Playing With Fire: Chapter 35

AN: I have no idea why people think that the story is finished. I mean, this is only the 35th chapter!! I want to make this a LONG story!!
Also, thanks to everyone for reviewing and making me very happy ^^
Ooh, and while I remember, this chapter is dedicated to Felix the Eeveetrainer. I don't know why. Meh. :)

"Hopefully I won't see you again for a while!" Mew called, as she flew into the distance.

"Bye!" we all shouted, waving after her until she was just a dark speck in the darker sky. Then both armies began to disperse, heading to other fields in the Safari Zone.

I looked at Danny, then down at Blitz and Inferno.

"I can't believe that that was only one day! It feels like forever since we beat the crap out of Koga!" Inferno sighed, sitting in the grass as Brad kicked Rain away from me. I looked puzzled for a minute.

"That was when you were with Percy, don't you remember?" Danny said, and I laughed.

"It does feel like years ago! I can hardly remember Lucky falling down the toilet on the ferry!" I chuckled, and Lucky stopped chasing his tails and looked up, one unfortunate tail in his mouth. In short, he looked like a complete idiot.

"Whumch?" he mumbled confusedly through his tail, as we all laughed at the puzzled Ninetales. He shrugged, and released his tail by accident.

"Hey! Get back here!" he yelled in frustration, chasing his tails once more whilst spitting a few black hairs from his mouth. As we laughed, Lucky slowed his frenzied running in circles, staggered a few times and collapsed on his stomach, cross-eyed.

"Ah, good times," Blitz chuckled, wiping a tear from her eye with a paw. Brad laughed and set Lucky back on his feet, where he collapsed again muttering about prawns.

Brad sat down next to the now sleeping Lucky.

"Yeah, in the end I had to get on the rim of the loo seat and pull him out, because I was the smallest!" we all looked up at Brad, who looked back down at us, puzzled.

"What?" he asked, as Danny walked over and stood next to the Charizard. He barely met Brad's chest.

"I'm six foot tall, and you're about three feet taller than me," Danny muttered, as Brad stared down at him, bewildered.

"Yeah? What's the problem?" Brad asked, and Danny burst out laughing. Brad growled.

"What is funny about me?" he demanded, snorting a few flames dangerously close to Danny's already flaming hair. Danny chuckled nervously and stared up at Brad.

"You're about two feet taller than the average Charizard. You always said you were the smallest; well now you're the biggest." Brad's mouth dropped open as Danny sat back down next to Blitz, and ruffled her fur.

"I told you! I never really thought you were smaller than any other Charmander anyway!" I said, and Lucky looked up, blinking sleep out of his eyes. He stared dully at Brad for a minute, before shrieking and zooming behind me.

"Where'd the Charizard come from?!" I cuffed him over the head, and he obediently sat down and started scratching himself. I stared at him.

"We really need to do something about that," I heard Danny hiss to Inferno, who nodded and then jumped when someone tapped him on the shoulder.

"Oh, hey Roger!" Inferno said happily, as the Dragonite sat down in between Brad and the Magmar. Roger smiled at Inferno, then looked seriously at Danny.

"I would like to come with you and the others around Kanto," he stated, and we all gasped audibly. To be honest I never knew why, maybe for dramatic effect.

Danny grinned, and then let his face drop.

"I would happily, but I was going to do the Indigo League using only Fire Pokemon, and I want to do it properly and use Fire Pokemon for all the Gyms and battles too!" Roger nodded and smiled.

"Perhaps you have a travelling companion? Someone who would like to have a Dragonite as part of their team?" he suggested hopefully, and I and Brad snorted. I think anyone would like a Dragonite as part of their team.

"No, I'm sorry," Danny began, but I cut him short. I could hear a rustling, and it wasn't a Pokemon. There was silence as we strained to hear.

I waggled my sensitive ears, and saw Blitz look shocked long before I detected the sound of muttering. Human muttering.

"Back in the Pokeballs, everyone!" Danny muttered, returning everyone but me.

"...no worthwhile Pokemon here, whatsoever..." a familiar female voice muttered, as a girl stepped out of the long grass. She was wearing green flip-flops, white short-shorts, and a green and white stripey tank top.

She looked like a yoghurt advert.

Wait, I've said that description before.

She tripped on a blade of grass (aka. My paw), stumbled and regained her balance by hanging onto my ear.

She pulled herself partly up, and stared into my face. I growled.

"Eep!" she squealed, accidentally launching herself into Danny, who was wagging a disapproving finger at me.

"You need to keep your- OH! I've seen you before!" she shouted shrilly, looking up at Danny. Danny's face was blank for a minute, before he exclaimed.

"Oh yeah! Amber pounded your Spheal, didn't she! And I still have your old Vulpix!" At the mention of my name, Sandy gave me a half-scared glance, and at the mention of Lucky, Sandy's mouth slid open.

"Oh, but before I show you, how would you like to travel with me?" Sandy looked up at Danny, and nodded at his request. Danny grinned and winked at me, before beckoning to a tall patch of grass nearby.

"Oh. My. God." Sandy spluttered, gob-smacked, when Roger walked slowly out of the grass. He looked at Sandy and gave a small smile.

"His name's Roger, and if he's okay with that, then he's all yours!" as Sandy wrung Danny's hand and shrieked her thanks, I looked up in delight at Roger.

"You're travelling with us!" I cried, hugging him. He studied his new trainer's face, before his small smile grew bigger.

"Yeah, I think she's a good trainer." he murmured, before the Safari Ball claimed him as Sandy's. Sandy grinned at the ball and clipped it with pride onto her Pokeball belt.

Then she swung round to face Danny, orange eyes shining.

"Right. Where do we start?"

AN: Roger was just too good to lose! And Sandy's back! I wonder what she'll make of Lucky, and whether our mentally-challenged Ninetales will remember her... :P

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