-One Strange Buizel-
Buizel came out of the Pokéball, sat down in a table, with his eyes closed. Buizel opened his eyes slowly, he seemed to regain consciousness as he slowly looked at ash, covering the light with his arm because it was too bright, he saw Ash smiling at him.
-Hey Buizel! How's it goin'? - Ash asked the Buizel with happiness while he put the collar back to Buizel's neck, although the Buizel seemed to feel sleepy.
Buizel only responded with a very weak – Bui?- And then he tried to get off of the table he was stood on, he jumped from it but he feel flat on his face and then his response was apparently quite louder. – Buiii!!! - He said when he hit the solid ground, as he tried to get up he said once again – Bui? - when he stood up.
- I think he must be a bit dizzy… - Dawn said as he looked down at him, Buizel was just looking at his paws while he smiled.
-Bui… Bui!!! – Buizel said randomly as he jumped of happiness lifting his fist to the skies. – Buuuuiiii! – Buizel yelled with a calling tone, apparently he was calling Kevin… but…
-I'm sorry Buizel, ummm, Kevin isn't here right now… - Ash said as he kneeled towards him, Buizel's eyes opened wide as he heard Ash.
-Bui?! … bui!! Buii bui buu bui…. Bui!!!! – Buizel said as he waved his arms at Ash, it seemed like he was arguing. –Bu… bui? - Bizel said.
-Calm down Buizel, we will find Kevin, I promise… - Ash said to Buizel.
-Bui… bu? - Buizel asked.
Suddenly Pikachu jumped from Ash's back to surprise Buizel in a friendly way, and apparently that wasn't a good idea because Buizel got scared letting go a really strong "Bui" and fainted really fast, Buizel fell in the floor completely passed out…
-Aww, Pikachu… you scared him! – Dawn said.
-Pika, pika… – Pikachu said.
-Yeah, I know you didn't mean too…- Ash said to Pikachu.
They were at the Pokémon center, their friend was lost, and now… Buizel had just fainted, just great…
-We should go out of town to see if Kevin shows up again, I'm sure he is worried sick to know where his Pokémon are… - Brock said to Ash as he held Buizel in his arms. Ash and Dawn nodded and followed Brock.
They all left the Pokémon center, of course, thanking nurse Joy for everything, and of course, Brock couldn't resist to hold Joy's hands and to get quite romantic with her again, but that only made his Pokémon hit him once again just to be carried away.
Once they all left the Pokémon center they immediately left the city to find Kevin, they went to a field a bit close from the city and decided to rest there for a moment, they didn't get to sleep that well at the Pokémon center anyway and besides, Ash wanted to train Pikachu and the rest of his Pokémon for his next gym battle for a while. Hopefully Kevin would show up around there, just… hopefully he would. Brock left Buizel near them in the grass, he still remained fainted though.
As ash was preparing for training, he saw the three Pokéballs of Kevin and couldn't help thinking that now that Kevin isn't around, he should help him and train his Pokémon a little. He just felt the responsibility of having them at his custody…
"-Then why don't you come with us? I'm off to Sunnyshore city myself to get my final badge! – Ash said with determination.
-You too? I want to have my final badge as well. – Kevin showed his case with the same seven medals ash had. – I really want to get in the league soon. –"
-Hmm, okay let's go! – Ash said while he threw the two Pokéballs containing Kevin's Riolu and Pikachu. When they were both released the two Pokémon realized that it wasn't Kevin who brought them out, but that trainer from the other day, Ash explained to them about what happened to Kevin, they seem a bit worried but Ash assured them both that they were going to find him, no matter what. The two were happy of course, they even hugged Ash. Then Ash explained that he wanted to train them while Kevin wasn't there, even if Kevin's Pikachu didn't want to, Riolu was quite excited about the training.
-Maybe then we can call Kevin's Buizel to see if he wants to train as well…- Ash said, Riolu and Kevin's Pikachu were looking around to see if they could find him. – Oh, he is sleeping over there; he was kind of scared by somebody over here. – Ash said while he looked at Pikachu in his shoulder with a beaming look. Pikachu kind of felt embarrassed at the moment as he scratched his head. Ash stood up quickly and he was ready to train Kevin's Riolu, but before that he wanted to wake up Buizel, he took out his own Buizel and asked him if he could wake him up so that he could come to train with him and to explain everything that happened, Buizel went on his way and Ash begun his training with Riolu. – Alright, let's do it! – Ash said while Kevin's Pikachu returned to it's Pokéball by his own.
Ash ordered his Pikachu to stand far away from him at the opposite side of where Riolu was standing preparing himself at almost 15 feet away.
-Ok Riolu, I want you to try to hit Pikachu with Aura sphere from this distance, you actually need to make the attack faster are you ready? – Ash asked, Riolu nodded and got positioned for an Aura Sphere. – Ok Riolu! Use Aura Sphere! – Ash commanded.
Riolu charged his Aura Sphere and threw it towards Pikachu, but Pikachu was easily able to avoid it once he skipped away just a step.
-Pika! - He said happily, Riolu was just shocked and quite ashamed of himself, that trainer's Pikachu was easily able to avoid his attack, just of how pissed off he got about it he quickly threw another Aura Sphere, an Aura Sphere that Pikachu was easily able to dodge by moving a step to the side again, that only made Riolu get way more mad than before, although, he took some deep breaths, and calmed down a bit, but he was still a bit ashamed for not being able to hit Pikachu.
-Keep trying Riolu, Pikachu is very fast ya' know… it's going to be hard to actually hit him from such a distance… - Ash said to Riolu.
Riolu charged his Aura Sphere and threw it towards Pikachu once again, this time, it was slightly faster, Pikachu had to quickly dodge this one and of course Riolu in his mind was surprised in how his Aura Sphere could go so quickly. Ash was more impressed in how every shot went directly towards Pikachu; all of Kevin´s Pokémon seemed to have an incredible aim.
Riolu threw another Aura Sphere that almost hit Pikachu, he had to jump this one and as soon as Pikachu was in the air he threw another one at his, of course, this Aura Sphere was unavoidable and he managed to hit Pikachu with Aura Sphere knocking him. Riolu jumped with happiness lifting his arms to the air.
-Well done Riolu! – Ash said.
Suddenly, Riolu started to glow and his shape begun to change, he got was getting taller, his "ears" started to grow bigger, until he was tall enough of the size of a fourteen year old kid the glowing stopped, Riolu evolved into a Lucario! (Do you want to put a nickname to your recently evolved Lucario?)
-Uhhh, this is bad… - Ash said while he was shocked and a bit happy for Riol…Lucario's evolution. – Lucario return! – Ash pointed the pokéball at Lucario emitting it's red beam, when it made contact with Lucario he turned the same color of the reddish beam that "sucked" him towards the Pokéball. –Oh, Kevin is going to be mad… maybe he didn't want him to evolve. – Ash said to himself.
-And actually it's a trainer who should evolve the Pokémon, after all. – Brock said.
-Well, I think I should train a Pokémon who can't evolve, but Kevin's Pikachu doesn't what too… How about Buizel? He has got that Everstone in his neck so he can't evolve! - Ash said. –But, where is that Buizel? - Ash said while looking around for him.
Suddenly Ash's Buizel came towards Ash and hid behind him as Kevin's Buizel came running as well, apparently he was chasing him, but something was out of place, Ash's buizel seemed to be really scared at him for some reason.
-Buizel maybe you are tired, get a rest. – Ash said to his Buizel while he returned him to his Pokéball. – Hey Buizel, umm, do you want me to train ya' a bit? - Ash asked Buizel.
-Bui! Bui… bu bui! buu bui!!- Buizel said with a bit of desesperation in his tone.
-I… will take that as a yes! – Ash said.
Buizel and Pikachu were on the far sides of the fighting area, Ash was going to make him train his speed a bit more, so he begun giving his first command… but…
-Go Buizel! – Ash said, but Buizel didn't even move… - Umm, Buizel? Go, Run, charge? – Ash said ridiculously but Buizel still did not move.
-Bui bu? - Buizel said while looking at Ash.
–Umm, Okay, maybe we can train your dodging skills up a bit! Ok Pikachu! Use Thunderbolt! – Ash said, Pikachu jumped and attacked with his thunderbolt, it was going directly to Buizel, and Buizel could actually see the thunder bolt as it was going to hit him. – Buizel, dodge! – Ash said to Buizel, but, Buizel didn't even move. –Buizel! Dodge! – Ash said once again, but he wouldn't move at all.
Pikachu's Thunderbolt impacted on Buizel hurting him, Buizel couldn't help but to yell a very loud sounding "Bui!!" when the attack finished, Buizel sat on the floor.
-Buizel… - Ash said while approaching him. – What's the matter with you? – Ash asked him but when he saw his face, he couldn't stop looking on how he began to cry. – Buizel… - Ash said almost in a guilty way. Ash certainly didn't understand, "Kevin's Buizel was pretty good at fighting, but why didn't he even dodge the attack?" he thought as he saw Buizel crying louder than ever as he covered his face with his arm.
-Ash. – Brock said to get his attention. – You have to think that most Pokémon feel differently depending on the trainer they are with, Buizel lost a very good friend of his, I don't think he is really up to fighting, in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he got depressed later on… - Brock explained as he patted the Buizel, Buizel looked at Brock for a moment but then he pushed his hand away and kept on crying. – Well, maybe it's time to eat something!! – Brock concluded. – Maybe my food will make this little Buizel happy! - Brock said.
Everyone started putting up all the arrangements to have a great meal, Humans and Pokémon where helping out, but, Kevin´s Buizel seemed a bit depressed as he saw everyone helping out, Brock was cooking while Dawn and Ash were setting the table and the Pokémon were carrying plates and other stuff like salt or pepper. Buizel was feeling sadder and sadder as time passed, but then Ash's Buizel came towards Kevin's Buizel again. They stood there talking Pokémonish language for a while. Ash's Buizel sat down beside him, every time Kevin's Buizel spoke to him Ash's Buizel seemed to be more and more impressed as his eyes got wider with every word he said. Brock came by to tell them that their food was ready, but Ash's Buizel started to randomly speak and point at Kevin's Buizel, of course, no one did understand him except the Pokémon that went exactly franatic as Ash's Buizel did.
Every Pokémon was speaking randomly, loudly and impatiently, suddenly Kevin's Buizel apparently told everyone to calm down, he talked a little bit more to them all, then they all went to eat.
All the Pokémon were eating normally as everyday, except for Kevin's Buizel that seemed to take his time to give the first bite to the Pokémon food, but then he started eating it so fast that he might actually finish first than everyone else.
Ash, Brock and Dawn were eating at the table of course, Ash couldn't resist but to talk about what just happened…
-They might be trying to say us something… never seen something like that… - Ash said.
-Well, we can't really know, maybe because of the all pokéball fixing dilemma his power got reduced and the Pokémon are worried. – Brock said.
- I just hope that little Buizel is okay though… he looks, so sad… - Dawn said as she looked at the poor thing, he had finished his food but he was still not happy, he seemed rather, melancholic…
Pikachu got near to Buizel and began talking to him, he seemed to smile a bit, but it was a short smile, short… but he smiled.
-I wish I knew how to make him feel better… - Ash said, when he remembered something…
"-It's a long story, and it has to do with the story about our first song too, as I promised I'll tell you guys! – Kevin said while he was getting his guitar bag, but, Buizel went for the guitar bag and took out a small red book, he gave it to Kevin and then he sat by his side.
-Is that a journal? – Brock asked.
-Yup, it's a journal I used to write when I was younger. I used to write the things that went wrong in my life here, but I tore away those pages and only have the story of how I met Buizel. – He smiled while opening the book.
-That's great! - Dawn said.
-Let me tell you the story of my first song…"
-That's it! That journal! – Ash said as Dawn and Brock looked at him. – His journal might have something that could tell us how to make Buizel happier, and better yet, it may reveal were Kevin might be! – Ash said as he went to the guitar bag to take out the journal.
This was a red journal that had a pokéball figure in the center and below that, there was a piece of paper that was attached to the journal, why, it's a drawing of Kevin and Buizel made by Kevin.
-Those drawings are sure kinda' cute…- Ash said.
-Ash, I don't think it's okay do go through someone else's journal… but considering what's happening, it might be the right thing, I'm sure Kevin will understand.- Brock said…
-Okay, let's check this out! – Ash said while he opened the journal reading the first page…
To be continued…