Here's chapter two of my apparently popular Pokémon fanfic. Recap: Touya was probably among the few trainers in the world to own the Pokémon he did and he lost them; kinda sad aint it? He now has restarted his journey with no recollection of who he except for a small photograph on the inside of his cap showing him and four other people. Enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NO POKEMON IDEAS, ONLY THE CREATORS OF THE ANIME AND GAMES RESPECTIVELY. I ONLY CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR THE STORY IF THE IDEA IS ORIGINAL.
Battle II: Where are you?
After what happened to me you'd expect me to just give up right then and there, but for some reason I just wanted to keep at it and never stop. However, I have no memory of who I am or at all where I was so that complicates things just a tiny bit. All I have is a picture of some people I apparently know, but even that raises question. Number One: are these people friends or enemies? Number two: why am I the only one who doesn't show an expression of joy on my face? Number three: what is with that hair person? And finally number four: where are you guys?
Snivy jumped back onto my shoulder after getting a drink from the spring we had found and braked for lunch. He found ourselves in the midst of a carnival being held for today only shortly after. Both Snivy and myself looked and shrugged at each other and went inside.
There were games, stands for Pokémon goods, and places where people could buy Pokémon themselves. Snivy still had a smug look on his face as several people stopped to stare at the stranger to town. We stopped at a food stand and stared at the food for nearly ten seconds when the cook showed up.
"What's the matter? You never see okonomiyaki before?"
"'Okonomiyaki?'" I asked.
"Yeah, they're small pancakes that are made mostly with vegetables and stuff like that. You wanna try one?"
"Sure, I guess so?" I said reaching for my wallet; the only thing I didn't lose, except for identification.
"Don't bother paying" he said. "It's on the house for you two; you're obviously new around here so I'm not gonna have you pay at your first 'Battle Carnival'!"
"Battle Carnival?" I asked as both myself and Snivy munched our okonomiyaki down in a single bite.
"Trainers come here from all around the surrounding small town to enter battles with a single Pokémon. Hey, I know how you can pay me for those pancakes. Enter as a business representative to get me some publicity."
Both myself and Snivy were dumbstruck. We're five minutes and we already have a battle. I'm not even sure if I knew how to anymore, but in spite of it I had to pay the cook somehow so I accepted.
"Thanks man, now enter over there with your name and the Pokémon you'll use." The cook said pointing to a man in black and white stripes.
I nodded and made my way over towards him.
"You here to enter this tournament?" he asked.
"Yep" I said. He asked me for my name and I said, "Touya."
As soon as I did I felt something. I turned around to find a girl staring at me teasingly and inquisitively. She looked down towards the ground almost as though she were thinking and walked towards the tournament hall.
The girl staring at me did make me feel uneasy, but both me and Snivy had a job to complete. We waited for our turn to show up for our battle for nearly an hour. When it was our turn a chill went down my spine as I remembered something very important; what the heck are Snivy's moves!
Nevertheless I approached the tournament stadium and met the ref. He showed me to my place and introduced the challenger. For some reason my stomach sank into my livers; my opponent was nearly twice my size in both height and weight. I gulped to myself as both myself and my opponent shook hands, and then I lost all sensation in my right hand. My opponent released my hand after ten seconds and my hand felt as though it would fall off. We both took a position at the end of the field and sent out our Pokémon.
"Alright Snivy, let's show 'em!" I called out as Snivy leaped from my shoulder.
"Rhyhorn, time to break his spirit and Pokémon!" he said while laughing almost maniacally.
Snivy had the same expression I had; a doomed one. The Rhyhorn began charging towards Snivy and out of instinct Snivy jumped out of the way. Both myself and Snivy looked at each other and gave a sarcastic smile, but in order to win this battle I knew I would have to call on at least one of his moves; man what a time to forget just about everything.
I thought about what I was facing and what I had. I knew from what Araragi had told me that Snivy is a grass-type, and based on physical markers Rhyhorn is probably a rock type or at least a ground type. I thought to myself what had the natural ability to defeat a rock; water erodes away at it, ground can shatter it, steel can shape it, and plants can overtake it. Wait; plants can overtake rocks, so Snivy has an obvious advantage to Rhyhorn but what can I use to take advantage of that power.
I looked at Snivy's physical features as best I could as it dodged all of Rhyhorn's attacks. He's a grass snake, sleek design, very speedy and obvious nature powers. A speedy nature based attack. Maybe a vine style attack.
"Snivy! Use an attack where you use vines as a style of weapon."
Snivy nodded in affirmation and jumped towards Rhyhorn and protruding vines from its arms. The vines acted as a whip and struck Rhyhorn clean in the face. The attendance made an exclamation that all said the same thing; "OW!" Even the emcee seemed slightly impressed.
"And Touya's Snivy makes a great return from the incessant dodging into a powerful Vine Whip attack."
I acknowledged the name the emcee gave the attack and gave him the order to do it again. Snivy acknowledged and attacked again forcing the Rhyhorn into a state of unconsciousness. The ref called it and I won. I stood there practically in a daze at the success that I had as my Snivy jumped onto my shoulder. I looked at it and patted it on the head in a sign of approval and decided to keep going all the way in this to the end.
Throughout the rest of the tournament to pay off those pancakes Snivy only was able to use the attacks used on the Rhyhorn as well as a simple ramming attack the emcee called Tackle. Snivy continued to do well without expending too much energy. I reached the finals against a girl that seemed vaguely familiar to me. There were fifteen minutes to the next round and I went to talk to her.
I walked up to her and she initiated the conversation.
"So, do you remember me?" she asked coyly.
I looked at her with a near emotionless look in my eye and I had to tell the truth.
"Nope. No not at all, w-wait, wait a minute…no, thought I had something that time…"
She half fainted with a bead of sweat dropping. She seemed nice given the situation; I mean she's supposed to be my next opponent and she treats me like a friend from nearly seven to ten years ago.
"So you don't remember me from like five years ago when we first met?" she asked inquisitively.
Just as I thought; someone who I knew before the little electro-shock therapy if you will. I tried to remember anything about this girl but came up dry. She began rummaging through her pockets and pulled out a small picture of five people. I only had to take one look to remember the picture in my hat. I pulled mine out and found them to be identical.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Call me Bel; and what do you mean by 'who are you'; you make it sound like we don't even know each other, Touya."
"Sorry if I'm a bit slow but I honestly don't have a clue about whom you are. I've lost everything from who you think I was."
Bel looked at me confused but compassionate.
"The important thing is that you're fine now since you've been gone."
"Gone? What do you mean by gone?"
"You tell me; you've been gone for three years on this psycho-training mission."
I was about to say more when the alarm rang for the next round to begin. Both myself and Bel took our positions. For some reason I felt slight nostalgia, but adrenaline mixed in with it. She looked at me with a very warm smile and waited for the ref to give the signal. The ref gave the much anticipated signal and we both selected our Pokémon. I sent out Snivy and Bel sent out a small blue Pokémon; I recognized it as one of the Pokémon Professor Araragi gave me the opportunity to choose; Oshawott.
Oshawott began the battle with a powerful blast of water expended from its mouth that the emcee announced as Water Gun. Okay, I thought, this thing is a water type based on what Araragi told me. Grass types have an obvious advantage over water types; so in that case why not just use my Vine Whip attack; super effective damage and an easy victory. I commanded Snivy to use Vine Whip and it obeyed. The vines protruded from its arms and proceeded to whip that Oshawott into shape had it not been for the sudden chill I felt.
Both Snivy and myself looked at the Oshawott with near disbelief as it completed its complete beam of frozen water that the emcee called Ice Beam. And based on what I know about basic sciences that was definitely a bad thing; yep, very bad. Bel giggled and commanded Oshawott to use Ice Beam and it obeyed making a direct hit on Snivy freezing it in an instant.
I stood there confused and in a state of total shock. Bel giggled to herself and looked at me with a teasing face.
"Maybe you're not the person I remember" she said. "The Touya I knew would have figured a way out of this situation and already have me begging for near mercy at the hands of his awesome powers of deduction."
For some reason my feeling of adrenaline rose to near optimum levels. If I could see them, I would see blood shot eyes. I smirked and started to laugh at the girls accusations that maybe she was right about many things. I was not who she thought I was, I am not this all-powerful trainer, but most of all I'm not going to let some girl that I just met in this new life make me seem like an idiot. My mind snapped and I went over maybe seven different possibilities of how I could get out of this situation, but only one could work with what I had.
"Snivy if you can hear me try to vibrate your body to a frequency where it allows you to break out of the ice!" I explained.
Snivy did his best to obey as Bel watched with anticipation.
"Oshawott, when he breaks out of that block of ice get ready to attack with Shell Blade. Whether he's the Touya I know or not I'm not going to lose to him now."
Snivy had melted through half of the ice when I had to think of something more. When I thought about it I remembered the name of the attack that Bel was going to use; Shell Blade. Okay, I thought, Shell Blade is a physical attack where Oshawott uses the shell attached to his body as a style of sword to help him deal massive amounts of damage even when the opposing Pokémon as a -.5 resistance to that attack element. Think Touya think. Well, if Snivy is fast enough to vibrate his body to the right frequency to melt the ice that means he could, theoretically, be faster than Oshawott. But I need a new tactic; Vine Whip didn't work so… I got it!
"Yo, Snivy. When you break out of the ice I want you to jump out into the air and then try a move that everyone's been asking about. I'll tell you what it is when you get out."
Snivy gave a slight nod and finally broke out of the ice. Bel gave the command and Oshawott used the Shell Blade attack and went directly for Snivy. Following my orders Snivy jumped nearly a split-second before the Shell Blade made contact. Snivy then was above the stadium and my plan had succeeded.
"Snivy! Grass Mixer!"
When Snivy heard the words that I spoke his eyes snapped and he began rotating his tail creating a tornado that caught leaves and grass. Snivy then made an acrobatic flip in the air and made the tornado make contact with Oshawott for a direct hit. Oshawott spent several seconds being beaten in the tornado. When the tornado dissipated Oshawott was left there unconscious right down to the spiral eyes. The ref announced the winner as me and I made sure to advertise the pancake stand.
I began walking back down the road when Bel caught up with me again. She was breathing hard indicating she had been running. She lifted her head and was about to speak with me but her breathing just became harder. I placed my hand on her shoulder and told her to breathe through her nose. She did as I said and in about a minute or two she was breathing normally again.
"Are you really telling the truth?"
"About what, Bel?"
"That you don't know who you are or who you're friends with?"
"All I have is a picture of me with four other people including someone who looks like you. That's it. I'm sorry Bel."
"Then why are you trying so hard? Why not just go back to where you came from and start a new life there?"
"Because along with my contact information, whoever took my memories also took everything about me, it's like I don't even exist anymore."
Bel grabbed my hands and starting reciting something.
"'Beginnings are merely the end of one thing that lead to another.'" She quoted. "You wrote that."
"Yeah I think so. Here's another thing; 'Life comes with twists and turns, the difference between the wise man and the foolish man is whether or not you willing to continue down the track.' Bel, this may seem starnge but would you like to accompany me on my journey?"
Bel almost seemed like she was about to cry when she practically tackled me down into a hug. She began crying and laughing at the same time. She then got up off of me and gave me my reply.
"Yes, Touya. I'd be honored."
"Cool"
END CHAPTER II
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