Pokémon: The Astral Seeker

by NagimiSonic

-Canceled- Three teens are about to experience the one journey that they may not forget for the rest if their lives as they gain new friends, among them are their Pokémon partners, along the way. Join these three as they go on a quest that reveals the identity of an ancient spirit in human form to save the world from a corrupted Pokémon that was sealed away.

4. Chapter 4: The Spirit Orbs

Pokémon: The Astral Seeker

Chapter 4: The Spirit Orbs

This chapter introduces how wild Pokémon are obtained in this story because Poké Ball don't exist in this world of Pokémon so never the less, Chapter 4 begins now.

Pokémon (c) Game Freak
Story, Characters (c) NagimiSonic

The battle continues between Anthony and the Jiangnese boy continues as their Pokémon commence their on-slaught of attacks

Mysterious Boy : Get close to it and use Flamethrower !

Hōyato: Pignite! (Inhales air from its snout)

Anthony : Knock it back with Mud Bomb !

Kyle and Chris : Wha! (Surprised by their friend's action)

Croagunk: Croa-gunk! (Spits a chunk of mud at Hōyato, pushing it back a few feet)

Hōyato: Pig... (Wipes the mud off of its face)

Mysterious Boy : Forget about it; quickly, use Smog !

Hōyato: Pig! (exhales a brownish smoke from its snout)

Croagunk: Croa? (The brown smoke starts to cover up the area)

Anthony : *This isn't good, he just got himself a good shot of attacking just about anywhere in this smokescreen*

*Distant rolling*

Anthony : What the? (Sees the rolling object) Croagunk, jump now!

Croagunk : Croa-gunk! (Jumps in the air to dodge the rolling object as it reveals to be Hōyato when it passed by)

Anthony : Use Brick Break !

Croagunk: Croagunk! (Slams its hand onto Hōyato as soon it came back around, breaking its attack)

Hōyato: Pig-(Gets knocked back a few inches and lands on its stomach) Nite. (Groans as it gets back up)

Anthony: Alright, use Mud Bomb once more!

Croagunk: Croa- (Its cheek sacs expand along with its lower jaw) Gunk! (Spits out a huge chunk of mud at Hōyato)

Mysterious Boy : Smog now!

Hōyato: Pig-nite! (Exhales more brown smoke around the area)

Anthony : That trick again?

Mysterious Boy : Heat Crash.

Anthony : Gah! (Looks up to see Hōyato in a reddish-orange orb of fire coming down quickly at Croagunk) Croagunk, get out of there!

Croagunk: Croa? (Looks up in time and starts moving but it moved too late when it gets crushed by Hōyato's attack) Croagunk!

Anthony : Croagunk! (Covers his eyes from the incoming smoke)

The smoke from the attack cleared away after a few minutes and shows an exhausted Hōyato getting off of a knocked out Croagunk

Mysterious Boy : Looks like I won.

Anthony falls to his knees in shame

Chris : Don't fuss over it, Ant. This was your first Pokémon battle after all.

Kyle : At least you can learn from it, right?

Anthony gets right back on his feet and grins at the two

Mysterious Boy : Nicely played for your first battle though.

Anthony : Huh? (Sees the boy clapping as he walks to the three and their Pokémon)

Mysterious Boy : But, have you ever thought of having more Pokémon besides your Croagunk?

Anthony : Actually, yeah.

Chris : Ant, you know that you can't have two Pokémon partners.

Anthony : Yeah but-

Mysterious Boy : You guys know about that but do you guys even know of the other solution?

Kyle, Chris, and Anthony : Huh? (Looks at the boy with curiosity)

Mysterious Boy : You see, with these orbs, (Takes out a couple of strange colored orbs) you can carry any Pokémon that wants to travel with you or any Pokémon that you capture. In a way, they're more of your comrades.

Kyle : Spirit Orbs, I never thought I actually see the actual thing this close.

Anthony : So, these Pokémon are considered to be extra partners?

Mysterious Boy : Not really. Instead of being your partner Pokémon, these Pokémon that you keep inside these are called your Ally Pokémon and with their orbs, you can called them out anytime in most situations. (Gets out a small sack and digs through it to grab nine blank orbs) Here. (Throws those nine orbs to Anthony who catches them with ease) Try to split it up between you three now. (turns around to leave with Hōyato)

Anthony : Wait, how do you even let the Pokémon out?

Mysterious Boy : Just focus all of your thoughts onto the orb and throw. (Flicks some strange light in front of them and a grayish bipedal chipmunk Pokémon with a big piece of wood under its right arm appears from that light) And that's the basics.

Kyle : So, how do you-

Mysterious Boy : Call it back? Timburr, return. (points Timburr's Spirit Orb at Timburr)

Timburr : Timburr. (Gets itself zapped back into its orb)

Kyle, Chris, and Anthony : Whoa. (Amazed)

Anthony sees the boy and his Pignite about to leave

Anthony : Wait, you didn't tell us your name.

Mysterious Boy : If we meet again, I'll tell you. (Disappears in a puff of flames)

Anthony : *stutters* How in the world did he do that!? On top of that, he pro-

Kyle : He said he'll tell us his name IF you won the battle. Obviously, you didn't.

Chris : Kyle, give the guy some credit for at least for trying.

All three of them laughed for a bit with their Pokémon when they returned back to Ranse a few minutes later and had Munchlax apologize to all of the merchants for eating all of their food. After that, they all returned to their homes as Kyle lays on his bed, looking at the three orbs he have gotten from Anthony when they split the Spirit Orb equally.

Kyle : *So, we can have more Pokémon with us than just our partners just as long they're within these orbs*

Kyle remembers something

Kyle : Wait a minute, he didn't even tell us how to capture a Pokémon in a Spirit Orb.

Eevee stirs for a bit and it got up from its curled state when it hears something

Kyle : What is it?

Eevee: Eevee, Eevee! (frantically)

Kyle : Huh?

*screaming outside*

Kyle : Come on, Eevee! (Gets off the bed and rans out of the room)

Eevee: Eevee! (Runs after Kyle)

They got out of the house and they eventually reached the source of the screaming in the town square where they see an extremely large number of yellow/blue furry spider Pokémon.

Chris and Anthony arrived next to Kyle with their Pokémon

Kyle : Chris, Anthony!

Chris : So you heard the screaming too?

Kyle : Yep, thanks to Eevee.

Munchlax: Munchlax-munch! (Points to the top of the far left market shack)

The three of them look up to see two of the spiders surrounding one particular spider which was carrying three kids wrapped up in silk on its back

Chris : Hey you! Let those three kids go now!

Anthony : Easy there, Chris. Those spiders are Galvantulas and you now you shouldn't mess with one of them especially when they're doing their usual move at nightfall.

Chris : Yes I know, Ant. They'll get really angry due to that they only move in the night to carry all of their young to a safe location so that they don't get attack by other Pokémon in the daytime.

Kyle : But they don't seem to be doing that. On top of that, they don't seem to be leaving anytime soon.

Chris ponders on this for a moment as he sees the three wrapped up kids on the Galvantula that's carrying them and suspects that it's the colony leader due to the X-shaped scar on its head and from there, an idea appears in his head

Chris : I got an idea and it may just work. (Kyle and Anthony look at him with curious glances)

Anthony : Great, what is it? (Ecstatically)

Chris : We can get the kids back and make all of the Galvantulas leave by just capturing its leader.

Kyle & Anthony : HUH!? (Surprised by Chris' reckless idea)

End of Chapter 4

Debuts: Timburr, Galvantula

Another cliffhanger; that's one way to keep all of that suspense up in one chapter. Next chapter shows the way of how Pokémon are captured in Spirit Orbs and here's the sneak peek of the next chapter:

" The struggle of the Galvantulas continue on as a wandering traveler appears in the town with his trusty Pokémon partner and assists the three in the battle"

Next time- Chapter 5: Keeping an Owens on things.