Hi!
Or would the formal greeting be 'Hello!'?
I'm always confused about that... Reminds me of that one time I made Tubby beat the 'ak' out of that Spinarak.
Teehee...
See what I did there?
I'm quite the funny Eevee!
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Er, I'm getting sidetracked!
My name is Sammy T. something or another...
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Damn it all to Giratina!
Even in my mind I can't do a proper greeting!
I looked over at the pokeball that lay in Jimmy's hand. Inside that red and white ball of comprised scientific junk, that was made from fruit apparently, held our newest member of the team!
And first impressions where super duper important!
I mean, first time I saw Tubby I was at a lost for words and acting like a bumbling idiot!
I could barely ask any questions, or tell him about myself at first!
Although I'm fifty billion one hundred and seven percent sure that I won't be effected by-oh sweet Regice on ice!
Jimmy didn't give our new friend a name!
Well, I think that's enough bad news to cause a silent freak out on Tubby's tummy.
So I did a small squirm of displeasure and muttered some foul words at my trainer's enthusiastic stupidity for, I dunno... Ten minutes?
I'm not very good at telling time.
Some say I get off track, and to them I say: shut your food hole or I'll get my boyfriend to smash your face!
That usually shuts them up pretty well.
I looked over at Tubby's face, I could do that for three hours...
Because I have!
Yep, I know how many minutes are in an hour!
Sixty, and every minute has sixty seconds so I just count sixty, sixty times!
Then I count sixty sixty times two more times and then I have an hour!
So that's how I know I did that for three hours! Hm, here I thought I was bad at telling time! Guess I can even surprise myself sometimes...
Oh man, where was I?
Ah yes, Tubby's face!
So cunningly beautiful!
I could stare at it for three hours...
Wait, I already thought that...
Oh well! I'll think it again!
Thinking is fun!
I have a good amount of time to think because Jimmy usually passes out somehow after he gets really pumped up and him and Tubby don't wake up as early as I do.
And I use that time to look at Tubby's face!
And while I look at Tubby's face, I think!
What do I think about?
Looking at Tubby's face!
Well...
Most of the time, sometimes I think about kissing his face.
Hehe, my face turns a little pink just thinking about it...
I don't understand why it turns pink still... I've kissed his remarkably good looking face over six hundred times!
And in real life! Not my mind!
Yep, I counted!
He's always asleep when I do it, he thinks he's a light sleeper... But he's not.
I stopped counting how many times that I've licked his face, me and Jimmy tried using that tactic to wake him up many times but it rarely works..
So unfortunately, he uses the flute more often then not.
That doesn't mean I'll stop licking his face!
Hmm...
As I stare at his face, I wonder if I could steal, yet another kiss from him.
Just for practice!
I need to get kissing him perfectly right!
So that our first, real, kiss isn't awkward and is instead the bestest thing ever!
I don't think bestest is a real word, but I consider it as such!
Lot's of words don't sound real, let's take this word for example.
Tyromancy.
I figure I'll use that word in a conversation with a super smarty pants psychic type, I think the word means to tell the future with cheese or something like that?
It's a word, that many don't know about... Where did I learn it from?
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Oh! I learned that from a Jimmy's sister, she was pretty smart now that I remember her!
Oh, and really nice!
And good with pokemon!
She used to pet my tummy and scratch behind my ears...
Oh, and she had this Vaporeon that was just... Ew.
He was smart like her, but he used that knowledge to belittle me!
And he was super ugly!
Hmph, I put the whoop down on him when he got to close though, should've been training 'stead of reading!
But I think that first unofficial battle for me was what made Jimmy realize his potential!
If I, his only pokemon at the time, could defeat one of his older sister's pokemon...
Then anything could be possible!
Even defeating the elite four and getting all the badges!
Being the very best, like no one ever was!
And stuff.
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I let out a happy sigh, it looked like we would most certainly beat the fighting gym at least.
I don't know about being the very best though, not really in the mood to aim that high...
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Okay, I'm going in!
I'm going to go, crawl over, and just kiss his face!
I was bored for a few seconds! That causes me to become hyper active!
And I must release this hyper powered energy that I've acquired into sleep kisses for Tubby!
That makes sense right? Pretty good excuse to just kiss him?
I think so!
So I got up and stretched a little, my eyes where already locked onto his face so I merely followed my eyes... One foot in front of the othe-NO!
I heard a sound that halted my advance, and looked to the side to see the creator of the noise.
It was a groan, a I'm-waking-up-now-after-being-knocked-out-by-my-own-clumsiness groan. I had heard my young trainer make that noise so many times. It signaled that thinking time, was about to be replaced with training time... Or talking time.
But talking time usually led to avoiding Tubby's rather adorable questions of bliss innocence and ignorance.
Don't get me wrong, he's not stupid, just... He doesn't know some things he should.
Like the Pidgeys and the Beedri-"AH!"
Well, my thoughts where interrupted by my fluffy boyfriend! I was so wrapped up in my thoughts that I failed to notice Jimmy take out his flute and use it on Tubby! The flute itself sounds great to humans who are awake, awake pokemon seem to hear nothing... But the ones that are asleep, apparently it's not a good way to wake someone up... I wouldn't know because, like I said last thought, I'm awake before either one of them most of the time. Sadly Tubby usually wakes up to the flute, like right now.
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Which sorta of, maybe, kinda of, possibly, most likely...
Pissed him off and made him get up to attack.
Due to my position when this movement happened, I was tossed off of Tubby and practically face planted on the ground.
Not fatally snapping my neck, although that would be funny and random, but it still smarted...
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As I got up off the floor I warned myself of "The dangers of sneak kisses so late in the morning, I should do it earlier..."
"What was that Sam?"
I froze at the sound of Tubby's, smooth, manly voice.
I spoke out loud? I didn't realize that I was speaking out loud!
Oh sweet Arceus! He doesn't know many things of that nature but he, for a hundred percent sure, knows what a kiss is was after that one incident with that Gallade he keeps calling Creep!
I had to calm down my breathing so I could look up at him, maybe he didn't hear me very well. So, I'll just play it off like I didn't say anything of importance and that he shouldn't trouble his sweet mind over what I said... Or maybe I could tell the truth? Maybe I could stop lying and sneaking kisses off him?
But then I'd have to give him the talk about males and females that he didn't have... Ruin his adorable innocence forever...
Ugh, I'll just keep up my lying for now.
He'll learn everything on his own after all. So, with that issue resolved in my brain... I cleared my throat and let my, what Tubby calls angelic, voice answer his question with a smooth lie of love. "Nothing Tubby, I'm just excited to meet our new teammate! That's it."
He looked at me and I swear, one of his eye lids opened up half way so I could see one his gorgeous eyes a little better. "But you were talking about sneak kisses... And you paused for about three minutes, starring off into space."
I tensed up again. I was just standing there thinking to myself?
Do I do that often? Because I'd really like to know... But that'd be changing the subject, and while Tubby doesn't know about certain things... He's not dumb! And he'll catch on that I was avoiding his questions and lying! Then he'll never love me and everything in my life will be over and I'll die all alone far away from him!
I need a distraction!
My eyes looked over at Jimmy and I weakly grinned, I had one shot to do this..
My young trainer had the new pokemon's pokeball in his left hand while his head was turned around and he used his right hand to put away the pokeflute. I looked over to the opposite side of Tubby and made a yelping noise, my ears perking straight up as I spoke out in a fake distraught voice... I should be one of those acting pokemon from the T.V. "Is that a Luxray over there?"
Of course there wasn't, but Tubby's rather protective of me... And even if he knew I was trying to distract him, which he didn't, he'd still look over, not willing to take a chance with my well being at stake.
I almost got lost in my thoughts as he looked over to where I indicated a Luxray might be, but I quickly took control of my body and used my awesome speed to Quick Attack the pokeball in Jimmy's hand, and then land in the exact spot I was before Tubby even knew I moved at all!
Yeah, I do believe I'm that amazing.
Tubby looked over at me like he was going to talk once more but Jim's startled cry of alarm and the familiar 'ping' like noise of a pokeball releasing a pokemon was heard, making the three of us look at the freshly released Hoothoot in silence.
I'm pretty sure the silence dragged on for hours, but in reality it was only three minutes of awkwardness... I think, not very good with time...
Thankfully Jim finally spoke up, unfortunately it wasn't the best choice of words, in my opinion, for him to say at that moment. "Nice to meet you Hoots! We're going to go defeat that stupid fighting type gym! Come on!"
Well, at least he named him before he ran off in the direction of Veilstone City.
Tubby never could remember the names of the towns like I could, I could even remember the gym leaders names!
I have quite the awesome memory now that I think about it...
I began to follow after Jim once I was done thinking and had to catch up to Tubby and Hoots... Rather surprising that Hoots would follow Jim with out a struggle though. Tubby gave me the impression that almost every pokemon in the world didn't like the idea of being captured and trained... But it looks like that theory might be wrong! With this renewed sense of eagerness to go meet this new friend, I quickly rushed over to the slowly flapping flying type... Opened my mouth, and spoke. "Hello! My name is Sam! It's nice to meet you!"
His flying slowed down for a moment as he looked over at me with a small fleeting glance so quick, I couldn't even begin to read the emotion that was held within those eyes. But I took note that his voice sounded bored. As if he was giving a play by play of a Slugma moving across the floor at a leisurely pace to score a touchdown in a game of football. "I don't care for your name. I won't be using it for long, maybe not at all... Can we just get on with this?"
Now, most pokemon would become angry or annoyed at the remark... For instance, I could see Tubby clenching his fists out of the corner of my eye but he seemed to calm down and take control of his anger like a good little boyfriend he didn't know he was...
But unlike him and most others, I just became even more curious about Hoots after he said that! So, with my want to know more... I quickened my pace again so I was right next to Hoots so conversation would be much easier. "Why do you say that? You're part of the team now! We're going to go fight the gym and be the best in the whole region, maybe the world!"
"Tch, maybe you and the Snorlax. But your trainer will release me just like the others." Geez, he's a downer! Oh well, he may be feeling melancholy at the moment, and his voice may suck all of the fun out of the atmosphere like a blackhole...
But he's most likely a really cool guy underneath that rough first wall of antisocial behavior... Or that's what I hope. "Ol' Jimmy? Nah, he's a pretty caring trainer! He wouldn't release you Hoots, also, why'd you say others?"
There was a pause as he looked over at Jim, who was just ahead of us by a few feet, he had stopped running, but hadn't stopped moving for a single moment of rest... His determination to win a small little gym badge was pretty admiring... But yet again, my thoughts were interrupted by a voice, Hoots had most likely used that pause of silence to choose his next words over carefully and delicately... So I had to be on my toes for any tricks he may use.. I'm always on my toes, I don't really get metaphors, but I'm pretty sure that just means to be ready and alert while he spoke..."Jimmy, as you called him, will most likely just get rid of me after this gym battle."
My mouth started to scowl into a noticeable frown as I looked up at the Hoothoot, anger starting to bubble up in me... "Well, why do you think that?"
"Because he's my sixth trainer, the other five caught me just so they could win at this gym battle and then they release me almost right after everything is said and done... Leaving me along in the wild, waiting for the next trainer to catch me..."
His words stung at me, my mind cried a tear at hearing that sad story... How was that even possible though!
No one would just catch one pokemon to win a fight!
Right?
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That... That'd just be wrong. "What? But.. Why would they..?"
"Simple little Eevee, my species live in the surrounding area and in turn we are subjected to human's and how they choose to live their lives..." He paused and looked away for a tense moment before giving me a sad sideways glance. "This gym that you speak of is full of a type of pokemon my kind have a easier time of dispatching of then a rock type. So, we are caught to make the battle easier. I've heard that this is common almost everywhere that there's a gym. It's primarily why it seems gyms tend to represent the pokemon in the surrounding area, so we can't be exploited just to fight a gym and then be released into the wild like garbage."
I was silent for a little while, that was... It was terrible. Was Jimmy doing that? Just capturing Hoots for the battle and then get rid of him right after? Unsure of myself for a moment, I cleared my throat and spoke up. "You'll see how different Jimmy is!"
Hoots just rolled his eyes and kept up his slow flying before perching on a branch right above where Jimmy had stopped moving, Tubby arrived soon after, he wasn't trying to be fast so he probably saw no reason not to go really slow... Either that or he was wrapped up in his own thoughts again, probably trying to figure out something, like if he should just admit he was my soul mate and make out with me right now!
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I have a good imagination...
Before I could imagine all the possible things that he was thinking of, Jimmy crashed my train of thought with his voice, and so I listened. "Alright, now Hoots... I know you're new and junk but I heard you and Sam talking about something... So I figured before we go and take on that Gym, we can train a little!"
Tubby let out a small groan and sat down, shaking the ground with his tremendous strength as he did so. He didn't really have a problem with training... Okay he did, but it wasn't that he hated it... Or maybe he did? I dunno, I'm not Tubby so I can only guess that the training time made him focus his thoughts on not thinking about me.
And that must suck.
Jimmy heard the sigh from my kinda-boyfriend and what he said next shocked me a little. "It's alright Tubby, I'm just going to train Sam and Hoots for today, you need to rest up for the gym battle tomorrow!"
I think that was one of the few times he smiled at our trainer.
He let out a mumbled 'thank you' before falling all the way back and falling asleep in a matter of seconds. Now that I looked around and stopped thinking about me and Tubby...
Tubby and I?
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Bah, who cares?
Now that I had looked around and stopped thinking about us, I noticed that while we were closer to the city, we were still a fair distance away. That made me hang my head in sadness, while it was proving to Hoots that Jimmy wasn't a total idiot when it came to training... It meant I had a day of training with a stranger and not seeing my kinda-boyfriend battle. However, I quickly got over my sadness and brightened up. Hoots could be a fun opponent! And while I couldn't put up much of a fight the last time we were in the gym, a day of training to sharpen my senses was just what I needed! I looked up at Hoots with a sly smile and spoke out more confidently then before at him, I felt better about the fact that I was already proving him wrong. "See? Jimmy's smart enough to not just run willy nilly into battle a pokemon he barely knows!"
Hoots was silent as he flapped his wings almost noiselessly and landed across from me as I got in front of Jimmy, in a battle stance. "So far, but being smart enough to test a pokemon out before hand doesn't mean I will not be trashed after the battle."
I growled and got ready to pounce, this guy was a real downer, and his constant insulting of Jimmy was really getting to me! Couldn't he just move on and be happy? "Enough yappen' Hoots! After the gym battle we'll see who's right or not..."
"Sounds fair enough." The Hoothoot did a small bow as he shifted to one foot to the other... Now that I was paying attention, he was standing on only one foot at a time!
What was up with that anyways? Maybe I should ask him after this... "Alright, now I want to figure out what you can do Hoots! So this is just going to be a friendly spar between you and Sammy, enough pokechatting! Let's have a fun little spar!"
Jimmy was finished talking, and he pointed a finger at Hoots and shouted a attack. "Alright, hit him with a Tackle Sam!"
So at his orders, I complied, running at Hoots, I lunged to Tackle him but at the last possible moment, he flew straight up into the air and I barely had enough time to land on all four of my feet properly. Otherwise I would've landed on my face and that would've su-"Above you Sam, roll left!"
That was close!
Like, oh my Arceus that was close.
I felt the rush of wind fly past me has Hoots' beak was buried into the ground slightly. That Peck attack would've hurt, like really bad... Growling a little, I rushed at him with a Tackle attack and slammed into him while he was busy trying to get out of the ground. While this obviously hurt him, it also helped him get out of the ground... Oops.
Oh well! I've still landed a hit on the bird, that's more then I could think/say about him! I readied myself for another opening to attack him but his one footed battle stance was off putting... He looked really fragile but at the same time like a rock, he didn't need four legs like me to fight!
He only needed one...
Shaking the thought from my head, the flying type opened his beak and did something so annoying... He started yelling and squawking gibberish and almost making my ears bleed. I had to shut my eyes tightly and put my head on the ground, my front paws gravitating towards my ears and doing not the best job of covering them up, even though my ears were pressed flat against my head, it still hurt. What's even worse, the Uproar woke up Tubby, who muttered a curse at Hoots.
The 'attack' kept up for a couple more aggravating minutes but when it stopped I quickly opened my eyes to look at Hoots with a scowl. He woke up Tubby when he had a day off so to speak, that was unforgiva-never mind.
Tubby fell asleep right in the middle of my thought process of a plan of sweet revenge... Whatever, he still hurt me!
Recovering from his own daze, Jimmy looked over at Hoots, who was huffing and puffing from using up all the air in his lungs. Grinning, my trainer nodded his head. "Attack quickly while he's unable to do anything Sam!"
Attack quickly... Easy enough order, I quickly went from standing away from Hoots, to slamming into his side with the use of a Quick Attack. Honestly, Hoots was taken by surprise. Most don't really expect me to move so fast... Anyways, he was sent flying at a tree but he corrected his flight and stopped his crash course path.
Turning to look at me, a blue hexagon like looking layer seemed to overcoat all over him before he slowly flew towards me with what looked like a peck attack. Wow, he wasn't very smart... I smiled and rammed him with a Quick Attack again... Or at least that's what I tried to do.
Upon impact, I rammed into the blue hexagons from before and I mentally groaned. He must have put up Reflect or something, which sucks because I had only one physical attack... And he was immune to my Shadow Ball's.
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Hehe, balls.
OW! Damn it all to Giratina!
I was mentally laughing at something for a moment and he pecked me again! This time I barred my fangs while he was close and when the strange dark energy gathered in my teeth, I used Bite on him. Even though he had that Reflect going on, it seemed like my teeth were sending some pain his way.
Probably because I was on his left wing.
He tried shaking me off and flinging me around, but it wasn't going to work for him. Soon enough the stupid Reflect stopped working and I let go of his wing for a second.
Only to use Bite on it right after the second passed. This time he really felt it and let out a pained yelp, but then I made the mistake of looking at his face. His normally red eyes seemed to change color into a deep blue and my grip on his wing slackened. My eyes started to grow heavy...
I let out a yawn and stumbled backwards, I can't believe he managed to use Hypnosis on me...
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My sleep was pretty good, I was already starting to dream about my fluffy hero that would protect me from all dangers and how awesome of a couple everyone thought we were... Sadly it only lasted for around a minute.
For the first time, I experienced the flute. The surprisingly painful flute that makes your ears, figuratively, bleed...
I understand why Tubby hates it now.
I'd rather not dwell on how painful the flute feels and how stupid it is, or how it should never be used on my man again, or how it shouldn't be invented, or how it's stupid... Or how it's painful.
It's really painful.
But not as painful as the next peck attack would've been if I hadn't jumped out of Hoots way in time. Seriously, that guy's on the ball. He managed not to hit the ground this time and merely looked at me, his wings keeping him up in the air as we had a mini-starring contest... His eyes were just so... Red. "Sam! He's going to try to use Hypnosis again! Snap out of it and attack!"
I blinked, if I fell asleep again... Jim would have to wake me up, and if Jim had to wake me up... I shook my head and Quick Attacked Hoots, sending him flying back into a tree. Be damned by Palkia if I let that shit happen again.
Did I mention how stupidly painful that flute is? I mean... It rival's Hoots whole Uproar attack thing. And that's possibly saying something! Or thinking it. Is there a difference? Now that I really think about it... Me and Tubby have a pretty big size difference... Maybe if I evolved it wouldn't be that big of a difference? Maybe... Hm... What do I want to ev-oh, now that I'm moderately paying attention... I see that I managed to knock out Hoots with that Quick Attack! Jimmy let out a cheer of joy and moved to pet me, which I let him do.
Just a tip, if you're going to let someone rub your tummy, let'em. It feels sooooooooo good... Well, for Eevees at least. I dunno about Snorlax's and Hoothoot's... Whatever.
Hoots was up soon enough, he was bit shaky but he wasn't too hurt. Jimmy checked him closely for any wounds anyways, spraying him with a potion on a few cuts he got from hitting the tree and then on my bite marks... Pretty impressive bite marks if I do say so myself! Well... Not much too be proud of considering he's the new guy and this was only a sparing match.
"Hmph, fairly impressive fighting skills." I was a little taken back by Hoots sudden voice becoming apparent but I shrugged my shoulders and grinned at him.
"Yeah, I train with my boyfriend all the time!"
Hoots raised a brow at that and quite comically tilted his head to the side as if on deep thought, he wasn't really looking at me though.. Maybe behind me? I dunno, he's a little weird. "Oh, who's your boyfriend?"
"Tubby, the Snorlax!" He made a odd face but I ignored it, he wasn't the first to disapprove of my 'relationship' with Tubby, so I kept talking. Be damned if I stopped! I've been holding it in for so long! "Yeah, I kiss him in his sleep and he don't know what a relationship really is so there's no need for me too worry! He's big and strong and fluffy and maybe a little clueless about things but that's some of the things that... He! Why are you snickering?"
Indeed Hoots was snickering, his head righted to where it normally belonged, and this time he stared directly at me. Maybe he was mad at me for knocking him out? "Because 'Tubby' is right behind you!"
That made me freeze up. Had he been listening in to what I had been saying the whole time? No! Hoots was lying through his teeth! Er, beak. Tubby was fast asleep and... Oh no. The stupid flute... It.. It woke him up and...
I slowly turned my head back around and I frowned sadly as I looked at Tubby's face. Yeah, it looked like he was annoyed... Probably should have told him things earlier?
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"You have some explaining to do Sam."
I know... Bah, why does Jimmy have to decide to start making a meal right after battle? I want to go into my ball and hide away... Not tell Tubby everything that he wanted/needed to know...
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Oh well... I let out a sigh and began explaining the easiest thing first, I don't know why but Hoots was present for this talk too... Guess that this was reaching a new peak of weirdness with Hoots tagging along...
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Sweet Arceus, kill me now... Kill me before he asks what the Beedrills and the Pidgeys are...
Damn, too late.
Yeah, I know... WAY overdue. I had stuff over the summer that I had to do but in the end... I've finally come back to the story. It's been extended considerably so I hope you enjoy that fact. I'll try to keep up a steady stream of updates, unless I get hit by a bus or something major happens. :P
Till then, Review please! I love reading about what you guys think about meh chapters! :D
