DWA: welcome to the fifth chapter of TAA Arc 4 Johto, we seem to be moving fast but that's still somewhat normal for now. I guess I'm excited for certain parts and I honestly couldn't think of much or in between cities at the moment. That should change soon. Also I managed to get that chapter out fast huh? Yeah I was excited for the ruins. Anyways, on to the Story!
I don't own Pokemon. I do however own the story of this fictional work, and my OC's. OC's that have yet to show belong to RedAgent14 and KnightofStories.
Odd, no reviews. Kinda got used to seeing them.
"Speech"
'Thought'
[Translated Pokespeech]
Ch 5: Azalea Town: A New Rival!
Lily slowly opened her eyes groggily, the light stung her dark green eyes. She held her arm in front of her eyes as she sat up.
"My head…what happened?" She asked as she looked around, unfamiliar with her surroundings. She looked at her clothes, the same as lasts she remembered and activated her Holo Caster. "Wait, it's been a day? Since what….oh." She said and turned it off. She recalled it now, the Unown attacked, or, something. She tried to make sense of the message or whatever they left in her head and it just gave her a headache. She slowly stood up and walked to the door and opened it.
[Lily!] A familiar voice said. She looked over and Midnight was standing there, wide eyed.
"Hi Midnight." She said smiling. She felt a tightness on her leg and looked down to see Zack hugging it tight
[Mama…] He said. Lily Bent down and picked him up and held him tight.
"I'm sorry Midnight. We should have chosen another path." She said
[It's okay.] She said and Lily shook her head.
"If they…if they wanted to the Unown could have…killed us." She said.
[But they didn't.] Midnight said. [But I have to ask, what did they do?] She asked and Lily gave a shaky sigh and looked around.
"They showed me…something. I don't know what. It was…terrifying…I remember deep blood red eyes." She said. "I was so scared they hurt you or worse." She said
"Whatever the Unown did to you affected you far more than what they did to your Pokémon miss." An older voice said. Lily looked over and saw the old man standing there. "How are you feeling?"
"Besides a headache I'm fine sir, thank you for helping me and my Pokémon." She said and bowed.
"It's nothing young miss." She said. "You're the talk of the town by the way. It's not every day old Kurt has to bring in an unconscious human, much less from the ruins." He said. "Those Unown, I heard what you said, they've never done this and I've lived here all my life." He said.
"I just, don't know why they'd do it to me…" She said.
"Don't worry too much about it alright?" He asked. "I have some food and a small gift for you, it's just a little something I whipped up." He said and left the small room.
[Will you be okay?] Midnight asked.
"Yeah, just need to get my energy back. Also Stanley gave me professor Voltic's number. I should tell him about this." She said. She walked out and sat down and called up the number.l Instead of a human, a Minun wearing glasses picked up.
"Yes hello you've reached Professor Voltic but the good man couldn't get to the phone." He said. "I will take a message."
"Um…Hi, I'm Lily, Lily Zenex and I was goven one of your translators." She said. "Or well, Voltic's."
"Ah I see, how are you finding it?" He asked with a small smile.
"It works great! But I uh, recently encountered some Unown, and it just gave static." She said
"Static, that is most odd indeed. I will inform the professor. Thank you and enjoy the device Lily." He said smiling. Lily nodded and hung up and ate the small amount of food.
"There wasn't much." She said
[Zack is a fatty.] Midnight said as Zack pouted. [He ate it, found it very good.]
"Well it was." Lily said and stood and grabbed her bag. "Okay, we're in Azalea, we can take on the gym after I make sure you two are okay." She said as Kurt came out.
"Going already young miss? Well here." He said and tossed a blue and red ball at her.
"What's this?" She asked
"A Lure Ball, it works better on Pokemon you fish up. I make Custom Poke Balls. Take it, may as well." He said and Lily smiled and put it in her bag and hefted it on her back.
"Thank you so much Kurt. Watch me on the league!" She said and ran out, Midnight following with Zack on her back.
"Ah youth. Back to work I suppose." He said and went to hios workshop.
Lily ran to the Pokemon center and she ran in with her Pokemon following.
"Hey Nurse Joy, can you make sure these two are okay?" She asked
"Oh! You're the girl Kurt brought. I haven't had a chance I'll see how they are. Right this way." She said and they walked in the back. She heard the doors oopen and she turned to see someone looking around.
"Aw man, where's Joy?" he asked. The male had red spikey hair, stood at 5" 8', cargo pants and a dark blue t-shirt and sunglasses.
"Oh sorry, she has a quick check up with my Pokemon." Lily said.
"Oh, no problem! You must a trainer too! I'm Alexander Garcia!" He said. "Most call me Alex." He said.
"I'm Lily, Lily Zenex!" She said. "Nice to meet you." She said
"Same to you Lil' Have ya fought the Gym here yet?" He asked.
"Ah no, I technically just arrived." She said rubbing the back of her head.
"Technically?" He asked.
"Uhm, it was an incident in the Ruins of Alph." She said
"Oh you're that girl! What did they do?" He asked.
"I'd….rather not try to explain." She said. She heard the patter of claws on tile and looked over to Midnight and Zack, who were smiling.
"No problem! Cool Pokémon." He said.
"Thanks. The little one is Zack, and the other is Midnight." She said and picked up Zack. Alexander ran over and handed his Pokémon over to Nurse Joy.
"When my team is healed we should battle! I need to check if you're ready for Bugsy." He said. "I'd hate for you to get crushed." He said.
"I can handle myself. But I wouldn't mind." She said smiling.
"Awesome! I have two, and you have?" He asked
"Three, but Midnight isn't battling right now, we could have a double battle!" She said
"Double Battle huh? Those don't happen much in Kanto or Johto…sure!" He said.
After the short wait the two stood outside and had some spectators that overheard their talks.
"Okay! 2 on 2, let's go! Zack, Phantoma! Fight by my side!" She said and Zack Teleported on the field and Phantoma appeared from her Poke Ball.
"Awesome! Alright, Totodile! Heracross! Time for some team work!" He shouted and tossed the Poke Balls up and the two appeared.
"We'll take it first! Phantoma! Clear Smog! Zack, use confusion to take control of it!" She said and Phantoma shot a stream of white smoke and Zack glowed pink and the smoke did too, and became a swirling wind that surrounded Alexander's team.
"Woah…" He said staring for a second before shaking his head. "Get outta there! Bite on Gastly, Fury Attack on Ralts!" He shouted and the two shot out of the tornado, Heracross' horn glowing white and Totodile's fangs glowing black.
"Dodge!" Lily shouted and Gastly shot out of Totodile's reach while Zack leaned along with Teleporting to dodge the Fury Attack. "Disarming Voice!" Zack let out a cry that washed over the field, hurting Heracross and Totodile.
"Water gun!" Alexander said and Totodile shot a stream of water at Zack and hit him, but Zack stood strong and used Confusion to block the attack after being hit for a short time.
"Phantoma! Night Shade!" Lily said and Phantoma shot the black ray at Totodile and hit him, causing it to cry out in pain.
"Aerial Ace! Bite!" Heracross shot at Phantoma and slammed into her as Totodile ran at Zack.
"Double Team!" Zack made clones of himself around Totodile which confused the pokemon. "Confusion and Clear Smog!" Zack and his clones held their arms up and glowed pink, Totodile gained the same glowed. Phantoma phased through Heracross and blew the smog onto Totodile, causing a lot of damage.
"Now! Show em what we learned in Training for this Gym! Fire Punch!" She said and Zack's fist gained a dark red flame and all the clones punched Totodile, but he was tossed to the side and was unconscious. Alexander recalled his starter
"Now we gotta take care of Heracross!" She said and Heracross shouted some indecencies at Zack for knocking out his friend.
[What a mouth on him…] Midnight said.
"Alright Heracross, we can do this, Aerial Ace on Ralts!" He shouted and Heracross flew at Ralts at high speed.
"Teleport and Clear Smog!" Zack Teleported at the last Second and appeared by Phantoma and used Confusion on the attack and concentrated it and sped it up to slam into the Bug and send it into the wall.
"Night Slash!" He shouted and Heracross's small claws became cloaked in black and extended as he shot at Phantoma.
"We won't let you! Clear Smog!" She shouted. Phantoma lightly blew out the smog and vanished in it. Heracross was close so he simply slashed where Phantoma was, cutting away the fog, but not hitting the target, but, what he saw surprised him.
[Hi.] Zack said, fist coated in a dark fire, smirking
"Fire Punch!" lily shouted and Zack slammed his fist into Heracross as hard as he could, sending the bug down into the dirt, unconscious. "And that's game! No one can beat a Hoennian at a double battle!" She said proudly as Zack floated down with confusion and Alexander recalled his Pokémon.
"Wow, I should definitely learn more on that!" he said and walked over and held his hand out. Lily shook it with a smile. "You can take on Bugsy, but be careful, his Pokémon are tough." He said.
"Thanks Alex! I'll fight Bugsy later today." She said as she let go of his hand.
"Awesome, I wanna get some training in at Ilex Forest, good luck!" He said and ran inside to heal his Pokémon. Lily smiled at her Pokémon.
"We got this!" She said smiling. Her Pokémon all nodded. They were ready.
-(o)- ES Johto HQ
Danny sighed as he looked down into the people that they had brought form Sinnoh, those in the Trainer Regiment. There was around 6 others and he hoped more would join. He had just gotten off the phone with Snow. He already missed her, the job was waaaay to boring for now.
"I reaaally need something to do." He said standing and started walking. "Someone to kill someone to recruit anything. I'd go after Claire but, Lance being Kanto's Champion kinda makes that, well, it would not work out well." He mused to himself. He decided to see Alex and see if he could quell the boredom. He walked up and the door opened and he saw Alex just looking out the window.
"Hello Daniel." He said.
"Hello sir." Danny said and walked over. "Enjoying the view?"
"Something of the sort." He said. "I have a bad feeling Daniel. I don't know why. I have a feeling I will soon have a job for you." He said, but it was more a question.
"Sir? A job?" Danny said.
"Assassination. Maybe that damned champion. Most likely." He said.
"It would be useful to have her gone." Danny said.
"Yes but at the same time there would be too many questions…I suppose for once I'm too paranoid. Ever since yesterday morning I've had this…nagging feeling in the back of my mind." He said.
"Maybe it was something else sir, news or something you ate." Danny said.
"No no, bah, forget it. It will go away." He said. "I have no need to be worried without evidence. Anyways, help me on a decision will you? We have two possible Elite Four Members up for recruitment." He said and put four folders on his desk. Danny walked over.
"Let's get started."
-(o)-
Lily stood in front of the gym, Midnight beside her and Zack in her arms. She nodded and walked in, the gym looked like a forest, with many bug types zipping around or crawling about. She walked forward to see a man with purple hair lying in a tree.
"Pardon me! Are you Bugsy?" She asked and the man looked down and sat up.
"Yeah I'm Bugsy, you a challenger?" He asked
"Yeah! What are the rules?" She asked and Bugsy hopped down and stretched. "Two on two, I can't substitute. " He said and walked to one side of the clearing in the odd indoor forest. Lily went to her side and grabbed Phantoma's Poke Ball.
"Ready?" he asked and grabbed a Poke Ball.
"Ready!" She shouted.
"Alright! Ledyba, go!" He shouted and the Ladybug appeared.
"Phantoma! Fight by my side!" She shouted and the ghost appeared with a grin.
The two glared at one another, and called out their moves.
"Night Shade!"
"Psybeam!"
The two attacks were launched and met in the middle, and caused a large explosion.
"We got this Phantoma!" Lily said smiling.
DWA: Aaaand I'll just leave that there hehehehe. Been a while since I did one of those. Felt good. Also sorry for the wait. I'm not sure why this one took so long. Guess I wanted to see predictions on Lily's vision. I'm kinda worried about the no reviews. I feel like some of you tried but weren't able but maybe I'm paranoid as I feel you would have told me. Anyways, next chapter is the gym battle and Ilex forest!