Shit, shit, shit! Gotta move fast, gotta keep True from screwing with Clara! But when I tried teleporting, it didn't work. Flying and super speed weren't working either. What the hell...True. He must have nulled out my powers. Oh well, I can always run, I'm good at running. 'All I've gotta do is tell Clara what True is planning,' I think as I take off, 'I doubt she'd take too kindly to be used as a means of revenge.'
I'd used super speed when running off, so legging it at normal speed wasn't easy. In the end, the distance I'd power ran in twenty minutes before took me almost three hours to backtrack on foot. Regardless, I'd finally made it back to the camp...
"Where's Clara?" I asked LB. LB shrugged, "I think she's with True. They teleported off a couple hours ago. It was weird, she was wearing a fancy dress, and it looked like they were going on a date."
If I'd still had my powers, I'm fairly certain steam would've been rising from my ears. I took off towards Viridian City, knowing that True was too straight path to go off to an area we hadn't been to yet. Pleap.
Sure enough, I found them in Viridian. It wasn't hard; there were like, three classy restaurants in Viridian, and they were all on the same block. I ran up to each, peering through the window to try and spot them. At the third restaurant, I saw them there; sitting at a table near the center of the room, smiling and talking and laughing. They were on a date. And Clara...was enjoying herself.
'Sabotage.' I thought bitterly, envisioning all the different ways I could ruin their date. "Sabotage? You mean like you sabotaged LB and Bluet?"
I'd been a long, long time since I heard that voice inside my head. I'd stopped hearing it shortly after me, True, and LB started hanging out. 'Sabotage? What are you talking about? I wasn't sabotaging them, I was trying to help.'
"By dressing LB up like a whore and making her think she had to look a certain way to get attention?" I felt a bit of the fire I'd worked up fade, 'I..I wasn't trying to do that..I just thought looking sexy would give LB a confidence boost..and it never hurt anyone to look good for a date. 'They come for the looks, they stay for you', you know? I just thought..'
"And therein lies the problem. You thought. When has you thinking ever lead to anything good? You aren't smart honey, and your pretending to be almost cost LB her relationship with Bluet. Thank goodness True was there to fix your fuck-up. Frankly, you should be grateful that your powers and Clara were all he took. You should be begging for forgiveness right now, you should be groveling, but it's the least you could do to stay out of his way and let him have what he wants."
All the anger I'd built up was gone..I walked back away from the restaurant window. "There, see? Just let them be happy. You know True is better than you, True knows it to, so do LB and Blue. And though it took her awhile to figure it out, Clara is finally realizing it to."
I walked back out to the forest. I figured I'd pass the time by training, so I sent out my pokemon, found a clearing in the trees, and got to work.
It was a long time before we stopped training. When the pokemon got too tired, I let them rest, and started training myself. Normally I wouldn't have thought I needed to, since my powers could solve pretty much any problem I came across, but as True had shown me, sometimes I might be without my powers, and I'd need to be ready for that situation.
I felt sore all over by the time the sun went down and we stopped training. Rattata had gotten much faster, and even learned crunch. Bulbasaur had learned razor leaf and sleeping powder. I wasn't sure if I learned anything, but I certainly felt like I was making progress.
When I got back to the camp, the tents were already up. LB wasn't in hers, probably spending the night with Bluet, and Blue's was clearly soundproofed. Clara's...was empty. Looking over and True's tent, I could tell it was soundproofed to, as there was silence despite the motion I could see happening in the tent.
Unable to help my own curiosity and fear, I went over to the tent, and peeked inside. The moment I did, I was able to hear why the tent was soundproofed for the night, and the glass shattered all at once.
"H-Harder True! Harder!" Clara sounded like an animal in heat..just like I imagined she'd sound.
I backed away from the tent, unsure if I'd ever be able to rid myself of that particular image. Some things can never be unseen.
I returned to my tent, feeling ice cold and slightly numb. After laying awake in my tent for roughly an hour, I got up and headed off to the town. It was easy to find the shop. I went inside quickly, and exchanged a few pairs of clothes, my special clothes, for some cash. I didn't think I'd be getting a chance to use my special clothes now, and without my powers, I couldn't just summon money.
I used the money to buy a new outfit, and quickly returned to the camp. True and Clara were still going at it when I returned, as was evident by the still spastically moving shapes seen through the tent. True's soundproofing hadn't taken into account the tent being partially open from me peeking inside, and as a result I could still hear them both moaning, though it was distant.
I was indescribably thankful that Bulbasaur had learned sleeping powder. I was even happier to learn than it's pretty much impossible to have dreams when you aren't asleep, but blacked out.
When I woke the next morning, I could hear that the others were already up. Sighing internally, I got up, changed into my new clothes, and exited my tent. The others all paused for a moment when they saw me, and had to do a double-take when they saw my clothes.
I was dressed, quite frankly, like any other female trainer. Black shorts, though these weren't nearly as short as the normal design, going all the way down to my knees, ordinary white shoes, white shirt, black vest, and a red bandanna with the pokeball symbol on it.
These weren't exactly shocking clothes to see, and if it were anyone else in the world who'd stepped out of their tent wearing it, they likely wouldn't have drawn any attention. But the fact that it was me dressed like this, dressed so normal after my initial sluttier-version-of-Green outfit, had everyone in the clearing confused. Honestly, I'm not sure if I should take that as an insult or now.
They weren't bad clothes by any means. They were comfortable, and were pretty much designed for the pokemon world travels. They were just normal, average, standard, boring, something someone you'd lose track of in a crowd would wear. "Lost in a crowd, right where you belong."
"Sin?" Blue said, "Are you...okay?" I nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine." I said with a shrug, letting out my pokemon so they could eat and getting some food myself.
"I turned your powers back on," True said, though I could barely hear him with Clara giving him the dreamy-eyes, "You can change if you want." "Okay." I said, continuing to eat. Once I was done, me and my pokemon stood, "We're gonna be out training for gym battles. We'll be heading to Pewter soon yeah?"
And with that, I headed off to train. Admittedly, we didn't get a whole lot done; no new moves learned, just some stat boosting hear and there. After an hour or two, LB came to the clearing. I figured she was there to train as well, but instead she turned to you, "Are you sure you're okay? You seem...off."
"I'm fine," I said again, "But..I'm glad you're here, there's something I wanted to tell you." "What is it?" LB asked.
I took a deep breath, "I... I'm so sorry for messing up you and Bluet...I was just trying to help, but..I guess I should really keep my nose out of other people's business. I can understand if you find it hard to forgive me, but.. I hope you can, eventually. And don't worry, I promise I won't try giving you or anyone else my shitty advise anymore, I've learned my lesson."
LB looked taken aback by this. She probably thought I wasn't going to apologize at all. "Sin.." "It's okay, it's okay," I said, "I understand now. Do you think you could forgive me?" I asked hopefully.
"Well, of course I forgive you Sin, but-" "Thank you." I said, cutting her off with a hug. "I promise I won't make you sorry you did."
I didn't challenge Bluet. I had the gut feeling that I probably shouldn't. "You mean that you don't deserve to." Yeah...that I didn't deserve to challenge her. Besides, I'd have type advantage against Brock, so its a win-win; I get an easier gym battle, and Bluet doesn't have to suffer through my presence.
We'd all packed up our stuff (which was really just a matter of snapping our fingers and watching everything disappear, save for LB, who took some amusement in making her equipment all move around and pack itself Fantasia style) and were off on our way to Pewter. LB had said goodbye to Bluet; though honestly, it was more a matter of 'see you later', since LB could, and would, teleport back for a visit whenever she wanted, which I correctly assumed was at least four times a day.
My pokemon had seemed slightly confused when I let them out of their pokeballs to eat that morning; I supposed they still didn't understand why I hadn't let them out last night for some fun. I sighed, deciding I'd tell them that we wouldn't be having anymore fun like that fir awhile after we got to Pewter. I figured it would be a new town, and I'd get to start fresh; free of my mistakes.
"Think you can keep from fucking this one up to?" 'God I hope so.'
I believe True's chapter is next up.
