Chapter 4: The boy from Traupe Town
Ike arrived home along with Akechi celebrating with glee and joy over the win of their first battle.
Lyn then walked into the living room to ask her brother how his training had gone, but the moment she entered the room, she suddenly became very embarrassed to be Ike brother.
Ike and Akechi were doing some kind of dance where it looked like they were having epileptic seizures just moving all weird. Suddenly realizing what they were doing in front of Lyn, Ike just stopped in his place and said in a very innocent voice, "Hi" shaking his hand wildly in the air.
"I take it the training went well?" said Lyn as she moved over to a couch trying to forget what she had just seen
"It was amazing! I never felt so much adrenaline pump through my veins! I was so excited I almost came buckets!" said Ike trying to make the battle sound like it was awesome yet at the same time gross his sister out. (The siblings usually enjoy playing in this manner)
"Ewwww, Ike! I did not need to hear that last part!" said Lyn grabbing a big pillow from her side and just threw it to Ike which hit hi right in the face.
"Hehe I'm just joking" said Ike reaching for the pillow which somehow got stuck to his face. "Later today, after I take Akechi to the pokemon center to regain his PP I'll start the assault to the tower."
Then Hope walked into the house as well, "It would be best if you did it as soon as possible, remember this it the third day my fellow spirit tamers have been held hostage, and it is a known fact that the limit of the human body can function without water is 3 days."
"Really?!?! Then I've got no time to waste. If lives are at stake then I can't be messing around like this!" Said Ike remembering that the innocent spirit tamers are still being held hostage in the front of the tower
"Like dancing like a faggot?" added Lyn crossing her arms making a devious face.
"Errm… well perhaps, but that's besides the point. I have to go to the pokemon center to heal Akechi here.
The tiny pokemon raised it bone as high as it could eagerly showing it's strength.
"Well then, if your gonna go to the Pokecenter to heal Akechi's wounds, then I'll go to the Pokemarket and get you supplies like potions." Said Lyn eager to help with something. She went over to her room and came back with her bag, "Just be sure to come back by 3 alright Ike, I'll make you lunch so that you can take the tower at full power."
As Ike and Hope walked down the street to the center, Ike turned his head over to Hope, "Hey Hope, why aren't you going to invade the tower with me? I saw the battle skills of your Gastly and it was pretty strong."
"Well Ike, I got two reasons. First of all, ghost pokemon are weak against ghost pokemon, and since the tower is going to be full of them, I'd just be easily out numbered really quickly. Secondly, whatever it was that team rocket brought with them, it can control ghost type pokemon, they might use Gastly against me like they did to the others."
"I didn't think of that." Said Ike arriving at the door to the center, "Did that same thing also occur to Edna?"
"No, Edna and I if you haven't noticed don't have a good relationship. She'd rather burn in hell than to ask me for help." Smiled Hope as they arrived to the counter
Nurse Joy turned around and noticed that Ike and Hope were visiting the center, "Hello Hope, I take it you want me to take in your Gastly?"
"Yes Nurse Joy, I would appreciate it, also Ike has become a trainer as well and will start to require your services as well so please take his Cubone as well."
"Cuuu!" Akechi suddenly got mad at hope all of a sudden and started to bonk her leg (playfully) throwing a little tantrum
"Hope, I think Akechi has gotten used to his name. I think it would be disrespectful to call him by his breed rather than by his name." Mentioned Ike picking up the little raptor handing him over to Nurse Joy.
"I see, I'm sorry Akechi, I meant to disrespect." Bowed Hope to Akechi showing him that she didn't mean it.
Nurse Joy giggled a bit and took Akechi from Ike's arms. "Okay Ike, would you mind placing Akechi here in it's pokeball."
"What? Can't you heal him without a pokeball? The thing is I haven't really actually caught him yet so he has no pokeball yet."
"I see, well I can but it takes a little more time if he's not so it'll take a while." She placed Akechi on the floor behind the counter and placed Gastly's pokeball into a slot of a machine stationed next to her. She pushed a button and lights started to glow on a screen above the pokeball. A little melody chimed through the speakers of the machine and the lights stopped. "Here you go Hope, your Gastly is now fully recovered, Ike I'll go on over to the back to manually apply potions and feed it a few Leppa berries so come back in around 10 minutes."
As Ike and Hope left the center to kill time, Ike looked on over to Hope, " If it's going to take 10 whole minutes to heal my party without pokeballs I better find one for Akechi. It would be far too inconvenient for wait ten minutes every time."
"Actually Ike, it takes 10 minutes to heal just one pokemon, to heal an entire team would take an hour. Not to mention that Nurse Joy will be double busy if other trainers come to heal their pokemon and she's busy with yours."
"I didn't think of that! In that case, I better go find a pokeball at the Pokemarket to keep Akechi in whenever I go to a pokemon center."
"The Pokemarket has some really lame balls Ike, just go on over to Mr. Fuji's place and take one from the old man. I personally think it's just a waste of really good pokeballs."
"But he's been collecting them from all over the regions, I'd be a shame if I took one from him and he never agreed to it."
"Then take a double, I'm sure the old coot has plenty of one type."
Well...I did see some really neat designs I'd like to have." Said Ike nervously wondering if Mr. Fuji will really be alright if he takes one from him.
"Don't worry Ike, if he get's mad, what's the worse he could do?"
Ike and Hope walked on over to Mr. Fuji's place whose door was still unlocked from last night. Walking through the magazines left on the floor, Ike walked over to the shelf where the balls were neatly displayed.
"When I was here last time, the ball that caught my eye the most was this one. I wonder is he has any extras?" said Ike taking it from it's stand admiring it's craftsmanship.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that would be a repeat cherish ball." Said Hope walking over to Ike holding the ball in his hands. "I can't believe that a one man like Mr. Fuji would have found such a rare ball, I've only seen one once and that was in a article of a magazine talking about custom pokeball designs, and that it won first place."
"I could tell there was something special about it, but the question in mind is if he has any doubles."
Inside Hope's mind, devious thoughts ran though her mind. "I'm pretty sure he does Ike, Allow me to look around" Looking around the room, she found a box labeled pokeballs. "Here they are" she said opening the box and found dozens of pokeballs.
"Well then? Do you see any?" said Ike looking over Hope's shoulders
"Ike, I get nervous when people look over my shoulders, could you kindly go and turn off the light please."
Ike did as she said and went to the switch making the whole room dark.
"I found one!" Said Hope holding the ball in the darkness.
"Are you sure?" said Ike peering though the now dark room.
"Yeah, look." Said Hope holding the ball in her hand. It was difficult to see in the dark and that she was covering more than half the ball in her hand, but it seemed to be of red texture." That's great, place it on the stand and let's go." Said Ike eagerly happy to get the pokeball that caught his attention.
As he walked out the door, Hope got up from the box and kicked it back to the corner that it was originally in, "Why should the old have such rare artifacts and not even use them, a total waste. I know I did the right thing." She then walked over the shelf and placed a custom level ball in the stand of the Cherish ball and walk out.
Ike then got back to the center and saw that Akechi was sitting on the counter waiting for him. "Hey Akechi take a look at this!" Yelled Ike holding the cherish ball in his hands, "I'm not gonna keep you in the ball all the time like most trainers do, but I'd be a real pain if we had to waste 10 whole minutes waiting for you in the future right?"
Akechi inspected the ball and nodded in approvment of it's new habitat.
"Alright Akechi get ready kay, whatever you do, don't fight against the ball. This is a really rare ball and most balls lose their functionality to capture if the first attempt fails,so here we go!"
Ike dropped the ball on Akechi's skull. As it bounced, it opened up and turned Akechi into a multi-colored beam of light dragging it into it's center thus closing and falling on the floor. The ball wiggled for a bit and then, just like it the T.V. shows Ikes seen, the ball made a little sound and stopped wiggling. Ike then walked on over to the ball and released Akechi from it's depths. However, as Akechi was being summoned out, a wide array of different colored light rays came pouring out of the ball along with Akechi. Akechi seemed to be in amazement of the rays that surrounded him. Holding his hand up to look at himself, Akechi thought, "Wow Ike, you got a really nice choice. I feel as if my entrances from now on will be explosive."
"That was wicked cool." Said Ike as he caught the ball flying towards him, "Thanks for the service Nurse Joy, see you later"
As Ike started walking toward his house, he noticed Hope wasn't following him since they left Mr. Fuji's place, but thought that she might have other plans to take care of.
As Ike and Akechi walked over to their house, they saw a person standing in front of Ike's house. As Ike got closer, he could see it was a boy, around 14 or 15, but Ike thought he looked very suspicious. He was wearing a long black trench coat with a serpent-like dragon on the back it. If was red and was drawn in a way where it's face was looking at it's tail with it's jaws wide open. He from afar looked like he had black hair, but upon getting closer to him, Ike realized that the black hair was in fact a really dark green. He wore his hair over his face so that only a small section of the right part of his face could be seen. The side of his head had hair falling down across his head to his shoulders looking like sideburns but not really, while the rest of it was tied in a pony tail mid-back length.
Ike got close to the boy, "You're a new face in this town, are you here for a visit?"
The boy looked at Ike with his right eye revealed through his hair. He had an intimidating glare that looked like it could scare a Haunter "You are Ike from Lavender Town, are you not? I recognized you through your orange hair and brown hoodie that you wear."
"Umm, yeah, how'd you know?" Ike was now confused, how was it that this boy knew of Ike, and how he looked.
"I was sent here by Gym Leader Omar from Taupe Town to help you in the liberation of the pokemon tower. My skills as a Dark-Type user are strong, and I know that together, we can kill the evil rocket members inside this tower."
KILL??? Did this boy just say kill the rocket members inside the tower? I-I can't do that, that's not right!
"Hey, I'm not here to kill anybody kid, I'm just here to save the people that have been taken hostage by them."
The boy looked agitated, but then he looked down towards Ike's belt. A smile of displeasure and pity ran through his face.
"Now I see, you're a rookie." Pointing at his belt where his sole pokeball was clipped, "Okay, first of all, seeing as to how I'm your superior, I will not take kid from you…kid." Mocking Ike in the face by calling him a kid instead, "Second of all, I've changed my mind, I'll free the tower by myself, you and that under leveled Cubone of yours will just get in the way." Mocking Akechi now thinking that since he belonged to a rookie that he would be weak.
It took awhile for what the boy said to sink in, Ike didn't understand at first that he was being insulted. When he did get it, his face of "wha?" turned to a face of rage.
"Who the fuck are you to judge me and Akechi!" closing his hands into a fist, "I'll show you who's weak, I challenge you to a battle RIGHT NOW!" pointing on the ground they were standing on.
The boy just smiled in satisfaction that he was able to get to Ike. "Don't think I'll go easy on you because you're a rookie kid, I play rough, and that Cubone of your better not cry when I'm through with it."
Okay, that is it for the 4th chapter, I think this is my favorite so far because I got the introduction the new character who shall be nameless until my next chapter, I really wanna thank Pokerus and H.K. Trautmann for the reviews I've received, I'd like to get some moar, but hey, I can't force people to read M rated material right? Anyway, I think I still have enough time in my class to start the next one so you guys should be expecting it really soon.Also, I refered to Akechi as a raptor cause it sort of does look like a raptor. Doesn't mean it is, I just couldn't think of anything else at the moment, Once I think of somthing Else, I'll fix that right away.
