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The title is based off of a minor event in this story...
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Merry Christmas, everyone! I hadn't planned on updating today, but you guys are VERY lucky that I'm hauling my ass over to the computer because of a sudden flash of inspiration. Now gotta write it down before I forget...Well actually, I think it's Saturday. Not sure, my brain's on vacation mode.
"So, how about I call you Nix?" I asked the Shinx that was keeping pace beside me. We had all separated into two groups, since the chances of us catching Pokemon while we were together were slim; it was easier to dodge and hide when it was just two or three of us. I was with Kaatrina and Kevin, since only Kevin and Armelion had a watch and Jossie had wanted to be with Armelion. Duh.
"Shinx!" the Shinx replied happily. I took that as a yes.
"Talking to your Pokemon?" Kevin muttered. "You always were crazy."
I turned to glare at him. "I'm sure you not."
Kaatrina chose that moment to chirp in, "We're all crazy." Then she left to search for a Starly, leaving me alone with Kevin.
"Some great friend you are," I muttered under my breath. "And who's gonna save your ugly ass when you finally realize you don't have a Pokemon to battle Starly with? Yup, it's gonna be us."
Both Shinx and Kevin gave me a curious glance. When I start talking under my breath, it's usually because a) I'm pissed, b) I'm having suicidal plans, c) I'm in a killing mood, or d) all of the above. Guess which one it was? Shinx was just turning around because of the sound of my voice, I think.
"Oh don't worry, I'm not gonna kill her," I said cheerfully to Shinx, ignoring Kevin completely. "Let's go after that idiot, shall we?" I dashed off in the direction Kaatrina went, hoping that Kevin would be smart enough to follow. If he was alone out there, he'd probably be ripped to shreds by the wild Pokemon. Not that I minded, but I'd be the one that would have to answer curious questions about his death. That was one point I hadn't focused on; what would happen if we died here? Would we be teleported to our "last save point"? Hell, how do we even save? This was as confusing as shit.
"Still," I muttered to Shinx, both of us immediately freezing in place, hidden in the tall grass. That was one of the commands I taught her, in case of emergencies or ambushes.
"Attack." I tweaked her tail in the direction of Kaatrina, who was busy looking for a Starly. This helped Shinx know which direction to go, and it gave her an instinctive idea of what kind of target it was. Flying, under the ground, etc.
Shinx silently leaped out of hiding, her soft paws barely rustling the grass. I beamed to myself in pride. Shinx was the ninja-est ninja Pokemon, after only a couple hours of training by yours truly.
"Eeah!" I heard Kaatrina's squeal in fright, and I laughed my ass off.
"Back!" I yelled, not even bothering to hide in the grass anymore. Shinx crowed happily in triumph and returned back to me.
"Good girl, Nix," I murmured, scratching her behind the ear. Shinx purred happily and leaned into the touch. Suddenly, breaking off from the purr, she growled, and I felt a cold hand slide up my neck.
"Holy creamy filling of tacos!" I screeched, then turned around to see Kevin laughing at me, gasping for breath. The hunter had become the hunted, I thought faintly.
"You damned fucking asshole..." I gasped for air, heart still pounding from the thought that it was pedophile, getting ready to rape me.
"You're still not used to that, huh?" Kaatrina walked over as well, grinning. "I thought you'd've gotten over it when we had ice fights."
"I hated those," I muttered under my breath. Ice fights always occurred when we had to sell soda for food fairs at school. Soda was taken and put into tubs of ice, and there were almost always at least two tubs. That made it a fair fight, one for Kat and me, the other for Armelion and Kevin (Jossie wasn't in Olympiad), although we almost never teamed up. It was always each man/woman for themselves, unless there were truces and alliances. Ice fights were held under the following rules: no telling the teacher, no chucking ice at inappropriate places, no licking the ice and then throwing it, and certainly, no throwing ice at anyone else except for us four. Usually, ice was snuck inside people's shirts, or tossed at their face. An alternated version of ice fights was flicking water at people's faces, which was the activity that anyone who sold soda participated in. It probably wasn't allowed at school, since it was more-or-less fighting, but none of the teachers ever found out. This was a traditional school event for us four, and not doing it felt wrong.
"So where's your Starly?" Kevin was asking Kaatrina.
"Flew away. Can I borrow your Chimchar for awhile, to capture the Starly?" Kat asked hopefully. I knew Kevin was going to say yes.
He pretended to think about it for a second. "Why should I?"
"Because you love us," Kaatrina and I said in a monotone. This was our customary response to that question, and the result was always the same: Kevin would blow himself up and we'd laugh at him.
Which he did. So we laughed.
"Hand over the Chimchar!" I grinned. "If you can be unaffected by that comment one day, you win."
He growled, still not admitting defeat. "It's my Chimchar."
I nodded. "Exactly."
He gave me a confused look. I sighed, having to explain my logic to him. "Kaatrina wants to borrow your Chimchar, and she can't do that if it's not yours."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well, the point is, she needs to borrow it. And if the Chimchar was hers, she wouldn't have to ask for you permission. So yes, the Chimchar's yours."
He stared at me. "You're crazy."
I sighed. "I believe you mentioned that fact already." I crouched down next to Shinx and tweaked her tail in Kevin's direction.
"Attack," I whispered into her ear.
After we had thoroughly trained, Kaatrina had caught her Starly (leveled it up a couple gajillion times too), Kevin had a large bruise on his leg (let's give a cheer to Nix!), and I felt very happy with myself (ninja power!). We met up with Armelion and Jossie at the edge of Jublife City sometime around four.
Jubilant of life, I thought, recognizing the play on the name of the city.
"How was your day?" I asked sweetly at Jossie.
"Awesome! Turtwig has a really nice defense and a rather large amount of health, so I didn't have to make trips back to the Pokemon Center so much." She grinned as I groaned, my happy mood turning into ashes. Kat, Kevin, and I had to return to the Pokemon Center almost every ten minutes.
"On the other hand," Armelion injected, "Turtwig has a terrible attack so it's usually a defensive battle."
Jossie nodded in agreement. And we stayed that way for a few seconds.
"Awkward turtle, fly!" I announced while Jossie did the hand motion for it. Our ninja teamwork was as sharp as always, I noted.
Kevin and Kaatrina sighed. "Let's just find somewhere to crash for the night," Armelion suggested.
We all agreed and headed into Jublife, only to have Kaatrina stop our tracks. "We're supposed to meet our rival at the Trainers' School..." She looked at all of us worriedly. We all had "fuck this" carved into our faces.
Just then, Lucas showed up. "Hey guys!"
We quickly wiped the "fuck this" expression away from our faces.
"Hello Lucas," I smiled out.
"Hello to you too," he replied with a smile. "I saw someone from your group go into the Trainers' School earlier." He shrugged while we looked at each other with shocked expressions. "He said he knew you guys and was gonna wait for you there." Lucas turned and gestured for us to follow, "I'll show you where the Trainers' School is."
We walked in silence for a while, all of us wondering who this new person was.
"This is it." Lucas stopped walking and gestured towards a building on our left. It looked...different from the game. Probably because it was bigger, you can't really tell dimensions in a 2D game. "You can go in right now, and-" He suddenly broke off and saw the Looker, dashing from behind the lampposts. It looked even stupider in real life, and I had to smother a laugh.
"Um, hey..." Lucas attempted to talk with Looker, but the detective suddenly whisked around in surprise.
"How did you?" he asked loudly.
"Um?"
"How did you unmask me as a member of the International Police?"
"Uh..."
"Your power of observation is fearsome!"
"Um...I was only trying to start a conversation..."
"Ahaha, no, that's what they always say. You recognized me as a person of great importance, did you not?"
"Uh..."
"Very well! My name is...no, I shall only inform you of my code name. They know me as Looker. Incidentally, is the saying 'don't be a thief' familiar with you?"
"Yeah," Lucas answered for us.
"Good! That's right, taking others' things is wrong. Here, you guys can have this." He handed us a Battle Recorder. "It automatically records all your battles." Then he looked around fearfully. "If you see me again, I ask you do not talk to me...Actually you must. No, no, not because I am lonely, no! But because you need to inform me! Of any wrongdoings and such..." He flicked his cloak and melted in the shadows, leaving us.
"...wow," Lucas said after a while. "Working for the police sounds hard..." He shook his head. "Well here's the Trainers' School! I'll see you guys later then!" He walked away.
As soon as he disappeared from our sight, we made a mad dash for the Trainers' School, determined to find out who this mystery guy was.
DUN DUN DUN! Who is this new person? I know that the real life version of these characters know...after all, I promised him/her a spot in this story. Don't give it away now! Oh yeah, sorry this one's kinda short, I wanted the cliffy ^_^ I know I'm evil...
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