People have man names for Pokemon. Tools, partners, friends, even lovers in some way.

At the moment a Scizor name Ryu was watching his trainer lay beneath a tree, taking a short rest. The trainer had decided to let all his pokemon out to either let off some steam or relax.

Ryu always wondered how his trainer thought about him. I mean he may have been apart of the team, but what was his true role. So far his trainer had five gym badges, one of them thanks to Ryu back when he was still a Scyther. It was against the gym leader Maylene and her Machoke whom Ryu and his trainer were victorious.

Ryu remembered that battle.

*Flash back.*

"Ryu use slash." Ryu flew towards the Machoke and let loose a powerful slash pushing the pokemon back.

Maylene's response. "Machoke use Revenge!" The Machoke obeyed and slammed a powerful punch into the scyther's gut, sending it flying and hitting the back wall of the gym they were fighting in.

"Ryu! Are you alright?!" Upon hearing his trainer's concern, Ryu pick himself up. It hurt but he could still battle.

Maylene taking advantage of the situation. "Machoke. Use seismic toss."

The Machoke ran towards Ryu ready to perform the attack.

"Ryu. Use double team." Ryu complied and created copies of itself. The Machoke, confused, grabbed one randomly only to find it was a fake.

"Ryu use wing attack. Maximum power!" Ryu nooded as it's back wings glowed white and flew toward the oblivious Machoke and slammed into it with full force.

The Machoke crashed to the ground from the force of the attack and had swirls in its eyes.

Maylene pulled out a pokeball and a beam hit machoke sending it back to it's ball.

"You win."

Ryu's trainer pumped his fist into the air in victory. "Alright! Great job Ryu!"

Ryu's lips curled into a smile, happy he was the victor.

*End flash back.*

That was a long time ago, and Ryu had gotten better since then. Ryu had been focusing on his trainer's resting form for a while now. A wild pokemon can only grow so much. Ryu had gone way beyond what any Scyther could do on it's own and it was all because of his trainer.

"Something up Ryu?"

Ryu looked at his trainer now looking at him. Ryu smirked, opened its wings and flew right toward his trainer, enveloping him in a hug on contact.

"Whoa! What's up with you? You're usually not this affectionate." His trainer laughed.

'Thank you.' Ryu spoke. Even though his trainer couldn't understand, Ryu knew on some level of perception, his trainer was saying 'your welcome.'

'I may not know my true role to you, but I know what I will always be. You're partner and friend.' Ryu thought to itself.

My try on a pokemon one-shot. Hate it love it, I just did this for fun and my first take on pokemon fanfiction.