I Don't Own Pokemon


It had been about a week and a half since setting out from Striaton, with only maybe two days left before we all would arrive in the next city. In that time, besides the occasional encounter with another trainer or just some random person taking a long walk, nothing really happened that was to interesting. Most of it was just me and a few of the others helping Snivy train up his body, along with endurance training as well, as once I start training him on the rest that particular trait is going to be discarded for a while, so might as well get it in early instead late.

Currently at the moment, everyone was eating lunch sitting around a nice open and pretty grass covered area. I, myself, wasn't eating so much as I was more interested in the sky. The clouds over us were getting pretty dark in color, I thought we had moved out of the area before we rain would be able to catch up with us, but it seems we'll still be hit with what seems to be the tail end of the storm sometime today or tomorrow.

It wasn't that big of a deal, but I'll have to make sure that it won't pour down to hard, otherwise Charizard and Lycanroc will have to be returned to their pokeballs for a while. While it might seem that the rain in general no matter how light probably wouldn't be good for my Fire type, it actually wasn't that big of a deal. My Lizard is surprisingly resistant to stuff like light and even mild rain, it's probably a nice side effect from having as many mock battles against Vaporeon as he's had.

The same can be said for my Wolf as well, though he didn't have as much of a resistant built up as Charizard he could shrug off a light amount rain without trouble. Of course that didn't really matter because I would be handing out umbrellas to all that can carry them when it starts raining, and that would be enough for both Charizard and Lycanroc unless it was really pouring down with some wild.

And not to mention I'll also have to ask most of them if they want to be returned anyway, I know Mismagius won't want to, and Vaporeon will have a great time in the rain rather than avoid it. But some of the others might not want to deal with it, Pidgeot came to mind for that, while he didn't really mind the rain much, he couldn't really hold an umbrella and he was to big to be with someone else who can hold it up, so I might return him if he wants to.

Of course this all depends on if we are still around when it starts raining down on us. If I'm lucky enough then maybe we can get to the city before the clouds have decided that they have wanted long enough to pour down all the water that its have collected. Well, no real reason to keep on thinking about it, it's not like my thoughts are going to stop it from raining.

Looking back over towards the Pokemon that are around me, I noted that most of them seemed to be wrapping up, which was nice timing, as I stretched my legs out in front of me a little before standing up. My movement seemed to alert everyone that I was getting ready to get back on the path, so those that weren't done quickly began to finish up and the ones that were already done picked up their bowls and brought them over to me so I could clean and store them in my bag.

"Alright everyone, lets get a move on" Some voiced their affirmations, while others just nodded, or something similar. So after another minute making sure everyone was good to go, I, with everyone following behind me, continued on our way to Nacrene city.


Yawning was an activity that I don't really enjoy doing, it's one of those things that reminded me just how long it's been since I last got some proper sleep, I say this because currently I seemed to be doing that a lot at the moment. Let it be said that going on three days straight with barely maybe two hours of sleep to hold me by wasn't as easy as I make it look.

It's like everything is kind of muted as your brain tries to shut down and just give up for a couple hours but your body just refuses to listen to common sense. Needless to say, I'm pretty sure everyone around me knew that I was pretty out of it, well, at least as much as I allowed myself to be, to not give myself a headache from trying to overwork my already stressed out eyes on processing everything I was seeing. After all, I've spent way to much time like this in my life for me to be overwhelmed by lack of rest.

Sure it was the opposite of pleasant and I most certainly wasn't running at full capacity, probably not even at seventy percent capacity even, but I was still more than awake enough to notice that when I stepped into the city limits something was wrong. It wasn't one of those, it's to quiet, kind of things, in fact in my experience it's easier to notice when something is wrong because their is to much noise out of place rather than a lack of it.

Which is why, no matter how addled by sleep deprivation I was, it was easy to note that their was an unreasonable amount of people in the streets all in a state of confusion, looking around as if they were looking for someone, or maybe something. But, as I scanned my eyes over the area I couldn't find anything that would cause this mild panic the citizens. Looking around for a moment I waved over a teen that seemed to not be as focused on whatever was happening as the rest and asked.

"What's got everyone's attention?" He jumped at my, at the moment, dead sounding voice, before turning to me, and blinked, probably from the much more obvious, and probably concerning sized bags under my eyes, usually I would cover them up with an illusion but I couldn't be bothered to do so, so my base illusion was up rather than any with my personal modifications. Even my hair was a little shorter than it normally was, it was still about shoulder length but that's still about three inches off from it's normal length.

"Oh, nothing much, at least nothing I care about, apparently some thieves showed up in town and stole some orb from the local museum. Everyone in the city took it as a personal insult I guess so it became this massive manhunt" I blinked at him, as I focused on the words he said, though it took an annoying amount of time for my mind to start thinking on it like I should have immediately been able to do.

My first thought was, this is not my problem, and my second thought was, my problem is finding somewhere to go into a nice and relaxing coma. But sadly that's when the rest of my thoughts also came in and ruined my nice and deliberate process of trying to not get involved and instead get some sleep. After all, he just said a orb just got stolen, from the museum, and because I've played the games I know that the orb is related more than likely to one of the ideal or truth legendary Pokemon.

Great, someone is either really lucky to steal that, or someone is trying to either destroy the world, or an idiot wanting to catch a legendary Pokemon. Either way, I'm probably going to have to get involved. I let out a breathless sigh before turning away from the teenager, to my team before starting to return all the ones that would probably not be to much help tracking down on object, while saying.

"I'm going to go help, you all get some rest, I'll send you all out later when I'm finish and about to crash in a nice Pokemon Center bed" I ignored the worried looks that each of the Pokemon I returned gave me, clearly underestimating just how often this has happened to me before, sure it barely happens now a days but that doesn't mean I've lost all my sad to earn skill in dealing with very poor amounts of sleep.

So after some brief consideration, Luxray, Mismagius and Lycanroc were the only ones still out that I could return, which also meant Riolu was still sitting on Son's back. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea for her to be around if a battle breaks out, but I'd be surprised if Mismagius and Lycanroc couldn't handle it on their own, while Luxray defended Riolu, at least I hope so and this wasn't sleep deprivation taking over my normal decision making process.

"First things first we are going to go to the gym slash museum and you, Lycanroc, are going to get whatever remaining scent is left from the orb in question. From there we'll track down the thieves and get the bloody orb back" I got some nods, but I could tell that they all were confused as to why I was doing this in the first place, which is fair I guess. I noted that my Son was about to question me on it, but he could, Riolu butted in and asked first.

"So why are you helping? Because you seem more like the type to say this isn't your problem then you are to help because it is the right thing to do" My Son frowned at that, probably thinking that I'm a better person than I actually am, as Riolu was very spot on about what I would much rather prefer doing at the moment. Of course that didn't mean I wasn't going to be sarcastic in return.

"I'm glad you think so highly of me. If you must know, that ball that was stolen happens to be a item that is linked to a Legendary Pokemon, and I would rather not have some stupid thief have something that important on them, and I would very much rather someone who actually knows what it is to have it even less" I didn't have to stress out my overtaxed mind to see the surprised looks I was receiving. This time Luxray did manage to say what he wanted without getting interrupted.

"What! Really Dad?" I just nodded, which I noted made my Son, Wolf, and judging by the sudden darkening in my shadow, my Ghost take this a lot more serious. Though, Riolu looked a lot more unconvinced by that, and made her opinion on it known.

"You've gone to long without sleep and you have gone crazy, that's the only answer. Their is no way you could know that, much less be so uncaring about a freaking Legendary, even you aren't that much of an emotionless husk" I just raised an eyebrow at her, which took more effort than I liked to admit, face control is always one of the first things that I lose the ability to do, or at least I can't concentrate on it long enough without making my face feel weird.

"You'll quickly realize that I'm very uncaring about stuff that should probably be taken serious. So far in terms of Legendaries I've talked to a Mew, saved them from being captured, met their clone, made by a massive criminal organization that I ended up destroying, before probably talking them out of destroying the world, saw an Articuno like last month, and a little before that found an artifact of a Heatran, which Charizard is currently using, all in under the span of a year. Trust me, this isn't the weirdest thing I've had to deal with or seen"

I actually wonder what Mewtwo is up to now a days, I haven't seen or even heard of the Pokemon since I ran into Mew. I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if the world was ending, or at least if Mewtwo was trying to destroy at least Kanto, which he would have done by now going by the original timeline, which might not be very actuate now a days. Shaking my head out of those thoughts, though noting to look into it later, I turned my attention back to Riolu who seemed to have just received confirmation from my team, even though she already knew I wasn't lying.

"I was right, you are crazy just not in the way I thought" She actually looked like she didn't know how to respond to that, just another confirmation that I have gotten way to bloody use to this stuff at this point. Eh, whatever, at this point it's not like that's some new revelation about myself and my life.


I've already mentioned that Kyu's sleep cycle is practically the same as mine, and needless to say I have not slept in almost four days. The last two weeks have not been fun at all to me. Anyway, no one cares about my life, so instead I'll just leave off here, See ya.