Tales of Pokemon

Chapter 3: The Blessing and the Punishment

Note/Fun Fact of the chapter...
The name Chuchu was taken from the Pokemon special manga. It's what Yellow named her Pikachu. The others may not know it, but Colette has already named all their pokemon according to the manga series! (Most of them at least.)

Freakyanimegal, you get a special note!
Noooo! Then I shall be the third biggest fan! Or fourth! Or fifth! Or 78th! Or 456th! (Heh, lucky numbers.) Fred won't be here till the next chapter.

Thanks for the reviews everyone!

Genis: This fangirl here doesn't own Tales of Symphonia.

"Lloyd, how did you know Kratos was his name? And that it was him that was up there and supposed to save us?"

"How do you have two million Gald?"

"Enough talk. Let us hurry to the altar." Kratos sliced two Zubats in half.

"Oh! I got an idea!" Colette sent out Chuchu. "Lights on!"

"WHAT IS THIS OMINOUS LIGHT THAT THREATENS TO ENGULF US A----"

"Cut it out Lloyd!"

"Chuchu only used flash! Now we can go through the temple without worrying about fall--" Yep. She tripped.

"Colette! You alright?"

"I'm okay..." Colette looked up. "Oh! A glowing door!"

Lloyd looked back. "I thought I heard--- Holy cow!"

Genis threw his pokeball at the Onix. "Squirtle! Use Bubble!" The turtle sprayed the rock snake with a flurry of bubbles. "Now... Go! Pokeball!" The white haired kid threw an empty ball at the creature, eight times his size and seven in weight. He crossed his fingers as the ball shook and stopped. "Woohoo! I caught an Onix!" He shouted in a singsong voice.

"You can stop bragging now, you braggart!" Lloyd said with a smile.

Kratos spoke up. "We need to get the sorcerer's ring to open this door. Let's not waste any time."

At the lower level...

"So, we need to put the blocks in the holes to make a path to the ring. Right?"

"Goddess, did it take you an hour just to figure that out?"

"Shut it Genis."

At the ring's pedestal, after the block maze...

"Shiny..." Colette couldn't't resist holding the ring. "Oops! I'm sorry!" She dropped it into a nearby crack.

Lloyd sighed. "And just when we were getting somewhere... Genis? Just what are you doing?"

It was Genis' turn to sigh. "Do you ever listen in class? Raine explained how electromagnets work last week." He was busy wrapping some wire around a piece of iron found on the floor.

"That's great and all, but what about the electricity?"

"In case you forgot..." Genis pointed at Pikachu, resting on his head. "Pikachu, let 'er rip!" The rat let a small electric current flow in the wires. He lowered the magnet.

Lloyd looked at the attempt. "The ring isn't magnetic."

Genis smacked himself in the face while Kratos just leaned over to pick up the ring in the crack.

The two boys stared at Kratos. Colette? She was looking for treasure.

"... Do I have something on my face?" asked Kratos. The boys shook their heads. "Good."

After a bit of blasting here and there, they were back at the glowing door.

Colette tripped on air again. There was a loud crash, as if something broke through a brick wall. "Oh no! I broke it!" Lloyd and Genis looked at Colette, at the door, then back at Colette. Even Kratos raised an eyebrow. "We can go through now!" Said Colette, as if nothing happened.

At the altar...

"Oh! Glowy thing..." Colette grabbed the gem and it automatically equipped to her neck.

"We should be expecting him now."

Lloyd sighed again. "Great, another off cue. Did you guys have a coffee break or something? Genis, can you..."

"I'm way ahead of you." The little mage took out his kendama and fired three fireballs. The first hit the ceiling above the altar, the others continued their path. If they made it to heaven or not, we'll never know.

"Ugh!" An angel descended, or rather fell, through the hole with a scorched wing and a coffee stain on his robe. "Who's that (bleeping) bastard that knocked over my coffee?! I ordered it from the coffee shop around the corner!"

"Dude, angels don't swear."

"Lloyd, how did you know it was an angel? And how do you know that I never met daddy?" Genis glared to the angel."

The angel sighed. "Anyways, turn on the holy music."

"You never answered my question!"

"Shut up midget! Ahem." He took out a paper from his robe pocket. "Aw man... It's coffee stained and I can't read it! I'll just get to the point. I'm Remiel and it's time to awaken Martel."

"Martel... Didn't we hear that in class today?"

"You never listen in class do you?"

"I said shut up! You have the gem equipped, so I'll just give you this. " Remiel threw a pokeball at Colette, who immediately released the pokemon inside.

"Oh! A bidoof! I'm naming you Biffy!"

"Now bye! And never hit me with fire again!" The angel ascended back up."Hm... Holes are convenient..."

Colette smiled. "Now that this is over, meet me at my house later, okay?" She stepped on the warp pad and left.

"I guess we should go back." Lloyd was preparing to step on the warp, when interrupted by the sound of wings flapping. "Hey, isn't it Raine's pidgey?"

"Nah, she gave me it earlier today. Pidgey, did you see Raine?" The small bird chirped and squawked a bit, even 'pidgey-ed'. "Raine's not outside. She's either home or..."

"You boys are supposed to be studying in class. What are you doing out here?"

Lloyd froze. "Um... We were..."

Raine shook her head. "You'll have to be punished. No excuses."

"B-but Sis!"

"No buts. Go!" She threw a ball and a salamence came out.

Genis looked at the fully evolved dragon. "You not supposed to have such a strong pokemon!"

"You're right. Salamence! Return! Go! Aerodactyl!" Raine almost went in ruin-mode at the sight of her flying fossil pokemon. "Hyper beam!" she ordered. The beam blasted Genis though the wall, making another hole in the temple. "Lloyd, you're next."

"Professor... AHH!!" Lloyd got flung though the hole that Genis made. (Not the one in the ceiling, I assure you.) He landed on the mage, still fainted from the fall.

"Boys, now that you've learned your lesson, go home. There will be no class for the rest of the day. Where was I... MUHAHAHAHAHA!" There was that crazy glow in Raine's eyes again.

"Hey, Genis!" seeing his friend won't wake up, Lloyd went to his pikachu. "Pikachu! Thunderbolt!" The pikachu charged up some power, then released it.

Genis jumped about two feet into the air. "Ah! What happened?!"

"Let's hurry to the village. Colette's waiting."

"Let's go. Can I have an apple gel?"

"Sure." Lloyd passed one to his friend.

To Iselia! MUHAHAHA! Sorry for the lack of pokemon here. Hopefully I'll make up for it next chapter!

And... What kind of monsters should the field have? I was going for pokemon with an occasional monster from out favorite Tales game. As always, feel free to say otherwise in a review.