I Don't Own Pokemon
Yawning to myself, I stood in front of the Pokemon Center, a couple feet away from the door. Currently I was, waiting on Johnathan, and was thinking about my plans. It seemed simple to just not challenge Sabrina, but after doing some research, I realized just how much longer that decision would add onto my trip.
A little over a month, that was how long it would take me to get to Fuchsia, and then upwards of three weeks to then trek back to get to Saffron. And from there, it could be anywhere from two weeks to a month to get to a harbor to get to Cinnabar. Simply put, it would add so much time to the trip, while it would be fun, would just take forever.
And the only thing that was stopping me from speeding up my journey, by a full on month, from my original plan was to just get over my barely rational fear of the crazy Gym Leader there. I would have to past by Saffron anyway as I didn't have a bike, so it wasn't like I could even excuse it by saying it would add to much time to the trip.
Whatever, I had to do it sometime. Oh course I was saying that to myself a full week before I would be arriving in Saffron. So their was plenty of time to have a freak out on the way. Shaking myself from my thoughts I turned to look over my shoulder as I heard the door behind me slide open.
Looking over the kid, I was faintly annoyed that he didn't seem ready at all, didn't even have his backpack on him. I raised an eyebrow at him to show my confusion when he sifted on his feet. That's when I noticed he seemed uncomfortable no, that's not it, hesitant? That sounded about right but I couldn't figure out why, at least until he gathered up his courage and told me.
"I-I'm going to travel by myself for a while" It was so rushed out I barely caught it all. And when I did, I tilted my head in confusion at him. Did I do something insensitive again? I've been trying to make sure I didn't do that, so I was pretty sure that wasn't it. After a moment, seeing that I was silently asking him to continue, he said.
"It's nothing you did, but I need to continue my own journey as well. And well I haven't even gotten a badge yet, yesterday I looked online and it said the best starting Gym for a new trainer was Pewter, so I figured I'd head there...I'm sorry for springing this on you but, I kinda got caught up in your great battle yesterday"
I looked at him for a moment, ignoring the small part of me that was a little sad he would be leaving, I was honestly getting use to his presence and his annoying questions. But after a moment I gave him a smile, fake of course, but he couldn't tell, before telling him.
"Well I wish you luck then. If you get enough of it then maybe I'll see you at the League" He gave me a smile in return before after a moment turned and walked back into the Pokemon Center. I watched as he slowly made his way back inside, a few moments later, I turned away and started walking away.
Reaching down to my chest I grabbed Luxray's ball before tossing it out. As he appeared and noticed I was walking, he started walking with me. After a moment my Son looked around for a minute before asking.
"Where's that human, we're traveling with Dad?" I glanced down at Luxray before saying.
"He has, his own journey to go on. Sorry to say, it leading down a different route than mine, though our two routes should come back together, someday maybe, so I think we'll see him again" Luxray gave me a look I couldn't identify before saying.
"Dad, you get weirdly philosophical when you're sad" Sad? Is that what I was? Probably, I just gave him a smile before telling him.
"Maybe, but I'll be fine, I mean I have you and the rest of the team to take care of me right?" He gave me a serious nod, that just looked adorable. I reached down and rubs his head as we slowly made our way out of the city.
It had been about two weeks, who cares if, at most it should have taken me, was five days. To be fair, out of all that extra time I only got lost once, the rest of the time was spent was for my team, making up the training time that I realized, that I and the rest of the team, didn't get while we were traveling with the kid. At least not as much as I would have liked.
Not much got added move wise, well a few did but that wasn't the main purpose of the training. Misdreavus and Pidgeotto got a lot of stamina training, which help both of them out a lot. Charmander finally broke past the seal on figuring out Flamethrower, which was a nice addition to his move set, as it gave him a better long ranged Fire type attack while not being as energy wasting as Dragon Pulse is.
Luxray, with a bit of help from me, learned Wild Charge, and it was incredibility strong, easily ripping trees our of the ground, thought he still had trouble with the recoil damage, and seemed to get a small but noticeable speed boost from the consist practice with his new move. After that though is were the main interest and primary point of my attention went during the training spree, and what actually started it off in the first place.
Eevee, about three days after we all had left Celadon, asked if she could see the Waterstone I had. Needless to say, I knew what she was going to do, so I made sure she knew that this was what she wanted. Reverting into being a Pokemon I placed the Waterstone in front of her, and asked.
"Are you sure Eevee? If you want to evolve into any of the others I don't mind going out of the way" She seemed to think on my words for only a second before telling me.
"I'm sure Sir, I've had plenty of time to think on it" And that was the last words she gave me before placing her paw on the stone and evolved. After the glowing had died down, and I saw my Pokemon before me I asked her simply.
"How are you feeling Vaporeon?" She looked up at me before looking down at her legs before looking past her shoulder at her back before looking back at me and said.
"I...feel great, Sir" I gave her a big smile and told her I was glad. After that we spent the time training her to get use to being a Water type, and getting her accuracy and speed, with her new move Water Gun, up. And after a bit of work she also managed to learn Water Pulse as well. Ok, so maybe I lied when I said not many moves were learned.
Anyway, with the recap on the team done, I should also mention the small bits of training I managed to get in as well, in between helping everyone out. To be fair their wasn't much to say, I was a bit more comfortable in my body, and was a bit faster and stronger, nothing super impressive. Though after a bit of training, I did learn I was weirdly good at using Double Team.
It was the only move out of the entire team, that everyone knew, that I was the best at. Still when the second week was coming to a close, I knew that at this point I was just stalling. Which lead me to where I was now, standing in front of the Gym, looking up at the door I sighed before pushing it open and made my way inside, with Luxray to my right.
Because even if I was here, didn't mean I wasn't going to be stupidly paranoid. Looking around the interior of the building for a moment, only to not see anything that would show me were the Gym was. Glancing down at Luxray I asked him.
"You mind looking around for a bit to direct me to the Gym?" He just shook his head, and not even a second later his eyes glowed faintly as he scanned over the building for a moment before nodding to myself. Turning to look up at me he said.
"I found it Dad, come on, I wanna have a battle" Even if I was worried, I couldn't help up smile at his enthusiasm. Fallowing him down a few corridors, and a couple of minutes later, the two of us walked out into a big open room. Looking around for a moment, I was half tempted to just leave, when I noticed that a woman appeared at the far end of the room.
She looked at me confused for a second before her eyes widened just the smallest bit, in what was probably realization about that she couldn't sense me, or whatever psychics did when you meet. Though I have to give her credit, she easily had the best emotionless mask I've seen on someone, since I've gotten here, everyone was very expressive though, so that might not be saying much.
"Hi, I'm here to challenge you for your badge" She just continued to stare at me, like I was an fascinating discovery, which honesty was all the justification I needed for avoiding this place. After a moment she nodded to her self and said.
"I accept your challenge, I don't believe I've ever been challenged like this from a Pokemon before" I just gave her a smile that showed I was flattered, while on the inside, I was mentally tracing the steps I took to arrive here, so if I had to I could run.
"Thanks, I'm glad for getting some renegotiation for being unexpected" She gave me a faint nod before reaching behind my back and pulled out a pokeball. I truly wasn't sure how she managed to make that look creepy, but some how she made it work. She gave it a toss into the air, which released a Kadabra.
Looking down at Luxray, I gave him a nod as I watched him walked out to the battle field. I stood around for about half a minute before giving her a confused look. After a moment she seemed to realize something, before shaking her head to herself and said.
"I just realized, I already forgot you're a Dark type. You couldn't hear me. Let's give this another go, this will be a two on two battle, first to lose both Pokemon will be declared the loser. Are you ready" I just her a nod before taking a calm breath in as I waited until I heard her call out.
"The begin"
I already knew this battle was going to be one of the weirder ones, for both me and Sabrina. She couldn't read my thoughts and use that to counter what I haven't even said yet. And I couldn't use context clues from her voice, something I used often while battling to keep track of my opponent. So I would have to pay attention to both the Pokemon on the field and use that to work out what she was planning. The only thing left to do was attack then.
"Luxray, start using Charge. Then use Discharge" After he evolved his speed when charging up was insane. It barely took him five seconds before a wave of electricity just gushed outwards of where he was standing rushing straight at his target. The Kadabra, seemed to wait for a moment before it's body flickered before vanishing, the attack rushed past, without making any contact as it used Teleport.
Reappearing behind Luxray, it raised it's spoon and a wave of hard to see psychic energy, for me at least, rushed past and slammed into Luxray. Frowning I narrowed my eyes as I traced my eyes over to it, after it used Teleport, once it was done attacking. This would be annoying, which meant I needed to think of something new. But first I needed more information.
"Luxray, Quick Attack into Night Slash, keep trying to catch it" He charged forward, as he approached, the kadabra just vanished out of the way. Luxray kept up the attack, forcing the Pokemon to keep evading not being able to get an attack in, that's when I noted the small charge up it needed, and it never moved to far probably to converse power, which meant.
"Now Discharge behind you, then Iron Tail, before it can get away" I barely managed to time it out properly as the kadabra only got hit with the end result not the full attack, and wasn't stunned enough for Luxray to hit it with his tail. As the Pokemon appeared a few feet away, it held up it's spoons once again and this time used Flash. I frowned as Luxray flinched backwards with his eyes closed.
"It's fine, Luxray, just don't open your eyes and use your X-ray, then afterwards use Night Slash" His already closed eyes stayed shut, as he lowered his body slightly before pouncing forwards and managed to get a good hit in on the kadabra. I grinned as the Pokemon was pushed forwards. Luxray was a very strong physically strong Pokemon, something the Alakazam didn't have good defensiveness in.
"Good, now Discharge before it can get away" The attack just made contact as the Pokemon used Teleport, so it still did damage just not as much as I would prefer. It seemed my nice grace period was over as the kadabra reappeared, a good couple yards away before going on the offensive.
Raising it's spoon once more the eye's on it's face lit up as Luxray was brought up before slammed into the ground. Looking at the kadabra I noted something I was about to take advantage of, it couldn't hold Luxray with moving, my Son was just to strong for the Pokemon to hold without all of it's attention.
"Luxray, Charged Discharge" I said it in as few words as I could, but I knew Sabrina would have to be an idiot to not see what I was doing. Thankfully Luxray was very fast on the attack and hit the kadabra hard before the opponent had the chance to drop Luxray to Teleport away, leaving it a little burnt as it stumbled over and fainted.
Watching as the Gym Leader called her Pokemon back I let Luxray know he was doing great. And that's because he was, he out of all the members besides Vaporeon was the most tanky. It would take a lot more attacks before he was really hurting, no matter how strong they were to begin with. It wasn't long before the Gym Leader sent out her last Pokemon, it wasn't a surprise to see a alakazam sent out.
"Luxray, Charge up, and get ready to dodge anything they throw" Looking at the stationary Pokemon, I wondered for a second why it wasn't moving before a tidbit of information I knew reminded me, alakazam can learn Calm Mind.
"Luxray, Wild Charge now!" I couldn't let it's already stupid Special Attack power increase anymore. I was a little late as the alakazam raised it's arms and created a barrier using what I assume to be reflect, Luxray slammed into it, causing the barrier to fluctuate dangerously , but not breaking threw, even with his attack being charged up. Damn it, ok new plan.
"Spark, then Quick Attack to circle around and Night Slash" The special attack went right threw the created barrier and hit the Pokemon on the other side while Luxray dashed around said barrier and slashed into the alakazam's back. I frowned as Luxray was sent flying backwards soon after, he managed to land on his feet though so their was that.
The alakazam then went on the attack, using Teleport rapidly, and every time it did, it launched off what I believe to be Psybeam. The attacks while quite powerful didn't, on their own do that much damage. But considering that Luxray was getting hit by the dozens, while that changed things. If I couldn't predict were it would be at a specific location, then he would just have to hit every location.
"Charge to your max Luxray, then use Discharge in every direction, no restrictions" I got to say I was impressed with him, as he lowered his head and focused, while being bombarded by so many attacks, as small sparks going across his fur began to grow before his entire body was crackling with power. And that's when he unleashed his charged attack.
I had to almost close my eyes as the, almost tidal wave of lightning rose with Luxray in the center of it all, raising into the air before coming crashing down, and flooded into the arena. Needless to say, he had only outputted that much power once before, it had happened while we were training, he literary ran threw a cliff with Wild Charge.
Grinning I looked at Luxray as he was looking at the unconscious alakazam of to the side of the arena. I knew it was overkill to use him in the Gym, but I'll be honest, I really needed it for my mental health. Knowing that Sabrina could actually be defeated with only one of my teammates, it helped.
Looking up, over at the Gym Leader, I watched as she walked forwards with a badge in hand. Reaching out to hand it to me, she said to me, while I took it and placed the newest badge into my case.
"It's quite interesting to know that a Pokemon is just as good at Pokemon Training as humans. You've given me much to think about" And that's all I got before she vanished, looking around the empty room for a second, just to make sure see was gone, I walked over towards Luxray and sat down next to him, and said.
"Thanks buddy, that went better than I thought it would, not to mention, I think we've figured out a new move. Wonder what we should call it? Tidal Wave seems a bit misleading, what about...Volt Wave? Eh I'll think of something later" He gave me a nod before tossing out a few ideas of his own.
"It took a lot of energy though Dad, so how about Giga Volt? Hyper Charge? Lightning Crash? Electric Typhoon?...Oh! Maybe we can call it Charge Distributor! Because you know it uses Charge and Discharge" He, like with everything else, seemed to be happy, coming up with more and more names for the attack.
So Johnathan left, he was honesty only suppose to be a one chapter thing, just to show off a bit of just how much stronger Luxray got, but I liked his character so he stuck around for a couple for chapters than intended.
Also, two Gyms in two chapters back to back, I would have just done a tract back chapter to get to Saffron, but I didn't want to write what was basically the same route he took last time, so I skipped it. I doubt anyone minds. Their was a pretty big grace period between the water Gym to Surge to the last Gym, last chapter so I figured I would speed it up a little.
Oh and here's a fun fact, as a kid I was terrified of Sabrina, it wasn't till years later that when I re-watched the show that I realized that it nothing she did was ever really that scary or crazy mostly just weird. And by years later, I mean about three or four days after I started this story. So Kyu is facing a personal bad memory, he doesn't really remember it that well, so he does think it is just some weird form of paranoia, which to be fair it is. So yay for beating ones own demons, and all that.
Anyway, See ya.
