Yukatas and Fireworks

I was in the mood to make a Pokémon Fanfic, and totally not work on my other one, so I ended up thinking of a plot with Marlon (Himilau City's Gym Leader), Cynthia and Caitlin ("Princess of the battle castle/ Unova's psychic elite 4) being friends. Marlon doesn't have a canon past, so this makes it even cuter than before.
I didn't do much of an age gap between Cynthia, Caitlin, and Marlon, although I made Darachs, Caitlin's butler a bit older then them all.

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[SIZE=11pt]Chapter 1- Introduction [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Marlon looked around to the everlasting sea, and smiled. He was finally gone from that forsaken place forever. Or so he thought. He then closed his eyes to recall what just happened.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]The young Marlon was thrown to the other side of the gym; his new white shorts were now covered in blood, and sea water. He choked out the bits of water that he had swallowed earlier. He screamed to the 2 adults in front of him. "Why do I have to be the gym leader?" He felt the hot sun burning him more than ever, but right now, that was the least of his worries.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The woman in front of him looked more angrier than before, and grabbed him by his neck, and slowly raised him up."What do you mean why? It's a great honor for someone in our family to take on my role!" The other adult; a man who looked like he was a frequent swimmer grabbed her hand and made her let go of the kid.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]There was a sense of anger in his voice as he spoke. "Hamaka, sweetie... aren't you taking this a little bit too far?"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The woman spoke, as the young Marlon tended to his wounds. "Seymour, just look at him! Who doesn't want to be a gym leader? He's out of his mind!" Seymour started to treat Marlon's wounds made by his very own wife, disgusted, but in his head thought 'The kid had to learn one way or another...'[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The young boy couldn't help but yell at the two that he called parents. "But the Straiton gym already has a water-type gym leader! Can't we just wait until they retire, and then start my training?"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The caring father sighed, and went into a thinking position. "I heard that the Straiton duo's going to stop, as their kids are going to take their job, And they've got a restaurant to run, so they'll be busy, but I doubt they'll retire anytime soon. " At this time the wounds slowly stopped, as Seymour had bandaged them all. It looked there were little scars, but nothing big that was too noticeable. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The woman laughed at the child's reply. "You're suited for water. Don't you love the water? What about that Mantine that you keep talking about? Huh?"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Marlon sighed at the mention of the Mantine. Their parent's didn't know it as of yet, but that Mantine was his Mantine, as he had caught the kite Pokémon a month ago. "I don't like the water!" [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Seymour tried to reassure him about the idea of water Pokémon. "Yes you do! Now let's go and train!"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Marlon slowly stood up, not showing any signs of pain, although it was always there. "One day, if I leave... and I never come back, what will you say?" He then looked at his parents, in which only his father showed concern of his wording.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]---[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Once I came home, if you can call it a home and not a resort, I went straight to my room, and took a little nap. That was the place where I can find ultimate solitude, where I can dream about leaving this crazy place. When I woke up, it was dusk, and I knew my parents were fast-asleep, as they usually get tired and sleep at this time of day. I then changed my white shorts, to my casual dark cargo shorts. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]After the events of today, I had to get out of here. I didn't care how my mom beat me up anymore, although she usually hurts my knees/legs, as they were always bruised. Honestly, when I grow up, I'll probably cover them up, or wear a wet-suit or something, to cover it up. I have tons of tan lines, so it doesn't really matter what I cover up. I laughed at my little thought. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]They probably left the dinner out anyway...[/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]The house or villa was one of the most fabulous in Himilau City; not that I cared about that, but the only thing that I liked about it was that it faced directly towards the ocean. At this time of night, I usually spent the time swimming, or fishing. Then again, I also liked to talk to his Mantine to get stress out of his head. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]But, was there really any hope out there? If it is, it's in the moon and the starry sky.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]I opened the Poké Ball with all of my might, and saw Mantine happier than ever toady. Mantine started to swim, and once I thought it got too loud I whispered, "Mantine you've got to be quiet! Otherwise they'll hear us!"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]The Mantine stopped moving for a moment, and slowly moved closer and closer towards me. I smiled. "We're going to leave this place Mantine... and then we'll be together forever... right?"[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Mantine smiled, and silently jumped up to give me a big hug. Mantine's were known for this type of stuff, I mean they were called kite Pokémon after all! My Pokémon slowly dived down quickly, and that gave me an idea.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Y'know what? Let me leave today! That'll make it easier, and when they actually care about me, or whenever I care about being a trainer, I'll come back![/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]"Maintine,wait here! Let me pack some stuff up, and then we can go, alright?" The Maninte gave a signal of approval, and then I slowly walked upstairs. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]I packed up every outfit I loved, (all of them being some type of t-shirt, and a pair of shorts), some shoes, and some food from the kitchen, which was adjacent to my room. Dinner was delicious, like I had never experienced before, and It didn't seem to taste like it was cooked hours before![/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Did mom and dad want me to go on a Pokémon adventure, so I can become a gym leader?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]I smiled. Maybe it was their way of saying learn by yourself. Well, anyways, I ran up to Mantine after taking my luggage, and hugged it, and we sailed off. Now let my Pokémon journey begin![/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]*Personally, I think Marlon is mixed, but then again, he could just have a really really huge tan, considering his feet are white and all.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]**Marlon does have a Mantine, but it's when you rematch him. It's also mentioned as a kid, he kinda learned how to swim by playing with a Mantine of some sort.[/SIZE]

P.s- I might've spelt Caitlin wrong, a couple of times. XD

Spoiler

Chapter 2~
I could hear a yell from teenage kid. "Hey, wake up!" This person kept slapping me in the face, which I didn't know the reason why. Then I heard a young girl probably something around my age, who screamed something, which I didn't hear. It seemed like she was angry, yet I didn't know the reason why. "He said wake up!" All of a sudden, I felt like I was flying, yet I couldn't open my eyes, due to tiredness. But I decided not to move, well as of yet.I felt the blazing sun, slowly getting hotter and hotter, but I felt something smooth under me.
Smooth... Sand?
When I was able to move, I saw three people, one guy-that was probably the guy who yelled at me earlier, two girls, and the way things looked, they were all my age, if not one a bit older, and one a little younger! I then slowly tried to act if I was asleep to know what was going on.
I heard the two unfamiliar girl's voices, and they both sounded pretty excited. "He's waking up!"
The man spoke now, and it seemed that he was agitated at the two girls. "Cynthia, Catlin, could you both calm down?"
The girl giggled at her butler's words. "Calm down Darach! This is so exciting to find a kid our age on the last days of vacation! We can even watch the fireworks together!"
"This kid could be a thief for all that we know! I'll tell Jervis to get rid of him if he's not busy with your sister and Professor Carolina."
The two girls giggled in retort, to that statement. "Nope!"
"He's not going anywhere!"
I thought that was enough, so I immediately jerked up and took a good look at my surroundings. By the looks of it now, I'm in one heck of a comfy bed. The two girls and the man I heard earlier were now looking at me, surprised that I was fully awake, and functional. Just what in the world happened?
I came onto realization, and panicked. "Where am I?"
The young teenager looked very peculiar- no regal was a better word to describe him just looking at his tuxedo. "You're currently in lady Catrina's guest room, not that we have much visitors besides Lady Cynthia and her family anyway. If you need to know the town, we're in Undella town. "He immediately cut to the chase. "Now, I'd like to ask some questions. What's the last thing you can remember? "
I started to speak, when I had realized I had said too much. My cover story was that I was on a Pokémon journey, not that I'm running away from them! "I was riding Mantine and then... Wait! Where's Maintine!?" I then realized that I was only concerned about myself and forgot that Mantine was mine! I had a mini-panic attack until the kid with the teal shirt and black pants- Cynthia or whatever her name was started to giggle, along with the other girl. She then threw a Pokéball in the air, which I knew it was mine; I had marked the Pokéball a long time ago.
The man- Darach didn't notice the playing of the two, and spoke, "Then you must've crashed into the water with your Mantine. Don't worry, we've already treated Mantine, and it's back to full health."
I tried to catch the Pokéball, but ended up falling from the bed. The two cracked up in laughter once again, in which I was getting even redder of anger. The butler guy left the room, now leaving me and the two unsupervised girls.
It was silent for a moment until one of the girls started to speak. "Who are you? Where are you from?"
I smiled at the question, as I was beyond happy with who I am. "My name's Marlon, and I'm from Himilau City! I'm training to be the new gym leader in a couple years there, so I'm on a Pokémon journey for great water Pokémon, like my Mantine!"
There was a glass on the side table adjacent to the lavish bed fit for a prince, and somehow that exploded, leaving shards everywhere around the bed. The girl in the hot pink dress screamed in a loud pitched voice, "That's soooo cool! I wish I could be a gym leader-no wait, the Elite Four! But dumb Darach and daddy just want me running the battle castle! I don't care if I'm a princess!"
The long haired kid held onto her friend, with her voice rising in anger. "Hey, Caitlin, calm down! Oh, I'm Cynthia by the way, and this is Caitlin. We're best friends, and well, most of Caitlin's maids, are fixing my villa next door. It's a long story on how it got wrecked, and I'd rather not talk about it. I'm currently training to be the champion of the Sinnoh region, but I'd like to challenge you sometime, if you'd like."
I got excited about her challenge, and put my hand on some glass by accident, and didn't notice till after that my hand was bleeding. "Then why not challenge me now? This villa's got a battle field good enough for a great battle. So, let's go!" Cynthia ran out of the room, probably to get her Pokémon, with Caitlin running slowly after her.
Caitlin realized that I didn't know where the battle field is, or how to even locate the mansion, so she gave me a hint on where it was, which really helped, otherwise I would have gotten lost. "Hey Marlon, the battle field's in the backyard of the castle, so we'll see you there in 5 minutes!"
I slowly got up, and tried to avoid as many glass shards as I could. I then realized that everything I had taken with me from home was there, so I decided to change into a blue colored outfit- meaning a light blue V-neck shirt, with light blue cargo pants, with according blue sandals. Blue was the color of the sea... and the color of hope. I ran to the backyard after getting a whiff of the mansion, which was huge! I saw Cynthia, with her Gabite, something I've only read in books, and it looked amazing! She must be an amazing trainer to be able to use that Pokémon properly!
Catlin snickered, like she already knew the winner. "Hey Marlon, you ready for the battle?"
I drew out Mantine, and nodded. This was going to be fun!

 

I originally finished this story a while ago, but the story's still under editing. But that won't stop me from posting it!~~

Spoiler: Chapter 3

Chapter 3~ The battle
Cynthia's POV
When's the last time I've had fun in a battle? Haha, he is really a challenge. I then saw Marlon draw his Pokémon and was stunned. Was that a Mantine? Wow, to even have that bond... it's amazing!
It's useless to use a ground type move in this occasion, but Cynthia "Gabite, let's dig!"
"Hey no fair! I wanted to go first! Mantine, do the usual!" The Mantine tried to confuse Gabite, in which I figured out his plan. I chuckled at first, and spoke when my trusty Gabite looked at me for approval. Of course I knew what he was thinking, so why look at me? Sometimes I could never understand this Pokémon.
"Gabite, forget about digging! Instead, let's use Dragon rush, but try to avoid all the confuse rays he chucks at you!" My Gabite took a step back and dodged another confuse ray. He then rushed towards the mantine, in which the Mantine flinched.
I could hear Marlon yell at Mantine. "Hey Mantine, are you alright? Make sure you get that Gabite confused, otherwise there's no real way to beat them! They're really strong!"
I smiled at his voice. I'm not strong, rather I train unlike you. "Gabite one more time!" Gabite lowered her shark wings, and charged one more time at the Mantine, in which the Mantine leaped into the air, as it is called the kite Pokémon after all.
I shouted, wait till Mantine reaches the ground, and then finish it with Dragon Rush one last time! I then looked at Marlon, which was in a state of despair. "Mantine, last resort now! Get that Gabite!" Mantine started to generate a beam which looked like ice. That's not good.
"Gabite, dodge that, and counter it with brick break!" Gabite put its shark like fins in defense, as it didn't seem like it wanted to dodge anymore, and to make it fair with the Mantine, he was going to deal with the damage.
"Hey Cynthia, Gabite isn't listening to you!"
"He likes to do this sometimes, although I still don't understand why he wants to do this."
"Well, that's Gabite for you!"
Mantine released all of its ice energy onto Gabite, who didn't move an inch, and by the time the icy wind cleared, Gabite was half frozen in ice. Marlon looked in shock, as Cynthia didn't do anything to dodge. He then pointed to the Gabite. "Hey, what are you doing? Why'd you take that attack full on? Are you going easy on me?" He grumbled in anger, "Fine, if that's the way you want it, Mantine, let's burn him! Scald, now!"
Mantine blew burning hot water on the Gabite, who was now seemed weaker than Mantine. Cynthia heard the shuffling footsteps on the battlefield, and screamed, "Now!" The Gabite jumped into mid air from it';s unknown position, and used one of its claws as a breaker, of Mantine, which in this case was the brick. Gabite put all of its power in that move, and the two fell on the floor. When the smoke was cleared, it was obvious who the winner was.

Chapter 4

Spoiler

Chapter 4~ Accepting Defeat
Marlon's POV
"How in the world could I lose? Damn that stubbornness, if I used another ice beam instead of scald, Cynthia's Gabite would have been done!" Marlon kept thinking about his stubbornness about winning, when he realized that Cynthia had her hand out, waiting to shake on good sportsmanship.
She smiled, along with Catelina right next to her. "Hey Marlon, good game!"
"Yea, I haven't had a match like that in a long time. Thanks."
"You said that you were training to be a gym leader, right?" I nodded at her response. Was she going to challenge me when I get a gym? And I bet you Catelina will become a trainer in the future, as she said she wanted to be part of the elite four!
"I'd like to challenge your gym in the future. Is that alright with you?"
I smiled, at the thought of me becoming gym leader and having great battles like that. Maybe mom and dad were kind of right after all! I smiled at her, and gave her a little tease to make sure that she was motivated and never forgets."Sure thing! But I'll make sure to beat you though!" A butler came in slowly with some water for the three of us, and I began to take a cup and drink it.
She took a cup from the butler, and said, "Bring it on water boy!"
I almost chocked on my water, "Water boy? Watch out dragon lady!"
Me and Cynthia laughed away at our little puns, and tried not to choke on water, but once we were done, I put his gaze on Catelina, who was trying to say something, as she was silent the entire time. Hopefully no glass broke like earlier. Catelina spoke in a low voice, like something was watching her. "Hey Marlon, can you stay here for a bit?"
I was shocked at her question, and tried to decline her offer. "Me stay in your fabulous mansion? I can't."
She instead got a bit angry, and I could sense the air around me decrease drastically, like I was going to choke or something. "But you have to! I haven't had any other friends besides Cynthia, and we're going back in a couple days to the Sinnoh region! You've got to stay!"
I did have nowhere to go, so I guess I could stay, just for a little while. "Fine... I'll stay, just for you guys, alright?"
"Yay! I'll tell my dumb butler, Darachs to prepare the finest guest room we have."
Cynthia chuckled at the thought of her telling Darachs this. "Catelin, you only have one guest room."
She smiled. "Oops. But it is the finest that we have, I can promise that!" She gave a-thumbs up, and started walking back to the mansion.
I smiled at the thought of friends- real friends, not the ones at that crazy old trainer school, but then I was saddened at the thought of losing them so soon. But I tried to remain happy as I was, as for now, we would live this as we were friends forever. "Thanks!"
Once Catelina was out of the way, I then looked at Cynthia, and wanted to ask her about the glass that broke, but didn't know how to phrase the question.
"Hey, Cynthia."
"Yes, Marlon, what is it?"
"Y'know those glass-"
"Oh, you want to know why it broke."
"You know why?"
"Catelina has an issue... that I'd rather not talk about. You'd be better off asking her later in the week."
I smiled. Although I really wanted to know, I just couldn't bug Cynthia about it. "Ah, alright. I understand your secrets, as we kind of just became friends, y'know?"
Cynthia spoke, and was now holding my hand. "Yea... friends."

 

Been a while since I updated; here is chapter 5 and 6!~

Spoiler: Chapter 5

Chapter 5~ Yukatas
Marlon's POV
It's been a day and a half since I got here, and we've been spending almost all of our time together, well besides when Cynthia's grandma calls her back home to rest.
Cynthia and Catelin keep telling me amazing stories of the Sinnoh region, and how it's so cold Cynthia lives in this town called Celestic town, and it's smaller than Himilau! That's soooo weird! I can't imagine anything being smaller than that lump that people call a city!
As for Caitlin, she often travels, but she lives in this huge castle, that's bigger than 3 of my houses! Well, they're replica castles, as there's one in Jhoto and one in Sinnoh. But it seems like they have a lot of fun talking about their lives. As for meeting up in the future, plane tickets are too expensive and they can't go alone, so they'd have to visit me instead of me visiting them. Crossing regions has some huge border patrol!
Hopefully Dacahs, Catlin's butler, is really strict so far, and won't let Caitin and Cynthia leave town to go to Himilau city. That's so strict! Since its summer, the two of them stay here every other year and play together. But, Caitlin told me at the end of summer, which so happens to be the end of this week there's going to be huge fireworks! Today's Monday, so Friday doesn't seem so far away!
Cynthia says that she's going to wear this cool thing from the Jhoto region, called a Yukata on the firework show. It's like a casual summer kimono that only girly girls wear. Well, until they found a blue one just for me! It has blue lines all over it, and it looks so cool (It's for boys, and Darachs is going to wear one too)! Apparently Darachs says we can't wear it till Friday, which is the last day we'll be together.
I sighed, as I really wanted to try it on. "Why can't we wear it till Friday? I still don't understand his explanation about it."
Caitlin started to scold me, just like Darachs does; especially the time when we ate dinner, as I accidentally used the wrong fork to eat a salad yesterday at lunch. "You can't wear it to the fireworks, otherwise it brings bad luck!"
Cynthia lightly chuckled at Caitlin's reply. "You never know if a Yamask might take your soul!"
I shouted with brave confidence in my words, "Then I'd fight the Yamask and convince him to not take my soul!"
Catlin started to choke up, like she was about to cry. "What if-what if the Y-yamask tries to make my soul?"
Cynthia and I both beamed together in confidence. "Then we'll protect you from it!" We both took a slight pause, and put our hands together, waiting, no-encouraging Catelina to put her hand in. We continued our little friendship speech. "Because we're friends!"
Catlin put her hand into the little circle we had made, and then we put our hands in the air together, all at the same time, and all shouted, "Friends forever!"
XXX
"Jeez Marlon, the last day of summer's on Friday, and today's Monday, it's so far away from now!"
"That's what you say, next thing you know, it's Friday, and we're saying our goodbyes."
"But we'll try to send letters every so often! We promise, no matter how far we reach, we'll always be together as friends! "
Catlin "But right now, I want you to have this!"
"What's this?"
"A yukata."
"A what?"
"Well, it's a thing exclusive to Jhoto, although I've seen a lot of people in Kanto wear it too!"
Cynthia started to make a joke, but it didn't end up so well. "Isn't that only for girls?"
I looked at them both and doubted it for a moment, but if it was true, I wouldn't be wearing that. Ever. "Woah, it's only for girls?!" I'd never wear that thing in my whole life then!
Caitlin started to explain. "It's for guys too! In the Jhoto region, there are tons of guys wearing it all the time! Oh, especially in Ecuktrak city!"
I questioned it, and gave them both a nod of approval, and a smile as courtesy for the gift."Guys wear that?"
Caitlin looked like she was about to explode with laughter. "I have a picture of Darach wearing it!"
I giggled at the thought of that stoic butler wearing it. "Let me see!"
xxx
We all ran to Caitlin's room, and went through her photo album. Apparently I didn't see any pictures of her in any Pokémon battles, perhaps her parents forbade her from such stuff? We eventually got to the picture with Darach and once I had laid my eyes on it, I couldn't stop laughing.
He looked as stoic as he always did, but with the smile he had on that picture, it looked like he was having fun! We were interrupted by the same man in the picture, who seemed to be in frenzy. "What are you doing?" I quickly hid the picture in my pocket, and doing my best to make sure he didn't know what we were seeing.
Cynthia tried to talk it off as well. "We were looking at pictures of fireworks. We're all really excited, and we were thinking of showing Marlon a bit about fireworks too."
He slowly turned red, as it looked like he was thinking about it too. Then again, he was the head butler, he had to prepare the feast and the decorations for the festival. "You all are too excited about it, we have 4 more days until then!" Catlina then started to look around, trying her hardest not to say anything.
Darach noticed that they were trying to act natural, and observed the kids, until Catlina started to giggle. " Lady Catlina, is something the matter?" He then looked at the photos, and then Catlina screamed, run!
We all ran for our lives from Darach.
XXX
I smiled as a hugged the life out of the Yukata, and happily awaited for Friday.

Spoiler: Chapter 6

Chapter 6~ Who I am.
Day 3/5- Wednesday
I looked at Caitlin with full intent on finding this mystery out. Now that we were friends, there was no need to hide anything anymore. So then I spoke. "Hey Caitlin, I've been meaning to ask this since Wednesday, but you've got to tell me, how did that glass break?"
She started to curl her hair around her finger nervously. "Well... Didn't you ask Cynthia about it?"
I tried to reassure her that nothing's wrong, as what was there to be worried about in the first place? "I did, and well... she told me to talk to you."
"Hey, Marlon, don't tell anyone I said this, well besides Cynthia, because she knows."
I looked around, and made sure there was no one in the vicinity. When I was done searching around, I put my hand to her ear and whispered, "Why not tell anyone?"
She talked in the same tone as she was before, not caring about whispering or not. "Everyone gets mad, or acts weird around me, besides Cynthia, and that's why she's my only friend. But since you're part of the group, I get to tell you!"
I sighed. She's somewhat taking this seriously... right? "Is it that serious? I just thought it was a trick or something."
"Well, I wish it wasn't that serious. Let me explain: I have a psychic power, and well... due to that Daddy doesn't let me have Pokémon, although I really want to."
I looked at her with amazement, another cool trick to an already cool friend. "A psychic power?! That's soooo cool!"
"Wanna see?" I nodded. She then lifted a spoon all the way from the kitchen, to the porch that we were sitting. Then if that wasn't enough, she put it on my nose, and took it off, and bent it; all in mid-air! After a couple of seconds, she put it down to the ground, and tried to shake my face off of shock.
I then took a deep breath, and then asked her another question. I just hoped that I didn't intterogate the living crap out of her. "Hey, Caitlin, do you have any other people visit the villa besides Cynthia and me?"
"Sure! Daddy and Mommy come in from time to time, but Cynthia has a couple friends like Skyla, Elesa, and book reading Lenora and Shauntal! They're all famous, like Elesa does modeling, and Skyla's grandpa's a famous pilot! As for Lenora and Shauntal, I have no clue, but they're all amazing trainers! But either way, Darachs treats them all meanly, just how Darachs treats you. Hopefully he'll warm up to you soon."
I looked at the spoon on the ground now, but I smiled even brighter than before. "Hey, thanks for telling me! That's so cool! Hopefully you'll master it one day and be even a better trainer than me and Cynthia!" And yea, one day hopefully, Darachs will open up to me.
She looked a bit discouraged at first, but then chuckled. "Does that mean I'll be able to join the Elite 4 in the future?"
"Whether it's this region, Jhoto or Unova, you'll have your own sense of fame somewhere! So you'll eventually be really famous in your own way!"
"Hey, thanks Marlon! If it wasn't for you, I would've been stuck watching battles all the time, but now, I think I can control this power and put it to my advantage!"
Another voice appeared, and would've scared me if I didn't know the voice that well. "You do just that, Caitlin!"
"Cynthia, what took you so long?"
"Sorry, I was helping my younger sister and my grandmother pack up."
"You all are packing up already?"
"Apparently. I couldn't believe it earlier, but we're to leave early Saturday morning."
"Then what happens when you both are gone?"
"You won't have to deal with those meanie parents you got!"
I looked at both of them in shock. They weren't supposed to know that!"Wait, how do you know about that?"
"You mentioned it in your sleep the first day you arrived, dummy!"
"So you guys know why I left from home?"
Cynthia smiled. "Every single bit of it. You can't keep anything from us, y'know."
Caitlin said, "Darachs managed to call your parents and say that he'll be here till Saturday, and then he'll be home by Saturday night!"
I blushed a color of what seemed to be bright red. I inwardly cursed my dumb hormones, and my luck of going on a real Pokémon journey, although this one isn't so bad. "You guys didn't have to do that..."
Darachs suddenly stepped into the room. "They've changed for the better Marlon, and I think this trip has also changed you as well. At first, you were a irresponsible brat of the Kai family, due to them being all fishermen but you do have some talent in you. And I'd like to see you push yourself until the end."
I looked into Darachs's eyes with fierce determination. "Wait, so you're saying that is that one day you'll challenge me?"
Darachs clicked his heels, and took a quick right turn to the door. "Maybe. We'll just have to wait and see until then, right?"
I put my fist in the air, ready for a challenge, like if it was going to happen right there and then."Right!" Darachs left the room.
I went to play with Cynthia and Caitlin for the remaining time I had, with no sight of him interfering from then on.