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Amy47101 does not own pokémon.
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The Adventure Saga
The Reality of Serenity
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THUD!
"Merde!" Serena exclaimed, rubbing her hind end. Conclusion: The smooth pavement of the small skatepark outside of Lumiose City hurts when you fall on it. Calem skated over to her, a smirk on his face.
"See? You're picking up on the native language already!" he laughed, pulling out his earbuds and extending a hand to help her up. Serena scowled, crossing her arms stubbornly. Calem raised an eyebrow. "Do you plan on sitting in the dirt all day?" She blinked, then took his outstretched hand, allowing him to pull her up... only so that she would fall again. Calem raised an eyebrow, somehow still standing and holding Serena's hand, whereas the girl was getting her jeans awfully dirty from trying to master roller skating. "You suck at this."
"Thanks, Captain Obvious." she muttered under her breath, ears and cheeks a slight hue of red, squeezing his hand tighter and pushing herself up again, legs wobbling and threatening to fall.
"Why are you so bent on doing this?" he asked. Serena glanced up at him.
"Because I can." she said.
"That's not an answer." Calem responded.
"Yes it is." Serena said. "Stop talking. You're distracting me." he raised an eyebrow. Serena's legs began wobbling again. "Okay... So, uh, you gonna catch an Absol?" Calem raised an eyebrow.
"I thought you said my talking was distracting you." he responded.
"I lied. I think I'm gonna-" she shrieked slightly, feeling her legs wobble from under her. Calem's other hand shot out, grasping her arm to keep her steady. "I think I'm gonna fall again." Calem smirked slightly, skating a few inches forward to see if she'd notice. She didn't.
"Alright. Yeah, I think I might. I would like to master Mega Evolution, set myself apart from other trainers." he inched forward a few more inches, and she followed. He smirked. "What about you? Going to put that Gardivoirite to use?"
"Of course!" she exclaimed. Slowly, Calem lowered his hand from her arm, and pulled her forward a few more inches. They began skating at a steady pace, though Serena hardly seemed to notice. "I'm excited to learn about it. We never had anything like this in other regions!"
"Well, you've got four members on your team. Two slots left. What are you thinking of catching?"
"An Eevee. Or receive an Eevee. I'd love to have one, they're so cute! They're hard to come by though, you either receive them or find them by chance. And all the possibilities to evolve them! It'd be so hard to choose between the seven evolutions!"
"There's eight, you know." Calem said.
"Eh?" Serena asked, cocking her head to the side.
"You remember Sina talking about the new fairy type they recently confirmed?"
"Uh-huh." Serena responded, utterly transfixed on learning of this new eeveelution.
"Well, Sylveon is a fairy-type eeveelution." Serena widened her eyes.
"I want one." she said almost immediately. "Think of the possibilities! I've never even got to work with a fairy type before, so this is great!" she smiled happily. Calem felt himself smile despite himself.
"Hey Seré, there's something I want to point out to you." he said. She raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah?"
"One: We're still holding hands." he chuckled inwardly, seeing her ears go a deeper shade of red.
"S-Shut up!" she exclaimed, though refusing to release her grip on his hand.
"And two, you're skating."
"What?!" she exclaimed. "No way!" Slowly, Calem shook his hand from hers, she kept on going. "Gah! Calem!" she exclaimed, glancing over her shoulder.
"You're doing it, Seré! You're doing just fine!" Calem exclaimed, skating just a little behind her. She focused ahead.
"Quick question!" she asked, coming upon a cone in her way. "How do I turn?!" To late, she realized. She hit the cone, and felt herself falling backwards, only to have Calem catch her and hold her up by her upper arms, saving her from no doubt another terribly painful fall. Slowly and gently, he lowered her to the ground. He skated around her, and slowly sat next to her. "I was skating." she said quietly, a small grin on her face.
"You were skating." he responded. "How do you think I learned?"
"By listening to your own voice?" Serena asked jokingly. Calem laughed.
"No, but my dad taught me. He kept on talking and going on about his travels, and then, before I knew it, I was going. Though I," he glanced at her, laughter twinkling in his eyes. "Had trouble stopping. Skated right into a stream!" Serena tried to imagine that for a moment, then laughed. "So I figured, maybe if I talked to you, you'd get so distracted, you wouldn't think about the skating!" Serena smiled, placing her hand over his.
"Thanks. Now if I could just get to work on that turning, all will be good!" Serena grinned, closing her eyes and tilting her head to the side. Calem felt his ears heat up, and pulled at the collar of his jacket with his spare hand. Was it him or was it getting warmer?
"Lucario, wait!" suddenly, the humanoid pokémon pounced on Serena, one paw powering up an aura sphere, holding it dangerously close to her face. Serena let out a small squeak of surprise, staring up at the pokémons intense eyes.
"Hey, knock it off!" exclaimed Calem, pulling off his skates and standing up, reaching for a pokéball. Lucario turned his intense glare to him, and he flinched. Slowly, the Lucario lowered its glowing palm, the attack fizzling out. Serena scurried back, pushing her skates off and standing next to Calem.
"Sorry about that!" A girl around their age said skating up to them, a second Lucario at her side. "I was doing some special training with my Lucario, when it suddenly ran off!" Lucario continued to stare intently at Serena, as if trying to read her. Then it looked down, slowly shaking its head. The owner of the two pokémon looked curiously at it. "Hey, Lucario, what's wrong with you? Did you get drawn by this girls aura or something?"
"Aura...?" Serena asked, adjusting her black baseball cap. Lucario glanced up, arms crossed, an intense glare fixed on his face.
"Oh, I get it! I think your aura may be similar to that one woman's! Is that it, Lucario?" Lucario let out a low growl. "See, yesterday evening, we got challenged by this craaazy strong trainer. We're talking insane strong. We had to put our special training to use, you see, and Lucario never ever lost when he had to go into that. Well... he lost. I think he was searching for her or another trainer that would match up to her..." she paused, then smacked her forehead. "Oops! I was on such a roll, I forgot to even introduce myself! I'm Korrina, the Shalour City Gym Leader."
"I'm Serena."
"And I'm Calem. We're both collecting gym badges." Korrina tilted her head to the side with a smile.
"Serena and Calem... I'll remember that! If you're collecting Gym Badges, I'm sure we'll be battling sooner or later! I'm looking forward to it. I hope you know how to roll with the punches!" she turned around, skating away with one of her Lucario in tow. The one that tackled Serena stared intently at her once more, then nodded, running after his trainer.
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Serena smiled as she came across the small, peaceful Camphrier Town. She glanced down at Fennekin in her arms, and then around the town, taking in the buildings made of old stone, the dirt paths and small trees that served as the only decoration for the entire town. She traveled around the beaten paths, talking to townsfolk, even finding a star piece! Tucking the valuable item away in her purse, she turned around, and decided to actually get some work done.
"Hey, Seré!" Serena turned to the oh so optimistic Shauna, who jogged up to her while half-leading-half-dragging Trevor, Tierno running after them. Serena smile and waved.
"Hey you guys!" Serena smiled, waving to them. "How's the egg, Shauna?"
"Great! Watch this!" she turned towards Trevor, grabbed his hand, and placed it next to hers on the egg. Serena raised an eyebrow, waiting patiently, when suddenly, the egg twitched. "Did you see?! Did you?!" Serena laughed.
"Yep! I saw. I think it likes Trevor." Shauna beamed at this.
"I know! I'm so excited for it to hatch. So..." she glanced around. "You here for Mega Evolution too?"
"Well, that was why the professor sent us here, right?" Trevor said, shaking his hand free of Shauna's.
"Maybe we should head to Shabboneau Castle. I hear that there is a person who knows a lot about history there. Maybe he'll know something about Mega Evolution!" Tierno chimed in. Serena nodded, and turned, walking towards the said castle while talking to the trio about how their own goals were going. Soon, they came upon the castle.
"...Sadly, we are in so much debt that everything had to be given up as payment. The castle now sits completely empty, but is open to visitors." a black belt finished speaking. Serena glanced to the side, and saw Calem, who was holding his chin in his hand thoughtfully.
"Anything about Mega Evolution, Diachi?" he asked. The Black Belt-whom Serena assumed was Diachi- tilted his head curiously.
"Mega Evolution? No, I know nothing about that subject." he glanced up, looking at Serena, Shauna, Trevor, and Tierno. "Who are you?" Calem glanced over his shoulder.
"Hey guys." he said, smiling. "This is Diachi, and I guess he's the mayor of Camphrier Town. He said he doesn't know anything about Mega Evolution, though."
"Aw! Absolutely nothing?" Shauna exclaimed, somewhat disappointed. Diachi shook his head.
"No. I'm sorry."
"I suppose," Trevor said. "We should tell Professor Sycamore about this, and ask him for more leads on Mega Evolution." Tierno glanced between the group and shrugged.
"I guess so." he said.
"Excuse me," a young man said, stepping around the group to talk to Diachi. "Sir, it's back again." Diachi's face paled visibly.
"So soon? Oh Arceus..." he glanced at the five teenagers. "Please excuse me." he quickly followed after the young man. Shauna glanced at the exit, then turned to her four friends, spare hand on her hip.
"Should we follow them?" she asked. Serena tilted her head to the side.
"Maybe we should... I mean, it would only be right to help them, right?" with nods of agreement, the five teenagers walked out of the castle, following Diachi outside of the town and onto the next route. There, they saw a Snorlax sleeping on a bridge, absolutely blocking the path onto the next town.
"Crap." Diachi muttered. "This is bad."
"Can't you just use the flute?" the young man whom alerted Diachi asked. The black belt shook his head.
"I'm afraid not..."
"You handed it over?" Diachi nodded grimly in response.
"What seems to be the problem? Other than Snorlax, I mean." Trevor asked politely. Diachi turned their way, raising an eyebrow.
"You followed us? Ah, never mind, maybe you five can help me."
"What do you want us to do?" Tierno asked.
"See, for some reason, this Snorlax always comes down from the mountains and decides to fall asleep right here, on the bridge connecting us to Cyllage City and Ambrette Town. Not only is this a problem for traveling trainers like yourself, but Camphrier citizens set up a barter system with Cyllage and Ambrette for items such as food and clothing, where we need to travel to actually trade."
"Question!" Shauna exclaimed. "Why not just travel to Lumiose? It's closer."
"Shauna." Trevor hissed, catching on instantly.
"No, it's fine." Diachi chuckled. "Lumiose won't accept our barter offers, unfortunately. Besides, we are in a huge amount of debt, so buying our necessities isn't exactly an option." he turned back to the slumbering Snorlax with a sigh. "You see, I used to use the Pokéflute to wake Snorlax up, but I handed it over to the owner of Parfum palace to pay for my debt..."
"We'll get it back for you!" Serena said suddenly. "I mean, surely he'll understand if you guys might end up starving, right?"
"You might think that now, but that man is nothing more than a low, greedy, awful, son of a-"
"Jason!" Diachi said, cutting off the young man whom stood rather silently till now. Jason raised his eyebrows, crossing his arms with a stubborn huff.
"What? It's true." he grumbled. He glanced over at Serena, specifically, her Fennekin. "Listen, girlie, heed my warning. That guy always wants something in return. So watch your pokémon, got it?" Serena swallowed awkwardly, the sudden drop of her stomach making her wish she hadn't even offered her help at all.
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"One-thousand poké?!" exclaimed Shauna in shock as the butler guarding the gate held his hand out patiently for their money. Serena had her mouth agape at this outrageous pricing, only for an entrance!
"Per a person, ma'am." the butler responded, retracting his hand and folding them behind his back.
"Per a person?!" exclaimed Tierno, Trevor nodding in agreement.
"This is outrageous!" exclaimed Calem. The butler swallowed uncomfortably.
"The owner is a man who believes you can never make enough money." the butler said. Serena let out a low sigh, digging through her wallet.
"Lets just pay." she grumbled, pulling out some bills, wincing slightly seeing that most came from her spare savings. "Let's just pay and get the flute." With some disgruntled sighs, her four friends pulled out their respective wallets and carefully counted out the right amount.
"There!" Shauna said, handing her money over along with the rest of them. The butler nodded apologetically. "There's your money!" the butler again nodded, and turned towards the gates, typing in a complicated password. With a few beeps and a fingerprint scan, "The money we charge from visitors goes towards repairing the castle," he said quietly, turning back to them "I'm sure."
Somehow, the five trainers couldn't be so sure.
"C'mon, Fennekin." Serena said to her faithful partner. The fox barked in agreement, walking next to her trainer faithfully. They all stared in awe at the intricate carvings and designs on the castle, almost as if they were walking into a glittering treasure chest. The huge, oak doors swung open neatly, and they stepped inside.
"My Furfrou! My darling Furfrou!" exclaimed a rather chubby and stout man whom was dressed in expensive-looking clothing as he ran back and forth in a panic. "She's gone! My darling Furfrou! She disappeared!" he ran off into another room, a door slamming. Serena glanced at Calem.
"Maybe we should look for it? The Furfrou, I mean." Calem said. "It'd probably be best if we try to do something for him before we ask him for a favor."
"I guess you're right..." Trevor sighed. "Though he doesn't seem like the type to be exactly appreciative of our efforts..." Regardless, the five decided to split up and search for the missing pokémon. Shauna took off to ask other guests, while Trevor and Tierno decided to look through the rooms. Leaving Calem and Serena to search the gardens.
"You know," Serena said, staring at the huge statues of Reshriham and Zekrom in front of her. "You'd think a guy with enough money to have stone statues of legendary pokémon would have enough money to provide the necessities for a town as small as Camphrier Town."
"Yeah, but remember what Jason said," Calem responded. "He's greedy."
"Yeah..." Serena sighed "So when we find this pokémon, don't run up on her, okay?" she said. "Then she'd get scared and run off. If she's trimmed, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was, that'll make it even harder to catch her." Calem raised his eyebrows.
"Has little Seré been reading up on the Kalosian pokémon?" he teased, poking her cheek playfully. Serena's eyebrows furrowed in mock irritation as she swatted his hand away, the serious look slipping into a smile.
"Maybe I have." she said, flicking his forehead. Calem smirked, reaching to flick her in payback. Serena skillfully dodged, and pivoted on her heel and bolted.
"Serena! I demand an apology!" Calem yelled dramatically, chasing after her. Serena stole a quick glance over her shoulder, slightly surprised to see that the young man had almost caught up to her, despite her five second head start. She let out a laugh, trying to speed up her steps. "Gotcha!" Calem exclaimed, his arms suddenly wrapping around her waist. She laughed as he literally picked her up off the ground.
"Calem, c'mon!" she exclaimed, kicking her legs out as her baseball cap from the previous day fell from her head.
"An apology!" Calem said, chuckling himself as Serena continued to wriggle around trying to get free.
"No!" she exclaimed, laughing.
"Hey, Seré, Cal! I think-" Shauna paused walking up to them. Tilting her head to the side curiously, she grinned. "Whatcha doin'?" Serena suddenly felt her entire face go red, and slowly, Calem lowered her to the ground. She shuffled about arms length away, while Calem leaned down, picking up her hat and brushing the dust off it.
"Nothing." Calem said calmly, though his face was tinted a slight pink. "Just horsing around."
"Uh-huh." Shauna said with a slight roll of her eyes. "Listen, I think I heard a bark out here. You mustn't have heard it over all your horsing around." she snickered slightly behind her hand.
"Oh, just s-shut up!" Serena exclaimed. "Where was the barking coming from?" Shauna nodded her head to the left.
"Somewhere around those hedges." she responded. Serena turned, putting her hat back on her head.
"Be quiet, so we don't scare her off." Calem said as the trio made their way to the hedge maze.
"To late for that." Serena said, watching amusingly as Trevor and Tierno chased around a swift Furfrou with a heart trim. The pokémon came rushing over to them, and Calem darted around to get the pokémon to go back.
"Shauna, go over to that corner adjacent to Trevor!" he ordered. "I'll get the one near Tierno! Serena, I think there's a dead end up ahead. Lets corner her there!"
"Got it!" Shauna exclaimed, jogging off to her given section. Serena ran off to the dead end, while Calem, Shauna, Trevor, and Tierno forced the pokémon into the end. The Furfrou fell for the trap, running into the dead end. Serena walked down it, expecting the pokémon to get angry or defensive, but instead saw it rolling around in the dirt, trying to get it's fur all dirty and, well, free.
"Aww..." Serena said, watching as the pokémon bounded over, laying down at her feet, begging for her to pet her. She reached out, ruffling her fur, getting her expensive coat even more messy, matted, and dirty than rolling in the dirt already had. "You didn't like that awful haircut, huh?" slowly the fur returned how it was originally before the trim. At this, Furfrou licked her cheek affectionately.
"You got her!" exclaimed Shauna as she came upon them with the boys behind her. "Aww, she's so cute~!"
"Yeah." Serena said, running her hand across Furfrous fur. "She doesn't like the trim. She just wanted someone to fix it back to the way it was."
"My darling Furfrou!" exclaimed the owner. "Oh, my little Furfrou! Why did you leave daddy? And whatever happened to your beautiful trim? Did these awful commoners ruin it on you?" he shook his head, hooking a leash to the pokémons collar, dragging her away from Serena. "Whatever! The fact that you have been found only proves our bond and how strong it is! Come, Fufrou, and young trainers! Night has fallen! To celebrate, I shall put on a spectacular display of Furfrou fireworks! The servants shall lead the way!" he trotted away with his pokémon, leaving the five trainers on their own.
"You know," Serena said, standing up, slightly annoyed by the 'commoner' comment. "With a trainer like that, I wouldn't want to be around him either."
"Yeah, but..." Shauna swallowed. "I really wanna see the fireworks!"
"I suppose..." Trevor said, glancing at the sky, seeing it darken ever so slightly. "I didn't even realize the sun had set!"
"Well, time flies when you're having fun, I suppose." Calem said, moving his gaze away from the few stars that began to shine merrily above them. "I guess we'll have to watch them then ask him for the flute." They nodded, and made their way back to the mansion, where immediately they were bombarded by servants, who constantly chattered about about how they could serve them food or drink(which they refused politely), then continued to compliment them on anything and everything. Soon they were lead onto an extraordinary balcony, with Dratini fountains pouring water into the pristine pond below. Slowly, they walked towards the edge, glancing at the view of the glittering waters and lit up fountains below.
"You know," Serena said, leaning on the balcony, waiting for the show that was promised. "I never had many friends before this. Not much outside the pokémon my mom owned." she swallowed, smiling. "My dad was way overprotective. Sometimes he wouldn't even let me leave the house without an adult. And even if he wasn't so overprotective and I did manage to make friends, we'd just up and move for any reason. Moms racing, change of pace, a new job that didn't seem to last long..." Serena just shook her head for a moment. "So now we're in Kalos, and my mom is retired in Vaniville and I actually have friends." she smiled softly, then stood straight, turning to look at them. "I just wanted all you guys to know that I'm never, ever going to forget these fireworks with you, my very first friends, okay?"
A pop sounded out behind them, followed by a boom. Serena turned, smiling as fireworks lit up the sky behind them.
"Look!" Shauna laughed as a Pikachu head formed from the lights. "It's so cute!" Suddenly, the egg in her arms twitched, and she looked down at it. "You like it too, don't ya little fella?" the egg twitched again, and suddenly, cracks began to form along the edges. Shauna let out a squeal. "Oh my Arceus! Trevor! Guys! Come look, its hatching!" The four other trainers turned abruptly from the show above them towards the egg in Shauna's arms. Another crack appeared, and then the egg suddenly started glowing. Slowly the glowing faded, and sitting in Shauna's arms was a small pokémon with a spiky pale yellow head, stubby arms and feet, and wearing half its shell.
"Toge-piiiiiii!" it exclaimed happily, waving it's arms back and forth.
"A Togepi!" exclaimed Serena. "Shauna, you're lucky! They're so rare, even in Johto, their home region!"
"Yeah..." Shauna said, looking at the cute pokémon. "Yeah, I guess you're right! It's so cute! We're gonna be great friends, Togepi, I promise!"
"Piiii!" Togepi exclaimed happily, seemingly loving its new trainer.
"Well, now we're never going to forget this!" exclaimed Calem, slapping Trevor on the back. "Trevor became a daddy!"
"Calem!" exclaimed Trevor, face going red. "Shut up!" Calem snickered.
"Nope!" he exclaimed.
"Ooooh, look Togepi!" exclaimed Shauna, turning the pokémon around so that it could look at the display above them. "It's the grand finale!" Serena smiled, letting out 'oohs' and 'aahs' along with Shauna, smiling and pointing out the grand display.
"Never going to forget this, huh?" Calem asked quietly, a hint of teasing in his voice. "Not ever?"
"Nope." Serena said with a smile, teasing hiding in her own voice as she continued to speak. "Don't tease me about this, it's important to me." Calem rolled his eyes.
"You must be a really lonely soul to hold an event like firework watching with this group of idiots so close to your heart." Calem said, chuckling at the end. Serena shook her head, grinning despite herself. Perhaps they were a couple of idiots, what with Shauna and how she could get excited so easily, or Tierno with his random bursts of dancing, and even Trevor, with his lack to make a freaking move on Shauna. She furrowed her eyebrows. She'd have to somehow think of a way to get them alone together.
She turned her head towards Calem, taking in his profile as he stared up at the few remaining minutes of fireworks. She could imagine enlisting him for help... but she could also imagine that he would lock them in a closet for an unknown amount of time, then tease them relentlessly. He glanced at her at the corner of her eye, and then turned his head.
"Hey, Serena," he said, smirking. "You're staring." Serena felt her face go red, and she glanced away, hiding her eyes under the shadows from the brim of her baseball cap, though not entirely hiding the small smile on her face.
"S-Shut up, stupid."
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Sorry for the long wait. For some reason, I got a block when writing this. XD Anyways, very cute, and I hope you enjoy!
Amy47101 signing off! ^.^