Becoming The Best
Chapter 14
"Dude, just tell her you want to leave the island," Sarah told Seth as they sat on the grass, their pokemon were running around and playing with eachother. They had gotten out of the cave and the old lady had healed up their pokemon. After hearing their story, she wasn't best pleased with Seth catching the pokemon. Sarah wondered why she did not like her grandson catching pokemon, but thought it best not to ask the old lady-she was a scary.
"You don't know what she's like though, she can be pretty scary when she wants to be,"
"I can imagine," Sarah muttered. Seth lay back on the grass with a sigh, he really hated being stuck on the island.
"You know, you could just run away without telling her, that's what I did," Sarah told him. She was sitting staring out into the distance, hugging her knees, thinking about how her plan had gone wrong and she had ended up on this island.
"Really?" Seth asked, sitting up and looking at her,
"Yeah, I was supposed to leave next year but I got so sick of being stuck in Woodham that I decided to leave,"
"Cool... I might have to do that," his thoughts trailed off and they both sat in silence, watching their pokemon. Wormy was fluttering around, sniffing at all the plants. Blair was running around on the grass, trying to catch Air, she was jumping up and trying to fly like her. Bree, Psycho and Arcane were all racing eachother back and forth between two rocks, Psycho was way ahead of the other two, and Arcane was in line with Bree's tail.
"So did you get Psycho and Bree from this island then?" Sarah asked, curious about his two pokemon.
"No," Seth answered after a long pause.
"Oh. Where did you get them from then?" Sarah asked, now even more curious.
"I just... Did," he replied, unsure what to say. Sarah thought it weird that he wouldn't talk about his pokemon but decided to drop the subject,
"Okay then," she said, there wasn't much else she could say. They sat in silence for a bit longer until Air came flying over and settled on her shoulder. Blair followed and tried to jump onto Sarah's other shoulder, but Seth grabbed hold of her to stop her.
"Blair, leave the Pidgey alone for a bit, yeah?" he told his dragon. Blair responded by headbutting Seths head, causing him to drop her.
"You need to stop doing that," he moaned, rubbing his forehead while Sarah laughed at him.
"Just wait till she's stronger," Sarah laughed at him,
"The only way she can get stronger is if I get off this island," he said, flopping back down on the grass. Blair saw him lying down and decided that his stomach would be an ideal seat.
"Well then get off the island," Sarah said, standing up suddenly, making Air fly up into the sky. Blair saw the Pidgey take off again and jumped up, trying to catch her. Seth stayed lying down and looked up at her, his eyebrows raised,
"It'll never happen," he said in a bored tone, then looked away. Sarah rolled her eyes,
"Right, get up," she stated, hands on her hips.
"What?"
"I said get up. You are going to tell your grandma that you're leaving," Sarah told him. He just rolled his eyes at her and looked at the pokemon again,
"Whatever," he muttered. Getting sick of his attitude, Sarah grabbed his arm and pulled him up.
"Come on," she ordered,
"You're not gonna let this go are you?" he sighed,
"Nope,"
"You want to leave this island do you?" the old lady cackled,
"Yeah," Seth mumbled, looking at the floor. The old lady looked closely at her grandson. He was serious about what he was saying. She remembered the day, long ago when she started her own pokemon journey: when she set out with her beloved Barley, an Eevee to traverse the land and become a great trainer. She had given up that life when Barley died, 13 years ago. A hole had remained in her heart since that day and she had never forgotten her precious pokemon. Barley need not have died that day, her death could have been prevented, but that other trainer... The old lady pulled herself out of her thoughts, and Sarah noticed her eyes had misted over, she was on the verge of tears. She shook her head and a hardened her face,
"You may take Pringle across the water," she said simply, then turned to walk out of the room,
"Actually, before you go I would like to thank you Sarah," the old lady's voice was soft,
"Me?" Sarah said, suprised,
"Yes, you have helped me in many ways,"
"But I didn't do anything," Sarah replied,
"Yes you did. You helped me in ways you cannot imagine," the old lady said mysteriously, "I would like you to take an Eevee, then you may be off," she said, then walked out.
"That was... Strange," Seth said, more to himself than anyone else.
"I'm getting an Eevee!" Sarah took an intake of air, unable to believe it. She was getting another pokemon!
Seth took Sarah along to the Eevee pen so she could pick up her newest team member. She looked over the fence and saw a small Eevee curled up on the tree stump, it perked its head up when it saw Sarah and stood up.
"Hey, I think that's the same one I saw this morning," Sarah said gently,
"It might be," Seth answered her, sitting on the fence. Sarah looked into the eyes of the Eevee, it had a calm, serene look in its eyes. It cocked its head to the side and smiled at Sarah, making her laugh.
"I want this one," Sarah decided, standing up and looking at Seth,
"What do you want me to do about it?"
"Well am I allowed to go into the pen and get it?" she asked nervously,
"Yeah why not?" he shrugged. So she hopped over the fence and sat down next to the Eevee, then got out her pokedex, which told her the Eevee was a girl.
"Now I have to name you. Well you look pretty peaceful. I think I'll have to give you a zen-like name. Ooo, what about just Zen?" Sarah spoke to herself, but the Eevee smiled again and bowed her head at the name.
"Okay, Zen it is!" Sarah said, smiling herself.
"You're calling her Zen?" Seth laughed,
"Yes, what's wrong with that?"
"First Wormy and now Zen, you need to see the Name Rater!" he started laughing even more at her, almost falling off the fence,
"So? I could totally beat you in a battle!" Sarah snapped at him,
"Oh, you're on!"
"Okay, you can use 3 pokemon each, you can switch out at any time, no items are allowed to be used. The first trainer to have no able pokemon left loses!" Bronte called out the rules and Sarah nodded. She had decided on her three pokemon-Arcane, Air and Zen. She threw her first pokeball and released her new pokemon-Zen. She watched as Seth released his newest pokemon, Blair.
"This will be interesting," Sarah smiled and the match began.
Hi, thanks for reading :) I've just realised how strange Air and Blair sound together, I didn't think of that before I named her-sorry!