Chapter XXIX: Wanna Wally, Don'tcha Wanna Wally
From the distance, anybody could see a huge moving…I mean military truck driving a little into Route 116. May ended up drooling on Brendan's torso, and Brendan drooled on the top of her head (odd huh?). The driver (purposely) abruptly halted, and when it did, it literally forced Brendan and May to slide in all different directions of the truck. It appeared that everybody else took stops at Rustburo earlier.
"Last stop, Route 116," said the military man. The two protagonists hopped out, and then they watched as the large truck turned around, and left them to continue walking. The sun was setting, and it was nearly 20:00.
"Are we seriously goning to cross the Rusturf Tunnel?" asked Brendan.
"I know it sounds creepy, but if we're going down to Verdanturf from here, it's really the only way to go," answered May. Brendan reached into his bottomless bag, and pulled out a yellow flashlight. But when they got inside, it seemed well lit enough.
"Cool, no more Magma members," thought Brendan. "I've had enough seeing them for one lifetime…" they continued walking, and after five minutes of it, about 12 wild Pokemon have jumped out at them.
"You've got the black flute, May," said Brendan. "Wanna take care of this for us," he asked. She silently pulled out the long, black flute from her fanny pack, and blew. It was a harsh sound that had from the Pokemon biting at Brendan's leg to a 20ft. radius hoping, and getting out of their way. "That's right May," said Brendan. "Blow that long black thing…" he said. Of course, just like old(er) times, she was fixing to attack him. Although this time, she let him go. "What, no attack…" but then he tripped over a particularly large rock, and fell on his face.
"See, now Mother Nature just kicks your ass for me," she said while continuing to walk. When they approached the man by the two larger boulders who was mourning for the woman on the other side.
"How long have you been here?" asked Brendan.
"Oh…hey," he said while standing up. "Well, I and my honey have been separated for so long now," he said. "I think they found another man," he said while sniffling. May rolled her eyes, and pulled out Combusken.
"Chaka, Rock Crush this bitch, and let's get over this," she said. Combusken shot for the top of the rock, and with an excellent strong punch, it slowly began filling with cracks, and then shattered to the other side. The man shoved a small CD case in May's hands, and then rushed over to the other side. When he did, he looked to his left, and mouthed a horrible scream. Seeing what was up, Brendan and May saw a young woman and some other man making out. And had nobody said anything, they probably would have got it on dead on the spot.
"Oh my Kyoge…" he said while placing his hands on his head, and ripping some hair off. The two of them looked up, and saw the three of them standing there. It was another small silence.
"Awkward…" said Brendan.
"Oh no," said the guy.
"A WOMAN!?!" he asked silently.
"Oh god, Randy, it's not what it looks like…"
"I've spent so much time trying to go the long way, and to see you again, and after 1 week of my absence, you find a girl to love you, Sethany?!" he asked silently.
"Please, Randy, let's talk," said the man while letting go of the woman.
"You don't love me!!!" he shouted quickly while running the direction May and Brendan just came from. Rushing after him, the two men rushed out of there with loud shouts and screams. Shaking it off, May turned to the woman who had a dumb look on her face.
"Yeah…uh this is the way to Verdanturf, right?" she asked.
"I'll suck your cock for $50," she said.
"We don't have dollars here," said Brendan. "We have Poke; I can give you 50 of them for that offer…"
"That's only about $0.50 in Poke," said May. "Besides, I don't have a cock," said May angrily.
"Oh…" said the girl. After another silent gauche pause, she looked at May once again. "Want it sucked anyway?" she asked while still looking dumb.
"Ugh!" said May. She then grabbed Brendan's hand, and the two of them continued to walk their way out of the tunnel.
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They were out of the tunnel by 8:30 that evening. The size of Verdanturf would probably have their skyline size compared to Augusta, Georgia. But, other than that, the town had an extremely sweet smell to it.
"This place smells wonderful," said May elegantly.
"Actually, yeah it does," agreed Brendan as they walked through the small downtown area. As they continued to look around, they found a small residential area, with about 20 homes.
"Small neighborhood," said May.
"Still larger than ours," said Brendan. "You know they're making more homes in Littleroot, right," he said. "By time we get home, we might be this sized," he said as they continued walking. It appeared that all of the houses had their last names on it.
"Do you know Wally's last name?" asked May.
"Psst…you're the one who hung out with him down in Petalburg City; you didn't ask him?" asked Brendan.
"No, but it is nice that he at least respects Pokemon Contests," said May hotly.
"Well, I respect your decision to join them, but I personally wouldn't want to join in a contest," he said. They looked at particularly 18 of the houses, and when they took a look at the biggest home there, a small sign poked up on the front lawn that literally said 'Wally's House' "Well, that was easier than I thought," said Brendan as they walked up to it.
"This house is a baby mansion," said May.
"What? You want a baby in a mansion," asked Brendan while looking at her.
"No you retard, I said this is a baby mansion," she said while rolling her eyes. she would have knocked his lights out had this been earlier, but her being able to stand Brendan's stupidness was really pissing her off. They didn't even get to the damn door, when it forced open, and May was pounced on by a person in a vanilla shirt, brown jeans, and of course, green hair.
"May Bear!!!" he shouted happily.
"Wally Wallaby!" shouted May, as they literally hugged each other, and then rolled around in the front lawn. It was stopped, when Wally's head hit the big pole, saying Wally's house. Brendan, sadly had to suppress his laughter, as there was an extremely loud "BONK!" when he hit it. All of a sudden, an extremely chubby man with dark green hair, and was barely taller than Brendan came out. He even had a dark green goatee, and with it was a hairy beard and a particularly large mustache.
"Why Mr. Maple," he said nonchalantly while taking his hand, and shaking it hard. Brendan's arm literally looked like rubber, as Mr. Wallaby was shaking it with all he had. He looked over at Wally and May, and saw that Wally was on top of her, rubbing his head where it hit the pole. His eyes lit up ecstatically.
"YES!!!" thought Mr. Wallaby. "My nephew isn't gay after all!!!" They got up as soon as they saw him, and straightened up.
"Um…hi; I'm May," she said while walking up to him to shake his hand. He took it, and used both of his hands to shake hers.
"Oh yes, please call me dad," he said. May got a dumbfounded look on her face. "I just want to thank you so much for turning the young lad here to a man, and showing him the right way," he said while letting go.
"Um…you're welcome…I guess," said May unsurely.
"Yes, I'm his uncle, Walter Wallaby," he said.
"So does everybody in your name have a 'W' in their first name," asked Brendan. Mr. Wallaby got an uneasy look on his face.
"Well…no," he said. All of a sudden, an awfully ugly girl walked in. She had jade green hair to the top of her back, slightly chubby, and wearing a brown and orange blouse (that did not match whatsoever).
"Who is it daddy," she asked. She got a look at Brendan, and her eyes lit up some.
"Uh…" said Mr. Wallaby. "This is my daughter, Wally's cousin…Wanda…" he said. Brendan looked at him while shaking his head.
"Oh my gosh," she said. She went to hold both of Brendan's hands. May gave her one of the most evil glares she could cook up; she never even gave that one to Brendan before.
"Uh…yeah," said Brendan as he forced his hands to escape her embrace.
"Well, why're we all just standing out here for, let's go inside," said Walter. The five of them walked on into the house, and when they did, there was a large 'ole thing of Chinese food.
"Eunice!" he called. Brendan looked at him oddly.
"Eunice…what the hell kind of name is Eunice?" he asked.
"The one that goes up your ass," said Walter quickly. He then sped up the stairs to find his 'wife'.
"So Wally," asked May during dinner. Brendan was (once again), eating his food like a wild animal. Outside, the Pokemon were enjoying a small feast of rice, lo-mien, and cheese wonton, which ended up to be Muddy's favorite. "When exactly do the Pokemon Contests and…Battle Tent, I guess start?" she asked.
"They're not going to for a while," started Wally. "They said that Team Aqua or Team Magma were about to blow the Battle Tent in Fallarbor into smithereens. I think they said Team Aqua fixed it, and Team Magma were trying to help people, but they're countering that theory, because it's only Team Magma that's done anything radical like that," he said.
"So da Barrel Tont is oway?," asked Brendan with a mouthful of food. Wally nodded.
"What has Team Magma done before?" asked May.
"Well, there was the explosion of the Contest Hall of Slateport City during the Grand Festival," said Wally.
"But I thought the Grand Festival is in Ever Grande," said May.
"It is…now," said Wally. "They moved it last year, although they announced it in Slateport, to throw them off if it'd happen again," he said. "Team Aqua usually defend people from them, although they're selfish crooks themselves," said Wally. "So it's kind of like the diabolical face off of good and evil, but the good are bastards too," he said.
"So how long until the delay?" asked Brendan after swallowing a big amount of food.
"They're estimating a week, but it could be longer until everything's back to normal," he said. "But it's most likely that this place's Contest Hall and Battle Tent will increase security by at least 45 to prevent the same thing happening here; they evacuated the whole city…"
"Yeah, we were there," said Brendan.
"Really?" asked Wally. He didn't seemed not to believe them much.
"Yeah, Brendan was in the finals against a guy named Seth," said May. "Team Magma's face appeared on the screen, and said that Team Aqua was about to bomb the place. They placed us in different military trucks, and split us from Route 114 and 113. Brendan and I chose Route 114 because that's where we needed to head anyways, and ours and two other trucks went our way.
"We were supposed to follow a tour guide across Meteor Falls, but Team Aqua people shot at us, so we all went into the trucks, and surpassed them." she said. The entire household was listening to her. Even some of the Pokemon from the living room shut up to listen to her. "Afterwards, we drove around for about an hour, and a bomb or something must have hit our truck, because we flew to the side of the place, and some rocks fell onto the people who did it. It turned out that Team Magma hit us with a Rocket Laucher or something…"
"Shit turned into Grand Theft Auto: Meteor Falls," said Brendan.
"Anyway," continued May. "A few more TM guys came, and we all got into a big argument, and then we fought with Pokemon. Some Magma executive came, pulled out an Onix, and pretty much beasted us with a Sandstorm and Iron Tail."
"Then Team Aqua saved our butts," said Brendan stupidly.
"They shooed us away, and after another hour of wandering for some place to leave, the two teams came back for a man named Professor Cozmo. They stole some celestial rock from him, and jumped off the boulders to the rivers," said May.
"They chased themselves out, and Cozmo pointed an exit for us," said Brendan. "Another truck drove us down to Rusturf Tunnel for us…"
"And now we're here!" said May happily. The four family members looked at them oddly.
"Is that really what happened?" asked Walter.
"Yes; it is," said Brendan and May in unison. "How could we have possibly made this up?" asked May with a small grin. The Wallaby's had no choice but to believe them…
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The next week spent at Wally's residence was quite weird; on Saturday, they went to the Pokemart to buy up on extra crap. The shop owner was anorexic, which May had absolute fun with. Pulling out a small bag of cookies when Brendan and Wally left, she literally shoved it in her face.
"Mmm…" said May as she ate one. "Oh…these cookies are so good," said May. The woman glared at her with envy and anger. "Ugh…so delicious…" said May as she moved one of the cookies in a circular motion. "I just love that melting chocolate in my mouth; it's so good…" before she knew it, the woman literally grabbed, and ripped through the bag of cookies. May looked at her computer screen, and saw a large, juicy burger on the screen. Apparently, she was looking at food porn. On Sunday, they went to the movies, and saw some strange Disney movie. It was about red ants vs. black ants. And ironically, the black ones were called "Blicks" and the Red ones were called "Bloodyz"
"You da Ant,"
"Naw, you da ant!!!
"Hellz yeah I'm da ant!!!" On Monday, they went to a small pizza parlor, with some strange pizza. Its slogan literally was "Price of Darkness Pizza, Baked at the Extreme Temperatures of Hell!"
"Uh…are we sure we want to eat here?" asked Brendan. "Because the last thing I encountered something that had to do with hell was in that Pokemon Center back in Slateport City," said Brendan.
"It's just a pizza place," said May as they three of them stepped in. "What's the worst thing that can happen?" she asked. Walking in, they saw about three men that had horns; a few of them were in the back throwing the dough around, and what forced them away was the menu.
"Lady Finger Pizza Pie?"
"Roasted Ass with Eyes?"
"Tongue Tomato Special?
"Dubious Devil Special?"
"Flaring Frapachino?
"Sausage Squares?" they all asked in unison.
"Ew, let's get out of here," said May. The manager of the pizza place looked to one of his employees.
"You're idea of adding sausage to the menu is scaring people away," he said. "It's worst than when we had anchovies on the it! Take it down!!!" On Tuesday, everybody learned that everything was safe, security measures increased, and that the events (Battle Tent/Pokemon Contest) would continue on Friday.
"Good, then we can finally leave here when we finish," said Brendan. On Wednesday, Brendan encountered some punk in the downtown area, and they decided to fight a battle. They went at it in front of the POD Pizza Parlor, and he called himself Expert Timothy. The guy was age 16, and he and Brendan were only going with one Pokemon.
"Iron Heart, go," said Brendan. He's really worked at training him during Layette's and the week, and he equipped him with a TM06, Toxic yesterday.
"I choose Hariyama," he said while throwing him out. The large, 7ft. Pokemon Brendan faced at Dewford was overtowering him once again, and Timothy started things out. "Hariyama, Seismic Toss this little pipsqueak to its foundation," he shouted. Hariyama shot towards Aron, picked it up with two fingers (literally), and tossed it for the air. Brendan looked up, but didn't say anything until it got into yelling range.
"Damn that's high," thought May.
"Yeah, this match is over," said Timothy while walking away with Hariyama.
"Sure, but that's cause Hariyama doesn't want to get his fat ass whopped," said Brendan. The two of them turned around.
"What did you say," asked Timothy.
"Yo fat ass Pokemon don't want it's fat ass whooped," repeated Brendan.
"My Hariyama's a girl, thank you very much," said Timothy angrily.
"Oh, then what's she pregnant with, a whale?" he asked. Hariyama's eyes lit up with fierce anger. From the corner of his eyes, Brendan saw Aron falling back from the sky. "NOW!" he shouted. All of a sudden, Aron shot three purple blobs down to Hariyama. The first and last blob hit it; the first at its stomach, and the other on its face.
"HHHHHHHHAAARRIIIIYYYYYYYMMAAA (ow)!" shouted Hariyama dramatically. A small crowd of people came to watch their fight now.
"Poison is its weakness," stated Brendan. Wally and May cheered happily.
"Arm Thrust the shit out of this punk," said Timothy. Hariyama flat out punched Aron about 4 times, and it slid at Brendan's feet.
"Come on, Iron Heart, you can do it," said Brendan. "Don't let this pregnant piece of shit beat you like this." Said Brendan.
"She isn't pregnant!" shouted Timothy angrily. Aron shot up, and shook off some of its pain.
"That's right," said Brendan. "Now we'll try Metal Claw," he said. Iron Heart shot up, and did a nice little scratch onto Hariyama's face.
"Dynamicpunch!!!" Timothy shouted. Hariyama's fist began glowing white, and then it went down for Aron.
"Iron Defense!" shouted Brendan. The punch missed, so Aron let out its defense. By now, the crowd had gotten even larger. "Now try Take Down," shouted Brendan. The attack hit, but Hariyama barely stuttered. Nonetheless, no recoil damage happened, due to Aron's Rock Head ability. "Now Metal Sound," he said. As soon as he commanded, Brendan covered his ears tightly; Aron emitted an extremely horrible screeching noise to Hariyama. The crowd watching screamed along with Hariyama, and when Defenses were down, Brendan wanted to finish this off. "Headbutt!" shouted Brendan. Aron moved back and did a huge jump in the air. But it was high enough, as Aron's head collided directly with Hariyama's mouth.
"Oo…" said the spectators. Blood dripped from Hariyama's mouth, and a new glint went into its eyes.
"Get 'em," said Tim. Hariyama went absolutely crazy on Aron; he tossed him in the air, slammed him, punched him a few times, threw him against the wall, and even belly flopped on him some. The only choice that he could do (which he did), was Iron Defense, but that wasn't doing so well.
"Come on, Iron Heart, you can survive through this…" said Brendan.
"This one's over," said a few spectators watching. Brendan tried so hard not to shoot a nasty glare at them.
"I know Brendan and his Pokemon; he can get through this," said May. As he lay on the ground, he started shining bright white.
"He's evolving!" said Brendan. He already got his evolved form in his Pokedex, but it was still amazing as the Iron Armor Pokemon grew a good few inches, and developed a new body and armor pattern. His Lairon stood up, and instead of a cute, iron puppy look on its face, it now had a natural, rabid junkyard dog look to it. After May got it into her own Pokedex, Brendan nodded his head. "Body Slam," said Brendan silently. Lairon gave an extremely loud roar, and then with another jump, it landed loudly upon Hariyama's stomach. Hariyama gave an extremely loud scream, and with that slam, about 4 or 5 eggs came out of its butt, and landed down near Brendan.
"Well what do you know," said Timothy silently.
"So Hariyama was pregnant after all," finished Brendan. He went on one knee, and petted his Lairon as it walked over to him with an extremely tiny smile…
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Those bastards ended up lying to a good load of people; Brendan's Battle Tent was still shut down by that Friday afternoon. May still entered her Contest, and even learned how to brew up some Pokeblocks, and got a lot of recipes from Eunice and Wanda, containing different berries, and they even gave her a mini-berry blender. She definitely seemed more professional mixing her nicely chopped berries using her own blender at the contest, than standing in line like a sardine to use the ones they had. Lobby-wise, Verdanturf had the best, as it was biggest, and had more decorations to it. Secretly, and to nobody's attention, the decorations held hidden cameras. As Brendan and Wally had snacks and things, when they went to find their seat they had a small chat.
"Uh…Brendan," he said as they went down a few flights of steps.
"What's up," asked Brendan.
"Well, I wanted to talk to you about something important," he said.
"Once again, what's up," asked Brendan politely as they crossed into a right isle, and took some seats.
"Well…" he paused for about 10 seconds before speaking up. "I…I kinda…like May," he said. Brendan nodded.
"Hm…Are you gonna ask her out," said Brendan while eyeing him suspiciously. It wasn't that he personally had a crush on her too; it was just that he was quite protective of her. After all, it was his job as the guy of the group.
"Well, I mean, I want to, but I'm not to sure if I should," he said.
"Whether you do or don't, she might find another guy," said Brendan before taking a sip of his sweet tea. "She's eyeing the guy that I almost beat back in Fallarbor Town, Seth, I think," said Brendan falsely. The least he could do was drive him away from her, but that wouldn't change his feelings.
"I came to live here because the extra sweet smells of Verdanturf would be good for my health," said Wally. "But I do sort of miss the old Fortree City air," he said. "The random branches with the tall buildings; its nickname is Sky City," he said. Brendan was only half listening now, but he nodded to make him think he was fully.
"They say Fortree's the size of Fukuoka, right?" asked Brendan.
"Yeah; Fortree's a huge city," said Wally. "Not as big as Petalburg, but quite close," he said.
"Hm…Goldenrod's bigger than both of them…" thought Brendan, looking down. From backstage, May noticed that neither Drew nor Harley were in this contest.
"They probably already have this badge," said May out loud. She's decided to use Skitty for this contest, and gave her about 10 Pink Pokeblocks to increase Cuteness. "Hopefully some idiots will go for this one," said May as Skitty enjoyed her Pokeblocks. It turned out that this time, May was 7th for the appearance round; and she knew that the Verdanturf scoring was tough, which is why she overdid it with the Pokeblocks.
"I hope I get in the top four," she thought when she got up there. One of the coordinators with a Mr. Mime had a 27.2; could May outdo that?
"Next up, we have May Birch of Littleroot Town!!!" shouted Vivian as May ran out there smiling. She noticed that the lights were 10x brighter here in Verdanturf's arena, or was it just for the extra security measures.
"Okay, Skitty," she shouted. May threw three oranges up in the air, and watched as Skitty began juggling them with her tail.
"AWW!!!" shouted the crowd. Skitty must have placed on a smile or something.
"Yawn," she said to Skitty. Skitty's yawn while continuing to juggle the oranges made most of the audience's heart melt, including Wally's, as another 'AWW' boomed throughout the arena. "Frustration," said May Skitty squished its face, and smacked the three oranges to the ramp of the audience. But because it went to the top edge, they each bounced back to Skitty, and she continued to juggle them with her tail.
"Isn't she great?" asked Wally from beside Brendan. He nodded just so he wouldn't ask him again in his 'gaga' voice that he had.
"Blizzard," said May. Skitty shot each of the oranges into the air, and shot a blizzard from its mouth up to them. From bottom to top, each of the oranges froze up. "Finish this up with your strongest Tail Whip to each side of the arena," said May quickly, but "pickup-able." Jumping in the air, Skitty slapped the three oranges to each corner of the arena hard enough so that they cracked slowly, and when they reached over the stands, they released extremely tiny icicles that spread though each corner. She landed on one little hand, and stuck out her others like a break dance move. More praise came from the arena as they clapped and 'aww'd' some more.
"That was May Birch and Skitty ladies and gentlemen," said Vivian while turning to the judge's panel. "What do the judges think?" From left to right, May's scores popped up from Nurse Joy, and the other two men: 8.9-8.5-8.7"May earned a staggering 26.1 from the judges!" she shouted. The crowd shouted, as May gave her other bows with a negative thought in her mind.
"Dammit; I get 29.1 in Slateport, 27.0 in Fallarbor, and now 26.1? Am I getting worse???" thought May as her passing fake smiles went through everybody. Brendan was having the same worry.
"May's wonderful; she got the 2nd highest score so far," said Wally happily.
"But it's been higher before," said Brendan. "I know and remember her old scores in these preliminary rounds," he said while not looking at him. "I know she's been training long and hard, but it's either the system's getting stricter, or Kyoge forbid not, she's getting sloppy." He said. May ended up getting to the semifinals by the skin between teeth; she was the fourth highest score of 30 (29.4, 28.7, 27.2, and hers, 26.1). The score that almost beat hers was 25.9 (A/N: Because these guys aren't too important for the story, I'm going to go ahead to the final battle). It ended up being a battle between her and some guy with glasses, who appeared to have four ribbons.
"Hm…I'm an expert at Pokemon Coodination and Contests," he said smugly. He was the one with the score of 29.4, and Brendan (oddly) didn't like his smug attitude.
"This guy's a punk," said Brendan. "I'd prefer to have his retarded Roselia hump my leg than having to watch this guy try to say he's better than May," he said. But then he silently thought of what he said.
"Hey, what's wrong with a Roselia?" asked Wally.
"Nevermind," said Brendan with a grossed out look on his face. The guy had an Eevee, and it and May's Skitty were ready to go at it.
"Ladies first, I guess," said the guy while rolling his eyes.
"Skitty, use Double Slap!" shouted May. All of a sudden, the boy literally froze in place.
"Eevee…uh…" he said.
"Eevee, E (all the time)" said Eevee while shaking its head. Skitty came, and whammed it with the large hand like structure on the top of its tail a couple times. Eevee flew back over to the guy, and his points went down a few.
"And it appears that Jason just lost some points for that nicely maneuvered Double Slap," said Vivian.
"Eevee…uh…." He said. "Shadow…ball." Eevee jumped up into the air, and shot a dark ball of energy over to Skitty.
"Blizzard!" shouted May. Skitty shot a mouth load of snow down to the shadow ball, and as May hoped, it froze in mid coming. When it landed, Skitty gleefully hopped out the way, but blocked it with her tail. "Smack it back at them!" shouted May. Skitty was playing with a frozen chunk of energy, and then shot it back towards them.
"Out the way," said Jason terrifiedly. Eevee did a nice hop, but it didn't hop high enough, as the frozen energy chuck connected with its torso, and when it fell over, the Dark Ball fell on it, releasing the energy it shot, and hitting it 2x stronger.
"So this guy can appeal, but he can't battle; that's rich," said Brendan with folded arms.
"Go May!" shouted Wally happily. Brendan mentally rolled his eyes.
"Come on Eevee, tackle, or something!" shouted Jason. Eevee got up slowly, and began charging for Skitty.
"You tackle too, Skitty," said May. The two Normal Pokemon were charging for each other, and as they were, they both had a uniquely strange run. "Now duck," said May when they got close enough. Skitty ducked, and tackled Eevee from under. She had Eevee's torso on her head, so she lifted it for Eevee to fly. "Blizzard and then Double Slap," said May. Skitty lifted her head up, and blasted another blizzard up to Eevee. When it hit, all but its head, hands, and feet didn't freeze up. When it came back down, Skitty slapped it with its tail back to Jason's side. It got knocked the fudgey wuddgies out.
"Eevee is knocked out; May is the winner," shouted Vivian. Naturally, May smiled, but she didn't exactly…celebrate. It was quite as if it was some smugness was on her, as her light green ribbon was presented to her…
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"May," asked Brendan when they returned to Wally's home.
"Yes Brendan," she asked with a little smile.
"When you got your ribbon today, you just…you know, smiled." He said.
"Yeah, I won; of course I'm gonna smile," said May dully.
"I mean; when you won at Fallarbor, you were all over the place," she said.
"Well, I mean," started May. "Today was just a contest," she said. "It wasn't one really to fight for," she said as they sat on the couch. Wally was watching them talking intensively, as he assumed Brendan was telling him about what he said.
"Because Drew or that other guy wasn't here," said Brendan.
"Right," said May. "I mean, I worked hard for it, but there was no extra adrenaline for the fight," she said while making a fist. "I mean, would you have been happier if you could have finished your bout with Seth," she asked.
"Meh…maybe," said Brendan. "I guess I see what you mean," said Brendan going upstairs. "I'll see you tomorrow morning," he said.
"Yeah, night," said May. She laid on the couch in silence. Two ribbons, a few more contests left, one to get in the Grand Festival. When Brendan got upstairs, he was greeted by a grab of his collar, and a turn into a room.
"What the…" thought Brendan as he grabbed a figure. Turning on a nearby light, it indeed was Wally.
"What did you tell her?" he asked with a desperate look on his face.
"I asked her why she wasn't extra jubilant after winning the contest today," said Brendan.
"Oh…" said Wally.
"I didn't say anything about what you feel," he said while getting quieter. "Now if you please, let me go; me and May are leaving tomorrow morning," he said. Wally nodded, and let go of Brendan's collar.
"Goodnight…Brendan…" said Wally.
"Yeah, night," said Brendan while going down to his room, and closing the door silently.
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Another chapter guys. I personally didn't like this chapter too much, but Mt. Chimney's and Lavaridge is (finally) coming up. And I've got more plans to add another well known celebrity (who remembers Dr. Phil?) next chapter. I did turn off Anonymous reviews, but then I learned of the power of deleting bad anonymous reviews. So they're on. Plus, I left one, just because I realized you can't have all positive reviews. Even the best movies had bad critics, so I'll just deal with (some) bad reviews.