I Don't Own Pokemon
Playing mediator between a Legendary Pokemon and a team consisting of almost all champion level Pokemon wasn't exactly fun, especially when I'm not exactly unbiased. I still do my best trying to get everyone to get over the fact that they've beaten the absolute hell out of each other but grudges aren't something that left in just a couple days of work.
Thankfully Luxray was helping me on that regard, and Pidgeot just didn't care so he was another on the neutral side of things, so after about a week of effort now none of the Pokemon on the two sides of things looked at each other in suspicion, not to say they got on well, no that was just wishful thinking that wasn't close to coming true. Though it was better than anything.
Another small mercy was the fact that Zekrom wasn't as against the others as they were to them. I think the Legendary actually has respect for my Team which means that they've kept their distance to not antagonize anyone. It took a toil on training Servine, making sure nothing went wrong, though I'm pretty sure no one was actually going to do anything extreme, I trusted my Pokemon to not do so, but that didn't mean I allowed myself to not pay attention when one of them got stressed or tense.
Still that didn't mean that no progress was made, just not as much as I would have personally thought could have been achieved, but if I didn't get this feud worked out now then it would just come back up even worse later so I just dealt with it. In spite of that, Servine still manged to get some good good training in and I'm beginning to start really pushing on having him master some of his moves, while helping out with the process of him figuring out Leaf Blade.
I'm hoping that my Snake can from there learn some of the more combination focused moves I've come up with over time. The end result if I'm lucky and right about what my thoughts will pan out as, then it will sort of be like Luxray who combos moves and attacks a lot in battle, but instead of just using a bunch at once or in very quick succession, it would be two or move moves at the same time actively working with each other to do more.
It was a more up scaled version of what Luxray does, like I already said, but I'm still only in the thinking stage of it mostly, that move that we came up with and used during one of the contest battles, Magical Vines, is a test to see how well Servine can manage focusing on two different moves like that and combining them into one attack. It worked a lot better than I originally thought it would, so with a bit of effort I'm sure Servine won't have to much problem with it.
Of course with the catch up done, the only thing that was happening at this moment was me sitting in a Center, sadly not the one in Undella, but one that was on the route to it, it was a little out of the way but it's not like I was complaining, I didn't even know one was out here at all, so this was a nice surprise. Apparently this area is a tourist spot that only really picks up during the summer.
Something about a shrine to Landorus, which was enough to know that I wasn't really sure I wanted to stay here. I mean, it's me, and a spot that has something related to a Legendary Pokemon, that's just asking for me to get a headache. I didn't listen to my paranoia though as I knew it really was just that, paranoia. It didn't exactly help my mind thinking about Landorus coming down from the sky to give me a migraine.
I didn't let it get to me, instead I just kept my mind busy on other stuff, like what I was going to do soon. I mean I'm almost at my destination, which means that I've spent a few months here, which means I should shove off to a new region soon once I look around for a bit in the last town. But I wasn't exactly sure where I would end up, I mean Johto was the obvious answer.
Because plot lines and stuff, and I was fine with that as the main plot really hasn't touched me much, besides the few times where I ended up in a story event none of them have been bad really. I mean really, literally every problem I've had to deal with has been something I fell into without the main cast being involved really. So I couldn't really blame anything on them, though I do admit I wouldn't mind doing so, as I didn't really like knowing that all the headaches I've had to deal with mostly has been something I somehow caused one way or another.
Though, that doesn't change the fact that I wouldn't mind going somewhere else, I mean I didn't really have a plan or any real reason to go somewhere else but I wouldn't mind it. It was just something I had to think about but just haven't, even now I'm mostly just redirecting myself onto a different topic, though to be fair, I'm completely aware that I'm doing this, and it probably isn't a good thing.
As I was about to focus my attention back onto the task at hand, without distracting myself by being aware that I was using thinking about being distracted to be distracted, I leaned back a small amount in my seat, that's when I caught sight of something from the side of my vision. Leaning back a little more in the seat I was in, I just blinked as I looked at one of the magazines on a shelf nearby, the only reason why I noticed it was because of my lapse of focus and what was on the cover.
It was a picture of me, not a good one to be fair, as I would probably be caught dead before I would let someone take a proper picture of me, because I really don't like my photo to being taken. The angle was a little off and I was looking away from the camera, showing that I was not aware of the camera even being present during the shot, it was clearly from one of my battles during the Indigo Conference.
It had to be if I didn't notice the camera, still that didn't change the fact that it was really weird to look at the magazine with my face on it. Reaching over, I picked it up and read the title, 'The Youngest Pokemon Master!' I'm not sure how I feel about that, well besides mostly just incredibly weirded out because I was looking at myself on a bloody magazine, but I think that's understandable. Flipping open the item in my hand, I scanned over the first couple pages in a few seconds to see what the actual bloody hell this was about.
Turns out the magazine was one that talked about the competitive battling scene, and often talked about people like Regional Champions, their Elite Four, or a promising trainer. Which it seems I qualify enough for that I get the cover page, and a full section talking about some of the things I've done. To say it was weird was a bloody understatement, reading about an outsiders view of my journey, of course some points were missing, like the whole thing with Team Rocket, which I could only thank the heavens for.
That didn't make it better, but at least it could have been worst, though I think the proclamation that I'm a Pokemon Master is a bit far fetched. I'm fine with being recognized as a Champion, because I am, but Master is something very different. To be a Pokemon Master one has to complete at least three things. One, be a Champion of some kind, two be a Pokemon Professor, three be a Top Coordinator, four become a Pokemon Doctor, or five a Pokemon Breeder.
I'm already a League Champion, something the section on me seemed happy to talk about giving a decently detailed report on most of my battles, though it was a bit more flattering than it actually was, talking about how I absolutely steamrolled the competition. I mean sure, I kind of did, but how they wrote it makes out like I was this unbreakable wall of power, always calm and collected, during my matches.
I don't think that's what I'm like, I mean I always make sure I'm calm and all that, but that's basically all I am nowadays, now that I'm not having those really annoying rage moments. Wall of power I guess is fair, but I'm mostly saying that because it's my team that is being complimented, which I'm fine with people knowing how amazing they are. Maybe that's the problem, I'm not the best with compliments, giving or receiving, I just don't really care half the time, or I just don't believe people aren't overreacting.
Speaking of overreacting, according to this magazine, I've been trained as a breeder from my parents, which I haven't, not really, from my memories, I've picked up a few things from them, but I don't have much experience in the matter, something I thank every none existent deity out there for. And because I've made an appearance in the coordinating scene, apparently becoming the best in that is my next goal, which I feel is a bit of a leap in logic.
Then there was the whole thing with Zekrom, which was just a nightmare to read about. They made it out to be a massive battle with stakes much higher than what it actually was. From what I'm reading, I defended the nearby city from certain destruction by battling the Legendary to a standstill, before heroically turning the tides, winning the battle and capturing Zekrom to protect everyone else from their wrath from being awoken from their artifact being stolen by criminals.
Something which I, apparently, tracked down knowing the dangers of the artifact, but didn't let stop me from protecting the city even after the Legendary Pokemon awoke because of the goodness in my heart or something else equally stupid. That last part probably came from a heavily modified statement taken out of context from Lenora, one of the only people I talked to leading up to that whole event, and the city's gym leader.
The whole thing made it sound so heroic and brave, making me sound like this knight in shining amour that would do anything to protect those that couldn't help themselves dam the consequences. When in fact the only reason why I did anything in the first place was because the alternative would just be a bigger headache to deal with, not to mention the fact that the only reason I battled at all was because of a misunderstanding, not some awaken rage from a sleeping Legendary.
Not to mention the only reason why I caught the Pokemon at all was because of the low faith I have in humanity to begin with to not take advantage of the powerful Pokemon not being able to defend themself. I'll be honest, the only reason why I got the orb out of the city in the first place was because I both didn't want to have to battle in such a crowded space, and because I didn't want to have to deal with people attacking me for helping destroy a city.
Hell before the battle even took place, I beat like two people unconscious because that was the easier choice between that or restraining them. I am no saint muchless the hero that the magazine reads me as. I could understand why a miscommunication could be seen from this image of me being a hero, and the reality of me being a more than often annoyed sleep deprived jerk, that has had to deal with so much craziness that I've just basically become numb to it.
Closing the magazine up, I shook my head a little at the thought of the whole thing before tossing it back onto the shelf where I originally saw it. The public can think what they want, doesn't mean it's true, though I do believe that I might soon be another example of why you should never met your heroes. Of course taht doesn't mean I'm exactly comfortable with all the praise and attention from it but it's not liek I can really do anything about it.
Well I could probably sue them now that I'm thinking about it, I mean the magazine company is using my image and name without any of my permission, sure I'm not exactly well versed in the laws here, but that sounds like something that I could go to court over. Of course I wouldn't, that would be sush a massive headache that I can very easily avoid by defaulting to just not caring about it, so I should just go back to thinking about my travel plans.
Hopefully this time I won't get distracted, and if I do, I really hope it doesn't have something to do with my face on something other than my head. That alone was just weird enough for today.
There wasn't really anything that I wanted to add here so I just put something in that I figured would come up at some point. Kyu's presence in this world, sure I've written plenty of times that Kyu is pretty well known in Kanto, and has made a big splash in Unova as well, but most of his encounters has just been random folk that recognize him from one thing or another. So I had him find something talking about all his publicly known achievements, and voice some of the opinions he has on some of the things that are written about him. Anyway, See ya.