Hey! Welcome to my new story! I think I'm probably done with the Nartuo one, at least for now. I just fell out of the fandom and have no passion for writing. I'm really sorry to the few fans I have. Hopefully you enjoy this though, its a full story with planning and lore, like I was trying to do with Kingdom of Ash. The next chapter of Heart Clap should be out soon-ish as well. Enjoy!
I woke up the town of Kuan-ti, the small of the ocean gently helping the warm sunbeams chase away my dreams. I stretched as I got up, releasing my partner from his pokeball. As the pokemon formed, I quickly threw on a loose top and tracksuit bottom before turning to him.
"Morning Galac, ready to get training?" I asked as the tiny Riolu stretched.
"Ri Ri!" Came the response. As normal Galac was excited to train.
I vaulted out the window, Kuan-ti was a nice town, and the Bastion ment no monsters got to us, so most people didn't have window panes, no point with the hot weather. As I tumbled down I felt Galac grab onto my shaggy blonde hair and we flew through the sky.
As we hit the ground I rolled, running out to the training ground, Emmie and Maguum wern't here yet, probably still asleep, so I had some time to train with just Galac. He hopped of my head and got into a battle stance.
"Don't worry, don't worry." I chuckled at him. "Your get some time doing sparing today when the others show up. First we need to practise with your aura control, got it?"
He gave me a deadpan look and flexed the small mussels in his arms, staring straight at me.
"Don't give me that Galac! I know I said we'd train first today, but the others aren't here yet, I've got no other pokemon, what do you want? Me to fight you myself?" I asked rhetorically
Unfortunately he didn't seem to get that, nodding vigorously when I brought it up. It raised a good question though, if I was training Galac to fight monsters at the bastion, I'd need to be able to defend myself…
"Okay then Galac, we can train. But don't use any moves okay? You gotta go easy on me buddy." I got in a stance I remembered from some of the warriors in our village, and waited for Galac to start the fight.
I wasn't left waiting long, as the emanation pokemon shot out at me. I felt the wind rushing towards me as I raised my arms to block the hit, as soon as he made contact however, Galac pushed off my block to uppercut me, sending me stumbling backward.
"Nice going Galac, keep it up!" I called out, as he started to run towards me once more.
I felt the same wind as before, but ducked down this time, sending Galac flying over my head, as he skidded across the sand I rolled to the size, sending him flying past me once more. He was starting to look irritating and kicked up a cloud of sand, I made a lucky guess and dodged to the right, letting him sail pase me once more.
"Thats a good warm-up Gal, lets-" but before I could finished I saw him flying towards me, surrounded by aura. Hie eyes where panicked as he tried to stop it, but all I could do was rise my arms in a cross to block it, as I was sent hurtling to the ground. My world went black.
"Do you ever miss a future that never happened?"
My eyes shot open and I looking around for the voice, I saw Galac staring into me, with Maguum and Emmie standing above, looking worried.
"Did you guys hear that little girl? Something about missing the future?" I asked, rubbing my head as I got up. The two of them looked at me, giving out their hands to help me up.
Emmie spoke up, wearing her normal white skirt and light blue jacket combo, the braids in her ginger hair kept it out of the clear blue eyes watching down at me. "Haska, are you alright? We found you passed out here!"
Maguum on the other hand took a step back after helping me up, his arms stretched back behind his head. Just like Emmie he wore his normal getup, a white tank top under a rich purple vest with a deep v cut into it. He also wore black shorts with a metal chain clipped onto the right pocket. "Uhh, there's only us here, what are you talking about."
I looked around the dusty training field and he was right, no-one but us was around, Galac was looking up at me, clinging onto my trouser leg, a mix of worry and shame in his eyes.
"Its alright lil'buddy, you managed to use your aura right? I'm fine!" I rubbed his hair as I look towards my friends, neither of their pokemon out yet.
"So Emmie, Maguum, ready to get started? I'm feeling fine and Galacs clearly ready to fight." I joked at them.
They both shrugged and sent out their pokemon, Emmie had a Buneary named Ishro, who sprang out of their pokeball in a battle stance not unlike Galac. As Ishro sprang over to Galac, Maguum's Baluk came out, a ralts unlike any other, with blue hair and an orange spike, instead of the typical green pink combo.
"So, did you get Baluk checked out by Usagi yet? You need to be sure they're male if you want a Gallade, and we still don't know why they're such a strange colour." Probed Emmie.
"I told you guys, I'm not letting Baluk out of my sight, they always teleport back to me anyway. So long as Usagi's equipment is to 'delicate' for me to be around, we'll have to wait for the surprise." Defended Maguum
"Enough, enough, you two have been training right." I spoke up, the two of them nodding.
"Okay, Emmie won the last one." I started.
"As usual." Cut in Emmie
"So me and Maguum fight, and then you take on the winner as normal Emmie" I finished, moving to get onto my side of the training field.
Maggum and Baluk took to their side of the arena, Baluk staring down at Galac as the Riolu made flexing motions towards the Ralts.
"Both sides ready? Hope so! Start!" Came the call from Emmie.
"Baluk! Teleport around and use magical leaf!" Shouted Maguum, starting the fight.
I took a moment to rethink my plans, if Baluk knew magical leaf they probably had more raw power than Galac, for the time being I needed to place defensive.
"Galac, use quick attack to dodge the leaves! If Baluk gets in range grab them!" I responded, only a small delay after the first leaf barrage.
Galac followed quickly, darting under and over the shots, a decent few of them made contact, but it looked like all the teleporting was taking its toll on Baluk.
"Use draining kiss Baluk! Get back your energy before he catches you!" Cried out Maguum.
"Intercept it! Use meteor mash!" Was my response.
Baluk appeared behind Galac and dove in to hiss the back of his neck, before he could make contact, Baluk was sent hurtling into the ground, but a pink glow around them showed that part of the draining kiss went off.
"Your always using that dumb egg move! This is the time we Get Lucky though! Multi teleport! Kiss when he's distracted!" Called out Maguum.
I watched in horror as Baluk started teleporting all over the arena, sometimes appearing behind Galac, only to have disappeared by the time he swung.
"Use endure and counter attack when they stop!" Came my order.
Galac stopped flailing around at my instruction and stood perfectly still, Maguum started to call of his attack, but Baluk saw it as an opening and teleported in front of Galac to use draining kiss. As soon as they made contact however, Galac shot a metal fist into the poor ralts stomach, sending them flying into the ground. A wave of dost rippled across the arena, ruffling my shirt, as it was revealed that Baluk had barely not been knocked out by the attack.
"Teleport out of there Baluk!" Shouted Maguum.
I shouted back. "Quick attack before they get away!"
As Galac shot towards Baluk, the small ralts let out of burst of psychic energy, using confusion to knock out Galac.
"MATCH! Winner is Galac! Baluk used a fifth move in the battle" Came the call from Emmie.
I rushed over to the field with Maguum, both of us scooping up our pokemon to make sure they were alright. Galac had opened his eyes already and was once again looking ashamed at his performance.
"Hey Lil'buddy, don't worry. Baluk had to use confusion to stop you, we won the fight overall!" I told him, making his face light up with joy.
I turned to Maguum, who was making sure his ralts was fine. Spraying a quick potion onto their wounds.
"Are they okay? Baluk took a nasty hit from Galac's Meteor Mash." I asked.
"Yeah, they'll be just fine." Was the response. "Another close one huh, think that puts us tied at 46 each?"
"Sounds about right." I replied. "And I beat Emmie 17 of those times, you've beaten her 11 right?"
"Stupid type advantages." Confirmed I was right.
"As much as I'd love to get my 30th win against you Haska-" Cut in Emmie.
"Yeah yeah, Galacs too tired today even if we potion up. Can't push him too far." I finished.
And so we sat on that training field by the beach, talking about how we were going to protect the world from the monsters at the bastion. As the sun slowly set we ate iced buns from the bakery, and was it dipped below the waves we all head off to our respective homes.
Right as I collapsed into my bed I heard the voice again, in a state where it could of been a dream they asked me.
"In the future they never happened, do you think the people you met miss you now?"