Thanks for the reviews! You guys rock! I don't own Pokémon, and if I did the anime wouldn't be so bad! And I would add in Lucas! I have a poll on my profile about the story if you want to check that out. I've had a bit of writers block, so sorry this took forever to upload. Without further ado…
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"I swear, the strangest things happen to me!" Dawn muttered to herself as she looked down at her bag, where the three Pokeballs rested. The Roselia was so strange, and Piplup was just naughty. Luxio was the only behaving one so far, but all the same, she couldn't help but be worried at what was to come with her Pokémon.
Lucas came to a halt in front of her, his eyes forward and his brows slightly furrowed. Pointing to the dark entrance in front of them, he noted, "I'm guessing we have to go through this cavern," His tone was wary and cautious, and one corner of Dawn's mouth couldn't help but be upturned in a small smile.
"Okay!" Dawn replied, and started to walk. Less than four steps later, she spun around to see Lucas standing there, not moving in the slightest. "Are you coming?" She asked, folding her arms. Lucas snapped back to reality and jogged up to the bluenette, with an apologetic smile plastered on his face. "Are you okay?" the bluenette inquired, looking at Lucas, who nodded. With one final glance, she climbed into the cavern.
"It's surprisingly light in here!" Lucas remarked as the duo resumed walking, looking and sounding much more relieved than before, when he refused to enter the cavern at all. "I mean, for a cavern. Half the time you'd have to use Flash or something like that, and luckily I have the TM in my bag, and you have Luxio, but I see we don't need it…"
"Are you nervous?" Dawn playfully asked, a small giggle escaping pink lips. Lucas snickered half heartedly, as if to cover something up, and shook his head for a no quickly. "Okay… but if we get scared, just come to me!" She winked, trying to fight back another giggle at her companion.
Lucas rolled his warm brown eyes. Dawn is so strange, He thought to himself as Dawn led the way. Then again, she hangs around a guy who always seems like he's on a sugar rush. Except she's so much better than him, hands down, anyone could see that.
They had reached the end of the dusty cavern and at the entrance of another route, even lovelier than the last one, if that was even possible The difference was the fact that the other route had a much more of a city tinge- this one was pure nature. So far no trainers, but you never knew with routes.
"Come on!" Dawn yelled excitedly, wanting to get to Floraroma quickly and not doddle around, so she grabbed his hand—something that made Lucas blush, and started to drag him through the tall grass. Not like he was complaining or anything. He was quite comfortable, if anybody asked. Yep, he could get used to this! All Dawn had to do was fall in love with him, no problem… right?
After bolting past a grass type trainer who muttered something about, 'young love,' and 'stupid kids,' Dawn finally let go of Lucas's hand and grinned when she saw identical twins, lounging around, waiting for an unsuspecting challenger to drop by. With her elbow, Dawn nudged the taller boy and beckoned in their direction.
"Alright," Lucas sighed dejectedly, fiddling with his cap, and once he let go of it, it was still not perfectly straight, but rather moved ever so slightly to the side. "Let's get this battle over with. And personally, I thought you didn't really like battles…"
"I'm not a huge fan of them, but I still am training to do gym battles and contests, and I always have room to improve," Dawn folded her arms, straightening up. "So I'm going to battle them, Mr. Researcher who's supposed to not slack off!"
Oh great, Professor Rowan's comment came flooding back to him. "Uh, sure!" he said nervously, rubbing the back of his head with his hand as Dawn continued to look at him, blue orbs slightly narrowed. "Alright, let's battle 'em…." He sighed, and Dawn grinned at him and started pulling him along to the twins.
"Hey!" They chanted together as soon as they caught sight of Dawn and Lucas approaching them. Their lips were upturned in smirks as they resumed speaking. "Let's battle!"
"Sure!" Dawn replied, and brought out one of her Pokeballs—Roselia, in fact. She jerked her head at Lucas, because he seemed to be lost in daydream land, or just trying to slack off all together. Shaking his head, he brought out his as soon as the twins brought out theirs.
With a bright light, the grass and poison type Pokémon was brought out, and Lucas brought out his Turtwig, who didn't seem all that enthusiastic to battle the twins as well. It was rather endearing, Dawn decided as she and Lucas waited for their opponents' Pokémon to enter the stage.
"Two grass type Pokémon?" The first twin asked, her petite hand in her bag, looking at the two Pokémon with an evil smile creeping up on her face. "You know, I think we should bring out our beloved Pokémon that our daddy just got us from the Kanto region!" She exclaimed to the other twin, who's identical eyes immediately lit up excitedly.
"Good idea!" The second twin giggled, and in a split second, a Growlithe and a Ponyta were out, with the dog Pokémon growling at Turtwig and Ponyta scratching its hooves against the ground.
"You guys can do the first move," Dawn told the twins, looking at the fire type Pokémon.
"Alright! Growlithe, use ember!" One of the twins yelled, and from Growlithe's mouth came an array of small embers, which hit Lucas's Turtwig. Turtwig shook off the attack, though it was evident to see the turtle Pokémon was hurt, and repositioned itself next to Dawn's newly caught Pokémon.
"Roselia, use…" Dawn tried to remember from Roselia and Piplup's battle. She had remembered Roselia using Razor Leaf. She'd have to check her Pokedex later to see what moves it had. "Razor Leaf!"
Roselia gave a strange look to Dawn, and then proceeded to use Mega Drain, with all the green draining power it had, instead of the chosen move that she selected. Great, a disobeying Pokémon! What else could go wrong?!
"Roselia, you were supposed to use Razor Leaf!" Dawn, exasperated, cried out as the twins snickered, even though the Mega Drain hit Ponyta hard and good. "Not Mega Drain!"
"Dawn, sometimes newly caught Pokémon don't obey you the first time around," Lucas whispered to her. She instantly blushed at the complete rookie mistake she had just made. Then again, she hadn't really battled an official leader so…"So try and be patient, okay?"
"Lame!" The second twin yelled (rather rudely at that) at Dawn. "Ponyta-
"Growlithe-
"USE EMBER!" They chanted together, and embers and sparks came flying at the two Pokémon like fast bullets, ready to strike. And to the poor Pokémon who would be subject to the attack, it probably felt like it too.
"Turtwig, use withdraw!" Lucas ordered smoothly, and a wall of water came up in front of Turtwig and Roselia. The fire attacks slammed into the move, and the two grass Pokémon were protected for that attack. From the looks on their opponent's faces that they were not expecting that to happen.
"Roselia, please use- Oh crap, Roselia, don't do that!"
Dawn rubbed her temples as her disobeying Roselia proceeded to go and use Razor Leaf now, instead of deciding to use it for the previous move. Even though the attack hit the two opposing Pokémon good and hard and even knocked out Growlithe, Dawn still wasn't happy about it. She didn't even order the move, so she couldn't take credit for making Growlithe faint.
"Hey, watch out!"
A figure crashed into the twins, (they deserved it, Dawn thought) and then bolted before she or Lucas could get a good look at him (judging by the voice). He sounded familiar, but Dawn was too flooded with disappointment and annoyance to rack her brain for where she heard it before, but immediately dismissed the event, turning her full attention back to the battle. Piplup, why couldn't you have battled a well behaving legendary Pokémon?!
"Ponyta, use Tackle!"
Ponyta rammed into Turtwig, which sent it flying backwards into a tree, officially knocking it out, complete with the swirly eyes, leaving Ponyta and Roselia on the battlefield, eyeing each other warily. (Which would end in disaster, Dawn mentally groaned)
She brought out her Pokedex, and flipped through it until she came across Roselia. It had Razor Leaf, Poison Powder, Mega Drain, and Growth. A nice array of moves, it could definitely be used properly in battle with the right strategies, only if the grass type Pokémon would actually obey her for once! Closing it and pursing her lips, she looked at Roselia and continued the battle.
"Use Growth!" Dawn commanded, and much to her surprise, Roselia started glowing with the move. It actually obeyed her! She was absolutely ecstatic at that, and could only hope that the Pokémon would "Now use Razor Leaf and Poison Powder! Please!"
The sharp and edgy leafs coated with poison came flying at Ponyta, a few burning in its flames, but none the less hitting it good and hard. It looked almost close to fainting on the spot, whereas Roselia was haughty and twirling around on foot.
"Ponyta, keep it together!" The little girl demanded. On the contrary, the Ponyta swayed and fell to the ground with a thud. "I said keep it together, not faint! Stupid Pokémon!"
"Score!" Dawn pumped her fist in the air as the little girl recovered over her loss and returned Ponyta to its Pokeball, but not after encouraging petting plus added grumbling. "I'm sorry about your Pokémon." Dawn told her sympathetically.
"This is a battle, you don't need to feel sorry," The twins chorused, looking at the bluenette like she was insane. "It's a way to bond; we can just get them healed in no time flat. Rookie mistake. Pokémon faint. People die. Get over it."
Dawn tensed up. Her dad had died when she was about seven or so, and it really was a sore subject for her, and the memories came flooding back to her. "Have you had anyone in your family die?" She tried to ask in an interested tone, but it came out rather hollow sounding, and as soon as she said that, she felt Lucas's hand on her shoulder.
The twins eyed her, and started to walk away, muttering about crazy chicks and whatnot.
"Dawn? You okay?"
"I-I'm fine," Dawn brushed his hand off her shoulder, shaking her head slightly, which made her navy colored hair move slightly. "Come on, I can see the entrance to Floraroma Town."
"Alright," Lucas shrugged, still eyeing her warily. "Hey, how about we get an ice cream? My treat."
"Seriously? I could pay for my own you know…"
"Oh, just come on, I hear Floraroma has a great ice cream shop…"
Chapter complete!