The Road to our Destiny

Chapter 28

It is almost noon, and Timothy, Coovers, and Electchu decided to camp out last night before they went to rent bikes at the bike shop near Cycling Road. As soon as they enter the shop, a clerk turns to them and gives them a friendly smile.

"Hi, how can I help you?" she asks.

"That depends," Timothy answers before he gives the clerk a hopeful look. "Do you really offer to rent bikes to get through Cycling Road now?"

The clerk smiles and said, "We sure do. I assume you are renting two bikes?"

"You are correct," Coovers said with a friendly smile.

"Alright, I'll go get some bikes for you at the back," the clerk says before going into the back room.

When the clerk is gone, Timothy suddenly shakes his fists into the air and starts jumping up and down excitedly like a child. Coovers looks at him worriedly while Electchu sighs.

"Are you okay, Timothy?" Coovers asks.

Timothy realizes how he's acting in front of his companions and smiles sheepishly.

"Sorry," he said. "It's just that I've never been able to ride a bike through Cycling Road so I could get from Celadon City to Fuchsia City or vice versa. It's just so much faster, and I always hated taking the long way."

Coovers looks at his friend, unconvinced, and says, "Still, I don't think that's a good reason to act that silly."

Timothy rolled his eyes and said, "Dude, when your experience with traveling between the two cities exceeds mine, then you can criticize me about how I act."

"Raichu," Electchu sighs again at its partner's response.

Suddenly, there is a knock on the glass door to the bicycle store, and the two men and Electchu turn around to see Ash, Serena, Pikachu, and Brock entering the store with friendly smiles.

"Hey, you guys," Brock says.

"Hey, everyone," Coover's greets before giving a confused look. "Where's Dawn?"

"She decided to part ways to get more contest ribbons after I defeated her at Saffron City for my first ribbon," Serena answers.

"Hey, you guys going to Fuchsia City too?" Brock asks. "We're going there so that Serena can enter the Pokemon contest there."

"Yes, we are," Timothy says. "We're renting bikes to get to Fuchsia City."

"Huh? I thought you can only buy bikes here," Ash says.

"So did we," Coovers says. "It turns out because the bicycle stores on both sides of Cycling Road were making so little money because of how much it costs to buy a bike, they figure it makes sense to give travelers an option to rent bikes."

"Really? That's great," Ash says.

Coovers smiles and nods before he gets an idea.

"Hey, why don't you guys rent some bikes too and we can all ride to Fuchsia City together?" He suggests.

Serena frowns and rubs her arm before she, replies, "I don't know. Getting to Fuchsia City turnt away would be great, but we were planning to take the long way where Ash and Brock are going to show me where they rescued a Celebi."

"Wait, they rescued a what?!" Timothy and Coovers shout at the same time.

Ash turns to Serena and gives her a smile.

"Don't worry, we can still show you that from Cycling Road," he says.

"Really?" Serena asks, hopefully.