Allura's Pokémon adventure (yaaay..)

Welcome to Motostoke (chapter twentythree)

Allura's POV as usual

It had been a day since the Purrloin, Bandit, had joined Allura's party. Well not officially joined, just kind of tagging along since his injuries made him an easy target in the wild area.

The small group was trekking along through the wild area to get to the place where Allura assumed the first gym was.
She was both excited as nervous. Both a little shaky with eagerness from the thought of being in the next town and a little nervous that something would go wrong.

It seemed as those two emotions weighed down on her shoulders and forced her to walk at a slower pace.

But no. It was the weight of Bandit and Mimikyu on her shoulders. Mimikyu was on her right and Bandit was on the left.
Allura walked a little bit behind Gloria and Hop allowing the taller kids to chat side by side. She didn't care to eavesdrop this time so she had no idea what they were going on about.

Mimikyu looked around the vast land with suppressed feelings of excitement as Bandit kept his eyes on the ground or the trees around trying not to catch Mimikyu's eye.

A bit earlier when Allura put Bandit on her shoulder the tom-cat just stared at little ghost, it was a fairly unreadable look, like he didn't know how to feel.

Mimikyu responded by giving him a deadly glare.

Bandit broke eye-contact by then and didn't dare try anything else.

Allura was a little worried by this. What if they didn't get along and they were fighting half the time? Ok that was a little out of character for Mimikyu to do but it was still possible in Allura's mind.

Though she didn't have much time to worry, they were now in motostoke. It was an industrial-looking town. The roads where made of these big grey stones put together like bricks on a house, the houses were lined up neatly by one another in their own little blocks, and there was this big bridge with two huge gears spinning on it. The bridge had a few people walking on it and under it.

The people underneath were at the little market stands buying things from the merchants. And it looked like one of the stands was a food stand. Perfect, Allura was starving after not being able to eat any of the curry from the night before.

She put her hands in her pockets but all she could find was air, she had no money, or a wallet for that matter.

She crouched down and dug through her backpack but when she scratched around all she felt was Cinder's soft fur as she had been touching the rabbit's head. "Bun?" {Why are you stroking me?} she questioned.

"Oh, uh- sorry. Just looking for something." She explained and then shut the bag before placing it back on her back. Mimikyu slid down from Allura's shoulders to be on the ground and looked up at her trainer.

Bandit on the other hand was cowering. But not at Mimikyu. "What's the matter?" Allura asked him and before she could get the entire word 'matter' out the cat squeaked {Dog.}

Allura followed his gaze and surely enough someone's Yamper was staring directly at Bandit. Though it looked more curious then aggressive.

"You'll be ok." She said and stroked him behind the ear. Bandit growled and then the girl withdrew her hand. The Purrloin wouldn't relax but he wouldn't accept affection either, she assumed she'd have to leave him alone then.

'No money, nothing good to trade, I'll have to do the other option then. Sorry market people.' She thought but then she was snapped out of it when she noticed Gloria and Hop looking at her expectantly like they were waiting for some sort of answer.

"Y-You guys go ahead, I'll catch up!" She told them quickly. She wasn't sure if it had made any sense considering she heard nothing they had said but surely enough Gloria told her to be safe and the two walked off to explore the town.