Forever a Rurouni
Mayonaka Hitomi
(Disclaimer: I try, I really do! I was this close to owning an anime once! But then they threw water on my robot sent to take over the company and it shorted out. Shoot.)
Well, here is the next and newest installment to this fic! I hope you enjoy this chapter, it may be the last one for a while, seeing as I'm pretty busy since school is in full gear and second quarter has started up. @.@
Well, this chapter will probably be a bit short, but we'll see. Who knows what might happen, since this is just coming from me as I go along.
Review Responses:
monkey- Thanks. ^^
Shining Charizard- Thanks! *cocks eyebrow* Whoooo..... Well, you're enthusiastic about it, then. ^^;;Thanks! Since I've got all basically all of Ecruteak, sendin in Mahogany and up to beating Claire'd be nice. ^^ Otherwise.... Some of the Kanto scripts will do, too. ^^
seirei queen of darkness-Thanks! *greatfully takes cookie and munches on it* I needed some sugar today. You drew a Lance/Arisa piccy? @.@ Whoo, fanfic fanart. Can you show it to me sometime, pwetty please? *goes big- eyed* And the pic started out as a dothack one? Interestingly strange.... Gotcha. *has a notepad nearby with the tallies for each couple on it*
yashgirl- Thanks. ^^ *ish happy at the applaud from you* Yeah, more cookies! *gleefully takes them and sets them down nearby for later* Yes, you can still vote and yours has been counted. ^^ I will.
Ack, that's all.... And for the heck of it all, I'm shutting up now and putting the tallies down.
Arisa/Lance- 5
Arisa/Rival- 2
Tsk tsk, barely any Arisa/Rival votes.... I guess that means a bunch of people think rivals are too stuck up and annoying. *shrugs*
Well, I'm going to be on the search for the game scripts this chappie, too, so if you guys can't get any in for the game, I might have backup. Whoo yeah! GameFAQS hasn't been too helpful with any scripts too, so phooey on them.
*******
Arisa stumbled into Ecruteak City just as it turned night, happy to be in a town again after walking about two miles that day.
"Gah, I hate running around all day! It's so boring and tiring.... But hey, at least I'm getting in shape."she said to herself, looking around for the PokeCenter.
She wandered around for a bit before stumbling upon the center, literally, thanks to a rock.
"Wai!"she screeched as she windmilled her arms about to try and keep her balance, but failing miserably and ending up hopping into the PokeCenter and landing flat on her face.
"Ouch...."she mumbled into the ground.
"Miss, are you okay?"Nurse Joy asked from the desk.
Arisa un-stuck her face from the floor. "Never been better."she replied flatly.
Joy just smiled as Arisa continued to pluck herself from the floor,"Good."
Arisa sweatdropped at this, 'Are all Joys this stupid?'
"Erm.... Yeah, anyways...."Arisa sighed as she thought if any of her Pokemon needed some healing. "I'll be needing a room for the night."
"Okay. Here's your key."Joy handed a key to Arisa, who thanked her and went upstairs to the bedrooms to rest for the night.
*******
The next day.....
Arisa snatched up a map from a nearby stand that had all of the top tourist sites listed on it.
"Okay.... The dance house seems interesting. I'm definately going there first!"she decided, finding her current location before checking off the route she needed to take to reach the place.
Arisa folded up the map, failing miserably to fold it as it had come (who CAN get maps to fold back the way they started out as?), and stuffed it into her pocket for later referance.
'Why do they have to have such friggin' big cities?'she grumbled to herself, dodging random people with ease as she made her way to the dance house.
Upon arriving at the dance house, she noted, dully, that it seemed slightly run down.
'Cheapos.'was her last thought before she stepped in to kick major butt.
*******
Arisa smiled smugly as she recalled her Pokemon, quite happy with whooping major butt on the Kimono Dancers.
'I rule.'she thought happily as she jumped down from the stage and began to exit the dance house.
"Wait!"the old man called after her, so she stopped.
"Huh?"she replied intelligibly.
"I want you to have this."he said, walking up to her and handing her an HM.
"Wha?"she asked, staring at it.
"That HM teaches a Pokemon the move Surf. You can only use it on the field once you've beaten the gym leader here, though."he said.
Arisa blnked,"Ookay..... I'll keep that in mind."
"Have a nice day, young lady!"the old man said and she walked out, wondering why she always met the strangest of people.
Outside, Arisa found it was about an hour until lunch. She grabbed the map from her pocket and scanned the page for a nice food place, marking the trail mentally for when it was twelve and then looking for the location of the gym. Upon finding the trail, she memorized it, folded up the map, and stuffed it back into her pocket before heading to the gym, ready to earn her next badge.
*******
Arisa blinked. When she walked up to the gym door, an old man blocked her from entering!!
"Lemme in!"she pleaded.
"Morty, the Gym Leader, is absent. Sorry, you'll have to leave. Hohohohoho!"the old man said, shoving her away from the door.
"Whah?"she asked the old man as he turned his back to her and walked back to guard the door.
Arisa pulled out her map once more and decided to see if there was anything else of interest to do while Morty was out.
"Okay, so, top ten attractions..... Ranking in first is the Dance House, been there, and last is the Burned Tower. I think I'll go to the worst and save the other best for later."she decided, folding up the map for the third time that day and stuffing it back into her pocket, heading off to her next destination.
*******
Arisa stared up at the Burned Tower, a bit scared to go in in case it were to.... say, just collapse on her.
'Well, they say it's been standing for a good fifty or so years, so what can it hurt?' she decided, walking up the steps and into the old tower.
Upon enterance, she found that it was slightly lit up by the hole in the roof and that there were many rocks and a few boulders blocking paths and such. Debris littered the floor and Arisa could've sworn she saw something move behind some boards bunched up in the corner.
Arisa noticed some people walking about the tower and recognized only one as the Gym Leader, Morty.
"Erhem?"she asked lightyl, breaking the small silence that was in the room despite the pacing footsteps of Morty and the scuffling of the other guys's shoes.
Both looked up at her and both looked at her for a second, causing her to get annoyed.
"What exactly are you two hentais staring at?!"she screeched. (Hentai=perverts. Craw.)
Both jumped slightly at the break in the silence.
"I'm Arisa."Arisa said.
Silence.
"WELL?! You two going to introduce yourselves?!"
"My name;s Eusine.I'm on the trail of a Pokemon named Suicune. Glad to meet you. I've heard rumors that Suicune is in the Burned Tower, so I came to look. But where exactly could it be...?"the one Arisa didn't know said.
"As Ecruteaks's Gym Leader, I'm required to study what are said to be the legendary Pokemon- Suicune, Raikou, and Entei. Eusine is here, so I've decided to investigate the tower with him."Morty said.
Arisa blinked and nodded, "Okay then.... I'll just go around and check out the tower a bit more. I swear I saw something red-ish up behind those rocks move a bit, so I want to see what it is."
Both nodded and went back to searching while Arisa headed off to sneak up on the red thing.
Once she had made her way around all the rocks, she peeked around the corner and found her familiar, red-headed rival standing there, bathed in the light.
'Whoah he actually looks kinda cute like that.'she thought before softly slapping herself. 'I hate my mind.'
She stepped around the corner fully, acting like she had never even noticed Eill was there as she gazed up at the huge hole in the ceiling.
"....Oh, it's you."Eill said, finally noticing the other prescence as she brought her soft gaze down from the gaping hole.
"Yeah, what do you make of you?"she shot back, calmly ready for any verbal beratings he could give her.
Eill scoffed. "I came here looking for some legendary Pokemon they say roosts here. But there's nothing here!! Nothing, after all the trouble of coming to this dump? No way! It's all your fault!!"
"Me?"Arisa asked dumbly as Eill sent out Haunter.
'And when the heck'd he get a Haunter?'she thought, pulling out her own Pokeball for Kadabra and tossing it onto the ground in front of her.
And so the heated battle began between the two rivals.
(Skipping the battle, since I'm a bit lazy today....)
".... Aw, whatever. You'd never be able to catch a legendary Pokemon anyway."he scoffed.
Arisa just blinked, about to retort before the floor below her collapsed and she fell through with a yelp.
"Hmph! What are you doing falling through a hole? Some genius you are!! Serves you right!"Eill said before walking around the hole and leaving.
Down in the supposed basement of the tower, Arisa groaned as she sat up and rubbed her head.
"I think I broke something...."she groaned as she reached behind her to pull out a broken stick she had landed on.
She groaned and stood up in the pile of wood from the floor above and looked around. Light leaked through gaps in the floorboards above and a pillar of light descended from the hole she had fallen through.
"Curse you, you evil fates for doing this to me!"she spat, shaking her fist up into the air towards to heavens.
She continued to examine the room and noticed a platform with steps leading up to it ahead of her. With a long, drawn out sigh, she walked and ignored the small pain coming from her back as she climbed the steps.
Just as she reached the top, she examined three exquisite looking statues with intricate details marked all over them, making them look at if they could come to life any second.
So, what happened next caused Arisa to freeze up in shock. The statue in the farthest corner, to the left, broke apart and revealed a shaggy, red and brown creature standing proud and tall, to the fullest height it could achieve when standing on all fours. It then dashed away in a blur, creating a warm breeze behind it.
The second farthest statue broke open to reveal a yellow creature with black markings upon it. It barely spared a glance at her before also dashing off and leaving a crackling wind behind it.
The last statue closest to her broke open to revela a beautiful blue creature with a violet crest upon it's head. It had a long, white mane flowing behind it with what appeared to be white ribbons weaving about its body. White dots sported its body, and it had a white under side. It slowly walked up to Arisa, causing her to freeze up on the spot even more out of fear of what it might do to her. It examined her for a few seconds before dashing away, leaving a cold breeze behind that chilled Arisa to the bone.
Arisa blinked and broke from her stupor as she heard a voice from way below. She slowly turned and saw Eusine standing a few cliffs down with a ladder nearby, probably from which he came from.
She shook her head to clear it and slowly walked down from the platform, jumping carefully over the ledges that were always to high to climb back up.
"I dug a hole here, too. I was shocked!! Suicune raced by in a blur, right in front of my eyes! For ten years I've cahes Suicune, and now I finally got to see it. I'm all choked up! Arisa, I owe this all to you! Thank you!"Eusine proclaimed happily.
"Uh, your welcome?"Arisa replied, a bit stunned at his eagerness of the whole thing.
"I heard that the one Pokemon of Ecruteak tests chosen humans by allowing them to get close. I'm going to track Suicune. Arisa, let's meet again. Farewell!"Eusine said, scaling up the ladder, leaving Arisa down below.
".... Whatever happend to 'ladies first?' "Arisa asked, glaring up the ladder to where she assumed Eusine had exited before climbing out herself.
*******
Arisa glanced at her PokeGear to check the time. Past lunch. Drat.
"Well, time for a slightly late lunch, then. Back to the Pokecenter since that place I wanted to go to earlier closed by now."she said, marching off to her destination.
Upoin arrival, she found that barely any trainers were still around. OH well, better for her, she wanted some time alone while she and her Pokemon ate.
She ordered her food, got it, and got some for her Pokemon.
"Ah, the perks of being a trainer..... Free food!"Arisa grinned before pigging out on her hamburger and fries.
Her Pokemon, who were nearby, agreed whole-heartedly with her before they dug their tiny mouths/paws into their food to pig out.
Ah, just a normal day in the life of a trainer, apparently.
"And how about after this, we go and see if we can earn another badge!"Arisa cheered happily, her Pokemon letting out their own roars of agreement.
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Well, there is chapter four for all of you! Yay! Well, please review and send in any game scripts if you have some, I'm in dire need of the ones I requested in one of y earlier chapters. It's hard to find any on the 'net, I tried very hard last night and only found that my computer crashed on all the Pokemon sites I went to due to constant ads popping up here and there and everywhere!
.... Why is it Pokemon sites always have bunches of ads on'em, anways?!
Anyways, I'm out for now. See you next chapter!
Mayonaka Hitomi
(Disclaimer: I try, I really do! I was this close to owning an anime once! But then they threw water on my robot sent to take over the company and it shorted out. Shoot.)
Well, here is the next and newest installment to this fic! I hope you enjoy this chapter, it may be the last one for a while, seeing as I'm pretty busy since school is in full gear and second quarter has started up. @.@
Well, this chapter will probably be a bit short, but we'll see. Who knows what might happen, since this is just coming from me as I go along.
Review Responses:
monkey- Thanks. ^^
Shining Charizard- Thanks! *cocks eyebrow* Whoooo..... Well, you're enthusiastic about it, then. ^^;;Thanks! Since I've got all basically all of Ecruteak, sendin in Mahogany and up to beating Claire'd be nice. ^^ Otherwise.... Some of the Kanto scripts will do, too. ^^
seirei queen of darkness-Thanks! *greatfully takes cookie and munches on it* I needed some sugar today. You drew a Lance/Arisa piccy? @.@ Whoo, fanfic fanart. Can you show it to me sometime, pwetty please? *goes big- eyed* And the pic started out as a dothack one? Interestingly strange.... Gotcha. *has a notepad nearby with the tallies for each couple on it*
yashgirl- Thanks. ^^ *ish happy at the applaud from you* Yeah, more cookies! *gleefully takes them and sets them down nearby for later* Yes, you can still vote and yours has been counted. ^^ I will.
Ack, that's all.... And for the heck of it all, I'm shutting up now and putting the tallies down.
Arisa/Lance- 5
Arisa/Rival- 2
Tsk tsk, barely any Arisa/Rival votes.... I guess that means a bunch of people think rivals are too stuck up and annoying. *shrugs*
Well, I'm going to be on the search for the game scripts this chappie, too, so if you guys can't get any in for the game, I might have backup. Whoo yeah! GameFAQS hasn't been too helpful with any scripts too, so phooey on them.
*******
Arisa stumbled into Ecruteak City just as it turned night, happy to be in a town again after walking about two miles that day.
"Gah, I hate running around all day! It's so boring and tiring.... But hey, at least I'm getting in shape."she said to herself, looking around for the PokeCenter.
She wandered around for a bit before stumbling upon the center, literally, thanks to a rock.
"Wai!"she screeched as she windmilled her arms about to try and keep her balance, but failing miserably and ending up hopping into the PokeCenter and landing flat on her face.
"Ouch...."she mumbled into the ground.
"Miss, are you okay?"Nurse Joy asked from the desk.
Arisa un-stuck her face from the floor. "Never been better."she replied flatly.
Joy just smiled as Arisa continued to pluck herself from the floor,"Good."
Arisa sweatdropped at this, 'Are all Joys this stupid?'
"Erm.... Yeah, anyways...."Arisa sighed as she thought if any of her Pokemon needed some healing. "I'll be needing a room for the night."
"Okay. Here's your key."Joy handed a key to Arisa, who thanked her and went upstairs to the bedrooms to rest for the night.
*******
The next day.....
Arisa snatched up a map from a nearby stand that had all of the top tourist sites listed on it.
"Okay.... The dance house seems interesting. I'm definately going there first!"she decided, finding her current location before checking off the route she needed to take to reach the place.
Arisa folded up the map, failing miserably to fold it as it had come (who CAN get maps to fold back the way they started out as?), and stuffed it into her pocket for later referance.
'Why do they have to have such friggin' big cities?'she grumbled to herself, dodging random people with ease as she made her way to the dance house.
Upon arriving at the dance house, she noted, dully, that it seemed slightly run down.
'Cheapos.'was her last thought before she stepped in to kick major butt.
*******
Arisa smiled smugly as she recalled her Pokemon, quite happy with whooping major butt on the Kimono Dancers.
'I rule.'she thought happily as she jumped down from the stage and began to exit the dance house.
"Wait!"the old man called after her, so she stopped.
"Huh?"she replied intelligibly.
"I want you to have this."he said, walking up to her and handing her an HM.
"Wha?"she asked, staring at it.
"That HM teaches a Pokemon the move Surf. You can only use it on the field once you've beaten the gym leader here, though."he said.
Arisa blnked,"Ookay..... I'll keep that in mind."
"Have a nice day, young lady!"the old man said and she walked out, wondering why she always met the strangest of people.
Outside, Arisa found it was about an hour until lunch. She grabbed the map from her pocket and scanned the page for a nice food place, marking the trail mentally for when it was twelve and then looking for the location of the gym. Upon finding the trail, she memorized it, folded up the map, and stuffed it back into her pocket before heading to the gym, ready to earn her next badge.
*******
Arisa blinked. When she walked up to the gym door, an old man blocked her from entering!!
"Lemme in!"she pleaded.
"Morty, the Gym Leader, is absent. Sorry, you'll have to leave. Hohohohoho!"the old man said, shoving her away from the door.
"Whah?"she asked the old man as he turned his back to her and walked back to guard the door.
Arisa pulled out her map once more and decided to see if there was anything else of interest to do while Morty was out.
"Okay, so, top ten attractions..... Ranking in first is the Dance House, been there, and last is the Burned Tower. I think I'll go to the worst and save the other best for later."she decided, folding up the map for the third time that day and stuffing it back into her pocket, heading off to her next destination.
*******
Arisa stared up at the Burned Tower, a bit scared to go in in case it were to.... say, just collapse on her.
'Well, they say it's been standing for a good fifty or so years, so what can it hurt?' she decided, walking up the steps and into the old tower.
Upon enterance, she found that it was slightly lit up by the hole in the roof and that there were many rocks and a few boulders blocking paths and such. Debris littered the floor and Arisa could've sworn she saw something move behind some boards bunched up in the corner.
Arisa noticed some people walking about the tower and recognized only one as the Gym Leader, Morty.
"Erhem?"she asked lightyl, breaking the small silence that was in the room despite the pacing footsteps of Morty and the scuffling of the other guys's shoes.
Both looked up at her and both looked at her for a second, causing her to get annoyed.
"What exactly are you two hentais staring at?!"she screeched. (Hentai=perverts. Craw.)
Both jumped slightly at the break in the silence.
"I'm Arisa."Arisa said.
Silence.
"WELL?! You two going to introduce yourselves?!"
"My name;s Eusine.I'm on the trail of a Pokemon named Suicune. Glad to meet you. I've heard rumors that Suicune is in the Burned Tower, so I came to look. But where exactly could it be...?"the one Arisa didn't know said.
"As Ecruteaks's Gym Leader, I'm required to study what are said to be the legendary Pokemon- Suicune, Raikou, and Entei. Eusine is here, so I've decided to investigate the tower with him."Morty said.
Arisa blinked and nodded, "Okay then.... I'll just go around and check out the tower a bit more. I swear I saw something red-ish up behind those rocks move a bit, so I want to see what it is."
Both nodded and went back to searching while Arisa headed off to sneak up on the red thing.
Once she had made her way around all the rocks, she peeked around the corner and found her familiar, red-headed rival standing there, bathed in the light.
'Whoah he actually looks kinda cute like that.'she thought before softly slapping herself. 'I hate my mind.'
She stepped around the corner fully, acting like she had never even noticed Eill was there as she gazed up at the huge hole in the ceiling.
"....Oh, it's you."Eill said, finally noticing the other prescence as she brought her soft gaze down from the gaping hole.
"Yeah, what do you make of you?"she shot back, calmly ready for any verbal beratings he could give her.
Eill scoffed. "I came here looking for some legendary Pokemon they say roosts here. But there's nothing here!! Nothing, after all the trouble of coming to this dump? No way! It's all your fault!!"
"Me?"Arisa asked dumbly as Eill sent out Haunter.
'And when the heck'd he get a Haunter?'she thought, pulling out her own Pokeball for Kadabra and tossing it onto the ground in front of her.
And so the heated battle began between the two rivals.
(Skipping the battle, since I'm a bit lazy today....)
".... Aw, whatever. You'd never be able to catch a legendary Pokemon anyway."he scoffed.
Arisa just blinked, about to retort before the floor below her collapsed and she fell through with a yelp.
"Hmph! What are you doing falling through a hole? Some genius you are!! Serves you right!"Eill said before walking around the hole and leaving.
Down in the supposed basement of the tower, Arisa groaned as she sat up and rubbed her head.
"I think I broke something...."she groaned as she reached behind her to pull out a broken stick she had landed on.
She groaned and stood up in the pile of wood from the floor above and looked around. Light leaked through gaps in the floorboards above and a pillar of light descended from the hole she had fallen through.
"Curse you, you evil fates for doing this to me!"she spat, shaking her fist up into the air towards to heavens.
She continued to examine the room and noticed a platform with steps leading up to it ahead of her. With a long, drawn out sigh, she walked and ignored the small pain coming from her back as she climbed the steps.
Just as she reached the top, she examined three exquisite looking statues with intricate details marked all over them, making them look at if they could come to life any second.
So, what happened next caused Arisa to freeze up in shock. The statue in the farthest corner, to the left, broke apart and revealed a shaggy, red and brown creature standing proud and tall, to the fullest height it could achieve when standing on all fours. It then dashed away in a blur, creating a warm breeze behind it.
The second farthest statue broke open to reveal a yellow creature with black markings upon it. It barely spared a glance at her before also dashing off and leaving a crackling wind behind it.
The last statue closest to her broke open to revela a beautiful blue creature with a violet crest upon it's head. It had a long, white mane flowing behind it with what appeared to be white ribbons weaving about its body. White dots sported its body, and it had a white under side. It slowly walked up to Arisa, causing her to freeze up on the spot even more out of fear of what it might do to her. It examined her for a few seconds before dashing away, leaving a cold breeze behind that chilled Arisa to the bone.
Arisa blinked and broke from her stupor as she heard a voice from way below. She slowly turned and saw Eusine standing a few cliffs down with a ladder nearby, probably from which he came from.
She shook her head to clear it and slowly walked down from the platform, jumping carefully over the ledges that were always to high to climb back up.
"I dug a hole here, too. I was shocked!! Suicune raced by in a blur, right in front of my eyes! For ten years I've cahes Suicune, and now I finally got to see it. I'm all choked up! Arisa, I owe this all to you! Thank you!"Eusine proclaimed happily.
"Uh, your welcome?"Arisa replied, a bit stunned at his eagerness of the whole thing.
"I heard that the one Pokemon of Ecruteak tests chosen humans by allowing them to get close. I'm going to track Suicune. Arisa, let's meet again. Farewell!"Eusine said, scaling up the ladder, leaving Arisa down below.
".... Whatever happend to 'ladies first?' "Arisa asked, glaring up the ladder to where she assumed Eusine had exited before climbing out herself.
*******
Arisa glanced at her PokeGear to check the time. Past lunch. Drat.
"Well, time for a slightly late lunch, then. Back to the Pokecenter since that place I wanted to go to earlier closed by now."she said, marching off to her destination.
Upoin arrival, she found that barely any trainers were still around. OH well, better for her, she wanted some time alone while she and her Pokemon ate.
She ordered her food, got it, and got some for her Pokemon.
"Ah, the perks of being a trainer..... Free food!"Arisa grinned before pigging out on her hamburger and fries.
Her Pokemon, who were nearby, agreed whole-heartedly with her before they dug their tiny mouths/paws into their food to pig out.
Ah, just a normal day in the life of a trainer, apparently.
"And how about after this, we go and see if we can earn another badge!"Arisa cheered happily, her Pokemon letting out their own roars of agreement.
*******
Well, there is chapter four for all of you! Yay! Well, please review and send in any game scripts if you have some, I'm in dire need of the ones I requested in one of y earlier chapters. It's hard to find any on the 'net, I tried very hard last night and only found that my computer crashed on all the Pokemon sites I went to due to constant ads popping up here and there and everywhere!
.... Why is it Pokemon sites always have bunches of ads on'em, anways?!
Anyways, I'm out for now. See you next chapter!