So this is a new story I got an idea for and I am not completely sure about but I decided to go for it anyway.
Disclaimer: I'm pretty sure I'd remember if I owned pokemon and I don't so there!
Falling for Leafeon
Alex the leafeon was napping in the sun next to his trainer Quinn, beside a small pond in the Hoenn region. Quinn's dark blue eyes were shut and his pale freckled face had a look of peace spread across it, he was dressed in olive colored cargo shorts, a caribbean blue T-shirt, black running shoes, a black and blue leather bracelet, and a necklace graced with a mossy rock from the Sinnoh region as a pendant. His hand was resting on Alex's head leaf, this leafeon did not look like other leafeon though. Instead of torn crumpled leaves for ears and tail Alex's leaves were perfect, giving the illusion that he didn't battle often, when the fact was that battling, aside from taking naps was his favorite thing to do.
Both Alex and Quinn always enjoyed a midday nap and almost never missed them. Too bad that was all about to end soon. You see Quinn had only gotten permission from his parents too go on a pokemon journey after much pleading and begging, and on the condition that he would be back at the end of the summer to resume high school. He understood their reasoning for it too, he couldn't just be a trainer forever, someday he would have to get a job and pay bills and all that grown-up nonsense. Well you can't stay sixteen forever I guess.
The poketch on Quinn's wrist started beeping, as it did every day at 2:00p.m. and woke the trainer, but unsurprisingly to him, not the pokemon. Quinn, whose face had contorted to a grimace at having to wake up, looked down to his first pokemon and smiled, it was never easy to get Alex up from a nap or from bed but he knew how. Quinn crawled over to his pack and got out a lighter and a plastic baggie of dried grass, piled a little in front of his friend, lit it and waited. One. Two. Thre-. Alex's eyes shot open and he jumped into the air, firing a magical leaf as he did so, the leaves hit their mark and pummeled the fire out.
Alex shot his trainer a glare as he did every day when he didn't get up immediately, " It's not like we are in some big hurry every single day! You can't give me five minutes to wake up after you do? Seriously! Sometimes I just want to… to… Grah!" He yelled, knowing that his trainer only vaguely understood him from their time together.
Quinn just smiled innocently at the angry eeveelution while gripping the steel rod the length of his forearm behind his back. It wasn't unlike Alex to shoot a light razor leaf in annoyance, it wasn't enough to injure too much but it hurt pretty bad, he'd gotten pretty good at deflecting and dodging most of them with his baton but what he really needed was a shield.
"Hey! You're in a pretty good mood today" He beamed.
To this, the leafeon responded only by scrunching his eyes shut and sticking his tong out.
"Pfft. How mature." Said Quinn, pushing his luck as always.
Alex's tail started to glow green as he charged up a leaf blade attack and Quinn knew what was coming. Smiling, he readied his baton and assumed his battle stance, sideways with feet apart and baton in a defensive position. Alex charged in and swiped sideways with his tail aiming for Quinn's chest only to be blocked by a very practiced counter attack heading for his side, only to be slashed away by another leaf blade. They locked weapons and pushed against each other, watching, waiting for the other to budge. Finally after what seemed like a long time, Quinn got the advantage, he parried away the tail/blade, pressing the pokemon back in the process and went in for the final blow. As he was bringing down his baton something happened, Alex's tail glowed bright white and turned into a gleaming metal blade and he swung it around to block with such force that Quinn's baton snapped at the base, and sent a shooting pain up the boys right arm, affectively disarming him and making him clutch his wrist while holding back tears and falling to his knees.
Alex looked on triumphantly before walking over and placing the blade on Quinn's neck, smiling at him cockily, leaning in to whisper, "I win."
Quinn looked up from his arm and over to his now broken and practically useless baton and then over to his pokemon friend, slightly miffed, "Yeah yeah I know. You win." He knew when Alex was gloating. He got up and dusted himself off.
Alex just lowered his tail and nuzzled his trainer, who returned it with a pat on the back and a scratch behind the ears.
Suddenly those ears perked up at the sound of clapping. Both pokemon and trainer whipped their heads in the direction of the sound to see a hiker looking like any other standing next to a pretty, blond, woman that looked like she came right out of a health & fitness magazine. Both had wide smiles on their faces as they walked up to us.
"That was a wonderful battle!" The woman exclaimed in a voice that could only be described a melodic.
"Yes. A superb battle if I do say so myself." The hiker announced, sounding like a bass drum.
"Oh. Uh thanks." Quinn rubbed the back of his head at the complements while Alex took on a defensive stance in front of him, growling the whole time and making the two people on front of him take a step back.
Quinn looked down to his pokemon partner and kneeled to whisper, "Alex, stop. Your scaring these people and you have no reason to."
Alex grunted and lowered his guard, but not much, saying under his breath, "Yet."
Quinn stood up and looked to the couple in front of him." Sorry about Alex. He can be a little possessive." He chuckled.
The hiker regained his composure first. " Oh that's quite alright." He said. "You can't be too careful, especially with the rumors of team aqua coming back." Losing his smile for a moment before finding it again.
It had been three, almost four years since the team aqua and team magma incident but rumors were going around about team aqua coming back and it was stirring up quite a lot of panic. People, some not even trainers were catching grass and electric types and learning to use them as best they could so as to be able to fight them off.
"Yeah I guess. But he," Replied Quinn, gesturing to Alex "goes a bit overboard most of the time."
Alex just sniffed and held his head high, opening his mouth just enough to show his sharp teeth, trying to look a menacing as possible.
Quinn glared at his pokemon. "Will you stop it!?"
Alex leered at his trainer. "Will you stop being so trusting? These people could be anyone! They could be trying to hurt you or steal from you or something!"
Getting about half of that, Quinn retorted with "Well excuse me for wanting to be able to make friends on this journey instead of being known as the guy with the killer leafeon!"
With that the two charged each other and fell to the ground, biting, clawing, and kicking.
By now the blond woman had recovered and was looking on with a slightly confused expression. "Wait. Are you arguing with that pokemon?"
Pausing with Alex's teeth latched onto Quinn's left arm and Quinn's right hand gripping both of the leafeon's ears. "Um… yes." They both responded in unison, looking up at her.
So how'd you like it? Review so that I know if it's worth continuing!