So here's the next chapter in the story. I decided to write this one up since its memorial day and I have no school (Thank God) and I have nothing better to do and I'm actually really in the mood today. So happy Memorial day to all of you and I hope you all enjoy your day out of school or maybe even work :D Anyway's don't forget to be thankful to all those who have sacrificed serving for your country (Even if its not U.S.) Anyways now onto the story. I like this chapter and I really look forward to what it leads to later on. Read and find out for yourself :D
Chapter 45: Imperfect duo
Point of View Flare, the following morning
It was now the morning after Black was put into his pokeball. Everyone on our team was now walking in the city streets heading towards a park so we could train for the day. According to Alex this park was a meeting area for different trainers to meet and practice and what not. So everyone on our team was either really fired up like me or nervous like Ebony or Kana. Although I guess I couldn't say I was as fired up as I wanted to be due to the lack of sleep I got last night. Not only was I worried to close my eyes but thoughts of me leaving Black to die back in that van were now catching up to me. It took a while to click in my head but if Nia hadn't showed up Black would be dead right now. I did nothing to help him and in the end I choose to be a coward and I was going to have to make this up to him somehow. Hesh and I made the decision of waiting until Gray was outside of his pokeball to tell everyone about the assassins after us, due to the fact we didn't want to retell the story over and over. As for Alex's dad he was out running an errand so he wasn't accompanying us today.
"Where here" Alex yelled out loud excitedly and disrupted my train of thought. In front of us was a big open plain of grass that had a few tree's scattered throughout. Along with the tree's there was a stone trail that went through the park and had some benches following along it. In the middle of the park there was a stream of water that went through the trail so they added in a wooden bridge which was quite a nice design. Off in the distance I could see the sun slowly rising over some buildings and within a few hours it would be noon or in other words lunch. There wasn't many trainers here yet and it appeared there was only two other groups a guy and a girl who I actually remembered. This girl was actually the one person that was Aiden's trainer. Not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
Alex let out a wave to the girl "Hey Erica" he yelled to the female who then noticed him and replied with a lazy wave that lacked enthusiasm. The trainer known as Erica looked the same as last time. Long brown hair that went a little past her neck and down to her back, Erica was now wearing a light green tank top along with some dark jeans and on her hands she had fingerless gloves. Her arms were also covered in armbands and bracelets and whatever else that stuff is that female humans decorate themselves with.
Alex walked up to Erica and greeted her "hey how's things been since last time" he asked her with a smile on his face that showed his friendliness.
"Eh alright I guess, not much happened to be honest" she replied. "So did you ever find your emotional umbreon" Erica then asked reminding all of us about Black's break down on our way to Cyllage.
"Oh umm Black, yeah I got him" Alex said as he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. I on the other hand didn't appreciate the teen insulting Black when she didn't know any of the stuff he has been going through, I couldn't really blame him for being a little dramatic at times although I couldn't lie either it did get tiring after a while.
"Yeah well just make sure he doesn't have a mental break down again" Erica then added in.
"Yeah sure" Alex responded in a voice that sounded a little offended but he just took it.
Every one of us stopped listening to the boring conversation at one point that is until one of them asked a question of interest "So would you be interested in a rematch" Erica asked Alex as a small smirk made its way on her face.
"You know it" Alex replied excitedly as he reached on his belt and grabbed two pokeball's. Erica did the same and grabbed two pokeball's of the three on her belt. Both trainers threw their pokeball's at the same time and red lights blinded everyone as the pokemon of choice where released.
"He can't really be doing this can he" Hesh then spoke up as the form of and absol and an umbreon appeared in front of him.
"Oh no… this is going to be interesting" Kana then added in as Gray and Black both realized they were released. On the opposite team stood Aiden who looked pretty lazy and his bulbasaur friend that I beat last time.
Aiden shot a glance at Black who wasn't really paying much attention at the time. I wonder if they'd still be a little cold about last time or id they'd get along.
Point of View Black
I now stood in an open field of grass. In front of me stood two very familiar pokemon I couldn't say I was glad to see, to my left stood Gray who I was even less excited to see and could do without. This was weird, why was Alex releasing me and why did this look so much like we were about to begin a pokemon battle?
"Alright listen up you two" Alex said as he grabbed me and Gray's head and dragged us closer than any two men should be and made us face him. "You two are going to focus on teamwork today, if you can't prove to me you can work together then I'll handcuff you two together until your best friends" Alex threatened.
I slowly looked over to the absol who cringed at the thought "Listen Alex buddy I think you don't understand-" I started saying before I was cut off "Good glad you agree" Alex interrupted completely failing to understand me.
"Okay listen up, your both at a slight disadvantage since both of their attacks are rather effective against your types. But your attacks are also good against them as well so it may balance out" Alex lectured as the other team got their lecture as well.
"Okay Gray stick with ice attacks and use them on the bulbasaur also it wouldn't be a bad idea to watch the vines. Black just hold off and wear down the charmander until Gray can assist you" Alex said and I took immediate offence from his strategy.
"Why do you automatically assume I need help beating a little lizard" I said which sounded a little racist.
"Because you're the one who's always in the hospital and last I recalled I beat you in a fight" Gray said in a snobby voice towards me. I instantly let out a growl towards gray and I already knew this wasn't going to work out.
"Hey that wasn't even a fair fight and I was winning until Flare knocked me off you and second that was a hate crime asshole" I growled at Gray as I got ready to pounce on the racist jerk. Right before I could do anything I instantly felt a strong tug on my ear and I let out a loud yelp in response, the one holding me was Alex and he did not look to happy.
"Black I swear to god you make a fool out of me in public again" I Alex said in fury and gave me a look that actually terrified me. Which I wasn't too happy about since I wasn't fond of the idea of being exactly obedient to humans, after all I am somewhat of a rebel.
"Ha ha" Gray said in a mocking voice in an attempt to piss me off more. This was absolute crap, sure I started that fight the other night but you know what he has done far more to me than I did to him and now I look like the bad guy! I was growing sick of this very fast and I was about to snap as I fought my anger from reaching its snapping point.
"I don't care if you win or lose but if I don't see some cooperation between you two I'll handcudd you together and you'll sleep, eat and crap together" Alex said in a serious tone.
"Gross" Gray and I said on sync to the idea.
"I'll chew off my paw before I spend a minute handcuffed to you" Gray said as he shot me a death glare.
"Sure and I'll help you ass face" I snarled at him.
Everyone's attention was then directed to the female trainer's team "Are you two ready" she yelled across our battle ground.
"Ready" Alex yelled in response and me and Gray faced our opponents who looked pretty ready to go all out. I was actually pretty nervous about this fight, I had no doubt that I could beat that dumb charmander and his little buddy, but the real question is if Gray can pull his own weight and not screw things up for us. I guess this will be a trial of luck.
"Ready" Erica began to say. "Get set, Go!" Erica yelled from across the field and the battle begun.
Gray and I both sprinted at the two pokemon we were assigned to fight. The other two pokemon made their way towards us as well. The charmander known as Aiden let out a toothy grin "Suck this" he yelled as he faced his snout towards me but right before he shot it at me he turned and faced Gray and launched it towards him. The absol didn't even see it coming since he was so focused on getting the jump on the bulbasaur.
'Should I warn him' I thought to myself 'Nah he'll be fine' I concluded. The ember then collided with Gray's hip right before he reached the bulbasaur and his eyes got really wide as his body was filled with pain. Gray went flying to the side but right before he could hit the ground the bulbasaur grabbed the injured absol with his vines and wrapped them around him so there wasn't a free limb.
'I'd hate to be tangled up in that situation' I thought of a cheesy pun.
"Watch out" I heard Alex yell to me" I turned my head really quickly towards the charmander but all I saw was a fireball making contact between my eyes and I went flying back onto the ground. I was pretty dazed and I let out a pained groaned as I tried to recover from the devastating blow that burned like hell. Once I got over the burning pain I started getting back up but that's when I saw their next move and nothing could prepare me for the next attack.
Hurling towards me was Gray who was now screaming as he uncontrollable flew towards me, I responded with a loud yell as he collided with me and crushed my body that was a dwarf compared to his. Sadly for me Gray was on top of me and I could hardly move let alone breathe. Once Gray got ahold of himself he planted his paw on my head and used it for his support to help him up. I didn't like him stepping on me so I took my right paw which was my only free paw and I gave him a good shove. Gray instantly lost his balance and fell of me and onto the floor.
"The hell Black" Gray snarled at me as he got back up again.
"My face isn't a stepping stool" I replied back as I tried getting up and I quickly noticed how soar my ribs were after Gray getting chucked at me like a child's ball.
"Well be more considerate and grow up" Gray yelled back as he started walking towards me with his teeth showing as he growled. Then an ember hit gray's side and he went sliding across the ground with a new burn mark on his body. I hysterically laughed at the scene but I was quickly silenced when I felt a tentacle like thing wrap around my body.
"What, oh Mew please no" I shouted as I was lifted off the ground and got a bird's eye view of the area below me. I could see Alex looking up at me and I could tell he was disappointed on our performance as a team. I then looked over and saw the bulbasaur holding me with his vines. The charmander on the other hand was laughing his head off at the scene of our miserable failure.
"You guys suck" Aiden yelled at me from the ground.
"Gray give Black a hand" Alex yelled at Gray. The absol quickly got up and started running towards the bulbasaur in an attempt to actually help me, which was really surprising since I thought he'd help them kill me.
"Oh I'll help him" Gray said with a sly smile on his face and that's when I began cringing on what he really meant. Gray quickly dodged an ember that the charmander sent towards him. Once Gray was close to the Vines that held me he shot an ice beam at the vine and froze it solid. Then he jumped towards the vine and shattered the part that was frozen, which was cool and all except for the fact that I was about twenty feet high when he did that. The vine that was wrapped around me fell limp and before I knew it I was falling towards the ground.
"Gray catch him quick" Alex yelled as he ran towards me in an attempt to catch me even though he was too far.
"Oh no, I'm not taking the fall for this one" Gray made a cheesy pun that wasn't even remotely funny.
I let out a loud scream of terror as I extended my paw forward to take the full blow of the fall. The moment I made contact with the ground I instantly felt my whole right arm shatter along with a disgusting cracking noise that stuck in my head. My whole right arm shot up with pain but quickly after the rest of my body shot up with pain as it collided with the ground and made a loud splatting noise. Everything became really slow and my head was now ringing.
I instantly let out a loud scream from the agonizing pain of landing on my arm like that and that is also when I realized it may have been better to distribute the impact. I now lied on the ground and I was moaning in pain as my arm screamed bloody murder.
"Stop the battle" Alex shouted and he ran towards me along with everyone else on our team.
"Crap I'm sorry I didn't mean for that to happen" the bulbasaur said as he ran up next to me and looked at my arm. Everyone looked down at my and cringed at the sight of my arm so I decided I was going to take a quick peak. I hesitantly looked towards my throbbing arm and the moment I saw it I let out another scream. I was no expert at anatomy but it didn't take a genius to figure out your arm wasn't supposed to bend like that, especially when it wasn't even bent at a joint...
"Are you okay" Flare yelled out in worry. I just sat there and moaned in response not really knowing how to cope with the pain that dominated my better judgment.
"Everyone give him some room now" Hesh yelled out as he gestured for everyone to back up.
"I need to get him to a pokecenter now" Alex said frantically as he tried to figure out how to carry me with my injured arm. I looked around for a few seconds with the little attention I could use that wasn't directed towards the pain and I noticed Gray was nowhere in sight. Which was good for him because I was going to get him back for this.
Alex wrapped his arms around me and cradled me carefully not disturbing my arm anymore than necessary. "Tell me if this hurts" Alex said as he stood up completely with me in his arms. The pain was unbearable and I just wanted the throbbing pain to go away just for at least a moment, so the only way my body could cope with the pain was through tears, tears where something I was never proud to show but at this moment I just wanted help or something.
Alex was now running at full speed in the nearest direction of a pokemon center. Each step he took sent a shockwave of pain into my arm and the pain was really beginning to grow unbearable.
Point of View Flare
Everybody just stood in the park in silence. No one had anything to say or knew how to break the silence after watching Black get injured like that. I looked over at the bulbasaur who had a sad look on his face, I knew he was probably beating himself up over this but the truth was it wasn't completely his fault and he didn't seem like such a bad pokemon from what I've seen.
"Hey bulbasaur" I said out loud as I walked over to the lizard creature.
"Look man I'm sorry I didn't mean to" the bulbasaur said in a shook up voice.
"No I just wanted to say don't beat yourself up over this, I know you didn't mean any harm" I said in a reassuring voice.
"Thanks but I really shouldn't have been fighting like that, I should have realized it was unsafe" The bulbasaur said.
"Yeah it was a little dangerous but it's still a cool move but I think the blame belongs to someone else" I said as I walked away from the bulbasaur and looked for a certain absol. I looked around the park a bit and I spotted him next to the stream of water that went through the park. I sprinted on over towards the absol who I believed was the cause of Black's injury.
"Hey Gray" I yelled out towards him in an angry voice. The absol didn't even bother to look at me even though I knew he heard me.
I got even closer to him and tried again "Gray I'm talking to you" I yelled again. This time Gray looked back at me. I continued to make my way towards him and I stopped once we were only a half meter apart.
"Why'd you do that" I didn't waste any time and I accused him right away knowing full well that he could have caught Black if he wanted to.
"Okay I did purposely attend for that to happen, I just didn't expect him to land like a complete moron and injure himself that bad" Gray replied back with very little attitude surprisingly.
"Well you know he's being rushed to a pokecenter right now right?" I asked.
"Yeah I kind of realized that when he started screaming" Gray said.
"So what you realized he was seriously injured and you just walk away and don't try and help him a little" I replied back with anger showing my voice.
"No, I just realized I screwed up that's all" Gray replied back.
"Well Gray I asked you to get along with him and you showed hardly any attempts of getting along with him, when does this hatred of yours stop and why can't you just get over it. Your actually pretty lucky he didn't break his neck or something" I screamed at Gray in absolute anger.
"He is impossible to get along with remotely and on top of that he's constant trouble" Gray retorted.
"You are the only one having trouble getting along with him. And yeah I know he has his flaws but maybe if you took some time to get to know him you'd understand him better" I yelled back at him.
"What is there to understand about him! He's and umbreon that is rude, snide and is going to get everyone around him killed eventually" Gray yelled back at me in anger. Right when I heard those words I felt something snap inside of me and anger just built up in me so much I couldn't bare it. I then looked Gray in the eyes and punched him directly between the eyes as hard as I could. Gray instantly flinched back. Sadly I wasn't exactly that strong so he was able to recover right away and brush it off like it was nothing.
"What the hell Flare" Gray yelled at me. Honestly I didn't care if it made him mad and I really hoped that it hurt like hell.
"You know what Gray you had that coming and I'm sick of your hostility" I snarled at him.
"Flare don't test me, I'll lay you flat" Gray replied.
"Oh what you going to give me a scar now, or maybe your going to break one of my bones now" I retorted as smoke exited my mouth from the anger accumulating.
"Flare I'm warning you, I've always liked you but if you don't step off I'm going to kick your ass" Gray growled at me.
"Bite my ass" I responded.
"Why do you care about him so much" Gray shouted at me.
Point of View Gray
"Because he's my friend and he doesn't deserve your hatred" Flare shouted at me. I couldn't believe him, why does he think there so close. There was nothing special about that umbreon and I don't ever see them two talking heart to heart ever so why does Flare act like they have some special bond.
"Flare nothing you say will change my opinion on of him, I'm going to hate his kind till the moment I die and there's nothing you can do to change me" I replied coldly.
"If that's true then you need mental help."
"Piss off" I replied with anger accumulating.
"Make me. I'm not going until you get that tree out of your ass" Flare replied back.
"You know what if you want to fight then do it I'll put you right next to Black in the pokecenter" I provoked a fight.
Before I could even think of what he was going to say next Flare shot an ember straight towards my face. I quickly fell to the floor since it was the fastest way to dodge it, although that wasn't the best move for me to choose. Flare then ignited his whole body on fire like he always did in a serious fight and he jumped right on top of me. Getting burns on top of previous burns never felt to good and my white fur was really starting to lose its pure white color and turn into a dirty brown.
I quickly punched Flare right in his jaw as he stood on me and he went flying into the air and smacked onto the ground with a thud. I then jumped up onto my feet and I planted my paw right on his throat before he could recover from the punch. "Having second thoughts yet" I asked Flare in a final attempt to get him to back off. Right before Flare could respond I felt something solid hit my side and electricity shot through my entire body and every muscle in my body tightened up.
I fell to the ground as I struggled to regain control of my body. Standing right next to me was kana who had a few jolts of electricity circuiting throughout her body. Along with kana came everyone else who circled around me as if they were vultures. Hesh then walked up to Flare who was still on the ground and helped him up to his feet and guided him to safety.
"Gray I don't know what your problem is but this will stop here" Kana said in a dark voice I've never heard her use before and it was rather chilling seeing a gentle spirit like hers talk like that to me.
"Gray let Black get hurt and he intended for him to fall like that" Flare said as he pointed at me. Everyone quickly shot a glance at me that showed their disapproval.
"Yeah but I didn't expect him to get hurt that seriously" I replied back to anyone who was willing to listen to reason.
"Gray what the hell is wrong with you" Hesh said as he shook his head in dissatisfaction. "You know I don't care that you don't like Black but he didn't deserve that" Hesh continued to say. I just sat there and gritted my teeth as everyone incriminated me.
"I don't expect any of you to understand how I feel about him" I growled at everyone as I stood up and faced the mob around me.
"No I don't think we can understand how bat shit crazy you are" Flare yelled at me.
"Yeah Gray that was really cruel" Kana added in.
"I'm done here" I growled as I walked towards the crowd. "Move" I yelled at them and they complied and let me pass through.
"And where are you going now" Hesh yelled at me.
"Away from all of you, I'll see you asses later" I yelled back at them as I walked away to escape there anger towards me.
I was now on the streets of Cyllage all alone without my team. I can't believe they all teamed up on me like that. Flare goes on and on about how I need to understand him but has he ever considered understanding me. My hatred isn't misplaced, every umbreon deserves to be punished for the horrible monsters they are, they may not see it but I do. Black is a time bomb and it's only a matter of time before something he does gets us killed and no one will listen to reason. So instead they act like I'm some horrible monster that just has misdirected hatred.
"They don't understand anything about me, none of them" I muttered to myself as I walked down the busy streets of Cyllage city.
Chapter End
Author Note: So theirs the end of that chapter. So I hope I didn't jump to the training to fast I just felt like most of the stuff in between wouldn't have really been the most interesting and that skipping right to the morning would be better. So we got to see more of Gray's racism problem this chapter and as we can see its really catching up to Black. Also it seems Black may be nominated for world's most unlucky pokemon. As he said before this isn't his month and we'll have to wait for his status. So I can't wait to write next chapter and I'm sure a lot of you are going to like next chapter and it will help this story a lot. So till next time!