I Don't Own Pokemon
So Charizard started a cult. That might be a bit extreme but I feel like it's justified for me to think so. As it turns out there's this whole hierarchy thing that Charizard destroyed into small pieces when he bested almost all of the strongest charizard in the Charicific Valley, so technically speaking he's in charge of the place in a figure head kind of way. All of the charizard look up to his level of strength with respect, which is why I believe that my Pokemon inadvertently made a cult.
Of course, I was a bit more sympathetic when I talked to Charizard about it, as he didn't really seem all that comfortable with the knowledge that he suddenly had a lot attention on him. Though I'll totally admit that I teased him a bit on it on the fact that I've noticed that some of the female population, at least I assume so from basic body structure and other stuff that I've learned to tell from spending a few hours around so many of them, sent some interesting looks to my Lizard.
He blushed a bit at that and actually stampered a small bit which was honestly pretty funny, but I didn't continue on after a bit of personal fun, as I know how it's like to not like a lot of attention being thrown in your direction. Of course I also don't get many people or Pokemon coming up to me with intention to mate, which is actually something that has happened, which I have to say is beyond disturbing on so many levels, and by that I mean all levels, especially considering my body's age.
Anyway, cult aside, besides some small talk between me and Charizard, mostly about how he had no idea what he was suppose to do, and me giving him some basic advice for dealing with idiots that follow all your words without any doubt, though I didn't actually phrase it that way the meaning is basically the same, nothing much happened that I think I made special note of.
Besides Charizard giving a speech to all the other charizard about getting strong, inviting challenge for them to reach his level and a few other egotistical things that I told him to mention as the lot of them seemed to want to hear something along those lines. He wasn't exactly comfortable with doing so, as he is much more a battler than smooth talker, but that's why I gave my advice for him, after all, while I usually just fall back on being a prick, I can be quite charismatic when I want to me.
So with that all being said, and a large amount of charizards being inspired to train like never before, I left the valley and spent a few days getting to the Union cave which I was still planning on going through. Currently I was at the mouth of said cave, mostly making note of the fact that I was expecting it to be a bit more well lit, as at the moment I was looking into a completely dark tunnel.
I could still see of course, darkness doesn't really effect my ability to see, but that wasn't what I was mostly thinking about. The tunnels are decently wide, so I was expecting to be able to have a couple Pokemon out with me, but it was a bit smaller than I was expecting and not everyone could see no matter what, like me, Luxray, and Mismagius could. Of course Charizard's tail would come in handy but the roof of the cave was only a bit taller than he was, so Zekrom would have to be returned unless they were fine with being crouched down for the next couple days.
The roof's height could get higher up at different spots but for right now, I just gave the Legendary Pokemon a look that said I was sorry, and explained it to them, after all, I've made note of all the Pokemon on my team that weren't very happy with being in their pokeball, and while Zekrom was surprisingly good about it, after all they were in an orb for a couple decades or so, they much more preferred to be out and about.
"It's fine Hero, I understand that some terrain is simply not made for those of height comparable to my own" At least they were understanding that a six and a half foot tall ceiling wasn't made for a ten foot tall Pokemon. So I gave a smile and returned them, after a moment of thinking to myself, I placed the ball back onto the second slot on my belt, before turning back to the cave before walking over towards Pidgeot who was still out and told him.
"I think you're going to have to be returned as well buddy, sorry to say but you can't really fly in this cave and I know that you would rather do that instead of walking" He tilted his head to the side for a moment, I noted that my Bird looked a bit confused for a moment before asking what was on his mind.
"But I was fine the last time I was in a cave, there was plenty of room to fly around there Trainer" I just laughed a small bit at the very Pidgeot answer I got before shaking my head and explained to him the problem.
"Your right, you had plenty of room in that last cave, but you were a pidgey at the time, remember, you've gotten a lot bigger since then, two evolutions bigger in fact. Now that your a pidgeot, you would have a bit more of a problem in these kind's of caves nowadays" He seemed to think about it for a second before nodding to me that he understood before I returned him to the second slot on my sash.
It was a bit unfortunate that he couldn't move properly in the cave, as technically he can also see int he dark because of his Keen Eye ability. It's surprising the amount of Pokemon that can see in the dark, most cat based Pokemon can, because of there eyes, all Dark types, Psychic type Pokemon can technically sense what's around them, not to mention the Pokemon that have abilities that let them see in the dark, like Pidgeot, and Pokemon that can just because of their species have a side ability, like Luxray.
Anyway, most of all of that is besides the point, right now I should be heading into the cave in front of me, so that's what I did. Walking into the darkness with Charizard's tail flame lighting up the area behind me, letting those that can't see their surrounds normally at least be able to keep track of those that can't. Luxray has taken to carrying around Servine, Riolu, and Vaporeon at the moment, along with having Lycanroc next to him so he can keep track of them all.
Which I appreciate a good bit because of the fact that I was more worried about the fact that I had to navigate this cave properly, I didn't come here without some kind of idea about where I need to go, but that doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of different paths that I could accidentally fall down and end up at some place that I don't want to be at, most of these paths are just at the front of this cave, so after a bit of time it's mostly just walking and not worrying about getting lost.
So I just have to worry about getting lost for the first couple hours at the very most, it totally could just me being a bit paranoid but I'm pretty sure that getting lost in a cave can be quite annoying.
A few hours later and I've decided that the zubat population of this cave don't really enjoy the company of anyone or anything. Even after some talking the only reason why the lot of them decided to stop dive bombing at one of us every couple of minutes was to have Luxray send off some small Sparks as warning shots. Thankfully that gave them all the impression that I was running out of patience and I could have my team beat all of them senseless, which is true, I was close to out of patience as they were quite annoying.
Of course I wasn't actually going to tell my team to actually attack the Flying type, after all, it would be a bit cruel for me to leave a mass of injured Pokemon in my wake that couldn't do anything to help heal themselves. So I didn't do anything that extreme to ward off the Pokemon, though those warnings from earlier seemed to be enough to at least get the most of them off from deciding it was a good idea to try and attack us.
At the moment, I was looking down at my arm where I wished I had a watch to look at, close to two years and I still never did get a bloody watch, so I'm having to guess about how late into the day it is. I arrived at the cave a bit after noon, and fro using my slightly messed up internal clock, it should be about maybe, I don't know, five hours later, which means time for a small break to get everyone feed and then maybe another few hours of walking then I'll send everyone to bed for the night.
"Alright everyone, lets take a small break here. It's a good a spot as any" I listened to everyone give there sounds of understanding to what I said, before either sitting down, or getting off of my Son's back and stretching there legs a bit before sitting down. While everyone was doing that, I was opening up my bag and shifting through it, after a couple moments I pulled out the two stacks of bowls and set them on the floor before going back into my bag to look for the food and water while I listened to everyone trying to figure out which bowls was which in the darkness.
Getting out the bags, I squinted my eyes a bit to read the labels on the bags of food to make sure I had the right ones, then after I was sure, I began to pass the food around while also pulling out a small tub of water and began to pass it around as well, because while there was a surprising amount of lake beds in this cave that we've stumbled across, I didn't feel like risking it not actually being drinkable.
Thinking about it now though I probably could have asked Vaporeon if it was properly clean, and if it wasn't, then it's not like she doesn't know how to purify water, it's the whole bases of how her Tidewave works. Well, nothing I can do to change that now, so whatever, if we come across another pool of water then I'll ask then, besides I'm sure that she would enjoy getting to swim around a bit, it's been a little while since she has actually gone for a swim.
Been a while since anyone has swum really, at least since the last couple days in Unova, though that wasn't that long ago to be fair at least not comparatively to the second to last time I went swimming. Though none of that really matters when it comes to my and the rest of the team's enjoyment with swimming compared to Vaporeon's. After all, she is in fact technically an amphibian, which means she is highly sensitive to water, as in she needs it to live to a certain extent and enjoys it a lot more compared to everyone else.
"Hey Captain, are you ok, or are you thinking about anything and everything again?" I blinked out of my thoughts and looked around for a moment searching for where my Ghost was speaking from, after a moment, I noted the fact that she was floating above me, grinning at my struggle to locate her. I just raised an eyebrow at her before answering with.
"What else would I be doing besides over thinking literary everything possible. I'm pretty sure if I'm not sleeping or talking then that's what I'm doing and considering I'm not much of a sleeper, well the answer is obvious" She giggled to herself at my self deprecating comment, and I noted a few of the others let out a small laugh at my words as well, good, I prefer laughter when I'm being funny, otherwise it's just a bit sad especially considering the subject matter.
"Any of my over analyzed thoughts you want to talk about specifically, or are you just curious about what's been going through my mind?" I am curious about what she wants to ask me, because usually the two of us just stay in comfortable silence, with her messing with me every now and again. It's a bit surprising that out of everyone, I think she's the one that I have the least amount of talks with, besides maybe Vaporeon but that's because of how the two of us are usually not the ones to start a conversation.
"Just wondering about when your going to notice that Pokemon over there that's been watching us" I raised my eyebrow again before looking around once again, one fun fact about the fact that Mismagius can go through walls and can travel through shadows is the fact that practically no one can avoid her finding them if she wants to. Though she probably only found whoever is watching us because of boredom and curiosity about her surroundings.
"Oh, I hadn't noticed, to be fair my stalker senses have been bombarded by all the zubat around us for the past couple hours. Well, I'm assuming they're not another one of those guys if you feel the end to point them out" She just nodded before pointing over towards a ledge that was above everyone else, which made since as to why I didn't notice them, after all I can't see through walls like my Son and I can't float like my Ghost.
Making my way over towards the bottom of the ledge, I looked upwards and judged the height to be about maybe, I don't know, ten feet, not to bad, though I'm not one to practice my vertical jumping. I'm not particularly curious about who was looking at the lot of us, but if it's enough for Mismagius to be interested then I should at least make sure nothing is wrong.
With that, I bent my legs and jumped, I put a bit to much strength in it, but that wasn't anything to serious of a mistake, still I landed a little roughly, but I'm surprisingly good at making sure I land on my feet, for a fox, in that regard I'm quite cat like, which I think is a bit backwards for some reason. Anyway, back to looking around, I noted a small lowered body of a Pokemon that looked like they were going to lung at me.
Well, that was my first impression at least of the absol in front of me, but another look around showed that they were actually cowering a bit. Taking a step forwards a step, I looked at the Pokemon in front of me while I was recalling that absol's usually can feel disasters around them, and considering this one is looking at me with what is more than likely fear, well, it wasn't hard to figure out what was happening. And I have to say, I don't think I'm bad enough to be a literal walking disaster.
"Hello there" Simple greeting, it gives them a chance to regain composure without having to immediately answer me and it also lets them decide what way they want to steer the conversation as they're the ones that will be bringing up the topics if they so wish.
"Hello...Why does it seem like the world should be ending at the moment?" I should take offense to the fact that I'm a walking landmine of disaster, I really should, but it's not like I can do anything about that, after all it's just her, which I figured out from the voice, super heighten instincts that tells her that something is off. Though I do wonder how she managed to make her way all the way to Johto for a Hoenn Pokemon. Well, not exactly my problem I guess.
"Oh, that's probably me, sorry to say but I don't have the best of luck when it comes to, well, everything basically. If it's all that bad then I can gather up my team and move onto a different area of the cave so we aren't bugging your senses. Here, you can have the rest of this for spooking up" With that I placed out the rest of the bag of Dark type food and walked over towards the edge so I could hop down and join up with my team.
"Wait" Looking over my shoulder over at the absol for a moment, I waited a second before turning back to face the Pokemon and watched as they walked up to me. Blinking at them, I kneel down to be on the same level as the Dark type in front of me, while noting that the bag of food I had dropped only maybe about six seconds ago was emptied already, great, she's more than likely starving in this cave.
"Do you have anymore food?" And that confirmed it, great, now I'm like, morally obligated to help, even if I'm not exactly the nicest person around, I'm not that much of a prick, especially to those that haven't done anything to annoy me, and especially to a Pokemon that can't really help that fact. Still, instead of having any of that shown from my expressions, I just gave a small smile before nodding and turned back over towards the edge once more and hopped down.
Noting that Mismagius seemed to only just now be floating off to the side, I'm pretty sure she's taken to explaining the situation to everyone, especially since no one seemed all that surprised at all as the absol dropped down while I went to look through my bag to get some more food for the Pokemon who probably needed a Pokemon Center rather than a meal, but I'm working with what I have. Though I did note that Absol was looking around with a sense that she didn't know what she should be doing.
"Hey, Son, would you mind helping her out" He just grinned and nodded before walking forwards and thankfully managed to quickly fell into an easy conversation with the Dark type while I poured out some more food and place it in front of her. Sitting back, I made sure to let Absol know to not eat to fast as it probably wouldn't be good for her stomach, of course I still kept an eye out on her just encase, but thankfully she seemed to know that I know what I'm talking about.
Now to find my way out of this cave once this rather sudden addition gets all feed and watered, from there hopefully I can manage to get them to a Pokemon Cneter and then send her on her way.
One hundred chapters and over two hundred and sixty thousand word, that's honestly just stupid. I'll be honest, looking back on it, I have no idea how I've managed to go from just posting the first chapter because I was bored to over two straight months of posting a chapter a day at the minimum. It's slowed down since then with this story being twice a week but still, the fact that I've spent so much time doing all this and still am really enjoying this story says something. I really enjoy writing about myself, well that's probably not it, but I do have to say it's nice not having to put the main character in any other shoes than my own, it requires so much less work when deciding what Kyu will do because it's quite literally what I would do.
Anyway ego aside, I don't really have much to put here, I'm not really one for celebrating milestones as much as others seem to do. I'm much better at pointing out how absurd this kind of thing is. With that being said, See ya.
