A/N:
PsychicEevee: *peeks out* Are they gone? Phew! *gets out from under a bed* Hi guys. Let me explain why I was hiding under the bed.
Ever since two chapters ago, when Skitty and Raion met, I've been tortured to no end by those two, who I've started calling the Danger Duo. I can only publish these when they're away to torture some other poor soul, like right now. Anyway, I don't own Pokemon or any form of Yu-Gi-Oh, only Sarah and the Pokemon, and here are the responses to reviews:
*scuffling outside the door* Oh no, see you ASAP, the Danger Duo are out again! *dives under bed*
"Wait for me!" Skorupi struggled to keep up.
"Sorry, one second," Sarah stopped, picked Skorupi up in her arms, and set off again. She heard a voice from ahead of her and to her right.
"SARAH! WHERE ARE YOU?" the voice called.
"Jaden?" Sarah picked up the pace, turning right at the first turn she saw.
"Sarah!" the boy smiled, Kyo coming from a bit further ahead. "Where were you? When we were covered by this darkness, Kyo and I got worried, especially when we heard an explosion! And how'd you get that Skorupi?"
"You see, I kind of got into a battle with this Skorupi's former Trainer. Tay and I won, and Skorupi's Trainer released her without even bothering to heal her. So I did, and I asked if she wanted to meet you guys, and she said yes," Sarah explained it in a nutshell.
"I tried to tell you earlier Sarah... I'm not looking for power," Skorupi said, which startled Sarah.
"You're not?" Sarah asked the Scorpion Pokemon.
"No. I just want to see new sights and meet kind people and Pokemon," she replied.
"Well, since Jaden and Yuma are looking to be Pokemon Masters and have strong Pokemon, maybe they're not the ideal Trainers for you," Sarah smiled softly. "Maybe Yugi or Yusei though, I don't know what they're planning to do now that they have Pokemon..."
"We should get back to the guys," Jaden interrupted the girls' chat.
"You're right Jaden. Let's go," Sarah motioned with her head (her arms were full with Skorupi) to go, and Jaden and Kyo did just that.
A half and hour later, the group of six (Sarah, the Eevees, Jaden, Kyo, and Skorupi) made it out of the maze, seeing everyone else there. It made sense, seeing as it was now almost 12:30. Yusei's Riolu, Ishi, saw them first.
"Look, Sarah and Yuma are back, with another Pokemon," he noted. Since he was usually quiet, from what Sarah knew, Yugi blinked and looked at where Ishi was.
"Guys, Sarah and Jaden are back!" he alerted the boys and the Pokemon before running to his adopted sister and one of his friends. "What took you guys so long?"
"Yeah, we got worried after that explosion," Yusei agreed.
"I was worried for you, Yoru," Hokage said quietly.
"Yugi, I think you might want to know that Hokage seems to have a crush on Yoru," Sarah smirked, full of mischief. It was an obvious love triangle (or at least crush): Hokage liked Yoru, who liked Tay, who was acting oblivious to it all.
"I do not!" the Fox Pokemon exclaimed angrily, her cheeks turning, if possible, an even deeper shade of red.
"Moving on, I think it's lunchtime," Yugi interrupted the growing argument, bringing out the lunch the boys had made that morning. There was a picnic table set up outside, so the boys and Sarah dug into the food, just as the Pokemon dug into the Pokemon Food the new Trainers bought before hitting the road.
It took about half an hour for them to finish eating the sandwiches they had made. Next they decided to do some training in mock battles, Yugi and Hokage versus Sarah and Yoru, and Yuma and Raion versus Jaden and Kyo.
"I'll take the first move! Hokage use Tackle!" Yugi ordered, and the small Fire type started charging at the Pokemon that was out in front of Sarah.
"Dodge and use Quick Attack to get close, then use Sand Attack and Dig as one!" Sarah countered. Yoru ran out of the way of Hokage's Tackle, then streaked forward, leaving a white trail behind him, up to the confused Fire type and, kicking loose sand into her face, burrowed underground.
"Careful Hokage, it can come up anywhere, and at any time!" Yugi warned his Pokemon, who promptly began running around the field, taking no real path. Meanwhile, in the other battle...
"Use Quick Attack, Ishi!" Yusei commanded his Pokemon, who looked tired but still ran towards Kyo.
"Confusion!" was the only word Jaden said as a counter. Kyo lifted his arms, and under the bowl styled hair-like portion, the small Psychic/Fairy type's eyes glowed a pinkish-purple, and Ishi stopped in his tracks, surrounded by an aura of the same color. Kyo extended his arms forward, and Ishi went in the same direction.
"Endure!" Yusei yelled, and the aura surrounding Riolu became a bit redder; however, the Confusion attack still worked, and the Fighting Type was thrown back.
"That's that!" Jaden smiled.
"It's not over yet," Yusei said confidently. Sure enough, right after he said this, Ishi sat up, shaking his head as if to clear it.
"But how?" was all Yuma, who was watching, could say.
"Endure is a move that enable a Pokemon to survive an attack that would otherwise make it faint," Yusei explained for Yuma's benefit. Back to the other battle...
"Gotcha!" Yoru exclaimed as he popped out from the ground at a diagonal, striking Hokage in the flank. The Fox Pokemon cried out in pain.
"That's enough, I think," Sarah said. "Yoru, return." The Eevee happily walked over to his Trainer as Yugi called Hokage back over to him.
"Guys, I think that's enough for a training battle," Yugi called over to the other duo, who were still battling.
"Alright. Kyo, return!" Jaden smiled, beckoning his Pokemon over, while Yusei went over to Ishi.
"You did your best, and that's what matters. I think we should start learning Shadow Claw though, because that will work as a defense and offense against Psychic Types. Is that alright Ishi?" Yusei gently kneeled down and picked up his Pokemon in his arms.
"That sounds like a plan to me," Ishi said quietly, looking into his Trainer's serious face.
"Let's get going. I think we should be at least a little bit further before we set up camp for the night," Yugi piped up.
"Yeah. We should pack up and get going," Sarah agreed. "First though, we should heal up the Pokemon, they got pretty banged up in those training battles, and before you say it Yuma, I'll battle you next time we train, so you won't be left out." The last part made Jaden have to bite his lips to prevent himself from laughing; they all knew each other so well!
"All right. We should get going; after all, every step we take is a step closer to me being a Pokemon master," Sarah smiled from Yuma's comment.
Sarah took the bag of medical supplies, opened it, and started to pass Potions out first to Yugi, then Yusei, then Jaden, putting the bag away with taking out one final Potion for Yoru, who carefully trotted over to her, as did the other Pokemon (except Ishi, who was still in Yusei's arms) to their Trainers.
"Hey, can I come?" a voice asked, making the others jump, having forgotten that Skorupi was still with them.
"Sure," Sarah replied, the others nodding in agreement despite not knowing what Skorupi said.
"No, I meant as your Pokemon," Skorupi looked at Sarah pleadingly.
"Well, that was not what I expected, but I suppose. One second though, let me get out a Pokeball," Sarah quickly went through her purse, looking through different pockets until she found the one where she had put her Pokeballs in. Pulling one out, she pushed the button in the center, activating it, before tapping it gently on Skorupi's head. It was an instant capture; less than half a second after Skorupi was absorbed it went 'ding'. "Let's return the Pokemon, except Tay because she doesn't like Pokeballs, and get going."
"Can I stay out?" came from two Pokemon at once.
"Alright, I suppose," Sarah answered Yoru. "Yugi, Hokage wants to stay out of her Pokeball."
"That's fine by me," he said, grabbing his backpack like the others were by that point. Once he put it on, his Fire Pokemon jumped onto his shoulder just like Tay and Yoru did with Sarah.
The group, all the other Pokemon having been returned to their Pokeballs, continued on their way down Route 4. They managed to get to a large fountain right in the middle of a clearing right before sunset.
"Guess this is the farthest we'll be able to get tonight," Yuma said with a frown as he looked at the sunset.
"We should set up camp here. I'll get a start on dinner; you boys set up the tent, alright?" Sarah asked.
"Sure, we'll get it set up and we'll put our stuff in there. Once that's done we'll help you," Jaden smiled. With the other boys, he took the tent and went over to an edge of the clearing, Sarah following closely after. She set up a table that appeared out of nowhere (A/N: It'll do that whenever it's needed, think about the anime (I'm applying those basic physics here): giant tables appear out of nowhere all the time) with some different vegetables to slice. She'd have the boys do that when they were done; for now she set up a fire (after getting Hokage to use Ember) and a method for a pot to be on it. (A/N: I'll let you be creative on that.) She filled the pot with water provided from Yusei's Mudkip, Mizu,'s Water Gun (she didn't trust that the water in the fountain was clean) and set it over the fire to boil. Next she got out a small chunk of hamburger meat that she'd placed around several ice packs and, after placing a clean cloth on the ground first, placed it near the fire to thaw.
Meanwhile, the boys were just about done with pitching the tent. "Hey!" Sarah called, getting the boys attention. "It looks like not all four of you need to be there now, I need some more hands preparing dinner over here, so if one or two of you guys could come, I'd appreciate it."
Jaden and Yugi came over. Yugi asked, "What should we do?" Sarah guided them over to the table.
"There are some vegetables that need to be cut, you can do that right?" Sarah asked, knowing that she always cut the vegetables at home when they were cooking.
"Uh... no," Jaden muttered after a couple seconds. "You never let us do it, remember?"
"Let me show you," Sarah then proceeded to show the two how to safely hold the knife and the vegetable being sliced.
"When Yuma and Yusei finish with the tent, you show them that, okay?" Sarah asked. "I have to get the pasta into the water, and check on the meat."
The water was, indeed, boiling when Sarah got there, so she went over to the food supplies and got out a box of pasta, carefully sliding the contents out of the box and into the water. Next, she set up another fire close by, again with the help of Hokage using Ember, and put a pan on a support system. She lightly greased the pan, then put the heated-and slightly cooked from the fire-meat into the pan. It began to sizzle instantly.
"How're the vegetables doing?" Sarah asked as she walked over to the boys.
"Here're the amount you asked us to slice, you got out more than we needed, so we put the rest away," Yusei said.
"Thanks." Sarah smiled gratefully, sweeping the vegetables into a nearby bowl before going to check on the pasta. Since it was done, Sarah lifted out the pasta in a colander and got Yuma's help to dump out the unnecessary water in the fountain. Getting Yugi to tend to the meat and Yusei to mix the vegetables in the bowl, she strained the pasta by holding it over the fountain as the excess water poured out. Once that was done, she carried it back to the pot, which Jaden had dried out, and put it back in, along with the finished meat that Yugi had told her about on the way from straining the pasta. Once both the meat and the pasta were in the pot, she took a stirring spoon and mixed the meat and the pasta together. Once that was done, she said, "Now we just need plates."
This was easily remedied by Yugi pulling out some carefully-wrapped plates from the cooking-supply bag.
"Cool, you guys thought of everything!" Yuma exclaimed. "Now, let's eat!"
Yusei, insisting that Sarah didn't need to serve them, served them himself, with a portion each of pasta with hamburger meat and a salad as a side. The group all ate comfortably, until they were full.
"'Night," everyone said as they uncurled their sleeping bags and cuddled up in them for sleep.
A/N:
Skitty: Hi! Sorry we haven't talked in a while, my new friend Raion, a Pokemon called a Litleo, and I have been playing with Psychic for a while now. She's too tired to be here today, but she wants to know how she did in describing the cooking because she doesn't cook, only watches people cook. Also, the QOTD is: How did Psychic do in describing both battles? She only recently started even typing up battles in general, having never typed one until the Sarah versus Mable battle.
Raion: Come on Skitty, we have someone waiting for the game you've finished all Psychic needs to do to end a chapter come on come on come on... *continues babbling*
Skitty: Well, Raion said it. Psychic's waiting for us to play some more, so that means the end of the chapter! 'Till next time!