Time-travelers
Chapter 4
Dawn and her friends are older than the anime series. Just to remind you that….
Sorry for the late update.
May was playing with the Growlithe (Harry, as May calls him) in the living room. She put Harry on the top of her laps and gently touched the scar over his eyes. Harry whimpered and looked down. "Hilda, do you think this scar is by Bellistone?" May asked as she handed him to her friend. Hilda looked at the scar closely and squinted her eyes.
"Well, by the looks of it, it was deliberately done by a knife so I guess it is from Bellistone." Hilda observed, putting Harry down, which ran straight to May's lap. May petted him and looked at Dawn, who was spacing out again. "Dawn, is something wrong?" May asked. Answer didn't return. May sighed and walked toward Dawn, and then she grabbed Dawn's shoulders and started to shake it crazily.
"I'm awake!" Dawn exclaimed. "Good, now tell me if something is wrong." May said, her hands on her hips. "Probably about Ivy." Hilda said, examining the scar. "Hilda, I don't want answer from you. I want answer from Dawn." Dawn looked out the window and sighed. "Actually, it was about both Ivy and Bellistone. I am worried about what he will do in the past and something is fishy about Ivy."
Hilda and May looked at each other. Dawn's intuition is mostly right so they tried to believe. "You know, we should ask Paul about her tomorrow for sure. You can't just be spacing out because of her." May said and Dawn laughed a little. "I guess you are right. I guess we should."
Next day Dawn headed straight to the classroom and as she spotted Paul (surrounded by girls as usual), she walked straight toward him and slammed her palm on his desk, surprising everyone in the room, which were only 7, 5 of the being the girls and rest two was someone random.
"Explain who this Ivy is. I asked lots of people at school but they didn't answer who she is." Dawn saw Paul's neck moving. "Now." Dawn's voice was soft, yet forceful. "Well…." Paul glanced at the girls and they walked away as Dawn shot a glare at them.
Paul sighed, "I will show her after school, okay?" Paul asked. Dawn sighed and nodded, she didn't have any choice. For that, she couldn't concentrate on any of the lessons. When lunch, she ate her food while spacing out so there weren't any chance for both Hilda and May to ask her about Ivy. Hilbert walked by and said 'hello' to Hilda with a big smile and Drew walked by, bugging May as usual but Paul didn't stop by.
After school, Dawn waited in front of the school just like Paul instructed. Paul walked out of the school with Drew, Hilbert and a bulky guy. He was taller than rest of the three, red hair, tanned skin like Paul's and amber eyes. "Hello ladies." He winked and May blushed instantly. "This is Raph, my cousin." Paul introduced his cousin and the girls introduced themselves.
Paul guided them to his house and Raph called out 'Vee' as soon as he entered the living room. Dawn saw a girl running down the stairway. Dawn's mouth dropped open. She looked just like her, but, like Paul's description, with deeper hair and eye color. "Raphie! I missed you so much!" She said as she jumped into Raph's arms. She looked so tiny, because Raph was too big.
"I thought Ivy was Raphael's girlfriend, and this is your home?" Hilda asked Paul. "For some reason we are Ivy's babysitter. And she was sick recently." Dawn stared at Ivy. She was short; height about reaching her chest, her hair was longer and smoother as well. "Hi." Dawn said. Ivy looked up at Dawn. Her eyes widened as well. "Hello! You look like me! This is so weird! I've never met someone like this!" Ivy started to talk really fast. Dawn looked at Raph, "She's not that young." He frowned.
"How old are you?" May asked, cutting Ivy. She frowned, "I'm 14. Problem?" In their opinion, she looked at least 5 years younger than that. "Not really." May said. "Your full name?" Hilda asked. Ivy rolled her eyes, "Ivy Elizabeth Lucia von Viette." Ivy said, "But call me Vee. I am more familiar with that." She said with small frown, which was truly adorable. "You are so cute!" May said, hugging her tightly. "Can't breathe….." Ivy said. "Oops, sorry. He he." May said as she released her quickly.
Vee coughed a little and frowned at May then turned toward Dawn. "You have same last name as me." Dawn said, she looked like she was entranced. "It's the first time in my life to see someone who have same last name as me! I hope we can be a good friend!" Ivy said with her bright smile that made Dawn nod. She smiled at the small girl, "We will be a good friend, Vee."
After the girls returned home, Dawn went into the study to record what happened today. "I am going to visit my father soon." Dawn said as she walked out of the library. "Why?" May asked, playing with Harry. "To check the record of my ancestors. But I can't go now, I will go there during vacation." May shrugged and returned playing with Harry. "Dawn, if my guess is right, Bellistone is after Vee."
Dawn turned toward Hilda. "What do you mean?" She asked, as she walked close to Hilda. "Well, Bellistone hated your father and your family, right?" Dawn nodded, her arms crossed. "And if Ivy is your ancestor, and if Bellistone is after her….." Dawn realized what was going on and stopped Hilda. If Ivy….
Bellistone
He stared at the screen. "Interesting." He said, smoothing down his mustache. "How smart of her to think that way…." He chuckled and walked upstairs.
The girls
Dawn felt something and looked out the window. She slowly walked toward it, but didn't see anything. She walked away from it and after a moment, she came back and walked out to the balcony. She leaned out to the open space and looked around. She heard rustling in trees and whistled. Togekiss burst out from the rooftop and dove into the trees, making a Pokemon come out from the tree.
"Pachirisu, spotlight!" she threw her ball, getting attention from her friends. "Dawn?" May called out as Pachirisu jumped into the tree and chased after the Pokemon. Dawn whistled and jumped off the balcony, landing on Togekiss. She flew on the top of the trees, following Pachirisu's Flash. "Dawn!" Hilda called after her, but she was already out of the sight. Hilda and May looked at each other then they decided to follow Dawn.
Dawn and Togekiss kept on following it to the near forest. "Zoroark!" Dawn said as she threw another Pokeball into the air and Zoroark landed on the top of the tree and started to follow the Pokemon and grabbed it. "Good job!" Dawn said as she carefully landed on the tree and jumped to the branch where Zoroark and Pachirisu were.
Dawn asked Zoroark to move over and he revealed what he caught. "Pichu!" The Pokemon cried out and whimpered. Camera on the forehead as Harry did. Dawn plucked the camera from it and looked closely at it. She spotted on/off button and pressed it. She heard a cry from Unfezant and Mandibuzz. "You are free now." Dawn said to Pichu, who whimpered and ran away.
"Dawn, what happened?" Hilda asked as she landed next Dawn, followed by May and same question. "Another spy Pokemon. This time I got the camera so you can track down the signal." Hilda stared at the turned off camera. She grabbed it then stuffed it into her pocket. "Poor thing." May said, looking at the direction that Pichu went. "If we keep releasing those Pokemons that means that more Pokemons are gonna get hurt…"
May looked too sad that neither Dawn or Hilda could retort to that. Dawn went to May and patted her back, "If we stop him, there will be no more Pokemons hurting. So we have to do our mission, alright?" May nodded sadly and they all returned home with their Pokemons. Hilda was already thinking of the way to track the signal down.
The next day, Dawn found Hilda on the dining table, with her eyes red from bloodshot. "Hilda, what's wrong?" Dawn, horrified, asked. Hilda smiled and pointed at the computer screen. Dawn glanced at it and spotted that it had map on the screen. "Did you do it?" Hilda shook her head. "I wasn't the one who could hack into the system. I need help." "Well…. Then we should ask someone at school who can do computer well. You should rest right now." Hilda nodded and slammed her head onto the table, falling asleep immediately. Dawn sweat dropped.
The rest of the Saturday, Dawn and May tried to think of their friends who are good at hacking. "Drew?" Dawn asked. "No." May said. "Not Paul…. Zoey?" May shrugged. "Kenny?" May shook her head. "Then what about Ash and Misty?" "Ash? I doubt it. He was stupider than I thought and I know that May is not good with machines." "Then the one left is…" They both looked at Hilda, who was sleeping and gulped.
Dawn called Drew and asked Hilbert's phone number and called him. "Hilbert?" Dawn called out. "Yup. This is he, who is it?"
"Dawn. Are you free to talk?"
"Yeah, it's okay. What's up?"
"I was wondering if you can hack into-"
"Sweet! I can do it with my eyes closed! So, how much?"
Dawn was confused, "What do you mean?"
"How much are you going to pay me."
Dawn gulped, "I don't know. How much do you want?"
"200. How about that?"
"If you can do the job well I can pay you more than that." Dawn smirked.
"Deal. When do you need that?"
"I will ask Hilda. Bye."
Dawn closed her phone and sighed. "What did he say?" May asked. "200 Poke. Then he will do it." May snorted. "He doesn't know that we have more than that, right?" Dawn nodded. "Now, the problem is to tell Hilda about it…."
Dawn carefully poked Hilda. She didn't move. May poked her. "What?" Hilda asked weakly, still keeping her head in her arms. "We got help, Hilda." Dawn said. Hilda's head shot up. "Really? Who?" Hilda looked happy about it. "Umm, well….." May twisted her fingers. "It's umm…" Dawn backed up and so did May. They went close to the sleeping room and almost closed the door. "It's Hilbert." They slammed the door and locked it. After exactly 2 seconds later, Hilda was banging the door.
"YOU IDIOTS TOLD HILBERT THAT I NEED HIS HELP?" Hilda screamed as she slammed the door. For a moment Dawn was scared that the door might break down. "Hilda, there aren't anyone who can do it. And Paul said that Hilbert is good with computer and machines." Dawn tried to convince Hilda but she was blinded with rage that she couldn't hear anything at all.
"YOU CANCEL THAT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE YOU WILL BE SORRY!" Dawn shook her head. "Hilda, please calm down. Alright?" "I'M NOT GOING TO CALM DOWN!" Hilda was slamming the door so hard that May was worried and opened the door, after releasing her Blaziken to grab her. "Hey!" Hilda said. "Hilda, it will make the work easier. Mission first, remember?" Hilda grumbled something but obeyed.
"Fine. But you have to make a deal." Dawn tilted her head, "What deal?" Hilda crossed her arms, "For two months do your homework by yourself." Dawn groaned but nodded but May was against that. "What? You know that I can't do it by myself!" "Then you should pay attention to your class." Hilda said and May couldn't retort to that. "Fine…" May looked like as if she would cry. Dawn patted her back and headed out to call Hilbert.
Hilbert came next day with lots of computer devices. Paul and Drew came along because of the devices. "Hi Hilda!" Hilbert said as he winked at her. Hilda rolled her eyes and told him to come to the studies. So that left the rest in the living room. They were silent. Dawn hated the awkward silence so she left the living room and headed to the kitchen. She poured the orange juice into cups and brought them to her friends. "Thanks." Drew said, drinking it immediately.
Dawn sat next to May, who was going through TV channels. "May, you hardly watch any TV. Turn it off, it's loud." Dawn said. May looked like she wanted to retort but she didn't. The one who broke the silence was Drew. "Why do you need Hilbert?"
Dawn and May shook their head, unwilling to explain. "I don't need details. Just tell me what do you want with him." May looked at Dawn. She sighed. "We need to track down a signal. But it was to complex even for Hilda so we needed help, that's all." Paul asked for more. He was curious, "What signal?" Drew elbowed him. The girls' face distorted and glared at Paul. "As I said, we cannot tell you." Dawn said through her gritted teeth. For the first time, Paul was scared by girls.
The conversation quickly changed to their school life. May and Drew still were fighting that they are better coordinator. Dawn thought it was amusing to watch them argue. "You can always just have a contest battle to see who's better or not." Dawn said. "But it involves appealing round as well. Who's gonna do that?" May asked. Dawn looked around. "When I first watched Pokemon Contest, I didn't know any rules. It just looked so beautiful and that made me want to do it. So, it will have to attract someone's mind…" Dawn said as she looked at Paul.
Drew and May got the idea and dragged Paul out of the apartment. Happened so quick, Paul didn't get any chance to resist. "Hilda, we're going out!" Dawn called out. She waited for answers but there weren't any except for Hilbert's shriek. Dawn sweatdropped and followed her friends out. 'Hope Paul won't complain.'
"So I am supposed to pick whoever I think done better, right?" Paul asked after Dawn explained what he was going to do. "In easy words, yes." Paul shrugged and rested his head on his palm. Dawn walked to her other friends and told them to start. "Drew first!" Dawn went back to Paul and sat right next to him. Paul glanced at her.
"Frillish, go!" Blue male Frillish came out from the ball with, as always, blank look. "Bubblebeam!" Frillish took a deep breath and fired dozens of blue bubbles from his mouth as he twirled. "Absorb!" Red beam came from Frillish's tentacles and blue bubbles popped and disappeared into Frillsh's body. He glowed in light blue light. "Recover!" Frillish started to glow in gold with blue surrounding it.
"My turn!" May said as she pushed Drew away. Drew grumbled as he returned Frillish. "Unfezant, the stage is yours!" May cried out as she threw her Pokeball. "How did you think of Drew's" Dawn asked Paul. "Not bad." Paul answered. Dawn smiled at him and watched May. The smile instantly faded as Paul yawned.
"Unfezant, Razor Wind!" May cried out as she swung 5 discs at Unfezant. Unfezant flapped his wings hard and kept the discs in the air. "Those that counts as appeal too?" Paul asked. "Yes. It doesn't always have to be beautiful." Dawn answered. Paul nodded slowly and turned back to Unfezant.
May and Unfezant were like that for a moment. Unfezant flapped his wings harder until the discs were above him. "Unfezant, Aerial Ace!" The wind stopped as with blink of an eye, Unfezant grabbed the discs with his beak and threw it back toward May. Unfezant didn't miss any of them. Swift, accurate and powerful. May caught all of them and set them next to her.
Paul's mouth was still open as May walked toward him with Unfezant. "I never thought Pokemon Contest can be like that." Paul told May who bowed. Dawn looked around at them, Paul was in awe, May was smiling and Drew was frowning. "I guess the winner is set." Dawn said. Paul nodded. May jumped in cheer and Drew stared down.
"Guys, come up! I found it!" Dawn and May looked up and saw Hilda waving her hand. "Quickly!" Dawn and May nodded and ran up to the apartment, followed by the boys.
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