"You better not try anything."
"Hey, in order for us to patch up my mistake, let's have a pokémon battle!"
"You're on!"
Kien runs about thirty feet from Dagger, "Let us begin!"
Dagger motions for Umbreon to go out onto the battle field, "Go on, Umbreon. Go!" Umbreon runs into the area between Kien and Dagger and prepares for Kien's leading off pokémon.
Kien takes out a pokéball, the Ultra Ball, "Go! Vaporeon!" he tosses the ball out. Vaporeon, the Water-type evolution of Eevee, emerges from the safety of it's pokéball.
"Go on, Umbreon. Use Faint Attack!" Umbreon seems to fade away, but then reappears.
Vaporeon recoils from the hit, "C'mon Vaporeon! Shadow Ball attack!" The environment becomes darker than it currently is, an amethyst ball with some shades of dark blue and black forms.
"Umbreon, Sand Attack!"
The Shadow Ball is too fast for Umbreon to even use Sand Attack and smashes into it's target dead on. Umbreon staggers back. "That's good, Vaporeon."
Dagger screams, "Umbreon! Come on, focus! Bite it!" Umbreon lunges at Vaporeon.
"Use your Acid Armor!" Vaporeon melts into a puddle of a tranluscent liquid, Umbreon flies over it and hits the ground face first, rolling about one foot soon after.
"Get up!"
"Hydro Pump!" Vaporeon re-forms and fires a six inch wide column of water out of it's mouth, hitting Umbreon hard, sending it hurling towards Bajin.
"Oh crap!" is the only thing Bajin manages to say before Umbreon makes contact with him, he barely cries out as his body and Umbreon meet and fall back two feet. He gets up, "Kien!!!!"
"Sorry Bajin."
"Umbreon!" Dagger says as she holds out a pokéball, "Return!" The ball emits the ordinary red beam and envelopes Umbreon's knocked out body. She takes out another pokéball "Gyarados! Defend the honor of Umbreon!" she tosses it out. The dragon-like water pokémon emerges with a growl.
"All right then. Vaporeon return." he holds out Vaporeon's pokéball, the ball absorbs it. He takes out another pokéball, "Gyarados! Let's go!" he tosses out the ball, Gyarados emerges with a fierce roar.
"Gyarados!" Dagger yells out, "Thrash!"
"Thunder Bolt!"
Dagger's Gyarados flies towards Kien's at a fast paced speed, but Kien's is faster and emits an electric current from out of it's body, electrocuting Dagger's instantly.
"Ahhh!!!" Dagger screams, "Gyarados no!" Gyarados lands in front of her, she runs to it and rubs it's scales affectionately, "Are you okay?" it weakly calls out. "Hang in there..." she looks at Kien "How is yours so powerful?"
"I've trained it longer than you have. Care to forfeit?"
"Yes... I don't want my pokémon to die."
"Fine, I am the winner then."
Dagger sighs and returns Gyarados to it's pokéball. Kien returns his Gyarados as well.
"You are the better trainer, after all." says Bajin, "That was very impressive, just like in the Pokémon League."
"You won in the Pokémon League?" Dagger asks Kien in astonishment.
"Yep." Kien replies, "I even beat out the trainer who won the tournament six years in a row.
"Wow."
* * *
Mewthree, still in human form, and Diane walk through the gates of Celadon City holding hands. This city's so bright at night. Mewthree thinks to himself, Why do humans insist on keeping the place of their residence so brightly illuminated during the nocturnal hours of the day? They almost seem to not even prefer to go outside the gates of the city just because it's nighttime.
Diane puts her hand on his shoulder, "What's wrong?".
"Nothing, Diane." he lies.
"You're lying, I can see it in your eyes."
"No, I'm not."
Diane shuffles through a bag she took from the mansion and takes out a file folder. "Here."
He takes the folder in her hand, "What's this?" The word Confidential is printed in big black letters on the cover.
"Just read its contents, there is information in there that you may see fit or revelent."
"Maybe we should find somewhere private for me to read this." He continues on through the city streets, nearly blinded by the passing cars headlights (his eyes have become alot more sensitive since the change) and the internal lights of the shops and Rocket Game Corner Casino also send off a blinding light into his eyes.
A few people stare at him oddly; a child and mother pass by him, staring at his face in unknown expressions. "Diane." he says suddenly to Diane, "Why are these people staring at me like that?"
She giggles, "You do look kind of strange." she says sincerely.
"In what ways?"
"Look into the glass of the shop beside you and stare at your reflection for a moment."
He turns to his right and stares into a dark window, gazing at a figure reflected from him. He had only been human for a while, but his disguise is quickly fading away. His face is appearing to turn dark gray with some small patches of dark gray fur. "What? It's already fading?" Black starts to color itself in around his eyes.
"You've got to get out of the eyes of these people." she says, "Hurry."
He stops staring at his reflection and runs through the crowded sidewalk, towards the park, near the local Gym.
As soon as he enters the park which rests in the center of the city, he decreases his speed from running to a normal walk. He hears a faint but close sound, the sound of someone crying. He follows the sound to a small hill leading down into a pond. He notices a girl with blond hair sitting on the hill looking into the water, her tears seep into the ground, he makes himself unnoticed.
"Uncle Kemdra..." she says softly, ".... you are gone now...."
Gemfk? He thinks to himself, Kemdra Gemfk had a niece? Even though I don't care that I had destroyed and shattered all those lives of Saffron City... I am oddly interested.
The girl wipes away a tear, "Who could've done such a terrible thing? All those people killed... all in one night..."
My actions were that well known? Humans sure do dramatize everything...
"I will find the one responsible and make him pay dearly for the murder of all those people."
She seems too confident...
"Uncle Kemdra shall be avenged, as well as those innocent people of Saffron City!"
Too confident... He feels her psyche start to move, realizing that she is getting up. He moves away, out of sight of the human female.
The girl leaves the area, leaving him alone. Realizing that the girl is gone, he opens the file folder and examines the files within.