Pokemon Fan Fiction / Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ The Call to a Trainer's Destiny ❯ Shattered ( Chapter 2 )

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Chapter Two - Shattered

Hiro heeded Faye's remark about not starting anymore arguments. Cyndaquil was back inside its Pokeball and they were off. It was a bright and sunny day with hardly any clouds in the sky. Cherrygrove City had many creeks and rivers, thus also having lots of bridges to cross. The water was perfectly clear and pure if one were to observe it closely. As they walked, they spotted a blue beady-eyed Pokemon swimming down a creek.

"Hmm...I wonder what that Pokemon is..." Hiro said and took out his PokeDex.

"This carefree Pokemon has an easy-going nature. While swimming it always bumps into boat hulls," the strange voice from the PokeDex spoke.

"Quagsire...? They look like beavers to me..." Faye remarked.

"...beavers???" he replied and cocked an eyebrow.

"Well, in a way, yeah."

"Err...o...k...I guess if you dye a beaver blue then it would be a bit easier to imagine..."

Just as soon as they crossed the wooden bridge, Faye stopped as the Pokemon Center was visible. She then sped up her pace as they neared the large building.

"Ooooo...cool Pokemon Center...it's way bigger than the one in New Bark Town," Faye commented.

The two walked in. Nurse Joy was standing at the front desk, there were trainers using the phones, there were trainers waiting around, and there were trainers sitting in the cafeteria eating and socializing. Several Chansey could be seen strolling or rushing about, pulling along some stretchers with injured Pokemon plopped on them. It was clearly a busy time at the moment. The current Johto League tournament was drawing to an end as it was nearing the time of year when new trainers would get their chance to set off on their new journeys, and inexperienced trainers seemed to end up getting their Pokemon injured in battle often. They walked up to the front desk anyway. Hiro was the first to speak with Nurse Joy.

"Excuse me Miss...umm, my name is Hiro and would you please give my Cyndaquil a check-up?" he asked in a polite manner he tried using on Faye much earlier.

"Oh, sure! That's my job after all...!" she kindly replied. She was a pretty woman with pink hair and she was obviously very sweet. She spoke with her gentle blue eyes fixed on her listener.

Hiro took out his only occupied Pokeball and gave it to Nurse Joy.

"It'll just be a quick moment!" she said. "Why don't you and your friend go wait in that room over there or freshen up in the cafeteria?"

"Well, we could Nurse Joy, but my name is Faye and I have this medicine that Pr. Elm from New Bark Town wanted me to send to you," Faye said.

"Oh, that's right! I wasn't expecting you to arrive this early..." Nurse Joy said, delighted about Faye's quick delivery.

She and Hiro however, weren't as delighted as they had just remembered their exhausting, and not to mention absolutely demented narrow escape from the thrashing Mankey of doom. The both of them looked spaced out as they recalled the scary memory. Nurse Joy looked a bit confused when they hadn't said anything or even blinked for a long moment.

"Err...o...k...so Faye, may I see the medicine please?" she said, breaking the seemingly abnormal, and somewhat freaky silence.

Faye shook her head and cleared her thoughts of that Mankey. "Oh...ahh, right! Here," she finally said and took the box out of her backpack. She handed it to the kind nurse.

"Thank you very much! When you return to New Bark Town, send my regards to Pr. Elm, ok Faye?" she said and started walking away.

"Wait!" Faye shouted.

"Yes?"

"Umm, this might sound a bit stupid but...why do you look and have the exact same name as the Nurse Joy in New Bark Town...?" she asked while leaning over and squinting her eyes to get a good look at Nurse Joy's face.

A sweatdrop formed on the side of her head as she leaned away from the staring girl. "Well, I get a similar question to that a lot. It's cause we're all related. There's my cousin in Violet City, my older sister in Fuchsia City, the sister to the cousin of one of my sister in law's sister in-" she started to explain until Faye cut in.

"Ok, ok...I don't think I'd be able to remember all of your...umm, sisters and...cousins...so, yeah," Faye said.

"Oh well then why don't you both wait until I'm all done giving Cyndaquil a check-up!" she said and smiled warmly like she always did. Then Nurse Joy walked off with Hiro's Pokeball and the box containing the medicine.

"The sister to the who and what...?" Hiro asked with a cocked eyebrow.

Faye gave an exasperated sigh. "Ok, MY work is done here. So if you don't mind, I'll be on my way to the err...bus station."

"Ok...bye then, I guess," Hiro said, unsure of what to say to a girl that annoyed him dearly. He watched as she walked out the exit.

From the looks of the sun's position in the sky, it seemed to be only about 4 in the afternoon. If Faye were to take the bus back, it would be about 6 by the time she arrives back home. She walked, her head practically hung down as she stared at the grey sidewalk ground. The bus station wasn't too far off, it was no more than a block away. She kept her eyes to the ground. She was ignoring her close friend, the vast blue sky.

"I wanna be a trainer. If that dumb Hiro can do it, no doubt I can too. But Q would never let me...no, I have to go on a journey. What I want is to be a great trainer and to be able to fly up there. No one has the right to stop me from achieving a dream...a goal," Faye thought. She was pensive and lost in her own fluent mind. Faye remained that way until a shimmering little object on the ground caught her attention. She stopped and took a close look at it. The trashy object was a mere semi-rusty bottle cap. But then she was reminded of the strange shimmering key that was in her hand when she woke up.

Faye reached in her backpack and pulled it out. She held it in her hand tightly. "To soar in the sky...to ride the clouds...to feel the wind rush by...to fly away without a doubt...now tell us, what do you want...tell us...I want to be a trainer...wake up and look in your hand...the key..." Faye mumbled to herself. She stared at the shiny metal object in her hand. "Who put this in my hand...? Where did it come from...?" she kept asking herself until she realized that she should go back home and consider more about it then.

There was nothing special when Faye reached the station. It was a typical station, Pokemon trainers going back and forth, people waiting noisily, and seemingly lots of newspapers on the ground. She didn't have to wait for the bus to arrive, it was already there and ready to go. She sat alone next to no one at a window seat. Through the whole bus trip back to New Bark Town, she stared out the window and up at the sky. About every couple minutes she would spot a Spearow or a Pidgey in the sky. That made her even more eager to become a trainer.

"When I get back, I'll get some advice from Pr. Elm. He would know what to say," she thought.

In no time, the sky turned orange and she finally arrived at the station in New Bark Town. It wasn't a long walk to the Pokemon Center. Faye picked up her bike and rode it to Pr. Elm's lab. There was the steep hill she normally would enjoy, but she was too solemn inside to feel the usual thrill. She then walked into the lab where she found the professor sitting at his desk examining a specimen under his microscope.

"Hey Pr. Elm," she said. Her tone wasn't happy, but not melancholy either.

"Oh hi there Faye! Back already?" he replied and lifted his head up to make eye contact. He had gotten rid of his habit of not paying attention to his listeners.

"Yeah, I gave the medicine to Nurse Joy and she...told me to send her regards to you," she said blankly.

"Oh, how nice...well you can go home now. I'm sure you wouldn't want to miss dinner."

"Missing dinner would be a dream if Q was the one cooking, Pr. Elm!" she said while laughing nervously. Then her stomach growled. "Then again, I AM kinda hungry..."

"Well bye then, I'll see you in one of my lecture classes tomorrow," he said and turned to his work again.

Pr. Elm held lecture classes every couple days and Faye was one of his students. In those certain courses, he taught his students the basic things that pre-Pokemon trainers learn in their Pokemon Education classes. Faye only attended to learn the different varieties of Pokemon and the basic attacks so she would be able to recognize them in the battles she watched on TV.

Just as Faye was about to ask him about his opinion on her idea, she thought again and instead left with a simple, "Yeah, see'ya." She arrived home when the sky was already a pretty purple hue. Q waited in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Faye walked her bike inside, held it against the wall using the kickstand, then she walked into the kitchen.

Q was standing in front of the stove, heating up her soup. "Hey Sis, back I see."

"Hey Q," Faye replied and dropped herself into the chair at the table.

"So, anything you'd like to fill me in on?"

"Not really, except I was stuck with some dumb novice trainer for like three hours...other than that, nothing special."

"Well at least that person wasn't a trainer wannabe," Q implied with a smirk.

"Funny..." she replied very sarcastically. There was a long silence until Faye got the nerve to ask her sister about what she wanted. "Umm...hey Q," she started slowly.

"Yeah?" Q said while sprinkling some seasonings into the steaming soup.

"I was thinking...you know how a bunch of the other kids my age were...you know, starting their Pokemon Journeys?"

"Yeah...what, you wanna go on one? HAH! Not a chance in...h--erm, yeah go on..."

Faye's face went blank when she heard her sister's attempt of a remark. "Well, seriously, yeah...I wanna be a trainer!"

Q's eyes widened and she placed her ladle she was holding onto the cold portion of the stove. Then she spun around to face her sister. "You're not serious are you!?!?"

"Well, I said seriously!" she remarked.

"Oh my-you are serious!!!" Q laughed.

"Listen QUINN!!! I AM dead serious! I wanna be a Pokemon trainer! I have the practice, the skill, and the potential! I can be a trainer, and I WILL be a great trainer!!!" Faye shouted furiously back at her laughing sister.

Q finally stopped and acted for real. "Hmph, you're crazy if you think I'll let you be a trainer. Besides, some lazy kid like you would never get your butt up and running for anything like a Pokemon battle. So forget it Sis!" she barked back. She didn't get angry at the "Quinn" remark because whenever Faye was absolutely serious, she would use that name like how parents would with their children.

"This is an actual goal for me! When a person has a dream of some kind, he or she always tries their best to achieve it! Come on Quinn! THIS IS A LIFELONG DREAM!!!"

"Well do us ALL a favor and get a NEW one then!"

"...WHY ARE YOU THE ONE WHO ALWAYS PUTS MY IDEAS DOWN!?!? You've never listened to me my whole life and one way you can make it up to me would be letting me do this!!! You don't even like having me around anyway!!!"

"Who said that?"

"Well, do you like it when I am around then?"

"No...but, umm...for real, you DON'T have what it takes to be a trainer...you can't even look after our Growlithe, why try raising like I dunno, at least six different Pokemon at once?"

"Ned is YOUR pet, not mine! He isn't my responsibility and I do look after him well. That trashy stuff you call food is what's making him so down!"

"Ok, THAT'S IT! Go to your stupid room! This discussion...or rather argument is OVER! You are NOT gonna be a trainer, you were never meant to be one, and you will NEVER be one! GO NOW!!!" she screamed at Faye and pointed to the stairs and to her room.

Faye narrowed her eyes in all out rage. She was more than furious. Never had the two sisters argued that much. Faye wanted to get her sister out of her sight and vice versa. So she left and stormed to her room. She ran to her bed and plopped herself into it. Faye laid across her bed with her pillow covering her face.

"Who does that, that...SISTER think she is??? I have every right to be a trainer...she doesn't have the right to take that right away...wait, did that make sense? RGAAAAHHH!!! Now I'm almost arguing with myself!!!" she thought. "She is such a retard, spazzy, dildo sister! I HATE HER!!!" she continued to speak mentally. Faye's stomach growled again. "...and I didn't even get to eat anything today...oh man am I hungry..."

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A/N: Ok, finally got this chap up and running. I have a lot of hw to do and expect this fic to be updated like only once a week or two...yeah, long wait...blame it mainly on my friggin language arts teacher...she is the main cause!