Ch 11: Road to Dewford
It was early in the morning near the edge of the Petalburg woods and most of the group were still asleep, but Jason was up doing some training with his pokemon and then some aura guardian training with Matt.
Charmander, Taillow, and Treecko were sitting in the corner with Matt's Sceptile trying to catch their breath as Jason sparred with Matt.
Jason was taking quite a beating, Matt moved almost as fast and agile as his father.
After a few hours of sparring Matt stopped.
"Ok I think that's enough for now."
"I can keep going." Jason said as he tried to catch his breath.
"I may be blind but I can tell that you need a break." Matt said.
Jason felt sore all over his body from the welts and bruises Matt inflicted on him.
The two sat down beside their pokemon as Jason tried to use his aura to heal his exterior skin.
"You seemed pretty intent on doing a lot of sparring." Matt said.
"Since I started traveling I've only been able to practice on my own. Plus if my current skills weren't a clear indication that I need to improve." Jason started.
"I'm sure with more training you'll."
"I've had trouble with training since the beginning. I was actually kind of hoping the Hoenn methods would be a little different than Kanto and maybe I'd work better with them."
"Sorry Jason, but the standard set by all of the brotherhoods was set by Altair, it was his masters from Kanto that founded all the brotherhoods. They all all based their brotherhoods on what Altair taught them."
Jason sighed.
"Maybe I should slice my eyes open to improve my other senses."
"Don't joke about that."
"Sorry."
"It's alright."
"I was actually wondering if you knew more about the guy who lead team Magma when they attacked us. He said he was the mentor's son and a master."
"Ah yes, that was Mathis, Maxie's younger son."
"Son?"
"Maxie had two sons, both were protégés in training, the best the brotherhood had seen in years. They were just naturals."
"Naturals." Jason said with a hint of frustration.
"Mathis's older brother Thraxel was more like us Aqua guardians, but Mathis took right after his father. Believing in changing the world by any means necessary. He was always very ruthless, emotionless, and had a lack of empathy. I was one of the guardians in charge of his training, me, Archie, and Thraxel were always worried about him. The other students were afraid to face him in sparring and battles. Him and his Houndoom.
"His Houndoom was like a savage monster, not a companion." Jason said.
"Another thing we were worried about. I wanted to reach out to Mathis and help him, but his father was one of the head masters in the brotherhood and he stonewalled me every time. I would soon learn that this is what he wanted. After the mentor's death and Maxie declared himself the true mentor, Thraxel tried to stop them but was stabbed in the back by Mathis."
"He killed his own brother!?" Jason almost shouted.
"He tried to, he left his brother bleeding out when one of our healers found him just in time to save his life."
"Where is he now?" Jason asked.
"Archie asked him to stay with Team Aqua, but Thraxel said he couldn't bare the idea of fighting his own father and brother. So he left Hoenn to join the Sinnoh aura guardians, every now and then Archie sends him information on how the civil war is going."
Jason couldn't believe that someone would be so ruthless and soulless that they could murder their own brother just for getting in their way. It certainly would explain why he acted they way he did though.
"I do have to wonder though, why would Mathis come all they way here looking for you? I mean you're just a guardian trainee? Why would he want you?" Matt asked as Jason sweat dropped nervously.
"Well, uh. The thing is, I had something he wanted."
"What?".
"About a week and a half ago, we stumbled upon some of his men trying to get into a guardian tomb. I drove them away and used my aura to enter the tomb. Inside I found a box with a scroll inside, a scroll talking about something called the Red orb."
Despite the fact that he had a cloth tied around his eyes, Jason could still tell Matt's eyes were widening.
"The Red orb! Please tell me he didn't get that box!"
Jason gave a disappointed look.
"He got it."
Matt put his hands over his face.
"Ok , deep breath." He said to himself.
"I didn't just want to leave it there since they knew where it was. I took it to give to the guardians of Hoenn. I looked around for the guild in Rustboro city but I couldn't find it." Jason said.
Matt sighed.
"I always knew having the guild in the cave just north of the city was a bad idea."
"I'm sorry I let this happen." Jason said.
Matt took a deep breath.
"It's alright, you did what you thought was right, if you had left the box in the tomb, they would have just sent one of their guardians to collect it. Plus you didn't know where the guild was in Rustboro."
"What is the Red orb?" Jason asked.
Matt gave a concerned expression.
"Have you ever heard of Groudon and Kyogre?"
"Aren't they the legendary pokemon of the earth and the sea that were said to have created Hoenn."
"They are, some of the younger of Reduka's children. Meant to guard the earth and sea. The orbs were created like the tears of Reduka, but designed specifically for those two. They allow the wielder to call upon them, but apparently they also serve some other role that truly separates them from tears of Reduka. When the civil war started our side was able to secure all the tears in the enclave, but it's the orbs that really matter here. We've been looking for them for centuries."
"So the Red orb is for Groudon and the blue Kyogre."
"Exactly, which is why we can't let them get their hands on either orb."
"What about the blue orb?"
"One of our guardians claimed to have found it, but he never returned from his quest to get it. Still I doubt Team Magma got it, if they did we'd know by now. This scroll, what kind of text was it?"
"It looked like ancient Byzantine, I could only read it in aura vision. But I could only make out the words, the directions and map were not decipherable."
"Well ancient Byzantine is not easy to read. Even for guardians. It will take them a time to decipher it. In any case I need to report this to Archie. We have to find the orb before they do." Matt said.
"I feel bad, like I'm partly responsible. Is there anything I can do to help."
"Don't you worry about it. But it's going to to be hard though, it's not like the blue orb is just going to walk up to us and." Matt started.
"Hey guys, breakfast is ready." Autumn said as she walked up to them.
"Oh thanks." Jason said.
Matt nodded as he and Jason got up with their pokemon.
After having some breakfast, Jason was with Autumn as she did some training with her pokemon.
"Ok Wurmple use String shot, Torchic use Ember!"
"Ple." Wurmple said as she let out a thick string of silk in a spinning manner as Torchic ran forward unleashing small bursts of fire from his beak.
As Torchic ran forward blasting fire into the web, small portions of the silk came off and around Torchic's legs. One piece got wrapped around Torchic's legs and made him trip before crashing across the ground.
"Torchic!" Autumn shouted as she rushed out to him.
Wurmple gave a sheepish look as she sweat dropped.
"Are you ok?" She asked.
"Tor."
"Why does this keep happening?" Autumn asked as she tried to pull the silk off Torchic's legs.
"Well he's just running forward, not avoiding it. Try to have him move in less of a straight pattern, also try to have him jump every now and then. Make it harder for the silk to get by his legs." Jason said as he put his hand on her hand as he helped her pull the silk off Torchic's legs.
Autumn's face shot red before she turned her face away from his.
After they got up and set Torchic on the ground they walked back as Torchic and Wurmple set themselves up again.
"Ok try again."
Wurmple let out spinning silk as Torchic did as Jason suggested and moved in an un-straight path with jumps in there as well.
The hit silk sparkled for a moment and surrounded the area with them.
"That's it." Autumn said.
Finally Torchic leapt up and directly over Wurmple as he unleashed Silk under him and almost encased Torchic as he picked away open patters and shot fire into the rest.
"It worked!" Autumn shouted.
"Great work, it looked beautiful." Jason said as Autumn blushed a little.
"Thanks."
When Torchic got down he smiled.
"Tor!"
"Ple." Wurmple said before she started to glow white.
"Huh?" Autumn said.
When the glowing stopped Wurmple was now covered in a thick white canon with a few spikes sticking out and an eye in the center.
"She, she evolved." Autumn said as she opened her pokedex.
"Silcoon, the Cocoon Pokémon. Silcoon is the evolved form of Wurmple. Using its thread to attach itself to a tree branch, it waits to evolve to its next stage. When it grows thirsty, it drinks the dew that collects on its string."
"She evolved already" Autumn said sounding excited.
"Wurmple do evolve fairly quickly." Jason said as Autumn picked up her new Silcoon.
"I'm so proud of you."
Jason smiled too seeing this.
After meeting back up with the others, the group finally made it out of the Petalburg woods.
Once they were out, they parted ways with the team aqua members.
"Thank you again Matt." Jason said.
"No problem, just try to stay out of trouble." Matt said as he and his men went off.
The group continued walking south towards the coastline.
"So how far are we from the harbor you were talking about?" Jason asked.
"Maybe an hour or two." Finn said.
"Congratulations on your Silcoon evolving." Emelia said as Autumn held Silcoon in her arms.
"Thanks, we're one step closer to her being a Beautifly."
"Coon."
As they kept walking and got to the coastline, Finn noticed a Corphish in the sand.
"Woah a Corphish!" Finn said as he tried to take a picture. However, before he could the Corphish was gone.
"What?" Finn said as he walked over to the sand and looked for him.
"Finn where are you going?" Jason asked.
"I think he said he saw a Corphish."
"He must want to take a picture." Emelia said with a sheepish smile.
Finn kept looking down the beach for the Corphish hoping he didn't go in the water.
"Finn wait don't run off!" Jason shouted as they started to follow him.
As Finn kept moving down the beach, he finally saw the Corphish.
"Gotcha." Finn said as he quickly took the picture.
That was when he saw the Corphish turn to him.
"Cor?"
He put his camera down and saw the Corphish was in front of a small cabin by the water with a dock and a boat docked there.
Moments later the door opened as a man walked out. The man looked like he was in his 40s with a checkered shirt, a tan jacket, a brown fishing like hat, and kakis. He light skin with brown eyes and short black hair.
"Corphish." He said in a foreign accent as he walked over to him.
"Phish." Corphish said pointing to Finn.
"Uh hi." Finn said as the man looked at him.
"Bonjour jeune homme." He said.
"Huh?" Finn said as the man kept speaking in another language.
"I'm sorry I don't speak that language." Finn said sweat dropping s the man gave a frustrated look.
"Finn there you are." Finn heard as he turned to see Jason and the others.
"Oh sorry guys, I just uh." He said sweat dropping.
"Who's this?" Autumn asked.
"I don't know, he's speaking some kind of foreign language." Finn said as the man gave a frustrated look and kept talking.
Jason raised an eyebrow and walked forward.
"Bonne journée Monsieur." He said as the man gave a relieved smile.
"Huh?" The other 3 said as they gave confused looks.
Jason kept talking to the man in that language before he turned to them.
"He's from Kalos." Jason said.
"That explains the accent and language." Finn said.
"You speak Kalos?" Autumn asked.
"My mom is from Kalos remember."
"Oh right." Autumn said sweat dropping.
"My mom said my first words were in Kalos."
"What is he saying?" Emelia asked.
"He says he's a sailor who sails the world and this is his Corphish."
He kept speaking and what he said caught Jason's attention.
"He said he's heading to Dewford island." Jason said before he started speaking in Kalos again.
The man smiled and spoke back.
Jason turned to the others.
"He said he'd give us a ride if we help him road and unload his cargo. He's hauling pokeballs for the center and gym there."
"Sure we can help." Emelia said.
They followed him inside and each picked up a box full of pokeballs.
Their pokemon helped them too as they loaded the boxes onto the boat.
The man spoke again.
"Ok we're all set." Jason said as they got onto the boat.
The man started the boat as his Corphish got on as well.
The boat began moving away from the land and through the open water.
Near the front of the boat Jason was looking off at the horizon with Autumn.
"So what's the Dewford gym leader like?"
"My dad says she's a fighting type gym leader. A pretty tough one too, she was the apprentice to the last gym leader there Brawley."
"What happened to him?"
"He got elevated to the elite 4, by my dad."
"Fighting types huh. Well I won't be at a disadvantage this time. But still we've got a lot more training to do before we battle her." Jason said.
That is when they heard something above them.
"Gull." They looked up and saw a Wingull flying over them.
"Hey look a Wingull." Emelia said.
"A Wingull flying over the ocean blue, not so easy to get a shot like this." Finn said as he raised his camera and took a picture of him.
The Wingull saw this and gave an interested look.
Finn showed the picture to the others.
"Not bad." Autumn said.
Finn put the picture down only to see the Wingull flying in front of his face.
"Gah!" He said almost jumping.
"Gull!" The bird shouted.
"Uh hi?" Finn said.
"Wingull!" Wingull said pointing his beak at Finn's camera.
"I think he wants you to take another picture of him." Autumn said.
"Ok." Finn said as he took another picture of Wingull.
"Gull!" Wingull shouted sounding excited and pecked at the camera again.
"Another one? But I already took 2." Finn said sweat dropping.
"Gull!"
"He likes having his picture taken. That's so cute." Emelia said smiling.
"Well I've already got his picture, and we're on the ocean. There are more pokemon for me to capture." He said when the driver shouted.
"Wailmer!"
The group went to the side and saw a small pod of Wailmer surfacing.
"Woah Wailmer!" Jason said.
"They're so big." Autumn said.
"A whole pod wow!" Finn said as he tried to take a picture.
Just before he could, the Wingull flew in front of his camera.
"Gull!"
"What?"
"He wants you to take a picture of him." Autumn said.
"No, Wingull move!"
"Gull!"
Finn tried to move to take another picture at another angle, only to have the Wingull get in front of the camera again.
Finn gave an irritated look.
"Wingull move or we'll have a battle."
Wingull poked at the camera again.
"That's it, go Mudkip!" Finn shouted as Mudkip leapt into the water.
"Mudkip use Water gun!"
"Kip!" Mudkip shouted as he blasted a jet of water at Wingull.
The Wingull flew away and down at Mudkip with Wing attack.
Mudkip swam underwater as Wingull hit the water.
"Tackle."
Mudkip leapt out of the water as Wingull flew back up.
He then flew backwards at an angle before slamming Mudkip's back with Wing attack.
Mudkip smashed into the water.
"Rock throw!"
Mudkip came back out before hurling a few rocks into Wingull, hurling him onto the deck, pinned under the rocks.
"Finally." Finn said.
"You should catch him." Jason said.
"What?" Finn said.
"He clearly likes you." Emelia said.
Finn looked at the Wingull and sighed.
"Ok. Pokeball go!" Finn said as he hurled a pokeball forward.
The pokeball hit Wingull and sent him inside.
The pokeball shook and rattled before sparkling.
"I caught him." Finn said as Mudkip leapt back onto the boat.
He picked up the pokeball and held it before letting out the Wingull.
"Gull!" Wingull shouted pointing his beak at the camera.
Finn sighed.
He took another picture of Wingull as Emelia and the others laughed.
Finally as the sun began to set they came across a large island.
"Dewford!" The driver shouted.
"We're here!" Autumn said.
They each helped the driver carry the boxes to the pokemon center before parting ways.
"Merci." He said before he walked back to his boat.
"Well we finally made it." Emelia said.
"We can spend the night at the pokemon center." Jason said as they went inside.
Author's note
I know not much happened here, but these are the harder chapters to write
Finn has himself a Wingull and the gang is at Dewford island
We also got a bit of backstory on Mathis
So until next time, please review, comment, suggest, or ask(via PM)