Author's Note: So here we are once again, not as long as the normal chapter but just as sweet. Read and enjoy the latest installment of When One Ends.
Summary: About 5 years have passed since the gang saw Ash, he reappears out of the blue in his hometown of Pallet much to the surprise of everyone. Ash decides it's time for him to settle down and open a gym in Pallet. What new trials and tribulations await our young hero? Rated M for adult situations that will occur later on in the story. AshxMisty,MayxDrew,BrockxSoldat. Takes place after the Sinnoh League
Disclaimer : Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and , I do however claim all OC's created by myself in this story
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Chapter 26: Don't Call Me Small!
The morning sun peered its way into Misty's car, warming the occupants with its touch. After their celebration activities the night before, Ash suggested that they head to the car so they would not be disturbed. Well that, and to avoid any questions of why they were in the conference room with her panties thrown to the side. The sun decided that Ash would be the first person to wake up, as it appeared to focus its rays on his face. Ash did his endeavour best to resist the morning's wake up call but was defeated. He shaded his eyes as they opened and when his vision returned to normal he was able to set his eyes on the sleeping beauty currently cradled in his arms. He was thinking of whether or not to wake her up but decided not to. He hated when he was woken up before he was ready, especially if there wasn't any real reason. It was not like he was able to offer her breakfast or anything, well he did have a candy bar in his bag but he didn't think that would be a reasonable substitute.
'So this is my first day as an official Gym Leader.' thought Ash, he continued to gaze upon his sleeping lover. 'Is this my first day as a boyfriend as well?' Ash thought, he brought up a very good point. 'Am I her boyfriend? I know we have wanted each other for ages but she just found out she was being cheated on. What if I'm the rebound guy?' Ash then shook his head banishing the thought. 'Why am I worrying about this? When since do I worry about labels, just take it one day at a time. With Misty its better to assume I am the boyfriend then face her wrath if I continue to act like I'm not. If I say I'm not her boyfriend she might forsake men and then hook up with that crazy poke maniac in Cerulean.' Ash shook his head once again and sighed. 'I definitely need some coffee.'
Ash was laying there for what seemed like a few hours just simply staring at the ceiling of the car. Thankfully for him his boredom was to be alleviated as he felt Misty begin to stir. With a small yawn Misty sat up and stretched. Her mind then seemed to come to its senses as she realized the position she was in and what she felt.
"Good morning to you too Ash." she said sleepily.
"Good morning." Ash propped himself up, pulled Misty in close and kissed her on her cheek.
Feeling like a school girl, Misty latched onto Ash and planted a kiss on his lips. "I still can't believe it."
"Believe what?"
"That we actually had sex, sweet, sensual, mind-blowing sex. It was better than I could remember dreaming about."
"Even without the foreplay?"
Misty smiled seductively. "Even without it."
The newly formed couple sat there enjoying each other's company for hours. That was until their stomachs decided enough was enough and they needed to be fed. They made their way back into the Pokemon League to join the others for breakfast. The two expected to receive a few stares but it seems as if everybody had an enjoyable night themselves. Janine seemed to be exceptionally close to last night's Elvis and the others seemed to be recovering from severe hangovers. The breakfast gathering was rather silent, the hangovers saw to the members having limited conversation. About an hour past and everybody was packed and ready, Misty and Ash were waiting on their additional passenger to make his way to the vehicle.
"Looks like there really was something between them." commented Ash. He watched as Janine squeezed Forrest before kissing him on the cheek and waving goodbye. Ash could only shake his head as he saw the beaming smile on Forrest's face.
"She wants me." he cockily said.
"She's a trained ninja assassin; you better keep it that way. Wouldn't want to find out what she would do if she saw you flirting with another girl." Forrest gulped loudly causing Ash to laugh.
"Aren't you guys ready yet?" asked Misty.
"Coming." the two replied simultaneously.
"Ninja love can be very dangerous." mocked Ash, his voice taking on the persona of an old kung fu master.
The ride home wasn't very eventful, the group made idle chatter until they made their way back to Viridian City. This was where Ash decided to part ways with the duo.
"You sure you don't want me to drive you back home?"
"That's alright Misty. Would be rather selfish of me to have you drive all the way to Pallet Town and then back to Cerulean. Salamence can take it from here."
"If you say so Ash."
Ash just smiled at the orange haired trainer to reassure her that everything would be alright. Ash watched as she slowly pulled off, shouting at him to call her later on. Ash reached into his pocket and summoned Salamence. The mighty dragon Pokemon roared but was disappointed to see that only Ash was around, he snorted a puff of smoke to emphasize this feeling.
"It's nice to see you too." said Ash, Salamence puffed another ball of smoke in response. "Let's head for home." Ash knocked on Salamence's side to signal that he was sitting securely and with a strong flap of his wings Salamence took to the air, destination Pallet Town.
Back in Pallet Town...
"I'm leaving now Mrs. Ketchum." shouted Kazia as she put on her shoes and was heading out the door.
"Ok Kazia!" she replied from the kitchen. She watched as Kazia made her way towards the edge of town from the kitchen window and a puzzled expression came across her face. 'I wonder where that child goes every morning.' Mrs. Ketchum pondered the thought for a moment but shrugged it off.
Mrs. Ketchum did point out a fact that everyone in the household was noticing. Every morning after she was served breakfast she would go upstairs, come down in a few minutes and then leave the house to go who knows where. Nobody every really questioned her because she would always show up right before dinner time, sometimes even after lunch but the constant thing is she was always tired. Mrs. Ketchum didn't bother to ask since she seemed to be content, and Kai, well Kai would just allude in his trademark ways but got no response from Kazia much to everyone's surprise. The truth of the story was that Kazia had an appointment with a new friend every morning.
"Ouch!" winced Kazia as she made her way through the bramble and shrubs surrounding route two. The further she got the thicker it became but Kazia knew what to expect since this was not the first time she was making this journey. "Past the tree with the stripped bark, to the left of the stone three trees down and behind this wall of shrubs..." recited Kazia."And here..." Kazia stepped through the tall shrubbery into what seemed to be an empty sheltered clearing, but the look on Kazia's face showed that it wasn't supposed to be empty. "Now where is she?"
Kazia's head panned around the clearing looking for any signs of life but was having no such luck. This was now causing Kazia to become very concerned. With worry written over her face Kazia began to search the surrounding area thoroughly. As she got further and further away from the meeting place she began to hear subtle cries, fearing the worse she shot off into the direction of the source hoping that she was not too late. As she opened her mouth to call out to the target of her search, she caught sight of what she was longing for and her target's actions made her voice quieten. There over the hedge standing approximately three feet away from a tall pine tree was a diminutive blue figure.
'What is she doing?' thought Kazia as she poked her head slightly above the hedges.
The blue figure took in a deep breath and then composed herself, she stepped forward tucked in her hands. She then thrust them forward and held the pose but after a few minutes passed a look of disappointment came across her face. She then scowled and let out a growl of frustration and resumed the previous pose and tried again. This time her hands glowed brightly but as she shot them forward the glow disappeared. Out of frustration she kicked her furry legs out, striking the base of the tree venting her frustration. After breathing in deeply once again she calmed her anger and tried once again. Once again, entering into the previous position her hands began to glow as before. With a loud battle cry she thrust her hand out violently and a powerful gust of wind shot out of her palm shaking the tree trunk. Realizing what she just did the blue figure started to jump up and down, pure joy sketched out on her face.
'That was Force Palm wasn't it?' Kazia was about to step out from behind the hedges when she noticed that there was a newcomer to the clearing. It seems that the small Riolu's Force Palm had awakened the now irritated Rattata that was using the other side of the tree to sleep. The Rattata angrily snapped at Riolu showing its annoyance of being awoken so rudely. In response Riolu bowed, to show that her apology was sincere but that was not enough to dissipate Rattata's fury. In a move out of pure frustration, Rattata lunged at Riolu with a tackle attack knocking the still apologizing pokemon.
'Riolu!' Kazia was about to shoot out from the hedges to protect the small pokemon but knew if she did the repercussions would be harder to overcome. 'Come on Riolu...' Kazia started fidgeting with the hedge not even realizing that her finger was pricked by one the bush's thorns.
Riolu shook her head to regain her senses. With anger evident in her eyes she called out to the Rattata, obviously pissed by his actions. The body language that Kazia read from the Rattata was that it could care less about Riolu's apology, it was woken up and it was pissed. Riolu snapped back in tone that could be translated into the words 'Jerk you are going to pay for that.'
Without even waiting for a response, Riolu closed the distance in a blink of an eye using quick attack. The move connected fully as her body slammed into the Rattata knocking it back several feet. Riolu stood there, confidence radiating of her body, her eyes looking down on the wounded Rattata.
THIS CONVERSATION IS NOW TRANSLATED BY THE PATENTED POKEMON VOICE TRANSLATOR
"I told you that you would pay bastard" Riolu gloated triumphantly.
"Heh..." Rattata regained its composure after shaking the cob webs out his mind. 'If that's all you have, I think you need to start begging for mercy."
"Talk is cheap." Riolu charged in once again using Quick Attack and once again the attack succeeded. "You can't hit what you can't catch."
"You think that could do anything to me?" goaded Rattata.
Riolu had fallen for her opponent's provocation and dashed towards Rattata once again. A small smirk could be seen across his face, in an instant Rattata's tail stretched out and lengthened. It lashed out towards Riolu wrapping itself around her legs and using her momentum to throw her against the trunk of the tree. Riolu laid there for a moment, her body slumped against the trunk. After a few anxious seconds that seemed like hours to Kazia, Riolu opened her eyes. She stood up, using her small paws she brushed off her nozzle and with a look of pure anger she glared at the cocky Rattata.
"Humph not bad, but you're still too early to beat me."
"That's big talk coming from a pip squeak."
It seemed as if that was the taboo word. "Who's a pip squeak? I am average height for my age!" she snapped.
"Whatever you say midget."
"Midget huh? I will make you regret saying those words!" Riolu dashed at Rattata once again.
"Is this all that you can do?" As was his response to Riolu's previous quick attack, he countered using Tail Whip.
"Humph don't think so little of me." she jumped over the lashing tail then disappeared from view.
This move caught Rattata off guard and Riolu's was not about to give him a chance to recover. She reappeared in front of him, Rattata prepared for the worse but instead Riolu clapped her hands in front of his face shocking the rodent pokemon. After faking out Rattata and leaving him stunned momentarily Riolu started her assault. A blur of blue paws was all Rattata could see as Riolu connected blow after blow bruising the rodent with every impact. To finish off her onslaught the diminutive Riolu spun her feet and connected squarely with the jaw of Rattata with a roundhouse kick. The force caused Rattata to fly backwards, spinning in the air has he travelled. The spin caused him to roll along the ground, his skid only to be stopped by the tree trunk that started this whole encounter.
"That all you got?" mocked Riolu.
Rattata was obviously in pain, it was stumbling to regain its balance, struggling overall to get to its feet.
"This battle is obviously over." Feeling that Rattata was unable to pose a threat any longer Riolu started to walk away from the "battlefield".
"You...you think this is over!" shouted Rattata, Rattata then let out a scream filled with pure rage. Its body then began to glow a blinding white and with a flash Rattata had evolved into Raticate. "Ha ha ha, this is far from over!"
Riolu was actually shocked at the sight, this was her first time seeing a pokemon evolve and she was rightfully confused. "What's going on?"
"You don't have the time to worry about that!" Raticate was taking full advantage of its new form, it fangs began to glow a bright white and it lunged at the confused Riolu bruising it heavily with its bite. The now heavily bruised Riolu rolled along the ground before coming to stop, as with Raticate before she was having a hard time to get to her feet. Raticate stood there basking in the scene of the struggling Riolu; enjoying the fact that even though she made it to her feet she was panting heavily. Despite the state of her body Riolu was still glaring at Raticate, the defiant look in her eyes speaking to Raticate since her mouth could not form the words.
"I don't like that look in your eye...stop it!" Riolu continued to glare. "I said stop it!" With a large shout, Raticate opened its mouth a large ball of orange light started to gather in its mouth. It slowly grew larger, the colour growing more vibrant and the aura it gave off became more violent. As it reached its peak Raticate let loose the blast of energy towards the wounded Riolu with the intention of doing as much damage as possible to his hated opponent. Riolu could only stand and watch as the blast grew closer and closer. She was telling her body to move, to get out of the way but it was almost impossible. All she could do was close her eyes and wait for the inevitable, but it never came. Her eyes shot open as she the felt presence of another, and that was when she heard the voice of a human.
"Misdreavus Psybeam!"
Hearing the command the floating apparition unleashed a blast of psychic energy that met with Raticate's hyper beam head on. As the two blasts collided it seemed to be a one sided battle as Misdreavus psychic cannon chipped away at the distance between itself and Raticate. In a few short seconds Raticate's energy was drained and the psychic blast connected hurling Raticate backwards. Kazia emerged from the bramble, rushing over to Riolu. Kazia ended up sliding along the grassy clearing floor in order to catch the fainting Riolu. With Riolu cradled in her arms she stood up glaring at Raticate.
"I think you better run along." she ordered glaring daggers at the pokemon that bullied Riolu. Raticate looked at Kazia and then at the powerful Misdreavus and decided it was best if he limped along. She let out a heavy sigh of relief as she watched Raticate go about its business. With Riolu still cradled in he arms she reached into her pockets and pulled out a miniature first aid kit. She immediately began to tend to Riolu's wounds hoping that the little warrior would recover quickly. A few minutes passed and Riolu began to stir, she then opened her eyes slowly to be greeted with Kazia's smiling face.
"Thank goodness, you're alright." Riolu let out a small cry and squirmed in Kazia's arms in an attempt to be more comfortable before going back to sleep. Kazia could only look on the proud warrior and smile.
Meanwhile...
"YAAWWWNN, I think I need to get a few more hours of sleep." said Ash as Salamence was cruising on the way to Pallet Town. They were now above Route 2, and in the distance home was now coming in to sight. "Wonder what everyone is DOING!" Salamence had suddenly swooped down into the clearing of the forest, definitely surprising Ash and startling the target.
"What the hell is wrong with you Ash?"
"Huh?" Ash was now puzzled. He looked behind to see that Salamence's latest victim was Kazia and she definitely was not pleased with Salamence's practical joke. Ash smiled sheepishly as he landed in the clearance. "Sorry about that Kazia, Salamence has a habit of doing that. I tried to get him to stop before but trust me it's a hopeless cause." Ash looked at Salamence who let out a puff of smoke, far from the apology Ash was hoping he would offer. "So what are you doing out here?" asked Ash but he caught the glaring pair of ruby red eyes from the blue bundle in her arms. "Who do we have here?"
"Oh this is Riolu."
"Riolu?" Ash blinked. "Riolu! Where the hell did you get one of those from?"
"I found her." said Kazia simply.
"You what?" Ash was freaking out. "You just found a Riolu and a her at that?"
"Yep."
Ash was in disbelief at how nonchalant Kazia was about the pokemon in her arms. "So let me get this straight. You were just wandering around Route Two and you came across a Riolu?"
"Well not exactly I came across an egg, which happened to hatch into a Riolu."
"Oh, is that all." replied Ash as he rolled his eyes.
"I'm just a lucky person that's all."
"Lucky is an understatement, you found a Riolu in Kanto. The probability of having this happening to another is 0.000000000000000000000000..."
"I get it Ash."
"...00.1%" Kazia just rolled her eyes. "So when did this happen?"
"About a week or two ago."
"A week? So how come you haven't brought her to the house."
"I wasn't sure if she belonged to another trainer. I found it strange that an egg was left alone along such a travelled route. So I secured it and took care of it until it hatched, and when it did she didn't want to leave the clearing. I couldn't exactly force her against her will."
"So no trainer has come looking?"
"Not that I know of, but I think I'm going to take her home for a little while to make sure she recovers from these wounds."
"Wounds?"
"Yeah, she was being bullied by a Raticate."
"A Raticate? That's definitely not a normal sighting around here."
"Well she caused the Rattata to evolve because she was kicking his ass." She then looked at Riolu. "Isn't that right, you kicked his ass didn't you." Riolu smiled.
Ash bent down to take a closer look at Riolu only to receive heart piercing glares from the blue furball. "You're a cute little furball aren't ya?" He reached out his hand to pet Riolu; unknown to Ash was that he just committed a taboo act. Riolu waited until Ash's fingers came into her attack range, and as he did she let him know how she felt about using one of "those" words.
"Ow!" winced Ash glaring at Riolu. "What was that for?"
"She doesn't like being called short."
"You could have told me that sooner."
"It slipped my mind." lied Kazia.
"Liar..." replied Ash immediately. "Couldn't have gotten a better trainer."
Then a light bulb switched on in Kazia's head. "Ash..." she sang.
"Hmm?"
"How did it go?" she said with a falsely sweet smile, the killer intent radiating off her. Not knowing what was going on, Riolu did the same as Kazia and radiated malicious intent towards Ash.
Ash was stunned, feeling like a deer staring in the headlights of an oncoming car. "Huh?" was all he could muster.
"How did IT go?"
With his brain working once again, Ash had a toothy grin plastered on his face. "Take a look at this." He reached into his jacket and took out Dexter and pressed a button.
"Gym Leader, Ash Ketchum..."
The killing intent immediately disappeared from Kazia. "YES!" she shouted happily. "One small step to becoming a world class breeder. What do you say Riolu, world domination?" Riolu raised her small paw in support. Ash on the other hand just sweat dropped at the pairs plan for world domination.
"How about we head home now? I can give you a ride on Salamence."
"Okay Ash." she replied cheerfully.
As the two began to walk towards Salamence, Kazia decided to give Ash a piece of advice.
"If you see a letter on your bed Ash, don't open it. It was just a precaution in case you came back when I was out."
Ash could only just sigh and shake his head.