Bored...so very bored.
Chapter 8: Training Session
"Where did you get that ribbon?!" I yelled. There was no way this was her. This charmander didn't even have the same facial expression. It was pissed, like 'I hate the world' pissed.
"What's it to you?! You're just another fucking asshole in this fucking world!" Same voice, except I understood it this time instead of just 'Char, char, charmander.'
"Answer me!" I yelled and advanced towards her. There are only two answers to her having that ribbon; she stole it from my charmander, or this is her. I stopped when our faces were no more than an inch away..
"Why should I?" She yelled back. I saw her claws glowing as she prepared to use metal claw. If I have to fight her to get my answers then so be it. I can get them through battle, I'll know if it's her because my charmander knew heat wave. They can learn it, but it's nearly impossible since their fire power isn't that great compared to their evolutions.
"I'll beat the answers out of you if I have to." I said, clenching my fist.
"Bring it..." She swung at my face, I didn't move. Her claw passed right in front of me. She grinned and said, "This should be fun." Flames escaped her mouth as she said that. She blew the fire she had stored at the moment at my face, I ducked under it and punched her in the gut. A bad move because she bent over and coughed up more fire into my face. Is this what grass pokemon feel when they are burned? This felt hundreds of times worse than being burned when I was a human and it wasn't even a constant stream, just a little fireball. Fighting off the pain, I swung at her again, but she saw it coming and jumped back out of range and glared at me. She waited for me to make a move, so I did. I charged at her but stopped right in front of her just out of her range as she threw a flaming right hook at me. I felt the heat from the fire, if that hit I would've been out.
"Alright, if that's how you want to do it..." I said and put up my guard. She began swinging wildly at me, I just backed up and dodged whenever she would have hit. "Come on. As strong as you are, you can't even hit a treecko with no true battle experience?" I taunted, before punching her in between the eyes. If battling is this easy, I'll have no problem in the future. Well at least not with pokemon the same size as me. I threw three more punches, two in her face and one in the gut. She clenched her stomach in agony. I kicked her down and pinned her with my foot. "I'll ask you again. Where did you get that ribbon?" She spit some blood in my face, grabbed my leg and pulled, making me fall. She then flipped over on top of me and held me down.
"How about I make you a deal, if you win I'll answer any questions." She said
"And if I lose?"
"You get the fuck out of my life." She prepared a flamethrower, but I head butted her and pushed her off me before she could fire it.
"It's a deal then." I ran forward and jumped as she stood up. She blew fire at the ground, it began to swirl around her. I never knew fire spin could be used defensively like this. "Oh crap!" I yelled and started flailing in midair as I fell. There was a loud explosion like sound almost like a sonic boom, I was flung forward towards the fiery vortex at a high speed. I passed through the fire unharmed and slammed into her as I flew through the other side with her following. "What the hell was that?!"
"So you know aerial ace. Okay then no more playing around." So that was aerial ace. If only I knew how I did that.
"So you were only playing around? Does that mean you're going to start using everything you know?" I asked. Back when I was a human, I had a book about charmanders. If I was to be taking care of one I wanted to be doing it at least somewhat right. In that book it had a list of moves they learned through training, TMs, tutoring, or are born with. The book also told how to teach them the moves that weren't learned through TMs. I spent a lot of time teaching her those moves, at least four years. Any charmander could know any and all of these. The only tutored moves she doesn't know are; sleep talk, swagger, snore, and swift.
She spewed smoke everywhere. I couldn't see or breathe in this cloud of smoke. I could hear her footsteps through the grass, but I couldn't pinpoint her exact position. I never let her get behind me, but I couldn't try to run out of the smoke cloud or I'd leave myself open.
"Let's see just how good you are." I heard her voice behind me and quickly turned around, she wasn't there. Something hit me hard in the back of my head leaving me dazed and off balance.
"I have to get out of here" I said to myself and stumbled in whatever direction I was facing. She grabbed my arm, jumped into the air dragging me along and threw me back to where I think was the center of the cloud. I regretted teaching her seismic toss at this moment. I hit the ground head first causing a massive migraine. The ground felt like it was spinning at this point.
"You're not going anywhere treecko." She from somewhere. I struggled to stand but this migraine was making everything hard. There was a light straight ahead that grew larger and brighter that revealed itself as a flamethrower. In my current condition there is no way I could dodge that. The flames engulfed me, but it didn't burn. It took me a second to realize this, when I did I looked at my arm and saw that it was orange. The same orange as her. The color changes work just like a kecleon's apparently. The smoke cloud was diminishing and I could make out her figure running at me, arm glowing. She hit, right in my gut making me cough up blood. I fell to my knees clenching my stomach. "Not so tough now are you." She said and kicked me really hard in the face, knocking me to the ground.
"I'm just getting started." I said as I struggled to stand.
"Wait, since when were you orange? You weren't always orange. What the hell is going in?" She asked.
"Why should I answer you when you won't answer me?" That pissed her off, she blew more fire at me. It still didn't effect me. I managed to stand and spit out the blood that had built up in my mouth. She punched me again making me stumble. I could see the anger in her eyes. She's really pissed now, probably because I refused to go down.
"Why, won't, you, stay, DOWN?!" With each word she hit me again. To be honest I had no idea why I wouldn't go down.
"Because you're weak and can't even take down what's weaker than you. This all you got? I've met magikarp who throw better punches than you and they don't have hands!" I taunted. I could see steam rising from her body and her tail flame changed to blue. She's really pissed off right now. This could have been a big mistake trying to get her to use heat wave. I should've just beat the crap outta her. I had every opportunity to.
"You're really pissing me off right now." Right now she was snarling at me. I only grinned back which made her even more angry.
"What are you going to do about it, huh? All you've done so far was bitch about me not staying down. You don't even deserve to be part of the charmander family for being as weak as you are." She lost it when I said that, practically foaming at the mouth.
"You're going to wish you never said that." She burst into flames and charged at me roaring. Her tail flame was now white, hot enough for her to use heat wave.
"Your weak little flare blitz won't even burn the grass." I should have stopped taunting her, the flames had turned blue. She's probably about to kill me. She was swinging at me in blind rage. It's actually easier to dodge her attacks now that she isn't even thinking about anything but hurting and or killing me. She landed a blow to my face, knocked me to the ground, sat on my chest and began repeatedly punching me in the face. Blind rage may had made her attacks less accurate, but they hurt a hell of a lot more. The migraine that I still had just intensified with each blow. I began to feel less and less as I slowly slipped away, but I resisted. I have to get her to use heat wave. I must know if this is her or not. She finally stopped after dealing well over 30 blows to my face.
"Who's the weak one now?!" She yelled. I spit at her face, but instead of blood it was a fireball. I can breathe fire? No it must be...The color changing! It must give me the type and the moves of the pokemon I made contact with. I guess this explains why I wouldn't go down, endure.
"What the hell?! Now you're breathing fire?! I truly am going crazy." She said. Her flare blitz died down, but her tail flame was still white and she was still steaming. I took a deep breath and held it for a moment. I could feel it being superheated in the back of my throat. I exhaled and flames shot out, pushing her about a meter or so away.
"I-I'm not done yet..." I struggled to stand. After a beating like that I'm not sure if I can stand.
"You just won't stay down will you?" She asked
"It'll take much more than that for you to even hope to keep me down." So far I made it up to my knees.
"Okay fine, no more holding back!" She yelled and waited for me to stand.
"Alright no more holding back then." I said after standing. Right now as hurt as I am I technically wasn't holding back, but if I can use mega drain or even absorb then I might have a chance. Just have to stop her for just a moment.
We slowly advanced towards each other, watching for the slightest move and opening. Our faces literally touched and still neither of us made a move.
"Well...that was pointless. Make your move." I said while stepping back.
"I already know your plan, you're going to try to use absorb or mega drain aren't you?" Crap busted.
"You got me, but can you stop me from trying?" I asked. She grinned and started to run...in ten different directions. Double team really complicates things at the worst possible times. I know for a fact that she's going to avoid staying within range and in front of me. Each clone circled me which only made it harder to figure out which one was the real one.
"What's wrong? I thought you were going to try and absorb my energy. Or can you not find out where I am?" Each clone said this. She really mastered double team. Normally pokemon can't even get them to move let alone speak. Substitute and double team are connected, but it's impossible to spawn this many substitutes without being completely drained. Just one takes a lot of energy and ten is just too many. I'm not going to take my chances with mega drain and attempting to use absorb is out of the question, but maybe if I can pull off giga drain. I held my arms out to my sides and concentrated as hard as I could. Absorb only works when making contact, mega drain is in an area in front of you, but giga drain is a large radius completely surrounding you. Any living thing within this field will have its energy drained and absorbed by the user. The user's wounds will heal depending on how much they can get, any excess energy will be stored and can later on be used for any grass type move. I could feel the pain and aches fading all over my body, my wounds were healing fast. I kept this up till I couldn't get anything more out of the area.
"So THAT'S how you use moves! All it takes is a bit of concentration!" I said out loud to myself. After learning this I completely forgot about the fight. "Oh yeah I'm going to enjoy being in this body." Truthfully it doesn't take only concentration to use anything, you have to know it first and train yourself to use it.
"Shit...forgot about...giga drain." I remembered we were fighting and turned to where I heard her voice. She was clenching her shoulders and shivering. Her tail flame had shrunken and was sputtering. If she's still standing then blaze should kick in any second now. The color of the tail flame of a charmander does not determine whether blaze is active or not, it shows how angry they are. The more angry the whiter the flame, they can calm down and the effect will last for some time afterwards. If their body is steaming then they're either getting ready to use flare blitz or are as pissed as they can be. Blaze makes the tail flame about 3 times larger and the flames they breathe become more intense. They can use dragonbreath, but only after blaze is active. The same applies to charmeleon, but not charizard. Charizard can use it at any time they want.
I didn't know whether to end this fight now or to wait for blaze to kick in. I was enjoying myself in this fight, but even the resistance I currently have won't be enough to protect me from her strengthened flames. In fact the only reason I haven't been burned by it already is because she never let out a constant stream of fire. I waited anyway, her tail flame grew larger till it was more than twice its original size.
"You just made a big mistake by letting my ability take effect." There were flames escaping from between her fangs as she snarled at me.
"I could care less, I'm just enjoying myself. You said no more holding back, so show me everything you've got! I'll STILL take you down!" Getting cocky probably isn't the best thing to do at any time. It happens anyway though, you just can't help it. It's what makes things more fun.
She charged at me, fists in blue flames instead of orange. I tried to do the same, but my arm was green. I reverted back to normal. The change doesn't last long at all. It's only been about ten minutes since I changed.
"Shit, I'm in trouble now." I muttered. Can't get hit, can't even get close without being at risk. I could feel the heat emanating from her as she closed in. She swung, faster than before and just barely missed, but the flames nicked my chest which stung pretty bad. I have too get away from her, being close will only slowly wear me down. Staying at a distance my be more dangerous, but at least I will be able to see it coming. She kept swinging and advancing which was preventing me from getting away because I couldn't find a time to jump back without her being able to catch me where I can't dodge. As open as she was I couldn't attack without her returning the hit with more force. I swung back, but she grabbed my arm which caused some serious burns in that spot. She grinned and started punching me in the face with her free arm. Who knew you could learn so much from watching someone else fight, everything physical she has done so far was something I had done to someone else back when I was human. She pulled at my arm and made me stumble past her. I regained my balance and clenched the burn on my arm to try and ease the pain. Touching it only made it worse, much worse. I heard her laughing right in my ear, when did she get so close?! She grabbed me from behind and bit down onto my shoulder. Normally I don't scream from anything not even a hard hit, but this was just unimaginably painful. I screamed so hard I could see the air ripple in front of me. It burned worse than when she grabbed my arm. I counted the seconds she stayed on in my head as my body went numb. Silence filled the air and she finally let go. I fell to my knees. The world blurred and darkened.
"N-N...No..." Was all I could get out before falling to the ground...
I changed the ending to this to what I feel like it should have been. If you read the version before this one I want you to know that was NOT my idea. It was my GF's, she said to make it end in a heart warming moment where she learns who Jason is. We argued for awhile and finally she won and I wrote it that way...I seriously don't know how she won that argument.
If you're wondering how the charmander got around Jason's tail without him knowing well, so will he. It'll pop up eventually.