With help from Mabel, Korrina was now able to control Lucario's aura. Now, taking a longer route to Shalour City, our heroes go on, waiting for new adventures to greet them.
The sun started to rise as we were all asleep in our tents. I wake up, greeted by my Sableye. I grab my glasses and place them on me before looking for a mirror. I look and see the massive bed head rat's nest that's occupying my head. I knew it was going to take forever to brush out, not unless I had help. I groaned as Sableye looked at me with little concern. I just sigh and tell it," Well it's better to spend time fixing it than to just leave it like this." Knowing that I was going to waste time talking, I grab my hairbrush and began the long deknotting process. Everyone just sat down to eat by the time I finished getting my hair into a braid. I sigh a breath of relief as I was finally done. When I got out of the tent, everyone was surprised to see me with a braid instead of my hair usually being down. I just said," It's been getting in my way a lot so I've decided to try something different this time." Of course they all liked it, even the pokemon found it fascinating.
As we packed up and were ready to head out, Serena stopped me for a minute. Of course I told her about why I decided on using a braid today. She then asks," Wouldn't it be easier if you cut it? Then you can leave it down and it wouldn't be so much of a hassle." I want to remind her why I wasn't so much into the idea. Then, I realuze that if I kept saying no, she wouldn't be off my back about the situation. Suddenly, I knew what was going to have to happen, but I decided on a compromise. I told her," I guess you're right. It's about time I do something with this. But, I'll make a deal with this. When we make it to the next town, then I'll get it cut. And...," I had a smart idea which might or might not work," I want you to be the one to do it. Is that ok"? I automatically knew by the glittering look in her eyes that she'd say yes. So it wasn't a surprise that she said yes and started saying things like "This is something I know you'll enjoy" and "I'll make sure you're satisfied". Once that was cleared, we caught up with the others as we headed to Shalour City.
As we walked along the forest, we saw a Patrat, a Sentret and a Pachirisu collecting berries together. It was such a nice sight to see, knowing that pokemon of all types could work together so well. We all then turned and started to walk away to let them continue. Suddenly, a greedy Ursaring comes scaring the little ones off and taking the berries for itself. We heard the cries of terror as we rushed back and saw what was happening. Bonnie was first to confront it, saying that it wasn't nice to steal. As Ash and I joined her, suddenly a shadow from the trees jumps out and lands on top of the tree.
We looked up in amazement as I tell Ash," If my eyes don't deceive me, it looks like a Hawlucha." Ash looked it up in the pokedex, saying it looked different. Suddenly, it pulled off the mask, with Bonnie remarking that it was a leaf mask. The Hawlucha then dives down, using its legs to grab Ursaring by its neck and pulling it down to the ground. It then uses karate chop to battle back the Ursaring when it was using slash. Then, it delivered a chop that git it to a knee. Seizing the opportunity, the Hawlucha used high jump kick and landed it square on Ursaring as it fell back. We all stood in awe of its power.
The Hawlucha took a deep breath as it climbed back to the top of the tree. It strikes a pose as someone tells us that it was Hawlucha's victiry pose. It then went down with a flying press, but since the pose took time, Ursaring got up in time and dodged as Hawlucha landed gard and hurt itself. The man explsined that it had to do the pose, rven if the opponents run away. On the plus side, its battling efforts helped the small pokemon get their berries back. The Ursaring soon comes back with a boulder in its paws, which looks like it's to be used on Hawlucha. I couldn't stand it anymore and neither could Ash. We both ran out as I released my Hawlucha, Luchador, who was also a shiny like Braixen was. We were ready to save Hawlucha as Ash had Pikachu use iron tail as it broke the rock and hit Ursaring, knocking it down. I decided ro finish it by throwing Luchador up as it did the same pose before spinning and hitting its flying press on Ursaring. It got up, but ran away in fear.
Ash offered a hand to Hawlucha as he helped it up. Ash compliments on Hawlucha's awesome battling style. Soon, it jumped into the trees and went off to who knows where. Ash watched it as I could tell that Hawlucha was the kind of pokemon who was like Ash in a way. Luchador knew too as it looked up at me with the same look.
Soon, we were brought into a canin where the man was staying in. He introduced himself as we did too. He told us on how it wondered into the forest one day. The firest was well known for its proud fighting types. That got me thinking that Hawlucha wanted to see how it could do against them. One after another, he defeated them all, earning the nickname the Forest Champion. Keanon told us that it helped protect the smaller pokemon from the more aggressive ones. When Bonnie mentions that it lost, it reminded me of how I met Luchador.
I speak up, saying," It's just like with Luchador." When Keanon asked, I say," Luchador is my Hawlucha. Ash saw it when we were stopping Ursaring. Anyhow, that battle with Ursaring reminded me how we met. I was on my way to Cyllage City when I was traveling in Kalos. I was on a walk when I heard a fight going on. I looked and saw that Luchador just got beaten by a Machoke. As the Machoke left, I rushed over to its side, seeing how hurt it was. I noticed that its left arm was mangled pretty bad. I performed first aid before carrying it to the pokemon center. Later on, he was better, but he had to wear a sling for about 3 days. Over those 3 days, I helped nurtured it, kept it fit and active and even introducing it to watching wrestling. That part was his favorite for a lot of reasons.
Once the three days were up, it was out of the sling and able to battle again. I knew that Luchador had the heart and soul of a battler. So, I trained with it and through the time, I've grown quite attached to him. Soon, after it learned focus blast, I thought about having it on my team. So, I asked if it wanted to join my team as it gratefully accepted. Since then, Luchador's been undefeated and has won a lot of major battles for me. Through it all, there was one thing that we kept the same and it was Luchador's battling style. In a way, seeing that Hawlucha was like seeing a duplicate of Luchador." Luchador, who was sitting with me, smile and nodded in agreement with all I said. Keanon then said that he could show us where Hawlucha goes to train. Ash was first to agree with the idea as we all followed with him. We were about to witness another meeting with the Great Forest Hero.