AN: After posting the first chapter I went ahead and got started on the next right away to get more into the story. I feel it gets real here. Anyway, here is the next chapter!
Disclaimer: I own nada except our heroine.
Chapter 2
The boy tasked to find the professor ran to the beach as fast as he could. To save time he jumped over the tall ledge despite he didn't like too. If Lowell was that serious enough to talk to him then it must mean life or death. Ever since his Yungoos came up and accepted him she avoided him even more than normal. They never talked much anyway, but now he could see it. She always made comments about he could do so much mkre than stay around Iki Town. As his feet hit the beach he saw the lab.
"Professor! Professor Kukui!" he cried frantically.
Professor Kukui exited his home upon hearing the shouting to see one of the neighborhood boys running to him. The attack focused professor would have thought he was coming to show him a new move or for advice if it wasn't for the panicked look on his face.
"Take a rest. What's wrong?" Kukui asked.
"It's Lowell. She told me to get you and the kahuna up to the ruins now!"
Professor Kukui didn't waste time and started to run toward the kahuna's house hoping the man would be home. The boy's panic told him enough as much as that Lowell was asking. Their would be trouble at the ruins and he needed to get before someone got hurt. Lillie would also be up there and if it was Pokemon trouble neither girl would have the appropiate partner to handle such attack. He heard Cleffa accepted Lillie as her trainer as a companion, not to battle. Lowell, despite her tough nature, she was defenseless. He just hoped the Tapu would be looking out for them until help could arrive.
Lillie thought the trail up to the ruins were beautiful and lively. It really connect people to nature than what she was used too. She couldn't believe what she missing out and couldn't wait to see more. So much had happened so far and as much as it scared her, she felt alive. She agreed with her mother calling the Pokemon and world beautiful as she looked down at the Cleffa in her arms. Cleffa. She liked it reminded her of her mother's beloved Pokemon and now she'd have one of her own.
She wondered if she could convince the kahuna and the professor to allow her to venture out in Melemele Island to explore. Perhaps she could convince Lowell to go with her. She hoped the girl would like that. As she reached the bridge her bag shook and jumped.
"Get back in the bag. No one can see you!" Lillie exclaimed silently to the Pokemon that appeared out of her bag.
"Clef?" Cleffa asked questioning this new Pokemon. She thought she was her trainer's first Pokemon.
"Oh! Cleffa this is Cosmog, or I like to call him Nebby. I'm looking out for it until I can get it back home. I know! How about I give you a name too?" Lillie said.
"Cleffa!" Cleffa agreed happily.
"Hm...how about I call you Bella? Do you like that? I've read that Bellatrix is the name of a star in Orion so I shortened it."
"Cleffa!" Bella cheered about her new name.
"Mrow!"
The cat's cry was the only warning Lillie received before she saw a Persian swiping at her. She tripped over her feet trying to dodged and roughly landed on the ground. Nebby freaked and hit behind the girl.
"Clef!" Bella screamed in attempt to hide herself in Lillie's chest.
Persian chuckled as it stalked back and forth observing its prey. The cat hissed before leaping at the trio. It swiped at Lillie and if she hadn't rolled out of the way the dark type would have pounced on her.
"Nebby!" Lillie cried seeing she had been separated from the nebula like Pokemon.
Persian turned and licked its mouth as it stared at Nebby. Nebby's eyes scunched and was began to tear up. Nebby began to shake hoping someone would come to his rescue again.
"Maw!" Persian cried as it jumped.
"Nebby!"
Persian was knocked off balance in mid air as a rock came hurtling passed striking it in the face. The cat landed on all four and shook it's head. It then glared around looking for the source of the attack. It's dark eyes landed to the trail to another human who appeared.
"Hey!" Lowell shouted. "Leave them alone!"
Persian disregarded it's current prey to go after this human who dared attack it. The cat growled and it's claws glowed as it went to use Fury Swipes. It jumped to attack and landed on the ground as Lowell rolled out of the way toward the defenseless Pokemon she'd never seen. Persian then bounced off it's landing and turned to strike Nebby.
Lowell quickly grabbed the Pokemon and dodged. However, Persian claw was about to catch his puff and Lowell moved her arm taking the scratch as they moved. She pulled Nebby close to her chest kept her eyes on Persian.
"Are you okay?" Lowell asked with her eyes not leaving the dark type, but she could feel Pokemon shaking in her arms. "Don't worry, I won't let it get you."
"Pew..." Nebby said softly looking up at this girl who was the second person to protect her.
"Here." Lowell said passing Nebby back to Lillie who was also holding Bella in her arms.
"Thank you." Lillie said taking Nebby.
"When I say run okay?" Lowell instucted.
"What about you?" Lillie exclaimed.
"Don't worry about me. Just go."
"Mrow!"
Lowell cursed herself as she took her eyes off the hostile Pokemon as it had taken the chance and jumped at the blonde. She grabbed Lillie by the wrist and began running toward Plank Bridge as the cat blocked their other way. She knew it was risky, but she couldn't think of anything else.
The nights since leaving the pack had been long. By now the blue eyes Pokemon knew he had to be close to civilization to encounter humans by now. He didn't his pack strayed that far since some liked humans and even got food from them. As he walked along the riverbed he heard a creaking and footsteps above. His ears perked up and he looked up. His eyes fell to the brunette he saw running across the bridge. He barked and turned looking for a way to get up there because there a human was. That human would be his human.
Persian smirked seeing her prey go where it wanted. Persian's claw flashed as it swiped across the rope of the bridge. The already weakened rope snapped.
Lowell knew the cat would try and attempted to shove Lillie passed her across to the other side, but the girl's foot fell through a broken board and both of them fell victim to the bridge collapsing. All four screamed as they fell toward the rushing water.
"Kokooo!"
Persian looked up and saw a burst of electricity that smacked it in the face knocking it back into the trees away from the area.
Having dealt with the problem Tapu Koko quickly sped and caught one of the girls. Lillie opened her eyes to find herself in the arms of Tapu Koko with Lowell falling and slamming into the water.
"Lowell!" she cried. Lillie felt the space in her arms open as Nebby flew out of her arms. Bella's eyes widen seeing this new friend bravely go after the other girl. "Nebby come back!"
Lowell braced herself to hit the ice cold water of the river. The current was stronger having stormed this week and she found herself quickly caught in its clutches pulled down stream. As soon as her head hit above water she greedily took in a much needed breath of air her that lungs screamed for. Although she couldn't tell she felt the waves and tremors of rocks she saw falling into the water. Catching sight of what was in front of her saw one of the boulders directly in her path. Latching onto it she shivered as the water attempted to pry her off. She kept her grip hpoing someone would come help her and listened. Despite the water in her ears, she heard a barking sound. Looking up toward the bank she saw a Rockruff barking at her as it attempted to reach her. She also heard Lille screamed and hoped she was alright afraid to look in fear of being wrong and letting go of the rock keeping her grounded.
"Pew!"
Out of her peripheral vision she saw a cloud of purple and blue coming toward her. It was the Pokemon she hadn't seen before that came to her head and clung on for dear life. The Pokemon began to glow and Lowell felt warm.
Lillie watched on from the edge when Tapu Koko put her down. The guardian had seen what happened before flying off in a hurry, but he wasn't her concern. Nebby always was trying to get away from her and she couldn't understand why this time until she got to see the Pokemon she protected fly down toward their savior and use a power she didn't like him using in fear of hurting him. From up top she saw the glow and said light burst out of the ravine into the sky before descending down slamming into the ground.
"Oh no!" Lillie said running where they landed not far from her.
Rockruff stared in disbelief of what happened. This puff ball just came in and stole his human. She belonged to him. He growled and ran across the rock bridge he made to get to the other side so he could climb up to take back who was his.
Lillie came to Lowell's side as she was in the fetal position as she shook from the freezing waters with Nebby huddled in her arms
"Are you two okay?" Lillie asked as Lowell slowly moved.
"I think so." Lowell said as she grimaced. She felt fine, but her body ached. She looked to the Pokemon in her arms and it looked up to her smiling.
"Pew!" Nebby cheered.
"Thank goodness." Lillie said in relief as she touched her heart to see both were alright. She couldn't bare to see Nebby like that again after it helped her.
"Hey! Are you two alright?" Both girls turned to the trail to see Professor Kukui running toward them with Kahuna Hala tailing behind him.
They hadn't seen everything, but saw Tapu Koko run off somewhere before coming where they could see Lillie on the ground and a light touching down.
Kukui sighed in relief as he reached them eying that both of them appeared to be alright and no immediate danger. Lillie looked shaken up as did her Cleffa while Lowell, despite her wet clothes had no showing injuries. He smiled in relief and at the happy baby that was floating around with a smile.
"What happened?" Kukui asked.
"A Persian attacked me and Lowell saved me." Lillie answered seeing the other girl didn't quite have her breath back.
The bushes rustled and growls combined with noise as three Pokemon emerged. Thr Persian had returned and brought a friend being a Raticate.
From of all the chaos Lillie never got to look at Persian's neck. It had a collar with a gold 'A' on it. Her heart clenched as she knew they had found her.
"Professor, they're from..." Lillie quietly said.
"Don't worry. Neither of you are going anywhere." Professor Kukui said as took a ball and tossed it having his Incineroar. The fire dark cat growled the others having attacked his buddy, Lowell.
"Agreed. Stay back and allow us children. Go!" Kahuna Hala said bringing out Crabrawler. "Power-Up Punch!"
"Cross Chop!"
Both Pokemon charged at their opponents with Incineroar going for Persian while Crabrawler attacked Racticate. Each struck their target unfortunately not knocking them out. However, they did their jobs as being distractions to draw them away from the target.
"Row!" a voice echoed.
Everyone's eyes looked around for the sound not seeing any Pokemon in sight. Seconds later a shadow darted out the trees and toward Lillie.
"Watch out!" Lowell shouted as she pushed the girl out of the way of the incoming attack.
Taking Lillie's place a Fearow sunk it's talons into Lowell's shoulders and snatched her off the ground. Lowell let out a startled scream as the ground became farther away.
"Lowell!" Lillie screamed.
The professor and kahuna turned to see the girl the village raised be swooped away before their very eyes.
"Incineroar!" Professor Kukui called to his partner.
Incineroar turned around and roared as he saw Lowell in the clutches of a Fearow. Unfortunately he had no distance moves and had to take the chance and jumped hoping to be able to reach them in time.
"Row!" Fearow cried as he attacked with Tri Attack slamming Incineroar with electricity, ice, and fire sending him back toward the ground.
"No!" Kukui cried.
Everyone jumped as a figured jumped coming from the edge and used Incineroar as a spring board to boost itself farther up. Everyone recognized the Pokemon as a Rockruff while Lowell saw the Pokemon who helped her before and now for a second time.
"Rockruff!" he barked as he launched a Rock Tomb attack that went above Fearow and fell like meteors. Fearow's attempts to dodge them endes in failure as one of them hit his wing and he dropped his catch. Unable to keep up Fearow made the decision to fly away.
Lowell screamed as she fell back to the ground. She looked down to see Incineroar had bounced back and coming toward her. She was safe as soon as he caught her and her savior landing safely back on the ground.
"Are you okay?" Kukui asked as he grabbed her arms and looked her over. He thought his heart was going to stop seeing her snatched before his eyes. People joked about their relationship as father-daughter but people knew the truth of it. From the overprotective rules to wanted to not disappoint.
"I think so. Ah..." Lowell said as she gasped in pain as she grabbed her shoulders that were beginning to have small stains of red that Kukui knew had to be blood.
"Incineroar Flare Blitz!" Kukui turned and commanded.
His loyal wrestler tiger growled and more than happily attacked the two remaining Pokemon knocking them back. The pain from the recoil was worth it. Both Pokemon had burned marks and scuffs littering their bodies. They looked to one another and decided to retreat before they were truly defeated.
Seeing them leave and the area finally becoming peaceful everyone let out a breath they didn't know they were holding. So much had happened in the last...ten-twenty minutes. It felt like forever.
"Ruff!" Rockruff cried.
Lowell turned as Rockruff pounced on her knocking her to the ground. He let out a feral growl before he clamped his jaw on her shoulder and brushing the rocks on his neck on her upper arms neat her shoulders causing rough scratches.
"Ow! Get off!" Lowell cried in pain as the rock type bit right into the puncture wounds from the Fearow's talons.
"Hey! Let her go!" Kukui shouted as he grabbed Rockruff by the scruff and picked him up. He had he urge to toss the dog or scold it, but he was rational enough not to without knowing the reasons. He was more surprised at the agression this Pokemon was showing.
"Ruff ruff!" Rockruff cried as he attempted to bite Kukui. He did not want to be manhandled; he wanted to let his human know about him. He didn't care about what he could sense on her, he had the right to claim her as anyone else to be his trainer. He was going to get stronger with her, he just knew it.
"Let me my boy." Hala said coming up to inspect the Pokemon and take him from the professor so he check his ward. The rock type struggled hazardly in his hands in attempt to bite or scratch and barked demanding his release. "A lively one I see." Hala received deep and vicious growl from the rock type as he turned and glared at him.
"Let me see." Kukui said as he kneeled down next to Lowell to look at her shoulders. She let him carefully push her short sleeves of her shirt up. She bit her lip as the fabric brushed her wounds. He hissed as he saw teeth marks that blended in with deep punctures of the talons and scratches. When they got to the village they'd have to tend to those as soon as possible. He knew they would scar and that thought alone filled him with such sorrow.
"You save me and then bite me, what the heck?" Lowell asked in anger as she looked to Rockruff with a pained expression.
"Ruff! Rockruff!"
Hala's eyes widen realizing what had happened. He let out hardy laugh and put Rockruff down in front of Lowell. Rockruff snapped and he turned toward Lowell slowly walking toward her. Lowell backed away and Kukui moved some in front of her.
"Well Lowell, it seems this Rockruff has chosen you as his trainer. What do you say?" Hala said smiling. He figured the girl's answer. She had waited long enough for this moment and here it was. He was sure that Kukui would agree and looking at the young professor he could see signs off surprise, joy, and concern in his eyes. The man had the right to be having been thr main person to raise the child.
Lillie watched on with so many conflicting emotions. The first she felt was guilt as she dragged another person into her problems and they jadhad gotten hurt too. She was relieved that everyone was alright while ecstatic that she was witnessing Lowell about to obtain the first step to her goal. She deserved it after all that happened.
"No."
AN: Whelp. Didn't expect that answer did ya? There is chapter 2! I feel that went from 0 to like 50, maybe 100 real quick. Yes, most of the Pokemon who appear will have nicknames. Please Review, Favorite, and Follow in the meantime! Bye!