"Glad to see you're on your feet. I was told you were out quite hard." she said. I nodded again and opened the door. "My name is Irene. I sell medicine. If you have a problem with your health, I reccomend coming here. There's most likely a medicine for it, and if it's major, Jin can probably handle it." "I-I will..." I muttered before hastily leaving. I guess I'd learned how to talk to a stranger, though I had talked to that doctor guy a bit ago. Then I looked around and nearly had a heart attack. It was a pretty large town... or maybe it was just me. People and Pokémon alike were walking around. There were plenty of buildings, too. Who the heck would I even talk to? Even if I had a map, I couldn't follow it to save my life. I slowly walked around, gazing at... everything. I felt so small and lost. I decided I'd just talk to the first person who came my way. So I decided to do something... rather stupid. I closed my eyes and wandered around blindly with a hand sticking out, hoping it'd find someone. Yeah, could've thought of something smarter than that, like, I don't know, not closing my eyes in a place I was already lost in and wandering around blindly. But then my hand latched onto someone and I finally opened my eyes. I had grabbed this random boy's arm and he looked startled and confused. "What- who are you?" he asked with a glare. I could feel myself going red with awkwardness. My words just kinda fumbled over each other for a minute. I was so bad at talking to people! "I-I-I... I'm Pika, I... I lost my P-Pokémon..." At this, his eyes widened. "What Pokémon is it?" he asked. "I-I lost six, a-all in Poké Balls..." "You lost your entire team? How can you even do that?" He seemed bewildered, and I could see why. "I was knocked u-unconscious on a boat... they were t-there before... I-I'm wondering if you've seen them..." "I don't recall seeing any Poké Balls. They could be on the boat, or even in the ocean..." he muttered. I began to tear up again. My Pokémon could be stuck at the bottom of the ocean! I'd never see them again! But then a look of realization came onto the boy's face. "Wait, I recall hearing that Luke found a bunch of Poké Balls recently. Maybe they were your missing Pokémon. You should go find and talk to him." For a second, I felt so happy that I wanted to bounce up and down at the thought that my Pokémon could be okay... but then I realized I had no idea who Luke was, where he was, or even where I was. So I started to cry again, and the boy's eyes went even wider. "What? What's the matter?" he asked, clearly startled. "I-I don't know where to go...!" I wailed. He immediately seemed to relax. "Luke's pretty easy to find. Just check Praline Woods. He's usually around there." he said simply. I don't even know what a 'praline' is! "I don't know where P-Praline Woods is..." "Near Dale's Carpentry." "W-Where's Dale's Carpentry...?" "In the Ganache Mine District." "What's Ganache Mine...?!" He groaned and facepalmed. "It's a mine. What does it sound like?" he asked. I began to wail. He opened his mouth to say something, but his eyes went wide again. "I'd love to continue this conversation, bit there's somewhere I have to be." he said before walking up some steps and eventually out of sight. Just great! I'm completely lost, and the guy who knows where that other guy is had to go somewhere! I'm more lost than ever! That's when I realized that people were staring at me and that I was a snot-nosed, teary-eyed mess. I looked like a little kid who couldn't have any candy! Well, that thought just made me cry more and I ran around blindly. Not... exactly a good decision, but not much I could do about it. But then I crashed right into someone and fell over backwards! I was such a klutz, and my head hurt for it. I rubbed my eyes and looked up.
Feb 25, 2021
by
Gau
