Water Gun!

A spray of water came bursting out of my mouth, hitting the rock a few feet away from me. I was aiming to break it completely, but it only cracked. Dammit.. I looked over to Litten, Er, Celine, who congratulated me. "Good job, Kori!" I smiled; we were practicing our moves, because last time Celine had accidently started a fire.

If you didn't already pick up on it, I'm a Popplio. But not just any Popplio: I was once human, and so was Celine. Though, I didn't want to think back to it.

Anyway, since we aren't used to being able to do things like this, we practiced. Here's our stats:

Celine Lv. 9

HP 27

Attack: 16

Defense: 13

Sp. Defense: 16

Sp. Attack: 18

Scratch

Ember

Lick

Growl

Me (Kori) Lv. 10

HP 28

Attack: 16

Defense: 18

Sp. Defense: 16

Sp Attack: 15

Water Gun

Pound

Disarming Voice

Pretty cool, huh? Another special thing about us is that we're Alolan Starters and we appeared in the Sinnoh Region. Which I'm fine with, I mean it sounds fun and I'm wondering what Paul and Ash will think when they see us..

"Litten!" My turn! Celine ran up next to me and started to prepare an Ember attack on the very same rock, because she wanted to battle me once she got stronger. While she trained on the rock, I usually practice Pound on a nearby tree. I went up to one and smacked it with my tail, managing to flick off a few pieces of bark. I only half smiled at that, I needed to get stronger if me and Litten were going to join Ash, Brock, Dawn, or Paul. I really, really wanted to be Paul's Pokemon and see what his Pokemon were like. Also, to insult him in every way possible.

I directed my attention back onto Celine, who managed to burn half the rock to a crisp. I clapped at her accomplishment: her best stat was special attack, after all. She encouraged me to try again, so I did.

Focusing on the cool feel of water in my mouth, I sucked in air, feeling the water build up. WATER GUN! I blasted the rock as hard as I could, water gushing out of my mouth as Celine watched in awe. Because of this, I used even more energy as the flow of water grew bigger. The rock flew back a few feet before smashing against a tree, turning the rock into mere shards.

"Lit.. LITTEN!" That was.. AMAZING! She screamed, and I couldn't help but grin, although I felt tired.

[Popplio grew to Level 12!]

"Litten Lit Litten ten Litten?" Do you think we should go look for Ash and the others? I nodded, because I felt we both had waited too long. Since this was a TV Show, they should all arrive-

"Hey Paul! Let's have a battle!"

-now. Me and Celine smiled at each other before going into the bushes to watch.

"Go Starly!" "Elekid, standby for battle!" Aw crap, Paul has the type advantage. Eh. Whatever.

"Starly, use Peck!" "Thunder Punch!" They both shouted out, and for some reason I was more interested in seeing what attacks they have and how they were executed than seeing the actual battle. Also..

Why was I losing interest so quickly? Is it because it's not me feeling the excitement of battle?

Starly's beak glowed, and Elekid's fist lit up with electricity. Celine seemed entranced by the two, not taking her eyes off of them for a second, while I let my thoughts wander.

Celine, in our entire friend group, was my best friend, simple because she was the least annoying, she understood me the most, and me, her, and Yara were the only girls in the group. Even though the others refused to trust me with any or their secrets (despite the ones that they did tell me about stayed a secret), Celine trusted me enough to tell me her crush. Come to think of it, why was I friends with any of the others anyway? The always got mad and acted hurt whenever I hit them, even though Mateo would always punch me in the stomach and no one cared. They only really got defensive once I punched him back, or scratched him..

"Lit- Litten!" W-Woah! Celine suddenly exclaimed. I finally noticed her rolling out of the bushes. They're gonna see her! Oh please don't-

"Hey, what's that Pokemon?" Ash asked, although seemed surprised when his PokeDex responded with 'Pokemon Unknown- No Data Found.'

"Popplio!" Bloody hell! I accidently screeched, revealing my presence as well.

"Look, another one!" Brock said, stating the obvious. I rolled my eyes. "Pop, Popplio." No duh, human.

"Could they be new Pokemon?" Dawn asked. I kept my mouth shut this time, instead walking over to Celine. Ash grabbed a Pokeball. "A new Pokemon, huh? Well I'm gonna-" "Tch. You're going to catch them? Not a chance." Paul interrupted, grabbing a Pokeball of his own. They argued for a bit, before choosing their Pokemon, Pikachu and Chimchar. I turned to Celine.

"Pop, Popplio lio Pop." Okay, we need a plan. She nodded. "Litten Lit Litten ten Lit Litten!" I'll take Pikachu, you take Mr. Fire Monkey over there! We both turned our attention back to the battle as they cried out their Pokemon's moves. "Pikachu use Volt tackle on the black Pokemon!" "Chimchar, use Scratch on it too!" Huh?! I need to stop at least one of them.. Chimchar. I felt water build up in my mouth again, then.. Water Gun! I blasted Chimchar, who took serious damage from the hit, and it also knocked him backwards. Celine managed to land a hit on Pikachu, who was burned from the attack.

I lunged forward towards Pikachu, who didn't have enough time to dodge and was hit by Pound. I flipped back over to where Celine was, and already I could feel my heart pumping from the excitement of battle. "Thunderbolt Pikachu!" "Chimchar use Ember!" Since the trainers did not give specific commands, Pikachu attempted to hit Celine and Chimchar tried to hit me, because we were across from each other. I braved through the Ember, knowing it wouldn't do much damage because I was a Water type.

I turned towards Pikachu and used Water Gun as Celine used Scratch on it. After that, Pikachu looked a bit worse for wear, reminding me to look at how we were doing.

We both hadn't sustained a lot of damage, but I had the feeling that was about to change.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt on both of them!" Uh oh. Being electrocuted wasn't a pleasant feeling, especially if you were weak to it. Because of that, the lot of my energy was drained. I saw Paul reaching for an empty Pokeball. Oh hell no! Disarming Voice! I sucked in a breath of air. Both Pokemon covered their ears, but I knew they were hurt by it.

"Lit.." Ow.. Oh, right. I turned to Celine. "Pop, Popplio.." Eh heh, sorry about that. She said it was fine. "Lio Pop Popplio Pop Popplio!" I can only use one more attack before my energy drains! "Litten ten Lit!" Then use Water Gun. I smiled, it was my strongest attack.

"Pikachu Electro Ball on the blue Pokemon!" "Chimchar Scratch on the cat!"Cat's don't exist in this world, baka.

Pikachu launched it at me, and it hit. I was so close to passing out, but I knew I had to give this last one my all. I had to use the one I did before. "Popplio!" Cover for me! Celine nodded, taking the spot in front of me.

Once again, I focused on cool water building up in my mouth, the feeling of it gushing out..

The fact that if I lost, I might not see Celine again..

That if we were captured by different trainers, we would have to be enemies…

WATER GUN!

I leaped out from behind Celine and felt the water flowing from my mouth like a waterfall. When it hit Chimchar, it fainted, but I hit Pikachu too. It could barely stand, but it was still conscious. I collapsed on the floor, utterly exhausted. Celine released an Ember attack on Pikachu, knocking it out. Wait a minute..

Both me and Celine realized that they would only use their next Pokemon, so we both retreated into the bushes, but we planned on following them. Celine fetched me an Oran Berry, which I gladly took. It was.. kinda weird? It tasted sweet, but also spicy, sour, and bitter at the same time? Whatever, it heals me.

I finished the berry as we headed in Ash, Brock, and Dawn's direction, knowing full well that in future episodes Paul would show up, allowing us to reveal ourselves again. And while Celine may be looking forward to it, I wasn't looking forward to following 3 children (even though I was 11) for multiple days. Ugh. Oh well, I guess.

Needless to say..

We waited quite a while.