So I'm back with chapter two of Pokespecial Knights! Thanks to everyone who favorited and followed this story, but also thanks to the people who reviewed like reader terrible-writer, Pure Gamer, Daownlyone, Glaceon1362, and JBEMT.
Also, I'd like to say to Daownlyone thanks for correcting me on that because I probably wouldn't have caught that by myself. So yeah, now Pika is being held in a Fast Ball, since it makes more sense to have him in an Apricorn ball than a Poke Ball that's made by future companies like Silph Co.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or Pokemon Special else I'd make all the shippings canon.
Chapter 2 - A Meeting of Many
Red didn't know why he had abandoned the girl on the streets, when normally he would've stayed and helped such a stranger. He only knew that he couldn't stand to see her heal such a dangerous, unpredictable Pokemon. The scene reminded him of something horribly familiar. A scene in which a woman treats a hostile Pokemon, only to find herself killed in a single strike, sprawled across the ground.
Even now, those same images rained down on him, the only difference being that the woman was replaced with the blonde girl as she innocently healed the Dodrio. Gritting his teeth, Red kept sprinting down Pallet Town, head swinging to and fro to look for the thief from earlier. He passed houses and walls, Still, hs thoughts linger on the one woman and the connection between her and the girl. I don't want to see anyone else die like her.
Pika's Fast Ball shook in his hands, the tiny mouse scratching at the see-through top, electricity snapping at the ball. It was obvious the Pokemon was angry, and Red couldn't blame him. He was being imprisoned in the sphere, and Pika hated to be a prisoner.
Holding the ball up to his face, Red smiled apologetically and clicked the button. Pika emerged, growling as he occupied the black-haired trainer's shoulder. Red scratched the Pikachu's chin, resulting in a reluctant coo from the yellow mouse.
Seconds later, he found himself at a dead end. Trash cans leaned against brick walls, and Rattatas perched on the black surfaces, curled tails swinging as they watched him. But that was not the strangest part.
A girl with orange hair and amber eyes glanced down at him from the wall, holding a Staryu. She giggled at the sight of the boy.
"So you passed your trial, I see," she laughed, sliding down from her spot.
Red regarded her wearily, unsure of what to make of her. "What trial?" he asked.
"Oh, the one where you go and beat a bad guy. But you let your target go...," she shrugged and smiled. "Whatever, you still passed your test, so I guess everything's fine."
"Who are you?"
The orange-haired girl sighed in exasperation, waving a hand in the air like she was fanning herself. "People are so uneducated these days, I swear. Ever heard the name of Misty Waters?"
His namesake eyes widened in surprise. "You mean...?"
She nodded. "That's me. One of the leaders of the Kanto kingdom, and the best user of only water-type Pokemon!" she beamed, sapphire blue eyes shining proudly.
"So, why are you here then?"
Misty rolled her eyes. "Seriously, did you forget the whole test thing in the letter we sent you?"
He stared at her, puzzled by her words. Then, images of a cream letter flashed in his mind and realization crossed his face. "Kind of," he admitted. "But I just remembered."
The girl shook her head before grabbing a Pokeball. "Jeez, why do they even bother sending me to pick up recruits these days?" she muttered before staring at Red. "So do you accept?"
"Accept what?"
"Argh, you are so dense! Do you accept becoming a knight or not?"
"Y-Yeah, I do," Red was a bit surprised by her impatient attitude. Pika snored gently from his shoulder.
"Good, then get on this Starmie," Misty tossed out a Pokeball, releasing a purple star-shaped Pokemon with a red center.
"Why? It's not like it can fly."
The Starmie, angered by this statement, flung itself at Red and proceeded to attack him with multiple bursts of star-shaped lights. Swift. Pika seemed oblivious to the attacks, merely rolling on his side. Some helpful Pokemon you are, Red thought to himself with a quick glance at it. The Starmie hit Red again, causing the boy to flinch and glare up at it.
"Alright, alright, I get it! The purple starfish can fly!"
Misty's Pokemon seemed satisfied by Red's words and knocked him onto it's gem, ignoring his cries of panic as it lifted into the air. Purple legs spinning, the Starmie swiftly moved across the sky. Misty and her Staryu caught up a few minutes later.
"Isn't this fun?" she asked, closing her eyes as wind slid past her skin.
Not really, Red thought to himself, the fear of falling off the starfish growing with each second. He just couldn't find a way to trust some floating purple star that blinked it's red gem at him menacingly.
Trying to ignore his anxiety, he instead focused on thinking about his new future as a knight.
~Yellow's POV~
Yellow arrived in the castle at dusk.
Looking at the distance, she could see the beautiful blue's and purple's of the sky, mixed with leftover shades of pink and orange. The Kanto castle was blanketed in these colors, creating an awe-inspiring scene.
Lance's Dragonite settled at the very bottom of the concrete building, feet touching the ground just as another Pokemon joined them. It was an Onix. Rock body twisting on the ground, it lowered it's head, black eyes regarding Yellow and Lance cautiously as it's tail swiped side to side. Two people hopped off, much to Yellow's surprise.
"Hey, I see you got your recruit!" one of the newcomers shouted.
Lance glanced at the person wearily. It was a man with spiky dark brown hair and chocolate-colored skin. Beside him, a brunette girl who wore a black dress and white gloves. She regarded Lance and Yellow with mischevious eyes, skipping alongside the other newcomer.
"So I did, got a problem against that, Brock?" Lance sighed.
The man, Brock, grinned and walked up to them. He glanced at Yellow once before turning his attention back to Lance. The girl from before followed his lead and stood beside him, eyes gleaming mischeviously.
"Ah, you're no fun, Lance. Way too serious," Brock returned his Onix, who simply yawned before being absorbed into the Heavy ball. "You should try acting fun for once."
Yellow laughed at that, despite her depression from earlier. Brock and the girl laughed too, leaving Lance as the only one with a serious attitude. Chuchu and Dragonite looked at them, rolling their eyes in exasperation. After giggling for a few moments, the three came to their senses and faced the castle.
"That's such a big castle!" the girl murmured in awe. "Full of riches and treasure, probably," Yellow watched in fear as the girl rubbed her hands together, a dark shadow crossing her face.
"Blue, you might want to be careful around here," Brock warned her, placing a hand on her shoulder.
The brunette sighed and looked up. "Okay, Brock. For you," Blue put on a grin. "But you never know, just when someone isn't looking..."
She was inturrupted by Lance coughing, drawing attention from the trio and their Pokemon. "We should get going now, or we're going to be missed."
They nodded and the red-headed man led them inside to a tunnel lit only by torches. The scent of smoke hung in the air, oddly reminding Yellow of Red. Pulling her straw hat over her eyes, the girl moved a bit faster.
Chuchu waddled behind her, looking around cautiously before sitting on Yellow's shoulder. The female Pikachu seemed concerned about her surroundings, remaining oddly silent as the four walked down the tunnel. However, as soon as they reached the exit, the Pikachu perked up.
The new room before them was huge. Many people rushed through multiple halls, carrying silver plates and important-looking documents. Yellow noticed a peculiar handful of students her age sitting in the middle, staring at the newcomers with confusion. Aside from the sound of people running and flames burning from the chandelier overhead, it was silent.
Finally, the quiet was broken when a red-head stepped forward and stared at Blue with oddly silver eyes. He watched her quietly before speaking. "Sis?"
Blue froze when she heard that, she looked at the boy, taking him in, before realization dawned on her face. Yellow glanced back and forth at them, puzzled by their actions. Abruptly, Blue gave a cry of joy, running forward and tackling the boy. Embracing him tightly, tears could be shown leaking from her eyes.
"Silver! I thought I'd never see you again!" she murmured, chocolate locks of brown hair spilling over the red-head's face.
The boy named Silver patted her awkardly on the back, before pulling away and locking black-gloved fingers with her white-gloved ones. They smiled at eachother, eyes both wet.
"Uh, what's going on here?" a boy with spiky black bangs that reminded Yellow of Red asked.
Silver looked over at him. "This's my sister, Gold, Blue Rose."
Gold stared at Blue a bit. "She doesn't seem related to you at all."
"That's because we're not really related, it's...it's a long story," Blue said, reluctantly dropping her hands to glance at the spiky-haired person.
Another boy stepped up, sporting spiky brown hair. Narrowing emerald green eyes at them, he spoke in a slightly deep voice. "That's great and all, but why are you here?" he directed the question to Lance and Brock, and yet he glared at Blue and Silver as if he was speaking to them. "I thought we weren't getting any more arrivals."
Yellow disliked the boy immediatly, fearing the scary black aura that hung over him.
Lance cleared his throat and looked around. "A great question to ask, Green. We had a lot of people that qualified to be knights, so be patient. After all, we have one more member to wait for," his gaze shifted to Blue and Yellow. "Why don't you two get aquainted while we-" he gestured to Brock and himself, "-go and talk to the others."
The blonde girl nodded numbly as the two men walked away, leaving her alone among a crowd of strangers. Blue and Silver, having been reunited, turned away from the others and occupied the seats on a brown leather sofa, chatting among themselves. Green scowled, and returned to his place on a cherry wood chair, pulling out a leather bound book and beginning to read it. Gold sighed as he watched Silver leave, sitting in-between Green and a blue-haired girl with anti-gravity pigtails.
Yellow stood there, trying to ignore the curious stares of everyone as she looked for a place to sit. Finding one, an empty couch hanging out in a dark corner, she went over to it and took a seat.
Not too long after she sat down, two new strangers emerged. One was a red-headed girl holding a Staryu while another was a familiar-looking boy, holding a glaring Pikachu in rain-covered arms. A Starmie followed the boy, red gem flashing indignantly. The girl glanced at all of them, her gaze barely lingering on Yellow, before she left the room and into the tunnel Lance had left in. Seconds later, the Starmie followed, jewel still glowing.
"Red!" Yellow couldn't help but cry out in surprise as she recognized the boy, drawing the gazes of the other occupants of the room.
The black-haired boy glanced up, spotted her, and gave a half-hearted smile. "Oh, it's you. Hey."
Blue strode up to them, Silver by her side. Her azure blue eyes gazed deviously between the two, and she smiled. "You guys know each other?"
"Sort of," Yellow mumbled.
The spiky-haired boy glanced at Blue with crimson eyes. "We met eachother at our trials," the words seemed bland, like he didn't care what he was talking about.
"Aw, did you do anything else? Like feel a connection or spark between you two?" Blue was grinning now.
"Sis," Silver warned, almost as if he was sensing the brunette's intentions.
Yellow stared at the blue-eyed girl in confusion. "Well...I did almost get zapped by his Pikachu, does that count?"
Blue sighed, shook her head, and looked at Red. The boy merely stared back, namesake eyes narrowed. "I don't know what you're implying," a note of anger, "but I just met this girl."
What exactly are they talking about? Yellow asked herself, watching the two.
Chuchu, however, seemed to know what Blue was saying and growled at the girl. Zapping Blue with a jolt of electricity, she smiled smugly when the brunette squeaked and retreated behind her brother, glaring daggers at Chuchu. That'll teach you.
Red's Pikachu glanced sideways at the Pokemon. Nice.
Thank you. Chuchu did a mock bow, snickering to herself and soon joined in by Pika.
"Your Pikachu is mean," Blue pouted, still hiding behind Silver, who merely sighed at his sister's childish behavior.
"No one cares," the spiky-haired brunette with green eyes from before spoke out, rather loudly despite seeming deeply involved in his book.
Blue looked over at him, cheeks puffed. "Who asked for your opinion, mister?"
Green glanced over at her, eyebrow perked in amusement. "No one, I just thought it would be in everyone's interest to say that."
Red chuckled at that, much to Blue's disappointment. The older girl huffed, grabbed Silver by his wrist, and dragged him to the couch they were sitting on before. She glared at Yellow, Chuchu, Green, and Red before turning her attention to her brother and muttering unintelligible words.
It was at that moment Lance emerged, followed by Brock, the red-headed girl from earlier, and a long-haired woman with dark green eyes. The woman regarded each person with an icy gaze, seeming to study them. Her hair floated ominously before her, twisting around her. Yellow didn't recognize her at all, but from what she had heard, this was Sabrina, one of the least known knights but a leader of them none the less. A woman with psychic powers, if Yellow remembered correctly.
Lance cleared his throat and waited until everyone was staring at him and quiet to talk.
"Welcome, boys and girls, to the Kanto kingdom. What we are in now, is the headquarters for the knights, called Saffron Castle," a few gasps and murmurs went up around the crowd, and Yellow just looked around in shock. This was the famous Saffron Castle? The building known to withstand the attacks of five thousand Pokemon? Yellow felt more excited to be inside the building.
Lance continued. "Yes, yes, very exciting. Anyways, we have brought you here to explain a few things. Before you become knights you must take an oath." A few grumbles.
The red-head stepped forward, head high. "You must follow our rules." No surprise there, even Yellow knew there was going to be some sort of laws.
Sabrina moved forward, miscellaneous objects orbiting around her. A purple aura surrounded each individual thing, and Yellow noticed with some interest that Sabrina's eyes had taken on the same purple color. "You must obey any orders we give." Again, no surprise.
Brock shuffled forward, grinning. "And finally, you must always remain loyal and never leak information to anyone." Everyone nodded at this.
"These are the things we expect you to follow. If you fail to do so, and break them in any shape or form, there will be severe consequences," Lance narrowed his eyes, looking at each individual canidate with a dark look. Yellow flinched when his gaze rested on her, sighing momentarily after he moved past her to Red. "Are we all on the same page?"
Nods rippled through the small crowd, and Yellow found herself among them. As Lance went on to talk about how they were going to travel around to their academy for being a knight, the blonde girl began to space off. She knew it was probably not the best idea to ignore Lance, but she couldn't help it. Her uncle's words still ringed in her mind, making the blonde's heart sink. Why would he do that to her? How could he? The questions made her clench her fists in anger.
When she focused back into the world around her, she was startled to see each candidate hopping onto different flying type Pokemon. Red was sitting nervously on the red-head's Starmie. Blue, Silver, Green, Gold and the pigtailed girl from earlier were climbing onto Brock's Onix, while three other people wearing scarves took another Onix. An Aerodactyl carried two canidates with brown hair, looking rather annoyed as one shouted loudly about becoming a knight and beating everyone and everything. Then there were two other people who were lifted into the air by an Alakazam, finding themselves floating towards Sabrina. After a bit, they hovered next to the girl and then blinked out of existence via teleportation.
A shadow loomed over Yellow and the girl found herself looking up and into the eyes of Lance. The man cleared his throat. "Did you hear a word I said?"
She shook her head, suddenly too shy to talk.
Lance sighed and pointed to Dragonite. "Climb on and I'll take you to the Kanto Knights Academy, unless you'd rather quit now?"
Yellow shook her head and mutely sat on Lance's Dragonite. Chuchu scratched an ear with her tail, black eyes scanning around. The Pikachu seemed a bit worried at something, but Yellow dismissed it as a case of anxiety at being somewhere new. Lance took a seat beside the girl and pointed towards entrance in which they had all come in.
"Let's go!" he shouted, and Dragonite took off at an alarming speed.
~Crystal's POV~
Crystal was never a fan of riding on the back of an Onix.
The rock-type Pokemon was just so uncomfortable to sit on. The boulders that made up it's body were rough, scratching against the palms of her hands as she tried to hold on. Not to mention, the gaps in between each boulder that opened and closed with each movement the Onix made, made Crystal feel like she was going to fall and get crushed by a giant rock.
At least she had two other people to hold her back, if she should fall forward and topple dangerously to the side. In front of her, a spiky-haired boy with a pool cue in hand was doing a fist-pump in the air, saying something about how this academy was going to be awesome and how he was going to totally beat everyone in battle. Crystal tried to remember his name. Wasn't it something with a G? Green? Nah, that was the boy behind her. Gary? Of course not. Gold? Yeah, that was it.
Gold did another fist-pump, but it quickly came to a halt when he nearly tipped over. The Onix glanced at him, looking quite amused as he scrambled back into a safe position. Brock's Pokemon slithered across the floor of a forest, sunlight dappling it's gray body as it constantly ducked under trees.
It was strange though, that Brock didn't own any flying type Pokemon. Crystal had always heard that the knight owned an Aerodactyl, but maybe not since he wasn't letting them ride on it. Or was it because it couldn't hold five people all at once? That was probably the most logical reason why, if Brock truly did own an Aerodactyl, that he wasn't letting them take it.
The Onix made a rumbling sound, as if sounding a warning, before all hell broke out.
Next thing Crystal knew, she was being thrown back into the air. Slamming against the trunk of a tree, the wind was knocked out of her. Stunned by the sudden impact and loss of air, she slid down and landed on the forest floor in an awkard postion similar to that of a doll tossed at the ground. Head barely tipped forward, back against the trunk of a tree, arms and legs splayed out, her eyes closed and she lost conscious.
So, all in all, I think this chapter was leaning more towards introductions than actual plot and such. But a few things are mentioned in here, like Saffron Castle and Sabrina being one of the leaders of the knights (which everyone probably saw coming after seeing Misty and Brock.)
Anyways, next chapter shall deal more with the antagonists with the story. And no, it's not Team Rocket. Sorry to disappoint anyone there, but nope :D. Besides, I can't even add them in if I wanted to since they have to do with, you know, rockets and I think we all know those didn't exist at these times.
Also, don't forget to review!
Fluttersong out~