(A/N) Sooooooo . . . sorry about the long update? I've been busy?
Short chapter here, there wasn't much to say at all, really.
Oh, and there's also the return of Legendary Band-Aids in this chapter!
HORRAY FOR SINNOH LEGENDARIES BAND-AIDS!
"You're absolutely sure?" Blaze asked again for the millionth time. Ever since they had started running to the Mountain, he had been asking that.
"No!" Leaf said. "But we're trying it anyways!" She kept running. They had to get to the mountain before Monferno did something terrible to the Pichus.
"But what if your WRONG?" Blaze said. "What if Monferno actually DIDN'T take the Pichus to the mountains, and what if he never even stole them in the first place!? Why would he want three little children, anyways? Why-"
"Bro, shush for a minute!" Zephyr complained. "The bulbiesaur says a fire monkey nobody ever knew existed near Azure put three kids who were with a supervisor and in the middle of a busy crowd in a sack and jumped onto a mountain to use them for something and we should go to a specific mountain to get them, WE GO GET THEM!"
"Thank you, Zephyr." Leaf said. "I think. I can't be sure with you right now." Leaf stopped running for a few seconds to rephrase her statement. "I can NEVER be sure what you mean, not just right now."
"I get that a lot." Zephyr said, slowing down a little to nod. "Don't worry, you'll learn. Blaze did."
"No, I didn't." Blaze said. "I doubt I ever will, honestly."
"Oh. Well, will you ever learn to SPEED UP?" Zephyr gave Blaze a little push to speed his running up, since he slowed down to ask his questions, and he asked every few minutes. "You're going VERY slow!" When Blaze stayed at the same pace, he gave him a small kick, which turned into a slightly larger kick, which then became a series of nonstop kicking and shoving.
"Hey-ow-stop kicking me!-I'm going as fast as I ca-OW! Zephyr, I mean i-Zephyr-ARCEUS, STOP KICKING ME RIGHT NOW I SWEAR TO ARCEUS I AM THIS CLOSE TO USING FLAMETHROWER ON YOU!"
"Sheesh, alright!" Zephyr said, throwing his hands into the air and giving him a 'Drama Mon' look. "I was just trying to make you walk faster!"
"BY KICKING ME TEN HUNDRED TIMES?!"
"Yeah, I just said that." Blaze said, laughing like Blaze could never understand.
"I know you just-I was just-I am so tempted to attack you right now it's unbelievable."
"Hey, at least you're speeding up." Zephyr said. He gave Blaze a very small push with his foot.
Blaze glared.
"Oh, sorry, I was running and my foot went a little too high." Zephyr said.
"Riiiiiiight . . ." Blaze said skeptically.
"What, you don't believe me?"
"Come on, look how close we are to the mountain!" Leaf said, trying to change the subject.
"What, you're a saint now?" Zephyr said.
"I-what?"
"I dunno." Zephyr said. "I'm confused. Hey, look how close to the mountain we are!"
After a lot of running (and being patient with Blaze and Zephyr) they made it to the mountain. It wasn't as big as Leaf expected it to be, which was good, because it meant less climbing.
Climbing.
They would have to climb the whole entire rocky, unstable-looking, dirty, spiky mountain.
Suddenly the mountain didn't look smaller than she'd thought. It looked dirtier and rubblier than she'd thought, though.
Climbing was a huge, gigantic pain. Probably as painful as when Zephyr tried to speed up Blaze while they were running to the mountains. She got tired easily and scraped her feet several times, which was bad, because she was walking on dirt and small rocks.
Blaze seemed to be having the least amount of trouble, mainly because charmanders once lived in rocky areas.
Zephyr was doing okay, but he mainly blasted everything in his path with a Water Gun. He got very into it, blasting anything within a three-foot-radius.
"HAHA, DIE, YOU ANNOYING PEBBLES!" he shouted, spraying water all over the ground. The pebbles skidded around the ground, falling down the sides of the mountain. The water splashed dangerously close to Blaze, who yelped in fear and leaped away, protecting the precious flame on his tail. He stayed a few feet farther from Zephyr after that.
"Zephyr, stay quiet." Blaze reminded the squirtle again after another "Evil dirt, I shall DESTROY you!" "We don't want to be discovered yet."
"DIE, EVIL PARTY POOPER!" Zephyr replied, squirting water onto Blaze's face. He made a shocked, scared sound and cupped his claws over the flame on his tail, furiously wiping away any water near it. He made sure his tail was 100% dry and glared at Zephyr.
"DIE, EVIL PARTY POOPER!" Zephyr said again. "YOU'RE FANCY TAIL IS NO MATCH FOR MY WATER POWERS!" He shot some water near Blaze's tail again, and Blaze leaped away from the water just in time.
"Zephyr, I will DIE if that flame goes out!"
"So?"
Zephyr got a bad burn on his face a moment later.
Blaze stayed many yards away from him after that, but Zephyr got the message after being Flamethrowered to the face. He didn't, however, get the message to keep his head down.
"Can I have the Dialga Band-Aids, please?" Zephyr asked as he squeezed Rawst Juice all over his face.
He got two plain white Band-Aids with no designs on them and all of his Dialga Band-Aides scorched instead.
Zephyr watched his favorite Band-Aids float to the ground, black and flaming, in horror.
Zephyr looked at Blaze and his burnt bandages in disappointment. "Bro, so I splashed a little water in you're face-"
"YOU NEARLY KILLED ME!"
"So I nearly killed you, that doesn't give you the right to set fire to my Band-Aids! Now I have to use the boring white ones, and they don't even have a design!"
"We're almost to the top, please, just put on the bandages so we can get moving." Leaf said. She was weakened from fatigue, but wanted to keep moving. Saving the Pichus was more important than resting or weeping over ruined Band-Aids.
Zephyr groaned and slapped the Band-Aids to his face. The Rawst berry had healed the burns well, so it wasn't a big deal, but he acted like Blaze had sliced off his face.
"Blaze has to say sorry for setting my face on fire first!" Zephyr said when it was time to get moving again.
We don't have time for this, Leaf thought in exasperation.
"I don't have to, you know that perfectly well, Zephyr, you also attacked me." Blaze said.
"I'm not going anywhere until you say you're sorry!" Zephyr said, sounding slightly whiney.
"BLAZE, JUST SAY YOU'RE SORRY SO WE CAN SAVE THE PICHUS ALREADY!" Leaf said. She was starting to get a headache from all this arguing, and Monferno might have hurt the Pichus by now.
"I'm sorry." Blaze said, a little bitterly, truth to be told. "I'm sorry that I defended myself when one of my best friends shot water at me and got extremely close to killing me, then acted like killing me was no big deal."
"Apology accepted." Zephyr said, putting a hand to his chest. "That was beautiful, Blaze. Thank you, I will always cherish your breathtaking, heartfelt speech. Whenever I do something wrong, I will remember that wonderful, tear-bearing apology and stop, for now I know that I have never truly spoken a sincere apology. Thank you."
Blaze face-clawed.
"Let's just go." Leaf suggested, feeling like face-pawing very much herself.
The rest of the climb didn't feel ass challenging, because Blaze suggested that she used her vines to raise herself into the air. The climb was slightly awkward, though, because of the slight tension against Blaze and Zephyr. Leaf decided to ignore it; she had a long, long time ahead of her with these two Pokemon, and she realized she'd have to get used to the arguing.
When they finally reached the top, Leaf saw Monferno for the first time.
Monferno had a rusty orange-brownish coat, which, Leaf realized with a jolt, was very similar to the coloring of Firefang's scales. The blue mask above his eyes was extremely dark, almost dark violet. His teeth were very pointy, and steam sometimes curled out of his nose or mouth. The white collar of spiky fur around Monferno's neck was messy and a little torn. One of Monferno's arms was tattooed with dark, inky black, the black coiling around his arm and ending in a black splotch just above his fingers. The flame on his tail was crimson and dark gold, but the flame was barely visible, since the end of his tail seemed to be mainly black smoke.
Leaf shuddered at the sight of the outlaw. He looked so odd and strange, painful, even, and it hurt her eyes every time she looked at the monferno and glanced at Blaze. Her charmander friend was just so calm and good natured, especially compared to Monferno.
Leaf spotted a few boulders nearby. "Let's hide behind those rocks," she whispered, pointing to the boulders.
Blaze nodded and ducked behind the stones, followed by Zephyr.
Leaf peeked through the gap in the rocks to watch Monferno. He was shaking the sack, and three little Pichus fell out.
"Just what I was looking for, three little Pokemon I can use." Monferno said. "Except I have two for backup incase the first fails. Yes this will work well . . ." Monferno laughed, and the Pichus shrank away on fear.
"Alright, who would like to help me steal some goods first?" Moferno looked at the three Pichus, and his eyes fell on Piku.
"How about . . . you."
His finger pointed at Piku.
Piku squealed in terror and ran to the very edge of the mountain, leaning against some boulders. Picha and Poko ran to their little brother and made a barrier with their bodies. Teensy sparks of static flew from their cheeks.
"I just want you to sneak into that chest," Monferno said, approaching Piku. He waved at an old looking, dusty box. "And pull out all the valuables. Then I'll let you go, and you never have to do anything again. C'mon, now, get in the box, that keyhole is big, but it isn't nearly big enough for me . . . but for a teensy little baby like you, you can squeeze in in no time."
Leaf looked at the old chest. The keyhole was indeed very big, and Piku could definitely squeeze through it if he tried . . .
"N-n-no!" Piku squeaked. "No, no, no!"
Picha and Poko wrapped their arms around Piku defensively. More static erupted from their cheeks until the stray electricity made a weak wall to cover the Pichus.
"Hmm . . . not a bad defense." Monferno kicked the wall, and it shattered and fuzzed until it was just a few fuzzing sparks. "If you could summon it properly."
Monferno slashed one of his claws extremely close to Poko. while there was no severe damage, a small red scratch appeared near his chin. Poko screamed in pain and slapped both paws over the scratch, letting himself fall to the floor. Picha tried to get him back up, but he simply flopped over. She frantically tried to cover Piku with her body.
Monferno chuckled. "Silly pichus, why hide? I told you, I don't want to hurt you, just use you. Then you can go. So just help me out, alright?"
"No!" Picha said. "You're mean and you're a stranger, and I'm never supposed to help strangers!"
Leaf realized something: the same events that had happened in her vision/daydream were happening right now, right in front of her. Was this a crazy coincidence, or had she actually seen the future somehow?
"Ver well, then I suppose I have to convince you by using force."
"NO!" Leaf shouted, jumping up from her hiding spot. "You're not going to hurt them!"
Monferno laughed like she'd just told a joke. "Ah, young bulbasaur, don't you see the disadvantage you carry? I am a proud, burning, strong fire type, while you are nothing but a measly vegetable that is tossed away if it isn't tasty enough. Don't you know that Fire beats Grass, little brussel sprout?"
"And don't you know that Leaf is a BULBASAUR, not a BRUSSEL SPROUT?" Zephyr yelled, jumping out of the rocks. "Ohhh, the smokey chimp got schooled! Bro, you just got schooled, yo!"
"He's a monkey, not a chimp." Blaze said, coming out of the hiding place as well. "Chimchar is a chimp, Monferno is a monkey, and Infernape is an ape."
"Ooh, we've got a veggie, a shell head, and a nerd." Monferno said.
Blaze actually got angry. "I AM NOT A NERD! I AM SMART THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME A NERD YOU BANANA LICKER WHAT YOU WANT ME TO BE ZEPHYR I WOULD RATHER BE A NERD BUT THAT'S NOT HE POINT YOU LITERALLY KNOCKED A TEEN OUT AND STOLE THREE KIDS WHO ARE ONLY A YEAR OR TWO OLD!"
"Bro, calm down." Zephyr said. "So what, he called you a nerd? I think you're a nerd, too. You're, like, the nerdiest charmander ever-"
"STOP CALLING ME A NERD!" Blaze yelled. This was the closest Leaf had ever seen him be to Firefang. It wasn't fair to call him a nerd, but Blaze had gotten a little too mad.
"Blaze, calm down, nobody thinks you're a nerd." Leaf said. "But you're right about Monferno committing those crimes. That's why we called the Police. And they should be here any minute, once Zephyr gives the signal."
Zephyr nodded.
"I said, once Zephyr gives the signal."
Zephyr nodded again.
"ZEPHYR GIVE THE SIGNAL!" Leaf said.
"Okay, Okay, you don't have to yell, you never even asked once!" Zephyr took out an electronic disk and pressed a button on it. It started vibrating a little and flashing with colored light.
"That disk sends out a magnetic signal that all mechanical Pokemon will feel." Blaze said. "Magnezone should be here in a few minutes to arrest you."
"A few minutes is all I need." Moferno said. "If you little prancers are tough enough to beat me, I want to see that it's true."
Leaf felt her fear melt away and be replaced by a rush of adrenaline. She was tired of being called weak, tired of being thrown away for apparent weakness. She had defeated the mightyenas, and she would defeat Monferno.
"Bring it on." Leaf said. "But good luck, I think you'll need it."
(A/N) Not much to say on the chapter, really.
This story is close to 200 VIEWS!
I was going to do a 100 views special, but by the chapter I was going to do it in, I was already nearing 200, so I'll just do a 200 views.
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Blaze's Backstory
Zephyr's backstory
Leaf's very early backstory (While she was in the lab)
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