Breaking the Habit
I can't figure out why I keep finding myself back here. With my bag on my back, and my Pokémon sitting beside me, it isn't as bad as you think it would be. Kisses looks up to me and grins. My Togakiss rubs her head against my shoulder, as we look out over the water. The crystal blue ocean sparkled in the waning light.
"Hey you! You're a trainer!" I turn around, glancing at the boy who seemed to have no manners at all.
"Yes I am, and you?" I asked, standing up, letting my light blonde hair fall around my shoulders. As I stood, I made sure I got a good look at the boy. He had dark brown hair that fell in his face as the inner tube around his stomach covered the blue trunks that had little magicarp on it. But what surprised me more than the trunks was the actual site of poke balls hooked onto his belt.
"I just became a trainer! And I want to Challenge you!"
I arched my eyebrow smiling slightly, "Really, I think I've been a trainer for a bit longer than you have, I don't think it would be fair."
"Hey! I'm strong!!" his whiney voice rang.
"What's your name?"
"Thomas." HE said shuffling his feet.
"Well, Thomas, do you know what time it is? I think I'm going to take you home." I placed my hand on his back, pushing him forward to the only town close.
"No! I wanted to have fun! And battle!!" He turned around to face me crossing his arms. "I'm not going home until you battle me!"
I ran my hand through my hair as I bent down to his level. "Ok, well, here's the thing..." I smiled trying to look friendly. "I have all eight badges."
"No way!! Cool!! I RREALLY want to battle you know!! But-" He cut off for a second, "Can I choose the Pokémon you use?" He asked, getting really excited.
"Ummm, well." I looked at my poke balls trying to remember what Pokémon I had with me. Besides my Togikiss, I had my Cubone, Hitmonlee, kingdra, syther, and arcanine. I knew strategically it wasn't my best team, and physically they aren't the best either. "I have a better idea."
The boy watched as I pushed one of my ringlets out of my eyes. "Why don't you ring out your Pokémon and I will pick the Pokémon that is weakest against yours."
The boy seemed to think for a bit. "Ok!!!" Pulling his tube off the little boy grabbed at his one poke ball throwing it up in the air," Go Buizel!"
Out of the sphere popped the medium sized Pokémon. "Bu' " It called as it stood in front of it's' trainer. I smiled before I found my third poke ball.
"Go, Arcanine!" I said letting the Pokémon gracefully land on its feet, its ball falling safely into my hand. "Kiss?" Kisses asked as she looked up to me. I didn't speak Pokémon, but I knew what she was trying to say. "Sorry hun, you need to come back." Switching the poke balls I waved my hand in front of her, "Return"
"Wow, your Pokémon looks strong!!!" Thomas said, "But your Pokémon is fire type, and mine water. Go water gun!"
"Bounce." Springing on his feet, Arcanine jumped into the air missing the spray of water from the buizel.
"Wow" Thomas muttered. The buizel looked up as Arcanine fell back to the ground, missing the other Pokémon by mere inches. "Now earthquake!"
Growling Arcanine raised a paw as the earth shook shaking both the Pokémon.
"No!! Buizel!" The shaking stopped as the Pokémon fell to the ground. The little boy ran to his Pokémon and pulled him into his arms.
"You did well Arcanine." I said and the Pokémon returned to the ball. As I placed it on my belt I stood and watched the boy. He reminded me slightly of myself when I was younger. He cared so much for a Pokémon that I knew he hasn't known for a while.
Tears brimmed the little boy's eyes, "Lady, will he be ok! Tell me he'll be ok!"
I took a step towards the boy as I pulled my bag off my back. I set the soft cloth onto a stump as I sifted through the bag in the little light that was left. Finding what I needed I placed my bag back onto my back as I put the revive onto the Pokémon's head.
"What are you doing?!" He tried to pull the Pokémon away as I kept the device onto its head. The Pokémon's eyes flickered back open as it cooed slightly.
"It's a revive. It will keep your Pokémon healthy enough until you get to a Pokémon center, but until then it should stay in its ball."
The boy just listened as he pulled the poke ball back out and called his Pokémon back.
"Now, how about I take you home now." I said pulling the boy into my side. He nodded once as we started walking in the direction of the nearest town.
With my right hand I kept my arm around the boy, I used my other hand to bring my syther out, just to keep the wild Pokémon away.
"Scy!" it called as it scanned ahead.
"You do live in sunnyshore, right." The little boy nodded as he scooted closer to my body.
"So how did you find your way out here?" I asked, trying to make small talk as we walked by the trees back to the town.
"I-I wanted to get more Pokémon, and I went too far, and I couldn't find my way back… Then I found you."
I didn't answer that, I couldn't answer that. What would I say? OH, good thing I made it here in time, you would have been sleeping with the Pokémon if I wasn't. Or how about well good thing I found you because if it was someone else it could be bad.
"Well, next time, you need to train a little closer to home, until you get a bit older that is." I smiled trying to cheer the little boy up. He smiled slightly as I sighed.
Looking to the sky I knew that time was running out and we needed to get to town soon. "Syther Return!" placing that one back I grabbed the one I wanted, "Go Kisses." Togakiss looked thrilled as she smiled at the boy rubbing her cheek against his face.
"Have you ever been on a Pokémon flying?" I asked walking around togakiss and sitting on her back. Thomas shakes his head, "Come here, yes sit right here, in front of me."
I pulled the boy in front of me as I called out information to kisses, "We're headed to Sunnyshore, Fly!" With a kick Togakiss flew up into the air and zoomed into the direction of the town.
"Wow, so do you do this a lot?" he asked as he gripped onto my arms as if he was afraid he was going to fall.
"Kinda, I'm trying actually to walk more but other than that." The boy smiled as he pointed at the ground.
"Look look there it is!! It is my town!!"
It wasn't but a couple more minutes until Togikiss dropped to the ground as a large swarm of people gathered around me, the boy, and my Pokémon. "Return." I said placing the ball back onto my belt.
"There he is!" A man said, pointing at the boy.
"We've found him!"
"Call the mother!"
"Oh, Thomas!!"
"Mommy?!" Thomas said running into his mother's arms.
I couldn't help but smiling. MY light blue dress flew in the light wind as I tried to keep my hair out of my face.
"Mam, what is your name." The mother asked. Looked deep into my eyes.
"Eliza."
"Oh! Eliza how can we thank you for bringing our son home."
Many things ran through my head as I tried to think of where I was staying for the night, but I knew that they didn't want her crashing at their house.
"It was nothing, but you might want to get his Pokémon to a Pokémon center. I'm afraid he isn't well." The mother just nodded to me as she ran into the Pokémon center, her son following. It wasn't soon after that the crowd just disappeared into the night that now was upon us.
"Great, where will I stay," I murmured sitting on the bench outside the Pokémon center.
"Eliza?" my heart stopped, I didn't think I would ever hear his voice again.
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