I Don't Own Pokemon
About a week later from leaving, after the whole Team Rocket thing, I was currently about a third of the way to Fuchsia, and was in the middle of a mock battle between Charmander and Misdreavus. It had become a daily thing, for Charmander to fight a member of the team, both for experience and for defensiveness training.
"Charmander use Ember on the Shadow Balls don't let them get close" This was also training for Misdreavus as well, stamina more specifically. Watching as the almost dozen different shadow balls were quickly shot out of the sky, I scanned my eyes over the clearing before throwing my hand forwards points at a certain patch of grass.
"There she is, Flamethrower to try and pin her then Iron Tail" I found out he could learn that after the fact but damn did it add some nice coverage, sadly it did take away from Luxray's training to help teach him but it was worth it. Sadly while the Flamethrower did damage, Misdreavus slipped out of the way before Charmander's tail could connect.
"Double Team now, you'll need to buy me some time to track her down again" I got a nod before a few more fire lizards appeared in the clearing. Out of all the team members Charmander had the most problems when it came to non straight damaging moves, if it wasn't for the energy consumption then I would actually be better at using Protect than him.
Still no time to think on that now, looking around the clearing as Charmander bought me time. I wasn't sure were Misdreavus was, she had gotten quite good at hiding, but that didn't mean I wouldn't have a clue. After all I was the one that taught her that technique, which meant.
"Charmander, she's in your shadow, Ember straight down" My smart little ghost figured what I would use to buy myself time, and so she used the Double Teamed Charmanders to block my line of sight from the original's shadow. Clever, but not enough to outsmart me though I had to give her props as it almost worked.
And if I didn't know her or helped her with those strategies then I would have fallen for it, as she was launched out of Charmander's shadow from it no longer existing cause of the light the Flamethrower made. Watching as she floated up wards a few feet into the air I wasn't about to let her get back into the shadows. So with a small frown on my face I issued the command for a direct hit.
"Charmander Flamethrower" The attack, thankfully for Misdreavus and my own conscience, was stopped by her putting up a Protect. So now frontal assaults won't be working as Misdreavus back slowly up towards a shadow. Something that would prolong the battle.
"Charmander increase your output, the flame will, while not doing damage, still get rid of the shadows nearby" This had turned into a stalling game. Who would have the stamina to keep going, I already knew the answer though, even while watching both give it their all, Charmander would be the first to drop.
Misdreavus, since she arrived on the team, as done the most out of everyone else when it comes to stamina training, she was more than use to going on even after getting low on energy, and while Charmander could certainly take a hit, multiple high powered attacks just wasn't in his wheel house yet.
Besides evolution these mock battles are being used to make him use to using such high outputs of fire. It was the same principle I used with Luxray, expect here, I didn't have a handy or convenient move like Charge to speed up the training. So Misdreavus would win, with probably more than enough power to spare to finish Charmander off.
At least that's what I thought up until a, now familiar, light began to shine off of Charmander's body. Waving at Misdreavus that she didn't need to hold her Protect anymore, as he stopped attacking. I was torn between joy at my newest friends evolution and feeling sad from the look on Midreavus' face as she realized she was the only one on the team that hasn't evolved yet.
Well besides me anyway, but she said that I didn't count for some reason. Still that didn't mean I wasn't almost immediately by Charmeleon's side as he finished evolving.
"How are feeling Charmeleon?" The now over foot taller Pokemon looked at me for a second, before looking back down at his paws for another second. After that he looked back up at me before grinning.
"I feel powerful, Master" I gave him a grin, before nodding to him in praise, which he seemed to soak up. After a second I pointed upwards into the sky and asked him.
"How about we see how much stronger you've gotten, use Dragon Pulse upwards into the sky" He looked at me in contemplation for a second before grinning. Pointing his head upwards he let loose a Dragon Pulse easily almost twice as big as he had managed before, and while he looked slightly winded, I figured that it was mostly his body adjusting to his new power reserve.
"Great job Charmeleon, now then, mock battles over, as you need to get use to your new body. I'll leave you up to what you want to get done, just don't shoot off any high powered moves ok? I don't want to bug Vaporeon from her training because lit the forest on fire" He gave me a nod before trotting off, after a second I turned to Misdreavus and told her.
"How are you doing?" I didn't like that she was being left out of something she clearly wanted to be apart of, but I just couldn't do anything. Still my Ghost just gave me a smile, one that I could tell was a little forced before telling me.
"I'm fine Captain, I'm glad he evolved too" I gave her a look telling her I clearly didn't buy that. She just pouted, but after a few second under my look she told me.
"It's just that it seems fun to evolve and I can't do it. It's like I'm being left out of a club and I don't like it" I gave her a pat on her head, while thinking about how to respond, after a moment I told her.
"You're not being excluded, never think that, everyone here can't wait for you to evolve. Don't be mad at yourself or the others for it. Honestly I should have been looking into getting a Dusk Stone since you agreed to come along with us, something I also should have done with Vaporeon while she was a Eevee"
She just looked at me funny, before floating out from under my hand and yanked on my hair, after not yelping from my head being pulled on, she floated in front of me and said.
"Stop being all guilty while acting responsible, Captain. I like that less than not evolving" I just shook my head at her, out of all of my Pokemon she was the only one that actively forced me back into place with violence. She was like a over taxed assistant, grinning at the thought I nodded to her.
"Alright, I'll be less moody then, anyway come on, I think you've gotten enough of a break. This time I want you to already have a Shadow Ball ready when you leave a shadow alright? It'll be hard to concentrate on both at the same time but this will certainly help you out" She nodded before floating upwards into a tree's shadow to get started.
I sighed to myself as I laid down on the ground with my team surrounding me, the tent being long forgotten. Everyone around me was already asleep, leaving me to look up at the stars above, while hoping that I might get some sleep. I felt antsy, wanting to do something, but I was aware if I did anything and didn't get sleep then I would be exhausted the next day.
ADHD and insomnia really don't play nice to each other, especially when I could now throw around balls of shadow energy. Shaking my head at that. I needed to think of something productive rather than just looking vacantly at the sky, the team had been training pretty hard the last couple days, tomorrow I really need to make some distance to Fuchsia.
Out of the time I've spent going towards Fuchsia, about three full days of that time has been spent training the team and myself. So tomorrow I'll have to make up that distance, I wonder if Luxray would mind if I used him as a ride. I mean currently besides Misdreavus I'm actually the lightest Pokemon here, just my illusions weirdly enough calculated weight as well, so it didn't seem so.
Either way I'll just ask him tomorrow, if he doesn't want to, with everyone else catching a ride on his back, then I won't ask more of him. Looking up at the sky again, or at least moving my focus back to the sky, I looked at the stars. A while back, before I arrived here, I was quite interested in stars and constellations.
It only lasted for about a week before I moved onto something else but it was interesting to come back to now. The night sky was completely different to my original world, it made sense of course. After all this planets continents aren't even close to Earths, even if it does share the name.
I never cared at all about geography or history, in school it was always some kind of boring story about stuff I honesty didn't care about. But for some reason, maybe because it was all completely new to me, but all the lore in this world was just fascinating. Like the story of Red, that's right he was a real person in this world.
At least in a myth, he was the first Champion, and was the one that unified Kanto after destroying an at the time, ruling power that was subjecting most of the, at the time, small towns and villages. It's said afterwards he set up the basics for a Pokemon League before heading to Mt. Sliver to watch over the region he created.
Another note, is that Gold was also a person with a similar story, raising up and beating the same ruling power as they tried to escape to another part of the world. Afterwards like Red, he ascended Mt. Sliver to watch over Jotho like Red did for Kanto. There wasn't a grand battle in the games, and if there was one, honestly no one could say who would have won.
Oh course, no one can say if any of that was true considering, the myth dates back almost eight hundred years, about one hundred years before humans actively started writing their history down. Still all that's mostly besides the point, the thing is, that's history but its bloody awesome history.
I enjoyed reading about it and thought it was quite interesting, compared to me having to actively force myself to read and write history papers in school. It was just one of those small differences that changed how I look at history, at least this world's history. I can still say for certain that I still find my old world's history boring as hell.
Holding back a yawn, I blinked once or twice before I noticed that my eyes seemed to be closing on me. That's nice, I honesty didn't think I'd be getting any sleep tonight. With that I let my eyes slide shut before dozing off.
Shortish chapter, but it did what I wanted it to, which is show off Charmeleon evolving, and still following commands. I actually have a theory on that. On Ash's team Charmeleon was, after evolving, the strongest, so he decided since he was the strongest he didn't have to listen. Here though Luxray and Vaporeon are both still clearly stronger than him, with the other two Pidgeotto and Misdreavus still more than capable, if not in pure power, to stand up to him and be on slightly shaky but equal footing.
The few bits about lore, were just somethings I thought about and decided to ad into the story after the idea wouldn't leave me alone.
Also random note does anyone else when they create a character use a song to get a base feel for them in someway? I do, for this story, and more specificity, Kyu it's a song called: Be Somebody, it's by Thousand Foot Krutch, and if you do listen to it, because Kyu is technically me, while listening to it think that both the author and the character are saying different lines. It gives an interesting prospective on the song. I don't know why I wanted to put this here after deciding to use that song for this story around chapter three but whatever.
Anyway, See Ya.
