"She must be really hurting," Kev mumbled as he stumbled through the packed Pokémon Center to the bathroom. His Espeon, affectionately nicknamed Spee, followed him, despite not being a male and technically not permitted to enter the bathroom. Evidently she didn't care and nobody bothered to refute her - they were all crowding around Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny, clamoring for information and gossipping about whatever it was that had forced them all inside.
Once Kev had made it into the deserted restroom and had massaged his aching temples enough to think clearly, he set a pokéball down on the tiled floor. It erupted and released a Noctowl, flapping in the air, looking at his trainer curiously.
"Spee, Helping Hand. T'len, I need you to use Foresight to tell us where this presence is coming from," Kev ordered quietly. In battles he let his pokémon do their own thing, but now he needed them to do precisely what he needed.
Spee quietly performed the move to enhance T'len's ability and T'len landed on the open windowsill, shutting his glowing eyes as he did so. Spee's move also enhanced Kev's ability, allowing him to see what his Noctowl was seeing. He followed T'len through the town, through to the disturbance, to the Safari Zone, to the site of a raging storm, to a...
"A Dragonair?" Kev asked aloud. Spee nodded at his side. T'len opened his eyes and hooted.
"All right, then. Let's see what we can do," Kev said quietly. He'd already made the decision to go try and help, even if nobody was going to let him. His impulsiveness led him to the window behind T'len, who flew up into the air as Kev approached. Kev wrestled with the screen, finally just punching it out so that it fell, harmlessly intact, onto the wetting ground below. He clambered out of it and his two pokémon followed. Kev tried to reattach the screen.
Well, he tried.
"Uh, Spee?" he asked. His Espeon smiled, despite her pain, and used a tendril of her power to move the screen into its correct position. Their "escape" now covered, Kev smiled and they ran off to the Safari Zone, Kev trying to do his best not to slip in the mud. T'len led the way, soaring ahead of them, unafraid of the raging thunderstorm and the pelleting raindrops and the soaring wind that were working against him. Once they got to the entrance he soared down onto Kev's shoulder and they stepped through into the lobby, which was curiously empty.
Kev wiped his feet on the carpet, not daring to ask if anyone was there, just hoping he didn't set off any alarms as he tried to sneak into the usually pricy Safari Zone. Luckily, nobody caught him and he scrambled out through the other door without a hitch.
It wasn't too hard, once they were in the Safari Zone itself, to find the unlucky Dragonair. She was screaming and twisting in the air, her orb glowing. She was the cause of this horrible weather, and the cause of the three psychics' horrible headaches, which only seemed to get worse as they got closer to her.
They reached a lake, and Kev realized it would be easier to cross it to get to the Dragonair faster. He set another pokéball on the ground, this time releasing his Lanturn into the water.
"I need you to carry Spee and me to the other side, Syzz," he asked. Syzz crooned his approval and trainer and pokémon clambered aboard, T'len having come to rest also on Kev's shoulder ever since they had entered the Zone. Even he was too tired to keep going without having to any longer.
They reached the other side quickly and Kev recalled Syzz. They dashed through muddy paths, Kev trying desperately to remember how to get to the area the Dragonair was above - and oddly enough, they met no pokémon on the way.
Until three Scyther came running towards them. They were a ways away and it was just enough time for Kev to set another pokéball down. His Ponyta erupted into the rain and snorted her disapproval.
"Swiff, I know it sucks, but I need a Flame Wheel at those Scyther. Just scare them off," Kev ordered. Swiff gave one short nod and readied her attack. It was dampened when she released it but it came out and was enough to send the Scyther in another direction. Kev and the team of three, now, ran further.
And then, all too soon, he had made it, skidding to a stop in the mud. He was standing within reasonable sight of the majestic Dragonair, the Dragonair who had resisted every attempt at capture - he knew it, he could hear her, see what she had done.
And as he stood there, his three pokémon waiting for his command, he suddenly knew what he had to do.
"Swiff," he said, releasing his final unseen pokémon in the process, Piious the Tropius, "You'll need to play the distractor. You too, Piious. Fly and use Bounce to confuse her. She'll try and attack you but I don't want you to hurt her. Just get her attention off us," Kev ordered, sidestepping a massive bolt of electricity that had discharged from the Dragonair - a powerful Thunder Wave attack.
Swiff and Piious nodded and began their dance with the Dragonair, Piious soaring overhead in the storm to engage her flank while Swiff distracted her with blasts of flame from the other side.
"Spee, when she's not focusing the most - you'll know, right, you can look?" Kev asked and Spee nodded. "Okay, when she's least expecting it, hit her with all you've got but do it only to stop her from moving. When Spee's got control, I want you to hit her with Hypnosis, T'len. Then we'll go from there."
The psychics nodded - well, T'len technically wasn't a psychic-type, but he was close enough for Kev - and T'len soared into the air. Swiff and Piious were doing well, but were rapidly tiring and Dragonair's rage was not going away quickly enough for Kev. He re-released Syzz, who took up residence in a lake behind them.
"Syzz, distract that Dragonair, but don't hurt her. I need you to just make as much noise and as much of a light show as possible," Kev ordered. Syzz grinned and immediately began to do what he was designed to do - be the center of attention. The new distractor caught Dragonair by surprise and as she turned to see the lightning show playing on the water, Spee struck. Dragonair cried out - but she wasn't in pain, Kev could feel it, she was just surprised, although it still hurt like a Tauros stamping on his brain - and then T'len swooped in, engaging the Dragonair with his Hypnosis. Slowly, slowly, Kev could feel the headache drift off and off and the weather lighten until, at last, Swiff was standing in the sunlight, Piious was on the ground opposite her, Syzz was waiting in the water, Spee was relaxing at his side, T'len had landed on a branch, and Dragonair was sleeping quietly.
"T'len, Psycho Shift. Spee, Morning Sun. At the same time. See if you can shift the attack so that Dragonair gets the benefits," Kev ordered. The two nodded and began their moves, T'len transferring the healing energy Spee was deriving from the returning sun into the sleeping Dragonair. Her color perked and enriched and Kev could see her furrowed face finally relax. She was sleeping peacefully now.
The healing complete, Kev turned to Syzz, ready to ask if he could ride him again back to the other side of that lake, as it might be faster, but Syzz was looking at him very oddly.
He turned around and saw the rest of his team giving him the same stare.
A tendril of Spee's power unclipped the final pokéball at his waste, the empty one. It floated into Kev's hand.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
The team chirruped, hooted, snorted, and nodded their concensus.
"All right, then. I'll try."
He stepped over to Dragonair, tapped her ever so lightly on the nose with the pokéball, and watched as she flew inside. It shook in his hand for a few moments, but when it stilled he knew she was his.
"If you want to go back home, dear, you can," he whispered to the pokéball, "We can figure out where it is and we'll get you there as fast as we can. But if you want, you can find another home...with us."
Kev smiled as he looked around at his team. He wasn't sure if he could handle training a Dragon pokémon, but if Spee was still hanging around then he must be doing a good enough job with difficult types.
Nobody knew what happened to the Dragonair that day, besides Kev, and he didn't tell anyone until Nurse Joy, who smiled at him and said she'd be pleased to keep his little secret. The two simply smiled as people in the Center marveled at the destruction Dragonair had wrought and hoped she had gotten what she had deserved.
He hoped so, too. He hoped she had gotten the good trainer she had deserved. He hoped he was good enough.
Author's Note: Complete, for now. I might do a sequel that would follow Kev on a very long, lengthy, involved storyline that would involve getting Dragonair back home, but for now I'm going to close it here. This is just the basis for another story that I hope to write someday, a big story involving Kev, and I wanted to have his history down. So there you go. :) Thanks if you've read this, and have a nice day.