The Silver Mountain [Pokémon]

Chapter 4- Haruka's POV

Chapter 4 has arrived. Enjoy.

BTW Haruka=May and Yuki=Brendan. (Japanese names again)

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Route 102 was silent, save for the sound of chirping bird Pokémon. No Trainers in sight. The perfect time to be picked up by a helicopter. The only thing getting to me was that I hadn't said goodbye to Yuki or-

"Hey, Haruka! How's it going?"

Crap. Wally. I'd completely forgotten he came out here daily to train. Now I'd have to say goodbye to him, and there's nothing I dislike more than goodbyes.

"Well, I'm waiting for my ride to Mt. Silver."

"You're going to Mt. Silver?"

"Yeah."

"When will you be back?"

"Once we get rid of Team Rocket. This is the third time they've come back. This is crazy."

"They're not going to kill you, are they?"

"Did Team Aqua and Team Magma kill me?"

"No, but-"

"Plus, I've got Rayquaza. I'll be fine."

A helicopter whirred into sight and landed on the route, scaring Zigzagoon and Poochyena away by the flockful. The door slid open, and a boy who seemed to be about Wally's age hopped out of it. "Are you Haruka?"

"Yeah."

"Come on. We still have to go to Sinnoh."

"Okay." I got in the copter. "Bye, Wally! Say goodbye to Yuki for me if you see him!"

"Okay! Bye, Haruka!"

The boy slid the door shut. I took a seat next to a girl with her hair pulled back into a bushy ponytail. "I'm Touko," she said.

"Cool. I'm Haruka."

"And this is my little brother Kyouhei."

"Hi, Haruka!" Kyouhei said.

"What's he doing here?" I asked Touko.

"He just wanted to come."

"Isn't it-"

"-dangerous? Yes. But he's at the top of his class. And I have a legendary Pokémon. I'm assuming you, the Sinnoh Champion, and the two Champions that are already at Mt. Silver have legendary Pokémon. He'll be fine."

"I hope so. I'd hate for a, what, 11-year-old-"

"Ten-year-old."

"-yeah, whatever, a ten-year-old boy to get himself killed out here. I'd hold myself responsible forever."

"I probably would, too."

We said nothing until we landed in Sinnoh.