My first fanfic, hope you enjoy, because I enjoyed writing it.
Tales of the Road
Prologue
It was Dawn final day in she returned from Unova and her meeting with Ash went on to losing the Wallace Cup in the semi-finals, against Nando, and receiving more two ribbons in Hoenn, entering the Grand Festival.
However, our hero failed to qualify after the appeal round, she failed horribly, lost her focus and everything went wrong, she almost destroyed the arena...
A friend of her, whom she meet while in Hoenn won the Grand Festival, her name was Rachel, and she couldn't help but was happy for went to her party, like way of saying goodbye, besides Piplup had a great liking towards Rachel's Totodile, it was his goodbye too. For Dawn surprise Piplup didn't cry like with Pikachu, maybe their bond was really stronger that what she saw in the surface.
She was now in the EverGrande conference Arena, waiting for the Pokémon League to be over. Dawn was going to take a ride from Barry and his father, Barry had entered in the League but lost in the Quarter-finals, to Paul, Ash old rival.
Paul was in the finals battling someone named Frederic who had some trouble getting to the finals, giving some favoritism to Paul then. Paul had been the League sensation, every matches where he would take part were marked as highly recommend to watch, so Dawn came to make some company to Barry and watch the finals with him, while they waited for his Dad.
However Dawn couldn't set her mind straight and keep thinking about her recent loss, her hope was that no one close to her knew about what happened, she didn't want to tell anyone either."Dawn are you okay?" "uhm? Yes Barry I was just thinking about my journey and..." "WOW HERE THEY COME IT'S ABOUT TIME".
In the court She could see Paul and his opponent getting was older, taller, but his silhouette remain the same, apparently he was a lady's man, and every girl in the audience screamed for his name. Dawn, probably for having him so many times during her first journey, wasn't caught by Paul's spell. Frederic on the other hand, was odd. Same height as Paul, probably they were all the same age, Dark blonde hair and green eyes. He was wearing a blue and orange hoodie with a pokeball symbol in the front, black pants, blue sneakers and an orange and grey hood.
"Welcome everyone to this year final of the EverGrande conference. On the right the boy who is in everyone mouth Paul, from Veilstone city in Sinnoh!" Paul had applauses and cheers by the audience "Like in every match" sighted Barry "And on my left, from Laverre city, in the Kalos region Frederic!" Frederic was received with less enthusiasm as Paul was, however it seemed like he had his own set of fans, lead by a girl dress in a black and yellow jacket.
"Kalos region?""I don't know about it either, but i hope that all trainers there aren't as strong as him!" Dawn sweatdropped but allowed Barry to keep talking "My father said that he went there, there is a huge city in that region, made around a metal tower, that is also a gym." "Wonder if there are contest there.." Dawn was cut short by the sound coming from the court.
"This will be a 6 on 6 participants can make substitutions" As the reference announced the battle began, on the stands, Barry was hooked to his place, barely taking his eyes away from the match. Dawn however, after seeing Frederic taking as his first Pokémon a Staraptor was taken back in nostalgia, of the time where she was too cheering for Ash in the Sinnoh League.
"UAU WHAT IS THAT POKEMON?" Dawn snapped out of her world and came back to the arena, for her surprise Paul had still 4 Pokémon left and Frederic was down to two of them. Then she took out her pokedex "Data unknown" "Well most be something interesting". It was a fox-like Pokemon, but it was bipedal, long fur came out of his ears and it had a tigs coming out of its tail.
"Braixen use Flamethrower" "Braixen uhn?" Then the fox like pokemon started charging againts Paul Ursaring. The Bear Pokemon stroke the ground with his arm several times causing rocks to fly up. Then the Fox Pokemon used that to his advantage and jumped from rock to rock, not allowing Ursaring to see it. After it got closer, pulled the tigs out of the tail and fired a direct flamethrower to Ursaring, putting him to the ground.
"It sure is faster, and elegant too." commented Dawn on the Fox Pokemon.
"Uhnf, return. Swampert stand by for battle." "Swampert, since when does he have a Swampert?" "You will be surprised Dawn, Paul saved a Mudkip after a gym battle, I was in the city, and saw it all. It was just a Mudkip and 3 kids where kicking him around, Paul called over his Pokémon and sent the kids away, then Mudkip grew a liking of him and put himself inside one of his pokeballs." 'I guess Paul has really changed, maybe losing to Ash was good thing for him' Again Dawn travelled in her head, thinking of all the great moments and adventures.
Her attention drifted to the court, she heard Paul talk to Swampert "Now use Muddy Water and cover the field" As the Swamp Pokemon obeyed Paul, Braixen had trouble, with all the holes made by Ursaring, there was not many places to stand, and while trying to run from water, it made a bad choice. "Braixen no!" Frederic shouted, but it was too late, Braixen was in the same patch of land as Swamp, the later grabbed him and shoot a torrent of Water against him. The fox Pokemon was unable to battle in Swampert arms.
"Return Braixen. Well it seems it's just the two of us my friend." Then something came behind Frederic, a shadow figure with a fox body, it was a Frederic, there it was the Illusion Pokémon, and his last one on that battle.
Dawn almost break, remembering the times when she and Ash saved a Zoroark and a Zorua and helped return them to wild "Dawn why are you crying?" She wasn't really crying, just a soft tear rolling down her face while she tugged poor Piplup harder and harder without noticing it."Oh, no need to worry Barry, i just had something in my eye." There it was. Dawn break she couldn't hide one more second. She was taken back to the time Ash helped her bounce back. She ran away from the stands, Barry tried to talk to her but was no use. The single tear in her face multiplied by several of them, not even Piplup could calm her down.
She found herself in the competitors lounge, the place where trainers wait before being called to the battle. Since it was the finals no one was watching the doors and she keep going in deeper, until reaching the side of the Arena, under the stands. The place where the organization, friends and the champion, Wallace, saw the battle. Not to make a scene there she blended in with the other people and saw the rest of the match.
For everyone surprise Frederic Zoroark managed to take down 2 of Paul Pokémon with ease, and the later was only left with Electivire. Zoroark was almost playing, making a foul of his opponent. Electivire charged a brick break against Zoroark but it wasn't really it. It was a rock boulder.
"Now, Night Daze!" Zoroark appeared behind it and was getting ready to launch a powerful Dark type attack. "No! Electivire protect fast!"
Then, everything changed, Dawn felt her mind being invaded by a voice, but it wasn't her own, it was a voice of an old friend.
'You would be proud Mima!' "Mima? It can't be that Zorua I meet or could it ?" Dawn didn't realize, but her voice distracted Frederic Zoroark, whom stared at Dawn and lost his focus. Electivire took this opportunity and delivered a ThunderPunch that knocked it out."Oh no what have I done?"
"All of Frederic Pokemon are unable to battle, Paul is the winner." Frederic face was of pure sadness, he couldn't belive he had loss, or understand why. Paul recalled his Pokemon and went to shake his opponent hand. 'He is really different' thought Dawn, 'But the other guy.. It was my fault i need to tell him something.'
Eventually the formalities went underway, Paul receive his trophy and gave it to his brother, Reggie who was travelling back to Sinnoh that day with Barry and Dawn. Paul would stay in Hoenn a bit longer because he heard Bradon was seeking him to a rematch. But before he left, he crossed Barry and Dawn. "Have you seen him ?" asked Paul, a surprised and oblivious Dawn asked back "Who?" "Who would it be?" Dawn clinched a bit, she understood now he was talking about Ash. "Well..." Before Dawn could finish Paul responded back to her "You should talk to him, you seem sad." "What ? It isn't..." "Tell him i said hi and want a rematch." As Paul said this he started walking away, leaving Dawn with a deep and thoughtful look.
"Maybe I should.." "HEY DAWN LET'S GO" "Wait Barry i need to talk to someone" "OKAY FINE, BUT DON'T TAKE TOO LONG OR I'M GOING TO FINE YOU" "Yes, yes Barry i know"
Dawn started to make her way to the Pokémon center, so she could find Frederic and say she was sorry. Inside the Pokémon center Frederic was sitting on a bench looking down, with a single tear rolling down his face.
"Hi... are you Frederic?" Frederic looked up and his sad eyes saw the bluenette staring at him."Yes, why? Who are you?" "Sorry for being so rude" said Dawn while sitting down in front of Frederic. "I'm Dawn, and well, I don't really know how to say this.." Frederic took his hood into is hand and stared at it. "So you're the girl that he talked to in the battle." "What, no,no,no, I mean yes, I mean, I'm sorry you lost because of me." "Don't worry, I know all of his history, so were you the one who saved him from the poachers, or from Kodai?"
Dawn was surprised, she wouldn't expect Frederic to take it so well, neither to know the history with Kodai. "Who did y..? "I can talk to him too."
Then Frederic started to talk about who he meet Zoroark. Long time ago while he travelled in Unova came across a Lady in a caravan. But this Lady was very protective of this Pokémon, who was a Zorua, i stayed there for a day. The next morning he found a note outside the caravan the explained. Some poachers tried to take Zorua but that lady protect it. But the Pokémon wanted to travel around the world, and was several times mentioning how he wanted to thanks to the people who saved him and his mother once. She said that saw a spark in Frederic that only saw before, so he would the perfect person to take the little Zorua in his adventure.
Frederic stated he was moved by the action, but Zorua took some time to get used to it, and mentioned someone named 'Mima' several times, that part however Zorua didn't reveal to Frederic, but Dawn, Dawn knew that 'Mima' was the Zoroark she saved, and probably was the woman who Frederic meet, but she didn't want to reveal that to Frederic, she could save it for later when she confronted Zoroark.
"And you Dawn? How did you meet Zoroark, and.. are you sad?" Dawn was shocked, the boy she just meet was being so kind to her, she know he wasn't Ash, but their personalities were so alike that she started felling better not even knowing why..
"So what are you doing after leave Hoenn?" Asked Frederic to Dawn whom gave him a strange look before answering. "I don't know, I'm going to visit my mom but i wanted to get in touch with Ash too." "Well tell me something, I'm going to Kanto with a friend of mine, if you want to come, meet with us in a week in Kanto, say Cerulean city?"
Dawn was speechless, but she wanted to go to Kanto, so she could talk to Ash or know where he was. Besides there was contest in Kanto and she was eager for a different experience, after a while she responded to Frederic. " I would be delighted Frederic" "Please, call me Fred".
"So, in a week?" "In a week Fred!" As both friends said goodbye she walked back to Barry, his father was already there. During the trip back to Sinnoh Dawn felt a asleep, but unlike the previous nights she sleep peacefully, thinking about the journey that Dawned right before her eyes.
So it's my first experience writing something not on my home languages, sorry for any typos ^^'
I'm looking for any critics, especially harsh ones so I can improve my writing.
Any guesses on who will travel with Fred and Dawn ? :b
The Kalos crew will appear in the next chapter.
Ps: Be ready to #Savetheday
