Pokѐmon Journey III: Jezebel's Voyage

Chapter 3: Shy Little Mattie

Jezebel's Point of View:

After spending the night with my father and introducing him to Casey and our pokemon, we enjoyed a home cooked meal (that for once I didn't have to make!) and we went to bed that night, only for me to get up early the next morning at dawn, due to a restless night sleep due to excitement from being away from my mother, and I planted new flowers in the garden for my father. I couldn't wait any longer to plant it and rushed to get it done for my father to see when he got up in the morning.

Blaze and Silky even came out to help me when they heard me moving about. I even had help from my good old friend Slacker, Slacking's son who didn't like to fight and tends to hide up in my room here in the house. He was a small, tan colored slackoth with long, slender arms with claws and short stubby legs. He tends to spend most of his time lounging around and tends to not like to battle, but he loves to spend time with me and any of my friends that ended to be in the area. While he doesn't like battling, Slacker does love to cling to me and sleep. That's what he did most of the time when I was fixing up the garden, but I didn't mind, I was used to it. He tended to do that a lot of the time when I was home.

Slackoth, the sloth pokemon. It sleeps virtually all day and night long. It doesn't chance its nest its entire life, but it sometimes travels great distances by swimming in rivers. Making drowsy those that see it is one of its abilities. Slackoth nests tend to be rare, but can be found in the Petalburg Woods.

Once I finished with the garden, I hurried back inside and changed out of the old clothes that I had here to use for the garden before I was back into my trainer outfit and cooking breakfast for my father, Casey and all our pokemon. Like my father, I could cook as well, which I assume I obtained from him through genetics. I prepared a breakfast of pancakes with the mix I found and made plenty for all before I dared to sit down and relax a bit. Slatking had a bit appetite, so I had to cook the rest of the box for her.

"Whoa!" I turned my head from the breakfast I was eating to see my father and Casey walk in with their pokemon. "What's with all this food?"

"I was up and I thought I'd make it." I shrugged my shoulders. "Take as much as you want. I made plenty." Casey was quick to dive for the table and eat to his heart's content with his pokemon. I snorted at their behavior.

"Jezebel?" I turned my head back to the doorway and quickly saw my father in it. "You mind coming over here so I can take your picture really quick so I can head over to the pokemon center and get your trainer card made up?"

"Sure Dad, but don't you want breakfast first?" I gestured over to the large pile of food on the table and counter and his jaw dropped.

"In this case, I think I will." He was over at the table with his other pokemon in less then a second; I almost couldn't see how fast they all moved. He began stuffing down as many pancakes that he could and his pokemon did more or less of the same thing. Casey began fighting with him for the food and it was then that the two boys met in eye contact before they tussled for some of the remaining pancakes, only for the remainder of the food to be eaten by Silky and Blaze, who happily had them before my father and Casey noticed.

"Aw man…" Casey sighed when the pancakes were gone. "And they were so good…"

"Don't worry Casey; I'll make them again, either tomorrow before we leave or some other time." I shook my head at him and turned back to my also sulking father. "Dad, you wanna get that picture taken care of so we don't have to worry about it later?"

"Yeah, we better. We'll go take it at the front door so I can head right out and you can keep an eye out for any early morning trainers that might want to challenge me while I'm not here." He pulled out a camera and held out his hand for me. "Coming?"

"Yeah Dad, I'm coming." I took his hand and Silky and Blaze both tagged along as he led us from the house and into the gym and to its entrance. When we got before the wall that my Dad wanted to take a picture of me, he twirled me around before he let me stand against the opposing wall. He grinned and took a serious picture of me before he hurried over to me and held out the camera before us and wanted some funny pictures of the two of us. He started to just take pictures every other second as he held me with one arm and my two pokemon jumped into the pictures a few times and what not.

When Dad was done having his fun, we looked back at the pictures and I couldn't help but laugh at a few of them. We were all over the place with our limbs and bodies and had a good time, which I never remember having before since Mother never allowed me to spend time alone with my father. She hogged me to herself or my father and never let us have much or any of a relationship.

When Dad had found one that he liked a lot, he then showed it me to use for a picture that he'd place in the house so he wouldn't be so lonely without me there. With the camera in hand, he hurried to the door and opened it at the front of the gym that I was going to guard until he got back, when we heard a yelp and a flash of green before something ran away from the door.

I blinked at that, as did my father who looked back at me. I came up to the doorway and looked outside. Nothing was out of there directly, but when I looked off to the side at the end of the entrance of the gym where it headed toward our yard, I saw a young boy, maybe just a tad younger then me. He was extremely white in completion which was bright against his dark green jeans and snow white button up shirt. I saw that his hair was a pale looking light green color, which might have been due to being out of the sun and not getting enough vitamins, and his sapphire blue eyes.

"Hello?" I called over to the boy who then flinched and hid behind the wall. I hurried after him and looked around the wall to see him on the ground, his knees up to his chest and his shoulder had sunk behind a hidden face in his knees. "Can we help you?"

"Ah!" The boy was startled and fell over on his side. He looked up at me in a startled manner before he was frozen at the sight of me. "W-wh-what?"

"Are you okay?" I got down onto my knees and took his hand in my own and pulled him up off the ground. "You look like you took a bit of a tumble there."

"U-u-uh…. I-I'm ok-okay…" He muttered as he gently pulled his hand from mine. There was nothing to it at all, only bones… he looked so fragile…

"Hey kid! Jez!" My father quickly came around the corner and saw the two of us. His eyes met mine before we both drifted back to look at the boy. "Oh! You must be Matthew Ashling!" My father held his hand out for the boy. "I was wondering when you'd show up."

"Is he challenging you Dad?" The boy's eyes went wide as I turned back to look at my father in question before he shrank back under our gazes when we looked at him.

"No, not at all. Young Matthew here is actually a special case who wanted a pokemon to travel with him and keep him company since he doesn't have any friends and maybe become a trainer in the future. I promised him that I could loan him a pokemon so he could capture one in the area, but he also doesn't know how to capture a pokemon."

"Do you want me and Casey to go with him then? We don't mind, and it won't take a long time to find Matthew a pokemon for himself." I grinned at him. "It also gives me and Casey an excuse to train and look for more pokemon ourselves. And I can leave a note on the gym door that we'll all be back in a bit or you could take the day off, I don't remember the last time you took one off."

"You know what? You're right Jez." He laughed and pumped his fist. "I can get your trainer card and then spend the rest of my day with you guys!" He ruffled my hair. "I'll see you guys in a bit then, make sure you get a good pokemon for yourselves and Matthew!"

My father left after that, taking off down the road to the pokemon center where he could get my trainer card made up for only a few dollars. As I watched he disappeared from sight and I turned back to Matthew. "So then Matthew-"

"U-uh…" The boy stuttered out. "Y-you can ca-call me Mattie. Th-that's what my fa-family calls me…"

"Oh, okay then Mattie." I smiled at him. "Just let me get my friend Casey and we'll head out and make sure you get an awesome pokemon to take with you."

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A short while later, the three of us walked along the entrance back onto route one-oh-two to find a good companion for Mattie. Casey thought that heading back out on the other route we'd just been on would have been good due to the fact that a good psychic type tended to live out here and they tended to often look after those that were their friends or trainers… or so he had heard from his father.

We found a small area just at the entrance of the route that we decided to stop and rest at. It wasn't that Casey or I were tired, but poor Mattie seemed to be a bit short of breath, not to mention that he was clinging to me the entire time as we moved out of the city. I don't know what was going on with him, but he was afraid of just down right nervous.

"So Mattie, can I ask you why you're after a pokemon companion?" I gently questioned the boy as we let him rest on a large rock near the exit should he want to go back.

"Um… I-I have a lot of heart problems, and I h-have asthma too…" he whispered to us with a down cast face. "My parents don't let me out much because I've always been a fragile child… so I wanted a friend so I wouldn't be so lonely..."

"Ouch… sounds harsh…" I could relate with him easily with this information. I was alone most of my life and had no friends or pokemon friends much until recently. It almost brought tears to my eyes as I heard this. To hear this poor boy was just as separated from the world as I had been, but all because of something inside of him rather then his family. I can run away from my family and make my own decisions, but this disease or two he has… even if he runs away; they'll follow him to the end…

"I know about being alone Mattie." I heard Casey intake a short breathe from that and I saw the small child look up at me from over my shoulder that he was hiding behind. I looked back to give a small smile with eyes that showed the pain of being alone. "My family has always been at each other's throats, hating each other. I was the odd one out who had to deal with everything and see exactly how much they hated each other. I recently ran away after Casey became my friend and Blaze became my first pokemon to start my own pokemon journey."

"…W-wow…"

"So," I whipped my body around to look directly at the boy who gasped and froze at my sudden movement. "Do you want me to be your friend Mattie?"

"…What?"

It was the first time the boy hadn't stuttered, I honestly couldn't help but giggle at that.

"I asked if you wanted me to be your friend, Mattie. Would you like that?"

"I'll be your friend too!" Casey grinned and put a hand on both of his shoulders. The younger boy flinched, but he didn't move out of the hold.

"You… you want to be my friends?"

"Didn't we just say that?" I laughed lightly at him. "We'd both like to be your friends if you'll have us Mattie."

"Really?" The boy finally looked up at us with a smile. "I have friends?"

"Yep." I held out my arms and took him into my arms. "Come here. You look like you need a hug."

I felt him shaking against me as he buried his face in my shoulder. "I… I have friends!"

"Yes you do." I smirked as I pulled back and handed him over to Casey. "And I have just the pokemon in mind for you to take with you, granted if her best friend, both of them are good friends of mine, don't mind being separated from time to time." I smiled at the boys. "You might want to cover your ears now before I use my exploud voice."

"Shit!" Casey cried out and covered his ears in a flash. "Mattie! Cover your ears before she destroys your hearing!"

Mattie was quick to cover his ears and hide himself behind Casey's body for more protection. I couldn't help but snicker at them before I turned back to the woods to look for another set of old friends of mine. I took in another deep breath and called out. "BLADE! GUARDIAN!"

"Damn girl!" Casey snapped at me. "Even with my ears covered I still can feel them ringing from your shouting!"

"Ral!"

"Ral!"

Two different voices suddenly called out and I watched as two small white pokemon that had somewhat of a humanoid appearance of a young boy appeared. The body was mostly white while the air like piece of their body was a mid tone green that cut off just below their eyes. A small red oval piece seemed to be sticking out of their heads, just in the middle of the forehead.

"There you two are!" I smiled down at the two of them. "It's good to see you both well."

"Ral!" The male sounding pokemon cried out before he jumped toward me and into my arms. Just by looking at my mind he knew it was me. And there was no way I could mistake Blade either.

"Whoa… those two look so cool…"

"Ral!" The female of the two suddenly vanish from where she was and appeared in my arms with her male friend of the same species.

"Well hello to you too Guardian, you seem to be doing extremely well. Your teleportation is faster then before."

"Whoa!" Casey cried out as he pulled out his pokedex. "A set of ralts!"

I shook my head lightly and pulled out my own pokedex after setting both of them into my other arm. Ralts, the feeling pokemon. A ralts has the power to sense the emotions of people and poklemon with the horns on its head. It takes cover if it senses any hostility. Ralts nests are rare and tend to only be found on the narrow route of route one-hundred and two.

"So… you kn-know them Jezebel?" Mattie questioned me quietly.

"Yeah, I know a few pokemon from all over the region that I made friends with before my mother would take me away. I met these two back when I was about eight or so after I'd taken off on her in the middle of a crowd…"

Jezebel's Memory:

I'd escaped the grasp of my mother once again and had run out into the forest while she continued to argue with my father or some other poor soul that didn't deserve to receive her wrath. I'd planned to run out to the middle of the route where I could meet Silky for a short amount of time before my mother would notice my absence and come after me, but this time around, I was startled by a set of pokemon that looked somewhat like little human boys to me, but they were really humanoid pokemon.

From the sounds of their voices, I could tell that there was one of each gender. The female of them seemed to have more of a sense of protection about her, as when a wild pokemon was attacking the two of them, she would hold up a shield and throw herself before the male. The male on the other hand seemed to rush forward and physically fight the other pokemon, sometimes using the motion of a blade as if his arm was one.

I watched them for the longest of time before the female turned and looked at me and suddenly pulled me out of the bushes with her psychic abilities. I gasped as I was carried out by her and dropped before the two of them. The male was quickly before me with his arm before my face, ready to fight me.

"Wait! I don't want to hurt you!" I'd told them as I scurried to sit up and look at them face to face, rather then arm to face. "I thought you two were really cool with your teamwork and I… I didn't want to bother you, so I just watched…"

The two of them hesitantly watched me for a few moments before they turned to each other and seemed to be having a mental conversation before they looked back at me.

"Ral?" the male questioned me.

"I don't know… I just felt it was right…"I shook my head and quickly held out my hand for them. "Let's start over and introduce ourselves. I'm Jezebel! It's nice to meet you!"

"Ral?" the female questioned before she smiled at me. "Ral ral, ral ral ral." She gestured to herself and her male counterpart."

"Really? I thought your names would have been 'blade' for how he swings his arms around like a fighting type and 'guardian' since you always seemed to be protecting him with a shield or your psychic attacks."

"Ral? Ral!"

"You want that name?" I blinked at her in surprise. "Well, its all yours then, Guardian."

"Ral!" the male cried out.

"And you're welcome to take that name too, Blade." I smiled at the two of them. "Hey, you two want to be friends? And then do you want to play a game? We could play hide and seek! I bet you'd be good at it!"

Once I'd explained the rules to them, they happily agreed on both accounts to be my friend and play with me as they quickly raced to hide and I counted down from twenty to give them enough time to hide. It was perfect timing for them since my mother had just rounded around a tree and spotted me.

"Jezebel!" She hurried over to me and took me into her arms. "Stop running off like that! You make Momma worried!"

I didn't reply to her, only showed her a scowl as she had ruined my plans to play with my two new best friends, Blade and Guardian.

"Now let's go home, honey. We have to pack. We're heading to a new place. Isn't that exciting?"

My mother drowned on in what it would be like to move to our new location and I was forced to leave the two of them behind, bewildered at what had actually took place that day, until I could come back again and explain it.

Present (Still Jezebel's Point of View):

"So that's how I met the two of them and I came back as often as I could before my mother and I moved away, and then I still came back when I could, especially since they and Silky became good friends while I was gone and managed to keep each other company." The worm pokemon on my shoulder smiled and cried out happily while Blade raised his arm to the other pokemon.

"So w-which one w-would I have Jezebel?" Mattie asked nervously. "I don't w-want to force them to s-split up if they d-don't w-want to…"

"Don't worry about that, Mattie, I have that all taken care of." I grinned and walked over to the boy and allowed the female psychic pokemon to teleport herself over to Mattie. She cried out happily when she landed in his arms and snuggled inside. "Blade has always wanted to travel with me, saying that I could make him strong. But he was always worried about his best friend Guardian, so he stayed behind with her until he could find her a place to stay or someone to be with so he knew she was safe. And guess what Mattie," I patted his shoulder. "You're the one."

"M-me?" The boy turned to me, startled once more. "A-are y-you su-sure?"

"Positive, Guardian would be a good friend to you and a type of an actual guardian to keep you safe and help you when you need it. Or if you wanted to try and train her, you could and become a pokemon trainer, if you feel up to it."

"A pok-kemon trainer? Really?" He smiled at me in a dream-like state when I saw that. It seemed to be one of his dreams, along with get past whatever else he has going on with himself and his family.

"I think you could, so long as you be careful and what not." I turned back to the two psychic types. "So what do you guys say? You up to a little separation and a journey with some new friends?"

"Ral!"

"Ral! Ral ral!"

Before I could pull out a pokeball, the two of them had disappeared from sight and appeared a short distance away from us. Blade took a step forward and grinned. "Ral!"

"So you want a battle? A battle for you to see how strong I am and for Guardian to show her trainer how strong she is?" I turned to Mattie and winked at him. "Works for me! Blaze! Silky!" My two pokemon jumped off me and stepped before me. "Let's do this you guys!"

"Ral!" Blade shouted from the other side of the small battlefield of the forest we had.

Our first battle, and it was going to be against one of the pokemon that would join my team… awesome!

"Alright, Blaze, start out with ember on both of them!" Blaze ruffled his feathers and from his beak came a barrage of fire that raced in the air to the other side of the field. Guardian jumped before Blade and cried out to create a shield that surrounded the two of them and the fire went all around them, but no damage was done.

"Wow…!" Mattie cried out in surprise at his soon-to-be pokemon.

"Alright, let's step this up a notch!" I looked over at Silky. "Climb on top of Blaze, Silky, and then the two of you take off to the other side of the field!"

My pokemon did just as such and suddenly were encountered by Blade and Guardian approaching them. Blade's eyes glowed and I watched as Blaze and Silky were thrown back and separated. Guardian then took this moment to take and hit Silky with another psychic attack which she cried out at.

"Silky!" I gasped when I saw her hurt. I quickly shook it off and remembered that this was a battle and got into a trainer mindset. "Don't let that hit bother you! Use poison sting!"

My bug type swung herself back up and her two stingers at the end of her tail were covered in a purple hue while she opened her mouth and fired off small purple needles at Guardian and Blade. Both of them cried out as they were pushed back.

It was at that moment that Silky suddenly took on a bright white glow that covered her entire body before nothing of her could be seen other then a white outline of her while the rest of her glowed and I had to turn away in shock. From between the cracks of my arms that I hid my eyes behind, I saw Silky's body change to that of a small spiked ball sort of shape that was oval like with spikes all over it. The light vanished and I saw her color was now that of a pale orange. Her eyes had almost turned to that of a jade color from between the orange silk that was around her body.

I blinked in surprise. Out battle was partly stopped just to watch the spectacle of my pokemon evolving right before our eyes. I quickly pulled out my pokedex and pointed it at Silky who seemed to have a soft film of stars sparkling around her before they vanished. Silcoon, the cocoon pokemon and the evolved form of wurmple. It conserves its energy by moving as little as possible. It awaits evolution while drinking only a little rainwater. Silcoon nests are few to none and can only be found in the Petalburg Woods. Please wait… shiny data being uploaded…

"Cool! Nice job Silky!" I grinned at her. "Now! Use string shot to tie those two up!"

"Coon!" She cried out in a similarly pitched voice and from her mouth came more of the orangey string shot that was covering her body. It surrounded the two ralts' before it tied them together in a sticky mess. They both cried out in surprise, but neither of them could make it out.

"Now cut the line Silky! And Blaze! Use ember on the line!" My two pokemon did as such and just as Silky cut the line, Blaze lit it up with his ember attack that raced to both ends of the flammable line. It quickly covered the two psychic types in flames and I rushed to turn to Mattie.

"Mattie! Up, up!" The boy jumped up from where he was and nervously looked at me. "Now's your chance! Come on!" The boy followed after my motions for him to come join me and I pointed out to the fire that was still burning. "Once the fire is dispersed a bit, take your pokeball and get ready to throw! I'm going to capture Blade first so you know which one you're aiming for-"

I was cut off by a grunt by the younger boy when he threw the only pokeball he had on him out into the flame. I blinked in surprise at his bold move and looked to see the pokeball make contact with one of the ralts' and it fell in the middle of the patch of flames. I saw the fire die down enough while the pokeball tossed a bit that it was Blade that was still in the middle of the fire.

I pulled out a pokeball from my pack. It was a pokeball know as a nest ball that had the familiar white underneath to it, but on top was a darker green with lighter green stripes that circles around the top half of the pokeball horizontally. I quickly threw out the pokeball at Blade before more fire kicked up and it tapped him on the head before he was pulled inside. At that same moment, Guardian's ball settled down and Mattie almost squealed next to me in delight.

"Thank you!" The boy was quick to hug me and lunged his body to where his arms were thrown around my neck and I was supporting him from under his arms with my own. I smiled at his eagerness.

"Not a problem Mattie." I glanced over at Blade's pokeball and watched as it settled down as well and I knew I had my ralts. I grinned. "I guess we both got some good pokemon today."

"Aw man…" Casey sighed. "And I still don't have a pokemon to add to my team…"

"Relax Casey, I'm sure if we hang out on this route long enough you'll find a pokemon to add to your team." I lightly laughed as I went over to the dying fire and grabbed both Blade and Guardian's pokeballs, handing the latter of the two to Mattie. "I'm going to take Mattie back and let you have some time to search around here to find any sort of pokemon you may like." I grinned as I turned around and wrapped an arm around Mattie's shoulders to lead him away and waved to Casey without looking with an arm over my head. "See ya! Blaze! Silky! Let's go and get you two and the others healed up and taken care of so we can go have a nice home made lunch!"

Needless to say, they followed after me.

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"Hey Dad!" My father was waiting for me at the entrance of his gym when we got back. He had a grin on his face when he saw Mattie and me and the small ralts he carried in his arms and the one that was sitting on top of my head. "We're back! And we got Mattie a pokemon!"

"That's great to hear Jez!" My dad brought me into his arms before he patted my back and slapped his hand lightly on Mattie's shoulder. "Nice job there kid."

"Um… here's back yo-your pokemon s-sir…" Mattie handed back the pokeball my father had loaned him an hour ago.

"Thanks Matthew!" He ruffled the boy's bright green hair, which seemed to have gotten some more color to it since we'd gone out. "And I got your trainer card, Jez. Tell me what you think of it."

My father handed me the thin piece of plastic that was shaped into the small size that was a card. It was mostly white in color, thought it had a picture of me that my father had taken in the corner of it and other information on it that people might have needed to see at a later date.

"Awesome!" I quickly placed the card into my wallet that was in my bag. "Thanks Dad."

"No problem Jez." My father smiled at me before he noticed something and looked around. "Hey, where's your friend Casey?"

"Oh, he was sulking that he hadn't found another pokemon yet to add to his team, so he planned to stay behind and look for some while I brought Mattie back. And that reminds me!" Blade looked over at my father from on top of my head and grinned at him while Silky did the same thing in my arms. "I caught and old friend of mine, Blade, and Silky evolved!"

"That's great Hon; just remember to train them still." My father shook his head with a sigh. "A lot of bug type trainers come and battle me because they think they can beat me with their fully evolved bug type pokemon, when the reality of it is, most bug types evolve quickly due to their fast growing nature. Their still so young, but they think they're more powerful. You have no idea how many bug type trainers I have to kick out of here after I destroy their team because they're so lowly skilled with their young pokemon, and then only throw it away in the end to find a stronger one that will evolve faster."

"That's so repulsive!" I huffed. "Stupid bug type trainers."

"That may be Jez," my father ruffled the top of my head a bit. "But you saved Silky from their wrath."

I partly smiled at that. "Yeah… I did…"

"Um… Jezebel?" I turned to Mattie as he twiddled his fingers together with Guardian in his arms. "Th-thank you… for ev-everything…"

"Hey, it wasn't a problem Mattie." I gave the boy a light kiss to his cheek. "And if you ever need help again, don't be afraid to ask for it, especially from me."

The boy was stunned and lightly touched his cheek from where I had given him a kiss. His face burst into a feverish blush that made me think of Christmas due to the blend of green and red from his hair and face.

My father burst out laughing at this. "Oh Jez! I think you broke him!"

"Dad! Stop that!" I stomped on his foot and he cried out and jumped on the other one, but he still managed to keep laughing from the event still taking place before his eyes. I shook my head. "Sorry Mattie, sometimes my father can't help but laugh at others."

"It-it's alright…" Mattie looked up at me through his hair while his face was still deeply red. "Thank you… Jezebel…"

He took off running the next moment and my eyes widened as I watched him run out. Right by the door, after he left, was Casey with a newly caught pokemon, which reminded me of a lotus leaf on top of a small blue body, in his arms and his mudkip sleeping on his shoulder.

"Did I miss something?"

Witch's Note:

Oh did you miss something alright Casey! Oh! How did you guys like that? We already saw a possible couple right in the end of chapter three! What did you all think of little Mattie? Wasn't he cute? He's such a sweetie! I couldn't help but fall in love with him.

And we still have another character to meet! Yes, I decided to have a fourth main character, but I thought it would do well with this chaotic story that a fourth character! Don't worry you guys! You'll see them soon!

So whose ready to head off to somewhere new? Maybe we might finally see a bad guy for the story? I'm not telling! But if you've played the game, you know what happens!

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