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Chapter 7

Not The Best of Days

Character: Iso

"So, we lost.." Ben seemed pretty sad as we walked into our room at the pokécenter.

"Yeah, but next time, we will win! Besides, you should let out Zephyr. He hasn't been out since you caught him."

"Okay." Ben threw up a pokéball. Red energy flew out and took the form of Zephyr.

"Hi, my name is Iso!"

"And my name is Ben. Welcome to the family!"

"Hi. I assume you've obtained this contest thing?" Zephyr stretched his wings.

"Whatawhatawha...?" Ben's face obviously showed confusion.

"When you caught me, you were in a hurry to get the contest, weren't you?"

"Ummm... a contest is not a thing, well it is a thing, it's not an object..."

I interrupted Ben. "A contest is a competition, kinda like gym battles except you show off your pokémon and it's moves."

"Ohh..." Zephyr blushed. "So you won the contest?"

"Well,... no." Now it was my turn to blush.

"So, how many contests oh have you won?"

"Well that was our first contest." Ben sat on his bed.

"Oh." An awkward silence then occurred until Zephyr broke it. "Aren't you going to scan me with your pokédex?"

"Well, I would if the professor had remembered to give us pokédexes!"

"Calm down Ben. He's an old man. Old men forget things. So, you want to explore the city?" I put my stuff down and got up.

"Sure. Zephyr return." Just then a ringing noise came from Ben's pokétech. "Hmn, somebody is calling." Ben pressed he button to accept the call.

Professor Rowan appeared on the screen. "Hello Ben. And you too, Iso. I realized I forgot to give you pokédexes earlier. I happen to be at the Jubilife City pokecenter at the moment, and I can give you your pokedexes if you come by."

"We're at the pokecenter right now. We'll come right away." I headed for the door.

Character: Ben

"Hi Professor Rowan." I walked up to the professor.

"Hello professor!" Iso followed behind me.

"Oh, hello you two. Here are your pokedexes." He handed each of us a pokedex. Mine was red, and Iso's was pink. "I have to leave for now, so have fun!" The professor left.

I sent out Zephyr and scanned him with the pokedex. "Ok, so your ability is reckless, and your moves are quick attack, wing attack, endeavor, aerial ace, close combat, double edge, endure, and brave bird. So you have a lot of moves with recoil. I'll have to figure out how to use that in a contest though."

"Okay! Now its exploration time! Let's go, Ben!"

I followed Iso out of the pokemon center.

"I think this is the shortcut that boy showed us earlier." Iso and I walked into an alley. All of a sudden there was a loud noise behind us.

"Dahhhh! What was that?" I turned to see the path blocked by overturned dumpsters.

Three people appeared in front of us from what seemed like nowhere. They wore sky blue uniforms with white gloves and boots. The front of their uniform had a green symbol of wind spiraling around a feather. The woman who seemed to be the leader spoke up. "Hello. I am Captain Lilith of the great Team Hane No Arashi!"

"Wait a second... Team Hane No Arashi... you were the ones who gave the potion to my mom!" Iso's face contorted with anger.

"Wait, so there are the people who transformed us?"

"Good guess. Our great team is responsible for your transformations. Now come with us peacefully or we will have to do this the hard way." There was a faint smile on Captain Lilith's face.

"Yeah right! Like we're going with you!" Iso turned into her pokemon form. I did the same.

"You asked for it." Captain Lilith glowed white as her form changed. The light faded and an umbreon was in her place. The men behind her turned into a jolteon and a flareon. "Jolteon, thunderbolt. Flareon, use flamethrower." She herself fired many shadow balls at us.

We tried to dodge, but since the alley was narrow, there was nowhere to dodge to. We were thrown back into the dumpsters. I staggered as I got up and then charged at the captain at a high speed. She then used shadow ball, which she fired right at me, countering my quick attack, and sending me flying again. As I struggled to keep my eyes open, I saw Iso try to use ice fang, but she was countered by assurance. I could keep my eyes open no longer, and the world went silent.

I opened my eyes. here were metal bars in front of me. Wait a sec... metal bars? I got up. I seemed be be in some jail cell like cage, and my right hind leg was chained to the floor. Iso was chained on the other side of the cage.

"Hey, Iso. Wake up." I poked her side.

"Huhhh... what wrong..." Iso's eyelids fluttered.

"What do you mean what's wrong? We've been kidnapped and are in a cage somewhere." I kept my voice low in case there was somebody nearby.

"Oh... okay..." Iso's eyes closed and she stretched and curled up again. She then awoke with a jolt. "Wait, Whaa...! Ohhh, I remember now."

Just then, a pair of legs with sky blue pants and white boots appeared outside the cage. The Team Hane no Arashi grunt knelt down. "So you are awake now. Here's your food." He placed bowl of water and a bowl of pokemon food in the cage. He stood up and walked away. My stomach growled.

"So, I guess we eat..." Iso seemed saddened, which was unusual for as long as we had been traveling she was always happy and energetic.

"No way I'm eating this. One, It's pokemon food, and two, hey could have poisoned it or something. Maybe they put something in it that will make us do whatever they command!"

Iso sighed and lied back down. Which again was unusual.

"Dont worry, it'll be okay. We'll get out of here and everything will be fine. And I'm here with you. Trust me."

Author'sNotes:

Lilith is a name meaning "of the night".
From last chapter, Kasai is Japenese for fire.

Depressed Iso: I'm soo sad...
Ryu: Please cheer up! Here, take this bannana. You can hit me with it!
Iso:...
Ryu: It's frozen!
Iso:..
Ryu: Dont you want to hit me with it?
Iso: T_T

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