A Flareon's Tale
Chapter Seven
(Flareon's POV)
We made it to the next city that had the first gym I was supposed to face. The town was dark as we walked in under the cover of night. B led me towards a red building with a PokeBall emblazoned on the front. As we went inside I saw it was full to the brim with midget humans all talking animatedly towards one another. Several stares were thrown towards me, many of them being that of amazement or jealously. Filthy humans. As long as they didn't come forward to touch me I was fine with their worthless stares.
The tall pink human behind the counter looked at me curiously but had an air of confidence and gentleness. B motioned to the counter and I looked at him distastefully but jumped up there anyway. The pink haired human finally exclaimed, "We don't get many Eeeveelutions around this area. How did you come upon an Eevee so early in your journey?" B simply sported a small smirk and responded, "Could you heal him while he's not in a Poke Ball? He doesn't prefer to be caged in those."
She frowned but pulled out some contraption from next to her feet. "We don't usually have these cases but I'm always prepared. Hold still Flareon." Suddenly a bright golden light shown on top of me and I began to feel refreshed. As if I was being pampered, fed, and had a wonderful nap at the same time. The light seemed to be healing me of all that exhaustion I still had from earlier. Abruptly it stopped but I was very happy. This pink haired human was OK in my book. If she needed help and I gave a fuck at the time I'd definitely assist her. I licked her hand once before jumping down and heading to the door. B nodded and gave his quiet thanks before walking after me outside.
I stopped outside obviously not knowing where the fuck I was going and waited for him to lead me. Instead he did that stupid thing where he kneels down to my height (ugh why do you tempt me) and began to talk to me.
"Honestly this might be a bit hard for you but I'm pretty sure you'll tough it out. Be vicious and listen to me but also your instincts. These Pokemon can take it if you come at them with killing intent."
I blinked at him not understanding his logic somewhat. I thought humans frowned upon murder. Such an interesting human to command a Pokemon to move with killing intent. He rose up and paused before looking back at me from under the shadow of his cap. "Today begins my official journey. If you're with me you win. If not then remedial training is in order." He walked forward confidently towards a large circular building in the distance. I pondered on the menacing undertone of his statement before trotting forward. He better reward me when I win this stupid fight.
The gym was made mainly of rock and had stone pillars as decoration around the entrance. As we walked inside there was a fat man standing next to the entrance with glasses. I stared at him as we walked by and he stared back at me in perhaps amazement or desire. He then walked forward to talk to us but I growled at him dangerously. The human whimpered and then ran outside of the door behind us. B looked at the fat human before walking forward past two stone statues of some sort of tall Pokemon. As we began to walk on the now rocky ground a child in some hiking gear stepped forward.
"If you want to face Brock you'll have to wait till morning. He's not here at this time of night." B stared at the boy for a long time. Even I looked up after a couple moments of silence wondering what the fuck was going on. Finally the boy began to walk forward saying, "I'm going to need you to leave now or be escorted out by force if you refuse. The gym is closing." B finally looked up at that statement with an unreadable look in his eyes. "I have to beat you tomorrow to get to Brock don't I?" The boy nodded and replied, "Yes, it's just me and Timmy but you have to wait tomorrow. Please leave." B stepped forward and pointed at the boy.
"If I beat the both of you one of you has to call Brock to come forward this evening. I don't have time to wait till the morning." The boy shook his head but it seemed B was very serious on his decision. "Flareon shoot an Ember at his feet to show how serious we are." I didn't hesitate ready to just burn the human and hurtled an Ember right at the tips of the boy's shoes. He yelped and fell back on his ass before rising while another midget human came from around on of the large rock pillars surrounding the arena landscape.
The second human ran forward with the same type of clothing and skidded next to the first downed human. "Tim are you hurt? Are they attacking you?"
"Yes they don't want to wait for Brock, Timmy. We have to get them out so yeah we're allowed to do two versus one this time. Brock would understand that we were defending ourselves."
I stood defiantly and ready for whatever Pokemon they were going to bring out. I glanced back at B to see him not even paying attention to me and more on the two children. I looked back forward to see two Poke Balls come forward and release their payload.
Two rock balls with eyes, mouths and muscled arms came out of the blinding light. They glanced at each other and back to their masters. The two children stood together and one said, "Geodude we need to beat them to get them to leave. We're gonna win this!" Both creatures now identified as Geodude began jumping up and down using only their arm strength. "Remember what I said outside Flareon. This is only a warm up before Brock so let's see how you do", B said behind me. I lowered my stance and got myself ready for these weird rock Pokemon. Just another challenge before I escape this human. "Geodude, Geodude, Geodude", both of the Pokemon chanted in unison.
"Flareon use Quick Attack", B commanded. I glanced at him for a moment before seeing him glare at me slightly. I then rushed forward at my quickest speed for the one on the right that was still in midair from his hop. I ran into him and stayed on top of his body as it skidded over the hard rocky ground. Man these things were fucking hard. As we stopped skidding I then reared my head back to shoot an Ember point blank into this thing's face.
I was blindsided by the other Geodude tackling me from behind. I flipped before landing on my feet and bounding forward with another Quick Attack. "Geodude Harden!" the child on the left yelled. The Geodude flashed silver once before I jumped and ran into him. He took the hit without flinching or moving and I groaned at how hard I hit him. Fuck that hurt my head. "Geodude, Rock Throw on the both of them." I looked back to see the earlier Geodude pick up a slap of rock from the ground and throw it in the air to land on me and the one in front of me. I dodged out of the danger and stood my ground as the two reconnected with one another in front of me. "Flareon lead up with an Ember before using Dig".
I shot a barrage of Ember at the Geodude who tackled me from behind before I dug underneath the ground as quickly as possible. The Ember impacted against the Geodude and battered him with little effect but left scratches to his body. As I was digging I grumbled to myself. Filthy humans don't understand how hard it is to dig and jump out. I poked a hole in the top cover to see where I was. I was next to one Geodude as both of their trainers yelled at them to stay vigilant. Narrowing my eyes I jumped out on the closest one with its back facing me. Hitting it squarely in the back as hard as I could I knocked it onto its brethren and made them bounce off the floor together.
I landed gracefully and turned towards the humans. With those two Pokemon taken care of we fight the humans now don't we? "Flareon pay attention there's one still up." I glanced to my left to see one Geodude rolling his unconscious brethren off of him. I ran forward with a Quick Attack and attempted to Bite him into unconsciousness. They're actually made of rocks apparently and I chipped my tooth. But they can still feel pain as it attempted to rip me off its head while flailing wildly. I let go after it reached onto me and threw me harshly to the side. "Geodude Rock Throw, let's go!" I began bounding around the Geodude in circles as it began to throw large rocks at me that splintered out into pebbles and peppered me harshly.
"Flareon keep dodging and use Dig once more followed by your strongest Ember." I kept running until the Geodude paused then jumped into the ground digging furiously. While I began digging I also started to build heat at the back of my throat.
Shooting out fire is a tricky business. The less heat means it's faster but weaker. But the more flame you put into it the stronger and more exhausting it is for me. My strongest could knock over a tree but left me halfway exhausted. The orb began to grow larger in my mouth as I was digging and I soon began to struggle to hold it in. The heat of it could be felt as my whole body began to rise in temperature especially my mane. This one would probably be my strongest ever if I guessed. Wonder if I'd kill it with this?
As I peeked out again the Geodude was bouncing over the arena making it hard for me to aim at him. But soon made the mistake of jumping again in a trajectory I could meet. I jumped out of the ground catching it by surprise and buried my shoulder into the center of his face. As we fell I then released the large Ember I was holding at the back of my throat and watched in satisfaction as it carried the Geodude into the ground further away with a large crash and smoke.
Landing and trotting over to B I looked to see how my opponents were faring. Both humans kneeled over a scorched Geodude that was blackened and still had wisps of fire clinging to him. The Geodude was obviously unconscious but would twitch in pain because of the fire still on him. One of the humans quickly threw a Poke Ball at him before they both rose and looked towards us. As they walked forward we walked toward to meet them as I smirked at my victory. I growled at the two of them and they glanced at me fearfully before one of them said, "Your Flareon is very strong to beat both of us at the same time. Brock will want to see this for himself. We'll be right back. You may wait here." They both then jogged to the exit to gather their leader to face us.
B looked to me and said, "You handled them well but you must keep better awareness of your surroundings. Brock will have a Geodude and an Onix so use the same strategy with the Geodude but listen to me for the Onix. It will come as a surprise to you. Also he probably will come at you harder than a regular contender because of what we did."
After speaking he simply sat on the ground next to me and pulled out a purple spray bottle. I looked at him daring him to spray me with water for no reason. They would come back to find a dead body. He pointed towards the bottle and said, "This is a Potion. It will help you regain the strength like back at the Pokemon Center but less effective." I stared at the bottle before sitting on my haunches and allowing him to spray me a couple times. He was right. This shit simply felt like a summer breeze that woke me up and took some pain away. Suddenly we heard the door open behind us and a man came in instead of the two boys. He had brown hair and an outdoor style of clothing. He was tall but his eyes didn't even look like they were fucking open. This was the leader? He walked past us and to the other side of the arena with an air of seriousness but I could see his fists tighten as he walked past us. The man was angry it seemed.
He stopped facing us from a distance and pulled out a Poke Ball. He then exclaimed, "This is a two Pokemon battle. When one is knocked out or unable to battle you may switch out that Pokemon. When both Pokemon are unable to battle that decides the winner. I hope you're ready for an actual gym leader."
B smirked and simply nodded towards me. I walked forward and got ready for whatever came out at me first. Let's see how strong these gym leader Pokemon are.
(B's POV) (25 minutes later)
Brock was apparently extremely angry at the two of us based on the strategies he was using against Flareon. The Geodude was actually easy for Flareon to take out with another Dig and Ember combo. But nothing could apparently prepare him for the first time he would meet an Onix. It was a brutal affair in which I was surprised but proud he was surviving.
It was the most deadly game of tag between Pokemon I had ever witnessed. And Brock was content to just fold his arms and throw out very few commands as his Onix relentlessly chased Flareon underground, above ground, and through the various gym obstacles. I had never seen such an angry and yet speedy Onix. At the moment Flareon was underground attempting to use Dig again on Onix's head as it worked once before. But that soon began to fail as a strategy right afterwards as the Pokemon would pay more specific attention to the ground opening up around it.
Flareon launched out of the ground at that moment fangs bared toward Onix's eyeball and Onix responded in kind. A twist of its head and a Tail Whip right afterwards left Flareon impacting another rock pillar from his short flight. I needed a new strategy. The Onix was going to have to get tired sooner or later. It showed in its movements as it crashed through pillar after pillar with its head at high speed. At that moment it was visibly chasing after Flareon and again crashed through another boulder at high speed. It then turned awkwardly afterwards to keep up with Flareon's quick turns and dead sprints. Flareon apparently had quite the stamina even before I was given it.
Ok think. Onix moves quite fast in a straight line as long as it sees its target. Its head is very hard but it is also its weak point alongside Water and Ground moves. I was suddenly hit with a memory of an Onix I saw going against Sabrina hitting one of the arena walls after a vicious Psychic from her Mr. Mime launched it. At the high speed it went the knockout was swift and left a dent in the Onix's head but not in the wall. I glanced at the walls to see if they could perhaps do the same. They had reinforced steel beams layering the side and sections that looked darker than the others. This perhaps could work.
I called out, "Flareon come back to me I have a plan." Flareon stopped its running abruptly and turned sharply to dodge Onix again before running towards me. Skidding to a stop very close to me he looked up to me in that way that showed he was quite annoyed with me but was dealing with it. He panted very harshly but I believed he could pull out this plan. I kneeled down to his ears and saw him flash me that contemplative look he always does when I get to his height. Perhaps he thinks this is demeaning to him?
"Flareon I'm going to need you to look like you're trying to kill Brock. Aim a barrage of Embers at him when Brock doesn't expect it. Onix will probably panic and rush to block it with its body so he doesn't hurt his head. He shouldn't be able to brake and will probably crash into the reinforced wall headfirst."
He nodded once and glanced back at the Onix. The Onix was reared to its full height and panting even more than Flareon but looked ready to continue. Flareon ran out again and used Quick Attack to run up one of the slanted pillars before launching a barrage of Embers at Onix's face. Onix simply shifted his head and attempted a Bind on Flareon in midair. Flareon shifted his body and landed on Onix's back instead of in its trap. He began to run on the ridged back towards the ground. Onix attempted to flick its tail to launch Flareon but it was much too slow as Flareon was on the ground and running towards Brock's side of the field.
Brock looked much more interested this time as he actively commanded Onix this time. "Onix use Rock Throw to corral him and then use Wrap when Flareon dodges!" Onix slammed his tail into the ground hammering out a large piece of rock before swinging it again in a perfect trajectory to land on Flareon. "Flareon dodge through the smoke of the rocks and launch our plan once you're through." I couldn't see through the aftermath at that point because of the large crash and dust of the Rock Throw. I did hear a significantly large crash after I heard his Ember go off.
(Flareon's POV after B's command)
The rocks were a pain to dodge as you run forward through the fucking things. But I made it through the dust and there was the gym leader in front of me looking confident. I let loose the very large Ember I had been building while I was running directly at him. At that point then the fucker looked horrified at his impending doom. From behind me I could hear a large screech before what looked like a gray blur came rushing headfirst to take the hit. It soon revealed itself to be Onix which somehow used Quick Attack. How the fuck did he do that? The blur took the hit with its body and a body shuddering "CRACK" was heard from something hard impacting something harder. Brock and I looked down the length of Onix's body to see its head slumped against the wall with a large crack running down its forehead. The large spike it once had on the top lay in pieces on the floor next to it head. The fucking thing was definitely unconscious.
Brock ran forward to look at his Onix's head. Yep that thing was knocked the fuck out. I don't know if it would wake up anytime soon but good fucking riddance. All I want right now is to sleep and never see one of those things again. B walked forward to pat me on the head and looked down at me with a look of pride. I let it stay there as I was too tired to Bite him. Honestly if he just scratched behind my right ear so I wouldn't have to that'd be great.
Onix was returned to a Poke Ball before Brock rose slowly and then turned to look at us. He then threw two small objects at us that B then caught. One was a pendant with the design of a rock. "You've earned the badge. Let someone else explain to you the benefits it gives I don't care. The disc has the Technical Machine for Rock Throw. Now get out of my gym. I've got to take care of my family and my Onix needs intensive care thanks to you two." He then jogged past us before stopping and saying without turning his head. "And if you ever return here I'll return the favor for my Onix. Don't ever come back here again."
He then continued to jog out of the gym towards wherever the fuck he decided to go. We walked out shortly after getting past all the debris and cracks on the floor. B held up the badge in the air in what seemed like content. I looked at him and bit his backpack to get some food. Fucker stop holding out on me. He then showed a small smile towards me before reaching in and bringing out 3 cans for me and a bowl that he then filled with water. As I dug in he then sprayed me with one of those Potions and began to pet my mane. It felt a little nice I'll admit. The victory I mean not the petting.
"Honestly I thought we lost for a second. But we should do really well in the future battles if you're this strong. We'll need to catch another Pokemon but I dunno right now. Let's just get some rest for now."
Half the shit he just said I didn't even hear. Mainly all I knew was hunger and exhaustion at that moment. Whatever was coming next I wasn't going to be part of this journey much longer. I smirked as I drank some water. The feeling of victory and superiority was a nice addition though.
(Later that evening in the Pokemon Center call room)
"I'm telling you Misty that Flareon tried to kill me. I had the match won but they pulled of a maneuver that made my Onix critically injure itself. By trying to kill me!"
"Are you serious? Who trained this Flareon?"
"It was a kid closer to your age with a green hat and dark clothing."
"Was the Flareon well trained and going for the kill most of the time of the battle?"
"Yes it was actually. You know him?"
"The kid is really well informed about us. I'm not surprised if he planned out that strategy before he even met you. The Flareon is really tough too. Brought the whole Viridian forest burning down but they can't actively charge them. No one saw them do it."
"I'm telling you Misty he's coming to you next. You might have the type advantage but be careful. I've got to go they're starting to transport Onix to a bigger hospital and I'm going to fly with it. Beat that little shit."
"Bye Brock. Hope that it gets better. And don't worry if he tries to kill my Starmie I'll drown the fucking mutt."
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Flareon
Level 20
Moveset: Bite (Dark), Ember (Fire), Tail Whip (Normal), Quick Attack (Normal), Growl (Normal), Dig (Ground)
Personality: Still very feral even though technically owned Flareon merely acts as if he is docile. Very devious especially for a Pokemon and believes himself superior over others. He is capable of bloodshed. Capable of holding a grudge and instantaneous random violence, Flareon should be closely monitored if you have wronged him. Chances are he has not forgotten the supposed slight. Also surprisingly lazy if given the opportunity.
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Author's Note
Holy shit this was a long chapter to write. I loved that I had to rewrite it a couple times and it came out like this though. They won't follow the general plan as Pokemon journeys go tho. I made Brock a little angrier then the happy bullshit canon version of him. I won't spoil it but I've got plans for Misty to be a more treacherous foe than just a second gym leader to face. But B also has to deal with Flareon's impending planned departure. And how will a 2nd Pokemon affect the dynamics of the duo? Well that's something for me to figure out while I write this bitch. Leave a review on how you feel the story is going. And if you like how I write the battles and switch POV's. Or if you have an opinion I don't mind.
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