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)Pokemon's speeches are "Like this"
5)I know it has been a long time and this chapter hardly is worthy it, but I'll do my best to not take as much time to update again.
Late a night, on the Sunday, John Grandfist and his wife finally arrived at their home. The man had some trouble to find some aid to his political campaign, but he got some new supporters.
The mayor then greeted his butler: 'Good evening, Alfred. Is everything alright? How are my kids?"
The butler then replied: "Good evening, Mr. Grandfist. Yes, everything here is alright. Master Justin arrived from one his friends parties a few hours ago…"
"At least he didn't arrived at midnight like last time." Jennifer rolling her eyes and with a yawn.
John then asked before Alfred could say anything: "What about Jack did he have fun? Did he finish the house he intended for his pokemon?"
The other man smiled as he replied: "Yes, Master Jack had a lot of fun this weekend. A couple of his friends came by and we all, alongside with Master Jack's pokemon, finished the house."
The man was kinda surprised by such news. "Some friends? You mean from school? Also, did you help him building that house?"
The butler nodded and replied: "Yes and no. The ones to come by were Mary and her father, Jake. They knew Jack ever since the orphanage and now Mary got a scholarship on the same school as Master Jack."
The man just paused and mused for a bit: "Good for him…Well, I'll take a look on the pokemon house tomorrow morning. I'm tired and I don't want to wake Jack's pokemon."
The butler nodded and wished the couple a good night before going to sleep. The couples also wished the man good night and went to their room to sleep as well.
On the next day, John and Jennifer woke up, got dressed and went to the dining room. They both saw their sons having breakfast, but the moment, Jack saw his father, he grinned and stopped eating.
The boy got up from his chair and said excited: "Mr. John, can you take a look at the house we build now?"
The man smiled and agreed to do it. He told his wife to start before him and as for Justin, he just ignored this whole thing.
When John entered the backyard he noticed that Jack's pokemon were eating their breakfast as well. He, however, found it curious that the ponyta was eating on a bowl as well when he remembered that Jack told him that she should eat just milk.
Touma felt a small pain on his chest, but he said and did nothing as he continued to eat. The pain was weaker that day for some reason, so he could withstand it without worrying his friends.
When John asked the boy about that, Jack replied him:" Fiona isn't eating solid food. It's a berry paste. I asked Mr. Alfred to give her milk for lunch. This is just for her to get used with solid food."
The man just nodded as he turned his attention to the somewhat big building on their backyard. He was surprised to see it, in fact. He didn't expect to have a backyard house so big and it was done in such a period of time. He had to admit he was impressed.
"That's impressive. I've heard from Alfred you had help with this, right?" the man asked.
The boy nodded and replied: "Mr. Jake helped us a lot. He knows a lot about building and even taught us how to make the house stable."
Alfred, who just arrived had to add with a smile: "It is true, sir. Even I learnt a lot with that man."
John mused for a while with and then smiled: "It is always a great thing to broad your knowledge. Maybe he can teach you more about how to keep the maintenance of the house in the future. He is more than welcome to visit us." He then ruffled the boy's head.
Jack smiled and thanked the man, but didn't notice that Touma suddenly started breathing hard, but the other pokemon noticed it.
Misaka quickly asked worried: "Touma, are you ok?"
Hiro also said turning to boy: "I'll call Jack. He'll take you to the doctor."
Touma, however stopped him by saying: "Please, wait five minutes before doing anything. I bet I'll be better I just need to breath deeply."
Misaka frowned and said: "This is no joke, Touma. You are sick. We can't waste time like this just because you don't like needles."
Touma looked at the ampharos and doing his best to talk without panting too much he said: "Let's make a deal. If I don't get better soon, you call Jack and you can use your thunder wave on me as much as you want."
Misaka and Hiro looked at their friend quite worried and reluctantly accepted his wish. Fiona, meanwhile, looked puzzled and then got a bit sad when she saw that her family was getting worried over Touma. She wished that nothing bad would happen.
John then told Jack: "Be sure to pay a lot of attention in your classes and what Jake has to teach you, Jack. If you learn a lot of things, it'll be easier for you to get a job. For instance, I think that during your school break you should try apply this knowledge you gathered in my farm. It'll be a good training exercise for you for the real world, don't you think?"
The boy stopped for a moment unsure of what to say. Then he felt the man placing both of his hands over the boy's shoulders, look straight into his eyes and, with a smile, the man said: "I have high expectations of you, Jack. Just like I have of my other sons."
The boy was a bit unsure how to respond to that and could only agree with the man's sudden suggestion.
After that, John told Jack that he had to leave to deal with some business. The man told his 'byes' to the boy and the butler and left for work.
Soon after the pain Touma felt disappeared completely. "See, I feel much better now"
Hiro, Misaka and Touma looked at each other uncertain how to react. They all thought it was a strange coincidence that Touma's pain ended just when John left the area. However, they were decided to bring the psychic-type's pain to the boy's atention as soon as it starts again.
Then the Nidorino had to wonder 'How did he know he would get better soon? Well, the pain always comes and goes at random times. I wish I had the answer for that…'
The abra then just proceeded to finish his meal. He didn't want to worry his friends about unnecessary things. 'Not until I'm sure at least…' he thought.
The boy then looked at his pokemon and, realizing they were 'talking' mostly to the abra, he asked with a suspicious look: "Did something happen? Is Touma feeling ill again?"
The abra shook his head indicating 'no', but the boy looked to Hiro and Misaka expecting some other answer. The two other pokemon sighed and also indicated that the abra wasn't sick regretting it a bit.
Jack wasn't fully convinced, but if Touma were feeling really bad they would have told him.
Jack then recommended the butler to take Touma to the hospital at his school in case the psychic type felt ill. The boy explained the man what symbols the nidorino would draw to indicate that the abra was sick.
The older man agreed and got ready to take the boy to the school. Jack also gave the man ponyta's pokeball in case he needed to bring the pokemon in the car and then told his byes to his pokemon and to Alfred and, after that, left to school.
At school, Jack and Mary went through their classes as usual. After the math class, Jack's head was spinning and he turned to Mary and suggested: "Mary, can you come to my house after the classes are over? I need your help to explain me about this class."
The girl smiled and replied: "Sure. What didn't you understand?"
The boy dropped his head in defeat and said: "I understood the lessons about trigonometry, but I need serious hel with those equations our teacher just taught us."
Mary couldn't help but to giggle a bit and said: "You shouldn't feel said, thou. Math is more about understanding. Once you figure it out the problem you can apply you need to be careful when you do solve the problem. Changing a minus, for a plus can be fatal." She then did an obvious exaggerated expression, which made Jack smile a bit.
But he sighed and said while raising his head: "There are too many different formulas they want us to apply on those equations. But I guess you are right about that. It is always good to double check the math I just did to prevent small msitakes like this."
Mary then placed a hand over his shoulder and told him: "Don't worry. I think I have some nice ideas to help you out."
The boy smiled a bit and thanked his friend for the help.
When the school was over, Jack, Mary and the other children were leaving the school when Alfred suddenly showed up with his pokemon next to him.
Initially, the boy thought that something had happened and when he asked the man about that, the butler explained: "The abra felt ill again. The nidorino and ampharos were desperate to bring him here. Without your guidance when it came to the symbols I would have thought that the abra set the house on fire given their nervousness. Thankfully, this just happened now, so you don't have to worry about being too late."
The psychic type was laying over the nidorino's back because Misaka fulfilled her promise of paralyzing Touma if he felt ill again to bring him to the doctor.
Jack didn't need any explanation to figure it out what had happened to his semi-unconscious friend and then told everyone to go to the hospital area of the school.
Mary, Jack, Alfred and the pokemon were walking inside of the hospital when they suddenly heard a commotion behind them.
"Out of the way, we have an emergency here!" A man shouted as he entered the school grounds while carrying an unconscious seel on his arms.
The people nearby quickly moved to make space for the man to take the pokemon to the hospital area of the school.
Jack could only see the glimpse of the seel and he was immediately worried. It was hurt and bleeding a lot. Mary then told Jack that they should go take a better look what was going on after they tended to Touma.
End of chapter 13
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