Micheal had returned to his house after the ferry had disappeared behind the horizon and he was now sitting on his bed in his room, listening to some music. His Cyndaquil was napping on the foot-end of the bed, his body slowly rising and falling in the calm rhythm that came with sleep. Micheal could hear the phone ring downstairs and his father answering it, the voice of his father was a distant buzz, he could hear his father was talking but he couldn't make out what. Not that he was actively trying to overhear the conversation, but it he was able to hear him and for some reason it was comforting to know his father was home.
Then he heard his fathers voice, calling him from downstairs. "Micheal! Come to the phone, uncle Andy wants to talk to you!"
Micheal quickly got up from where he had been sitting and walked down, where he met his father in the hallway. His father gave a wink, pointed towards the living room and walked towards the kitchen to get himself a cup of coffee. Micheal quickly walked into the living room, where he picked up the phone.
"It's Micheal."
"Micheal! Andy here. Say, are you interested in joining me on a mission of utter importance that will most certainly save the world?"
Micheal laughed, knowing his uncle the mission would not be as he just described it. "What's the mission?"
"We're heading over to Evoru Island and take some notes on the colony of Cyndaquil there."
Evoru Island, the final and smallest island of the Rorie-Islands, of which Rhando was the first and largest. It had one town, a stadium where once a year the League was held and a few isolated houses spread over the island. There weren't many Pokémon there, some common species you could find anywhere and just one or two colonies of rarer types of Pokémon. One of them being a colony of Cyndaquil, as Andy had just mentioned.
"I'd love to come!" Micheal said, not at all surprised the mission to save the world had come down to an expedition to observe some Pokémon.
"Fantastic! Meet me at the harbour in one hour, I'll have a boat ready for us."
"I'll have to ask my father if I can come along, but I will come to the harbour," Micheal promised and after a final goodbye he hung up the phone. Almost immediately he left the living room to go his father in the kitchen.
Cornelis was stirring in a cup of coffee when he noticed his son enter the kitchen. "And?" he asked Micheal. "What did my brother want?"
"He asked me if I wanted to join an expedition to Evoru island to visit a colony of Cyndaquil," Micheal said enthusiastically. "He...just didn't tell how long it would take," he added, rubbing the back of his neck. "And I kinda forgot to ask as well."
"That's alright," Cornelis said, chuckling as he did. "You can go."
"Really?" Micheal asked and his eyes lit up. He really wanted to go and when he saw his father nod the smile on his face grew. "Fantastic! Thanks dad! I'm going to pack."