Act 26: Dragon tag team

Late at night as the Leviathan soared through the air, Emily was still on the main deck with Heracross and Celebi.

"Are you sure there's nothing you can do for him?"

Celebi touched his forehead again and concentrated before turning to Emily and shaking her head.

"Well it was worth a try."

Emily noticed Alex walk by with a bit of a skip in his step. His hair seemed messier than it usually was.

"Alex where have you been?"

"Uh I was just, taking a swim?"

"A swim huh? With Jasmine?"

"….You could say that."

Emily then noticed his shirt was on backwards , one by one she began to put the pieces together.

"Oh my God, you two fucked on the beach!"

Alex's face turned red as Croconaw laughed a little to himself.

"Not so loud!"

Emily laughed with a tear coming down.

"I'm sorry, it's just I couldn't see you actually doing that. It's hilarious, so what happened, she playfully relieve you of your bathing suit, or was it the other way around."

"I don't really want to talk about it."

"Oh come on, I'm not your sister or your mom." Emily said.

She sat Alex down as he kept looking uncomfortable.

"I don't really know how it happened, it just did, we were both naked and …. Oh Reduka did I make a mistake."

"Come on don't be like that, you two are into each other, if Takeru can sleep with Quinn you can sleep with this girl."

"….Takeru is sleeping with Quinn?"

"Oh yeah she told me all about the morning after. Still, in plain view on the beach, that's pretty brazen, you're lucky nobody saw you."

Alex kept looking embarrassed.

"I know , geez I always told myself I'd never do something like that, especially with my parents and all."

"What about your parents?"

"My dad told me he waited until he was married to my mom."

"Oh so you're worried he wouldn't approve."

"No that's not what I meant."

"Huh?"

"Here's the thing about my parents, they're into each other , like very into each other."

"I assumed they were."

"No I mean, crazily, ever seen Malcolm in the middle."

"Yeah, I loved that show, it was …..Ohhhhhhhhhhh." Emily said smiling.

"Yeah, imagine that. I swear sometimes we'd go see our grandparents just so they could have the house to themselves. One time when we were at the beach with just the family they thought they were alone and stripped each other in the water, my sister and I saw it. Geez I never heard Delia scream like that before."

Emily was laughing like crazy.

"OH geez I wish I could have seen your parents faces."

Alex sweat dropped.

"…They didn't hear her scream….They were that into it…..They continued…."

Emily fell onto her back, almost unable to breath before coming up and putting her arm around Alex.

"Like father like son eh."

"….." Alex was silent, Croconaw laughed as well.

"It didn't help that Dragon Caesar always seemed to watch them…." Alex thought to himself.

"Why does he like doing that? At least he didn't see me….Right?"

"Look Alex, if you're really worried about it, just take it easy, next time find a nice place indoors and show her a good time."

Alex sighed.

"I hope I didn't freak Jasmine out."

"Hey she's probably wondering if she freaked you out."

The next morning the Leviathan had docked in Ecruteak city, Takeru was on the deck with Retsudo beside him.

The small dragon was peering over his trainer's shoulder at the scroll he was reading.

"No mention of Shinken White's name, dam."

Alex and Jack had Glaedr and Chiaki sparring against each other.

"This is the day, the day Chiaki has his first gym battle." Jack said proudly.

"Yeah right after Glaedr does." Alex said.

"You wish, we're going first." Jack said.

"You went first last time."

"You were hungover last time."

"This decision should go to Lord Shiba." Arkanes said.

"Are you serious?" Jack said.

"My lord, who should?" Arkanes started.

"Alex."

"Ha!"

Jack gave an irritated look.

Takeru looked back at Retsudo who looked up at him.

"Come on Retsudo." Takeru said before he went with Arkanes to do some training with Vrulh.

After letting their pokemon rest , Alex and Jack lead the others through the city towards the gym.

"You know it seems like yesterday we found the idols here." Quinn said.

"I wasn't around then." Alex said.

"Emily, where is your next battle frontier anyway?" Arkanes asked.

"It's at the lake of rage, north east of here. So me and Kaoru still have some time to train." Emily said.

"Which might be good because I've heard the frontier brain there is especially skilled." Kaoru said.

"Speaking of which , the gym leader here, he's suppose to be a Ghost type right?" Jack asked.

"He should be." Takeru said.

"Well I still think I should use Chiaki, he's had plenty of training, now he needs some experience." Jack said.

"After Glaedr of course." Alex said as Jack looked irritated.

"I hope I don't have to wait until tomorrow. Chiaki's been working so hard lately."

Eventually they reached the gym itself. The gym was near the edge of the city with trees behind it. It was built on a large rectangular stone foundation with a staircase leading up to a dowel building with a downslope rooftop.

As they entered the interior they saw it was light blue with wooden floors and a battlefield. Moments later they were greeted by a trainer.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"We're here to battle Morty." Alex said.

"Oh right, this way."

A few ghost type trainers were around a blonde man with a violet scarf and headband on.

A Ghastly, Haunter, and Gengar were around him.

"So remember that misdirection can be just as effective as a direct attack." Morty to one of his students.

"Morty, you've got challengers." The trainer who lead them there said.

Morty turned to them.

"Challengers you say." He said with an interested smile.

He approached the group before noticing Takeru.

"You look familiar."

"I challenged you a few years ago."

"Oh right, you don't forget a loss like that."

"I'm here to challenge you today." Alex said.

"You look familiar too." Alex giving a nervous look.

"Well, I just have one of those faces."

"If it's a battle you want, you'll get it."

Alex stood on one end of the battlefield while Morty stood on the other.

"The battle between gym leader Morty and challenger Alex will now begin, this will be a three on three battle, only the challenger may substitute his pokemon. Trainers chose your poke-"

Morty felt his e-reader shake before he picked it up.

Alex and the others saw Morty give a terrified expression.

"Ahhhh!" Morty sprinted out of the gym leaving a trail of dust behind him.

"Morty!?"

"I have to go!" He shouted sounding terrified.

The group sweat dropped.

"What was that all about?" Jack asked.

"…I have no idea." The trainer said.

Elsewhere at the city train station, Morty sprinted inside and saw someone standing outside a train with a suitcase. She had shoulder length dark blue hair that curved back at the end, pink eyes and light skin. She wore a salmon sleeveless top, white pants with a black belt and pink shoes. The young woman having an irritated expression on her face.

Morty had a very nervous expression as he approached her and bowed a little.

"You're late."

"Forgive me, I was caught up with training and lost track of time."

"I've been waiting here for forty-five minutes Morty, is this how you treat your girlfriend?"

Morty came up and put his arms around the young woman before giving her a long kiss.

"What's say I make up or it tonight." The young woman blushing.

"You'd best not disappoint."

A few minutes later Morty returned to the gym with the young woman.

"Sorry I ran off like that, I just forgot I had other duties." Morty said sweat dropping.

The group saw the young woman, Jack and Arkanes realizing who it was.

"Sabrina?" They said.

"Sabrina, as in the Saffron city gym leader?" Emily said.

"It is her." Alex said.

"Why are you here?" Emily asked.

"She's his girlfriend." The trainer said.

"Girlfriend?" Kaoru said.

"Ghost, Psychic, interesting." Takeru said.

"Wait a minute, you ran of in the middle of your battle?" Sabrina asked.

"Well it was about to start."

"Well that explains why you were late, I guess I can't blame your for being late then. You should get back to your battle."

Morty nodding.

"Which one are you battling?"

"Me."

"And me after." Jack said.

"Wait there are two of you?" She said with interest.

"Maybe you can both battle." She said as the others turned to her.

"What?"

"After all, if you had two gym leaders here for a tag battle."

"Yes! Yes we could do that!" Jack said as he ran up.

"Why not." Alex said.

"Alright then a double battle it is."

Alex and Jack stood on one end of the battlefield while Sabrina and Morty stood on the other end.

"The double battle between leaders Morty and Sabrina will now begin. Each trainer is allowed one pokemon each, trainers chose your pokemon!"

"Go Haunter!"

"Go Kadabra!"

Morty and Sabrina sent out their ghost and Psychic pokemon.

"Go Chiaki!"

"I choose you Glaedr!"

The two Wyrmlings came out, both nearly three times as big as when they first hatched.

"What are those?" Sabrina asked.

"I have no idea."

"Begin!"

"Hypnosis!"

"Fly up!" Alex and Jack shouted in latin as they flew up and away from the Hypnosis's effect.

"Teleport." Kadabra vanished and appeared right over the two.

"Psycho cut!"

Kadabra unleashed the attack, slashing the two Dragons with psychic energy and forcing them down.

Kadabra landed beside Haunter as Glaedr and Chiaki landed on the ground.

"Haunter use Confuse Ray."

"Dodge it!"

The two Wyrmlings tried to move, but Kadabra moved first.

"Confusion!" Kadabra grabbing them both with psychic energy and held them in place.

Haunter unleashed confuse ray, making both Wyrmlings have swirly eyes.

Alex and Jack were frustrated at their lack of progress.

"Ember!" Jack shouted as Chiaki flew erratically and ended up blasting Glaedr.

Jack sweat dropped as Alex glared at him.

"Shadow punch."

"Psycho cut."

Haunter flew forward and slammed his fist into Chiaki while Glaedr was hit by to slash's of psychic energy.

The two dragons snarled in pain as they kept moving erratically.

"Come on you two, this is embarrassing." Emily said.

Alex had an idea.

"How's your latin?"

"Good enough?"

Alex said something in latin to Jack . Sabrina and Morty were confused as Jack gave an interested look and nodded.

Jack gave out a series of commands in latin only with Alex doing the same.

Chiaki regained himself and roared as he flew around both pokemon , unleashing green ember attacks at both of his opponents.

"Confusion." Kadabra held the fire in place with psychic energy.

"Shadow punch!" Haunter flew up at Chiaki.

However, before his attack could land, Glaedr revealed himself, with both gym leaders pokemon focusing on Chiaki they didn't notice Glaedr fly in low. Glaedr came up at a sharp angle and slashed Haunter back and into Kadabra, knocking him off balance and allowing the contained fire to free itself and crash into Kadabra.

"That's it guys." Takeru said.

"Well they can work together I suppose. Kadabra use Teleport."

Kadabra kept vanishing and appearing around them.

"I'll watch Haunter." Alex said in latin as Jack nodded.

"Hypnosis."

Alex shouted in latin as Glaedr unleashed a golden Ember attack at Haunter.

However, Kadabra vanished again and appeared behind Haunter, taking him before they both vanished.

"Huh?"

Kadabra reappeared with Haunter behind the two and unleashed hypnosis, the two falling asleep.

"Oh shit." Jack said.

"Psycho cut."

"Shadow Punch."

The two pokemon came forward and unleashed their attacks , hitting the two Wyrmlings onto the ground.

Jack and Alex could see the fatigue on their pokemon after taking so many hits.

"We need to turn this around." Jack said.

"Teleport!"

Kadabra grabbed Haunter as the two started to vanish again.

"Wait a minute." Alex said before he thought of something.

He shouted out commands as Glaedr flew up and unleashed Ember.

Golden fire flew down all around as Karaba and Haunter were hit.

Jack shouted something out as Chiaki flew into the two, hitting both with Dragon tail.

"Kadabra use Confusion!"

Kadabra vanished and appeared behind both Dragons before using Confusion and holding them in place as Haunter prepared to use Shadow punch.

Alex and Jack shouted at the same time, Chiaki and Glaedr both opened their mouths and unleashed Dragon rage. Confusion held their bodies in place, but not their attacks.

One Dragon rage hit Haunter and the other hitting Kadabra.

The two were now free, Alex and Jack shouting out more commands.

Glaedr unleashed Flame burst whole Chiaki unleashed fire spin, the spinning fire going around the burst as they hit Kadabra and Haunter.

The two landed on their backs with swirly eyes.

"Haunter and Kadabra are unable to battle. The winners are the challengers!"

"We won!" Jack shouted.

The two Wyrmlings roared in victory before returning to their trainers, Glaedr landing on Alex's shoulder.

"Haunter return. Well whatever those pokemon are they are powerful." Morty said as Sabrina nodded.

Morty approached the two and handed them Fog badges.

"Congratulations."

"Gym number four, we're halfway there!" Jack shouted in excitement, Alex looking gat his badge with Glaedr.

Later that night, Alex was in his quarters with Glaedr. He had his phone projector in front of him with someone on the other side.

"Four badges already, you're catching up to your brother's progress when he was on his first journey."

"Glaedr did well today."

"I still can't believe you found an extinct unknown pokemon, your father and siblings would be jealous of you."

"Are they here?"

"Your father had to meet with Gary, he'll be back soon if you wanted to wait."

"Maybe…..Mom, can I ask you a personal question?"

"Anything sweetheart."

Alex was about to speak again when he noticed something about his mother, her stomach seemed slightly enlarged, and knowing his mother's line of work that wouldn't help her.

"Mom are you ok?"

"Oh you noticed." She said smiling and holding her stomach.

"Wait a minute. Oh Reduka."

His mother smiled with her eyes closed.

"You're not going to be the youngest anymore!"

"You're pregnant!"

"Alex sweetie, your mother is only thirty-six years old and your father is only thirty-seven. Plus now that you kids are grown we've had even more alone time than we did when you were growing up."

Alex gave a disgusted look.

"Well, I'm happy for you and dad."

"And you Alex, you're going to have a new baby brother or sister. Maybe two. What did you need to tell me?"

Alex almost didn't want to anymore thinking about his mothers pregnancy.

"Well, I just wanted you to know I'm dating someone."

"Really, who is she?"

"Jasmine. She's Kalos and Johton like me. She's really nice, and she's very attractive."

Alex showed his mother a picture of the two at the beach.

Alex's mother didn't know why but she felt like she had seen Jasmine before.

"Huh? She is a pretty thing, and she's got a nice big butt."

"Mom!"

"If you're into that I guess you do take after your father, after all he found the jackpot of hot asses." His mother said turning around as Alex gagged.

"What I've still got it." She said laughing.

"Gahhh, seriously mom I got enough of that growing up with you two."

She giggled.

"I can't help it, still I'm glad you found someone. She better be good enough for you, if I find out she hurts you then she'll have hell to pay."

"Ok mom, I'll keep you posted."

"Bye I love you."

"I love you too mom."

The call ended as Alex petted Croconaw and Glaedr.

While his mother could make him feel uncomfortable with that stuff, he couldn't deny she was a great mother. He knew that nothing mattered more to her than him and his siblings, and when any of them really needed her or their father they came at a moments notice.

"Eh, maybe being like dad isn't so bad."

Author's note

Gym four is a tag battle, didn't feel like doing what I did with the last few gym battles

Alex get's some family news and Serena may start to be onto who Jasmine really is, what will she think of her son's girlfriend then?

So until next time,

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