I've been REALLY busy recently.
Finals coming and all that. But i've been trying to write whenever i could, except that i'm really out of ideas recently.
I'm trying to make quality over quantity, so much so thai i've already trashed 3 pages already. I will try to write whenever i can; the problem is that i'm really having problems on CREATIVITY, and school isn't helping at all.
Hope you all understand.
Augustus woke up with a pain spike striking his whole body, screaming for a brief moment and getting up before realizing where he was.
He was lying down on Martha's couch, with Martha and Lucario being the only ones in the room with him. Martha held a wet cloth, whose purpose was to probably to balance his body's temperature.
They all looked at each other, confused.
The pain stroke Augustus's body again; he fell to the floor, unable to move his body properly because of the intensity of the pain spike. Screaming with a heavily distorted voice, he rolled on the ground in an attempt to get up, but the pain didn't let him. All he could do was try to hold his chest, which seemed to be about to explode from something underneath trying to get out.
Lucario rushed to his master's aid, trying to help him as his master groaned, trying to get up with one hand, and the other trying to hold his chest.
Martha also tried to help Augustus before Lucario stopped her.
"Stand back!" Lucario ordered, making a gesture with his palm whilst holding his master's shoulder, "It's not safe!"
Augustus's psyche started to suddenly grow. As the man tried to control himself, his breathing was distorted, it didn't sound even remotely close to normal. He could feel heat from his breath, and he only got more worried when he realized he exhaled pure aura, just like a charizard would exhale fire.
Lucario held his master's face from the sides and looked directly into his blank, white eyes.
"Master! Focus, please!" He asked.
A moment of silence struck the room, and Augustus psyche started decreasing again, and the man stared at his own hand, observing the way he turned back to normal.
After Augustus's psyche and expression had returned to normal, he remained silent, and so did everyone else in the room.
Augustus started snickering, still staring at his own hand before closing his eyes and putting his other palm in his face.
"Master… What's so funny?" Lucario asked.
"The irony," Augustus responded. "I've trained all my life to acquire a power to go beyond what every living creature would be able to," Augustus rested his arms, "And now I feel like it is a burden upon me."
"Not if you use it correctly," Lucario said.
"That's the problem," Augustus responded, looking at his Pokémon. "Not if you keep up like this," Lucario said, helping his master stand up, "I know you want to get stronger, but this isn't the way to do it."
Alexander was now standing up perfectly, but every bit of his body hurt. He looked at Martha and apologized.
"I'm sorry," Augustus said, "I've made a foolish act."
"Your pokémon told me," Martha said, "it wasn't foolish and no one can blame you; you've been under a lot of pressure recently."
Augustus chuckled.
"Thanks for the kind words Martha," Augustus thanked the lady.
Alexander suddenly remembered about the trainers, changing his expression for a moment and looked directly at Lucario.
"How are they doing?" Augustus asked with a high voice.
"Wha- Oh," Lucario understood, "They've been training nonstop thanks to you."
"Where are they?" Augustus asked.
"At the same place you blacked out," Martha answered, "Acacius has been training them very harshly recently," Martha continued, clearly worried about the trainer's comfort.
Alexander remembered about another detail he needed to ask.
"For how long I've been unconscious?" Augustus asked.
They hesitated for a bit; that was the last thing they wanted to answer.
"Five days…" Lucario said.
Augustus's expression slowly twisted from happy to serious while turning his neck to face his pokémon. They just stood there in silence, staring at each other.
Augustus rushed outside to see the trainers' progress.
"That isn't a good idea!" Martha shouted from inside the house.
Augustus ignored Martha's advice and kept running, but he was stopped by Lucario, who jumped in front of him.
"You're not even got close to being completely recovered!" Lucario stated.
"I'm going there and you're not stopping me," Alexander said.
"Fine by me, but I'm at least coming with you," Lucario said, "And you won't try anything stupid like last time."
Alexander noted that Lucario was pretty confident, and with a good reason. His aura was much stronger than before, and Augustus couldn't help but smile.
"You…" Augustus said happily.
Lucario smiled aswell.
"You've noticed haven't you?" he asked.
"Of course! Now, let's just see how they are doing," Augustus demanded.
Alexander flexed his knees and jumped out of the slit, landing above it.
"Oh, I forgot about you…" Augustus said, turning around to see his pokémon.
Lucario leaped above the slit and landed beside him. Augustus wasn't expecting this; he was incredibly surprised.
Lucario's leap wasn't as strong as Augustus's, but it seemed more controlled, not leaving a single trace of harm on the environment.
Surprised, Augustus smiled slightly to his partner.
"You'll show me everything you've learned," Augustus demanded, "I need to see it."
"You will," Lucario responded.
They started running to the trainers together.
Upon arrival, the man could see that the slit was covered in craters, obviously made by the trainers' pokémon, almost completely covering every corner of the slit.
Draco and Melissa were battling, shouting orders to their respective Pokémon whilst Acacius shouted corrections to their commands.
"Flame thrower!" Draco shouted.
Charizard used flame thrower at the nearby pidgeot, whose superior speed managed to dodge the attacks.
"Air slash!" Melissa shouted.
The pidgeot slashed the air with its fangs, hitting the charizard near the eye.
Both Pokémon struggled in the air with fast movements and attacks, biting and slashing their way through the aerial battle as they followed their respective trainer's commands.
"Your range is limited Draco!" Acacius warned the boy. "Your moves will not have as much effect in long range combat! Close the gap between you both if you want to hit your opponent!" Acacius then directed himself towards Melissa: "And you have the speed advantage Melissa! Use this to aid in your victory!"
Augustus landed on the slit, drawing everyone's attention as they all turned to look at the source of the noise.
"So he isbigger!" Draco noted.
"Watch out," Augustus said walking fowards, pointing behind Draco, smiling.
Charizard and Draco, whom were distracted, turned around and saw that their opponent was missing.
Augustus smiled and chuckled while crossing his arms, laughing at the failure Draco had committed.
"Oh, boy…" Lucario commented, putting his paws around his waist.
Draco understood what Melissa did, so he told his charizard another command:
"Smoke Screen!" Draco said.
Lucario lifted his eyebrows briefly.
Charizard breathed smoke from out of his mouth, aiming at the ground in order to spread the smoke equally around him, until he was completely covered in a cloud of smoke.
Charizard awaited the master's signal. The pidgeot had already advanced with his Sky Attack, flying through the air in an unbelievable speed. Draco waited for the right moment to give the command to his Pokémon.
"He's sure of himself," Lucario said, looking at his master.
"I already know what he's going to do," Augustus said without taking his eyes off Draco, "Risky move if you ask me."
"Inferno!" Draco shouted at the wrong moment.
Charizard blasted an immense ball of flames, aiming at the source of the sound the pidgeot made by cutting the air in its flight. Pidgeot barely dodged its attack; he would get hit if it wasn't for Melissa's order to evade just before.
"Of course…" Augustus said, closing his eyes and tilting his head downwards.
Pidgeot stabilized himself in the air, returning to his master right after.
Both pokémon were panting, tired from the training they have been doing.
"That's enough for now!" Acacius said. "And you, Draco, you turned your attention to something else in the middle of a battle. I don't even need to warn you why it would be fatal!"
"I'm sorry sir!" Draco shouted, bending in apology.
Both pokémon rested in relief, for they have been training for hours.
Agathon was beside Acacius, always paying attention to the fight and checking every detail. After the father had ordered the fight to stop, he blinked twice and then greeted the tall man and his pokémon. Walking towards the visitants of the slit, Agathon spoke:
"I'm sure you shouldn't harm yourself so badly on a training session!" Agathon said while walking.
"Yes, yes, I've been told enough about my stupidity today," Alexander said in a tired voice, releasing his crossed arms, walking towards the trainers and shaking his head whilst tilting it downwards, "But the thing here is you four." Augustus stopped, resting his hands on his waist. "You're much stronger than before."
"You look far stronger than before too!" Draco said, smiling.
"Hm?" Alexander looked at his body and realized his anatomy had increased.
"Oh, I didn't realize this before…" He said, checking his own body, which still felt immense pain.
"You blacked out for quite a long time…" Acacius stated.
"Yes, I'm aware," Augustus said, regaining his composure.
"So, do you want to train with us!?" Melissa asked, excited to see what the man could do.
Lucario immediately started waving his paw in front of his neck, indicating the girl that she shouldn't have asked that, and then he faked it as soon as Augustus turned his attention to him.
"No, thanks," Augustus said, still looking at his lucario then looked back at the trainers.
"He clearly isn't in the shape to train," Acacius said, looking at his daughter.
"I do want watch it though," Augustus said.
"Great, this way he'll learn the way you fight," Acacius said to the trainers, "For now we already trained enough. Take a rest."
The two trainers sighed in relief along with their Pokémon, walking towards the wall of the slit to rest in the rocks.