Chapter Two.

For some reason, nobody came into challenge me. I guess everyone saw that Dad left and they guessed nobody was in the gym. It didn't really matter, cause Dad was back the next day.

"How did everything go?" He asked while unpacking.

"Fine, I guess. Nobody really showed up... Dad, I have a question for you..."

"What is it?" I always had questions for Dad, so I guess he took this as an average stupid one I asked every day.

"What happens if you beat the Champion?"

"What do you mean?"

"Yesterday, while you were gone, Brendan stopped by and-"

"Brendan Birch?"

"Yeah, that's the one. He stopped in and asked me if I want to go to Ever Grande City with him, so I can challenge the Elite Four. And I really think I can do it Dad! I know I can!"

"Well of course you can, you've been training your pokemon since you were ten. That's almost ten years of experience there, May. You should have done this a long time ago!"

"Thanks Dad, but you still haven't answered my question."

"Well... When you beat the Elite Four, and the Champion, you now hold the title. You have to protect that title."

"So I'll be stuck there?"

"Basically."

"What if I wanted to be a Gym Leader?"

"Oh, May. It's not like you're going to die there."

"I know, but what if I fail?"

"You won't. Now listen to me. You have my full support. I want you to do this. I know you can. And besides, Do you know how unbelievable it will be to tell everyone my daughter is the Hoenn Champion!" Dad smiled huge and gave me a hug. I guess I knew what I was doing now.

Later that afternoon, I had my old bag packed up. I said good-bye to Dad and headed off to Littleroot town. It was a much nicer walk then I remember. But everything always looks different as the years go by. Even Littleroot town, my old home. But the lab looked the same.

I walked up to the door and knocked loudly. I expected Professor Birch to be in the back. After five minutes I finally heard an "I'm coming!"

The older face of Brendan showed up at te door. "Oh! Hello, May! What brings you here?"

"Just looking for your son."

"He's in the house I believe."

"Thank you!" I said as I turned on my heel and headed toward Brendan's house. It was right next door to mine, although, I was hardly ever there anymore. I got to Brendan's door and began to knock on it. But my knuckles hardly brushed the door when it swung inward.

"Oh! I was just headed out to go get you! What did your dad say?"

"Well, if you couldn't tell, I have my bag packed and I'm ready to go... So I'm going to say he said yes."

"ALRIGHT! I'll go grab my bag!"

He was there and back in about four seconds.

"Lets go!"

Brendan dug in his bag for a while before pulling out a pokeball.

"Come on Salamance!"

A Salamance towered over both of us in an instant. Then Brendan gesture to him, "After you, my lady." I made a face at him and climbed on. Brendan scrambled on behind me and told me some odd news. "So get this, I've never even been to Ever Grande!"

"What? How are we going to get there?"

"I was hoping your Swampert and my Kingdra could give us a lift from Mossdeep?"

"Fine, lets get going!"

Salamance took off and soon we were high over Hoenn. I loved seeing Mt. Pyre and all the cities from above. Finally we were able to land in Mossdeep, which was much different then I remembered. There were way more houses and the Space center had expanded.

"How are you on supplies?" Brendan asked.

"Pretty good, I still have all my money from all tat time ago."

"Alright, do you mind if we kind of map this out first?"

"I would prefer that."

So, we ended up going into the pokemon center and covering a table with our maps. Back when we were kids, Brendan and I drew the entire region. We used these stupid little scraps of paper to work our way though all eight gym leaders, but now I didn't see how it would help in navigating the ocean...

Hours later, the sun had set. I refused to go out on a mysterious ocean at night. So Brendan was forced to rent out a room.

We moved our map mess into our room and continued to make plans until I fell asleep on everything. Brendan gently shook my shoulder.

"Come, on... We're so ready for tomorrow. Lets get some sleep."

I got up, walked two steps, fell onto the bed, and was out like a light.

The next morning I woke up at dawn. I cleaned up all of our maps and useless statistics. After then was done, I looked over at Brendan. Seeing him sleep brought back so many memories. Which reminded me of our mark! I quickly scanned the entire room... Every time we stayed at the pokemon center we left our own little mark so everyone would know were were here. I know we stayed at this center... But I guessed it was a different room.

Brendan began to stir. "You ready?" I called out loudly. He rolled around for a minute before standing up and rubbing his eyes.

"Yeah... Just give me a sec..." He got up and walked around the room getting ready. I swear he was worse than a girl. "Hey! We have to leave our mark!"

I was so happy that he remembered. I took a marker out of my bag while he pushed the be over to a corner and stood on it. Typically we wrote it in the corner so we would know, and only a few would ever see it. I stood up on the bed and handed the marker to Brendan, who wrote "M+B=Champs!"

"Awesome! Now lets get going!" I jumped off the bed and grabbed all my stuff. Brendan pushed the bed back and we were off.

Outside, it was still pretty dark outside. Evidently the sun rises late in Mossdeep. We walked down to the beach and released our pokemon. Brendan jumped onto Kingdra while I climbed onto Swampert.

"Are you ready?" He said, with his eyes twinkling strangely in the lack of light.

"As I'll ever be."