Chapter 6: Weak part 2
AAAAAND we're back.
Sorry for the long wait! I was caught up on finding a song to fit the battle which took much longer than expected (i.e making the battle as long as the song) so I made this chapter extra long to repay for it (3.5k words ohmygodineedsumcoffee)
One thing before we get on with the story.
Once the 'Weak' arc ends, it'll be on a small hiatus (maybe like 2 or 3 days, not much) so that I can focus on the next story that I'll publish and also think of the next plot for 'The Bonds We Share, which will be more of a slice of lice+ harem plot, since this is a harem after all.
My next story will be an MLP fanfic, HiE to be more specific.
After the small hiatus has ended and I have a few chaps on the mlp fanfic, I'll continue with this story again in tandem with the mlp one.
Updates are regular as always, at least 1 chapter every day.
But It will be different this time, it'll be 1 for the pokemon story on one day, and then 1 for the mlp story on the next.
Now, let's get on with this story shall we? I believe that we have a fight that needs starting.
"Let's settle this your way shall we?"
Riolu stared at her companion in shock, surprised at his behaviour.
Suddenly she felt a familiar presence within her aura, as if one of her kind was nearby.
She observed Rai and the drastic changes that were happening to him.
The stray blue hairs on his head began darken and grow in number, completely dominating the sea of black in his mane until the black hairs on his head had swapped places with his blue ones.
The cloak he wore had darker colours, as if his transformation affected his clothing too.
Ethereal blue flames appeared on his hands, though they seemed harmless to him.
The presence that Lucy had sensed became stronger and stronger, but there was no-one else besides her, Rai, the Zangoose and her master.
Rai jumped off the Zangoose and slid next to Lucy, his hands scraping the earth as he slid by them.
Combusken's eyes were wide as saucers as she saw her trainer become a completely different person.
Rai had a horizontal stripe on his face, going past his eyes. A vertical stripe was seen in the middle of the other one but his fringes hid it.
His hair was now dark blue and had stray black hairs, though they were impossible to notice.
His navy flak jacket had split open, revealing his toned chest. The cloak he wore was dark blue, the flames licking the bottom edges had turned black. It's as if they had swapped colours.
His baggy trousers seemed to be the least affected piece of clothing, as it had just grown darker.
The ethereal flames on his hands flickered softly in the moonlight.
'Is that...my trainer?' She thought.
"Well, are you going to make your move?" Rai said, his voice turned deep and gruff.
Lucy stared at her new trainer, feelings of shock and awe bombarded her mind.
The presence she felt had grown immensely large when he arrived next to her.
'Is he...' Was all she could think before he spoke again.
"I guess we'll start first." He spoke,interrupting Lucy's train of thought. With that he leapt to the air, blue, flaming residue from his hands and the sudden aura lingered at his previous position before disappearing.
Play 'Ikari-Anger(Naruto)' for maximum battle immersiveness. If you want it to loop over without you leaving this page go to 'listenonrepeat' on google and type out the song there, it loops the song over while you read!
Rai's ascent came to a stop as his jump slowed down. Immediately, he directed his hands towards the two targets.
The ethereal flames on his hands formed into spheres, increasing by the millisecond as he slowly descended to the ground.
"I'll show you a real aura sphere." Was all Rai said as he released a barrage of aura spheres, all the while descending to the ground at alarming speeds.
Spheres grew on his hands at a quick pace before being launched at a fair size. Lucy jumped back from the splash zone as they pecked the earth that she stood on.
The trainer, who stood still as he was encased in fear, blurted out a command.
"Blades! Use close combat!"
The Zangoose, seemingly named 'Blades' for his claws, began to swat away the aura spheres, redirecting their path. Many were redirected to the ground near him, but there were too many to deflect, causing Blades to take in the occasional hit or two.
The trainer ran about, trying his best to dodge the aura spheres, the ground became pockmarked as Rai released another barrage at them.
As soon as Rai reached the ground, he circled the duo as he continued his assault, never faltering.
Blades, growing weak from the constant barrage, began to take more and more hits until he could no more. Succumbing to the relentless pain that knocks him out.
His trainer, shocked at Rai's actions, grabbed another pokeball in his hands and released it as he ran.
A blinding white light emerged from the ball. From it, a medium sized creature appeared.
It looked similiar to a Garchomp, though it must have been in its evolution before it. Suggestions in Rai's mind made him assume that it was a Gabite.
"Draconus! DRACO METEOR!" He screamed as a Gabite was released from its cage.
The Gabite immediately started the move, an orange orb forming on its mouth which grew until it could no longer fit him.
He released it in time before one of Rai's aura spheres hit him directly in the belly, propelling him a few metres, seemingly knocked out from the direct hit.
The orange orb flew to the sky as Rai slowed down his assault. He knew what was going to happen next.
He halted his attacks as the flames on his hands formed a staff, seemingly bone-like.
"Let's finish this, Dual Bone rush."
Rai sped towards the trainer, two staffs in hand, he was running in insane speeds.
The orange orb exploded in the sky, missiles flew in every direction , all aiming at the ground at a fast pace.
Rai smacked the missiles with his staffs, all being redirected to the trainer who was fleeing.
The missiles crashed near his feet, destroying the once smooth earth.
The ground became littered with stones and rocks as the orange lights defiled it. Lucy had to move back further from the clearing as the battle took up more space.
Combusken was sitting on a branch of a tree, amazed at this new individual who was infront of her eyes.
One of them had hit the trainer, injuring him.
It hit his back which propelled him a few feet, crashing into one of the craters that Rai's aura spheres caused.
Severly injured, the trainer faced Rai, who was standing on the edges of the crater, blue staffs in his hands.
"Any last words?" He asked.
"Please, have mercy..." The trainer stuttered, violently shaking from his injury.
He closed his eyes as Rai raised his staffs, an attack that would surely knock him out and send him to the hospital.
He waited for the inevitable.
...
But it never came.
If you read at a normal pace then the song would have finished around here! I hope I did well in trying to make the battle as long as the song .
The trainer slowly began to re-open his eyes at time passed by.
To his amazement, Rai was still in his place, he hasn't moved from his position ever since he got there.
The staves that he held flickered in the moonlight. The moon was directly above him, his shadow encasing the trainer.
Rai stared at him blankly, his face showed no expression at all.
After what seemed like forever, Rai jumped down the crater and landed on the trainer's feet.
The blue staffs that he held dissipated, the ethereal flames reformed onto his hands.
Rai held out his left hand to him, still staring at him with no expression.
"Get up." He finally said.
The trainer, hesitant at his gesture, eventually grabbed his hands to get him back up. Despite the flames on Rai's hands, they felt somewhat warm to him.
The two got out of the crater that Rai had caused. The thin blue aura that emanated from Rai within the whole fight began to fade, the same happened to the black stripes on his face.
His clothes seemed to stay in their form though.
Rai approached Lucy, who was shivering with fright. She felt the strong presence leave once Rai had returned to his normal features.
Lucy stepped back in fear, shocking Rai.
"Lucy, what's wrong?"
"M-m-m-mon...ster" She stuttered.
Rai's eyes widened with shock.
"Lucy, it's me."
"Don't say that name."
"What? Lu-"
"DONT SAY IT!"
Lucy jumped away from Rai, shivering as always.
"See why I don't name her? She's a nutcase, and a weakling." The trainer stated. After he finished his sentence, Rai gave him a fist to the face, sending him back to the crater where he once was, knocked out.
"You're a monster..." Lucy silently said.
Fear and guilt clouded Rai's mind, he thought that Lucy would be happy that he defended her,
but things don't always go as you think.
"Yeah, I guess I am." Rai turned his back on her. "But you need to know that I'm not that monster anymore...at least, not for now."
Lucy's posture calmed a bit, but she was still wary of him.
"Will you hurt me?"
"I guarantee that I will never hurt you, monster or not." He faced her again. The moonlight light up his face as he looked at her. "And I guarantee that I'll be a better trainer than your...master... if you let me." He said as he reached for his bag, it was slightly tangled in the bushes, away from the clearing and seemingly unharmed from the pandemonium that occurred a few minutes ago.
Rai held out a Pokeball in front of his hand.
"Lucy, if you want to. You can be my pokemon. You may not know me that much, but I promise that I'll treat you better than he did. I'll train you properly, and I won't think of you as something that I take for granted."
"But, what if you-"
"I wont do anything that would hurt or mock you in any way. I'll treat you like a free pokemon. I'll let you out of your pokeball as much as possible and I'll take the utmost care of you when you are hurt."
"..." Lucy stared into his eyes.
"I'm not forcing you to do this, you can just walk away and live free as a pokemon. All I'm doing is giving you a chance to go on an adventure with me, to be the very best, here is your choice, leave... or come with me."
Rai turned his head away from her and closed his eyes, awaiting her decision.
...
Minutes passed, and just when he was about to assume that she had left, he felt a slight nudge on the pokeball.
He opened his eyes and turned to see Lucy bumping her head on the pokeball.
"I'll come with you... Master."
Kirlia wandered around the back of the poke-center. Keeping a watchful eye if she ever saw Combusken.
As time passed she came towards the pavement, the poke-center was barely visible from sight.
She was thinking of returning to the center when she heard some a conversation nearby, the noise seemed to come from the nearby park where they met the Riolu.
Kirlia headed off into that direction, eavesdropping on the rather heated discussion as she got closer and closer.
"Please! Take me back!"
"Why should I? You're fucking ugly!"
"Is this what it's all about?! What about the times when we had fun together in our travels?"
"I was only enjoying it because I liked playing with cute things!"
"So I'm not 'cute' to you anymore?"
"Yes."
"Why do you have to be like this?"
"Because if I'm going to be a top co-ordinator, I can't be having you in there! you're too ugly for my team!"
'Wow.' Kirlia thought. 'And here I am asking Rai to capture cute pokemon. I may have the brain of a co-ordinator, but I sure as hell don't act like her when it comes to things like this.'
Combusken ran away, tears forming in her eyes.
"I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU SO MUCH YOU SICK EXCUSE OF A HUMAN!"
The female trainer gave off no emotion as she walked away in the opposite direction.
"Good riddance." She scoffed.
Kirlia had enough of her behavior.
Her eyes glowed blue as the branches that the trainer walked below glowed blue and snapped, causing her to take a few hits from them.
"AAAAHHH!" The trainer screamed as she was covered in a blue light, she was then promptly thrown in some rather sharp-branched bushes.
Kirlia snickered at her, satisfied at her punishment.
She then immediately left the scene, her sights towards the pokemon center.
'I guess she went back.' She thought.
Rai watched as the pokeball shook for a few seconds. After an assuring 'ding!' he then released Lucy from the red prison.
She was now smiling faintly, all traces of her fear seemed to go down exponentially .
Rai held out his hand to Lucy.
"Let's get back home shall we?"
"Okay,master." She replied.
"You don't have to call me that you know."
"I know, but I like doing so." She said as she waddled back to the center with Rai.
Meanwhile
Combusken stared at the clearing, which was transformed into a battlefield. A Zangoose, Gabite and a trainer were splayed out through the earth, all unconscious.
She watched the entire even in her eyes, which were as wide as saucers.
She then realised that Rai and the Riolu had left, meaning that they were heading back to the center.
She promptly left the branch that she sat on and dashed through the trees, thoughts and questions raced through her mind.
One of them was repeated more than others.
'What is he?'
"Master."
"Yes Lucy?"
"...What were you when that fight happened?"
"..." Rai stared at the moon as he prepared his answer, this was by no means short.
"Well, I need you to understand that, what I am...I'm different from others."
"Different master?"
"*sigh* Very different."
"Different how master?"
"Well, I guess this is the best moment to tell you right now, since you are the only one around."
Lucy's eyes widened at his words.
"Did you... feel something when I...transformed?"
"...Yes master."
"Well, there's a reason why you did."
"What is it?"
"I'm..." Rai took a deep breath as he gave his answer.
"I'm one of your kind."
"..." Lucy gave no response and just simply stared him at his hazel eyes. She then realised the red tinges around them.
Rai gave her an assuring look.
"I'm, what you call... a half-breed."
"So your parents?"
"My dad was human and my mother was... a Lucario." He said silently at the last part.
"My dad told me that he asked Arceus himself that he could have a child with her when he met him in the hall of origin during his travels as a trainer."
"Seeing as there are no news reports about pokemon conceiving babies, I began to believe that it was true. That, and the fact that my father met Arceus himself."
"She died at my birth since pokemon were only supposed to have eggs, not babies, the pain was...too much for her."
"Im...sorry for your loss master."
"Don't be." Rai continued.
"She was a kind and caring person from what my father said, instead of taking a starter like everyone else, he got her instead, but he never caught her, he just couldn't bear to see her trapped in these cages that we call pokeballs."
"So that's why you let out your pokemon."
"Yep, I guess i got it from my dad."
"I only realised my true self when I was ten, the day of the paint accident. Well, Kirlia thought that it was a paint accident."
Rai looked at Lucy again, his eyes locking with hers.
"We were painting a part of my mansion blue, when some kids decided to join in, but not in the way that you'd expect." He continued.
*Insert Harp playing flashback sound here*
"Can you find me another paint can Ralts?" Rai asked. Ralts simply nodded, she was being taught english by Rai but she hadn't gotten the hang of using it just yet.
As Ralts left Rai continued to paint the outside walls of the mansion blue. The place in particular was the place outside his bedroom. As he was painting a group of children came by.
"Eww, blue looks gross"
"What are you doing?!"
"Are you ruining someone else's house?!"
Rai turned back at them, one of them held the near-empty paint can in their hands whilst another held a paintbrush covered in blue paint.
"Maybe we should paint you blue!"
"Yeah! blue looks good on him, since he's gross!" The female one cried out.
Ralts returned to see the trio of children surround Rai. the female one noticed her presence and screamed.
"Look! he even painted that poor pokemon!"
"Oh you're gonna get it now buddy!" The one holding the bucket said as he threw the paint can at Rai, splashing its contents on his shirt and shorts.
Rai saw out of the corner of his eye that his Ralts was being dragged away by the girl, a look of desperation in her eyes as she stared at him.
Suddenly, a surge of power coursed through his veins as he grabbed the two kids by their arms.
Blue flames appeared on his hands as they screamed in shock, though they didn't seem to get hurt.
"AAAAGGGHH"
"MONSTER!"
"CHERRY RUN!" One of them said to the girl, who looked back to see her two friends being gripped by Rai.
"Give...Me...My...Ralts...Back" Rai bellowed as red tinges around his hazel eyes began to appear. He gave her a glare that would scare Darkrai himself.
"Take it! take it!" She let go of Ralt's hand and she ran away, all the while screaming in fear.
Rai let go of the two boy's arms as they replicated 'Cherry'.
Ralts waddled back to Rai as he grabbed her into his embrace.
Rai, realising that his shirt was painted a few moments ago, let go of Ralts as he looked at her dress.
Ralts looked down and saw that her only dress was ruined. Grateful but angry, she gently smacked Rai's chest repeatedly, visible steam coming off her head.
"Hehe, that looks good on you, dont it?"
Ralts pouted and went back to the house.
'Why did I have my hands on fire like that a few moments ago? I better ask dad about this.' He thought.
Rai observed himself through the window and realised that his hair was also painted blue, but in a darker colour.
"Aww man, not my hair!"
"And after I asked my dad about it, he told me everything." Rai finished.
Lucy never broke her stare with Rai, her mouth was agape.
"Wow."
"I know." Rai said as he looked at the moon.
"You are the only one who knows this, but knowing you, I know that you won't tell...right?"
"I'd never disobey my master." Lucy replied as she gave off a cute smile, though not as cute as Ralt's smile.
'Master...is one of my kind.' She thought.
'One of...my kind.'
'...'
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'...'
'...'
'Does that mean...'
AAAAND we're done!
Now we have gotten a bit more backstory on Rai's mother and why he was all super saiyan lucario-style.
Next chapter will focus more on Combusken (or buckbeak, as Kirlia calls her)
Oh and the decisions on the final 3 pokemon will end once this arc ends! so hurry up and choose god dammit!
Fer nao I'll leave you with a cliffhanger-ish ending on Lucy's thoughts, I'll leave it to you guys/gals(?) to figure out what she was about to say, given the current situation that she was in and the realisation that Rai is one of her kind.
emphasis on the 'KIND'.
Bai
