Ties That Bind Chapter 6
I don't own Pokemon, but Andrew, Buttonz, Spirit and Phoenix are my characters ^____^ ((Sorry it took so long to update this story))
After Andrew's Pidgey was put away in her pokeball and Buttonz wasn't talking about how she was going to have Pidgey sandwitches for lunch we packed up and headed out, each of us chewing on some granola bar or some breakfast related food. Around a mouth full of smorey granola bar goodness I asked my siblings the impending doom question "Are we there yet?" Button and Andrew stoppeed dead in their tracks, Buttonz looked at me slowly followed by Andrew. Andrew's eye twitched slightly and Buttonz out right glared at me. I was known for repeating that question for hours unless I was giving a satisfying answer. "No, just shut up right now."
"But I wanna know if we're there yet!"
"Do you see a sprawling city?"
"No-"
"Then we're not there yet."
"Then how far do we have to go to get there?" Buttonz grunted at me then put me in a head lock before clicking on her pokedex that sprang up with a ICP Hatchet man in my face making me jump. I would have fallen over if not for my sister holding me in place. "Don't act so freaked out about lil ol hatchetman sister, you're a juggalett just like me."
"Not much of one if I'm scared of clowns."
"You'll get use to it." Buttonz replied as she clicked on some buttons and some wickedly creepy laughs issued from the hatchetman hologram before Buttonz pointed to the screen. "We're here," her finger nail made a clicking sound on the plastic touch screen "and the town is here." Her added touch to the screen caused the hatchetman to snigger out some smart alec remark about how it liked to be touched like that. Buttonz laughed at her Pokedex but I was slightly scared of it. "See? We'll make it into town before... oh say.. lunch time?"
"Woot!" I jumped forward happily. I liked camping and all but I wanted to give the packages to the gym leader in Viridian and give the note to Mrs. Oak's daughter. "We won't make it before lunch time if we don't start moving." Andrew muttered at the two of us as we looked around. "Oh come on, a few more minuets delay will not bring the end of the world about." I told my brother as Howler stretched to his full height by standing on his hind legs and leaning against me like a cant would a scratching post minus the cat and the scratching aspects of it. I reached down and petted the houndour gently before pushing him gently to the ground and saying the word down to him firmly. With a tilted head Howler jumped up onto my leg again. I pushed him down and said down once more. With a huff the young houndour wondered off towards Andrew who smiled at the Pokemon who seemed bent on getting attention.
A loud ringtone from my cellphone echoed around the area making the three of us jump. Pulling the fold up cellphone from my pocket I looked at the caller ID. MOM flashed at me across the outside screen, crap. I flipped open the phone and put it to my ear "Hello?" I asked as if I did not know who it was.
"Why haven't you called? It's been.... I don't know how long but it's been too long young lady! You should have called by now!" I winced as my mom's frantic voice echoed into my ear and I held the ear piece away from my head as she told me how worried she'd been and how she was going to ground me if I ever did this again. She also told me how she was going to make me come back home and make me go to college and get a stable job. I tried my best to tell her sorry between the first few 'do you know how worried I've been?' and 'you should have called' but when she went into the talk about taking my privileges away I bristled. "Is that mom?" Andrew asked and I nodded as she continued to seethe into my right ear. "Tell her I said hi."
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"She's ripping me a new one." I mumbled to my older brother and he snickered at me, he knew what it was like to be on the recieving end of one of my mom's lectures. A couple seconds of silence issued between a rant and I took it as my time to interrupt her. "Okay mom, I'm sorry I didn't call. Didn't Tzuya come back yet? He told us he'd tell you, Andrew and Buttonz's parents we where okay."
"I do not want Tzuya to tell me anything! I would of thought that at the age of seventeen years old you would have enough common sense to call your mother before you went to sleep."
"I said I was sorry!"
"Sorry didn't do it."
"You're right, sorry didn't do anything but he's still going to be the main topic of this conversation."
"Are you getting smart alec with me Spirit?" I was rather annoyed at my mom by this point. I knew I should have called, hell Tzuya even told all of us to call our parents before we left for Viridian city but that didn't give her the right to treat me like I was twelve or something. "Spirit, what are you doing!?" Buttonz and Andrew hissed at me, me getting smart mouth with my mom never boded well for me and the moment I was going to say 'yes mom, yes I am' Buttonz yanked the phone from my hands and put it up to her ear. "HI mom! It's Buttonz, how are you?" I smirked at Buttonz because I knew what was coming next. In fact I heard it over the silence of the road. "GIVE THE PHONE BACK TO SPIRIT!" Buttonz winced and put a finger in her ear as if the shout had hurt her ear. I wouldn't doubt it, she did have the phone next to her ear when she was talking. Buttonz handed the phone over to me and I put it back NEAR my ear. "Hello?"
"What the hell was that?"
"That was a Buttonz trying to save my ass." I replied with a smile and Andrew slapped his forehead knowing I was going to die by phone if I kept it up. "Young miss, if you don't get your act together you're going to come home real quick."
"MOM! For the love of all that is holy and mightier then the legendary Pokemon, I am seventeen! I'm almost an adult, I'm not going to die because I didn't call you for," I paused and counted the days on my fingers "three weeks! I know you love me and all and I'm SORRY that I FORGOT TO CALL YOU." I knew I was going to die, my mom hated to be interrupted, she hated it when someone tried to save me and she hated it when I didn't call. I really didn't have an excuse other then I had forgot and that was always my excuse for things... my mom was really tired of it. "Don't forget again Spirit, bye." she hung up the phone and I winced as the line went dead. So I wasn't going to die but I had pissed off my mom to the point she had refused to tell me she loved me before hanging up on me. Silently I wondered if she would call the police and have them drag me back home since I was still a minor and all. "Oh wow... we should so call our parents." Andrew muttered as he fished his own phone from his pocket and started to punch buttons like a mad man as Buttonz did the same. Silently I huffed at them in sheer jealously because they're parents where not screaming at them. Their parents even asked to talk to me and ask how I was doing, I talked to them though my enthusiasm was very much destroyed and blown to bits. Once the talking was over we started back out towards Viridian City.
It was late afternoon before we reached Viridian City. My mood had only imporved a little even if Howler, Buttonz and Andrew where trying to improve my mood with rather funny antics that only drew me from the stupor for awhile before I receded back into it. As we reached the outskirts of the city we heard the low hum of a sports car. My ears picked up the sound immediately and I felt the normal "OOOO!! SHINY!!" feeling swamp me. I loved the sound of motorcycles and sports cars without a doubt and that was what I was hearing. Buttonz and Andrew pulled me out of the road as the shiny new car drove past us at an agonizingly slow pace. Convertible and candy apple red I drooled with envy as I heard the driver rev the engine tauntingly. I hardly noticed the cheerleaders in the back hanging off a guy in the back but he noticed us. I rolled my eyes at him and easily blew him off, Andrew and Buttonz liked the car as well but the three of us could not stand the guy in the back who grinned at us mockingly. "Hey, hey, hey, stop the car." He called to the driver who was already going less then 10mph. The car stopped easily a few feet in front of me and my friends.
"So," the guy called from ahead of us as he pushed himself out of the ride I would of killed for "you like what you see?"
"You? No. The Car... sweet Jesus yes." Andrew replied and the guy stiffened. "I wasn't asking you." The guy eyed Andrew like he was something that crawled out from under a rock and turned his attention to me and Buttonz. He glanced me over, lingering slightly on select parts of me before they wondered over to Buttonz and checked her out. "I think I'm gonna need a bath." I muttered to Andrew who looked very irked at the presence of the guy before us. Andrew laughed when he heard my remark and kept laughing till he was red in the face. The guy bristled instantly at the sound of Andrew laughing. "Whats so funny!?" he shouted acting as if Andrew was laughing at him... and in fact Andrew by proxy was laughing at him. "Get back in your car little man and getting moving." Buttonz said as she glanced over towards me and Andrew for a second before looking back towards the guy. A screech of something issued from the guy and his face turned so red with indignation it almost looked like a tomato. "Do you know who I am!?" He screamed and I arched an eyebrow at him. "A girl?" I asked and he sputtered before marching towards us. "No! I am the future pokemon champion!" he snarled as he grabbed for a pokeball at his belt. "That's a mouth full... are you sure your mom named you that?"
"Shut up! My name is Phoenix you snivelling noob."
"Oooo this guy has a vocabulary!" Buttonz laughed as he launched the pokeball out and from it came the form of a small funny looking blue pokemon with a fin on it's head. "Mudkip." all three Pokedexs chimed at us and started to tell us in perfect timing what a mudkip was. Another flash of light revealed a small brown fuzzy thing and the Pokedex's cut off their spiel about Mudkip to tell us about Eevee. I generally ignored the random status update until it told me the levels of the pokemon. Both pokemon where level two. "Are you joking me? These two doe eyed pokemon are yours and you're talking about pokemon championship? Get real." I waved a hand at him as Howler let out his lovely howl that I recognized as his call to get other pokemon from their balls. Wolf, Pidgey and Ekans came out willingly to look at the two new pokemon before them. Like curious babies they wanted to make friends until Phoenix ordered the attacks. Mudkip went after Wolf and Howler while the Eevee darted in to attack Ekans and Pidgey.
A simple order from us and the two enemy pokemon where down and out for the count. "Is that all you got?" I taunted as Howler came to me prancingly happy licking my face and wagging his tail to the point his whole body shook with the effort. "Oh, such a good boy Howler." I scratched Howler behind the bone plating on his head which brought about some leg thumping. Phoenix laughed and recalled the two fainted pokemon and put them back on his belt. "That's not all I have." He smiled evilly at me before fishing out a rather battered looking Pokeball "Charizard!!" He called out and my heart sank. Charizard was the last evolution of Charmander. The large dragon like pokemon let out a roar of defiance and shot a jet of fire into the air. "We're boned." I muttered and my friends looked at me in agreement. "We can't... we can't beat a charizard." I shouted to Phoenix who laughed at us. "No forefitting! You chose to battle me so you'll see it out to the end!" My hair stood on end, this guy was REALLY annoying. "Howler! Tackle!" I pointed to the Charizard who looked down at Howler like he was a snack. Lifting one of it's massive legs the Charizard easily dodged the attack and used it's tail to move Howler back to my side of the "field". This time Buttonz sent Ekans with Howler in the attack. "Rock throw!" Phoenix shouted and rocks rained down on my pokemon trapping them. "Flame thrower!!" he shouted and a jet of fire burst from the Charizards mouth to the point the rock was molten and swirling around Howler and Ekans. "NO!" Buttonz screamed in terror and ran towards the small dome of magma. "You...." I muttered thinking my pokemon dead for sure. A squawk came from Pidgey as the little bird flitted around the Charizard pecking and raging a storm across it's head.
The Charizard lazily took flight and kept up with the small pidgey before a laugh came from Phoenix again and his charizard shot Pidgey from the sky with a pebble. Rage boiled in my chest as I saw Andrew's face became a mask of worry for his Pidgey that now rested in the pokeball in Andrew's hand. Poocheyena let out a snarl and darted for the the Charizard that was becoming nothing but light. Wolf snapped at the fading light with disgust before Phoenix laughed at us and called out another pokemon. "Hitmonchamp." Our pokedexs rang out but before the pokedexs could finish telling us the information Wolf was KO'ed as well. Feeling utterly defeated the three of us started to look for sticks to attack the magma dome with now that Phoenix was laughing and taunting us. "Fucking noobs!" he laughed as the cheer leaders in the back started to chant something about how he was the best at this or that and how no one could beat him. I picked up a rock and tossed it right at a pretty blonds face. Her scream of pain was quiet entertaining. Phoenix turned and glared at me like I was the worst thing to ever walk on the face of the earth, how dare I hurt one of his barbies. "LETS GO PHOENIX!!" one of the girls snarled at him so fiercely that I was scared of her. No one wants to mess with a barbie who talks like Satan.
After we collected our pokemon we ran into town carrying our Pokemon. Nurse Joy, who looked very much like the other Nurse Joy in Pallet town gave us the most evil looks like we had purposefully done this to our pokemon. Beds where hauled out for each of the pokemon and they where rushed to the back of the hospital leaving the three of us to fret and pace around like caged animals.