A/N: I'm supposed to be doing the request I have but I can't just seem to focus on them and I blame Pokemon and my new video games. Anyway I apologize to any of that read this that asked for a request. I promise I shall get to them to them someday!
Woot! Last day of break and I managed to pull myself away from distraction to post something on here. I'm so proud of myself! XD
The characters are named after the games because I like the Game names better. I.E. Lyra=Soul. Oh, and based on games not manga.
Listen up and listen good because I'm only saying this once! I don't own Pokemon because then I would be a Pokemon Master!
Title sucks I know. Please give suggestions if you don't mind. ^-^
"Kingdra use Rain Dance!" Clair orders and her pokemon begins to do its little dance and soon it is raining. Despite the fact that I hate the rain and being wet in my clothes, I can't help but smirk at a move I had been hoping for. Silver and I now have the advantage. I glance at Silver, who is too focus on his Meganium to notice me, but Lance seems to have noticed.
"Arcanine return!" I shout and have to fight the urge not show my glee in Clair's mistake. Silver looks at me in confusion but when he sees my smirk, he smirks in return. Does he know what I have planned? Probably we've only battle several times and he's watched a few of mine. I must make sure that I don't become too predictable to him or he might just beat me.
"Clair, watch out!" Lance shouts and Clair is on alarm as she and her kingdra brace for impact.
"To late!" I yell as I throw out a pokeball. "Ampharos use Thunder!" The minute my lovely ampharos is out of her ball she's already in the process of using the move and a second later Lance's charizard is struck down." Yes! One hit one kill! Okay more like one hit one KO but kill has a better ring, not that I would ever dream of killing a Pokemon!
Everyone is stun. They all clearly thought that Clair was the target, good. Clair is good but she isn't as big as a threat as her cousin, Lance. Now I'm the only with two pokemon left and with a type advantage too. I give thumbs up to Silver, who just humphs at me, and turns back to the battle. Lance has release his final pokemon, his incredibly powerful dragonite, who's ready for battle. Clair is glaring at me as well as her kingdra. I have successfully pulled her desire for revenge against Silver, for his earlier comment, onto me thanks to my use of her move.
"Hydro Pump!" On cue the water dragon readies itself for the attack.
I'm about to call out my pokemon's name when Silver's voice overpowers mine. "Meganium!" HispPokemon stands in front of mine absorbing the attack and shakes off the water. Clair scowls and her attention is back on Silver. "Body Slam!" Meganium starts running and throws itself onto kingdra.
"Draco Meteor!" Lance orders and the area is soon under fire from the attack.
"Ampharos!" I cry. She's still standing but injured. I'm not used to double battles as I have a tendency to pay attention to one set of pokemon. "Can you keep going?" I ask tentatively.
"Pay attention!" Silver barks as he goes back to commanding his pokemon. I stick my tongue out at him; childish I know but he's been only focusing on his pokemon. I'm the reason why his gengar lasted as long as it did. Doing a double battle with my uncooperative rival isn't the smartest thing I've ever done but I'll admit I'm having a great time.
"Amp!" I hear my pokemon say and she is telling me that she can still fight. My pokemon are great! I nod to her before issuing my command.
"Thunder!"
"Not this time! Dragonite use Protect!" Lance orders and his pokemon happily comply by throwing up a barrier and I smirk.
"Dra!" The kingdra cries out and soon collapses. Yay, for a distracted Clair! She meekly calls back her tired pokemon and steps back to watch but not before giving me a glare and I return it with a soft smile.
"Hey! That was my opponent!" Silver roars and I just roll my eyes.
"Double battle," I simply say with a wage of my finger at him and he just growls.
"Draco Meteor!" Oops, again I was distracted. The meteors bash our poor pokemon and they both feint. Silver swears as he calls back meganium but he hasn't call it weak or stupid and I can't help but smile at that. He steps back and is staring at me. His eyes are digging holes into my head and if I lose he shall never let me live it down. I call back my own pokemon and whisper a "good job" to her pokeball and release arcanine, who lets out a mighty roar.
Both Lance and I are down to our last pokemon but I still have the advantage. arcanine was out earlier but I called him back before he did any battle and Lance's dragonite is tired thanks to the two uses of draco meteor. I can win thanks to my trusty loyal, fire pokemon.
I look at Lance, who looks back. We are just staring at each other, the same for our pokemon, waiting for the other to make the first move. Seconds past but neither of us have made a move. "Attack already!" our defeated partners yell out from impatience and both Lance and I roll our eyes.
"Flamethrower!" Arcanine and I are the first to make a move and Lance counters with Aqua Tail. When fire and water collide lots of steam is the byproduct and it's a perfect disguise to hide our next move. "Roar!" And dragonite flinches giving us the perfect opportunity. arcanine swiftly races over to the terrified dragon and sinks his fangs into the poor dragon's left arm and it hollers out in pain.
"Focus Punch!" dragonite raises his right first in the air and starts to channel energy into it. I gotta hand it to Lance's dragonite, he's something else to be able to focus with his left arm in the jaws of a very large and powerful dog.
"Fire Blast!" arcanine lets go and lets loose a powerful blast of fire just as dragonite's fist is about to make contact. arcanine shakes a bit but quickly stands up straight letting me know he can still keep battling. That's my arcanine! Lance's Ddragonite, on the other hand, doesn't look as good; he's breathing heavily and is badly burn. Never underestimate my arcanine's flames!
I look at Lance and he nods in defeat and recalls his pokemon before it can collapse. He sighs but smiles at me and I can't help but jump with joy and hug my arcanine, who lets out a triumphant roar. Silver comes join my side but keeps his distance, while Clair stands firmly next to her cousin. Based on our personalities someone would probably have bet on the cousins winning this match and to be honest I'm bit surprise at the outcome. They had perfect coordination and teamwork and only a couple of times did Silver and I have such a great combination but I still believe with practice the two of us could become a great tag-team, though I'm pretty sure that's the last thing he wants.
"You win," Lance says and Clair just grunts in agreement. He holds out a hand for me to shake and I do with my smile that causes him to smile in return. He then turns to Silver and stretches his hand out towards my rival. "It looks like I was wrong about you." Silver grunts but takes the extended hand and shakes. He's not showing it but I can tell that Silver is happy.
The cousins turn to leave but Lance quickly stops and faces us. "How silly of me I almost forgot." Forgot what? My face mirrors my unspoken question. He chuckles lightly and pulls out a medium sized, wrapped box from behind his back. How did he hide it there? "I was going to drop this off at your house but since you are here. Happy sixteenth birthday, Soul." That's right, I completely forgot. I take the package and smile brightly at him.
"It's your birthday?" Clair asks and Silver just grunts.
"I guess so," I laugh.
"You guess?" the cousins ask in unison and I laugh again but this time it's thanks to nervousness.
"I have been to focus on training to remember the date." I rub the back of my neck and I can feel a light blush on my cheeks.
"Surely your mother must have called you."
"Actually my Pokegear is broken. I was on my way to Goldenrod to get it fix when I remember that Silver was training here and I stopped to visit him and well here we are." Lance is just looking at me, Clair too but she is smirking and there's something different about her look, and Silver has his arms crossed over his chest and he's looking away. I'm not sure but I think he's blushing?
"Well anyway. I hope you like it and I shall see you later." With a flip of his cloak he turns around and begins to leave. "Oh, and go visit your mother."
"Thank you very much!" I quickly yell and he just waves back. Clair looks back at us and snickers.
"See ya later, Soul! And good luck!"
Now it's just Silver and me. He's no longer looking away but he's not looking at me either. He doesn't seem to be in the mood to talk right now so I return arcanine and release feraligatr, who is not happy that I didn't use him during the double battle. As I try to calm him down Silver decides to speak up.
"Hey..." I have to strain my ears to hear him. Feraligatr calms down and I smile at him. "I...I just wanted to thank you-"
"Hold the Pokegear! Silver just thanked me? The world is going to end!" I joke but he is not amused.
"HEY! I'm being serious here!" I laugh but motion for him to continue.
"And there just might be something to that thing about being nice to your pokemon..."
"Better late then never." He looks at me confused. "On listening to me," I add to clear his confusion. "And don't mention it. What are friends for?"
"Wha? Friends?"
"Whether you like it or not, I consider you one of my best friends."
"Why?"
"Why indeed?" It's silent as I leave him to ponder when something great pops into my head. "Hey Silver!" My voice snaps him out of his thoughts and he's looking at me impatiently waiting for the reason, really I used to think that I was impatient but since I've met him I've come to consider myself a pretty patient person and that's something! I close the distance between us and this only confuses him and he tries to maintain the distance until he bumps into the rail. And just to tease him some more I get real close to the point where our faces are only inches apart. "Why don't you come home with me?"
"Wha?" His face is as bright as his hair and I giggle at this and back up to give him some space.
"Come on! I bet you haven't had a decent home cooked meal in like forever and it is my birthday!" I emphasize on my birthday part.
"S-so?" He folds his arms over his chest and looks away and I pout at this.
"Please?" I ask but he still keeps his stance so I widening my eyes to the point where they start getting watery and he's completely uncomfortable with it.
"Y-you're not going to c-cry are you?" He flares his arms around and looking every which way. I didn't know Silver was so weak to tears. I now have another advantage over him, I laugh inwardly at my newest information. "I-I'll go, okay? Just don't cry!"
"Good!" I quickly say just to mess with him and dry my eyes. Feraligatr is having a laughing fit and I join him, while Silver is completely embarrass. Just to mess with him more I start rummaging through his pockets.
"W-what are y-you doing?" He says it trying to be fierce but fails and feraligatr and I start laughing even more. It's so fun to mess with Silver! Sooner than I want my hand finds the device I was looking for-his Pokegear. "You could have just asked!"
"But it wouldn't have nearly been as fun or as cute!" He growls and another laughing fit begins.
"Shut up already and just make the damn call!"
I stare at his Pokegear desperately trying to recall my mother's or Gold's number. I've been too dependent on speed dial; it's a good thing I'm not in a desperate situation right now. I can't even remember the area code to New Bark town. I can be hopeless sometimes, hard to imagine that I started my journey when I was only fourteen.
"What's taking so long?"
"I forgot my mom's number..."I laugh nervously.
"For crying out loud!"
Eventually I remembered my mom's number and Silver's complaining didn't help. Mom was finally overjoyed to finally get through to me I also got a lecture about not answering her calls before I could explain myself, and Silver enjoyed it much to my displeasure. We are now on our way to New Bark town and we've already flown for a few hours so we should be there soon. I would have already been there but Silver slowed me down, it's no big deal. His crobat is tough but I can't expect him to keep up with my charizard. Silver also insisted on stopping at Goldenrod Department store and he made me wait outside for a half an hour and then he wouldn't show me what he bought. I would think it was a gift for me but knowing Silver I highly doubt it.
Anyway we are finally here. We land in front of my house. I pat and thank charizard and he puffs out his chest to be manly and then I return him. My mom doesn't like my large pokemon in the house thanks to charizard because he almost burnt down the house, by accident of course. From the corner of my eye I see Silver patting his crobat before returning him. He's looking around nervously. I'm an idiot! I completely forgot that Silver stole Professor Elm's chikorita!
I'm about to speak when Silver beats me to it. "I have something I need to take care of. I...I'll be right back." Without waiting for my reply he turns and leaves. I sigh I'm going to have to apologize later. Why am I so forgetful today? No point in worrying about it anymore.
I open the door and as I open it I shout, "Mom, I'm home." But instead of seeing my mom I see my childhood friend, Gold, sitting at the table drinking tea and scratching his marill. When he sees me his typical cheese grin adores his face.
"Soul! What took you so long?" he asks as he walks over and gives me a hug.
"I brought a friend and we made a side trip."
"Oh, well your mother went out because you took so long." That's my mom for you impatient as ever. "Where is your friend anyway?"
"He has something to take care of."
I pour me some tea and sit at the opposite end of the table. I release my newest pokemon, celebi. "Bi!" it cries joyfully as it flies throughout my house, exploring. Gold just watches it and soon his marill is trying to get the time traveling pokemon's attention.
"I thought you released it?"
"I did but celebi wanted to travel with me."
"Bi!" it agrees as it flies over to me and sits on my lap staring at my tea. I giggle and starch its head. "Cel!" It starts making itself comfortable on my lap and is nudging his head into my hand.
"That's cool."
Gold and I are catching up on lost time. Marill and celebi are playing and they're just so cute. So I release umbreon as she is the only other small Pokemon I have left in my party, for some reason my mom considers ampharos to big even though I'm taller than her. She joins the other pokemon for a bit before returning to my side. I'm telling Gold about the Kanto's gyms when a knock at the door stops us. Celebi is at the door and wants me to hurry up and open it. How did I become the patient one in my group? I open the door and there is Silver with his fists in his pocket and his trademark frown but the air around him is a bit different. He's happy again.
He brushes pass me but stops because Gold is staring at him with his jaw wide open. "It's-," Gold's about to start when I interrupt.
"It's Silver, my rival. Remember I told you about him." I wrap my arms around the red head's left arm and smile at Gold that tells him to shut his trap, which he does but his surprise is replace with a frown. Silver is looking away and again I think he's blushing. He pulls his arm away and grumbles before sitting across from Gold. Both our glaring at each other until my psychic-grass pokemon joins my rival.
"Wants some tea, soda, or water?"
"Some water," he answers with his eyes still lock on the playful celebi.
Today was a great day and I'm guessing the same for Silver, though he'll likely never admit it. Lance acknowledged him and Professor Elm let him keep his meganium. As for me I got to participate in an awesome double battle, spent my birthday with my mom, best friend, and rival, turned friend. The most surprising thing today (beside the fact that it was my birthday) was that Silver actually gave me a gift, a hat to replace my missing balloon hat.
My balloon hat vanished when I was trying to catch lugia. It was blown away into a small cave lake and then the current took it away. To be honest I didn't mind, in fact I was glad that it was gone. It distracted me way to many times during battle. It's amazing that I managed to become the Johto Champion with it. I only wore it because my mom made me.
Anyway the hat, Silver gave me, was a simple baseball cap with no team insignia on it. It is white with a red ribbon. He gave it to me saying, "Without a hat I don't stick out from the crowd". I'm the champion I standout plenty and even if I wasn't I'm not that plain! But I know he was just being shy and trying to hide it.
My mom gave me some new travels clothes because it's time I traded in my dungarees. I never really paid too much attention to clothes, but now that I'm sixteen I feel a little self-conscious wearing them. I'm surprised Silver hadn't made fun of me for wearing them. As for Gold he gave me some custom made pokeballs from Kurt, pokemon food, and a plushy of umbreon, the only one I was missing from my starter party, apart from the newest member. As for Lance, he gave me a really nice red jacket. He must have known that I was heading out for Mt. Silver. He's so insightful because I would have never thought about bringing one. I always had to rely on arcanine or charizard for heat when I was out.
Tomorrow I'm going to head out to Mt. Silver and I don't plan on coming down until I'm the Kanto Champion!
A/N: Well here's the thing about this story I have an idea for it but I also kind of want to write about all of Soul's journey but I'll only do that if people want me to. Besides that I think this story will kind of be fast paced, sorry about that.
Reviews are always kind gestures. Just leave my grammar out of this!