A/N Characters may seem out of character, buts its necessary for the plot, ill try make them as natural as possile though, so read, and enjoy!
Chapter two - Sibling Friendship
Meanwhile in Hoenn, a girl is already awake waiting for an hours time to come face to face with a pokemon; her first. This girls name is the May Maple, daughter of Norman, the Petalburg City gym leader.
"So cmon May, tell us who your choosing as your partner" Naged Max.
Max is Mays younger Brother who is waiting one more year before he will be in that position. The Pokemon available from each different vary, in Hoenn there are Mudkip- a water type, treecko- a grass type, or torchic- the fire type.
" Well Max, im not quite sure, I dont really want one at all, but I want to travel around and see new places. So if dad wants me to get one to travel, I will." She explained.
Max gasped. "Really!? You dont even want to become a trainer? It would be really fun."
"Not really, id have no one to travel with and no inspiration to train pokemon, I understand that dads a gym leader, but all he does is stay in one place, that doesnt seem very fun to me Max, and im sorry I dont have the same opinion"
She tried to sympathise to him. She knew he was really happy for her to be able to become a trainer.
'Max seems really upset, maybe... just maybe I should do it for him?' She pondered.
" I know Max, ill go to Littleroot Town and get a look at the Pokemon in his labratory, and if theres one I like, ill get it and become a trainer." She announced.
He looked at her unconvincingly. The room then went silent, and neither of them wanted to brake it, but then again, both were in deep thought about what was going on. Being a pokemon trainer or not changes experiences of peoples lives. It wasnt something that could change in a matter of seconds. Max knew that and thats why he didnt say anything.
After a few minutes, Caroline, May and Max's mother called May for a final check that she has everything before getting her pokemon. And just as May was about to leave Max to see her mother, Max called to her.
"Ill make you a deal may, im not sure if your going to get a pokemon or not and could use it as an excuse to travel, I want to see if you keep your word on the pokemon training, so let me go with you! Please..." Max begged " I'd love to see all the pokemon out there in the world, it will help me before I even become a trainer."
May continued to walk out the door slowly just outside the room. " Im coming mum"
Max saw her turn and walk away. He put his head down. And tried once more to persuade her to let him see the world too. "Please...May..."
May stopped.
She turned around to look at her younger brother, the one brother that would try and act smug, and smart. He was very upset, eyes slowly watering, and that hurt her to see deeply. So she turned back to him.
"Alright Max, lets go say hello to the world." She encouraged.
Max looked up to see if she was serious. She was. The usual smile on his face was there once again as he ran up to her and hugged her waist. He continued thanking her and showering compliments such as "your the best sister ever!" until they were both standing on their doorstep of the Gym/home they have been raised in for their entire life, and for a few days, it would be just the siblings on their own.
Norman was a protective man over his children and made sure they were 100% prepared for the trip.
"Now have you got your-" Norman advised.
"For the final time yes! Me and Max have been waiting for this day for quite a while, even though I wasnt expecting Max to want to tag along but im happy for him being able to come." May explains to her father, seeming to not get the point that the children are ready to start a journey.
"Wait what? Max is going with you!?" Exclaimed both parents.
"Didnt Max tell you?" replied May, who suddenly had a worried look on her face.
'Max didnt tell mum or dad? What was he thinking!? Him suddenly leaving would make them upset, whats he up to? I'd better ask him I guess' May focused on the scene around her.
"Hey May, im ready to g- uh-oh" Said Max worredly as he came down the stairs with his bag set to go. May could tell Max didnt want them knowing.
'Poor Max, he knows he wont let them go, he can't even get a pokemon yet...'. May decides to step in for her brother, she wants him with her.
"Please mum, it would be nice to have some company on my travels with my pokemon."
Max let out a small gasp. 'So she is serious about getting a pokemon, I wish I believed her earlier, I feel bad for judging her like that, I need to leave the house, and try help as much as I can, as a little brother.'
"But honey, Max cant even get a pokemon yet, if he goes around the Hoenn region now, he wont explore when his time comes for him next year." Says Caroline, determined to keep her smallest child at home.
'What do I say back to that? Im sorry Max...' May puts her head down in defeat. "Alright then, I see your point." May turns to max next.
"Im sorry Max, I really am, it wouldve been nice to spend some time with you, we really got on well today since all our arguing recently. Im sorry I couldnt help you Max. Im sorry I couldnt help your dreams come true!" May ends with a yell. She then leaves the door and slams it shut, which Caroline could tell was aimed at her not Max.
After that commotion - and his older sisters yelling and door slam - Max had ran upstairs to his room, crying.
Norman then looked to is wife. "What have we done..." He whispers and slowly it trailes of into a silence.
Max was looking at the posters in his room of the three starter pokemon, going back to his usual routine of dreaming of what could happen. But after his earlier experience with is parents, and May now gone. He had no-one to talk to about what happened. So he left his room and sighed as he slowly walked down the stairs. Until he noticed his bag by the front door.
He had a few moments to be able to work out his very simple plan.
'All I have to do is grab the bag, pull the door handle and catch up to May.' He smirked 'This will be e-a-s-y.'
So the adrenaline kicked in, skipping some steps with the speed and momentum, grabbed the ba-
He feels his bag strap slide past his fingers...
'No-no-no-no-no! how did I miss that' He thought as he stops himself just before the door bagless.
"Why were you running down the stairs Max?" Asks Norman impatiently.
"I, er, well I...you see... haha, funny right?" Says Max. 'Out of all times why do I stutter now!'
"Max, dont think about leaving this house." Norman replies angrily, yet partly shocked that his youngest child would try run away from him.
"Well if you let me go we wouldnt be having this conversation!" Max exclaims. Max was too angry and wasnt thinking straight, focusing on yelling back at his dad.
"So thats what this is about? No need to be impatient Ma-"
Max just yelled, no words, just a really loud screech.
Norman covers his years and closes his eyes and tries to endure the high volumed scream.
But in allthe noise. Max made his escape, he graps his back, which he places over his shoulder. Then opens the door at a fast speed, and ran from the Maple household.
"Max, what. Whered you go?" Norman says shocked as a bag has gone missing, the doors wide open, and Max is no were to be seen.
Norman takes a step back, registering whats just happened.
"Caroline! Come here quickly." Slowly losing volume in his voice.
As Caroline enters, her curiosity continues to increase.
" Sorry, I was in the garden, its hard to hear you from out there, why did you leave the front door open?" She questions as she closes the door slowly.
"M-Max, he just left, he ran away, probably finding May" He chokes out, barely audible.
But she heard him. And she was furious.
"What! How dear he do that, we have rules in this house." She says angrily but clearly upset about the news.
"Lets let them do it honey, he wouldnt run if he wasnt serious, i guess its time to trust our kids, they are growing up."
She sighed, knowing she wont win this conversation against Norman.
"But if they return, im telling them what they did and how its wrong. A lesson needs to be learnt from all of this." She Informs.
Meanwhile, at Littleroot Dock
Littleroots dock, a small harbour with a few boats able to board and disembark passengers. It has wooden piers leading to boats and a small concrete layer where the ticket seller is. Due to the small harbour, it is kept tidy to look its best with many trainers water pokemon allowed to swim in certain zones so they dont get injured by the boats.
And on one of these boats, preparing to start in the Hoenn region, is Ash ketchum.
"So Pikachu, what did you think?" Ash asks hopefully.
Pikachu nods his head in confirmation of his partners question. And smells the new air, and trying to adapt to the cooler climate.
"Wow, its colder here, its probably close to winter as it was summer in Kanto." Ash explains.
The trainer now walks around lost through the small pier, trying to find an exit of some kind, a path to littleroots town centre.
"Escuse me sir, we are here from the Kanto region. Can you tell me how to get to littleroot?"
The officer turns around to see them and replies.
"Sure, if you go past the booth, follow the path opposite that and it should be a straight road, please be aware that littleroot town does not have a pokemon centre, so avoid some battles."
"Ok, thankyou for your help, say thankyou Pikachu" Ash advises
"Pika pi" He states with a smile on his face.
The officer waves goodbye as they head down the small path.
After a few minutes, the houses of littleroot begin to appear.
"Hey pikachu, lets go, race you there!" He screams with enthusiasm evidently in his voice as he picks up speed towards the small town. Pikachu jumps from his trainers shoulder and makes his own way
'How dare she not let Max come with me! We were finally getting along! We couldve supported eachother... Dont worry about me though Max, ill be the best out there and train my pokemon to the best of their ability and more!'
She smiles at her thoughts and starts jogging through oldale town down the field to littleroot town, with the main destination of Proffesor Birchs Laboratory.
What she didnt know however was Max slowly entering oldale town, out of breath from his long escape from home.
'Please let May be here.' Looking desperatly for his older sibling. He goes to the pokemon centre to try and find her. Once he enters the building, he sees many pokemon, mainly the basics: Zigzagoon, Tailow, Shroomish and Whismur.
'Uh-oh, I still gotta find May, she isnt here... where could she be' Max leaves the pokemon centre and continues to look around town, before running down the small field and path to where May could possibly be.
May finally reaches the little town, after a few deep breaths to regulate her breath.
After walking a small way she looks up to notice a large, white bricked building, and assuming its the famous Proffesor Birchs lab, knocks on the door and waits for a few moments.
"Ah hello, you must be May, im Pr. Birch, you are here for your pokemon, correct?" He asks politely.
"Oh, yes, im May and here for my pokemon" She confirms.
Pr. Birch stands aside and allows May into the building. She steps onto the tiled flooring and analyses the room. She notices a few desks with scattered paper and a few neat piles of paperwork, and some pokeballs on, what looks like, a circular transporter machine.
As Pr. Birch navigates May to the odd machine, she looks at the three pokeballs in the machine behind a glass shield, whilst Pr. Birch presses a button on the machine to allow the glass to retreat into the lower part of the contraption, May is looking at the pokeballs, she comes to a conclusion that the pokeballs are identical, but she was more interested in the pokemon inside.
"Well then May, its time for your decision". Pr. Birch explains as he releases a mudkip from its pokeball, "This, as you may know, is mudkip, a water type pokemon".
After a momentary stare, and an inspection on the mud-fish pokemon...
"No thanks, id like to see what other ones you have please" Says May, trying to make that sentence sound polite without offending the young starter.
"Very well, the next one is Torchic, a fire type pokemon".
Torchic is released by Pr. Birch. The small fire chicken shakes slightly, and tilts it's head in confusion to the situation.
Mays eyes glow and sparkle. She bends down to get a closer look at the pokemon, and torchic doesnt wait to be welcomed into a hug by the human. After a few moments, Mays mind has been made.
"Sir, i'd like to travel around with this little cutie, Torchic" May concludes.
Pr. Birch nods knowingly as to why she picked it, and allows her with her pokemon. In addition, May is given her pokedex and 5 pokeballs - excluding Torchics- to be able to have a full team.
And with the final goodbye as May leaves the With a new torchic in arms, May sets of to the fields between Littleroot and Oldale, just to the right of the main path linking the towns, the point of going there? To talk to her new friend.
Mays Pokemon Journey begins!