Hayato

016-Pidgey

Birds of a Feather

The cawing of the morning birds can be heard out of Hayato's window. He groggily wakes up and looks up to see two bright eyed Pidgey, nudging him awake.

"Nam....Why are you up so early?" yawns Hayato as he stretches out.

"Po!Poppo Pop pop!" coos one of the pidgey as he hops around the boys head. 

"Yeah, yeah," groans Hayato as he slowly gets up, ruffling the pidgey's feathers as he gets up. This Pidgey was one of the youngest and weakest in the other powerhouses that the gym leader had in his arsenal. The Pidgey was only a level seven, while the other Pidgey in the room, who was now pruning its feathers, was a level nine. Some of his pokemon even went all the way up to level one hundred. But he would not be discouraged by the difference in levels. He would be used one day.

"Come here," says Hayato, opening up his arms wide to his now clothed chest. He was dressed in his normal attire, saving his causal wear for days when he did not have to be a gym leader. The youngest Pidgey jumps into his arms and nuzzles up to his chest while the other gently lands on his shoulder. They were more like pets then battle pokemon, which the youngest pidgey was not very proud of, but as long as he got to stick close to Hayato, he would be happy.

"You think I'll win today's match?" asks Hayato as he starts to walk through the lower section of his gym, the place where he lives, that has been blocked off from trainers. The whole third level is like a penthouse for the gym leader. As he gets to the end of the hallway, he opens a doorway that leads to a completely glass bird cage that surrounded the entire side wall of the building and had a sky light that was always opened to the sky so his birds could fly in and out when wanted. A completed flock of Pidgeots (about seven in their flock) with two pidgeottos following behind them, flew into the sky light to land on the gently packed dirt that housed exotic trees and plants to keep the multiple types of flying pokemon happy. Near the rear of the glass bird cage was a deep cave and curled back into the building and opened into a completely closed off room that was always completely black. This was for Hayato's pokemon like Gligar, Charizard, Crobat, and Aerodactyl. 

The birds tended to keep to their flocks. The two Staraptors, four Noctowls, three Honchkrow and the Delibird took up the deep pine tree forest. The Pelipper, three swellows, two Fearows, two Xatus, and two Dodrios took up the open lake that was lush with low bushes and sandy banks. Then there was the odd-balls, the Lugia, Farfetch'd, Togetic, Zapdos, and Skarmory keep to their little group, not letting many others in. 

The older Pidgey launched off of Hayato's shoulder and joined his fellow brothers and sisters as they flew around. The younger Pidgey just watches the flock.

"Why don't you join them?" asks Hayato as he looks at the sad little Pidgey in his arms.

"Po...pop...po," coos the younger Pidgey sadly.

"Well... you can't hang out with me today, I have to fight today," says Hayato as he places the young Pidgey on the ground. Pidgey looks up at him with sad eyes as Hayato gives three short whistles. A Staraptor, Pelipper, Noctowl, Swellow, Honchkrow, and Pidgeot fly over to him, waiting for him to return them to their pokeballs.

"Stay out of trouble today," says Hayato as he puts the last pokeball on his belt and waves good-bye to the Pidgey, fretting over it as if he was a mother hen. Pidgey hops over to the completely glass door, watching Hayato as he disappears upstairs to the gym, and sadly turns away.

"I know!" says the Pidgey to himself mostly. "I'll train to get stronger!"

The Pidgey then frantically flaps his new wings, not getting a lot of ground, but enough to be faster then hopping around. 

"You! Battle me!" calls Pidgey as he finds the older one at the edge of the Pidgeot flock. 

"Not this again!"

"Doesn't he ever learn?"

"That little weakling!"

"I wonder if it would be worth watching today?"

The older Pidgey just glares at the younger one, not happy with how he came up to him. The younger Pidgey crashes into the ground, not getting the hang of the landing part of stopping and shakes out its feathers quickly to get the dust off. 

"You can have the first move!" says the youngest Pidgey, confidently. The older Pidgey just sighs and kicks up a pile of dirt into his face, getting it into his eyes.

"Owie! Owie!" yells the youngest as he shakes his head, trying to get the dirt off, then laughs, saying, "if you thought that would stop me then you were wrong!"

The younger Pidgey winds up for tackle, only to get caught off-guard from his weight, toppling through the whole path, trying to keep his balance, only tripping over his own feet a few inches in front of the older Pidgey. There was snicker and laughter from behind them. 

"You're just embarrassing yourself," sighs the older Pidgey.

"No! One day I will be strong!" cries the younger Pidgey as he shakily gets back up on his feet.

"Well I'm not going to take apart of this," says the older Pidgey as he effortlessly takes off and flies into the sky to the farthest branch of the Pidgeot territory. 

"Then you!" says the younger Pidgey as he finds the level nine Pidgeotto and hops over to him. "You battle me!"

"Get lost Shrimp!" says the Pidgeotto, meaning to only fly away from the younger Pidgey, but accidentally using gust on him, knocking him out. As the younger Pidgey's world slowly gets dark, he could hear an uproar of laughter from the flock of Pidgeots. 

 

The younger Pidgey was violently shaken awake from his faint. He looks up to see caring and sympathetic blue eyes that were normally covered by floppy blue hair. 

"Pidgey? Pidgey!" says Hayato, panicking. "Are you okay Pidgey?!"

"Po?" asks Pidgey as he looks around him, he was in the gym's pokemon center, without the Nurse Joy. It was a place for the gym leader to restore his pokemon without leaving his gym or switching them out.

"What were thinking?" asks Hayato, some what angry.

"Po poppo po," says Pidgey, a little sad.

Hayato just sighs and says, "Every day you do this! I thought I told you not to get into trouble... And you got your beautiful feathers all dirty."

"..." says Pidgey, sort of, as Hayato picks him up and starts to brush out his feathers. 

"Are we going to have a problem everyday?"

"Po! Poppo po!"

"You know, I'm more scared leaving you alone then I am at taking you upstairs with me," says Hayato, thinking and brushing the Pidgey at the same time. "Maybe that would be better then letting you out on your own."

"Poppo!" says Pidgey defiantly as he puffs out his cheeks in anger. Hayato just laughs and ruffles the top feathers of the Pidgey's head.

"You're so silly!" laughs Hayato as he picks Pidgey up and carries him towards the Bird Cage and gives six quick whistles to call Lugia, Pidgeot and Noctowl. After he collected the three pokemon, he turned around and started to exit the Bird Cage. Pidgey, a little confused, started to squawk and wiggle in his arms, trying to get lose.

"No! I already told you... your coming with me," says Hayato as he gently strokes the back of Pidgey's back, knowing that this was his off button. Pidgey then slowly starts to sleep in his arms, forgetting about the world around him.

 After the night has came and Hayato stretches out his arms and yawning, he starts to trudge back to his room, after putting away his pokemon, the older Pidgey on his shoulder and the youngest in his arm as he rubs his face with his other hand. After he strips down to his boxers, neatly folding his clothes and placing them in a dirty clothes pile, he crawls under his sky blue covers.

The Pidgeys' bed was right next to his, making it easy for the youngest Pidgey, who is not a very good flier, to get between his bed and Hayato's bed. As the youngest Pidgey snuggles into his bed next to the older pokemon, he heard a little grumble from the older one.

"What was that?" asks the younger Pidgey.

"I just said that 'It must be nice to be the favor. Always spending time with the master,'!" says the older Pidgey, a little louder then it should have been.

"You know, I wouldn't spend as much time with him if you would let me win once and a while!" snaps the younger Pidgey back.

A loud, bellowing chuckle escapes the older Pidgey's belly, which was surprising for his size, though even bigger for his level, it seems to over power and grow bigger then he is. 

"What's so funny!" yells the younger Pidgey, but this only make the older pokemon laugh harder.

"You always make things so funny Pidge!" laughs the older Pidgey.

"You two!" yells Hayato as he turns and glares at the two Pidgeys. "Do I have to get out the tranquillizers? Calm down or I'll have to make you!"

This quiets them down very quickly, trying not to snicker between themselves. After they hear snoring coming from Hayato's bed do they start laughing again, not as loudly, but with the same joy. They end up laughing themselves to sleep, nuzzling up against the others soft back feathers, feeling closer to each other then to any of the other pokemon, even the pokemon in the Pidgeot flock, which the older Pidgey was a part of. At the end of the day, the only person who knows you best are Birds of a Feather.