Hello guys. It's me! Seen as though I can't update "The locket" because the it's half written and I'm on a different computer at my grandma's house, I'm just going to update a one shot. I had an idea ever since Iris caught Emolga. What if attract missed it's original target, and hit Cilan instead? Who would she become attracted to? I'll give you a small hint... WISHFULSHIPPING!
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The bright Unova sunshine offered a generous streak of light through the parted tree's of the forest, the jolly rays of light hitting the dirt track that three particular trainers were travelling along. The trees sung a merry tune as the calm summer breeze drifted through the leaves playfully, and the flowers that were newly bloomed began to subtly dance along to the uplifting beat.
"Can we stop for lunch? I'm starved!" Ash exclaimed, frowning and clutching his stomach for effect.
"Oh Ash, talking about your stomach again? You're such a little kid..." Iris muttered with a stoic expression. She seemed to say it so often that it just didn't feel whole anymore; like it was just a line in some play that she had been destined to perform in, with or without her consent.
"Hey! It's not my fault!" Ash complained angrily. Apparently, he was wound up.
"Then whose fault is it?" Iris retorted, her temper starting to rise aswell. Her Axew narrowed his eyes at Ash and growled in annoyance, begining to feel slightly sick of Ash's selfish tendancies.
The two then errupted into a huge argument, which consisted mainly of childish insults and angry complaints. Screaming and shouting quickly followed suit, as if it was absolutely necessary to pitch them in just because this argument seemed to be a regular occurence.
Cilan glanced sideways at his Pansage, gave him a bashful smile and then shook his head, his feet begining to move towards the fighting duo.
"You two. Please!" He shouted over them, and their pointless bickering stopped for a second, as they both peered at him with inquisitive eyes. "Stop fighting! We'll stop for lunch Ash, don't you worry. And Iris, I'll help you with your Emolga. It's still disobidient, yes?"
"Yes..." Iris mumbled, embarrassed at her inability to control her flirtatious pokemon. Ash smirked.
She just seemed to not be be harsh enough with the little mischief-maker. The look that the pokemon would give her was simply too cute to resist! But that was where she going wrong, she realised silently. She needed to learn that assertive element that she needed in order to ensure the pokemon's good behaviour, and who better to teach her than Cilan? She smiled at the thought and then gave him a more energetic nod.
"Yes." She repeated happily. Cilan returned her content smile, although she wasn't sure if he was happy because he was to be training with her, or because they had stopped their frivolous commotion. Probably the latter, she thought to herself sadly.
She had always had a soft spot for Cilan, and she was sure that he had one for her too. He just seemed to more compassionate about her,than he was with Ash and that in itself, was a good thing. It meant that she had only one annoying companion to travel alongside! But on a serious note, it meant that she was able to talk to Cilan about anything, because he had assured her of that over the time that they had known each other. He was kind and genourous and she'd always sort of liked him. Well, definitely more than Ash anyway!
"And Ash, you're happy with that yes?" Cilan continued, turning his attention to Ash, which Iris envied in silence. The thought that her beloved conoisseur could be more interested in Ash than her killed her and she made it her goal - alongside becoming a dragon master- to get to know him even better, and to appreciate everything that he did.
"You bet!" Ash exclaimed enthusiastically, punching a triumphant fist in the air, as if declaring his law on that area of the forest. It was Iris' turn to shake her head, her Axew mimicking quietly beside her, the little dragon type perched perfectly on her shoulder as his little claws held onto her hair as to stop himself from falling off. Pansage and Axew then shared knowing looks and smiled at their individual trainers. The raven haired teen then took off towards a bright clearing in the forest, jumping from one foot to the other as he waited for the remaining two to come after him.
"There'll be no helping him." Iris murmered to Cilan, which he responded to with a hesitant nod.
Their pokemon followed behind them, sniggering all the way...
*************** 30 minutes later (Yes, this is me being lazy.)***************************
"Oh, that was the best lunch ever Cilan!" Ash complimented, rubbing his slightly bloated belly. Pikachu chirruped and nibbled another pellet of poke-food, a content hum in his throat as he did so.
"You said that yesterday." Iris whispered to herself, which caused Axew to snort with laughter. Ash peeped up at him, and the small, gray pokemon retreated into Iris' long tresses.
"I'm just glad you enjoyed it so much!" Cilan replied gleefully, feeling proud that he could make his friend feel so happy. Then, shooting Iris a small, friendly smile, he said:
"Now Iris. Your Emolga. Would you like me to help you?"
Iris nodded quickly, in which Cilan chuckled at remotely. Iris hastily stood up and stood in front of him, eager to start. Then, without another word, she ran through a couple of trees and waited for Cilan on the other side of the clearing, a happy smile on her face as she did so, her fingers already clutching her Emolga's poke-ball excitedly.
"Y-You're very fast, Iris." Cilan breathed, his air intake was slightly shakey and laboured.
"It's all in the legs, Cilan." She replied smugly, imitating the use of his name. (Cilan used hers, she used Cilan's)
"I'll bet it is." He smiled fondly, his gaze dropping to her poke-ball.
"Oh right. Go Emolga!" She called, sending the small flying squirrel out.
"Emol~" She cooed tiredly, looking curiously up at the purple-haired wild-child, who was staring down at her with a heavy smirk.
"Ok Emolga. We're going to do some serious training." Iris explained clearly, not faltering once. Emolga turned it's head away in a snobbish fashion, as if the idea disgusted her.
"Em Emol Em~ (I don't want to.)" The small pokemon remarked flatly.
Iris clenched her teeth. She was so infuriating and hard-headed! She thought that she could prance around and do whatever it was that she wanted to, which tugged on Iris' nerves more than she could ever say. It was annoying and not only because of Emolga's lazy ways, but because Ash, unbelieveablely, may have been onto something, when he called Iris' pokemon over-bearing and over-confident. It meant that Emolga was just getting a free ride around the Unova region and she wasn't doing anything to earn her keep. Not that Iris would ever throw her out, but the thought of her being that dependent on Iris angered her considerabely.
But before Iris could get a word in edgeways, Axew leaped from his "hideout" with vicious eyes and a nasty curl of the mouth, which made up a rather menacing snarl.
"Axew, Axe, AXEW!" Iris' best companion shouted at the stubburn squirrel, which only resulted in her turning her back on the enraged dragon type.
"Axew, Axe." Axew muttered warningly, eyeing Emolga with a scrutinizing glare.
"Em~" She replied, uninterested and definitely unimpressed. In fact, she had yet to meet a male pokemon that impressed her!
"Axew!" Axew cried, firing an angry dragon rage at Emolga, who moved to the side elegantly and dodged easily.
"Hmm. Your Emolga seems to have the skills to battle with. She just doesn't plan on using them any time soon. Although, under pressure..." Cilan pondered the thought aloud, which caused Iris to look up at him, begging for some kind of help in order to gain control over her somewhat abusive pokemon.
"Put her under pressure!" She exclaimed, which caused Cilan to peer down at her. "Please Cilan." She voiced her ashamed plea, her tone practically smothering him with a desperate want for his assistance.
"Alright." He caved, giving her a fleeting glance. "Pansage, Dwebble, go!"
The two pokemon appeared in a flash of white light, awaiting instruction from their master, in which Iris could only hang her head at. His pokemon were so well behaved and brave and loyal. Just like him.
"Dwebble, use x-scissor, and Pansage, use bullet seed!" Cilan ordered, throwing at dramatic point at the currently distracted Emolga. The pokemon did as they were told, and landed hits on the flirty squirrel.
"Emol!~" She cried, falling to the floor. Whether it was an act or not, Iris or Cilan couldn't be sure.
"Pansage, use solar beam." Cilan told the petite grass monkey, quietly observing the fallen pokemon's movements. She didn't move and Iris let out a tense breath. Cilan's eyes narrowed briefly in speculation. He had deliberately chosen 'Solar beam' because it took some time to charge up before Pansage could actually fire it, depending on the sun's position and today, although the sun was high, they were fighting in a forest, in which the trees sheltered the move obliviously.
Emolga suddenly shot up and unleashed a powerful discharge, but she had waited just a tad too long. Pansage's beam of energy collided with her powerful electrical attack and there was a small explosion because of the immensity of the power that had been behind those individual moves.
"As I thought." The conoisseur muttered to himself, watching Emolga's motions and motivations when forced to battle.
Emolga then caught Pansage by suprise by using a powerful barge attack. It wasn't actually one of the squirrels attacks, but more of a natural instinct, and it did do quite a bit of damage. Pansage stumbled back blindly, the impact making him hold his head in pain. Deciding quickly to give Pansage a little time to recover, Cilan launched the next attack.
"Dwebble, use slash!"
Dwebble did so, but missed as Emolga skillfully dodged the move, batting her eyelashes at Dwebble as she did so. The crab-like pokemon backed off slightly, over-whelmed by Emolga's (false) attention. Off of balance, Dwebble could do nothing to stop the sneaky grip of attract. In all honesty, all he could do was watch in curiostiy. Despite being a pokemon who loved to battle, he'd never seen such a captivating move and the way the hearts seemed to prowl forward did nothing but entice him. Dwebble was now Emolga's for the taking!
Well, he would have been.
"Dwebble, return." Cilan said, the pokemon vanishing with a red streak of light which disappeared into the depths of it's respective poke-ball. The attract spun around him and hit him, but it didn't seem to do anything. Cilan just continued to stare at Emolga, carefully analyzing her as she stuffed her face with an apple.
"Lazy and ravenous. Not exactly a complimentary taste." Cilan commented, as he rubbed his poke-ball against his trouser leg to clean a spot of dirt that had devilishly landed there.
Emolga yawned loudly and flew up a tree, spotting apples hanging from the limp branches.
Iris was by now, throughly embarrassed. How dare her pokemon show her up like that! But this was Emolga she talking about and she had expected nothing else.
"Maybe I'm just not cut out to look after Emolga after all." Iris sadly said, looking down at the grass-covered ground.
"Nonsense!" Cilan exclaimed, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder, smiling a friendly smile down at her. She meekly returned it and then raised Emolga's poke-ball in order to call her in.
"Wait a second." Cilan said. Iris turned to look at him, her eyes urging him to speak. "Leave Emolga out. Try and learn some of her movements and how she operates. It could be an opening to training her sufficiently." Cilan explained gently. Iris pocketed the poke-ball and stroked her Axew fondly on his head, the large, jaggard spike atop his head brushing her chin and tickled.
"Thanks Cilan." She smiled, turning to face him. "For trying. Hard."
"No problem. Anytime!" He replied happily, his face radiating welcoming vibes and emotions of an inviting kind. Then he twitched.
"Cilan, are you alright?" Iris giggled, finding his twitch endearing and rare. He looked rather cute when he twitched, she decided.
Cilan then spun around to face her, advancing a step and invading her personal space which made Iris blush and avert her gaze to the floor, for looking up was all too dangerous. She could feel his hands brushing hers and silently wondered what on earth he was doing. Then he grabbed them and interlocked their fingers, Iris' eyes widening as he did.
"W-what are you do-" She stuttered helplessly, but was shushed by a finger flying over her lips.
"Shh..." Cilan whispered. Then tilting Iris' head up with his thumb and fore-finger, he opened his eyes and stared at her, head on and without any sort of waver. Totally fixated and this alone made Iris uncomfortable. Not that she didn't like him, but what on earth was going on? This wasn't Cilan! He was too confident. But maybe that wasn't such a bad thing, she thought to herself mischeviously.
Now that she took a moment to look at him properly, his eyes seemed to shimmer at her. Was it the light? No, it wasn't bright enough here under the shade of the collosal trees. Well, maybe it was just a natural shine? Hmm, no. It looked like an extra flair of some sort had settled in the sea of green.
"Em!~" Emolga sang cutely, which caused Iris to look at her for a spilt second before she realised what was going on.
Cilan looked... Attracted.
So, I thought I'd make this a two shot, because it's already eight in the evening and this is going to be too long to finish in this single night. (I leave my grandma's tomorrow morning at ten)
(This is for those of you who have read "The locket", is this next notice.)
So, why am I not updating "The locket" yet? Well, I promise you people, chapter three is in the works and should be posted either tomorrow or Monday. It depends what I'm doing. Like I said, I'm at grandma's and I'm using a different computer (obviously) and because chapter three is already half way through, I didn't want to write it and change it entirely. It wouldn't be as good.
But like I said, I promise that it'll be worth reading!
For those who haven't read it, get your butt there now! Nah, I'm kidding. It's your choice entirely! ^-^
No review threats, as per usual, but some would be appreciated. Love it? Hate it? Just rate it! (Although no flames are permitted!)
Chapter two should be up, either tomorrow or Monday depending on when I decide to finish chapter three of "the locket".
~Jess~