Chapter 11 – Arrival From Sinnoh
"Are you sure we shouldn't say anything to Brad?" Jirachi asked a little concerned as Jirachi looked down at David. The two of them where standing at the entrance to the port bay, everyone seemed to be gathered around waiting for the ship to start arriving into the bay.
"We probably should give him some alone time. I've never seen Brad actually in a battle, but from what I can see he can go toe to toe with a legendary Pokemon." He said looking up at Jirachi. "So, it's not like he's weak. He's never lost a battle, from what I've seen. Not to mention, that guy got on his nerves and then thrashed him pretty badly." David said putting his attention back to the dock. "Jake had some merit to what he said, but he was a bastard in the way he did say it."
"Yea…" Jirachi said thinking about David's words.
From off in the distance came the loud blowing of the horn of a ship, as it began makings its way into the harbor.
"Looks like the ships coming into port." David said looking out into the distance.
"What's so interesting about this ship anyways?" Jirachi asked curiously.
"Well, after the S.S. Anne sunk, the developers of the ships decided that they needed to make a more powerful, unsinkable ship. I read about this ship in my history books. Its called S.S. Andrea, after the person who helped made it." David explained.
"Interesting…" Jirachi said as the ship pulled into dock just after David's explanation. The ship lowered its entry beam and people began to file out of the ship. "Are we going to do anything special with the ship?" Jirachi asked curiously.
"Well…not really. I was just curious about seeing it." David said looking at the massive ship. "Its really quite a sight to see. I'm amazed at how many historical artifacts I'm getting to see from this whole crazy adventure." David said smiling.
"I wouldn't know." Jirachi said chuckling.
"Yea, you don't have your memory, so it all makes sense." David said thinking about it. "I'm sure you'd have some amazing memories. You wake up only once every 1000 years for seven days, then you go back to sleep. And during those seven days you grant wishes to those who ask for them. " David said smiling. "But obviously, it's been seven days and your still awake. Not to mention you woke up 500 years early. Something big must be going on to awaken you from your slumber." David said thinking about it.
"Yea…I think your right." Jirachi said putting a hand to his mouth as he thought.
"Hey! Get back here!" A female voice cried out.
"Huh?" David said lifting his head up curiously.
"Piplup!" Came the voice of a small blue penguin that ran towards David before going threw his legs and off into town.
"Wait!" Came the female voice chasing the Piplup, before she appeared as a running blur in front of David before crashing into him.
David tumbled over as the girl fell on top of him.
"Owie…" The girl said, her eyes dizzy.
"What just hit me?" David said feeling the heavy object on top of him.
The girl sat up rubbing her forehead as David sat up and looked at her. She had blonde hair that went down to the small of her back, wore a red vest that was sleeveless and hung down to the start of her stomach and opened up down the middle. Under her vest was a small pink undershirt that hugged around her neck and to the start of her belly. She wore blue jeans that ended before her ankles, and from her waist dangled down a thin see-threw spilt skirt that wrapped from the side of her hip around her back to the side and hung down just past her knees.
She blinked and looked at David. "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry!" She said. "I didn't mean to run into you! I was just chasing after my Piplup and ran into you!" She said apologizing.
David chuckled and stood up dusting himself off. "Oh, its fine. Your Piplup ran off you say?" David said asking curiously.
The girl quickly stood up and nodded. "Apparently it got scared off by some of the noises of the ship. I had just let it out to enjoy the cruise." She said sighing and lowering her head. David thought about it for a second.
"Hey, I'll help you find your Piplup." David said smiling.
"Really!?" The girl said her eyes lighting up.
"Sure. Least I can do for a fellow trainer." David said smiling.
"Oh thank you!" She said giving David a giant bear hug.
"Gack! Too tight!" David said his eyes wincing.
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"Piplup!" She cried as they walked down the town together, Jirachi looking around to keep an eye for the penguin.
"Piplup!" David cried as well looking around for it.
"Oh, where could he of gone?" She said looking around almost frantically.
"He's not a Pokemon that's common in this region, he shouldn't be too hard to spot." David explained looking around. David thought a moment and turned to the girl. "I still haven't gotten your name you know." He said.
"Oh, I'm sorry." She said smiling a bit and shaking her head. "My name's Zana, I'm from Hearthome City." She said smiling holding out her hand.
"Ah. I'm David." He said taking her hand. "I'm from Delenburg City."
"Delenburg…I've never heard of that city…" Zana said thinking about it.
"Don't worry, not a lot of people have." He said smiling. David thought another moment. "Hey, do you still have Piplup's pokeball?" He asked.
"Yea." She said picking it out from her jacket and holding it out.
"Good." David said pulling out a pokeball from his blazer. "Go Vulpix!" David said releasing Vulpix from its pokeball.
"Vulpix!" It said happily wagging its tails as it emerged.
David took the pokeball from Zana's hand and lowered it to Vulpix. "Here Vulpix, smell this. Where trying to track down the Piplup that was inside this pokeball."
Vulpix lifted its nose to the pokeball and sniffed it a few times before turning its head to sniff the air some. "Vulpix!" It said before starting to run after the scent.
"Looks like we got our lead!" David grinned quickly following Vulpix, Zana quickly following after David.
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"Piplup!" Piplup said nervously backing away from the group of Roselias and Roserades that now surrounded him.
"Roselia!" The Roselia in front of the Piplup said holding out its flower directly at Piplup, it glaring at Piplup.
"Roserade!" Roserade said pointing its flower at Piplup as it stood next to the Roselia.
"Piplup! Pip pip lup!" Piplup cried out to the Pokemon trying to explain itself. Both the Roselia and the Roserade's beginning to glow with energy. "Piplup!" Piplup cried covering its head.
"Ember now!" David's voice yelled from the trees behind Piplup.
"Vulpix!" Vulpix cried as it jumped into the air, spewing outs flames directly at the heard of Pokemon. The Roserade and Roselia that where attacking lost focus and shot two orbs of energy into the trees causing an explosion, the Pokemon all around starting to panic and run around frantically, bird Pokemon running from the tress in flocks, bugs running from the scene.
The fire was beginning to burn the forest and the Roselia's where running to a flower patch not far from where they had been.
"Quick attack!" David yelled, as Vulpix's body began to blur with light as it ran forward, smashing into a bunch of the Roselia and Roserades, knocking them over towards the field of flower. Vulpix landed in a patch of the fire as the fire moved over its body without hurting Vulpix.
"Piplup!" Zana cried out from behind the fire as Piplup was watching the flames from behind Vulpix. Piplup turned around seeing Zana.
"Piplup!" Piplup cried and ran over to Zana jumping into Zana's arms.
"Oh, I'm so glad your safe!" Zana said happily hugging her Piplup.
"Think those Pokemon have learned their lesson?" David said chuckling looking at the fallen Roselia and Roserades. David took a quick count and counted 5 Roserades and 7 Roselias amassed around the flowers. "Vulpix-" he began but then noticed a bunch of Budew moving out of the flower patches and walking over to the injured grass Pokemon, crying out to them.
"Oh…" David said blinking. He turned to Zana. "Hey, mind using Piplup to put out the flames?" He asked.
Zana nodded and put Piplup down. "Ok Piplup! Put out those flames with Ice Beam!" She declared.
"Piplup!" Piplup cried raising its wing-like arms and lifting its head before shooting out a beam of ice against the fire, the ice evaporating as it hit the flames, Piplup moving its head and hitting all the flames, soon extinguishing all the flames in the forest.
"You did it Piplup!" Zana said hugging her penguin.
"Piplup!" Piplup smiled happily.
"Don't run off on me again, you hear?" Zana said smiling at her Pokemon as Piplup nodded. "That's a good boy." She said pulling out Piplup's pokeball and returning him to the inside of it.
"Hurray!" Jirachi said cheering for the return of Piplup.
"Thanks David." Zana smiled at David.
"Hey no problem." David said smiling in return. "Just try not to loose any more of your Pokemon." He chuckled.
"I'll try." She said smiling at him.
"So, what brings you to Kanto anyways?" David asked as they began to return to town.
"Well, I started off in Sinnoh, where I got my partner Piplup a long time ago. I've been waiting and training my Piplup for a number of years, just so I could prepare myself to be the best trainer." She said explaining herself. "I decided I should come to Kanto when I saw that there where a lot more Pokemon around the world than where just in Sinnoh, and I hope to be a Pokemon Breeder when I grow up some more." She said thinking back. "So, I guess I'm on a quest to see and learn about all the Pokemon." She said smiling.
"Ah, well that's pretty good." David said chuckling. "It's a fortunate thing you met me then. Why don't you travel with me?" David said looking at her.
"Travel with you?" Zana said curiously.
"Travel with us! It'll be fun!" Jirachi said happily, still floating near David's shoulder now dancing in the air.
"Yea. You see my friend Jirachi here lost his memory. So where trying to find a couple of his Pokemon friends in the world to help restore his memory." David explained.
"Oh wow." Zana said looking at Jirachi. "How do you know where they are?" Zana asked curiously.
"Well, where searching for quite a select few of Pokemon in the world, that are either rarely seen or there's just one of them in the world. So, we defiantly know we'll be doing quite a bit of exploring and searching. And if you come with us, you'll see a large variety of Pokemon." David explained.
"We can always use another traveling companion! The more the merrier after all!" Jirachi said excitedly.
Zana chuckled at Jirachi's playfulness. "Hee, alright, I'll travel with you. It'll be fun." Zana said smiling.
"Yay!" Jirachi said dancing a bit more. David laughed.
"Welcome to the group Zana." David said smiling.
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"Now where did Brad get off to…he should be around here somewhere…" David said looking around.
"Uh…" Zana said staring right in front of them.
"What's up?" David asked looking behind them.
"You might want to turn around." Jirachi said looking at what Zana was looking at.
"What is it?" David said turning around. A large cloaked figure stood before them, the black clothe ripped at its ends and flowing in the wind, the head of the figure being shrouded out from its hood, a skull clearly visible in the hood and a scythe clenched in his ripped sleeve as he stared down at the three of them.
"WAUGH! IT'S THE GRIM REAPER!" Zana cried waving her arms rapidly. David blinked as he looked at the skull.
"What's the Grim Reaper?" Jirachi asked curiously tilting his head.
"Ugh…" Was all David could say as he stared at the skull.
"WHERE ALL GOING TO DIE!" Zana said as he began to run around in a frantic manner.
"Its time…for your doom…" The figure said turning the scythe to point it the three of them. The eyes of the skull flashed red and mist began to pour out of the openings in the reaper's outfit.
"…Jirachi, touch the mist." David said curiously.
"DON'T IT'LL KILL YOU!" Zana said frantically waving her arms.
"Whatever." Jirachi said shrugging and moving over to some of the mist, putting his hand into it. "I'm feeling nothing." Jirachi said blinking.
"Boo." Brad's head said popping out of the reaper clothes in Jirachi's face.
"WAUGH!" Jirachi cried jumping back before waving his arms rapidly shooting out stars at the figure, causing a mass of smoke to arise as they explode against the figure.
"Uh…Jirachi, that's good. I think Brad's had enough." David laughed.
"Huh?" Jirachi said blinking stopping his attack. Brad lay sprawled out on the ground smoking with the cloth draped over him, Duskull floating over his head.
"Duskull." Duskull said looking at Brad.
"Ghastly." Ghastly said emerging from out of the ground looking at Brad. Brad lifted up Duskull's pokeball, the beam returning Duskull into his pokeball.
Zana stood there blinking confusedly. "Hey! You scared me!" Zana said looking at Brad angrily. Brad sat up chuckling.
"That was the point." Brad said grinning happily.
"I should kick you." Zana said huffing, crossing her arms and looking away.
"So whose this anyway?" Brad said standing up looking at Zana.
"Brad, this is Zana. She's aspiring to be a Pokemon breeder and will be joining us on our journeys." David explained.
"Oh, well that's fun. We could always use a female to do our laundry and cook our food." He laughed.
"Oh ha-ha, very funny." Zana said rolling her eyes.
David took a deep breath and smiled "Oh yea, I have a good feeling about this group." He chuckled. Jirachi just looked at David curiously.
-End Chapter 11-
