Price for Freedom Chapter 3: High Class, a pokémon fanfic

Well, the puppy's been taken away… :) Maybe she'll be able to recover… but I doubt that. At least she won't be in pain anymore.

OH! Squishy and Fred (my two fish) got a new tank today! ::squeals:: They were originally in a one-gallon tank, but now, they be in a FIVE gallon tank! Squishy, my beta, was zooming around it, checking out the new plants we put in... HE LOVES IT!!! As for Fred, he just went to sucking on the walls. :)

Disclaimer: I own the plot, the names and Shayla.

Underlined words shall be defined at the end.

Price for Freedom
Chapter 3
High Class

"I don't like boats…" Tai said as he stared down at the ferry about fifty yards away from his perch on the cliff he and I and the rest of the team were sitting on. "I don't like them at all."

I sighed and began to follow Shayla down to the dock, Shoko, Saji and Amburna (who was now healed) in front of me. Kazu the espeon was on the other side of Tai, looking as grim as his older brother. Apparently, the loathing of water-faring vehicles ran in the family. Kazu furrowed his brow.

"Maybe I could just teleport myself and Tai over to the other coast?" he asked, looking up to me like I had the answer. I shrugged and replied, "Kazu, you don't know where we're going. You don't know what it looks like. You're in a place you don't know and the dangers are unfamiliar. There's no way that could happen. Besides, you two are men, aren't you? Suck it up!" With that, I turned and left, knowing the two eevee-loutions would follow.

I heard Tai grumbling again, something about someone being a big bitch. (Hmm… I wonder who he could be talking about…) I sighed again and went further down the cliff, wincing as the hot sand of the beach came in contact with my soft paws. Amburna smiled at my attempt to keep my paws from scalding.

"The sand a little hot for you?" she asked while hovering above the aforementioned sand. My only response was my continuing attempt to cool my feet while on hot sand. I saw her smile out of the corner of my eye, and that was when the sky darkened and Amburna began to glow.

I heard Tai say, "What the hell?" from behind me. Not caring about my feet anymore, I watched in amazement as Amburna glowed a beautiful blue, and, surprisingly, rain began to drizzle from the sky, cooling the sand beneath my feet.

"There you go," she said, smiling at me, simultaneously making the clouds disappear. She continued to hover after our trainer Shayla over to where the ferry was. Tai and Kazu groaned at the same time, and I smiled to myself. This boat ride was going to be very interesting…

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I never knew so many pokemon could be snobs.

We had already boarded the boat, and were now venturing around the common living room, where most of the trainers and their pokemon were already situated, be they on chairs, sofas or just standing. All five of my comrades and I were gazing in amazement at the tastefully furnished common room, where a gorgeous chandelier was hanging above us on the ceiling.

Actually, for a ferry, it was very well decorated, and many of the trainers and their pokemon looked as if the were pokemon contest competitors. I even spotted a milotic not too far away, her body radiating beauty. Saji let out a low whistle, and I turned to where he was looking at -the buffet.

Food was EVERYWHERE. Steaming beef, pork, wheat breads, white breads, noodles, chicken, stew, pastas that I couldn't identify, lasagna, and many different kinds of casserole were sitting on the 30-foot stretch of tables, glistening in this holy light. I could swear I could hear angels singing right about then. As for the layout of desserts, THAT is what caught my attention.

Alas, poor Tai was so moved by the table of delicious foods, he began to stagger over to it, his mouth agape and drool oozing out of it. Once he got to the table itself, he jumped up onto his hind legs and stared at the food, not hearing the people scream in disgust behind him. Apparently, he made them lose their appetites…

"I… am in heaven," the jolteon proclaimed, still staring at the food. Saji chuckled and picked Tai up and set him down, facing away from the glorious table of food. Tai whimpered and tried to go back to the table, but Saji wouldn't allow that.

"You have to let go, Tai. You can't hold onto it forever," Saji said sadly, putting himself between the table and the disgruntled jolteon. Tai was now shedding tears, wanting his food back. I shook my head and left the two to settle it out, wanting to go and look at the other pretty things that were in the ferry.

I remembered the chandelier and decided to stare at it more before I found something else to look at. Since I was staring up at the ceiling as I walked, I didn't notice a plump wigglytuff standing in my walking path. I bumped into her, causing her to fall on her pink posterior. She gave a shocked "oh!" when she hit the floor, and I directed my attention to her.

"Oh.. Sorry, didn't see ya there." Tai began to snicker behind me, and I was about to shut his mouth when the wigglytuff pulled a doubleslap on me.

WHAP

She stood there, huffing and puffing (maybe trying to blow my house down… but not on the hairs of my chiny-chin-chin… sorry, bad joke) while I stood there, shocked and somewhat appalled. The little bitch had just slapped me!

I turned to her and she roared -in the most horrible British accent I had ever heard, "You grimy dog! How DARE you run into me and make me embarrass myself! And what's worse, you are filthy as a diglett in mud, and now you have put your dirty germs on me! HOW RUDE!"

She began to walk off, but I had other thoughts. I lunged at her, and performed a rather effective slash attack on her pompous derrière. Tai and Saji cheered for me, the table of food forgotten, while Amburna, Shoko and Kazu were silent, but I could see the smiles. Shayla was off talking to some trainer, so she had no idea what was going on.

Meanwhile, the wigglytuff turned, her face one of pure rage. I smirked, and said, "You started it, wigglytuff-hime. I may not be a high-class girl myself, but I'm not about to let fat-assed push-overs like yourself to tell me what I can and can't do. So…" I went into my battle-stance as did the wigglytuff. The pokemon surrounding us saw what was going on, and began to crowd around us, wanting to watch the fight.

The wigglytuff went first, trying to knock me out by using "sing". The melody rang in my ears, comforting and soothing. I shook it out of my head and lunged at the normal-type, using thunderbolt once I got in contact with her. It hurts more that way.

She squealed and fell to the ground, almost to the fainting point. I frowned. "You talk like a warrior queen, but you have nothing to back it up," I said to her. She was already down, and yet I hadn't even broken a sweat. What a bummer…

I shrugged and went back over to my team, where Tai and Saji the scizor were congratulating me for my victory. The other three pokemon looked uneasily at me and then to the wigglytuff, who had just been summoned back into her poke ball by her trainer. I looked questioningly to them, when Kazu used telepathy to tell me what was going on.

[[Demi,]] he spoke worriedly in my head, [[The trainer's super-pissed! He's going to drag you back out into battle! He might have really good pokemon…]]

I scoffed and went over to where Kazu was sitting, seeing as how my telepathy skills were… somewhat lacking… "Then find out, Kazu," I replied, sitting down beside the worried espeon. "Look inside the dude's poke balls and see what's there."

He grimaced, and then sighed in acquiescence. A moment later, his eyes glowed red, and his voice when he began to speak was a tad… out there…

"He has the wigglytuff, a hitmonchan, a banette, a grandevoir, a mightyena, and a ninetails. They are within the thirty to forty levels… not too incredibly strong…"

I smiled as his eyes dimmed to their regular color, an ebony black. "See?" I said, my smile growing. "I'm stronger than them. In fact, I could beat those punks down in my sleep! Nothing'll go wrong, Kazu-kun."

He was startled about the suffix, but he didn't pay too much mind to it. "Maybe," he responded uneasily. "But we should get Shayla just in case."

I sighed and trotted over to the trainer with the pompous wigglytuff and he frowned. "So you're the absol that hurt my precious wigglytuff! You'll pay, you third-rater!" he exclaimed. I blinked and scratched my ruff in response. Maybe being delusional ran in this dude's team…

Shayla came up from behind me and sighed. "Demi, I can see you're living up to your name…" she grumbled from behind me. I smiled inwardly.

"So you're the trainer of that THING?!" the dude exclaimed, pointing at me as if I were a disgusting dunsparse or something. "You need to train your pokemon better, peasant!"

I looked behind me and saw the furious scowl on Shayla's face, making somewhat afraid of her. She had never looked so incredibly pissed in the time that I knew her… I looked over to Tai, who was grimacing. He whispered to Saji that the guy (I'm presuming the trainer) was going to get his insensitive ass kicked hard. I turned my attention back to Shayla, who replied in a scarily controlled voice, "Do not insult my pokemon like that, sir. Or else I may have to show you what they can do."

The boy snarled. "Then come at me, peasant!"

She snarled and said, "Come on, Demi! Let's get rid of this annoying bugger!!"

I grinned even more and jumped out further into the battlefield, wagging my tail anxiously. I mentally dared him to send out the hitmonchan, to which he obliged.

"Trophy! Go!"

The hitmonchan appeared in front of me, a triumphant smirk on his face. "You're going down, wench."

I snickered. Funny how everyone who says that to me, loses within two turns.

"Demi! Earthquake!!!"

The hitmonchan looked up to me as I jumped and made the floor crack and split right under the fighting-type, and down he went. I landed coolly on my feet when the floor righted itself and the trainer-boy returned his only chance of defeating me.

"Koka! Go!!"

The ninetails. She was really pretty, her nine tails swishing here and there. She looked at me with her deep, crimson eyes, and then sighed. "I already know I'm going to lose, so go ahead, dear. Make it quick."

I nodded sympathetically, not really liking to fight pokemon that had no will to fight themselves. Shayla ordered a water pulse attack, and I gave it my all so that the ninetails wouldn't have to suffer for long.

She fainted, and went back into her luxury ball. The boy snarled some more, and then sent out his next pokemon.

"Ribbons! Go!!"

The banette appeared, and as his nickname suggests, was covered in gaudy ribbons. I actually pitied the ghost, for it was a man. He looked at me with such a hilarious expression, I giggled.

"So, Ribbons, your master have any idea what he's doing?"

The banette sighed. "Apparently not, since he sent me out against you."

Shayla also laughed. "You do realize, ghost-types are WEAK against darks?"

He gasped. "I thought it was the other way around!"

"Demi! Crunch!!!"

I lunged and bit the ghost with all my might, hoping that the attack would get through all of the ribbons adorning the ghost's body. He fainted, and was withdrawn back into his poke ball.

The boy snarled some more. "Well, then I'll need to fight fire with fire! Cho! GO!!!"

I smiled and waited for the mightyena to materialize. But when he did, my heart stopped. The mightyena stopped in his tracks, staring straight back at me. My mouth fumbled over his name, and finally, my vocal chords worked.

"H… Hicha…"

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-hime: a suffix used for some royalty. In this case, princess. (wigglytuff-hime = Princess wigglytuff.)

-kun: a suffix generally used for male friends. Can be used for females in the co-worker or classmate sense, but is most common with males. Or so I heard.

Mwahahahahahahahahaha. I shall end the chappie here and leave you all in suspense!!!

Not much to say today. Love ya'll!

Ja ne!