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Ages: Lilly- 15

Lilly was furious… No, not even that. She was BEYOND furious. She had just about made it to Saffron City, when some Police Officer stopped her and told her that no one was allowed to enter Saffron. When she tried to ask why, all the Police Officer did was comment on how thirsty he was before going back to guarding the road. Yea, she was a little mad about that, but she blew it off and traveled back towards Cerulean, hoping to find some way around Saffron. Well, thanks to a Youngster Trainer, she found the entrance to the Underground Path, which, by the way, was a complete BUST! for multiple reasons. One, all of the trainers were easy to beat, and two, one of said weak trainers had his fire type use Flamethrower, which missed her Pokémon by a mile, but instead, hit her bike and burnt it to a crisp.

So now we see Lilly, stomping up the Underground Path's stairs, a furious expression on her face.

'Gah! The nerve of some trainers! He could have at least offered to buy me a new one, but NOO~, he takes one look at my bike, and one look at my face, before hightailing it out of that tunnel. God, I swear, if I see him again, I'm gonna use his head as a…. Wait, what's that sound?'

Lilly was standing just outside of the Underground Path when a high pitched neigh was heard to her right, followed shortly by a human like grunt. Lilly narrowed her eyes before silently moving off into the brush, trying to find out where the sounds were coming from. A few minutes later, Lilly arrived at a clearing and the sight before her cause her anger to come back x10. In the middle of the clearing was a large, heavy set trainer, maybe 14 years old with slicked back blonde hair and brown eyes. He looked as if he might have come from a rich family, judging on the clothes he was wearing. But what ticked Lilly off was that, the boy was trying to ride a Ponyta with a broken back leg. The boy obviously thought that even if Ponyta's back leg was in a full cast, that he could still ride it, even though the Ponyta was crying out in sheer pain from the boy's weight on its injured leg.

"Hey, Tubby!"

Lilly stepped out of the bushes and into the clearing as she called out to the large boy. Both the boy and his Ponyta whipped their heads over in her direction. The boy sneered at her.

"What do you want?"

Lilly narrowed her eyes, "If you can't tell, your Ponyta's hurt and can't carry your weight. Your just injuring it even more the more you try to get on."

The boy scoffed, "As if I care if it hurts it. I'm not walking on this road, so Ponyta's just going to have to tough it out and deal with it."

Lilly face turned into a snarl, "Deal with it? Deal with it?! Oh, I'll deal with something all right."

As quick as lightning, Lilly dashed forward and buried her fist in the newly dubbed 'Tub of Lard's gut, causing him to groan and fall onto his back. The force of the punch and the impact of the ground caused the air to leave his lungs and black out.

"If it's one thing I can't stand, is any type of abuse to Pokémon."

Lilly slowly turned towards the Ponyta, who had, by this time, laid down on the grass, its injured leg stretched out behind it.

"Are you alright little one?"

The Ponyta eyed Lilly as she slowly approached it, wary of her, even if she did stop her trainer.

Lilly knelt down beside the injured Ponyta. It was only now that she realized that this Ponyta was a shiny, its silver-ish and cream colored body seemed to tense every so often while its lavender colored mane flickered with apprehension. Lilly mentally shook her head and carefully felt around the cast. Wondering what the actual damage to the leg was, Lilly began to unravel the cast, careful not to injure the leg further. When the cast was fully off, Lilly ran her hands over the soft leg. Broken hock bone, closed fracture near the lower thigh, starburst fracture near the knee, as well as various cuts along the leg that were beginning to heal. Lilly shook her head as she rewrapped the Ponyta's leg, it was awful! As she was finishing up on the Ponyta's leg, a groan was heard behind her. Lilly looked over her shoulder to see the Tub of Lard groan again in his unconscious state before falling silent.

Lilly looked at the Ponyta who was eyeing her poor excuse for a trainer with an untrusting look, "I'll be right back." She whispered as she stood and made her way over to the boy. After rummaging around in his bag and pockets for a few minutes, she finally found an empty Pokéball with a sticker in the shape of a 'P' stuck on it.

'What Pokémon trainer can't remember which Pokéball goes to which Pokémon?'

Lilly removed the sticker from the Pokéball and placed it on the boy's forehead. She dug around in her pocket for a second before pulling out a marker and writing the letters 'ig' after it, causing the entire word to spell out 'Pig'. Lilly giggled to herself before pulling down her right eyelid and sticking her tongue. That would teach him!

Lilly heard a soft nicker behind her and turned around, watching as the Ponyta climbed to its feet. Slowly, the Ponyta hobbled towards her before nudging her hand with its nose. Lilly, understanding that the Ponyta trusted her enough, smoothed her hand over its velvet nose.

"What am I going to do with you?"

The Ponyta looked up at Lilly before nudging her hand with the Pokéball.

Lilly looked down at it before looking back up at Ponyta, "Do you want to go with me too?"

Ponyta nickered softly, rubbing the side of its head against Lilly's arm. Lilly wrapped her arm around Ponyta's neck, hugging it softly. She pulled away.

"Alright then, you can come with me. I'm going to keep you in your Pokéball until we get to another Pokémon center, so you don't ruin your leg any more, ok?"

Ponyta nodded her head slightly and watched as Lilly took its old Pokéball into her hand and snapped it in half. Lilly then pulled out one of her own Pokéballs and gently tossed an empty one towards it. Ponyta was surrounded in a red beam of light before being absorbed into the Pokéball. The Pokéball twitched, once, twice, before a soft ding was heard and the Pokéball fell still. Lilly approached the still Pokéball before picking it up and scanning it with her Pokédex.

'Ponyta, the Fire Horse Pokémon. Capable of jumping over the Eiffel Tower in a single giant leap. Its hooves are ten times harder than diamonds.'

'Ponyta: Female

Height: 8 Hands

Status: Broken Hind Leg

Moves: Tackle, Tail Whip, Stomp, Ember, Flamewheel'

Level: 17'

Lilly nodded her head and placed the Pokéball onto her belt and her Pokédex back into her bag.

'Will I ever battle a Pokémon that I want to catch? I mean, I'm not complaining or anything, it's just, I find it odd that I haven't had to battle any of my Pokémon….hmm.'

'Oh, well.' Lilly thought with a shrug as she looked around the clearing for the spot she came in at. After finding the slightly trampled bush, she backtracked until she found the road and continued towards Vermillion City. If her memory served her, she hazily remembered that she would not get to battle the Saffron Gym until it was time for her to battle her 6th gym.

'Which is probably a good thing,' thought Lilly as she continued down her path, 'I'm not a huge fan of Ghost type Pokémon.'

It wasn't long before the sun was only an hour away from setting, causing Lilly to check her surroundings. To her right, was a large body of water, 'Probably fresh,' she thought, but just over the horizon, she could see the tell-tale signs of a large city just over the hill.

Deciding not to spend any money at a hotel, even though she had plenty, Lilly planned to camp out again and make it to the city by the afternoon the next day, hopefully by then with a plan on how to defeat the Electric type gym leader.

'I forgot about that,' thought Lilly as she sent out Charmander to go get wood, 'none of my Pokémon have an advantage against Electric… Charmander might be decent, and if Ponyta heals in time, maybe her too… but, Ryuu and Dratini, with both of them being Water types, there is a good chance of them fainting…. Unless…'

Lilly unclips Ryuu Pokéball and stares down at it, 'Unless Ryuu evolves…'

Lilly walks over to the side of the lake and squats down before tossing Ryuu's Pokéball out into the water. Ryuu, after surfacing, swims toward Lilly and stares up at her.

"Tomorrow, Ryuu, we will be battling the Vermillion City gym leader. While I have never been hesitant about a battle, this gym is an Electric-type gym, meaning both you and Dratini would have a major disadvantage. I have an idea, but it is up to you whether or not you want to go through with it."

Ryuu, without hesitation nods his head, watching Lilly with calculating eyes, something which none of the others in his species have ever had.

Lilly takes in a breath and releases it, "My plan was to remove the Everstone that you have with you and have you evolve into a Gyarados now, and have you train tonight in hopes of preparing you for tomorrows match."

Lilly looked down at the water that lapped up against the edge of the lake, "I will understand, Ryuu, if you don't wish to go through with this… Evolution is a big decision, I know, but if you don't we can-"

The vibrations of something falling beside her caused Lilly to look to her left. Sitting innocently beside her was a wet and slightly weathered Everstone that glistened in the light of the fading sun. Lilly turned her head towards Ryuu and watched as a bright white glow encased his body before it began to shift and change him. His body grew longer, into that that resembled a water dragon. The features on his face grew sharp and jagged, while his whiskers grew longer and thinner. Harder scales the size of dinner plates grew down his body as the tri-pointed fins behind his head grew larger than Lilly herself. As more and more changes happened, Lilly had to cover her eyes, for the light grew too bright to stare. After another moment, the light had died down and Lilly opened her eyes. In front of her was a large black, grey, red, and white Gyarados 'No, not a Gyarados, it's Ryuu!'.

"Ryuu?"

The massive beast that was once the poor, poor Magikarp that was bullied by a gang of Tentacool, stared down at Lilly with a cool gaze before it softened into that of a warm gaze and lowered his head. Ryuu nudged his large head against Lilly's form, causing her to stumble back slightly. Lilly laughed out loud and scratched Ryuu behind his large and bony head structure.

Slowly, Lilly pulled out her Pokédex and scanned Ryuu.

'Gyarados, the Atrocious Pokémon, and the evolved form of Magikarp. While rarely seen in the wild they huge and vicious, capable of destroying entire cities in a rage. They are known to fire Hyper Beams from their mouth.'

'Gyarados: Male

Length: 22ft

Status: Normal

Moves: Twister, Thunder Wave, Wrap, Leer, Dragon Rage, Bite, Thrash

Level: 28'

Lilly whistled low to herself, "Damn, Ryuu, you sure are going to be my main tank of the group."

Putting the Pokédex away, she stared up at the large water type in thought. She knew that most Magikarp changed their personalities after their evolution, but as Ryuu nuzzled his large head against her, Lilly knew that Ryuu was definitely one of a kind.

"Guess you're ready for the training now, huh, Ryuu?"

Ryuu roared in confirmation and swam out towards the middle of lake and turned back to look at his master.

Standing up, Lilly grinned and pointed out towards Ryuu.

"Alright then, Ryuu! Let's start out with Twister, followed up with Dragon Rage!"

…Ok….So…. Sad to say, there was no reason that I haven't updated besides that I've lost interest in this story for a while, but HOPEFULLY I'm back…. Maybe…. On another note, it's almost the one year anniversary since I've last updated so…. Yeah… Don't hurt me?

Hopefully it won't be another year until I update, but if I get enough reviews, I might update sooner, cause really, I still can't believe that you people are still interested in this story, so thank you all very much!

Sincerely yours,

Silent Kage