~Ryu

July 19th, 2551

2:22pm

(*)Eevee was stunned as a birthday cupcake was placed in front of her. About a week ago she had let it slip that her birthday had been on the 5th, so we all decided to throw a surprise birthday party along with mine. Before my birthday ball, for my actual birthday, tommorrow.

"What-this-wha-I-"

"Hehehe we sure left miss hotpot spechless for words."

"But why?"

"You told us we passed your birthday, so we decided to make up for it by having a double party. You're welcome."

I smiled at (*)Eevee as Sylveon and Eevee began the birthday chant.

"Happy birthday to you both! Happy Birthday to you two! Today is both your special days-"

"Uggggghhhhhh! You guys are so embarassing!"

'We hope you have a double happy birthday! Double happy birthday! Today is your special days! Special days! On your special day today have a happy birthday!" Happy birthday! Yaaaayyy!'

"(*)Eevee and Ryu! YAY!"

I was smiling, Sylveon blew a blowhorn, and Eevee was clapping as Eevee 2 was turned away in embarassment.

"Tch!"

"Happy birthday (*) Eevee! And Ryu."

"Hmph!"

"Thanks Eevee. And Eevee 2?"

"I told you to stop calling me that!!!"

"Noted. Anyways do you want to blow the candles together partner?"

"Argh! Fine."

She flicked her ear towards the candle one but didn't move an inch. We all stared at her in disbelief and started laughing.

"You got something to say to me?! What's so f*ing funny?!"

"You call that blowing Haha. You're supposed to do it like this."

I blew out my candle with one blow making her flush in embarassment.

"Darn you Kalos Pokemon and your customs."

She blew on her candle...so hard that some of the icing flew into my face. This just made her flush a deep red.

"Don't tell me...You've never blown out a candle before?"

"I douse the ones we have at home because blowing on it makes our lips turn blue back home. So I never blown one out before. And for birthdays we eat snow slushies, not a...what do you call this again? A cupcake?"

"Yeah we blow them out on our birthday cakes or cupcakes and make a wish. Unless you don't do the second part?"

"I don't. Wishes make nothing reality so why bother dream on something that will never even happen?"

"It's just nice to take that chance instead of wondering qhat could have been."

I said as I wiped my face off and handed her our present wrapped in red wrapping paper.

"A gift from all of us. Happy birthday Eevee tw- argh part...ner..."

I grimaced as she kept stomping on my foot and she grabbed the present. We watched her open it and her face changed from annoyance into awe.

It was a blue scarf we found at the mall but she looked at it like it was a piece of home. And since she missed it so much we thought we could a piece of it back to her.

I even told Sylveon to stitch a snowflake on one of the ends, hoping she'd get a real kick out of that. I gave her a wink and she slipped it on annoyance.

"Thanks for the gift. It's...acceptable..."

"You're welcome. Ryu was the one that told me to add on the snowflake and I'm starting to wonder why..."

"Anyways let's go see that movie guys! While it's still light out!"

Darn it Sylveon. Why did you have to go say that?

*2:52pm

We had planned on watching a action film with a hint of romance. Something about a war on different planets and the main characters love interest is a princess. The gun fights is what really interested me.

I prefer taking action instead of being all sensitive. Those parts of the movie were boring.

"I love you."

"I know."

It should be ,"I don't know."

Yuck!

When he got melted in lava I flinched a little.

"Scared that might be you one day Ryu?"

"What? Nooo... Of course not. I just wouldn't be comfortable if that happenned."

"Slow me down in practice again and I just might dump you into a volcano."

"Just try it."

Me and (*)Eevee looked back at the screen...when something suddenly hit me.

"Wait a minute, did you just call me Ryu?"

"What? No I didn't."

"Did too."

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too double!"

"Did not triple!"

"Did too jinx."

"Did no- what?"

"Ha! I win."

"Damn it."

"Now you have to admit you said it."

"I ain't admitting nothing! So just drop it!"

"Alright alright...Hey did you guys hear she called me Ryu?"

"Grr..."

Long story short we argued about it the rest of the movie while our friends tried to break it up. They kicked us out because we were too loud and somehow it changed to talking about the movie and so on.

*4:32pm

"How can you not love the bond between the robot and the fighter? Their friendship is so genuine because it's so rare. It defies the seperation of flesh and machine, so what's not to like about it?"

"It just doesn't really click with me. And I don't find it as special as you do. Anyways it's just a machine so what's the big deal?"

"That's like saying Pokemon doesn't matter. What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing wrong with me. Why would you say that?"

"You are a pretty selfish mon. I mean were you even there when your sister was obviously suffering. Did you even care about her then or were you too busy worrying about your own egotistical selfish ass?!"

"(*)Eevee.! You wouldn't understand! It was...complicated..."

"Complicated?! Or you just don't want to admit you regret not doing anything?!"

"(*)EEVEE I TRIED!!!!"

When I shouted that loud everyone in the car went silent.

"I always really cared about my sister because she was my twin! Even now! You don't get a twin that often in your life!!! But she never wanted to open up about anything she just pushed me aside!!! Or she was to damn jealous even though I told her "don't let it get to your head because I will always consider you equal because you are my family!" But that never got through to her!!! As you can see what happenned!!! If I knew what trouble she was getting herself into I would have stopped it without hesitation!!! But I was too late...and I just knew my sister was an insane murderer who mudered her best friend and almost Eevee!! And then when it happenned my entire family was to blame for the "badly turned out offspring."!!! But it was mostly me!!! If I hadn't been such a showoff she wouldn't have been so eager to prove herself to the point of blackmail, tyranny, and manipulation!!! I sometimes wish I wasn't the stronger one because she would still be here today!!! If I tried even harder to talk to her I would actually understand my own f*ing twin! I failed her as a brother... and again it's up to me to put a stop to it. BUT HOW CAN I WHEN I CAN'T EVEN CONTROL MYSELF?! I KNEW I HAD PROBLEMS BUT NOTHING ABOUT CONTROLLING THE MONSTER INSIDE ME?! YOU ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!!!"

I clenched my fists so hard they started bleeding and I fought so hard to hold back my tears.

My friends all looked at me in sympathy but I know I didn't deserve it. We silently continued to my house and nobody said a word. I stepped out as soon as we came to a stop.

"Shall I go drop them off sir?"

"I..."

They all stepped out making me turn a little in surprise. I sighed when I realized they wanted to talk.

"Wait here for a minute Shiftree. My friends want to talk."

"Yes sir."

I walked down the driveway and they eagerly followed me. Once we reached an old oak tree about 50 feet away I stopped.

The wind blew for a few seconds and I heard a pair of feet step forward.

"Ryu?"

"Yeah?"

"We wanted to give this to you for your birthday."

I turned around as Eevee handed me a blue box. I opened it and I felt a lump catch in my throat.

It was a scrapbook filled with pictures of the four of us. Including our birthday just a couple of hours ago.

"I-I don't deserve this."

"Yes you do. But before we start talking about that (*)Eevee has something to say."

She pushed Eevee 2 forward, who was actually looking pretty sad.

"I didn't mean to bring up something so touchy and be so cruel about it. That wasn't fair. Especially since your birthday is tommorrow and you went to all this trouble for me too. All of you have been nice to me and even bought this scarf for me which you didn't even have to do. And what I said earlier didn't even have anything to do with what we were talking even about. And it sounded like I'm taking our friendship for granted. I wanted to say...I'm sorry."

"It's fine. I needed to hear that. It only just proves that I need to make some improvement soon or I don't even deserve to be your friend."

She stared at me in regretful silence. But snapped out of it seconds and walked over to me until she was only a few inches away from me.

"Let's get one thing straight. You don't get the decision to decide if we're going to be your friends or not unless we're bullying you. We are not going to leave your side ever. And whoever decides to seperate us has another thing coming."

"You guys aren't going to leave me?"

"What kind of friends would we be if we abandoned you before your birthday? Besides we already talked about this, we are your friends and it's always going to stay that way."

"Face it. You're stuck with us forever comrade."

"But what about my monster?! I can't stand it if I hurt you guys again because I can't control my mind! Why be friends with someone who can hurt you at any given time?! Why someone like me?!"

(*)Eevee raised her hand and I turned away expecting her to slap me. But instead her arms went around me.

"Idiot. You're already an okay pokemon to me. If you didn't care about fixing it and spending time with us then we wouldn't like you. That much I can say why we have so much faith in you and we trust you. This is my gift to you."

Eevee and Sylveon stepped forward and hugged the both of us.

"You are my friend too. This is my gift to you."

"Same little bro. Forever."

I felt so happy with all my friends in that moment that I didn't care I was pouring rivers. I didn't feel ashamed because they were all feeling the same way.

"You guys. Thank you."

And that's when I felt something happen to me. I blinked when I saw something glowing I looked around to see where it was until I saw my paw.

My paw was glowing.

"Uh guys?"

"What? Oma! Ryu?! You're glowing!"

Everyone stepped back and had to cover their eyes when they tried looking at me.

"Argh! So bright!"

I looked to see the light blue glow quickly spreading through my body. Not only that I felt myself growing because I saw that my friends were getting smaller.

That's when I realized I was evolving. I couldn't help but scream because I felt amazing.

"RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHAAAAAWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I felt a strong energy blow off me and that was how the glow finally receded.

I looked at myself in shock.

I was now a Lucario.

"The spikes on paws...On my chest...The thick muscular thighs...longer tail...the hair...OH MY ARCEUS! YEAH!! THIS IS AWESOME!!! WHOOOO!"

My friends finally turned and were stunned when they saw me.

"I AM A LUCARIO!!! YEAAHHH!!"

"R-RYU?!"

"ISN'T THIS AWESOME GUYS?!"

"NO WAY!!!"

"Oh no..."

"THIS IS AMAZING!!"

'Do you wish to learn the move Aura Sphere?'"YEAH WHOEVER IS TALKING TO ME!!! YOU CAN REMOVE FEINT!"

'You have now learned Aura Sphere and forgot Feint. Welcome new Lucario.""Oh my god this is awesome!"

Everyone started hugging me again and we all clapped each other over and over again.

"Guys I think I learned a new move! You want to see it?!"

"Go for it comrade!"

"Yeah show us already!"

"This I gotta see."

So we left the tree until we found a boulder for me to practice on.

"It was along distance move you say?"

"Yeah watch this."

My dad told me what to do when I learned Aura Sphere.

Bring out the energy or aura into the tips of your fingers and slowly draw it out and compact it into a ball of energy. And to practice on a none moving target first before you try Pokemon.

So just like my father said I drew out my energy having practiced it a lot of times. And that's when I saw it, the blue ball of energy that has been passed down the family for generations.

I turned back to see my friends faces and their mouths we're in the shapes of O's.

I grinned at them for a second before going back to concentrating. I focused on the boulder and fired.

I felt it push me back just a little and watch the ball go flying. But when it was about five feet away it was blown away by the wind and went straight towards a bathroom window.

I stared in shock as it went through and there was a small explosion.

"Uh is that okay Ryu? It didn't hit no one inside right?"

"I hope so-"

"WHERE THE HELL DID THAT AURA SPHERE COME FROM?! LUKE!!!"

"Or not."

I ran inside when I realized it was my mom screaming.

(Note : How will his parents react to his evolution? What are his friends real opnion on it? And what does this mean for his birthday ball tommorrow? Find out in Ch 95 ~ Ryu!)