Chapter 3: The deep sea, dance, and war
Ikaika had gone to the beach with his hands behind his back not feeling like going to the school for a change. As he reached the beach, he smiled as he felt the cold seawater touch his feet causing him to close his eyes and let out a refreshing sigh of peace. That was until he turned his head to find a Mantine with bad wounds on it. He looked around and found that it was beached at an edge preventing others from finding it. Narrowing his eyes, he quickly ran over to it seeing its eyes closed shut and knelt by it to try and move it only to get a water gun in his face making Ikaika fall on his rear and groan.
"Where?" Ikaika spoke wiping his face and looking down to find a Ramoraid in the shallows glaring at him.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" The Ramoraid shouted before firing another water gun toward Ikaika's head causing the boy to quickly roll to the side and get back to his feet.
"I'm not here to hurt anyone or thing!" Ikaika answered while looking at the enraged fish Pokémon.
"...you can...understand me?" Remoraid asked blinking its eyes.
"Yeah. It's weird but yeah I can understand you so...wanna tell me what happened here?" Ikaika spoke walking over to the dead Mantine and kneeling by it once more.
"Some punks were able to pull it onto the shore and were battling it three on one...they did more damage than they wanted to and ended up killing her instead," Remoraid answered in which Ikaika nodded his head.
"Did you see what they were wearing?" Ikaika asked bringing his hand to the manta Pokémon looking upon it with saddened eyes.
"I did not get a good look at them, but they were black clothing and a black hat on their head," Ramoraid answered causing Ikaika to close his eyes and shake his head.
"Team Skull Gang," Ikaika answered opening his eyes slightly.
"They come here on a daily bases to check if there are any Pokémon to take with them back to their base," Remoraid said before swimming over to Mantine once more. "She was so kind and gentle...she sang you know...it was beautiful,"
"If you want I can deal with them. What time do they come around these parts?" Ikaika asked standing up and looking off to the land with an emotionless face.
"They'll be back in a few minutes," Remoraid answered looking up at Ikaika. "What kind of trainer are you? Why would you care about us wild Pokémon?"
"I may not care much but I was taught at a very young age to respect the land and all those who live in it. Humans and animals alike," Ikaika answered before walking off. "I'll be waiting in the tree over there. We can talk more later,"
With that Ikaika made his way up to the trees before laying on a study branch overlooking the shores at the dead Pokémon. He wanted to bury it, but he was still in a new world. He did not know the customs of this world unlike his own. Even if he did where would he bury the Pokémon? He had no time to do anything, but he was sure to do something after he finished having a chat with the Skull gang. As time passed, he heard the sound of chatter which made Ikaika sit up and look down to see the Skull gang making their way toward the shore. There were three of them but completely different.
One of the gang members had brown hair yet was the tallest while the other two looked like twins being the same height, the only difference was their hair color with one being blonde and the other being black. A heavy sigh escaped his lips as Ikaika hoped off the tree branch and landed behind them causing all three to quickly turn around and see the lone boy.
"Hey. Tupp them told me something about some new kids messing with them! You must be one of them! Why are you out here?" The taller one questioned with a raised brow.
"Before I answer your question. Mind answering mine?" Ikaika asked with a bored expression on his face.
"Why would we answer your question?" The taller one asked tilting his head while leaning back a little.
"Were you three responsible for killing that Pokémon?" Ikaika asked nudging his head causing them to look over their shoulders to see the dead Mantine.
"Yeah, what of it? What are you going to do about it?" The tall one asked looking back at Ikaika snickering.
"Nothing much. Why didn't you bury the Pokémon?" Ikaika asked with a shrug.
"Why would we get our hands dirty when it was too weak to take our attacks int he first place?" The taller one answered in which Ikaika sighed and nodded his head.
"Welp that answers the rest of my questions. Now as to answer your first question since you were willing to answer mine. Why am I out here? Waiting on you of course," Ikaika answered stretching his arms over his head letting out a loud groan. "So how do you all wanna do this? One at a time or all at once?"
"You kidding me? You must have a loose screw or something. What makes you think you can take us on. We're going to teach you a lesson you won't forget. Let's get him!" The tall one answered taking out his Poke ball along with the other two.
"I was praying to Kane you would say that. The only ones who are going to be taught a lesson are you three. Starting with you," Ikaika said pointing at the tall one before pulling out his digiball with his opposite hand. "My buddy is going to be really happy to meet you three,"
This made the twins gulp as they felt a chill run down their spine while a nervous sweat drop rolled down the forehead of the tall one as he faked a smirk.
"And why's that?" The tall one asked snickering. "You gonna give your Pokémon to us when you lose? How thoughtful,"
"Oh he's gonna give you something but it's not what you think. Here, let me show you," Ikaika spoke tossing his digiball out and watched as it opened and revealed Goblinmon land on his feet and snarl at the three.
The Team Skull members flinched at the sight of Ku before they steadied themselves and tossed three poke balls each. Unlike the other three, they all had the same Pokémon being a Magnemite. Nine against one, but little did they know that Ku had the advantage due to him having fire type moves. A chuckle escaped the other's lips as Ikaika sighed but smiled back and looked at Ku.
"For once I'm going to let you go wild. But not too wild alright. I don't want to deal with a forest fire alright?" Ikaika said crossing his arms over his head.
Ku turned and looked at Ikaika with a long grin over his lips before looking back at the nine electric steel type Pokémon.
"Smack them good!" Ku shouted before rushing toward the first three with his wooden club raised.
"A club? You seriously going to let your Pokémon fight with that?" He asked with a raised brow and watched as three of the Magnemites were swatted past him knocking them out almost instantly.
"You got one thing wrong. He isn't a Pokémon...but you got bigger things to worry about," Ikaika spoke as Ku turned and laughed softly.
"Goblin Strike!" Ku shouted firing a fireball from his free hand and watched it slam into another Magnemite knocking it out.
"What are you waiting for! Thunder Shock!" He shouted as the remaining five surrounded Ku and started to shock him.
"Zappy zappy. Hurt..." Ku spoke as Ikaika narrowed his eyes. "Me make zappy hurt too!" He shouted jumping up and raising both hands over his head.
"Damn it," Ikaika spoke jumping behind a large tree.
"Goburi Bomb!" Ku shouted as a large fireball appeared over Goblinmon's head before he threw it at the remaining Magnemites.
The team skull members watched wide-eyed as the large fireball crashed into the ground causing the last Magnemites to fall to the ground knocked out as well as leaving a large crater where Ku threw his attack. Ku roared loudly in victory before Ikaika walked up behind him and slapped the back of his head. This silenced Ku's roar as he rubbed the back of his head and groaned in annoyance.
"What hit me for?" Ku asked as Ikaika stood to his left.
"I told you not to overdo it. You're lucky that fireball only made a big crater. Last time it started a forest fire we had to run from," Ikaika answered glancing at Ku before turning his gaze back to the team skull members.
"What...what the hell was that?!" The tall one asked showing him as well as his teammates were thrown to the ground by the blast.
"That was Ku having fun. More than he was supposed to but meh, if there is no forest fire I got nothing to complain about," Ikaika answered as he walked around the crater before standing in front of the tall team skull member. "Now then what's next?"
"Yo man...You...You won. What more do you want? Do you want money? Here! take it!" He shouted tossing his wallet on the ground which Ikaika took a glance at it then back at the male.
"This ain't about money man. It's about more than that," Ikaika spoke with a chuckle before bringing his right hand to pull off his beanie. "I got bet things planned for you and your buddies,"
"What?" He asked with fear in his voice. "You...you can't do this,"
"And who is going to stop me?" Ikaika asked with a chuckle as he grabbed the guy's hair and started to pull him to the beach. "Ku, get the other two,"
"Yeah! You heard. Follow boss. Move!" Ku shouted causing the other two to scramble to their feet and accompany Ikaika mere inches behind him.
As they reached the shore, Ikaika threw the male to land by the dead Pokémon followed by Ku shoving the other two causing them to face plant into the sand.
"Alright so we're going to play an old game I thought I would not play ever again but...there are always people like you that make me play it," Ikaika complained before walking over and sitting on a rock.
"W-What game?" The tall one asked looking at the dead Pokémon than at Ikaika.
"You gotta fight one of us. If you win then you're free to go. No further damage needed...but if you lose. Well...just pray you don't lose," Ikaika explained with a smile.
"We...get to pick?" The tall one asked blinking his eyes.
"Yeah. It wouldn't be fun if we picked who you fight. After all, a lot of people pick wrong," Ikaika answered with a soft grin and wide eyes.
"Kind of joke is this? I'd whoop the floor with you any day kid!" The tall one said confidentially in which Ikaika laughed and nodded his head.
"You have no idea what the hell you're in for," Ikaika said pushing himself off the rock and dusting his rear off while letting out a heavy sigh. "Make your move man,"
"You little..." He started before bringing his right fist forward only to later find himself flat on his back with his right arm twisted.
"Ku here is clumsy and kind of easy to read. Me on the other hand. Now that's a different story. I gotta fight this guy every day to make sure he doesn't step out of line," Ikaika notified while standing over the other guy laughing. "And you picked me of your own free will...hupo Keiki Kane,"
That was the last thing he heard before Ikaika brought his foot over across his jaw knocking him out. As he knocked out the leader of the three, Ikaika sighed in relief before looking at the twins then back at their leader. While the guy was knocked out, Ikaika started to stump on his knees and wrists breaking all three of them before finally seeing he had done enough.
"Alright. Since you two were only following him I'll give you three choices. Fight me, my buddy over there who is looking for some action himself or drop all your poke balls and take your leader out of here. What's it going to be?" Ikaika asked panting softly.
"We'll leave you our stuff and take our boss!" The two spoke in unison before emptying their pockets of items and poke balls before running over to take their boss and run for their lives.
"Tell everyone not to do stupid shit!" Ikaika shouted before looking over to the Remoraid who was watching the entire time. "Did that help? Sorry I couldn't kill him...beating people senseless is one thing but ending their lives is something I cannot do no matter what they did,"
"No...you've done enough. She would not want blood where she died," Ramoraid answered looking at the Mantine.
"If you want we can help in her departure?" Ikaika asked looking at Remoraid.
"Please," Ramoraid replied in which Ikaika nodded his head and looked at Ku. "Burn the body and let her ashes forever be with the sea she was born in,"
Ku looked at this and nodded his head before putting his club down and walking over to the dead Mantine to toss it up into the air.
"Goblin Strike..." Ku spoke firing a fireball at the body and watched as it was turned to ash upon impact.
As the ashes fell to the sea, Ikaika placed his hands together to pray in silence before finally opening his eyes and sighing heavily.
"What do you plan to do now?" Ikaika asked looking at Remoraid.
"...I don't know," Remoraid answered.
"You can come with me? Get stronger together and all that jazz," Ikaika offered with a soft smile.
The Remoraid paused for a second thinking about his choices before looking up at Ikaika and nodding his head. Nodding at this, Ikaika looked over the belongings left behind the team skull members to find a bunch of poke balls but needed one that was not used. It took a few seconds before finding an unused Poke ball in which he walked back over to Remoraid and placed it in front of him. Ku watched intensely before the Remoraid tapped on the button part of the ball and being sucked into it. Ikaika looked at the Poke ball and watched as it blinked three times before pinging on a successful catch.
"From now on your name will be Kanaloa, Hawaiian God of the deep sea, and Mana," Ikaika spoke pressing his forehead against the Poke ball with his eyes closed before sighing and shrinking the Poke ball and slipping it into his pocket.
"Boss. What about stuff?" Ku asked picking up his club and hopping up and down.
"Hmm might as well see what they left behind...aside from money," Ikaika spoke checking over the items and poke balls.
This took an hour before he finished going through everything. He had returned all nine Magnemites to their poke balls to take to Nurse Joy. Even so, he came across a single Poke ball that was currently occupied making him raise a brow and tossing the Poke ball up and releasing the Pokémon within. What came out caught Ikaika by surprise as it was none other than an Oddish.
"An Oddish? You're a long way from home aren't you?" Ikaika asked with a raised brow.
"I was kidnapped..." The Oddish said in a sad tone.
"Kidnapped?" Ikaika repeated earning a surprised gasp from the grass type.
"You can..." The Oddish started before being interrupted by Ikaika who raised a hand.
"Yes, I can understand you. I'm a special case. So tell me how were you kidnapped?" Ikaika asked kneeling in front of Oddish with his hands on his knees.
"My trainer used me to help to capture other Pokémon easy but one minute I'm with my trainer, the next...I appeared in front of three strangers," Oddish answered earning a nod from Ikaika.
"Yeah, that was Team Skull. Seems your trainer tried to fight them and lost. They don't really play by the rules. I dealt with them but...as for your trainer...I have a feeling they left or...something...how long were you with these punks?"
"I don't know. I'm rarely let out of my Poke ball because I try to run all the time," Oddish said closing her eyes while tears started to form under her eyes.
"Well, you don't have to worry about them anymore. I dealt with all three of them. So I got a choice for you now Oddish. You can either come with me and I will treat you as my own...or...I can release you from this Poke ball and we can go our separate way," Ikaika said standing up while holding her Poke ball in his hand.
"What about my trainer?" Oddish asked opening her eyes and looking up at Ikaika.
"What about your trainer? They lost and never came back for you. You would better be off with me or yourself," Ikaika admitted with a shrug. "So, what's it going to be?"
"Are you...going to treat me like my old trainer?" Oddish asked in a shaky voice.
"I don't know. Other than using you to catch Pokémon, I don't know anything else about her," Ikaika answered. "What else does your trainer do?"
"She feeds me and gives me a place to stay...even though such a thing is rare," Oddish answered while looking at the ground.
"Wow. Yeah, I am nothing like that. If you come with me then I will treat you as an equal. Although I will not have you out all the time. I will not keep you in your Poke ball for a long time unless you give me a reason to keep you inside," Ikaika said looking over at Ku who was scratching his back by using his club. "So I don't see a reason why I would not have you out most of the time,"
Oddish blinked at this before looking at the items then at Ikaika.
"Are you a bad person?" Oddish asked in which Ikaika chuckled and shrugged.
"I don't know. Depends, do you see me as a bad person?" Ikaika asked with a light smile. This caused Oddish to blush before looking away but then looked back at Ikaika and nodded.
"I want to go with you," Oddish spoke with a bright smile.
"Than from now on your name will be Laka, Hawaiian Goddess of forest growth and Hula," Ikaika said kneeling in front of his second new teammate with a smile.
"Laka...Goddess...I like it!" Oddish shouted while hopping up and down excitedly.
"Alright...Laka. Let's head on over to Nurse Joy. I gotta get these guys treated as well as you and Kanaloa," Ikaika spoke placing his hand out for her to hop on.
Laka smiled and nodded before hopping onto Ikaika's hand and up onto his head before sitting down to provide shade. Ikaika blinked at this but smiled before getting to his feet and making his way back to the Pokémon School.
"Who's Kanaloa?" Laka asked looking down at Ikaika.
"Kanaloa is the Hawaiian God of the deep sea and mana. He is also another friend but...he is resting right now. If you're ever tired let me know alright?" Ikaika asked looking up at Laka with a smile as she nodded her head and giggled. "Alright then off we go,"
Ku snarled and followed right behind them before falling face-first into the ground and passing out. This made Ikaika turn around and pull out Ku's digiball and return him into it.
"Who is that?" Laka asked looking at the digiball now.
"That was Ku. He is the Hawaiian God of war and healing. He took on all nine Magnemites by himself. sadly, it did a good number on him. I'm a little surprised he was able to still stand after all that mess," Ikaika spoke before putting Ku's digiball into his pants and continued to walk off to the school.
"Is he strong?" Laka asked looking forward.
"You are a curious one aren't you Laka?" Ikaika said with a chuckle. "But yeah he is strong...but I'm stronger,"
"Master strongest!" Laka cheered.
"You don't have to call me master..." Ikaika said with a sweat drop rolling down his forehead.
"What do I call you?" Laka asked looking down at Ikaika again.
"Hmm Ikaika. Just Ikaika is fine. I'm not a fan of titles and all that fancy stuff," Ikaika answered with a smile.
"What does...Ikaika mean?" Laka asked in which Ikaika stopped in his tracks and sighed.
"Ikaika means...Strong..." Ikaika answered before he started to walk again. "Now enough with the questions alright? You're giving me a headache," He said with laughing softly.
"One more question..." Laka asked looking forward.
"Alright...one more and that'll be all for now," Ikaika spoke with a soft smile.
"...will I become as strong as you?" Laka asked in which Ikaika chuckled.
"That's a silly question. Yeah, you and everyone else will be stronger than me. Just give it time and you will make it there," Ikaika answered.
-Pokémon School-
After Ikaika dropped off the poke balls to Officer Jenny along the way, he finally reached the Pokémon School to find that it was dead silent. This made Ikaika very edgy as he slowly scanned his surroundings with Laka looking around as well.
"What's wrong Ikaika?" Laka asked looking down at her master blinking her eyes.
"Last time it was this quiet, I was attacked. I might have to put you in your Poke ball for now Laka. I don't want you getting hurt," Ikaika whispered while looking around.
Laka was hesitant but nodded her head as Ikaika brought out her Poke ball and returned the ball into his pocket.
"You are as perceptive as ever mortal," Devimon spoke as Ikaika's surroundings became pitch black once more with a swarm of Vilemon surrounding him. "And this time there will be no legendary here to save you,"
"Maybe I don't need a legendary this time," Ikaika spoke looking up to see Devimon hovering over him with his arms crossed and a long grin over his face.
"You overestimate yourself mortal. Even if your partner could join you, he is too injured I heard...what a pity," Devimon spoke before snickering.
This made Ikaika widen his eyes before slowly narrowing them.
"Don't give me that look. No matter where you go, the shadows are my eyes and ears. Even so, I cannot help but be impressed at your show of...brutality. It made me rather curious," Devimon spoke bringing his left hand to rub the bottom of his chin.
"Curious about what?" Ikaika asked with a raised brow.
"What else? Making you my servant. How about it? Serve under me and I will spare your life as well as those you hold with you," Devimon offered with his head tilted slightly.
"You want me to serve under you?" Ikaika repeated confused before crossing his arms over his chest. "I thought your mission was to kill me?"
"And I will...in time. You are no threat, but my higher-up wishes to end you as quickly as possible. However, I found interest in you as well as your...methods in teaching other mortals a lesson they will not soon forget," Devimon answered. "I think my offer is more than fair. What say you mortal?"
"Yeah...no. I'd say polite pass but since you are threatening my life. Fuck you!" Ikaika shouted while raising his right hand and flipping him off.
Devimon could not help but laugh at this show of bravery before unfolding his arms just too slowly clap his hands together.
"Such a brave mortal. It would almost be a shame to kill you..." Devimon spoke before he faded away only to appear and wrap his right hand around Ikaika's neck while raising him off the ground grinning widely. "Almost,"
Ikaika gasp for air as Devimon slowly raised his other hand before glancing over at it chuckling. His glowing red eyes slowly turned to Ikaika and aimed his left hand at Ikaika's heart.
"YOU NO HURT BOSS!" Ku shouted before breaking out of his digiball which broke Ikaika from Devimon's grasp as he fell on his rear.
Devimon flew back but narrowed his eyes seeing Ku standing in front of Ikaika panting softly with his club in hand. This made the devil Digimon laugh as he looked at his right hand and sighed while turning his gaze to Goblinmon.
"And what can you hope to do Goblinmon? A rookie against a horde of champions. The odds...are not in your favor and I am all out of mercy," Devimon announced as he slowly started to fly back with his hands outstretched. "Kill them both,"
"Boss. We die?" Ku asked looking around him as Ikaika got to his feet.
"I doubt it. Arceus would not bring me here only to get me killed so quickly," Ikaika spoke panting softly while rubbing his neck.
"Plan?" Ku asked looking over at Ikaika who shrugged.
"I got nothing man. Fight till we drop I guess," Ikaika answered as two beams of light came from his pockets revealing Kanaloa and Laka by the human's side.
"Oh look. You have more friends that'll suffer with you," Devimon taunted before laughing.
"Do not underestimate the power in which we hold," Ikaika spoke glaring at Devimon as all four of their bodies were engulfed in shining light.
"What is this light?!" Devimon demanded as he brought his hands up to shield himself from the blinding glow.
"We are ohana and if you wanna take us on then you better be ready for one hell of a war!" Ikaika shouted.
As Ikaika shouted, Laka's body changed into a Bellossom while Kanaloa changed into an Octillery with Ku shifting into his final evolution which was BanchoLeomon. All three of them standing at a towering ten feet tall with Ikaika in the center. Devimon saw this with wide eyes before retreating into the darkness along with his army of Vilemon. Once the darkness had faded, Ikaika and his entire team all shifted back to normal and collapsed onto the ground. Professor Kukui and Samson Oak both walked outside to see Ikaika and his team laying on the ground panting heavily. They hurried to help them with Kukui returning everyone to their balls before lifting Ikaika in his arms to take him into the school. At the edge of the forest floated a single Pokémon, it was Tapu Koko watching over Ikaika them, but the legendary Pokémon was as shocked as Devimon at not just the power from the four but also the size they came with. Shaking out of the daze, Tapu Koko flew off in a means to relay information to the other legendary that Ikaika no longer needed protection, at least for now. Aside from Tapu Koko, another figure was watching from afar, a flying skeleton with redbones and black wings while holding a black staff in his hands.
"So Arceus did not choose that boy for nothing after all. Things are starting to get pretty interesting now," He spoke before disappearing in a mist of black smoke.
-Samson Oaks Office-
Ikaika woke up and groaned in pain feeling a massive headache kick in as he sat up from the couch he was placed on. As he got up, Kukui came in and smiled before making his way over to the young trainer.
"You alright?" Kukui asked sitting in front of Ikaika who slowly nodded his head.
"Sort of...not sure how...what happened?" Ikaika asked looking around. "Oh...guess we made it..."
"Made it?" Kukui asked blinking his eyes.
"Devimon came after me again and this time no legendary helped me. Guess it had to happen at one point," Ikaika answered. "Thankfully, something else happened to spook that damn guy away. Not sure HOW I did it but whatever it was...allowed us to live another day,"
"Speaking of which...what saved you guys? Me and Principle Oak were watching you come into the school and the next you disappeared. The next thing we feel is a huge gust of wind nearly knocking us off our feet. If it was not for the rails, we would have slammed into the walls of the school," Kukui explained in which Ikaika nodded his head in understanding.
"I wish I could tell you Kukui...I really do...but I can't answer something I don't even I don't know about," Ikaika answered before noticing his poke balls and digiball were missing. "Where are they?" The teenager asked while patting himself down.
"Samson went to go treat them...as for Ku...he's in the kitchen eating his fill. Whatever happened really got his belly empty," Kukui spoke as a loud shatter came from the kitchen earning a laugh from the professor.
"Sorry for the trouble," Ikaika spoke as he turned to place his feet on the ground sighing. "Where's Ash them? I haven't seen them in a while actually."
"Ash went to go and catch his own Pokémon. Something you were able to do with ease since you caught two Pokémon on your first day out," Kukui complimented with a smile.
"Don't compliment me too much. They chose to stay with me. Both had a really bad experience," Ikaika started before explaining to Kukui about the situation that both of the Pokémon were in.
"I see. That is most unfortunate for Kanaloa as well as Laka...but now they are both with you and want to get stronger," Kukui said while nodding his head.
"Pretty much. We all want to get stronger...is there a way to do such a thing?" Ikaika asked as Kukui smiled brightly.
"There's always the trials," Kukui answered.
/To be continued...