I'm pretty sure he was smiling because I was paying. I handed over the 1000, thinking the pricing was a little steep. That thought quickly disappeared when I first tasted the ice cream.
To be in heaven is to taste this ice cream. All my senses were caught on my cones, that I didn't hear Shauna outside the shop shouting "Come on!"
I wiggled my head and ran after her. I was both happy and sad to be leaving the shop. Although the sweet scents and the Pokemon were nice, I don't think I could take much more of Shauna's fathers death stares.
"So those are all the shops in town," smiled Shauna, obviously tired after explaining every shop and its purpose. I felt kinda bad that I was to busy eating my ice cream to listen to half of it.
"So what now?"
Shauna thought for a moment. "I'm pretty sure Tierno and Trevor are in the square, but we could always check out the mansion."
I turned around to where the mansion towered over the town. Because of the sun, it's dark shadow fell onto the side of the square, making it kinda frightening. Meeting Shaun's friends sounds a whole lot better.
"Meeting Tieror and Trevno sounds cool."
"There called Trevor and Tierno, but don't worry; I've been known to muddle there names up too. There over there."
Shauna pointed across the square to a bench where two people were sitting cross legged looking at each other. One was notably big and burly, while one was notably small. Big guy had a black 'torchic' cut hair style and wore orange shorts and a black t-shirt with a Vanillite on it. Small had a perfect sphere of ginger hair, with a fringe and the front. He also wore dark jeans and a green and white polo.
From the other side of the square, I could make out that big was holding up some kind of card, while small was responding to the cards.
As we got closer, I could hear what they were saying.
"Fletchling, the tiny robin Pokemon. With a friendly nature and a beautiful chirp, Fletchling is a popular Pokémon among many Trainers. But Fletchling is also known to be ferocious in battle, capable of unleashing relentless attacks."
"Litleo, the lion cub Pokemon. It is a young, hot-blooded Pokémon that is always ready for a battle. A Fire- and Normal-type Pokémon, Litleo's red mane blazes with heat during battle, which burns hotter when it battles very strong opponents."
While big was holding up pictures of Pokemon, Small was responding with... Pokedex entries.
"Hey guys," smiled Shauna. Small broke out of the trance of staring at the cards, and smiled at Shauna.
"Hi Shauna," smiled torchic head, "whose that?"
"That's Xavier. He just moved here."
"Weren't you supposed to be childminding an Xavier?" Asked ginger.
I frowned. "How many people know about your 'new job'?"
"Quite a few," Shauna whispered to me. She then explained to the guys "He's fourteen; not four."
"Cool," smiled the big guy, "I'm Tierno."
"I'm Trevor."
"Cool," I smiled. "So what are you gu-"
Just as I was about to ask. Someone from across the street screamed. It was an old woman, who was pointing her bony finger as the hedge in the town square.
Sir Drago (in plant form) was on fire.
Hey. Thanks for reading my story. If its not to much, please leave a review, even if its just to say 'good job' or 'go doe in a pit of eternal flames'
The story so far has been pretty, not adventurous, but the adventure will kick in next time I swear on Arceus.
If there are mistakes (and there are bound to be some) please point them out. When my laptops working again, I can go back and fix them. Because I am working from my iPad at the moment, it's pretty hard edit.
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