The Keeper of the Mewtwos 19
'Fate Has A Way of Throwing People Together'
The Day of the Cerulean City Tournament
Gabby yawned and stretched, lying back on the beach blanket that Justin had hired for the day earlier. The tournaments were already getting started, Justin was currently battling some surfie guy, and beating him. Kishi and Mewtwo had already gone through the first round, beating a Jr. Trainer senseless.
Kishi and Mewtwo had already visited the on-site Pokemon Centre and were observing Justin's battle too.
"Justin isn't bad," Kishi commented.
Gabby grinned evilly "What, you mean in battle or in looks,"
Kishi raised an eyebrow "Gee Gabby, what do you think?"
"Always worth a try," she said brightly.
"Oh, my, my," a familiar voice sung out bitterly "If it isn't my good friends Kishi and Gabby...and...Mewtwo...of course."
"Estelle." Kishi nodded.
Gabby said nothing.
Estelle, Monique, Akira and Kaybee wound their way through the crowd and then seated themselves with Kishi, Gabby and Mewtwo.
Gabby noted with an air of disgust at the length of both Estelle's and Monique's skirts.
"I didn't know you entered tournaments, Monique," Gabby noted innocently "Things get pretty tough out there," she looked pointedly at Estelle "You wouldn't want to drop out when things got too much for you,"
Estelle raised her head defiantly "Nor would you want to crawl shamelessly all over someone that you so obviously were terrified of, but well, you get that these days."
Kishi literally had to hold Gabby back.
"Looks like I am battling next," Monique noted as Justin's battle came to a climax, his Pidgey finishing off the opponent's Rattata.
"Good luck," Gabby said falsely, waving as Monique deserted them.
"I'm already in the next round," Akira announced "I won the first match that was played."
"Well done," Kishi said.
I don't like them. When are they leaving? Mewtwo demanded in private telepathy. Kishi shrugged in response.
"I'm battling after Monique," Gabby said slowly "So lemme guess, after me comes either you...or you..." she pointed to Estelle and Kaybee "Or I am battling one of you..." Gabby grinned "I hope I'm not, I would at least like to see you through the second round. But well...if you battle me, you'd be first round losers."
"That's big talk," Estelle snarled "It'd be pitifully funny if you lost your first round battle after this. Of course, I wouldn't laugh. Somebody might think that I know you if I do,"
Excellent justification Mewtwo commented.
Estelle glared at him.
Mewtwo glared back.
"Hey guys! How good was I?!" Justin hooted, rushing over to them.
"Almost as good as I will be sweetie," Estelle purred, fluffing her hair.
Justin groaned. "Oh hi Estelle, hi Kaybee, hi Akira,"
Kishi bit her lip and spoke softly "Monique is battling now,"
Justin whipped around.
His jaw dropped.
He wasn't looking at Monique though...it was her opponent, the one who's Golem was ripping into Monique's Nidorina.
The opponent was a good looking young male, about eighteen, in a purple vest and with short, wavy blue hair. He had a pair of black and white goggles perched on his head.
"Ah, shit," he whispered "Go Monique."
"Go Monique?! That guy is hot as and you are cheering on Monique!?" Gabby screeched, grabbing Justin's arm.
Estelle looked on disdainfully. "I think that we shall be leaving now."
Ah...at last Mewtwo breathed.
Estelle, Akira and Kaybee muttered some parting words, and then stalked off, most likely bitching the whole way.
"I swear to God that I am going to end up battling Estelle," Gabby
Justin sighed. "I swear to God that I will end up battling...him..."
Fate has a way of throwing people together Mewtwo shrugged.
"Yeah...just look at us,"
The day continued...The good-looking eighteen-or-so blue-haired guy ended up beating Monique. Gabby won her match easily. Kaybee and Estelle also both passed into the next round.
So then there were four battles.
Estelle vs Gabby
That guy vs Justin
Kishi vs Akira
Kaybee vs some Scottish accented guy
"I am going to take so much pleasure in defeating you,"
Estelle's voice rang sweetly in Gabby's ears. She was going to win!
She had been previously worried about this grudge match, but now she knew she was going to win.
"Bulbasaur! Vine Whip!" She declared.
Bulbasaur leapt forward and let Clefairy have it.
Clefairy tottered on its toes for a few awkward seconds.
Then it fell.
The crowd went wild. Gabby had won!
Estelle gasped, blushing, she made a sort of hissing sound and Gabby, then she returned her Pokemon and flounced off.
"Yes...yes yes yes YES!" Gabby sang as she did her little victory dance. "Good luck Justin!"
Justin entered the field, waving and smiling sweetly in all the attention...the girls went wild.
The girls grew even wilder as the good looking blue haired guy took the head of the field. He blew a kiss to a certain blonde in the audience.
"This is for you, Daisy," he called, "Hi, Justin."
Kishi, watching on the sidelines, gasped. "Daisy?" she whispered.
Mmm?
"Remember the deadbeat Justin was talking about yesterday at the Gym?" Kishi said softly.
Oh yeah Mewtwo said boredly. He was not altogether interested.
"The one with Daisy...Damien? This must be Damien!"
Mewtwo's brow furrowed. You paid that much attention?
Kishi blushed. "Remember that mental shield or whatever I had...well...it lowered...and...um...never mind, actually, forget I mentioned it..."
So Mewtwo who did not care that much anyway, forgot it.
"Ready to lose, little bro?"
"LITTLE BRO?!" Kishi hollered, then she blushed. "Shit Mewtwo! That is Justin's older brother...the one who left the family...after they lost the Gym...hold one you have no idea what I am talking about, do you?"
Yet you still believe that I care
"I know that hot blue haired guy's name," Gabby announced, plonking herself down next to Kishi and Mewtwo.
"Damien," Kishi said immediately "Damien Kanden,"
"Kanden?" Gabby squeaked.
"Yep. We are looking at Justin's older brother,"
Justin's heart wrenched with every blow dealt either way by their Pokemon, his Weedle vs Damien's Zubat.
He needed to make Damien respect him. He wanted to make Damien feel bad for leaving them. He had an old score which needed to be settled...but he couldn't manage to muster up more than a dry whisper when he commanded his Weedle's attacks.
Be strong Kishi said.
Justin let the comment go unnoticed for a while...but then he realised he had been looking at her face in the audience and she had not moved her lips...
However she uttered those words fell into ignorance. He did not care. He needed to prove himself, that he was not a loser who gave up after they had lost the Gym...
"Weedle! Poison Sting!" he yelled, shocking his brother by his volume.
The crowd went silent...they were sort of confused...but then...their excitement caught back up with them and they cheered again.
The battle was long. Pokemon were lost either way constantly, but it was in the last few minutes that the inevitable defeat of Damien occurred.
"Thank God!" Kishi sighed in relief "He needed that victory to prove something to his brother,"
Gabby was still quiet. She hadn't said much since Justin's round had started. "I never really imagined him having a family you know..."
Kishi looked up.
"He was just Justin...he was always really strong and silent...then he was all loud and hyper, but he was just Justin. Say it, 'Justin and his brother'... it doesn't sound right." Gabby mused. It sounded almost as if she were using her brain for once.
Kishi smiled, she put her arm around her cousin "I know."
Gabby laughed. "Don't touch me."
Kishi shrugged, not really hurt. But she wasn't going to laugh back. "I have to go to my match." She excused herself.
Gabby sighed and watched her cousin and Mewtwo leave her. This was the probably the first time during the day, excluding her personal hygiene routine, that she had been alone.
"You did great, Justin," Kishi grinned as she stepped up to Justin's place on the field.
Even though Damien was long gone to the PokeCentre, Justin was still standing there, shocked. He turned to her and grinned. "I won!"
"It was awesome!" Kishi gushed.
Then Justin surprised her, he threw his arms around her, a simple hug...but electricity crackled between them.
Kishi blushed as Justin released her. "Good luck against WonderBoy," he nodded.
"Thanks," Kishi smiled "Try and confront Damien too...congratulate him,"
Justin gave her a how-the-heck-did-you-know-about-my-relationship-with-Damien? look.
"OK, Kishi!" Akira yelled, running a hand through his spiky black hair "Let's go! I chose you, Hitmonlee,"
"Mewtwo," Kishi shrugged "Go and butcher Hitmonlee."
If you insist...
Mewtwo did end up butchering Hitmonlee. One hit KO. Mewtwo also defeated Akira's other Pokemon, Mankey. It was a much shorter round, Kishi, Gabby and Justin all favorites for the number 1 position.
And after that match, Kaybee was up, and she defeated her Scottish sounding opponent, Hamish, easily too.
The 3rd round pairings were;
Kaybee vs Kishi
Gabby vs Justin
Kishi's match against Kaybee was also short, Kaybee had a Charmander and her Ponyta, both falling subject to some mad flapping from Magikarp, a desperate effort to train Magikarp on Kishi's part. Then she saw that it was going nowhere, and she had allowed Squirtle to take over.
Gabby and Justin had promised eachother that no matter who won the battle, they would still be friends. Their battle was longer, Bulbasaur defeating Pikachu, but then losing to Pidgey, who lost to Rattata...and things went on that way...until...Gabby was down to her Oddish, and Justin released his Fearow. That battle ended in about the space of one peck.
The final two competitors were Justin and Kishi.
The battle was long.
The battle was hard, neither giving much either way, even though Justin had five fully functional Pokemon, and Kishi had two capable of battle, and another completely ineffectual two.
Justin and Kishi had not promised to remain friends.
It had not even crossed their minds.
The battle raged on.
Gabby found her cheers torn between the two...and then she realised, she didn't need to choose between them. She loved them both, and it no longer mattered to her who won.
Estelle cheered for Justin.
Monique, Akira and Kaybee did not cheer at all.
The battle raged on.
In the crowd, one sound rang out louder than the others, standing above it. "GO JUSTIN!"
Justin's eyes brimmed with tears...the owner of the cry was...Damien...
Fearow swooped Mewtwo from behind, catching him in the back of the head.
Mewtwo fell forward.
Dust surrounded his fallen body.
Kishi gasped.
Mewtwo did not stir.
Justin had won.
The crowd erupted into cheers, screaming, hollering and stamping their feet. One girl through her T-shirt at Justin's feet, and he shuddered, closing his eyes and blindly throwing it back into the crowd.
Kishi was oblivious to the sound of the crowd, she knelt beside Mewtwo and stroked his arm. "You did your best,"
Justin extended his hand to her, helping her up. His eyes were shining.
"Thankyou so much, Kishi," he smiled, looking into her eyes.
"For what? You found the strength to win inside of you," Kishi smiled.
Justin embraced her suddenly, without warning.
They stood that way for at least a minute, neither loosening their hold on one another.
And in a way, both of them won something.
**The Salve was grim. He bowed his head. He didn't want Justin and Kishi to get any closer...he couldn't even imagine what would happen to Justin when Kishi's role would be assumed.**
**The Master sneered. Foolish attachment he hissed. He clenched his fists**
TO BE CONTINUED...
So what did you think? Pathetic, happy story? A least I did not bore you all with details of the fight scenes...did I? Sorry...
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