Pokemon: Alexandrite & Topaz

Chapter 50: The Beginning of the End

Sentoki sat up on his bed. He cracked his wrists, ankles, knuckles, and neck. He checked the time.

"9:51. Two hours and thirty-nine minutes to showtime." He put his hands together with his forearms resting on his lap, head hanging.

The door opened.

"Good morning," Hikaru said as she entered and leaned her shoulder against the door frame.

"Hey," Sentoki said quietly.

"You're still thinking about yesterday."

"Yea-" Sentoki was cut off.

"That wasn't a question." Hikaru entered the room and sat down beside Sentoki. "Hey, I know how you feel, even though I haven't experienced something like that before." Sentoki slightly nodded his head a couple of times.

"Where's Kimyona?" he looked up and asked.

"She's already training for later."

Sentoki put his hands on the bed and got up. He grabbed some clothes and headed for the doorway.

"Where you going?" asked Hikaru.

"I don't know. Gonna try to take my mind off everything." Sentoki said as he left the room and headed towards the bathroom."

Hikaru sighed and got up, heading outside and sat on a bench, enjoying the perfect weather.

"Not a single cloud in the sky. This is the perfect weather for a day like this. But even more perfect weather for my friends to come out and relax!" said Hikaru as she let out her Pokemon. Pichu, Absol, Zorua, Vulpix, and Riolu joined Hikaru while Charizard laid down in the grass to sunbathe. From the front door of the hotel, out came Sentoki who wasn't wearing his normal everyday outfit.

He didn't notice Hikaru who happened to be sitting five feet away. Sentoki got down and tied his shoelaces and slipped on his shades on along with his headphones. Hikaru watched Sentoki as he jogged away.

Sentoki began to talk to himself during his run as he listened to music. He was trying to focus on the battle that he was going to have in two hours. "What happened yesterday doesn't matter anymore." He looked to his right and saw a giant TV screen. On it, was a picture of Kimyona and him, facing each other with their Pokemon. "Everyone's gonna see me win... or lose." His thoughts were going down south. "Finding my parents was my primary goal, winning the Pokemon League was a side quest." Sentoki looked to his right and saw a child embracing his parents. "My father wasn't the person I thought he was, he isn't the person my mom married. He's someone else. He isn't my father. I don't know him." Anger began to consume him once again. "I came all this way, just to find out who he really is. He wasted- ," he was breathing heavily now, "He wasted all my time. I came here just for this. To find out he is just some stupid moron?!" Sentoki's anger started to build. "All of this just to find out he's some kinda asshole and he ends up dying?!" Sentoki went into a full sprint, shoving past the people in his way. He sprinted for a solid minute until finally his legs gave out and fell into some bushes.

Kimyona, in the middle of training her Pokemon, heard a rustle in the bushes. "Not again.. if it's Sentoki or some fool like him, I swear.." Kimyona said as she slowly walked up to the bush. She parted the bushes and saw Sentoki lying flat on his back.

"Really? What is with you and bushes?!" yelled Kimyona at Sentoki as she backed off and facepalmed.

"Oh, hi Kimyona," said Sentoki as he still laid on the ground, frozen and staring at the sky, "Lovely weather we're having."

"Yeah, the perfect weather for when I kick your ass later!" said Kimyona as she hair-flipped and walked back to her Pokemon.

Sentoki's face looked alerted upon her saying that. He sat up straight. "Yeah, you keep telling yourself that." He checked his watch.