Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own Pokemon, obviously.
3)I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs
4)Pokemons' speeches are "Like this"
5)Thanks RandomNumbers523156 for your review
Jack arrived home feeling quite anxious about it. His pokemon could notice by his expression what he was feeling at that moment. They couldn't blame him, though.
"I wonder if we'll enjoy our new home. I kinda wanted to stay in the orphanage with all our other friends." Touma said looking out of the window. For some reason, right after they started their car travel, Touma wasn't feeling okay. He felt like his chest was clenching.
"As long as I'm with Jack I don't care where we go. But I can't deny I'm going to miss them too." Hiro said with a sigh. He was resting his head over the boy's lap enjoying being betted in the area behind of his ears. Even though he enjoyed this feeling it did little to calm him down.
Misaka was also looking outside at the other window: "Don't be so negative, guys! Didn't you hear what they were saying? We'll be able to visit them! We'll do just great. I mean, this couple is very nice with us and Jack."
"I hope you're right…" Hiro complemented.
Jack could only hear his pokemon making sounds and wondered what they were talking about. He continued to pet the Nidorino as he sank in his own thoughts. He really hoped he would be happy with his new family, but he was entering in a unfamiliar territory and this scared him a bit.
Soon they all arrived at the big house. The couple parked the car and then John and his wife came out of the car. The man opened the door and said with a smile: "We're home, kid."
The pokemon saw that as their cue and moved slowly and got out of the car through the opened door. The Abra, though, teleported to the top of the car and was quite amazed by the size of their garage and it had just a couple of cars, besides the one they just came in.
Nidorino sniffed the floor and as he suspected everything was foreign to him. He looked around and told Misaka: "I don't know if I'll be able to live in this place…"
The Ampharos smiled and said: "Cheer up! I know you're homesick already, but think positive. Jack will be much happier here. This couple is really nice. If Jack notice that you're sad he's going to be sad too."
Hiro blinked and was taken aback when Touma teleported in front of them: "No matter how much I dislike moving away, if we don't get used to this place, Jack will know and I doubt he'll feel comfortable too. I hate to say this, but this is our new life from now on."
The other two pokemon nodded in agreement solemnly.
Meanwhile Jack got out of the car and John opened the trunk of his car and took out the bag the boy had received from Jake. Jack tried to take his bag from the man, but the adult said: "Don't worry about this, my boy." Then a butler came from the door in the garage and took the bag from his employer. "Alfred, please take this bag to our new son's room."
The butler nodded and did as he was told. Jack blinked a few times not knowing how to react to that. Sure he had just been adopted, but did they just say that they already had a room just for him? He had never had that. So he was very curious to know the room his new parents prepared just for him.
However, his parents had another plans in mind: "Do you want a tour in the house, dear?" said Jennifer.
The boy blinked for a while and said unsure: "Yes…"
Both adults smiled and went through the same door the butler had come in and out just a few minutes ago. Jack looked to his pokemon and told them to follow him and they quickly obeyed him.
The couple guided the boy through several rooms. While they were walking, John saw the same butler who had previously carried Jack's bag and the man said to his employee: "Alfred, could you please place three big and comfortable cushions for my son's pokemon in the boy's room?"
The butler raised an eyebrow, but he nodded and said: "Right away, sir." Then he left.
The boy was stunned at his adoptive father's words. 'Did he just call me son?' Sure the boy knew that he would have eventually to call them 'mom' and 'dad', but it felt alien to him.
Jack was snapped out of his thoughts when he felt something wet on his right hand. When he looked down, he saw Hiro licking it. The Nidorino could see the boy getting tense and he wanted to assure him that he was always going to be at his side and protect him.
Jack smiled and patted the purple pokemon's head. The, they all resumed the walk through the house. The couple presented Jack to all their staff and even showed him John's trophy room.
It had a wide variety of rare objects. The boy had only seen some of these things in books and most he had never seen in his life, but the man quickly told him: "Let's go, son. I'm going to show you your room."
The boy had been in the trophy room for about three minutes, but at the suggestion of knowing his new room made him change his attention and he nodded in agreement.
They all moved to the second floor of the house. Jack's room was at the end of the hall on the right side of the stairs. As they all approached there, Jennifer said: "I'm really sorry, dear, for your room to be in this floor. It was the only vacant room we had."
Jack just smiled and replied truthfully: "There's no problem. I don't mind."
Touma was quite anxious to meet his new room, but he resisted the urge to teleport there, he didn't want to be unfair and see everything before his friends. Besides he was still feeling odd for some reason.
Hiro and Misaka also expected to live in the same room with Jack. The little Misaka accidentally tripped on the ground and quickly Jack went for her aid. The boy picked her up and carried her on his arms gently massaging her knees to make her feel better. And he had a quite success in that. After seeing that she was alright, he petted her head and continued to carry her for a bit more and only placed her back on the floor when they finally arrived at the room.
John was the one to open the door to the room and the boy and his pokemon were quite fascinated by the sight of it. The walls were blue, there was a bed near a window, a television, a desk with a computer on it, an empty desk for him to do his homework and study and above all his own bathroom. Besides all that there were three big blue cushions a bit near of the bed. Jack also noticed that his bag was over his bed.
The man chuckled seeing Jack and his pokemon widen eyes: "Your pokemon are going sleep on these cushions. Well, I didn't know you liked to let your pokemon walk freely, so I apologize for the improvisation.
Misaka went to one of the fluffy cushions and laid on it. She smiled and told her friends: "I certainly don't mind this."
Hiro and Touma went to the other cushions and they found them to be comfortable as well."
John saw the boy smiling looking at his small companions enjoying themselves. The man then placed a hand over the boy's shoulder making the boy look at him quite surprised: "By the way, we have a pokemon farm not too far from here. Would like to go there someday?"
"A pokemon farm?" Jack repeated. With this his Pokemon jumped out of the cushions and approached the boy also curious about it.
"Yes, my boy. This was a recent propriety I've acquired. I'm still working on it to make it fully functional. Would you like to visit there someday?"
The child vigorously nodded. Both adults chuckled, but before they could say anything, Alfred, the butler, arrived and said: "Mr. And Mrs. Grandfist, the dinner is served. Young master Justin is already there."
"Thank you, Alfred. We'll be right there in a moment." John said to his employee. But then he remembered something and said: "Please, Alfred, tell our chef to prepare some pokemon food for them. They'll be eating with us." then he pointed to the Nidorino, Ampharos and Abra.
The butler nodded and left the room. The three pokemon were looking forward to taste the new food. Hiro approached Jack and looked at him with a smile. The boy didn't need words to know what his pokemon meant by that 'Let's go!' look. Jack just smiled softly and patted Hiro on the head.
Touma teleported to Jack's shoulder and told to Hiro and Misaka with a grin: "Dibs on the shoulders!"
The Ampharos crossed her arms and pouted: "No fair! You can teleport!"
The Nidorino remembered the time when Jack used to carry him around everywhere. That situation made him feel a bit nostalgic. Jack had always protected him from any hazard. However, the poison pokemon wanted to get stronger and independent to protect his human friend for a change he even refused to be carried by Jack when the boy tried to do so. "Come on, Misaka. Walk isn't so bad. The exercise is good for us."
"Guys, let's not argue. I can carry you Misaka on our way back. How about it?" Jack could guess what his friends were talking about, after all it wasn't the first time it happened. He told Touma then: " Hey buddy, don't forget to hold onto me tightly to don't fall."
The Abra used his hands to hold himself tightly on the boy's head. When he did it. Jack raised his right arm and petted Touma's head.
The two adults looked at the pokemon quite surprised. For them, they seemed to be communicating with each other. They never saw pokemon interacting like that. They also noticed the boy chuckling at the sight. It even looked like the kid was used to this kind of situation.
The adults smiled and John said: "Very well, now that everything is settled let's go to the dining room. You can come here after it to get familiar with your room and organize your stuff."
The boy nodded and then they all left to the dining room. But there was a weird silence between them. Jack was gathering some courage to ask something that he was curious about and when he finally gathered the courage to do so he finally asked: "Is Justin one of my...brothers?" Jack asked a bit hesitant and the parents noticed that.
"Yes, he is. He's sixteen years old. Our oldest son is called Pete. He's nineteen years old and he is at the Violet City to try gain his first badge, the Zephir Badge. You'll meet him when he arrives." Jennifer explained as they walked.
"Oh…So he's a pokemon trainer, then?" Jack said doing his best not to voice what he truly thought about pokemon trainers.
John smiled proudly and said: "That's right! My boy is going to win the Johto League!"
After that, the boy asked nothing else as they finished their way to the dining room. When they finally arrived, Jack saw a quite long table with several seats with lots of food that he had never seen before. He was so surprised by that he didn't notice a teenager boy with short black hair and green eyes wearing a plain black shirt and blue jeans approaching him.
"You must be Jack! My name is Justin. I hope we can be friends with each other." Said the teen.
Jack blinked for a while, but he snapped out of it and he said: "H-Hi. I hope we can get along too." Then both boys shook their hands.
Justin looked at the pokemon that were near the boy and smiled: "Whoa, these are your pokemon? Cool! Maybe we can battle someday."
Jack, this time, couldn't help but to frown. He didn't like putting his pokemons into battles just for entertainment. He found that sickening.
Justin, however took his silence as a sign of shyness and smiled: "Don't worry about that for now. I hope you'll enjoy living here."
"Thank you…" Jack finally said trying to calm down.
Touma teleported back to the floor and asked Hiro: "Dude, look at all this food! I wonder if it tastes as good as Jack's."
Hiro just smiled and said to him: "We aren't going to eat this food."
Misaka raised an eyebrow and asked: "How do you know that?"
Then a guy wearing white came through a door carrying a tray with three bowls full of pokemon food. He then placed then on the floor, looked at the pokemon and then he left.
The Abra crossed his arms and said: "You and you nose…"
The pokemon went to their bowls and tasted the food. It was good, but definitely not as good as the food their human friend often made for them. They couldn't help but to wonder if he was still going to prepare them food in that new house.
The humans looked at the pokemon eating and John said to his family: "Well, let's not just look at them. Let's eat too."
As the humans took their seats, Jack asked Justin who happened to sit right next to him: "Aren't your pokemon going to eat too?"
The older teen replied: "They already ate. Don't worry about that."
The dinner was okay. John and Jennifer made some general questions to the boy to make him feel comfortable. They asked if they liked the food, if he liked his room and what he was thinking of his first day as a new Grandfist family member.
Jack answered positive for all the questions. He didn't lie, he just didn't tell them how much he missed his old life already. He didn't want to ruin the mood. Besides, he had to get used with his new life. It wasn't bad. His new family was very friendly with him and he had to admit that very few people in the world shared the same view about not treating the pokemon as living weapons.
After dinner, his new parents allowed him to go to his room to organize his things and so he did. As soon as he entered his room he turned on the lights which were right next to the door. When his pokemon got into the bedroom, he closed the door.
They were all alone in the new room. Jack had to admit he missed a little share the room with many people, but now he didn't have to bring the pokemon to his room after everyone was asleep.
Jack went to his bed as he unpacked his belongings. The pokemon were on the cushions looking at the boy as he placed his books and clothes in the drawers. Jack looked at the empty blue bag and he figured it out that giving it back to Jack would be a great opportunity to visit the orphanage.
The boy looked at his friends and asked: "What do you guys are thinking about this place?"
"It's okay so far." Said Hiro
"It's nice." Said Touma
"What they said." Said Misaka
The boy smiled. He couldn't understand what they were saying, but he could see in their faces that they were trying to hide something. They boy decided to give his answer for his own question: "They're very nice people. I…can end up calling them 'mom' and 'dad' sooner than I thought. And don't worry, guys. I'm not going to make you battle with Justin's pokemon. I'll tell him that next time he brings that up."
The three little creatures smiled in appreciation. They have witnessed pokemon battles between trainers before and they agreed with jack about it. They were pointless. Misaka, Touma and Hiro only fought to defend themselves against ill intended attacks from others and also to defend Jack and Mary. They were glad to have Jack as friend. He never locked them in the pokeballs and never used it as a threat even when they misbehaved.
None of them were in mood to play. But the boy wanted to cheer up his pokemon and asked them if they wanted to play, but they shook their heads as a response for 'no'.
When jack looked at the clock it was just 7: 23 p.m.. He sighed and took a white shirt and a green shorts from a drawer. He told his pokemon: "I'll be back, guys. I'll just have a shower." Then he left to the bathroom.
"He's taking it quite well. The kid has guts." Touma said stretching his arms finally noticing that the pain in his chest was finally gone. He didn't know why he felt that in first place. He felt it the entire time since him and his friends moved from the orphanage.
"He's not a kid anymore. He's a teenager. Of course he's taking it well, he's with a human family he can call his own now. He's going to be much happier now." Misaka said laying on her belly on the cushion.
Hiro knew Jack as long as he can remember. It was the boy who hatched his egg and he was the very first person he saw when he was born. He was his family. He didn't care if he was from a different species. He knew that the boy was having a hard time getting used to his new home. It wasn't because they adopted him, they would automatically become a happy family.
"Only time will tell, I guess. They look really nice and honestly, I would fight if Jack asked me to. I would do anything to make him happy. But, I guess he'll never do it. Not that I mind, but…I don't know. I just want to protect him and see him happy. This all happened so fast…" Hiro said closing his eyes also laying on his belly on the cushion.
"Life's always like this. One day you're minding your own business and all of the sudden you're being attacked by a dark type pokemons just because you looked at them." Touma said lying on his back while he rested his head over his arms while looking at the ceiling.
"What? It happened more than one time?" Hiro asked baffled.
Misaka and Hiro decided to listen quietly. They didn't know much about the Abra's past and why he always teleported to behind them and, some of the times, to Jack's arms when he spotted a dark type pokemon.
Touma continued after sighing: "You can name it. Houndours, Murkrows, Sneasels, every freaking dark-type pokemon that looked at me saw me as a prey. Never did anything against them. Sometimes they attack me because I stepped a millimeter into their territory, others just to steal my food and, believe it or not, just to have fun. That's right. Remember that Houndour that almost killed me? He told me that I was going to die so he could practice his attacks! He also told me that no one would miss a puny psychic pokemon that could only teleport!"
Then Touma clenched his fists before he continued: "I was hungry because a Murkrow attacked me on the night before and stole my food while I was off guard. I hate not being able to detect with my powers when a dark-type pokemon is approaching. I don't have a good hearing or sense of smell, like you Hiro, so I depend entirely on my psychic powers to defend myself. I tried to teleport to flee from that Houndour, but it was useless. I was too tired and hurt to teleport at a great distance. If it weren't for you and Jack I would have died that day…"
"I…didn't know that…" Misaka said sadly. She whished she was there to give those pokemon who bullied her friend a good taste of her electric powers.
"There's no problem anymore, really. Thanks to Jack, I finally gained friends who don't care if I'm an Abra. If it were anyone else who have captured me, I bet they would try force me to evolve to a Kadabra by now. I like being an Abra. I don't mind if teleportation is my only power. I can give lots of uses for this skill. All I have to do is train a bit." Touma said with a smile finally appearing on his face.
Before they could continue their conversation, jack came out of the bathroom wearing his clean clothes and carrying his used ones. They could see some vapor coming out of the bathroom as Jack walked to a basket a bit similar to one he had at the orphanage and placed his clothes in it. He guessed it was the basket for the dirty clothes and he guessed correctly.
He smiled at his pokemons and told them with a grin: "Now it's your turn to bath!"
The little creatures liked having bath, Jack always bathed them back in the orphanage and they enjoyed it a lot. Well, only Misaka didn't like having bath. But it was because of her electric powers. She almost always ended up shocking Jack by accident. The three pokemons rushed to the bathroom and say that the boy had already prepared the bathtub for them.
Touma quickly teleported on the top of it, making a small splash. Hiro quickly turned to Misaka and whispered: "The attack was ineffective" The Ampharos giggled at that comment.
Jack smiled as he approached the pokemon in the tub full of water. The teen grabbed a liquid soap and gently started to rub the Abra making some bubbles in the process. The boy could feel that the Abra was quite happy with it. Jack smiled as he continued cleaning the pokemon. The boy used his hand to bring water over the Abra's head to remove the soap.
After Touma was clean he held him and took him out of the water and used a towel he had over his shoulder to dry him up.
When he finished with the Abra, he emptied the bathtub until it was half the water level. He had to do it, because Hiro was the next one and he couldn't float like Touma.
The boy picked the Nidorino and helped him to go inside of the bathtub. He washed him the same way he did with Touma. When he got all the soap off the poison pokemon, he emptied the tub, then he took Hiro off the tub and dried him with the towel.
For the last, but not the least, Jack took Miska to the shower and not the bathtub. He had to wash her like this because it was the best way he found to not be shocked by her powers accidentally. After all the water isn't continuous and it has air between the water drops, preventing the electricity to spread itself. The boy also was careful enough to not step on the water as he washed his Ampharos. Another thing that Misaka didn't like about having baths was because of the brushing to tide her fur afterwards. She envied the Nidorino and the Abra because they didn't have any fur.
The pokemon were very pleased feeling clean. After he finished with them all, he carefully brushed Misaka's fur, because she was the only one to have it and he didn't want them to get messy.
When they finished in the bathroom, they all headed back to the room quite relaxed. The boy turned off the lights of the bathrrom and then went to the switch near the door and asked his friends: "Do you mind if I turn off the lights?"
After they shook their heads giving permission for him to do so. Jack turned off the lights of his room and know the only light that his room had was the one that came from the Moon.
Jack laid his body in that strange bed, but he wasn't in mood to sleep. He looked at his pokemon and they shared of the same feeling. He told them with a smile: "Would you like to sleep with me, in my bed for today?"
The Pokemon Smiled widely and jumped on the bed and enjoyed the warmth from the boy's body.
Jack started to think about everything that happened that day. His adoption, his goodbye to everyone he liked back at the orphanage, his new home and his new family members. He knew that there were still another brother to meet, but he hoped they could get along even if Jack didn't want to engage in pokemon battles with them. When the boy was almost falling asleep his eyes went wide as he realized something. 'How did Justin knew my name?'
End of chapter 4
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