"Are you sure, that you don't want the professor to send you a few of your Pokemon? This Team Skull sounds like trouble", Maddy asked with a hint of doubt in her voice. "Yeah it's just a bunch of punks and besides, I came here for vacation. I don't want to get involved in any Pokemon fights, criminal organization affairs or anything else of that kind. I just find Clover, get him checked and go to the beach", Liya explained. The two said goodbye before ending the call. Liya sighed again. She felt tired.
She leaned against the wall of the hotel and a sudden wave of sadness hit her. Not only was she worried about her murkrow, but the whole bad experience was really not what she had needed right now. She lowered her head for a moment, but quickly shook the sadness away and tried to calm down. "I have to be strong now", she encouraged herself.
She walked down to the Pokemon Center, hoping her Pokemon would be miraculously waiting there for her. It was visible on her face, that she was down and in a bad mood. People who walked past her just ignored her or gave her weird looks.
"Clover!", she shouted loudly, in hopes her Pokemon would appear from somewhere, but there was no sign. She entered the Pokemon Center and asked people, if they saw her Murkrow, but to no avail.
Nurse Joy had bought Liya a lemonade and was listening to what happened. "Well that's unfortunate. I will keep an eye on it and ask visitors about Clover and inform the Centers in the other cities, just in case", she said. Liya thanked the woman and exited the Pokemon Center. It was already afternoon. The tourists and locals were all around the city. That was a little too crowded for her taste, but here she was. She continued to search for Clover, until it got dark and all the Murkrow came out, crowing in the sky and sitting on the roofs of the buildings. She could feel them eyeing her.
Liya had an idea. She took out some Pokebeans and shouted at the Murkrows, that gave her a curious look. "Hey, I need your help. If you help me, then you can have all those beans", she showed all the Pokebeans, that she had in a container. The murkrows looked at eachother and then back at Liya. They did not seem convinced. The woman seemed disappointed, until she took off her sparkling earrings and showed them to the murkrow. "You can have these as well", she added. The bird pokemon looked at eachother again and crowed at Liya. They looked at her expectantly and she had a feeling, that they were listening.
"Alright. I need you to find my murkrow. It's small and doesn't know how to fight. Where could it have gone? It flew off the hotel not long ago.", she asked to the Pokemon. Meanwhile two tourists walked past Liya and gave her a side eye for conversing with the murkrows. The murkrows started crowing and three of them jumped and flew over to Liya and then continued to fly down the street. Liya followed them close behind.
The murkrow lead her down to the ferry terminal and landed on one of the ships. Liya was confused and watched, as the Murkrows seemed to be conversing with a Wingull and took off again. Now she followed the Pokemon up to the beach.
The air got a bit colder, because the sun was going down and the people were walking back to their homes and hotels. She was walking through the sand. The Murkrow were bullying a Staryu into giving them information. Liya was frozen on her spot, as she watched the scene. She took a mental note to not get on the bad side of these murkrows. A tourist couple, who were leaving the beach, saw the spectacle and shouted at Liya: "That's not so alola of you! Tell your murkrows to stop bullying that poor staryu!", the man shouted. His eyes were hidden behind black sunglasses and his girlfriend was carrying all their bags. Liyas face got red from embarassment. These were not even her Pokemon, but from the outside it looked differently. "Guys!", she shouted at the Murkrow, who stopped for a moment, until one of them flew over and started pecking on Liyas head. She ran around in a circle, covering her head with her arms.
"Lmao look at that loser, yo", she heard someone say from a distance and stopped running. The Murkrow stopped pecking Liya on the head, after it felt a sudden shift in her energy. "Who did you just call a loser?", she turned around to face two young strangers with face masks.
One of them had pink hair, while the other had blue hair. Liya recognized that style. "You are from Team Skull?", she asked calmly, as she slowly walked towards them, eyeing them for the necklace that got stolen. "Why? Ya got a problem with that, lil witchy?", the girl said in a snarky tone and took one of her Pokeballs from her belt. The guy next to her laughed at her funny remark, which made Liya mad. "Yo good joke yo bc the murkrow and witches are kinda related to it right lol", he laughed stupidly, while Liya formed her hands into a fist. Why are there so many irritating people on this island?!, she asked herself.