A/N: Thanks for all the comments, seriously, you guys rock!
Eva belongs to Lycramosa.
June yawned and forced her eyelids open; she shifted in the hard bed of the Pokémon centre and smiled, remembering her victory at the diamond cutters.
"Morning, Ukko..." she said sleepily.
No answer.
June frowned and sat upright. She scanned the room. There was no sign of Ukko, and even worse, no sign of her egg. She quickly jumped to her feet and began looking for it, under the bed, inside her old bag and even inside her new one, she wondered if the little Pokémon had hatched while she had been asleep and wanted to stretch its legs and walk out of her room, and maybe Ukko had followed him/her to keep an eye on him/her, Maybe Aretha had seen them!
Forgetting that she was still in her pyjamas, June ran out of the room and into Aretha's room, but her room was empty, even the bed had been made; she was about to head toward the door when she saw an odd shaped shadow in the corner. She turned towards the shadow, which cackled and floated towards her.
"Storm, I know it's you" said June, crossing her arms. "You might have scared the living death out of me last night when I went to get some water, but it doesn't work in the daylight" the shadow shook and finally returned to his original gastly shape, looking a little disappointed. June smiled. "Do you know where my shinx is? Or your trainer?" Storm grinned and nodded. "Cool, can you show me where they are?"
"Gaast!" it said happily and disappeared out of view.
June sighed, making a mental note to not trust any ghost whatsoever. Realising she was still in her pyjamas she ran back to her room, had a quick shower and put new clothes on, which she was happy to see, were a perfect fit. She walked outside and found Storm floating just beside her.
June frowned "Are you going to show me where they are?" Storm nodded and floated in front of her, leading June through a series of corridors until reaching a door, Storm cackled and floated in circles around June's waist before vanishing into thin air.
Sighing, June opened the door, revealing the Pokémon centre's backyard, inside, Aretha and her Pokémon were training and Ukko was dozing on a sunny patch of grass, his body carefully curled around the two eggs as best as he could.
"Oh, hi June!" said Aretha cheerfully "Great! You found Storm; he sneaked out when I was training with Lazuli and Obsie. And Ukko has been a very good babysitter, by the way" upon hearing his name, Ukko stirred awake and, seeing June, flipped her egg on his back with a clever flick of his tail and walked towards June, careful to not let the egg drop.
"Hi Ukko, been taking care of your new team mate?" said June, scooping the egg from Ukko's back and giving him a scratch behind his ear. June felt an odd breeze by her ear and turned to see Storm float towards his trainer. "Uh, Aretha? You haven't been training for too long, have you? I made that mistake not too long ago"
"Nah, I've just started training about half an hour ago, I asked Ukko if he wanted to join, but it seems he didn't want to start without you" said Aretha, picking up her own egg and dusting it off. "I was wondering if I could challenge Roark today"
"Already?" said June. "But we've just come from the diamond cutters!"
Aretha shrugged "Well, if you don't want to come..."
"No, I do" said June quickly. "That was one of the only reasons why I wanted to go to Oreburgh, I er... hadn't heard of the diamond cutters until Mandy told me, I just thought that my Pokémon might be... tired after the contest"
Aretha nodded. "I understand, but I think that they might have already rested up here, and I've stocked up on potions just in case"
"So are we going?"
"Yeah!"
Ten minutes later...
"Aretha, admit it, were lost"
"No we're not"
"Yes we are, we've passed this place nine times!" June insisted, pointing to a store with a big cardboard jigglypuff on the front.
"Well, it's not my fault your sinnoh dex has errors" said Aretha, crossing her arms.
"And it's not my fault that you left your own PokéDex back at the Pokémon centre" said June. "Let's just ask someone if they know where the gym is" June looked around and trotted over to a woman with a large hat. "Um... excuse me, where is the gym?" the woman turned around and glared at June, her very long purple hair framing an almost ghost-like face.
"Get out of my sight, stupid child" she said in a hoarse whisper. June yelped and ran away to Aretha.
"Eh... maybe we should just look for a map" said June, she watched as the rude woman picked what looked like a high-tech walkie-talkie and spoke to it, keeping an eye on June.
"What happened?" asked Aretha.
"Nothing, nothing... it's your turn to ask somebody" said June quickly. Aretha shrugged and walked towards a girl with light brown hair and a gothic Lolita style shirt and black pants, she was cuddling a cubone, so Aretha guessed she would be friendly.
"Hey!" said Aretha brightly. "I was wondering if you knew where the gym is" the girl turned around slowly, staring at Aretha with striking brown eyes.
"Yes" she said.
"Oh, great, um... could you please tell me where it is?" said Aretha. The girl didn't answer, simply just cocking her head towards a huge rocky building to her right. Aretha nodded a quick thank you and rushed off to June's side.
"Well...?" said June.
"Um, apparently, it's that place" said Aretha pointed towards the rocky building, watching the odd girl walk towards it.
"Well, let's go" said June, dragging Aretha towards the place, she stood outside the very rocky building. "Aretha, this can't be it, looks as though someone just put a door in front of a huge rock"
"Well, the guy has a thing for rocks, he probably designed this place to look like one" said Aretha, crossing her arms. The entered the door, stepping into what seemed like a long dark tunnel with thousands of little torches stuck on its walls, the tunnel walls were decorated with glittering rows of fake spheres, and even rows of fake Styrofoam fossils, painted to look like the real thing, the tunnel ended abruptly and in its place, a huge circular coliseum with tall jagged rocks littering the middle. At the far corner, June could make out Roark's body, standing proudly with a cranidos sitting beside him.
"Welcome! This is the Oreburgh Pokémon gym! I'm Roark, the gym leader, now" Roark leant closer to examine the two girls. "Who will be challenging me today?"
"Eh... Aretha and June" said Aretha, walking forward and tugging June along with her.
"Hmm, the two winners at the contest, huh?" said Roark, thinking that beating a bunch of starting coordinators would be easy. "This battle shall be... interesting, you will pick three of your Pokémon to battle against my own, understood?"
"Right" said June, she whispered to Aretha about which Pokémon they would be using and finally decided on Dancer, Storm and Lazuli. (Although Ukko complained when he saw that he wouldn't be included). They both gave Roark a thumbs-up to show that they had decided and ran over to the other side of the battle field, a guy with mining helmet walked and settled in the middle of the stage, holding two flags, one green and one red.
"The battle begins! Roark, the gym leader against challengers June and Aretha!" yelled the judge, signalling to Roark and the duo. "Now, let the battle begin!"
"Come on out, geodude!" yelled Roark, tossing a Poké ball in the air, a rock-like Pokémon with two large arms materialised in front of them, glowering at both of them.
Aretha picked up a Poké ball and hurled it towards the battlefield. "Time to battle, Storm!" Storm floated around the battlefield and settled in front of the girls, glaring at the geodude.
"Now geodude, rock throw!" yelled Roark, geodude pounded his fists into the ground, sending huge rocks flying towards Storm.
"Confuse ray!" Storm unleashed the well known purple orb at the rocks, circling them and leading them towards the geodude.
"Catch them, quick!" the geodude propelled itself off the ground with a mighty thump of his hands and launched himself at the rocks, catching them and throwing them at Storm.
Aretha gasped "Night shade!" Storm unleashed a black ray from its eyes, cutting cleanly through the boulders and hitting the geodude.
"Hold on there, use stealth rock and rock throw!" geodude's body became encircled with white shards that flew over to June's side, and then geodude began hurling rocks rapidly at Storm, failing to hit the ghost.
"Now, lick!" storm cackled and disappeared, only to reappear by geodude and licking it with a long pink tongue. The geodude cringed and fainted.
"Gym leader Roark's geodude is unable to battle!" announced the judge, waving his red flag towards Roark. Roark cursed under his breath and quickly recalled his Pokémon, he threw another Poké ball into the air, this time a huge rocky serpent appearing by him.
"Let's end this quickly, onix, screech, then rock throw!" the onix opened its mouth, and a horrible ear-splitting scream filled the battlefield, similar to Obsidian's. The gastly stopped and began shaking around, stunned by the huge outburst of sound. Meanwhile the onix slammed its tail in the battlefield and whacked a big boulder at Storm, crushing him under it.
"The opponent's gastly cannot battle anymore!" yelled the judge, pointing the red flag towards Aretha. Aretha recalled her Pokémon wistfully and watched as June released her budew.
"Time to go, Dancer!" she yelled, watching as the little bud Pokémon hopped towards the onix bravely, but the stealth rocks in the ground speared into Dancer, leaving her extremely weak. "Absorb!" Dancer giggled softly and unleashed a red orb from her vines that floated over the onix. Red orbs began flowing out of his body and into Dancer, who looked stronger the more orbs flew out of the onix. The onix shrieked in pain and tried to weakly bat a boulder towards Dancer but she just gingerly hopped to one side, within long, the rock snake Pokémon had collapsed to the ground with a loud thump before fainting.
"Gym leader Roark's onix is unable to battle!" announced the judge, waving his red flag towards Roark.
Roark groaned and called out his last Pokémon, a cranidos who as soon as he saw Dancer it let out a loud roar and charged for her, Dancer just grinned and stepped to one side, merely avoiding the rock hard cranium, but the cranidos spun on one feet and struck Dancer hard with the spikes on the back of his head, sending Dancer flying.
"Dancer, no! Use absorb!" yelled June, Dancer got up, her tiny legs trembling, but she faced the cranidos and unleashed the glowing red orb from her head towards the cranidos, but he just leapt and head-butted the sphere towards a rock.
"Ok, now, leer and headbutt!" the cranidos roared and leered at Dancer, his eyes glowing red and freezing budew with fright, then he turned towards her and charged, ramming his head on her body.
"The opponent's budew is unable to battle!" yelled the judge. June sighed and recalled her motionless budew, muttering a quick 'well done', Aretha nodded at her and released their last Pokémon, Lazuli.
"Shatter him, Lazuli!" yelled Aretha as the piplup flapped her wings, obviously glad to be out of her Poké ball.
"Quick, use headbutt!" yelled Roark. The cranidos grunted and thrust its head to meet Lazuli's body, sending her flying.
"Come on Laz... bubble, quick!" Lazuli got up weakly and blew bubbles at cranidos furiously, the cranidos screeched with pain as the bubbles made contact. This pleased Lazuli, and continued blowing bubbles at the cranidos.
"Pursuit out of the firing line!" yelled Roark. The cranidos roared and ran out of the firing line as quickly as possible, its body glowing with dark energy. "Pursuit!" cranidos grunted and ran towards Lazuli.
"Peck!" Lazuli's beak glowed white and extended, thrusting herself at the cranidos. As the two energies, the black from pursuit and the white from peck made contact, a huge explosion erupted in the battlefield, shrouding the battlers in dust, as the dust cleared, they saw a bright light shining from the inside and instead of a piplup, a prinplup was standing in her place, proudly beaming over the unconscious body of the cranidos.
"Gym leader Roark's cranidos is unable to battle" said the judge monotonously. "Opponents Aretha and June win" June squealed and jumped happily on the spot like a little kid that had just received a prize while Aretha grinned and welcomed her prinplup. Roark stared at them, first in surprise, then confusion, and finally disappointed shock.
I... can't believe I lost to silly little contestants... he thought miserably, watching the girl with the rainbow sleeves hug her sulky shinx excitedly. Maybe... I really am that weak. He sighed and tossed two small parcels to the girls blankly. "Inside are the coal badge and the TM stealth rock" he watched the girls each cheer in their own way and walk away.
"Thanks, Roark! You're really good!" piped up a girl's voice, Roark turned around to find the rainbow girl smile at him sweetly. "You really gave us a hard time"
"I did? That's nice to hear" said Roark warmly, a smile reappearing on his face. June nodded and ran off to meet her blue and black haired friend, chatting happily along the way.
"Phew! That was intense!" said June, stretching her arms as though she had been the one fighting.
"Yeah, that was refreshing!" said Aretha happily, taking out a piece of cloth and polishing the shiny shell on her egg. "Say, I hope the little Pokémon inside this egg is a mudkip, what do you think yours is?"
June shrugged "I'm not too sure, but I think it's a spearow, they're brown and red, aren't they?"
"But that looks more like orange" said Aretha, stroking the curly orange parts. "Hmm, we should be careful, things are getting really crowded and we don't want to squish our eggs, do we?"
Indeed they were, they had soon stepped in a vastly crowded area, people around them shuffled and pushed, often not even apologising to the others. June and Aretha walked through the street, holding their eggs over their heads and Ukko jumped to June's shoulder to avoid being trampled by the multitude of feet.
"'Scuse me" grunted a man in odd black clothes pushing roughly past Aretha and June and shoving them into a crowd of enraged people, they quickly stood up and brushed themselves off, glowering at the man.
"Well, talk about rude" muttered Aretha, dusting her jeans off.
"I know! That idiot almost ripped my clip off, a button got caught in it as well!" said June, picking the man's button off her clip, as she was examining it she noticed something was wrong.
Very wrong.
June jumped and stared at her hands in disbelief, the egg was gone! Had she dropped it? she seemed to have a talent for dropping things, she wondered if Ukko had seen it, so she turned around to ask him, but to her horror, Ukko was gone as well.
"A-Aretha! My egg, I think I dropped it, Ukko's missing too!" said June in a hoarse whisper, Aretha turned around to face her, her face pale.
"Mine too, but... I wouldn't have dropped it just like that" said Aretha.
"Maybe we dropped it when that guy barged in on us..." said June, looking worriedly at the ground.
"Or maybe that guy stole it" said Aretha, her voice sounding serious. She was about to run towards the odd guy when a voice interrupted her.
"E-excuse me, have you seen... a cubone with a big crack in the skull?" said a shy-sounding voice. Aretha and June turned around to find a girl, who Aretha recognised as the gothic Lolita girl with the cubone from earlier, staring wistfully at them, her eyes with tears on them.
"No, but we have an idea of where he might be" said June.
"She" corrected the girl. "What are we waiting for, where is she?"
"We think and odd guy in black took her, did a guy wearing odd black clothes bump into you?" asked Aretha.
"No, but I saw a woman dressed in black" replied the girl, her sad expression transformed into anger and she bolted off toward the path the two black-clad people had come from. "Siree! Wait for me!" she yelled, pushing people away as she ran in pursuit of the two thieves, June nodded at Aretha and set off after them.
Five minutes later...
"... I can't run anymore" gasped June, stopping down to try and relieve the stitch on her side.
"But if we don't run Ukko, Siree and our eggs will be lost..." said Aretha, then her eyes widened, she had just thought of something. "Hey June, ever rode on an onix?"
June frowned "Riding on Obsie? But, can he really go that fast? I mean, I've heard onix can tunnel really fast, but can it do the same on land?"
"It must" said Aretha, watching the brunette chase after the thieves tirelessly. "Wonder where she gets all her stamina?" Aretha withdrew a Poké ball from her bag and released the rocky snake Pokémon from inside, who roared happily and flicked the tip of his tail from side to side. "Right Obsie, we need you to follow those people" Aretha pointed towards the thieves. "And could you pick up that girl too?" Obsie nodded and lowered his head so June and Aretha could settle (uncomfortably) on the top of his head and gripped the horn on his head.
"Weird, why's the horn a little... glassy?" said June, her fingers sliding slightly off the horn, Aretha was about to answer when a loud mechanical voice interrupted her.
"AS THE ONIX GROWS, ITS BODY HARDENS TO BECOME SIMILAR TO BLACK DIAMONDS, STARTING BY THE HORN ON TOP OF IT'S HEAD" beeped the sinnoh dex, causing June to kick it with her foot.
"Sorry, it's been doing that since Storm got hold of it" said June, a sheepish smile on her face.
"It's okay" said Aretha, she patted the huge rocky head. "Right Obsie, can you chase after them?" Obsie grunted in response. Aretha smiled. "I'll take that as a yes, now... GO!" Obsie roared happily and began to make its way through the field, his long body twisting and turning much like a snake does when on the ground, he was surprisingly fast to be an underground Pokémon.
"WAH! Slow do-o-o-o-o-o-o-w-n!" screamed June as the onix tore through some bumpy ground, he growled at June and shook his horn, making June grip it with both her arms and feet to avoid being shaken off.
"Please don't do that again" whined Aretha. "But don't worry, we're almost there" Aretha pointed with some difficulty at the two rushing shapes. Obsie screeched happily and sped up, then circled the runners with his huge body, cutting off any escape routes, Aretha patted Obsie's horn and leapt off his head, landing almost catlike on the floor, while June tried the same trick but landed flat on her back with a thump. The thieves had huddled together in fear while the brunette girl screamed in fury and charged at them.
"Give me back my cubone! NOW!" she yelled, raising her fists in the air, but the thieves snickered and pulled out a stout book-like object and shot a blue beam from the top, engulfing the girl in a blue bubble and raising her up and out of anybody's reach, she roared in anger and thrashed about in the bubble, but all in vain.
"Ha! You think you can stop our master plan? Silly girl" snickered the man, a hint of fear on his voice.
"Yeah, I don't know how that could have happened before, heheh..." giggled the woman nervously, she picked up a gun-shaped device and pointed at the two girls. "Right kiddies, get this snake thing out off my path, or you guys will suffer the consequences..." she grinned and pointed the gun at a rock and fired a black beam that melted it almost instantly.
"That's right, you heard Clover, now, clear our path" said the man, withdrawing a similar device and pointing it at the girls. "I can easily melt you like... like butter in the hood of a car! On a sunny day!"
June, Aretha and the girl exchanged looks. "Uh... we aren't going anywhere without our Pokémon" said Aretha, the two thieves blinked in surprise, they obviously weren't expecting that reaction.
"Er... w-well, I WILL do it! Just because we've just started doesn't make us any inferior from the other grunts!" said the man nervously, he pressed a button on the device but Obsie just growled moodily, batted it off his hands and crushed it with his tail.
"Argh! Spear, you idiot! Don't you know how much those magmarizer beams cost?" squealed his partner angrily, she then took her own magmarizer beam and pointed it at the girl. "Right, get this snake off our way or your friend here will be turned into mega heated goo!"
June and Aretha stared at Clover. "You wouldn't dare" they chorused.
"Oh I would" she replied happily. "So, move this snake, NOW" Obsie glared at her, he was tired of being called a snake, he was an onix, for crying out loud! In the past royalty were carried around on a mature onix's back, the onix's body like black diamonds gleamed royally, and these jerks were insulting it by calling it snake? He wasn't going to allow this, oh no he wasn't...
Before anyone could stop him, Obsie roared and flicked his tail around the two thieves, lifting them up and lowering them to his eyes, glaring at them wrathfully. The man screamed and ducked under the rocky coils, while the woman screamed and attempted to fire her black beam at Obsie, but missed and dropped it, Obsie growled, staring at the black-clad thieves cowering from his gaze.
He flicked them up.
He opened his jaws.
Caught them in his mouth and gulped.
A/N: sorry if this chapter was crap, I've had authors block for a long time, and my parents have switched me to a school that starts at 6 in the morning, crazy, no? I'll get this re-done when I have the time, and also, in case you haven't noticed if you want to submit an OC you are more than welcome to use the form on my profile.
Hope my next chapter turns out better than this one!