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Pokémon Journeys: Aaron's New Experience
Chapter 14: Dragons? What is this? Skyrim?
It was daytime. Aaron woke up in his car. 'What the hell?' he thought to himself. He didn't understand how he got from his bed into his car. He couldn't find Layla anywhere in the car. Instinctively, he got out to look around. He was in the same spot where he first met Layla when she was just a Zorua.
Aaron couldn't understand what was going on. He was in his bed with his Zoroark before all this and now he ended up in his car not understanding what was going on. He just sat by his car thinking about his next move with his eyes closed.
Aaron heard a familiar voice come from in front of him "Aaron?"
Aaron opened his eyes to see who it was. The Pokémon trainer opened his eyes to see that Layla was in front of him. The beautiful vixen was looking at him with a smile. "Layla?" Aaron said surprised "What's going on?"
"You fell asleep in your car because you didn't get much sleep last night," Layla explained "We came here because I needed to tell you something. It's about us."
Aaron was a little confused "Wait, are you leaving?"
"No, of course not" the dark fox said as she placed her paws on the side of his shoulders "I would never leave you. I like living with you, your family, and Ryu. You've done so much for me and I like how caring, thoughtful, and fun you really are."
"What is this leading into?" Aaron asked.
"What I'm trying to say is…" Layla paused as she looked directly into Aaron's eyes as Aaron looked back into hers.
Aaron was expecting the Zoroark to say something but without warning, she kissed him. His eyes widened as he was taken completely by surprise that his Pokémon was kissing his lips. Without thinking, he closed his eyes and eased into the kiss returning with one of his own.
No words were spoken; Aaron and Layla were still standing up and kissing each other. One of Aaron's hands was gently caressing the Zoroark's hip, running it through her fur. His other hand went to the back of her head to pull her deeper into the kiss. Layla wrapped her arms around Aaron's neck to pull him closer as well. They opened their mouths slightly to allow their tongues to tease each other as they moaned into each other's mouths.
Suddenly, Aaron opened his eyes slightly to look past Layla and saw a giant ball of fire heading towards them. Aaron opened his eyes wide and pulled out of the kiss "Look out!" He shouted as he dove to the side while holding his Zoroark close to him.
The giant ball of fire hit his car and caused it to explode into a million pieces that scattered through the area. Aaron and Layla stayed down to avoid harm from the explosion still holding each other. Aaron and Layla looked to the spot where his car was. All that was left of it was the frame which was now ablaze with fire. Being a Pokémon trainer, he knew exactly how to handle the situation…"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?" Aaron shouted out loud.
Aaron and Layla then looked to their side over the hill and saw a silhouette of a dragon whose image was blurred out by the sun. Aaron and Layla just stood there in fear. Only one thing came to Aaron's mind and he said to himself "Oh shit."
Aaron woke up in his room. He was panting lightly and he looked around himself to find that it was all a dream. Waking up in his car, kissing Layla, having his car destroyed and about to be killed by a freaking dragon, all of it never happened. While he was glad that the last couple parts didn't happen and he was alive and well, he was a little upset that the part with him and Layla didn't really happen. He sighed deeply and saw that Layla was still sleeping soundly with her head rested on his chest. 'She's so beautiful…' He thought to himself. Aaron didn't want to move an inch. All he wanted to do was watch the vixen sleep peacefully on top of him.
After a few minutes, Layla slowly opened her eyes to see where she was; she was on top of her trainer using his chest as a pillow. She yawned as she arched her back while still on top of Aaron. The vixen then looked at her trainer with a smile. "Good morning, Layla" Aaron greeted her.
The Zoroark giggled and licked her trainer's cheek. "Good morning, Aaron" she said back.
"Did you sleep okay?" Aaron asked.
The dark fox nodded as she raised herself back up to stretch her arms and said "It was the best night of sleep I've had in a while. I know that it wasn't that long ago last time, but I missed sleeping next to you."
Aaron raised himself up with Layla still sitting on his lap to look into her blue eyes "If you missed it, why didn't you tell me?"
Layla stayed silent for a few seconds and said nervously looking off to the side "I just…didn't know if…you were okay with it…"
"Layla," Aaron wrapped his arms around her in a soft hug "You and I have been together for months and I let you sleep next to me all the time before. Why do you think I wouldn't be okay with it now?" Aaron actually felt like he knew the answer but he wanted to know for sure.
"I was just worried that…" Layla paused for a moment "…You wouldn't be comfortable sleeping next to a full-grown Zoroark instead of the little Zorua I once was."
Aaron laughed a little as he held her tighter and ran his fingers through the hair on her red mane "It's okay. We can sleep next to each other whenever you want. It doesn't bother me. To be honest, I kinda missed sleeping next to you too."
"Then," Layla wanted to take him on his offer "Can you sleep next to me from now on?...Whenever you can, I mean…"
"Anything for you," Aaron planted a quick kiss on her cheek "You're just so cute."
Layla blushed as she held Aaron tighter in her arms and placed her head on his shoulder. "Thanks, Aaron. You're the best."
"You're welcome" Aaron replied as he snuggled into the fur around his Zoroark's neck.. They both held each other in a hug showing that they truly care for each other.
Suddenly, Aaron and Layla heard a knock on the door. "Just a second" Aaron called out. Layla slowly got off of Aaron's lap; she was tired of their moments together always being short-lived. Aaron got out of his bed and got dressed with Layla looking away to respect his privacy. Aaron put on a black Metallica shirt and a pair of blue jeans since he looked out the window and saw it was cloudy today. After he got dressed he wore the Pendant of Arceus under his shirt; he already told Chris, Tim and their Pokémon about it but he wanted to keep it a secret as best he could. Aaron walked to the door to see who it was. Aaron opened the door to see Ryu at the door. "Hey Ryu, What's up?" he asked.
Ryu greeted his trainer "Hello, Aaron. Your mother was calling for you. She said something about a package that arrived this morning."
"A package?" Aaron said with a puzzled look on his face. There was a silence until Aaron had a look of realization and then excitement as he rushed out of the bedroom quickly and sprinted past the Lucario, as well as Chris, Tim and their Pokémon who were watching the TV in the game room. Layla and Ryu joined them to watch what was on. A breaking news bulletin was playing.
"This is Kate Graham of Rustboro City News with this breaking news update" the news anchor began the update "Two people and their Meowth linked to the criminal organization known as Team Rocket were seen in the skies of Falarbor Town in a hot air balloon escorted by a raging Charizard that destroyed a significant part of the peaceful location. Kevin West is on the scene in the aftermath of the attack."
The TV changed the scene to show the reporter Kevin West in the foreground with many houses that were burnt down behind him. "Thanks, Kate. Terrible things have happened to the people of this fair city. For those who don't know, a Charizard is a dragon-like Pokémon that is very powerful. It is easily identified by its mostly orange body, teal-colored wings, and has a flame at the tip of its long tail. Charizard is the final evolution of the Pokémon Charmander, one of the three starting Pokémon of the original video games. Despite looking like a dragon type, this Pokémon actually is a fire-flying type and has the power to melt even the largest of arctic glaciers. They are usually seen peacefully living in the mountains outside of the city. Despite this fact, it seems that Jesse and James of Team Rocket has found a way to tame this Pokémon and use it to cause destruction. Kevin West, Rustboro City News."
The program changed to a commercial as Aaron shouted as he ran up the stairs "YES! IT CAME!"
Aaron was panting as he reached the gaming area with everyone staring at him. He had a package in his hands. "What came?" Chris asked.
Aaron started singing the tune of the chest opening theme from The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time until he reached the end and pulled out something from the package and finished the tune "DA NA NA NAAAAAA!" The thing he pulled out from his pocket was an Ocarina that looked just like the Ocarina of Time from the Legend of Zelda series.
"Looks like Aaron found an Ocarina" Tim said.
"I know. It's so awesome!" Aaron replied with a grin.
"What is it supposed to do?" Ryu asked. He had never seen anything like an Ocarina before.
"This!" Aaron said. He put the ocarina to his mouth and played Zelda's Lullaby in its entirety. He knew how to play an Ocarina from the app on his iPod but he never used one in real life. All the songs he knew from Zelda were easy to remember as well. Most of everyone was surprised and amazed with Aaron's ability on the Ocarina.
Everyone clapped in applause "Play the Song of Storms!" Tim demanded.
"I figured you'd request that one, Tim" Aaron said. The trainer played the Song of Storms in its entirety. The Song of Storms was Tim's favorite song in the game. Unfortunately, it was just a conventional ocarina so no rain occurred when Aaron played it. Once again, everyone applauded as Aaron bowed "Thank you. Now I shall play my favorite song from the Ocarina of Time!"
Aaron was referring to Saria's Song. Aaron liked it because it is one of the first few songs you learn in the game and he liked the melody of the song that seemed to brighten up even the darkest of days. Layla smiled as she heard this song. She loved it and it sounded beautiful when she heard her trainer playing it. Suddenly they all heard a loud roar just after Aaron finished the song. "What was that?" Chris exclaimed.
Everyone ran downstairs and into Aaron's front yard to see what was happening and where the roar came from. They couldn't see much until Timtar tugged on the leg of Tim's jeans with his mouth and directed his trainer's attention to the sky. "Look! Up there!" Tim shouted to everyone.
The group looked to the sky and saw something in the sky. "Is that a Charizard?" Chris said with shock.
"THAT'S A FUCKING DRAGON!" Aaron shouted with his hands pulling his hair up realizing that Chris's suspicions were correct. They also saw Team Rocket's hot air balloon following the trail of the Charizard that went into the mountains which were about ten or fifteen minutes north from Aaron's house. "We better stop them!" Aaron stated the obvious. With that, Aaron, Layla, and Ryu got into Aaron's car as Chris, Nox, Tim, and Timtar got into Tim's car to travel into the mountainous area.
-Twenty minutes later-
Team Rocket landed their hot air balloon in the middle of a clearing in the forest near the mountains. The Charizard was on the ground looking for something. "What the fuck are you doing, Charizard?" Jesse shouted.
The Charizard didn't seem to respond as it continued to look around. There was a device resembling a collar around his neck that seemed to be metallic. "Da boss is going to be pissed when he finds out dat the mind control collar isn't workin' right" Meowth said.
"Don't worry," James answered "I'll just turn the settings up and he'll be under our control." The purple-haired man pulled out a remote control with a dial and turned up the settings slightly. The collar seemed to produce an electric shock to the Charizard as it roared in pain. The shock subsided and the fiery dragon was under Team Rocket's control again. "Now that's more like it." James said.
"Charizard," Jesse commanded "Let's get out of here."
Just then two cars were heard from outside the clearing. "What was that?" James asked.
"Probably company" Meowth suggested "Even so, we'll take 'em on with dis big fiery death machine of a Pokémon."
They each laughed sinisterly as Aaron pulled into the clearing from the forest a distance away from the clearing. The trainer got out of his car and confronted the evil trio. "Hey!" He shouted "You better stop causing chaos with that Charizard!"
"Oh right," Jesse said with a sly smile "We'll be sure to do that after dealing with you."
"Oh yeah?" Aaron said "Layla I choose…" He reached on his belt for Layla's Poké Ball but it wasn't there. "What the hell?" he said. He searched all over him and he didn't appear to have a single Poké Ball on him. He then said "Well, I'm fucked now aren't I?"
"Yep," James confirmed "Charizard, use Flamethrower!"
A rage built itself in Charizard's eyes as he charged up a flamethrower and hit Aaron as he screamed from the searing and devastating temperature of the attack. The attack was so powerful that after it subsided, all was left was Aaron's charred bones. "We finally did it!" Jesse shouted with glee.
"We finally rid ourselves of that nuisance once and for all!" James followed.
"Da boss is gonna be proud of us!" Meowth exclaimed.
"I'd check again if I were you" a voice said behind their backs.
"Huh?" The evil trio said in unison. They looked to the bones that were there but they suddenly vanished in a cloud of black smoke.
"But how did-" James said as he and the rest of the group minus Charizard turned around to look behind them and saw Aaron was standing right there.
"AHH!" Team Rocket shrieked with terror.
"Surprise!" Aaron excitedly said as he did a sweeping kick knocking Jesse, James, and Meowth down onto the ground as he vanished in a shroud of black. He reappeared shortly after at the opposite end of the clearing as Layla, Ryu, Chris, Tim, Nox and Timtar all arrived to the scene from behind him. "You gotta love dramatic entrances." Aaron said.
"How the hell did you learn to do all that?" James asked angrily as he and the rest of the trio got back up.
"The Internet" Aaron lied. He proceeded to ask his own question "Hey James, how's your arm doing?" James merely stared angrily at Aaron. As one could guess, James was extremely pissed off at Aaron for shooting his wrist a few days ago; his arm was now in a cast and would take time to heal.
"Whatever," Jesse shrugged it off "Even if you CAN do that, there's no way you can beat us now that we have a Charizard under our control!" Aaron saw that the Charizard had a metallic collar around it. If he had to guess, taking it off would release him.
"How did you three get out of jail so quickly?" Layla asked.
"We was only in holdin' at the city jail," Meowth answered "Our court date was a day away but Richards helped us get out of dat dump so we could get our revenge."
"Wait, you know Richards?" Aaron asked surprised.
"Of course," Jesse answered "he's one of the top executives of Team Rocket."
'Bet if he actually had his Pokémon, I'd have been in trouble' Aaron thought to himself.
"And he also told us about dat pendant ya got!" Meowth said "So after we beat ya, we'll take it for ourselves so we can deal with our enemies AND get rich!"
Aaron just growled and was ready to lead his group into battle "I'd like to see you even try. Ryu, you'll have to sit this one out. One hit from that Flamethrower and you'll be in a state worse than the bones I created in that illusion." Ryu nodded as Aaron placed him back in his Poké Ball. "Tim, you and Timtar will have to help us out the most since he's got the biggest advantage out of all our Pokémon."
"Right," Tim agreed as he and his Pupitar were ready to battle alongside Aaron and his Zoroark.
"Chris, you and Nox will back us up when we need it" Aaron commanded.
"Understood" Chris said.
"Duskull" the ghost type replied.
Aaron looked to Layla, "Are you ready?" he asked.
"Ready when you are" the Zoroark said in reply.
"Let's battle" Aaron shouted.
"Charizard," James commanded "Use Flamethrower!"
The orange dragon charged up its attack and launched it towards the Zoroark and Pupitar. "Layla, dodge and use Faint Attack!" Aaron shouted.
"Timtar" Tim commanded "You dodge as well and use Crunch!"
Layla sidestepped the flaming attack as Timtar vented out a gas from its body to propel it to the side to avoid the flames and then launched itself like a rocket towards the Charizard. Layla vanished and reappeared behind the fire-flying type and swiped at his back as the Charizard roared in pain. Just then Pupitar had closed in and bit onto one of the Charizard's wings. The Charizard roared in pain and knelt down as the heavy rock-ground type weighed him down.
James issued a command "Charizard, use Rock Smash to get him off of you!" The Charizard quickly butted heads with Timtar with a super-effective Rock Smash attack. The Pupitar released his grip on the Charizard's wings and was in a dizzied state on the ground. "Now use Seismic Toss!" Timtar was near defenseless as the Charizard grabbed a hold of him and flew into the sky to generate a massive amount of momentum and abruptly threw Timtar into the ground.
The Pupitar was knocked out and embedded into the ground as Tim called back Timtar into his Poké Ball "Timtar, return." A red laser beam shot from the Poké Ball and brought Timtar back into the safe haven.
Chris then stepped in "I'm ready, Aaron."
"Not yet," Aaron threw his arm back blocking Chris's progress and looked at him. "Layla and I will handle this."
Chris stared in annoyance "Fine, but if you're close to getting wiped out then we'll come in."
"Alright then" Aaron agreed. He proceeded with the battle "Layla, use leer!" A gleam appeared from Layla's eyes right at the Charizard but it appeared to do nothing. "Dammit" Aaron said to himself and he then issued a second order "Layla use Pursuit!"
The Zoroark then quickly dashed towards the Charizard to attack up close but Jesse, this time, issued an order "Charizard use Wing Attack!"
The Charizard leapt back into flight and swooped towards Layla and whacked her with his wings knocking her back towards Aaron. "Layla!" Aaron exclaimed with worry and helped Layla slowly sit back up. "Are you okay?" the trainer asked concerned for her well-being.
"Yeah," Layla said "but my arm…" she pointed to her right arm and Aaron saw that it was badly bruised from the attack. Neither one of them knew if it was broken but Aaron was very worried that it could be.
The Charizard now stood back a distance away from Aaron and his group. Jesse then shouted "Okay, it's time we ended this. Charizard, use Flamethrower!"
The Charizard began charging up an attack towards Aaron and Layla. "Get back Layla!" Aaron shouted as he stood in front of her. The trainer began focusing his power; he built up a dark energy in his hands and was preparing for the Charizard's next move. "Metsu…" Aaron said silently.
"Use Flamethrower now, Charizard!" James shouted.
With that the fiery dragon unleashed a long stream of fire from its mouth towards Aaron. The trainer finished charging his attack and unleashed a pitch black beam of energy from his hands while shouting "HADOKEN!"
The Dark Pulse streamed from his hands and towards the Charizard's Flamethrower attack. The two attacks collided and created a large explosion engulfing the battlefield in a gigantic cloud of black smoke.
End of Chapter 14
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