The Sardonic Adventure of Briar Casey
Author's Note: OH MY- AHHHHH! You are mistaken, afeleon276, it IS a big deal, but thanks for trying to make me feel better. I was wrong, I AM a stupid American, calling Servine Serviper and not knowing that Australia and New Zealand are rivals! Please forgive me and my ignorance! *dramatically swoons*
As you can probably see, my crippling depression has transformed into genreal theatrics.
I *head-desk* AM *head desk* SO *head desk* STUPID *head desk*. You're a girl. You tell me I have great grammar, one of the best compliments someone could pay me, and I say you're a guy. I- AHHH! *head desk again, for good measure* And your interpretation of psychiatrist Jazelle was AWESOME! It almost makes me reconsider her career choice in the sequel XD
Sorry, risen truth ruthless lies. I was just so focused on my ignorance in regard to my readers that I was determined to express it first. And I dunno... does the human generator have any ideas for Forget's new form? XD... Please don't. I might get busted for plagarism if I use any more of your ideas.
One more thing: I was wondering if you had any favorite quotes from this story. Just, anything that stuck out to you. I'm putting bios together and I like to include at least one quote that describes a character's personality. PLEASE review and tell me, I'd really appreaciate it :)
One one more thing: SkullChicka, I bet you fifty bucks that you're not gonna read this before I update again. And possibly again. And again.
One one more thing: speaking of SkullChicka, she finally gave me my Black version back! So I'll try to play through that and keep it as close to the story as possible.
Alright, just stop trusting me: OH MY SWEET GOODNESS I NEED B/W 2 LIKE RIGHT NOWWW. Except I don't need that voice actor for N... he just sounded funky. RIVAL RAGE!
Just ignore everything I say: Oh my gosh, Fennel's so pretty! And... she and Amanita are SISTERS?! I really need to do more research when I write Fanfiction. Wait, that entire sentence was an oxymoron... you don't need to research! It's Fanfiction!
*troll face*:... this one's just to annoy you :} emoticon troll face
Dislaimer: Coin, coin... no coin, just dice. Odd for Yorick, even for Joey... FIVE. YORICK. Don't worry Joey, you can rule another type.
Chapter 22
The Disappearance of N Harmonia
While she can work with Fennel for a few years, and teach clueless kings how to act normal, and utterly destroy anyone who stands in her way, Jazelle was not one to stay as energetic as she was before.
"N!" Jazelle moaned just when Twist Mountain came into sight. "I'm tired!"
"You were the one that dragged us out of the Pokemon Center so we could get to Briar faster," an irritated N countered. "Are you saying you were wrong?"
"I am never wrong!" Jazelle yelled, pointing dramatically at the sky. "I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken."
"Good to know," N said flatly. "But I guess if you're that tired, you can rest for a minute." And rest Jazelle did. In fact, she basically fell down where she was and started sleeping. In her defense, she had almost single-handedly destroyed the legendary Shadow Triad not long before, and she was only thirteen, and it was super early in the morning. N sighed, smiled, picked up her small body, and laid it against a tree. After that, he walked around to the other side and joined her in slumber.
He was awoken very soon after by a sharp pain in his shoulder.
"What the- ahh!" N turned his head and came face -to-face with a dart, which he angrily pulled out. "What the heck, Shadow Triad?"
"Forgive us, Lord N." All three appeared and were bowing. "Ghetsis commands your presence."
"Well you can tell Ghetsis that I'm busy," N replied, irritated again. He was beginning to see what Dina meant when she said that I was always acting like I just woke up. "I'll meet everyone in Iccirus or something." N closed his eyes and began to settle down again, but he was woken up once more with a hard grip on his arm.
"He commands it," the ninja said. N stared back defiantly before pulling away.
"Well then you can remind him that I'm the king." Even behind the masks, N could see their surprise. And he liked it.
"Lord N, we-"
"TELL THAT PATRAT THAT IT CAN KISS MY... kiss my... hmmm..." Everyone's head snapped in Jazelle's direction, but she simply turned over in her sleep. When N turned back around, he noticed that the Shadow Triad was a few feet back.
"Speaking of Jazelle doing things I don't understand," he began, "why were you fighting earlier?"
"That's classified."
"Mmhmm. And how about how she was totally owning you?"
"... That's classified."
"Right," he said flatly, closing his eyes. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to wait for her so we can talk to Briar."
"Lord N." N opened one of his eyes, irritated. "Ghetsis commands it. It is time." Suddenly, both eyes were open.
"Like... the time?"
"Yes." Well now there was pause. N peeked behind the tree; Jazelle was sleeping peacefully.
"I-"
"I am fairly certain that she can take care of herself, Lord N." He sighed again.
"You're right. Fine." N slowly got up and stretched before following the Shadow Triad.
"Mmm... N...?" Everyone turned around and the Shadow Triad tensed as a groggy Jazelle woke up and looked at them.
"This is a dream, Jazelle," N said casually. "In a second, a bunch of Tranquil will appear and start singing a song about how great you are." Jazelle closed her eyes and smiled.
"Of course they are. I'm... awesome..." Then she lay her head down on the grass and went to sleep again, and N followed the Shadow Triad to wherever he was supposed to go.
Forget and I stayed like that, clutching each other, for a while. The sun was shining through the entrance of the cave, indicating that the sun was fully up and that the trainers were probably up and about. But still we stayed there, Cilan leaning against the wall (probably trying to pay me back since I waited for hours when he was whining about his back). It was a nice moment, like I was finally able to comfort someone like Gracie comforted me. Like, in that moment, everything seemed to-
"Yo, Briar, Cilan, where are you?" And, moment ruined. We all still stayed in the same position, though. "Oh, there you are OH SWEET ARCEUS. Cilan, didn't you tell me that you thought Dina was the hot one?" Wait, what? "Oh, wait you're right there. Why're you so pale all the sudden? Anyway, whose Briar hugging then OH SWEET ARCEUS AGAIN FORGET EVOLVED. Man, I've just been missing everything!"
"Wonderful to see you again, Jazelle," I said stoically as I sat up and returned Forget. "And Cilan, I wonder what N would do next time you and Earl needed evil prophetic organizations to swoop in and save your butts if I told him what I just learned?"
"... Please don't."
"Speaking of N," Jazelle continued, not seeming to catch on to our implicit conversation, "he and I came here to apologize to you- we were being jerks, sorry- but I can't find him now. Weird, huh?" I cocked my head.
"What do you mean, can't find him?"
"Like, we were running over here, but I got tired and laid down to take a nap. And when I woke up, he wasn't there!" A few thoughts occured to me at this moment, but I chose the one that seemed the most important to ask first.
"What about Dina and Earl?"
"Oh, don't worry about that. They're at the hospital. But we didn't tell them where we were going... and we didn't leave a note... okay, you can worry a little bit."
"Uh-huh. And..." I knew there was something useful that I could be asking to help with our missing N situation, but it took a minute for it to come to me. "Did you have any dreams?"
"Oh, the best! My mom was there, and it was back up north where I used to live, and there was this hot guy named Ryan- there are a lot of hot guys named Ryan, have you noticed?"
"Yeah, great, but was N in any of your dreams?"
"Oh, let's see... Well, there was that one where they threw a parade in my honor. He was at the beginning. He said that I was dreaming and that a bunch of Tranquil were about to start singing about how awesome I was. It started out like that, and then there were dancing Krokoroks, and all the gym leaders were bowing down right before Ryan-" she stopped when she saw the looks on our faces. "The rest isn't important. But yeah, N was there." Unsurprisingly, me and my shrewd mind were able to figure out that her dream N might not be her dream N at all.
"I see. And was anyone with N in this dream?" Jazelle scratched her chin for a second, straining to remember.
"Hey, you know what? I think those guys that were trying to kidnap Dina were there too. What were they called? The Darkness Triangle?"
"Someone tried to kidnap Dina?!" Cilan exclaimed.
"Yeah, yeah, that was awhile ago. But the Shadow Triad was with N? That doesn't sound very good."
"It might be okay," Jazelle remarked. "After all, they're Team Plasma, and doesn't Team Plasma like N?"
"Yeah, they do," I agreed. "Now, what were you saying? That you were wrong?"
"I am never wrong!" Jazelle shouted, dramatically pointing at the ceiling of the cave. "Hey, Briar, we're going to Iccirus, right? There are a bunch of Mienfoo here. Ming can finally be with her species." Ming, the only Pokemon that hadn't given up her spot outside her Poke Ball, poked her head out of my pocket excitedly.
Almost immediately upon exiting the cave we came across none other than Professor Juniper, Sr. It wasn't raining this time, however, so I had to mentally stop calling him the personified Rain Dance.
"Hey, Briar!" he greeted. "Who're your friends?"
"Hey Juniper," I replied casually, hoping to impress Cilan and Jazelle since they hadn't met him yet. "This is Cilan and Jazelle. He's one of the Striaton gym leaders."
"Nice to meet you," he said in a fatherly way. He then turned to Jazelle. "And you... you remind me of someone somewhere. Do I know your father or mother?"
"Not my mother," she guaranteed, "but my father's a possiblity, if you're a Juniper."
"Well I'm glad to meet both of you," he said, once again, in a fatherly way complete with a fatherly smile. It made me miss my dad. He used to have a smile like that, but more serious and less goofy. I guess it was a more Kantonian smile. "Anyway, I was just in town looking at Dragonspiral Tower. Did I tell you about that, Briar?"
"I think so."
"Good. You should meet me there, once you're done doing whatever you need to do."
"I'd love to," I replied, finding that I not only meant it but was excited. Cilan and Jazelle gasped when I smiled. They must've not seen me do it before. What can I say, I'm a sucker for anything paternal (ex: Clyde.)
"We should go to the Pokemon Center," Cilan suggested. "In case Forget got any damage." We all agreed that this was a good idea, and that it'd be bad if Forget died right after she evolved. They laughed as if it was a joke. I stared ahead, watching Seary's eyes roll to the back of her head for the billionth time. This only made our voyage to the Pokemon Center quicker.
When we got inside, we had to do the standard waiting around while Nurse Joy checked out Forget. We were starting to get really bored when an old guy walked over to us, somewhat shadily. I was ready to pull out the pepper spray until I heard what he had to say.
"Forgive my intrusion," he said in a very proper voice, "but do you happen to have any ore?"
"Ore?" I questioned, furrowing my brow. "What do you mean?"
"Rocks, gems, anything! I love it all." He seemed to think he was too loud during the first sentence, because his volume decreased greatly in the following.
"So... you want to buy our rocks?"
"If they're worth buying." Okay. I hadn't fought some trainers in a while, and I could use a nice meal, I'll just go outside and scoop up some shiny gravel-
"How about this?"
"Holy crap, Cilan, where'd you get an entire gold nugget?!" I exclaimed. Luckily, the loud bell on the door rang at that moment and I was mostly drowned out.
"Found it." Sweet Arceus, he sounded serious.
"Remarkable!" Mineral Man said as he examined the chunk of shiny rock. "This is absolutely wonderful! How much? Name your price and we can negotiate." Cilan's brow cocked and his mouth twitched into a smile.
"Name your price? Three of my favorite words."
"WAIT." The surprisingly loud order came from Jazelle, who was rummaging through her small messenger bag. "Don't start bartering yet." In a moment she pulled out three Nuggets, on Big Pearl, two Pearls, two Water Stones, one Leaf Stone, a Fire Stone, and an Everstone. "Okay. We can start now."
"Wait, whoa whoa whoa!" Everyone turned to me, irritated that I was interrupting their little market session. "Since when do you guys have so many valuable stones?"
"I've been saving this," Cilan answered, admiring the Nugget. "Got it from Chili in a bet. Said a couple of trainers would be making out by nightfall. He didn't think so. Either way, I 'accidentally' mixed up their orders with the anniversary meal. They left the gym together. He didn't have any cash, so he paid me in this. Been waiting to see how much I could get for it." My eyes drifted to Jazelle.
"Same here. Except I got these in a number of ways. Let's see, this Big Pearl I got from a motorcycle gang leader when I dared him to arm wrestle me. He didn't win."
"Oh, dear," Mineral Man muttered.
"As entertaining as that sounds, maybe another time," I replied.
"Right! On with the bargaining!" I heard their unreasonably high starting prices, but I kinda zoned out after that. I noticed the Poke Mart guys giving us the evil eye, and I could tell that they were the reason Mineral Man was trying to be quiet at first (the pleasantly low volume dissipated after a few seconds of those three trying to get a good deal). I found that I could tell a lot of things in those zoned-out minutes. Looking at the counter, I noticed a bored Audino that I could tell knew very well that a Chansey should be standing where it was. Looking at the window beyond, I could tell Forget's check-up was almost done. Out the window, I could tell those kids dancing were just dancing for the fun of it, not because they were some sort of demon worshippers (and thank Arceus I was right in that aspect.)
Then I saw Dragonspiral Tower, where Juniper Sr. was, and I could really tell something was going to go down there pretty soon.
Author's Note: Yay! I hope this isn't incredibly short. I can't tell on WordPad.
SkullChicka was finally able to give me my game back. Not that she'll be reading this to know I talked about her XD (Don't worry ya'll, I've been shaming her into tomorrow so she reads it again, and I think I'm almost there.)
Update after edit: Whoops, already mentioned Prussia giving my game back. Oh well, more words. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.
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