In the last chapter, Arcanum ditched Cynthia to hang out with Dawn and Snowpoint Gym Leader Candice. What will happen? Read on and find out!
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After a five minute drive to the edge of the woods, Candice and Dawn met up with Arcanum, who was leaning against the car, smirking at them.
"What's so funny?" Dawn asked, getting out of her car.
"I just think it's funny," Arcanum said, lifting herself off the car and walking toward the other two girls. "I have to crawl out of a window, an extremely small window at that, push my car out of the parking lot to start it so Cynthia won't notice, and I still beat you here."
"We drove the speed limit." Candice said, having one eyebrow cocked.
"Well," Arcanum said. "if you call 'driving the speed limit' going twenty miles under it with your blinker on for a mile, than you caught me, officer." She smirked toward Dawn.
"That was one time!" Dawn retaliated, her face as red as a tomato.
"Yes," Arcanum said, wagging a finger in the air as she turned on her heel and started toward the edge of the woods. "one time neither me or that cop will ever forget."
"I'll show you something you'll never forget!" Dawn shouted, running after her.
Arcanum sprinted into the trees and disappeared amongst the branches and green leaves of summer. Dawn didn't hesitate, running right after her and quickly running down the forest path. Candice sighed before running after her to knuckle headed friends.
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"God, Candice," Arcanum groaned as she and Dawn appeared on the path before her. "you're so slow!"
"I'm not much of a runner," said Candice. "you can't run in snow."
"True," Dawn said. "but I'm sure you could walk a little faster than this."
"Look at that!" Arcanum shouted randomly, pointing at the dirt path.
"What?!" Dawn and Candice shouted in reply, looking for whatever was on the ground.
"That snail just past us!" Arcanum laughed.
"Shut up you jerk!" Candice giggled, shoving the other girl.
"Jerk!" Arcanum said, sounding stunned. "...It's not my fault! If you're going to yell at anyone, yell at the snail!"
"Fine, where is it?" Candice asked, humoring the other girl.
Arcanum searched the ground ahead of us.
"The fact that it's dark on this path and the leaves littering the ground don't help, but," Arcanum said, cupping her eyes with her hands. "I bet it's already at the pond with the pace we're moving at it. I mean come on! Could you go any slower?!"
"Is that a challenge?" Candice asked.
Arcanum groaned as the trio continued down the woodland path.
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"Look we got here and I'm not dead yet." Arcanum said happily, finally seeing the shimmering pond water in the distance.
The pond was accidentally created by Arcanum about three years ago when she was eighteen. Her Torterra, Terra, used earthquake and unexpectedly caused a forming hole underneath the surface to collapse inward. So what does Arcanum do? She fills it with water, compliments of Aqua, adds some rocks, and waits three years for ti to become a pond, which it did. Thanks to erosion and compaction, though, the rocks had melded together and became a sort of cave.
Arcanum, Dawn, and a select few knew about the pond. Dawn was sure Cynthia didn't even know about it.
"Does Cynthia know about this place?" Dawn asked as the group arrived at the edge of the water.
"Uh, no," Arcanum said in a know-it-all tone of voice. "She'd have my head if she found out I did something like this!"
"What makes you say that?" Candice asked, bending down to feel the cool, clear water with her hand.
"Uh, she tried to maim me when I walked to Snowpoint without a jacket and just my undershirt and pants on with Maylene. I'm pretty sure she'd succeed in maiming me if she found out I made a pond!"
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Thanks to the help of Arcanum's Aqua and Dawn's Empoleon, the trio got to the rock formation in the center of the pond. They had decided, that since no one else knew where they were, to let their pokemon wander outside of their pokeballs, but made them promise not to go far.
Inferno, Flame, Blaze, and Forest all hitched a ride on Torrent back to shore and thanked their friend with some berries they found later. Dawn's pokemon played a game that resembled hide and seek, while Candice's pokemon were content with freezing water and lounging on it.
"Now what?" Dawn asked, sighing as she turned into the cave to see Candice and Arcanum already farther inside.
"Catch!" Arcanum said, tossing Dawn something she found behind a rock.
Dawn scrambled to catch the football Arcanum tossed her. She fumbled it before firmly grasping it in her right hand. She examined it. It was red and black and obviously painted. Dawn shrugged and tossed it back to Arcanum, who caught it easily.
"Pretty cool, right?" Arcanum said, holding up the ball.
"Why do you have a football?" Dawn asked.
"What?" Arcanum said, tossing the ball to Candice. "It's technically my pond. I think I should be able to put something here."
"Do you have a paper that says it yours?" Candice asked, throwing the ball to Dawn.
"No." Arcanum sighed.
"Then it's not your pond." Dawn said, catching the ball.
Arcanum sighed again. "Pass me the ball."
"I don't think so." Dawn said, passing it back to Candice, who held it in front of Arcanum teasingly.
"I see your game." Arcanum said, chasing after the other two girls as they ran the ball to the entrance.
They three played some keep it away from Arcanum. It was fun, until Dawn passed it to Candice a little to high. Candice reached for the ball, but she so close to the edge of the pond, she began to fall in. To poor Arcanum's dismay, because she was right behind Candice, she had to push Candice forward and fall in herself. Candice fell on Dawn, who fell on the ground before immediately standing up to check on Arcanum.
There was nothing on the surface for a few seconds before Arcanum burst through the surface, sending water all over Dawn. Arcanum gasped as she pulled herself into a standing position on a ledge at the entrance of the cave that made the water knee deep. Arcanum smirked as she panted before pulling her arm out of the water and over her head, revealing the ball and pointing it at Dawn.
"That makes you it."
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Oh, Arcanum, when will you learn not to chase balls into water.
Anyways, review if you liked it and think I should continue. I tend to loose interest fast in stories that aren't liked.
If you think I need to improve something, tell me, I don't mind!
F.Y.I.
When I showed this to my friends, they wanted to know who Flame, Inferno, Blaze, Forest, and Torrent are. They are five of Arcanum's pokemon. They might be in later chapters, so I may as well tell you now.
Blaze: Arcanum's most powerful, as well as her first. He's a Blaziken. Arcanum got him as a Torchic, as it was the only pokemon left after her parents were attacked and their pokemon captured.
Flame: Arcanum's Typhlsion. She received him as a Cyndaquil in the Johto region as a symbol of her friendship with Kris.
Inferno: Arcanum's Infernape. She found him wandering Sandgem Town after he accidentally escaped Professor Rowan. Upon returning him, Prof. Rowan told Arcanum that the Chimchar had already grown attached to her and couldn't take it back.
One not here but might be in later chapters is Char: Arcanum's second most powerful pokemon. As you can guess, he's a Charizard. A shiny Charizard. Why? Cause a black Charizard pwns!!!!!!! Arcanum got this guy in the Kanto region as a parting gift from Prof. Oak.
Forest: Arcanum's Sceptile. She got Forest from Prof. Birch upon visiting the Hoenn Region.
Torrent: Arcanum's Blastoise. She received him as a Squirtle in Kanto. Prof. Oak didn't want this guy missing out on a trainer's love, so he gave it Arcanum along with Char.
Why did I tell you all this? Because I'm very lazy and didn't want to explain it later.
