Hey everyone its The-Ell-Star, and I am back with the second chapter of "From High School to Badges". Sorry this chapter took a long time to get up. What with school work, exams and trying to solve a friends relationship, I've been rather stretched for time. Anyway, you came for the story, not me rambling, so on with the chapter!
While most people would've gone tho their parents or guardians for help, Dawn didn't. After running out of the school, Dawn had found herself in the nearby park, under one of the trees, curled up with her knees in her face, crying. She could've gone to her mum, but Dawn had somehow learnt to deal with the problems herself, as back in Sinnoh her mum had enough problems with Dawn's dad leaving her without Dawn adding more. Because of this, Dawn dealt with her problems herself. Not by self harming or standing up (figuratively) but by becoming less and less involved with students, figuratively making her a ghost in her old school. Because no one actually knew her well after that, she didn't have to deal with all those problems.
Yet, she had made friends with the popular kids at this school. She told herself that she had learnt her lesson from last time not to make friends, especially with populars, yet this time she thought it would be different. She thought that perhaps she could break out of her state and start new...but no matter where you are, you will always be yourself.
"Stupid Dawn...stupid stupid Dawn...how could you not realise never to do that ever again. Did you honestly think things would be different here?" She was so in warped with her thoughts that she didn't see or realise a lone figure slowly approaching didn't take long for the figure to standing above her, but Dawn failed to notice. Nor did she realise she had been in her current state for about two hours.
"Hello?" The figure spoke, trying to get her attention.
Nothing.
"Hello?" The figure leant down a bit, as if he was trying to direct his voice into Dawn's ear, hoping this would grab her attention.
Nothing.
"Hey?" The figure shook Dawn on her shoulders. This time achiving in grabbing her attention. Dawn's head slowly lifted out of her knees, and slowly turned her head left to see the person who brought her back to reality. He was around 5'8ft and was wearing a black polo shirt with a blue waist coat, blue jeans, blue and black sneakers and a red hat perched on top of the head. Although when Dawn noticed the brown eyes and jet black hair, she knew who her saviour was, and she wasn't too happy.
"Oh...it's you" Dawn spoke quietly, but venom was present in her voice. "What do you want? Came her to make fun of me I suppose?"
Ash, rather shockingly, shook his head. "If I was going to make fun of you, why would I go out of my way to come up to you first?"
"S..so you don't have to make up anything about this situation, so that everyone will make fun more?"
"You're not even making sense, surely a made up lie would prove more effective than the truth, considering the protest you would have"
Dawn couldn't come back to this. She knew now that Ash wasn't here to make fun of her, but then a thought came across her mind. "If he's not here to make fun of me...why IS he here?"
Dawn put her head back into knees as her next question came out. "So...why are you here?"
Ash smiled slightly. "I'm here to see whether you're ok or not, as cliched as that sounds"
"So why are you checking if I am ok" Dawn hesitantly asked, as she raised her head out of her knees.
"Because: A) A young girl is crying beneath a tree, B) The commotion at lunch , and C) The fact your friends with Drew. It doesn't take genius to put one and three together, but thats why I was checking if you were ok"
"Wait the commotion at lunch...how did you know about it? I looked around the hall before 'that' happened, and I didn't see you"
Ash smirked. "No, I was outside, you could hear it from there"
Dawns' eyes went wide. "Y...you could hear it f...from outside?"
Ash nodded. "Well yeah, I mean it is Drew we are talking about here. If you were that close to him whilst he was 'projecting' his voice, I'm kinda surprised you can still hear me though"
Dawn slowly formed a small smile, the first one since that 'incident'. "Heh...yeah I guess you're right about that"
Ash smiled softly, before asking a question of his own. "So may I ask, what did you do to make Drew angry?"
Dawn hesitated before answering "I..I questioned his battling ability...I mean after he lost to you I wondered whether he was telling the truth about his 'skills' so I asked him...and well the rest is common knowledge..."
Ash's face went from smiling to straight faced (Imagine Yu Narukami's normal straight face) "Seriously, he's still going on about it? I would've thought he'd stop by now"
At first, Dawn only registered Ash's response at face value. But once the words processed fully into her mind, she was shocked at what her mind realised Ash was saying. "You were close to Drew?"
"Yep, long time ago however, by which I mean about a year, though I'm kinda surprised your pretty little head didn't realise that sooner"
Dawns' cheeks turned a light shade of pink. "W...wait why am I blushing!?" She quickly shook her head before saying, "What do you mean by that? Sure Drew has gone on about you a few times..."
"A few?"
"Ok, A LOT of the time. But still I don't understand what you mea...Ohhhhhhh" As the clogs in Dawns' head clicked.
Ash smiled again. "If Drew hated me with out knowing me, he wouldn't go on about me. Hell, he'd try to avoid me and speaking about me at all cost. But because he did know me and he thinks what he's doing is affecting me, he will do that"
"I see now" Dawn nodded, but something popped into her mind. Something really, REALLY, obvious. "Wait...why I have been speaking to about these things even though you're not my friend?"
Ash smirked, almost like he had been expecting this question. "Because it is human logic. In ones' hour of need, if anyone shows/speaks/acts like they're gonna help, then they automatically trust them because they want so form of comforting" Ash explained, almost like he was some sort of wizard.
"Oh" Was all Dawn could reply with whilst she took in this information. "But wait, if this is human logic, then this has happened before. So isn't the conversation we just had cliched?"
Ash nodded "Yeah it is, almost as if someone was writing a fan-fiction"
Dawn chuckled at this "Yeah I guess it is"
Ash softly smiled. "Keep her mind off of Drew and the incident" "So Dawn...do you have any Pokemon on you at the moment?"
Dawn went wide eyed, again. "Oh god...I haven't sent out my Pokemon in a while. They're probably worried about me" Dawn said as pulled two Poke-balls of her waist and threw them into the air, releasing two white lights to which two Pokemon appeared in. One of the Pokemon was small blue penguin with a yellow beak and 'cuteish' face. The other was a brown rabbit with white looking fluff covering half of its body and childish black eyes. Both Pokemon's cried their respective "Piplup" and "BunBuneary" before rushing to their trainer to see whether she was ok.
Dawn smiled at this. "It's ok you two, don't worry about me" Dawn explained to her Pokemon, whilst they noticed Ash and looked wary at him, incase he had upset Dawn. "Don't be afraid you two, he's been helping me"
Dawn then turned her attention to Ash. "As I've shown you my Pokemon, why don't you show me yours?"
"Sure" Ash replied, whilst pulling a Poke and Great ball from his waist, and throwing them into the air. "You've seen Mudkip and Pikachu already" Ash said whilst Mudkip and Pikachu were released from their balls. "However...I don't think you've seen this one" Ash commented mysteriously whilst grabbing what looked a normal Poke-ball, but it had a small feather embedded onto it. Ash threw the ball into the air, releasing a white light, and another Pokemon appeared. The Pokemon was a small bird, with a cream body and brown wings. However, it looked like it had been 'glazed' to a have a tint of green. When the white light disappeared, and Dawn got a good look at the Pokemon, she gasped and put a hand over her mouth.
"T...th...Thats not a normal Pidgey..."
Ash smirked. "No it isn't, it's a shiny Pidgey. You can probably understand why I don't battle with her in school"
"Yeah no kidding" Dawn said in awe. "Wait...how did you meet this Pidgey?"
"Long time back..." Ash began to reminiscent. "I was training with Mudkip and Pikachu in the woods nearby, when I heard a load of commotion followed by a large bang. I went to see what was going on, with Pikachu and Mudkip, and what I came across was two poachers with two Houndours trying to capture a shiny Pidgey.
(Flashback 4 years)
Ash had just witnessed two Houndours, commanded by their poacher, use Flamethrower on the Pidgey. The Pidgey was able to dodge one Flamethrower, but got hit badly by the other. Satisfied that the Pidgey was damaged enough it couldn't cause a commotion or escape, the two poachers approached the damaged Pidgey with a cage, in an attempt to capture it. They were just about to catch it, when they were caught off guard by a voice...a very angry one.
"HEY!" An eleven year old Ash shouted at the two poachers. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?"
Once recovered, one of the poachers snorted at Ash and his comment. "Get lost kid" He said. "This here has got nothing to do with you"
"And I would suggest you do get lost, unless you want us to MAKE you get lost!" The other poacher added, indicating to the two Houndours.
"Nope, not gonna happen" Ash thought to himself, as he continued to stare down the two poachers.
Then, suddenly. "MUDKIP WATER GUN!"
As if on cue, the small mud fish Pokemon popped out of the foliage and shot a burst of water at the two Houndours. While this didn't knock them out, it did stun them, something Ash was hoping for.
"Now Pikachu, SHOCK WAVE!"
Again on cue, the small electric mouse Pokemon jumped out of the folige and sent a strong wave on electricity towards the two Houndours. Not only would this attack hit, the water still dripping off the two Houndours would increase the power of the shock wave when it came into contact. Non surprisingly, this knocked out the two Houndours, and left two very shocked (Not pun intended) poachers wondering what just happened.
"I would suggest you leave now" Ash ordered. "Unless you want me to MAKE you leave"
The poachers, who were grumbling in defeat, returned their respective Houndour and quickly left, not wanting to receive a beating from Ash's two Pokemon. With the two poachers dealt with, Ash turned his attention to the Pidgey. It looked like it was still badly damaged from trying to escape from the poachers, and considering its most recent encounter with humans, it wouldn't appreciate him marching up to it to check whether it was ok. Ash noticed, coincidentally and luckily, an Oran berry bush close to where he was currently standing. Not wanting to provoke the bird, Ash got down onto all fours, and crept as silently as possible to the Oran berry bush. Once he reached there, he plucked serval Oran berries from said bush, and then began making his way towards Pidgey, making sure the Oran berries were shown at all times so that the Pidgey had a vague understanding of what Ash was doing.h
Ash managed to get to the Pidgey, and fed it a few of the Oran berries. While this didn't heal the birds wounds completely, it did help relive some of the pain. Whilst Ash was feeding the bird, Mudkip and Pikachu began chatting amongst themselves, something Pidgey took notice of.
"Wow...those two Pokemon look happy...and safe...like this human takes great care...with his Pokemon...and the way they took out those two Houndours...he must train them well..." The Pidgey thought to itself, and then it noticed the human feeding her had a Poke-ball strapped on the waist. When the human tried to feed her, she side stepped and indicated at the Poke-ball.
"Hmm...?" Ash saw the Pidgey pointing at something on his waist, and then realised what it was. "Wait...you want me to catch you?" The Pidgey simply nodded. Not wanting to disappoint any Pokemon, Ash pulled the Poke-ball of his waist, enlarged it, and held it out in front of Pidgey. The Pidgey tapped her head against the ball, disappeared into the ball, and didn't shake indicating the capture. After picking up the ball, Ash called out to his other two Pokemon. "Mudkip, Pikachu. We have a new team member!"
"After that, Pidgey became a great team member and a great addition to the team. She gets on well with Mudkip and Pikachu, but is still shy around other humans that she doesn't know. " Ash explained, as Pidgey perched on his head, keeping a wary eye on Dawn.
Dawn didn't know what to say after Ash's story. After the battle today, Dawn didn't think Ash cared about his Pokemon. Considering that his Pokemon obeyed without hesitation, she thought Ash tortured his Pokemon. But after hearing the story about his Pidgey, she had knew that her initial thought was wrong. She was still in thought when Ash spoke.
"It's getting dark, aren't your parents worried about you being out this late?"
Dawn's eyes widened. "Oh god you're right" She hastily returned Piplup and Buneary before getting up. She was about leave, but she turned to face Ash. "Hey...thank you for that...it...cheered me up...I hope I can see you again..." Dawn spoke while giving Ash her sincerest smile.
Ash smiled as well "Don't worry about it, though do say if Drew and his friends start anything. I'm in both of your lessons tomorrow."
Dawn nodded. "Ok, thank you again" And with that, Dawn ran off home.
Ash waved Dawn good bye, then turned to his Pokemon. "Soo...what do you think of Dawn?"
The Pokemon chirped happily, which caused Ash to smile.
"Me too"
Again, sorry for the late delay. This also brings up a point I will address, exam season is almost upon me, so my time will be spent on exams, rather than writing chapters. So there will probably be a long delay between this chapter and the next. In the mean time, I want to get you, the readers, involved with this story. So here's what can be done:
If you want to suggest a Pokemon for any of the mentioned characters, you may do so (bonus points if you give a short back story) and if I like that suggestion, I'll use that Pokemon in the story and mention the readers name who suggested that Pokemon.
See you next time
