"Magikarp, you happy to be back in the river?" Leon asks as he and Zoey were fishing again.
"Magikarp," magikarp cheers as she swims around their fishing lines.
"She is lively, isn't she?" Leon asks Zoey as Gardenia sips on a milkshake she had bought.
Zoey nods. "As long as she doesn't get caught get on our lines in her excitement."
"Oh, speaking of wi…no. I don't. I thought I had a bite," Leon says a bit disappointed.
Zoey reaches over and pats his back. "You've caught a lot before. You'll get it."
"I know," Leon says as there was a lot of hollering heard coming there way.
Zoey hums as she leans back around before giving her fishing rod to him to hold as she goes to check the noise past the trees. "Just some people. They are loud…maybe drunk," she informs as she walks back to him and takes back her fishing rod.
"Great," Leon says not impressed.
"You will never drink, right?" Zoey asks, turning to him as the noise gets closer.
"I drink soda. Does that count?" Leon jokes.
Zoey chuckles. "Good enough for me. Now I won't have to deal with a drunken loser."
"Who is dealing with these idiots?" Leon asks.
"Not me. As long as we ignore them, we should be fine and they won't notice us," Zoey says quietly now as the noise becomes louder.
"What about Gardenia up there?" Leon asks.
"She would understand," Zoey says simply.
"You know, I can hear you," Gardenia calls before sipping on her milkshake.
Leon chuckles a little. "Yeah. We know."
"Good. Then you will see the payback coming," Gardenia says.
"We're expecting it," Leon teasingly calls as the drunk idiots finally come into their view as they walk along the path. "Ignore. Just ignore them," he says to himself as he concentrates on fishing.
"Hey…look at that guys…it's the weakest *hic* water pokemon ever."
Leon sighs and pets magikarp. "Ignore them, girl," he whispers to her and she dives under the water.
"She upset?" Zoey asks as they heard drunken laughter.
"Maybe…" Leon says, looking concerned as he watches magikarp swim underwater before feeling a tug and starts reeling it in.
Zoey smiles as she watches him reel in the line and sees the water splashing around as it came closer. "Nice and easy," Zoey advises as both of them hear the drunken laughter from behind them, leading them to mostly ignore it.
When the line finally came out of the water, there was a shellder on the line and Leon just smiled at this, already going for a pokeball.
"Hey, why not battle it first? Wear it down?" Zoey suggested.
"Good point," Leon says, starting to think who to battle it.
"Magi," magikarp spoke up as she peeks her head out of the water.
"You know what, I want to shut them up. How about it magikarp? I want you to battle shellder for me," Leon says smiling down at her as magikarp was surprised she was his first choice.
"Magikarp!" she cheers as she jumps into the air before splashing down into the water.
Leon smiles as shellder got what was going on and lets go of the line and drop into the water to face magikarp as more laughter was heard.
"Just ignore them," Zoey whispers to him as Leon got up and smiled.
"Karp!" magikarp calls, full of determination, surprising shellder.
"Alright magikarp. Let's try splashing some water on its face," Leon says smiling as he watches sheller move around.
"Magi!" magikarp calls before splashing shellder as hard as it could, which was more of an annoyance to shellder than anything as it seemed to sigh and the laughter got worse.
"Come on magikarp. Keep trying and make it mess up," Leon says encouragingly.
"Magi!" magikarp calls as the laughter got worse before something hits the back of Leon's head before Zoey hears a bottle shatter behind them and looks to see Leon holding his head as the laughter got louder.
Leon groans as he rubs the back of his head as two more bottles fly toward them and one lands in the river, sailing past them, while another hit against his back. "Ow…shit…" Leon groans before looking at his hand to see blood on it. "Crap…so that's how a bar fight feels," he mutters as Zoey rushes over and looks to his head while taking out a piece of cloth and holds it to his head.
Magikarp had stopped, seeing what had happened. The only one to ever give her a chance who cared had just been hurt. A dark rage started to form in her as anger unlike anything she had ever felt took root and she let out a cry before she started to glow.
Leon blinks slowly as he looks over with the others taking notice and see magikarp glowing brightly before growing into a large snake-like shape that grew bigger than them. The drunk idiots looking like seedlings in headlights as the glow dies down and shows an angry looking royal purple gyarados leering down at them. "Well…that's cool…" he says distinently as his vision waivers. "Why does it look like I am getting drunk?"
"Lay down for a bit," Zoey says as Gardenia tried to sooth gyarados as the drunks ran like there were demons chasing them.
Leon groans as he holds his head still while Zoey carefully leads him to lay down as gyarados leans over to him and groans concerned at him. "Hey…you look awesome."
"He will be fine, but he still wants you to finish your battle with shellder there," Zoey says as shellder looks scared now and trying to sneak away.
Gyarados growls before turning to shellder and chases after it while it tries to swim away.
"Zoey…no way she is going to lose, right?" Leon asks.
"Nah," Zoey says as a loud splash was heard.
"Can you throw my pokeball for me?" Leon asks.
Zoey nods as she takes his free pokeball and runs off to catch shellder as gyarados swims back and puts her head over him and prods her nose against his side concerned.
"You did good," Leon says patting her nose. "Your name now is Tsunami."
Tsunami growls happily and keeps nuzzling him as Gardenia looks him over while Zoey came back. "Got the little guy. How is he?" Zoey asks.
"Fine. Just a little cleaning and some medicine and he would be fine," Gardenia informs as she checks Leon's head closely.
"What can we do about those drunks?" Leon asks.
"They ran off. But if we see them again, we'll report them," Zoey says reassuringly.
"And if the police show up, what we do?" Leon asks.
"Let them handle things. Why don't you rest for now?" Zoey says, pushing his head back down flat.
"Alright," Leon says patting Tsunami.
"You beat me again. Another evolution," Zoey points out.
"It's not a race," Leon says smiling up at her as he has his eyes closed.
Zoey just pets his head as he starts to relax. 'Now we're stuck here…I'm going to have to kick those punks' asses.'
"While we are here, how about we train?" Gardenia asks as Leon starts to sleep with gyarados watching over him.
"Seriously? I rather watch him and make sure he doesn't fall into a coma," Zoey argues.
"Just asking as he looks alright," Gardenia says as she had a phone out and was calling someone.
Zoey shakes her head before sighing. "Fine…but he starts acting up, the battle is off."
"Yes, I would like to report a few drunks attacked a trainer at the overpass bridge on route 205. Yes. There were four of them, all male. Threw their empty bottles of alcohol at him and his head is bleeding," Gardenia says, making Zoey smirk as she liked where this was going.
Zoey just kept petting Leon's head while Gardenia kept latching on more details.
"Alright, we will wait right here, Look for the purple Gyarados," Gardenia says, hanging up the phone. "A chopper is on its way to pick us up," Gardenia says.
Zoey chuckles. "Not bad. You didn't invoke your gym leader status to hurry it alone?"
"Oh no, they take rescue very serious here because of the cliff part of the path," Gardenia informs.
"Good…should pack up," Zoey says, looking around to their camp.
"Yeah, Tsunami, can you make yourself as visible as possible. People are coming to help him and the easier they can spot you, the faster they can get here," Gardenia says.
Tsunami growls happily and starts to find a place and stretch herself out and kept wiggling around while looking around for anything in the sky.
"Zoey, you mind getting her pokeball while I start. Then after we pack up, we can train," Gardenia says.
"Sure," Zoey agrees while getting up and grabbing the pokeball.
"Oh, my aching head," Leon groans, awakening to a small hospital room.
"Hey. How are you feeling?" Zoey asks, coming into his view.
"Hey Zoey, what happened?" Leon asks.
"Bottle," Zoey reminds, pointing to the back of her head. "Those jerks flung some at you and you got hit really bad."
"Oh…where are we…a resort?" Leon asks, looking around the log cabin like decoration.
"Nah. It's a hospital. Just in the style of a log cabin," Zory explains as she looks closer to his head and moves the bandages slightly to get a look at them.
"How does it look?" Leon asks, holding his head from a bit of a headache.
"Wound has closed up and looks good. Your head hurting you?" Zoey asks.
"Just a headache is all," Leon answers.
"I'll get the nurse," Zoey says getting up.
"I just need something for the headache is all…so what town are we in?" Leon asks.
"Oh, we are in Heartstone town. It's a small town on route 205," Zoey informs, pushing the call nurse button.
"Cool…nurse, how long until I can get moving?" Leon mutters, rubbing his head.
"It will be soon," Zoey informs.
"Not the answer I was looking for," Leon chuckles a little before groaning. "Ow."
"Take it easy. You need to rest a bit more," Zoey says as the nurse came in.
Leon groans. "Hate that. Really want to train."
"We will be here for a while, so just rest up. Beacon!" Zoey calls outside and soon the fuzzball comes walking in.
Leon smiles as Beacon jumps into the bed and snuggles on top of him. "Lazy fuzzball."
"Beacon, you watch him, alright?" Zoey asks petting him.
Beacon gives a salute before nuzzling into Leon's neck. "Eep."
"Why do I see cut marks on his fleece?" Leon asks.
"Well, you see, there was a thunderstorm recently and lightning struck him, making his fur grow quite a bit so we had him sheared and sold the fleece to pay for the medical bill," Zoey informs.
"Eep," Beacon spoke up proudly.
"So you gave your fleece for me?" Leon asks, before hugging Beacon.
Beacon meeps happily and hugs back.
"Right. We'll be staying for a while like we said. There is a festival happening soon and I kind of signed up for the unofficial contest already," Zoey informs chuckling.
"Oh. Then good luck in it," Leon offers.
"You should be up and about by that time," the nurse informs as Beacon adjusted to be laying on Leon's stomach.
"Oh, good, but I have a headache," Leon says happily.
"I will get you some medicine. You stay here and rest," the nurse informs.
"Great. And you Zoey? Going to train?" Leon asks, turning to her.
"Yeah, I and Gardenia are also looking after your pokemon," Zoey informs.
"That reminds me. How's Tsunami?" Leon asks.
"She is fine, but we are letting nurse joy mostly handle her as well since she is so big," Zoey informs.
"Cool. Can you go tell I'm fine now?" Leon requests.
"I will," Zoey assures as she leaves, seeing the nurse return and motioning for her to leave.
Leon waves at her while the nurse gives him the medicine needed.
"Feel better to be out and about?" Zoey asks as Leon exits the hospital with Beacon.
"Yeah. About time," Leon mutters as he stretches.
"Gardenia is waiting with your pokemon," Zoey reminds as Beacon moved ahead.
"Better not be bored," Leon says smirking.
"Oh, they aren't," Zoey says as they came into view of four more of Leon's pokemon.
"Hi guys," Leon says waving at them and they all rush over and crowd around him, trying to give him a hug.
"Ok, one at a time you all," Leon says bending down to them.
They all cry out happily as Zoey walks over to Gardenia. "How worried?"
"They were concerned," Gardenia says as Breeze somehow managed to get on top of Leon's head.
"Have you guys been training?" Leon asks.
"Ma!" Machop calls happily as the rest were too busy paying him attention.
"Good team," Leon says proudly and pets this head.
"So he knows we are staying for the festival?" Gardenia asks.
"Yeah. Told him when he woke up. Was worried he won't," Zoey voices silently at the end.
"Well, don't worry," Gardenia says smiling before smacking her back, making Zoey grunt.
"Amber, I got an idea for you. Maybe that head smack got it into me," Leon laughs a little while his pokemon smiled sadly at him for that. "Oh, don't give that look. Everything is alright," Leon says picking up Amber.
"Chim," Amber says smiling and hugs him. "Chimchar?"
"Alright. So we are going to be staying for the festival. That means a few things for us to do before the fun is that all…why is it suddenly brighter?" Leon asks.
"You have to be kidding," Zoey spoke up and they all then look to Breeze as she hatches from her cocoon form and evolves in a bright glow before changing and morphing into a butterfly-shaped creature before it dies down to show a butterfree. "Damn."
"Well, that figures. Metapods usually quickly evolve," Gardenia says.
"How quickly?" Zoey asks.
"Around level ten," Gardenia informs, shocking Zoey.
"That's great!" Leon cheers and holds up Breeze as she lands on his hands.
"Free!" Breeze calls.
"I guess she was so happy to see you it pushed her over the edge," Gardenia says smirking.
"…I'm not even going to make a joke," Leon quickly says and pets Breeze who happily thrills.
"Now what are we going to do with her cocoon?" Zoey asks, pointing to it, still on Leon's head.
Leon sighs as he puts Breeze down and takes it off his head. "Caterpillars usually eat this after becoming butterflies," he mutters as he puts it down and wipes his hands on the ground.
"It says here, Butterfree usually eats their cocoons after emerging because they are hungry," Zoey reads from her pokedex.
Leon looks to Breeze and sees her already eating away. "She has that covered."
"Does it look weird to anyone else?" Gardenia ask.
"Not here," Leon voices.
"A bit," Zoey says.
"Well, where have you been staying, the pokemon center?" Leon asks trying to change the subject as it starts grossing out a few of them.
"Yeah. Kinda was worried so I slept there. Gardenia and the others too," Zoey answers.
"Oh…in the same room or will we have two rooms to sleep in?" Leon asks.
"Two. Three if you want," Zoey quickly answers.
"We had a second room rented out?" Gardenia asks surprised.
"Yeah…I gave you the key," Zoey says slowly.
"No, you didn't," Gardenia informs.
Zoey digs around her pockets now. "Oh…silly me," Zoey says, taking out a pair of keys.
"Oh, too bad," Gardenia says smirking.
"What did I miss?" Leon asks confused.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that there were only two beds in the room," Gardenia says smirking.
"Oh. Okay then," Leon says before turning back to his Pokemon.
Zoey said nothing but glared at Gardenia all the while.
"So what events does the festival have besides this unofficial contest?" Leon asks.
"A water pokemon battle. Winner gets a water stone," Zoey explains.
"Oh…that can evolve my shellder when I think he is ready," Leon says.
"Unless he doesn't want to," Zoey adds.
"Well, always nice to have the option," Leon says.
Zoey nods before smiling. "Weren't you going to train?"
"We are…after lunch," Leon says.
A loud rumbling sound made them look to Leon who chuckles nervously. "I could go for some food," Gardenia spoke up.
"Come on you. We can get food and then check on Tsunami," Zoey says grabbing Leon and helps him up.
"I am fine with this," Leon says.
All of the pokemon chatter as they follow or fly after them while going to a place to eat.