I Don't Own Pokemon
I'm still a few days out from leaving the forest but that's not what I was focusing on at the moment. Currently I was sitting down on the ground with my eyes closed messing around with my illusions. In Kanto I spent about ninety percent of my time with my team training them, in Unova my main concern was not having to worry about anything and relax, while it didn't work as well as I hoped I did manage.
Now here in Johto, I am spending a large amount of time starting with training up Absol and continuing on Servine's training, but comparing six Pokemon to two and well my work load is quite diminished. I still help out the rest when it comes to training, but over a year of a routine and everyone can manage well enough on their own, especially there isn't many moves that any of my team can learn and need to have. I could think of a couple but none are things that I have to devote time into.
All this basically sums up to the fact that I'm a bit bored, to be fair it's a few hours past midnight and this is the time that I'm usually bored because of the fact that no one besides myself are awake, I usually enjoy this time of night because it gives me a break from the busyness of the day but since my work load isn't as intense, the down time isn't really needed or really wanted at the moment.
Hence I'm playing around with my illusions, currently my point of curiosity is just what I can do with it, illusions are a lot more bloody powerful than people give it credit for. Which only goes doubly so for illusions that are solid, in theory I could create a fire that is hotter than the sun, of course that's only in theory because illusions are based on experience, I have to have felt a fire that hot to make a fire that could burn that hot, because if I have then I'd be very, so incredibly, very dead.
But what I have felt is normal fire before and I don't even have the scars on my back anymore, though I still remember it, another not so fun experience I have involving a hospital visit. Anyway, back to my focusing, i'm not really sure what I should be doing but I'm mostly doing this to pass the time so it's not like I care to much to get it right. Still fire can't be easily predicted, it's seemingly endless from an outside view, and sadly I don't have an inside one to give me a perspective.
I could mimic the heat well enough, I have burns on my hands as proof, but all I'm doing is just making the air feel hot, but not a lick of an actual flame. It's very complex, focusing on so many shifting parts that got to do with an active flame, I don't think it's actually possible. Solid items I've long since managed, I've gotten to the point that as only as it's a one piece item I can make it with relative accuracy, a few more parts it manageable, but something as constantly moving as a fire, well I doubt I have a hope.
Still fun though, and I've figured out how to change the temperature around me from hot enough to burn one's hands from prolonged contact, to making it cold enough that one would start shivering, and considering that I have fur, even if it's usually not visible to everyone, it's probably a bit colder than just shivering. I have absolutely zero idea if I'll ever use any of these illusions but I'm bored enough that I don't really care as long as I'm doing something.
I should get a sketch book and a set of pencils at some point, I haven't drawn anything in a while and I kind of miss it a bit, it's a nice time killing hobby, I would illusion up what I need for such a hobby, but pencils don't exactly leave long lasting results, nor does illusioned paper surprisingly. Just another thing to remember to pick up when I get to Goldenrod, besides that I also need to restock on food, I'm not much of a gluten, but two Pokemon going through my Dark type food makes quick work of it. Even my normal every-brand Pokemon food is running a little low as well.
Besides that I don't think I have anything else to really worry about at the moment supply wise. From game knowledge there's quite the store in the city so I can check that out and make sure at least to make sure their isn't anything that I would need to buy but would normally forgot about getting. I could also check out the game central, and if I'm lucky it won't be a front for a massive criminal organization base.
It'd be interesting to see if they have a version of poker in this world, it'd be fun to make some easy money. I don't have the best luck when it comes to the cards itself but I'm quite good at bluffing to all hell and that usually works well enough. Though I haven't played in who knows how long so I might be a bit rusty, not to mention gambling is hardly my thing, way to much risk of losing money for me to bother unless I'm out with some friends and I haven't been in any contact with those people in years.
That's a bit sad, time to change the topic on something less depressing, sure I'm not one not bother with pitying for myself but there are days that I miss some of the things from my last life. Shaking my head hard at the thoughts of certain people, not all of the memories of those people were all that good, and forced my eyes open then looked over towards my Pokemon.
Looking at the sleeping forms of all them, I took a small breath before a small smile tugged on my smiles, I didn't bother to stop it, it might be a bit late to think about all this, honestly closing in on two years late, but I'm content with my new life, hell, I'm happy with it in fact. Just one of those things I guess, well, this might be a bit more than just one of those things because my circumstance is a little bit more on the insane side of things.
I held back a small huff of amusement on that matter, sure I'm happy but I'm not all that sure that covers the fact that I've nearly died a few time, become some sort of legend, and on the topic of legends, have talked to a couple, and have had more run-ins with the 'gods' of this world than I would prefer to admit, even to the point that one is starting to become a part of my family.
And that's not even getting into the matter of my family, one is a duo of humans that collective I've spent about maybe a full days worth of hours with in total, who have experimented on my mind in a twisted sense of wanting a son. And the other, my team, is full of Pokemon that could destroy cities by themselves. Not even close to the first time I've thought about how crazy my life is and it won't be the last I'm sure.
Still, looking over towards my Pokemon, I can't say that I mind, this life is certainly more exciting than my last one, and at least here I at least earn the near deaths as I kind of jumped into this stuff of my own volition, though I did that as well in the past not often though, just playing P.I. for a friend, almost got shot because of it, but that's not the point. Besides that girl had no idea what she was doing with that pistol, I probably wasn't even in that much danger.
Hell, I'm sure I could pull off 'the safety on' trick on her. I nearly let out a laugh at the memory, maybe it's because of the fact that it's in the past in a whole other world or it could be because of the fact that I've had a couple more near dying experiences since then, one involving a mafia boss out for my head, which is a bit more intimidating than a woman that cheated on her husband.
Which is just another crazy thing about my life, that is just ridiculous. Shaking my head at bit at the thought, I thought about it all for another moment before letting out a small yawn. Looking up towards the sky, I noted that there was a faint pink hue in the air, the morning will be upon me soon, maybe another two hours at most before the skies a rainbow of colors of dawn. And then I can wake up everyone get some food in their stomachs and then hopefully I can get out of this forest. Almost three straight weeks of nothing but trees is a little much for me, a city wouldn't go amiss right about now.
Two days later and I was currently moving out of the way of Absol's first attempts of her Psycho Cut. Thankfully she happened to have an egg move called Zen Headbutt, and after some, well a lot of, technical talk with both me and Vaporeon, we managed to figure out a way to manipulate the Psychic energy in a way to bypass the fact that Absol couldn't feel any of the energy she was producing to form her attacks, it took a while needless to say.
As for the reason why I'm the one that's dodging her attacks, well, while I might not exactly be the strongest, or even close to as such, I am surprisingly strong and fast. I have to be to train my Pokemon, I couldn't count the amount of times I was to close to my team when an explosion has gone off or how many times I've some how gotten roped into a game with them, the only choice for survival I had is to get strong enough to not get hurt from being thrown around by the concussive blasts from some fails in move learning.
Still no way in hell that I'm all that powerful, in comparison I'm practically an ant in relation to a mountain. But for a new member of the team that isn't as crazy powerful and is still learning the basics, well, I can't exactly get hurt from Psycho Cut being a Dark type and all and technically speaking I'm the only one that is close enough for it to fair. I wasn't going to fight back, but say if Servine did this then he wouldn't be able to properly gauge what level of speed to use to be just out of her reach.
And if any of the others did this then I have little doubt that it would turn quickly into a game rather than training. Though I'll totally admit in my own head that I'm also doing this because it shaves of boredom and what's the point of being able to jump twenty feet into the air if you never get the chance to do so. Though I might have overestimated myself as I barely ducked right under a blade of energy before back peddling.
I think she might be letting out pent up emotions out on me, all that disaster around at all times and now she gets the chance to try and deal with the main source, well, not actually because this can't hurt me, but on an instinctual level her body's probably reacting to it making her movements have much more drive in them. Thankfully I don't like the idea of getting hurt and I am always one that's fine with playing dirty.
So with that the small clearing I'm in was covered Double Teams. Ignoring the small panic on Absol's face, along with the small hint of guilt of knowing what my disaster levels times fifty would most likely feel like, I jumped up into a small tree and sighed as I took a breath in and noted that the copies don't seem to count in adding more disaster, it's just the idea of maybe that being the case spooked her for a moment, interesting.
"You having fun Captain? You haven't train one of us like this since you taught me to be all sneaky" I just smiled at my Ghost as she floated up next to me, shaking my head I looked back down to see how Absol was doing at the moment, she seemed to have figured out that none of the copies on the ground were me because of the fact that none gave of the sense of impending disaster, glad to know she can see through copy based moves, even if it is a little unorthodox.
"I forgot how tiring it is to be right in the middle of it all. You don't count my training to fly on Pidgeot's and Charizard's backs in this equation?" She shook her head, though I noted she had an interesting expression on her face, curious, is my Ghost envious? I smiled at her then patted her on the head, letting her duck her head down before snickering to herself. Blinking, I looked over back towards Absol's last location and noted that she was currently jumping at me, uh oh.
With that I leaned back and with as much grace as I could manage feel backward off the branch I had been sitting on listening to Mismagius laugh even louder. Well glad to know she doesn't hold much of a grudge, that would be a conversation that I'm not sure I want to try and manage to get through without something going wrong. I wonder what trick I should pull now, I can't pull off that play again now that she knows how to get around it.
I stopped in my running and stood still and watched as she stumbled a bit in her sprint, clearly knowing that I have a plan as I kind of always have one when it comes to battles, especially in ones with me this involved. Still after a moment she charged again only to bounce off an invisible wall, my illusions are great, an invisible wall with the same composition of steel, it's quite the headache, quite literally, to make it invisible, and if it was anyone on my team they would have, also quite literally, gone threw the illusion.
But she isn't yet strong enough for that, so she ended up with a small mark on her forehead and was looking at the nothing in front of her in confusion as to what happened. It's a neat trick but not all that strong, if I wasn't doing this more for staving off boredom and was a bit more serious I would have gone straight into using Protect, this illusion is quite flimsy in comparison, mostly because I can only make the illusion fill a small surface area.
And it's because of that fact Absol just ran around the barrier and was currently sprinting at me again, what trick to try now, I'm quickly running out of them, I made literally all of these out of boredom. After a moment when Absol was about five feet in front of me, I decided to try something, Leer was on as I glared down at Absol who flinched before immediately stumbling over herself and fell on the ground.
I frowned as I noted that there was a look of terror on her face, even after I let up from the Leer. Moving over quickly to her side, I dropped down onto my knees and put a hand on her back and ran it up and down while muttering to her to just breath, I've been the victim of a few panic attacks in my time, I've learned how to deal with them from personal experience.
Disaster is just an aura that surrounds me for her, but Leer seems to concentrate all that aura on her, it's probably overloading her senses, putting her in a state of shock. I would say interesting but I'm a bit to busy feeling guilty over the fact that I didn't consider this before hand. After a few more moments, I noted that she had stopped shaking, taking a breath in myself, I waited an extra moment before saying.
"I'm sorry Absol, I probably should have thought about that before hand. Are you ok?" She slowly got up to her feet and sighed, I waited a moment and was about to say something when suddenly a horn was smashed into the side of my head. Blinking, I looked up into the air, I thought about it for a moment and then decided I probably deserved it, well I totally deserved it, but pain isn't exactly comfortable for me.
"Apology accepted. I'm fine, it just caught me off guard, but the level of disaster it takes to get to me now is a lot higher so that's something. Anyway, want to get back to training?" I don't think that's what I was expecting to be honest, I was more prepared for more hits, or at least some mild shouting, maybe a small break down, well she kind of already had that.
"You sure your fine? I don't want to train you while you're not in a good mindset" That's a good reason and mostly true, but I'll admit I was also worried about the fact that she seemed to just bounce back into it right after a panic attack. I can do that because I've had years of experience of working with on lack of sleep and coming out of a panic is similar to going a few days without sleep, well not really but I've applied similar methods to get my mind back on track in those circumstances.
"Huh, oh yeah, I'm fine, it's been a while but this is far from the first time I've been overwhelmed by disaster, even if this happens to be the most horrifying experience I've ever had" So she also has experience in the matter, neat, I still feel the need to do something to give her time to get her head on right instead of jumping back into something as a way to distract herself, which is kind of clear is a side motivation for her. Also, I'm the most horrifying thing she has ever seen, it's sad that I'm becoming use to being called that by her.
"Well, I glad your ok, but this is a good enough time as any to take a break for lunch, and I'm totally not saying that because I have to think up new ways to avid you" I'm pretty sure she knew that I wasn't kidding but thankfully she just nodded and followed me back to the clearing where everyone else was messing around doing who knows what, though I had to go off to the side while everyone got ready to go and retrieve Servine and Luxray who was helping the former with combination moves.
Well that was the initial goal was that but from the look of things it seems that Luxray thinks Servine is ready for a new move. Luxray created Giga Volt by over powering Discharge to an insane degree to the point where it created a wide range attack that did damage when focused into a single beam lead to Hyper Volt which can be considered a move even stronger than Hyper Beam.
I'm mentioning this because of the fact that the same principle can be applied to Leaf Tornado and Leaf Storm, expect the move already exists so sadly I won't be involved in making another new attack. So at the moment, under the noon day sky, Servine was pulling on a lot of Growths and is trying to break past the power limit on his Leaf tornado and manage to use Leaf Storm, from there I want to start him using the move with needing Growth as a crutch.
Maybe from there I could help out with this types version of Hyper Volt, it would probably be closer to Solar Beam, but because Servine's evolutionary line can't learn Solar Beam naturally, I have no idea what the end result would be like, I'm kind of excited to figure it out to be honest, new moves are really fun. I've taken habit to having talks with Vaporeon about all her move modifications.
"How's his progress doing Luxray?" I asked now because lunch is one of those times that everyone unanimously agrees to not talk about training, usually, and I didn't really want to wait until lunch was done and in between me going back to Absol's training to get an answer.
"He's doing good, but his maximum capacity of energy he can handle isn't enough for him to pull off the move yet" Yeah, I figured as much, which means this is mostly to be used to increase his energy reserves, like how I had Pidgeot learn the basics of Twister when he was a pidgey even though he didn't have the power to pull it off at the time, when he evolved into a pidgeotto he could pull of the move without a problem, in fact probably even a stronger version than he would normally be able to manage at the time.
"It's good training for when he evolves into a serperior, would you mind continuing this for a while longer, then switch over to some move strengthening, it'll help this training as well, though not as much, it'll split the experience gained but it'll also build up an even more solid base for his last evolution" He nodded smiling as he turned back to watching as the Leaf Tornado got bigger and bigger but didn't expand any further than an average full powered attack. He seems to really enjoy helping and teaching his team member's, it's cute.
"Well that's all for later, we're starting up lunch in a few minutes, mind getting his attention after maybe another attempt or two" He nodded again before making his way over to talk to my Grass type. Now time to get lunch served up for everyone.
A long chapter because I just couldn't find a spot to stop writing to be honest, I had some fun with this one, with some introspective thinking and some more quite literal hands on training. That was mostly just to do it for the fun of it with some actual logic behind it to back it up. Besides that, I can't really think of anything I should add extra to here at the moment, so I'll leave it off here. See ya.
