Chapter 2: The Triple Adventure
Summary: Maka tries to catch a new pokemon, Black Star tries to take on some members of The Kishin Cult, and Kid tries to restore balance to the dessert.
"Okay Soul, we need to become stronger if we want to defeat gym leaders," Maka said as she walked with her pokemon companion by her side.
"Sol," Soul agreed.
"Yep, and the best way to boost your team's power is to expand your team. Black Star doesn't listen and refuses to catch more pokemon, but we're better than Black Star, aren't we?"
Soul looked at her questioningly. Maka laughed. "Oh yeah, you haven't met Black Star yet, have you. I think you'd like him."
Soul nodded.
Just then, Maka stopped, so Soul did too. "Sol?"
The young girl looked at the edge of the city at her feet. "I've never left Death City," She said. "They always say it's not safe out there without pokemon." Her gaze shifted to her pokemon and she smiled. "Everything's all different now. Come on Soul, let's go catch a pokemon!"
Soul smiled and nodded. The two ran out of the city together into the dessert. They ran all the way out of the sand and into a forest
"Forested and other gassy areas have lots of pokemon. Already the chances of running into a pokemon in this forest is 73%. Keep your eyes open for pokemon."
"Sol," Soul said.
They walked in silence until Soul stopped walking. Maka stopped to and looked at it. "What's wrong Soul?"
"Sol."
Maka looked in the same direction as her partner to see an abandoned house. "A house? Strong pokemon love to live in houses. I bet there's pokemon in there. We should sneak in, we don't want to scare away the pokemon."
Soul rolled his eyes. "Sol sol sol, sol sol."
"What are you saying?" Maka asked.
"Sol," the absol said. It then jumped through the nearest window.
"Soul!" Maka scolded.
Inside, Soul jumped face first into a Skitty. The absol's eyes went wide and its nosebleed as the Skitty's cute charm took effect. "S...sol…" it mumbled.
The skitty smiled coyly. "An absol huh?" The skitty said.
'Y-you can talk?' Soul asked
"Skitty."
Maka climbed through the window. "Soul, you idiot!" She yelled. She ripped Soul off of the skitty. "You can't just barge into places! You could scare away the…" She looked to her side, "the skitty." A determined smile spread across her face. "Skitty, you're going to be mine. Soul!"
Maka looked at her pokemon, which tilted its head back as its nose bleeds some more.
Maka sighed. "Soul, use scratch."
"Sol," Soul agree. He jumped to his feet and started charging, his claws bared, but he became infatuated with love and couldn't attack.
Maka growled as the skitty laughed. "Okay then," Maka said. 'Absols only know scratch and leer until level nine,' she thought, 'those two moves are useless. Only if Soul knew' "Oh, I know! Soul, use faint attack!"
"Sol!" Soul said. He approached the skitty disarmingly, then threw a suckerpunch at it. The Skitty fell backwards, then looked at them in shock. "Huh?" it asked.
"Shocked? Soul here is an egg pokemon, so he learned faint attack from my papa's absol. It never misses, not even if the absol is infatuated. Use faint attack again!"
"Sol!"
The skitty opened its mouth and a purple ball appeared in front of it. Before Soul could attack, the orb hit and knocked out the charging pokemon.
"No, Soul," Maka sighed. She returned Soul to his pokeball. "No, it can't be." She ran away to the pokecenter in Death City.
The Skitty didn't even care about not getting her money or trainer token for winning, she was more concerned about who she won to. "I've never seen an absol with faint attack," it purred, "I need it."
Maka stood in front of the abandoned house in the forest and released Soul.
"Sol," he said.
"Be quiet, here she comes."
The skitty came walking out of the house, so Maka and Soul his behind a tree. The skitty still saw them and jumped onto Soul. 'I want you Absol!' it said in poke language.
Souls nosebleed and he fell over, unconscious. Maka sighed.
"Alright Soul, that skitty is strong. We need to defeat it. If I can't defeat a Skitty, I could never surpass papa. It used shadow ball, which is a ghost type move. You're a dark type so it shouldn't be very effective. With our training, it shouldn't knock you out so easily," Maka said. She raised a piece of paper with words scribbled all over it. "So as long as we stick to this plan-"
Soul bit the paper out of his trainer's hand and put it on the floor. It scratched an 'X' over it.
"What, you don't like my plan?"
"Sol," Soul nodded
"Fine, then what should we do, Mr. smart pokemon?"
Soul lifted a paw and made the claws shine.
"Well, you perv, that won't work! I'm your trainer, you have to listen to me and my plan! We're a team!" Maka whined
"Sol sol," Soul replied
"You need to listen or that skitty-"
"Skiiiitty~" The skitty purred. Maka and Soul looked beside them and saw the skitty sitting there. The skitty opened its mouth again, but instead of saying Skitty, it let out a charming cry. It emotionally damaged the two, and fainted Soul.
Maka finally started a typical pokemon battle with the wild skitty. It used facade, but Soul dodged it. It looked at Maka for further instruction but she just stood there with her arms crossed. "Sol?"
"Go on, defeat her with your nose bleeds. You wouldn't listen to me anyway. Men are all the same, even pokemon."
Soul looked angrily at his trainer. "Sol sol sol!"
The skitty smiled coyly. 'Now absol, if you're going to fight her, why don't you fight from my side? I won't fight with you."
Soul looked at it in contemplation.
"Hey, what are you doing? Just because I don't understand you doesn't mean I don't have a say! Soul's my pokemon!"
The skitty glared at Maka. "Skit." It made a shadow ball and through it over Soul and at Maka. She dodged it.
"Hey, that against the rules!"
"Skiitty!" The skitty exclaimed happily and shot another shadow ball at Maka. She ducked behind Soul to avoid it.
"Faint attack," Maka comanded.
Before Soul moved, the skitty jumped and used facade on the floor, which made Maka and soul fly up to the second story. Maka jumped up and looked at the giant dent in the floor. "She's so strong. To strong for us. What should we do Soul?"
The absol stood stone faced and silent.
"Soul?" Maka questioned, "Soul, what's wrong?"
The skitty joined them on the second story and it stared at Soul. The dark type smiled, baring its spiky teeth.
The skitty shot another shadow ball at Maka, which she avoided. "Soul, our turn, use faint attack!"
Soul did nothing but make its smile fall, letting the skitty shoot another shadow ball, and letting Maka narrowly dodged another attack. "Soul, what are you doing?"
Soul looked at Maka, then turned back to the Skitty. "Sol." It strode towards the skitty, which smiled wider and more evil than before.
"Soul?" Maka asked.
Soul started cuddly with the skitty, its nose bleeding and hearts for eyes. "Soooool!"
"What? You must have used a dirty move to get Soul to ignore me. A super-charm or something!"
Soul shook its head. "Sol sol." it said. It looked at the skitty. "Sol sol sol," it lovingly cooed, then it glared at Maka. "Sol sol sol," it angrily barked.
"B-but I caught you…"
Soul scoffed. "Sol, sol."
Maka couldn't understand directly what he said, but she released the ball she threw missed. Soul caught himself. Tears formed in the young girl's eyes. She looked down, her hair covering her face. "You… you men…" she muttered. Visions of her father cheating on her mom flashed before her eyes. "I thought pokemon where different, but I was wrong." More visions passed, more memories. "You don't care about anybody but yourselves. Always leaving one person for another, like they're objects." Visions. "We were supposed to be different Soul!" She yelled. "You were my first pokemon! The bond between the first pokemon and their trainer is supposed to be special! I've waited ten years for you! I named you! I rushed back and forth between pokecenters for you! Trained you! And this is the thanks I get? Abandoning me? Making it so I could never become a pokemon master? I trusted you! I WISH YOU AND ALL OTHER MEN WOULD JUST DIE!" Tears started streaming down her face. "Why do you men have to cheat? Don't you know who it hurts? Who it tears apart?"
Soul shrugged. "Sol sol," it said and smiled sweetly at Maka, "Sol." It turned to the skitty, which looked surprised, and used hyper beam.
The dust from the old house was blowing up, making Maka cough, as Soul ran by her side again.
"Thank you, Soul," Maka smiled slightly.
When the dust cleared, the skitty was gone. "I-I guess we fainted it." Maka looked at Soul. "Do you feel all the experience points?"
"SSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOO" Soul started yelling like it was super powerful, "ll…" it finished pathetically.
"What? But it was such a high level and we fainted it!"
"Sskkiiiiitt~" The skitty purred as it popped out of Maka's backpack, spilling pokeballs on the floor.
"Hey! How did-"
The skitty jumped out of Maka's backpack and touched a pokeball, going inside it. It shook. Shook. Shook. Captured.
Maka grabbed the ball with the skitty. "I caught the skitty?" She questioned. A huge smile spread across her face. "I caught the skitty!" She rejoiced jumping up and down.
"Sol," Soul added happily.
"Come on out, Skitty!" Maka said. She released her newly caught pokemon.
"Skit."
"Should I nickname you?" Maka asked it. "It's customary to nickname your first pokemon, and you're my first caught pokemon. So what do you say?"
"Skit!" the skitty nodded.
Maka closed her eyes as she smiled. "Okay, what should I name you?"
"Blaire," the skitty answered.
Maka opened her eyes in surprise. "What?"
"Skitty."
The little girl shook her head. "I must be hearing things. What do you think of the name Blaire?"
The skitty jumped up onto Maka's shoulder. "Skiitttyyyy~!"
"Alrighty then, Blaire it is. Blaire, return," Maka said. She returned the skitty to its pokeball. "You too Soul."
"Sol."
She did the same to the absol. Maka looked at the two pokeballs, one in each hand. She threw her hands up. "I have two pokemon!" She rejoiced. "That's even more than Black Star! Where has he been anyway?" She gave up on the thought and started putting her pokeballs back in her backpack, but she noticed something was missing. "Wait, where's all my trainer tokens!?"
Blaire laughed mischievously from its pokeball.
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Black Star was crouching in a vent, his Eevee beside him, watching the scene below. There where about 30 trainers sitting around a table counting their thousands of stolen trainer tokens and laughing, each with six pokemon by their sides. They all wore matching red uniforms with two black Ks on them.
"Thirty," Black Star whispered, "Each with six pokemon."
"Eev," Tsubaki confirmed.
"That's only 208 pokemon against us? Easy."
"Eev?" the pokemoned questioned her partner's math.
"They don't stand a chance. Rule of pokebattling number 1: Dodge and wait for an opening to attack your target. Rule of pokebattling number 2: align yourself with your target, and deduce their thoughts and actions before they make them. Get the type advantage. Rule of pokebattling number 3: Think smart and take out your target before they know what's going on and attack back. Tsubaki, baton pass, Jolteon."
"Eevee," Tsubaki agreed. It then glowed a dull pink and appeared as an electric type, still with black tipped ears. "Jolteon."
Black Star smiled. "Let's go." He jumped out on the vent with his pokemon close behind. "YAAAHHOOOOOO!" He yells, alerting all the pokemon and trainers. The kid lands on the table, Tsubaki landing after him. "I AM THE GREAT POKEMON MASTER BLACK STAR! I'VE COME TO GET ALL YOUR TRAINER TOKENS!"
"JOLTEON!" Tsubaki yelled at him
The members of the Kishin Cult looked at each other, then pointed at Black Star in unison. An array of attacks were all called, and all used. The 'pokemon master' started running in circles to avoid the attacks. Since Tsubaki was much faster, it put Black Star onto its back and started running around for him. "Tsubaki, smoke screen!"
"Jol!" Tsubaki agreed. It glowed again, becoming an eevee and knocking Black Star off its back, then glowed once more and became a flareon with black on the tip of its ears. Smoke erupted from its mouth, filling the room, letting Black Star and Tsubaki escape.
The Kishins coughed until the smoke cleared. "Where'd they go?" some asked. "What was up with that eevee?" asked others.
The boss of the group didn't care about any of that, however. All he cared about was the news he was getting. A grunt was telling him that they found a rare and powerful pokemon with hundreds of trainer tokens. The grunt also mentioned something much more valuable than the tokens and the pokemon.
The boss smiled. "No matter how strong, that pokemon can't resist us all," the boss laughed. "That little Angela will be mine."
Black Star laughed too. He was eavesdropping from the vents. "Hear that Tsubaki? Rare pokemon. Trainer tokens! POWERFUL! YAHOO! I'M GOING TO BEAT THAT POKEMON! LET'S GO!" Black star yelled.
"Eeeeveeeee," Tsubaki tried to argue, but Black Star couldn't understand it, so he ran away without responding. His pokemon sighed and followed.
Many hours, wrong turns, and battles with wild pokemon later, Black Star finally reaches where the Kishins where talking about. It was a small castle like place in the middle of the forest. There were uncountable trainer tokens that were all around, but the Kishin Cult members were nowhere to be found. Outside stood a unique looking pokemon.
It was bird like, most similar to a goose. Its legs were black with brown bands all over them and its wings were brown like a trench coat. The very long, flat, and sharp beak of this pokemon was shining, and gray. Pure steel. The rest of the pokemon had a dull yellow color.
It fluffed its metal feathers. "Gachana," it said.
Blackstar's deep green eyes shined. "Woah! What's that pokemon!?"
"Eevee," Tsubaki responded.
"I'm going to call it Black Star the Pokemon, and I'm going to defeat it! Baton pass Vaporeon!"
Tsubaki looked at the metal bird then back at Black Star. "Eev," it sighed. It glowed and turned into a Vaporeon, black on the edge of its fins.
"Okay, now dive!"
The vaporeon nodded. The floor became water and Tsubaki jumped into it. As his pokemon swan through the ground, Black Star hopped in front of the unique pokemon. "Yahooo! We're gonna beat you!"
"Gach," the pokemon said. It spread its wings and flew high in the sky. The floor became water and Tsubaki dashed out at nothing, the gachana was too high.
"Vap?" It questioned, but just then the metal bird flew down and rammed into Black Star's pokemon. "Oreon!" It cried in pain.
Black Star gasped. "Tsubaki!" he exclaimed, then glared at the gachana. It used a wing to point away from the castle, but the young trainer ignored it. "You'll pay for that, Black Star the Pokemon! Tsubaki!"
"Vap," it said. It recovered while Black Star was rambling.
"You see, I'm the best pokemon trainer who ever lived! If the elite four were to meet me, they would shake in their boots because I'm so great! You don't stand a chance against me and Tsubaki! Aurora beam!"
Tsubaki inhaled deeply and, through its mouth, bursted a rainbow colored beam that attacked the metal goose.
It shook it off and pointed away again. "Gachana, ga."
"What, trying to get us to run away? Not happening! I know I'm too great for you to handle. Aurora beam again!"
Tsubaki nodded and did as told, hitting the gachana once more. Once more, it brushed it off. "Ana," it growled. It's wings flailed out and the feathers turned into a plethora of katanas that fell all around them.
"What? I've never seen that move before," Black Star said.
"Vaporeon," Tsubaki agreed.
The bird pokemon thrusted at the bubble jet pokemon and used its sharp beak as a drill in a corkscrew attack. The defending pokemon cried out in pain.
"No, Tsubaki," Black Star exclaimed. He slid to his knees and grabbed his pokemon. "Are you okay?"
It turned back into an eevee. "Eev," it said softly.
"Look at what you did!" Black Star yelled at the rare pokemon.
It shook its head and pointed at itself. "Gachana hana han." it said defensively. It pointed accusingly at Black Star. In a harsh tone, it said "Gacha! Gachana gach!" It crossed its wings. "Gachana."
Black Star looked at the Gachana, then back down at the eevee. It staggered to its feet. "Eev."
The trainer glanced back to the rare pokemon and narrowed his eyes determinedly. 'Rule of pokebattling number 1: Dodge and wait for an opening to attack your target,' though Black Star. He stood up. 'He's just waiting there… Rule of pokebattling number 2: align yourself with your target, and deduce their thoughts and actions before they make them. Get the type advantage. It has wings so it must be a flying type, weak to electric.' "Tsubaki, baton pass, Jolteon."
"Eev." It used the said move and became the speedy electric type.
'Rule of pokebattling number 3:' he thought, 'Think smart and take out your target before they know what's going on and attack back.' "Double team."
Jolteon nodded and the suddenly multiplied into a giant circle around Gachana. It looked at all the Jolteons in confusion. Suddenly, it couldn't see Black Star either. That was until he lunged into it with such a great speed, it knocked it over. "Quick attack," Black Star said. Before the Gachana could counter, the boy slammed into it. "Secret power," he said.
The rare pokemon looked at him in shock. It was about to attack back, but couldn't. It was paralyzed.
Black Star smirked. "Dynamic punch!" He exclaimed. He uppercutted the pokemon, confusing it in the process. While it was high in the air, The trainer looked to his jolteon, ignoring all the fakes. "Thunder!"
"Jol." The jolteons combined back into one, then its spikes pointed more outward. Thunder clouds suddenly appeared and struck down the Gachana.
When the clouds cleared, the pokemon was obviously close to unconsciousness, but it still managed it stand up.
"Alright Tsubaki, now let's finish it off. Thundersho-" Black Star started, but he got interrupted by a loud "wait!"
A little girl with a Kecleon hat and matching dress came running out of the castle, then stood in front of the injured rare pokemon with tears in her eyes. She couldn't be any older than five.
"Gachana," it protested, but the girl held her ground.
"You're so mean!" she yelled. "Why did you attack my Mifune like that? It didn't do anything to you!"
Black Star blinked in surprise. "A… a little girl…"
"Jolteon?" Tsubaki seemed equally surprised.
"It protects me from the evil Kishins because I'm too young to battle. They keep coming to take me away, but you can't faint Mifune! You just can't you big meany!"
Black Star looked down at the girl in front of him. She ran up and started punching him, her fists were weak and painless. He turned around.
"Come on Tsubaki, let's leave," Black Star said. This surprised the Jolteon even more than the girl. "A pokemon like that is way more powerful than it acted. It was going easy on me, probably since it knows that I'd have to run through this huge forest without a useable pokemon. I'm just returning a favor. Besides, It's not very impressive to say you defeated a baby-sitter pokemon." He started walking away, returning his pokemon in the process.
"Yeah, you'd better run you big meany!" the girl yelled. She then immediately started hugging the hurt Gachana. She picked it up and ran inside the castle.
"Now what to do with all these trainer tokens?" Black Star asked himself.
"You're giving me all these trainer tokens?" Lord Death asked "But you lost all of yours."
"Yeah, I know, but I didn't defeat all those trainers, so it's not proof that I'm the best pokemon trainer ever," Black Star told him.
"Yes, but, well," Lord Death was at a loss for words.
"Don't sweat it, old-timer, just do what you do and give them to new trainers, kay?"
"Okay," He said. The god of death know how stubborn Black Star was, and therefore know how lost of a cause it would be to change his mind.
"Awesome!" Black Star smiled. He released Tsubaki.
"Eevee~"
"Come on Tsubaki, lets go battle Maka and get her trainer tokens!"
"Eeeev!"
The two ran off laughing.
"Hmm," Lord Death thought out loud, since he was alone, "Maka and Black Star would be great training partners for Kid. I wonder how he's doing anyway…"
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"What kind of job?" asked the black and white haired boy, Kid.
"Well, all the other regions are getting these cool things called pokedexes, have you heard of them?" Lord Death asked
"Of course."
"Plusle plusle plus," the plusle complained.
"If you're talking about the rotom dex, it wasn't that annoying Liz," Kid mumbled to his pokemon. It rolled its eyes.
"Plus."
"Well, anyway, I want a pokedex for the pokemon in Jotai. Our regional specific pokemon haven't been documented yet into any books, so I think a pokedex would fix that. You could also fill out entrees for pokemon in other regions too, just any pokemon in Jotai. What do you say?"
Kid thought about it for a second then shrugged. "Why not."
"Excellent," Lord Death said. He brought out this black and white rectangular piece of machinery. "I colored it for you. I have the perfect place for you to start filling it out!"
Kid took the pokedex out of the gym leader's hand. "Shouldn't I start with an entry on Plusle, Minun, and Murkrow?"
"Well, yes, but after that there's been some weird things are happening in the northern dessert's shrine, and I think it's due to a pokemon. Go check it out and wright about it in your fancy new pokedex. When you come back, you can wright about all of the pokemon we have here."
Kid smiled. "Alright. I love the shines anyway, they're so symmetrical. I won't let you down Father. Liz, Patty, let's go." He lifted two luxury balls, which the two electric types went into. He pulled from his white backpack on his back a skateboard with a skull picture on the bottom. He jumped on and it raised off the ground, flying. The luxury balls went on his belt, symmetrically, and he put the new pokedex into his pack. "We'll be back before you know it." The twelve year old was about to dash off on his skateboard, but he landed instead. "But first I need to make sure my room has kept it's perfect symmetry." He put his board back and ran to his room.
It was a long time until he landed his board in front of this giant pyramid, but that wasn't because of his mode of travel. "It's so beautiful!" Kid goggled.
His plusle and minun came out of their pokeballs without being summoned, the minun was further forward than it's partner. This caught the boys attention. He glared at the blue and yellow pokemon. "Patty, we've talked about this," he lectured, "Always come out of your pokeball in a 20 degree angle, or else you and your sister won't be in perfect sync anymore. It's ruining the symmetry."
Patty stared at him wide eyed and innocent while Liz sighed. "Plusle plusle?"
"Of course it's the right time to talk about this, it's always the right time. Symmetry is key: everything must be aesthetically pleasing," Kid started.
Liz already looked annoyed. "Plusle plus…"
"That's why I chose the two of you to be my first pokemon. Double and triple battles are becoming more and more common, but throwing two pokemon out to battle that are completely different will ruin the symmetry. Since having two of the exact same pokemon on a team would be useless, you two are the best I'll get at having symmetrical double battles. You're tails are unique, making you more symmetrical than the usual plusles and minuns." Kid looked at the floor irritatedly. "But even without Patty messing up the angles, you're symmetry isn't perfect." the boy grabbed a cheek of both the cheering pokemon. "You're cheeks, for instance, still are horribly asymmetrical to each other, just like average plusles and minuns."
Liz looked furious as she shocked her trainer. He let go of the pokemon's cheeks. "Plusle plusle plus!" Liz yelled. She jumped onto Kid's shoulder then pointed to the stripes in his hair. "Plusle usle plus!"
He looked more hurt by his plusle's word than its shock. "You're right, I'm hideous!" he cried. He went onto the floor. "Why do the stripes only wrap around the left side of my head? It's disgusting. Dirty. I deserve to go back to Unova just so I can be eaten by a Garbodor and never seen again! Asymmetrical garbage eating asymmetrical garbage! Or while I'm there I'll have an Emboar burn me to death since I'm a hideose swine that doesn't deserve life!"
Patty laughed happily at its trainers misery as Liz started regretting the shock. "Pluusslllle," it whined before it and the minun stood by Kids side. They started patting him comfortingly.
"Plusle plusle plusle plus," Liz said reassuringly.
"Min! Minun minun," Patty agreed.
Kid looked up at his pokemon, his eyes shaking like they were about to cry. "You don't think I should go back to unova just to be killed? Really?"
The plusle's red and yellow head shook as it gave a small smile. "Plusle sle plusle."
Patty smiled wider than its sister and gave a thumbs up. "Minun un min!"
The young death god jumped to his feet. "Alright, let's go." He started walking inside with his pokemon following. Not long after, Liz and Patty where taking lead since there was no turns or anything like that.
"Strange," Kid said, getting his pokemon's attention, "Usually this place is filled with sandshrew, sandslash, and other ground type pokemon. I wonder where they all are."
Patty shrugged. "Miinuun," it said, sounding a lot like 'I don't know'.
That seemed to remind Patty of something. It started talking to its sister a lot while Liz, looking around in fear, was replying from time to time. Kid walked behind in thought and silence. After a while, he stopped. Liz looked back at him. "Plusle?"
"Well, I was thinking that maybe the picture above my bed is tilted slightly to the right…"
Liz flailed her arms out in frustration. "PLUSLE PLUSLE!"
"I know I checked before we left, but what if I'm right? I can't fight if my room is an asymmetrical mess!"
"Plusle!"
"But I'm worrying about it."
"Pluusle!" Liz demanded. It grabbed it's trainer and started dragging him across the floor. It was easier than expected since Kid was incredibly light for his age, but they still weren't getting very far very fast. Patty helped it's sister drag Kid while laughing.
"I'm worrying about it I'm worrying about it I'm worrying about it I'm worrying about it," Kid was chanting as he was forcefully dragged across the floor.
"Plusle," Liz argued. It didn't interrupt Kid's chanting; if anything it made him say it faster.
The two went back and forth with Patty still laughing. It stopped once they saw a cloaked figure that was too short and long to be a human. The cloak itself was dark purple with a fancy looking dark green S on it.
Liz screamed, letting go of its trainer in the process. Patty jumped forward to be right in front of the cloaked thing. "Miiiiiin," it laughed.
"Plusle plusle," Liz said, its voice shaking. "Plu-" It looked back to not see Kid, but instead see his Murkrow with a note in its mouth.
"Krow," it said, dropping the note. Liz picked it up and read it.
'Dear Liz and Patty,' it read, 'I couldn't stop worrying about it, so I went home to fix it. I left Murkrow here to give a type advantage. Still, watch out for ground type pokemon, electric attacks won't affect them. Sincerely, Death the Kid.'
Liz's eye twitched. "Plusss," it whined.
A faint "Mag," drew all three of the pokemon's attention back to the cloaked one. Multiple identical cloaked creatures appeared behind the first. "Mag," they all bellowed together.
"Plusle," Liz mumbled.
"Minun," Patty agreed happily.
"Murkrow," Murkrow nodded.
The three of them narrowed their eyes at the cloaked pokemon. Liz's tail hardened into metal, Patty's blue hands started glowing, and Murkrow's wings fluffed out. They attacked the cloaked figures murciosly with very little direction, but the pokemon didn't attack back, they just hopped. It took a while, but they fainted all of them.
"Pllussle," Liz whined
Patty smiled and painted ahead of them. "Minnun."
Liz shook her head vigorously. "Plusle plusle plusle sle!" it whined in fear.
Its sister laughed. "Minun mi." The blue cheering pokemon started marching onward. Liz looked at Murkrow for help, but it only shrugged and followed Patty. Liz sighed and followed the other pokemon reluctantly
Kid started skating down the hallway to reunite with his pokemon. Eventually he came across fainted cloaked pokemon and it took every ounce of restraint he had to not clean up the mess. He just got lectured by his father while he was trying to check the painting and he didn't want another one. He didn't even notice how weirdly shaped the cloaked pokemon were.
After a while, the hallway opened into a large room. There was an ugly old woman with a dark purple uniform that had a green S to match the random pokemon's cloaks. A purple pointed had was also on her head. Next to her was a huge pokemon floating in the air, it's body completely covered in metal besides it's glowing red eyes and fanged mouth. A blue ora swarmed around it and the lady's hand.
In the other wrinkled and pale hand of the old woman was three pokemon wiggling around, wrapped in rope. The three looked at Kid and smiled. "Plusle", "Minun", and "Murkrow" came from their mouths.
"So the trainer finally comes," the lady said. "I could of guessed it was a little twerp."
Kid's eyes narrowed at the woman. He flipped his board and sent it flying at her, knocking her over, making her let go of the pokemon and making the blue disappear.
Liz, Patty, and Murkrow fell to the floor, but then immediately jumped up and ran to their trainer. Kid untied them with eas.
Without the blue surrounding it, the metal monster turned to the old lady and as she screamed that she was too young to die. The covered pokemon swallowed her whole, then turned to Kid, eyes glowing even redder. It cried out in unbelievable rage.
Liz, Patty, and Murkrow looked at Kid for direction. The reaper looked between his pokemon and the pokemon charging an attack. "Liz, Patty, Murkrow," Kid started. He looked like he was thinking hard about something. "Return to your pokeballs," he finished.
The three made noises for surprise as kid lifted the two luxury balls and one pokeball. The red glow took hold of Murkrow, but Liz and Patty moved out of the way before it could do the same to them.
"Plusle?" Liz asked.
The three of them got hit by a dragon rage attack from the pokemon. They all jumped back up pretty quickly. "Plusle, plusle?"
"I… I can't have you attack it. It's just so symmetrical. Return before you get hurt again."
"Minun min?"
"I'll be fine, we just can't attack it."
Both Liz and Patty started arguing with their trainer, giving time for a second dragon rage to hit them, aimed more at Kid than the sisters. It hardly phased him, so took the opportunity to successfully return the plusle and minun. It was kind of useless since the two just popped out seconds later. Kid returned them as fast as they came out. It was back and forth between Liz and Patty coming out and Kid returning them for a while until a powerful hydro pump directly hit the black and white haired boy, flinging him onto his back, and leaving water everywhere. Liz and Patty popped out again and started shaking him worriedly.
Kid sat up and spit out red water from his mouth. Blood dripped from his mouth, and eyes. "Plusle," Liz pleaded.
"I… I can't…"
The pokemon yelled in rage again, shaking the air around it. The metal on its head broke off, since it was weakened by the attacks. Kid could finally see the face of the pokemon attacking him. He stared in shock.
From just the head, the pokemon was obviously a Gyarados, but it was different. There was bulging black veins all over along with a red scar with black, slowly growing spots over one eye. It had dirt randomly all over it. Kid stared blankly at it. "That thing's disgusting."
Liz and Patty smiled. "Miinun!" "Pluss," they said triumphantly. They knew that they were almost done.
"How dare you. You betrayed me. Liz, Patty thunderbolt!"
The two nodded and electricity sparked from both their cheeks. It hit the atrocious pokemon, the water and the metal still on it amplified it. "Thunderbolt, thunderbolt, thunderbolt, thunderbolt," Kid kept repeating.
After Liz and Patty each used the move fourteen times, the gadgets on Kid's wrists shined. "You ready?" he asked the two pokemon. They nodded.
Kid touched both yellow crystals on the two devices simultaneously, then took one arm, moved it back, and put both into an Z formation. Liz and Patty's arms did the same as their trainer's. The three started glowing yellow and symbols appeared in front of the two cheering pokemon. They started chanting "Plusle" and "Minun" as Kid moved both his arms back. "Let's go, gigavolt havoc!" he exclaimed. The two arms moved forward in a punching motion. Liz's right and Patty's left arms did the same, but at the tips of their red and blue hands two giant balls of pure energy formed. Both got hurled at the Gyrados, the excess energy bursted out of the pyramid, leaving a hole. The water pokemon fell to the floor, shaking everything under its weight. The rest of the armor broke off, revealing the rest of it. It looked like the face with bulging black veins and dirt randomly all over it.
Kid sighed in relief. "Glad that abomination is taken care of."
"Plusle plus?" Liz asked in concern
Kid looked at the wild pokemon in front of him. "I don't know what's wrong with it."
Suddenly, the red eyes of the pokemon opened again. It started floating again and it bellowed a cry of anger and pain.
"How has it not fainted?" Kid asked in astonishment. He grabbed a pokeball from his backpack and threw it at the pokemon. It went inside. As the ball shook once, a large block of sand fell. Another followed not long afterward.
Patty smiled. "Minun min!"
"It is falling apart!" Kid replied. The pokeball with gyarados shook again as Kid lifted the two luxury balls again. "Actually return this time."
Liz looked at her trainer. Another giant sand block fell, so it nodded nervously. "Plus," it agreed. Liz and Patty went into their pokeballs and the gyarados's shook one final time. The ceiling and walls around Kid were falling faster. The young reaper ran to his skateboard and jumped aboard. He kicked off, grabbing the just caught gyarados on the way out. As the board flew through the hallway at incredible speed, the cloaks of the pokemon got blown off, revealing hundreds of nearly fainted magikarp.
Kid stopped. He still had some time before the shrine's breaking caught up to him, so he opened the pokeball pocket of his backpack and poured it over the mass of pokemon. In less than a minute, all the magikarp were caught in a wide variety of different types of balls. All but two were transferred back to his house, since Kid reached the six pokemon limit. The trainer could hear the rumbling catch up to him, so Kid quickly grabbed the two Magikarp, added them to his belt, and put the seven extra pokeball back into his backpack, then sped out of the man-made cave.
Once a safe distance away, Kid stopped and looked back at the shrine. He looked just in time to see it fall completely to the ground. "I… I broke the shrine…" He mumbled.
"You broke the shrine?!" Lord Death questioned harshly as Kid walked through the door.
"It was an accident dad. I-I'm sorry. I was just… trying…" Kid said. His voice was getting more shaky as he went on and tears started forming in his eyes.
Lord Death looked at his son and regretted yelling. The child had blood still stained his face in various places, his clothes and hair were still wet from the hydro pump, and he was covered in sand, that was clumping together because of the water, was all over him. He knew that Kid would hate how asymetrical he looked.
Lord Death placed a large white hand on Kid's back, comforting him. "It's okay Kid. Nobody has even used it in hundreds of years. What happened?"
Kid told the god of death his whole story, sparing no detail, except for the part when he came back home.
Lord Death nodded once his son finnish. "How strange. Magikarp and Gyarados shouldn't be there to begin with. Do you think the Team Salem grunt brought them?"
"No, I don't believe so," Kid said, "Magikarp are too useless and the Gyarados looked like it was being forced into not attacking her in the first place. I have a theory that the Magikarp and Gyarados were forced out of their usual pond so they found refuge in the shrine. Since Gyarados it a water flying type, all the ground types were both useless and weak against it, so they left. The Magikarps then took it as their own.
"Nobody has been to the shrine in months, so it's not unreasonable. I guess from there, the Team Salem grunt went to the Gyarados and did something to it."
"Why would the Magikarp have to leave their pond?" Lord Death asked. Kid shrugged. "Well, It's still an amazing theory. Great job Kiddo! It must have been a hard battle, so you go to the pokecenter, get all healed up with your pokemon, and maybe fill out you're pokedex."
"Okay," Kid said. He handed his father three pokeballs. "Here's the Gyrados I told you about. Also two Magikarp. You can put them with the others."
Lord Death gave a thumbs up. "I'll do some tests on your new pokemon while you're gone. But before you go, I need all your trainer tokens."
"Why?"
"It's a punishment for destroying a monument."
Kid looked at the floor. "Oh… right…" He went into his backpack and took out all of his trainer tokens, which there was a lot. The young Reaper left for the pokemon center thinking about how he was even worse than a trubbish.
Lord Death looked at the gyarados's pokeball. "I wonder what Team Salem is working on now…"
A/N: Like how the anime starts the same as the manga then strays from the story, I'll be trying to do the same. At first it would be small changes, then more drastic. Since I finished both the anime and manga, of Soul Eater I'll be drawing inspiration from both, but I shouldn't spoil anything from either. I haven't seen every single episode of the pokemon anime, but I've seen a fair amount. I'm also in the process of reading the manga, so I'll take inspiration from those too, but still, there shouldn't be anything spoiled. Anyway, please review, as the journey continues.