Once again-- I do not or will not try and claim pokemon or any original ideas or characters from the series pokemon. I just want to write a story of the next gen that might spark your interest. Enjoy!
Later Years!
Chapter 35: The Training Thought!
Written by drake22ice
"Oh, her egg finally hatched? What is it?" a hyper voice came from the other bed. Star slowly opened her eyes to see Tera with her back turned. "I believe it is called a Duskador-- it is a bird pokemon that has an annoying move called MudBall." Tera said-- seeming to be talking to herself. Star stumbled over to her. As she peeked over Tera's shoulder, -- "Oh, hi, Star!!" May's image said appearing on the screen of Tera's device. "So I heard your egg hatched-- can I see the pokemon?" May's hyper voice sounded. Star, not really awake, yet, pulled out her pokeball and tossed it on the bed. Duskador popped out and started to tap buttons on the screen. "Hey!" Tera called out. It made Squitor jump in between Duskador and Tera. "Now-- play nice! It is adorable, Star. It makes me think of when I first got my Torchic. You girls look like you are going to have lots of fun. You know Uncle Drew and I are planning on coming out that way, today? We want to see you guys get your second badges." May said making the girls look at each other. "Have you girls met the Gym Leader, yet?" May asked. They looked back to her. "No, Auntie May. We have not even seen the gym. We saw this funny flash of--" Tera said, but was interrupted by May-- "What!! You girls better be getting ready! Maybe we can help you train." May said before looking behind her. She turned back-- "Well, girls, we will see you later! We have something exciting to tell you! Bye!" May finished and ended the connection.
"I wonder what they want to tell us!" Tera whispered out. "Maybe they are going to go out adventuring again!" Star suggested. Connor walked in holding Burwuf. "So where did you two go off to last night?" he asked. Star stared out the window. "Tera smirked-- "Oh, Star had to go see her boyfriend again!" she chuckled. "That is not even funny anymore!" Star snapped back. "We went to investigate a strange light." Star ended. Connor gave a confused glare-- "And?" he said. "Oh, we did see Turk, but Officer Jenny sent us back here." she finished. Connor glanced to the window where they suddenly heard music. "What's going on?" Tera torted out.
The three ran downstairs to get Prina, but she was not there. Her stuff was gone and so was her pokemon. "She must have gone already." Connor insisted. "No, she didn't even say 'good bye!'" Star whined out. "Anyways-- let's go see what's going on." Tera suggested. They got outside to see people hanging signs and balloons. A few people were practicing playing their instruments with their pokemon. There was an igglybuff blowing into a tuba near a marching band, and a loudred hooking up speakers to the electric guitars by a rockish group. The signs all had PAF written on them. Star squinted her eyes to see below the letters. "Pokemon Appreciation Festival!" she stuttered out. "A festival?" Tera said with a smart alec tone. They walked around town seeing people decorating their houses and stores with images of pokemon. Tera turned to see Connor had stopped to talk to someone. She grabbed Star's arm to drag her over to hear what they were talking about.
"Yes, we have this festival every year to celebrate how important pokemon are to us. The main attraction during the shows, though, is the releasing and adopting of the abandoned pokemon that poor trainers have left behind, or the orphaned young pokemon. They are helped at the pokemon center and then given shelter for a while at the Pokemon Living Shelter. Hmmff-- Ruken sure loves to put on a great show for that part of the show." The joyous man said. The three were just amazed at the town's effort. "Ruken?" Connor asked. The man brought his glance back to them-- "Ya, Ruken comes out and is a great volunteer for the rehabilitation program for the shelter." he ended. "Is the festival, today?" Tera asked excited. "No, it is tomorrow, and if you don't mind, I have to get back to getting ready! It was nice to meet you all. You really should enjoy the festival." he ended and started to turn away. "Sir, Can we help? We really enjoy pokemon and would love to help out!" Star stepped up and insisted. Connor and Tera looked at each other then jumped up with Star. "Yes, Please?"
The young trio helped the man get his decorations up and then started going around town. Star brought her pokemon out to help paint a newly sculpted statue of the three legendary bird pokemon-- Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno. It was next to the Town Hall. Bluebolt kept trying to paint them all blue like him, which made Star laugh the first two times he tried to do it. Tera and her pokemon helped shoot streamers and garland across the streets. Squitor helped a lot with its Stringshot to fasten the streamers to each Street post. Connor and his pokemon helped test a few fireworks. Burwuf had fun running back and forth using Ember to light the fuses. Eevee didn't like dodging them, though.
After the long day of helping out, the group went back to the pokemon center. They had made lots of friends and were very tired. Connor crashed on the couch in the lobby. Tera walked over to him and smacked him-- "Don't you want to go with us to see what that flashing was?" she asked. He sat up real quick. He saw it was dark out, but he did not see any flashing. "I don't even see the flashing. Do you?" he spatted out frustrated. Just then a flash lit the sky. Tera looked back to him with a funny smirk. He lowered his head as he stood up -- "Fine!!" he whispered out.
Star noticed Officer Jenny watching them, so she turned back to talk to the other two. Tera walked over to her. "Officer Jenny? Have you ever seen a Squitor? It is an Ice type pokemon I got over in Icewindale! ..." Tera went on and on bragging. Officer Jenny then looked and saw the other two were gone. "Where did your friends go?" she insisted. "Oh, they probably went to bed already. We had a lot of fun, today, getting ready for the festival. I think I should go to bed, too. Nice talking with you, Officer Jenny." Tera said without taking a breath. She ran up stairs leaving Officer Jenny confused.
Outside, the other two were waiting for Tera. "I wonder if Officer Jenny got stuck with Tera talking forever! She likes to do that!" Star chuckled. "I heard that!" Tera said as she lowered herself down Squitor's thread. "Let's go!" Star insisted. They were running through the bushes and trees again. They passed the spot where the two girls had run into Turk last time. Star looked back to it in thought. They could see they were getting closer to the Flashing. They peered over a ledge to see a flying pokemon flying up to their level. It looked like a gray rodent. It had a long tail, big blue eyes, and a yellow and white section of fur lining the inside of its ears. It also had a yellow layer of skin connected between its arms and legs, which gave it the ability to coast through the air. It landed next to a young man with a black spiked mohawk. He was standing next to a little blue haired girl with a Houndour. "That's Simari!" Connor whispered out. "Sshhh!" Star let out as she pulled out her pokedex. "Patagi- the flying squirrel pokemon of the Electric type. Though it appears not to have wings, it is able to pick up any wind current to lift it and use flying attacks such as Gust." the robotic voice finished. "Must be a newly discovered pokemon!" Connor said to show that he had no knowledge of the species. As they looked down they saw a familiar face coming out of the bushes and a red flash to reveal a molteneel. "Prina!" Star called out showing that they were there. Prina looked up and showed that a black star tattoo was covering her right eye. She looked back to the Man and Simari and called out something. Molteneel started to shoot little lava bombs at the man. "No!" Star hysterically yelled out, leaping from the ledge and sliding down. She jumped in front of the Man. "Prina, why are you doing this?" she called out. Molteneel shot LavaSpit again.
The other two jumped down and released Burwuf, Spheal, Pichu, and Feezub. Star looked back to see the rodent spinning in the air. When it brought its tail over its head, it swung fast and sent a transparent white wave of electricity into the sky hitting the wing of the large pokemon it was aiming for that no one else saw. Turk had jumped off of it and released his Newdow and Werfel. When the large black bird-dragon like pokemon landed, two SPAT members jumped down. One was Damion, and the other was a female. "We know you have some rather interesting pokemon in that so called shelter of yours. We want them." the female said. Damion looked over at Star. "Well, we have another prize to capture, here!" he said. Star released Bluebolt, Duskador, and Vulpix. "Aaah, and there it is!" Damion smoothly said looking at Bluebolt.
"What is that thing?" Tera whispered to Connor. "A Ravesaur -- Flying/Dragon type. My dad owned one of its pre-evolution-- Onkraven." Connor informed them, which made Tera gulp. They all stared around at each other for a while. "So you see the new friend we made, who is going to help us save all the pokemon from that evil shelter?" Turk said nodding his head in the direction of Prina, but looking at Star. "The shelter is not evil. We help pokemon that are hurt or abandoned!" the man said from behind Star. Prina had Molteneel shoot a quick LavaSpit that hit the shoe of the man. It melted it. The female SPAT member road up into the air with Ravesaur. Turk sent the crazed looking –night changed-- Werfel after Tera. Star stood her ground, but saw Damion release his Skuntank in front of her. Prina jumped back as Burwuf's Ember attack shot at her. Star looked to Connor. "Don't! She's our--!" she was interrupted by Connor -- "Friend! I know!"
"Look, Simari and I will take care of the flying one. You watch your back with that Skuntank!" he said before running to get space. He paused -- "By the way-- the name is Ruken!" he finished. Star was surprised, but was worried-- "What about Prina!" she called out. She saw Prina was battling with Connor. "We can handle these two." Tera said as she had Pichu zap Werfel with a ThunderWave.
The battle was on.
Skuntank took Star's attention by blasting her with its PoisonJab attack. She fell backwards. It then dashed around her and hit Duskador with its claws with a little bit of Darkness surrounding it. "NightSlash! That pokemon was just hatched! You cannot expect it to defend itself from that kind of attack yet!" Star yelled out before holding her stomach in pain. She did not even realize the attack had hit Vulpix out of the way, too, leaving Bluebolt by itself. Star looked at Bluebolt. "Ha ha ha! You know you could take me out with one hit of that ShockFire. Let's see it!" Damion smoothly said with a grin.
The large, black pokemon swooped down at Simari. It missed, but grabbed Houndour. "No!" she cried. Ruken then called out for Patagi to follow it into the air. The beast pokemon flapped its wings and hit the rodent pokemon with a large enough Twister attack that it spun it right into the cliff's edge. "Never mess with Tyra's little pet!" the female revealed her name. Ruken ran over to see if Patagi was alright. Patagi jumped into the air before he got there. "That's right! StaticPulse!" The rodent started to spin, but the large pokemon threw Houndour towards the rocky cliff. Simari leaped into the air, but the force was too strong. She and houndour fell hard into a bush. Ruken got worried, which made Patagi stop. "Is that all you got?" Tyra laughed out with craziness behind it.
Newdow grabbed a hold of the proud little girl Pichu and slammed her into a rock with its TongueLash. Tera got distracted by it and did not see the BubbleBeam attack hit her across the back. She flung to the ground. She could barely move, but saw Connor getting wrapped by Prina's Molteneel. It also had bitten Burwuf so hard that Burwuf was laying on the ground. "So you think you guys are so tough picking on pokemon and catching them for pleasure." Turk said as he leaned on Tera, holding her down.
Star was very tempted to let Bluebolt blast this guy, but she did not want to. That attack never did any good. It only harms others, and no one deserves that even if they are bad guys. Then, she remembered a trick she did before. She returned Vulpix to her pokeball. Then, she got up and called for Duskador to use MudBall repeatedly on Skuntank. It covered the pokemon. "Ha, that's your plan?" Damion retorted. "Skuntank, PoisonGas and blow that mud off of you!" he finished. Star grinned. "What?" Damion said with a confused face. As the poison gas flowed around Skuntank, the pokeball Star rolled under it released Vulpix. "Now, FireSpin!" The Fire set the skunk pokemon a blaze. Vulpix ran out of the fire and jumped into Star's arms. "Bluebolt, RainDance." A small cloud formed above the fire and rain fell to extinguish it. The Skuntank rested there-- fainted and scorched.
Ruken looked over to see Simari getting out of it. "Simari, use your new technique!" he called out. She nodded. "Alright, Houndour, fire up your FireFang." The little pup growled and let its jaw drop to show its mouth filled with flame. "Now, SludgeBomb!" she called out. The attack usually only shoots poisonous sludge at the foe, but in this case, the FireFang attack set the sludge on fire as it was released from Houndour's mouth. The fiery ball of flames missed the pokemon, but hit Tyra. The blast sent her down towards the ground at a fast speed, but the bird pokemon couldn't get to her. Ruken saw the opportunity. "Now, Patagi, shoot a series of StaticPulse at the Ravesaur!" The flying squirrel rose up into the air and spun tail over head over and over. Each time he did, its tail would get real fat and then blast the static at the bird. The blasts were too much. The Ravesaur fell hard a few feet away from its trainer.
Connor was trying to fight the urge to attack Prina, but the molteneel, though it showed a face of discomfort at the thought of fighting these friends, was squeezing Connor. Connor looked at the tattoo on Prina's face again. 'I wonder!' he thought. "Spheal, BodySlam Prina, but don't press too hard. The seal pokemon leaped up like a blimp and pounded its body into Prina. It pinned her down and she was knocked out. Molteneel released Connor. Tera was in a gaze at the boy holding her down. She smirked. "What, you like this hurting others?" Turk taunted her. She laughed "No, but Feezub sure loves his trick." Suddenly Turk realized Feezub above him. He started to form ice around Turks head. It only got as far as to freeze his hair to his head before he jumped back. At that point, he ordered Newdow to use TongueLash. The tongue came in, but Tera called Pichu. She rolled in with an IronTail attack that blasted Newdow about thirty feet away.
It seemed that the good guys were winning, but then a strange song could be heard coming from somewhere. As the group of foes tried to stand, they soon fell asleep. Star's eyes were getting droopy. She looked around to see that every one, even Connor and Tera, were passed out on the ground. She felt her knees get weak and she fell to the ground. Her eyes slowly closed, but the last thing she saw was an Altaria land, and two people jump down from its back.
So these kids had a busy day! With the festival, thinking about the next gym, the battle against their foes, and the new pokemon they just saw in battle-- what fun stuff will emerge at the festival and who were the two jumping down from the Altaria?
Check it out in Later Years Chapter 36: Day For the Pokemon!
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