A/N: Chapitre deux is up! Been meaning to get to it for a while. Also, if anyone can catch the hint in this chapter about something... well then good for you!
"Wow, you mean you started out on your journey all by yourself? As in, like not coming into contact with anyone, besides nurse joy, gym leaders, or officer Jenny?" Ash exclaimed surprised. "Of course. I started out in the Johto region, and made my way from there." Will said.
Currently they were walking north from the direction they had battled... well he'd battled team rocket only about a few hours ago.
Just to show them the proof he wasn't lying, he took out his badge case. All 16 badges, from Kanto and Johto shined gloriously. "Although, I don't understand what the big deal about this is." The group just stared at him in disbelief. He had sixteen badges. Eight from Johto. Eight from Kanto. How does he not understand this?
"This is amazing!" "This must mean you are an excellent pokemon trainer." "How did you get so good?" they all asked one by one.
Will just stared at them. "Oh come now! I doubt the badges have anything to do with raising pokemon." The most that they all did was deadpan literally. He couldn't think what they would do if he got all Eight gym badges from Hoenn. "Of course it does!" Brock piped."Getting to beat those many gym leaders means you really have faith in your pokemon!"
"That's true! In fact, why don't you show them to us?" Max said eagerly. Looking at the boy with a confused puzzled, he decided it was best to ask Crobat. "What do you think? Should we let them see our friends one by one?" he asked from the side.
Crobat herself thought for a moment, even tilting her head with a question mark popping out. "kech, kech!" the nocturnal bat bat nodded. "Okie dokie!" he exclaimed. 'I wonder which of the starters he chose from Johto?' Ash thought.
'He must be loaded with strong pokemon after his journey's. I hope he chose a water type when he began.' May could only think. Promptly sure that he didn't want to let them out all at once he spoke.
"I don't want them all coming out at the same time, I prefer the one at a time style." he said. Reaching a clearance where it had a huge circle with a giant rock here and there he thought this would be the best place.
"Now for the first pokemon I trained in my team, Typhlosion!" tossing the ball in his hand, caught, popping out with rigorous embers all around came Typhlosion. "Phlo Phlosion!" the fire type roared.
"Wow that looks really strong!" Max watched the pokemon in awe.
"Come on out Slowbro!" a pop sound, and water treads from here to there and the shine disappeared from the pokemon's body. "Slow-bro?" the water-psychic type tilted its head left and right. This slowbro was indeed almost like a slowpoke, but it had something else in it's personality. Pikachu attempted to say hi, which he did. But got a rather loud response.
"SLOW-BRO, SLOW!" the water type shouted. It ended up doing a half cartwheel and hopped from one hand next to Typhlosion and Crobat.
"I guess your Slowbro is pretty intuitive when it comes to meeting others." May suggested.
"Not really. She's always like this. Pretty flexible as you can tell." Will said petting the shell-on-the-tail pokemon.
"That's really impressive. Your Slowbro can support the weight on it's tail, she can move at an agile pace." Brock complimented. Slowbro didn't take that so keenly on the other hand.
A punch to Brock's head making him fall and Slowbro pout and fold her arms. "She's of sassy nature as well." Will said sweat dropping.
Popping out of nowhere, yet without really needing Will's attention or so to come out, in it's astounded yet vibrant petals, a Bellossom danced it's way out. "Wow a bellossom! Looks really strong too!" of course the comment from Ash did indeed make Bellossom want to fight, it simply hopped it's way on Typhlosions head.
"Isn't Bellossom going to get damage just from being on top of Typhlosion's head?" the eye glass child asked, a little surprised. "Don't be silly. Bellossom is able to withstand large heat. Grass type yes, doesn't mean he'll back down to any fire type attacks." Bellossom nodded his head almost at a fast pace.
Only two-thirds of the team there. Something unexpected, yet of course the child did come out of nowhere so they're expecting surprises, Will ended up jumping high up into the air. Really high for that matter. "Wow he's really good at jumping!" Max said blocking some sunlight from his glasses.
Of course, the fifth pokeball was sent down and out popped a large snake. Steel snake to be exact. Most of it's segments were spinning, like a rapid spin of the sorts. Landing on it's tail head pointed up into the air, let it's body composition go into an S form, roared into the groups direction. It's eyes had a hue of red, literally showing its fangs at them.
"This is Steelix!" Will called landing in the steel type's head. "Steelix!" the snake nodded. Jumping from it's head and landing yet again next to his other pokemon. "It's humongous! Must have taken you a while to capture this one huh?" May could only gasp, watching the snake from tail to head. Shrugging his shoulders a little he didn't respond to that.
"And now for the final pokemon." he says with a smile. Content literally in his voice. Taking out the last Poke ball of his team he let it sit on the palm of his hand. The pop came along and out came the lightning. Most dark clouds formed out of nowhere, mainly over the released pokemon, and almost everyone was freaking out or confused as to why would there be sudden storms?
Once the white haze was gone from its body, Ash was mostly shocked at the result. Its hind legs looked as though they were about to pounce at any moment. It's lightning design all over the yellow body. The purple shroud that commenced from the top of its head, waving gallantly in the wind, The saber tooth fangs, bearing exquisitely to it's opponents. Eyes that glare of red, ready shoot thunderbolts at will.
'RAI!' the legendary screamed at the top of its lungs. "Not so loud Raiku!" he says petting the beasts head. Naturally it cuddled up to his hand. The others stood looking at him, mouths agape. "Y-You... R-R-Raikou... Caught..." Ash stuttered clearly lost in words.
Thought to Will, this seemed awkward, mainly because everyone knows what a legendary looks like, but didn't know why they were surprised. A few sweat drops here and there on the back of his head.
*Somewhere from afar*
"It's going to take us forever to regain all the money we put into from that trap, no thanks to you Meowth! What were you thinking?!" Jessie scolded the cashity cat.
"My fault! Hey don't pin this all on me. Besides you and James were the ones who wanted ideas for unbreakable rope and I got you it!" the cat sneered. Currently they were in the air yet again, except this time with a seviper hot air balloon. Their repairman skills to actually get a new one was beyond Ash and the others, to which not much of their concern.
"Although what I can't understand is how someone like that can actually break the rope in one swoop of a wing attack." the blue haired man practically whined leaning his head on the edge of the basket.
"Someone like him is sure to bring great moola from the pokemon he raised!" the pinkettes eyes were practically star just thinking about all the money and fame that they, or mostly herself, would have just from that one crobat they would give to Giovanni.
"That crobat was something. Those eyes were practically glaring at us! It didn't even flinch from those poison stings you sent it."
"Just think Meowth, he may have more trained pokemon we could easily give to the boss!"
"Yeah, yeah save all your idle bickering about the boss later, right now we have to find those twerps, and that new twerp!" the young rocketeer exclaimed looking through her special lenses. Their blast offs were always at least about a mile or two away from where they generally attempted to capture the twerps pokemon, and made sure to retrace their steps.
Finding them wouldn't be so much a difficult thing to do, just spotting them through so much terrain is the problem.
"Ah! There we go! I found them just at 2 o clock on the dot!"
"Actually Jessie, you're on the left wouldn't that be ten'o'clock?" *WHAM* the pinkette smacked the blue headed man with her fist. "They're just four hours away from each other! At least you know what I'm talking about!" she grumbled forehead throbbing.
"Maybe we should lay on the down low, if you know what I mean first of all, then we use the next robot I just so happen to order for us!" Meowth practically gloated. The other two agreed with the cat's idea and decided to drop the balloon from a fair distance so they wouldn't spot it, and walked to their location from there.
Just to be sure what they were talking about, they used a sonar/radar detector to listen in, with their headphones.
*back to the group*
"So all of these pokemon are really yours? No one gave them to you?" Max asked in wonder at the Raikou laying down. Well it was lying down on something, or rather someone for that matter.
"mmhmhm mhmhmmhom mhomhm." Will stated through muffled words. Raikou had adored its trainer to the point where it just wanted to lie down and cuddle with him every chance it could. The others didn't feel so left out when they joined the electric type. "haaa, I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that." the younger boy scratched his head.
The boy under the fur covered, gentle yet sharp dog, attempted to claw his way out. He scratched his way a couple of times until finally jerking his torso to gasp fresh air. "I said, it would depend on who would give them to me, but no." he said relenting to exhaustion and just falling flat next to Bellossom. "Bell Bell!" he tapped the boys head.
"So what are you doing here? Do you live in the Hoenn region?" May asked, whilst petting Typhlosion.
At this William's head perked up at the brunettes question. Of course he wasn't going to tell them the reason he was there, however he was for another. He recollected himself, coming back up, and dusting himself off.
"Well... I can only say one thing." He kicks a rock that ended up skipping the direction they were heading. "To tell you half of the truth, I'm just visiting." he said jumping to land on a rock. His arms were crossed at the center of his torso. "So, who were those group of people that attempted to take your Pokemon?" he asked, curiosity clearly in his voice.
Before anyone could particularly answer him, they noticed that the sun was beginning to set. The skies darkening into red, orange and velvet like rows upon rows. "Can you wait for us?" The capped trainer said sweat dropping.
A small groan was audibly heard, but Will knew it started to get dark so he nodded. He called his Pokemon around him, getting five of them back into each of their pokeballs, besides Typhlosion who wanted to stay outside. Setting a blanketed bed on the ground himself, Typhlosion sat down right next to it. Behind him was the campfire they started for the night...
Along with their home cooked dinner by Brock. "Alright you two, remember this time the food is piping hot! Be sure you let it cool down before eating!" the chef breeder declared. Besides the fact they ate about a few hours ago, but their stomachs are practically bottomless pits. Save for May who was always willing to wait for the food to be edible, rather than scold her tongue in the effort. Ash and Max were staring at their bowls of piping leak and potato soup, letting their drool drip to the ground.
Will, however had other ideas. Grabbing the plate with bare hands, despite burning his palms and fingertips he literally took it back to his blanket like bed. Taking a spoonful of potato's and a couple of leaks and other vegetables, he bit down. With the spoon coming out with a pop, he smiled contently at the bowl.
"Wow that was great!" he said as he began making his devouring through the bowl. Truth be told it burned like Cyndaquil flame pricks in his mouth, but he was used to hot foods, straight from the oven. The others deadpanned at the child's behavior. How could something so hot, not make even him flinch?
"Well in the meantime, the burglars who tried stealing our pokemon were a group of people called Team Rocket." the capped boy said, watching his pikachu chow down on its food. "They always try to steal any pokemon that's valuable for money, even try to make them a part of team rocket!" the boy finished. Of course said group of burglars were busy basking in the glory of what's known as them.
"They're bad people with no purpose in life, only to steal pokemon." the green haired child exclaimed. Will's eyes opened at their responses.
Bad people? Them? They did try to steal their pokemon yes, but was it really their purpose?
"You don't know that they are actually bad." he said putting his empty bowl down. The others just stared at him in a little disbelief. "What are you talking about? Of course they are! They're a part of team rocket!" May said.
"They're crooks!" Brock agreed in the conversation. "Doesn't make a human being bad." he said letting his spoon drop. "What do you mean?" Ash asked a tad bit confused.
"I mean they themselves are not bad people. Every one in their lives have their own stories, one that's about them and only them. Declaring them something without actually getting to meet them is shallow." he said turning to his Typhlosion.
They merely stared at him. "We... We're not shallow..." Max's head dropped. Ash put a hand on his shoulder. "No no. He just mean we shouldn't judge a book by their cover. We're sorry. It's just that every time they come around to steal our pokemon, they keep confirming that they ARE bad people." he said picking Max up and placing him in his lap.
Secretly he was blushing a little, but the flame's flicker covered that from them. He enjoyed being with Ash like this from time to time. Maybe for a good while for that matter. If it was just him and Ash, then things would be alright. Although spending time with William does help get him some ideas for life lessons. He felt Ash's arms come around his waist, and practically melted within his arms.
Ash couldn't put his finger on it, but he liked being with Max like this as well. Brock's voice cut them off from their attention towards each other.
"I still don't understand how your crobat was able to merge two attacks into one." He said taking a gulp from his gumbo. Will smirked from Ash and Max, to Brock. "I taught her to do that. I myself learned from my mentor." he said looking up into the starlit sky.
"From who did you learn how to fight?" Ash asked with his head tilted.
Focusing on the image, he remembered how she looked like.
Blue wavy hair that would resemble the sea.
Her nature reminded him of the raging ocean. Calm at times, but cold and sharp with anger.
Her blue eyes that captured one's breath.
The amazing art she would draw and paint about anything she dreamed. Sometimes of her mate.
The most gorgeous thing about her was the music of her violin she played from.
Will would always be found in her violins harmonic melodies, a tune that would relax anyone.
Yet at the same time...
"Her name was Michelle." he said remembering her music.