Hey, I'm back! I apologize for the super short chapter. Long story short, I stopped making more chapters due to being incapable of overcoming my writer's block and losing some interest. But I remembered how much I enjoyed writing, began breaking my writer's block and came up with this very short chapter. Once again, I apologize for the short chapter, could've had lots of potential but I feel like this was fine. Luckily I got a sweet new chapter coming up next! Anyways, please enjoy this one!
Internal Mystery
Chapter 2
Field Trip!
Another day began for our group of pokemon. It was quite a normal day actually, no dangers, adventure nor crazy event. Everybody decided to sleep in that morning aside from Danny since it was impossible for him not to wake up early in the morning! As Danny sat on the staircase contemplating what to do, a sudden knocking came from the door.
"Not me," Mat tried to say before falling back to sleep.
Aside from the dewott, the only other pokemon who seemed to have heard the sound was Kyle but he woke up very sluggishly. So the dedenne decided to open the door himself and behind it appeared a swanna.
"Oh, good morning! May I please speak to the keldeo, Kyle" Politely asked the white bird pokemon.
Danny enthusiastically yet nervously responded to the stranger, "o-oh yeah, sure!"
But before Danny could finish turning around, Kyle had already made his way there to greet the guest.
"How may we help you?" Offered Kyle, showing no signs of sleepiness.
"My name is Susanne," began the swanna. "I was wondering if you could help teach my two little ducklettes the basics to battle. Rumours say you're excellent at teaching other pokemon!"
"Well, that is true!" Kyle replied.
Behind Susanne emerged two shy ducklettes who seemed to be a little older than Danny. They did not seem like the type of mean pokemon who got into fights rather they were young and innocent. Kyle explained that he would offer his services for free for as long as they needed it. As the cobalt pokemon began leaving with the swanna and her family, Danny waved goodbye and returned inside.
"Where did Kyle go?" Nymphia asked Danny as she ate breakfast.
The dedenne finished eating before explaining, "he left to go help some pokemon learn how to battle!"
"Kyle is gone for today?.." Channah mumbled to herself with disappointment.
"Oh, he left," repeated Mat as he joined everybody else. "Speaking of leaving, I haven't been outside much for the past three days."
"Of course you haven't," began Channah. "Unlike you, I've been exploring the outdoors quite a bit with the help of Pam!"
"Well Channah, we still have not visited Francis Town yet!" Exclaimed the pikachu to interrupt a possible argument between the two pokemon.
A curious expression came onto Channah's face as she asked, "ooh, what's that place?"
"It is a big town with a huge pokemon population total! There are also many things to do there," enthusiastically answered Pam. "Maybe we should visit the town and show you three around!"
"Count me out, I got some more work to do," Nymphia said before leaving and entering her room upstairs.
"Ok, I guess it's just the four of us," the chikorita decided as she yawned.
Mat was interrupted himself from eating an apple to ask, "by 'us four' that means: you, Pam, Danny and Kyle, eh?"
"You too!" Channah declared as she triumphantly laughed.
"Oh please nooo.."
"Hooray, a field trip!" rejoiced Danny.
Mat sighed, gave up and said, "whatever, I guess it can't be helped..."
The group of pokemon began their quick journey eastwards to Francis Town! Mat offered to carry the bag for Pam that contained some supplies. In the bag there were poké dollars, some snacks and a map. The journey took a little over twenty minutes and some extra time consisting of Mat taking a quick walking break and quickly complaining. As they approached the town, they were greeted by a large pillar arch made of wood with the text "east entrance" on the top.
In front of the entrance, Mat sat down and whined, "ugh, we're finally here! So now what?"
"We may walk around, shop or visit certain tourist sites." Informed Pam.
Sparkles sparkled in Channah's and Danny's eyes as they ran into town without a second thought. Pam and Mat looked at each other and then followed the two other pokemon. However, it didn't take much time before they caught up and found themselves in the town square. Channah was with Danny, both observing every detail of their surroundings. Many pokemon alone populated the town square with a large variety of them too! In the center of the town square was a simple fountain, surrounding the perimeter of the circle were tippis where pokemon sold things such as ordinary items or offered a variety of services such as opening chests. It was the first time that the three newcomers have seen so many new pokemon all in one place since the day they arrived! There were pokemon who were socializing with each other, others making purchases and some just going on their merry way. The large crowd of pokemon was overwhelming for Mat so he nudged closer to his group of friends than usual.
After Pam described the utility of each tippi and the services they have to offer in great detail, she brought the gang down a street. The street's path was made of gravel and there were houses planted next to the sides of the path, each wooden house looked rather identical but some parts were coloured differently or had some unique design to distinguish itself from the others. It was not long before they arrived at a small and empty park at the end of the road.
Pam, at the front of the group turned around and said with a big smile on her face, "welcome to the poké park! This is just a nice little place I enjoy to spend my time at! We have: slides, mankey bars, swings, rocking blitzle and rocking ponyta, more slides and some c saws!"
"Aw cool!" exclaimed Danny.
Mat stretched his arms in the air before saying, "alright, this place doesn't look so shabby... We can take a few minutes here to take a break from your knowledge bombs, Pam."
Pam and Danny began to play on the swing set first! Mat threw the bag he carried onto a bench that he and Channah sat on as they watched the two younger pokemon play. Out of the bag Mat casually grabbed a berry to munch on.
As the chikorita began to sit closer to the dewott, she continued watch the two young electric type pokemon as her eyes closed slightly, she smiled and said, "you know, it's happy moments like these where I begin to forget to wonder why we're here. And maybe even think that it's better that we are here..."
"Same here," Mat agreed while he was eating. "Sometimes I get this feeling that we're even better off not searching for the answer at all."
"Well that's weird!" Jokingly said Channah as she giggled.
The two pokemon continued to happily supervise as Danny began sliding down a spiral slide behind Pam with glee.
