A Trainer with Fire in his Eyes.
A fan fiction by Kyogre Kyogirl
Chapter Three: Those were the days. NOT!
"Whoa! So you're Jasper, huh?" said the boy. "I'm Vincent Oak. My dad's the leader of the Varidian City Gym. He's also your dad's rival."
"My name's Kitt. My dad's the leader of the Pewter City Gym. He traveled with your parents a lot." said a girl with black hair and bright green eyes.
Suddenly, everyone was crowding around Jasper and shaking his hand and telling him their name. After the ordeal was over, Brock cooked a huge meal for everyone and Ash and Misty's friends told Jasper stories about the old days when they were trainers.
After dinner, somebody was stupid enough to ask Jasper why he ran away. So, he began his long vigil of telling his version of the story.
**Flashback Sequence**
*"It all started when I was six." Jasper began.*
"Hey mom, can I go to Professor Oak's lab and play with the pokemon?" asked six-year-old Jasper.
"Sure honey. I'll come with you." said Misty.
They walked to the professor's house and found him outside trying to calm down a spooked ponyta.
"Hello Misty, Jasper, where's Ash?" Professor Oak said running his sentences together.
"He's with Brock and May again." said Misty. "I wish they'd take me and Jasper along with them, but they don't even bother to ask us anymore."
"I suggest that when he gets home, you should give him a piece of your mind." said Oak.
"Can I play with the ponyta, Professor Oak?" asked Jasper.
"Of course you can." Oak lifted Jasper up and onto the ponyta's back.
"Ponytaaaaaaa!" she was spooked again and started bucking. She threw Jasper off her back and he hit the ground really hard.
"Ouch!" Jasper said. He never cried.
Misty rushed over to her son and checked if anything was broken. "Oh good, nothing's broken. We'll see you tomorrow Professor Oak. Bye!"
Misty and Jasper went home.
*"Later that night my dad came home and he was a bit angry at my mom because."*
"You let him ride a spooked ponyta!?!?" shouted Ash. "He could have hurt himself badly!"
"But honey, she wasn't spooked when Jasper got on her back and-"
"I don't care! This is our only son we're talking about. We can't be bad parents and let him get hurt."
"Nobody's perfect Ash! If you're saying I'm a bad mother then you're as arrogant as you were when we were twelve! If I remember correctly, YOU were the one who's been leaving me alone with him while you hang out with your friends! You didn't even bother to ask us if we wanted to come!" screamed Misty.
Pikachu got ready to defend his master (it's an instinct) and Ash started yelling at Misty again. Suddenly, pikachu's energy was boosted by Ash's anger and the electricity went out of control.
"STOP FIGHTING!!!" shouted Jasper who ran in-between his parents and right in the way of the electric attack. He was electrocuted and Misty started yelling at Ash again.
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID! Who's the bad parent now?" Misty screamed.
"I didn't mean to, it just-I was-" Ash went upstairs and locked himself in his study while Misty carried her injured son up to bed.
*"From then on, I was really scared of pokemon. I hid whenever my dad came into the same room as I was in. He had pikachu with him all the time and it scared me. I thought he was going to attack me again. I was too little to understand that it was an accident."*
*"But then, when I was ten years old."*
"Hello Professor." said ten-year-old Jasper.
"So you're ready for training lessons?" asked the professor.
"Yes. I don't want to be scared anymore. But if I get a pokemon, my parents will go insane. They vowed that I would never be allowed to get one of my own. That was right after I spontaneously combusted dad's favorite shirt. I don't know what to do." said Jasper.
"You know, that hat you're wearing was the same hat that your father wore when he trained." said Oak. "I have an idea how we can start your training. It will even help you with your own powers. Take this pokeball, Jasper." He handed Jasper a pokeball with a blue flame on it.
He opened the pokeball and a Charmander with funny markings on his eyes that looked like blue lightning bolts appeared.
"Charmander!" it said. "Hi charmander!" said Jasper. He already loved his new friend. "I'll call you Blaze!"
"Chaaar!" said Blaze.
"Now Jasper, you're going to leave today-without telling your parents. I'm going to pretend that you never arrived here today and you'll go as quick as you can to the ferry-here's a ticket-and sail to the Charizific Valley. That's the fourth stop. Get off there and give this letter to a girl by the name of Kelly. She is distinctly known for her bright green hair. She'll have a charizard with a yellow bow on its head with her. She'll make you her apprentice and you'll live with her and train with her. You'll also take this cell phone with you. Only your grandmother Delia Ketchum and I know the number. We'll call you to check up on you."
"Take this pokemon and go. This can be our little secret. I won't tell anyone where you've gone. If this is the path you choose no one can tell you to change your mind. Be careful on your way to the Charizific Valley."
"Goodbye Professor Oak! I'll come and visit real soon!"
"Charmander! Char!"
"Use the back door and hop the fence into the Varidian Forest! It's the quickest way out. Goodbye!"
*"So I left and never came back. I just couldn't ever face my parents again after pretending to disappear with out a trace. Guess that was a bit harsh wasn't it? Well, I can tell you one thing, those were the days. NOT!"*
"Whoa! So that's why you left?" said Brock. "I thought it was different."
"Well, I regret it now. If I had come home for a while like I had promised, by some small chance they could have been saved..." Jasper said unhappily.
Kitt placed a reassuring arm around his shoulder. "Maybe we can still save them." She said. "We could save them ourselves if we have to."
"That's why I asked you three trainers to come here. You are going on a voyage to the Hoenn Island Region to save Jasper's parents. Let's get some shut eye and we'll get started on 'operation rescue mission' in the morning." said Oak.
Everybody went to bed-all except for Jasper and Blaze.
Jasper sat down on the stoop of the remains of his house. It had been reduced to piles of wood and torn fabric. He started to get really angry.
Soon he was standing with fist clenched and teeth gritted and he shouted loudly.
WHOOSH!
The remains of the house suddenly burst into flames. Jasper realized what he had done and calmed down so that the fire became a pile of glowing embers. Jasper felt as if it were his fault that his parents were gone. If he hadn't run away he might have been able to save them.
Jasper sniffed and let his tears fall. His mother had always said that real men were able to show their emotions, such as sadness, and let their tears fall. But these tears weren't tears. They were actually tiny flames coming from his eyes. They didn't hurt him although the sadness did.
"If only we'd been here to stop them." said Jasper defiantly.
'Charrrrr!" growled Blaze.
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Chapter Three: Those were the days. NOT!
"Whoa! So you're Jasper, huh?" said the boy. "I'm Vincent Oak. My dad's the leader of the Varidian City Gym. He's also your dad's rival."
"My name's Kitt. My dad's the leader of the Pewter City Gym. He traveled with your parents a lot." said a girl with black hair and bright green eyes.
Suddenly, everyone was crowding around Jasper and shaking his hand and telling him their name. After the ordeal was over, Brock cooked a huge meal for everyone and Ash and Misty's friends told Jasper stories about the old days when they were trainers.
After dinner, somebody was stupid enough to ask Jasper why he ran away. So, he began his long vigil of telling his version of the story.
**Flashback Sequence**
*"It all started when I was six." Jasper began.*
"Hey mom, can I go to Professor Oak's lab and play with the pokemon?" asked six-year-old Jasper.
"Sure honey. I'll come with you." said Misty.
They walked to the professor's house and found him outside trying to calm down a spooked ponyta.
"Hello Misty, Jasper, where's Ash?" Professor Oak said running his sentences together.
"He's with Brock and May again." said Misty. "I wish they'd take me and Jasper along with them, but they don't even bother to ask us anymore."
"I suggest that when he gets home, you should give him a piece of your mind." said Oak.
"Can I play with the ponyta, Professor Oak?" asked Jasper.
"Of course you can." Oak lifted Jasper up and onto the ponyta's back.
"Ponytaaaaaaa!" she was spooked again and started bucking. She threw Jasper off her back and he hit the ground really hard.
"Ouch!" Jasper said. He never cried.
Misty rushed over to her son and checked if anything was broken. "Oh good, nothing's broken. We'll see you tomorrow Professor Oak. Bye!"
Misty and Jasper went home.
*"Later that night my dad came home and he was a bit angry at my mom because."*
"You let him ride a spooked ponyta!?!?" shouted Ash. "He could have hurt himself badly!"
"But honey, she wasn't spooked when Jasper got on her back and-"
"I don't care! This is our only son we're talking about. We can't be bad parents and let him get hurt."
"Nobody's perfect Ash! If you're saying I'm a bad mother then you're as arrogant as you were when we were twelve! If I remember correctly, YOU were the one who's been leaving me alone with him while you hang out with your friends! You didn't even bother to ask us if we wanted to come!" screamed Misty.
Pikachu got ready to defend his master (it's an instinct) and Ash started yelling at Misty again. Suddenly, pikachu's energy was boosted by Ash's anger and the electricity went out of control.
"STOP FIGHTING!!!" shouted Jasper who ran in-between his parents and right in the way of the electric attack. He was electrocuted and Misty started yelling at Ash again.
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID! Who's the bad parent now?" Misty screamed.
"I didn't mean to, it just-I was-" Ash went upstairs and locked himself in his study while Misty carried her injured son up to bed.
*"From then on, I was really scared of pokemon. I hid whenever my dad came into the same room as I was in. He had pikachu with him all the time and it scared me. I thought he was going to attack me again. I was too little to understand that it was an accident."*
*"But then, when I was ten years old."*
"Hello Professor." said ten-year-old Jasper.
"So you're ready for training lessons?" asked the professor.
"Yes. I don't want to be scared anymore. But if I get a pokemon, my parents will go insane. They vowed that I would never be allowed to get one of my own. That was right after I spontaneously combusted dad's favorite shirt. I don't know what to do." said Jasper.
"You know, that hat you're wearing was the same hat that your father wore when he trained." said Oak. "I have an idea how we can start your training. It will even help you with your own powers. Take this pokeball, Jasper." He handed Jasper a pokeball with a blue flame on it.
He opened the pokeball and a Charmander with funny markings on his eyes that looked like blue lightning bolts appeared.
"Charmander!" it said. "Hi charmander!" said Jasper. He already loved his new friend. "I'll call you Blaze!"
"Chaaar!" said Blaze.
"Now Jasper, you're going to leave today-without telling your parents. I'm going to pretend that you never arrived here today and you'll go as quick as you can to the ferry-here's a ticket-and sail to the Charizific Valley. That's the fourth stop. Get off there and give this letter to a girl by the name of Kelly. She is distinctly known for her bright green hair. She'll have a charizard with a yellow bow on its head with her. She'll make you her apprentice and you'll live with her and train with her. You'll also take this cell phone with you. Only your grandmother Delia Ketchum and I know the number. We'll call you to check up on you."
"Take this pokemon and go. This can be our little secret. I won't tell anyone where you've gone. If this is the path you choose no one can tell you to change your mind. Be careful on your way to the Charizific Valley."
"Goodbye Professor Oak! I'll come and visit real soon!"
"Charmander! Char!"
"Use the back door and hop the fence into the Varidian Forest! It's the quickest way out. Goodbye!"
*"So I left and never came back. I just couldn't ever face my parents again after pretending to disappear with out a trace. Guess that was a bit harsh wasn't it? Well, I can tell you one thing, those were the days. NOT!"*
"Whoa! So that's why you left?" said Brock. "I thought it was different."
"Well, I regret it now. If I had come home for a while like I had promised, by some small chance they could have been saved..." Jasper said unhappily.
Kitt placed a reassuring arm around his shoulder. "Maybe we can still save them." She said. "We could save them ourselves if we have to."
"That's why I asked you three trainers to come here. You are going on a voyage to the Hoenn Island Region to save Jasper's parents. Let's get some shut eye and we'll get started on 'operation rescue mission' in the morning." said Oak.
Everybody went to bed-all except for Jasper and Blaze.
Jasper sat down on the stoop of the remains of his house. It had been reduced to piles of wood and torn fabric. He started to get really angry.
Soon he was standing with fist clenched and teeth gritted and he shouted loudly.
WHOOSH!
The remains of the house suddenly burst into flames. Jasper realized what he had done and calmed down so that the fire became a pile of glowing embers. Jasper felt as if it were his fault that his parents were gone. If he hadn't run away he might have been able to save them.
Jasper sniffed and let his tears fall. His mother had always said that real men were able to show their emotions, such as sadness, and let their tears fall. But these tears weren't tears. They were actually tiny flames coming from his eyes. They didn't hurt him although the sadness did.
"If only we'd been here to stop them." said Jasper defiantly.
'Charrrrr!" growled Blaze.
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Chapter four is coming soon!
Buh-bye!