Welcome back! Glad that you're still sticking around and toughing it out until it gets interesting (at least, I hope you think it's interesting…). When we last left Rei, she threw a ton of exposition on us about Literoa before her boss, Yukio, told her to find a kid lost in the Scriptana Forest who was led there by a Mismagius. She knows that her enemy, Daven, is going to try and make her look bad by defeating her, though! I already know what happens here and what will happen in the later chapters, but I won't tell you! Go ahead and find out about this one yourself, though!
I got through Verseti easily, not stopping to talk to Edric, before I reached the Scriptana Forest. Some Bug and Grass-type Pokemon were roaming around, but I mostly ignored them until I started to hear a young kid crying. "Hello?" I called, searching around until I finally found him. "Are you lost?" I asked, although I already knew that he was.
"Y-yes…" He rubbed his nose and looked up at me with glimmering eyes. "…Who are you?"
"My name's Rei," I answered. "Where do you live? I can take you home if you want."
"Tragetu City," he answered, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Of course…" I thought. "Why isn't Daven getting in trouble for letting this kid get lost in the first place, again?" "Well, don't worry, little guy. I'll get you there safe and sound," I ensured him.
"A-alright," he sniffled, grabbing my hand as we continued down the path. Further down, I could see the path branching off to Tragetu.
"If he was already this close to home, how is he lost?" I wondered warily, but I headed in the direction of the path anyway, and I wasn't surprised when every single one of the Pokemon on Daven's main team leaped out from the shadows. "Whoa! Those are Daven's Pokemon!" the little kid exclaimed, as Sableye jumped down from my shoulder and started to growl at the Weavile leading the pack.
"Weavile!" Daven's Pokemon growled, his claws turning purple and growing longer.
Sableye didn't look impressed, as he hissed, "Eye…" and his claw caught on fire, before he swung at Weavile. But right when Sableye was about to hit him, Weavile caught Sableye's Fire Punch, laughed scathingly, and shot a beam of ice from his mouth, sending Sableye flying backwards, but he caught himself on the ground.
"Sable…!" Sableye croaked defiantly, bringing his claws together as a ball of bright orange light grew in his hands, before he tossed it at Weavile, but Weavile slid out of the way and darted over to my confused Sableye and swiped him in the face once, knocking him over and causing him to faint. "Sableye!" I cried.
"That's Daven's Weavile! Awesome!" the kid exclaimed, running over to the Pokemon. Weavile chuckled and struck a pose, before shooting off another Ice Beam at a tree and freezing it. "Cool!" the kid said.
I growled, bringing out Iggle's Pokeball. "Go, Iggle!" I shouted, tossing the ball and sending out my Wigglytuff.
At first, Weavile looked shocked, before snickering. Iggle puffed up her cheeks defiantly. "Iggle, use Brick Break!" I ordered, as she aimed a punch at the Weavile.
"Dodge it, Weavile." Immediately, the Weavile jumped out of the way and punched at Iggle in return, knocking her over, but not KO'ing her quite yet, though she was close.
As I brought out a Hyper Potion from my bag and started to spray it on Iggle's wounds, Daven stepped out from where he was hiding behind a tree, having been hidden entirely by the shadows, smirking. "Hello, Rei. I see you've been expecting me this time."
"What's your problem, anyway?" I questioned furiously, accidentally spraying some of the Hyper Potion into Iggle's eye. Daven started to laugh meanly, but Iggle didn't seem hurt. I still muttered sorry to her, though.
Daven didn't answer my question, and said, "Well, then, shall you be attacking me again, or are you just going to give up now? I'd say giving up would be smarter."
After Iggle was fully revitalized, I said, "No, I'm going to keep fighting for as long as I can, and I'm finally going to show you that you can't just bully me all the time like you do!"
"Hm, feisty," he muttered, smiling. "Very well. Weavile, use Brick Break on this insolent child's Wigglytuff so we can see what else she has in store for us."
Weavile nodded, before trying to punch Iggle again. "Iggle, dodge it!" I cried, but Iggle couldn't get out of the way in time, and was slapped aside. I ran over to see if she was alright, but she had fainted. "Wig…" she murmured sadly.
I would explain what happened next, but by the way I'm avoiding it, I bet you can guess that happened. So anyway, after all my Pokemon had been slammed, Daven laughed. "You know, arrogance doesn't win Pokemon battles," he scoffed.
"And neither does being a pathetic jerk…!" I hissed. "And why do you always call me a kid and speak like an evil guy?"
Daven only smiled, that jerk. "That was soo cool!" the little kid shouted, running up to him. "I want to be just like you when I grow up, Uncle Daven!"
"Uncle Daven?!" I growled. "I thought you may have sent him out as bait from the start!"
"He wasn't bait, what are you even talking about?" Daven said, trying to sound innocent. "He came out here to watch me battle you."
"Then why did you call Yukio and tell him that you saw a Mismagius leading him out here?" I asked, angry.
"If I didn't make the problem Ghost-related, you wouldn't have shown up," Daven answered simply, before looking to his nephew. "Now, come on, let's get you home. Yukio needs to hear that Rei failed to listen to what he had to say again."
As they walked away, I could feel myself getting really angry—more so than usual, I mean—before I shouted, "I bet the only reason you're not attacking me this time is so that you can keep tricking your nephew into liking you!"
Daven turned around. "Stay here," he ordered his nephew sternly, before coming back to me. "Well, then, if you insist, I guess I must," he said, shrugging as he sent out his Weavile. "So, then, Weavile, use whatever you feel like using. This was her idea, after all, not mine."
"What are you talking about?" I questioned as his Weavile started to advance towards me. "You're the one who always instigates the fights, not-!"
I got cut off when Weavile used some attack on me, I think it was Aerial Ace, and I fell over. My vision started to get all hazy, but the last thing I saw before I blacked out was Daven looking down at me. He mumbled something, smirking like usual, and sent his Weavile back into its Pokeball.
Again, thank you for sticking around! I know how hard this beginning part is to read through—believe me, I try to avoid reading this part like the plague when I'm skimming over it to search for interesting parts—but It'll get better (hopefully!) Until next time, don't die and come back or else I'll be a saad Panda!
…Ugh, I even repulsed myself with that. Never again, I promise. Never, ever again.
