So, I found this pairing lot's of fun. :D I bet you won't guess what it is.
Warnings: Slight cursing, violence
Genres: Romance, friend-ship, (slight) hurt-comfort, (slight) humor
Winner
"Mercy, damnit!" It always seemed to happen this way. Since childhood, Entei and Groudon have engaged in a rather rough form play fighting atop their volcanic mountain home. Being out here meant things could be rough, without the fear of hurting others.
In the very beginning, the first to cry would be the loser. While Entei's hardiness and excellent endurance was rather helpful in the beginning, Groudon quickly began to double, and then triple in size. Pretty soon, the great beast was simply too much to handle, and so ended up Entei pinned to the ground, puffing out insults like carbon dioxide.
"Alright Groudon, you win!" Entei snarled, squirming beneath the massive paws of her opponent. The creature let out a mighty roar, allowing the fire lion out of his grasp. She scrambled to her feet, shaking the impact of Groudon's crushing victory from her body. Her fur fell messily, and she staggered before scowling at the land rex's victorious, toothy grin.
"That was easy, Entei," he said slamming a massive tail on the ground. Entei stumbled as the ground shook beneath her. As the tremors stopped and she felt stable, a frown formed across her masked face.
"Oh, shut up," she hissed, venom dripping from her harsh voice. The fire lion let out a grunt, before dropping into the rocky soil, exhausted. She then commenced to preen her now tussled fur, pausing as she felt eyes on her. Groudon watched quietly, before sitting down by his fire type friend.
"Why are you washing now? It's not time for bed," he said with a sort of teasing endearment. The flame creature gave her companion a sideways glance, but it quickly turned into a half smile. Despite Groudon's slight ego, she couldn't stay angry with him.
"If you haven't noticed, smart one," she began. "I always do this after battling." The reply was playful, yet irritable all the same. Despite the sharpness in Entei's tone, Groudon's grin never wavered.
"Why?"
"Habit, I guess," she said extending her tongue to brush through her thick fur once again. She stopped, feeling a bit self conscious suddenly.
"But, now that you mention it, there's no point to cleaning if I'll get dirty again before bed," she said, nodding quietly to herself. Groudon laughed again, shoving Entei playfully. She again stumbled before growling.
"Groudon cut it out, you can't just shove me around," she said dangerously. When Groudon let out another hardy laugh, Entei felt a pang of frustration. She didn't like being smaller. She didn't like being pushed around. She definitely didn't like Groudon being stronger then her, but no matter how much she ran, jumped, and fought, Groudon would always be stronger. Entei growled, stomping a heavy paw on the ground.
"I'm serious! Can't you see that you're a lot bigger then me now?" She barked, her crimson eyes seemed to bubble like pools of lava. Sensing her distress, Groudon paused for a moment, watching Entei's face carefully.
"Entei?" He spoke suddenly, startling the fire pokemon slightly. She quickly turned her expression to a scowl, so to hide her shocked, wide-eye'd expression.
"What?"
"Let's battle, one more time?" Entei's mouth fell in disbelief, before shaking her head furiously.
"So you can rub defeat in my face? No thanks, Groudon."
"No! I just want to show you something!"
"Groudon, I really, I'm beat," she muttered, turning away. She felt the ground type grab her roughly, forcing her to look at him... this extra strength that Groudon had was really starting to bug her.
"Come on please?" Groudon begged, his yellow eyes big and round to aid in persuading the fire lion. Entei rolled her eyes and growled.
"Alright, but I'm telling you you're going to be carrying my lifeless body back to my den if this goes badly," she said being partly serious. Groudon grinned widely.
"Yay!" He laughed childishly, his heavy claws clanging together in delight.
"I'm telling you, just follow my lead, you won't be disappointed,"
-oOo-
"Okay Entei, now I want you to come at me full force! Don't hold back!" Groudon's fangs clenched as he got into a defending position, ready to counter anything Entei could fling at him. He scrapped his claws together, challenging Entei.
Entei gave a soft sigh as she found her strength. She did seem to have some energy left in her, not much, but enough. She was ready to fight. Her muscles tensed as she charged forward, putting all of her muscle and energy into her two front legs. She let out a sharp battle cry as she leapt for the land dinosaur, connecting with his arm roughly. Her teeth skimmed over the thick crimson armor like the blades of skates over a thick sheet of ice. With a simple flick of his arm, Groudon flung the furry creature across the rocky earth. Entei grunted as she rolled across the earth, but quickly managed to scramble to her feet.
"Ugh, your armor is too hard to get through," she said, panting. She shook her body, causing her fur to settle again, before looking at Groudon with a mixture of fatigue and annoyance.
"Groudon, why are we doing this? You know you're going to beat me..."
"Don't be so pessimistic," Groudon said with a peppy, optimistic laugh.
"I'm trying to make you see something." He raised a single crimson paw to the sun, and then glanced his female companion.
"You're a fire type. Why do you only attack head on with physical attacks?" Entei pondered this for a moment.
"Well, I like physical attacks," she began. "They're a lot tougher -" Groudon made a sound like a buzzer, startling the fire lion slightly.
"Wrong!"
"What?"
"Physical attacks aren't stronger, you just like them," Groudon said folding his amored forearms across his plated gray chest. Entei rolled her eyes slightly.
"Your point?"
"Entei, if you don't try other attacks, you won't beat me," he said, trying his best not to offend his friend. Unfortunately for him, he was terrible at avoiding offensive comments, and Entei's pride caused her to be offended easily.
"What are you trying to say?" Her eyes narrowed slightly as she stepped forward. Groudon raised his claws defensively.
"I don't mean anything by it, honest. You have to try something else, like, flamethrower! You can do that, can't you?" Entei thought about her moves for a moment. She knew she was capable of flamethrower, but wasn't entirely sure if it was her best choice. After all, most of her strength was in her muscles, rather than her flame power.
"Well, yeah – "
"Then, let's try this out," Groudon said with a grin. Entei gave a slight pout, but assumed her position at the opposite side of the field. Groudon lifted a heavy foot, stalking slowly towards Entei. The ground shook as he walked, and Entei planted her four paws firmly on the ground to brace for impact.
"Remember Entei, no physical attacks," Groudon said putting his claws on the ground. His yellow eyes focused on the much smaller creature as he prepared to pounce. Entei sighed, feeling the strong sunlight warm her body. Leaping in for the kill, Groudon's massive body flew like a blazing crimson comet from the sky. Entei chose to use speed this time, pouncing gracefully out of the way of her much slower companion. Groudon grunted pulling his massive armored body out of the dirt. A deep crater had been created from his heavy landing. Entei leapt upward. Her long smoke cloud flowed in the wind as she charged her flamethrower deep within her body. When she felt the searing heat close to bursting within her, she opened her mouth and let the attack loose. The massive creature cried out as the sun charged attack barreled down on his scales. Entei stopped as she landed on the ground behind Groudon.
"Ugh, Entei." Groudon panted as he shakily rose from the ground. Entei watched in silence, before quietly speaking up.
"You ok?" Her question was filled with surprise as well as concern. She wasn't used to battling with flamethrower, and so she wasn't sure if Groudon was ok or not. Ground types weren't weak against fire attacks, it was true, but with Groudon's empowering drought ability...
"Groudon? Are you ok?" When the ground type nodded, she felt a pang of relief.
"I'm fine," Groudon huffed shaking off the attack. The soil around him was scorched black, and his own body took heavy damage from the powered up flame attack. His species was not designed to take on special attack. Despite the pain, Groudon smiled down at Entei. His amber eyes twinkled with pride.
"That was good! Entei, you're really fast,"
"Uh, thank – "
"Why don't you use speed like that more often?" He cut her off suddenly. Entei blinked, pondering her own fighting style for a moment. She liked the fierceness of physical moves. She liked the way it felt taking down the opponent with her massive paws. However, she couldn't do this to Groudon. So why did she keep trying?
"I don't know, I always thought to use power over speed… it seems like a better way to win," she said, answering the only way she could. Groudon smirked.
"Aw, come on, don't be afraid of change. Speed is a great thing to have. It's something I could only dream of! Come on, show me what you can do with some of that speed," he said, giving his friend an encouraging grin. Entei looked into Groudon's eager, motivating eyes and smirked. She felt powerful suddenly, as if she could take on the world. She leapt forward, planting her heavy paws firmly on the ground.
"Alright then, let's see what I can do," she chuckled before springing into action. Groudon's heavy claws tore through the air, but rather then try to stop them; Entei pounced out of the way. She soared through the air, bounding easily away from the crimson rex's flailing tail. Things where finally starting to get interesting.
"Too slow, Groudon." She teased, earning a mischievous grin from the magma lizard. Groudon growled aloud, absorbing the blazing light of the sun into his body.
"Oh yeah?" He laughed, watching Entei. She had never seen him use a solarbeam, and so she didn't know what to expect. Perfect. Groudon smirked as the solar power exploded from his body, searing the land around him. He could hear a slight yelp from Entei as the blazing light entered her, doing damage from above. When the blinding green light subsided, he could see Entei shaking her fur messily. Her eyes shone in teasing arrogance and she gave Groudon a grin.
"Hah!" She barked, causing Groudon to blink.
"I didn't know you could use grass type moves Groudon, not bad for a ground type."
"Well, me being the "Sunny" pokemon and all, how could you not expect it?" He laughed, clapping his paws together.
"Well, I'm happy for your newfound strength, but I'm not gonna let you just push me around!" The ground lizard's fangs clenched in a determined grin.
"Let's finish this," Groudon said with a mischievous laugh. His eyes twinkled as a red orb of light appeared before his face. Entei blinked, before grinning as well.
"Lets," she said planting her paws firmly on the ground. A red orb appeared in front of her as well, and she grinned with delight as smoke and ash jetted from between Groudon's teeth. His maw gaped as he let loose one of the most explosive fire attacks to ever exist, eruption. Entei's eyes lit up as she too fired her own stream of lava and searing heat. The two attacks barreled across the ground scorching everything in their paths. The collusion was phenomenal, creating an explosion of lava and molten stone. Entei growled as she felt herself thrown back in a cloud of ash. Groudon curled up tightly, feeling the sharp 'pang, pang' of rock against his armor. Groudon blinked as warmth began to build up around him. It wasn't until then he realized he was being buried in volcanic ash and smoke. He felt dizzy suddenly, as everything around him began going black. That's when he heard his name.
"Groudon?" It was Entei calling him. Everything around him had stopped moving, and that's when he realized that he had passed out, though it seemed for only a minute. He squirmed, pushing his away through the piles of ash covering his body.
"Groudon, where are you?" Entei's voice was filled with concern as she closed in. She never expected her attack to be so powerful.
"I'm here, Entei," Groudon mumbled, slowly pulling himself out of the ashes of the attack. He shook his body, before giving Entei a weak smile.
"Ugh, good battle," he said shivering. He felt sore. Entei smiled, placing her soot covered paw on the lizard's thick armor.
"But now, I think I could go for a dip in the hot spring," he said, grinning.
"Wanna come? I mean, I know how you fire types are with water, but I like it. Lots of rock types like it too, so what do you say?"
"I guess. Hot water doesn't bother me so much," Entei said with a grin. Groudon began to move towards the mountain springs with Entei right by his side. He was spent, but so full of delight and pride that it didn't matter. All that mattered was Entei's happiness.
"You know, winning feels great, Groudon," Entei said suddenly, causing Groudon to chuckle. He lifted his own paw, and hooted, punching Entei very lightly on her left flank. Though she stumbled, this time she didn't snap, which caused Groudon to nearly roar with delight.
"I know, doesn't it?"
-oOo-
"You seem tired, now," Entei remarked as Groudon slowly took to the heated water, emitting a soft groan of delight in the process. When he was settled, he let out a hearty laugh.
"Me? Tired? Give me a break,"
"Oh please, look at you nearly falling asleep over there. Stay awake will you? I won't be able to save you from drowning," Entei said with a snicker. She then waggled her backside in the air, before pouncing into the heated water. She paddled about in the soothing, steamy bath before turning to face Groudon. His eyes were closed for the moment as he rested.
"Groudon, I don't get it, you love winning, why would you give me a strategy to beat you? It seems kind of… I don't know, like you where trying to let me win." Groudon opened his eyes and studied Entei.
"It wasn't letting you win," he said, his voice full of sincerity.
"You would never overpower me, Entei. You just aren't physically capable of it, you know?" Groudon gave a small chuckle, before looking up at the sky.
"You know, you're so stubborn, I don't think you'd ever try anything new. You always attack head on, because… it's what you're used to,"
"I'm not stubborn," the fire type muttered, her eyes shifting away slightly. Groudon scoffed.
"There it is again," he said with smile.
"Well, to put it simply, I felt that you losing to me day in and say out, I felt like you where starting to feel – "
"Pathetic?" Entei questioned, as if to blurt out all of her previous feelings at once. Groudon was surprised. He wouldn't expect Entei to admit her true feeling, but when she continued to watch him attentively, he decided to continue on.
"That's right! I just wanted you to see that you could still do it, you just needed another way."
"But you love winning," she said suddenly, as if she just couldn't understand why Groudon wanted her to win. Why on earth would anyone share the secret to their demise? Why did he care so much?
"I do love winning, yeah, I can't deny it, but I also love…" Groudon paused as he tried to find a way to word it. "I love to see you win,"
"…Really?" Entei leaned in curiously, but then shrunk down slightly into the hot water. She felt strange about this conversation suddenly. Not because it was embarrassing, but it was so foreign to think of Groudon loving anything more then victory.
"Well, watching your eyes light up after winning, it makes me happy. It sounds lame, but it's like I'm still winning in a weird way. I guess I started to miss seeing you like that," he said nodding gently to himself. The lizard leaned back against the warm rocky face and sighed, as if he was relieved to finally be getting this off his chest. Entei gave a small chuckle filled with uncertainty.
"Geez, is Latias making you soft?" Entei teased, but in reality she felt utterly weightless and delighted.
"Damn, Groudon, you're making me feel bad for hurting you,"
"Hah, yeah right." The massive ground type grinned, his mischievous gleam returning to his eyes.
"You know, just because I love to watch you win, doesn't mean you'll beat me all the time," he said, earning a grin from Entei. She liked Groudon's soft side, but this is the side she loved even more.
"We'll see, loser," she said, her eyes twinkling with endearment. Then, as the two broke away from each others stares, feeling a bit flustered, it occurred to them both that things where going to start getting interesting…
End
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