I Don't Own Pokemon
Currently I'm in the Ilex forest, and I have to say when I say that the normal forests are nothing compared to this one I mean it. So far this place is easily in the top five biggest wooded areas I've been to in my life, both of them, and I haven't even gone half of the way through it yet. Thankfully the forest is in more of the land mass variety than the tree volume variety, so I didn't have trudge my way through a thick mass of foliage like it's a jungle, because trust me, that activity is not fun in the slightness.
I got to say though, the resistance my hair's built up in that rain forest to humidity some how, either that or that half a week experience in that jungle taught me that my hair could be so much worse than it usually is. Doesn't really matter now that I'm thinking about it, humidity doesn't effect illusion-upped hair, which I have to say is easily one of the biggest perks of not being human, because my hair can be a nightmare, well use to be able to be one.
I'm thinking about my hair now, weird, I haven't thought about it in a while, well at least not consciously like this, usually it's just me bushing it out of my face. I think it's gotten longer without me noticing now that I'm caring enough to think about it. Subconscious illusioning on my part, a part of all that psychic tampering on my mind from my loving parents. I don't really mind all that much as it saves me the drawn out time to slowly age my illusioned body over a very lone period of time, and by that, I mean my entire life.
Pulling my hair over the front of my shoulders, I looked down and noted that it was in between my chest and stomach, interesting last time I bothered to think to check on it, it was at around the top middle-ish area of my chest, so it's a good couple inches longer. I could shorten it back to where it was at the last time I remembered it but it's not like it keeping it at this length would really bug me any to keep it like this.
"What are you doing?" Looking down at Luxray who was standing next to me at the moment, helping me out keeping an eye out on everyone training around us. I just smiled down at him before pulling my hair back and tossed it back over my shoulders. Rolling my shoulders a bit to knock off any hair that was laying directly on it, I let some of my fringe fall back in front of the right side of my face and answered.
"Oh nothing, just realizing that my hair is a bit long nowadays" He tilted his to the side curiosity on his face as he leaned back a small bit and looked at my hair before deciding that he didn't understand what the fuss was all about and then said as much.
"I guess it's a bit longer but why does it matter enough for you to mess around with it?" It makes sense why he would be asking about it, after all in the year and a half time he's been alive he's had only three hair styles, none of which has changed at all in length after he got it after he's evolution, this luxray evolution being the one he's had the longest time, after all he's at his last evolution and the final hair cut he'll ever have.
"It's a human thing, ou- their hair's length and style changes quite often, I find I like it like that, adds a bit of variety to them all. What do you think about it?" Slip of the tongue at the beginning, something Luxray easily noticed, because I don't slip up my words very often, or at all if I can help it, but being fair to myself, I've spent a lot more time as a human than as a Pokemon, in both lives in fact, missing memories from this life not with standing of course. Thankfully Luxray didn't hold it against me any and instead replied without much hesitation.
"It looks like hair that normal human girls have I guess it's nice but that's all, but if you like it then that's all that matters" It's not like I've never been told that before, in fact that's mostly all I've been told about my hair, a bit insulting if I cared but I mean they're not wrong, it is a bit feminine, though to be fair I'm not exactly the masculine sort to begin with so it doesn't exactly help with the manly man image that I totally both don't want or have to begin with.
"That's fair" He just smiled and looked back towards the rest of the team who all were training, ranging from light, the elder members of the team, to heavy training which is what Servine and Absol are focusing on. Currently Absol is working on practicing all the TM moves I gave her a few days ago, which included the following moves: Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Shadow ball, Thunderbolt, Double Team, Protect, and Ice Beam. Most of those moves were quite the pleasant surprise, though she won't be a long ranged attacker, it's nice to have coverage just encase.
Protect and Double Team are the ones that I want her to really want to train on, as those one of those two is practically the signature move of the team, and the other is just handy to have on hand if it's ever needed. Hell knows the amount of times I've used Double Team in conjuncture with my illusions to get away from fans in the past. Was that a misuse of my amazing abilities? Probably. Did I care? Nope.
Almost a full week later, I was looking around at the few trees that fell under the wrath of a slightly intense game of hide and seek, needless to say Mismagius won and the forest is a couple trees lighter. At this point I'm just kind of numb to deforesting and I think the only reason I asked the team to stop was the fact that it's habit at this point to do so than any real care about the forest land.
"Oi! Miss, who the hell do you think you are, attacking the forest like this!" Miss? I haven't been called that in a while, it mostly stopped when I got old enough to grow a beard, because I'm lazy enough to not shave every day I usually had some stubble of some kind on my face and that usually stops people from thinking that I'm a woman. And because I'm a kid at the moment, I'm not old enough that my body can't clearly state that I'm not female. Still, I just turned around and raised an eyebrow at the man that was yelling at me.
"Well? What do you have to say for yourself?" Really? I get it from a far distance away and from the back, but I am still a man and this guy is clearly an idiot or blind, maybe both.
"Sorry about that, but my Pokemon were just playing around and it could have been worse all things considered so it's not that bad" He's face just got more angry, instead of the confusion I was expecting, because my voice, while not to incredibly so, is on the deep side which isn't exactly helped by my monotone voice.
"That's no excuse for you harming this grand forest! I demand an apology!" Is he deaf as well as blind? That's literally the only thing I could think of that would be able to explain this, and to be honest it was getting a little annoying now, the screaming isn't exactly pleasant on my ears.
"I said sorry, if that isn't good enough then to bad, it's all your going to get" If this wan't real life, well it's not now that I'm thinking about it, then I'm sure I would be seeing steam be coming out of his ears. I actually wouldn't mind seeing that though, I'm sure it'd quite funny to see actually, note to self: see if I can do that with an illusion at some point.
"Listen hear Missy, I don't care about such a shallow apology, this forest has been around for centuries and it deserves more respect than that!" Still with the wrong gender thing? Sure the hair is a bit distracting but after a face to face that should go away quickly, and two times my voice is being heard and it's practically insulting to me now.
"Listen hear Miss, I've given as much respect as I'm pretty sure I'm capable of, if that isn't good enough for you then go complain to the trees if they care so much" He's eyes practically spasmed which was quite entertaining to watch, it's been a while since I got to mess around with someone like this, almost forgot that when I'm annoyed I'm quite vindictive and maybe a little sadistic, just maybe.
"Do I look like a girl to you?" I raised an eyebrow at the man, before rolling my eyes hard, he blinked back at the sight and looked like he was about to say something, I'm sure would be even more stupid than the last couple things he's said already but before he could say anything I replied with.
"I could ask you the same thing you daft moron" He blinked before leaning in before jumping back as I gave a sharp smile at him, been a while since I've used Leer on someone, kind of forgot that the reactions can be so amusing to watch.
"O-oh, um, sorry?" And he's the one that talked about respectful apologizes, honestly so hypocritical.
"I totally don't accept your apology of you very insultingly thinking that I'm a girl. Though if you stop bugging me about the forest and leave me alone then I'll think about it" He seemed a little stumped but was about to reply but I just used Leer again and watched with a pleasant smile as he stumbled backwards before turning around and walked away.
That was really random all things considered but whatever, it's over with now and I've had weirder encounters with shorter time spans of interaction. Though it has been a while since I've been yelled at so that's neat. Kind of forgot how annoying it is, well it was interesting in any case I guess, and besides the small annoyances it was a little entertaining so there's that at least.
Turning away from the retreating form of the man, I looked back over towards my team and chose to ignore the giggles from Riolu and Mismagius and the barely held in laughter from the others. I'm sure some of them will try to get a rise out of me from this, and I can't wait to talk them around in circles when they try. Pointless back and forth arguing is fun for me, no one gets their feelings hurt and I get to be witty which is fun for me.
Being clever and choosing not to is a headache, it's a slight pain to hold back every other scathing comment that pops into my mind, but if I always said the things I want to then I have little doubt that I would either be in a jail cell or in a hospital, at least in my old world, because knowing how to fight and being able to smooth talk doesn't really help much when you piss off enough people.
But nowadays, while not to incredibly so, I am much stronger than the average human and the police are much more inclined to ask for a photo than for me to get in the back of their car, so there much less of a risk or worry of me having to be gentle, it doesn't hurt that I'm sure that my Pokemon would be jumping to the front of the line for first pick if someone tried to hurt me, they're really protective like that, not that I mind, I still think it's a bit adorable.
I think I'd find it more cute if I was sure that they wouldn't try to rip a limb off because of that protective nature of theirs. Mostly because of the fact that I prefer to handle my own fights, at least when there fights and not battles, because there is a clear distinct difference between the two, and not to mention that I don't particularly want to deal with the aftermath of such a confrontation, being sued sounds like it would be a hassle that I'd rather not deal with.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I have no idea how I haven't been sued yet, I mean I've beaten concussions into most of the grunts I've come across and I've come across a lot of grunts, not even bring up the bruising, broken bones, and fractures and whatever I've ended up doing to those idiots. I've seen the hospital reports so I do know that I've done quite the damage, it's a wonder that I haven't been dragged to court for abuse of power and position .
The again I wasn't with the police until the very end of all that stuff with Team Rocket so that could be a reason but that also means it would be pretty easy for me to get dragged into an assault charge which my evidence could be used against me. I wonder why nothing came with that, not that I'm complaining, more over that I'm curious about why nothing came of it all, Giovanni at the end seemed quite happy to do anything to annoy me, if the death threats were anything to go by.
I'm just going to assume that my lack of faith in peoples intelligence is well founded and that it just never crossed the minds of those criminals. It's either that or obsessively think about all the horrible things that could happen at any moment, and considering the fact that I'm incredibly pessimistic, I'm really hoping but am not hopefully for the former option.
"You good their Miss?" I looked down at the smug face on Riolu and rolled my eyes while noting that I got caught up in rambling about thoughts that I would rather not think about. Moving past those thoughts, which I'm sure would spring up at a horrible time later in the middle of the night where I have nothing to do but wait for the sun to come up, I instead replied quickly enough with.
"Well I'm glad you asked, as it happens I'm quite confused and a bit worried about your ability to see or remember at the moment because you seem to have made a mistake" She just huffed at my lack of rising to the bait, which I'm not sure why it surprised her, I mean, I've never actually gotten my temper elevated in any of our little spats, so for it to suddenly happen now would just be strange. Though I wasn't expecting to hear a voice chime in from behind me.
"You sure Mom? I don't think she said anything all that strange" Turning to look over my shoulder, I leaned back a little to show me putting a hand over my heart at Luxray to show my clear betrayal even though my face never changed from small grin that was pulling up at one of my cheeks. He just tilted his head and grinned, showing that I'm a horrible influence as that's what I do to mess with people by acting all happy and innocent.
"Pretty sure oh daughter of mine, pretty sure" Riolu laughed as I noted a faint look of embarrassment on his face, not sure why, after all at least two have to play in game of words so retaliation was just to be expecting, so why not turn his words around on him. Still from there nothing really happened expect for me messing around with everyone who tried to get a rise out of me. It was fun.
I'm writing this bit about three minutes before posting this chapter, so I'm not really sure what I should add here. Really this chapter was just one that I wrote whatever went through my mind at the time and this is the end result, I have a few chapters like that but I haven't made done it a couple weeks so that's something I guess. Anyway, I don't have anything else to add, well at least anything I can think of, so See ya.
