I was up before the sun was, and went out training. The pokemon weren't too happy about being up so earlier. Well, Braixen and Gardevoir were, but they were more happy to be training then they were to be awake. Didn't matter. Had to keep training. I trained myself to, sitting down to meditate, focusing on all my inner fandom altering abilities. I didn't try to do anything with them, as the voice instructed, just extended my energy to see how far I could push it before it slang back into me; kinda like wait training, but for fandom power.
A few hours had passed by the time we returned, and the others were all eating breakfast. "Hey Sin, check it out!" Clara said with a smile. "True did leave us a note! He put it in my room so I'd find it." "Why didn't you?" Axel questioned.
Clara blushed, "Well..I kinda left my room in a hurry." "Trying to get a quickie in before the rest of us woke up huh?" Axel questioned with a smirk. Clara only blushed slightly, then grinned, "So what if I was? The important thing is that True didn't just ditch me, eh, us, and he's just taking a trip to the Smash fandom. He's perfectly safe and we don't need to worry about him."
I felt a shiver, like irony was radiating through me. "Ignore it. We all know how useless your instincts are."
I nodded, sitting down to ear. The pokemon all ate too; we were all starving after the training. Axel tried to talk to me afterwards, but we went right back out after we were done. I had all the pokemon train on their elemental cores, the thing that allows for type powerful moves. It was easy for Bulbasaur, Rattata, and Nidoran do to the grassy, neutral environment, and I lit a fire for Braixen to train next to, but Gardevoir was out of luck for the time being, but she would be fine meditating for the time being.
"I'm impressed. You've had a Gardevoir in your possession for more than twenty for hours and you haven't defiled her yet. Props." 'And whom exactly are you?' My eyes snapped open when I heard a second voice in my head, and I realized when I saw the Gardevoir next to me that it had been her through telepathy.
"If you must know, I'm the one here to keep Sinful from fucking everything up like she always does. She'd probably have you bound and gagged by now if not for me." 'Is that so? Well in that case, I suppose I owe you a bit of thanks. But how exactly did you come about?' Gardevoir asked. "Never you mind how I came to be, just be glad I did."
I nodded my agreement, Gardevoir raising an eyebrow, then continuing to train. I sighed, glad that she was okay with the voice instructing me. I was still worried about how LB and the others would react to it, so I decided I'd wait awhile longer before telling them.
"How'd training go today?" Clara asked. "Good. Bulbasaur evolved today." I said, sending out the pokemon, showing the newly evolved Ivysaur. "Really? Awesome!" Clara said, though she seemed somewhat confused that we weren't sharing her enthusiasm. Me and the pokemon just focused on our food. "Are you okay?" LB asked curiously.
"Of course." I said politely, continuing to eat. The pokemon were eating as well, and had begun adopting my new quieter ways of going about things, and didn't talk much to LB or Clara's.
"Okay...so, when are you going to challenge Brock?" LB asked. "I don't know, I think I need a few more days of training before I can give it a try." "A few more days?" Axel asked, "You've already got type advantage with Ivysaur, and all your pokemon look powerful, especially Braixen and Gardevoir."
"I won't be using Braixen or Gardevoir for the time being." I said, "I didn't get them to their level of ability do I don't really deserve to use them in battle. I'll just be using my three when I challenge Brock."
"Well, he's only got the two pokemon, and Ivysaur knows razor leaf and vine whip, he could probably tank both of them himself." Clara said. "True, but it's best I keep training, otherwise we could end up losing because of my stupidity. Better not to risk it yet." I said.
"Your own stupidity?" LB asked, sounding concerned. "They aren't used to you owning up to your many, many flaws. They'll get used to it."
I nodded, "Don't worry, I'm sure I'll get better before too awful long. I should be ready to challenge Brock by the end of the week." I said. "Well..I'm gonna go challenge Brock tomorrow." LB said, "And I was wondering if you'd come and watch?"
"You really shouldn't take any breaks from your training, but you haven't got any right to decline, so we can make an exception."
"Sure, I'd love to." I say with a nod. LB smiled, "Awesome. Honestly, I don't think you really need any more training to battle Brock, you'll see."
"Hey Sinful, I.." Axel paused for a moment, looking somewhat nervous before he continued, "I was gonna try to go out and catch my first pokemon tonight, would you care to join me?"
My first instinct was to say 'hell yeah,' but I was able to resist it much easier now than I had before, and shook my head, "If I go with, I'll just mess things up for you, probably scare away all the pokemon or something else stupid like that. Let me know how it goes though, okay?"
Axel seemed to deflate somewhat as I got up and left for more training before going to bed, but I can't imagine why.
