Summary: A collection of one-shots between Korrina and her partner Pokemon, Lucario.
Korrina and Lucario One-Shots
Chapter Five
Hidden Treasures
"...and so, that is why I require the two of you to go up and clean the attic." Gurkinn finished explaining whatever he had said, his hands behind his back and his eyes calmly closed as he did so.
Korrina and Lucario, who stood opposite him, exchanged confused glances. Korrina raised a curious eyebrow, wondering what Gurkinn had just instructed the duo to do. Being the rebellious and hyperactive teenager she was, Korrina often never payed any attention in the slightest to Gurkinn's boring instructions and lectures. Sure, it was rude, but Korrina did this often, so she declared this as simply 'being bored stiff'.
"Korrina," Gurkinn noticed how spaced out Korrina seemed to be, "Were you even paying attention to what I just said?!" As calm as he looked, Korrina could notice the anger evident in his voice.
Korrina chuckled nervously, hesitantly smiling at her grandfather in an attempt to prove her innocence, "Um...haha, yeah...I sorta was, but-"
"But what?!"
"I got bored...?"
"No such excuse!" Gurkinn barked, before sighing to himself in annoyance, "Fine. I'll repeat what I said to you two imbeciles once more. And if neither of you two listen, I'm forcing you to do three extra laps around the island later." Korrina groaned to herself, earning a smirk from Gurkinn, who continued, "I was asking the two of you to go up into the attic to clean it. You haven't been up there for a while, so maybe the attic needs cleaning. I had considered it would be helpful in your team work skills outside of battle."
Korrina, grinning, exclaimed aloud along with Lucario who jumped up and down in happiness, "Aweseome! You never let us go up there! There might be some really cool stuff in that place! Yeah, first one up to the attic wins, Lucario!" Korrina had almost started to run off when Gurkinn put a hand on her shoulder, stopping her in her tracks, "Geez, what now?!"
"Here is some anti-bacterial spray," Gurkinn handed Korrina a spray bottle full of yellow transparent liquid, "And here are some cloths." He handed both her and Korrina a large white cleaning cloth each, "After all, you can't clean anything properly without-"
"OK, thanks grandfather!" Korrina quickly sped off, not wanting to listen to Gurkinn any longer as, knowing him, he would start some two hour speech on the meaning of disinfectant or something.
"Luc, Lucar!" ("Wait up!") Lucario followed on in the direction, preferring to be with Korrina rather then Gurkinn.
Once the duo had successfully made their way up the first flight of stairs, Gurkinn chuckled and mumbled to himself, "Those two will get excited over anything...even cleaning mere surfaces in a dusty old attic..."
Once Korrina and Lucario had arrived on the last floor before the outside balcony in the Tower, Korrina pulled down a piece of black wire connected to a hatch on the ceiling. When she pulled it down, not only did the hatch move down, but a set of metal stairs travelled down along with it.
The two climbed up the metal stais, careful of their footing (as neither one was sure if the stairs were all that secure). They were almost instantly lead into the attic on the final interior floor in the Tower of Mastery, convenient for them, of course.
They looked around the outstretched, old-fashioned room in awe. It was made predominantly of wood, even having a wooden ceiling. There was storage in brown cardboard boxes and on shelves hung up on the wall. The room was dark, extremely spacious, and freezing cold. There was dust and dirt everywhere.
"Geez, now I get why grandfather wanted us to clean this dump up...it looks like no-one's been up here for years!" Korrina exclaimed, taking a good, long look around the room, "Well, let's get started, Lucario!"
"Luc!" ("Right!") Lucario nodded his head.
The duo began to walk around the room, scanning for any unclean or untidy areas. Korrina sprayed the anti-bacterial spray on the shelves and wiped the cloth across it, cleaning the dust off of them. Lucario, without the aid of the spray, did this too with the surrounding objects in the storage boxes.
Lucario then noticed something in the corner of hid eye while he cleaned the objects, so he decided to walk over to a small bed in the corner of the attic. He felt curious as to why it was there, since hardly anyone went up into the attic to do anything whatsoever, let alone sleep in a dark place such as that. It was a small, metal bed with a messy white bedsheet on top. It was draped across the bed, and half of it was hanging off the sides.
The Pokemon bent down to look underneath it, searching for any objects to tidy away. He felt the bedsheet touching his back, and, to himself, he mumbled, "Luc Lucar Luc Lucar Luc Rio Luc Lucar..." ("At least I haven't got stuck under another sheet like that incident a few weeks ago...I'm surprised it hasn't even fallen on back or anything...")
Ironically, after a few seconds since Lucario had said that, the white sheet dropped off of the bed and fell on top of the Aura Pokemon, who was still underneath the bed when it had happened. He yelped in surprise, trying to get the sheet off, however with no success.
"Luc, Lucar!" ("Korrina, help!")
"Lucario!" Korrina shouted in worry, rushing over to help the Aura Pokemon. She crouched down beside him, trying to tug and pull at the white sheet. Lucario pushed the sheet underneath as Korrina eventually managed to pull it off him. She threw the sheet back on the bed while helping Lucario back onto his feet.
"Luc Lucar..." ("The irony...") Lucario mumbled, feeling slightly embarrassed. It was official. Lucario was a complete accident prone clown outside of battle at times.
"Don't worry, Lucario," Korrina comforted, rubbing the top of Lucario's head. Lucario laughed little, the frown disappearing from hid face, "Now, let's continue to clean."
Lucario nodded his head. The two arose to their feet from their sat-down positions and started to walk around the attic, scanning the wooden area for dusty places to clean. Korrina started to clean on top of old, dusty furniture and other objects which were scattered around such as photo frames and old toys that her and Lucario used to play with when they were children.
"So that's where grandfather's been hiding all this stuff, then?" Korrina asked herself , "Thought he threw it away years ago..." She walked over to a cardboard storage box on a table, wondering what type of items she could find inside.
She searched through the box with a bored expression, nothing in particular sparking her interest and attention. Random glass objects, old fashioned Poke Balls (ones made of Apricorns that must've belonged to her grandfather at one point or another in his younger days), used Potion bottles.
But then...she came across numerous other items below the others which finally managed to satisfy her. Toys that both her and Lucario used to have. There was a squeaky toy bone, building blocks and plastic action figures which were Lucario's when he was a young Riolu. Also, there was old clothes, an old pair of roller skates, a helmet and other toys which were Korrina's. Surprised as to how this 'junk' was still there, Korrina wanted to continue looking for anything else. Eventually, after working through piles of her and Lucario's old things, Korrina had found something which had finally caught her full attention.
"Huh, what's that?" Korrina questioned. She pushed a couple of objects aside in the box, quickly fishing out a small stuffed teddy bear.
It was dusty and quite dirty from years of being in storage, but nontheless Korrina immediately recognised what it was, nostalgia cruising through her joints as memories of her and the toy flashed back into her mind. This teddy bear had been Korrina's favourite toy from when she was born to when she turned eight or nine, where she considered herself at the time to be 'too old' for toys.
It was in the appearance of a Teddiursa, and, although it was dirty, Korrina hugged it in happiness. The small plush toy was still as soft and squishy as she remembered, bearing a cute bow tie around it's neck. Korrina wouldn't admit it to anyone, as she was fifteen, but she had really missed this toy. After telling her grandfather that she didn't want the toy anymore, she had thought that Gurkinn had thrown it, so she had felt regretful immediately afterwards. But now...now it was all hers again, in her hands.
"Luc Lucar Luc Lucar Rio Luc Lucar." ("I see you've had a reunion with that old stuffed Teddiursa of yours.") Lucario chuckled from behind her, surprising the blond girl.
She held one hand to her heart in shock, while the other continued to clutch the toy, "Man, what was that, Lucario!? You scared me!" She stated, slightly angry.
Lucario rolled his eyes as Korrina's sudden unnecessary attitude. 'Teenagers and their hormones.' he thought, lowly chuckling once more.
Korrina frowned, a little embrassed as she glanced down at the plush bear in her hands, "Um...yeah..." She grumbled, much calmer then before, "I found the toy in one of those boxes over there..." Her gaze directed to the cardboard box on the desk behind her. Lucario looked over at it for a short moment, before making firm eye-contact with his trainer and best friend once again.
"Well...looks like we've finished cleaning, huh?" Korrina changed the subject almost instantly, a familiar smirk playing on her lips. She continued to clutch the teddy in her hand, "Wanna go back down and do some training?"
"Luc," ("Sure,") Lucario nodded his head, but then began to grin once more, "Lucar Luc Luc Lucar?" ("Want Mr Ursa to watch?") He asked teasingly.
Korrina frowned, just about understanding what the jackal-like Pokemon had said to her, "Guess you remembered what I called him when I was a kid, huh?" She felt slightly humiliated, as the great Successor and Leader Korrina was turning all silly and sappy because of an old teddy bear.
"Luc Lucar Luc Rio." ("I remember, Korrina.") He grinned.
Korrina attempted to keep a straight face, trying to make it look like she was angry with Lucario teasing her, but soon she cracked a smile. Why was she so embarrassed about loving a childhood possession, anyway? It really wasn't a problem, was it? It was likely that many people her age owned something like Mr Ursa, right?
"Alright, wise guy," Korrina laughed, "I get that you remember this toy. But c'mon, we've gotta get outta here sooner or later, right? Being in this darkness for too long can sort of make you go insane. And this cleaning stuff is a bit boring."
She began to walk towards the metal staircase leading out of the attic, one hand gripping the anti-bacterial spray and cloth and the other holding her teddy bear. Lucario casually walked behind her, both ready for an intense training session downstairs.
Without dusting, disinfecting things, getting trapped in sheets and finding lost toys, of course.
END
Again, thank you to Bluewolfbat for giving me this idea! I hope you enjoyed it!
