Hello everyone! It's been a while since I updated this story but worry not! Today I bring you all the next chapter.
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(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Pokemon)
With an ecstatic grin Desmond threw out his next pokemon, "Let's not keep her waiting Typhlosion!". From the ball a large badger like creature that came close to Desmond's height while standing on it's hind legs. It's fur coat consisted of two main colors, a tan shade that covered it's under side, legs, arms, and most of it's face. The second color was a dark blue that started at the tip of it's snout and ran down it's back.
With a stout cry the back of it's neck was engulfed in fire as it stared down it's opponent. "Let's finish this up quickly with a flare blitz!" Desmond shouted before his pokemon surrounded itself in fire and charged at Sceptile.
She'd gotten her flight rescheduled, purchased a ticket for Naruto, and all in a timely manor. She even stopped in at one of the shops to pick up something for them to snack on while they waited for their flight. All in all today was just perfect! "I hope you have a sweat tooth or two" Audrey cheerfully said as she came up to the row of seats she's left the boy at. Peering over the back of the seat she'd expected to see the boy only to find a sticky note in his place.
In retrospect maybe she shouldn't have left a small child alone. Shaking the thought out of her head she shot her hand out for the note. Hopefully it'll have something reassuring written on it before complete panic overtakes her.
"Sceptile, return!" Erin called out as she held out the pokemon's ball to bring it back. Even with Sceptile's speed it was impossible to keep avoiding those attacks after the damage it had already sustained. Putting its ball back in place she then reached for a new pokeball. "Milotic to the field! Pick up where Sceptile left off!" Erin told her pokemon as she tossed out its ball.
From the ball a long, elegant, serpent like pokemon emerged. Its snout was short in contrast to the long point on the back of its head. Immediately above its large red and black eyes were a long aquatic whisker for each. The whiskers quickly went from the tan color that the main part of its body had to a gentle red almost pink. Just above the whiskers was the start of two long appendages of the same color that seemed to frame its face like hair would. The lower third of it's long body had a pattern of blur pentagons with a few red-pink pentagons mixed in. On the end of its tail was a fanned out fin made up of four separate blue ovals with a red-pink center to them.
"Milotic use scald" Erin commanded and in seconds er beloved pokemon followed threw with her command. With a quick flick on its head back then forward Milotic unleashed a scalding blast of water at Typhlosion. To avoid the boiling water Typhlosion rolled to the side before coming to a stop on its hands and feet.
"Don't let them have the advantage buddy! Get in close and give them a shock!" Desmond called out with a pumped out fist. It was hard to tell who was more thrilled between him and his typhlosion. Giving a nod Typhlosion began running at Milotic on all fours as its opponent continued shooting water at it.
While of of Milotic's attacks had missed it didn't seem to bother it or Erin as Typhlosion got closer and closer. Reaching within arms reach of Milotic Typhlosion's right paw clenched into a fist and started to crackle with electricity. Just as Typhlosion's punch was about to land Milotic shifted it's body out of its path. With Desmond cheering it on Typhlosion only continued to throw punches, its determined expression growing and growing with each miss.
The more Milotic avoided Typhlosion's thunder punches the easier it was for it to completely surround Typhlosion with its long body. Even getting to the point where Typhlosion was nearly tripping over Milotic and its freedom of movement was becoming difficult. While it was amusing to watch Erin decided to speed things up a bit before Typhlosion completely exhausted itself, "Use attract".
Brining its head over Typhlosion's shoulder as it went through another swing Milotic gave it an endearing wink that sent sparkling hearts at Typhlosion. The moment those hears made contact with Typhlosion's cheek its body halted in the middle of another attack, its arm relaxing and falling down to its side the electricity fading into nothing as it becomes putty in Milotic's embrace.
"Guah! Typhlosion! Come on, get your head in the game!" Desmond cried out in frustration as he watched his partner coo in content as Milotic gently stroked its chin with its tail.
"Sorry Desmond but your typhlosion has simply become smitten with my lovely milotic" Erin said with a shrug and a smug grin. "Do you want to send out a different pokemon now or should I just finish off Typhlosion here?" she asked her friend.
"Son of a" Desmond muttered under his breath as he brought Typhlosion's pokeball up and recalled the pokemon. Grabbing another pokeball he tossed it straight up. "Take to the sky Skarmory!" Desmond shouted as the pokemon came out.
From the light that escaped the red and white ball a large metal bird formed. It had piercing yellow with a metal frill coming off the back of its head and its wings seemed like they were made of blades rather than feathers.
Seeing Desmond's skarmory Naruto couldn't help himself from glancing up at Murkrow with a "Why can't you be cool like that?". Murkrow's response was a swift, hard peck to the boy's forehead.
"Naruto!" the blond heard Audrey's panicked voice while swatting Murkrow away. Looking behind him he caught barely a glance of he woman before he found himself pulled into a smothering embrace. "Please forgive this irresponsible professor! I never should have left you by yourself! I'm so sorrrrryyy!" Audrey cried out as she clung to the boy.
"A-Audrey!" Naruto weakly cried out as he managed to tilt hid head up and out of the woman's chest though it didn't seem to get through to her at all seeing how caught up in the moment she was. For the life of him Naruto couldn't figure out why she was so upset but he knew that he didn't want to see her cry.
That being said he also didn't want to be squeezed to death. Unfortunately he wasn't going to get any help from the pokemon as they were either unconcerned, enjoying the show, or just unable to help him out.
While the young blond was having his own issues down in the arena the battle was still going on. "Don't ease up on them in the slightest!" Erin told her milotic as it continued to keep Skarmory away with scald attacks.
It wasn't looking good for Desmond and Skarmory right now. While they had an advantage with their ability to fly above their opponent Skarmory wasn't the fastest pokemon. It had already taken damage and had even received a burn. Feeling like he was being pushed against a wall Desmond was about to tell Skarmory to use sky attack in the hope that they could get through this with brute strength when Erin recalled Milotic.
"It's not fun if you keep running around like that" the woman quipped as she brought out a new ball. "Let's change that!" she said as she tossed the ball up with a swing in her hip.
From the ball emerged a green pokemon that kept itself up with red outlined diamond shaped wings. It had a slender, light green body with a darker green stripe like pattern on it's tail. At the end of it's tail was a fanned out part that looked like it was made out of three smaller versions of it's wings. The start of it's legs were wider then the lower portion with both the top and very tip having that same dark green color. It's thin arms ended in small hands with three clawed fingers on each one. On top of it's long neck sat it's head with a short snout, large red tinted, goggle like dome lenses over its eyes, and two dark green, long horn like offshoots coming off the back of its head.
"Flygon, end this with a fire punch" Erin told her dragon with an outstretched hand. Flygon didn't need to hear her twice as its right hand burst into flames and it shoot toward Skarmory. Despite its best attempts Skarmory didn't have a change in avoiding the attack as Flygon moved in below it and sent a fire punch into its chest and then moving up and landing another hit to its back, sending the metal bird down to the ground.
When the dust cleared it was obvious that Skarmory was out for the count and the referee called it as such. "Skarmory, return" Desmond said as he held out Skarmory's pokeball and brought it back. After thanking his pokemon he reached back for Typhlosion's ball. It all came down to this, even if they lost they were definitely going to put on a good show.
"Let's give it all we've got Typhlosion!" Desmond loudly said as he once more tossed out the pokemon's ball and brought it to the field. Hearing Erin tell her Flygon to use earthquake Desmond told Typhlosion to grab hold of Flygon before it hit the ground. It was close but just before Flygon hit the ground for its attack Typhlosion slammed into it and tackled it to the ground a few feet away.
"Great! Don't let go and use crush claw!" Desmond called out. Raising its right arm Typhlosion's claws started to glow white. As it was bringing its attack down Flygon shifted beneath it and knocked Typhlosion off balance.
Rolling off its back Flygon stretched out its wings before taking off with a frantic Typhlosion grabbing hold of its tail before it took off. While Typhlosion weighed it down it didn't stop Flygon from taking to the air again.
"Shake Typhlosion off and hit it with a dragon claw!" Erin told Flygon. Performing a front-flip Flygon used the force of the spin to slip Typhlosion off it's tail. Now free Flygon spun around in the air and waited for Typhlosion to fall in front of it as its arms were coated in green energy that formed into large claws and finally smacking the pokemon back down to the arena.
With Typhlosion slowly pulling itself up Erin told Flygon once more to use earthquake. Now that it couldn't be stopped Flygon shot down to the ground before making another front-flip and slamming the thick part of its tail into the ground, sending shock-waves through the ground and breaking apart the field.
Having no way to avoid the attack Typhlosion was forced to take the full brunt of the damage and ultimately being knocked dropped shoulders and a sigh Desmond recalled Typhlosion as the referee announced Erin the winner. It would've been nice to win but that wasn't what this was about anyway. "So what did you think Naru-huh?" Desmond was calling out to the boy as he looked up into the stands to see Audrey sitting with Naruto in her lap and her arms wrapped around him.
The kid didn't seem all too enthusiastic about the situation but Desmond couldn't help but smile at the sight. "Looks like we had another spectator. Guess my skills are just too good not to be noticed! Hahaha!" the guy joked with a hearty laugh as Erin walked over to him, shaking her head at his usual antics.
"We're sorry for worrying you like that" Erin apologized to Audrey after the group had left the arena and made it back to the main lobby. She knew better but this is what she gets for listening to Desmond.
"No, no. I was being irresponsible. I should be thanking you for keeping Naruto company while I was busy" the professor told the pair. She was incredibly worried when Naruto wasn't there but at least no one got hurt.
"Ha! You're welco-OWowowowow!" Desmond was saying with a big grin when Erin grabbed hold of his cheek and pinched hard.
"What are to going on about? You're the cause of all of this!" Erin told the guy before letting go off his face. "Just because it worked out in the end doesn't mean you're not an idiot" the girl told him as she folded her arms over her chest.
"Ha ha when you're right... you're right" Desmond said as she rubbed his sore cheek. He still thought his idea was ingenious but he wouldn't get anywhere if he tried to argue his point with her.
Well, while it had been fun the two of them rally couldn't stay here forever. So grabbing their things Erin and Desmond said their goodbyes as they turned to leave. Looking over his shoulder Desmond gave the blond one last word of advice, "Try not to worry your mom too much".
While Naruto was just confused by what he said Audrey's cheeks flushed red at his misunderstanding. "But, I'm not" the woman got out but the pair had already struck up a conversation with one another as they walked away. Closing her open mouth Audrey looked down at the boy next to her. Did they really look like a mother and son? They hardly shared any physical features.
Shaking the thought from her head she figured that it didn't matter how people saw them. She was responsible for his well being and she wasn't about to let anything bad happen to him.
As if to interrupt her inner moment of determination it was announced that their flight was going to be boarding shortly. Hastily taking hold of the boy's hand she led him, Zorua, Petilil, and Murkrow to where they needed to be.