I Don't Own Pokemon
The next morning nothing remarkable really happened, I got everyone up, ate some breakfast then set out for the day. It had already been an hour or so since we had set out, and I was expecting on arriving in the next town sometime in the next two to three hours. Currently, I was the front runner of the group, walking in the front leading everyone towards where I'm pretty sure Accumula is, nothing really that new there.
The only real difference was the little extra time it took to get the two new Pokemon up, they weren't so, I guess, excited at the prospect of getting up at about, from what I saw from the sun's position, about six in the morning. I believe Riolu called it cruel and unusual while eating breakfast, I'm not even sure where she learned that term, while Snivy just tried not to yawn as he ate. It was amusing, especially because of the lack of empathy they received from the rest of the team, as they had to become accustom to it as well.
Besides that, the only other thing that was happening really was the fact that, I was currently talking to Snivy. Most of it was mostly not anything to important, but we did talk about somethings he had some questions on. Like all the things he could chose to do if he didn't want to battle, of course I couldn't list everything, their are a lot of options available, more than one would think.
Still I gave him a list of things that I could think of that he could realistically do traveling around with me from simpler things like batting and coordinating to some of the more interesting things like playing chess and even soccer, those last and most of the more unconventional ones didn't seem to hold much of the snake's attention, though he did seem curious about chess when I explained it to him.
I figure I'll get a mat and the pieces and teach him how to play, it would be good to play again with someone. Though I'll admit I'm not the best, but that's because like with almost everything I do in life, when I play I practically have zero plans in motion. Still, if I can get some of the others to play with Snivy, it would be a good way to get him to have some more interaction with everyone.
He seems to not have any problem with Riolu and he even seems to be getting along pretty well with Vaporeon, which I did appreciate as my Fox wasn't the most social either. Still, that didn't mean as much as I would like, as Snivy didn't really talk to anyone else, at least not that I've noticed so far. Though, thankfully, my Son still made sure to talk to him, even if he only got short answers in reply.
Anyway, moving back onto another topic, I shifted my eyes upwards, towards the sky as I look at Charizard and Pidgeot as they glided above me in the air. He seemed better, and was currently talking about something to Pidgeot but they were a little to high in the air to hear exactly what they were saying. But I wasn't really concerned about knowing whatever they were talking about.
It was a few hours later and I was currently just now stepping into the town, and once I stepped into the towns border, I sighed before turning and looking at everyone. It's a habit, which everyone, well most at least, groaned at, as I reached up and began to return most of my team. After a couple moments of taking off a pokeball, returning them, and then setting the balls back in place.
The only Pokemon remaining out were, Mismagius, because I'm not exactly sure the last time she was returned besides in a battle, and Riolu, because I don't have a pokeball for her to be returned to, I thought about keeping Snivy out as well but decided against it, while I'm sure he wouldn't mind staying out, I could see that he isn't use to so much constant interaction with others, this will hopefully give him a chance to recharge a bit before I head out again.
Which, admittedly, wouldn't be to long as I won't be spending much time in town, probably only maybe half a day, two at the very most. Considering that it's still pretty early out, barely reaching eleven, I'm pretty sure the only things I'm going to be doing is some light shopping, and maybe some small looking around. Though that's when I noticed the fact that Riolu was slowly lagging behind. Turning and looking over towards the Pokemon, I watched as she limped on for a moment, with clear frustration on her face before asking.
"You ok there?" She glared at my words, before huffing.
"I don't need your help!" Wow, if she wasn't limping, wincing heavily in pain, and over all in any actual way believable, I would have believe her from the sheer spite in her words alone. But I didn't, so instead of not doing anything, I just rolled my eyes and walked up to her and grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and hoisted her up onto my shoulders, to which she immediately tried to strangle me with her legs, by wrapping them around my throat.
Though that didn't work out well for her as she just yelped as she put a bit to much pressure on her hurt leg. Rolling my eyes again, I just continued on, ignoring the laughing from my shadow, and the practically radiating annoyance from above me. It was a weird mess of two different emotions which made my role as the quite literal middle man between them was interesting.
Anyway, besides being between two Pokemon feeling two practically opposite emotions, nothing really stood out during my trip around the town. Well, I stood out, after all, I'm pretty sure, I got a couple weird looks in my direction because of Mismagius floating around me while Riolu tried to repeatedly cause me injury by smacking me on the head for every few comment I made.
Though thankfully she stopped doing that when I, without any regret, dropped the Fighting type on the ground in the middle of buying a few bowls for any new Pokemon I might be either catching or receiving, though I wasn't sure if that would be happening any time soon I might as well be prepared. Anyway, back to the point I was making, Riolu stopping trying to beat me over the head as I showed that I wasn't going to take it without revenge.
Though, on a side note, Mismagius was just having a great time, so that was something I guess. Anyway, moving on past that, the only thing else that really happened up until this current moment was me having some conversations with some of the towns people, and the only thing that I saw that would be interesting to do in town was some kind of battle center where you can pick on choose who you fight, which went against my whole, not battling thing, so I wasn't going to be doing that.
Though, there was a new sauna, that was a little out of the ways from the town but close by, it had apparently opened about a year and a half ago, they had this thing called a sand bath, which sounded interesting but not something that sounded comfortable, so I also decided that it probably wasn't worth it, especially considering the fact that it cost like four hundred a nigh there.
So moving past all the things I wouldn't be doing, instead at the current moment I was in a Pokemon Center, looking up some of the travel routes that I can take that involved the minimal foot traffic to get to Striaton. The travel time itself actually wasn't that bad all things considered, sure it was a bit longer than the trip I just took to get to this town, but a week at the most wasn't bad at all.
Even the path I was looking at didn't seem that bad, it mostly involved a lot of walking in a forest and that was it, which was a nice bonus on top of the easy timetable I had available. All in all, nothing to difficult to arrange and walk, even the weather was nice. Something which wasn't always a certainty, and while it is uncommon, getting rained on isn't a fun activity to experience. Shaking my head as I moved my thoughts away from my travel plans, I leaned back into my chair and noted that a few people were giving me some looks.
"It's creepy they keep looking over at us every couple seconds" I glanced over towards Riolu and raised and eyebrow as Riolu seemed to notice that I had noticed and had taken it as the time to complain. I mean she wasn't wrong, considering that I've already caught like four glances from a few of the more non-subtle people in the Center, I can see how that would get annoying, or at the very least, how she said, creepy.
"Yeah, well, I'm kind of famous, so you'll have to get use to it, though good luck with that, I'm still like sixty percent certain at least someone in here is a stalker and I've had a lot more time to try and adjust" She seemed to hold back a snicker at that, which she would soon deny any such thing. Rolling my eyes at her reaction, which she reacted to my reaction and just huffed at me.
"Why are you famous anyway?" It would be insanely egotistical to assume everyone knows about my apparently impressive battle record but considering the fact that so far it seems every conversation I've had with someone, that particular little fact about me seemed to come up more often than not, it's kind of weird to know some have no clue who I am, it's actually a little refreshing.
"I'm, for some reason, considered one of the greatest prodigies in recorded history when it comes to training and battling" She actually looked like she couldn't believe that, and not from like the shock factor of it, no she looked like I wouldn't be capable of it, which is kind of offensive really, I mean sure I didn't mind, as stuff like the titles that have come with most of those accomplishments aren't anything I care about, but I still did enough to earn them.
"What you don't think I'm a super genius? I'm hurt" Being the mature Pokemon she was, she just gave me a look over before saying.
"Yeah, no, you are the absolute last thing that come to mind when I think of a genius" I raised my hand up and pressed it to my chest and leaned back, acting as offended as possible before rolling my eyes as I sat back up straight in the seat. While this was pretty assuming, we should probably get back on the road some time soon, it wouldn't be good if I wasted daylight away on an activity that I can do while walking.
Standing up, quite suddenly, and while it was mildly interesting to listen to conversations in the Pokemon Center almost stop completely before resuming the conversations, it was also a little unnerving to realize a lot of bloody people were paying attention to me. Still, I ignored that and instead turned to Riolu, while tossing my bag over one of my shoulder and said to her.
"Well, we should get going at some point" And with that I let a small smirk form as she yelped as I grabbed her and placed her back on my shoulders, though the smirk did become a little more forced when she bopped me on the head, with a more force than I'm sure was necessary. Still, nonetheless, I just shook my body a little as I walked making her almost fall off my shoulder at least twice before I stopped.
A nice little break stop in a decent sized town, to bad their wasn't really anything for them to do, but it did lead to some more interactions with Kyu and Riolu which are fun to write, though I wonder just how many think a relationship is going to start between them, because, sorry to say that isn't happening. Anyway, See ya.
