I Don't Own Pokemon

First off, hey look a chapter on Christmas, you're welcome, I'm not religious or anything, but I still like celebrating this holiday because free stuff. So I figured I would do the same and post three chapters on this story today. If you don't celebrate Christmas then just say I'm doing this because I have a lot of extra chapters already ready or something, I don't care. Anyway, onto the story.


I sighed as I took a deep breath from behind the stage, I didn't exactly know when my name would be called out to go on stage but the stress was beginning to build up some and I wasn't liking it at all. Suspense is annoying, in battles all I have to do is throw out a ball and call out commands that's all the prep I have to worry about. Here though, well, I'll be honest I have no clue why this was bugging me so much.

It's not like I haven't been in front of bigger crowds with higher stakes and I've been fine there, uncomfortable sure, but once I got into it I could easily ignore the people watching. Here though there was just so much more build up that it was grating on my nerves. It wasn't that I was nervous, at least I don't think I am, it's more of the fact that it was something really new and I couldn't really expect what it would be like.

That's the main problem not the attention, the crowd, or the act itself, it's the not knowing what to suspect and the amount of build up that was really getting to me. I've been thrown into situations that I've had no control or any idea as to what to expect and I've managed those just fine, because I was thrown into them, and because I've always been good at improvising stuff it never really didn't work out for me. Basically I didn't have time for my overly active pessimistic mind to create a bunch of worst case scenarios.

It's annoying, really annoying, but not something I can fix without just saying screw it and facing this head on. Of course this was out of my comfort zone because this wasn't something I could change up everything on the fly, I had to just hope that it all worked out like I planned. Sighing to myself I listened to the monitor screen in the waiting room as the most recent contestant walked off stage. Focusing more attention the screen as I heard the woman that was announcing the event speak up.

"And now for someone new to the coordinating scene, but far from a novice trainer, welcome to the stage Kyu ladies and gentlemen!"

I held an eye roll back at that, I wonder if I'll ever met an announcer that I like to listen to. Still I straighten up my posture, and walked forwards, out onto the stage. I didn't have a flashy entrance or anything. I just calmly walked out onto the stage while scanning around at the filled up contest hall for just amount before reaching down and grabbing Snivy's pokeball.

Pulling my arm back I slung it forwards much faster and snappy than I normally did. The ball didn't have a seal on it so like a normal pokeball it just sent out my Snake. He looked around for a moment, as I noticed that the audience was slowly quieting down around me as they waited. Walking forwards for a few more steps, until I was a little behind Snivy, looking at him I made a motion like I was about to speak.

That's when above me a small cloud started to appear over my head, looking up at in with a confused expression on my face, I looked back to Snivy and gave him a nod as rain began to fall from the cloud. My Snake jumped off to the right, as he's feet touched the ground the stadium floor glowed a faint green hue covering exactly a quarter of the ground.

From their he used Magical Leaf as multi-colored leafs seemed to rise from the ground, next he jumped forwards to the left of me this time. As the ground below him glowed, I felt the audience slowly begin to tense up as they watched as more leafs rose up from the ground, staying stationary. Snivy then jumped forwards as the rain continued to pour down, now getting worse and worse, I didn't act like I felt it as I still stood there not moving as my Pokemon continued.

Jumping behind me to the left, now three-fourths of the ground was colored a light green that was slowly building color as even more leafs raised up, how shaking like they were trying to burst free. Jumping to his right, the final spot of the ground turned faint green, before the entire field exploded into a vibrate coloring of bright green as all the leafs that had collected up until this point moved.

Spinning on my heel, I reached down as Snivy ran forwards and jumped onto my hand, raising him into the air above my head, all the multi colored leafed darted up and slammed into the rain cloud, and at that exact second Snivy used Sunny Day. Causing the cloud to blow apart as a small orb of light appeared in it's place as sparkles of broken leafs fell down over us as the Magical leafs and broken each other up into a light show of colors, bright green lighting underneath us as purplish green sparks rained over us in replace of the water as a bright sun like object floated in the sky.

I bit the inside of my lip as I watched as everyone began to cheer, I didn't let it show on my face, but that was surprisingly hard to do. I had no right to complain, Snivy did all the hard work, but maintaining and powering up Rain Dance is hard to do. It's the reason why I couldn't move around, my concentration had to be on the task at hand. Still, while all the noise around me was a little uncomfortable as I listened to the judges all complaint the show, I noted that Snivy was practically glowing at the praises from the masses.

It was worth it, though I wish I didn't have to get soaked from it, I was planning on just doing a really upscaled illusion as that required a lot less focus, the two of us couldn't really get the timing from my fake Rain Dance into Sunny Day right so I had to do the actual move. It wasn't that annoying but it did mean that I would need to dry off soon, though I noted as we turned and walked away that the water on the stage seemed to be adsorbed by the Grassy Terrain, interesting.

Walking back into the waiting area, I ignored the rest of the contestants as I pulled out a towel from behind me. At least that's what it looked like, in reality I've figured out how to make something as common as a towel a while ago. Though I hardly ever actually used that illusion knowledge much, in times like these it comes in handy. Still, as I draped the towel over my head to get my hair dry, as clothes were very easy to dry for me by some interesting things I've figured out, I turned to Snivy who had fallowed me back and asked.

"We haven't won yet, we aren't even in the next round yet, but before that comes around, I got to say, I'm glad your having fun" He looked up at me and nodded, as the grin that was on his face still hadn't left him yet. It's good, he's always been pretty reserved about showing emotion, like the opposite of me in that regard, I push emotions on my face half the time for others to let them know what I'm actually feeling without a blank face staring at them, while he guards himself off from others, so to see him so open and happy was nice.

"I'm glad you agreed to do this Chief, it's actually a lot of fun" I just gave him a smile and nodded as I pulled the towel around my neck. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would have been, but that's because everything I think about is usually the worst case scenario given the amount of time I've had to think on it. Plus I already knew I was building this thing up so much that the end result would just be nothing compared to the uncomfortableness I felt going into it.


I made it to the next round and needless to say, the battles wouldn't be anything I would probably have to worry about. It would be some good practice for Snivy on top of the fact that battling is a lot less stress inducing, even if my mind had already built this up as well, I've already experienced this enough to be completely immune to worrying about it.

So as I stood there as I waited for the buzzer to go off for me to send out Snivy, I'm not sure why, but for some reason I felt under dressed for this, as I looked across the field at the man I was suppose to battle. He had like seven layers of clothes on, which just looked really uncomfortable to wear and wasn't even that stylish. Then again I've never been one for fashion, muchless actually knowable if something is good looking or not on someone. Still as I thought about it the buzzer sounded, so I put my thoughts on hold and called out to my Snake as I tossed the pokeball out into the air.

"Grassy Terrain, then Magical Leaf" I might be over using those two moves but they worked, as from his form the ground turned a familiar green as a bunch of colored leafs shot forwards at the Pokemon across from him, a liepard. The Pokemon in question jumped out of the way just in time, but I noted that their points were reduced anyway because of the style of the attack, which I didn't really get, but wasn't going to complain about.

"Sand Attack then Fury Swipes Liepard!" A wave of sand rushed forwards before the cat burst out from it, making a nice effect but it was clear that the Liepard had to keeps their eyes closed so they wouldn't get blinded by their own move, which meant a free opening.

"Growth then Vine Whip" My Snake's body glowed green as he jumped forwards and as the cat like Pokemon only just opened their eyes to start attacking only to be smacked in the side of the head, throwing them to the side.

"Liepard! Dark Pulse!" They lifted their head up as a ball of purple energy formed made of almost ring looking power, it was slow and clearly it was to show the rings of energy that made of the attack, but the time spent was way to much, in fact.

"Magical Leaf" Snivy's form shot off even more leafs which rushed forwards and slammed into the Pokemon that was to busy trying to make the attack llok good that they couldn't jump out of the way in time, causing said Dark type attack to blow up in their face. I nearly sighed as I watched my opponent panic as the clear sound of points being deducted was heard from the scoreboard. Honestly this wasn't fun at all, it was kind of sad.

"Magical Vines" It was a much newer and only a slightly tested move, but it's not like there was anything I had to worry about from the liepard in front of me. Still, I didn't bother thinking on that, and instead watched as Snivy used his first combination move. Two vines extended from his form as Magical Leafs also started to appear and began move and circle one of the two vine out.

From there he through his vines forwards as a tornado like appearance of leafs surrounded his two attacks, slamming into the Pokemon and kicking up a field of dust. As the smoke cleared, the Dark type was unconscious as the announcer proclaimed my victory of the second round. I noted that Snivy still seemed to be having fun at least, as I made a motion for him to follow me as I walked off the stage.

As I walked into the waiting room and sat down though, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. I mean it's not like I didn't expect it, battles were something I outclassed every other person in this contest at, but still. It's obvious that the guy I went against was only trying to make what his Pokemon was doing look good, not bothering with the limits and disadvantages it put on him in a battle.

I mean that's just what straight coordinators do, focus on making their Pokemon look good, sure they also had to be strong but that was a secondary goal it seems that is achieved because the Pokemon have to for some of the performances to work. I just had a mind set that was much more focus on very quick paced battles, so I'm not use to people taking there time, much less allowing them to take it.

It's not like I didn't already know that, but it's just one of those things that you have to focus your mind into a different perspective for. I don't think I did that badly for it as well, making sure every move I had Snivy use have a secondary effect that would show off in some way, without wasting time or making a big show out of it. It's probably going to be what I focus on when I do these kind of battles.

Making it seems like all the flashiness just happens naturally without a big prep time or build up to make it like it wasn't a big deal to pull off, when it is actually impressive. That sounds like something that would suit me I think, though I'll have to think on it later, right now I should focus on making sure I win this and not get to certain that defeat is a none existent chance. After all, Snivy could still be beaten by being out paced, he hasn't had much time to train his strength so someone might just have a Pokemon that was to strong to win against.

It doesn't do good to get an ego over something like this, like I said it's all amount mindset when it comes down to it. And if a Pokemon is to strong to out pace then I'll just have to used my mind to win, power isn't all that there is to winning, strategy is just as valid, I just haven't had to rely on that in a while, at least since my battle with Zekrom. Thinking of which, I wonder what that Pokemon's been up to, it's been a few weeks. Something else I can think on later I guess.


"Iron Tail Leer" Snivy's tail collided with the serviper's Poison Tail, nullifying the damage through Type immunity, while in the air though, my Snake glared at the other snake making them flinch back a small bit, which Snivy used to push away from the snake and swung his tail upwards past their guard, flinging them backwards. Watching as the Pokemon hit the ground, I called out as Snivy fell back to the floor.

"Vine Whip" His tail stopped glowing as his vines shot out, slamming into the Pokemon, nailing them to the ground. The girl from across the stage was about to call out to her Pokemon, but I didn't give either a chance.

"Magical Leaf" Leafs shot towards and slammed into the grounded Pokemon, causing some smoke to fill up the ground. I still am not sure as to why attacks do that was often when their isn't enough dusk on the ground half the time to explain it. It's probably something to do with the energy that the attacks and moves use to form, though that is a whole thing that people study to try and figure out, much less one that I could figure out through just bored curiosity.

Watching as the smoke cleared, even though I already knew the end result, as there hadn't been any displacement in the smoke to show movement, and the orders that the girl across from me was giving out didn't seem to intact some kind of response. Looking at the unconscious Pokemon for a moment, before shifting my attention to my own Pokemon, I felt a smile appear as Snivy almost looked like he was about to cry out in happiness.

Though that was interrupted as a familiar bright blue glow was suddenly surrounding my Snake. I let out a small laugh as I began to walk forwards, ignoring the slight pain that was caused from such a bright light being pressed into my eyes. Once I was next to my Pokemon, it seemed that he was done, as the glowing subsided as I knelt down, completely ignoring the announcer as I looked at my now evolved Snake.

"How are you feeling Servine?" He looked up at me for a moment, before grinning. I just gave a smile back as he turned and looked back at the audience all of which were still giving some cheers, though it had died down by a decent bit.

"I'm doing good Cheif" I just nodded, though he didn't see it. Who would have figured that my closed off Snake would be one to enjoy so much attention, it was a bit strange but that can describe a lot of things so it wasn't saying much really. Though that didn't mean I've come to appreciate it anymore in the slightest. Still, as I looked out at the, in my opinion, annoying people cheering on as one of the judges walked forwards with a ribbon in hand, I figured I could deal with it, as I Servine's face seemed to light up even more.


This was a neat chapter, besides the fact that it took about three days to write for some reason, I liked that it showed Servine in a different light than before. And it shows something new about Kyu as well. I think most people will be a little confused as to why Kyu was so apprehensive about the whole thing when he's normally so uncaring about this kind of stuff but I do have a reason.

I'm the type of person that can't stop thinking, and I have a annoying pessimist streak that's been acting up recently, so when I have time to think about something that I've never had to do before for an extended time, I think of all the ways it can go bad. It doesn't really effect me to much, and when I actually get to the event in question I don't even give a damn about it anymore. It's just something that keeps popping up in my mind all the time when I don't have any experience in something to justify to my mind that I would screw up in the most unlikely way possible.

So don't expect this kind of thinking from Kyu for much longer, as like I said it only really happens when I don't have experience in the matter to back myself up, and to shut up my thinking. Now that Kyu has done an actual contest and even won, well he has the needed information now to use going forwards. Anyway See ya.