I Don't Own Pokemon
White Forest was neat to walk through, as there was a lot of interesting looking trees, that were, unsurprisingly white. Though Charizard and Pidgeot had to fly pretty high up so they didn't bump into any of the trees because of how tall they were. But besides that and a few interesting conversations with some villagers that live out in the forest, nothing of interest happened there.
Black city on the other hand had a bunch of buildings and a lot of slightly more aggressive people in it. So after some looking around, I found the Pokemon Center and rented out a room. Most of my team had been returned besides Mismagius and Luxray, the reason why my Son was out was because honestly I haven't really spent much time one on one with many of my Pokemon as I should, much less my Son, and so this was me correcting it.
We spent most of the time talking to each other and over all just having a good conversation about everything. It's nice, I haven't had much chance to really get wrapped up in the happy spirit my Son has when he goes on talking about all the cool stuff we've seen since we arrived in Unova. It was relaxing and he was really enjoying talking with me, which spiked a small pit of guilt in me.
I'm not good at remembering that others aren't as fine with not keeping in conversation as I am. Not to mention that most of my focus recently has been on training Servine meaning I haven't spent as much time with the rest of my team as I'm all of us would have liked. I'm most certainty going to make it up to them all, the first step is to catch up to them all with some one on one talks.
"Hey dad, have you ever thought about battling as a Pokemon and not a trainer?" Blinking at the weird and sudden question, I looked at him for a second as he just looked back with a curious look on his face. I thought about how to answer the question in a way that would make the most sense, after a moment I came to my answer, which I gave to him.
"Not really, I'm past my body's prime so I wouldn't be able to train like the rest of you. Not to mention I like being the trainer more, it's just a preference thing I guess. Everyone has the thing we're good at, I'm good at thinking of battle plans and leading you all in a battle and helping you all get stronger, and you all have an amazing training ethic and are great battlers" He tilted his head while he thought about it for a second before nodding.
"I get it, you're more of a thinking than a fighter" I held a frown off at that but nodded to his words nonetheless, though I did correct him some, as it wouldn't be good for him to get a bad impression on what I'm trying to get across to him.
"Yeah, I guess you could call it that, but you all are smart as well, but you just focus it in a different way than I do. It's not about brains over brawn or anything like that, it's about using both, you're incredibility smart Son, you've figured out a created a few insanely strong moves on your own, which takes quite the mind to do, so you use you're mind to focus on getting stronger, while I use my mind to help you out in that goal in a different way"
I slipped into pokespeech, to make sure he understood what I was saying which he did, thankfully as he nodded along to my words with a look of concentration on his face, which I thought looked adorable of my massive lightning lion, it just didn't suit him to look so serious. I remember when he was just a small cub smiling at everything, and that's all I can see when I look at him.
My thoughts and whatever Luxray was about to say were interrupted as a near frantic set of knocks sounded out against the door to my room. We both looked over towards the door for a moment as the knocking just continued on. Looking over to my Son I asked him as I stood up and made my way over towards the door.
"Who's behind the door?" He just blinked at me for a second before looking over towards the door, before looking through it, because he can do that, no matter how not often he actually does do it doesn't mean he can't. Still, that wasn't really important as he looked to see who was out in the hall before turning back to me and said.
"It's a nurse. She looks panicked Dad" Nodding to him, now that I knew it wasn't some idiot that figured out what room I was in and wanted to talk to me, I walked forwards some more and pulled open the door to look at the Nurse. She didn't look like she was having a good time, every couple seconds she looked behind herself down the hallway. Before I could get a word out she said in a rush.
"I need you to follow me" And with that she turned and walked quickly down the hallway, nope never mind, she was straight up sprinting down the hallway to the main lobby of the Pokemon Center towards what I believe is the entrance. Looking down at Luxray who was looking back up at me, both of us with a look of confusion on our facing, I just shrugged after a moment and followed after, though at a slightly not as rushed pace.
I have to say, I was really and I mean really hoping that I wasn't about to be forced into some big thing that I would have to end up fixing. Though as I walked out into the city, what I wasn't expecting to see was Zekrom looking around confused by the amount of people around them, either taking pictures or looking scared, which I kind of was as well, I mean he isn't doing anything. Still, I approached the, technically my, Pokemon and said, ignoring everyone else.
"Hey Zekrom, I wasn't expecting to see you today" My Son also gave a greeting as well, though I noted my shadow was a little darker, which made sense, Mismagius was surprisingly unforgiving. Actually out of everyone, I think only Luxray and Pidgeot has really forgiven the Legendary Pokemon entirely. Luxray, I'm pretty sure, just couldn't hold onto resentment, and Pidgeot just didn't really mind it really once he was healed. In fact I'm pretty sure he was really confused as to why he should be mad when one of my Pokemon talked about it.
"I was in the area and felt my summoning stone nearby, I figured I would come by and see how my Hero has been doing" Hero? Is that my title for them? If so then I really should have expected that. While I was thinking about that, I noted that everyone around me practically jumped backwards at the small roar like sound that they heard come from the tall Pokemon in front of me, without hearing the translation I'm sure I would also be some what concerned as well.
"Oh ok sure. I don't really have much going on right now but guess we could talk and catch up for a bit. You can tell me about what you've been up to since you left a couple weeks ago" They nodded at my request, while I was slowly becoming more and more annoyed by the presence of everyone around me, really I've tuning them out, but it was beginning to get really uncomfortable for me as I could practically feel the cameras aimed at me.
"Is it ok if I return you so I can find a spot that isn't as crowded?" The Dragon type finally seemed to come back to being aware that there was an increasingly large amount of people beginning to watch us and talk about what was happening in front of them. So with that they thankfully nodded, so with that I reached down opened up my bag at my side and pulled out a specific pokeball and aimed it before returning the Pokemon.
I could practically feel the shock around me at the action, though I wasn't really sure why, I mean it's clear that most of the people here know that I'm Zekrom's trainer, so it would stand to reason I would be able to return them. Still, I looked over towards my Son who looked back at me with a curious look on his face, raising an eyebrow at him, he answered my unasked question.
"Do you think I would be able to convince them to teach me that tail strike attack they used on Lycanroc?" I actually wasn't sure of an answer for that, the move was clearly one of those legendary only moves, probably Bolt Strike, as I think Fusion Bolt is the move that they used to rain down lightning on us. Still, I know in the games that Zekrom is the only one that can learn it, besides I think another legendary but I can't remember which, but I don't think there is a reason why it can't be learned.
"It wouldn't hurt to ask, but their is the possibility that you wouldn't be able to actually use it even if they do agree to teach you it. Zekrom is one of the strongest Electric types out there, you might not have the reserves yet to pull it off like they can" Wasn't that a weird statement, my Son has practically an unlimited amount of lightning at his disposal, to the point where I don't think he has actually run out of energy in months, the only reason why he can lose is because his body isn't as strong.
"Though that'll have to wait for a bit. Also, Mismagius, could you find a nice un-populated area where we can talk for a bit?" I could tell that she didn't really want to, from the fact that I could almost hear her pouting from the darkness below me, but after a moment the familiar shadow opened up as me and Luxray fell into the hole. As we were ejected outwards, somewhere in the White Forest I made sure to give her a thank you while also asking for another favor.
"I know you don't want to leave me alone, even though I'm completely fine and not in any danger, but could you go back to the Center and let Riolu know that nothing is wrong, just a bunch of people over reacting" This time she floated out of the shadow and looked at me with crossed arms pouting a lot before telling me.
"Fine but you better not get into any battles then Captain or else I'm going to send you all over the place!" I just gave her a smile, and gave her a pat on her hat head, which made a small grin also appear on her face, though she tried to not show it while still pouting as she dropped back into the ground, this time with my shadow not being occupied.
With that, I looked down at the pokeball in my left hand before priming it once more and tossed it into the air. Watching as Zekrom appeared, I noted that Zekrom looked around for a moment before nodding to themself like they liked the scenery, either that or the amount of people nearby was getting to them more than they thought it was, which also might have been it.
"So what all have you been up to?" The Pokemon in front of me seemed to think on it for a moment before answering.
"I've traveled around most of the region, checking up on most of these new cities, though from what I've heard most have been around for a few decades now, it's interesting to see how the world has changed. This 'Black City' is actually the last main population of humans in Unova that I have let to look at, when I arrived though I kind of got distracted when I felt my stone, and let my presence be known when I was looking for you, Hero" Yep, Hero is definitely my title for them, neat.
"Good to know, I haven't been traveling around as fast as you have, but that's because I like taking my time going from place to place. Since you've left though, the only main thing is Snivy evolving into Servine, but you never met him so it's not like it's a big deal for you. Oh and he and I have started training in coordination, which has been interesting" They nodded at that and replied simply enough.
"I do believe I've heard of something called coordinating, I haven't looked much into it though, so you might have to fill in the gaps a bit" It made since as from my memories, coordinating only really picked up about fifty years ago and only really started becoming another main form of training in the past two decades. Though as I was about to explain the basics of it to the Pokemon, Luxray beat me to it.
"It's this really cool thing where Pokemon and trainer preform an act to show off how powerful they are without actually causing destruction. It's kind of weird but Servine says it's a lot of fun" I don't believe I ever thought about it in the way Luxray was describing but it was accurate so I didn't bother trying to correct him any, as Zekrom instead turned and looked at my Son and said.
"Oh, I do believe that's what I gathered as well. Though from what I remember from our battle, you happen to be a very strong Electric type as well aren't you. From the battle, I would say you're the strongest of your team" Luxray seemed to beam under the high praise though he was a little bashful about it.
"I'm not sure, everyone is really strong and all, I don't really know who the strongest is, though thank you for the compliment" He is a humble little lion, which I don't mind, as I'm glad that no one on the team really cares about how they rank up in strength against each other, they all are just fine with admitting that everyone of them has something that their better at than the others, and vice versa.
Still from there, the three of us talked for awhile about everything, with Zekrom and Luxray having an interesting conversation about Electric type moves and how much energy they could store up, needless to say it wasn't exactly how I expected my day to go, or even how I thought my talk with my Son would lead into with this new guest but I didn't really mind, it was nice actually, as Zekrom was surprisingly a good conservationist, who would have known.
Neat chapter with Zekrom showing up again after a few chapters of a break, they'll stick around for a little while but besides that there really isn't anything to note at the moment about what happened in the chapter so I'll stop here. See ya.