THE NEW UPDATE OF ORAS CHAPTER 14 IS FINALLY THERE. (I'm 4 days late but whale whatever)
It's clearly showed that Ruby was TOTALLY into Sapphire there.
I'm not exaggerating, he literally asked almost everyone about her whereabouts, in one goddamn chapter. That's the way, Ruby.
So I decided to make a bonus chapter that barely explains the story of how they got together.
It seems a bit rushed and has mistakes here and there, but whale here it is. The timezone is mentioned below. I hope it matches my storyline lel.
I DO NOT OWN POKEMON.
Developing ; Bonus Chapter 1
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Three months prior to the reunion of Hoenn's Pokedex trio ;
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Ruby picked the Pokeballs he had prepared the night before. He opened his bag and put the Pokeballs inside it. In the bag was quite few of spare clothes, sewing kit, and the Pokeballs he just put in. He also put few key items inside, just in case. The day was sunny and bright, much to his expectation. Regardless the weather, he has Fofo with him. So rainy day is not a problem. He looked through the bag's insides and ponder for a few seconds.
"This should be enough." He adjusted his glasses and finally, zipped his bag.
After wearing the bag and tightening it, he made his way to the mirror and stare at himself, most likely examining his physical condition.
"My hair has grown longer, hasn't it?" he asked himself while frowning at his sideburns and bangs. They have indeed made their way further. The bangs almost reach his eyes while the sideburns were hanging just around his jawline.
He was to caught up with accompanying the wild girl that he forgot to trim his hair. True that he's been spending most of his time coordinating contests, but mostly, he's been helping his childhood friend gathering data for the Pokedex. He never thought spending days together with someone with so few things in common would actually be fun.
They've been exploring all Hoenn and its Mirage Spots that appeared randomly each day. Apparently there are rare wild Pokemons that don't actually exist in Hoenn. Who knows if he might encounter a Pokemon that have passion for contests? And that's just one of many reasons Ruby agreed to keep her company. They agreed to go for the research once or twice a week, and today is one of those days.
"Should I cut them? It doesn't match my current outfit.. Or maybe I should try designing a new attire instead?" again, he began questioning himself. He suddenly got cut by the yell of his mom.
"Ruby~! Sapphire's here!"
Upon being called, Ruby quickly picked up his hat on the bed and wore it, pulling his bangs inside. "Right, I'll think about that later." he said while climbing down the stairs in hurry.
As he reached the first story of his house, he could see the brunette standing by the door with his mother, talking. She still wore one of Ruby's sewed clothes, the blue casual one piece, comes with a matching bandana.
"Yer takin too long, prissy boy. T'was like waitin for a girl." she smirked with both hands on her waist.
"Shut it, barbarian. I alway came out well prepared, unlike you!"
"Oh and how well prepared are ya?"
"Well enough to cover your sudden needs. You'll thank me later."
Their argument went for quite a long time until they finally realized it's almost time to set out. They waved Ruby's mom goodbye and began their short journey : looking for Mirage Spots.
All mouth fights aside, they seem to be enjoying what they've been doing. To them, it was like they're being themselves and it's pretty much refreshing for the two. Instead, it would scare them if they came up with agreement, which only happens once in a millenium.
"So today we're going to find the ones near Mossdeep?" Ruby asked while walking along the long grass patch.
"Mhm." She replied without facing him, walking in the same path just in front of him.
"And what does this decision based of? You sure there's going to be something?"
"My instinct told me so, ya doubt me?"
"100% doubtful. Instinct!? Then what if we already make it all the way to Mossdeep and find nothing?" He complained, which Sapphire sighed in return.
"That's why it's called an adventure, duh? If ya can pinpoint this Mirage Spots I'll have no complains."
"Same goes to you! Which is why I'm complaining!"
Reaching the top of her limit, Sapphire began whistling loudly, summoning Troppy who descended from the trees to their side.
"I won't argue with ya, not now."
Feeling discontented, Ruby frowned. But she might be right. After all, this is Sapphire's talking. She had sharp instincts and it's most likely 98% accurate all the time. She seemed pretty different today, though. Their journey were accompanied by silence until they arrived to Mossdeep. It took them quite few hours from Littlerood, but both still looked energized as ever. Do their energy ever actually run out?
Both walking casually with the uncomfortable air filled their surroundings. Ruby was the first to notice this. The more they spend time together, the more he resent the idea of them arguing, for God knows why. Sometimes he just wanted to get it over by agreeing with whatever she says, but his pride and logic had to disagree. So which side is his mind that came across the idea? He'll soon find out.
They finally reached the corner of Mossdeep, just around the Space Center. There, the conqueror relied on her sight to try and capture any unusual thing such as lands, caves, forests, islands, or even mountains. Too bad she captured nothing.
"Where're ya.." murmured her, still sighting the whole view. The raven still got consumed by his thoughts. He then caught a glimpse of her strange-yes-usual behavior, where she started to climb nearby trees and gestured as if she's using a binocular. He smiled to this.
"I'll never get tired of this." he chuckled softly. He then approached the brunette and shouted.
"You know that it's faster if we just fly that way?"
Incapable of complaining, Sapphire frowned a bit, but jumped down the tree to reach him. He made a point, she thought. Once again she summoned the fruit Pokemon and flew.
They both looked all around below them, not wanting to miss a single strange spot. After an hour or so, Sapphire was still looking through while the charmer slowly lose his passion. Just about the moment Ruby wanted to give up, the conqueror jumped and screamed, enough to make the raven fell from his grip.
"L-LOOK OVER THERE!"
Troppy landed safely on the unknown island where a big mountain stood. Both jumped from the Pokemon and started to explore the said island.
"See? I found it." Sapphire exclaimed proudly. Oh how happy she is, noticing the raven's face of losing. Ruby remained silent. He was too extracted by the island they're currently standing at. He was certain this Island weren't here the day before. For once, he finally agreed with her.
"By the way, ye bring yer full team with ya, right?" she asked, both hands behind her back. the raven replied with a nod.
"Great! I only bring Chic with me. Papa borrowed the others." upon her reply, he was about to complain but the island stole his interest.
The island was somehow similar to the place where the two trained to control the orbs back then. Ruby recalled quietly, remembering the island's structures briefly. "Isn't this the mirage island when the Groudon and Kyogre disaster happened?"
Sapphire looked back with a questioned look. "What?"
"You see, the one near the Sootopolis where Grand Master trained us." he explained, still walking along the way.
The brunette remained in the dark, not getting a clue of what he talked about. "Does it even matter?" she inquired.
Ruby wore his disappointed look, staring at the wild girl. "Duh? We are nowhere around Sootopolis. And yet this island exist here."
"And?" she asked again, this time with one of her eyebrow raised and her head tilted a bit.
"This island is moving!" he continued, slightly adding his pitch.
Not so long after, Sapphire finally got his point. She then wondered the same thing and started looking around more carefully. "Are ye sure this was that island?"
"Super! Just look at that corner there, that was when we were about to depart to th-" As he answered her, he suddenly got cut by her.
"H-Hold up!" She cut him with a slight pinkish color coming across her cheeks. "Ya do remember, doncha?" she approached his face with her irritated look. Ruby quickly pulled out his innocent look, startled.
"R-Remember?" he asked nonchalantly, only causing the brunette to frown further.
"Don't play dumb with me! I know ya do!"
"And here I am asking you, what am I supposed to remember?"
"Ya remember the moment we departed so ya should have at least remember that one!" she yelled with anger, starting to get fed up by his dumb acts. She knew for sure that he did remember everything, for there's no such amnesia like that.
"Keep nagging all you want, but I can't tell you things that I can't even recall." he replied calmly, facing the other way from her. Suddenly an odd feeling struck his heart, as if he's been doing a very very big mistake just now.
The conqueror shuddered, her angered frown vanished as it gradually changed to a bitter one. Her eyebrows were narrowed down deep and her eyes were sharper than Sharpedo's rough skin. She pierced his back with just her stare. Her heart throbbed.
"I can't take this anymore." she managed to speak with her shaky breath, trembling while clenching her fists.
Ruby turned around only to witness Sapphire nearly losing control to her tears, staring with him with a glare. "Sapph, listen—" he said, in an attempt to calm her down, only to be failed by her sudden struck of words.
"No, ya listen! I've had enough of ya playin dumb and deaf all over me! I knew for sure ya didn't forget a bit bout our convs back then! Yer just goin to keep playin this sick joke with me forever, no!?" she cried out, not letting Ruby cut even a bit. She then looked down, hiding her face. "If ya actually didn't remember, then I'm goin to say it one more time." she paused, putting both hands on her chest.
"I like you, Ruby."
She said ever so softly, aside from her current angered state. The raven remained silent with a glimpse of guilt passed by his face, his cheeks gradually growing red with his eyes widen.
"Ye..You didn't know how happy I was to hear out yer confession? T'was the first time fer me." She finally calmed down a little.
"Ye can pretend ye didn't hear that again, I don't even care anymore." she then turned around to the other way, walking away from him slowly, which startled him a bit.
"Then again, ye shouldn't have told me those bullshits. Yer just playin with my heart." she paused, pushing her face to the side, making half of her face visible to him. She then stared at him, revealing tears were all over her face. She sobbed quietly, wiping her face with her hand.
"Be a jerk, I'm not goin to wait for ya." she topped it with a wrecked expression, frowning with teary eyes, and then suddenly running away from him.
Blanked out, Ruby just stared at his feet, once again, feeling ashamed of himself. It took him seconds to regain consciousness and made his way to chase the brunette.
"No.. No.. No! Sapph! Wait!" he screamed out with a panic expression painted all over his face. He soon began chasing her, who only seemed to keep going further and further away.
"Hhh.." Ruby panted while resting his hand to one of the trees in the small forest. He's been chasing Sapphire for half an hour, and got lost the track in the middle. He frowned while staring at his own feet, wiping his sweats. At this moment, somehow, he paid no attention to his reek of sweat. He looked all around and continued walking quickly.
"Where are you?" His mind spoke.
Truth is, he finally got his mind cleared up. He finally found the last piece of the puzzle inside his mind. The fact that he fell into daydreaming and thoughts about his childhood friend so much has finally came clear. It was him who made himself suffer the dissatisfaction. He's been keeping everything to himself up until now. He wasn't even sure now why he pretended he knew nothing to the girl. He realized now he's been a selfish child who only thinks about himself, he hasn't changed a bit, he thought.
He's been a jerk, and she was right. All he's been doing was nothing but playing with her heart, her feelings. He was too scared to make decision, thus he ended up covering himself, hurting everyone else. He relentlessly tried to ignore his heavy breathing, running even further.
"Sapphire, I'm so sorry.." he whispers to himself, with a guilt piercing his face.
Not so long after, he then stopped by another tree upon noticing a strange mark there. He examined the tree carefully while gasping for breath. "This.." he muttered. His hand rubbed the strange, but familiar mark on the tree. Until suddenly a slight memory jolted inside his head, making his body flinch and shudder.
"It's.. a mark of Dragon Claw.." he pointed with a serious look and began looking to the environments around him. There were few signs that a Dragon Pokemon was, indeed, been here.
The thought quickly gave him chills. He ran faster to find the brunette's whereabouts, worriedly. He even remembered their talk about Sapphire's current team, which made him even concerned than before.
"No, it can't be.." he murmured under his breath.
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On the other way, Sapphire was sitting near a pond, lamenting. She cried her way out, not being able to stop sobbing. Chic, stared at her with a worry plastered on its face. The brunette stared down to the Pokeball and wore a weary smile. "I was stupid wasn't I, Chic? Waitin for him leads me to nothin.." She stopped halfway from her bawling, noticing an unknown presence right behind her, where the forest stood. She wiped her tears off, turning her frown upside down.
She silently threw her Pokeball, releasing a beam of light until Chic comes out, being fully alarmed by its surrounding. Sapphire too, turned around to see a dark silhouette under the dense trees. She stepped back a bit, nearly touching the pond's side. The silhouette proceeded to come closer to her, slowly becoming clearer and brighter. Stepping out from the forest's shadow made it clear that it was Salamence, with sharp eyes. The conqueror shuddered.
Chic quickly moved in front of her, extending its hands protectively.
After a few rounds of running, Ruby is still lost in the forest.
Chic was nearly knocked out. Its been holding massive damage from the dragon Pokemon. Its defense was superior, and since the law of moves applies, Chic's fire moves weren't really effective on it. Even the legendary move, Blast Burn, wasn't enough to knock out Salamence. And the move required her quite the time to recharge to be used again, thus leaving Chic cornered in a pinch.
"Chic..! Don't force yerself!" the brunette cried out worriedly. She's cornered.
Salamence suddenly dashed forward, honing its claws. It then aimed for Chic and Sapphire. She was immobilized. She couldn't take a step further, not even thinking about it since she didn't want to let her partner left alone. Just as she about to lose her faith and shut her eyes, a pair of hands hugged her and dragged her away.
"Mumu! Take down!" the voice commanded, no other than the charmer, Ruby.
The Swampert did as his master say, guarding the two from the dragon claw.
Upon hearing the peculiar voice, Sapphire jolted, opening her eyes only to notice she's being held by her childhood friend, with his serious face. It brought her back to when they were little. Ruby's eyes were burned with determination for battling. He made sure the brunette's safe by his arm, wrapping around her protectively.
"You okay?" he asked, still paying attention to the battle.
"…Idiot.." She wore a toothy smile, sighing in relieve. She couldn't expect more than her own prince charming come to save the day. "Yer… late." she whispered weakly.
"Fashionably late." he gazed to her with a wink and idiotic smile, driving her at ease.
"Focus to the battle, yer not gettin anymore scar from that beast."
"I wouldn't repeat the same mistake twice." he said, still holding her close with his other hand rummaging the bag, pulling out a Pokeball then threw it in the air. "Rara!"
Kirlia came out from the beam of light, landed perfectly on the ground. "Assist Mumu. Show that beast how well you've trained!" /this is kinda ironic since rara evolved in Wally's care tbh./
Kirlia dashed around Mumu and hit the dragon with Psychic. Unfortunately, it didn't deal a big damage. Most probably because the Salamence is in a higher level than Rara herself. The charmer didn't blink a second, carefully examining the battle flow.
"Back then, I knew nothing about you. And all I care about was driving you away from us.. from her." he stood up, approaching the dragon. "I gave my Pokemon the reckless commands, causing you to rampage and crush the Research Facilities. That was a huge mistake."
Mumu kept attacking the Salamence back away, causing it to slowly back away. "But now, I've grown with experience. I've learned a lot about you."
"Now I'm not going to brutally attack you and frighten the person that I love again." he said confidently with his fierce eye straight down on the Dragon. Sapphire, noticed his last line, couldn't help but grew deep crimson with watery eyes and pumping chest.
"Mumu! Rock Slide!" Salamence suddenly got hit by considerable amount of heavy-looking rocks that seemed to be very effective, since it's a flying type. Feeling unsafe, it started to flap its wing, getting ready to leave the land. "Ruby! It's running away!" Sapphire yelled while pointing to the escaping Pokemon.
"Not so fast, rockhead. You're not going anywhere!" a sharp smile suddenly went across his lips. He then pointed at the fleeing dragon.
"Rara, show him what you're made of! Draining Kiss!" he shouted. Kirlia quickly pointed at the Salamence and a beam of light suddenly came out from it, leaving it weak, helpless, until it fell to the ground and got knocked out.
Astounded by the move that Sapphire has just witnessed, she jumped a tad and walked to reach the raven. "W-What was that move just now..?"
Ruby looked back with his Kirlia and Swampert following him, both being patted.
"It's a new move we've learned through new methods of training, a fairy type move." he explained briefly. "Dragons are weak against this type of moves."
"Whoa! Yer doin Rara some serious training aren't ya?" she asked casually, complimenting the Kirlia. It took them quite the seconds to remember the little quarrel they had back then.
Sapphire turned away, taking a few steps back, approaching a wounded Chic. Noticing this, Ruby pulled her hands, which startled her for a moment. Both were rather confused of what should they do.
"Sorry.." both said in unison, causing Sapphire to look back at Ruby. Their eyes met.
"Sapph.. listen to me this time.." he gulped. His heart and mind were working together to gather the courage and guts to be honest to her. "I actually remembered….everything." her mouth remained shut, allowing him to continue with his explanation.
"The Salamence incident, your declaration, even mine.." he paused. His hand still grabbing her tightly. "I'm terribly sorry.. I broke your heart to little bits, didn't I?" he gave a small weak smile, causing the brunette to approach him closer. "I.. What I proclaimed back then.. It wasn't bullshit. I truly loved you, until the very moment." he continued.
"So, if you are willing.. I wished to have a place in your heart." He finished, holding both her hands even tighter. "Am I worthy?"
She couldn't keep it anymore. In an instant, she's bursting with tears and her face turned as red as magikarp. "Ye-yer stoopid..!" was her only reply upon his confession, but her sweet and tender gesture towards him were telling him the positive reply. He calmed her down and wiped away her tears with his thumbs, cupping her cheeks.
"So.. I've been thinking.." The raven said, quietly, causing Sapphire the confusion.
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"What if we take a step further?"
There you go. It's called Bonus Story but it's actually the LONGEST chapter i've ever written, excluding the A/N ofc.
And yeah if you noticed, I did mention "Bonus Chapter 1", meaning there'll be several more to come along between the actual storyline chapters.
Yes. this one fanfic is going to be pretty lengthy in amount of chapters. Hope you guys wouldn't mind that ;-; And this fanfic is basically inspired by a fanart manga made by certain someone. if you guys happen to know, credit to the artist for the idea ;)
I tried my best to make the story relate to the original Pokemon Adventure manga. (facts etc) so if you spot any error, please contact me directly!
Tell me what you think about this one ;)
The actual continuation of previous chapter will be updated shortly, so stay tuned.
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