Snippet #2281986

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'PARTNER'?!?" A female voice screamed in the town of Oldale. Sumara slammed her hands down on the hardwood table, causing everything on top to shake. "I have to travel with someone!? UGH! Well, who is it then!?" Neither her mother nor father spoke, looking everywhere but at her. She turned to the door, which had opened. Her brother stood there, bag in hand.

"I believe it's that ginger kid you think hates you..." A smooth voice answered. She turned to him with her jaw slack. "Yes, I know. Mother and Father did not plan this at all... Of all the brats in this town..." Jace continued to walk through the house, gathering the needed materials to study the sick Pokemon. The thought made his heartstrings clench. He would fix the little dears and even prevent more outbreaks like this one.

Sumara was raging, while she scoured her room for her headphones, tearing the room apart and then some. She didn't want to leave them here, not at all. She had flipped her bed over when she noticed them on the window sill. Grabbing them, she slid them over her head and thumped down the stairs, her guitar case slung on her back. Spotting his sister, he checked his bag one last time and nodded.

"Mother, Father, I will be escorting Suma to her partner, for now, we shall see if he lives, and then I will be off myself to meet the man you chose to 'protect' me. We will see you." And with that, both the Zabat children where gone, out the door in an instant. They had waited some time for this, Sumara the most. She hopped around her brother, who watched her with a soft smile. As they approached the meeting point for both sets of partners, they slowly sobered up, getting ready for a long, slow journey. They stood at the Pokemon Center door and waited.