Chapter 7

Max watched his sister practice. He was so intrigued, he hadn't even noticed Drew. May had Combusken and Beautifly out…but neither she nor her pokemon had noticed Drew, or even Max…

"Beautifly, Silver Wind!" May called.

"Beau….ti….fly!" the pokemon screeched as it flapped its wings furiously.

"Combusken, Fire Spin!" May called to the other pokemon.

"Com…busken!" it cried as a blazing fire erupted from its beak. The two attacks collided with equal power, and created a huge explosion in the sky.

"Whoo-Hoo!" Max cried, he had been sitting on a log, or at least…until he lost his balance…

"Oof, Ouch, Oh…hello Drew…" Max said, a bit embarrassed, as he looked up at Drew who was shaking his head

"You remind me of your sister, always excited…" Drew mumbled.

"And annoyed by you," Max added, laughing. May looked over to see what the commotion was about; that's when she noticed she had an audience.

"Well hello there Max and Drew, funny…how you can both be so quiet now, with the racket you made yesterday…"

"Shut up." Drew interrupted.

"Fine…when are we heading to the contest?" she asked her brother.

"Whenever we're ready, and it looks like that would be now…but do we have to-"

"Now!" both May and Drew yelled.

Max sighed "Oh…fine…"

"Is the pokenav working? Or do we have to use this stupid map?" May asked.

"According to the pokenav…the exit should be right…"

"Found it!" May cried, interrupting her brother. Max grumbled something, but May hadn't heard it, and she didn't care. She ran as fast as she could out of the forest and collapsed on the ground with exhaustion.

"Was that a bit of attitude I heard?" Drew asked, he had actually noticed Max's grumbles.

"Maybe…" Max said. "But who cares? You're not the only one who can have an attitude at times." Max answered as he followed his sister.

'What was that supposed to mean?' Drew wondered to himself as, he too, left the forest.

As Max and Drew finally caught up with May, Max too collapsed.

"You're hard to keep up with!" he complained.

"Stop your whining and get up, both of you." Drew said.

"Oh yah, it's not like we were lost in the woods for more than 24 hours or anything," May said sarcastically.

"Humph…well I'm leaving so…"

"To go where? To the contest? For your information, it doesn't start in two days! Today is a full day of sign-ups, you have plenty of time, so why don't you just relax…" Max said. May looked at her brother as if he had just said something in an alien language.

"Apparently, Max, this entire year…you haven't learned very much about my rivals. Anybody could guess that Drew is a stuck-up, always-early, know-it-all." She said simply.

"Why you little!" Drew growled.

"Oh yah, did I mention…he doesn't even know how to relax?" May added. She was very much enjoying this.

"All right, that's it!" Drew cried.

"What? Are you going to hurt me?" May asked "Oh I'm sooo scared!" she added sarcastically. 'This is the best fun I've had since we left Ash and Brock!' she thought.

Drew took a deep breath. "Just get up, and go to Rockwood town…" he said.

"Alright…come on Max…" May said, rather disappointed (she had wanted to see an angrier reaction for once).

"Wow! This place is huge!" Max said in awe.

"It'll be better when the contest starts," May added.

"For once, I agree with May." Drew said.

The little town had millions, it seemed, of houses. And stores were everywhere! The pokemon center stuck out like a sore thumb though…the rest of the town was based on a yellowish color, while it was a bright red and blue.

"Hello Nurse Joy." May said sweetly to the lady with pink hair behind the desk.

"Well hello there, what can I do for you three?" Joy asked.

"We need two rooms please." Max answered.

"Alright here you go, rooms 2C and 2H. You can decide who gets which." Joy answered. Drew took one of the keys in her hands.

"Thanks Nurse Joy," he said. "I'm heading for the contest hall…see ya" he added to May and Max, and left.

May took the key for room 2C "Well, I don't know about you Max. But I'm going to put my bag in our room." And May left too, although in a different direction.

"Well, they don't waste time, now do they?" Nurse Joy commented.

"No, they never do…too bad for me…" Max answered as he followed his sister.