Summary: As the title says, a collection of one-shots between Korrina and her partner Pokemon, Lucario.
A/N: I just wanted to clarify that I may occasionally use English-English instead of American-English, as I'm from the UK. As most of my readers for this story seem to be American, I thought it would be more appropriate to use their words so they'd understand it better. But if I use words like garden instead of yard, or tap instead of faucet, it's just because those words are in my language, and they come more naturally to me without me having to think then the American variations for them. Just wanted to get that point across.
Korrina and Lucario One-Shots
Chapter Six
Camping
"Lucario, hey, Lucario!" Korrina tapped her Pokemon on the shoulder, the latter of whom was resting on Korrina's bed, one eye shut and the other open. Clearly, he didn't want to be disturbed, but Korrina was slightly oblivious to this, "Grandfather's gone, now! So we have the house to ourselves!"
"Lucar?" ("Yeah, and?") Lucario sighed to himself; why was Korrina this pushy today? He just wanted to rest, and didn't really care if Gurkinn was out or not.
"And," Korrina rolled her eyes, "Wouldn't it be cool to go camping? In the great outdoors, setting up a tent! And since grandfather's not here, he can't stop us from doing anything! What d'ya say, Lucario?" She nudged the jackal-like Pokemon in the shoulder with her elbow, "Wanna go camping? It'll be ages before we have the chance again!"
"Luc." ("No.") Lucario bluntly replied, turning away from his trainer.
"Ugh, c'mon, Lucario! You'll like it! After all, sleeping outside is part of a Pokemon's survival technique, isn't it? It'll be so fun, and we need go make the most of the opportunity! Please? Please give it a thought?" She pouted, widening her grey eyes as she played a soft frown on her lips.
Lucario groaned in defeat. He couldn't deny Korrina when she was acting like that, especially when she put on that face. That pouty, irresistible face which could never be denied. As adorable as it was, Lucario hated whenever Korrina did this, using it to the full advantage. Simply to convince Lucario into doing things with her, mostly. Things that Lucario never wanted to do, but felt resorted to anyway.
"Luc." ("Fine.") He grumbled.
"Yes! Thank you, Lucario! You won't regret this!" Korrina exclaimed, hugging Lucario around his shoulders. Lucario narrowed his eyes, not returning the hug. Unaware of this, Korrina then arose from the bed and walked towards the wooden cupboards in her bedroom. She opened the doors, and began to hunt through the different items stored up inside.
"Luc Lucar?" ("What are you looking for?") Lucario questioned, trying to stay as optimistic as possible. Although...maybe this camping thing wouldn't be a bad idea, after all.
"What am I looking for? Oh, a tent, sleeping bags, flashlights. The usual junk you use while you camp. I'm pretty sure I've got them in my cupboard..." Korrina replied while continuing to search through the contents of the cupboard, not turning her head to face Lucario, "Oh, here they are!" She pulled out a large, green backpack; an all-in-one camping set, "It's got everything inside, Lucario! Isn't that convenient?"
"Lucar Luc Rio..." ("Yeah, wonderfully convenient...") Lucario mumbled sarcastically.
"C'mon," Korrina ran over to Lucario, pulling him up from the bed, "We've gotta get this stuff outside! You can help me put up the tent!" She walked out of her bedroom, pulling the Pokemon along, who was still reluctant to go outside. She then slung the bag across one of her shoulders.
Oh, well. Lucario would have no choice but to enjoy it, as Korrina really wasn't giving him any other option. Maybe he would like camping once he'd done it. It was really just something new to him, and anything new to Lucario made him slightly hesitant at first. But he'd probably end up wanting to do it again, since he was with Korrina, and whenever was with his trainer, it made things all the more interesting.
Once the duo had walked outside, into the darkness (literally, it was dark as they couldn't see a thing apart from the distant lights in Shalour City on the mainland), they took a glance up at the sky, feeling awestruck at the gorgeous twinkling stars above them. Lucario didn't want to admit it, but he was already enjoying being out in the fresh air. It was just so...refreshing. Much more relaxing then the stuffy Tower they lived in.
"OK, Lucario!" Korrina looked down from the sky after a few moments, making eye contact with Lucario, We're outside, and you know what that means?"
Lucario shrugged, still star gazing and not paying attention to Korrina.
"Lucario, listen!" Korrina moaned in annoyance, tapping the Pokemon on his shoulder several times. Eventually, Lucario was traced out of his focus and looked at Korrina, who was stomping her foot impatiently, "I wanna get this pop-up tent up so we can get camping!"
"Luc!" ("OK!") Lucario replied nervously.
Korrina threw the bag on the floor, the impact of the ground opening it up. It revealed a small, black flashlight, and the outskirts of a blue sleeping bag. Korrina bent down to search through the bag, pulling out the flashlight, the two sleeping bags and a folded-down tent onto the floor. She picked up the tent and attempted to pull it open, however it kept shifting back into it's starting position.
"Geez, this is impossible!" She groaned.
Lucario quietly walked over to Korrina and snatched the tent from her hands, analysing the material carefully. He searched for possible openings he could use to pop open the tent, but there was nothing he had managed to notice. Perhaps it wasn't a pop-up tent, after all? Like Korrina had assumed? Maybe they needed a hammer, sticks and pegs to keep it up?
Suddenly, much to Lucario and Korrina's shock, the tent automatically busted open without no attempts to prise it, opening out in Lucario's soft paws. Surprised, Lucario dropped the tent onto the ground in a panic, wondering what had happened to trigger the tent open.
He stood there, his mouth agape, as Korrina just laughed at his facial expression and reaction, "Ha, your face though, Lucario! That must've given you a shock!" She teased, pointing at the Aura Pokemon.
"Luc Luc Lucar Luc Rio..." ("It could've happened to you, y'know...") Lucario crossed his arms over his chest in embarrassment, blushing wildly.
"Right, let's go in the tent!" Korrina pointed towards the now-opened tent, either not understanding or ignoring Lucario's comment. She then instantly spun around to face her Pokemon, now changing her mind, "We gotta make a fire, first!"
"Lucar?" ("A what?") Lucario rolled his eyes; Korrina really had her mind set on incorporating everything possible into their camp out.
"You heard me!" Korrina frowned, but soon started to grin again, "C'mon, let's go find some wood and some matches!"
"Well that didn't work well..."
Lucario shook his head at the blond, however feeling slightly amused by her backfiring determination. The duo had attempted to gather wood to settle the fire on, but all they had found in the nearby forest was a couple of twigs which surely wouldn't sustain it. Korrina had also tried to look for matches to light up the wood inside the Tower, but she hadn't found any.
She sighed to herself, sitting down on the grassy floor next to the small pile of twigs. Korrina twirled some of the grass with one hand, as the other was propped up below her jaw to support it upwards, "Now how the heck are we going to light this fire, when there's nothing to light it with, and hardly anything to allow to to continue on burning?"
Lucario tapped a finger against his chin, trying to answer the question in his mind. When he was a wild Riolu, his parents and siblings had taught him many outdoor survival techniques, one of them being how to light a fire without the 'human' invention of matches. Lucario remembered successfully lighting a fire in this way, nevertheless the couldn't remember how he did it.
Was it by...rubbing two of the sticks together, perhaps?
Lucario, without thoroughly thinking, grabbed hold of two of the sticks in the pile. He sat down opposite Korrina and held up both of the sticks, beginning to rub them together. He tried all sorts of speeds in terms of rubbing them together. Slow, medium, even fast. But none of them were successful.
"Um, Lucario?" Korrina questioned nervously, "What are you doing?"
"Luc Lucar Luc Luc." ("Trying to light the fire.")
"Oh. Cos' it kinda looked like you were just rubbing those two sticks together..."
"Luc Lucar Lucar Luc!" ("Ugh, I am doing that!") Lucario snapped, glancing up at Korrina for a brief moment, before focusing his gaze back on the sticks. Aggressively, he rubbed them together with extreme speed, his teeth clenched together and beads of sweat trailing down his brow as he felt his arm muscles beginning to ache. He didn't have any luck with making a fire, though.
"Try blowing on them, and then rub them together. Then blow on it again, and see what happens. It could work." Korrina suggested.
Taking Korrina's idea into consideration, Lucario ceased his stick-rubbing and blew on them for a couple of seconds, before beginning to rub them together again at the same, high speed as before, causing an intense amount of friction. He then started to blow on the sticks as he continued to rub them together, which eventually caused small sparks to form. Lucario continuously blew and rubbed the sticks together, enhancing more of the small, red sparks, which, after much hard work, started a miniature fire.
Lucario dropped the alight sticks onto the pile on the floor almost instantly (for fear of not wanting to get burnt, as he was part Steel Type), which started up a smoking, burning, fully-grown fire. He looked up at Korrina, wondering how she had known exactly what to do.
"Whoa, that's great, Lucario! You started it up!" She congratulated, smiling, "In case you're wondering how I knew what to do, I must guessed, really. I don't think you always have to blow on them, but I'd thought it help, y'know."
"Luc Lucar!" ("Well, thanks Korrina!") Lucario closer his eyes, smiling wholeheartedly along with his best friend and trainer.
"Now, c'mon! Let's do stuff!" Korrina jumped up onto her two feet, and then pulled up Lucario onto his own. Together, the two decided on what they were going to do before they went to bed by consulting the other. But whatever they'd do, they knew they'd thoroughly enjoy it.
At least two hours passed by, and in that time Korrina and Lucario had done an awful lot. They'd chased some of the wild Bug Pokemon that came put during the night (providing that they didn't get String Shotted by the Weedle and Caterpie which had happened to them before, but only when they were children and while they were still quite immature and naive), had roasted marshmallows on the fire while it was still alight, had investigated things in the back yard with the flashlight and were simply enjoying each other's company.
At that point, the fire had now burnt out completely and they resided inside of the tents, both laying in their sleeping bags and having discussions about their memories and achievements that they had accomplished over the years together.
"Remember when I was ten and we had that massive fight over the ice cream?" Korrina turned to one side, facing Lucario who laid beside her.
"Lucar Luc Luc Luc Rio Lucar Luc Rio!" ("Yeah! We wouldn't talk for ages after that, but I'm glad Gurkinn sorted things out before it got out of hand! And remember when I was a Riolu and I almost broke that really expensive vase?") Lucario looked back, making firm eye contact with the blond bombshell.
"Yeah, totally! You were so worried about what grandfather'd say, so I had to step in and shift the blame on one of the Gym challengers. Man, that was difficult...I wasn't even a professional in lying like I am now..."
"Lucar Luc Rio." ("You aren't even a professional in lying now...")
"Oh yes I am, Lucario! In fact, I was the world's best lying champion when I was younger! Think about it! I was always lying to people! My stealthy, sneaky skills completely did the trick in my lying skills, so I always used it to my advantage!"
"Luc Luc Lucar..." ("To always get your own way, you mean...")
"Well...yeah, that too...anyway, remember when we were forced to go on that hiking journey thing with grandfather and some of his old friends? Geez, I could've died of boredom if we'd have stayed there any longer..."
"Luc Luc Lucar Luc Luc?" ("Changing the subject are we?") He laughed, shaking his head, "Rio Luc Luc Lucar Luc Luc Lucar." ("But yeah, I remember that. And how about that little fisaco with Ash and company? That massive Mega Evolution journey we took?" To demonstrate his point further, he directed his gaze below to his arm, which beared his Mega Band with the Lucarionite, so Korrina would have a better understanding of what he was talking about.
Noticing Lucario's body language, Korrina nodded in reply, "Yep, I remember. But we did it in the end, huh? We totally did it..." Her mouth opened wide, stopping her talk for a few short moments as she yawned loudly, stretching her arms out to the side of her body. Her eyelids then soon became droopy, Korrina fighting to stay awake as she tried to keep her eyes wide open, "I'm really proud of you, Lucario...and I love you..." She mumbled, sleepily, before fully closing her eyes and falling asleep.
Lucario smiled softly to himself as he watched the sleeping girl from his sleeping bag. He stretched out a paw to lightly stroke her hair in comfort, thinking of what she has just said to him. She loved him, and she was proud of him. As a close friend and Pokemon, however. Nothing more then that. But still...she loved him, even with his flaws.
Even with him not wanting to camp in the beginning. She loved him, and wanted to convince him into camping with her. She was determined to do it, just because she loved him so much, and had successfully done so afterwards. Lucario would need to try to recognize this much more often. How compassionate Korrina felt for him. How much she loved him.
His own eyelids now slowly dropping, the last thoughts that Lucario had processed was how much Korrina loved him before he himself had fallen asleep. And how much he loved Korrina.
The two best friends and battle partners laid in their sleeping bags inside the tent, both deep in their own slumbers. But still dreaming, and thinking, about each other.
END
Again, thank you to Bluewolfbat for giving me this idea! I hope you enjoyed it!
