Well I got a lot of inspiration, that plus I like this chapter. So I started early. Think of it as makeup for the long wait. Also, when I say cue the music, LISTEN xD
Chapter 11: Dollhouse
I sat there bored out of my mind as Alisa and Mint got done tag teaming their opponents.
"What's wrong Felix, bored?" It actually sounded like Joey was taunting, and I wanted to knock him out for it. We had been in the arena for about two hours watching impossibly boring and dumb matches. Was it so hard to remember fire was weak to water? Half of the people were like, "How did you water gun hurt my magby so much?"
"Stop taunting Felix, Joey. He might kill you the way he looks right now." Shut up, Michael! I need a reason right now anyways. If I sat there for just a bit more time I would explode. In the two hours we had been here everyone else had gotten there battles while I sat up here bored out of my mind. I'm sad to say that Michael and Joey were entertaining me more. Pokémon were mysterious and powerful beings. How could they be so boring?
The announcer was getting ready to announce the next round, and if my name wasn't called I probably would have exploded. Mark and, the recently returned, Alisa noticed this and suddenly both need to go back a few seats, claiming they dropped something. The others were of course unaware. Thankfully the announcer had good news.
"And now we have the last match of the day! Are you ready people?" All of the people cheered including me. Either we were leaving or I was fighting and both sounded good to me. "Well the last match is between Lucy and Felix! And it's a full out pokébrawl." I actually flinched a bit at this. I saw how easily she beat that kid yesterday. I had the feeling she would be harder than the random kids we had been fighting. And to make it worse before I went down Mark stopped me first.
"Be careful. I think I know her from somewhere. Whoever she is, she's dangerous." Great Mark, just got to make me feel like I'm in danger didn't you.
When we both got to the arena the announcer started talking again. "In this battle, everyone can use as many pokémon as their bodies can handle! This will test not only the pokémon's limit but the trainers as well." I had to think it over. I thought I could handle two maybe three. But which three should I use?
"Remember to choose a primary. Otherwise your powers won't stay stable." I looked at Lucy a bit surprised. She simply smiled before adding, "I just know, trust me."
I already knew who would be my primary. Speed was my best attribute and Anna boosted it up a bit so I let out Anna. "I chose you as my primary." With that I taped her on the head and she merged with me. I felt the familiar yet weird sensation of a tail and two ears growing out of my body.
"I know you can do at least two. Come on Felix no holding back." I smiled back at Lucy. It was as if she knew I was stronger. I don't know why that made me happy though.
It was a choice between falling over my self half the time but being better at hand to hand combat or a giant strength boost. "Sorry Ditzy but I think I'll go with Sweetleaf this time. Sweetleaf I choose you…" But before I finished saying Lucy stopped me.
"Don't call a secondary. That would make it so a third would be useless." When I looked at her puzzled she just smiled and started explaining. "You primary gives you the most change right?" I nodded my head yes and she continued. "The primary gives you the highest boost and the secondary gives you the second highest boost right? Well, while calling a secondary will make that second pokémon's affect on you it would weaken the next pokémon's affect. You would be better off letting them both be secondary."
It made since though I needed one or answer. "Why call a primary then? You could just let them all be primary and you would be at an advantage right?"
She nodded her head no before explaining. "Having more than one primary could overload your body. Pokémon are naturally stronger than humans so the bracelets we use to merge with them limits there powers, just like a pokéball. The bracelet limits each pokémon more by how you rank them. You can only hold a single primary and a secondary with the rest not making much of a difference."
"Thanks." Who ever this Lucy was, she knew a lot. I tapped Sweetleaf on the head and she merged with me though I did feel a small bit of resistance. The way I looked now would have stunned me if I had seen my self.
My skin was now a deep brown with just a hint of green. There were five small buds around each of my wrists and six around my neck. There was also a small leaf, though no where near as big as Sweetleaf's, on my head. The fox tail and the ears didn't change too much, though they did look a bit browner. I was about to let out Ditzy but once again Lucy stopped me.
"Did you feel any resistance when you merged?" I nodded my head yes which made her frown, though not for long. "You can't merge with your next pokémon then." A frowned a bit and I could actually see a small trace of sympathy for me in her eyes, though I didn't know why. "If you feel any resistance when merging with one of your pokémon then that means your body is at its current limit. Trying to merge with another would harm you… or kill you and all of your pokémon." With that a lot of the people gasped and I looked at her in horror. How would she know that unless…
But she waved off my question before I got it out. "Let's do our match, and give me all you got!" She dashed at me and a smiled. Since she wasn't as fast as me, I'd have the advantage, which would have been true if she didn't disappear.
"What? Where did she go?" I heard a giggle behind me and that was all I needed to know. I turn around with a kick just for her to catch it easily. She gave me a smiled before she pointed her hand at my chest and blasted me away with a psybeam. I wish I could say I was like Mark and it barely hurt but that would have been a lie.
"Come on your stronger than that." I quickly got to my feet and ran at her. I could see her eyes widen a bit at my speed before she smiled. As I threw the punch she side-stepped easily giving her the advantage, or so she thought. I knew from yesterday that her preferred way of dodging was sidestepping. So I twisted my body before kicking her in the stomach. She stumbled back a few inches before disappearing again. I smirked before dashing to where she had been and turn.
"Swift!" The stars flew everywhere and, as I had predicted, hit her. "I knew you'd appear behind me. And with that I dashed again at her. This time she jumped but I had this covered as well. As I was passing under her I wrapped my tail around her leg before bringing her down. She cried out a bit, showing that the attack had hurt her before using razor leaf on her.
She rolled away from the attack before getting to her feet. "I guess there's no going easy on you." Now all of that sadness from earlier was gone. Now she was smiling brightly and so was I. I don't know why but I loved a good fight and the same could be said about her. "I guess I'll have to invite you into my dollhouse. What do you say?"
"Sure, show me all you got." I didn't know how much I would regret those words.
Music for battle: Rozen Maiden Full Opening 2
She smiled again before making a doll appear in her hand. More specifically, it was a slightly worn, brown teddy bear. She smiled before throwing it at me. Even though I was just going to knock it aside, my body forced me to move to the side, which was good because the doll came to life and jumped at me.
"What the!" I tried to dodge it again but it was too fast. It hooked itself to my leg and I could feel my energy draining away. I quickly reached down and ripped the doll from my leg before throwing back at her.
Now it was her turn to smile. "Aw you don't like this doll?" With that two more appeared, one on each hand. All three of the dolls ran at me and now I was jumping back. I used a swift attack knocking the dolls back. But they just got up again and rushed me again. "Dolls don't feel pain, what will you do Felix?"
"Destroy them then!" I shot a razor leaf attack at the dolls. Two of them dodged but the third took the full hit, sad thing being that I wished the attack had missed. A pokémon floated out of the destroyed bear smiling at me. It was grey and looked like a stitched together doll. The two things I noticed most were the bright red eyes and the zipper mouth. It launched itself at me along with the other two dolls and I wanted to run.
But somehow I got the courage to face up to the dolls. I threw out another razor leaf catching all three of them. The other two dolls got ripped up releasing the same weird pokémon. The One I knocked out first looked a bit hurt but kept on smiling.
"Do you like my dolls Felix?" While trying to avoid the doll like pokémon I shouted out the obvious answer. "Too bad!" Lucy said with a smile. "There's more to come." The pokémon were forcing me back away from her until suddenly the first one I destroyed went back to its shredded doll, just now it was fixed. I looked at the other dolls to see them repairing themselves.
"What is this?" The first doll was back together jumping at me again. That was when I realized that sometimes instinct was better than thinking sometimes. It was like the two pokémon I was merged with were telling my body what to do. I dashed at the first doll and used a razor leaf attack right in its face. As the doll was ripping the pokémon flew out and dashed at me while floating. I snapped my teeth at it and a small purplish jaw flew at the pokémon and bit it.
"What!" Now it was Lucy's turn to be astonished. I then realized I had just used the bite attack. But her surprise melted away into a bigger smile. "I was scared you wouldn't be able to get past them." The knocked out pokémon turned into a black light before going back to her. The other two dolls dashed me just for me to razor leaf them. I turned my body and hit them both with my tail knocking them back. I used the bite attack knocking on of them out. The other one tried to dash at me but I used bite on it too knocking it out.
"I didn't know I could use bite." She smiled again at me before answering.
"Of course, you're just like a pokémon now. Now let's see how deep you can get into my dollhouse!" With that three of the dolls appeared though only two were brown. The middle one was reddish in color and looked a bit more sinister.
"I'm not scared of your dolls!" The three dolls dashed at me and I used razor leaf again. But the red one smiled before breathing out small balls of blue fire that easily burned past my attack. I stepped back in surprise giving the dolls time to latch on to me. While on was bad having three on was torment. It was like getting drowned in a wave of negative emotions, and they were stealing my strength. My sight was going blurry but before I gave up I heard Joey call out to me.
"Don't give up now! You promised me we'd fight at the end of the tournament. You can beat her, trust yourself and your pokémon!" And Joey's word stirred up something strong in me. I guess this was the feeling pokémon got when their trainers cheered them on. I surrounded myself it stars before hitting my self with the attack. The attack not only knocked off the dolls but it also destroyed them. It would have done more but the stars just flew through them.
"These dolls, are ghost?" Lucy nodded her head yes before pointing at me. The doll pokémon all dashed at me. I used the bite attack at the one that had been in the red doll but one of the others took the hit. The red one laughed before breathing that attack at me. I tried dodging but it connected with my tail easily scorching the fur and making me yelp out. It hurt so badly. I turned and used razor leaf at the pokémon before they could get at me. They both fainted before going back to their owner. I was getting the feeling these dolls were actually a part of her. And I also had the feeling that she had a lot more.
"Felix, you can't fight them off forever!" This time when she made the dolls three red ones came out and dashed me, but instead of engaging them I dodged all three and ran at their owner. She didn't expect it and let me get a hit right into her stomach. She flew back a bit but I wasn't done yet. I used a swift attack which collided painfully into her. I looked back at the dolls and saw that they were dashing at me even faster than before.
"I can't keep fighting these dolls!" I surrounded my self in a swift attack before dashing at Lucy again. They tried to use that weird fire move but the stars reflected the attacks. As an added bonus the stars also shredded the dolls as I ran by them. When I got close enough to her, I sent the stars at her. This time she looked a bit panicked since she still hadn't recovered from my last attack. This is also where I learned that the opponent's instincts were just as dangerous to me as mine were to her.
A giant beam of rainbow energy rushed at me knocking me right into the chest. The last psybeam had hurt but this one was much more powerful. Before I fainted I realized she had been holding back so we could enjoy out battle more. Even though it had hurt I still fainted with a smile.
POV Change
I had won the match and everyone was clapping because of how good the match had been. It had been fun, though I didn't think he would be so stronger. I went to the bathroom as soon as the match was called to rip the power limiter I had on my shoulder. It had been burning into my shoulder as soon as I released that last psybeam. The biggest down side to a power limiter was accidentally exceeding it. I had used sixty percent of my strength when I had only set it on fifty. Felix was good, and some of his friends were probably stronger.
As I walked out I walked past the sword user, Mark, who was looking at me suspiciously. I didn't have much time left based off the look in his eyes. Soon he would realize I was the girl from before, though I could just hack the system again to give me a bit more time.