Dude i read the manga and such confuse coz what Leaf is Blue with a hat and Lyra is Krys with a makeover from her mom?
i think i'll just make Krys and Lyra sisters? so Blue doesnt exist coz the whole blue/green thing is hella confusing anyway, there's just Leaf
221. obsequious: showing too great a willingness to serve or obey
Green rubbed his eyes clear of tears that threatened to spill out again. He had seriously not expected anything of the sort, having so few coherent memories of his childhood. When a stranger girl walked by and asked him if he was alright, he dumbly nodded. She looked on in concern, before handing him a handkerchief. Green declined, but she persisted. He gruffly asked her to piss off, and half expected her to shove the cloth in his face; however, she turned out to be almost obsequious in the way she withdrew immediately... he'd been looking for a confrontation or a yelling match to purge his emotions.
222. perennial: lasting through the years
The girl didn't go away though; she just stood there quietly, waiting for Green to get himself together. When Green finally looked up at her face, he was astonished by the remarkable familiarity of the girl - she wasn't someone from his childhood, it was like a face he'd seen recently, but younger...
The girl smiled when Green looked her way. "Great that you're feeling better! I'm Lyra, and you're Green, and you probably either know or have seen my sister Krys right?" Green's eyebrows shot up. Just how much Lyra knew bordered quite dangerously close to stalker. "Krys is a pretty big-name researcher in Johto, you'd be surprised how well she's known considering how pokemon research is so perennial and supposedly commonplace."
223. punitive: inflicting or intended to inflict punishment
Green really thought the resemblance was uncanny, and could only tell the difference by hair color and clothing style.
"I saw you walking around earlier, but I lost you around a corner. Wanna battle?"
Green shook his head. He wasn't exactly functioning that well.
"Uh, c'mon, our eyes kinda met already so we have to? I guess if you really don't feel up to it..."
Green sighed. That was kind of punitive, it made it seem like Green was breaking the rules by refusing the battle.
224. euphoria: a feeling of great happiness
Lyra decided on relocating the battle to the clearing. As spectators began to gather, she settled the rules hurriedly.
"Let's make this quick, one on one, no healing with potions, no stat boosters, first one to faint loses." Green nodded. Fair enough. Both moved to opposite ends of the field. "Release the first pokemon in your party in 3...2...1..."
Green smirked a little when Lyra sent out a Meganium and he sent out the very cranky and eager to roast things Charizard. Lyra'd gotten unbelievably unlucky, and she groaned when Charizard sent a fire blast her way. The small crowd that had gathered ooh'ed and aah'ed at the blast and applauded heartily. Green patted Charizard's back as Lyra withdrew her Meganium, but the typical euphoria of winning a battle just wasn't there.
225. flux: flow; continuous change or movement
Lyra was pretty ok sport about her loss; she tossed Green one of the overpriced soda pops from the department store. The crowd dissipated as they met again at the center of the field.
"Nice charizard. I know it was a bad time for me to ask for a challenge, but I thought I'd get a preview of what I should be prepared for when I get to Viridian."
"Thanks and no problem... Maybe you'll have better luck with type advantage next time."
"Haha, alright! And about earlier... losing people is part of the flux of life. It's good to remember in sadness, but you should focus on happy remembering."
226. celerity: speed in motion; swiftness
Lyra took out a folding bike from her backpack and sped to the Pokecenter with celerity. Green watched her go and the flopped down onto a bench, thinking about her words. He was half inclined to dismiss them, since he had so few happy memories of his parents. Even with gramps, there weren't too many memories of him and Daisy and the professor going out together to eat or watch a movie - but then, Pallet didn't really have anything anyways.
The real fun had been with Red and Leaf, playing together or battling together on their journeys. Green was tempted to call Leaf, but Leaf didn't really understand the whole abandoned thing; well, he knew she'd been kidnapped, but she'd eventually found her parents on the Sevii Islands. Green wistfully looked at Red's number and dialed it. He'd tried calling Red before, and though Red had never picked up (Mt. Silver was waaay out of signal), who knew, maybe he'd get lucky.
227. uncouth: uncultured; crude
And lucky he was. After the fourth ring or so, he'd ghosted his finger over the end call button, when the screen buzzed to life.
"OH MY ARCE- Wow, hey!" Green's shout had attracted attention from some old women. Well, not his fault he was being uncouth because somehow the divine forces had brought Red into signal when Green called. Then he noticed that the camera was pointed at a scenic landscape vaguely reminiscing of the view from the Elite Four's castle, not the owner. Crap. "Wait sorry, is this the wrong number?"
228. obliterate: to destroy so as to leave no trace
There was no response, but after some hesitation, Red turned the camera around to face himself. Green gasped and all his negative emotions suddenly vanished. It really was Red, pale skin and messy black hair and pretty eyes and all. Red was straight faced, but his eyes, at least his eyes seemed to be smiling.
"...Red..." Green sighed with a huge grin across his face. Just seeing Red was so nice and relaxing (he screen-shot Red's face)
Red nodded back and allowed the corners of his lips to perk up a little. Before Green could screen shot that precious expression, he quickly turned the camera away and pointed at the field. Shortly after, he released Green's pokemon. Pidgeot and Exeggutor and Tyrannitar and Gyarados and Arcanine looked confused before seeing Green's face on the camera. Green waved and the others ran up to the camera cooing and babbling and shouting.
Green laughed and laughed until his face hurt from smiling. He then released Red's pokemon and turned the camera to face them. Red turned his phone's camera to face himself, and Venusaur, Blastoise, Aerodactyl, Espeon, and even suspicious Charizard widened their eyes in surprise and made happy sounds. Green made sure to screen shot that smile that time. He talked into the microphone, but continued to face the camera away.
"They've been great to work with; they've obliterated all the trainers I've battled so far... which isn't too many, but even the other gym leaders really couldn't do anything."
229. delineate: to draw the outline of; describe in words or gestures
Green turned the camera to face himself, and Red's pokemon jumped behind him on the bench so they could see Red. Green's pokemon were essentially doing the same thing on the other side. "...Not that I'm mad at all, but why're you down at Indigo Plateau?"
Red looked prepared to delineate a complex charade, but his hands were occupied with holding the phone at full arm's distance to fit Green's pokemon in the screen. "...Secret." Green didn't hear his voice over the chattering of his own pokemon, but was able to read Red's lips.
"...Ok then." Green released Pidgeotto on second thought, feeling a bit bad for keeping the bird away from the reunion. "I caught this guy to give me a couple rides since Charizard was being difficult and Aerodactyl's wings are barely strong enough to lift itself. Pidgeotto, meet your senior, Pidgeot."
230. extenuate: to lessen the seriousness of, especially by giving partial excuses
The afternoon passed all too fast with the video chat, and Green was bubbling with happiness just from seeing Red. Red was so pretty and his pokemon were all so happy and everything just seemed to work; Green didn't mind extenuating him from the crime of never having picked up a call beforehand.
Green was chatting to a nodding Red about his travels when he spotted Koga walking up to talk to Red. Green raised an eyebrow, but Red waved and Green smiled before the screen buzzed dead. Koga? Koga was like 40 or 50 right, if Janine was in her 20's? Red didn't go for old men right? What if he was actually there to see that creepy ass Will? Or muscle head Bruno? Or pretty but pretty violent Karen? Or old man Lance? Green shuddered. Well, Red seemed asexual most of the time so he'd probably not be there for a relationship...