Teen Angst and an Attitude Problem

He opened his eyes again. Looking out at the crowd, Markus sighed. It was not often that he got irritated, and he wasn't really, but he felt slightly miffed that the bus was a whole ten minutes late. He shrugged his bag off his shoulder, and opened it to pull out a map. He examined it for a moment before returning it. He returned it, now sure that the bus he should have been on by now would take him where he needed to go. After another two minutes, he got up and walked away. It wasn't worth the wait just to get across town.

He was walking down the street through the mild crowd. It was just after midday, so most people were either working or eating lunch, leaving the crowd thinner than usual. He looked to the left, and saw a train pulling in the station and letting a few people off. He stopped moving forwards and looked in to see what kind of people had arrived in the city. "More people to the mix. Maybe somebody interesting?" He wondered how many of them were trainers.

Zeke yawned loudly, it had been awhile since he had done anything worth note and he was itching to test himself.  He noticed a train pull into the station but didn't pay much mind to it.  He crossed the street to the park near the station and looked around, as always the playground was bustling with kids and fussy parents.  He quickly bought a crepé from on of the stands located there and went to sit down when he felt his pokeball shake.  He reached down to where he kept it on his belt then threw it in the air, releasing his Porygon.  He wasn't surprised that his pokemon wanted out, it had always been able to sense when it was in lively places.  A few of the kids ran over and started ogling it before their parents came and scolded them.  "I don't really mind and neither does Porygon, he likes attention," He told the parents, "in fact this show off probably wouldn't mind giving rides."  The parents and kids laughed as Porygon did a flip at the comment.  A small red haired giggling girl was the first to climb on Porygon's back and then he floated off at a modest pace so he wouldn't throw her off, and the other kids gave chase.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd at the station shouted rather loudly, and a path cleared before her. She moved outwards from the station, and removed her sweater. "Well, I suppose the city's quite warm today." He mused to himself for a moment, and then looked back to see her moving towards a nearby playground, while reaching into her bag. He looked over towards the playground, and saw a younger fellow with a porygon entertaining some children.

"I've got nothing better to do." He began to walk over as well, and drew his hand inside his bag, grabbing his only companion on his journey. "Hello there!" He called to the trainers a small distance from him. "Come and say hi, Litwick." His friend came out of the ball, materializing on his shoulder. "Just saw you two from over there, and I'm bored. My name's Markus, may I have the pleasure of yours?" He gave a little bow to them. Litwick chimed in happily. "Lit!"

Zeke looked up and noticed a guy with the same hair color as himself, it was odd he didn't know many people with that natural color. The guy introduced himself as Markus and his pokemon Litwick. Zeke wasn't really a fan of ghost type pokemon but he didn't let it show. He nodded stuffing the rest of the crepé in his mouth and swallowing it before introducing himself, "My name is Zeke, and the Porygon over there under the pile of kids is mine." He said pointing at his pokemon which had been caught and was now buried underneath kids trying to get a ride on its back. Zeke shook his head exasperated this happens every time they come here and his Porygon still chose to give out rides.

"Lit." His friend grinned happily at the Ghastly beside him. He nodded at the Ghastly, and looked between the two trainers. "Nice to meet you both. I do have a map," he said, reaching into his bag for it, "and I'm also staying there for the night. If you want, I could show you the way there." He moved to hand the map to her. "You two here for any specific reason?" His Litwick moved around his shoulders, staring at the Ghastly. "Lit lit lit lit." He mellowly rambled as he did.

Zeke smiled, "That map isn't necessary the pokemon center is just down the road and to the right, a little advice avoid the curry surprise."  Zeke smiled a little as his Porygon floated over to meet the Litwick and Gastly. He out right busted out laughing at the startled look on its face when it accidentally passed through the Gastly.  "Introduce yourself properly Porygon." He chuckled as his quirky floated around Faydra's head.

Zeke saw the disappointed look in her eye as she left the map alone.  She immediately started heading to the pokemon center, he noticed that she didn't have a pokegear.  It was a simple tool really with a map, radio and phone installed.  Zeke pulled out his old purple and black pokegear, it was still in good shape and matched her color scheme perfectly, he thought. He had wiped the phonebook on it when he got his new green pokegear so it only had the number of his new one in it.  He signaled to his Porygon giving it the pokegear and a note which read:

I don't need this so you can have it. This old pokegear works perfectly and already has a full Aris region map and a radio installed. The only number currently in it is my new one, feel free to call me any time you need help.

Sincerly,
Zeke W.

He sent off his Porygon who came back a short time later, he returned Porygon to his pokeball and said goodbye to the guy he was chatting with and went home.