I'm horrible I know, I made all my readers wait like a decade for the next chapter. I hope you guys like this one and the next chapter should be up soon, can't really say when though. Anyway,
~Enjoy!
by the way, I do not own anything except for my OC's. Forgot to put that in the first chapter too.
Her Politoad and Polywrath were enjoying the the small pond that they have there, her Bannette and Aipom playing together in the cool night air and her Vigoroth was sitting up in a tree staring at the stars. Riley arched her eyebrow in concern at this and turned towards her aunt.
"Aunt Stell, has Sniper been acting weird lately?" she asked, referring o her Vigoroth. Stella had a confused face, but then she started thinking about his behavior over the past weeks that her niece has been gone.
"Now that you mention it dear, he has been acting strangly since you left a couple weeks ago, maybe you should go talk to him." She suggested. Riley pondered doing just that and look up at him again to see that he's sitting on one of the highest branches, at this Riley let out a sweat. There was one thing that she wasnt to fond of and that was heights. However she had no problem riding on pokemon. Riley nodded to her aunts suggestion and walked towards the tree he was sitting at and started climbing.
She was almost there except when her foot slipped on a loose branch that had water on it. She let out a cry but was stopped abrubtly when her hand was caught in a clawed one. She looked up to see Sniper holding her hand, saving her from her tall fall. She cracked a smile up to him and worked on putting her feet on a branch again, but he refused and just pulled her up. She let out a gasp at the speed that he pulled her at and she ended up laying over the branch he was resting on, her arms and hands hanging down like a ragdolls.
"Thanks." she grunted and hoisted her body up to sit properly. Once she was content she sighed and looked over to Sniper. She took a poffin from a case in her pocket and gave it to him. They were his favorite. He looked towards her and smiled a bit, showing his fangs and took it in his clawed hand and brought it to his mouth, and ate it.
"What's the matter Sni?" she asked, not like she was expecting much of a response from him, he was always one of the most stubborn out of all her pokemon. He had a distant look in his eyes and when Riley noticed that she wasnt going to get any response from him she continued talking.
"I've been told that you've been more aggresive lately. Is it because you miss battling?" Vigoroth looked at her and and gave a slight nod. She nodded, understanding. Her Vigoroth would always get pumped up whenever there was a fight near.
"Would you want to come on my journey with me or go back to Johto and train with dad? Or maybe Adrian or Jesse?" Sniper's eyes widened a bit, she moved toward Riley and held his paw out, holding out 3 fingers, meaning that he wished to go back to Johto. Riley nodded again in understanding. she didnt want her Vigoroth to go, hell she never wanted to leave any of her pokemon behind but it wasnt her choice. It was the stupid law that you can only hold up to 6 pokemon at a time. If it was her choice she'd have all her pokemon that she befriended over her travels.
"Okay. Ill send you to Johto then." Riley gave a small smile but the smile grew when she saw the familur spark in Sniper's eyes.
Riley was about to climb down to go tell Stella and use the machine in the center but her pokegear rang. Surprised she nearly lost her footing again but she caught herself just in time.
She looked at the caller ID and saw it was her lovely older brother calling. She sighed, knowing what was coming and flipped her pokegear open.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Riley! How's it going little sister?" Her oldest brother Adrian asked, clearly happy about something, and she had a feeling that she knew what it was, but as far as she knew, the contest was only broadcasted to the Sinnoh region.
"Oh, you know, battled some gyms, gained some badges, trained my pokemon. The norm. What about you, eldest brother of mine?"
"Oh im doing good, I'm in Sinnoh, had to drop something off to Aunt Stella from Dad. By the way, i was walking down in Goldenrod today and happened to catch the pokemon contest that was held today." Riley groaned. "Fuck." she cursed.
"Yeah, but i didnt catch the end, happen to tell me who won Ri-Ri?" You could practically hear the smugness of his words. Riley tried to play it innocent.
"I havnt the slightest idea. I spent the whole day in the park with my pokemon."
"Hm. Well, no worries, i heard from a good friend of mine that a certain little sister of mine took part in said contest and actually won! Now tell me Ri, how can a stick in the mud like you win an actual contest?" Adrian asked, slight disbelif at the irony of the girl who says she sucks at contests actually wins in one.
"Gah, fuck you Adrian. And i have no clue thats the best part. I just winged it. I'm pretty sure i did some of the basics and somehow i ended up winning." she replyed.
"How did you even end up in the contest?...It was Zoey wasnt it?"
"Yes, she guilt tripped me into it. I dont know how she did it but she did. Anyway you said you were in Sinnoh? What city are you in now?" Riley asked him.
"I'm actually up the road from Solaceon and I can see the Daycare from here."
"Huh, I can see you coming up the road. I'm at the daycare too, checking in with Stella and the dimwitted interns. Hey can you do me a favour when you get up here? Sniper misses battling and he doesnt want to come with me on my Sinnoh journey. Can you take him back with you and give him to dad so he can train with him?"
"Yeah sure, ill see you soon." he said
"Okay, bye." and they both hung up. Riley started making her way down the tree and was almost there when a voice scared her, causing her to fall from a tall branch. She landed on her back and grunted upon impact. She sat up, and started rubbing her sore back, in hopes of making it feel better in the slightest.
"Ugh, whoever did that is going to wish they hadnt even come to this damn center. Fuck!" she yelled. Riley was mad.
"Now now, dear little sister of mine, that kind of language doesnt suite a young lady such as yourself. Is that how you were brought up?" The one and only Adrian Corrow was standing there in all his glort.
His black hair styled to be a quif in the front and his sparkling blue eyes full of humour. He was wearing blue straight cut jeans that tightened around his ankles, a black tshirt and a gray hoodie over it, to keep him from getting cold in the brisk night. He had glasses on because he didnt feel like putting his contacts in. Riley had that problem too but she wore her contacts today. Around his neck was a minimized pokeball on a chain. She was guessing that it held his Typlsion in there. Everyone in the family had gotten one, hers was just in her bag.
"Adrian. I'm going to kill you." Riley sneered. Adrian simply laughed and helped her up.
"Thanks. How are Jesse and Dad doing?" she asked, still rubbing her back.
"Jesse is still the little nerd that he is, studying to become a professor and dad is still beating everyone that comes his way in the pokemon league." Riley smiled at that. Not very many people got through her dad. She was one of the only ones who did. Although most of her friends, well old friends back in Johto thought she got in because Bruno was her father but he battled her like he would anyone else and she won.
"Hey runt, how bout a battle for old times sake? See if you can beat me again?" Adrian challenged. He smirked when her face lit up.
"You're on! Let's go! Sniper want to battle against my brother?" Riley shouted up to him in the tree. Adrian stood there with his hands in his jean pockets and peered up at the lone Vigoroth in the tree.
"You still havent made him into a Slaking? Dad wouldnt be too impressed Ri." he stated. Riley just glared at him.
"He was stubborn. He would hardly listen to me and he didnt want to evolve into an oversized monkey!" Adrian put some thought on her words and looked up at the wild monkey pokemon. He couldnt understand why he didnt want to evolve. Sure he's heard of pokemon refusing to evolve into their last and stronger forms but he's never actually experienced it.
"Riley what level is he?" he asked. Riley pulled out her pokedex that she hardly uses and scanned Sniper.
"Vigoroth, the wild monkey pokemon. Its heart beats at a tenfold tempo, so it cannot sit still even for a moment. Level 46. Moves: Uproar, Focas Punch, Brick Break, and Shadow Claw." the robotic voice said. Riley stood there with a look of wonder on her face. She's not used to doing that, checking out all the information on her pokemon. Her curiousity got the best of her and she threw out her Monferno Blaze. He popped out of his ball, expecting a battle but tilted his head when he saw his trainer so interested in the electronic device in her hands.
Riley scanned Blaze and the robotic voice spoke once again.
"Monferno, the playful pokemon. It skillfully controls the intensity of the fire on its tail to keep its foes at an ideal distance. Level 29. Moves: Mach Punch, Flamethrower, Dig, and Iron Tail." Riley smiled. You can tell that once she learns something new, she'll become so interested in it, that she will keep playing with it until she gets bored.
"Riley!" said girl being yelled at nearly jumped out of her skin at the loud outburst that came from her brother. She looked at him in questioning, and in response stuck her tongue out at him childishly. Adrian sighed and looked down at his sister. She was currently sitting on the ground with the thing in her hands, having sat down only moments before.
" I asked you if you were still going to battle. I swear you're a blonde deep down." Riley stuck her tongue out at him again and stood to her feet.
"Alright, let's do this shall we?" Riley smirked and her brother did too. All of a sudden Jake came out with a whining Melissa but they stopped once they saw a battle about to begin. Their aunt Stella came out after them and immediatly volunteered to be referee.
"Alright my darlings, this is gonna be a 4 on 4. First person who's pokemona are all fainted will be the one who loses. Riley, since you are a lady you get to go first." Stella called, a huge grin on her face at the sight of her nephew and niece battling.
"Okay! Fenix, stand by for battle!" she called and her Skarmory came out of the pokeball and cried its name. Adrian smiled.
"You still got Fenix huh? Well let's see if he recognizes someone! Mightyena come on out!" he called and a black and gray wolf pokemon came out of its ball and cried its name like Skarmory had.
"Let's go! Fenix, use Steel Wing!" Fenix took to the air and began circling the Mightyena. Adrian's pokemon stood where it was, closed its eyes and tried to sense where the attack was going to come from. Fenix suddenly nose dived down towards the still Mightyena, both its wings glowing in white light. Right when Fenix was going to make contact, the Mightyena jumped out of the way.
"Good job Yena, now while its near, use Bite!" Mightyena pounced onto the steel bird and bit into its back but due to the steel armor covering its body, it hurt Mightyena more than it did Skarmory. Riley threw a fist up in the air, cheering. She expected Adrian to do that tactic.
"Alright, Fenix, use Night Slash!"
"Skar!" Fenix's wings started glowing a magnificent black. Night slash was one of his strongest attacks. Adrian didnt expect the new move that the old pokemon knew and stood there, staring in awe. Fenix took his chance when the Mighyena wasnt paying attention to him to strike and when the attack made contact, Mightyena cried and fell to the ground. He's down.
"Ha! Take that Adrian! Your Mightyena still has yet to beat my Fenix!" Riley smiled as the Armored bird came up to her and nuzzled her face. His face being cold from the steel.
"The first win goes to Riley's darling Fenix! Time for Round 2 my darlings~!" Stella announced flamboantly.
"You did amazing. Thanks Fenix, take a nice rest." she cooed and returned him to his ball.
"Good job, you fought good." Adrian returned his fallen pokemon and took out another from his belt.
"Go Donphan!" Riley looked at him and at the pokemon that had just come out of the pokeball.
"Huh, thats a new addition.." she mumbled under her breath. She's seen these pokemon on rare occasion because they were hard to come by. She took another pokeball from her belt and threw it up in the air.
" Duos! Stand by for battle!" the pokemon released from the pokeball came out mid air and dropped to the ground a couple feet away from the elephant pokemon.
"Alright Donphan Rollout!" Adrian shouted and the Donphan took to action and began rolling in a ball to top speed before taking off towards the Cranidos.
"Duos use headbutt to intercept it!" Duos ran towards and butted heards with the ball form of Donphan. Adrian smirked.
"Donphan use Attract." Donphan wagged its trunk in front of the little dinosaur and little pink hearts started coming from it. Duos instantly had hearts to his eyes as he looked at the female Donphan lovingly. Riley stood there with her mouth agape.
"Wha...how? Your Donphan's a girl?" She couldve of sworn that it was male, but clearly it wasnt. Adrian just smirked.
"Donphan, use Headbutt." Riley growled lowly. She turned towards her infatuated pokemon and got more annoyed when she saw that he just stood there.
"Grrr, Duos! Snap out of it and use Headbutt right back!" she yelled. The infatuated pokemon simply did nothing as the Donphan was growing closer and closer.
"Duos! Snap out of it and counter it!" she yelled once again. He did nothing though.
'Shit.'
The Donphan finally made contact and hit the infatuated Cranidos head on. Duos flew back and smacked right into a tree trunk and fell to the ground, fainted. Riley growled and returned him.
"Round 2 goes to my darling nephew's Donphan! So far its tied between you both having 1 win each. It could still be anyone's match. Next battle, let's begin!" Stella announced once again.
"You did well. Take a nice rest." Riley put the pokeball away and got out a new one.
"Alright, Blaze stand by for battle!" She threw the pokeball out and Blaze came out midair and landed softly on the ground with a face full of determination and ready to fight.
'Blaze is male too, so i gotta watch out for that Attract..'
"Okay Blaze, let's do this! Use Flame Wheel!" Monferno cried its name before sprinting over to where the elephant pokemon stood going into a fiery ball halfway there and with great speed the Donphan didnt see it coming. The match was over before it even started.
"Well wasnt that quick? Okay Riley just won her second win. Come on Adrian, show her what you're made of! You still have yet to pick your third pokemon! Next battle commences!" Adrian smirked that famous smirk of his and took out his last pokemon before throwing the capsule holding it out onto the field.
'If its who i think it is...'
The pokeball opened and out came a Typhlosian.
'Yeah. I'm screwed.'
"Okay Blaze dont let his size scare you, Use Mach Punch then flip and do a smack down with Iron tail!" she ordered. Blaze was more than happy to carry out those orders. He ran out towards the large lava pokemon with unimaginable speed for a Monferno used Mach Punch. The Typhlosian didnt even flinch when the attack made impact. It just stood there.
"Typhlosian. Show this little monkey what a real punch looks like. Brick Break." Adrian commanded calmly. Riley gasped. Brick Break was one of Typlosian's best moves.
"Blaze! Dodge it quick and use Iron Tail!" Luckily Blaze dodged it just in time. He then countered the attack with an Iron tail that did some but little damage to the experienced pokemon.
"You know what? I dont think its fair that you're using the pokemon that you've had the longest." Riley remarked to her brother. He just scoffed.
"Dont tell me that you're gonna start whining now that you wont win." Riley humphed at that and turned back to the battle just in time to see Typhlosian use his Focas Blast. Seeing this Riley jumped right into action.
"Blaze! Dodge it! Use your Mach Punch again! We're not going down without a fight!"
Blaze jumped to the side just as the Focas Blast was fired. However it didnt leave him comepletely unscathed. He dodged the attack a second too late because his back got burned from the attack, making him slow down. Blaze winced at the pain but still stood strong. He then ran towards Typhlosian and hit him square in the face with a Mach Punch. Adrian stepped back in surprise before a wide grin took upon his face.
"Your Monferno has grown strong. I remember when you video called me telling me that you found a wild beat up Chimchar. He's certainly grown from back then. Alright Typh, let's finish this. Use Lava Plume!"
'Shit, Shit, Shit, Shit!'
"Blaze jump into the air!" Blaze was just about to follow its trainers orders, but just as he was about to leap up, a metal hand caught him around his waist, carrying him into the air and into a cage. Everyone watching the battle gasped at the turn of events. Riley followed the hand with her eyes and found the machine the hand was attached to. It looked like a giant fireplace and on it was a big bolded red letter "R". Riley stomped her foot on the ground childishly at the turn of events and she knew who was in that machine.
"Team Rocket! Really? Follow me all the way to Sinnoh too? Wasnt Johto and Hoenn enough?" she shouted to them. They had just popped out of the machine. A bad talking Meowth, the red head Jesse and the blueberry head James. First day of her journey, they came around and tried to steal her Totodile. She looked over to where her Monferno was and saw that he was getting a little freaked out because he didnt know what was happening and was trying to get free.
"...Jesse, James...hey you little brat, are you even listening to us?" Riley turned her head and looked at them, clearly irked.
"No. I'm not. And guys. Do not even think of interfering. I can handle this on my own." She said, knowing full well that everyone would jump in to save her when she could do this perfectly on her own.
"Blaze calm down, I'll get you out of there soon. Cheif, use your Force Palm to get Blaze out." She soothed Blaze and when she saw that he calmed down a bit, she threw out Chief's pokeball and released him. He ran towards where the hand was keeping Blaze captive and used force palm. The arm broke instantly and her pokemon was set free.
"Oh yeah, i forgot that the little twerp had one of those." Meowth said in his jersey accent.
"Yeah, well i dont really feel like dealing with you guys tonight because frankly im tired and irritated when you shown up. So i would like to get this overwith quickly and go to sleep. Adrian, let's call it a tie. Blaze, Chief, you know what to do." the black haired beauty felt like the walking dead. She didnt notice how tired she was until Team Rocket showed up. Blaze and Cheif both smirked and cracked their knuckles simultaneously.
The trio were cowering away in fear and quickly retreated back to their machine contraption.
"Now! Blaze, Chief, get rid of this bucket of bolts!" she yelled. They both ran towards the machine that the enemie were in. Blaze used his Mach Punch and Riolu used his Force Palm. In no time they were screaming their famous line as they got blown away from the impact,
"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Riley sighed, took her hair out of the ponytail it rested in and ran a hand threw her black locks.
"I'm gonna head to bed. I've had a long day. Adrian, tell dad and Jesse that i said hey and all that other stuff. Sniper, return, you're going back to Johto to train with dad. Sorry we didn't get to have our last battle together but when I come back to Johto, I expect you to be stronger than ever and we'll have a battle against eachother to see how much you've grown." she winked at him and returned Sniper to his ball, kissing him on the head before doing so and handed his ball to her older brother. Then she proceeded to head into the daycare center and upstairs where the all the guest bedrooms were, yawning all the way. She walked into a random one and plopped down on the slightly unmade bed. Riley paid no attention to this and and sighed in pure bliss. That is until a voice broke her from her peace.
"Wow. Didnt expect to find a cute girl waiting for me." an arrogant voice said. Riley popped her head up from the pillow and looked towards where the voice came from and found a guy standing there with nothing but a towel around his waist. He had brown spiked hair in the front and blue almost black eyes and he was leaning against the doorframe. This boy was none other than Gary Oak himself.
"Gary? What are you doing here? I thought you were still studing back with your old man." She asked him, comepletly disregarding that he was in nothing but a towel. Riley knew Gary since she was 4 years old. She and her dad visited one of her fathers old friends and they happened to run into eachother and became instant friends.
"Yeah, well I've been sent here to stay for a while to study the new pokemon here. You dont see these species back in the other regions. What about you Ri? What are you doing here?"
"New journey. Didnt want to stay at home. So I chose to travel the world and befriend pokemon and battle and compete. Its something I'm actually good at." she said lightly. Gary nodded and walked over to the bed that the girl laid on and looked through the suitcase that she didnt notice was there. He pulled out some clothes and turned to his childhood friend.
"Keep your head buried in that pillow because I'm gonna change." Gary said and pushed her head deeper into the pillow for emphasis.
"Why cant you change in the bathroom?" she asked, her voice muffled from her face being in a pillow.
"Cause I dont feel like it now keep your head stuffed in there till i give the okay." Riley just threw her hand up giving a thumbs up.
After a bit of shuffling and mumbling later, Gary gave the okay for her to look but she didnt lift her head.
"Riley?" Gary walked over to the quiet girl and became quiet and heard her even breathes. He sighed. She was all over his bed, leaving no room for him to lay down. He looked at the clock that hung on the wall and saw that it was almost midnight. Gary knew that if he even tried to wake her or move her, she would have his head on a silver platter.
"Man, you're such a pain in the ass." He walked out of the room, only wearing pjama pants. He slapped her on the ass, hearing her grunt, her face making a scowl, but still asleep as he left the room.
"And since when did you have a tattoo.."
So you got to meet the infamous Adrian and...GARY! Yeah I decieded to put him in here. Hey, give me suggestions on how you want her love life to turn out and I'll listen and think about putting them in. Also I'm accepting OC's as well, so if you want your OC in my story, send all their info :)
Riley: You're really asking complete strangers who they think I should end up with? MY LOVE LIFE IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN PEOPLE!
Me: Riley, I'm sorry but you dont get a choice in the matter, I made you and I direct how this story goes. I can easily make your character disappear...
Riley:...Fine. But it better not be with that meathead Gary. He's just a perve. Like really? "Oh i dont feel like going to the bathroom to change so I'm gonna change right in front of you. Just don't look though." Like sir, your logic in that statement is invalid. IT IS NONE EXISTANT!
Me: Calm down Riley, no need to scare our readers away.
Riley: Shut up. Why did you decide to put him in here anyway?
Gary: Because I'm awesome.
Riley: Yeah in what world? Whatever, we'll stop talking and let the viewers go. TILL NEXT TIME!
~Lost-in-all-Illusions and Riley
