Oliver had already fallen asleep in my arms, and I had only been walking for about an hour. Every so often he would readjust and burrow his body deeper into my arms, but my arms were getting tired, and they needed to rest. "Oliver." I adjusted my arms somewhat trying to wake him up, but it had no effect. "Oliver!" This time I jerked my arms somewhat making an odd movement which succeeded in waking him up. It also succeeded in surprising him causing him to start pecking me and my arms. "Ouch, ouch, ouch! Come on Oliver, stop it." The Chick Pokemon realized everything was fine and nestled back into my arms.
"No, Oliver. You're getting heavy now." I set him down on the rocky terrain and he looked up at me. He jumped up and down signifying that he wanted to be lifted again. "No Oliver. You need to walk just like me. Okay?"
"Chick?" Oliver tilted its head in confusion. He then chose to start jumping up and down again to try and get me to pick him up, but it wouldn't work. I was used to Susie trying this on me. The old cute and innocent trick, HA! It would take more than that.
I crossed my hands over my chest and just looked at him, planning to do so until he got the idea. Once he got what was going on, he plopped down on his butt and let out a whinny cry that could probably be heard for miles. "Oliver, stop it." I said as I brought my hands over my ears to try and block out the noise.
"A new trainer it seems." I turned around to see a trainer who appeared about a year older than me walking towards Oliver and I. Oliver looked at the trainer then shrunk closer to me, threatened by the new presence. "Haha, tell your little one that there's no need to worry. I'm not gonna hurt him." He walked closer to me and stuck out his arm. "The name's Lucas."
I looked at this new figure which had approached me. He was wearing a white dress shirt with a black vest over it, coupled with a pair of dark dress pants. Despite the clean look he had it was obvious that he was a skilled trainer. He just carried that feel with him, that feel that he's gone through so much experience.
"So are you gonna shake my hand or just stand there." He laughed as I was brought back to reality.
"Oh sorry, my bad." I grabbed his hand his hand a bit rough and shook it with a firm grip. "The name's Tyler, but most just call me Ty. And this right here is Oliver." I shuffled to the left so that I no longer obscured Oliver who was hiding behind me. The little Torchic backed up scared and tripped on my shoes falling on my feet still whimpering a little bit from earlier.
"Seems that he's a shy one." Lucas bent down and picked up my timid starter Pokemon. Oliver started squirming trying to get out of Lucas's grip, until he scratched Oliver right behind the large three feathers, and immediately Oliver stopped squirming. His beak opened and closed as if to make sounds of satisfaction, but he debated against it. "Torchics love it when you scratch behind their head feathers. Just letting you know." He handed the now very relaxed Torchic back into my arms and grabbed a Pokeball out of one of the pockets on his vest and expanded it.
"Okay, come on out Rye." The Pokeball opened up sending out a white energy that materialized into a blue and black wolf looking creature that stood on its hind legs and stared down Oliver, who responded by nestling deeper into my arms. "Rye, that's not how we treat others. Sorry he has a bit of an alpha male thing going on."
"It's alright, Oliver. He's not going to hurt you." Was my starter afraid of everything, because it sure seemed like it? I then diverted my attention to the alpha male wolf thing. Wait, I've seen a Pokemon like this before. Someone who faced Michael in the semifinals used it. What was it? Lucriri? Lucrieon? Lucart? No, no, it was more like Lucario. Yeah that's it Lucario. "So that's a Lucario. Aren't they like extremely rare?"
"Oh yeah, Lucarios are pretty rare Pokemon. The only reason I was able to get one was because my dad is an expert breeder. He gave me a newborn Riolu as my starter two years ago, but the reason I called out to you was because you look kinda lost." Was it that obvious? I mean, I was walking around aimlessly hoping to find a PokeCenter, but all I found was pain and misery so far.
"Yeah, I am a bit lost." I looked so mareepish! I hoped he couldn't tell.
"Oh well, since you are new to training I'm gonna assume that you're trying to make it to the Rustboro City to challenge your first gym, right?"
"Well yeah, as a matter of fact I am."
"Well then you're gonna wanna go this way." He turned my body 180 degrees around basically pointing me to go back the way I came.
"Really?"
"Well don't you have a map?"
"Umm, I don't think so." I pulled my backpack around front and put my hand in it. As soon as I put my hand in it I felt something plastic and square. I pulled it out and it looked like a small laptop. I opened it and it immediately turned on showing a route and a red little dot in the middle of the screen.
"Okay so the red dot represents you. Okay now I'm gonna show you the way you're gonna wanna take to get to Rustboro. So you're on Route 112 right now. You're going to wanna go to Route 111. You're gonna see that you can either go through a cave or through a desert. Go through the desert as it will cut your time in half, and you'll be in Mauville City." As he talked he drew the route that I should take with his finger.
"Wait, isn't that desert filled with, you know, super tough Pokemon, that a trainer like me in no way could handle?" I was getting kinda nervous. I didn't want to become a meal for the local Gligar and Gliscor that lived there.
"No, not at all. The desert is a cake walk, especially this time of year. Even a trainer with only a newly hatched Togepi could make it through that desert and come out unscathed." He winked and gave me a thumbs up.
"Well if you say so…"
"I do say so, and once you get to Mauville City I'll give you the rest."
"Wait, how are you gonna give me the rest, if you're gonna be somewhere else?"
"Well there are such things as cell phones." He pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled his number on it, and then handed it to me. "Au revoir!" He and his Lucario then turned and started walking towards what my maps said was Fallarbor Town.
I turned the way toward the desert and started walking until I heard Lucas's voice again all I heard was "desert" and "night". Oh well. I'm sure it wasn't important.