Guardian Solaris
Ages:
Ash-17
Max- 13
May- 15
Brock- 22
Dawn- 13
Serena (OC) – 9
Harley- 16
Drew- 17
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"Speech"
'Thoughts'
(Authors' notes)
Je ne possède pas Pokémon. (As done by a online translator :P)
Chapter 5- You win some,
Fireworks bust as the roars of the crowd filled the Festival stadium once more. The sea of coloured shirts and smiles of faces ready to see the competition. The roar that was carried on the hand of those on the stage like they were the composers and the audience was a grand symphony of whatever that composer would want to create. Sorrow, joy, Awe.
MC Lillian lived for it. The surge as they clapped at her words. Their excitement becoming hers as she found herself becoming stronger with their roars of joy. Watching the co-ordinators grow of collapse at the whims of the audience as the young men and women tried to control this great beast that could turn on anyone who was not careful enough.
"Ladies and Gentlemen" she began as they fell to silence at her signal, "You were here yesterday to see two hundred co-ordinators give some of their best appeals." She smiled brightly, feeling the buzz that made her love what she did; "Only sixty four have made it to the first battle rounds. This morning you saw some amazing battles, and now we are down to our Final eight contestants, and here is how the battles will happen." She said as the crowd hushed in anticipation as the eight faces of the contestants appeared on large screens positioned around the stadium. The seven faces, all visible with smiles or looks of contentment, and one with his face covered up by his choice of clothing.
The pictures shuffled themselves like a deck of cards and were thrown into pairs of who would be lucky enough to face who. Who would have the favourable matches against those who had gotten through the competition by nothing more than luck and for who would have to face the titans of the competition? Five titans in particular.
Drew LaRousse- The Valliant Rose, Harley Jacobs- The Funny Man, May Maple- The Princess of Hoenn, Dawn Berlitz- The Star of Sinnoh, and one who went under the pseudonym of Red- The Mystery Contestant. The big five of this competition who had managed to have the largest bets placed on them to win this competition. Each with a relatively equal chance in Lillian's eyes. She had seen many festivals and if that had taught her anything it was that those five was where she would place her money.
She gave a smile gesturing to the entrances on either side of the field. For either of the competitors so that they would not have the fortune of meeting each other before the battle, in case things got out of hand. "Ladies and gentlemen, let's meet our first co-ordinators for this afternoon, the always interesting- Harley Jacobs!" she shouted happily as the crowd began to cheer. In an instant Harley rushed out onto the stadium, a bright smile placed upon his face as he skipped onto the field, spinning and blowing kisses into the audience as his notoriously controversial actions sent them into louder cheers.
"and his opponent, lets welcome the Mysterious Red!" she bellowed, as the wild applause of the audience fell into a more restrained and level series of claps. The applause driven into nothing as the figure and his Pikachu made its way out into the Hoenn sun. A dark aura surrounding him. Steps calm yet firm as he walked to his designated position.
The crowd looked onto the field before them, looking to the two contestants. The first proper battle of the festival. All the matches before this contained a co-ordinator that was adequate, or mediocre. This was a clash of two that knew what they were doing. One of the first clashes of titans.
On one side of the field Harley stood daintily. A smile still plastered on his face as he looked towards his opponent. The hooded boy who stood patiently, silently, a figure as solid as stone, and as heartless as a ghost. His loyal Pikachu standing beside him.
"Well Mr Red." Harley commented playfully, "Would you like to have a nice little game?" He asked playfully, and pouted once he received no reply from the Mystery man. "Fine, be like that." He groaned, gripping two Pokéball in his hands, "Come out and play my darlings!" he said, throwing the two spheres, releasing his Cacturne and Octillery.
The two Pokémon stood looking towards Ash trying to look as intimidating as possible. One looking like an Octopus, and the other looking like a walking cactus, resembling its trainer.
"Typhlosion, Meganium." Ash whispered, as his two Pokémon appeared either side of him, walking patiently to their positions on the field. Both looking as calm as possible.
Looking at the two contestants Lillian seemed satisfied that she would be able to let this continue, as she put up her hands, "Now let's get busy!" she shouted.
"Octillery Gunk shot Meganium!" Harley ordered without haste as Octillery began to fire a stream of gunk at the grass type which it quickly dodged. But before Ash could say anything Harley shouted, "NOW!" as Cacturne rushed behind Typhlosion holding the fire firmly from behind, as Harley smiled, "Now Octillery Water gun Typhlosion." He ordered as his Water type looked towards the trapped Fire type, launching its water gun.
"Meganium." Ash said calmly as his grass type launched an energy ball towards the water gun dispersing it completely. "Typhlosion, fire." He ordered as Typhlosion began to ignite the flame on its back, singeing the Cacturne that held it tightly as it fell to the ground. The fire type turned around, and used a fire punch on the Cacturne hitting it directly in the stomach as it fell down to the ground groaning in pain.
"Octillery use water gun again, Cacturne, get away!" Harley ordered as Typhlosion dodged the water gun giving Cacturne the ability to get away whilst his aggressor was distracted.
Meganium and Cacturne went besides their partners as the two sides looked at each other, Harleys smile turning into a look of concentration and anger. He had expected his trap to work. All the battles that this trainer had been in had been quick, some almost instant and Harley knew that he had to find a way to use his strategy against him. But now that that plan had failed with Cacturne seemingly badly injured and half of his points gone there was no backup plan, and if anything that made him angrier than before.
"Typhlosion, charge. Meganium support him from behind." Ash commanded as Typhlosion rolled itself into a ball, ignited itself, and began to roll towards its two opponents with a flame wheel. Whilst Meganium began to charge a solar beam.
"Don't let him get close!" Harley shouted, "Use Pin missile and Water pulse!" the two attacked the rolling Typhlosion, as it rolled out of the way at the last minute, sending the two attacks into the ground.
"Fire!" Ash called out as Meganium launched its solar beam, the white beam of light striking both of Harley's Pokémon, sending the flying back. As the attack finished itself off Ash called his Pokémon's name, "Typhlosion." the Fire type rolled into Harley's Pokémon rushing at them with its flame wheel, as he knocked the two of them out, making Ash the victor.
The judges all pressed the button to make the decision official. The audience stood shocked as Ash's two Pokémon walked towards him. Once reaching their trainer Ash stroked the tops of their heads for a fraction of a second, causing the first person to start clapping, then the next and then the ones after that as the stadium erupted in a roar of applause. Ash recalled his Pokémon, taking a slight glance towards the co-ordinator opposite of him.
Seeing Harley looking towards him with scorn clear on his face. Disgusted by how everything had gone, how this could have possibly have happened. Harley returned his Pokémon, sickened by everything, this place, that annoying boy, that brainless trainer, fat judges, spotlight hugging Mc.
Stupid trainer, and what in the world did Drew do? What in the world did training with him do to help? He should have done it his own way. Not like this, he should have put up little extra traps that had nothing to do with his Pokémon. Something else to make that trainer fall faster.
Just before he got out of the field he heard some drabble about how the next match would come tomorrow, and Harley was going to make sure that no trainer would manage to get through to win this competition.
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Drew stared at Harley as the boy continued to moan, and moan, and moan, "It was stupid, all of this. How in the world did he manage to do that? He has to have some secret, it just has to." And blah blah blah,
"Hmm" Drew agreed, not really paying attention to Harleys rant. In his own mind he had wondered why in the world he had ever agreed to anything with this big baby.
"It's all his fault." Harley groaned, pulling his hair in frustration, and stamping his foot.
"Yeah."
"I should have done this my way, it's all your fault Drew!" he roared, directing all of his frustration to Drew as Harley looked towards the green haired boy
"What!" Drew said in shock, "My fault. It's my fault that You lost."
"You catch on quickly don't you? You thought you could help me? I thought you were a good co-ordinator. I was wrong. If anything you just made me worse. I should have done it all in my own way." Harley huffed, as Drew stood up tall with a sneer of disgust at the elder boy.
"You are the most twisted, most stupid person I've ever met. You're like a big baby." Drew said in a firm voice, looking down the other co-ordinator with scorn.
"No, it's you. You're the problem. I thought that you would be someone almost as good as me, but clearly you're not." Harley huffed, and walked away "Good riddance." He shouted, knowing that he was going to do thing his way and only his way from now on, and that he had just the right idea of how to get things done.
All as Drew watched on, thinking 'I knew he couldn't keep a deal'
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Harley knew that they would be near, they would be here somewhere. In one of the rooms in the Pokémon centre, they would be staying here pretending to be trainers or something. They didn't seem to think past that. They weren't that bright.
"Come on out my darling." He said as he threw a Pokéball and his Ariados came out, looking towards its master. "Now we have some old fools to find, do you think you can find them again?" he asked as his Pokémon nodded, in confirmation. With a smirk Harley let his Pokémon guide the way, through the corridors, and up the stairs. These fools would be the perfect distraction for what he wanted to do, and he knew they were here from the little stunt they pulled off.
Coming up to a door Harley returned his Ariados and sent out his Cacturne, "Come-on-Cac-turne- lets-say-hello." He sang as the Pokémon kicked the door open, and the two walked calmly into the empty room, wondering why it was completely devoid of people. "Where is everyone?" he wondered, slowly looking around."
"Hey." Came the accented voice that he recognised clearly, as he turned to find Meowth near the window.
"Oh, there you are."
"How'd you find us twerp?" the Pokémon ordered with folded arms, ignoring the look of glee that Harley had.
"Oh Ariados could find just about anyone from anywhere." He said flicking his wrist, "But that's not the important bit. I-got-a-li-tle-job-for-youuu." He sang, as Meowth looked on to Harley with a lack of interest.
"Whatever." The Pokémon said as Cacturne collapsed besides the co-ordinator, and before he could say a thing Harley's vision was filled with Darkness.
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Later that day in the Pokémon centre Max and Brock walked into the Pokémon centre that their group was staying in, immediately spotting May and Dawn sitting down talking. "Hey guys." Brock called as the two boys walked over to their friends.
"So how did you find things?" Brock asked once they sat down.
"It was alright." May replied, but we left after our matches were done so we couldn't see what happened in the last two matches." She said with an unsure look on her face, "how about you two?"
"Well, you should have seen Harley." Max said, "I mean, I didn't know he was here."
"Yeah, him." Dawn shuddered remembering the boy from before. "Hey May, What IS up with him?" she asked.
"He was dropped on his head as a baby." May explained.
"Really?" Dawn said shocked.
"No, but it's very likely. I don't really know why he's like that." May explained, hoping that she would be able to get a proper explanation. "He's –"
"Yeah but that's not the important bit." Max interrupted "He had his match in the quarter finals today; and he lost!" he said excitedly, his wide grin a sign of how happy he was at this turn of events.
"He lost?" Dawn said in shock, knowing that he was the champion co-ordinator of Sinnoh. "How."
"It was Red." Max said.
"Red? Who?"
"This guy with a Pikachu and hides his face." Brock explained calmly to the girls.
"Oh, him." Dawn said under her breath, recalling the person who she had seen, and had a fleeting conversation with. Even though he seemed a bit weird, not Harley weird but still Dawn found something about him very strange.
"and then there's Drew." Max said, as May's eyes opened up in shock.
"Drew?" she asked as Max gave a nod, but shrugged off his sisters question to return to his own conversation.
"You should have seen the match." Max began, "You should have seen Harley walk out like he did a number two in his pants." Max giggled
"So" Brock interrupted, "It looks like the two of you have another rival."
Dawn just smiled saying, "At least I won't have to hear Herlette anymore." Not realising what had just happened not too far away concerning Harley.