I Don't Own Pokemon


I looked over the riolu for a moment before shrugging after giving her an amused smile and asked.

"Any particular reason?" She just huffed before sitting down next to me, something I'm sure was because of her leg hurting and not her wanting to be close to me. But after a second she answered.

"Your a massive contradictory" I'm not sure what that means, or if that was suppose to be insightful. Giving her a confused look she looked like I was stupid before telling me.

"You look human but your not. Your a trainer but your a Pokemon. You seem to act nice but you aren't. You manipulate others but you hardly lie. Your young but you feel so old. You have an aura of superiority but you truly don't care about being better than anyone. You don't make sense" Oh yeah, she and her specie are empaths, that's kind of weird.

"Ok, that's fair, I don't make sense. But I don't see why that means you don't like me" She just shrugged like she didn't really understand it herself, but wasn't explaining on it any farther. I wonder if it's discrimination if the reason why she doesn't like me is because I'm a Dark type, probably is. Yawning to myself suddenly, I was rather forcefully reminded that I haven't slept a little longer than I would have liked.

Riolu looked at me when I did that, seeming annoyed by the sound, but after a moment the confused look that I just noted after his expressed shifted was back. She seemed to struggle on something for a second before looking back over towards me and asked.

"Why don't you feel pity? Everyone else does" Really? I was kind of hoping that it would be something more interesting.

"Do you want to be pitied?" She shook her head almost violently at that, so it seems that we have something in common then, before telling me.

"Of course not, its so annoying, but it's expected, which makes me wonder why you don't do so as well" I don't get it, if she doesn't like the attention and pity, which I can understand, why does she care why I don't care. I would just be glad someone isn't pitying me.

"So I? You won't appreciate or like it, and from what I've seen from the X-ray you've done, my pity isn't anything that is going to help any. So why bother" She frowned at that for a moment before telling me.

"You're a sociopath aren't you, that's the reason why I don't like you" Now that wasn't expected, and kind of hurtful, if I cared. Honestly why does everyone assume that, though to be fair it is really close, but still it's what everyone jumps at.

"No I'm not a sociopath, though I'll admit I've been shown to show a few characteristics of one, namely lack of empathy, remorse, and to be fair I am a bit manipulative, but not enough to make me a sociopath" She didn't seem convinced but I wasn't lying and I knew she could sense if I was or not. Really, I didn't care but I've been told that to many times for it to not be a little annoying at this point, honestly, I'm not emotional so I must have ASPD.

"I still don't like you" I rolled my eyes at that.

"Yeah, you said that, are you going to give me another list as to why. Or are you done repeating yourself" So what if I was a bit snarky, I tried being nice and that didn't seem to effect her feelings about me. She just huffed before punching me in the side. I just gritted my teeth to make no sound come through, even though it bloody hurt.

"Really? Well if your so set on not repeating yourself then, I'll be quite surprised if you hit me again" She seemed tempted, but I caught her in a trap. If she punched me it would show that she wasn't one to hold her word, on the other hand if she didn't punch me it shows that I can easily one up her with words, which was just another win for me. After a moment she crossed her arms and pouted, I gave a small smirk a held back a small laugh as I saw this.

After a few moments I heard some foot steps approach from behind me, turning to look over my shoulder to see who there. I watched as Juniper walked up to the two of us, seemed to get the starters ready and had realized that she left me, if the almost embarrassed look on her face was only to go by. As she got close she looked between the two of us and grinned before saying.

"It seems the two of you have met, I hope your getting along" Riolu snorted at that as I told the Professor who looked confused by the Pokemon's reaction to her words.

"She hates me apparently. Anyway, did you want something Professor?" She looked at Riolu for a moment before shaking her head, probably deciding she'll ask about it later, and instead turned to me and told me.

"Yeah, I was wondering if you would like to meet the starter Pokemon, and I think the new trainers would also like to meet you as well" I wouldn't mind meeting the starters, I've already said that, at least to myself, but the trainers on the other hand. Well there isn't a reason not to, at least one that was viable, so I stood up, letting the Fighting type have the bench to herself as I said.

"Sure, lead the way" She nodded, giving one last look to Riolu, which I could almost palpable see the pity in the look. Dear god I would punch someone if they gave me that kind of look. Riolu just turned away the Professor to probably not have to control the grimace that was probably appearing on her face. Afterwards though, the Professor turned and made her way out of the small court, leading me back to the front of the lab.

Looking around, I saw a cart with two Pokedexs and three pokeballs resting on the top, with ten underneath that were empty. Juniper made her way over and was about to send out the three Pokemon in the pokeballs, but right as she picked up the one on the left. The sliding doors behind us opened up, looking over my shoulders, I watched as two kids walked in, with very excited looks on their faces, from the way their legs were tense they were trying hard to not start running up to the two of us when they saw the cart besides me.

"Ah, Tristan, Anna, welcome. I wasn't expecting you two for at least another ten or so minutes. But I guess theirs not time like the present" They both looked slightly embarrassed at being called out on their eagerness, as they both looked at the pokeballs on the cart. That's when Juniper went tossed each pokeball out sending each Pokemon inside while giving introductions.

"So then, have you come to a conclusion you two?" They both looked at the starters for a moment, which was understandable, I was doing so as well, but that was mostly because of the nostalgia value of looking at the three in front of me, I remember getting this game and choosing tepig. I had no idea what I was doing and ended up with a level one hundred emboar, the sword trio and Zekrom, that was interesting. That's when the male of the two asked.

"Wait, just us? I thought this guy was also new, and getting a starter" I raised an eyebrow at him, while Juniper laughed at the question, as to her it probably was funny that a Champion was being mistaken for a new trainer. Which to be fair would be funny, if it didn't undermined every notion of how I perceive myself. After a moment, once the Professor calmed down she said.

"No, Kyu isn't here to get his starter, he got his a little over a year ago and he's actually already a very skilled trainer" Really a little over a year ago, I wonder if I'm thirteen yet. I really need to get some kind of calendar one of these days. Though I ignored those thoughts as the two new trainer in front of me looked at me in a mix of embarrassment at getting that wrong and probably wondering what I picked.

"Well, now that you both know that, which starter will you choose" That snapped them back at the topic at hand, as they both looked over towards the starters again. The three of them all looked tense hoping that they would be chosen, though some showed it more than others, as tepig looked ready to run around in circles in excitement, snivy looked more ready to take a nap on the outside but was clearly also tense in suspense, and oshawott looked ready to pass out.

After a second, Tristan, if I heard right, walked forwards and knelt down in front of tepig while Anna mirrored him with oshawott. I kind of felt bad for the snivy as they frowned and looked down at the ground in annoyance at not getting picked. The Professor then walked forwards and gave them everything they needed, their pokedex, empty pokeballs, and most importantly their starter's pokeball. Once they were all set I watched as they exchanged a glance, and after a moment they both grinned before turning to me and said,

"We challenge you to a Pokemon battle!" They must know each other pretty well to be that in sync with the other. So as I looked at their hopeful eyes as they waited for my answer I bluntly said.

"No" The Professor laughed again at my blunt response, while the two kids in front of me seemed to have a varied reaction. The girl, Anna, looked slightly disappointing but didn't raise but of a fuss about it while Tristan looked a lot more annoyed as he asked.

"Why not!?" I just gave him an raised eyebrow at that, making him duck his head, something I'm very good at is making people feel stupid for asking completely normal and usually fair questions.

"I'm taking a break from battles for the time being, plus it wouldn't be fair if your first battles was against someone you don't have a chance at winning with" I thought that my reasons were fair, but he seemed to take that as an insult as he said.

"So what you just think you're to good for a battle with us!" Bloody loud mouth, honestly I have over a year of experience on him and he literally just got his first Pokemon, that alone shoudl be enough for him to figure out that I'm being nice. Still if he was going to be rude then I don't see why I can't do the same, at least at a lower volume.

"If you want the truth, yes. If I battled you it would be under five seconds at best. So acting like you're a master already, you've only been a trainer for three minutes" He blushed at that, as he tried to come up with a comeback, but I didn't wait for him to come up with one as I turned to the Professor and told her.

"I'm going to head out for a bit, I'll see you in a little bit" She gave a nod, as I turned and made my way out of the building. Looking up at the sky, it took a moment for me to find him, but when I did I called out to get his attention. Thankfully he heard me as Pidgeot swooped downwards and landed in front of me. Giving him a stroke down the base of his neck, I told him.

"I'm going to go for a walk for a bit, you can either fly above me or stick around here, but I just wanted you two know where I was" He seemed to debate it for a second and by seconds I mean he only took a second before telling me.

"I'll stick with Trainer" I gave him a nod, as I saw the familiar over protectiveness that he shared with my entire team. Turning away from him and began to walk down the road as I listened to his wings beat against the road as he pushed up into the air. I didn't really need to leave but I just wanted to explore around, I mean I was sitting on a plane for a few hours and I already checked in at the lab, so right now I wanted to just walk about for a bit.


I wrote something in this chapter that I figured why not talk about, fair warning this will probably get...I would say rant-ful. A word has come up in the last few chapters, sociopath, I'm not one needless to say. But I've been near diagnosed as one for most of my teenage years and onward with Anti-Social Personality Disorder, otherwise known as sociopathic tendencies. I'm sure those that have read about this mental disorder aren't to surprised, I've written repeatedly in this story that I don't understand emotions well, I have a low capacity for emotions and have hardly ever experience guilt, regret and the like. But that's not why I'm putting this here. I'm going to talk about why I dislike the idea of someone calling me as such, at least someone that I don't know, as I've mentioned before that a joke my friend make is calling me a sociopath, I think is was around the time Kyu caught Mismagius. Anyway back to the point, people make such a big deal about being sociopaths and when some people here about this little fact about me and use it as a bases for my persoanlity, well the fact of the matter is, I personally hate it.

I highly dislike any singular thing that can be used to label someone in one word, I straight up hate people who choose to do that. I'm gay, and I have never thought of it as something other than what it is, I like men, nothing more nothing less. Nothing about me, at least from what I've been told, makes it seem that I'm gay, because I don't care about fitting into a label other than the bare minimum of what it means. But some people make that what they are, their the 'gay friend' or whatever, and I hate that. I don't like the idea that a person's only quality is something that shouldn't matter. I like to think that people are more complex than that, so I find it that the people who choose to rid themselves of that uniqueness by acting like some stupid stereotype. So I find it rude and close to insulting, at least personally, when people find out about my related traits to a bloody mental disorder as they now know exactly who I am. Which is why Kyu reacted the way he did to Riolu when she called him one.

This got weirdly deep into my thought process about individuality for just a side comment that I tossed in without really thinking on it till about three lines later, and I honestly didn't mean for it to be so long in explaining but I did say I would rant, and I can't be bothered to erase if and write something else in it's place, so it's staying. So, See ya.