Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, any songs or stuff mentioned/used in this fic, or anything related. I do however own all original characters. Note Ryan is based off of Rui, Seth is based off of Wes, Red is a slightly more mature version of Ash (but his Pika is a different gender), Misty, Brock and most others are the same. Note I should stress the most....
Well, this was something I started before getting Colloseum/Colosseum whichever is the real spelling, anyways, I lost interest in it because I didn't have the game yet, didn't know Wes's character (basically was the same for my other Coloshippy fics). And lost all insparation for it.
That is untill reading two really, really great Colosseum fics I added to my fave's. I forget the names right now. Well, while I wait for the page to load so I can give credit where credit is due, this fic features Coloshippy(Ryan/Seth), Ash(Red)/Misty just because it has that, do not expect me to just throw them together. I was almost turned away from this pair due to all the bashing of May/Haruka I've seen. Personaly, Gary/Misty seems to be better.) maybe some Brock one sided love, but then again. Brock is almost always in a one sided relationship. And of course an OC/OC. This fic is set in Kanto (but Hoenn and Johto do exist. While at the moment Orre does not. So it... is an AU. Okay, credit for inspiring me to re take the pen, er, keyboard to this Colo fic, goes to Pichu Star and Argent Inluminai. So go read their stories. I command you! Or face the muse! -ponts at Shinigami-
Shinigami: ... What am I, a prop now? ... good grief.
It was morning in the little town of Cobalt (which was roughly thirty miles southwest of Kanto), the sun shined, the birds sang. And all in all, it looked like it would be another, wonderful day. Save for one young girl of fifteen or so, with red bed hair, bleary blue eyes and a white night gown on as she shuffled out of her bedroom. "It's morning already?" She pondered and sleepily watched as her little brother ran past her on a Cocopuff sugar high and into the upstairs bathroom. The only bathroom with the shower that did more than cold water. Letting out a groan that held all the displeasure Ryan felt, the teenager headed down the hall, sounds of the morning already reaching her ears and flitering into her sleep clogged brain. One thing on her mind, the pressure on her bladder and to reach the bathroom.
And for Ryan, everything in her little world was right. Even when she flushed the toliet five times in a row to give her brother a shock in the bathroom upstairs.
But what Ryan didn't know was this would be the last day she would call normal for a very, very long time.
At the same time, roughly ten miles from the town, a young man of around eighteen; sandy gold hair hanging down past his ears, as one pesky bang continued to hang over his eyes no matter how he tried to shove it behind one ear and have it stay there and dark liquid gold eyes narrowed while the teenaged boy by the name of Seth watched the three bumbling idiots that worked for team Shadow. They had been trailing him for a few days and the fools actually thought they were the hunters.
Umbra, the Umbreon and one of his first and only pokemon crouched down by his right side while Espa curled up around the other side and let his twin tail curl around his master's foot. Absently Seth reached down and patted both of the monsters on the head but kept his hawk like gaze on the three idiots. Fools, he thought while smirking, they can not possibly think they'll capture me, can they? With that thought, Seth nearly let out a wry chuckle as one of the men, dressed up and looking like nothing more than an average man, fall flat on his face while throwing out muffled cursses. If these 'Elites' of the great team Shadow were such simpletons, then he'd have no trouble finding the target and getting back to Snatch's head quarters.
"Come, Umbra. Espa." Seth ordered softly after the three had passed. Standing up, he turned and headed in the correct direction, towards Cobalt town. It would take some time, but he'd make it to the village sooner or later. Most likely sooner than those complete and utterly hopeless morons.
"Breee." Umbra said and leapt up and spun about, landing on all four feet like a cat and slunk off in the shadows as he trailed his master. Espa let out a soft and airy purr of his name before bounding after Seth.
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Ryan hated this. An hour in a living nightmare. She could have sworn the kids in the first row had already lost it from the tests they had to go through to even get a trainer liscence now. Turning now bright and life filled blue eyes back to the paper she started to answer the last few questions as the bell started to ring. Three hours she had been in this prison, one hour had been an lecture, another had been study time. The last living hell on earth hour had been an eternity of answering question after question on this test. But she was home free, or so she thought.
The speakers squeaked to life as the Principal's voice came out over them, a booming command filling the air. "Would Ryan Sena, Zero Matthew and Starr Sagara come to my office. Thank you, that is all." With a last fizit of static the speakers died and Ryan lifted one slightly elagent red eyebrow in wonder. Why had she been called to the office? Shrugging her shoulders, the young teenager grabbed her blue coat and slipped it on over her purple shirt and sighed as it also was longer than her cream colored uniform skirt. It wasn't bad enough that it barely reached halfway to her knees, but there were guys that loved trying to trip the girls and see their underwear. But it turned out over half the girls were stronger than the guys. And the habbit quickly stopped.
Sighing, Ryan pushed a strand of red hair out of her face and adjusted her pigtail before heading out with the other swarm of fleeing from the school of snobery, also known as the the Diamond Academy for in training trainers. Ryan personaly hated the place, but who was she to complain. By the end of the course she would be able to have three pokemon, recive one badge upon completion of all her courses if she continued to get good grades, and the right to finaly be free to do her own thing, be her own person.
But untill then she was on her way to the principal's, hoping it wasn't detention. Again. Giving her head a small shake she made her way to the office, through the ocean of chattering, walking, yelling or arguing people that flowed to the exits. "Excuse me... coming through.." Ryan muttered as she wove and ducked about, keeping a slow and steady pace to her goal. It took a few more minutes of dancing around the other students before she finaly reached the door that was her goal. Lifting up her left hand she was about to knock on the door when she heard the sounds of muffled shouts and curses being exclaimed in hisses.
Either they're playing twister, or something is up... Ryan thought as the door was suddenly pulled open, and Zero's head appeared as one of his arms clutched the door frame as two adults had him by the legs and tried to pull him back into the room. Stunned, Ryan stepped back and gasped as Zero shouted out; "Run! Ryan!!! It's Team Snatch, they want-" His cry was cut short as the thugs hauled him back in and knocked him out while another went after Ryan. The fourteen year old girl did the only thing she could do at the moment. She screamed while stomping on a foot and kneeing him in the groin. Continuing to scream as she bolted out of the school, Ryan only had one thought. Get very, very far away and then find help.
Moving as fast as her legs would allow, she burst out of the school and was stopped dead at what she saw. It looked like everyone was dead, but a few chests moving up and down while a person muttered about giant dust bunnies let the young teenager know that the people were sleeping and not dead like she had initialy feared.
Three cries of battle from pokemon sounded behind Ryan, and the girl whirled around, eyes wide from fear as she stumbled back from the pokemon. A Nidoking, Scizor and a Rapidash stood infront of her. Ryan gasped and thought it was all over, especialy when she saw the seething black, shadow like aura surrounding the pokemon.
I'm doomed... She thought with misery. And then, fate decided to help her out... And damn a young man by letting him know the horror of the opposite sex.
"Umbra, Espa; Psychic and Shadow Ball!" A voice boomed out as twin cries of the Dark and Psychic Eeveelutions filled the air. Ryan looked to the right and saw a flash of black and a blur of purple streak past her and while the black one sent out a powerful sparking purple and black ball form from infront of it's head before shooting off and striking into the Scizor and sent it flying back while the Nidoking and the fire horse, Rapidash, were picked up psychically by the Espeon who sent them hurtling into the Scizor, knocking the bug/steel type out while stunning the other two.
"Come on you stupid girl!" A harsh and rough voice yelled from behind her and Ryan whirled around and was able to see the face of the boy before she was grabbed by him and thrown over his shoulder. Ryan squeaked in surprise and fear before pounding on the taller teenager's back. "Let me down!" She demanded. Seth let out a pained groan and rolled his eyes. "Espa, Umbra, come." He snapped out and started to run out of the town, leaving his former team members in the dust; confused and at a loss of where the girl went too.
But it didn't matter, they more than likely had the right child that could see the Aura's of pokemon.
And as for Ryan and Seth, well, their journey had just begun.
Little Fact. When I posted this on a forum I used to visit, someone reviewed and said it lacked originality for me giving the male character Umbreon and Espeon, even when I blared out it was an AU Colo fic. O.o can we just say; person did not read? Anyways, people like that will get the same treatment. If you aren't happy about the fic, don't review with something half thought up. Or as I put it: 'lame name' 'even more lame flame'. If you do however spot typo's, mis spelled names or even yes, a character cloning himself/herself don't hesitate to point it out at me. Have enough trouble dealing with writer's block monsters, life and taking care of a newly saved kitten. With three cats that don't like him... oy vey.
Oh, and the chapters do get longer.