Howdy hey fanfic reader people how's it going it sure is hot today here at home it was about 110 degrees. So for the longest time I've been wanting to write a novel...it's actually on my list of things to do before I die but I always seem to be uninspired. Whoa so much about me not enough blah about the story...well there always has to be an evil person am I right or am I wrong? Hummm I wonder. Oh this one took me a while to write so i hope it enjoyable.
Disclaimer: Nope only in my dreams but sadly I have dreamless sleep so not even there. ),:
Chapter 4: Revival Part 1
The black haired youth stared in awe at the sight before him. His eyes widened as he saw what he desired most being brought out to some no one on a silver platter. His eyes filled with tears as he heard a low rumbling sound. Next to him the purple monkey had the same look plastered on it's face.
"So hungry." Ethan said.
"Ai...pa." Aipom said in agreement.
"Come on you two let's head over to the pokemon center." Lyra said about to grab Ethan's shirt and drag him away when a man in a white apron came out. "Um Hello."
"Hello, I'm the owner of the restaurant. I couldn't help but notice your friend. He looks quite hungry. Why don't you two come in." he said pointing to the restaurant. Ethan and Aipom nodded still looking into the building through the window.
"We'd love to, but we're on our way to the pokemon center and then to the Pewter City Gym to challenge the gym leader." Lyra said. Ethan groaned still not taking his gaze away from the plates of food that people were eating in a way that made him want to attack them for it.
"Oh how about I strike up a deal with you?" he asked catching Ethan's interest. He slowly turned from the window and looked at the man for the first time.
"What kind of deal?" Ethan asked.
"If you beat me in a pokemon battle then you can eat for free and plus I'll give you each a small gift." the owner said.
"Do it." Ethan said hungrily.
"Why don't you do it?" Lyra asked her friend who had resumed watching the people eat their food.
"I'm too hungry to think." Ethan said wrapping his arms around his growling stomach. "Please. I will be your best friend forever if you do it."
"Since when do you think and I thought we were already best friends forever." she said to him. He turned around and smiled at her widely.
"Of course we're already best friends but if you do this for me we'll be best friends even in the afterlife. Oh and I do to think. I just have my own unique thinking method so don't say anything." he said and she smiled and when she did he knew she was going to do it.
"Oh okay I'll do it." she sighed. Her eyes widened when she realized that they hadn't introduced themselves to the kind owner. "Um how silly of us we seem to have forgotten to introduce ourselves, I'm Lyra."
"Oh yes my name is Jim." the owner said.
"Ethan." the hungry boy growled.
"Okay so one pokemon each." he said taking a couple steps back. "Go Snorlax."
"Huh that's a strange pokemon to have at a restaurant. Chimchar, I choose you." Lyra threw the ball and out came the small pokemon. Chimchar was energetically punching the air getting itself pumped for battle. "Let's win this one Chimchar because if we don't I think Ethan will wind up eating us." she said with a laugh.
"Snorlax use focus punch." Jim said. The massive pokemon moved at a speed that most of it's kind didn't.
"Chimchar quick dodge it!" Lyra said and the small pokemon evaded being hit. "Alright Chimchar use flame wheel."
The people inside of the restaurant had left their food and huddled around the door and windows. Some of them angrily hissed at Ethan who turned to watched the battle. A young man with spiky hair and squinty eyes joined Ethan. In his hands he was carrying a pokemon egg while his Marshtomp held another. They watched as Snorlax threw more punches at Chimchar who would dodge each one.
"Snorlax is fast but Chimchar has him beat on speed." the young man said.
"Yeah but Chimchar doesn't have that much battle experience. This is it's first time in a one on one battle." Ethan said as he watched Chimchar break through the ground by using it's dig attack. They watched as Chimchar came out from under the ground to hit Snorlax with a flamethrower. The big pokemon tackled the smaller one. "Plus that Snorlax has Chimchar beat in power."
"Ai…pa." Aipom said sadly.
"Yeah but things might surprise you."
"Jump and use aerial ace." the small monkey jumped high and with it's incredible speed launched into a fast and powerful aerial ace. Lyra smiled as she watched Chimchar add the spin. They had been practicing adding power to that combination since the contest days ago. Snorlax used hyper beam. "Chimchar show them your flamethrower full power!"
"Wow that's stronger than it was at the contest." Ethan said ignoring his empty stomach. "I had no clue that they were actually train when they disappear on me."
The two attacks collided with each other and disappeared. Snorlax was left unable to move while Chimchar finished his aerial ace. The attack hit it's target causing it to fall down in defeat. The audience cheered for a while before returning to their meals. The owner called back his pokemon and smiled at the ball. Chimchar ran up to hug Lyra but was stopped when Ethan beat him to it.
"You're the best friend ever!" he said loudly. He released her and turned to the door. "Now free food awaits me!"
"Hold it." Lyra said as she watched the young man hand over the two eggs to the owner. "Um hi, I'm Lyra and that's Ethan."
"Oh hi, I'm Brock and this is my buddy Marshtomp." he watched as Lyra looked from him to the eggs. "Oh I'm a pokemon breeder. I have a breeding center here."
"Oh that's cool." Ethan said his attention brought away from the smell of food to the conversation. "I used to want to be a breeder but now I want to be a pokemon professor."
"I think that a great breeder would make a great professor. You see when you're a breeder you have to have extensive knowledge about pokemon." Brock said. He turned to Jim. "Well these two one the match are you going to give them their prizes."
"How'd you know about that?" Lyra asked.
"I just have a hunch." Brock said.
"Okay so here's the thing. Two of my pokemon had eggs and well I can't raise them so I told Brock to bring them by today. I decided to battle you guys because the way that Aipom is bonded to it's trainer. If you guys managed to beat me then you'd get the two eggs." he said with a smile.
"So wait these eggs are now ours?" Ethan asked in shock. The restaurant owner nodded. "Can I have the red-orange colored one?" the man nodded and handed Ethan the red-orange egg.
"So I battle and you get first choice." Lyra mumbled. She smiled as she was handed the green and yellow egg. She really had hoped Ethan would choose the other egg. "What kind of pokemon are they?"
"Waiting for it to hatch is the fun part." Brock said with a smile. "Now how about we go get ourselves some free food."
"Yes!" the two trainers said excitedly.
At the Pokemon Center…
"Here you go sir your pokemon are all ready." the pink haired woman said to the guy with red hair. "If I may what is the Elite Four champion doing here in Pewter City?"
"Well I can't answer that Nurse Joy." he answered with a laugh. He heard the doors slide open and quickly pulled his hood up. His eyes widened as Lyra, Ethan, and Brock walked in. He laughed as he watched the older boy ran to the front desk and at the surprised look of the other two. "Is that any way for a gym leader to act?"
"Oh Joy you are a sight to behold. Every time I step into this building your beauty leaves me…" he never finished what he was saying because he was hit in the back by a croagunk. He was dragged away. "On the floor. Gah Croagunk."
"Every time Leader Brock comes in here he always seems to surprise me." Nurse Joy laughed. Lance smiled at her from behind his hood. "Oh how may I help you two?"
"Um Nurse Joy did you just say that Brock is the leader of the Pewter City gym?" Ethan asked as Lyra studied the undercover champion. "Lyra it's rude to stare."
"Right sorry."
"Yes that young man that was dragged away by his croagunk is our city's gym leader." she laughed. Her attention was caught by the departing man. "Oh are you leaving?"
"Yes Nurse I have some things I need to take care of here in town." he said walking out of the center in a rush. Not realizing he dropped on of his pokeballs.
"Hey Ethan check it out." Lyra said picking up the red and white ball. "In his rush to get out of here he must of dropped it. Here hold my egg if I run I can catch up with him." she shoved her egg into Ethan's hands and took off running. She didn't have to run far, because she ran into him outside of the building. "Oh I am so sorry…hey it's you. Uh you kind of dropped this."
"Thanks." he said taking the pokeball and running away.
"Strange guy." she said picking herself up off of the ground only to be knocked down again. "Ouch that hurt." she opened her eyes to find a boy staring at her. "Whoa mini Brock."
"Where is he?" the boy asked her. She gave him a confused face causing him to sigh in frustration. "You seem to know my brother Brock, do you know where he is. Oh I'm Forest by the way."
"Nice to meet you Forest I'm Lyra. Uh Brock was dragged away by Croagunk after hitting on Nurse Joy." she said getting up again. She brushed the dirt off of herself. "I think he's still inside."
"Thanks." the boy said. He ran inside with Lyra at his heals.
Sometime later…
"It's a shame Brock had important things to do today. I wanted to challenge him so bad, I wanted today to be the day I earned my first Kanto badge." Lyra said looking up at the ceiling. "Then that weird man. Being in the same room as him brought out feelings in me that I've only felt a couple of times before."
"Hey Lyra…shut up." Ethan said sleepily. Lyra threw the extra pillow at her friend who was lying on the bed next to hers. "I'm trying to go to sleep I suggest you do the same."
Ethan soft snores soon filled the room. As much as she tired Lyra couldn't fall asleep. She pulled the covers off of her, slipped her feet into her shoes, and walked outside. She was soon joined by Chimchar. The two of them walked silently towards the trees. They stuck to the path that led to the lake.
"I can't sleep Chimchar. I don't know what it is but something has me on edge. I feel like something bad is going to happen. You'd think with that feeling I'd know better then to be walking around at night but I…am weird." she sighed stopping in her tracks when she saw an orange beam coming from the lake. "That's a hyper beam."
"Chim…char?"
"I know who would be out here at night besides us. Come on lets go check it out." she said. She ran down the path only to stop behind a bush. She spotted the orange dragon. "Dragonite." she quickly scanned the area and soon enough found the dragon pokemon's red headed trainer. "Lance?"
"Chim?"
"No you don't know them." she told the curious monkey. "After winning the Silver Conference I was told to challenge the Elite Four, which I did. I beat Will, Koga, Karen, and even the mighty Bruno but I lost to the champion. That's him, his pokemon beat mine so harshly that my Azumarill became afraid of battle. He told me some things after the battle and at first I took them the wrong way but after he elaborated and some time I realized that he was giving me a much needed shove in the right direction."
"Chim."
"I guess you can say that it's because of him that I met you." she said staring up at the stars Chimchar following her gaze. "We'll face him in battle someday; you, me, Meganium, and the other pokemon we get on this journey of ours. Chimchar let's make a promise, we'll get stronger together and when that time comes you'll be the first pokemon I send out." she said with a smile. She extended out her pinkie and Chimchar wrapped it's fingers around it. Chimchar jumped onto her head. "I think we should leave now."
She stood up and wrapped her arms around herself as the cold wind picked up. She walked quietly into the forest heading back to the pokemon center. She felt like she was being followed but kept going. A spider web was blocking her exit. Chimchar got off of her head and prepared to use his fire to burn it down when his trainer's scream pierced the quiet night. He turned around to see a man in a black hood restraining Lyra, his hand was over her mouth muffling her screams
"Ariados use poison jab on that monkey." he said to the red spider that appeared on the web. He winced in pain and tore his hand away from Lyra's mouth. "You bit me!"
"Quick dodge it and use aerial…" she started but her mouth was covered once again. Chimchar dodged the poison jab but never used aerial ace.
Hurried footsteps and wing flaps were headed in their direction. The man smiled and let out a dark laugh. Ariados used scary face to stop Chimchar from moving. Dragonite used hyper beam but Ariados used protect and the green barrier held up against it. The man moved behind his pokemon.
"Next time you attack I won't use protect." he said. He removed his hand from Lyra's mouth only for a second to caress her cheek. He slapped his hand back on to her mouth before she had anything to say. He saw the anger that had flashed across Lance's face and smiled triumphantly. "And this little beauty will be the only one to feel that attack."
Lyra looked at Lance with fear in her eyes. Chimchar was unable to move out of fright. Lance called his pokemon back and he swore he saw a look of disappointment wash over Lyra's face. The man laughed and disappeared with his pokemon and captive. Chimchar snapped out of his fright and used flame wheel. Ariados blocked it with protect and used poison jab to send Chimchar flying. Lance caught the small pokemon and watched helplessly as the man disappeared. Chimchar looked up at Lance wincing in pain as he did.
"Don't worry we'll get her back." he said setting the pokemon down. He pulled out the super potion from the pocket of his jacket and sprayed Chimchar with it. The orange monkey cried out in pain. "Sorry. I forgot to say it was going to sting."
At the Pewter City Museum…
"Why are these doors made out of metal?" Lyra asked her fellow captives. "If they were wooden then they'd be easier to breakdown."
"You're right but that's not how this museum was built. This building was designed to withstand some of the strongest pokemon attacks. We had to make sure that if our experiments were successful the building would still be intact for the next experiment." one of the museum guys said.
"Uh I thought that this was a museum not a laboratory." Lyra said.
"It is both a laboratory and a museum. It's an ancient pokemon museum on top and a fossil resurrection lab down here. Though we were never successful in restoring any ancient pokemon and focused more on the museum part." the same guy said. His face suddenly turned dark. "Those people must have succeeded where we failed."
The door opened and three men grabbed Lyra's fellow captives. They left her alone. She sat there wondering what they wanted with her. The temperature dropped and she started to shiver. "He should have attacked. I guess he was worried about me, he should have been worried more about the people of the city then just me." she said through chattering teeth.
As the time went by she started to mentally curse herself for being in her pajamas. The white and red striped tank top and black Capri pants weren't protecting her from the cold. The steel door creaked open a hooded figure appeared in the doorframe. She backed herself into the back corner. The man pushed a control and the binding that held her arms to her side came off.
"Come on let's go."
"Lance?" she asked and he nodded. "You sure like dressing up like the enemy."
"It's the only way to get anything done." he said. He tossed her the jacket he had been wearing earlier. "Put that on there's an indoor blizzard going on." he saw the confused look on her face. "They think they can stop my dragon pokemon that way."
"Oh." she said as she pulled the red jacket on, leaving the hood up. "Wait what about…"
"They don't seem to know about that pokemon. Oh Chimchar is fine, he'll be guiding you out of this place through the vent system." he said leading her to the vent where her pokemon was waiting for her on the other side. He opened it. "Get going."
"No." she mumbled to the ground.
"What did you say?" he asked shocked.
"I said no." she said staring at him in the eyes with fierce determination. He grabbed both of her shoulders and pinned her to the wall anger showing in his eyes. This side of him was scaring her but she didn't show it. "Say it Lance."
"You will not be coming with me. I do not have time to baby sit." he snapped at her.
"You won't need to because I can take care of myself." she told him calmly.
"No you can't, you only have one pokemon. You couldn't even keep yourself from getting captured by an ariados." he said making her feel small.
"You didn't have the guts to…fine I'll leave." she decided before she angered him further. "Even the mighty Lance can't do everything by himself. We've proven that one before now haven't we?"
"Fine stay! I won't be responsible if you get hurt though!" he said in a loud angry voice that made her wish she hadn't said anything.
To be continued...
Well that's the epic end. Tomorrow is the epic conclusion of this two part chapter. I love your reviews feel free to you know leave more with your much loved comments and your much appreciated suggestions. (: