POKEMON EMERALD : PORTAL TO ADVENTURE
Chapter 5
A/N: Hello there. I hope you've been enjoying my story so far. I know. ive enjoyed writing it. Anyway, not much to say, so here's chapter 5.
Brandon reached inside and pulled out the object. It was a thin triangle pendant with a infinity symbol on it.
"Whats this?" He asked.
"Well, your father gave it to me when we were younger. He said it was his sign of his never ending love. He gave it to me when were kids. About your age. I thought now would be a good time, since you were going on a journey with a special someone." She winked on her last sentence.
"What? Special someone? What are you talking about?"
His mom laughed "You'll see. You better get to bed. Its getting pretty late, and your leaving tomorrow."
"Ok mom. Good night."
"Good night" she headed out.
Brandon slipped into his covers and flicked off the light. Fiddling with thhe pendant in his hands, he commented. "Wonder what she was talking about.." He put it on his desk and slipped into sleep.
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May woke up and sat up in bed. She yawned, and turned to look at her clock. 10:00 it read.
"Mom must have let me sleep in." She rolled out of bed and glanced at her Torchic, who was sleeping peacefully on the pillow she had put on the floor. Waking over to her mirror, she noticed her mom had left a note taped to it. She pulled it off and opened it up.
"Morning May! Sorry if I'm not here to say goodbye. Your Brother had his hands a bit full at the gym, and he needed a helper. You know his hes a bit bad with the money things. I made you breakfast, it should be on the counter. Warm it up if you need to. Hopefully ill be home quick enough to send you off. Love you!"
She put the note on her dresser, and grabbed a suitcase. She quickly packed and got dressed, and returned Torchic to its Pokeball. Running down the stairs, she headed into the kitchen.
"Awesome! I love pancakes!"
She slapped them in the microwave and set it to high, its hum a background noise as she finished getting everything ready for her trip.
"What's going to happen when we get there? Will this portal thing even exist?" Her musing interrupted by the beep of the microwave.
She grabbed her plate and the copy of 'Legends of Hoenn' that Dad had let her keep, and flipped to the page he had shown them.
"Some say there are different dimensions. There is rumored to be a place, where, if true feelings are present, and something meaningful is presented, a portal to the world of the users choice is opened. This place is rumored to be somewhere near Lavaridge town. This has not been confirmed however."
She reread the part about feelings and something meaningful being presented.
"What does that mean? True feelings? I guess the meaningful something could be an object. Maybe that's why he wanted me to get something. She took out her carving and looked at it again. It really wasn't that great of a carving, truth be told, but it still meant a lot to her. She leaned slightly back in her chair, and remembered that day.
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Holding her small Polaroid camera and laughing at Brandon's joke about the price of popcorn, she was enjoying herself at the carnival. She took a quick picture of him making a funny face and they watched in anticipation as it ejected itself and came into focus. They burst out laughing when it did show up.
Brandon was the first to recover, pointing at a small stand for ring toss, "Hey, wanna try our luck?"
"Sure, its worth a shot."
They walked up and May lazily passed her eyes over the prizes. They finally settled on a small homemade carving of a Torchic.
"Oh oh! Look at that", she pointed at it, attracting Brandon's attention, "its my favorite Pokemon!"
"Well, the. We'll just have to win it then, wont we?" He looked at the attendant, "what do we do to win that Torchic?"
"Get 1 ring on each bottle."
He grinned and looked at May, "See? Easy." He put the money on the table, and grabbed the rings from the attendant.
He easily threw the rings onto the first two bottles, them being no less then about 2 feet away. The last bottle however, was about 5 feet away, on a angle. Brandon muttered "Better make this one count." And carefully aimed towards it, and threw. It flew in the air towards the bottle, and just barely managed to go over it. "Dangit!" Brandon, frustrated, grunted.
"Another round." He said, placing more money on the counter.
"You don't need to do that," May commented.
"True, but I want to." May rolled her eyes.
Needless to say, he spent quite a lot of money.
Brandon slowly placed his last dollar on the counter, and took the rings. Like all the other times, he got the first to easily. He slowly breathed. Staring that last bottle down like a charging Tauros.
"And a one and a two and a three" he threw the ring. Time seemed to slow down, as it agonizingly got closer and closer to the bottle. Sliding on top, Brandon let out a cheer, and happily took the carving, before handing it to May.
"See? What I tell you? Easy."
They both laughed, and headed away from the stand.
"Hello? May? Earth to May?"
She was brought back from her memory's, memory's she had to hold tightly to, because now only she had them, by her father waving his hand in front of her face.
"What? Oh, hi dad."
"You gonna finish that?" He asked, pointing to the pancakes.
"What do you think?" She responded with a grin.
Hey responded in mockingly raising his hands. "Alright, alright. Worth a shot."
As she munched on her (somewhat cold) pancakes, she noticed her dad running about, as if searching for something. He proved her theory by turning towards her and saying "Hey, have you seen my red pen?"
She responded by simply pointing to his lab coat, where a small red stain had formed in the pocket.
"Oh.. " he said, walking over, and looking at it. He reached in and grabbed the guilty offender. Picking up his clipboard, he scribbled something down, and then turned back towards his daughter.
" I gotta run back to the lab. Brandon's already waiting by the gates, I'm sure. I'll see you in a couple days. Love ya." He hugged her, then grabbing his coat, he ran out the door.
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Brandon was, in fact, waiting by the gates, idly playing with a stick. He heard footsteps approaching and glanced up to see May heading towards him. He stood up, calling out "Hey, you all ready?"
She nodded, "Yeah, how bout you?"
He grinned, spreading his arms, "Well, I was here first, if that answers your question."
She rolled her eyes. He might have lost his memory's, but he was still a little sarcastic.
They turned towards the gate, and looked back at the town. For one, it was her hometown. For another, it was his newly acquainted home. They both turned to look at each other, nodded, and started to walk.
(I was going to end this chapter here, but I had too many ideas, so, lucky you)
Heading down the path, they plodded along in awkward silence.
"Soooo..." May inquired, looking at him. "Any alternate universe versions of this gal?"
Brandon shrugged "Nope, not at all. I don't really have friends."
"Well lucky you, huh?", playfully elbowing him, "You just got your first best friend."
He laughed, " Yeah, I suppose I did."
"So..," he questioned, "What am I normally like?"
"Well, actually, exactly like you are. To me, your not really different."
"Really?"
"Yep"
"So what your saying is, I'm pretty much the same person here and in my world?"
"If your like this, then, yes."
He nodded, and they walked in silence for a bit.
"HEY! WAIT UP!"
They both stopped, and turned around to see the professor running towards them.
Yelling, Birch called out "Brandon's mom made you both lunch! Its peanut butter and jelly!"
He got closer, holding out the bags in his hands, but then, something unfortunate happened. He tripped, and fell right on top of the bags. He slowly got up, and noticed the sandwiches has been squashed onto his coat. Now, normally, this wouldn't be to big of a deal. Unless, however, a couple of hungry Pokemon live nearby.
And they happened to be Poochyena.
They came out in a group of 3, running towards him. He started to run towards the kids, and they ran to him. They caught up, but the Pokemon were close behind.
"What's do we do?" May asked.
Brandon thought for a bit.
"Ive got it! Give me your coat please, professor."
He handed him the coat, and crumpled it up into a ball. He pulled back, and threw it.
The Pokemon immediately changed direction and headed towards it. They caught up to it, and ripped it up into shreds, eating :the parts cover in the splatter.
"My favorite coat.." he sadly sighed.
"Would you rather still be in it?" Brandon said, gesturing at it.
"Good point."
They stood there, awkwardly, untill the silence was broken by Birch saying "Well, I better head back. Bye."
"Bye dad."
"See ya professor"
He headed back towards the town, making a long radius around the 'Crime Scene'
Brandon and May stood and watched him go. They both turned towards each other, and burst out laughing.
After awhile, they managed to recover, and continued on the journey.
"We're almost to Oldale Town now. We can rest up there."
"Ok. So, what are we going to eat?"
"Well, I've only been here once before, but there was a pretty good pizza place. Wanna go there?"
Brandon nodded "Sounds like a good idea to me."
They had been walking for a good part of the day, when they finally saw the gates of the town. They looked towards each other, and nodded, May silently holding up 3 fingers, which began to count down. On zero, they took off, racing for the non-existent prize.
May, crossing the 'finish line' first, cheered and taunted him.
"Boom, I still got it. Slowpoke."
"Pssh, you were. Ahead of me. You got a head start."
"Whatever." She laughed.
They made their way into the Pokemon Center, and walked up to the nurse. "Hello, may I help you?"
"Yes, we would like 2 single bed rooms for the night. Only one night."
"Alright, I've put you in, here are your keys,? Handing them small keys, she continued"just head right down that hallway, you can't miss them."
"Thanks."
They headed down the hallway, unroll they each got to their rooms. Then they simply opened up the door, threw their stuff on the bed, and closed it.
Brandon asked "So, pizza place?"
"How did I know you'd say that?" May replied, chuckling a bit.
A/N: So, couple of things, again, thanks. What did you think of the chapter length? To long, to short, etc. I know I sorta focused on May thing's, and I want to know what you guys think. Anyway, please feel free to leave a review. -PKMN Trainer FinnPines.