Hi everyone and welcome to the final chapter of this fanfic. This chapter will basically follow the anime with just some minor differences here and there. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 25: An Adventure Begins

It had taken well over a month, but the brown-haired girl was finally getting accustomed to living in her new home. Contrary to what she had thought before they moved, she didn't hate the experience of living in a big city. Sure, the city had a lot more people and more noise, but it also had a lot more to do than the little town she used to live in.

Currently May was leaning up against her wall with a hand placed on her chest. She had decided why not at least give traveling with pokemon a chance, but she was unsure on where to begin. After much debate with herself, she had finally decided that maybe even tomorrow would be an ideal time to begin. Her original reason for traveling was just to go around the world trying out famous restaurants and shops, but now she wanted to know if she would be a great trainer and for another reason as well.

She took a deep breath and opened the door to her room which lead her to the living room where both of her parents were sitting on the couch watching the evening news.

"Mom, Dad," she called out. She waited for a moment as her parent's attention was turned to her.

"What is it sweetie?" her mother asked.

"Mom you know I think it might be time for me to go out and see the world with pokemon. Who knows maybe I'll be a good trainer." She paused for a moment as she thought of her next words she laughed a bit at herself as well.. Her parents were looking at her with analyzing eyes. "What I'm trying to say is… Mom, Dad I would like to become a pokemon trainer. Maybe even start tomorrow."

Norman's eyes widened in surprise as he jumped to his feet and embraced his daughter. "That's wonderful May!" He exclaimed.

"Oh sweetie that's wonderful. I hope you find everything you want when you travel," her mother exclaimed. She had also made her way to embrace her daughter in a tight hug.

"If I may ask May, what made you decide on starting so quickly?" Norman asked.

May's face grew a slight shade of red at the question. It's true that she wanted to travel around the world, but the other reason why she wanted to travel was to find the boy she was in love with. She wanted to see him again in person instead of on the phone like they had talked before a couple of times. No matter how many times she tried to confess her feelings, she always failed to gather the courage to tell him. The fact that she wouldn't see his face when she told him disheartened her. Besides she also thought that she should tell him something like that in person rather than on the phone.

Norman, who had noticed his daughter's blushing face, was quick to change the subject. "Ah I see it's like that." He teased.

May's face a grown a shade darker and simply nodded.

May looked over to her mother's direction giving her a firm nod. Caroline nodded back and responded, "I'll help you get your bag ready for the trip to Littleroot then."

"I'll make sure to call Birch to let him know that you'll be headed there tomorrow," Norman cut across.

"Thanks Mom, Dad," May said with loud sigh. She was relieved that her parents didn't put up a fight when it came to her leaving.

Norman soon called the professor and told him that May would be going to town the following morning. The professor was of course ecstatic about May's decision but he did say that she might have to look for him in the woods since he would be doing fieldwork although he would try to be at the lab for her. He also said that if he wasn't available, then Joshua would be more than happy to help her.

Caroline had moved to look at May's yellow fanny pack where she began helping her pack for the trip. Since the trip to Littleroot wouldn't be too long she packed enough to last her for the trip. She made sure to pack her an enormous number of snacks since she knew she would probably get hungry along the way. After she and May finished packing the bag, Caroline suggested that May get a good night's rest for her to leave the early in the morning.

May took her suggestion as she quickly made her way to her room and changed into her pajamas. She turned off the lights then plopped down on the bed. As she was staring at the ceiling she was met by the sweet embrace of sleep.

May woke up the following morning to find an outfit laying on her desk that she had never worn before. She stepped up to her desk where she saw a note placed on top of the shirt.

The note read, "Make sure you get changed sweetie, your father and I got you these clothes so you can travel."

May gave the note a smile and began changing out of her pajamas. When she was done she stepped in front of her mirror to admire her reflection. She was wearing a red collared shirt with a navy-blue semi-circle present near the collar. She was also wearing a white miniskirt placed over dark biker shorts. Her parents had also gotten her white and blue gloves as well as black ankle socks. Her shoes were read and contained black and yellow stripes. She just couldn't stop admiring her reflection as she looked like a professional trainer.

After another minute she made her way to the dining room where her family was already having breakfast. Max was wearing the same school uniform Brendan wore when he was Max's age. Her parents were wearing their usual outfits.

"Oh good morning sweetie, don't you just look great," her mother gushed.

May felt a slight blush growing at her cheeks at her mother's compliment but it soon turned into a halfhearted glare at the comment made by her brother. He said, "you look like a boy sis."

May didn't get to make a comeback as her mother had placed a large plate of her breakfast in front of her daughter to eat. As soon as she was done, her father told her that she could leave whenever she liked. He just warned that she should stay on the main road and not go into the woods unless she wanted to get attacked by wild pokemon. He also suggested that she take her bike as it would make the trip there and back much shorter. From there Caroline walked Max to the same school May had attended in her younger years.

Norman also said his goodbyes as he would go down to gym for business like always. May said her goodbye as well. She made her way back to her room where she wrapped her red bandanna around her head and placed her yellow fanny pack on her waist.

From there she made her way outside where she picked up her bike and rode onto the path to Oldale Town. The path to Oldale took her much longer than expected as she arrived in town at around noon. She decided to stop in town to have lunch before making her way to Littleroot.

After a rather quick lunch, May was ready for the final stretch of her small journey. Again, she got on her bike again and almost made it to Littleroot if it wasn't for an eerie ghost type sneaking besides her which caused her to go off the main road and crash headfirst into a tree. She was sure a certain someone would have been dying of laughter had they been present.

"I-guess-I-should-of-worn-a-helmet," she managed to say before collapsing onto the ground.

She got on her bike again after a couple of minutes of rubbing her pained head and cycled up a hill until she reached the top of cliffside where the vast ocean lay in front of her. She noted that there was a ship coming onto the region before she made her way to town.

"Sorry May but the professor is out at the moment," Joshua said.

"Don't worry about it Joshua, why I don't I go find him then? She said and before Joshua could make a remark she was already riding into the woods.

She would have kept riding if it wasn't for the familiar cries of "help" she heard coming from a distance.

When she arrived at the source of the cries, she found Professor Birch high up on a tree while three poochyena were barking and growling from beneath. May didn't know if she should feel concerned or amused by the antics of the professor.

"Ah May it's great to see you again," he said a in scared voice. "Why don't you open my bag over there and help me out a bit," he pleaded.

"Alright," she replied. She made her way to his bag where three pokeballs were laying inside. She took a random one and to her utter horror came out a pokemon she was very familiar with. The pokemon only looked at her for a second, having sensed the displeasure for the mudkip line, and sprayed her in the face before she could yell out a command.

The thought she heard the professor chortle from the branch before he fell from the tree.

"Why do all mudkips hate me?" she asked.

The rest of the day didn't turn out as well as her she met a boy named Ash who barbecued her bike. She also met a group of criminals that tried to take the boy's Pikachu. There was also a point where May almost facepalmed when Ash thought treecko was a water type. Sure she wasn't the most knowledgeable person when it came to pokemon, but she could at least tell that treecko did not even have the appearance of a water type. She could also see that the professor was trying hard not to facepalm as well.

But it wasn't a completely bad day as she was able to pick her starter pokemon. Of course she was not going to pick mudkip after the incident and treecko merely ignored her. The only pokemon that even seemed to give her the time of day was torchic as he had made his way to cuddle against May's legs to show his affection. In the end she ended up picking torchic to be her partner.

The professor congratulated on her on choice and handed her five pokeballs as well as a pokedex. She went outside to examine her ruined bike and thought she should make Ash "pay" until she saw him sleeping along with Pikachu. Now that she thought about it, Ash kinda reminded May of Brendan. Ash seemed to have the same energy and love for pokemon that her former neighbor did. Although she hoped that Ash wouldn't tease her relentlessly like her neighbor did.

After they made sure Pikachu was alright, May offered Ash to guide him to Petalburg city where he could challenge the gym leader there.

The trip had taken much longer than expected as the pair stopped at Oldale Town where there was a strange environmentalist group involved in the ruins causing them to spend too much time there.

They had finally arrived at Petalburg after a couple of hours of tired walking. Ash had asked May where the gym was and she just told him the general direction while she went in a different direction.

As he arrived at the gym, Ash found out that it was empty and called out for the leader for a challenge.

A dark-haired boy with large glasses appeared claiming that he was the gym leader. Ash could only raise an eyebrow at the claim, but they soon began to argue when the boy decided to push his buttons.

"You're Aft aren't you? You lost at the second round of the Silver Conference," Max teased.

"It was the Championship I already told you! And it's Ash not Aft," Ash exclaimed. The two males glared daggers at each other before May along with her parents popped into the conversation from the window.

May soon introduced Ash to her parents and Max asked May what pokemon she had chosen. May released her torchic onto the floor where Max stared at him for a minute.

"Really May you choose that thing? Why didn't you choose treecko or mudkip like Brendan did?" he asked.

Torchic, having sensed the boy's displeasure, started pecking him on the back as May covered her mouth trying to avoid laughing and Ash had a wide smirk on his face. Now May knew why Brendan always laughed at her when Skipper water gunned her. It was just so funny to see another person's misfortune.

Norman and Caroline invited Ash to have lunch with them. Norman asked Ash about his travels where explained how he participated in the Kanto, and Johto League as well as the Orange Islands. He also mentioned how he used to travel with his old friends. Max popped into the conversation saying how he would just love to travel once he got older. Max had to practically beg his dad to give him permission to travel along with Ash and May.

Norman, although skeptical at first, finally agreed to grant his son special permission that excuse him from school in order to travel with his sister.

Ash was also told by Norman that it would be best if the boy came back to challenge him when he had at least five badges to his name. He had also told the boy that he needed at least three pokemon to use during their battle, so a battle between them at the moment was not possible since Ash only had Pikachu.

Ash could only sigh in defeat as he heard those words. He had come all the way to Petalburg just to be told that he couldn't challenge the gym.

After it was all set and done the three packed their bags for the journey. Norman had also given Max a yellow device known as a PokeNav to help them out in their travels. May's parents wished them all luck as they saw them leave the gym and onto the city.

"So Max said something about a Brendan guy, who is he? Ash asked. They were currently walking down the sparse streets of the city.

"Oh he's Professor Birch's son and May's boyfriend," Max teased.

"He's not my boyfriend!" May yelled with a bright blush on her face.

Ash ignored the second part of Max's statement and asked, "Is he a great trainer?"

"Definitely, I bet he can beat you Ash. After all you lost at the Silver Conference second round," Max teased again which caused Ash to send him a glare.

Apparently Max had gotten really good at teasing after hanging around Brendan for so long.

"Ash he's actually really good friend of mine and he used to be our neighbor when we lived back in Littleroot Town. May commented. She had made her way to standing next to Ash as they walked. She definitely did not want Max spouting out any more false information even though she wished that information was true.

"I don't know May, ever since we moved here Mom has been parading across the school telling all the other mothers how her little girl had gotten herself a boyfriend and who else could that boyfriend be?" Max asked with a huge smirk.

"Mom- mom is crazy Max! Don't listen to anything she says," she yelled at the boy.

"And-and why would I even love him?" she added on a second later.

"Achoo!" a brown haired boy with a white knit cape sneezed as he was standing behind the railings of the ferry that was transporting him to his next destination. The large blue pokemon standing next to him looked at the boy with a curious eye.

"Eh it's alright Skipper, I just think someone is spouting false information about me. Now let's make our way to Mossdeep," he said.

AN: so this chapter was pretty rushed but I think it's alright because you can just go the anime and watch the first couple episodes of the Hoenn season to get a feel for it. Can't believe it's already the end of this story. Feels like it was just yesterday that I was sitting down to write the first chapter and it's finally over.

If you liked this story and enjoyed my signature "sunshine and rainbows," then maybe you'll enjoy some of the stories I'm thinking of writing in the hopeful near future. As always a big thanks for all the support!