I haven't updated this story in who knows how long but I have a reason: I have a lot of homework, tests, quizzes, and EXAMS! AHHHHHH! Anyway, I those are my reasons and if you chose to accept them, then that's awesome, if not then oh well. Enough rambling, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pokemon or any of its characters! (I sometimes wish I did though.)
Chapter 12
The next morning, Ali woke up and started to think about the conversation that they had yesterday.
I can't help but feel scared, what if I am the reason the world is being driven to oblivion Ali thought miserably but decided not to convey his thoughts to his partner just because he didn't know for sure if he WAS the reason that world is facing a decisive oblivion.
He thought that since that there was no point of staying there, he decided that he should go outside and meet of Eevee because she happened to be awake earlier that he was today.
Ali went outside and found his partner there, looking at him with a worried expression on her face.
"Hi Eevee, what's going on?" Ali asked, looking at her nervously.
"Nothing, let's keeping doing good! Well actually," Eevee began as she started to fidget slightly.
"What is it?" Ali asked, encouraging her to ask.
"That conversation yesterday with Xatu, what do you think of it?" Eevee asked.
"That's a vague question, care to give some details," Ali asked, tilting his head.
"Well are you worried about it?" she asked apprehensively.
"I am a bit worried about it," Ali admitted, "I've also been thinking about it a lot earlier this morning," he added and Eevee stared at him briefly.
"I figured that it might bother you, Xatu said that there was a connection between the world's balance being upset and you became a Pokemon," Eevee said.
"Well, I've been thinking about that too but I know that you probably have more to say so let's here it," Ali said as she nodded and continued to speak.
"And its because of the world's upset balance and the natural disasters that have been happening lately and more than anything, Xatu said that the world will be destroyed if the balance isn't restored in time, I want to do something about it...but there's something I don't understand," Eevee said moving closer to Ali.
"What is it?" he asked curiously as he watched her movements.
"The world's balance, what is it? Ali, do YOU know what the world's balance is?" she asked.
"I don't know anything about it because if I did, we'd have already done something about or be in the progress of doing something about it," Ali said.
"That's true and you would have told me straight off if you did know something, right?" she asked meekly.
"Of course," he replied, smiling at her and she blushed again.
"I can't imagine what the world's balance is about and to be honest, I have no idea what we should or could do to try to stop it. I guess we'll just have to do what we can to help the Pokemon caught in the disasters," Eevee said and Ali nodded.
"Let's get ready so we can head out," Ali said and the duo ran to Pokemon square to get the gear that they needed to start rescues.
Team Valor went to all the shops and got a few items that will be very helpful for their rescues as they still had plenty of jobs that they could do.
As they finished, Eevee noticed something at the center and pointed this out to Ali and went over to ask.
"Yeah, I'm kinda shocked," Lombre said.
"I always thought that it was just a silly legend," Snubbull said, nodding in agreement.
"But could it really be true?" Bellsprout asked, finishing Snubbull's sentence, "Because if it is, I have a hard time believing it," he added.
"I hope not but it could be a possibility," Lombre said grimly.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Ali asked as they walked over to the chattering trio.
"Have you heard of the Ninetales Legend?" Lombre asked, turning to look at them.
Ali and Eevee looked at each other and shook their heads.
"You don't know?"Snubbull said, looking surprised.
"I'm to surprised because hardly anyone believes it to be true in the first place," Bellsprout said reasonably.
"Care to tell us a little about it?" Ali asked and Lombre nodded.
"All I remember is that it was about if you grab one of Ninetales' tails then you will be cursed for one thousand years," Lombre replied.
"Whoa, a thousand years," Eevee said, looking surprised.
"All this time, everyone thought it was a legend, but lately there have been rumors going around saying that the legend might be true," Snubbull said.
"It's only a legend so I wouldn't give it too much credit or belief if I were you," Bellsprount said.
"If you want to learn more about the Ninetales Legend, go talk to Whiscash, you can find him in his pond over there," Lombre said, gesturing to the path to the pond.
"That's sounds pretty interesting, I'm gonna go learn more about this legend," Ali said as he ran to the pond.
"Ali, wait up!" Eevee shouted as she ran after him.
They ran to the pond and saw Whiscash swimming lazily around in the water.
"Excuse me," Ali called and Whiscash caught sight of them and chuckled.
"Hello, what are your names?" he asked pleasantly.
"I'm Ali and this is Eevee," Ali said, introducing himself and his partner.
"So, how may I help you today?" Whiscash asked pleasantly.
"I was hoping that you could tell us about the Ninetales Legend," Ali said hopefully.
"Of course, I would be glad to tell you about it," Whiscash said as he got himself in a more comfortable position and gestured to Team Valor to sit down and make themselves more comfortable.
"Let me see if I can remember this, ah yes, here we go, there once was a Pokemon named Ninetales. Now Ninetales as the name implies had many tails, nine of them if I recall correctly. Anyway, all of them were imbued with psychic power. It was said that anyone so foolish to grab one of Ninetales' tails would be cursed for one thousand years," Whiscash explained.
"Is it possible to break the curse?" Eevee asked.
"I honestly can't remember, but anyway there was someone who was foolish enough to grab one of the tails, and it was a human" Whiscash said grimly and Ali and Eevee exchanged a surprised glance before turning to look at him once more.
"Let me guess, he was cursed?" Eevee asked and Whiscash chuckled.
"You are half correct, normally if anyone grabs a tail, then they are automatically subjected to the thousand year curse. However, as Ninetales cast the curse, a Pokemon named Gardevoir took the human's place and sacrificed herself to the curse," Whiscash said sadly.
"Why would that Pokemon, Gardevoir do that for the human?" Eevee asked.
"To Gardevoir, that person was her partner, there exist strong bonds between humans and Pokemon," Whiscash said.
"Ok...so aren't there good humans and bad ones too?" Eevee said as she glance over at Ali.
"Correct, taking pity on Gardevoir, Ninetales asked the human, do you wish to save her? But the human had already abandoned the poor Gardevoir and fled," Whiscash said.
"That's terrible!" Eevee shouted and hoped that the human in the legend was not Ali.
Whiscash continued the tale and said,"Ninetales became disillusioned with the human and made this prediction: That human will die one day and then be reborn as Pokemon."
"What, that human will become a Pokemon!" Ali exclaimed.
"Correct, now when that human becomes a Pokemon, the world's balance will be upset, and that's how the legend ends," Whiscash said as Ali and Eevee stood there with their eyes wide with a very apprehensive stare.
"Do you find it interesting?" Whiscash asked, only for his words to fall upon deaf ears because Team Valor was still stunned about the legend that they had just heard.
Eevee looked really sad and Ali looked really nervous while Whiscash chuckled and said, "Ahahaha, you found my tale so interesting that you are at a loss for words?" He then caught sight of their apprehensive expressions and said, "There is no need to wear such serious expressions, certainly there are some rumors saying that it might be true but I assure that this legend is nothing more than folklore."
Whiscash started laughing and said, "If you wish to hear my tale again, please do not hesitate to come and ask" as Ali and Eevee thanked him and started to walk back to Pokemon square.
"Hey, Ali?" Eevee said, turning to face him.
"Hm?" he replied, turning to face her.
"Yeah, you wanna call it a day?" She suggested.
"We haven't really done anything and its still pretty early," Ali said gesturing around.
"I'm sorry, I just can't seem to get motivated after hearing the legend, I'm going to go and get some rest, see you later," she said as she went to the base and went to bed.
"Okay," Ali said with a shrug and explored Pokemon Square on his own.
"What's this?" Ali asked, looking at a flyer that landed at his feet and he picked up and began to read.
"The Emerald Cup is coming up so get registered!" is what the Flyer said along with pictures of Pokemon that were in combat.
"This could help me get back on my feet and get me motivated," Ali said as he ran to the coliseum and signed up.
"I see that your female friend isn't with you today," Machop commented as Ali registered.
"Yeah, she's a bit sad but she's asleep right now and trying to figure things out," Ali replied.
"That's a shame, anyway, this cup is set up a little differently and this how we are going to do it since you are the only competitor in the cup," Machop said.
"What do I have to do?" Ali asked.
"Well it's actually very straightforward, you basically have to just not get knocked out in the span of one minute or knock out the rival team, the trick is timing in this type of thing," Machop said.
"That's sounds like fun, let's do it," Ali said as Machop grinned and led him to where his first foes were stand and it was a fairly simply match because they were merely at a type disadvantage.
"That was easy," Ali commented as a he dodged another attacking the time limit was up and Ali won!
Ali swept through the other eight matches easily because he is amazing and made it to the final round.
It was him against some random Ghost types, the coliseum was getting darker so that must have met that sun was going down so Ali had to finish the battle quickly so he could talk to Eevee.
"Take this," he said, spinning his tail and sending the Shadow Ball right back at them and KO'd one in a hit.
"Wow, didn't see that coming," Ali said, so they created small Shadow Balls and merged them into one big one that they fired and it was moving too fast to block or to dodge so Ali had to take it head on and it hurt--a lot.
"Ouch," he said as he quickly recovered as fired a flamethrower and knocked out another as the one minute was up and Ali had made and therefore was the winner of the Emerald Cup. Machop had handed him the cup and a some more Poke for their adventures because they wanted as much as possible should something happen and they might need it.
Ali grinned as he left the stadium with the cup and money in hand and he quickly put the money in the bank and carried the cup back home.
Eevee was sitting on the ground with tears in her eyes, it looked like she was crying for who knows how long. She turned to see Ali enter the base and gape at her.
He quickly set down the cup and sat down opposite her and asked, "What happened to you?"
"I'm sorry Ali," she said sadly.
"What are you talking about?" he asked, looking confused.
"I started doubting you, just a little but I'm not going to worry anymore because you are a friend above all others and a friend that I'd never again and so I'm not going to let you leave me...ever," Eevee said as Ali listened intently.
"I started doubting myself too, I wondered if I was or am the reason that the world is being driven to ruin maybe--" Ali said but Eevee cut him off by embracing him from behind.
"Ali, let's do good tomorrow," she whispered into his ear and he nodded as she took noticed up the bright green cup.
"Where did you get that?" she asked, looking at the cup.
"Oh, there was a tournament today and I won," Ali said proudly.
"That's so cool, why didn't you tell me?" Eevee asked, pouting slightly.
"There wasn't enough time and even if there was, you said that you wanted to rest and what right did I have to deny you that?" Ali explained and Eevee smiled.
"Tell me more," she said as she sat down and listened intently to Ali's story about the Emerald Cup.
"Ali, next time there's a cup, tell me, because I want to compete too," Eevee said and Ali nodded as he put the cup on a pedestal and walked back towards her.
"Feeling better?" he asked and she nodded as he lifted her into his arms and put her in bed as he went over to his own and leapt on it and fell asleep while Eevee giggled.
What do you think? I hope I did a good job writing this chapter because it has been almost a month since I started writing this. Since I feel bad about it, I'll probably write another chapter later today, MAYBE. You guys should read and review this because it would make me happy and make write the next chapter sooner. Read and Review!
