Rebirth ch32
#33 of Rebirth
REBIRTH
REUNION
Ch. 32
"I wonder if I should have mentioned that there will be a new member to our little group?" I asked aloud with a bit of a smirk on my face, as if someone could answer my silly little question that would definitely surprise Lady Suicune. "Na, it's alright. The main focus right now is to get this little one back to it's mother." I held up the Pokeball or Ultraball and looked down at it in wonder, as if looking down at it would tell me what was held inside. My curiosity was definitely peaked about it's contents, but I knew that that it would probably be foolish to open it up at the moment. "The little thing is probably scared out of it's mind and would probably lash out at me in fear from having been kidnapped from it's mother. Beside which, I can probably ask nurse Joy about what type of Pokemon it is when she gives it a checkup while it's still in it's ball." With that thought done, I nodded to myself, took a long breath, then walked into the Pokemon center.
The place was fairly empty at the moment and devoid of many of the people that were scattered about earlier. 'I wonder where everybody's at?' I thought to myself as I looked around but couldn't see anyone. Walking up to the desk to see if the nurse was just asleep behind it, I found a note on the top of the desk. 'For assistance, please flip switch and someone will be right with you.' I nodded to that and flipped the switch that was right next to the note.
I didn't have to wait long before a large/plump Chansey came waddling in through one of the double swinging doors. Like most Chansey that accompany a nurse Joy, this one was no different. The overall pink body of it was in the shape of an egg, a single egg in it's pouch to be used in it's varying attacks, a small white nurses hat on top of it's head that somehow stayed there no matter what it did, and those three protrusions on either side of it's head. 'Welcome. My name is Happy, how might I be helping y...,' She stopped her introduction when her eyes caught sight of who she was talking to, a yawn, and a bow all at once.
"I have a couple of Pokemon that could use your attention." I said in my normal voice which seemed to shock the female Pokemon a little more, but it took almost all my effort to not laugh at the shocked look on her face. She then put her stubby little arms on her hips and gave me a hard look as if saying that she was not pleased at being laughed at. "Sorry about that...., couldn't resist." I pulled off both Pokeballs and then held them out to her. "One is an Umbreon that I believe has been the recipient of an abusive trainer. The other...I don't know."
'You do not know? How is that. It is yours....is it not?'
"No. It's another Pokemon that I took off the trainer." She gave me a bit of a hard look and I knew what she was about to say. "Now, before you go off on me, you have to realize one thing,"
'And that would be, what exactly?' She asked as interrupted me and placed her arms back on her overly large hips again. 'You had better have a very good reason why I should not call down the Rangers and have Officer Jenny to arrest you.'
I threw up both my arms as if to defend myself from an attack and nearly dropped both balls in the process. "Now don't get hasty," I said as a superior smirk spread across her face. "Like I said before, the Umbreon was abused by it's trainer and the second is..." I looked about the room once to make sure that nobody was about. "The second is the child of Mew." Happy's eyes went wide and she quickly looked over to the balls that I held in my arms. "I'm just here to get them both a bit of time in the recovery center before I go and..." I didn't get a chance to finish what I was going to say as Happy quickly snatched both Pokeballs out of my hands and quickly disappeared behind a set of double doors, "Return Mew's child to her."
I couldn't help and laugh at how quickly such an overly large, possibly overweight Pokemon could move that fast. 'Any faster and I swear she'd be leaving burn streaks where she was.' At that the laugh that I'd been holding in couldn't be contained and I laughed in good mirth. Eventually I stopped laughing and took a good calming breath. 'I guess it'd be a good idea to check up on Trisha and that baby Cubone.' I thought to myself and headed up to the stairs to the upper floor and the trainer quarters, but before I put a foot on the first step I turned back and wrote a note on another piece of notepad and left it there on the desk. 'I'll be in Room 5 at the top of the stairs. I just have to collect a few friends of mine and I'll be heading out again.' With that I headed back up the stairs and to our room there at the center.
Not wanting to wake those within, to which my psychic abilities told me that both were sound asleep, I slowly opened the door and peaked inside. Most of the lights in the small room were out and the only light that illuminated the room was from some kind of neon light from the bathroom. 'Probably that night glow thing.' I thought as I slowly opened the door a little more and slipped into the room, making sure to keep my footsteps as quiet as I could. I eventually made it over to the bed and looked down at the two sleeping occupants. The Cubone was snug in it's sleeping bag made from Lady Suicune's mane while laying against Trisha's side as she lay curled around it in a half circle like way.
Sitting down on the bed I reached out and lightly began to stroke the top of Trisha's head and scratch her around her horn a bit. 'Please be safe...,' Trisha said as she shuffled a little in her sleep though didn't wake. To say the least I was quite surprised at her words and maybe even a little touched by how much she cared, but as to who her words were towards, I really didn't mind. It was enough to know that she really cared about someone that brought a smile to my face.
"Trish...a Trish...a. It's time to wake up there sleepy head, Genii has returned." I said to her in a quite voice as not to have her wake up with a start and dislodge the sleeping Cubone, then gently reached down and cupped her cheek in my hand.
Ever so slowly Trisha opened a single eye and gazed up at me with a half lidded eye. A sleepy smile slowly began to creep across her face as she turned her head to look up at me a bit more and lean into my hand that was lightly rubbing the side of her face. 'I am glad to see that you are back safe and sound. I was worried about you.' She said in a very tired tone but still gave me that happy/sleepy smile as she slowly closed her eyes and leaned a little more into my hand. I don't know how long we stayed like that, me rubbing the side of her face but eventually she began to show signs of waking up a little more and looked up at me. 'Were you able to...?' I nodded to her.
"I found the trainer and reclaimed Mew's child." I said in a proud way that made her chuckle slightly, only to hear the sound of the baby Cubone make some upset gurgles at being disturbed from it's nap, only to fall asleep once more a second later. "At the moment, it's being checked up on by the Chancy downstairs. Once she's done a full checkup on it and one other new friend, we'll be rejoining Lady Suicune." She gave a nod to that and let out a long drawn out yawn as she seemed to try out how big she could open her mouth, only to freeze in mid yawn then look over at me as I looked down at her in surprise.
A few minutes later, I held the baby Cubone in the crook of my arm as Trisha stretched out a bit on the floor. We were both startled and maybe even jumped a little when their came a quick knock at the door that seemed like it was someone using a jackhammer on the door. I practically stomped over to the door and glared down at the Chancy that was right out of our room, with a very upset Baby Cubone that seemed intent on breaking a few eardrums with it's cry. "Have you no decency?! Do you have any idea what time..." I didn't get a chance to finish what I was about to say when the second nurse Chancy returned my glare with her hands on her hips.
'Well, excuse me Mr. Upset, but I thought you said that you needed to get this little one back to Mother Mew as quickly as possible.' She then held out one of the Poke-Balls and then presented me with the other at the same moment. Though thanks to having my hands full with trying to quiet down the baby Cubone I just reached out with my psychic powers and took them from her.
"That may be true, but you didn't need to go pounding on the door, I was awake." I was about to say more to the pushy Chancy but was stopped when I felt a paw on my leg. Looking down I saw that it was Trisha and she was shaking her head up at me, as if saying that it wasn't worth the trouble to argue with her. "Alright...alright," taking a long sigh I nodded to her. "Thank you for checking up on Mew's child for me. Though I would like to hear the condition of that other one that I gave you."
With a quick nod she smiled to me. 'The Umbreon is doing fairly well, though I recommend that she stay out of battles for a while. She has been hurt pretty badly and I get the impression that there are more than physical damage that she has had to endure in the past.' To her words I could only nod at knowing almost first had the suffering that that Umbreon had to go through under it's old trainer.
"And the fact that I..." I was interrupted by her holding up a skinny arm to hold off the rest of the sentence.
'Not another word. I have seen the injuries and knowing what your doing for our mother has told me that you are not the kind of person or Pokemon to do that to someone else.' She said as a smile slowly replaced her stern one that seemed so out of character for a Chancy.
A few minutes later found us all standing outside that of the Pokemon center. I handed a note to the Chancy and told her to deliver it to the leader of the Rangers when he awoke, depicting that I was completing my task of returning Mew's child to her and would talk to him at a later moment to give him a full description of what had happened since the last we talked. So with a nod from her I formed the teleport sphere around Trisha, the baby Cubone, and myself and with a snap the three of us were off to rejoin Lady Suicune.