Here is Chapter 2! Have fun!
She glanced around the elevator, preparing herself to walk out of the hotel through the main entrance, past people who had know her since she was little. Now dressed in damaged blue demin shorts, a short blue parka, black leggings and hightops.
Her eyes flashed towards the small digital screen, indicating the floors slipping away. She had just passed the 2nd floor. Counting down the seconds she straightened her logo cap and stepped out of the elevator once the doors opened.
It was all so easy, handing in the key card at front desk, walking past people who should have been able to recognise her, out of the main entrance. It was all over in seconds, she stood outside Hotel Richissime and with a final glance, set off.
The cold, hard cobblestones lining the road leaving a resounding thud as her hightops made contact on every step. North Boulevard appeared to be almost deserted, except for a few early risers and the Litleo who had been living outside the hotel for a few years now. Every so often she would see the lion cub pokémon scavenging for food scraps in the bins.
Feeling a bit sorry for it, she reached into her bag and pulled out a rice ball. Placing on the ground, she slowly moved away as to not frighten the small Pokémon.
Due to her mother's dislike for any breeds of pokémon, she had not had much contact with pokémon, except for the Litleo, now eating the rice ball, and a book detailing every Pokémon worldwide. That was one possession that had never left her sight from the moment she had received it.
It had been Christmas, 7 years ago and her parents had been holding a Christmas party for their 'friends'. She'd been sent to bed after pulling a tantrum about how she wasn't allowed to play with any pokémon. However tucked under her pillow had been a small package with the words, 'don't let anyone know you've got this, it'll help you in the future. Merry Christmas.' Needless to say, after being yelled at by her parents, she'd kept the book hidden ever since.
She checked the map, that had been tucked into her bag, Cyllage City sounded good right now. It was a smaller community, on the west coast and the hotel there was not owned by her parents. Thank God. There were two ways she could take, one way would take her along Route 13, home to a Powerplant and little else or go along the other way which was a lot shorter. She ended up choosing the latter. Unbeknownst to her, a dark ball of fur was following her along the street.
As she walked towards the tunnel leading out to Route 5, a loud explosion sounded quickly followed by a large plume of smoke visible in the distance. Ignoring the large sign indicating Route 5, she ran off in the direction of the explosion.
Two men in identical orange suites were standing over a dark haired boy on the ground. Choas seemed to radiate from them. A flock of Swablu and Altaria screeched in the sky disturbed from their nests, people hurrying to get off the street, desperate to find shelter. For all the years that she had lived in the city, she'd never seen such fear in the eyes of its residents. "Oh I wouldn't do that if I were you," it was as if the words had been said by someone else using her voice.
They paused in their destruction, both turning to glare at her in perfect synchronisation, before bursting into fits of laughing. So far her journey was not starting off well. She readjusted her posture, hands on her hips. "I'm serious. Move now," she said through gritted teeth.
The older one just sneered, "we don't take orders from insolent little children like you. We are Team Flare."
"Yeah, we are masters of the universe!" The first man face palmed at his younger teammate's child-like attitude.
The pair began to advance towards her, a pair of Zubat flapping ominously above their trainers. Before they could command their Pokémon to attack, a firery ball of dark fur flew at the pair biting and snarling, snaping at the men.
Using Litleo as a distraction, Lexi ran to check on the boy. "Are you alright?" She asked quickly.
"Yeah, but my Froakie," he replied, it was only then that she noticed the small, injured frog pokémon in the boy's arms.
"It'll be okay," Lexi said glancing over her shoulder at commotion going on behind.
"We have to stop them," the boy felt around in his jacket pocket, pulling out a pokéball. "Take this, it contains a Fennekin. I can't stop them. Maybe you can."
Lexi took the pokéball and stood back up, hoping that everything she had read would help her in a pokémon battle.
The elder Team Flare grunt glared at his teammate, who had been floored by the Litleo, a vein visibly throbbing in his forehead. "Why am I surrounded by idiots?" He paused, "Zubat, take care of that mutt!"
"Actually it's feline not a mutt"
Lexi turned at the sound of the voice. Kat was standing in the middle of the street, dressed in beige skinny jeans and a black striped tank top, a second pokéball gripped in her hand. She walked forward and turned to the side, hands on her hips. "Lex, you're out of my sight for 5 minutes and look what happens."
Lexi just shrugged, "hey it's not like I go looking for trouble, trouble just has a habit of finding me."
Kat was about to respond with the number of times she has had to bail her out of trouble in the past year alone, when a voice interrupted her. "I don't mean to interrupt but, are you two brats done, cos we've got Pokémon to finish stealing." The cocky posture sealing the image that the grunt was trying to create. "Starting with this furball," he bent down intending to retrieve the Litleo that had been injured.
Lexi threw the pokéball as hard as she could, red light spilled from inside and reformed in the shape of Fennekin. "Go help Litleo!" The little fox leapt in front of the grunt, heat emitting from it's tiny body.
"You to Chespin!" Kat yelled not a second later. Her Pokémon landing beside Fennekin.
Not getting the message the grunt reached out towards the cub again, only to retract his hand, "Ow!" Fennekin had let out a small burst of flame, directly at the grunt. "Why you little! I outta-"
"Zubats, use Wing Attack!" The other exclaimed loudly, interrupting his teammate. The two bats dived at the girls, their wings glowing with energy.
"Chespin, use Vine Whip and stop the Zubats!" Kat yelled loudly. Vines shot from the spiny nut, wrapping around the bats, making them unable to attack for a moment.
"Fennekin, jump on Chespin and use Ember!" Lexi commanded quickly.
"Zubats dodge!" The two bats tried to evade the attack, but to no avail. The burst of flame hit them, sending them straight in the the younger grunt.
"Enough of this!" The remaining grunt roared, hurling another pokémon into battle. "Get them Houndour!" The dark pokémon landed on the ground and immediately started to bite at it's opponents.
"Chespin, Vine Whip again!" The two girls prepared to take out this pokémon like the two Zubats. However once Fennekin's flame attack hit Houndour, a smirk appeared on the Grunt's face.
"Not this time," he said. "Houndour finish these little brats off with Flamethrower!" An enormous jet of flames shot from Houndour's mouth, enveloping both Chespin and Fennekin, and disintegrating the vines.
Lexi darted forward, once the flames had disappeared and grabbed the injured cub. The other two having be put back into their pokéballs. She heard Kat yelling something, probably a warning. This was going to be it she would be burnt to a crisp, by a lunatic in bright orange. She heard the grunt command his Houndour. Any moment now. But the fire didn't come.
She turned, the two men were running off down the street instead, an officer chasing them. Kat had gone over to the boy and the three small pokémon had disappeared. To be replaced by a rather tall, dragon like pokémon and a man, presumably its trainer, in a lab coat. "Are you okay?" The man asked, she just nodded, grateful to her saviours.
Through a CCTV camera nearby, a young man watched as the events of the battle unfolded. A Pyroar asleep by his feet. The man leaned back in his armchair, fingertips together as he watched the footage. None of it was particularly interesting. He was just about to switch off the footage and do something more entertaining, when he spotted something, or more like someone. "It can't be." The girl with brown hair. Could it be possible? Could it be her?
A/N-Who is the man? And why is he interested in Lexi? Tell me what you think.