I Don't Own Pokemon
Walking away from the city, I hadn't yet sent out my team, as I would rather get a bit farther away from the city and make sure that I wouldn't get recognized because of anyone on my team. Was that paranoid, oh most certainly but that just describes me in general so it wasn't like this was out of character. It had been about a day since Zekrom had set off, after I had given them some basic first aid.
I wasn't sure what I expected the Dragon type to decide on, but the compromise that we came to wasn't what I had been expecting really. Thinking about it, I reached over and touched the second ball on my belt, well, stone now. Apparently it could work as a summoning item, so I kept it there in place of the pokeball that was originally taking up it's place. I still had his pokeball of course, it was a small guard against him getting captured, but it was in my bag at the moment, instead of on my belt.
While that might be a little dangerous to have just an item on my person out in the open, I was fully aware of that risk so with a bit of practice I figured out how to cover something in a illusion. That's right, I remember that I can actually do illusion stuff, I just kind of forget about it most of the time because there isn't a reason to use them. But this gave me a good reason, as for anyone else, the second slot on my belt would look like there was just a normal pokeball there instead of a item to summon Zekrom.
Moving focus back onto said Pokemon, I wasn't even sure where Zekrom went off to, they just said they were going to see what all had been changed in the time of their slumber, dropped a much small version of the dark stone of the ground, told me to use it if I needed them, and then sent off into the sky. I can't say that I could have gotten a better deal out of it really, I mean if I had to, I have a bloody legendary on call, and I don't even have to deal with playing moderator between them and my team.
"Hey, I have a question" The voice forced me back into focusing on my surroundings, as I glanced upwards slightly to look up at Riolu, who was, like normal perched on my shoulders. While she might be a dead give away to others, I couldn't return her, because well, I literally couldn't, and I wasn't going to let her walk on her leg, so I just decided that I'd just have to risk it, because, sadly Riolu wasn't a stationary item so I couldn't put an illusion on her.
"You could just skip a step and ask the question first to save some time" I just pretended that I didn't hear her huff of annoyance. Though I was curious about what she was going to ask, as so far she seemed more inclined to just pretend that the last two days never happened, which to be fair, I've been trying to do as well, but right now I wondered if she would ask about it.
"Why do you act so weird?" Blinking to myself at the question, I felt my head tilt to the side as I tried to figure out what that means, but deciding that it was to vague, as I am weird just in general, not like that was new information.
"Use your words, and explain, because that made no sense what so ever" She sighed, but didn't say anything for a few moments, looking back up at her, I noted that her face was screwed up like she had no idea either how to start or just couldn't figure out how to say it. Something was wrong then it seems, after another moment to give her time to see if she would start I said out loud to her.
"If you can't figure out what to say, then just start talking out loud, I'll figure it out" I've come to figure that if you can't find out how to say something then the best thing to do is just get all of it out so you don't have to limit everything you want to say in just one sentence. Sure it usually lead to rants but I'm a surprisingly good listener when I want to be. After a moment she seemed to accept that my idea would probably be the best, but what I wasn't expecting just how much she had to say.
"I don't get it! Since I've met you, you've never hardly taken anything seriously, and half the time I'm not even sure you're able to take something seriously. You act like everything is a joke always replying with some sharp comment and you're always just kind of detached from everything and don't care. And that's sort of also how your 'team' acts as well, all of them just joke around and not really seem to be all that serious.
I honestly couldn't see any of the apparent 'battle genius' you said the world saw you as, but then we enter that town or city or whatever, and suddenly I learn that you've repeatedly encountered multiple Legendary freaking Pokemon, and this wasn't anything special. And then suddenly everything is blowing up, and all these Pokemon I've met and couldn't see being anything but goofy, suddenly start fighting a Legendary Pokemon four times my size, on equal ground!
And that's not even mentioning you! Since I've met you, you've always just kind of joked around with some rude and funny but ultimately harmless comments, when we argue, but what I saw when you battled! You were terrifying, shouting out commands in the middle of a freaking war zone and it didn't even faze you at all! The only emotion I could get from you was annoyance, like the entire event was just a minor inconvenience, while every thing was exploding!
And that's Pidgeot and Mismagius went down. I have never felt that scared in my life, the amount of rage coming from you and the others was overwhelming, and it was like the battle was only just started then, everything was exploding. And everyone that I've come to see as cheerful and joking friends were suddenly these viscous titans of power destroying everything in their path.
Then you won! You beat a Legendary Pokemon, and you caught it! And when it was over, you looked like you were just having a bad morning! I couldn't even feel anything from you anymore, it was like you were the sociopath I thought you were, and then you just moved on! Returned all of the Pokemon that I thought I knew and said that we were going to a Pokemon Center to get them healed. Not to mention you later went out and had a conversation with the Pokemon and ended up as their Champion! How does that even work! In the end, I mean, I...I just don't know how the hell I feel about you all anymore"
At the end she just kind of trailed off like she just didn't know what to say anymore, but I wasn't worried about that, instead, I was worrying over what she had said, because it was a big deal. After a moment of consideration, I sighed, as I slowed down my pace to a steady stop, before reaching up and grabbed Riolu and pulled her off my shoulders. Sitting her on the ground, I followed suit and dropped myself to the ground in front of her, she seemed nervous which I thought wasn't needed but still didn't let that stop me as I said.
"I wish you said something earlier, this isn't the kind of thing you should stew on, but to be fair this is probably the first time you've had the chance to do this. Honestly, I'm not sure what to tell you, I don't really think their is anything I could say that would fix what the problem is, but what I can do is explain it some, so you don't have to lost in guesswork about what you think is true or not. Is that ok?" Letting her having a deciding factor in this will hopefully help her calm down some, after a moment she gave a nod.
"I'm not good at recognizing just how stupid some of the situations I get actually are from just how unlucky I am, because that's what I am, I'm incredibly unlucky. That's the only reason why this stuff keeps happening to me, I just end up being dragged into it, and at this point, I've come to the conclusion, if something is going on I'm going to have to play a part in it no matter what, so I've decided to just get it over with before it spirals even more out of control.
That's why I seemed so put out that the whole thing was happening in the first place. As for the switch in personality, well, I think my team gets it from me, I don't think any of them were like that before I've spent time training them. But for me, well, I don't like being serious, it's a headache and it leads to headaches more often than not, so I'd rather just be rude and condescending when I can to people, and joke around the rest of the time.
But that doesn't mean I can't be serious, in fact in a battle or when the situation demands it, I probably get too serious about the whole thing, it's a flaw I have, that I'm sure the team has gotten from me, which I don't really like. As for the anger, well, this team is all I care about really, they have been my family for over a year now, I'm so much closer to them than I am with my parents at this point, so to see one of them get hurt, well, you see what happens.
My team is the same way, they might even more protective than I am of each other and myself. You know, as much as it kind of pains me to admit it, you and Snivy, well more you than him, are starting to become apart of this family as well. You'll have to catch up on what you've missed but I think this is a good first step, you've seen all of us at our most, well some would say dangerous, but I prefer protective. And as for the whole thing with me technically being Zekrom's trainer, yeah, I'll be honest I have no clue how that ended up happening either, though trust me it's not only a headache for you to wrap your head around"
I ended it on a nice note, while also teasing her a little bit, and letting her know that even I'm not entirely sure how that last part managed to happen at all. And I was glad to see she didn't seem as confused as she was before, though I did notice she was quite obviously thinking over everything I said, but I didn't mind. I knew that this was probably a lot for her, and I was kind of annoyed at myself for not noticing. Though after a moment she looked but a me with a small grin and said.
"So what you're saying is, all of this is you're fault and that you're a terrible influence" I looked at her for a moment, before huffing out a small laugh before leaning back a little bit and said in an offended voice.
"Oi! I'm a great influence!" She just shook her head like I was the one being an idiot, and after a moment she opened her mouth with another remark. As she did, I noted that she seemed to be getting out of her rut, it might take some time for her to come all the way around to accepting that her new family could be pretty terrifying, but I had faith she would manage. Though I do hope that I don't have to give another speech to Snivy to get him to come around as well, I'm really aren't good at them and I'm running out of new things to say.
A bit of a shorter one chapter that focused heavily on just two main multiple paragraph long rants between Kyu and Riolu, but I think I managed to make it work, after all, any longer and I would have to bring up another topic to fill in more words.
Oh speaking of other topics, Zekrom, yeah I totally copped out, but I mean Kyu's team wouldn't have accepted Zekrom being around, and the Pokemon knew that, but Kyu did in fact become worthy to be their trainer, so like I said in the chapter, it's a comprise. They'll be popping in and out every now and again so don't think that I just threw this in there because drama and stuff, they will have more moments, but I've spent the last four chapters on this so I'm not spending even more time on it when I could end it like this for the time being. Anyway, See ya.