Finding Hope (Ongoing)

Chapter 5: Stranger Pidgeot Danger!

A/N: Have a habit of being late, don't I? But my bro wanted to watch Exodus while I wanted to watch The Imitation Game, and I don't want to watch Exodus so here I am. I have this giant owl rug to do as well, and yesterday we went to see the Dim Sum Dollies and it was so awesome.

Babylon - Before the Daybreak was also released a few days before, and it's quite good.

I finished Python on Codeacademy, and I keep making so many typos today! It's infuriating!

And I'll write Chapter 2 of Black Heaven someday.

"OW! STOP WHACKING ME!"

Were people getting weirded out by now? But the lack of people counts for it, hardly anyone starts from Pallet Town. Most start from the centre of the region or at least Viridian, so they don't have to go through Viridian Forest. Hardly anyone comes here these days unless they're failures in life, are catching more Pokémon, or just want to train for Viridian Gym.

But there was nobody here today (at least in this section of forest), and even if there was, I wasn't going to stop!

But even though I said there was nobody, it did feel like someone was watching. And more than one pair of eyes. But it could just be the wild Pokémon, right?

"Seriously, knock it out! We're nearly to Viridian! You know how people will react to this...... weirdness?"

My thoughts exactly! But this was revenge for him calling me red-head the entire frickin journey. Seriously, it was inaccurate. And I hate people getting my identity wrong.

"Gah!"

Hmm. I could get used to this.

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Urgh. I did not agree to travel with a maniac.

That was when the Pidgeot landed on my head.

Seriously, fuck my life.

The Pidgeot cawed and begun waving its clawed feet in front of my face.

No closer to my face! This isn't a Fearow (my body probably couldn't even handle the weight) but those claws were sharp! I don't want my eyeballs scooped out or anything.

That's when I realised it was grasping a letter. Oh. But it still didn't have to land on my head!

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Hiromi's face went through a few contortions that were supposed to be expressions, right?

First shock, anger, then plain bewilderment.

"Who's it from?" I asked, because I was seriously curious. Most people don't ask Pidgeot's to deliver anymore since it takes more time, they just asked like the actual delivery system, in which people just use Teleport to find people, but they are expensive (but most people were rich), since they require Pokémon or people able to find a person's aura just based on their name.

And there was something called the Pokégear that could like, transfer messages in about 2 seconds? But we were getting ours at Vermilion, for some weird reason.

And also because getting it to land on his head was kinda funny. Maybe I could get my bird-like Pokémon (because hey, you can't complete a journey without one, most probably) to do it too.

"My mother. She owns one. And yeah, I probably forgot something and she decided to piss me off by letting me travel longer and then having me come all the way back."

He was smiling but there was obviously something off.

He opened the letter and while I attempted to peek (hey, knowing other people's information so I can blackmail them is nice!) he obviously forsaw that and kept shifting his position so I couldn't see.

"Oh. I forgot my... stash of Pokéballs at home......"

That's when I remembered I could facepalm.

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"Hey, people can be forgetful, you know! So stop laughing! Well, it's kinda gonna be night soon, so I'll rush back and come back tomorrow morning, and you can just stay at the Pokémon center. Or, if you're that confident, you can go train or catch more Pokémon in the forest. Though I would recommend you not to. It's not safe to wander around at night, especially in a place filled with Pokémon."

"What, do you think there are monsters at night?" I snorted, but then looked up at him.

He looked pretty serious. Which was an incredible feat, for someone like him.

"There could be."

And then he ran off down the path, his one Pokéball grasped in his hand, until he disappeared from my sight.

I frowned. No matter what he says, I was going exploring. I usually couldn't sleep anyway, so it would be a waste to just spend the night sitting in a room doing nothing.

Might as well do something beneficial to my journey.