When you ride a shooting star.
Chapter 3: ESP Blaze
"So you ready for this?" Grace asked her brother.
"I was born ready" her brother replied as he took his balls out. Oh and they're his pokeballs if you thought otherwise.
In a flash of light out popped Claudia and James, eyes full of excitement. Well, you can't really see a Cyndaquil's eyes but you get the idea.
"Pound, James!" Chris commanded his pokemon, sending the fire mouse on his way to happy slap his psychic opponent with his stubby little arm.
Grace then responded by whispering one word. "Confusion". On that note Claudia's front horn glowed a brilliant shade of blue, reaching out her hand and sending the fire mouse hurtling into the air.
"James, swift!"
Instinctively James spat out an oversized star from his mouth, jumping on it and riding it back to the battle grounds, hovering ever so slightly in the air.
"He can fly?" Grace asked exasperatedly as she saw James wave to her. Then the little guy aerial dived at Claudia.
"Claudia, use confusion again!" Grace ordered but then Chris did something unexpected.
"Use normal swift!"
Upon hearing this James fired a stream of smaller stars from his mouth, confusing ironically the one that was using confusion, letting her get hit by the swift attack before being hit full on by James and his super swift.
"Claudia!" Grace shouted as the little psychic type hit the ground, hard, "you okay sweetie"?
"R-ralts" the psychic type replied with a weak smile.
"well you have a nice long rest" Grace said as she withdrew Claudia, "well done bro".
"Um, thanks" Chris said as the fire mouse jumped into his arms, "well done James. Now you take a break"
"Come on out Nick!" Grace shouted as she threw out her pokeball, revealing Nick, the yellow Charmander.
"Let's go Lance!" Chris shouted as he threw the luxury ball, revealing his psychic type, "Use growl"
"Intercept with ember"!
At once Lance emitted a low growl but was intercepted by Nick's little fireballs, hurting the psychic type quite a bit.
"Ember again Nick!" Grace commanded.
"Fire it back with confusion Lance" Chris said.
Nick fired another stream of fire only to have the psychic type collect the flames in a big psychic ball and hurling it back at the lizard who jumped out of the way so the flames erupted behind him, creating a picture perfect scene.
"So cool now Lance Confusion"!
"Finish with Scratch Nick" Grace said.
The Ralts fired his powerful confusion technique but at the same time Nick hit the little guy with his scratch attack, causing both of them to faint.
"Looks like you win bro" Grace sighed as she gave Chris an ice blue gadget, "it's called a Pokè gear. Use it to keep in touch, see ya. Oh and before I go professor Elm asked you to pick up something from a guy called Mr Pokemon from Cherrygrove city"
"Actually Grace I was thinking you could go there with me" Chris suggested, "I mean we're in the middle of route 39 and to be honest Cherrygrove city is the one with the pokemon center"
"Well...I've been itching to do some shopping" Grace considered, "okay I'll tag along but only because I have a reason to".
However as they walked to the city little did they know that they were being followed by two shadows...
Half an hour later...
Grace and Chris took their first steps in CherryGrove city in two months to see that so little has changed. The streets were still neatly cobbled, the little cafe on the corner still had that black and white chequered colour scheme and the new pokemon centre, well you only had to look at it from the inside to see for yourself. Everywhere you looked trainers from all over the area were laughing, eating and training as Nurse Joy provided them with the tools to heal and say thank you for all the hard work their partners have done for them in battle.
"Hi there" Nurse Joy welcomed the two, "would you like to rest your pokemon"?
"That'd be great thanks" Chris replied, "we'd also like to get registered for contests if that's possible"
"Oh so you two are first time trainers then" Nurse Joy beamed, "well just give me your pokedexes and I'll be done in five minutes".
"Well I guess we could go find that Mr Pokemon guy" Grace sighed before a slime thing jumped up at her face causing her to fall back.
"Ditto! What have I told you about that?" A voice shouted from nearby. The voice belonged to an old man with grey hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a formal looking brown suit with a matching hat. "My apologies" he said as he picked the Ditto up, "Ditto tends to get pretty hyper from time to time".
"That's alright" Grace replied as her brother helped her up, "well we're trying to find Mr Pokemon. If you have any clue where we could find him it would be nice if you could tell us"
"Well you must be the Bryson kids" the old gentleman laughed, "I'm Mr Pokemon, researcher extraordinaire. Professor Elm asked me to give you these to him for research". He then produced from a drawstring bag two pokemon eggs in portable incubators. One was white with small red and blue triangles. The other was brown and white with at least six red diamonds.
"Professor Elm sends his thanks sir" Chris thanked the man as he took the white egg whilst his sister took the brown.
"Well then I hope that we can cross paths again someday" Mr Pokemon said as he and his Ditto left the centre.
Ten minutes later...
"What?" Grace shouted over her yellow pokegear.
"Sorry Grace but your mother wanted you two to journey together and I needed someone to get the eggs so it just worked" Professor Elm replied from the other side, "however I need someone to look after the eggs when they hatch so I'm letting you keep them. Oh no! Totodile, Torchic's head is not a chew toy! Well I've got to go. Good luck"
"I'm going to kill him" Grace snarled as she picked up the egg and started making kissy faces at it, "where's Chris"?
"Look James, this is going to be our new friend" Chris said to the fire mouse as they waited on the seats outside the small cafe for their ice creams when a black crow like pokemon dived for the egg. But before said Murkrow could it was stopped by a massive rock slide attack.
Wait...rock slide?
It was then Chris turned to see the egg's saviour. It was small, green and looked pretty cute for a rock type.
"Lar!" it said.
Well I hope you've enjoyed this chapter as well as I have making it as well as my surprise that more people wanted Chris to win on the poll results. So if you'd like I've got a few questions for you for your reviews.
What do you think the eggs will hatch into?
Do you think Chris and Grace will get on as they journey together?
Aren't Larvitar the nicest rock pokemon ever?
Well that's all until next time!