I Don't Own Pokemon
It had been about two days later, and currently I was close to getting out of the Pinwheel forest, but that wasn't really what was on my mind at the moment. No my thoughts were much more focused on the newest member of my team. I'm not the best as a judge of character, but it was quite clear that it seems that something had sparked in the snake's eyes.
Before hand he was quite motivated in training, focusing on it and was certainly giving it his best, but now, he seemed to just be throwing himself into it. I made sure to limit his training time to counter act his clearly overtaxing work load that he has placed on himself. And while I could think of a number of reason as to why the he suddenly was so much more motivated, most of which I'm sure were correct, given recent events, I didn't push it right away.
When a problem first starts up, I'll be the first to admit I probably won't notice right away unless I'm looking for it, but I am looking for it, and I can't see any of the signs in Snivy that this whole thing was his way to assure himself that he didn't have to rely on the others to protect him next time a battle of that intensity breaks out. I know self-reliance better than most, and even I couldn't see any of it in him.
Which is why I didn't immediately push on it, and because I don't think forcing the Grass type in a discussion he won't like is a great way to build trust. But even that was put in question, Snivy hardly seemed to think over my word anymore for ulterior motives, which I certainly didn't mind, but the suddenly switch in trust was a little weird. Of course it wasn't complete trust mind you, he still seemed to think over what I say, but mostly just to confirm with himself than to cast doubt on me.
I'm thinking about addressing it soon but for right now, I would leave it alone and focus on making sure that his training was maximized without completely exhausting him. It wasn't to hard but I did have to keep an eye on him to let him know if he was going over board. So far his body's condition has improved by a good margin, and on a move front he has managed to figure out Vine Whip by himself, and Aqua Tail from Vaporeon, while he is still in the process of figuring out Iron Tail.
Though I'm not to worried about him becoming super adept in either of those last two moves, as right now I am planning on having Snivy use Vine whip and use that to strength his vines and his body in a much quicker way than he has been able to do, because of the limits his short arms and legs gave him. And once his skill with Vine Whip get good enough I'll work on getting him to learn Leaf Blade.
All of this I'm pretty sure I've already thought about, but at the time none of the ideas were as finalized in my head as they were now. Oh, on another front, now that I'm thinking on it, I also made sure to use the Protect TM to both Riolu and Snivy as well as the Double Team TM as well. For Snivy the reason was kind of obvious, those two moves are the only moves that everyone on the team shares, it's kind of a staple to the team for everyone to have them.
As for Riolu, well she isn't really in the best position to be able to fight back if she gets in trouble, at least without hurting herself in the process, which I'm sure wouldn't dissuaded her so the least I could do was give her a way to defend instead of attacking, basically giving her another option. She didn't really like it though, I'm pretty sure she saw it as me thinking she couldn't handle herself, at least until I informed her that literally everyone on the team had also been forced to learn those moves by me.
Anyway, that's what the last few days had been like, and that was about it, currently at this exact moment, like I mentioned early, I was close to leaving the forest I was currently in. From there I'm not really sure what I was going to do. Because from my knowledge I know that there is that massive bridge I'll have to cross, which is what I'm wondering as to what to do.
I mean, I didn't really want to spend most of the next day walking on a crowded bridge, which I'm about eighty percent sure that Pokemon aren't allowed on. So ignoring the fact that, that also includes me, Riolu will more than likely not be allowed with me. So I have two options, somehow convince Riolu that I should catch her, and then suffer on a bridge filled with people for a few hours, or just spend maybe ten minutes flying across the gap on Pidgeot's or Charizard's back.
Yeah, ok, so it wasn't actually that hard of a choice, but it did have it's own problems if that plan as well. For one, I'm still not sure Riolu has forgiven me for having her shadow hopped around before being dragged around on Luxray's back while Lycanroc was tracking those grunt idiots. As apparently my Son didn't understand the words 'slow down!'. So I'm not exactly optimist that she'll enjoy being a couple hundred feet in the air, going about twenty times faster than what Luxray was jogging at.
I guess I'll deal with it when the time comes, it shouldn't be to hard to be convincing enough to get Riolu to agree with me, especially when I let her know that it'll only last maybe five or so minutes at most, well at least I hope so, it would be unfortunate if I couldn't convince her and had to deal with that while walking on the bridge. Though it seems I'm about to find out I guess. As I looked on at the stupidly long bridge that I saw begin to take shape from past the tree line.
It didn't actually start off that bad, but then it began to go downhill pretty quickly. I think it started when Riolu figured out that I wasn't sitting down on Pidgeot's back and instead would be standing on him. The next step was around the time that we were about maybe four hundred feet in the air, the altitude that my Bird like to be at when he moved at above half his base speed, which was about two thirds to the way to mach two, because he doesn't have to worry about running into anything.
Though I'll be completely honest that I found her reactions hilarious, I didn't voice it, as I'm fully aware about being concerned about being so high in the air, even if I've been over my fear of height for a while now, it still didn't exactly set right with me, even now, being so high up into the air. So I just moved Riolu to be in front of me, also standing on Pidgeot's back, and held her shoulders to let her know that I was making sure she wouldn't accidentally fall.
So that's how it went for the ten or so minutes that we stayed in the air, of course when we landed on the outskirts of the city, I thanked my Bird, before returning him and then sending out Mismagius once again. While she is fast in her own right, no one on the team could hope to match Pidgeot, and the shadow she had to work with was barely none existent so I decided to not risk it. Though the pout on her face showed me she didn't think it was necessary.
While all that was happening Riolu was overreacting by laying face down on the ground muttering something about never doing that again. Anyway, besides that, I was thinking about sending out my team, but considering just how close to the city I was, they would only get a couple of minutes out before I would have to return them again, so I didn't bother.
Instead, I just reached down and grabbed Riolu and placed her on my shoulders, completely ignoring the fact that she bonked me on the head once she was up there. It seems that she wasn't done with laying face down on the ground yet. Still, I just started walking onward to Castelia City while listening to Mismagius have a laughing fit at both of our expensive.
Castelia is bloody massive, I learned that quite quickly when I got lost twice trying to find where one of the three Pokemon Centers that the city had. It was actually kind of impressive that I managed that, as the city while being stupidly big only had like seven massive roads that connected to the center of the city. Still, in the end, I did manage to find a Pokemon Center.
I noted a small hint of hesitation in my hands movement as I handed over Snivy's pokeball to the nurse behind the desk, that wasn't their before. Though, I didn't stop myself from handing it over, just like I normally did when I felt like that in a Center which was basically every time I've been to a Pokemon Center now that I'm thinking about it. Moving my focus away from that kind of obvious realization I gave a nod to the nurse to let her know that Snivy was the only one that needed a look over.
While I wouldn't mind having the others checked over, their wasn't really a reason, sure most of them helped out Snivy in training at one point or another. But nothing that would be close to tiring for them, so I didn't bother, as I knew they were fine. Though Snivy on the other hand, well this will tell me how I've managed to delegated Snivy's training so far, it would be good to know if I've accidentally let him overwork himself.
"Excuse me, Sir? May I take a look at your Riolu?" Blinking to myself as my thoughts were thrown off course, I turned to look at who said that, and blinked once more as I looked at the woman in front of me, she looked familiar but I couldn't place it for some reason, probably because she had pink hair, though my thoughts were knocked off course as Riolu, who heard the question, let out a growl at the woman while crossing her arms.
"Yeah, she isn't my Pokemon so you should ask her instead of me, and considering that I'm pretty sure you insulted her by implying as such, you probably aren't going to have much luck on that front" She looked at me then up to Riolu who was still on my shoulders as was normal at this point. Before shrugging, like she has seen weirder before saying to Riolu this time.
"Sorry Riolu, my name is Maylene, I, was just curious about your leg, it doesn't look like what my Lucario's leg was like when he was a riolu" Oh yeah, she's that fighting type gym leader from Sinnoh, I blame the fact that she was currently wearing a sweatshirt and cargo pants as to why I didn't recognize her. Though that's when I became aware of what she asked, and the fact that Riolu's body seemed to get tense. Great.
"Well don't you have tact. Her leg looks like that because most of the bones were crushed by a boulder falling on her" I felt Riolu tug on my hair at me telling this woman that without consulting her, but I knew what I was doing, as I just tilted my head a gave a glare at Maylene, who flinched back in either fear from my expression or horror as she realized just how insensitive what she asked was.
"Oh my! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to bring anything back up, I'll just get going on my way now" And with that she quickly walked out of the Center with a blush on her face, though I didn't really care about that, as I just sighed and began to make my way to the closest open room available.
"Why did you tell her that" Riolu didn't seem to pleased with what I did but that was fair as it probably reminded her of it more than what Maylene said herself. So I didn't bother trying to defend myself and instead just gave the logically reason as to why.
"Because it was clear that you didn't want to be reminded about it, and if I answered vaguely she would have just asked for specifics which would have just been more drawn out for you and probably worse. What I did was make it seem like she was the bad person for asking a reasonable question to make her realize quickly that she shouldn't have asked, and make her feel ashamed enough to not want to stick around with a bunch of apologizes" She went silent after a moment before telling me.
"Out of everything that I know about you, I can't believe that I keep forgetting that you are creepily manipulative and can be cruel without caring one bit. What I'm saying is for as many times as I've said it, I some how forget you're a sociopath" I just rolled my eyes as I dropped her down onto the bed of the room I had just walked into, while moving over to the small table that was also in the room to place my bag on when Riolu spoke up once more.
"Thanks" I was still faced away from her when she said it, which is probably the reason why she chose to say it right there instead of when I would be facing her, as it was probably painful for her to say those words to me. But I didn't mind so I just continued to look forwards and downward at my bag so she wouldn't have to act like she didn't say that as I responded quickly enough.
"Don't mention it, glad this 'emotionless husk' could be of service" She just snorted at my sarcasm while I flipped open the flap of my bag and look into it or a few seconds before pulling out what I was looking for. Turning around to look at the rest of the room, I ignored Riolu's raising eyebrows as I moved over and sat down in a near by chair, as I started to fashion a new necklace for Lycanroc, to replace the one that was broken during his battle with Zekrom.
I would have done this earlier but I haven't had the time or the space to do so, as so far I've spent the last few days in Lycanroc's company which would kind of get rid of the surprise, and because while I have a decent level of skill multitasking, holding a conversation with my team, making sure I wasn't going to get lost in another forest and try to figure out how to make a necklace isn't the best combo to have to try and deal with, so I didn't bother until I could focus on it properly, though I've already spent time on the new design.
This time the middle would still be a Moon Stone but it would alternate between Dusk and Dawn Stones, basically this one would be much more of a beaded necklace than one with only three beads on it. At least that's what I was going for, as it was surprisingly difficult to find the resources for this, most of the stones were the leftover shards that didn't get used from the first necklace, but I had to get about two more of each to have enough to for the whole thing. Though as I was thinking about it and working with the items in question I heard a faint voice from across the room.
"Sociopath indeed" I just continued on instead of acting like I had heard what she said.
I know that it's kind of random for Maylene to randomly appear in a Unovan Pokemon Center, but whatever, she's like the only trainer that came to mind that has a Lucario beside Cynthia and well, I think it would make no sense at all if I just dropped a regional champion in to this. AS for the reason as to why I did that in the first place, well, I'm not really sure I just thought it would be an interesting interaction between Kyu and Riolu after the confrontation, and that's about as much reasoning as I put into it before I wrote it out, Anyway, See ya.
