Kip Reines sat on the back of his poliwrath, taking in the sunlight as they
together moved toward the majestic, high walls of Ever Grande City. Waves
careened against his feet, his pokemon seeming to be in a good mood. Soon
enough, he would be facing the elite four.. then he would do whatever it
took to be the champ. Even if it meant.. well.. he would think about that
later.
Sea breeze blew through his slicked back black hair. He managed a small smile.
"I could be the best.." he mumbled aloud. The thought struck him as.. well.. interesting. Powerful, almost. To know that he was one of the best.. better than all the others.. gave him an odd tingle of authority.
"Don't get too cocky, there, Kip.." sputtered his poliwrath.
Kip glanced down at the large blue pokemon. "I thought I turned off the translator on my pokedex," he said.
"Either way, bud, it's not all based on the power of me and the rest of your pokemon.. the power rests in the trainer's hands. I only follow command. Kip, it's up to you if you want to win this thing."
Kip sighed. He hated to admit that his own pokemon was right.. probably wiser than him, actually. "Alright, Mr. Wrath. I'll remember that. Just try to get us there before the sun sets. I don't want to try and scale that huge waterfall by moonlight."
"I'll get you there when I want you to get there," the poliwrath said, looking back at him. Kip thought he saw a smile in the pokemon's eyes.
"Stop shitting me," Kip laughed.
Poliwrath kicked its feet harder and they were propelled further.
"Just remember, Kip.. the power rests in your hands.. not mine."
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"Just remember, Dominic.. the power rests in your hands.. not mine," said electrike, moving swiftly alongside Dom. They were walking up a steep hill, Brenna and Alex on either side of them.
"Right you are, Zappy," said Dom, petting his pokemon behind the ears. Also out of their pokeballs were Brenna's kecleon and Alex's vulpix.
The group reached the top of the large hill, and they found that they could see for miles off into the far reaches of Hoenn. The first thing that stood out to Dom was the large blue structure that rose about 40 feet above a large lake, some hundred yards away. Under it the silvery water glimmered, and a skinny strip of land crossed the lake. On the large blue structure above it all, bikes zoomed back and forth.
"Cycling Road.." Alex whispered.
Brenna looked at Alex with disgust, then turned to Dominic. "Honestly, Dominic, I don't know why you wanted this.. annoyance to come with us."
Alex ignored her. "Dom, that road will take you straight to Mauville.. either you travel by that road or you take the little marshy route underneath it, which I wouldn't recommend. You got a bike?"
"Yeah," Dom said, reaching into his backpack for the pokeball which held his bicycle. It was amazing how pokeballs could nowadays keep just about anything in them. This one was specially made to hold bicycles.. but none the less..
"Then we'll travel Cycling Road, we will." Alex said.
"Vul! Yay! I just LOVE Cycling Road! We can have the wind in our hair, the sun to our backs, oh it will be great.." said Vulpix, now trotting at an excited pace.
"Oh, no. You're going back inside while we ride," said Alex, holding out Vulpix's pokeball as if to threaten her.
The brown fox sighed and slowed down, allowing herself to be recalled into her ball.
It was a few more moments before Dominic and Alex realized Brenna wasn't walking at their pace. They turned to see her, an upset and angry look on her face.
"Did you guys ever come to think that maybe my bike was ruined in a little.. accident?" she said, her blue eyes growing larger than they already were. "You can't travel that road unless you're on a bike!"
Dominic, who was now sitting on his own bicycle, gulped. "Damn.. I forgot, Brenna.. sorry."
Alex merely laughed. "Well, then, we'll see you when we get there!" He took out his own bicycle and hopped on.
"Alex.. we can't just leave her.." Dom said quietly.
"Thanks, Dom, but honestly I don't need help. I'll just go back to Slateport.. work on getting into Pokemon Tech.. you know.." she looked extremely hurt. Brenna turned, her overly intelligent kecleon following suite, away from the two boys and began to walk away.
Dom frowned, and he now saw Alex looking back, frowning also. It was in that moment that Dominic realized that all the fighting Brenna and Alex had been doing wasn't real hate.. just, well, he didn't know what it was, but it sure as hell wasn't hate. Alex reached into his pocket and threw a pokeball towards Brenna. It landed at her feet, and a pink bicycle formed from it.
"I.. I had that one as a spare. It wasn't exactly my color.." muttered Alex. Brenna's frown turned slowly into a grin, her eyes full with gratitude. Alex also gave a small smile. Dom sighed, his arms crossed.
"I knew you two would get along eventually," Dom said, recalling electrike.
Brenna turned to Dominic. "Who said we were getting along? He's just doing me a favor."
Alex sniggered. "That's it.. a favor.."
The three got on their bikes and rode down the steep hill toward Cycling Road. As they neared the entrance, Brenna turned to Dominic. He thought he saw her wink.
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The Cycling Road was built to help trainers move quickly across the crowded, narrow strip of land that was route 110, from Slateport City to Mauville City. The entire area was a unique combination of nature and innovation.
Now, the figures of Dominic, Brenna, and Alex could be seen halfway across the structure, the wind rushing through their hair.
As they neared the exit of the road, the figures of two more teenagers could be seen stopping them in their tracks..
"Who are you?" asked Alex, stepping off his bright red bike.
In front of them were a girl and a boy, the girl younger than the group, the boy older..
"Names Emma. Who are you, trainer?" said the girl. She had bright pink hair filled with purple highlights..
"Alex Blackstone.. what do you want?"
Emma looked at her companion. "This here's Jerald. We've been looking for a two on two battle lately.. interested?" She glanced from Alex to Dominic to Brenna, landing back on Alex.
"We been heading south to Dewford Town to get us some badges.. we figure we want some experience," said the boy named Jerald. He stood tall, talking somewhat like a hick, with bright blue hair. Together the two looked like a bunch of escaped clowns.
Alex looked back at Dominic. "You want to?"
Dominic took a quick look at Brenna, who was motioning that she wanted no part in the battle.. but Dom wanted some more experience.
"Let's do it!" he said.
"Yes!" said Alex, reaching for a pokeball in his pocket.
Emma and Jerald both held pokeballs in their hands.. they were ready for a battle.
Before starting, Dom nudged Alex. "I've never done a two on two battle before," he whispered.
"Ah.. me neither. Just keep it cool, bud, those dim wits will never know." Alex said. They both smiled and threw down their pokeballs.
"Let's get you evolved, Zappy!" Dom yelled as the dog materialized.
"Flareon, let's go!" shouted Alex. In front of him a wolf-like pokemon appeared. It had black, shiny eyes shaped like almonds - it's fur a reddish color. Around the flareon's neck was a thick white mane. It had a fluffy, long, tail of a similar color.
"Trike! Yes! Dom, I know I can win, dude!" barked electrike. "Let's do it! Come on come on come on!"
Emma studied the two pokemon. "Beautifly! Go!" she yelled. Out of her pokeball a large winged creature floated - it was a butterfly of sorts. It had a blackish blue head and torso, it's wings glowing every color imaginable. It had huge, dark eyes that gazed magically out at Dom and Alex.
"Fly.."
"Sableye!" Jerald hollered. His pokemon was very ghostly, a small, purple thing with diamond eyes and sharp claws.
Soon the four pokemon faced each other.
Dominic was panicking, trying to analyze the weaknesses of each pokemon on the battle field. "Zappy, shock wave the beautifly!" he eventually yelled.
"Alright!" the dog yelled, shooting a bolt of lightning at the butterfly. Beautifly was electrocuted, suddenly dropping to the ground, shaking. Dom felt bad to hurt such a beautiful creature.. but electrike was getting some good experience..
"Good job, Dom," said Alex, watching Emma recall the beautifly. "Flareon! Ember!"
Emma looked nervous. "Jerald, come ON!"
"Sabeleye, night shade!" he choked out. Dom couldn't come to think of how this guy was a successful trainer, let alone a trainer at all.
With a small, "Flare!" Alex's flareon shot small flames from it's mouth, straight at the sableye. Meanwhile, the small ghost pokemon began to glow and emit black waves. Before the flames connected, flareon was pulled up into the air and thrown half way across the width of Cycling Road.
"Flareon!" Alex yelled. "Quick! Agility back over here and try again!"
Dom glanced down at his pokedex. According to it, flareon was at 76% health, whereas sableye was still at full power. He didn't know whether he was allowed to ask electrike to attack again, or not..
Flareon stood up weakly and shot a line of flames from it's mouth at the small purple pokemon. The sableye was incinerated, quickly falling over. Never mind, then..
"Alright!" said Dom. Alex grunted approvingly.
"Er.. fine then.." muttered Emma. She tugged Jerald along with her and they rode off past the group.
"Good job, guys!" said Brenna, running over to them.
"Yes! It was good!" said flareon, jumping around and blowing flames everywhere.
"Woah, watch out there, flareon.." said Alex, as one of the embers hit a biker riding by.
"God damn you!" the biker yelled, but before Alex could yell back, he heard a whining noise coming from behind him.
"Dom!" shouted electrike.
"Yeah?"
"I think.. trike.. I feel funny Dominic!" the dog was whimpering.
"What's wrong Zappy?" Dom said, kneeling next to his pokemon. The dog was wobbling.. and suddenly it burst into a white light.
"Holy shit!" yelled Alex, jumping back. Suddenly the light cleared, and electrike was gone. In his place was a larger blue and yellow dog.. electrike had evolved.
"Trick! Dominic!" the new pokemon growled, prowling around the three in a circle. "I.. I evolved! What am I?"
Dom couldn't stop beaming. He aimed his pokedex at his new pokemon and clicked a button. Quickly, a voice chimed in.
(Manectric. Discharge pokemon. Electric type. Manectric discharges strong electricity from it's mane. The mane is used for collecting electricity in the atmosphere. This pokemon creates thunderclouds above it's head.)
"Wow! WOW! I can DO that?" said manectric. Dom was in near hysteria.
"My pokemon evolved! Yes! Alex, Brenna, he evolved! Look! He's bigger! He's.. he's all.. BIG! And cool! Jeezus!" he was jumping around, petting manectric and quickly being shocked.
"Cool it, Dom," said Alex, trying to calm him down.
"Dominic, evolution isn't that big a deal. It happens a lot when you're a trainer," she said. "My feebas evolved.. as did Alex's eevee."
Dominic shrugged, still shaking. "It's my first pokemon to do it though! How exciting!"
Alex sighed and Brenna tried to hold back a laugh.. he WAS over reacting.
Eventually they were back on their bikes. Dom's manectric had zoomed ahead, only slightly slower than the speed of light, and was now waiting for them at the exit to Cycling Road. Alex's flareon was also left out of it's ball, and was racing at their pace toward the outlet.
Finally going through the check out gates, Dom recalled his new(er) pokemon, as did Alex. Dom, Alex, and Brenna got off their bikes, Brenna throwing her collapsed bike back at Alex.
"Listen Alex.. thanks," she said, not looking at him.
"No problem," said Alex, looking the other way. Dom sighed and ushered them along the dirt road ahead of them.
"You two better get along," Dom said, Mauville City now in the horizon, "Or I'm gunna, I dunno, kill myself or something."
Brenna laughed and Alex chuckled. "I'll try.." he said, and suddenly burst into a run. "But I'll see you two when I get to Mauville!"
"Hey!" said Dom, and he grabbed Brenna's hand and pulled her forward after Alex. The three friends ran off to the city, where a new gym and a new challenge lay waiting for them to tackle.
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Sea breeze blew through his slicked back black hair. He managed a small smile.
"I could be the best.." he mumbled aloud. The thought struck him as.. well.. interesting. Powerful, almost. To know that he was one of the best.. better than all the others.. gave him an odd tingle of authority.
"Don't get too cocky, there, Kip.." sputtered his poliwrath.
Kip glanced down at the large blue pokemon. "I thought I turned off the translator on my pokedex," he said.
"Either way, bud, it's not all based on the power of me and the rest of your pokemon.. the power rests in the trainer's hands. I only follow command. Kip, it's up to you if you want to win this thing."
Kip sighed. He hated to admit that his own pokemon was right.. probably wiser than him, actually. "Alright, Mr. Wrath. I'll remember that. Just try to get us there before the sun sets. I don't want to try and scale that huge waterfall by moonlight."
"I'll get you there when I want you to get there," the poliwrath said, looking back at him. Kip thought he saw a smile in the pokemon's eyes.
"Stop shitting me," Kip laughed.
Poliwrath kicked its feet harder and they were propelled further.
"Just remember, Kip.. the power rests in your hands.. not mine."
* * * * * * * * * *
"Just remember, Dominic.. the power rests in your hands.. not mine," said electrike, moving swiftly alongside Dom. They were walking up a steep hill, Brenna and Alex on either side of them.
"Right you are, Zappy," said Dom, petting his pokemon behind the ears. Also out of their pokeballs were Brenna's kecleon and Alex's vulpix.
The group reached the top of the large hill, and they found that they could see for miles off into the far reaches of Hoenn. The first thing that stood out to Dom was the large blue structure that rose about 40 feet above a large lake, some hundred yards away. Under it the silvery water glimmered, and a skinny strip of land crossed the lake. On the large blue structure above it all, bikes zoomed back and forth.
"Cycling Road.." Alex whispered.
Brenna looked at Alex with disgust, then turned to Dominic. "Honestly, Dominic, I don't know why you wanted this.. annoyance to come with us."
Alex ignored her. "Dom, that road will take you straight to Mauville.. either you travel by that road or you take the little marshy route underneath it, which I wouldn't recommend. You got a bike?"
"Yeah," Dom said, reaching into his backpack for the pokeball which held his bicycle. It was amazing how pokeballs could nowadays keep just about anything in them. This one was specially made to hold bicycles.. but none the less..
"Then we'll travel Cycling Road, we will." Alex said.
"Vul! Yay! I just LOVE Cycling Road! We can have the wind in our hair, the sun to our backs, oh it will be great.." said Vulpix, now trotting at an excited pace.
"Oh, no. You're going back inside while we ride," said Alex, holding out Vulpix's pokeball as if to threaten her.
The brown fox sighed and slowed down, allowing herself to be recalled into her ball.
It was a few more moments before Dominic and Alex realized Brenna wasn't walking at their pace. They turned to see her, an upset and angry look on her face.
"Did you guys ever come to think that maybe my bike was ruined in a little.. accident?" she said, her blue eyes growing larger than they already were. "You can't travel that road unless you're on a bike!"
Dominic, who was now sitting on his own bicycle, gulped. "Damn.. I forgot, Brenna.. sorry."
Alex merely laughed. "Well, then, we'll see you when we get there!" He took out his own bicycle and hopped on.
"Alex.. we can't just leave her.." Dom said quietly.
"Thanks, Dom, but honestly I don't need help. I'll just go back to Slateport.. work on getting into Pokemon Tech.. you know.." she looked extremely hurt. Brenna turned, her overly intelligent kecleon following suite, away from the two boys and began to walk away.
Dom frowned, and he now saw Alex looking back, frowning also. It was in that moment that Dominic realized that all the fighting Brenna and Alex had been doing wasn't real hate.. just, well, he didn't know what it was, but it sure as hell wasn't hate. Alex reached into his pocket and threw a pokeball towards Brenna. It landed at her feet, and a pink bicycle formed from it.
"I.. I had that one as a spare. It wasn't exactly my color.." muttered Alex. Brenna's frown turned slowly into a grin, her eyes full with gratitude. Alex also gave a small smile. Dom sighed, his arms crossed.
"I knew you two would get along eventually," Dom said, recalling electrike.
Brenna turned to Dominic. "Who said we were getting along? He's just doing me a favor."
Alex sniggered. "That's it.. a favor.."
The three got on their bikes and rode down the steep hill toward Cycling Road. As they neared the entrance, Brenna turned to Dominic. He thought he saw her wink.
* * * * * * * * * *
The Cycling Road was built to help trainers move quickly across the crowded, narrow strip of land that was route 110, from Slateport City to Mauville City. The entire area was a unique combination of nature and innovation.
Now, the figures of Dominic, Brenna, and Alex could be seen halfway across the structure, the wind rushing through their hair.
As they neared the exit of the road, the figures of two more teenagers could be seen stopping them in their tracks..
"Who are you?" asked Alex, stepping off his bright red bike.
In front of them were a girl and a boy, the girl younger than the group, the boy older..
"Names Emma. Who are you, trainer?" said the girl. She had bright pink hair filled with purple highlights..
"Alex Blackstone.. what do you want?"
Emma looked at her companion. "This here's Jerald. We've been looking for a two on two battle lately.. interested?" She glanced from Alex to Dominic to Brenna, landing back on Alex.
"We been heading south to Dewford Town to get us some badges.. we figure we want some experience," said the boy named Jerald. He stood tall, talking somewhat like a hick, with bright blue hair. Together the two looked like a bunch of escaped clowns.
Alex looked back at Dominic. "You want to?"
Dominic took a quick look at Brenna, who was motioning that she wanted no part in the battle.. but Dom wanted some more experience.
"Let's do it!" he said.
"Yes!" said Alex, reaching for a pokeball in his pocket.
Emma and Jerald both held pokeballs in their hands.. they were ready for a battle.
Before starting, Dom nudged Alex. "I've never done a two on two battle before," he whispered.
"Ah.. me neither. Just keep it cool, bud, those dim wits will never know." Alex said. They both smiled and threw down their pokeballs.
"Let's get you evolved, Zappy!" Dom yelled as the dog materialized.
"Flareon, let's go!" shouted Alex. In front of him a wolf-like pokemon appeared. It had black, shiny eyes shaped like almonds - it's fur a reddish color. Around the flareon's neck was a thick white mane. It had a fluffy, long, tail of a similar color.
"Trike! Yes! Dom, I know I can win, dude!" barked electrike. "Let's do it! Come on come on come on!"
Emma studied the two pokemon. "Beautifly! Go!" she yelled. Out of her pokeball a large winged creature floated - it was a butterfly of sorts. It had a blackish blue head and torso, it's wings glowing every color imaginable. It had huge, dark eyes that gazed magically out at Dom and Alex.
"Fly.."
"Sableye!" Jerald hollered. His pokemon was very ghostly, a small, purple thing with diamond eyes and sharp claws.
Soon the four pokemon faced each other.
Dominic was panicking, trying to analyze the weaknesses of each pokemon on the battle field. "Zappy, shock wave the beautifly!" he eventually yelled.
"Alright!" the dog yelled, shooting a bolt of lightning at the butterfly. Beautifly was electrocuted, suddenly dropping to the ground, shaking. Dom felt bad to hurt such a beautiful creature.. but electrike was getting some good experience..
"Good job, Dom," said Alex, watching Emma recall the beautifly. "Flareon! Ember!"
Emma looked nervous. "Jerald, come ON!"
"Sabeleye, night shade!" he choked out. Dom couldn't come to think of how this guy was a successful trainer, let alone a trainer at all.
With a small, "Flare!" Alex's flareon shot small flames from it's mouth, straight at the sableye. Meanwhile, the small ghost pokemon began to glow and emit black waves. Before the flames connected, flareon was pulled up into the air and thrown half way across the width of Cycling Road.
"Flareon!" Alex yelled. "Quick! Agility back over here and try again!"
Dom glanced down at his pokedex. According to it, flareon was at 76% health, whereas sableye was still at full power. He didn't know whether he was allowed to ask electrike to attack again, or not..
Flareon stood up weakly and shot a line of flames from it's mouth at the small purple pokemon. The sableye was incinerated, quickly falling over. Never mind, then..
"Alright!" said Dom. Alex grunted approvingly.
"Er.. fine then.." muttered Emma. She tugged Jerald along with her and they rode off past the group.
"Good job, guys!" said Brenna, running over to them.
"Yes! It was good!" said flareon, jumping around and blowing flames everywhere.
"Woah, watch out there, flareon.." said Alex, as one of the embers hit a biker riding by.
"God damn you!" the biker yelled, but before Alex could yell back, he heard a whining noise coming from behind him.
"Dom!" shouted electrike.
"Yeah?"
"I think.. trike.. I feel funny Dominic!" the dog was whimpering.
"What's wrong Zappy?" Dom said, kneeling next to his pokemon. The dog was wobbling.. and suddenly it burst into a white light.
"Holy shit!" yelled Alex, jumping back. Suddenly the light cleared, and electrike was gone. In his place was a larger blue and yellow dog.. electrike had evolved.
"Trick! Dominic!" the new pokemon growled, prowling around the three in a circle. "I.. I evolved! What am I?"
Dom couldn't stop beaming. He aimed his pokedex at his new pokemon and clicked a button. Quickly, a voice chimed in.
(Manectric. Discharge pokemon. Electric type. Manectric discharges strong electricity from it's mane. The mane is used for collecting electricity in the atmosphere. This pokemon creates thunderclouds above it's head.)
"Wow! WOW! I can DO that?" said manectric. Dom was in near hysteria.
"My pokemon evolved! Yes! Alex, Brenna, he evolved! Look! He's bigger! He's.. he's all.. BIG! And cool! Jeezus!" he was jumping around, petting manectric and quickly being shocked.
"Cool it, Dom," said Alex, trying to calm him down.
"Dominic, evolution isn't that big a deal. It happens a lot when you're a trainer," she said. "My feebas evolved.. as did Alex's eevee."
Dominic shrugged, still shaking. "It's my first pokemon to do it though! How exciting!"
Alex sighed and Brenna tried to hold back a laugh.. he WAS over reacting.
Eventually they were back on their bikes. Dom's manectric had zoomed ahead, only slightly slower than the speed of light, and was now waiting for them at the exit to Cycling Road. Alex's flareon was also left out of it's ball, and was racing at their pace toward the outlet.
Finally going through the check out gates, Dom recalled his new(er) pokemon, as did Alex. Dom, Alex, and Brenna got off their bikes, Brenna throwing her collapsed bike back at Alex.
"Listen Alex.. thanks," she said, not looking at him.
"No problem," said Alex, looking the other way. Dom sighed and ushered them along the dirt road ahead of them.
"You two better get along," Dom said, Mauville City now in the horizon, "Or I'm gunna, I dunno, kill myself or something."
Brenna laughed and Alex chuckled. "I'll try.." he said, and suddenly burst into a run. "But I'll see you two when I get to Mauville!"
"Hey!" said Dom, and he grabbed Brenna's hand and pulled her forward after Alex. The three friends ran off to the city, where a new gym and a new challenge lay waiting for them to tackle.
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