A/N: I'm annoyed; I missed out in two new episodes of Pokemon. I was like, "ZOMFG, DARNIT." I'm starting to hate sleep, I blame it. Pshaw. It took me a while to plan, and I still got no idea what I'm gonna be typing. Erm, I'll go along with the flow? Um. . .Sure, why not? XD Excuse any mistakes that you may spot, I try my best to find them D: Going on, I'm getting the worse of luck. I usually get an A of my exams/quiz. . I got a 22 DX The next, my family is riled up for an argument. Whoa, when I look at it, I can be a VERY angsty teenager... XD Dewds, who got dissapointed when Jun came into the show? WTFH. BARRY?! BARRY?!?!? Sorry, I just thought the name was totally irrational, Daimon sounds WAY better. Gawd. ;-v-;
Summary: Suddenly attacked by the enemy ship, Dawn watches as her greatest fear unfolds. With a chance safety, she is forcefully shoved into the escape pod. Now, it's up to her to find the scattered pieces of the adamant orb in Sinnoh, with a little help, that is. IKARISHIPPING/AU.
Extra note: Thoughts will be written in italics. Besides the point of Pokémon strange strength and my lack of description, hopefully I'll be later able to explain. If I can't, PM or something. I don't bite :D Still unclear? Dayum, then I really suck. :P
Disclaimer: This LABEL is popping and making its way to my brain, CURSE YOU, YOU INFURITATING THINGY-MA-JIG. GWARGH.
Playlist/Song of choice: Like I do before in other previous fics, I'll repeat myself like a broken record. I have two in store for each chapter, one 'instrumental', one that is 'normal'. Go ahead; you're free to choose which one~ Just in case you have different preferences! Artist/band first, song next.
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JennaAnne - Beauty and the Beast prologue
Cute is what we aim for - Practice makes perfect
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Please refer back to the Prologue for any additional information.
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Chapter 2: Hope & Winning
Once Paul even opened his mouth, Dawn was to tense to even listen, which is why she stormed out with her Riolu trying its hardest to catch up to its trainer. The pair made it to the farthest end of route 203; she ignored some trainers looking for a battle before entering the first gym as a way to 'get prepared.' Sighing, she leaned against the alcove entrance, her legs quivering to the feeling of cold wet dew that hasn't dried up yet; she feared the worse if her bottom had a large wet spot, making it more of a reason to not get up. Riolu panted when resting next to Dawn, quickly exhausted from the dash to the very end of the route, Dawn felt a little worriment for Riolu leaving Empoleon behind in the center all alone.
Her ears perked up hearing the conversation between trainers, all of them spoke about a 'grand prize' and 'Roark, the rock-user.' To this, her grin increased, she has the perfect pair, but with her now is just her little Riolu. Her blue worried eyes gazed down at the small body, wondering if it can possibly take down whatever comes her way. Dawn ponder the idea, letting her gaze be directed at the blades of grass being crushed under her foot. Riolu would give her the upper hand for the fact it is a fighting type, and against rock type would be very effective, her only problem is: Riolu isn't that experienced when it comes to battling. Now, her Empoleon is a water/steel type, another fine advantage for a sure-fired win, no less since Empoleon is just as strong as Paul's Torterra: a grass/ground type.
Riolu bitterly bit its tongue, sensing her emotions to be a state of confusion.
"Maybe we should get Empoleon back after all; it will be a quick win. All these trainers are starting to learn about the prize: the Adamant Orb. Yeah, c'mon Riolu, let's get--"
She squeaked for the first time in her life when she was going to stand up, her own Pokémon, her own Riolu just bit her hand! The bite seemed nasty as little fangs sunk deeper, she noticed the quiver in Riolu's red eyes, determined and scared for whatever is her reaction. Dawn sighed, but brought out a smile to pat Riolu's head with her free hand, and just as she did that, Riolu steadily released its fangs, mouth open slightly with an 'o'.
"Thanks Riolu, I deserved that. I'm sorry I wasn't confident in your abilities, I'm a horrible trainer. C'mon, only the two of us will go beat Roark! You can bet your little paws that Empoleon is gonna be mad for leaving 'em behind, but darn proud to know you beat the gym leader! Onwards to the gym!"
Riolu cheered, laughing quietly before entering the cave with its now-quirky trainer. The cave seem to be echoing their steps, the droplets from the caverns made a noise louder than usual which startled Dawn every so often, but Riolu kept stern and walked forward. A little camper crossed their way, preparing a poké ball in her small hand as she yelled out to battle, something Dawn couldn't refuse for extra practice before battling the gym leader. The camper girl drew out her Zubat, the stupid bat kept fluttering away from Riolu's force palm, thus annoying her to every extent, yet Dawn found her flaw thanks to her camper opponent: she needs to come up with strategy with every battle. Her fist calmed its clenching, "Riolu, bring down the stalactites, use force palm on stalagmites, and make sure they direct upwards!"
The camper girl seem to be very vexed what Dawn was blabbering about, her Zubat didn't even look like it was close to worrying. The stalactites began to drop down like a pin needle, the camper sent out so many directions that her Zubat couldn't follow, but even that didn't make much damage. Riolu used the attack demanded on the large chunk of rock; little pieces flew everywhere knocking the Zubat to an instant K.O. With that win, Dawn congratulated her little Riolu, scooping the little blue creature in her arms while they walked out of the cave. Her vision became blurry for the moment after being adjusted to the dark.
Scrambling out of the mess, she took a peek at the sign 'Oreburgh City - City of Energy'. Shrugging, she throttled around the dusty terrain when finally meeting the entrance of the gym. In the distance, a red haired young man seem to be coming close by, a rag around his neck wiped away the sweat trickling down his neck. As he approached the entrance, maroon eyes set his sights on deep azure, smiling he began, "Hey, you must be my newest trainer. Come, I'm just in the mood for a good battle after mining!"
So that's what it meant by 'City of Energy'.
Dawn gulped, twiddling her fingers and keeping her eyes glued directly at her pink boots, the traces of her white scarf dangling from her neck, the feeling of her white hat tipping off at one side. Riolu appeared equally nervous, prodding not to far away from Dawn when they took there side of the arena. Roark was enthusiastic, grinning a reassuring look towards Dawn. The referee began proclaiming the rules; he was awfully amused that Dawn only had one pokémon with her at the time.
"Alright Riolu, it's all you!"
Riolu nodded, stepping on the battleground with its red eyes never leaving the traces of Roark taking out his poké ball.
Roark: "Come on out, Geodude!"
Dawn bit her lip, taking a quickly look at her surroundings, her eyes measured the scale of the wall and how hard it was to reach proximity, "Riolu, jump the walls with quick attack!" Hopefully, this wasn't against the rules to reach out the boundaries of the small arena. Riolu wanted to give a quick glance back, but avoided a full impact of tackle attack from Geodude.
"Force palm!"
Riolu back legs touched the wall; the blue creature sprinted from the wall to its opponent like a spring. Riolu's power unleashed once getting contact with the rock pokémon, already knocked out when finally returning to its ball. Roark grunted, but still kept his smile perfectly intact when releasing out a giant Onix. The slithering rock snake used bind on Riolu, trapping Dawn's pokémon in a desperate attempt to keep breathing and squirm away from the tightening rocks.
"Riolu, you can do it! Reversal!"
In a futile attempt, Riolu got one paw out of the slithering rock snake, but that much strength was wearing Riolu out, even Dawn was worried that she might already lose. Shaking her head violently, she ordered, "Aura sphere, full power!" Riolu listened on demand, lifting its one free paw, jabbing the sphere of power and aura into one of the largest of the rocks it could reach. Onix growled, seemingly hurt yet not down for the count, Roark wasn't audible enough for Riolu or Dawn to hear, by Onix was already charging towards Riolu.
Riolu limped, one leg very bruised from the constant struggle it went through to get away from the rocks, when worse came to worse, Dawn already gave up. She went to her knees, pounding her fist into the ground trying to hide away her tears forming in her eyes. Riolu looked back disappointed, knowing just as well it couldn't stand much of a chance. Instead of listening to its trainer, it created another aura sphere, jumping quick enough whilst Onix failed to attack it. The aura sphere was pounded strongly on the head of Onix, knocking it out upon impact.
Dawn looked up, faintly smiling from losing hope too soon, only now Riolu was limping worse than before. Panting even harder than it was before, for goodness sake, its little forepaw was holding onto its knee for support!
"'Poleon!"
The Celestian cocked her head, blue eyes widening to see her emperor penguin back to perfect health, determined and angered for being left behind. She jolted upwards, surprised to see Paul right behind her pokémon, arms crossed and looking everywhere instead of Dawn. With her snow-white scarf, she wiped away all her tears when her Empoleon approached her, shrugging her off when the penguin stood beside her.
Relieved, she ordered one more amount of power from Riolu as Roark's Cranidos waited patiently for Dawn's little episode to be done.
"Riolu, use force palm on the ground, create deep cracks all around!"
Paul lifted an eyebrow when sitting patiently in the bleachers as he walked his way there, hiding away his curiosity by slouching down in a lethargic manner. Riolu nodded, pounding its paws on the ground, creating a rumble like a magnitude of three to four. Dawn called her Riolu back, Empoleon didn't need to be called out and rather when out on its own. The flipper patted Riolu's head, making the small blue creature smile widen before being scooped up in Dawn's arm, cradled like it was an infant.
"Let's finish this quick! Empoleon, aqua jet around the arena, land the water around the cracks!"
In a rapid speed, Empoleon speed compared to a jet boat when storming down water on the cracks. The direction was a full square, going vertical and across in the middle, creating an intersection between the streams of water, hitting Cranidos every so often. Roark struggled to keep track and determine her actions, but Dawn grinned when she told her penguin to stop.
"Ready partner? Bring all the water up with whirlpool!"
A thick stream of water strings rose, shooting up until reaching a very strong whirlpool that was crashed down on Cranidos. The dust cleared away, Empoleon wasn't even touched, scratched, or tired whatsoever. The emperor penguin returned to its trainer by stepping out of the arena, already fully aware that Cranidos was knocked out. The referee and Paul were both astound by her strategy, but Paul manages to give off the look 'I could care less'.
"I gotta hand it to you, nice work Dawn. That was an excellent battle!"
Dawn received the Coal badge, even though it wasn't her true objective to own such a thing. The poster clinging onto the bleachers detailed the shards of the Adamant Orb in red letters, offering to whoever wins against the gym leaders. Worrying she might have gotten here a bit too late; Dawn was reassured once Roark was holding out a large piece of the Orb, thus Dawn thankfully took with much delight.
It's…really pretty.
A ringing made Dawn shriek, almost dropping the orb in the process, she even noticed Paul gripping the bleachers tightly when almost letting the Orb plummet.
Weirdo.
The Celestian rummaged in her white bag, taking out the communicator Volkner gave her a while ago. The screen was only static before showing Volkner's neutral bored-like expression.
"Volkner, I got it! I got through the first gym, and the Orb is secured!"
He pepped up a little, eyes softening with a tiny grin, "Congrat--"
"--latory trainer!" A bush of curly red hair was in front of the screen, blocking out Volkner's face from the screen, "This is Flint! Good to know little Volky is finally getting friends!"
Volkner: "Hey!"
The bush of curly hair still continued to banter, Dawn's eyes began to twitch if there was even a face present, "Umm, can I speak with Volkner?"
Roark was stunned, saunter to Dawn's side before peeking at the screen.
"Aw fine, you can speak to my little Volkner."
The teen was just down right puzzled, she didn't even mind when Roark took the communicator from her hands, glaring deathly at the screen, "Your Volkner? When was he your Volkner?"
Flint: "Oh pumpernickel…gotta go!" The bush of curly red hair left the screen. Volkner rubbed his temples to keep calm and stay under control when his blue eyes widened in horror to see Roark angered on the screen. Suggestively, he waved his hand to see if it was possible Roark wasn't that mad, "Uh, hi?"
"I knew it was better to not trust you!" Roark pinned down the button of the communicator; he placed it back in Dawn's hand before slamming the door out of the gym.
Dawn couldn't be anymore lost, but rather walked over to Paul, nervously laughing and obviously tried to avoid eye contact, "Sorry by leaving my Empoleon in your hands." The female teen quickly apologized to her penguin as well.
Paul shrugged, "Who cares? And as for bolting out on me before I had the chance to answer, I'll help--no matter how much I don't want to."
Giggling, Dawn jumped merrily and held Paul's hand in her own, flapping his arm up and down before she it was time to let go before he reuses instead.
The Celestian looked at her pokémon before announcing, "Next off, Eterna city!"
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A/N: Rushed, I know. Mistakes, I know. Description - bad quality, I know! Geez. xD And no, the people of Sinnoh don't know what the Adamant Orb really is. (Prize, hello?) ...Been a while since I updated this! Oh yeah, please answer mii poll on my profile! :)