I Don't Own Pokemon
Jumping out of the way of the Shadow Ball heading towards me, I used Double Team and had three illusions go off in different directions. Running, as tried to avoid the Air Cutters coming at me I charged up a Shadow Ball in front of my mouth before launching it at the shadow where I knew my ghost would be located.
I just got it off before a Wing Attack slammed into my back sending me into the air. He was coming around for round two, charging a Sucker Punch I slammed my paw into his head and used it to push myself upwards to get out of the attacks path, course he barely reacted to my attack but I ignored that as I landed hard on my four feet.
Panting, I barely got a small Protect up before the Air Slash connected. The power of the moved, also hit the ground causing an explosion underneath me. I was barely standing as Misdreavus and Pidgeotto landed in front of me. I shook my head at the two of them letting them know I was out.
After a few minutes, I needed to collect myself, to pull up my illusions up, as I grabbed my bag that Pidgeotto kindly brought to me. That was about twenty seconds in total. I was getting better, at the very least, but that's a moot point when the two attacks I got off barely did enough to do anything other than maybe make my two Pokemon have a slight bruise.
I had been doing this, for about the last five days, and I had to say no matter how much it hurt, it did show results. While it would still take quite awhile for me to be completely comfortable as a Zorua, now I could at the very least function almost completely normally now, which meant I didn't have to think through every move I made, to not end up falling over.
Still as I rolled my arm as I felt the bruises begin to take shape, I really wish their was a faster method. My Pokemon seemed to notice I was in pain, as they both looked down at their feet guilty. I frowned at that, I had to tell them repetitively that I was fine and that they were helping me out, but they still worried, which I admit made me a little happy, but I didn't like having to give them a pep-talk after every fight.
"Come on you two. You both know I'm fine, a little sore but that's nothing I can't heal from. Now come on, I want to get back to the Pokemon Center soon" They both gave me a nod as we all made our way back to the Center.
Entering the building, I looked around for a moment before finding a computer that wasn't being used. Sitting down I ignored the glasses that I subconsciously illusioned onto my face. Turns out Pokemon vision is almost always prefect so I didn't need glasses and the ones I had actually limited my vision. But that didn't mean I could just get use to not having them.
I've worn glasses for over two thirds of my total life, so even though I've already tossed the pair I was using, didn't mind I just forgo all the muscle memory that came with it. Still, I just adjusted them nonetheless to balance properly on my nose. Back to the reason why I was on the computer in the first place was because I was looking into some laws, nothing overly new their.
Expect what I was looking for this time was the capture limit. It had bugged me for a while about how I had to use my last free slot on my team for myself. So I was looking for a way to get around that, sadly I wasn't having much luck. I know I've seen people with more than six Pokemon on them at a time, Trash was proof of that.
But I couldn't see any rules or even any exceptions to having more than six. And it was annoying me, to be honest I didn't like that I couldn't just find an simple answer to this. Giving up, after about another twenty minutes of looking around I just closed out of all my opened tabs before looking into something else.
Evolution stones to be specific, I wanted to see where any Dusk Stones were being sold for Misdreavus, and if they had some more I could ask Eevee on her opinion. She never really brought up the notion of her evolution again after we talked about it, in the time between winning my second Gym battle and actually getting the badge.
I didn't want to rush either of them into evolving but I could clearly see that, both were a little sad that they either needed something to evolve or just hadn't come to a decision yet. Especially after Luxray evolved into the first fully evolved member on the team.
My search did get me something, but the store was near Fuchsia City, which almost a month away in the opposite direction to where we were heading next. Saffron, had the other two elemental stones for Eevee that I didn't already have, but no Dusk Stones. At least from what the website, they had, said. Looking over my opened tabs once more to see if I could find anything I was interrupted by a voice.
"Kyu? Come on, no way! You're here already?" Turning around I noted, that once more Ash and his friends, were standing behind me. I get that their the main characters and all but I honestly didn't really like any of them enough, to not at least, not somewhat get annoyed when I kept running into them all. Still I turned around and gave a smile nod to them all in acknowledgement.
"I've actually been here for about a week now" He just looked back at me in shock while Misty took the opportunity to chew him out again. While that was happening, my, for some reason, favorite of the group, Brock asked me.
"Oh, have you challenged the Gym Leader here yet?" I gave him a nodded, I also noted that Ash stopped arguing with Misty as I pulled out my badge case, enjoying Misty's wince as she noticed the crack on it, before pulling the Thunder Badge out and said.
"Yeah, got it during my second day here" Brock gave me a nod seeming to be happy for my success, while Ash seemed to want to be a brat and asked.
"Oh you're second? Did you lose on your first day here?" I gave him an unimpressed look before telling him.
"No, I was way to tired and it was way to late, during my first day here, to actually do anything as important as a Gym battle" He just nodded. Though he seemed to want to keep talking though as he asked.
"If you already won your badge then why are you sticking around here?" The other two seemed curious as well.
"I helped out someone here a few days ago, and in return their doing something for me, but I was told it was going to take a while do I just stuck around so they could find me when they finished" That didn't seem to satisfy them any, as they instantly asked me for details.
"It really wasn't anything important much else something that would interest any of you" They seemed annoyed that I wasn't going to tell them anything but agreed nonetheless, which I was thankful for. Of course that's when Lance walked in, saw me and called out to me while making his way over.
"Kyu! There you are. I finally got it all set up, you do not want to know how much paperwork this took me" I had to try hard not to laugh at the faces Brock and Misty were making, as they clearly recognized the man. Still I was more than composed enough to take the stack of paper from him and looked at it all for a second before saying.
"Thanks Lance, this is going to at least solve one headache" He nodded, before looking at the three humans that were surrounding me before asking.
"I'm sorry, was I interrupting something?" I just shook my head. Before motioning to the people standing around me.
"Nah, these three are just some people I seem to keep running into. We weren't talking about anything to important" He gave a nod before telling me.
"Good, anyway sorry it took as long, these people take that old law way to seriously. I'm also sorry for having to ditch you right after but, I kind used this as an excuse to get out of office work. So I have to get back to that and catch up to what I missed" I gave him an understanding nod as I watched him turn and walk out of the Center as quickly as he came in.
Still ignoring the surrounding human's reactions, I flipped threw the first few pages, before finding a Bank Card in between the pages. Placing that into my pocket I pulled my bag into my lap before stuffing the papers into it, so I could spend some time later to properly read all of it. After that I looked up at the group looking at me in shock, it seems they filled in Ash while I was reading.
"Yes? Is there something on my face?" Their reaction was fun to watch, but their shouting right after wasn't so much. Clapping my hands over my ears in actual pain. I kind of forgot that my senses for some stupid reason increased after I figured out how to drop my illusions. After a moment I called out over them answering at least some of the questions they bombarded me with.
"Yes I know Lance, no he isn't my friend, yes he's the one I helped out, no I won't tell you what, yes he owned me something, no I won't tell you what he gave me. Now can you all just shut up!" That seemed to do the job, removing my hands from my ears I looked back and forth between the three of them before asking.
"Happy now?" It seems they were in fact not, as I didn't answer enough of their questions apparently, for them to be satisfied. I just rolled my eyes and before they could start up their yelling again, offered up a distraction.
"Anyway now that's done, Ash have you battled Surge yet?" That did it was as he looked panicked like he forgot, which he might have actually now that I'm thinking about it. He then rushed off to the front desk for something and thankfully his friends went with him after they noticed he was gone.
Once they had left, I stood up and looked over at the clock. It was about three in the afternoon, which meant that it was a little late to start making my way towards Celadon, I could wait one more day. Besides I had already planned out my route days ago so that would hopefully shave off a day or two. It would still be along walk but not as bad as Cerulean to Vermilion at the very least.
At worst maybe a week and a half, and best would be about five to six days. I already had more than enough food and supplies for the trip so I could set off first thing in the morning, and if I got luckily I might even get some sleep. Speaking of, I felt a yawn come up only for me to push it back down, I'll be honest, it wasn't smart with most of my chest covered in bruises.
Standing up I decided, after a second of consideration, that I should get done with reading that massive packet of papers Lance gave me. It wouldn't take to long, I've always been a fast reader. But it would be boring, so it wouldn't be exactly fun. Looking around the room for a minute I noted Ash had already left, probably for his battle.
Shaking my head, I walked over to an unoccupied table so I wouldn't be in front of a computer that I wasn't using. Pulling out the papers I held up the first one and almost wanted to put it back down as I noticed for the first time how small the font was, not to mention it was double sided.
After a moment of preparing myself I began to start reading through it. About an hour later, and about a third of the way through, I was interrupted as Ash slumped into the chair in front of me in defeat. I gave him a raised eyebrow, and before long he was talking my ear off.
"I just got beat by Surge that horrible bully, can you help me figure out how to beat him. Pikachu just isn't strong enough to beat that raichu" I just continued to stare at him for a minute before coming to the conclusion that he wouldn't be leaving until I told him something. Sighing I put down my papers before telling him.
"Your pikachu won't be able to match Raichu in power, so don't rely on power. That Pikachu of yours does have some evasion moves right? Just keep at a distance and don't get hit, Raichu trades a lot of speed for power when they evolve so use that to your advantage"
He seemed to think on it for a minute before abruptly standing up with a determined look on his face as he marched off. Good for him for understanding what I was saying, and good for me that he wasn't around to bug me anymore. Looking down at the paper in front of me again with a grimace as I realized I had to get back into reading it again.
Sighing I picked up the current page I was on and began to reread it as I forgot where I left off. It took another hour and a half to finish it. And to simplify the hundreds of pages of information, Lance basically gave me an account that currently held about ten thousand in it, which was a lot, about twice more than I have collected total through out my entire trip so far.
And that's all I really had to say, it was basically just the same thing repeated about a hundred times more than was necessary.
This chapter is the last one in Vermilion, Kyu is finally getting the basics down for being a Pokemon and now has a bank account. Isn't that neat. Anyway, See ya.
