Chapter 3
(Kirlia's POV)
After waiting for what felt like forever I finally decided to sit across from the strange Kirlia making sure to cross me legs as I sat there staring at him and waiting for him to move. After a few minutes of nothing I let out a frustrated sigh and laid my head against the tree and closed my eyes to escape boredom. I was so comfy that I accidentally dozed off and fell into a deep sleep.
(Male Kirlia's POV)
I woke with a start when the sound of a branch breaking reached my ears. After I quickly looked around me I relaxed as I wasn't in any danger. I started to lean forward with my head killing me from the impact when something moved out of the corner of my eye. I quickly looked in the direction receiving a slight headache from the sudden movement and I saw the same female Kirlia from before leaning against a nearby tree with her head resting on a small grove jutting out from the trunk. I was wondering if she was actually asleep or just meditating when the sound of a bush rustling reached my ears. I looked to the left of the tree the female Kirlia was leaning on and watched as the bushes rustling increased. The bush continued to rustle then as suddenly as it had started shaking it stopped and out stepped the Riolu from before with four berries that almost looked like blueberries in his paws. He walked over to the female Kirlia and just chuckled to himself when he saw her sleeping. I leaned forward in an attempt to get up when my hands came down on a branch and created a loud crack. The Riolu jumped in surprise and turned to look at me while at the same time he dropped the berries and got into a fighting stance. The two of us stared each other down until the female Kirlia started to stir from the commotion.
"What's going on?"
"the mysterious Kirlia is awake."
The female Kirlia instantly perked up and looked over at me. She tilted her head to the side when she saw that I was in the middle of standing up.
"well. are you going to stand up or not?"
"as long as you promise not to knock me out again."
"oh. That. Um, listen I'm really sorry about that it's just kind of natural for me to respond to situations like that. I was the one at fault not you."
"I believe you just don't do it again. You have a very strong slap by the way."
"yeah heh I might of used a little bit of a wake-up slap to slap you."
"that would explain why your hand was glowing before impact."
"again I'm sorry. So what is your name?"
"um my name is Caleb. May I ask what your names are?"
"My name is Serenity and my Riolu friend over there is Jake."
"Pleasure to meet you Caleb."
"nice to meet you two. What region am I in?"
"your in the Kalos region near Vaniville town. Don't you know where you are?"
She didn't get a response as I stood still in shock as my mind went a million miles a minute in an attempt to figure out what happened. The silence was broken by the sound of a crying caterpie to my left. I would have marked it off as a normal cry from a caterpie but the tone of the cry was off. I looked towards Serenity and Jake and we had a silent agreement to go check it out. Jake weaved in and out the trees while avoiding the sticks on the ground while serenity and I moved silently and ran around the bushes. It didn't take us long to find the caterpie and its siblings cowering in front of an Arbok. When we arrived neither side saw us but the defeated beautifly laying against a treetrunk across from us did.
"Please save my children."
I moved to break through the bushes and stop the Arbok but before I could Serenity grabbed my arm.
"Are you out of your mind!? No one has ever been able to beat him."
"I don't care, those little caterpie need our help but if you won't help me then I will face him myself."
Before she or Jake could reply I had pushed my way through the bushes.
"hey! Leave those little caterpie alone."
The Arbok stopped his advance and glared at me.
"What do we have here. It would seem a Kirlia needs to learn her place."
"Why does everyone automatically think I'm a girl! I'm a guy."
The Arbok just laughed at this and lowered his aggressive glare.
"I haven't had a good laugh like that in a while. Now if you are done pretending to be a hero I have some lunch to eat."
At the Arbok's statement the caterpie started to cry in fright again but it stopped when I crossed my arms. "Who said I was pretending to be a hero. You are going to leave those caterpie alone or else."
The Arbok's neutral expression changed to one of annoyance when I didn't back down.
"it looks like I need to teach you a lesson little Kirlia."
The Arbok shot at me with a poison fang and that was when something clicked in me and I opened my mouth and released a hyper voice so loud that the Arbok was sent flying back against a tree. I stood there stunned that I could use hyper voice when an evil laugh broke the stunned spell I was under.
"Looks like I underestimated you little Kirlia but that won't happen again."
As soon as he said that he launched a poison needle at me that I barely avoided by sidestepping it but when I looked towards him again I was met with a head-but to the chest. The attack was so strong it sent me flying through the air. For a few minutes I felt weightless as time seamed to slow for me as I slowly flew past the little caterpie beneath me and as soon as I past them time caught up with me and I hit the ground hard creating a crater in the ground. Everything was spinning as I tried to sit up but my attempts were stopped by a sharp pain in my chest where the Arbok hit me. I could only look down in pain as I could feel the several fractured ribs. I would have passed out from pain if it weren't for a bright light coming from a rock that had been unearthed beside me. I reached over and wiped the dirt off of to find something I thought I would never see. A Dawn stone. I didn't think about the outcome but right now those little caterpie needed my help. As soon as I touched the smooth semi-hot surface of the stone I was instantly surrounded by a bright white light.
(Serenity's POV)
I could only watch in helplessness and fear as Caleb was launched through the air by a critical hit to the chest. I looked away when he neared the ground as I couldn't stand to see the outcome of that attack. The small explosion from impact and the ground shaking was all I needed to know that he hit the ground hard. I quickly shifted my gaze to the young caterpie when I heard one of them let out a scream of terror. What I saw horrified me as the Arbok was about to bite one of the little caterpie. I was in the the midst of jumping out and stopping him when all of a sudden the entire area was bathed in a bright light. Everyone had to cover their eyes as the light was increasing in intensity then as soon as it started it stopped and in the center of the light source stood a Gallade with the blades on his arms fully extended.
"Step away from the caterpie!"
When I heard the Gallade's voice it shocked me as it was Caleb in his final evolution. I was happy for him but internally I was jealous that he evolved before me even thou we just met.
"Caleb? Is that you?"
(Caleb's POV)
When I heard Serenity's voice I looked over at her and saw the amazed look on her face but something felt off about her as my increased psychic ability detected a hint of jealousy but I ignored that because I had to deal with the Arbok first.
"I will say this one more time Arbok. Leave those caterpie alone or else."
The Arbok was still trying to comprehend where a Gallade had come from but the growl in his stomach reminded him of what he was after.
"I don't know who you are Gallade but these caterpie are going to be my lunch and there is nothing you can do to stop me."
"Very well. We will do things the hard way."
As soon as I finished my sentence I charged forward with a slash forming on my blades while the Arbok prepared a poison tail. We charged at each other and swung our attacks at each other. The attacks collided and turned into a stalemate with both of us trying to overpower each other. While I was keeping the poison tail at bay I charged my other blade with another slash and swung at the Arbok's exposed stomach. The attack connected and launched the Arbok through the air. The Arbok hit a tree hard leaving behind a dent in the tree and a big welt on the Arbok's head.
"I have to admit you are a skilled Gallade but that won't stop me from getting what I want." With that the Arbok launched himself at the caterpie with his fangs extended and prepared to kill the caterpie. He didn't get far because as soon as I saw what he was going to do my eyes started to glow blue as I used psychic and stopped him in his tracks.
"What? Let go of me you weakling Gallade or else I will see to it that your little Kirlia friend meets the same fate as these caterpie."
My expression instantly turned to one of anger as I increased the amount of pressure the psychic put on him.
"You will do no such thing. I will make sure you never injure another innocent pokemon ever again."
As I was talking I was walking closer and closer to the immobile Arbok and charging up a psycho cut on the arm I wasn't using to channel the psychic. I was just about to use my psycho cut to end the Arbok's life when a frightened voice stopped me in my tracks.
"Don't do it. Don't stoop to his level and kill."
The single sentence made me freeze as flashbacks of my old life flashed before my eyes and reminded me of all the lessons I had learned in my old world. I lowered the arm with the supercharged psycho cut and looked over at Serenity.
"Thank you Serenity for reminding me of what's right and what's wrong."
Serenity's cheeks turned a bright red at the compliment and she looked away in embarrassment.
"Well. Since I won't stoop to your level Arbok how about I just launch you through the air far away."
The Arbok's evil smirk quickly changed with his skin turning white at the prospect of being launched high into the air.
"You can't be serious. Right?"
I only smirked at him as my eyes grew brighter as I hovered him just above my hand.
"Have a nice flight."
"Why me."
With the Arbok's statement I brought my arm back like a quarterback's and threw my arm forward causing the Arbok to go flying through the air up high above the world.
"Noooooooooooo"
The Arbok continued to scream that until there was an audible ping and a little star momentarily appeared where he used to be. For a few seconds there was nothing but silence. The adrenaline rush I had been feeling finally wore off and I started to collapse from exhaustion. As I was falling it felt like time had slowed as Serenity and Jack slowly started to run towards me only for me to black out from exhaustion when I hit the ground. The last thing I heard from Serenity before I completely blacked out was, "don't leave me."