Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or Harry Potter in any shape or form. This is a non-profit fanfiction for reader's fun and enjoyment, who want to escape from the reality we call LIFE, for a while.
Island of Giant Pokemon
& First Kisses
Draco and Dragonair followed the path the move Dragon Rage took. About an hour later they came upon an island. They spotted something on the beach area, near the water.
"That has to be them Dragonair," Draco said, "let's check it out!"
"As you wish Draco," Dragonair telepathically said to his trainer. And as they got closer they saw it was Ash, Misty, and Brock.
They landed near them, and Draco returned his Dragonair to it's Poke Ball. He then ran over and shook his friend. "Hey Ash, come on Ash. Wake up, Bro," Draco said.
"Huh!?" Ash got up. "Draco!" Ash exclaims seeing his friend beside him.
"Oh, thank goodness you're alright," Draco said relieved.
Ash nodded then looked around them. "Hey, how did I end up on the beach?" The boy asked. He then noticed that Misty and Brock were lying a few feet from him. Ash and Draco went over to them and shook them awake.
"Mist, Misty wake up!" Ash shook the girl.
"Hey Brock! Come on, wake up man!" Draco shook the older teen awake.
Misty and Brock finally came to. "How did we get here?" Misty asked.
"How did we survive that cyclone?" Brock asked looking around.
"Hey, we were lucky," Ash said smiling, before he start looking around again. This time for his two missing Pokemon. "But, but where did Padfoot and Pikachu go?" he asked. Then he noticed that he was missing some Pokeballs on his belt. "Ah! I only have four my Pokemon!" Ash exclaimed.
"What!" Draco looked in alarmed at Ash, as did Misty and Brock.
On another part of the island, Jessie and James were unconscious. They were rudely awakened by a Krabby, that scuttled away after pinching them awake.
They landed facing each other in confusion. "Oh," James said.
"Could it be..." Jessie started.
"Does this mean..." James followed along.
"We survived again!" they stated together and hugged.
"We're the completely invincible..." "...unbeatable..." "Team Rocket!" Jessie and James said respectively, then together. Then they realized something. "But I don't hear any annoying..." "complaining..." "Meowth is missing!"
"Oh! I've lost the Poke Ball with the Ekans I got for my birthday last year," Jessie cried out at seeing she was without a Pokemon.
"Ah! The Poke Ball with the Koffing I got for Christmas, as well as the Poke Ball with Goro the Machop I got from No.13 is gone too," James said in a frantic like Jessie. "And we're totally broke," he says showing an empty wallet.
"We're penniless and Poke less," Jessie sighs, then falls to her knees. "How will we survive? Time is running out for, the both of us," she says as she picks up some sand and watches it fall back to the ground.
"We could always call for help," James says, pointing at a nearby phone. "Look over there."
"A phone booth! Aren't we lucky," she asks rhetorically. "Ha ha, now we can call someone for help," Jessie delightfully says.
"But we don't have any change," James said sadly. "And without any change..." Jessie says sadly as well, then together, "Our luck sure has changed."
Padfoot had woken up to find himself lying on his back, on a beach. He moved his head to look to his right, and spotted his electric teammate. Pikachu was about 3 ft from him. He got up, shook himself to free his fur of the sand, and went over to his electric friend. He shook him gently awake.
"Hey Pika. Come on, wake up mate," he says.
Pikachu opened his eyes and sat up, rubbing his head and looked to Padfoot.
"Hey, you alright there?" the jackal asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright," Pikachu replied. "What about you?" he asked in return.
Padfoot then checked and moved each part of himself as he spoke. "1 head, 2 aura-sensing appendages, 2 ears, 2 arms, 2 legs, and 1 tail. Phew, yep I'm all here!" he says smiling, and pretends to wipe an imaginary sweat from his brow, getting a giggle out of Pikachu.
Padfoot walks over a little ways to pick up his orange back pack. "Come on. We have to find Ash and the others," Padfoot states. Pikachu nods, and both took off in a direction. The forest to their left, while the ocean was to the right of them.
A little while later, Padfoot and Pikachu came across 3 Poke Balls in the sand near the water, on some other part of the island.
"What's this?" asked Pikachu. Padfoot went over and sniffed at the 3 Poke Balls and stood up straight.
"These are Ash's Poke Balls!" Padfoot exclaimed in realization. "Everybody come out!" he shouted as he tapped each Poke Ball. The balls opened and released 3 white lights of their friends.
The three Pokemon that appeared from within the Poke Balls were Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle. The three of them looked rather exhausted.
"Are you all okay?" Pikachu asked.
"I'm all right," Charmander said.
"I've felt better!" Squirtle complained, holding his head.
"I'm just fine!" Bulbasaur announced.
"That's good to hear," Padfoot said to them as he picked up the three Poke Balls and place them in his backpack. "We got separated from Ash and the others. Once you guys have rested, we need to go look for them," the shiny Pokemon said to his teammates.
"Alright, Boss Dude, but I have one question though," Squirtle said.
"And what's that Squirtle?" Padfoot asked raising an eyebrow.
"Where are we?" Squirtle asked looking around.
"Are we lost?" Bulbasaur ask.
"What is this place?" Charmander curiously asked.
"We don't know," Pikachu responded. Then he and Padfoot spotted a pink Pokemon lying on a rock near the water. It was a Slowpoke.
Padfoot, Pikachu, and Charmander went over to the Water type to ask for directions.
"Hello!" Pikachu greeted, while Padfoot bowed his greetings.
"Could you tell us where we are?" Charmader asked politely.
"We really would appreciate your help, sir," Padfoot added.
The Slowpoke just sat there staring straight ahead. This confused the three Pokemon.
"Can't you hear us?" Charmander asked.
"Where are we?" Pikachu asked loudly this time.
"Can you help us out?" Charmander asked loudly as well.
Padfoot remained silent, and frowned at the water type as it got up, walk backwards, and stuck his tail in the water.
Now utterly confused, the three Pokemon turn to each other in question at this. While Bulbasaur and Squirtle lounged not too far from them, enjoying the nice breeze and the warm sun.
"It sure is peaceful here," Squirtle commented.
"Yeah!" Bulbasaur agreed.
Later that night, the group of Pokemon were following Padfoot through the forest. Charmander walked beside him, holding his tail up, in front of them, for light.
"I don't see Ash and those guys anywhere," Pikachu said as he looked around.
"They just disappeared," Charmander comments worriedly.
"You shouldn't worry so much guys," Padfoot said, gaining the everyone's attention, "we'll find them. If not tonight, then tomorrow. Let's just hope that they're all in one peace."
"Or maybe they all got eaten by wild Pokemon!" Squirtle exclaimed jokingly. He then showed sharp teeth and made biting sounds, as if he was eating on some meat. "Growl, crunch, crunch, crunch!"
This caused his teammates to come to a stop and frown at the water-type. "Don't say things like that!" Pikachu chastised his teammate.
"Yeah, cut it out," Charmander said, a bit frightened at the idea of Ash and the others being eaten.
"Sorry," the water-type apologizes, chuckles nervously as he rubs the back of his head.
"Maybe, Ash forgot about us," Bulbasaur voiced his negative opinion, while looking away from the others.
Everyone looked at him in shock, except for a certain green-eyed jackal. "Y-you think so?" Charmander asked in fear, a bit of sweat on his head.
"Yeah, you think so, huh?" a very cold voice questioned.
The four Pokemon turned to the voice, and all of them took a step back in fright. Padfoot was glaring at Bulbasaur. Black aura came off him like fire. His black appendages were raised. His lips were pulled back into a snarl, canines showing. The light from Charmander's flame made his bright green eyes have an eerie glow, in the night. The atmosphere around them suddenly went cold, and they found themselves shivering fearfully in their team leader's presence. In a nutshell, Padfoot, at the moment, looked like a terrifying Hound From Hell, on hind legs.
Bulbasaur was immediately reminded of when Padfoot had done this back at the Hidden Village. With that realization, he suddenly regretted his words, and back away in fear of his team leader. Sweating and shaking as Padfoot was walking in his direction.
Last time Ash was there to stop him from attacking Bulbasaur. The grass-type was terrifyingly aware, that Ash wasn't there this time. He swallowed nervously as Padfoot now stood in front of him.
"Let me make this, very clear, to you," Padfoot growled out at Bulbasaur, restraining himself from physically attacking him. "Ash would never forget us, nor abandon us. Not like your previous Trainer did to you," he looks at all three starter Pokemon, indicating his words were for them as well. "I'm living proof of that. Ash and I have been together for years before we met all of you. He loves Pokemon, he cares for you guys, and he would never forget about you. He wouldn't do that. Don't go lumping my brother with the humans that abandoned you!"
As he spoke, the black aura dissipated, the appendages fell back to the sides of his head, the anger in his face left him, and was replaced with a stern and disappointed look.
"I can handle when others are insulting me, but the moment you insult my human brother, Ash, you've crossed the line. So, Bulbasaur, this is your only warning. If you ever say something along those lines of abandonment, in conjunction, with Ash doing it again, I'll beat you within an inch of your life. Are we clear?" Padfoot asked the grass-type, and he recieved a hasty nod in return.
Padfoot then turned his attention to Squirtle, who hastily put up his arms in surrender. "Hey now! I know he's not like that at all. Remember, my friend and I were there in the bushes when we heard what he had done for Charmander here," he indicated their fire teammate, "so you don't have to worry about me. I know what Ash is like," the water-type ends with a smile as he puts his arms down.
Padfoot nodded, then looked at a shameful Charmander and frowned. Charmander had his head lowered, biting his bottom lip, and wringing his tail with his claws, in shame at how he had thought of Ash forgetting them. After all he had done for them... for him.
He suddenly flinched when he felt Padfoot's right paw on his head. He looks up. He sees Padfoot giving him a sincere smile, and felt calming waves enter his body.
"Charmander, use your memories to know the truth about Ash. Remember, 'Ones actions speaks louder than words' okay? Remember what he did that night for you, and you'll have your undeniable answer," Padfoot said passionately to his emotional fire-type friend.
Charmander thought back to that night, the night Ash confronted Charmander's former trainer, Damien. He remembered Ash's words and actions towards Damien that night. He did remember, and he felt his guilty heart beat hard in his chest for doubting Ash's loyalty. Even for a minute. He then let go of his tail, and grabbed Padfoot's paw with his claws and sobbed a bit.
Padfoot allowed Chamander to collect himself, and hold onto the wrist area of his paw while he rubbed the fire lizard's head. He felt Charmander's sad, guilty, and apologetic feelings. He also felt Charmander's heart felt feelings of gratefulness, thankfulness, and admiration for Ash and Padfoot grow. He even felt the familiar feelings of love towards himself and Ash from Charmander. It was the same love that Padfoot had for the Ketchum Family. Love for a family and close friends.
Ash and Padfoot discovered that out of the four abandoned Pokemon(Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Eevee) on their team, that it was Charmander that dealt with abandonment the hardest. As a result, he became the most emotional about the subject. However, like Eevee, he also became more affectionate towards Ash and Padfoot.
Padfoot smiled at his fire lizard friend.
"I'm sorry," Charmander said quietly, "I'm so sorry."
Padfoot removed his paw, and wiped the few tears off of Charmander's face. He then looked at the rest of them.
"Don't ever doubt Ash. Don't believe for a moment that he'll abandon any of you, because he won't. I know this, because I will never abandon you either," the jackal said to all of them with absolute assurance.
They all nodded, and Charmander wiped his face before holding his tail up again for light.
In the nearby bushes, the Pokemon Machop, named Goro, has been watching the five Pokemon's argument.
Or more to the point, he watched his rival Padfoot chew his teammates out. Goro was entertained by the whole thing. His rival was certainly loyal to his Trainer.
Soon the Super Power Pokemon was joined by his fellow Team Rocket Pokemon.
"So Riolu, Pikachu, and their friends survived? Heh! That means I can finally get my revenge," Meowth sneered. "Alright Pokemon surrender!" he announces.
"Alright Pokemon surrender!" a voice sounded from the dark bushes on top of a ledge.
Padfoot and the group looks up at where the voice came from. Pikachu and Charmander looked up curiously, Padfoot frowned at recognizing the aura of the voice, and Squirtle and Bulbasaur got into position to fight.
"Who's there?" the grass-type demands.
"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light, surrender now or prepare to fight!" the voice says. Jumping off the ledge and into the light of of Charmander's flame, was Meowth of Team Rocket.
"Oh great, what we don't need right now," an annoyed Padfoot says frowning at the cat.
"It's just Meowth." a bored Pikachu says with having to see the cat again. This expression was mirrored by the group. As one they closed their eyes and turned their heads away from the normal-type.
Meowth sighs and falls over from the lack of fear he wasn't getting from the twerp's Pokemon.
"I guess the Team Rocket motto is starting to lose its impact," the cat said with a frown, then he sneered at them. "Never mind!" he points to Padfoot's group while looking back at Goro, Koffing, and Ekans. "Ok guys! Go get 'em," he orders, and turns back smirking at the five Pokemon.
"Huh?" the Scratch Cat Pokemon questioned, then looked back at his team.
He sees Goro leaning against the ledge, arms crossed, frowning at Meowth. Ekans laying on the ledge to Goro's left, and Koffing floating above and to the right of Goro. The three didn't move a single muscle.
"Hey! I said go get 'em!" Meowth tells them, while pointing at Padfoot's team.
"What makes you think you can tell us what to do?" Goro says rudely to Meowth, "You sad excuse of a Pokemon. You're not my superior, nor my Master."
Padfoot and the team blinked in shock at the behavior Goro was showing to Meowth, but none more so then Meowth.
Meowth's jaw fell open at the attitude Goro was displaying towards him.
"He right," Ekans hisses, "You not Master!"
"Right, right! Not Master!" Koffing moves up and down beside his shared teammate.
"Wha!?" Meowth asks, taken a back by this.
"I only obey Master!" Ekans hisses, thinking of Jessie winking and giving a victory sign. 'Mm-hm!'
"Only Master!" Koffing agreed, while Goro nods his head as well, both thinking of James giving a wave. 'Right!'
"Masters!? I'm twice as smart as those two odd light bulbs you call Masters!" Meowth shouts angrily at the three Pokemon.
"Master is Master!" Ekans states firmly, while lowering its head to almost rest on Goro's shoulder.
"Yes,yes!" Koffing agrees again.
"In any case, we don't take orders from a weakling like you," Goro smirks wickedly at Meowth. "Someone who doesn't even battle like the rest of us."
Padfoot and his team watched as Meowth started to sweat a bit, at his own mates not doing what he said.
"Come on guys, we're all bad guys here. We don't need Masters to go out and do bad stuff," Meowth nervously tried to reason with the three Pokemon.
"And you claim to be twice as smart as Master and Jessie?" Goro lifts his left brow, glaring at Meowth as if he was the dumbest Pokemon he has ever seen. "You, who walks and talk like a human, but doesn't even remember one of the most basic things about us Pokemon as a whole? I have one word for a Pokemon like that... Pathetic," he closes his eyes and shakes his head.
'Ouch!' was the thought of Padfoot's team.
"And just what is one of the most basic things I don't remember?" Meowth asks, looking insulted.
"You really are an idiot," Goro grumbles at the cat. "We're not bad guys," Goro states firmly.
"Goro speaks truth. Pokemon not bad guys!" "That's right!" Ekans and Koffing agrees with Goro.
"There's no such thing as a bad Pokemon!?" a shocked Meowth asks.
"You dolt, Pokemon do bad things..." "Because Master is bad!" Goro and Ekans, respectively, says ending this conversation.
"It can't be! My Master's not around, and I always seem to act like a rat!" Meowth complains in an exaggerated fashion.
"Tch, whatever. Not my problem," Goro shrugs and turns away from Meowth.
"All right Meowth!" "It's up to you!" Squirtle and Bulbasaur said, glaring from one side.
"You sure you want to fight..." "Against all of us?" Pikachu and Charmander said from the other side, glaring as well.
"It's really not that hard of a decision to make, but you might want to seriously think about your response," Padfoot says with his arms crossed.
Meowth then realizes that he was surrounded by the twerp's Pokemon. "This ain't fair you got me outnumbered," Meowth complains. "Hey, I could use a little help over here!" he calls back to his teammates, only to see the three of them drinking some tea and eating some pastries between them on a table.
Meowth falls to the ground again for the second time that night. "It's no use," he says dejectedly, then crosses his arms in a pout, "Oh well, I guess I'll let you guys off easy, and call it a draw."
Snap!
The Pokemon all turned to the sound of a tightening rope, and saw the wickedly grinning Riolu, who had said rope clenched in his paws he gotten out of his back pack, looking at Meowth.
"Oh no kitty, kitty, kitty. You don't get off that easily," Padfoot says menacingly and walks forward slowly to the Scratch Cat Pokemon.
While laughing manically as he got closer to the shivering, scared-y cat, and closer, and closer, and closer...
Later that night Padfoot's team and the three Rocket Pokemon decided to called a truce and were presently sitting around a campfire, on logs or rocks, eating the fruits and berries they had collected from the forest.
Goro was sitting on the ground in front of the fire and leaning on a log, with Ekans to his left and Koffing on his right.
On the other side, Padfoot was also on the ground and leaning against the log Charmander, Pikachu, and Squirtle were sitting on. He was positioned with Charmander and his left and Pikachu and Squirtle on his right. Bulbasaur was sitting on a cut off trunk, eating his fruits.
"What were you guys doing anyway Goro?" Pikachu asked the Rocket Pokemon.
"We were looking for our Masters, with no apparent luck," Goro answered, frowning at not having found their humans yet. Ekans and Koffing nod in agreement.
"That's really awful!" Charmander commented.
"Ours are missing too," Squirtle says.
Bulbasaur continues to eat his food, and not saying anything. He frowns in thought at what the jackal said to him earlier, and was still feeling ashamed from the chastisement he'd received.
"Maybe ya twerp Trainer abandoned ya," sneered the tied to a tree, Meowth. Everybody looked at him and frowned.
"Abandoned?" Ekans looked fearful at that possibility, and turned to Goro and Koffing, sweating, "Maybe us too!"
"Abandoned?" Koffing asked, also looking scared.
"I seriously doubt it, you two," Goro says confidently, still eating his fruit without a care in the world.
"You two don't have to worry. You should listen to Goro more," Padfoot said getting the Ekans and Koffing's attention, "I'm positive your humans are looking for you."
Pikachu and Charmander nod their heads in agreement with their leader.
"Hey guys!" all the Pokemon turn to look at Meowth again. "Ain't ya gonna stop stuffing ya faces and give Meowth something to eat?" the cat yelled out struggling against the rope Padfoot used to tie him to the tree.
Squirtle looks at Padfoot with a hopeful, pleading look. Padfoot notices and nods. This made the water-type beam happily at his leader, and then he turns back to Meowth.
"Are you sorry for all the bad things you have done to us?" Squirtle asks, smirking at Meowth.
"I don't apologize!" the prisoner shouted.
"Then no food for the prisoner, Meowth!" Squirtle finishes his statement, and pops the last of his fruit into his mouth.
"Stop making fun of me, untie me, and give me something to eat!" Meowth complains loudly, then stops as everybody heard a loud sound like giant foot steps coming their way, "Huh?"
Everybody turned to the source and found a giant Pokemon with red eyes towering over the trees. Roaring. All the Pokemon screamed in fear and took off running past Meowth.
"That is one big Pokemon," Meowth comments, then notices he's all alone, "Wait! Somebody come and untie me! Huh?" he looks to his left as he was freed, to see Padfoot had untied him.
The jackal looked at Meowth and frowned, "Well? Get going!" Padfoot shouts at the cat and points in the direction everybody else has taken. Meowth didn't need to be told twice, and ran after the others.
"Stay safe Ash, wherever you are," Padfoot says looking to the sky, then ran to catch up to the others.
Ash, Draco, Misty, and Brock were currently running for their lives as well. High above them was a giant flying Pokemon that was discharging bolts of lightning in every direction. The latest bolt caused the group to fall to the ground to avoid getting hit.
Once the Pokemon left the area, the gang got up.
"I've never seen a flying Pokemon like that before," Misty said in wonderment.
"Ah, me neither. It's one of the most incredible Pokemon I've ever seen," Brock commented in amazement.
"Ash," Ash turned to his best friend, "this place is really dangerous. We really ought to find a safe place to crash for the night," Draco strongly suggested. Ash nods, agreeing with him.
"Right," Ash responded. 'Be careful, all of you. Just stick together. Padfoot, look after them. I know you will,' he thought.
In another part of the island, Jessie and James were running for their lives too. They were running from a flying Pokemon that had flames around it. It was shooting Flamethrower left and right in the air. It's attacks also made the two Rocket members jump in fear each time.
"What is that thing?" "I don't want to stop to find out!" James asks and Jessie responds, turning their heads around to look at it. Only to run into the back of a sign.
The Pokemon flew off, and they fell to the ground in a daze, before darkness claimed them for the night.
A little later, the gathered Pokemon were at a restaurant stand, which was owned by a Slowbro, getting a bite to eat and talking.
Koffing and Ekans were crying over something. Pikachu was patting Ekans reassuringly on his cheek, while Charmander was chewing on his kabob and drink in hand.
Bulbasaur was saying something while glaring at a nervous-looking Squirtle. Both had a red blush on their noses. Meowth was asleep during their argument.
Padfoot was eating his kabob while listening to Goro talk a bit about his life before Team Rocket. Apparently, Goro was the same age as Padfoot, but about 3 months older. That he was trained by his last trainer's father before he was given to the brat, and consequently gotten rid of by said brat. That he was getting stronger ever since he joined Team Rocket, and that he owes it all to Master No.13 for capturing him and handing him over to the TR Traaining Facility.
The different conversations went on into the night until the Pokemon left to go find a cave to sleep in for the night.
Once they were situated inside their chosen cave, did Padfoot stand in front of the gathered Pokemon. Everyone, even a sleepy Meowth looked at Padfoot in confusion. All but Goro, who smirked at him. Earlier Goro beat Padfoot in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, and now Padfoot had to tell everybody something about himself that they don't know.
Padfoot crossed his arms, closed his eyes and thought for a moment. Then he opened them and looked at the group and sighs.
"Alright, I'll tell you all about my first... kiss." Padfoot blushes a bit, then notices that everyone was now wide awake, looking at him with anticipation in their eyes, and smiles on their faces.
Padfoot rolled his eyes at them and sits on a nearby rock and sighs.
"It all started back before I met Ash. Back when I still lived in Rota, that's far north from here. I was a year and 4 months old when I met my first female friend, outside my family. An Abra," Padfoot looks to the ceiling, a small smile appeared on his face.
The other Pokemon leaned forward a little bit. The story hadn't really begun yet, and they were already into it. Wanting to hear more.
"She was pretty, smart, and funny in her own way. Now, she may have slept most of the time like most Abra's of her species do, but when she was awake, she was like a wealth of information. She belonged to the town's librarian. We had fun together, when we weren't attending to our respective duties, that is.
"One day, the Annual Winter Festival being held in the town's plaza, and I took her as my date," Padfoot looks up and sees that everyone was paying attention to him. "We enjoyed it. The games, the food, and most particularly the dancing," Padfoot looked up at remembering that night, under the winter, snow falling sky, how he and Abra danced the night away before their respective caretakers called for them to go home.
"We didn't want to leave, but we both knew we had duties to perform the next day. So before we left, I pulled Abra back to me, and I licked her, from her muzzle to her forehead. In return, she did the same to me. That was the night I had given and received my very first kiss," Padfoot finished.
The Pokemon present started clapping and making Arcanine whistles at the now blushing Padfoot.
"Go, Padfoot! Go! whistles," Pikachu cheered on his teammate.
"Not bad! You sly dog, you! Not bad at all," Goro smirks and clapping at his rival.
"Way to go Boss Dude!" Squirtle happily laughed.
"So, Padfoot," Padfoot looked over at Charmander, "whatever happened to your Abra friend?" Charmander asked politely when the clapping died down.
Padfoot looked sad then.
"Her human had gotten a new job in a far away region called Orre. Where he would be making a lot more money there than he was doing here in Kanto. They moved away," Padfoot sighs at that. "I found out too late. I went to their shop, one day in the spring, following the Winter Festival, to ask her to be my date for the up coming Spring Festival. When I got there, the shop had been empty and closed.
"The last time I had seen her was 2 weeks prior, and the local Pokemon that lived near her said that she and her human left about a week after our last meeting," Padfoot looks at the sad and frowning faces before him.
"I'm sorry to hear that Padfoot," Pikachu said, their teammates nodding in sympathy to him. Padfoot waves a paw at them.
"Don't be. I've had time to get over it, and I am," he says, smiling at them.
"Do you ever think about her?" Bulbasaur asks curiously.
"Sometimes I do. Not mostly, but sometimes," Padfoot admitted to them, with a shrug of his shoulders.
Goro and the others nodded at his answer. Padfoot then stretches and yawns.
"Well it's time to sleep. We'll go looking for our humans tomorrow," Padfoot states.
"Right!" the Pokemon said in unison, and got comfortable.
Padfoot looks out of the cave one last time.
'Be safe Ash. We'll find you. For sure,' Padfoot thinks, before heading in to join the others in sleep.
At the same time as the Pokemon were at the restaurant stand, Ash and the others found a cave to stay in. Once they made themselves comfortable, Draco decided to let out two of his Pokemon.
He let out his Charmeleon for warmth and light, and he let out Seadra to give a proper introduction to Ash and his friends. After the introductions were done, and everybody's stomach's were full did they all fall asleep.
As they slept, Ash began to dream about the time he had received his first kiss.
...
Flashback
It was the month of August and a six years old Ash Ketchum went to Professor Oak's Summer Camp. With permission from his mom and grandpa he got to take Padfoot with him. The Shiny Pokemon was ecstatic to go with Ash.
There at the camp Ash had introduced Padfoot to his three best friends, a young Draco Blackthorn, and the twins Daisy and Gary Oak. When Padfoot met each of them, he wagged his tail happily at them. He memorized their auras and their scents. He especially like it when Draco would toss him into the air and catch him, the six years old boy was pretty strong for a kid, or when Daisy would pet him.
She was the one who discovered that Padfoot particularly loves having the back of his right ear scratched, and showed this to Ash.
The Summer camp was only for a week, but Ash, his Pokemon, and his friends were having a blast. On the 3rd day at camp, Ash took Padfoot with him into the forest.
"Daisy and Gary's birthday is today Padfoot, and I want to get Daisy a Pokemon for a present," Ash said to his Pokemon. "Rah," Padfoot nodded and helped Ash look for the right Pokemon to give her.
Suddenly a Poliwag came out of a nearby bush. It looked at them, then it hopped away.
"That's it! Let's go Padfoot!" "Ar!" Both boy and Pokemon chased after the runaway water-type. Padfoot ran ahead of Ash to try and catch up to it.
It ran into a large bush, Padfoot dived in after it, then Ash followed a short time later. Moments later, Poliwag hopped out of the bush, startling a little girl, then took off into the woods. Padfoot then hopped out, and ran in the same direction as the water-type went, not noticing he past the same scared little girl Poliwag just past.
Then next to come out of the bush was Ash.
"Padfoot? Poliwag?" the boy called out as he steps out from the bush, he sees a girl in a straw hat on the ground whimpering. "Hey, are you alright?" he asks the girl, as she looks up at him. "Hi, I'm Ash. Who are you?" he asks smiling, "Hey what's wrong?"
"I hurt my leg," the girl in the straw hat said sadly.
Ash knelt down to the girl's level. "Don't worry," he says taking out a blue handkerchief from his pocket, "see this, this will make it better."
He ties it onto the girls leg. "All done!" he announces, "Now watch this," the girl looks at him, "feel better, feel better, right away!" he waves his hands over the the girls knee as if he was doing magic.
"Ow! It still hurts, I can't stand up. Huh?" she whines, then looks up at the smiling boy standing up.
"Don't give up til it's over, K?" he states, and offers his hand to her, "come on."
She looks at his offered hand, takes it, and he pulls her up. He catches her, then stands her up straight.
"There you go!" he says, and grins at her. He then turned to his right. "Padfoot! There you are," he exclaims, both he and the girl turn to see Padfoot gently pushing the Poliwag forward towards them.
"Ar!" the jackal responds, smiling and wagging his tail.
"I think we all should be getting back to the campsite K? Come on." "Ar ar!" Padfoot agreed as he guided the Poliwag forward from behind, and Ash pulled the girl with the straw hat along.
When they exited the forest, Ash and Padfoot dropped the girl off at Prof. Oak first, before Ash picked up Poliwag, and he and Padfoot went in search for Daisy.
They found her coming out of her cabin. "Daisy!" "Urah!"
The girl with auburn hair and black eyes, wearing a yellow tea dress, looks up at the approaching boy and Pokemon. "Hey Ash, Padfoot," she greets them with a wave.
As they got closer, Daisy looked surprised to Ash holding a Poliwag. "Ash where did you get that Pokemon?" she asked.
Padfoot gently pushed Ash forward from behind. Ash blushes, then holds out the water-type for Daisy to hold. "Happy Birthday Daisy/Urah Urah!" they said together.
Daisy looked shocked and she smiled happily at them. She gently takes Poliwag away from Ash.
"Hello Poliwag, I'm Daisy," she says politely.
Poliwag looks at the girl holding him, and smiles at her. "Poli!" he exclaims cheerfully.
"Thank you Ash! That's so sweet of you," she says and then she gives him a quick kiss on the lips.
Ash blushed, and smiles at her. Then unexpectedly, he quickly returns the kiss on her lips. This causes them both to blush at their actions, and smile shyly at each other.
Padfoot and Poliwag looks at each other and smile, then looked back at the two kids.
Flashback Ends
...
Ash smiles in his sleep at that memory. He slowly opens his eyes as the sun began to peak over the horizon.
It was morning and Pikachu woke up. He, along with his teammates and Koffing and Meowth, were resting on Ekans' body. He looked around and didn't see Padfoot or Goro. His ears perked up and he sat up to looked outside their grass covered cave, to see it was daylight.
"It's morning," he says quietly.
Suddenly, Padfoot and Goro walks back in the cave. "Wake up everyone! Time to go! Move your tails Pokemon, move your tails! On the double!" Goro shouts into the cave sounding like one of his drill sergeants, his voice causing the others to wake up groaning.
Padfoot put his back pack on and walked back outside. He then closed his eyes, brought up his arms, open paws facing outward, and concentrated. He was trying to locate Ash's aura. He turned to the left, nothing.
He turned to the right, nothing. The front, still nothing. Behind, leading into the forest...
There!
It was faint and far, but Padfoot would recognize Ash and Draco's auras anywhere.
He opens his eyes, drops his arms, turns to the other Pokemon behind him, and smiles.
"This way," he says, and starts walking in the direction he pointed to. The others soon followed after the yellow and black jackal.
Ash and the others were awake and preparing to move out.
"Let's go! We've got to find Padfoot and the others," Ash says, getting a nod from his friends. They left the cave and walked a few feet before Draco took out a Poke Ball.
"Dragonair, I choose you!" he calls. The dragon-type materializes and gives out its calling sound. Draco hops onto its back then turns to the others. "We'll search from the sky, okay Ash? If I find them before you do, I'll stay with them and send Dragonair back, to fly you guys to us."
Ash and his friends nod. "Thanks Draco," Ash thanks his friend, before they went their separate ways.
Ash, Misty, and Brock on foot, and Draco by air. Ash then closes his eyes and concentrates on finding Padfoot's aura. He lifts his right hand, and moves it around him like a compass hand. Misty and Brock stayed silent, and waited.
There! Found him!
It was faint, but Ash knew his jackal's aura.
Ash opens his eyes, and points in a particular direction. "That way guys," he said confidently.
"Let's go then," Brock says, and they followed Ash.
Team Rocket a woke, and after realizing that it was morning they broke out into a run to look for cover. Jessie then remembered something and led James back to the phone booth.
"But Jessie we don't have any money," James reminded her.
"There's one number we can always call for free," Jessie smirks at James, "Hello Operator, I like to put this call through collect please," she says through the phone.
"Who would accept the charges?" James wondered aloud.
"Hello Boss," Jessie greets.
"The Boss!?" James shouts in shock surprise.
"You fools had better have a very good reason for calling me this early in the morning," The Boss of Team Rocket says on the other end. Jessie could even hear The Bosses Persian yawning in the background.
Jessie nods. "Yes, but first we must do the introduction," she says.
"What?" The Boss questions.
{Cue the Music... Action!}
Jessie: Prepare for trouble!
James: Yes, and make it double!
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love.
James: To extend our reach to the stars above.
Jessie: Jessie.
James: James.
Jessie: Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!
James: Surrender now, or prepare to fight!
{Annndddd... Cut!}
"Nitwits! How dare you annoy me with your nonsense! Don't ever bother me like this again!" he yells at them, then hangs up. Leaving Jessie and James sweat dropping at being yelled at for their motto.
Jessie then puts the phone back on the hook.
"Well, I suppose we'll have to get off this island ourselves," she states.
"The phone didn't help," James says, only to get a smirk out of Jessie.
"But it will," she says smirking.
…
A little later they were pulling on the phone cable. This made the phone booth move forward in the direction the cable was coming from.
"But where will this cable lead us?" James asked while pulling.
"It must lead to the phone company. The people there can help us get off the island," Jessie snorted.
"Good point," James nodded.
"And if we stay in the booth the whole way, we'll be safe," Jessie added.
Padfoot was leading the Pokemon, in the direction he faintly feels Ash was in. The Rocket Pokemon brought up the rear.
"Ash!" Pikachu called out.
"Misty!" Squirtle also shouted into the woods.
"Brock!" Charmander yelled out too.
Padfoot continued to walk ahead of them, silent. As was Bulbasaur.
"Gone. Gone," Koffing said sadly.
"We'll find them," Ekans says to Koffing.
"Padfoot! Pikachu!" Ash called out into the woods as they continued to walk.
"Squirtle!" called Misty.
"Charmander! Bulbasaur!" Brock hollered.
"Ugh, where could they all have gone?" Misty asked.
"We keep going that way, we'll run into them," Ash stated, and got nods from his friends.
Up high in the sky Draco and Dragonair continued to look for Ash's Pokemon, but still no luck.
"They have to be around here somewhere," Draco mumbles.
Dragonair continues to fly onward looking for the missing Pokemon.
Ash and his friends had come to an immediate stop and looks up in surprise at seeing a Giant Charizard.
"Let's get out of here!" they shouted. They dodged a Flamethrower that was launched at them, and hid behind a large rock.
"It looks like a Charizard!" Misty exclaimed.
"The final evolved form of Charmander," Ash said wide-eyed.
"But much bigger," Brock commented on its size.
"Look at that thing!" Charmander says in awe at the giant turtle looking Pokemon, as he and the other Pokemon hid behind a bush. "Is it a relative of yours, Squirtle?"
"This is Squirtle's evolved form, a Blastiose," Meowth says with his arms crossed.
"Go ask for directions," Pikachu tells Squirtle.
"Who? Me?" he looked shocked. "All right... I'll try!" he says determinedly. He walks out of the bushes a few feet. "Yo! Brother!" he shouts to get the Blastiose attention.
Blastiose turns around to look in his direction.
Squirtle got nervous and sweated a little. "Uh... Let's see..." he glances back at the group, then looks back at the giant. "uh... sure is nice weather isn't it?" he asks with his arms behind his head, smiling nervously.
The rest of the Pokemon fell over at this.
Blastiose then aimed his cannons at them and fire large blasts of water at them. They all ran as fast as they could away from incoming water.
…
A little later, the Pokemon saw another giant Pokemon walking about. It looked like Bulbasaur only bigger.
"That's a Venusaur! Evolved from a Bulbasaur!" Meowth says, from behind the rock they were hiding behind.
"Awesome!" Squirtle says, then turns to their current grass-type, "Talk to it! You guys are like family!" he told it. Bulbusaur looked stunned and sweat dropped.
"Huh!? No way!" he nervously smiles, then turns his head away from them, "Just call me an orphan. I have no family."
Everybody looked at the grass-type with different expressions. Padfoot smirked at the frightened grass-type, Pikachu chuckled a bit, Meowth, Koffing, and Ekans just stared at him.
"Good point!" Charmander smiles, and hold his claws together.
"Coward!" Squirtle and Goro said at the same time. Squirtle had his arms behind his head looking disappointed, while Goro had his arms crossed and smirking at the scared grass-type.
Draco and Dragonair was over a different part of the island when the heard a strange noise.
"Did you hear that Dragonair?" Draco asked in puzzlement.
'Yes I did, and it's coming from over there,' the dragon thought to Draco, and they both looked to see below them and to the left was a rail cart moving fast.
Behind the cart was a cable dragging a giant Pokemon, which looked like a prhistoric Pokemon.
"Let's follow it," the Tamer said and the dragon took off after it.
Ash, Misty, and Brock just rounded a mountain running along a rock bridge, when they came across a giant Pikachu.
"Pikachu!" it says loudy. They were shocked at the large creature.
"Pikachu!" Misty says.
"Jumbo sized!" Brock says. "Huh?" they looked down and spotted a rail cart heading in their direction, dragging a giant Pokemon behind it.
"I wonder what that is?" Ash asked, before the bridge beneath them crubled and the trainers fell right into the cart.
The cable attached to the cart caught Pikachu as well, so it along with the other giant Pokemon were being pulled along with them.
Once they realized who was also in the cart with them, Team Ash and Team Rocket shouted and pointed at each other.
"Now we got you just where we want you," Jessie sneers at them.
"Hand over Riolu and Pikachu," James demanded, before he and Jessie looked behind them and then held each other in fright. "Uh! But not that big one!" he shouts fearfully.
"Ash look, back there," Misty points to back, and Ash gasps at seeing all of their Pokemon running from the Giant Pokemon chasing them.
"Padfoot!" Ash shouts. "Urah!" Padfoot responds.
"Pikachu! Squirtle! Charmander! Bulbasaur!" Ash calls out to each of them.
"The'll all be trampled if you don't do something," Misty yells at Team Rocket.
"Stop the car right now!" Ash shouts at them as well.
Both adults looked at them and sweat dropped. "We can't do that," Jessie looks away. "We can't stop, the brake's broken," James looked embarrassed.
"Give me a break," Ash looked annoyed at this development. He looks back at the Pokemon still running. "We just got to help them."
"Ash, up ahead!" Misty calls out.
"Huh, what is it?" he asks and sees what's up ahead.
Up ahead, the tracks does a loop like a roller coaster.
"Prepare for big trouble!" James looked troubled.
"Make that double, and I can't stand roller coasters," Jessie says fearfully.
"What do we do?" Misty asks.
"Hold on tight!" Brock states, and the trainers all held onto the car, while Jessie screamed.
They went up. "Stop the ride! Stop the ride! I want to get off!" Jessie hollers as they performed the loop. "We're gonna crash!"
Finally they were back down, but this time they were closer to the Pokemon!
"Come on! Jump in!" Ash ordered the Pokemon.
They didn't need to be told twice, and they all jumped into the arms of the humans in the cart.
Misty caught Pikachu and Squritle, Brock caught Charmander and Bulbasaur, James caught his two Pokemon, and a dizzy Jessie caught her Ekans. And finally Ash caught his Pokemon brother, Padfoot!
"Are you okay, bro?" Ash asked happy to have his Riolu back in his arms.
"Ar!" Padfoot nodded.
As the cart continued to move, everybody was petting the Pokemon the were holding.
"Wow we made it! Is everybody here?" Ash asks.
"Aren't we forgetting someone?" a teary-eyed Jessie asks, rubbing her Ekans head.
"The furriest member of our team?" James asks rubbing Goro's head, and held Koffing in his other arm.
"You mean Meowth!" the cat suddenly asks excitedly. "Uh?" The two adults looked embarrassed, then turned to the cat.
"You're saved?" "How did you make it?" they asked in surprise.
"Ah ha ha ha! I cat-a-pulted!" Meowth said jokingly.
Padfoot rolled his eyes at the pun, and shook his head.
Ash looked behind them and saw a bunch of the giant Pokemon were being pulled behind them by the cable, then made a decision. He put Padfoot down and then returned his three Pokemon to the Pokeballs Padfoot had returned to Ash. Once done, he picked Padfoot back up, and Pikachu jumped onto Ash's shoulder.
They all screamed at the giant Pokemon behind them.
"They're after us!" Misty hollered.
"Maybe our luck will hold out," Ash says optimistically.
"Well, based on our recent run of luck, I would say the cable should snap," James spoke almost predictingly.
"That should happen about... now," Jessie says, and the cable snaps.
"Next, we'll be hurled into the air," James states, and they were after shooting up over an upward curved rail.
"Then we'll probably crash into something," Meowth guesses, and sure enough they crashed into a giant Zapdos, only to realize it was made of metal.
"That's weird, looks like that was a mechanical Pokemon!" Brock observes the machine parts around them.
They watched it fall and crashed into the other robotic Pokemon on the ground.
"And then finally," Jessie says. "We hit the water," James finishes. "From a very, very long drop!" Meowth shouts as they all were falling fast.
A twinkle in the distance, and a blue and white streak of light came in fast. It past the falling cart and went back into the air. The cart fell into the lake.
The blue and white light dispersed, revealing Dragonair.
"Good work, Dragonair! Nice Dragon Rush," Draco says, as he and his dragon turn around and smiles at their catch on Dragonair's back. "We caught three Trainers and two Pokemon! A nice catch indeed! How much do do think we'll get for them!" the Dragon Tamer jokes, and the dragon chuckles.
Ash and his friends looked up and smiled at seeing they had been rescued. While Team Rocket went down with the cart.
...
Later the travelers resumed ther journey. Draco had dropped them off and bid them safe travels again. They had thanked him again for the save, and waved him goodbye until they meet again.
The gang had arraived at the Town of Porta Vista. They smiled at seeing the white sandy beach, and the glistening blue ocean.
"All right!" "Urah!" "Pika!" they all exclaimed and raced down the hill towards the beach area. All couldn't wait to have a good time.
Back on the other side of the island at sunset, the same Slowpoke that had his tail stil in the water, finally stood up on his hind legs, and pulled his tail out of the water. He looked back to see a spiral shell with eyes looking at him, attached to his tail.
Slowpoke had evolved into Slowbrow.
To Be Continued. . .
Well, Padfoot let his teammates have it, without losing himself to his anger. That took a lot of self-restraint without Ash present, but he managed to let them know what will happen if it happens again.
Padfoot and Ash are fully aware of Charmander's emotional state, so it will take time before Charmander can fully get over the abandonment issue. Bulbasaur and Squirtle are in the clear because they understood that their trainers left them and had time in the wild to get over them. And Eevee was spared, because Ash was there to catch her immediately upon her release, so she wasn't affected as bad as the others.
That memory of the shiny Riolu's and Abra's first kiss, was Harry pulling what had happened to the Shiny Riolu when Harry himself was still a spirit, watching over that Riolu for the first 3 years of its life.
Hope you enjoyed that memory of Ash's first kiss and the girl in the strawhat. wink, wink.
There you go the dear readers, I hoped you liked it, and reviews are welcomed.
Until next time.
TTFN,
Ta Ta For Now!
Ash's Current Pokemon Team: (9 limit)
Shiny Riolu: (M) Name: Padfoot/Harry Potter
Pokéball: Active
Egg Move: Detect
Moves: Copycat, Force Palm, Quick Attack, Agility, Double Team
Move Tutor: Thunder Punch
Pikachu: (M)
Pokéball: Active
Moves: Quick Attack, Thunder Shock, Thunderbolt, Agility
Move Tutor: Mega Punch
Gyarados: (M)
Pokéball: Inactive
Moves: Tackle, Bite, Dragon Rage, Thunderbolt, Roar
Pidgeotto: (M)
Pokéball: Inactive
Moves: Tackle, Gust, Wing Attack, Whirlwind
Bulbasaur: (M)
Pokéball: Active
Moves: Tackle, Vine Whip
Charmander: (M)
Pokéball: Active
Moves: Growl, Scratch, Ember, Flamethrower
Squirtle:(M)
Pokéball: Active
Moves: Withdrawal, Tackle, Water Gun, Skull Bash
Eevee: (F)
Pokéball: Active
Moves: Quick Attack, Swift, Double Team, Dig
Rattata: (F)
Pokéball: Inactive
Moves: Tackle, Bite, Tail Whip, Hidden Power(Psychic-type)
At Oak's Corral:
Krabby: (M)
Misty's Current Pokemon Team:
Goldeen: (F)
Moves: Agility, Horn Attack, Fury Attack
Starmie:
Moves: Tackle, Water Gun, Rapid Spin
Staryu:
Moves: Swift, Water Gun, Tackle
Butterfree: (M)
Moves: Sweet Scent, Tackle, Sleep Powder, Whirlwind
Oddish: (F)
Moves: Absorb
Squirtle:(F)
Moves: Withdrawal, Tackle, Water Gun, Rapid Spin
Egg Move: Mud-sport
Brock's Current Team:
Onix: (M)
Moves: Tackle, Bind, Dig, Rock Throw
Geodude: (M)
Moves: Seismic Toss, Tackle, Dig
Zubat: (M)
Moves: Whirlwind, Supersonic, Wing Attack
Paras: (M)
Moves: Scratch, Stun Spore
Squirtle: (M)
Moves: Withdrawal, Tackle, Water Gun, Dig
Team Rocket's Pokemon:
James' Pokemon:
Koffing: (M)
Moves: Poison Gas, Sludge, Smog, Tackle
Machop: (M) Name: Goro
Moves: Focus Energy, Karate Chop, Low Kick, Seismic Toss
Jessie's Pokemon:
Ekans: (M)
Moves: Wrap, Dig, Bite
Meowth: (M)
Moves: Fury Swipes, Scratch, Bite