Japanese Title: Ice Can Defeat Fire! A New Friend And A New Plan!
Translation: Aisu Yoroshii Daha Faia! Ato Nyuu Furenzu To Ato Nyuu Ichian!
By: Pro_V
"Eevy, behind you!" Luri shouted, "Take this, Will!" she chucked a snowball as Eevy ducked, pelting Will in the face, "I got ya'!"
"You little witch!" Will spit out the snowy flakes, "I'm gonna get you!" Luri took off with Will stumbling along the five-foot snow banks, "Get back here, you!"
Lance snuck up behind Eevy and slapped two hands full of snow into her face, "Take that!" he laughed as she flailed to brush the snow away.
"Yeah, well take this!" she turned and jumped at him, sending him toppling backward into the snow, "Hah! I got you!"
"Here I come!" Medira plowed Jason in the back, knocking him down face-first, "Gotcha!"
"Hey, no fair!" Jason mumbled into the snow, "Get off!"
"Watch out, Skiff!" Yuu-Yuu called, "Sooney's right behind you!"
"Yah!" Skiff spun and ducked, letting the snowball fly over, "Missed!"
"No fair! You warned him!" Sooney whined and stomped the snow, sending a puff into her own face.
Mizu sat in the tree with a sphere of snow in her lap, "Come on, Eusine," she muttered, "Come on."
"Where, oh where, has my Mizu gone?" Eusine looked left and right, but not up.
"Incoming!" Mizu pelted him on the head, "Sucker!"
Eusine flailed his hands wildly though his hair, "That was cruel!" he snorted, "Get down here!"
"No!" Mizu went around the tree and jumped down, "Get me if you want me!"
"Not fair!" Eusine fell flat on his face in the snow, "I can't run as fast as you!"
"Why don't you go, Lisle?" Morty looked back at her, "You're not the one with the burns."
"I'll stay right here with you, thank you," she sat and read, "Besides, your cousin's a lunatic."
"Eusine? No! He's just creative. Eevy's the psycho."
"No, your sister's nice. She's got attitude sometimes, but she's still a great friend."
"Yeah, but I still say Lance doesn't deserve her."
"Are you going to start on that again? She's with who she's with, just like you and me. Your parents didn't object, why are you?"
"Since the business with Taylor…I don't know. I just can't-"
"Lance isn't Taylor and Taylor isn't Lance. If anything, Lance is Taylor's complete opposite. Lance would mangle Taylor into a soccer ball if he had the chance."
"I still don't know why Eevy likes him so much."
"Because he's nothing like you."
"Hardy har, har."
"Hey, Vic!" Victor tapped his sister's shoulder, "Hope you like the taste of snow!" he slapped a puff of the white powder into her face.
"Ah! That's cold!" Vic whined and brushed the snow away.
"Snow usually is," Victor laughed until she turned on him, "Uh oh."
"I'm gonna get you for that, V!" Vic took off as her brother ran in the opposite direction.
"Yo, Eevy!"
"Who said what?" Eevy looked side to side, "Was that you, Ash?"
"We're back here!" Misty snickered as Eevy turned around, "Gotcha again!"
"Hey!" Eevy jumped back as six snowballs made their way towards her, "Hey! Three on one's no fair!" she stomped, "Especially when you each have two!"
"Nya-nya!" Ash spat out his tongue, "Come and get us!"
"Oh! Now you're asking for it!" she started towards him but fell flat on her face, "This is evil."
Brock sat on the snow bank laughing, "Point and laugh! Point and laugh!" he snickered wildly.
"Yes, we should," Lance shoved him from behind, "Now let's point and laugh at you."
Tracey was just sitting calmly and sketching until Sooney cracked him in the face with a snowball, "Ah! My sketchbook!" he wailed.
Sooney laughed nastily, "Put the book away, Sketchit! Come on and play!"
"Come on, Tracey!" Medira called as she pushed Jason over again, "We'll leave you alone!"
"Yeah right," Tracey stood up and started down the steps before slipping backwards and landing on his back, "Ouch."
"Balance is key!" Will snickered just before he tipped over, "I think I gotta learn that too."
"Look at those little ninnies," two bright red, snaky eyes watched from the frozen bushes, "Disgusting. So happy and bubbly-cute," the customary snake's hiss in his voice was overly present, as he was incredibly annoyed, "Little angel-girl and the dragon boy. Aw, ain't that cute? Hack, hack! The ice witch and the psycho psychic. And the color brat and that hot little blond. Now, that is cruel. What about me? What about Peter Rubeus? Huh?!"
"Hey, Kratos!" Eevy launched a snowball at her boss, "Watch out!"
"Buusutaa, I choose you!" Bazan Kratos released his Flame Ball into the snow, "Buusutaa! Ember attack, now!"
His Flareon obeyed orders without hesitation, stopping the snowball from pelting her master, "Flare! Fla flare flareon!" she climbed the steps and sat down beside Kratos.
"Oh, you play Pokemon, huh?" Eevy smiled wide, her eyes then narrowing at what the fire did to the snow, "I must remember that…That could serve as a very useful tactic," she thought, then shouting, "Don't forget! I'm the Champion Mistress of Eevolution! I choose everyone!"
"I can battle Pokemon style too," Lance took out his Rage Ball, "I'm the Elite Fourth Major Master of Dragons! I choose everybody!"
"If you're going to play like that, so can my Pokemon!" Will reached to his vest, "I'm the Elite Third Major Master of Psychics! Let's go, everyone!"
"My Pokemon love this weather!" Luri snickered and went for her belt, "I'm the Elite Second Major Mistress of Ice and Water! Play time, guys!"
"I suppose my Pokemon would like this too," Jason bared his Poke'Ball, "I'm the Elite First Major Master of Alternate Colors! I call all of you!"
"My Pokemon can melt this scenery," Medira smirked and held her Poke'Balls ready, "I'm the Medio Mistress of Dark and Fire and holder of the Shimmer Badge of Rainbow Metro Pokemon Gym! Let's party, my Pokemon!"
"No chance I'm going in there now!" Peter inched backwards, "No way in hell!" he cringed at Luri's Pokemon, "That ice witch has that Kingdra! That hot blond has a Blastoise! Angel-girl has the Vaporeon and the color brat has Seadra! These people are too well prepared! I'm out of here!" he melted to shadows and took off.
"There's no way Rubeus would try anything with all of you out, right boys?" Eevy let Dexter do the translating work today.
"Right, Eevy," her Pokemon echoed each other.
"I'm getting a faint reading on him, actually," Will scanned the bushes, "I think he was here and left."
"It's possible," Jason backed away from Medira, "Don't you dare!"
"Better run!" Medira readied a snowball and tossed it as hard as she could, forgetting Jason had the speed of Sapphire.
The snowball whacked into a passerby, who jumped and shrieked, "Who's the wise guy?!" she snorted and jumped to face them, "Oh! Sorry. Didn't realize I was in front of Rainbow Mansion."
"Sorry," Medira snickered nervously, "Should watch where I throw."
"I should watch how I duck," Jason shrugged.
"Hey, I know you," Eevy leaned against the tree, "You're the secretary from Kratos' office, aren't you?"
"Yes, that's me. I was just filling in for my mother. Hello, sir!" she waved wildly at Kratos.
"Hello, Rachel," Kratos yawned and started dozing off, "Wake me at spring thaw."
Rachel noticed the Pokemon gracing the snow, "Having a Pokemon Battle?"
"Huh?" Lance looked side to side, "Oh, no. Just messing around."
"I'm sure," she then noticed just about everyone was covered in snow, "Snowball fight?"
"Snowball war," Yuu-Yuu corrected.
"Oh…" Rachel trailed off as she attempted to process the age differences between the group, "Anyway, I should be going."
"Why don't you stay a bit?" Eevy jumped, "Won't kill you, I'm sure," then thinking, "Well…That might not be entirely accurate…"
Rachel looked back at the group and thought it through, "I suppose," she plowed her way through the snow and up to the porch, "Hey, another Master!" she pointed at Morty.
"Minor Master, thank you," Morty waved his un-bandaged arm at her, "Morty Hikoboshi. Call me Mortimer and I'll have to hurt you."
"Lisle Illusion," the girl beside him squeezed between Rachel and Morty.
"Yuu-Yuu Palm," Yuu-Yuu sprang into the air, "And these are Sooney Shippou and Skiff Frigate!"
"I'm Mizu Mist," Mizu smiled wide and pulled Eusine to her side, "And this is Eusine Hikoboshi."
"I'm Victoria Ryujin," she snatched her brother's arm, "And this is my deranged and somewhat mentally ill brother, Victor. Vic and V, if you'd like."
"I'm Beth Mist," Beth jumped, "These are Ash Ketchum, Misty Waterflower, Brock Granite and Tracey Sketchit."
"I'm sure you know us, but I'm Evangelina Hikoboshi and these are my Pokemon. Everyone calls me Eevy."
"You've seen us filtering in and out of Kratos' office, but I'm Lance Ryujin."
"William Logos," Will tried to draw the attention away from his broken nose, "Will, please."
"Lurianna Sedna, Lorelei's daughter. Everyone calls me Luri," she smiled wide, "Hi!"
"Jason Peruwa," Jason bowed with Medira scowling behind him, "At your service, my lady."
"Hey, you!" Medira snatched his ear and pulled him away, "Don't get any ideas! Ignore him," she shoved him back, "I'm Medira Kurayami."
"I wasn't doing anything wrong," Jason whined, "Cruel."
Rachel snickered when Medira scuffed a pile of snow into Jason's face, "I'm Rachel Warren."
"Do you have any Pokemon?" Beth pulled herself over the railing of the porch.
"A few," Rachel shrugged, "Why?"
"Can we see them?!" Ash bugged.
"I suppose," she shrugged again, "I choose everyone!" her Poke'Balls went into the air, "These are all the Pokemon I have with me. These are Dragonite, Lapras, Gengar, Vaporeon, Kadabra, and Ampharos. I have a few others in my storage boxes."
"Dragonite!" Lance flailed.
"Gengar!" Lisle and Morty bounced to a stand.
"Kadabra!" even Will sped over.
"What an awesome Ampharos!" Ash looked over the Pokemon
"Wow!" Eevy, Mizu, Luri and Misty beamed, "What a totally cool Vaporeon!"
"And a Lapras too!" Luri added on her own.
"I told you she was a psycho," Morty whispered to Lisle.
"Yep," Lisle nodded slowly, "I believe it now."
Novo drooped in the corner as his fire-powered brother approached, "What's up, baby bro?" Zovo the Flareon scratched at the back of his ear, "Actually," he noticed his whiny nature, "What's down?"
"Look at her," Novo the Vaporeon drooped even lower, "All cuddly with that other Vaporeon. What about me?"
"Is that the Water Stone evolved son of the great Vovo doubting himself?" his electric brother Lovo snickered from above him on the porch railing, "She's just being a typical girl."
"Hiya, big brother!" a little girl Eevee plowed Lovo from behind and sent him flipping into the snow, "How are you?"
"Who are you?" Lovo rolled away and scampered behind his Psychic brother, Sovo.
"Who is that?" Sovo whispered back to them.
The baby Eevee started crying wildly, "Yuu-Yuu!" she bawled, "Yuu-Yuu!"
Yovo the Umbreon dropped the stick he'd been chewing on, "Ya! Make her stop, you guys!"
"Calm down, girl!" Zovo flailed, "Stop crying!"
"You don't even know your own sister when you see her," Vovo walked up and scolded his sons, "This is your baby sister, Sova."
"We have a sister?" Novo asked his brothers in a whisper.
"Guess so," the others answered in the same whisper.
"You have another sister and brother in Lily City, a sister in Rose Town, and a brother, sister-in-law and niece in Iris Town," Vovo shook his head.
"Oh," the Pokemon stared blankly at their baby sister.
"Let's play!" Sova lunged past them, "Come on!"
"I hate girls," Zovo whined and tromped along behind her.
"Then you'd hate me," something snickered.
Each Pokemon's head went in a different direction, "Who, what, when, where and why?" they kept looking.
It laughed again, "I'm up here," Rachel's Vaporeon smiled down from the porch railing, "Hi, boys."
"Oh, you're a girl," Lovo huffed.
"Last time I noticed," she said a bit nastily, "You know, your mother was a girl too."
"That's different," Sovo snorted.
"Whatever," she jumped down, "I heard you've got a super strong Acid Armor," she pushed Yovo aside and got in Novo's face, "Is it true?"
Novo swallowed, "Yeah, so what?" he pushed her back, "Nobody's as strong as me!"
"Got that right," Yovo nodded, "We're Champion Pokemon!"
"Hey, I was just asking," the Vaporeon slapped snow at them, "See ya' 'round!" she took off towards Rachel.
"Man, she was pushy," Lovo groaned.
"Yeah. Too much attitude," Zovo nodded.
"Come on, boys!" Eevy waved from the porch, "We're going inside!" she started in but turned around again, "Bring your sister."
"Oh man!"
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"I've been thinking," Eevy leaned back in the chair, "About the snow."
"You and everybody else, Eevy," Lance shook his head, "You heard Kratos. Whining about how it was "too cold for his aging metabolism"."
"Not that, you great lummox," she rolled her eyes, "About what Buusutaa did to that snowball I threw."
"She roasted it," Lance shrugged, "Who cares? Any Pokemon with a Fire- type attack can do that."
"Would you listen please?"
"Yeah. I'm listening, I'm listening."
"Thank you. Now, you're right about her roasting it like that, but I was thinking. What happens when you combine fire and ice or snow?"
"Is this beginners' physics or something? The snow and ice would melt. Duh!"
"When it melts it turns to water."
"Yeah, no shit. I noticed that. What's your point?"
"That's why Peter hates to have to face Luri. If he attacks her Ice- types with his Fire- types he'd drench himself. Plus the fact she has Water- types anyway."
"Ding-a-ling! I knew that already!"
"Stop the smart-ass comments!" she stomped the floor, causing the light bulb across the room to blow.
"Geez, sorry," he cringed, "So what? Luri and Peter hate each other. There blows a new wind."
"Not so," Eevy shook her head, "When he had us all down there he was supposedly "saving" Mizu, Lisle, Medira, Luri and me for later. Luri was there. He doesn't hate her like he says he does."
"I knew that too. I was there," he frowned, "Locked to the wall."
She slapped her own forehead and ran her hand down her face, "If we get Peter to melt the snow or attack one of Luri's Pokemon-"
"No way!" Lance jumped up, "We're not using her, or anyone, as bait. And I know that's what you were working up to. No way, Evangelina. No way!"
"Well, we've gotta do something!" she burst, "I'm not going to live here in Rainbow Metro, playing it up like life is good even though I've got a jealous Demised Champion watching my every move! I'm not here to suit his voyeuristic pleasures! I'm here to be Champion Mistress!"
"Calm down before you blow something or someone up!" he raised his hands to his sides, "I'll agree to this if you talk to Luri. I'm not going to be the punching bag. That's your job."
"All right. I'll talk to Luri," she smiled evilly, "But you talk to Will."
"No way! This is your idea, you deal with it alone!" he shivered for a moment, "Make me talk to that spazzy William. You're nuts."
"OK. If I do this alone, I'll be sleeping alone too. For a long time," she crossed her arms and walked out, heading for Luri's room.
His face tweaked, "Hey! Now that's just cold!" he skidded out the door and flailed down the hall to catch up to her, "That's a cheap trick."
"But it worked," she spat out her tongue, "Go find Will."
"Yeah. Go find Will," he mimicked her with an odd tone while walking away, "Yeah, I'll go find Will. Then I'll come and find you."
"You do that," she waved her hand at him and knocked on Luri's door, "Luri! It's Eevy!"
"Come on in, Eevy!" came the muffled answer, "I'm just digging through my closet."
"Well, you may want to sit down," Eevy sprawled out on the bed, noticing something that was a bit out of place, "Will was in here, wasn't he?" she grinned wickedly at the dark purple cloak hanging beside the ice blue one.
"That's none of your business," Luri narrowed one eye, "Now, what did you want to ask me?" she questioned and sat down next to her.
"Here goes nothing…"
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"Here, Willie-Willie-Willie! Here, Willie-boy!" Lance tromped around the Mansion, "Where are you, Will?"
"Now I can't even sit in my room in peace?" Will snorted, "I'm in my room!"
"Is it safe to come in?" frankly, Lance was afraid to go in Will's room; especially when he'd been in there alone.
"Sure," Will snickered lightly to himself as he readied another dart.
Just as Lance opened the door, Will threw the dart. It zipped from his bed, on the left of the door, towards the dartboard past the door on the opposite wall. Lance inhaled a short, yet deep breath as the dart flew towards the side of his head. It was halted in midair, barely hitting his face. Lance stood, eyes closed tightly, as Will sat on his bed, laughing hysterically.
Will stomped the bed wildly as he laughed, "You didn't honestly think I'd let it hit you, did you?!"
"Get that thing away from me," Lance growled as Will let the dart float back to his hand, "Don't do shit like that, ya' nut ball!"
"Relax! It's not like I'd actually do it. Besides, I can stop it in a fraction of a second."
"What if you're a fraction off? You could kill somebody with those things!"
"Oh, stop it!" Will shook his head as the dart hovered above his hand and spun to face the board, "Loosen up!" the dart ripped across the room and into the dartboard, "Missed," he called it back, "You just come in here to yell at me or what?"
"Will," Lance swallowed, "Put the darts down."
"Why?"
"I don't want you armed in any fashion," he snatched them from his hand, "Now listen closely…"
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"No way in hell!" Luri slammed her door open, "I am not playing prey with Peter Rubeus! Find yourself another dummy!"
"Oh, come on, Luri! For your Champion Mistress?" Eevy jumped out behind her and slid down the hall beside her, "For me?"
"I don't care who you are!" Luri shoved her away, "No way! I am not about to get baked and fried for a plan you don't even know will work!"
"Are you bloody nuts?!" Will's door bashed open and Lance came flying out, "No way! Absolutely not! Tell that gooney girlfriend of yours to forget it!"
"Woahohoh!" Lance jumped up and scrambled down the hall, "Calm down, Will!" he jumped out of the way of a flying dart, "Put the darts down! Put the darts down!"
Will wasn't minding where his darts were flying. All he was watching was whether or not they hit Lance. One flew across the hall and slapped into the wall in front of Eevy's face. The next crashed into a vase that Eevy slid to catch. She just saved it and replaced it on the podium. The last dart Will had took a slightly more sinister turn. He threw it hardest, aiming for Lance, but the Dragon Master ducked quickly, letting it speed over him. Luri, however, did not.
"Ah!" Luri snatched her right shoulder, "Son of a bitch! What the hell are you doing?!" she pulled the dart from her skin, "Damn. What are you doing, you idiot?!"
"Luri!" Will's boots scuffed the floor as he shoved past Lance, "Are you all right?! I'm so sorry!"
"I'm fine," she growled, "Watch where you throw! And why were you chasing him like that anyway?"
"He and Eevy want to use you as bait for Peter. Aren't they caring?"
"Compared to this, Peter should be a snap," Luri stood up with Will and Eevy holding her steady, "I'll help this once, Eevy. As for you," she snapped at Will, "Keep your distance or I'll sick Jynx on you."
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Luri got her arm bandaged and accepted Will's apology about a dozen times before he finally shut up. He was now sleeping with her doing the same in his lap. Jason and Medira were snoring back to back and Eevy had fallen asleep while leaning on the already snoozing Lance. Lisle was asleep with her face in her book and Morty slept with his arm propped up. Eusine and Mizu had their arms crossed under their heads on the dining room table and Vic and Victor were asleep in their chairs. Ash, Misty, Brock and Tracey were in their sleeping bags in the middle of the floor, snoring away. Yuu-Yuu, Sooney, Beth, Skiff and Rachel were all awake and jabbering quietly.
"We'd better keep it down," Sooney whispered, "If we wake any of them up we'll get pounded."
"Yeah, we've been through that before," Yuu-Yuu rolled her eyes, "One peep and bang! They crack us in the back of the head."
"I'm trying to sleep over here," Beth teased, "That's all they ever say. Like we really meant to wake 'em up."
"And they only give us one warning," Skiff snorted, "No second chances. One mistake is enough, they say."
"Yeah, but I bet they'd never really do anything drastic," Rachel shrugged, "Probably just hot tempers."
"Anyway, what is it you plan to do in terms of Pokemon?" Sooney continued in a low voice.
"Nothing really," Rachel shrugged, "I'm just a trainer. I don't really have a goal. Yeah, being a Champion would be great, but I don't really have a set idea of what I'm after."
"That sounds like me," Skiff leaned back and yawned, "I just train because I love Pokemon, not to achieve any special goals. Eevy, on the other hand," he looked over his shoulder, "She had her heart set on this since the day she started."
"She looks pretty happy, but what's all this about Peter Rubeus?" Rachel tilted her head, "What's going on with that guy?"
"You really don't want to know. Trust us," Yuu-Yuu swallowed, "If you did, you wouldn't have to wait for him to get near you to melt."
The Next Chronicle:
Seeking Enemies
Notes
o_O Bringing a new character in this late...Whee. Well, that's really all I have to say other than this is one of those pointless filler chapters, mostly x_x The next one though is one of those that's half important and half plain ol' strangeness. Anyways...You'll get the next new chapter soon.
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