Flower Power: Friend or Foe

Written By Sapphire Mists

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Hello fellow fanfiction readers! Sapphire Mists is here and is ready to entertain you with my writing. But first, I want to make a few things clear.

1). I do not own pokemon. However, I do own Rosie and other characters who don't normally appear in the original storyline. I also own her pokemon names and personalities.

2). If you would like to use the characters and/or their pokemon, you must have my permission.

3). If you haven't read the other parts to this wonderful storyline, please do so!

4). As always, REVIEW THE FANFICS! PLEASE!

Here are a few things that you should also know.

Italics: Someone's thoughts

Bold: The other pokemon's thoughts

...: Translated pokemon speech

*!*: A battle sequence, if there are more than one, more battles are taking place

***: A break in the page

:...:: Inside the Crystal Ball

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Prologue

Hello, my dear and loyal friends!

What's happening with you all today?

Well, yesterday, Hannah and I decided to do a little girl bonding with all the girls in our clique. That included Casey and Rika also, it was really a fun evening.

We did all those things that we girls love to do when we're together. You know what I'm talking about, all you females out there! We did each other's hair, some makeup, and we even did avocado facials.

The evening was almost spoiled by my former enemy, Josh, whom happened to be the boy that Hannah was all whipped about. Yeah, it was he, and yes, they have been dating each other. Hannah likes him a lot.

The last story started when Hannah and I were enjoying a nice conversation and a good meal. We talked about our pokemon and such, you know, we we're catching up. After all, after Rika, Hannah is my best girlfriend, and hopefully Casey will be a best friend of mine sooner or later.

The last match, and I should mention, the final match that I to do in the specialty fields took place earlier. It was a tough battle, we kept going back and forth but I happened to come out on top.

The first round was with Lizzie, my trustworthy Nidoqueen, and a little Swinub with a lot of endurance on the count of the attack that he kept using. Which happened to be called endure. Rika had to help me come up with a strategy though for it seemed that the match would never end. I have to admit that Jack was a great trainer for having trained the Swinub so well.

The second round began with Lizzie but ended with Sunrise, for Lizzie slipped on the ice and got blasted away by the tough Lapras. Sunrise however, put the attacks that Lapras sent out into his use, like when he launched the ice balls at Lapras with his mental powers. Sunrise finished her off with a well-done confusion that left Lapras in an ice cube.

The third round, however was Sunrise's downfall by a well-aimed ice punch. Then I sent out my last resort, which happened to be my cherished Crimson, the Vulpix. Vulpix overwhelmed Jynx with his strength and toughness. Luckily, my new plan went through and Jynx was overwhelmed again by a deadly fire blast and a future sight attack that had been performed by Sunrise.

The battle filled me with an enormous joy. I was so happy, it was happiness that wasn't for me, and it was for my pokemon. It was pure gratitude towards them. Yes, I do the training and I come up with plans and stuff, but they carry out the deeds and they do it just for me. They are very loyal to me and I'm going to try my best to be loyal to my pokemon.

Oh well, enough chitchat, let's get to the story.

The Actual Chapter

"It's warm out to be a winter day." I infer as CJ and I walk hand in hand along the coastline of the Cocoa Beach.

The extremely cold water splashes every once in a while. I can see little baby Staryu crawling out of the ocean for food guess. Thanks to the Daycare, I know a lot about Staryu; they love the water in small tide pools. I stare at them adoringly and I pull CJ by the hand.

"Let's help them!" I say.

CJ tags along obediently and we walk up to the baby pokemon. They seem like they are just about four inches on each appendage; they look about the average size for a newborn Staryu.

"Hello little ones, would you like some help?" I ask in a cheerful voice.

That would be just great! A little one exclaims.

We walk to where a few rocks are arranged in a wide circle and there is a pool of water in between these rocks. We set them down in the pool and then we wave good bye.

Thank you! They cry as they drink the water.

"I feel good about helping the little ones." CJ admits as we continue on our stroll.

"I do too; it's really fulfilling. Helping any pokemon feels good." I say.

CJ nods in approval; his blue eyes shimmer as if he had just been struck with a great idea.

"Why don't we find a little restaurant and have dinner there?" He asks.

My stomach grumbles.

"Sure, I'm famished!" I say with a giggle.

So we walk out of the long beach that covers the entire island and we make a right onto Horsea Road, the home of many family restaurants.

"Would you like Chinese food?" He asks as we get near to a small restaurant with a homey look to it. I can see that it has dim lighting and about ten chairs, but they all have cushions on them.

"Sounds good to me!" I say and CJ, like the gentleman he is, opens the door for me and we walk to the place where a waitress or waiter asks us where we would like to sit.

"Hello, and welcome to Chang's Imperial, where would you like to sit?" A woman with her shiny black hair pulled into a long ponytail that is fastened with an olive clasp.

I look at CJ, hoping that he would have an answer for this question.

"We would like to sit over there." He says as he points his finger at a table for two that's right in the window. There's also a bouquet of daisies arranged in a crystal urn.

"All right." She says and walks us over to the table and sits us down. She hands us a menu and then she quickly walks away.

A younger woman with black hair tinged with auburn walks up to us in a cheongsam or whatever those Chinese style dresses are called. She has on a clean white apron that is tightly wrapped around her tiny waist.

"Hello, I am Jeanie and I am your waitress for today, what would you like?" She asks as she directs her attention to CJ.

"A Sprite please." He says after looking at the menu.

"And you?" She asks.

"I would like a Pepsi." I tell her and I immediately look at the green menu.

"Your drinks will be here shortly." She says as she hurries away from our table and tends to another group of people that had just walked through the doors.

CJ looks up at me with twinkling eyes.

"I'm glad that we decided to come here; we haven't been out in a long time." He says.

I nod my head in approval and put on a fresh smile.

He reaches over and touches my hard hair that Casey went overboard on when she put it into a ponytail.

"I've been dying to do that. What's up with it? Why is it so hard?" He questions me.

"Let's just say that Casey happened to it, I hope this stuff washes out.

I get the weirdest idea and I hope that he will follow through. I just want this to be our day, together, nobody else. Well at least the rest of the day.

"Why don't you wash it for me?" I ask him.

A smile is at the corners of his mouth. "Me, wash your hair?" He asks.

"Yeah!" I say getting passionate about it.

"Don't expect to find me until tomorrow." He says and laughs.

I feel like chucking my napkin at him but I don't want to bring any attention to myself as it is. Instead, I let him laugh.

Jeanie arrives at our table with drinks and straws in hands. The straws are in the drink the customary way, the way with part of the wrapper still at the tips.

"Are you ready to order?" She asks.

"Yes, I would like the vegetable fried rice, a serving of sesame chicken, and a shrimp egg roll." CJ speaks up.

Jeanie scribbles this down on the tiny note pad and looks at me once she's finished with CJ's order.

"I would like the chicken lo mein and a vegetable egg role please." I tell her.

"Thank you and your dinner should be finished within fifteen minutes." She says and walks into the kitchen and posts the order on a corkboard so that the cook could cook these dishes.

I gingerly take a sip of the fizzy, dark, and carbonated beverage that is set before me.

"You'll do it right?" I ask CJ.

"Sure." He replies and takes a particularly long swig of his lemon and lime Pepsi.

I decide to smell the atmosphere, for some bizarre reason. It's like a mixture between soy sauce, fried food, and fresh vegetables in the restaurant. It's a nice smell; it makes you even hungrier!

"Have you trained any of your pokemon?" I ask CJ. I hadn't exactly seen him training his pokemon.

"Well, it's not exactly training but I'm trying to help Fragrant to get used to me. She's warming up to me so the things that we do together is really doing his job." CJ explains.

Wrinkles appear in my forehead, something that I do when I don't understand something to clearly.

"Well, why you trained in the morning, I usually went up in the mountains with Fragrant and nobody else. We would do things like pick flowers and do all those other things that grass pokemon like to do. Sometimes, if we went out late at night, she would spray some pollen at some of the flowering plants." CJ says ardently.

"Whoa, I had no idea! I guess that I was too caught up in training to realize that." I admit as I scratch my head nervously.

"One of the best things about it is that she doesn't smell when I'm around here, all you have to do is show pokemon that you care for them." He says.

I nod in approval.

"I know that this might sound a little dumb, but you should make a book about this. Then, when you feel that you're pretty knowledgeable about pokemon breeding, you could finish it and publish it!" I tell him.

"It's a great idea but I'm nowhere near becoming that great." CJ says modestly.

"You will soon." I add as Jeanie brings our hot steamy plates of food.

"Thank you." We say in unison and then we begin to eat.

I grab a pair of bamboo chopsticks and I start to twirl the caramel colored noodles. I lift it into my mouth and chew it slowly. Yum! This is excellent!

"Want a piece of chicken?" CJ asks as he holds a circular piece of sesame chicken in his chopsticks.

"Sure." I say.

He then feeds the chicken to me by the means of his chopstick.

I smile.

***

"What! I have to battle against you?" I exclaim as Josh and I look at the screen of my new laptop PC.

"I guess so." Josh says smugly.

"Ugh, you take it so lightly, why?" I ask him as I turn to face him.

His brown eyes look like they are smiling. I wonder why.

"Because I'm sure that I'll win and you seem afraid." He says in a haughty tone.

This is the Josh that I remember most. That does it! I'm going to lay it on him.

"Scared of battling you? I was just shocked that's all." I say defensively. So far my plan wasn't really following through. I don't know why I sound so weak.

"Right, that's not what it sounded like to me." He says.

"You must still be mad at me from when I beat that Luri-Luri of yours." He says arrogantly.

"Josh, he was just a baby. It was his first battle! Plus he was up against your first pokemon." I tell him hotly.

"Any experienced trainer would have restrained him." Josh says while overstressing the experienced part of the sentence.

"Any caring trainer knows that you must let a pokemon decide on his or her own sometimes!" I say.

This particular sentence hits home and Josh shakes his head as if he couldn't believe what I just said. Or because he really thought that he was an uncaring trainer. Maybe I am a little tough on my pokemon, I should be caring.

For some odd reason a flood of guilt washes over me. My once victorious smile goes upside down and becomes a frown. I think about what I said and realize that I was just as wrong as he was, I shouldn't have went that far and said that.

I touch his shoulder. "I'm sorry Josh I didn't mean it. It came out in the heat of the moment."

"You should be!" He says and he rises out of the chair in our den and walks out the door.

"Josh! Wait up!" Hannah says as she dashes towards the door.

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow." She says quickly as she hurries out of the door.

I look at Rika and CJ who had watched the entire scene.

We all stare at each other for a while.

***

"Ooh, that feels good!" I gasp.

A sharp pain fills my body and I moan deeply. It just feels so good!

"Right there, right there!" I cry.

Man! CJ sure does know how to give a good massage! Right now, he's massaging the area near my shoulders. It's very tense around there so every time he massages that part, pain is evenly distributed in my body.

I had just gotten out of the bathtub that had the eucalyptus bathwash inside of it. It relieved some of my tense muscles but not all that's when CJ with his strong hands came in.

After the massage he left me completely relaxed and rid of the tenseness that had developed over the past four days. Even though I am not the person who's battling it's still hard work coming up with strategies and such.

I hop off of my bed rejuvenated from the massage. I leap onto CJ.

"Thanks, Babe." I say as I tickle his nose with my nose.

He laughs and says that it was no problem.

I get off of him and walk to my closet. After some careful decisions, I pull out a pair of blue jeans and a gray v-neck sweater with a blue chest stripe. I drape these over my desk chair and rush to my trunk and pull out some paper.

"What are you trying to do?" CJ asks as I sit in my desk chair and start a web on which pokemon Josh would most likely use.

"I'm trying to come up with a strategy." I say.

Unfortunately I only can recall that Josh has a Sandslash. Darn, but Vanilla or Dew would be a good choice for that pokemon. I put them in the possible list.

"I have a suggestion." CJ says.

"What is it?" I ask him eagerly.

"Why don't you use Excalibur, even though he is weak against fire attacks he seems much to fast to get hit by one? Plus his power is amazing." CJ explains.

I twirl a strand of fuchsia hair around my index finger pondering if that was a good decision. It was a pretty good prediction and I personally know that Excalibur wouldn't let me down like that. I nod in approval and right him in my active party list.

"That's a good idea. I think that Crimson would be a good runner up and then I could use Ellie or Vanilla for back up." I exclaim.

CJ rubs his smooth chin and then nods in approval.

"You should do fine with a team such as that." CJ says.

I love it when he sounds all intelligent, not saying that he isn't but I like it even more when he acts like it. I dreamily stare at his perfect features and he stares at me too. Then all of sudden I snap out of my gaze and start writing it down on the paper.

"Rosie, why don't you give the triplets their baths?" Mom asks from her bedroom.

"OK." I say and rise up from my chair. Mom is probably worn out from the triplets; they had been very cross all day for some odd reason. It was mainly Rosalynne who was the most irritable, she cried at the slightest disturbance.

I walk into the baby room and grab Julian first out of the babies. He's usually the mildest child and he cries the least. I grab the baby bath and fill it up with warm and but some J&J baby wash into the water. Then I grab some J&J honey baby shampoo and put it off to the side.

"Come on little man." I say in a cheesy voice as I unbutton his cute little train leotard or whatever they are called. That's what I like to call them. Then I take off his small newborn diaper and warp it carefully, and then I toss it into the diaper bin.

Julian tries his best to kick but he just moves his legs slightly and coos in happiness.

"You sure are a happy baby aren't you?" I ask him as I put him into the water.

"Ooh." He says as if he feels some relief in being in the tab of water.

I smile and use his baby washcloth and but some baby wash onto it and gently massage his body. His mouth is halfway open and his eyes are flashing and I can almost see the makings off a smile on his face as I wash his back.

After I wash him up, I shampoo his hair with the gentle honey shampoo. I rinse it out and put him into his hooded towel so that he'll be nice and dry.

I repeat the procedure with the last two babies and I put on their sleepers. Then I carefully take the boys to Mom and Dad and take Rosalynne for myself. I seemed to be the only one that could really calm her down.

"See it's not bad living in this world when you have a sis like me!" I say as we take a stroll around our house.

I look at Rosalynne who happened to be on my shoulder snoring gently. Aw... she's so cute! She looks a lot like me when I was an infant.

I gently climb back up the stairs and put her into her crib. She doesn't move at all and I quietly sneak out of the room in order to keep her sleeping. Then I walk back into my room where Rika was wrapping her hair.

"The Bluest Eye was excellent! I was downstairs in the den finishing it up." Rika exclaims as she pats her head for the finishing touch.

"I knew that you would like it." I say as I braid my hair into a ponytail.

"I'm glad that you brought it to my attention." She thanks me.

"Any time, Rika." I say.

Ellie leaps out of nowhere and gives me a hug.

I hope we win!

***

"Beep beep!" The alarm clock goes.

It's eight in the morning and my match isn't until ten, so I have two hours to get rid of until then.

I shut the clock off and climb out of the bed so that I can get myself clothed and ready. That way I can help around the house and help my parents with the babies.

I brush my teeth with some mint toothpaste and scrub my face with my apricot scrub. Then I take a quick shower and lotion up. I put on my outfit and get to work on my hair.

I massage some moisturizing hair lotion into my root and the tips and comb it until it's completely free of tangles. Then I grab a rubber band and put it into a ponytail, following that I grab a clear hair clasp and put it into a bun.

I look at my reflection in the mirror and shake my head in disapproval. I look like I'm a secretary or something like that so I take it out.

I put a ponytail at the top of my head and coil the hair around the rubber band, giving it a fresh looking coiled look. I then put on some earrings; my diamonds back from tenth grade. I put just a dab of gray eye shadow on and a fresh coat of lip-gloss.

Now satisfied with my look I walk across the hall to the baby room. They're all sound asleep so I walk down the stairs into the den where CJ and Dad were watching the news.

"Hello men." I say as I give them a wave.

"Hey Rosie, you look nice today." Dad says.

"Thanks, Mom is in the greenhouse right?" I ask them.

"Yep." CJ says and Ellie jumps onto my shoulder. I blow him a kiss on the low and walk out of the door and into the balmy weather of the outdoors. We trot over to the greenhouse and walk inside.

Hello Rose, Timid, and Darwin! Ellie says and joins her elder pokemon friends.

"Hey Mom." I say and walk up beside her.

"Up already?" She asks as she gives me a once over.

I nod.

"I wanted to help out, so what can I do?" I ask her.

"Why don't you wrap the pots in the colored foils, red and green would do some good. I want to get these shipped to Daisy Island by tomorrow." She says.

Mom sells some of the flowers here on Coconut but during the winter when business is slow, she sends them to Daisy Island and gets a nice check for it.

"OK." I say and grab a geranium and wrap the foil around the planet.

This might take awhile.

***

"Entering Milky Stadium is Josh Ford (A/N: I forgot what his last name was!) and Rosie Fierra in their fifth round matches. Who will be victorious in this anticipated battle?" The spectator asks the crowd to get them all psyched up and stuff.

I walk to the middle of the ring where the ref was waiting for us.

"This is a three-pokemon battle and no time limit." The ref explains to us.

"I understand." I say.

"Me too." Josh says, his style definitely was a little more conservative now that he's dating Hannah. He's wearing a pair of khaki pants and a white dress-shirt. It actually fits him in an odd way.

"Good luck." I say and shake his hand.

"Good luck to you also." He says and we walk to our platforms.

"Begin!" The ref exclaims and waves his flag.

I take out Excalibur's crystal ball and kiss it for good luck. Then I toss it out into the field only to have it returned to my hand once he is dispelled from his habitat.

"I choose you Cyndaquil!" Josh says as he sends out a large fire mouse pokemon. A joyful expression is on its face indicating that it is a happy pokemon.

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"Excalibur, I want you to be on your guard! Josh's pokemon are no joke and they shouldn't be taken lightly!" Rosie warns me.

I can see Josh smile from the compliment that Rosie had just paid him. He looks into the crowd and smiles at his mate. The one that they call Hannah.

"So the first round is a Scizor against a Cyndaquil. Cyndaquil has a full advantage but will this strong looking bug/steel pokemon prevail?"

"Use a quick attack!" Rosie says.

I let out my gossamer wings and speed along the ground. I'm going so fast that I make a false image that passes through the scared Cyndaquil but does no damage. But the real me hit him with my large right claw.

Cyndaquil is flung into the air by the blow.

"Are you okay Cyndaquil?" Josh asks.

I'm fine; I'm just a little shaken up. The tough Cyndaquil says.

"Use a flamethrower!" He says.

With a battle cry, Cyndaquil releases a massive line of flames towards me. I use my wings and hover into the air to escape the attack.

"Good job, use agility!" Rosie says.

I speed along in circles around the pokemon. He turns around in circles and gets dizzy by my fast movements.

"Concentrate." Josh says.

Cyndaquil sits on its haunches and a calm expression is showed on its face. I must strike him at the right time. All of a sudden Cyndaquil shoots a massive fireball at me and I get blaster back by the power behind it.

"Do what we practiced!" Rosie reminds me. I leap back and extend my right claw, and then I run straight through the flame and ram Cyndaquil square in the face with my scarlet claw.

Ah! He cries as he skids across the ground with brush burns on his body.

"What a technique, Scizor was barely affected by the powerful flames of the tiny Cyndaquil!" The spectator says as the crowd goes wild.

Must get up for my friend! Cyndaquil staggers as he rises to his feet, only to fall back down again.

"Oh Cyndaquil, return!" Josh says.

"That was awesome Excalibur, keep it up!" Rosie says as I brace myself for the next pokemon.

Thanks Rosie, you are right, they are strong. I say with a smile.

"Yeah." Rosie agrees and she smiles also.

The training that we went through is really paying off. The last match reminds me of when I fought with Crimson. I was wiped out with a few of his fire attacks but now I'm not as weak against the fire anymore. In a way, I've evolved over the past few months.

Josh looks at a pokeball and tosses it into the air.

A tough looking Sandslash is expelled from the shiny crystal ball. Its sharp claws glisten and it remains unshaken from my penetrating stare. I guess that my size won't intimidate this pokemon, perhaps it is Josh's very first pokemon.

"Use your fury swipes!" Josh says.

Sandslash leaps into action and starts slashing away. I move out the way to dodge his relentless attacks but it is quite hard because this pokemon is really fast. He lands one lucky scratch and rakes me across my left eye.

Ah! I scream as I clutch my eye in pain.

"Excalibur! Are you okay?" Rosie cries.

It really hurts! I complain.

"Do you want to come back in?" She asks.

No! This pokemon is going down! I yell and fly back a few feet.

"Okay, then use a quick attack!" Rosie says. He sure does have guts; I admire him for that.

I speed forward with my claw out. About a second later I strike the shrew and it flies into the air.

"Turn that into a rollout!" Josh says.

Sandslash tucks into a ball and speeds along the ground. He charges into my chest and I get flung across the field. I clutch my chest and stand back up only to be knocked down once more.

Darn! It hurts even more every time that he connects! I have to find a way to beat that pokemon!

I sneer appears on my face as I rise again.

Sandslash makes another round and comes rolling at me once again. I drop to the ground and when he rolls over me I lift myself up abruptly and send him flying into the air.

"Great job, use a slash attack!" Rosie says.

I speed over to the falling Sandslash and give it a powerful swipe with my claw. Sandslash screams out in pain as it thrown into the silver platform where its trainer is waiting for him.

Sandslash slides down the podium and falls onto the hard ground of the Milky Stadium.

"Return Sandslash." Josh says as he recalls his defeated pokemon back into its crystal ball. Darn! How am I going to defeat that Scizor? I must find out if the pre-evolved form is the better choice!

"Go Scyther!" He yells as he throws out his green warrior.

"Great job once again Excalibur! Be careful." Rosie says.

Don't worry about me Rosie, I know how to fight a Scyther, I've been doing it all my life! I tell her with a laugh.

"Use a slash attack!"

The Scyther swings its sharp left blade at my face. With my right arm I clasp my claw around his blade. He grunts and sends out his right blade at me and I catch that one with my left claw.

I use my energy and twirl around, twisting both of us around into the air in a barrel roll. I quickly regain my footing and this causes the Scyther to fall to the ground.

"What a move!"

"That as excellent Excalibur!" Rosie cheers as she clasps her hands together.

"Trip him!" Josh yells.

Before I can leap into the air I feel a strong leg kick my leg causing me to fall to the ground.

"Great! Use a quick attack!"

"Flip him!" Rosie says.

I get up and wait until he gets ready to strike me and then I grab him by the blades and swing him around in circles. Then, with all my power I lift him above my head and slam him to the ground.

Scyther lands hard and he struggles to rise to his feet. He sticks his scythe out as if making a threat.

I'm sorry cousin, I'm sorry for hurting you this way. Take a long rest. I say nobly.

Apology accepted. He says as his face hits the ground.

"Return." Josh says and he turns to walk away.

I fly over to Rosie and scoop her into my arms. She laughs happily and so does everyone else.

"That was wonderful Excalibur, I knew that you could get the job done!" She says.

A feeling of satisfaction courses through my veins.

"Let's fly over to Josh and Hannah." Rosie tells me.

***

"Josh!" I yell as I run up to him.

"Congratulations." He says plainly.

"Josh! Don't be that way! It was a match; we can't stop being friends!" I cry as I touch his shoulder.

"Friends? We were friends?" He asks me.

I frown slightly. "Of course, haven't we been friends since Starry Island?"

"I don't know what we are or were back then. I thought of us as rivals who behave towards each other civilly." He admits.

"I think that way too but we can be friends you know." I say.

Hannah and all of my friends and family watch this spectacle unfold. Smiles are on their faces as they hear us make up.

"I guess that we can." He says as he scratches his head.

"Hug?" I ask him as I open my arms.

"Okay." He says as we embrace each other.

I never thought that this would ever happen to me. I actually hated this dude for a good portion of my life and now we're hugging. I feel much better now knowing that I don't dislike him anymore.

"OK, OK break it up!" Rika says as she separates us.

Mom and Dad put their hands on my shoulders.

"That is the way it is supposed to be." The say in unison.