Forever a Rurouni
Mayonaka Hitomi
(Disclaimer: I only lay claims to Arisa. . .and any other OCs you see that appear.)
Uh. . . .Chapter two is here! It was being evil, when I first tried to upload it it cut the story in half and then I had to re-type the chapter!! *sobs*
Review responese:
MTG- Thankies! ^^ Your vote's been added.
seirei queen of darkness- .......I just tyepd your name in like. . . .five seconds flat......And it's such a long name too! Well, I guess if I can type the name Sesshoumaru in one second flat, then I can type your name fast too! Anywho, thankies! You're a nice person! Your pairing has been counted. *nods* And yes, it is too bad Lance isn't real. *sighs*
Ewan- Uh....I have no spellcheck programs on my computer and I do read over my chapters, but I guess I still miss a few things here and there. Your vote has been counted.
ShiningCharizard- Gee, thanks! ^^ Yes, you count for the rival application. In ruth, I'm a girl and I don't think much of myself in girly traits, either. I'm a tomboy....with a romantic side. Y'know, if anybody at my school was to find out I have a romantic side, I'd hear absolutely no end to it. . . .And I don't think I did Cyndaquil THAT good. . . .
Anywho, I might be able to change your name around if I choose you.
Hmm. . .who to choose for the rival? *ponders* Aha! *snaps fingers* I'll take the person who applied for it first! That means our rivals' name shall be. . . . .*thinks* Reversing the name would be Eilla, but that sounds girlish still. . . . .How about. . .Eill? That works! That sounds like a boy name.....kinda. *sweatdrop*
.......And before I get any parents complaining about me using the word 'Hell', it can be used when it means the firey depths below the Earth's surface, so ha.
Eh. . . . .What else was I going to say? Oh yeah. . .if anyone wants to go through the earlier stages of the game (from Blackthorn and back) to record the lines the characters had, I'd really appreciate it! You see, the idea to make a fanfic just hit when I was heading into the Dragon's Den. . . .So yeah. Anyone and everyone is welcome to do this task!
Now, onto the fic!!
KEY:
Not done this chapter. . .remember, it's done every three chapters from now on, kay?
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Coupling Votes so far:
Arisa/Rival: 1
Arisa/Lance: 2
Voting booth is still open! It's just down there! Then make a left and it's the first door to your righ! *points to a door where a sign reads 'Voting Booths' is at*
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Arisa blinked as she spun around on her heel to see whoever it was that was addressing her.
"who're you?"she asked, staring at the same red head who had been snooping around the professor's lab earlier.
"I'll tell you if you can defeat me in a Pokemon battle!"the boy said, smirking confidently as he pulled a pokeball from his pocket.
Arisa blinked again but reached for the pokeball containing Cyndaquil anyway. "Y'know......I really don't feel like battling right now, but I guess I don't have a choice, do I?"
"You got that right. Go, Totodile!"
'Geeze, he just so happens to grab the type stronger than fire....Well, hopefully Cyndaquil grew a bit stronger from those battles on the trip.'Arisa thought, calling out Cyndaquil at the same time.
"Totodile, scratch!"the boy yelled. (I forgot if Totodile started with scratch or tackle, so I'm using scratch.)
"Cyndaquil, dodge it and wait for my signal!"Arisa shouted out. Cyndaquil followed the girl's orders and dodged the attack thrown at it.
"Thank the gods for Cyndaquil's good speed...."Arisa murmured. Arisa saw the opening she had been waiting for and smirked.
"Okay Cyndaquil, go in for the attack!"she yelled. "Tackle!"
Cyndaquil cried out and charged at the unsuspecting Totodile, throwing it a few feet away.
"Alright Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled, thrusting her fist into the air above her head in a victorious way.
"Totodile! Get back up!"the boy yelled. Totodile slowly got up, already pretty weak from that one tackle.
Arisa's eyes flashed for a second. 'That's no way to treat another living being. . . .'
"Cyndaquil! Put that Totodile out of its misery and tackle it once more!"Arisa called out.
"Dodge it Totodile!"
Totodile managed to dodge and scratch Cyndaquil across the stomach in the process.
"Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled as her Pokemon staggered around slighlty. "Careful out there! And once more, tackle that Totodile!"
Once more Cyndaquil charged at Totodile, who was once again thrown back a few feet. Totodile staggered around a bit on its feet before falling to the ground, it's eyes now little swirls.
Arisa could've sworn she heard a ping in the back of her head through the faint battle music ringing in her ears, deciding to wait until later to remember what it stood for.
"We won Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled, running up to her Pokemon and scooping it up into her arms, hugging it. "You were awsome out there!"
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil chirped, quite happy for himself.
".....Fine, you win. My name's Eill. But this won't be the last time you'll see me!the boy, Eill said, walking away.
Arisa blinked. "This may actually make me seem kinda shallow but.....He's actually kinda cute.....and for the sake of whatever god out there this world worships, why do I always fall for the bad-boy types?! Me and my weird crushes."
"Cynda........"Cyndaquil sighed, shaking its head.
"Well, wanna go back in your pokeball or stay with me out here?"Arisa asked, looking at Cyndaquil.
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil said, jumping from her arms and standing in front of her.
"I take that as the first choice?"
"Cynda!"
"Gotcha. Cyndaquil, return!"Arisa said, holding her pokeball at arms' length in fron of her as Cyndaquil was recalled. She smiled as she tucked her pokeball back onto her belt, walking out of town.
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"Okay, once more, tackle!"Arisa yelled out as Cyndaquil dodged a blow from the wild Sentret that wouldn't leave them alone. Cyndaquil swiftly turned the dodge into a tackle and hit the Sentret full force, but the small ferret-like creature still stood.
"Great Cyndaquil! One more time, tackle that Sentret!"Arisa shouted, cheering on her Pokemon while giving it instructions.
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil cried out, tackling the opposing Sentret so it hit a nearby tree.
"Great Cyndaquil!"Arisa cheered, once again scooping it up into a hug. "Now, it's just two hours worth of time until we hit New Bark. We can get in some training too, if we stop. Now isn't this fun?"
"Cyndaquil!"Cyndaquil agreed.
"Okay, let's get going!"Arisa said, beginning to walk to her 'home town' with Cyndaquil in her arms.
She suddenly stopped. "Oh, I was meaning to ask you......Do you still wanna travel with me after the errand's done?"
"....."Cyndaquil became quiet as he thought. "Cynda!"
"I take that as a yes?"
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil called, nodding its head.
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Arisa sighed as she crossed her arms over her chest, leaning back in her chair. She was currently getting interrogated by the police to get an accurate description of the guy who stole the pokeball for Totodile from the lab.
"I'm telling you, all I know is he's a red head with blue eyes, is about my age, and his name is Eill!"Arisa growled out, trying to keep her temper under control.
"Are you sure?"Officer Jenny asked her.
Arisa rolled her eyes. "How can I NOT be sure when it was I who saw him?"
"Good point. Well, we'll be out now so you can talk to Professor Elm."Jenny stood along with one other officer who had been taking down notes.
"Finally...."Arisa mummbled.
"What was that?"
"Oh nothing."Arisa said sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she looked up and gave the best evil sugary smile she could muster. She then stood up and brushed past the police officers and out of the room, heading for the lab where new trainers chose their starters.
"Professor Elm?"Arisa asked, looking around the room to find he was typing away at a computer. Arisa sighed and sweatdropped. His family wasn't kidding when they said he was a workaholic.
She sighed once more and walked over to him, tapping him lightly on the shoulder. He didn't do anything but continued typing away.
Arisa growled in annoyance and tapped him on the shoulder, just a bit harder. He still kept typing.
Another tap. More typing.
Much harder tap. More typing.
Finally, Arisa's top blew. "PROFESSOR ELM!"she yelled in his ear.
"Puch! Oh, hi Arisa! Did you get that egg?"Professor Elm asked, spinning around in his swivel chair.
"Oh, yeah, right here."Arisa shrugged off her backpack and set it on the floor gently, openeing the top and pulling out a white egg with red and blue triangles of all sizes on it. "This the one?"
"It is! Thank you. You can go now if you want. And talk to my assistant at the door, he has some pokeballs that he's giving out to the new trainers going by."
"Gotcha."Arisa said, slipping her backpack back on and walking out the door to re-stock on supplies.
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Arisa entered the Ruins of Alph, ready to see what they had in store for her. She turned to the guard or watchman or whatever that sat behind the desk.
"Hey, can you tell me a bit about these ruins?"she asked, walking over to the guard.
"Yup! You see, just near that building those scientists that study the ruins at is a cave look-alike. Go in and you'll be in a room with a sliding puzzle you can try to solve! Nobody's been able to solve it yet, sadly."the man said.
Arisa nodded and grinned. "Lucky me, I love to solve puzzles. And over two- thirds of the time I do manage to solve them."
"Well, good luck to you, then."
"Thanks."Arisa said, walking out the door and into the ruins.
What she saw amazed her. She saw several huge rock formations in front of her and some trees here and there. She looked to her left and saw anoth rock formation, with a door. Deciding that was what the man was talking about, she walked into it.
"This looks like the place."she said to herself, walking up to a stond panel that was between two Pokemon statues. She looked to the left to see a description of the picture when complete.
"Got it!"she grinned, starting the puzzle.
After about ten minutes of arranging and rearranging, she solved the puzzle with a triumphant grin. Of course she didn't expect the floor below her to collapse, and so she fell in. She wound up in the ruins, where there was nothing but a strange prescence.
"....What's with this place?? I'm getting a weird feeling...."Arisa said, shaking slightly as she saw the stairs nearby. She began walking towards them, only to be surprised by a strange....thing, popping out form nowhere. She yelped and fell backwards, onto her backside.
"W-what the heck are you?!"she asked the thing, staring at it in shock. "Unless. . . ."Arisa looked at the walls. "You...you look like some of the figures on the walls! And....you.....you look like a Pokemon...."
And it dawned on Arisa.
Reaching down to her belt, she pulled out her weakest Pokemon. "Go, Pidgey! Tackle that....thing!"
Pidgey appeared from its pokeball and tackeld the oppopsing....thing, as Arisa had decided to call it.
"Once more, tackle!"
And the.....thing, fell. Arisa pulled out a pokball from her pack and tossed it, waiting for the little red light on it to turn white.
And it did.
"Alright!"Arisa shouted, jumping as her voice echoed off the walls in an errie way.
And suddenly she was ambushed by two more of the strange, one-eyed things.
"Pidgey, tackle them both!"
And the small bird did, causing both........things, to fall to the ground in a dead faint.
"Go, pokeballs!"Arisa shouted, tossing out two more empty pokeballs at the strange things, catching those. the balls were then teleported away, back to the labs.
"I wonder what those things were, anyway."Aris apondering, calling Pidgey back and climbing the stairs out.
"Excuse me."
Arisa looked to see one of the scientists. "Yes?"
"You just captured three Unown, very mysterious and strange Pokemon. I can add an extension to your Dex to record all the Unown you capture."he offered.
"Uh....sure. Couldn't hurt."Arisa shrugged, following the scientist back to the lab.
Arisa walked out of the lab, Dex in hand, as she headed back into the room where she had solved the puzzle. She wanted to investigate that place more......
Upon entering, she found no one else in the room, just how she liked it. She walked around, looking at the walls. She arrived at the back, and stared at symbols that seemed to stand out.
"what the. . . .?"Arisa looked closely at the Unown symbols, and it dawned on her. "Letters! They form letters of the alphabet! And this says.....E- S-C-A-P-E........Escape! What does that mean, though?"
Arisa blinked as she put a hand to her chin in thought. "Items! Something that has to do with escaping.....uh......Escape Ropes? Yeah! And I have one in my pack, too! Spiffy!"
Arisa shrugged off her pack and pulled out the Escape Rope, holding it up to the words. Nothing happened.
"Don't tell me I have to use the cursed thing...."Arisa groaned, but still used the item.
Upon entering the room again and running to the back wall, she found an enterance, just her size, where the words were.
"Weird....."she murmured, entering. "And now there are pedestals with items on them. Peachy." She wlaked around the room, grabbing the items and searching the room more.
"A hole in the floor. Eh, what could it hurt? Whoo hoo."Arisa sighed, cheering lamely as she stepped back and jumped through the hole in the room.
"Oof!!"Arisa said the famous enterance line of....someone, upon landing on her bottom a short distance from the above floor.
She looked at the ground. "What the-?"
She stood and looked at the ground. "Unown scriptures? Peachy. Now I have to decipher these." She grumbled something as she pulled out a pen and began to write the letters on her hand and arm.
"Done!"she chirped lazily, about thirty minutes later and an arm full of words. "Okay, so it reads.......'Our words shall remain here for the ages.' What the hell does that mean?!"
Arisa grumbled and dropped through yet another hole, back into the room with the Unown running around. She groaned in annoyance and began the treck out.
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She reached Violet again, only to enter the PokeCenter and find herself bombarded by one of Elm's assistants.
"We were wondering if you could take care of this egg for us and tell us when it hatches."he said. "You up to it?"
"Sure....might as well."Arisa grumbled, grabbing the egg and placing it in her pack.
"Thank you!"he chirped, leaving.
Arisa just groaned and fell onto a nearby chair in exhaustion.
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Arisa exited the tunnel or cave or whatever the heck it was, she didn't feel like checking what it was, and sheilded her eyes from the bright sunlight.
"I still think two hours in a friggin' cave is waaaaay too much time. . . ."she grumbled to herself, jumping over the small ledge that was nearby a patch of grass that rustled even without the wind, signaling wild Pokemon were running around in it.
"Hey! Kid!"
"Huh?"Arisa blinked, turning around to see some hiker waving at her. "What?"
"Wanna battle??"the hiker asked.
Arisa shrugged and nodded, walking up to the man. "Sure, just lemme use these potions on my Pokemon since they're kinda weak from all the batling in that cave."
Arisa then turned around and sent all of her Pokemon out at once. "Okay everyone, time to heal up!"she said cheerily, taking a few potions out of her backpack.
"Come here, Pidgey."she cooed, waving over the small bird. She then sprayed it with the potion, where all of its wounds were, and hugged it as the relief of the potion came. "There. Return! Now, come here, Cyndaquil."
Arisa finished healing up all of her Pokemon and was ready for battle.
(Her captured Pokemon are: Cyndaquil which evolved into a Quilava after Violet Gym, Pidgey, Rattata, Bellsprout, Ghastly, Geodude, and Onix. She also has Togepi, who hatched from the egg a while back.)
"Okay, you send out a Pokemon first."Arisa said, being polite, but really wanting to see what Pokemon this guy had.
"Okay. Go! Geodude!"
Arisa smirked. "Go! Bellsprout! And use Razor Leaf on that Geodude!"
Bellsprout appeared from its pokeball and used said attack against Geodude, wiping said opponent out.
"Yay Bellsprout! Wonderful job!"
"Grr.....Okay then, you beat me."the hiker said.
Arisa grinned and nodded. "Okay, return, Bellsprout!"
"How about we exchange phone numbers? I watch out for rare Pokemon on my hikes. What do you say?"
Arisa grinned. "Sure!"
And so they exchanged numbers and Arisa headed on her way to Azalea Town.
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And now, two weeks later.......
"Ooooh........"Arisa said, staring at the huge city of Goldenrod from the enterance, nearly dropping the Egg she had earlier recieved from the nice couple a few hours away from here. "Soooo big....."
Arisa snapped out of her stupor, realizing it was going to get dark in a few hours' time and she needed to find somewhere to stay.
"Uh......"Arisa stepped into town, only to nearly get run over by a hoarde of fangirls heading off to who knows where.
"HEY!! Watch where you're going you girls!! I'm carrying and Egg here!"Arisa yelled, but then realized how some people that might've heard and might've caught the second meaning that could've been behind it and sweatdropped as people stared at her with wide eyes. "I meant THIS Egg!!"she said, holding up said Egg.
Arisa sweatdropped as some people sighed with relief.
"Why me?"she mumbled, heading of to find a PokeCenter.
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Um......I'd say this chapter was long enough! Anywho, if I made any mistakes, sorry, but I don't have spellcheck and I miss a few things here and there when I read over it.
Anyways......The polls are still open for the couple voting! New pairings are also allowed to be submitted, mind you, so don't get discouraged if you want another pairing! *sweatdrop* And I hope none of you like shounen-ai, for I shall not do anything shounen-ai in this fic.
Contact me via email at:
light_of_dark@greenthunder.zzn.com
And now, I am out. *bows and leaves*
Mayonaka Hitomi
(Disclaimer: I only lay claims to Arisa. . .and any other OCs you see that appear.)
Uh. . . .Chapter two is here! It was being evil, when I first tried to upload it it cut the story in half and then I had to re-type the chapter!! *sobs*
Review responese:
MTG- Thankies! ^^ Your vote's been added.
seirei queen of darkness- .......I just tyepd your name in like. . . .five seconds flat......And it's such a long name too! Well, I guess if I can type the name Sesshoumaru in one second flat, then I can type your name fast too! Anywho, thankies! You're a nice person! Your pairing has been counted. *nods* And yes, it is too bad Lance isn't real. *sighs*
Ewan- Uh....I have no spellcheck programs on my computer and I do read over my chapters, but I guess I still miss a few things here and there. Your vote has been counted.
ShiningCharizard- Gee, thanks! ^^ Yes, you count for the rival application. In ruth, I'm a girl and I don't think much of myself in girly traits, either. I'm a tomboy....with a romantic side. Y'know, if anybody at my school was to find out I have a romantic side, I'd hear absolutely no end to it. . . .And I don't think I did Cyndaquil THAT good. . . .
Anywho, I might be able to change your name around if I choose you.
Hmm. . .who to choose for the rival? *ponders* Aha! *snaps fingers* I'll take the person who applied for it first! That means our rivals' name shall be. . . . .*thinks* Reversing the name would be Eilla, but that sounds girlish still. . . . .How about. . .Eill? That works! That sounds like a boy name.....kinda. *sweatdrop*
.......And before I get any parents complaining about me using the word 'Hell', it can be used when it means the firey depths below the Earth's surface, so ha.
Eh. . . . .What else was I going to say? Oh yeah. . .if anyone wants to go through the earlier stages of the game (from Blackthorn and back) to record the lines the characters had, I'd really appreciate it! You see, the idea to make a fanfic just hit when I was heading into the Dragon's Den. . . .So yeah. Anyone and everyone is welcome to do this task!
Now, onto the fic!!
KEY:
Not done this chapter. . .remember, it's done every three chapters from now on, kay?
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Coupling Votes so far:
Arisa/Rival: 1
Arisa/Lance: 2
Voting booth is still open! It's just down there! Then make a left and it's the first door to your righ! *points to a door where a sign reads 'Voting Booths' is at*
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Arisa blinked as she spun around on her heel to see whoever it was that was addressing her.
"who're you?"she asked, staring at the same red head who had been snooping around the professor's lab earlier.
"I'll tell you if you can defeat me in a Pokemon battle!"the boy said, smirking confidently as he pulled a pokeball from his pocket.
Arisa blinked again but reached for the pokeball containing Cyndaquil anyway. "Y'know......I really don't feel like battling right now, but I guess I don't have a choice, do I?"
"You got that right. Go, Totodile!"
'Geeze, he just so happens to grab the type stronger than fire....Well, hopefully Cyndaquil grew a bit stronger from those battles on the trip.'Arisa thought, calling out Cyndaquil at the same time.
"Totodile, scratch!"the boy yelled. (I forgot if Totodile started with scratch or tackle, so I'm using scratch.)
"Cyndaquil, dodge it and wait for my signal!"Arisa shouted out. Cyndaquil followed the girl's orders and dodged the attack thrown at it.
"Thank the gods for Cyndaquil's good speed...."Arisa murmured. Arisa saw the opening she had been waiting for and smirked.
"Okay Cyndaquil, go in for the attack!"she yelled. "Tackle!"
Cyndaquil cried out and charged at the unsuspecting Totodile, throwing it a few feet away.
"Alright Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled, thrusting her fist into the air above her head in a victorious way.
"Totodile! Get back up!"the boy yelled. Totodile slowly got up, already pretty weak from that one tackle.
Arisa's eyes flashed for a second. 'That's no way to treat another living being. . . .'
"Cyndaquil! Put that Totodile out of its misery and tackle it once more!"Arisa called out.
"Dodge it Totodile!"
Totodile managed to dodge and scratch Cyndaquil across the stomach in the process.
"Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled as her Pokemon staggered around slighlty. "Careful out there! And once more, tackle that Totodile!"
Once more Cyndaquil charged at Totodile, who was once again thrown back a few feet. Totodile staggered around a bit on its feet before falling to the ground, it's eyes now little swirls.
Arisa could've sworn she heard a ping in the back of her head through the faint battle music ringing in her ears, deciding to wait until later to remember what it stood for.
"We won Cyndaquil!"Arisa yelled, running up to her Pokemon and scooping it up into her arms, hugging it. "You were awsome out there!"
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil chirped, quite happy for himself.
".....Fine, you win. My name's Eill. But this won't be the last time you'll see me!the boy, Eill said, walking away.
Arisa blinked. "This may actually make me seem kinda shallow but.....He's actually kinda cute.....and for the sake of whatever god out there this world worships, why do I always fall for the bad-boy types?! Me and my weird crushes."
"Cynda........"Cyndaquil sighed, shaking its head.
"Well, wanna go back in your pokeball or stay with me out here?"Arisa asked, looking at Cyndaquil.
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil said, jumping from her arms and standing in front of her.
"I take that as the first choice?"
"Cynda!"
"Gotcha. Cyndaquil, return!"Arisa said, holding her pokeball at arms' length in fron of her as Cyndaquil was recalled. She smiled as she tucked her pokeball back onto her belt, walking out of town.
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"Okay, once more, tackle!"Arisa yelled out as Cyndaquil dodged a blow from the wild Sentret that wouldn't leave them alone. Cyndaquil swiftly turned the dodge into a tackle and hit the Sentret full force, but the small ferret-like creature still stood.
"Great Cyndaquil! One more time, tackle that Sentret!"Arisa shouted, cheering on her Pokemon while giving it instructions.
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil cried out, tackling the opposing Sentret so it hit a nearby tree.
"Great Cyndaquil!"Arisa cheered, once again scooping it up into a hug. "Now, it's just two hours worth of time until we hit New Bark. We can get in some training too, if we stop. Now isn't this fun?"
"Cyndaquil!"Cyndaquil agreed.
"Okay, let's get going!"Arisa said, beginning to walk to her 'home town' with Cyndaquil in her arms.
She suddenly stopped. "Oh, I was meaning to ask you......Do you still wanna travel with me after the errand's done?"
"....."Cyndaquil became quiet as he thought. "Cynda!"
"I take that as a yes?"
"Cynda!"Cyndaquil called, nodding its head.
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Arisa sighed as she crossed her arms over her chest, leaning back in her chair. She was currently getting interrogated by the police to get an accurate description of the guy who stole the pokeball for Totodile from the lab.
"I'm telling you, all I know is he's a red head with blue eyes, is about my age, and his name is Eill!"Arisa growled out, trying to keep her temper under control.
"Are you sure?"Officer Jenny asked her.
Arisa rolled her eyes. "How can I NOT be sure when it was I who saw him?"
"Good point. Well, we'll be out now so you can talk to Professor Elm."Jenny stood along with one other officer who had been taking down notes.
"Finally...."Arisa mummbled.
"What was that?"
"Oh nothing."Arisa said sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she looked up and gave the best evil sugary smile she could muster. She then stood up and brushed past the police officers and out of the room, heading for the lab where new trainers chose their starters.
"Professor Elm?"Arisa asked, looking around the room to find he was typing away at a computer. Arisa sighed and sweatdropped. His family wasn't kidding when they said he was a workaholic.
She sighed once more and walked over to him, tapping him lightly on the shoulder. He didn't do anything but continued typing away.
Arisa growled in annoyance and tapped him on the shoulder, just a bit harder. He still kept typing.
Another tap. More typing.
Much harder tap. More typing.
Finally, Arisa's top blew. "PROFESSOR ELM!"she yelled in his ear.
"Puch! Oh, hi Arisa! Did you get that egg?"Professor Elm asked, spinning around in his swivel chair.
"Oh, yeah, right here."Arisa shrugged off her backpack and set it on the floor gently, openeing the top and pulling out a white egg with red and blue triangles of all sizes on it. "This the one?"
"It is! Thank you. You can go now if you want. And talk to my assistant at the door, he has some pokeballs that he's giving out to the new trainers going by."
"Gotcha."Arisa said, slipping her backpack back on and walking out the door to re-stock on supplies.
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Arisa entered the Ruins of Alph, ready to see what they had in store for her. She turned to the guard or watchman or whatever that sat behind the desk.
"Hey, can you tell me a bit about these ruins?"she asked, walking over to the guard.
"Yup! You see, just near that building those scientists that study the ruins at is a cave look-alike. Go in and you'll be in a room with a sliding puzzle you can try to solve! Nobody's been able to solve it yet, sadly."the man said.
Arisa nodded and grinned. "Lucky me, I love to solve puzzles. And over two- thirds of the time I do manage to solve them."
"Well, good luck to you, then."
"Thanks."Arisa said, walking out the door and into the ruins.
What she saw amazed her. She saw several huge rock formations in front of her and some trees here and there. She looked to her left and saw anoth rock formation, with a door. Deciding that was what the man was talking about, she walked into it.
"This looks like the place."she said to herself, walking up to a stond panel that was between two Pokemon statues. She looked to the left to see a description of the picture when complete.
"Got it!"she grinned, starting the puzzle.
After about ten minutes of arranging and rearranging, she solved the puzzle with a triumphant grin. Of course she didn't expect the floor below her to collapse, and so she fell in. She wound up in the ruins, where there was nothing but a strange prescence.
"....What's with this place?? I'm getting a weird feeling...."Arisa said, shaking slightly as she saw the stairs nearby. She began walking towards them, only to be surprised by a strange....thing, popping out form nowhere. She yelped and fell backwards, onto her backside.
"W-what the heck are you?!"she asked the thing, staring at it in shock. "Unless. . . ."Arisa looked at the walls. "You...you look like some of the figures on the walls! And....you.....you look like a Pokemon...."
And it dawned on Arisa.
Reaching down to her belt, she pulled out her weakest Pokemon. "Go, Pidgey! Tackle that....thing!"
Pidgey appeared from its pokeball and tackeld the oppopsing....thing, as Arisa had decided to call it.
"Once more, tackle!"
And the.....thing, fell. Arisa pulled out a pokball from her pack and tossed it, waiting for the little red light on it to turn white.
And it did.
"Alright!"Arisa shouted, jumping as her voice echoed off the walls in an errie way.
And suddenly she was ambushed by two more of the strange, one-eyed things.
"Pidgey, tackle them both!"
And the small bird did, causing both........things, to fall to the ground in a dead faint.
"Go, pokeballs!"Arisa shouted, tossing out two more empty pokeballs at the strange things, catching those. the balls were then teleported away, back to the labs.
"I wonder what those things were, anyway."Aris apondering, calling Pidgey back and climbing the stairs out.
"Excuse me."
Arisa looked to see one of the scientists. "Yes?"
"You just captured three Unown, very mysterious and strange Pokemon. I can add an extension to your Dex to record all the Unown you capture."he offered.
"Uh....sure. Couldn't hurt."Arisa shrugged, following the scientist back to the lab.
Arisa walked out of the lab, Dex in hand, as she headed back into the room where she had solved the puzzle. She wanted to investigate that place more......
Upon entering, she found no one else in the room, just how she liked it. She walked around, looking at the walls. She arrived at the back, and stared at symbols that seemed to stand out.
"what the. . . .?"Arisa looked closely at the Unown symbols, and it dawned on her. "Letters! They form letters of the alphabet! And this says.....E- S-C-A-P-E........Escape! What does that mean, though?"
Arisa blinked as she put a hand to her chin in thought. "Items! Something that has to do with escaping.....uh......Escape Ropes? Yeah! And I have one in my pack, too! Spiffy!"
Arisa shrugged off her pack and pulled out the Escape Rope, holding it up to the words. Nothing happened.
"Don't tell me I have to use the cursed thing...."Arisa groaned, but still used the item.
Upon entering the room again and running to the back wall, she found an enterance, just her size, where the words were.
"Weird....."she murmured, entering. "And now there are pedestals with items on them. Peachy." She wlaked around the room, grabbing the items and searching the room more.
"A hole in the floor. Eh, what could it hurt? Whoo hoo."Arisa sighed, cheering lamely as she stepped back and jumped through the hole in the room.
"Oof!!"Arisa said the famous enterance line of....someone, upon landing on her bottom a short distance from the above floor.
She looked at the ground. "What the-?"
She stood and looked at the ground. "Unown scriptures? Peachy. Now I have to decipher these." She grumbled something as she pulled out a pen and began to write the letters on her hand and arm.
"Done!"she chirped lazily, about thirty minutes later and an arm full of words. "Okay, so it reads.......'Our words shall remain here for the ages.' What the hell does that mean?!"
Arisa grumbled and dropped through yet another hole, back into the room with the Unown running around. She groaned in annoyance and began the treck out.
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She reached Violet again, only to enter the PokeCenter and find herself bombarded by one of Elm's assistants.
"We were wondering if you could take care of this egg for us and tell us when it hatches."he said. "You up to it?"
"Sure....might as well."Arisa grumbled, grabbing the egg and placing it in her pack.
"Thank you!"he chirped, leaving.
Arisa just groaned and fell onto a nearby chair in exhaustion.
*******
Arisa exited the tunnel or cave or whatever the heck it was, she didn't feel like checking what it was, and sheilded her eyes from the bright sunlight.
"I still think two hours in a friggin' cave is waaaaay too much time. . . ."she grumbled to herself, jumping over the small ledge that was nearby a patch of grass that rustled even without the wind, signaling wild Pokemon were running around in it.
"Hey! Kid!"
"Huh?"Arisa blinked, turning around to see some hiker waving at her. "What?"
"Wanna battle??"the hiker asked.
Arisa shrugged and nodded, walking up to the man. "Sure, just lemme use these potions on my Pokemon since they're kinda weak from all the batling in that cave."
Arisa then turned around and sent all of her Pokemon out at once. "Okay everyone, time to heal up!"she said cheerily, taking a few potions out of her backpack.
"Come here, Pidgey."she cooed, waving over the small bird. She then sprayed it with the potion, where all of its wounds were, and hugged it as the relief of the potion came. "There. Return! Now, come here, Cyndaquil."
Arisa finished healing up all of her Pokemon and was ready for battle.
(Her captured Pokemon are: Cyndaquil which evolved into a Quilava after Violet Gym, Pidgey, Rattata, Bellsprout, Ghastly, Geodude, and Onix. She also has Togepi, who hatched from the egg a while back.)
"Okay, you send out a Pokemon first."Arisa said, being polite, but really wanting to see what Pokemon this guy had.
"Okay. Go! Geodude!"
Arisa smirked. "Go! Bellsprout! And use Razor Leaf on that Geodude!"
Bellsprout appeared from its pokeball and used said attack against Geodude, wiping said opponent out.
"Yay Bellsprout! Wonderful job!"
"Grr.....Okay then, you beat me."the hiker said.
Arisa grinned and nodded. "Okay, return, Bellsprout!"
"How about we exchange phone numbers? I watch out for rare Pokemon on my hikes. What do you say?"
Arisa grinned. "Sure!"
And so they exchanged numbers and Arisa headed on her way to Azalea Town.
*******
And now, two weeks later.......
"Ooooh........"Arisa said, staring at the huge city of Goldenrod from the enterance, nearly dropping the Egg she had earlier recieved from the nice couple a few hours away from here. "Soooo big....."
Arisa snapped out of her stupor, realizing it was going to get dark in a few hours' time and she needed to find somewhere to stay.
"Uh......"Arisa stepped into town, only to nearly get run over by a hoarde of fangirls heading off to who knows where.
"HEY!! Watch where you're going you girls!! I'm carrying and Egg here!"Arisa yelled, but then realized how some people that might've heard and might've caught the second meaning that could've been behind it and sweatdropped as people stared at her with wide eyes. "I meant THIS Egg!!"she said, holding up said Egg.
Arisa sweatdropped as some people sighed with relief.
"Why me?"she mumbled, heading of to find a PokeCenter.
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Um......I'd say this chapter was long enough! Anywho, if I made any mistakes, sorry, but I don't have spellcheck and I miss a few things here and there when I read over it.
Anyways......The polls are still open for the couple voting! New pairings are also allowed to be submitted, mind you, so don't get discouraged if you want another pairing! *sweatdrop* And I hope none of you like shounen-ai, for I shall not do anything shounen-ai in this fic.
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And now, I am out. *bows and leaves*