I Don't Own Pokemon


It was about an hour later and at the moment everyone was out of their pokeball's and have been celebrating with Lycanroc, who was still really happy with his win. I found it adorable to be honest, but my focus wasn't on all of them at the moment, instead I was looking down at Absol who had just walked up to me with an interesting look on her face.

Dropping down on the ground, I got comfortable sitting on the ground, mostly so I didn't have to keep looking down at her plus to not have her be looking up at me. Which would hopefully put her a bit more at ease, as she seems a little tense at the moment, I can't tell if it's that she is worried about whatever she wants to talk about or if some disaster is around the corner and I should be concerned as well.

"Hello there Absol, having fun?" A nice conversation starter that can be used to calm Absol down and can easily be transitioned into a more serious topic of discussion. It seems that it was working well, as she grinned at me and made her way a little closer and sat down as well, looking over towards the group of Pokemon that were adamantly talking to each other about something that I couldn't here from the distance between us.

"Yes, it's been a while, Omen, since I've gotten to talk to so many other Pokemon. But it's a little under cut by the fact that everything near you has this weird air of danger" Wait, I literally effect the air near me with my bad luck? That's actually interesting, I wonder if it has something to do with that whole superior aura thing I have going on. Never did get an answer on that, I really should do that at some point, then again I've said that the last six times I thought about looking into it, and I have yet done anything about it.

"Yeah, I would apologize again, but it's beginning to become a bit repetitive, so instead I'll say I hope it doesn't effect your answer on the whole battling thing" She seemed to think on it for a moment before answering.

"It's a bit weird sure and I'm not certain it'd be all that healthy to get use to the sense of impending doom, but it seems like a fun way to spend some time and if your disasters started to get out of control, I'd like to be able to be able to defend myself. I get the feeling like I'm an any compared to the disaster energy everyone here has, the only normal one is Riolu"

Interesting, so everyone gives of a sense of disaster, which would make sense as I'm pretty sure my theory that Absol can sense the probability of a disaster is what she feels and the ones that are stronger can manage higher levels of disaster also increases the amount of the feeling she can sense. Which means I have more disaster surrounding me more than everyone else on the team, most of which could level a city to the ground. Isn't that a fun little insulting fact.

"Well don't tell Riolu that, personally I think she has bit of a big head already, actually also don't tell Riolu I said that either" Absol laughed a bit at my words which is good, though from the fact that I could see Riolu look over in our direct, I get the feeling that she some how read the emotions off the two of us to know she was being insulted in some way, but because it's me, I'm pretty sure she just rolled her eyes and turned back to the others.

"Still, glad to have you on board, we can have your training start tomorrow, I can get to know your current move set and it would give me some time to look into your complete move pool that you can learn from. It'd also be good for me to get a proper gauged on how strong you are at the moment" She nodded before seemingly figuring out that she didn't have anything else to talk about ans wasn't sure what to do now. She's a bit socially awkward, though it's not like I could say anything on that front. So I just smiled before saying.

"If you want then you can go back to the others and play around for a while, I'm not planning on going anywhere, so if you think of something you want to talk about later then you can find me here" She nodded before happily making her way over towards the rest, and after a moment fell into a conversation with Vaporeon about something though I couldn't tell what, humans are much easier to lip read, though I haven't done any lip reading in a while, I should do that some time, it's one of those skills that can rust really easily without practice.

My thoughts about a skill I learned out of pure boredom was interuppted as I noted that Riolu was slowly making her way over towards me. Sending out a side glance towards Absol, I noted that she was still in her conversation with Vaporeon so I doubt there was a chance for Riolu to hear that I was insulting her, then this is about something else, and I have a feeling I know what.

"So why were you quaking in your boots when the Gym battle first started?" I feel like that's bit to blunt. Giving her an annoyed look, I then sighed as a set of unpleasant memories sprung up to the front of my mind. Honestly it was so long ago that I can look back on it without most if not all the emotional attachment from the event, which is actually probably unhealthy from a trauma repression stand point, but sense when have I ever carried about being the most mentally healthy person around, if I did, then I doubt I would be the same me.

"Quaking? Now I'm fine with admitting I was scared, but I'd be insulted if you thought that my control over my body is so weak that I would give it away" Honestly, it would be quite the insult if my ability to control my body language was that sad that I would actually be shaking.

"Yeah, yeah, I get it, you have a horrifying skill in hiding the fact that you might actually be able to feel emotions. But that doesn't change the fact that you were feeling something in the first place and I'd like to know why" Wow, if it wasn't for the fact that she's insulting me, I might have thought she was concerned for me.

"Eh, it's nothing, just a very traumatic childhood memory I have" It wasn't that big of a deal, though it seems that Riolu disagrees, as she just crossed her arms and glared at me. I raised an eyebrow at her before waiting a moment, and after a second she just sighed before saying.

"Well, care to share?" I'd rather not to be honest with myself, but I have a feeling that she isn't going to leave this alone without something said. I don't really get why she wants to know so much but I guess I can explain some of it.

"Fine. I was about eight at the time, I was in the forest hear my house and was just walking around, needless to say I fell into a nest of spiders and nothing fun exactly happened. I got bit a lot and had to be rushed to a hospital because some of the areas, like my left arm started swelling up and I was in a lot of pain. Needless to say, I'm not a fan of being close to spider Pokemon" I still have a few scars on my right foot where a group of big spiders dug into my foot and bit through a few veins, I couldn't walk properly for like half a month.

"Wow, so Pokemon that fall into the spider category are scary for you, but nothing else you've come across is? Your really messed up in the head aren't you" Riolu didn't particularly look all that sad for me which I'm more than fine with, but I noted that she did in fact seem confused by the fact that something as simple as a spider is scary for me when nothing else is even close to scary for me.

"Probably, then again it's not like that's really a secret" She just huffed at my lack of caring about the fact that I'm a horribly messed up person but I didn't care all that much. But then again, why would I. I'm fine with how I am as a person, even if I'm horribly messed up mentally and have some pretty extreme issues, it's what makes me who I am, and I've long since come to accept that fact.

"Well at least you're self aware, not sure if that makes it any better but it's something at least" I just grinned a fake appeasing smile that I knew would make her roll her eyes at me, and like was predicted she did.


"You two, make sure that you don't hurt each other ok? I don't want to have to deal with burning through anymore potions than I use on the rest of the team, so when I say stop you stop" It might be a bit strict and more than likely not need but I don't like them not knowing when to stop, and it's good for them to know that when I say something important that they need to listen.

"Alright you two can start at any time" With that the battle between Absol and Servine started, it was clear from the start that Servine was quite the bit stronger, he's had much more training than she has, not to mention a lot more experience than her in a battle. But it's clear that Absol is surprisingly good at battling on her own without any formal training to back her up.

I think it's to do with the fact that she can sense certain things before they happen, and getting hit is much more than likely considered a disaster for her, so she can sense when she needs to dodge an attack that hasn't formed yet. It's like a not as foolproof version of Detect that is always in effect, with some proper speed training and some teaching on how to react to the attacks, I can see her being quite powerful in close combat, being able to land hits without taking any herself.

But for right now I have to make sure she has a strong foundation to build off of, getting her body's strength and endurance up to a respectable level, while also teaching her a couple moves on the way. She can learn Swords Dance naturally so that's one of the ones I want her to learn first then maybe a strong move that she can use in close battling, like Lycanroc's Dual Chop. The one that seems to be the best fit at the moment is Psycho Cut, but there is a slight hiccup.

Of course I have no idea how to manage that move being learned or at least how to help in it, mostly because it's a Psychic type move being taught to a Dark type, and as speaking as one myself I have no idea how to approach the topic, which to be honest is kind of a fun prospect, it's been a while since I've had a road bump during training, it'll be kind of interesting to think of a way around this particular problem.

Moving my thoughts away from all that, I moved my attention back on the mock battle, and held back a small wince as I watched as Servine finally caught Absol in his vines and slammed her into the ground. Two things to focus on is her ability to not get hit and another is her endurance as it seems that, that one hit managed to do enough to put her out of the match. Stepping forwards I called out to the both of them.

"That's enough for right now, Servine good job, for now see if Lycanroc can get you a small to mid sized boulder for you to train up the strength of your vines with, I'll come by in a little bit and have you switch up to practicing with some of your combination moves" I got a nodded before he went off to find wherever my Wolf went off to. Hopefully he does make sure to say to make the boulder on the smaller size, the normal one that the stronger of the team uses are almost twice my size in height. And I don't want him to hurt himself trying to prove something.

He isn't the type to try and over do something that he knows he can't handle yet, and the two of us are at the point thankfully were he trusts me without any or at least much over thinking about my motives but that's just the type of Pokemon he is, still that doesn't change the fact that my natural state is pure unrestrained pessimism. Anyway, time to stop thinking about all that and instead looked over towards the newest addition to the group and said to her.

"Alright then, time to get to work for you, first we're going to start doing some strength training, see this tree over there, you're going to try and cut it in half. You'll not be able to do it today, but we'll be staying here for maybe another two days, so that should be enough time to at least take a decent chunk out of it before we leave. This will be a good way to mark your progress from when you start to what you'll be able to do in a couple weeks"

She nodded before walking towards the tree I had pointed at, she seemed to wait a moment, looking up and down the tree trunk, probably looking for a spot to start at, after a moment she pulled her head back and smashed her horn against the tree bark. Moving to her side, I noted that the bark had a dent in it but nothing much more, I figured as much, while I'm not that much of an expert about tree density, I do know from how long I've had my team use them as training targets, that this type of tree's wood is very compacted and sturdy against bunt force.

I'm sure she'll figure it out pretty quickly that she needs to learn how to slash with her horn instead of just bashing it against the tree. It's a simple switch of tactics but it'll have quite the effect in comparison to her smacking her sharp horn against the tree bark. It's made for slicing after all, right now what she's doing is in a slightly different way, trying to use a saw to break a board in two pieces instead of cutting through it.

I did raise an eyebrow as I watched as she took a step back before swinging her head at an angle and this time sliced trough the bark, well well, that took even shorter a time then I thought it would for her to figure it out, consider me impressed, only two tries to figure out the more effective method. I gave her a smile as she looked up at me excited by the sudden spike in the effectiveness of her progress.


Simple chapter, that whole thing with the spiders isn't really something I like remembering mostly because it just sends some memories to the top of my mind that I'm not the biggest fan of. Then again I don't believe that I like remembering any of the times I've had to go to the hospital, well getting my tonsils removed isn't really a bad memory so I guess that's not true. I'm rambling so I'm just going to leave it off here. See ya.