119 Chapter 119

I tried calling Hilda after I was done talking to Nurse Joy. It was better to get both scoldings out of the way and done with after all.

But, there was no answer.

I probably should have expected that to be honest, seeing as Unova was a whole ten hours behind, what with time differences and all, it was still very early morning for Hilda over there and going by my missed calls, she'd been up into the wee hours of the night trying to get into contact with me.

Not to mention, the whole jet lagg thing and all that. Really, she would probably be sleeping for a few more hours yet by me reckoning.

As it was, after just shy of two hours flying towards Viridian City, I decided to land.

Charizard's fatigue was finally catching up to him I'd noticed, even with his evolution, his flight speed dwindling bit by bit until he was falling way behind Fearow.

So I decided it was as good a time as any too treat my pokemon that were injured and have some food.

Plus, since I was going to be rotating a lot of my team soon in preparation for heading to Kalos, it was a good time to get a final lesson in for the moment that they could then pass on to my other pokemon at the Viridian City Pokemon Centre.

After landing, I quickly made up a make-shift camp to last a couple hours and sent out ten of my current pokemon party of twelve.

Aerodactyl and Kabutops would have to wait a little bit.

As I cooked, Chansey got down to treating both Charizard and Dragonite with Heal Pulse, more Dragonite than Charizard.

While I cooked away, I noticed Dragonite was in a bit of a huff, giving Charizard a stink eye. Though he didn't do anything while he was being treated by Chansey.

He knew better after all.

He'd learned not to try her patience very early after what he saw happened to me when I angered her.

Such was the fate of one who angered the White Mage.

Once I'd prepared their food, I filled their bowls and laid them out in front of them all and together, we began to chow down.

"Alright guys," I spoke up as we ate, gathering their attention, "As you can see, Charmeleon has evolved into Charizard." I stated the obvious.

All eyes were drawn to Charizard, who ducked his hide to the side in a bit of embarrassment. Badass he may be, but he's still that same shy little Charmander who craved my attention on the inside.

"Geot." Pidgeot nodded once in congratulations, and Fearow clapped his wings together, Milotic trilled happily and Dragonite scoffed. Victreebel and Bellossom had already seen him evolve as well.

…But that was about it. Blastoise didn't really care and Gyarados just didn't seem to grasp what was so good about it and just nodded before going back to eating.

Gyarados I'd noticed, was kind of a solitary kinda guy.

About as expected.

I opened my mouth to continue, when something vibrated in my pocket and a familiar ring tone began echoing loudly.

Reaching into my pocket I pulled out my phone and grimaced as I saw the caller ID.

It was Hilda.

"….Right gimme a second guys, I need to get scolded." I sighed, to the amusement of many of my pokemon.

Pidgeot especially gave me a shit eating grin through his beak. It made me want to punch him and give him a repeat of the day we met.

Bastard try hard bird.

Putting him out of mind I answered the phone with a press of a button and the screen lit up to reveal the face of Hilda.

The face of Hilda with a very frizzy and messy bedhead and bloodshot eyes narrowed into a glare. She obviously hadn't showered before bed because I could see smearing in the light amount of make up she generally wore and she hadn't changed out of her usual gear, the white sleeveless top she always wore was heavily rumpled and I could see the straps of her bra hanging loosely at her shoulders.

"Jord….!" she hissed at me.

I resisted the urge to wince.

"You look pretty dear." I greeted her.

"I'm going to kill you." Hilda bit out in return.

"So pretty." I forced a wide, happy grin.

I am truly courting death.

"Do you have any idea how long I was trying to get into contact with you?" her bloodshot eyes narrowed further at my words.

"…Yeah, I mean I have the time stamps logged next to the missed calls." I pointed out.

"Always with the smart mouth, better watch it buddy, I'm not in the mood right now," she clicked her tongue, "Do you have any idea how worried I was when Rosa showed me a viral video of you literally fighting a Gyarados and then a Dragonite! Are you insane!?"

I kept my mouth firmly shut this time, resisting the urge to quip back. It was a near thing. I'd always had a problem with mouthing off.

Right now it won't really earn me any points though. And I do kind of deserve it.

"And you wouldn't answer your damn phone at all!" she continued, "That video cut off without ever showing if you were alright or not, for all I knew you could have been dead!"

A bit dramatic, but….she wasn't exactly wrong I suppose.

"And to make matters even worse, it was literally a few hours after we last spoke when I warned you not to do anything stupid," she groaned, cupping her face and shaking her head, "…I should have dragged you along after all." she moaned in defeat.

"Sorry…though I can come there if you want." I offered with a lame shrug. I was only heading to Kalos to see about getting my hands on Mega Evolution after all and while that was a thing thing for me right now, it can wait and Hilda might be dealing with Team Plasma.

…Plus, I knew where to find either the dark stone or the light stone, or at least one set of them. I could possibly get chosen by Zekrom or Reshiram and keep an eye out for Hilda at the same time in case she really is getting involved with them.