Hello everyone!
Welcome to the next chapter of gemstone clash, I'll try not to stick too much to the predictable path of the games and anime.
Also, I've been thinking about the Pokemon's evolutions, and I want all their pokemon to evolve before their Hoenn adventure is over, so I'm going to try and space them out as much as possible.
I realized that I completely forgot to describe Menma and Nozomi, so here it is. Menma is a Minato clone, wearing a white hoodie, black shirt, olive cargo pants, and blue sneakers, with a red backpack. Nozomi is a Kushina clone with twintails, wearing a black tank top, a yellow sleeveless vest, a black mini-skirt, and white biker shorts with white, knee length ninja sandals.
I forgot to mention this in the last chapter, but Brandy is Brendan. I wanted him to be there in some form, so I made Brandy. Also, I wanted a pairing for Max when he gets older.
Mega evolution will happen.
Speaking of Mega evolution, if anyone can think up or draw a Mega Chesnaught for me, that would be awesome, I don't want Sage to be the only pokemon on Naruto's team that can't mega evolve, PM me about it!
Disclamier: I do not own Naruto, Pokemon, or any other media that might appear in this or any of my other stories.
Chapter 2:
The Journey Truly Begins!
As Naruto and May walked across the bridge to Rustboro City, Naruto couldn't get his thoughts off the encounter with Kurama, "What did he mean about my destiny? His status as a legendary is also confusing, I've never even heard of him..."
He chose to ignore said fox's muttering within his mind about disrespectful brats.
"Naruto?" His companion asked, "Are you alright?"
Naruto smiled and said, "Yeah, I was just lost in thought."
As the two entered the city, Naruto gave May another lesson, "Now, when you enter a new city, the first thing to do is look for the pokemon center. Even if your pokemon aren't hurt, it's still a good idea to get them checked out."
Nay nodded as the two headed to the brick building with the tell-tale pokeball symbol on the front.
"Hello there, what can I do for the two of you?" Nurse Joy asked.
Naruto snapped his fingers as he remembered something, "Before I forget, all Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny look nearly identical. Though they all have small differences, this Joy is just a centimeter taller than the one in Oldale town."
Joy giggled a bit and said, "That's impressive, people rarely ever notice that."
May nodded in understanding as the two handed their pokeballs over, "We just need a check-up." Naruto said.
The nurse nodded and gave the tray of pokeballs to the Chansey nearby, who took them back to an examination room. Naruto and May waited for about a half an hour before Chansey came back and gave a clipboard to Nurse Joy, her eyes widened a bit as she called them over, "Excuse me, may I speak to you two for a minute?"
They walked up as Nurse joy explained the situation, "May, it appears that your Duskull is infected with Pokerus, and he's passed it on to all the others."
May got worried, "What is that, some kind of disease? Is it dangerous!?"
Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile, "Don't worry May, Pokerus is actually a good thing." At her confused look, he explained, "While it is a disease, Pokerus has positive effects on pokemon."
"Really? Like what?" She asked
Naruto thought for a minute, "How to explain it... You read about pokemon stats in the guide book right?" She nodded, "Well Pokerus accelerates the growth hormones that raise stats, causing stats to grow much more per level than normal."
May nodded again as he continued, "Pokerus is also highly contagious, usually spread by physical contact, which is why both our teams have it. However, It'll go away in a few weeks, whick is why we need to take advantage of it while we have the chance."
"So it just makes them stronger?" May surmised.
Nurse Joy interjected, "Actually, it also has one other effect. Some pokemon have a special 'hidden' ability which only one in every thousand of that species possess. Pokemon infected with Pokerus sometimes activate their hidden ability in exchange for their old ability."
Naruto scratched the back of his head, "Sorry Nurse Joy, I should have let you explain it."
She shook her head with a smile, "Oh no it's fine. It's actually refreshing to see a trainer who actually studied up on pokemon biology and health."
With that, the two sat back down, Naruto thinking up a training program to take advantage of the Pokerus' growth abilities in the little time they had, while May booked them a room at the center.
After they got their pokemon back, Naruto went off to find the gym, May going along. When they found it, they went inside and saw a man at the front desk. He looked up to see them and said, "Are you two here for a battle?"
Naruto stepped up, "I am, she's a spectator."
The man nodded and spoke into an intercom, "Roxanne, a challenger is here."
Then a voice sounding about their age responded, "Excellent! I was getting seriously bored, send them in."
He looked back to them and said, "She usually teaches at the trainer's school, so you're lucky to catch her. Head back through those doors."
Naruto walked in to find himself at one end of a large, rock themed field. May took a seat on the stands as the other door opened.
In walked a black haired red eyed girl in a school uniform. She looked at them and turned to Naruto, "I'm Roxanne, so I assume you're my challenger?"
Naruto nodded with a smile, she pulled out a pokeball and said, "Well, it's not every day I get such an attractive one."
Naruto blushed a bit as he pulled out his own pokeball.
She chuckled a bit as the referee said, "This will be a two on two battle. It will end when both of one trainer's pokemon are unable to battle."
"Geodude, get to it!" Roxanne said as she sent out her first pokemon.
When he saw his opponent, Naruto tossed his own pokemon, "Naruto Shirogane. Kule, you're up first."
"Mudkip!" the small pokemon said with a smile, before it shot a blast of water at May.
"A water type eh? Hope you didn't think that would rattle me. Geodude, tackle!"
The small rock pokemon shot forward and tore up the ground in it's path.
"Dodge." Naruto said calmly as Kule jumped over the attack.
"Keep tackling!" Roxanne ordered.
Naruto watched as they continued, Kule was dodging every hit, so why...
"Turn with the momentum and use rollout!" Geodude did exactly that, using the force of the tackle attack, it turned and rolled toward Kule, who was still in the air.
Naruto narrowed his eyes and thought up a plan to weather the attack, "Kule, Ice ball."
Kule nodded as it started flipping and encasing itself in a ball of hardened ice, the two collided and kept colliding over and over again.
Roxanne analyzed the stalemate, "Ice ball and rollout both get more powerful with each hit, he's damaging Geodude just as much as he's being damaged..."
"Water gun."
Roxanne's eyes went wide as a powerful blast of water shot through the ice and slammed Geodude up against a rock.
She thought up a plan to at least injure Kule, "Use dig!"
Geodude dug underground and almost immediately shot up and grabbed onto Kule, "Selfdestruct!"
Naruto flinched as the explosion rocked the field, when it cleared, it showed a knocked out Geodude and a barely standing Kule, "What?" He thought, "Kule's no slouch, just like the others, but even he shouldn't have been able to stay conscious after that, especially at point blank range... Unless..."
Naruto quickly took out his pokedex and pointed it at Kule, his eyes went wide as he saw the cause. He smiled, put his dex away, and said, "Come on back Kule, you've done enough."
Kule looked back, flinched at the pain, and nodded as Naruto returned him to his ball.
Roxanne did the same to Geodude and said, "Well, this is the last round. Don't hold back now, isn't that right Nosepass!?" She said as she sent out her strongest pokemon.
Naruto took out another ball and said, "Let's go Sage."
The small grass type jumped around excitedly for a bit before settling on a serious face.
"Sage, pin missile." Sage's fingers and quills glowed whitish green and shot out at Nosepass.
"Harden!" Nosepass went stone still as the missiles bounced off of him.
"Vine Whip." Vines shot out of Sage's arms and sped toward Nosepass, they were much faster tha most pokemon's, so Roxanne didn't think of a plan until Nosepass had been hit a few times.
"Grab then and use Thunder Wave!"
Naruto, knowing what she was trying to do, told Sage to withdraw his vines, sadly, a small bit of electricity got onto the vine and shocked Sage, rendering him paralyzed.
Sage twitched as he tried to move, but each time he did, his muscles froze up, Roxanne smirked and said, "To ensure that this works, Lock on."
Nosepass' eyes glowed red as a red bulls eye appeared on Sage's head.
"Zap Cannon!"
A compacted ball of electrical energy appeared on Nosepass' hands, he shot it and it screamed right at the bull's eye on Sage's head, Sage was sent rolling along the ground, beaten up, but still conscious. Naruto watched, worried, as Sage struggled to get back up.
Roxanne, impressed with Sage's endurance, said, "Impressive, but this is the last shot, Zap Cannon again, full power."
An even larger ball of energy gathered in Nosepass' hands as Sage finally got to his feet.
May, watching from the stands, thought, "Damn, these gym battles can get intense... But I know Naruto and Sage can pull through..."
Nosepass fired the ball of energy as Sage waited, Naruto was seriously worried...
Until the attack hit.
All three people and one pokemon in the arena were stunned as Sage held the ball in his hands, struggling as it pushed him back. Naruto's eyes went wide as he realized what happened. Roxanne was seriously confused, she had no idea what was happening, "Wait... Doesn't the Chespin line have... Oh no!"
Sage spun around and threw the ball back at Nosepass, screaming, "(I AM BULLETPROOF!)"
The ball of electricity flew back at Nosepass and slammed full force into it.
After an explosion of power, Nosepass was revealed to be knocked out.
The referee held up a flag and said, "Both of Roxanne's pokemon are unable to battle, the winner is Naruto Shirogane!"
May cheered as Naruto returned Sage, Roxanne sighed as she returned her pokemon, "Well, that was a fun battle. Naruto, I hereby award you with the Stone Badge."
Naruto took the badge and placed it into his badge case, "Thank you. Now, I think we need to head back to the pokemon center."
Roxanne nodded and said, "I'll join you."
So the three left the gym and headed to the center, on the way, May said something that had been on her mind, "I still don't get it, how did Sage survive that last zap cannon?"
Naruto nodded, "Well, the Chespin line had a special hidden ability called bulletproof, which makes them immune to certain projectile moves."
May placed a hand on her chin, "Wait, hidden ability? Then did the Pokerus bring it out?"
Naruto nodded again, "Yep. Kule's damp ability as well. It activated during the selfdestruct attack."
"Damp?"
Roxanne went into teaching mode at this, "Damp negates moves like explosion and selfdestruct." (Don't worry, not every one of Naruto and May's pokemon will activate their hidden abilities. Just a few.)
When they arrived, Naruto and Roxanne gave their pokemon to the nurse and sat down, Roxanne then said, "Say, how would you like to help me out at the trainer's school tomorrow?"
Naruto, surprised by the offer, said, "I wouldn't mind. How about you may?"
Nay thought and said, "Well, it couldn't hurt... I could also pick up some tricks for being a coordinator."
Roxanne nodded, "We have a coordinator class if you want to attend."
Naruto and May nodded and they went over what they would be doing the next day.
Roxanne wanted Naruto to teach a battle strategy class and do a few practice battles with the kids, maybe knock the more cocky ones down a few pegs. May just wanted to learn, and since she was still new to being a trainer, she was going to stick to being part of the class.
Apparently, there were all ages of kids in the school, all the way up to their age. So Naruto would teach the younger ones some tips, then come over to the older class and battle the cockier ones. Roxanne explained that she would have done it herself, but they wouldn't have changed, her being a gym leader and all, she was supposed to be stronger than normal trainers. Anyway, Roxanne got her pokemon and went back to the gym in case any more challengers came back, while Naruto and May headed off to their rented room, but not before letting their pokemon out into the pen out back.
When they arrived, May looked around to see a bunk bed, a nightstand, and a desk complete with a computer.
Naruto walked over to the bed, tossed his stuff to the side, and said, "I'll take the bottom." With that, he walked over to the bathroom and changed into his pajamas, after he was done, he lye down and went to sleep as May came out, as she climbed into the top bunk, Naruto couldn't help but open one eye and catch an eyeful of her black panties.
He shook his head, turned over, and said, "Goodnight."
May yawned out, "Night..."
The Next Day.
Naruto and May were waiting for Roxanne outside the school, when she arrived they went around touring the school and getting them to their classes.
A few hours later Naruto was walking down the hall to the advanced battle strategy class. Teaching the younger kids had been fun, but now it was time to knock some heads around. May had been in the coordinator class in the beginning, but now she should be in the class he was going to. When he opened the door, he saw that the students were mostly his age, and he immediately noticed May being harassed by a couple of guys with arrogant looks on their faces.
Though that made his blood boil, his attention was further taken by his former siblings sitting near the front, "Aw shit..." Though he also noticed the boy with a pikachu near them, he and Menma seemed to be glaring at one another...
He walked up to the guys bothering May, and just as one was about to try and slip an arm around her shoulders, Naruto grabbed him by the back of his collar and lifted him up off the ground.
"The hell!" This, naturally, drew everyone's attention. Everyone noticed Naruto's annoyed look, though most of the ladies noticed that he was lifting the slightly muscular teen very easily with one arm.
"If you're too stupid to see that she doesn't appreciate your advances, than maybe you should go back to the basic classes." Naruto said as the guy was trying to get down.
Menma stood up and asked, "Look who's talking."
Naruto merely glanced over to him and said, "Menma, go back to your daydreams about being anything better than a second rate trainer."
Everyone chuckled at this as Roxanne's voice came from the doorway, "Well, that's an interesting strategy to start a class."
Naruto walked to the front of the class with Roxanne, she then said, "Now, it has come to my attention that some of you are getting arrogant, so I brought in Naruto here to remedy that. Jonathan, Carter, head out to the field."
The two guys hitting on May got up and walked out, sending Naruto nasty looks on the way.
Menma raised his hand, "Can I get in on this too?"
Roxanne nodded, seeing the tell-tale signs of arrogance coming off Menma, "What's your name?"
"Menma Namikaze." He said, acting like that should give him the win.
While everyone was talking about him being the son of the former champion, May walked past the boy with a pikachu and heard him say, "Man I hate that guy."
She stopped and said, "What's the problem, I get that he's an asshole, but what'd he do to you?"
The boy turned to her and said, "He just acts like he's better than everybody, it gets on my nerves."
May nodded, "I'm May Maple, what's your name?"
He smiled and said, "Ash Ketchum, and this is Pikachu."
"Pika pi!" The electric mouse pokemon said.
Suddenly, another boy appeared in front of may, took her hand, got down on one knee, and said, "My name is Brock beautiful, say would you like to go out and-"
May stopped him by chopping him on the head, he twitched on the grund as Ash said, "Sorry... He does that a lot..."
May noticed how almost every guy was looking at her with fear and said, "What? You got something to say!?"
They all turned away and headed out to the practice field.
When they all arrived, Roxanne looked at the four students and asked, "Who wants to go first?"
Jonathan stepped up and took out a ball, "This'll only take a minute. Go Mightyena!"
The dark dog pokemon appeared with a snarl, Naruto took out his own pokeball, "Tex, you're up."
"Lar..." The pokemon said as it crossed it's small arms.
Roxanne, acting as the referee, said, "Begin!"
"Mightyena use bite!"
"Sandstorm." Naruto calmly said.
Tex spun it's horn and a spiraling sandstorm, catching Mightyena under it's chest and launching it up into the air.
"Smack down." Tex jumped up and slammed down onto Mightyena, sending it into the ground.
"Rock Smash." Lastly, a glowing fist came down and slammed into Mightyena's back, knocking it out cold.
The whole class was stunned at the show of skill and power, Jonathan was one of the best in the class, and Naruto took him down easily!
Tex scoffed and put itself back in the pokeball. Naruto sighed as Carter took up a position on the other side of the field, "Crush 'em Breloom!"
Naruto, seeing the grass type, decided to give one of his pokemon a chance to, flex his claws, so to speak, "Eros, let's get a workout in."
"Char..." Eros said, staring into Breloom's eyes with a small smirk on his face.
"Woah a Charmeleon!" Ash said, thinking back to his Charizard.
"A shiny one at that..." Nozomi said, taking on a thinking pose. On the outside, she was the picture of calm, on the inside, she was panicking, "This isn't what Naruto is supposed to be like, he's supposed to be weak, he's supposed to be asking me for help!" Truth be told, Nozomi did care for Naruto. Far more than a sister should... to be fair, it was mostly her parent's fault, they didn't raise Naruto like a sibling to her. When they were children, Nozomi had taken to ignoring Naruto in an attempt to get closer to him.
In theory, the plan was sound, but in practice, it failed miserably. Nozomi knew that Naruto was a big enough man to ask for help, so she thought that he would go to her if his treatment continued. Even when the other kids made fun of him, she always made sure to be there, but since he never bothered to look toward her, he never saw her caring eyes.
Back to the battle, Naruto started off with a simple tactic, "Metal Claw." A rush.
Eros ran forward and slashed at Breloom, which was trying with all it's power to dodge the lightning fast strikes. Eros abruptly switched tactics, and instead of going for slashed, it started jabbing, "Shadow Claw."
Eros' fist was covered in a shadowy projection of his regular claw and flew forward to nail Breloom right in the face, sending it flying back.
Breloom got to it's feet, "Sky Uppercut!" And rushed in with it's fist dragging the ground.
Naruto watched as it got lose, he waited until it was close enough and said, "Stop him."
Eros slammed his foot down, stopping the fist from going up, "Flame Burst."
Eros quickly shot out a small blast of fire at Breloom, knocking it down and out.
Naruto returned Eros and waited for Menma to step up.
When he did, Menma took out his ball and said, "You might as well give up now. I'm much more skilled than you. Granted I lost to Roxanne yesterday, but after a bit of training I'll be more than a match for her... What are you smirking at!?"
Naruto chuckled and said, "Oh nothing."
Menma scoffed and sent out his pokemon, "Go Treeko!"
"Tree..." The little gecko pokemon said, and it looked like it had an attitude to match Menma.
Naruto took out his own ball and tossed it, "Your turn Drak."
"Gaaaaastly~" The ghost pokemon said as it floated above the ground.
Naruto, feeling a bit vindictive, decided to get the battle over quickly.
Menma apparently had the same idea, "Use Absorb!" Treeko shot out a red beam of energy, but when it hit, Drak disappeared and more of them appeared all around Treeko. Menma recognized the technique, "Double team?!"
"Hypnosis." Treeko tried to look away, but wherever he looked, there was a pair of red eyes staring at him. Treeko eventually succumbed and fell asleep, "Venoshock." Drak shot out a blast of poison from it's mouth and nailed Treeko, knocking it out in one hit.
Menma returned Treeko and stormed off, no doubt sulking and pouting about how Naruto 'cheated'.
Nozomi sighed and watched as her white headed brother went up to a girl and a boy, it seemed that he knew the girl, and she was introducing him to the other boy.
Nozomi instantly recognized the way the girl looked at Naruto, "Nooooo... I must not allow this, he's mine!"
Naruto and May left the school after talking to Roxanne again, they then decided to look around town for anything to do, after walking around for a while they stopped at a small diner downtown to have lunch. It even had a place for their pokemon to get food too.
As the two sat down and ordered their food, May asked a question that had been on her mind since they left the trainer school, "So... what's the story between you and Menma? I remember seeing him when we left the lab, but you didn't want to get near him..."
Naruto sighed, he knew that this would come up sometime, "What I'm about to tell you has to stay a secret. It's not majorly important or dangerous, but it will be... troublesome..."
She nodded as Naruto sighed again, "...My name isn't Naruto Shirogane, it's Naruto Namikaze..."
May's eyes went wide, "Then you're..."
"Yep." Naruto then proceeded to explain his reasons for keeping it a secret and why he chose to give himself a new name. From their neglect to his own desire not to be associated with them. May was silent as Naruto explained his past, by the end, she was nearly in tears over his life.
"Oh Naruto... I am so sorry..."
Naruto shook his head, "Don't worry about it, not your fault. Besides, I've decided that if they don't care about me, then I shouldn't care about them."
A few minutes later, Naruto was sitting, stunned, as he watched May demolish an enormous burger and fries. He ate a lot himself but come on! He was a big guy by anyone's standards, May was tiny compared to him, where the hell was it going!
His eyes slowly drifted down to her chest before he drew them back up to see her drinking down the last of a chocolate shake.
After they finished eating, they wandered the city for a few more minutes before they heard someone shouting. They turned around to see another of the pirate wannabes runnung up to them carrying a briefcase and a tied up wingull.
Naruto stepped into his path and slammed his shoulder into the guy's neck, dropping him into the ground and knocking the wind out of him. He tried to get up but Naruto placed a foot on his chest and kept him down.
Then, an growlithe ran up and kept him down as well, also an officer Jenny drove up in a motorcycle with the scientist they'd helped before in the sidecar. She got out and cuffed the thug, "You are under arrest." Then she tossed him into the sidecar and turned back to Naruto, "Nice job with that takedown, you ever consider joining the force?"
Naruto smiled and said, "Maybe one day, for now I'm just gonna stick to training my pokemon."
She nodded and thanked them before speeding off, the scientist went up to them with the briefcase in hand, "Oh it's you two again, how can I thank you this time?" His phone rang then, "Excuse me please. Hello?... Yes sir... Yes it was the two trainers from before... Really?... Alright sir... Would you two kindly follow me?"
With not much else to do, they let the Wingull go free, and followed the scientist to an enormous building, he took them inside to the top floor and said, "Please wait here for a moment."
He then went inside the office for a minute, then he came back and said, "Please, right this way."
Then he lead them in, they went up to an older man with light blue hair and a pleasant smile, "So you two are the ones who I have to thank for saving those documents."
Naruto nodded and asked, "If I may, what is your name sir?"
He chuckled and said, "Ah, thank you for reminding me young man, I am Devon Stone."
"Stone?" Naruto said with wide eyes.
Mr Stone noticed this, "Yes, I see you recognize the name, or at least my son."
May, confused at this, said, "What's all the fuss about?"
Naruto turned to her and said, "Mr. Stone's son, Steven, is the Hoenn League Champion."
May's eyes widened like Naruto's.
Mr stone laughed and said, "Now, as to why I brought you two here. I must ask something of you... Those documents are very important, I need you two to deliver them to Captain Stern in the Slateport City Shipyard, as well as delivering this letter to my son Steven in Dewford town, I assure you that you will be rewarded for it."
Naruto and May looked at each other until May said, "We're going there anyway."
Naruto nodded, "Alright, we'll do it."
Mr. Stone smiled and said, "I'll start by rewarding you two for helping me this far. Please, take these." He handed them two watch-type devices, they had a thick leather strap going from the wrist five inches up the arm, with a glass screen set into the top. Naruto's was lined with green while May's was pink.
"This is called the Poke-vice. It's a combination of the Poke-gear, Poketch, Poke-nav, and Xtransceiver. Those are the first two production models, they're waterproof and come with fully loaded maps of every region, an extensive archive of everything you need to know, and a scanner to scan any language, move, pokemon, or anything you can think of." He explained with a smile.
May was awed at the device, "Wow... Is it really okay for us to take these?"
He nodded, "Of course. They were going to hit the market in a few months anyway. Should the documents make it to the shipyard, then you'll get even more."
Near Mr. Briney's Cottage.
The next day, Naruto and May were walking toward a cottage near the sea, in testing out the poke-vice, they had called Norman, and he had suggested asking Mr. Briney for a ferry to Dewford and Slateport. May had been excited, since she met him a few times when she was little. When they arrived, they saw an old man with a white beard cleaning a boat while a wingull flew around.
It was then that the wingull saw them, it dived at them and landed on Naruto's head, "Hey, are you the wingull we saved?"
"Win!" It cried happily.
Mr. Briney came up to them and said, "Well, well. Is that you May? You were just a tiny girl when I met you last!"
After explaining their situation, Mr. Briney was more than happy to ferry them across the sea after they'd helped Peeko, his wingull.
Within a few minutes, they were speeding along the water, Naruto was happy letting the wind blow across his face. The wind felt good in his hair, he had let it grow out a bit, down to a little bit past his shoulders, leading May to have some more... Romantic fantasies.
They were going fine until Mr. Briney brought the ship to a stop, "We've got a problem..." They both walked up to the front to see a whole line of Lanturn and Chinchou keeping them from proceeding. There were sheer cliffs on either side, so they couldn't go around, meaning that they were stuck.
"What are they doing?" May asked.
Mr. Briney gained a grave look on his face, "The Lanturn's leader claimed this area as his territory, looks like he's no longer letting people by..."
Naruto thought for a minute, "So if we beat this Alpha Lanturn, then they'll let us pass?"
"In theory..."
"Alright then..." Naruto said as he took his shirt and undershirt off, he also took of his socks and boots, got into his bag and took out a rebreather, he also took out Kule's ball and let him out, "We'll go."
May instantly got worried, "What!? You two are going into the water with a group of angry electric types!?"
Naruto shook his head as he sat on the back of the boat, "It's either this or we turn back."
With that, Naruto fell back into the water with Kule following.
Underwater - Lanturn reef.
Naruto swam down with Kule and eventually found himself surrounded by Lanturn and Chinchou.
One swam forward, "(What are you doing here?)"
Kule swam up, "(We need to get through here, so we're going to challenge your leader. Take us to him)"
Naruto watched as they conversed, he then went along as they led the two to a small cave, where a rather big Lanturn was waiting.
He swam out and glared at the two of them, Kule swam up and said, "(You have two choices: Let us through, or fight me.)"
The Alpha sparked a bit, "(Bring it short stack.)"
Naruto was never more thankful that his rebreather let him speak underwater.
"Tackle." He said as Kule shot forward and slammed into Lanturn, the two swam around tackling each other.
Naruto analyzed the battle and decided that the odds were not in his favor. Water gun wouldn't do much to this opponent, Ice ball couldn't gain momentum in the water, and there was no mud for mud slap due to them being on a reef...
"Our only solid options are tackle and bide..." Upon noticing that the Lanturn was prepping an electric attack, Naruto immediately said, "Bide now!"
Kule nodded and glowed with a white light as the attack shot through the water and slammed into Kule, he grit his teeth and bared it.
Upon noticing what Kule was doing, Lanturn said something to all the rest, who looked pensive, but at a glare from Lanturn, they all complied and shot their own blasts at Kule.
"KULE!" Naruto yelled as Kule was hit by every blast of electricity.
Kule meanwhile, was taking every single volt of electricity, taking in all that pain as energy, Naruto couldn't help but worry, there had been pokemon who nearly killed themselves by absorbing too much with bide...
Kule was almost dead from the electricity coursing through him, and just as he saw the light at the end of the tunnel, he felt something else...
Naruto watched, stunned, as the bide turned into a pure white glow, Kule started to grow, when the glow subsided, Kule was now a Marshstomp...
"(You dun goofed.)" Kule said as Lanturn shivered.
Kule then opened his mouth and shot out a barrage of mud blasts, which all slammed into Lanturn.
While Lanturn was dazed, Kule went up above him and karate chopped his hand down onto Lanturn, lastly, Kule fired out a blue beam of electricity, encasing Lanturn in a solid block of ice.
When the battle was over, Naruto grabbed Kule and nearly squeezed the life out of him, after a few minutes of Naruto making sure that Kule was alright, Naruto returned to the boat...
On the boat.
"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HAPPENED DOWN THERE!? I SAW LIGHTNING AND GLOWING BLASTS OF MURDER!"
Naruto was slightly scared of May as she yelled at him. Kule was also scared, though after May calmed down and they explained what happened, she was just happy that Kule was alright.
When the pokemon went away, Mr. Briney went along on the path to Dewford Town.
When they arrived, he tied up the boat on the docks, "Alright, I'll be at the hotel. Just come and tell me when you're ready to head on to Slateport.
They then went to the pokemon center, and after having their pokemon healed, Naruto asked Nurse Joy, "Excuse me, but do you know where Steven Stone is? His father asked us to deliver a letter to him."
"Oh, sure, He should still be in the granite cave on the north beach. Just go down until you find yourself in an enormous room with a mural on the far wall."
"Thank you." May said as they left to find the cave.
Granite Cave.
Naruto and May were looking around the cave for the mural building. They eventually found themselves at a fork with a doorway on one side, and a staircase with pictographs on either side, they walked down and found the room they were looking for...
It truly was enormous... It was tall enough for a couple dozen people to stand on each other's shoulders, and on the far wall?
A massive picture, showing a tower taller than any they had ever seen. On one side was a volcano with a huge fire-breathing pokemon, on the other, waves with a whale=like pokemon with fins so big they looked like wings. All up the tower and outside were pokemon, flying up or bowing down to someone on the top. On the top of the tower were three people, One with long hair and horns holding a staff aloft, and two figures kneeling down before her, one with smaller horns of his own. Above them was an incredibly long dragon, spiraling through the sky and roaring with all it's might. All three huge pokemon seemed to be obeying the staff holder's commands... But at the foot of the tower, were nine other pokemon, eight of which he had never seen. A giant tanuki, a flaming cat with two tails, a turtle with three, a monkey with four, a horse looking one with five, a slug with six, a beetle with seven, an octopus and ox combo with eight, and the last, was undoubtedly Kurama...
"Amazing isn't it?" A voice said.
Naruto and May were drawn out of their gazing as someone spoke, it was a man wearing a black suit with purple lining, and silver cuffs. He turned to them and said, "Now, who are you two?"
Naruto shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, my name is Naruto Shirogane, and this is May Maple."
"Your father sent us with a letter for you." May said as she took the letter out of her bag and gave it to Steven.
He took it and said, "Thank you, say... while you two are here... would you like to hear the story behind this mural?"
They both nodded as Steven turned back to the mural, "It started thousands of years ago...
Steven's story...
"There was once a priestess of a long forgotten civilization." The silhouette of a woman was sitting on top of a tower, until she noticed something in the ocean and on the earth, "She sensed something, two great beings were about to clash, their great struggle finally coming to a grand conclusion..."
"So she enlisted the help of two brave friends..." The silhouette of a man surrounded by pokemon appeared, "The knight. He possessed an aura that made all pokemon love him, but also an unmatched ferocity in battle." The next silhouette was of a woman in a flowing dress, speaking to a crowd, "And the princess, pure of heart and adored by all. With the power to make anyone smile with her grace and beauty."
It showed the nine pokemon silhouettes as they roared and flexed their power, "The three heroes each commanded three enormous and powerful pokemon, capable of going toe to toe with legendaries..."
The three silhouettes came together as the knight fought the two huge pokemon while the princess sung, "The knight held the two at bay and fought for his life while the princess calmed them, in order to stall the beasts and give the priestess time. While they fought, she used the power of the red orb and the blue orb to create the green orb. Which she then used to call down the grand dragon. She rode the dragon into battle alongside her two friends, and together, they beat back the fighting pokemon, sealing them away forever..."
Once again the scene changed to the three heroes going their separate ways, and fading away as they walked, "No one knows what happened to the nine pokemon, or the three heroes... But some say, that the three gained immortality from their time among the pokemon of ancient times. Legends say that they still walk the earth, waiting for the two ancient rivals to awaken and do battle once more..."
Two balls of light, one green, and one blue, were sitting next to each other, "The red orb and blue orb currently sit at the peak of Mt. Pyre, watching over the departed souls of the pokemon." A glowing ball of green joined, making it a triangle, "But the green orb has been lost since time immemorial..." (1)
"That is what this mural means..." Steven finished as the story ended.
"Woah..." May said with wide eyes.
"Amazing..." Naruto joined in, while Kurama was looking at the mural with glazed eyes through Naruto's own...
Steven nodded and stared at the mural for a few more minutes, "Well, it was nice meeting you two, but I have a lot of work to do. So, I'll see you two sometime later."
Naruto and May both waved as Steven walked away.
The two stood there for a few more minutes, reflecting on the story Steven had told them.
Eventually, Naruto turned to May, "Say, want to explore the cave a little more?"
May nodded as they exited the mural room and walked down the other pathway, they both took out flashlights and flipped them on, after walking for about an hour, Naruto was about to suggest that they turn back, when the ground under May caved in!
He quickly grabbed her hand, but the floor caved even more as he too fell, they slid along a rocky tunnel and eventually stopped in a large, dome-shaped room.
When they looked around, they noticed that the room was empty, save for a podium, few pieces of metal with stylized artwork engraved on it, and some harnesses to attach them to something.
May picked one up, "What are these? Pokemon armor?"
Naruto picked another one up, "No... it looks like it's more like a decorative piece, like pokemon jewelry..."
May nodded and watched as Naruto gathered a few pieces and placed them into a special slot in his bag, they were actually really flexible, so Naruto could stow them easily. Meanwhile, May had walked up to the podium and took a look at it, "Ooooooh! Helloooooo~"
Naruto walked up and took a look at what she'd found, it appeared to be a leather choker with bits of the engraved metal, and a large clear stone hanging from a small length of chain in the center. The other was a belt with a metal buckle on it, and another clear gem in the buckle, with more patterns burned into the leather of the belt.
May picked up the choker and put it on, "It fits perfectly, and it's so soft and comfortable!"
Naruto, deciding to take a chance, slipped the belt on, it really was nice...
The two then looked around until they found the exit, a switch on the wall that opened up to a staircase, going up to another part of the Granite cave, the same part where the ground gave way, but when they walked out, the door sealed right back up. Naruto walked over to where they fell to see fresh new rock covering the hole, "The pokemon must have patched it up..."
With that little adventure over, Naruto and May left the granite cave and went to the Pokemon center to book a room.
One hour later.
Naruto was lying on the bottom bunk of the bed, staring at the belt and the piece of metal from the cave, "What are these things... They aren't decorative enough to be real jewelry, and they don't cover enough to be real armor... What the hell are you?..."
May came out of the bathroom then, "Whatcha doing?"
"Nothing... Just thinking about what these things are..."
May climbed into her bunk and said, "Well no use wondering now, we'll find out eventually."
"Yeah... I guess you're right. Night May.
"Night..."
Chapter End!
Well, there's the next chapter od Gemstone clash, and before anything else...
1. That story is nowhere near as spoilerific as it seems.
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