Soul link
Chapter Ten:
The second badge and the unexpected meeting
Hi everybody. I had a lot of reviews from those who accept me and I want to add that I appreciate them as brothers. In today's chapter will appear an OC created by Rocky-King of the Tyranitars. This new character won't have a very active participation around the story but is enough important to not forget it. Also I want to highlight the fact that Lily and Jake relationship will get "closer" in the next chapter, so now you know what to expect in the next chapter. Told this I want to say… enjoy the chapter.
Jake POV
"Uuhhgg" I was just waking up "What time is it?" I asked to no one
"Six o'clock" answered someone at my left and when I turned I saw Angela smiling "Good morning, little mouse"
"AAAAHHH!" I jumped scared from the bed waking all my Pokémon up and making them take a fighting stance "Angela, you really want me to get a fucking heart attack!"
"How did you enter here?" asked Okami, his look focused on Angela "Answer!"
"With this" she took out a pin from his dress "I know how to break door locks"
"That's no excuse to scare me like that!" I shouted "Can't you just give me some space?"
"Not too much" she said and I remembered the damn curse that she used to attach me "I will cook breakfast"
"Too slow!" shouted Lily from the kitchen "Jake would you like an omelet?"
"Sure I will" I said getting up "Now, can you get out? I need to change my clothes"
"Why I have to go out?" she asked seductively "I can just stay here and watch you changing your clothes"
"I don't think so" I said getting annoyed "Just my Pokémon friends had seen me barely clothed"
"Why them can see you like that and I not?" she said hysterically "It's not fair"
"Angela, right now I don't have the time nor forbearance to explain it" I said opening the bedroom door "Now please go out and let me change my clothes"
"This won't be like this forever" she replied with a wink
"She is a really stalker, doesn't she?" asked Okami throwing me a green T-shirt "How can you abide her?"
"I really don't know it" I answered catching it with a sigh "Hey Luna, can you pull out from my bag a pair of black jeans?"
"Sure, give me a second" she sank her mouth in my bag and pulled out the black jeans I requested "Here"
"Thanks Luna, Sky: can you search for a training place?" I asked watching him spreading his wings "Use the chance to eat: I know you like to catch your own breakfast"
"You already know me" he said preparing to take fly "I will return in an hour or so"
"Happy hunt, friend" I said waving my hand "Where did I leave my grey shoes?"
"Right here!" answered Okami and Luna coming out from below the bed, every one with a grey and black shoe "Here you go!"
"Thanks guys" I told them slipping my feet in the shoes "Is breakfast ready?"
"Yes, it is ready" I heard Lily calling "If you don't come here quickly it will get cold"
"We are going there right now!" Luna, Okami and I came out from the bedroom "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" asked Angela, who was sitting in the table when all were able to hear it: there was a clutter in the bedroom next to us "What was that?"
"I don't know" suddenly Chris dashed through the door "Chris! What's going on!? Are you okay!?"
"Where is Angela!?" he asked alarmed "I can't find her!"
"I am right here, blind man" answered Angela from the table "Why the bother?"
"Damn it! Angela, don't disappear like that from the room!" Chris said now relieved "You don't know how concerned I was"
"I think that I know it" I said pointing to the door. Chris entered with such strength that he left it hanging from the hinges "I know you were really worried about Angela, but you need to learn how to control yourself"
"Um…yeah, sorry for that" he said ashamed
"Don't let it upset you: I will pay it" I pulled out another chair "Would you like to join us?"
"Yes, why not?" he said taking seat "What is for breakfast?"
"Omelet" answered Lily putting some plates in the table "Why don't you let John join us?" she asked to Angela who pulled no one, but three Poke balls
"Not only John" she said releasing the little Riolu, a Pidgeot and a strange pink Pikachu "Starla and Bolt too"
"When did you get them?" I asked "She is a shiny Pikachu, doesn't she?"
"I got Bolt a year ago when I was traveling through Kanto region" she answered petting the Pidgeot "And I met Starla six month ago traveling in Hoenn"
"She looks adorable" said Lily putting an omelet in front of the Pikachu "And this one looks tough" she added giving Bolt an omelet too.
"When do you plan to challenge Gardenia?" asked Angela "I had heard that she won't open her gym until twelve o'clock"
"I already planned to train since eight o'clock to eleven o'clock" I explained "At twelve o'clock have lunch, rest until two o'clock and then challenge her"
"Are you the mastermind from some kind of parallel dimension?" asked Chris and all we laughed "Woah, this omelet is delicious!"
"Thanks Chris" said Lily sitting to eat "Enjoy!"
"Ah, that was incredible" I said when I finished eating "Let's wait for Sky"
"It is not necessary" said Okami pointing to the window "Hi friend, did you find a training place?"
"Yes, I found it" answered Sky landing next to me "It is at the west from this city"
"Sounds perfect" I replied "Is lunch ready Lily?"
"Yes, we can go now" she said with a picnic basket hanging from her arm
"Okay, just give me a second" I entered to my room to look for my bag but when I was going out I heard something strange: an unintelligible shout "What the fuck is going on now?"
"What are you doing Angela!?" I heard Lily saying "What do you want!?"
"Why do you sleep so close to him?" I heard Angela's voice asking and I froze "He is not your boyfriend"
"He is not your husband" countered Lily coldly "I had slept with him like that since we know each other, before I evolved. Even when I evolved he didn't mind it"
"Well, I am not Jake" Angela pressed "Don't sleep in his bed never again: that's my place"
"I don't think so" said Lily with anger growing in her voice "He is who decides who sleeps with him"
"You bitch…"
"What the hell is going on here!?" I said entering abruptly in the dining room and I saw the picnic basket in the floor "What the hell did happen here!?"
"It was Lily fault" Angela told me "She tripped over with the table"
"That was because Angela tried to push me to the wall!" Lily replied and I felt in my soul that she was telling me the truth
"Okay, now this how things are going to get:" I said getting angry too "Angela, you will be fifty feet away from us while we train and I don't want buts"
"That's not fair Jake" cried Angela "Why are you doing this to me?"
"You are not in place to complain!" I shouted her and she froze "I am fucking damn attached to you just because you were going there believing that I was going to be your husband just because you want it"
"But Jake…"
"I already told it!" I cut her off "I don't want buts! You are going to do what I said and that's all!"
"I…" she started to say but I looked at her in a way that she got scared "Okay, I will do it"
"Perfect" I said coming out from the room "I am going to pay for the door, wait me here"
"That you get for trying to harass him forever" I heard Lily telling.
When I paid for the door Sky guided us out from the hotel and next to the city west where we found a tall grass meadow. We settled there and started to train: Okami showed me his other moves; that were Payback, Metal Claw and, impressively, Dragon Pulse. I was shocked when he used this last to destroy the disk I launched to the sky. Luna knew Shadow ball, Pursuit and Hidden Power, so she was a really good fighter. Angela was watching us fifty feet away as I told her to be, so it was like she doesn't exist.
"Well, lunch time!" I shouted "Angela, you can get close now!"
"At last" she said and, with a great jump, he attained us while Chris used his speed "I am really hungry"
"Take" I handed her a sandwich "Bon appétit"
"Thanks" she answered while she took the sandwich "What time is it?"
"Twelve and half an hour" Lily replied "To be appear Jake had all planned"
"Every time" said Okami that this time was eating a fish he caught "Thanks for frying this Jake"
"You're welcome" I told him taking a nibble from my bread "When we get rested, what do you say about swimming?"
"It sounds great!" said Luna who had been really quite since we started training "I would like to swim with Jake"
"Me too!" added Lily and Angela in unison, then they looked each other with full-hatred gazes
"Okay girls, calm down" I told them stepping between both of them "Don't start a fight again, now just change your clothes and we are going to be able to swim"
"What about you?" asked Okami looking at me "I can't see a place where you are able change your clothes"
"What about there?" I said pointing behind a Pokémon statue "Just don't follow me girls"
"Okay" answered Lily, Luna, Angela and Starla
"I will tell you when I am ready" I said pulling out from my bag my swimming trunks and going behind the statue. I changed my clothes but suddenly something caught my attention: the statue had some plaques incrusted and some parts of it were taken "What happened here?" I said pulling out the Detector "Let's go to find it out" I turned on the Heat Vision and I saw some footprints leading to a nearby building "I don't have time for this now, but I can inspect it later"
"Jaaaake, you are delaying too much" I heard Angela calling "Come here right now or I will go for you. I don't mind if you are naked"
"Don't even try it!" I heard Lily replying and I sighed in relief "He must be doing something"
"Okay girls, I'm ready" I said returning with the others before I froze: Lily and Angela were both in a bikini, maybe they were wearing it under their clothes "Um… girls, we are not in a beach"
"We know it" Lily told me giggling "It's just that I though you would like to see this" she said pulling the bikini top
"Eh, yeah" I said going to the water. It was really cold but suddenly something warmed it. I saw underwater and I was amazed to see a ghostly blue fire "Hey, look at this!"
"What!?" Luna appeared shocked "A wildfire? There must be a Ninetales over here"
"Why she want to warm the water?" I asked "I don't know where she is and fire-types usually don't take baths"
"Some fire-types are different" said a new female voice and I looked next to me. A Ninetales was sitting in the ground next to the shore "Hi, my name is Sarah"
"Nice to meet you Sarah" I said waving a hand "What is a Ninetales like you walking over here? I though Vulpix is only in Kanto region"
"Well, my previous trainer caught me there and after that he traveled here" she explained getting sad "He released me when he discovered that I was a girl because he preferred male Pokémon. He says that they are stronger in battle"
"That's a great lie wherever you see it" I told her and she raised her head to look at my eyes. Her eyes were a beautiful fore-orange color; it reminded me when I watched the sunrise "He wouldn't have to release you just because you are a girl. Look at Lily" I said gesturing to her and she waved her hand in a hello sign "She is a girl and I don't know a better Pokémon and friend than she"
"Jake, don't say it, it is embarrassing" Lily told me blushing and I laughed "It's not funny"
"Of course it is because I am just telling the truth" I replied "Well, I just want to ask you something Sarah: why did you warm the water with your Will-O-Wisp?"
"It was because I felt that you are a good person" she answered "You look like a good trainer and friend"
"He is it" Okami intervened attaining us "He took me at his care when I discovered that my previous trainer died"
"That's sad to hear" added Sarah lowering her head "I just wanted a friend who cares about me"
"Maybe you got it" pointed Chris gesturing to me "He cares about all his friends because he doesn't sees Pokémon as animals, but as equals"
"Really?" she asked impressed "Can I stay with you?"
"As told everybody before: it's your decision" I said reaching to my bag and pulling out a Premium ball "This Poke ball is to commemorate a special occasion, and this is one of them: this is the day when you will get a friend that will care about you until his last breath" I said pulling it in the ground "And that friend, it's me"
"Thank you!" she said jumping on top of me knocking me to the ground "I promise I will fight and protect you until my last breath" she licked my face once and then she tapped the Premium ball and was swallowed by it. When she were caught I released her "I won't forget this day never"
"Me too" I said and gestured to everybody "Any of us"
"Jake, it's almost two o'clock" Angela told me checking her Pokétch "Didn't you plan to challenge Gardenia today?"
"Holy shit, I have no time for this!" I shouted putting my clothes over my swimming trunk "We need to hurry!"
"Give me a second" said Sarah using again her Will-O-Wisp to warm-dry me "Ready. We need to hurry"
"Which other moves do you know?" I asked her running to the gym "I need to know them because I don't want to command you to use a move you don't know"
"My other moves are Double Team, Flamethrower and Calm Mind" she answered "My old trainer though that having Calm Mind was just a waste of time"
"Okay, now he was really crazy" I told her when we reached to the gym doors "Calm Mind is a great move when you use it correctly"
"What are you planning to do?" asked Sky landing in my left shoulder "Remember that gym battles are up to a three-on-three battle. So which of us are you going to chose?"
"I already decided to pick Okami, Luna and Sarah" I answered making them gasp "This will be their first gym battle"
"I agree with that" added Lily "I wined against Roark in my first gym battle, so it's fair to let them take their first challenge"
"There are no problems with me" Sky intervened in the conversation "Good luck friends"
"Thanks Sky" I said entering in the gym. It was really beautiful: the battlefield was covered in a glistening green grass and there were flowers everywhere "Is there Gardenia!?" I shouted and as response a brown haired woman jumped from behind some bushes. She was wearing a short green coat, a black sleeved undershirt and brown shorts "You are Gardenia?"
"Yes, I am" she answered reaching to her square "I suppose you are here to challenge me"
"You are right!" I said standing in my square "I, Jake Coen, challenge you to a battle"
"Very well boy" she replied "Make it more interesting than the others battles I had in the day"
"Oh, sure it will" I said "I am going to use three Pokémon"
"Then it will be a three-on-three single battle" she said pulling out a Poke ball "Go, Turtwig!"
"Are you ready, Luna?" I asked watching her. She nodded and entered in the battlefield "Use Faint Attack!" Luna disappeared and scratched the Turtwig from the left "Good job!"
"Turtwig use Giga Drain!" shouted Gardenia. When the Turtwig stood up he prepared to use his move
"Luna use Hidden Power!" I commanded. Hidden Power is an attack which effects changes depending of the place where it is used, and in this case it was a Fire Spin that hit the Turtwig leaving him unconscious "Yes, you did it, Luna!"
"Yes, I won!" shouted Luna running towards me "I can't believe it!"
"Good job, Luna" said Okami "You were great!"
"Now is your turn, friend" I told him and he nodded stepping in the battlefield "Whenever you are ready Gardenia!"
"Right now, then!" she replied returning Turtwig to his Poke ball and throwing other one releasing a Tangela "Tangela use Vine Whip!"
"Counter it with Metal Claw, Okami!" I ordered and his paws glowed white when three silver claws grew from the tip of every one. He grabbed the whip and pulled it to get the Tangela closer and when it was in his range he attacked with such strength that sent it flying to the opposite wall "What a hit! Is Tangela ok?"
"Yes, he is" answered Gardenia returning it to its Poke ball "You are the only one who haven't used a fire-type Pokémon against me, and I am impressed that you could beat me"
"Well, now I am going to use my only one fire-type friend" I said and Sarah entered in the battlefield "Whenever you ready, ma'am"
"Okay, then let's finish this!" she threw a Poke ball releasing a Roserade "Use Toxic!"
"Sarah, use Calm Mind!" Sarah started to breath slowly and when the Toxic hit her he was still standing "Now use Double Team and Will-O-Wisp together!" she doubled until there were eight Sarah's circling the Roserade and they were covered in the ghostly blue fire "Now use Flamethrower!"
"No!" shouted Gardenia when the ghostly fire fused with the Flamethrower and hit her Roserade causing a great explosion "Roserade! Are you okay, friend?"
"She is okay, don't worry" I reached to Roserade and put a hyper potion in the burning marks "Well, we won. Don't you have to give us something?"
"You are a really smart trainer" she said pulling out from her shorts a green badge "I am honored to give you the Forest Badge"
"Thanks, I am honored to receive it" I replied picking the badge "Yes! We did it friends, we did it!"
"This is great!" shouted Sarah jumping on top of me sending me backward to the ground "This was a great day!" she started to lick my cheeks
"It's not over yet" I said seriously and she stopped "When I was changing my clothes I saw that the statue had some plaques, but part of them were taken"
"But, where are they?" asked Chris thinking
"They are in a building at north of here" I answered standing up "We have to go there and retrieve the plaques"
"Why?" added Angela "It is not our business"
"It is because that building has the same logo than the one in Windworks Valley" I told her "If they are the Team Galactic then they are not planning anything good"
"Jake is right" replied Lily "We should inspect the place"
"I agree" added Chris
"Okay, let's do it then" said a defeated Angela
"Alright, follow me" I leaded them outside the gym and then to the north but in the entrance of the building we saw a man with a leather jacket, a black cowboy hat and a blue jean "Hey man, do you need something?"
"Really, yes" he said turning around to see me straightly. His eyes were covered by a pair of black shades "I am Rocky Johnson"
"I am Jake Coen" I said handing a hand that he shook "She is Angela Hankins" I added gesturing to her "And this are my friends: Lily, Sky, Okami, Luna and Sarah" I told him gesturing to the named and they made a hello sign at their way "What do you need Rocky?"
"This is one of Team Galactic buildings" he answered looking the entrance again "They stole the bike's seller Clefairy just five minutes ago and he asked me to help him"
"I join the party" I said angrily "They kidnapped a man a week ago and held him hostage until we set him free two days ago" this time when I unsheathed my sable I was relaxed but at same time angry "I am going to make a distraction, you clear the way and then I will go for the Clefairy"
"Okay, just let me do something" he picked an Ultra ball from his belt and threw it releasing a Tyranitar "Okay Pebble, its game time"
"At last" replied the Tyranitar and I was surprised to find out that was female "What are we going to do?"
"Well, everybody here" I called them and we formed a ring "I am going to enter through the front door getting the guards attention, then you will enter and attack them while they are distracted" I explained "Lily, Chris and Angela will clear the lobby and I will look for the Clefairy. Okami, Luna, Sarah and Sky: this time you have to fight on your own, and I know that you won't disappoint me" they nodded
"Let's get started!" shouted Angela charging her longbow at full strength "I can't way any longer"
"Just give me a second" I put on the Detector and turned it to Heat Vision mode "There are three guards in the entrance and the security office is just next to the counter" I turned the Detector to the Tech Vision mode "There are security cams everywhere"
"I can get rid of them" said Angela "Lily can help me if she wants to"
"Sure I want to" added Lily "I can use a Shadow Ball in the door to break it and make a dust cloud to cover us"
"It is a perfect idea. But Lily…" she looked at me confused "…this time use your handgun. It doesn't matter if they know it: the police won't trust them"
"A-a-a ha-handgun?" asked Rocky shocked "Does she have a handgun?"
"Yes, she does" I confirmed and everybody gasped "I made her a handgun just in case that I couldn't protect her. It is a Tangfolio Force 99, but I doesn't shoots common bullets: just as Angela's longbow, it shoots psychic bullets"
"Why did you keep that as a secret?" Angela was looking me with anger "I am your future wife and you don't tell me what you do?"
"He is not your future husband!" shouted Lily "He is who decides the one he loves"
"Lily…" she looked at me "…let's get started"
All went just as I planned: Lily threw a Shadow Ball destroying the door making a dust cloud lift up. I turned the Detector to Heat Vision mode to see where my enemies were and started to attack them one by one. My sable worked just as many times before leaving them unconscious this time because I wanted it, so the blade obeyed me. When I was near the counter sparkles began to fall, so I supposed that Lily and Angela were destroying the security cams, but suddenly I heard a great roar and I stepped out-of-the-way of a Hyper Beam that I supposed Pebble launched. Screams and explosions were heard everywhere and I turned to the stairs that leaded up. Angela appeared at my left, Lily at my right and Chris in front of me. They ran stairs up attacking every guard that crossed us and when we managed to the last floor they remained behind and I started to crush every door with a Psycho Cut until I reached the last one: it was at least twelve feet tall and it looked like it was made from solid titanium, but I didn't care because the Detector showed me that behind this door are a woman and two Pokémon, and one of them was my objective: a Clefairy.
"The party just arrived!" I shouted knocking down the door with a full charged Night Slash "Return the Clefairy!"
"I am not going to take orders from you, child!" shouted a female voice and when the dust disappeared I saw a purple haired woman "I am Jupiter, one of the four commanders of Team Galactic"
"I don't care about what your name is" I replied "Just return the Clefairy and you will go unharmed"
"Unharmed?" she repeated before laugh uncontrollably "I am not the one who will suffer" she launched a Poke ball releasing a Purugly "Use Faint Attack!"
"That won't be enough" when the Purugly disappeared something strange happened: I couldn't see her, but I could feel where she is. I attacked at my left with a kick and the Purugly crossed the room rolling "I will repeat it for last time: return the Clefairy"
"You will pay for this" she threw me a Poke ball and passed me "You are going to regret for this!"
"You are not the first to say it" I whispered under my breath "Everybody, are you okay?"
"The lobby was cleared!" I heard Rocky calling "And a woman just passed over here!"
"Let her go" I said walking downstairs "That will teach them that even their commanders can't rule in Sinnoh"
"Well, that was funny" added Lily packing away her handgun "Did you find the rest of the plaques?"
"No, I don't. They must be in other location" I said and turned to Rocky "Thanks for help us. I think you deserve to know who we really are"
"I am the last descendant of the Immortal Blood Clan" Angela was the first in talk "I am destined to go to the Immortality Tower to rest in peace once I die, regardless the way it could happen. I posses the Arceus Tongue, so I can understand Pokémon"
"I am the thirtieth descendant from the clan that received the Mythical ball from Arceus itself" I told him "The ball attached my soul with the Lily's one, so we are connected and I got the ability to understand Pokémon too and some of their powers"
"I am the Sinnoh League Champion" he answered and I gasped "I am an old friend of Cynthia, and when she told me that she needed to go to Kanto region the Pokémon League and The Elite Four selected me as her replacement"
"So you are the Champion, uh?" I was impressed but happy at the same time "It's great to know you, because I am taking the Pokémon League challenge"
"Oh, come on man, don't tell me that you want to fight" he said a little stressed "I had enough for today"
"I am not going to challenge you" I told him and he looked impressed "It won't be funny if I know your moves and strategies before our real fight"
"Really?" he seemed to be happy "Thank you so much, Jake. You are the first one to not challenging me after discover who I really am"
"Well, I think it's enough. We need to return this" I said pulling out the Clefairy's Poke ball "The bike's seller must be worried"
"Yes, sure he must" he confirmed but turned around and started to walk away "You are the one who must return it: you saved it after all"
"Okay, that was really strange" pointed Okami "You met the Champion, you didn't challenge him and now you must return that Clefairy"
"Destiny is a rough game" answered Sarah "You don't know when things are going to make a rough turn"
"Yeah yeah, whatever" intervened Sky "It's almost six o'clock and we need to hurry if we want to arrive to Hearthome City tomorrow"
"Sky is right" Luna backed her friend up "We better go to the bike store, return the Clefairy and get out from here"
"Now THIS was really strange" I said "My friends hurrying me up to get out from here"
"Just calm down, Jake" said Lily "But they are quite right"
We walked towards the bike store and there we met the bike's seller. I returned him his Clefairy and as reward he gave us two collapsible bicycles which we accepted. Out of there we went to the south to take Route 206 bicycle track and when we reached to Route 207 we headed to Mt. Coronet. We reached Mt. Coronet fast thanks to the bikes, but once inside we decided to walk because the floor was very slippery. We crossed it after fighting a lot of Geodudes, Meditites and Bronzors and when we came out it was eight o'clock at least, so we decided to camp there. We settled the tents and we had a quick but delicious dinner and we went to sleep. Okami and Sarah decided to sleep in their Poke balls, Sky found a strong branch and he landed there and Luna lied down next to my sleeping bag. I changed my clothes without minding that Lily was looking me and then I lied down in my sleeping bag and Lily took her place at my right where, before we fell asleep, we shared a soft but yet passionate kiss. We went to sleep happily for our day. And without my knowing, tomorrow is going to be better.
Ufff, such a long chapter: I surpassed my limit by at least thousand words. I just want to say thank you for your patience and support to those whom had followed me until here for now. I am getting some troubles, so I think that it won't be easy for me to post chapters, but I will do my best to continue. Now I will get used to make some special thanks to the reviewers, and this time they are for Poketurn88, XellanxLarxene and Eivexst. Guys I really appreciate your reviews and they make me follow with this, especially knowing that it caught your attention. Bye and thanks friends.