Chapter Three: Oldale Town
As the young boy yawned lifting his arms at full stretch, he noticed that he was walking out of the woods. With many houses bang right in front of him and a large sign that said 'Oldale Town'. James looked to his left to see Aron looking at that very same sign. The young boy in his muddy white hoodie walked ahead onto the road, Aron quickly followed.
"You excited James?" Aron asked.
"Excited about what?" The boy replied confused.
"Well, this is the first town you've reached on your journey. You've caught a Pokémon, why not be excited?" James stopped and realised something, he wasn't feeling that same buzz he felt when he ran to Route 101.
"James, you alright?" Aron asked as he walked past James, who shrugged off his thought and walked on. The two trainers kept on chatting about various things until they reached the town dead ahead.
Walking on the path that lead them into the Town, James remembered that his Dad told him that he was born here, at the Town Hospital. He suddenly felt that buzz, because this was the place that started his life and will set him on course to help fufil his dream of becoming a Pokémon Master.
"James, I've got to go see an old friend. You can stay at the Pokémon Center and get some things from the Pokémart. You have money right?" The boy in his dirty clothes nodded sarcasticly.
"Of course I have money." He sarcasticly replied. He watched Aron leave the area and then quickly searched his backpack, he panicked before finding his wallet. Sighing in relief, he decided to look around the Town.
'Get some things from the Pokémart'. James remembered what Aron said, taking his advise he walked down the road to the right to have a look. It wasn't a classy town, just a simple place to live. A bit of the country side, blue skies, a sunny day with the families at the local park, much like from where James grew up back home.
Walking to the end of the road, James saw a sign to the left saying 'Pokémon Center'. "Right, I'll head there later." James said to himself thinking of which way to go, he saw another road leading to somewhere else. The boy headed down that route.
A few minutes later, the boy had reached down to the end of the road. A dead end, just houses standing in front of him. He looked around quite lost at not finding the Pokémart and saw a few what looked to be new trainers headed down the road towards him. James walked up to the three of them who stopped in his wake.
"What do you want?" One of the trainers asked in a rude tone, stroking back his long black hair while he scratched his blue jeans with one shoe.
"Do you know where the Pokémart is? I'm a bit lost." James asked, ignoring the trainers tone. The two other trainers leaned back waving their hands in front of their face with mouths wide open. James looked to them and raised an eyebrow. 'They must be gay' James thought to himself.
"What! You think there queers do ya? Do ya punk!?" The trainer who spoke a second a go yelled out, shoving James back. The boy looked at him confused but not scared, he didn't reply, he just attempted to walk past the three trainers.
"Oi! Where you going? Come on, Pokémon Battle!" The trainer yelled out, pushing James back again where he nearly stumbled over. James looked to him and laughed, pulling out a Pokéball from his belt under his hoodie.
"Your on." He simply replied. The two supposedly homosexual trainers snapped their fingers and walked behind the other trainer, rubbing his shoulders as he pulled out a Pokéball. But before they could begin, a motorbike came by with Officer Jenny riding on it. With her blue uniform and short skirt and high-heels, her long blue hair buffled in the wind as she got off the bike.
"No Pokémon Battles! Now, go home or to the Pokémon Center." She bellowed out to the four trainers, the three trainers pointed at Brian while walking away, for at least a minute.
"Shouldn't you be going too?" Officer Jenny asked while walking up to James. But the boy was looking at her legs before looking up.
"Err, yeah. Sorry Mam, err Officer. Officer Mam Sir!" James quickly walked off with his head down, the Officer looked at herself and shrugged before riding off on her bike.
As James reached to where he was before, with the sign 'Pokémon Center'. He decided to head down that route and conveniently saw the Pokémon Center only around fifty yards ahead. Walking down the road he thought to himself 'Why do all Officer Jennys have to dress like that? Distract the robbers?' He thought to himself. He was now thirteen and was getting interested in girls, but wasn't as smooth as he hoped back then. Realising he sounded like an idiot.
Reaching the Pokémon Center, the large doors slided open as he walked into the dome shaped building. Inside, many trainers and their Pokémon were sitting in the lounge or eating at the cantine. James walked to the what seemed to be a Nurse behind the desk ahead of him. With her Nurse uniform on and Nurse hat, her pink curled hair stuck out at the sides. James ignored the odd look and walked over to her.
"Hello, how may I help you?" The Nurse asked.
"Can I stay here for the night?" The boy asked looking around the room and at the differant Pokémon.
"Yes, you can stay with another trainer who booked in at Room Twenty One. The Cantine is to your right if you wish to get some dinner, have a nice stay." Her sweat voice spoke out before looking to the next trainer. She gave James the key to his room, before he walked over to the cantine on his right.
The doors slided open, the room all in white tiles to brighten it up. With the glass windows, the boy saw that it was now getting darker so he was just in time really. He walked over to the left seeing the trays next to him, he picked one up and noticed two differant servings along the aisle. Pokémon Food and James favourite of course, Human Food which consisted of many things.
He smiled in excitement as he put some pasta onto his place before grabbing an apple on the top of the aisle. He looked to his Pokéballs and realised his Pokémon need to be fed, he scooped up aload of Pokéblock from the counter and walked across to the end of the aisle. Looking over, he didn't see anyone or a till.
He looked to his left and asked the trainer next to him "Is this free?".
She laughed while picking up a couple of bananas. "Yeh, it's free for under sixteens." She said. James smiled before taking his tray to a nearby table and sitting down. He noticed other trainers had some of their Pokémon out eating, so James did the same. He took two Pokéballs off his belt and let out his Mudkip and newly caught Poochyena. They saw the Pokéblock in a bowl on his tray and looked to James.
James put the Pokéblock into two bowls and layed them onto the tiled floor, the two Pokémon digged into their meal for the night. As James was un-peeling his banana, he saw that same trainer walked over to him. She sat down as she crossed her legs over her skirt before buttoning up the top of her shirt. James looked up to her, seeing her blonde hair dangle down to the top of her shoulder as she took off his red woolie hat.
"Don't get any ideas." She said to the boy as she done up the top button of her white shirt. James ignored what she said and bit into his banana. As James ate his banana, she took out one of her Pokémon. It stood there on the table with a cream body of two legs, two arms and a head with large pointy ears sticking out. James looked to the blue markings on it's body. He took the final bite of his banana and pulled out his Pokédex from his pocket.
Plusle and Minun bear a remarkable resemblance to Pichu and Pikachu. They have short tails with flat minus signs on the end of them, while their cheeks and the tips of their ears are blue, and have minus signs voided in the middle.
Minun loves to cheer on its partner in battle. It gives off sparks from its body while it is doing so. If its partner is in trouble, this Pokémon gives off increasing amounts of sparks.
James closed his Pokédex, putting it back in his shorts pocket. "That's a cool Pokémon, where you get it?" The boy asked. The girl looked to James's Mudkip eating it's dinner before speaking.
"It was my first Pokémon given to me by my Mum, like Prof. Birch gave you your Mudkip." She said. James looked to Mudkip and then his Poochyena who had finishes his food and tried to take Mudkips, who moved his bowl away from Poochyena.
"Well, anyway. I'm going to get an early night, bye." James lifted up his tray and moved to the aisle of food, before quickly grabbing a spoon and stuffing down his bowl of pasta. The girl saw the Mudkip and Poochyena follow him and waved bye to them, she then fed Minun it's food.
Later on, James found his room after a long search. He put the key in and turned it, opening the door. Mudkip and Poochyena ran into the room seeing the other person asleep in his bed. James quietly walked in as Poochyena and Mudkip lay on the cushions on the floor, James kept the lights off as he took off his hoodie and shoes, going to bed in the same clothes he worn in that very long day.
