JELLO!! Wow, so many of you all like this fic!! ::ish proud:: Well, I'm happy. Maybe I should write more pokemon stories… ::shrugs:: Oh well.
Well, Wolfie has now left us. He didn't die, I just gave him back to his original owner. Wonder why? He was terrorizing the poor beta I put in with him. Sheik. With Wolfie now gone, Sheik is having the time of his life. He loves his new tank. - In about a week, we're going to put another fish in there with him, and my mother and I are arguing on whether it should be two guppies or a dojo. I want the dojo.
I also got another beta. This one's so pretty, he's kind of peachish on the face and purple and white on his body. His fins are gorgeous- light blue mixelonger had to obey anyone, and at the fact that rare candies were spouting from the ground. I was in total bliss.
Alas, this did not go on for very long. Suddenly, a pink and yellow machamp came above me, hovering over my head with his little faery wings. "You shall not have the lobotomy!! IT IS MINE!!" he shouted, his four arms in a threatening pose. I glared up to him and snarled.
"Pah! The lobotomy is mine to have! You shall never get it!!" That was when I lunged at him, and tore him apart, his limbs becoming butterflies as soon as they were dismembered. Then, Tai came up and began to dance his own version of the macarena, and I joined.
Of course, that was when he tackled me and said, "Dor very long. Suddenly, a pink and yellow machamp came above me, hovering over my head with his little faery wings. "You shall not have the lobotomy!! IT IS MINE!!" he shouted, his four arms in a threatening pose. I glared up to him and snarled.
"Pah! The lobotomy is mine to have! You shall never get it!!" That was when I lunged at him, and tore him apart, his limbs becoming butterflies as soon as they were dismembered. Then, Tai came up and began to dance his own version of the macarena, and I joined.
Of course, that was when he tackled me and said, "Demi, I'm a moron and breakfast is ready."
I blinked, completely astounded at the fact that he could talk and asked, "What?"
Tai began to shout. "BREAKFAST IS READY!! HURRY UP OR ALL OF THE DOUGHNUTS WILL BE GONE!! I WANT MY JELLY!!"
That was when I sat upright, knocked my head against Saji's and realized that the stuff that had just now happened had been a dream. I shook my wounded head and got the strange dream out of my memory when Saji stood up. "Well, now that you're up, let's go. Tai's been harping over it for at least fifteen minutes and if we don't leave soon, he'll eat through the door and go by himself."
As if to prove Saji's point, I heard Tai begin to shout from the front of the cabin. "I WANT MY JELLY!! GIVE ME FOOD!! FOOD, I SAY!!! FOOOOOOOD!!!!"I rolled my eyes and got to my feet, which protested and threatened to return me to the floor. I wasn't supposed to be up yet…
I yawned and followed the sound of Tai's voice to the front door, where everyone else (besides Saji -he was behind me) was waiting. Shayla looked about as tired as I was, and she yawned before she spoke.
"Alright. Now that everyone's here, let's go. Tai, no gorging…" It was then that she opened the door and let Tai the Consumer out into the hallway. Kazu snickered and then used teleport on us all to lead us right to the buffet table. I was rather surprised to see Tai already eating. Shouldn't we have gotten there first?
"Simply amazing…" Shoko the charizard began to say as he went to a roasted animal of some sort. "Kazu didn't use the teleport on Tai. He got here by himself… I just want to know how he does it."
I snickered and let myself go to where the berry pancakes were. I eased my way around Tai, trying not to make any sudden movements lest he try to eat me too. (Even though his food doesn't make sudden movements…) I picked out a nice plate of pecha berry pancakes and stuffed one hurriedly into my face before any humans saw me. (It was the human food table after all…)
Then, I heard a soft, melodious voice beside me. "Is it good?" I turned and saw the ninetails from yesterday. I nodded cautiously, but amiably and scooted over to let her have some room. She smiled back and took her place and picked a chesto berry from a plate and began to eat.
It would be lying to say that I wasn't nervous. She was Hicha's team member after all. He had to have given her some insight on why he seems to hate me so feverently. She must have felt my nervousness because she lifted her head and told me, "You have nothing to fear. I won't judge you on how Cho talks about you."
So he does talk about me… And nastily from the sound of it…Wonderful. I thought grimly. "What… What does he tell you…?"
She smiled sadly. "It seems to him that you abandoned him… I beg your pardon, but what are you called?"
For a moment, I couldn't decide. Use Demi or my real name, Ayako? "Demi," I found myself saying. "Call me Demi."
She smiled and then kept on going. "As I was saying, it seems to him that you abandoned him when you were captured. You always abhorred trainers and their pokemon, so he couldn't understand why you would allow yourself to be captured. I guess he thinks that you wanted to get away from him, or to try and hurt him." With that, she gave a shrug and lowered her bright, crimson eyes. "From what I can tell, he might still hold on to those feelings that he had before you were captured."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Hicha thought that by getting captured, I was ABANDONING him?? What the heck?? I wanted to burst out into an all-out rage, but in front of this ninetails, I couldn't. All I could force out was a quiet, "I… I don't understand… Why would he…"
The ninetails put her glistening golden paw upon mine and smiled comfortingly. "I don't know, I really don't. Men's minds are… quite different from ours… Some are complex, and others are… well…" she looked up to the ceiling as if trying to find the right word. "Simpler… then others… Like your friend jolteon over there." She pointed me in the direction where Tai was gorging himself. He was on the table, head completely submerged in a banana pudding. I couldn't suppress a snicker, for Tai's mind was truly a simple, sad one.
"Although, Demi, I would advise not to stray too near Cho," she said in a more hushed, serious tone. "He might attack you again, even if not by our trainer's orders. I also must tell you that not only does he loathe you for your being captured, he somehow thinks that it is your fault for him being captured."
My eyes nearly came out of their sockets. "WHAT?!? He can't possibly… THAT'S JUST RETARDED!!" By this time, my white fur was standing on end. How in the world could he blame me for THAT?? I wasn't even… His capture and me are TOTALLY UNRELATED!! For a moment, I was speechless. "How…?"
The ninetails shrugged sadly. "I don't know… He always talks about you being a bad person… But now that I've gotten a chance to talk to you personally, I don't find you disagreeable at all…" She looked back at me and smiled a genuine smile, not something you see from a ninetails very often.
In that moment, I was touched. I really was. We darklings are never looked lightly upon, especially because we're rather… anti-social. Another reason is because we have no poke-god to pray to and the fact that we're nocturnal. Fire and ice types sometimes venture near, but others tend to stay away. But… this ninetails must truly be a good person… I smiled and asked, "I never heard your name. What is it?"
She seemed to have been surprised at that, but after a moment, she smiled again. "Call me Koka, Demi. I shall try and tell Cho some sense… I hope he will listen." She gave a bow, to which I hastily returned, and left. I watched her rejoin her companion, the pompous wigglytuff, (we exchanged glares) but my view was soon obstructed by Tai's wide yellow posterior.
"Watcha ya' doin'?" he asked in a sing song voice, watching Koka and the wigglytuff go off. "Hey, were you talking to that ninetails?" he asked while turning back to face me. I was relieved that I didn't have the oh-so-flattering and attracting Tai butt staring at me. I scooted myself further away from the Tai butt, but the jolteon didn't seem to notice.
"Well?" he asked, a little impatient. "Did you talk to her or not?"
I half-snarled. People that prodded into my personal affairs so tactlessly got on my nerves. "What's it to you? Why do you care if I talk to other pokemon outside of the team? Is it wrong?"
For a moment, Tai looked struck. He said his next few sentences in a confused, soft voice, an anti-Tai voice. "No… I was just wondering… to see if you got any info about that Hippo guy. You know… to see why he went all psycho on you."
I felt like crap right then. I sighed and then shook my head slowly, and replied, "Tai, it's 'Hicha'…"
He rolled his chocolate-brown eyes. "Hippo, Hicha, same difference. Anyway, did you get any insight on the dude?"
I sighed again letting the subtle insult to my mightyena friend roll. Tai was really trying to find out about Hicha… but why? Why did he care so much? I looked up to him with a suspicious expression and asked as gingerly as I could, "Why do you want to know? It's not like we're going to be battling him again… Or anytime soon for that matter… Why do you care?" I looked at him straight in the eye and waited for his answer.
For a moment he blinked and stared straight back at me. When I thought that he had forgotten the question, he answered, "Well, it seemed important to you. And the guy was going all psycho on you… I just want to make sure the Amazon Warrior Queen doesn't get hurt." He smiled again and then, just when I was about to show gratitude, he asked, "Hey, are you going to eat that?" He pointed to the last pecha berry pancake, and then my rating of him lowered.
"No…" I then scooted the plate to him, and he devoured it swiftly. I sighed and began to walk away while shaking my head.
Men's minds were truly simple ones…
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At long last, the ferry ride was over. I ran down the pier at top speed, right after Kazu and Tai. I think they were the most relieved. They were kissing the ground beneath them when I came over. Actually, Tai was eating the grass.
"Tai, are you sick?" I asked, to which he lifted his head. "Did your stomach finally find its bottom?"
Tai rolled his eyes and, as blades of grass were sputtering out of his mouth, said, "As if. I just love land so much I have to eat it!"
I narrowed my eyes. "You sound like you're selling something."
Tai smiled, revealing pearly white fangs with blades of grass stuck in between them and went right back to eating said grass. I then heard Shoko come up behind me.
"Well, we've finally arrived in Lilycove," the charizard said, making a sweep with his arm. "What do you think?"
I looked at the bustling city. People were going about their own businesses, with smiles on their faces. The forest beyond the city was also bright, welcoming even. I saw a few trainers in the gaps between the trees. The city was well kept, good-looking. I liked it.
I scoffed to hide my true feelings. "I think we shouldn't have taken so long to get here. Besides, it's a city. They all look the same."
Shoko gave me a knowing smile and then went to Shayla, who was saying goodbye to the captain. Shayla patted Shoko's shoulder and waved to the captain once more. "Well, come on, you guys. Let's get going."
I stood where I was for a moment, utterly confused. Why wasn't she putting us in our poke balls? After a moment, a rock bouncing against my head brought me out of my reverie. Tai was lingering, watching me with an amused expression. "You just going to stand there like a catatonic moron or what?"
I frowned and followed the rest. As I caught up with the rest of the team, I went over to the charizard again. "Why are we here?" I asked. "There aren't any gyms here."
Shoko looked down at me. "Shayla has a few friends here that she likes to keep in touch with. Besides, there's a sale at the mall today. She says that she wants to go and get nutrients for us."
I blinked. "Nutrients…?"
Shoko nodded. "You know, like protein, iron, zinc, stuff like that." To that statement, Tai jumped up, proclaiming that he couldn't wait until he got some carbos. Those, apparently, were his favorite.
It was then that I heard a disturbing sound. It sounded like a pokemon's scream, and when I turned, there was a manectric running away from a group of red-robed people. Behind the red-robed people, a green-garbed, blonde young lady was running after them screaming for them to stop. I blinked a couple of times, and was about to go and see what was going on when Amburna flew past me, Shayla right after her.
Shoko came up beside me, flying. I had to run to keep up with him. "What's going on?!" I shouted over the wind. Shoko didn't respond right away.
"No time to explain!" he shouted back, and then flew ahead. Completely befuddled, I looked behind me for my other teammates to see if they would answer my questions. Tai, Kazu and Saji were behind me, also running with all their might. Tai was the only one gaining.
I slowed slightly, letting Tai catch up with me. "What's going on??!" I shouted again.
"That girl ahead of us? She's one of Shayla's best friends, and those people in the red clothes are going after HER manectric!" He then speeded up and then left me to eat his dust. When he wanted to, Tai could sure move…
Saji then appeared beside me, and offered a ride. I graciously accepted, and hopped onto his back where Kazu was also sitting. I could now see Shoko, Amburna, Shayla and Tai in the distance, where they were surrounding the red-clad people. There were four, and they didn't look too happy. The manectric in question was in the middle of the four with something around its mouth. I guessed it stopped all electrical attacks from working, since the manectric wasn't using any electrical attacks.
Saji landed and Kazu and I dismounted. Then the fun began.
"Give me back my manectric!!" the green-clothed girl shouted as she balled her hands into fists. She didn't look too threatening, more like a little girl with a temper tantrum, so that may have been why one of the red-clad people snickered.
"Right, girl. I'll give this dog back to you once we're through with it," one person in the middle said. He was buff, his bulking muscles showing through the sweatshirt-like shirt. He looked in his mid thirties, and his chin had stubble on it. He had in his hand a rubber leash that was attached to the manectric's muzzle, rendering it helpless.
Shayla beckoned Amburna forth. "Either give my friend back her manectric or I send my dragonair on you!" she threatened. Amburna moved out in front of her trainer and summoned rain clouds. Thunder began to rumble, rain began to pour, and Amburna had completed her intimidation act. If I didn't know her, I would be scared out of my wits. An angry dragonair isn't a good one.
The leader of the group began to laugh. "Fine then! A battle it shall be! Then I can shove your weasly little faces in the ground and take your pokemon too!!" He looked among my comrades and his eyes fell on Shoko and Tai. "I wouldn't mind taking those two…"
The charizard and jolteon snarled in response, showing of their pearly fangs. Unfortunately, the man in the red sweatshirt laughed it off and called forth his first pokemon against Amburna.
It was a mightyena. It was tough looking, scarred across its cheek and eyes, and it was snarling even as it came out. It tossed its head and growled at Amburna. She didn't flinch.
Niether did Shayla. "Amburna!! Surf!!"
Amburna twisted her body and then her body glowed a bright blue. The mightyena was too distracted by the light coming from Amburna's body to see the massive tidal wave rising from the sea next to us. It rose up in the air, and then plummeted down on the mightyena. Water rushed past my ankles, and I looked to see if the mightyena had survived such an attack.
Amazingly, it did. It rose up from the small pond with wet and shaking legs, still glaring at Amburna. Amburna rose her head slightly, as if to silently dare the mightyena to attack her.
Finally, the dark dog spoke. "Kyogre-lover …" he whispered. "You think a little water's going to make me faint?" He took a staggering step forward, proving he could still battle. "I'll never fall to a Kyogre-lover like you…"
"Mightyena!" the man roared. "Crunch!!"
The mightyena lunged at Amburna with tremendous energy. However, Amburna easily dodged it by simply moving a part of her body out of the way. The mightyena crashed into the muddy ground, face first. He was to my left, and I watched him get up. He was struggling again, and before he could stand, Shayla ordered out another attack.
"Amburna!!" She roared furiously, "SLAM!"
Amburna glared at the struggling darkling and charged through the air straight towards him. He had turned and faced Amburna, and when she performed her slam attack, he opened his mouth and clamped down hard on her lithe body. She screamed.
"Amburna!!" Shayla yelled, alarmed. "Throw him, Amburna!! Throw him off of you!"
Amburna glared down at her opponent with a ferocity I never thought possible and then flung then mightyena into a nearby building. He landed against the wall with a crash, and then fell to the ground with a sloppy-sounding thump. He did not get back up.
The man glared through the rain and then returned the mightyena back to his poke ball. Amburna returned to her place on the field, now with blood oozing from a spot on her side where the mightyena had bitten her. I moved up beside Shoko and continued to watch.
He sent out an arbok, also scarred and intimidating. I was surprised someone had an arbok in this region, but some of my own comrades had come from the Kanto and Johto regions as well. Amburna flinched at the sight of the arbok, to which she smiled.
"Come now, dearie," the arbok hissed. "Don't be afraid of little me…" She got low to the ground and coiled herself up.
"Arbok!" the man shouted, "Poison sting attack!"
The arbok reared up and, with incredible speed, shot poison darts from her mouth right into Amburna's wound. She screamed again and fell to the ground, unable to keep floating.
Shayla flinched. "Amburna! Come back!" She turned to her left, where Kazu and Saji were standing. "Kazu! Go! Psychic!!"
The espeon ran out in front of Shayla and quickly attacked. His eyes glowed an angry red, and then the arbok was lifted off of the ground high into the sky. With quick movements of his head, Kazu rammed the arbok into walls, trees, and eventually the ground. The arbok did not move.
"Dammit!" the man cursed, and then pulled a red-clad woman from beside him forward. "Help me!"
The woman nodded, and she pulled out her own pokemon, which happened to be an umbreon. The man sent out a torcoal. Shayla glared and then called Kazu back to the sidelines.
"Shoko! Tai! Get in there!!" Shayla roared, to which they obliged. In a matter of minutes, the torcoal and umbreon were fainted at the hands of my comrades. Niether of them were panting, and Shoko was at his peak power, even in the rainstorm Amburna had summoned. It was then that I heard the helicopter.
I looked up and saw the black helicopter hovering above us. There were people looking down upon us -people in red robes. Shayla apparently saw them too, because she ordered Tai to bring them down.
"Alright you bastards!" Tai shouted to the sky, "It's time for you to come down and play with us!!" He sent a bolt of lightning to the helicopter and, in flames of glory, it began to crash. Kazu was then ordered to use psychic to grab all of the passengers. I merely watched all of this with an air of distant awe.
When the helicopter crashed, Shayla turned to the group of four -now turning into seven- and shouted over the howling winds, "Alright! I've had enough of this!! You're beaten, Team Magma! Now give my friend back her manectric! It doesn't even KNOW any electric attacks!! So keep this stupid fight between yourselves and Team Aqua!!"
I blinked and looked at the wet, defeated men and women before me. This is the "mighty" Team Magma I've heard so much about? I thought, perplexed. I had heard that they were great warriors, wanting to awaken the great poke god Groudon and widen the landmass. I of course thought it was bogus, that it was just a publicity stunt to get land pokemon into the hands of more trainers. Apparently, I was wrong.
The leader of the Magma guffawed, even though all of his pokemon were spent. "I'm afraid I can't, little lady. Because you see, we need your friend's pokemon. And if it can't use any electric attacks, then we'll just take your jolteon as well. Hell, I'd gladly take all of your pokemon off your hands…"
He then locked eyes with me, and when his gaze turned to hungry, my instincts went nuts. I HAD to get away from this guy.
Shayla scoffed, and tossed a pecha and sitrus berry to Amburna. "There is no way I'd let you lay one of your grimy hands on my pokemon, you filth."
The man smiled and replied, "Guess I'll just have to take them."
A sound alerted my ears. The familiar sound of helicopter blades slicing through the air. But this time, it was different. It was a murky sound, like more than one. I looked up and saw at least thirty helicopters swirling above us, and then that was when the tranquilizers rained down upon us.
Shoko was hit first, in the lower neck. He let out a roar, and fell to the ground, unconscious. Shayla ran to him, but a Magma woman came up behind her and hit her in the back of the head with a metal rod. Kazu and Saji went nuts, but the espeon was quickly done in by a tranquilizer. Tai didn't see this because he was too busy dodging darts and shocking the shooters of said darts. Amburna was out as well, a dart had hit her when she had tried to use dragon rage.
I myself was trying to avoid the darts when I saw a dewgong appear. At first I was wondering why they would send out a dewgong, but then it hit me. Saji's steel body rendered the tranqs useless. So… they were trying to…
"Saji!!" I heard myself yell. "WATCH OUT!! THERE'S A DEWGONG-"
Saji turned and saw the dewgong but not fast enough to get away from the ice beam. It hit him full in the abdomen, and ice began to form on his body. After a few seconds, Saji was completely encased in a pillar of ice.
Tai did, however, see this. "BASTARD!!" he screamed at the dewgong, and used thunderbolt on the water-type. However, since he was no longer shooting electricity, the Magma members saw an opening and shot Tai in the upper back, in between his shoulder blades.
When I saw Tai go down, something snapped. I looked up to the helicopters flying above me and began to shoot my own electricity out at them. They were lower now -probably trying to get close enough to pick up my teammates. I was not going to let that happen.
The leader of the Magma came to my side, and before I could react, shot a dart into my neck. I fell onto the ground on my good side, feeling limp and numb. My muscles twitched and tried to fight the serum that was now flowing through my veins. The man stood over me, a triumphant look on his face.
"An absol that can use thunderbolt… The boss will love to see you again…"
He raised his foot above me and brought it down upon my skull, to which I felt pain, and then nothing at all.
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Well! That was a mighty long chapter!! ::big smile:: Sorry about the cliffhanger, I had to! But don't worry, I'll try and update soon! Now press that review button down there and tell me how you feel!!
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