Andy soon realized that he and Samantha managed to fall asleep because he woke up to the smell of coffee. His green eyes slowly opened and saw that his uncle Max was up. Andy carefully lifted his arm off of Samantha and walked over to the kitchen where Max was making coffee.
"Morning Andy." Max said.
"Morning," Andy yawned. "Is anyone else up yet?" Andy asked as he grabbed a cup for coffee.
Max took a look at his watch and look back at Andy. "Nah, it's only seven." Max replied. He poured himself and Andy a cup of coffee each. They spent a few minutes in silence until Pikachu woke up.
"Crap." Both Andy and Max said at the same time.
Pikachu let out a loud "Chaa," and bounced around Ash, successfully waking him up. It became obvious to Andy that everyone fell asleep in the living room, despite the massive amount of space in other rooms.
"Pikachu, please stop," Ash groaned. "I'm up…" Ash managed to say before Pikachu woke up everyone by jumping around and making obnoxious noises; occasionally shocking heavy sleepers.
Andy and Max shrugged, knowing they couldn't do anything now. Max went back to his coffee, and Andy picked up his pack from beside the armchair. Samantha looked up at him and smiled while running her hands through her orange hair.
"When are we going?" Samantha asked Andy.
"I'd say now," Andy replied. "But everyone just got up."
"Oh just go! It's boring here." Delia commented. She got up and shooed the new Pokémon trainers out the door, everyone yelling their goodbyes.
Ralts climbed up Andy's back and sat on his shoulder, not content with walking any distance on her stubby legs. Ralts pointed to Samantha and sent confusion through a psychic link to Andy.
"Yes, Ralts, she's supposed to be here. She's my girlfriend," Andy explained, relieving Ralts of her confusion.
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Andy and Samantha were walking peacefully through route one when a soft shaking of grass caught Andy's eye.
"Ralts, use psychic on that Pidgey!" Andy commanded as soon as the Pidgey started to fly away. Ralts pointed at the Pidgey, but it was out of her reach.
"It's okay Ralts, everyone has their limits," Samantha said when Ralts sagged her head.
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Viridian was too far for Andy and Samantha to walk to in one day, so they started making camp in a clearing just off the road. Andy reached into his pack and grabbed two packages of ramen for dinner. He was cooking the noodles when he heard Samantha laughing.
"What's so funny?" Andy asked as he handed Samantha her ramen. He gave Ralts some Pokémon food and sat beside Samantha on the log she sat on.
"It less than a week ago that we would barely talk to each other without excessive pauses," Samantha replied before taking a loud 'slurp' of her noodles.
"I know, before, I couldn't do things like this," Andy said, kissing Samantha's cheek and making her blush. "Or this." Andy wrapped his arm around Samantha's shoulder and hugged her closely, her blush becoming more evident.
Samantha had to brake from Andy's embrace, much to the couple's displeasure, and continued eating.
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Andy and Samantha woke up the minute the sun broke through the bleak night, to find Andy's arm around Samantha's waist, and Samantha using Andy's broad, muscled torso as a pillow.
When Andy tried getting up, Samantha complained. "Just a few more minutes…" She groaned.
"Come on Sam, we need to get to Viridian." Andy reasoned, and somehow, was stuck with carrying her the rest of the way. Andy didn't have a problem with that at all. She jumped on Andy's back, and the couple were off.
"Ralts, just jump on," Andy said after noticing the small Pokémon was struggling to keep up. Ralts, not knowing Samantha at all, hesitantly jumped onto Andy's shoulder.
"You're cute," Samantha started, "you know that?"
"Hmm?" Was all Andy dared to say.
"You're carrying the entire group. It's cute," Samantha commented from Andy's back.
After half an hour, Samantha pointed out Viridian city, still from Andy's (Now sore) back, and dropped off.
"Race you to the Pokémon centre!" Samantha called out before starting to run. Ralts slapped Andy's face and pointed to Viridian.
"Got it Ralts." Andy said quietly. Ralts quickly scrambled into Andy's bag, and they took off. Andy's experience from being on Pallet's track team got him running fast, but Samantha had far too much a head start.
Ralts got out of Andy's bag and onto his shoulder as Andy walked into the Pokémon centre where Samantha and a familiar trainer were having a verbal confrontation.
"But I just don't understand why you're with him!" Fred said. He glanced over to where Andy entered and rolled his eyes, displeased by the sight of him.
"Hey asshole," Andy said coldly, causing Fred to return his gaze to him.
Fred walked towards Andy with Poke ball in hand. "You wanna take this outside?" He asked threateningly. "'Cause I'm up for whatever you can throw at me."
Andy decided to have fun with this. He reached into his pocket and threw an eraser at him. "You sure are," Andy grinned when Fred was taken by surprise. Onlookers began to laugh; first quietly, then ferociously.
"I've had enough of your bullshit, Andrew. I'm leaving," Fred spat. 'Fucking pacifist. I'm going to ruin him when he gets to Pewter, and take Samantha with ME.'
Andy gave Samantha a concerned look, but she waved it off and picked up her Poke ball from Nurse Joy. When Andy pressed for more, Samantha stopped talking.
"Sam, I know he did something to you, just tell me." Andy tried reasoning. Still no response. Andy threw his hands in the air, knowing he wasn't going to get anything out of her. "Well, I'm going to the Poke mart, you want something?"
"Lemonade." Was all she said. Andy nodded and headed into the store, ready to get supplies.
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"That'll be 2900 Poke, sir." The clerk said. Andy handed the man the money and walked out of the store, expecting to see Samantha. He didn't see a trace of the ginger girl, only a note with a drawing of Lugia and Ho-Oh in a 'Yin-Yang' formation.
'This is bad.' Andy thought. Ralts felt Andy's worry, causing a million red flags to go up in her head. Andy read the note, taking notice of the small blood spots that covered the paper.
WE KNOW YOU WORSHIP MEW; AN ACT THAT IS FROWNED UPON. BUT NOT WITH US, BROTHER. JOIN THE ARMY OF THE OLD GODS IF YOU WISH TO SEE YOUR BLASPHEMES GIRLFRIEND ALIVE. WE SHALL BE WAITING IN PEWTER CITY. BRING NO ONE.
-High Priest of Ho-Oh and Lugia
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Andy was running through Viridian forest, and was ambushed by a herd of Pikachu. The yellow rats looked like powerful enemies in comparison to his one Ralts.
"Okay Ralts, Repel all but one with your psychic." Andy commanded. Ralts moved her arm over the Pikachu, sending all but one, who was sent to a tree, flying. "Go, Great ball!" Andy exclaimed. The Great ball wobbled a few times before giving a satisfying 'Click'.
'I hope these two are enough,' Andy sourly thought. 'Because if not, Sam's dead.'
/AUTHOR'S NOTE/ Hello passengers, if you look to your right, we have a plot twist, and on your left, the antagonistic group. So as I said last chapter, religion is of major importance as you just saw. So Samantha's kidnapped… That's a thing now. I was thinking of how I could fuck with Andy's mind while TRYING TO STAY AWAKE IN SCIENCE (It's not boring; other Fanfictions keep me up). Well, Review what you'd like to see in the next chapter (Link Fan 101's reviews will not be considered).
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