Pokemon Quest
Start: Friday, October 16
League Challenge begins: Sunday July 3rd (33 weeks total)
by Adrimiz7
-Begin week ten-
Adrian has breakfast in the cafeteria. For some reason, his fellow students are energetically moving with excitement.
"I can't wait!" a student exclaims.
"Yeah, it's finally here."
"Erika coming was an excelsior lead in to this week."
'What are they going on about?' Adrian wonders.
Adrian rises to look for Caitlin.
'Maybe she could explain.'
"Cinnabar Island, here we come!" Adrian hears another student say.
Adrian pauses.
'Shoot, I completely forgot about the class trip!' Adrian scolds himself.
Adrian quickly finishes his breakfast and rushes back to his room.
'Gotta pack, gotta pack, gotta pack!' Adrian panics.
…..
In his room, Adrian packs shorts, t-shirts, and swim wear. His pokemon look at him questioningly.
"You realize it's winter." Weepingbell says with his face.
"Oh, you guys don't know." Adrian realizes, "Cinnabar Island, where we're going, is a volcano island. The volcano keeps the area nice and warm year round. Therefore, the beach stays open even in the winter. Then at night, the air cools down enough making it perfect for hot spring bathing."
…..
Adrian stands on the edge of the S.S. Suijin and deeply inhales the salty air. In his hands is a brochure stating all the attractions of the island.
'There's the science lab, a burned down mansion, a volcano, hot springs, the beach, and a gym. There's quite a bit to do.'
"Neh, I'll worry about that later." Adrian yawns entering the ship.
'Instead, maybe the captain can tell me stories about rare water pokemon...'
…..
"Ok class," Principe announces, "You are free to roam the island for the rest of the day. Just return to this hotel by ten, tomorrow we will begin the island tour."
The teenagers break off into groups and prepare tp explore the island.
"Let's check out the mansion first." many resolve.
"To the beach!" others exclaim.
'I think I'll go to the lab first.' Adrian decides. 'It should be in this direction.'
…..
"Found it." Adrian happily declares. He opens the door and walks in.
"Can I help you?" A secretary asks.
"Yes, what kind of laboratory is this?"
"We focus our research on pokemon fossils."
Adrian blinks, "Like this one?" He fishes out the fossil Bill gave him long ago.
The secretary freezes, "Tha-that fossil. It's a Dome fossil! Come this way, please!"
Lost in excitement, the secretary drags Adrian down the hall.
'Where is he taking me?'
They walk into a room with large tubes. The tubes are full with a strange green blue liquid.
'What the heck is this?' Adrian wonders.
"Professor!" the secretary cries, "Come quick, this boy has a Dome fossil!"
"A Dome fossil? Excellent!" a deep voice replies.
From around the corner emerges a thick mustached scientist. If Adrian had to guess, he would place the man as being in his fifties.
"Welcome," scientist exclaims. "I am Dr. Extin. May I see that fossil of yours?"
Adrian hands over his fossil and waits as Dr. Extin examines it.
"Yes, I believe we can bring this one back. What do you say, want to bring this fellow back- I apologize, but what is your name?"
"I'm Adrian. What do you mean by bring it back?"
"Your fossil, we can revive the pokemon contained in this fossil. Would you like for us to do so?"
"That would be wicked!" Adrian exclaims in excitement. "But, how?"
"Great, come this way." Dr. Extin laughs.
Dr. Extin leads Adrian to a group of machines.
"First, we place the fossil on this scanner." Extin places the fossil in a box like contraption and presses a button.
From the glass, Adrian sees a neon green light engulf his fossil.
"The scanner examines the fossil for any impurities that need to be removed. Then we place the fossil in an oxygen chamber over there."
"Beep." The scanner rings.
Dr. Extin removes the fossil and places it within an oxygen chamber.
"Here, the impurities of the fossil are cleaned away leaving behind only the pokemon's remains. This is done with pressurized oxygen. Depending on how the fossil is preserved, it may take a few hours. Your fossil, however, is pretty clean so it should only be a few more minutes."
"Boop" The oxygen chamber rings.
Dr. Extin takes the fossil and places it within one of the tubes.
"The liquid in this tube helps dissolve the fossil and exposes the trapped DNA. The computer reads the DNA and uses the information to create a new pokemon here in the neighboring tube next to the fossil. The second tube is rich in amino acids which are necessary to build the new pokemon."
Adrian stares at the second tube and realizes the color of the liquid is different from blue green. Instead, the color is a dark yellow green.
"Give it some time, and a new pokemon will be born here in this tube. The length depends on the complexity of the pokemon being revived. Just check in tomorrow and I'll be able to give you a more accurate reading on when to expect the pokemon."
"Great, thanks."
"But, before you go. Just in case the pokemon is finished before tomorrow, do you have a pokeball to store it in?"
"I have this lure ball, but I'm saving it for a water pokemon."
"Well then, this is perfect. Most fossils found in Kanto are water rock pokemon. It is highly likely this pokemon will be of the water type as well."
"Awesome!" Adrian exclaims handing over his lure ball.
"By the way," Adrian asks, "is there anything I could do to help out?"
"Hmmm, at the moment no. But tomorrow, there might be someone here who could uses your help."
"Then, I'll be back tomorrow." Adrian declares as he excuses himself.
Adrian returns to the hotel and enters his room. Luckily, no one wants to be his room mate leaving him with a private room.
"Come on out guys." Adrian calls his pokemon.
Making themselves comfortable, they each drift off to sleep.
…..
Adrian awakens, recalls his pokemon, and proceeds to the lounge for breakfast.
Adrian finishes his meal and heads to the main lobby. There, he and other students wait for the day's lessons to begin.
…..
The students divide into seven groups. In Adrian's group, there are fifteen students who are being lead by Jasmine, the history professor.
"Look around everyone." Jasmine announces, "the students beside you will be your team for the rest of the week."
Adrian looks around and spots Samuel, Jarod, and Caitlin.
'How fun...' Adrian laments.
"Come along now," Jasmine calls, "we have quite a bit to cover today."
As they begin walking into town, Jasmine continues, "First, we're going to start with the laboratories."
'Uh oh.' Adrian panics.
"Here on Cinnabar Island, the researchers focus on pokemon fossils." Jasmine continues, "Eventually, they found a way to clone fossilized pokemon. Because of this, trainers can raise and battle with pokemon that have gone long extinct. This exciting thought has led many trainers onto archeological digs for fossils."
"One day, I'll find one too." Samuel shouts out.
'We're here.' Adrian recognizes the lab from the other day. 'If Dr. Extin is here... No!'
"Well class, let's go inside." Jasmine enters the building.
The students file inside with Adrian entering last. Once inside, Adrian darts for a bathroom he saw the other day.
Adrian holds his breath as he leans against the door. Straining his ears, he tries to listen in on the lecture being held in the hall.
"Everyone, this is Dr. Extin. He is the head researcher on this island." Jasmine introduces their host.
"Welcome everyone, we've got a treat for you today. Just last night, a trainer came in with a fossil which we are currently reviving. Once we step into the revival room, you'll be able to see the pokemon as it forms. Right this way please."
As Adrian listens, he hears the group walk away. He opens the door slightly and looks around. Not seeing anyone, Adrian steps out in relief.
'Wait, that's my pokemon they're all going to ogle at!' Adrian realizes.
As Adrian is about to run after the group he stops.
'But I can't just jump out there...'
Deciding he can't just stand there in the lobby, Adrian walks down the hall as well, albeit at a slower pace. All the while, he is trying to come up with a solution to his problem.
"Odd, didn't anyone realize I left the group..." the thought occurs to Adrian.
…..
"-ver here we have our scanner." Adrian hears Dr. Extin explain to the class from behind the door.
'I can't just stand out here. If I skip, then I'll get in trouble.' Adrian thinks, 'But, going in is worse. Arghh, what do I do?'
Adrian hears foot steps coming and proceeds further down the hall. To his side, he sees a door and enters.
Inside, Adrian notices that everyone is looking threw a window. Curios, Adrian looks threw the window as well.
"What... is that?" Adrian asks in shock.
Before Adrian is an image of a larva like creature beginning to grow a shell. On the side, he could read statistics about the organism. Most of it, however, made no sense to him.
"Don't you understand the magnificence before you!" A person passionately exclaims turning around.
"Not in the slightest..." Adrian meekly replies. Although he could withstand be harassed, this was Adrian's first time facing such passion.
"Youth!" another man tuts.
"Come here boy!" another man drags Adrian to the screen. "This here is life!"
"Li-life..." Adrian repeats, his voice shaking.
'They aren't being violent. I don't know what to do. How do I get out of this mess?'
"Ah, professor!" the first man shouts. "Come please, explain to this child the miracle he beholds!"
Adrian turns and see a woman wearing glasses and a lab coat.
"I'm sorry child," the scientist apologizes upon seeing Adrian's face, "these men mean no harm. My name is Rachel and I'm one of Dr. Extin's scientists. These men are just enthusiastic. It's the first time they get to see a pokemon cloned from a fossil."
Adrian breaths in relief.
'So they're just pokemon enthusiasts. Good people in other words.'
"They're even more excited due to some special statistics about this fossil."
"Special statistics?" Adrian asks.
"Yes, according to this data, this pokemon, Kabutops, was rare in that it could learn ice based attacks such as icy wind and aurora beam."
"That doesn't look like a kabutops." Adrian questions while recording this new information on his pokedex.
"Well yes, this is a clone of the original pokemon. Clone pokemon, although they possesses the same potential as the originals, still have to start from scratch. It all depends on how their trainers raise them."
"So it's up to the trainer... Awesome!" Adrian concludes. "But why is this kabutops rare?"
"Kabutops are unable to learn those two attacks. They can only learn them by breeding with other pokemon of different species. This isn't something that occurs very often in the wild."
'So this is my pokemon.' Adrian stares. Happiness flows inside of him.
"So you do understand!" the men rejoice.
"Child, this is your fossil, no?" Rachel asks, "If I recall correctly, you brought it in last night."
"Yeah, coming here was one o-" Adrian stops realizing what he is saying.
By then, all eyes in the room are shining and on him.
"Perfect, come with me. Dr. Extin is expecting you."
Scientist Rachel takes Adrian's hand and leads him to a corridor.
…..
"Doctor," Rachel calls out interrupting Dr. Extin's speech.
'No no no nooo!' Adrian silently moans.
"Ah Rachel, I see you found a student." Dr. Extin cuts off Rachel. "Greetings young man, I am Dr. Extin. Did you get lost on the way here?"
"Yeah, I went to the bathroom and when I came out, everyone was gone." Adrian admits.
'Ehh, is he... acting?'
"Well then, you're in for a treat today. As I told your classmates, there is currently a kabuto in the process of being cloned. Not only that, but according to some of our exams, it appears that this kabuto is rare, she has some special characteristics." Dr. Extin smiles.
"That's great." Adrian replies.
'What the heck is going on!'
…..
Dr. Extin finishes his speech and leads the group further into the laboratory. Adrian, feeling uncomfortable at the front and near Dr. Extin, brings up the rear.
Someone suddenly places a hand on Adrian's shoulder.
Adrian looks over and jumps.
"Pro-professor Oak!" Adrian stammers shock evident on his face.
"Why, hello there, Adrian. I see that you met Dr. Extin." Professor Oak whispers in good nature.
"Wha-what are you doing here?" Adrian quickly stammers.
"Calm down, calm down." Professor Oak laughs, "There have been rumors of a mysterious pokemon located on the eastern coast of the island. However, when I arrived, Dr. Extin asked me to examine a special kabuto he's cloning. When I accepted, I didn't realize this was your pokemon. Yet, the moment I saw you panicking outside, I understood everything."
"Thank you for helping me." Adrian bows understanding Dr. Extin's behavior.
'I would be so dead if Professor Oak wasn't here.' Adrian admits to himself.
"Now, since your here, would you mind helping me by looking into that mysterious pokemon?"
"Yes, it would be my pleasure."
"Good, find me after your lessons end, I'll be in the laboratory. I'll explain everything then."
…..
"Ah, Adrian!" Dr. Extin greets, "Welcome back. You're kabuto will be ready in two days."
"That's great Doctor!" Adrian grins in anticipation.
"Now then," Professor Oak starts, "Adrian, as I've mentioned there are rumors of a pokemon located on the eastern shore. The lab work here is very demanding so I would like for you to investigate those rumors."
"Of course, what does the pokemon look like?"
"Well, that's one of the tasks we want you to look into. There have been a couple of reports, but each seems to describe a different pokemon."
"Then, couldn't this be a ditto?"
"That is a possibility, however, whenever this specific pokemon appears strange events tend to occur." Dr. Extin adds.
"What kind?"
"This is what we've been able to surmise so far." Professor Oak reads from a paper, "First, this pokemon only appears along the eastern shore of the island. To find it, you must be ankle to waist deep in the water. Second, this pokemon can change it's appearance. It's appearances aren't limited to pokemon. Third, when this pokemon appears, electrical devices tend to glitch or malfunction. Fourth, trainers have reported capturing this pokemon, however, the pokemon seems to have disappeared from the pokeball by the time the trainers retrieve the pokeball."
Professor Oak hands the document to Adrian.
"Number three..." Adrian begins, "This means no one can take a picture of it, doesn't it? How do we know this isn't a practical joke?"
"To be honest, Adrian," Professor Oak replies, "we don't. As researchers, it isn't our job to judge whether rumors are true or not."
"No," Dr. Extin continues, "as researchers we strive for the truth hidden beneath rumors regardless of where that may lead us."
'That's... so cool.' Adrian awes.
…..
Adrian stands on the eastern shore of the island surveying the beach before him. The land before him is vacant, void of human development.
'Looks like this spot is pretty secluded.'
Adrian stores his socks and shoes in his bag and proceeds onto the beach.
"Hey professor! Wait!" a voice calls.
A teen comes into Adrian's view and stops.
"Professor," The teen huffs, "are you... also looking... into... the strange pokemon?"
Adrian smiles to himself.
'Looks like the disguise worked.'
"Great, but we can't have you go out like this." Professor Oak informs Adrian, "It's quite possible your fellow classmates will be there looking into the rumor as well. You're going to need a disguise."
"Which is why we prepared these for you." Dr. Extin holds out a white lab coat, an outdoors cap, and sun glasses. "With these, you look like a professional researcher."
…..
"It's debatable on whether that pokemon exists or not, but I am here to find the truth." Adrian replies pocketing his hands within his lab coat.
'I feel so cool right now!' Adrian celebrates within himself.
"Fuzz." the teen complains and leaves.
'What was that about?'
…..
Adrian wades back and forth threw the water for a few hours. He emerges from the water sighing.
'Nothing, guess I'll come back tomorrow.'
…..
'Maybe I'll find something today.' Adrian hopes on his third day of searching.
Adrian enters the water and begins to walk down the shore.
Suddenly, a water column rises.
Instinctively, Adrian takes a defensive posture while grabbing a pokeball.
The water falls off the column leaving behind a tower of blocks.
"Blocks?" Adrian questions.
The blocks begin glowing. As they glow brighter, they begin changing shape becoming more round. The glow fades revealing a dark purple egg shaped ghost with two floating hands. Within the hands, the creature creates ice balls, which it throws at Adrian.
Jumping to the side, Adrian immediately calls out Weepingbell with Haunter following.
"Haunter, hypnosis! Weepingbell, razor leaf!"
Hypnosis does not affect the creature who raises its hand and stops the leafs. The creature then fires dark spheres from its hands towards Weepingbell.
"Weepingbell, protect! Haunter, night shade!"
The creature withers in pain as the attack takes affect.
"Weepingbell, acid! Haunter, sucker punch!"
The attacks hit and the creature falls into the water. Moments later a Magmar emerges.
'It transformed!'
"Kabuto, Dratini, your turn!" Adrian switches his two pokemon.
"Kabuto, scratch! Dratini, thunder bolt!"
The creature jumps avoiding the attack and fires an ice beam.
"Dratini, protect! Kabuto, get behind Dratini!"
The ice beam hits the barrier and dissipates.
'It can ignore type based attacks and use attacks of opposing types.' Adrian notes.
"Kabuto, mud-shot! Dratini, aqua tail!"
The attacks hit the creature, but they do not affect it anymore than the previous ones did.
'Also unaffected by type disadvantages.'
The creature runs further off the shore and transforms into an aerodactyl skeleton. It spreads its wings and flies fifty meters over the sea. There, it dives into the water and swims away.
'It left...'
Adrian leaves the beach and reports to Professor Oak.
…..
"That's everything that happened?" Professor Oak asks.
"Yes. As for the glitching of electrical equipment, that's true too. After the battle, I checked my pokegear and it reset itself. Thankfully, I backed everything before going out." Adrian continues.
"Your pokedex?"
"I left it in the hotel room, I didn't want to risk damaging it."
"Well then, even though we now have more questions about this mysterious pokemon, we were able to confirm its existence as well as some characteristics. We now know that this pokemon is not bound by type restrictions in either attacking or defending. Therefore, it can use and receive attacks of any type without having the strength of the attack affected by its type. Over all, this is a success. Congratulations Adrian."
"Congratulations." Dr. Extin repeats.
"Thanks." Adrian says in embarrassment, "But, will we ever see this pokemon again?"
"It's possible, and now that we know it exists, we will continue to study it." Professor Oak replies. "One day, it too will be registered in the pokedex."
"As researchers, it is our duty to investigate unclassified and missing pokemon." Dr. Extin finishes.
…..
Adrian sighs, "Two days left. Well, at least we've been to the beach, sorta. If walking up and down the shore line counts. Still, who was that weird guy."
Adrian looks into his pokeballs.
"If we had more time today, we could have explored the mansion. Maybe we can tour the gym instead? After that, there might be enough time find a secret hot spring for ourselves."
…..
No longer wearing a lab coat, Adrian approaches the Cinnabar gym. He sees a pair standing outside the entrance. Recognizing them as students, Adrian hides behind some trees and sneaks closer. Upon getting closer, he sees they are Sam and Jarod.
"So what do we do now?" Jarod asks.
"This!" Sam calls out Machoke, "Machoke open that door!"
"Ma~choke!" the pokemon replies forcing the door open.
"Great job." Sam praises his pokemon retuning him to his pokeball.
Sam looks into the gym and shouts, "What is this!"
Jarod peeks in and exclaims, "It's just a wall!"
The two stare are the wall and grow angrier.
"If that's how he wants it, fine! But once I find him, I'm gonna tear him apart!" Sam rages storming off.
"He's gonna regret messing around with us!" Jarod fumes following after Sam.
The two leave Adrian's sight and he approaches the opening. On the door, he reads a sign,
"Find your own way inside."
Adrian chuckles and looks at the wall behind the door. On it, he finds another message which says,
"You've taken initiative, I like that. But, you're an idiot for using force. Therefore, I'll give you a clue, my gym is located somewhere else on this island.
-Blaine"
"Sounds like fun." Adrian grins walking off.
…..
"That hot spring was great." Adrian recalls walking threw the town. "Especially with no one to bother us."
"Let's worry about the gym tomorrow, there isn't enough time for it today. Instead, let's find a hot spring." Adrian says to the pokemon inside his pokeballs.
"Hey, this spot looks good and the water is perfect. Come on out everyone, let's enjoy this together!"
"But now, let's try to find that gym."
As Adrian walks of he reasons, 'Blaine specializes in fire type pokemon and gyms tend to be built so that they support the specified type. Misty had a large swimming pool, and Erika a garden. Therefore, Blaine's gym probably has an affinity to fire. Here on Cinnabar, I can only think of the burned mansion and the volcano.'
…..
Wearing his lab coat and sunglasses, Adrian hikes up the mountain side.
'This can't be too dangerous, I mean they built a city here. They wouldn't build a city here if the volcano was active.' Adrian reassures himself.
Adrian stops to catch his breath. Surveying the area, he mainly sees tall grass covering the mountain side. A shrub or two occasionally enter his vision.
"No openings in sight." Adrian pants.
'If Blaine built his gym in the volcano, then there has to be an entrance somewhere around here.'
Adrian looks up the mountain and sighs.
"Let's try looking around the sides before going any higher."
Adrian proceeds, navigating around the shrubs and rock outcroppings that occasionally obstruct his path.
Tightly clinging to a rock, Adrian inches over a narrow cliff. He looks down and sees that the ravine has a steep drop.
"Please don't break, please don't break, please don't break." Adrian prays slowly inching his feet forward.
Adrian feels his fingers wrap around a bend. Slowly he emerges back onto the mountain's slope.
"Haha," Adrian laughs in relief. "made it."
Adrian continues circling the mountain side.
"Dah!" Adrian yelps as the ground crumbles. Losing his footing, Adrian begins sliding down the mountain. Instinctively, his right hand shoots out grabbing the first thing it can.
"Huah..." Adrian sighs no longer sliding. Looking at his hand, Adrian sees that he's clinging onto a bush. Using the bush, Adrian pulls himself back up onto his feet.
No longer in danger, Adrian takes a step back and seats himself.
"That was close..." Adrian breaths his legs shaking.
Needing a distraction, Adrian looks at the time. "Three seventeen, and still nothing."
'There isn't much time left either.'
Taking a deep breath, Adrian stands and continues searching.
Adrian drops into the mountain as the ground caves in. On his back, he slides downward while attempting to stop himself with his arms. All the while, he grimaces his teeth in pain. The tunnel stops and Adrian drops into a passage way. Moaning, he stands up.
Adrian looks and removes his sunglasses. He grins at the sight of light bulbs.
"Now which way?"
Adrian makes his choice and begins walking, but stops when he hears noise.
Remaining silent, Adrian listens, 'That sounds like... a battle.'
Adrian changes his course and walks towards the sound.
'It's getting really hot.' Adrian feels sweat rolling down his face, but continues forward.
Coming to an opening, Adrian stops and sees Sam and Jarod facing off against Blaine on a platform suspended over a stream of magma.
'That's insane...' Adrian thinks.
"What's wrong?" Blaine asks the two trainers, "The heat getting to you? Or are you going to blame the volcanic fumes?"
'Is volcanic gas toxic?' Adrian worries.
"If it's the latter, then let me reassure you. The air here is filtered by a device I personally designed. But if you blame the former, then that's your incompetence!"
Samuel and Jarod grimace as their pokemon, Machoke and Magmar drop onto their knees.
"This match is over, go home!" Blaine's voice booms as he recalls his charizard. "The exit is down the tunnel behind you."
"We'll be back!" Jarod waves his fist leaving with Sam.
Once the two leave, Adrian emerges from the cave.
"Finally revealing yourself, I see." Blaine calls out.
'He knew I was here!'
"I'm shy." Adrian replies.
"Bahh! I suppose you want a battle too?" Blaine spits.
Adrian remains silent simulating the battle in his mind.
"Well!" Blaine's booming voice demands.
"I have to refuse." Adrian acknowledges Blaine's superiority
"So you're giving up!" Blaine sneers.
"Of course not!" Adrian snaps, "But right now, you're stronger than me."
"So you're just going to admit you're weaker than me! How pathetic, where's your pride?"
"Pride will only lead to my pokemon getting hurt. Something that stupid... I don't need something that stupid!"
"Hump! A trainer who actually looks ahead and notes possible flaws. Well then, come on down. Maybe you can help me with my research." Blaine proposes noting Adrian's lab coat.
…..
"So you got in threw one of the volcanic shafts? Bwahahahaha!" Blaine laughs at Adrian's tale. "I suppose that's one why of getting in here. Although, there's a good chance you could have ended in a magma pit too.
Adrian pales, "Next time, I'll find the proper path."
"Bwahahahahaha!"
…..
Adrian returns to his room that night, exhaustion evident on his face.
Getting out of the shower, Adrian collapses on his bed.
"Blaine was... brutal." Adrian moans drifting off to sleep.
…..
Adrian walks around town, killing time before the time to leave Cinnabar Island arrives.
'What to do, I've already finished packing.'
The pokegear vibrates and Adrian answers, "Hello?"
"Yes Adrian, this is Professor Oak. Could you stop by the lab really quick?"
"Sure, I'll there in a few minutes."
Hanging up, Adrian sprints to laboratory.
'Gotta hurry, I only have seven minutes.'
…..
"I'm here," Adrian announces entering the lab. "Is something wrong?"
"Ah no, I just forgot to give you this." Professor Oak replies giving Adrian an envelop.
"What is it?" Adrian stares at the envelop in his hands.
"Inside is a magnet pass, good for one year. I need you to go to Johto. Professor Elm has a package for me, but as you know, due to recent events, it's too dangerous for it to be mailed. So I would like for you to courie it for me."
"No problem, but why a year pass?"
"I may be needing you to travel back and forth between the regions."
"Cool, I will deliver this package within a few days."
…..
Adrian walks home threw the Viridian forest.
'I can't believe we had a Team Growth meeting right after getting back.'
"Pft" Adrian puffs.
'Why do they bother with the Team Growth meetings. The only honest story was that Caitlin met up with her trainer friend. Everyone else told lies and made fun of me for supposedly lying.' Adrian dirges about the previous night.
'Then today, we had another pointless assembly!' Adrian rages. 'What does it matter! Everyone knows everyone's rankings! There's no need to tell us Sam is in first, Caitlin stayed in second, and Jarod moved up onto fifth!'
"It's so stupid!" Adrian growls between his teeth. "Cloister, Ditto and Rhydon... We could beat them easily!"
Adrian hears a twig snap, stops, and turns his head glaring.
"Eep!" a voice cries and footsteps running away threw the bushes are heard.
Adrian stares, 'A girl... she ran... away from me.'
The situation depresses Adrian leaving him speechless. His mind still, he continues home.
Adrian walks threw the front door announcing, "I'm home."
"Typical," Adrian spats releasing his pokemon, "no one's home."
On the kitchen counter, Adrian finds a note.
Adrian,
We came home a few days ago, but had to leave again. We're very sorry. We left food in the fridge so you can still enjoy the holiday meal. We don't know when we'll be back, there is some trouble brewing and everyone is needed. I wish I could tell you more, but at the moment, we're not allowed to say anything. Things will be much simpler when you join the league and come out with us.
We're all very proud of you,
Mom
"Tch." Adrian clicks his tongue.
'I doubt they'd say that if they knew my grades.'
"Guys, let's eat and then get going." Adrian calls out, his voice tense.
'I'll call Duck too.'
A/N: Who's that pokemon? Does anyone know what pokemon it was Adrian fought at the beach? Winners get a special prize so try and guess. There you go everyone, Adrian is entering winter break. Giving plenty of time for the Johto arc. Then again, if you're following the calender, you'll know that Christmas is in a few day. Maybe I should wait a bit to release the next chapter and make it a Christmas gift. That way, the chapter fits the festive mood of reality. Just kidding, but this does give me an idea for the future. Read and review please.
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