Chapter 7: When Night Falls.
A few feet away from me Matt was stretching (or at the very least attempting to stretch), jumping up and down to keep himself moving and psyching himself up, occasionally making 'first battle' jokes that contained a large amount of overacting.
I was on the other side of the 'battlefield,' trying to not have a panic attack.
I was failing.
I'm not sure what was the exact reason why, maybe it's because Arons are really defensive and the only move I knew that could even do actual damage to Matt I haven't even gotten down right, maybe it's because he's actually excited about fighting me, maybe it's because it was obvious that he actually did pay attenion to his physical ability, or maybe it was a combination of the three.
Regardless, I knew this wouldn't end well for me.
"Alright Elin, let's go!" Matt shouted.
"Everyone can hear you plenty well in your normal voice, Matt," Mew stated.
"This IS my normal voice!"
Sighing, I turned to the pink legendary. "Can we just get this over with? If I'm going to lose, I'd rather just lose and be done with it."
Mew nodded, signalling for everyone to listen to her. "Alright, let's get this fight started. For this fight and for any other fights we shall have between each other, the Pokemon who is knocked out first loses." She waves her hands, telling me and Matt to stand on opposite sides of our makeshift arena, and we do as we are told. "Ready? Begin!"
On instinct, I charged at Matt, thinking that staying on the offensive was my best shot at winning. I slammed into him at full force, and almost instantly regretted it. It felt like I ran straight into a rock- actually, that's exactly what I did, since Matt literally is a rock. My shoulder did not approve of my failure of an attack and was hurting like crazy. Noticing my pain, Matt gave a cold stare, and I assumed he was smiling getting his game face on for no reason due to his face being covered. "What were you expecting, Elin? I've got base 100 defense bitch!" he said almost evilly. I'm pretty sure I heard Lydia making a comment on his statement, but we were both too focused on fighting to listen. He shoved me off him and charged at my shaken self with his own Tackle. Thanks to how slow he is though, I jumped out of the way just in time. I got the idea to just keep running and let him tire himself out, but then I remembered my stamina back in PE and decided against it.
New reason to panic: Matt is incredibly competitive.
Obviously enjoying the fight so far, Matt gave a chuckle, turned around and charged at me again. I jump again, but somehow he hits me. My pain from before wasn't even close to the pain I felt now. He hit like a train, almost as well as he took hits like a brick wall.
Then I noticed something. Matt... Looked different. It took me a while to notice, but I saw that he was engulfed in a blue colored... Something. Flames? Aura? Whatever it was, it seemed that Matt didn't know what it was, since he looked just as confused as me. In fact, once I got back on my fee-flippers, everyone was confused.
"That was definitely not a regular Tackle," Chris said. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"An egg move, maybe?" Liz suggested.
"Yep, by the look of it, it's Dragon Rush," Grace replied.
Dragon Rush? Just my luck...
Matt laughed happily, charging at me again, reengaging his Dragon Rush.
Now I was in serious panic mode. What would an Oshawott do, What would an Oshawott do?... Then it hit me: I lifted up my scalchop and used it as a shield against the oncoming Aron.
The attack made contact, and suprisingly, the scalchop worked... Sorta. Matt's sheer power caused me to slip back further the more I defended myself. Matt must have noticed my struggling, for he decided to lower his voice drastically for his next saying. "The force is weak with this one!" I rolled my eyes; he was back to quoting again.
Mew obviously wasn't pleased. "Would you stop with the quoting? Half the readers are groaning right now." There she goes again on that whole 'readers' thing. What is she even talking about?
Matt seemed to focus more on the 'no quoting' part, easing off the force he put in his attack a bit. "What? But with my helmet my Vader voice is aweso-"
He was cut off by a blue ball of energy shot from Mew's paw and exploded a foot from Matt. Lydia was the first to speak. "Was that an-"
"Aura Sphere, yes."
I really wish that Matt didn't have his face covered, because his face was probably comedy gold. "I-I get the message!" he said in a panicked tone.
He turned and continued his charge at me. I held up my scalchop, bracing myself for another Dragon Rush.
Matt's head starts glowing red at some areas.
ANOTHER egg move!? Oh, please no...
Unfortunately for me, when the two of us come into contact I get sent flying. That's an egg move, that's for sure. And I have a feeling it's got some monsterous power behind it, because Dragon Rush didn't even have half that force. "What WAS that!?" Harrison yelled from the sidelines. "I mean, that has to be another egg move, but what?"
Everyone turned to Grace, who was as stumped as the others. "I don't know, actually. I would say Head Smash but Matt isn't hurting from recoil, so-" Grace's eyes opened in realization. "Of course! Matt must have Rock Head as his ability!"
"Wait, seriously?" Matt said. "I have the Rock Head Head Smash combo? As in THE selling point for Aggron!? As Gannon would say it, AW HELL YEAH!" He jumped in the air, jumping happily until he realized that he made another reference. Oh, shi-"
Another Aura Sphere lands right in front of the Aron, making him yelp from fright. I look over to Mew and I see a face of extreme annoyance. "MATT! LAST. WARNING!"
He gulped in fear as I took the oppurtunity to catch my breath. My stomach and chest were really hurting from the multiple hits.
"O-Okay! No more referencing...here I come!" He charged at me again, glowing a blue aura with Dragon Rush.
I knew defending with my scalchop would be difficult with my lessened strength, so instead I put all of my strength into a big jum-OH MY GOD! I leapt like, 10 feet into the air! I waved my arms frantically as I crashed down face first.
"Wooooooah! Elin is a flying Oshawott!" I heard Luke exclaim over my throbbing face.
"Elin can fly! He's like a superhero!" Sarah cheered.
"Most pokemon can jump very very high!" Grace shouted to me, and I thought that only happened in the anime...well, the swirly eyes already got that across.
"Your telling me this now!?" I yelled at her. I stood up as I panted heavily, my stamina was draining fast.
"Wait, wait, wait, hold up!" Matt suddenly said as he looked at Grace. "What move did I use?"
"Dragoh Rush." Grace stated.
"What!? I was going for Head Smash! How do I tell the difference!?" I facepalmed, he couldn't control which one he used! "Oh well! I can still win!...Ummm...Dragon Rush?" He charged at me with a Rock Head.
I knew that at this point dodging would falter, I had to do a stationary attack, so I shot my weak little water stream from my mouth at him. He easily overpowered me and smashed into me full force.
It felt like my ribs and innards had been punched by a champion boxer as I painfully skidded across the sand. Darkness was closing in on my vision as everyones voices became blurred and distant...
Everything was slipping...
...
'GET UP!'
Ouch! My vision instantly snapped into a more clearer view. What was-?
'COME ON ELIN! GET UP!'
Ooooouch! That second shout brought my vision back into full view, that was LOUD!...And familiar...wait..that was Vi! She was talking to me through telepathy!
I suddenly felt some new power rise with in me as I jumped up and turned to Matt with new determination and-hold on, was I glowing blue!?
"Elin! It's your ability! Torrent!" Grace called to me. Alright! Torrent! I felt so PUMPED! This was AMAZING!
"Now it's getting good!" Chris smirked.
With my new power I took a deep breath and spat out a thick forceful jet of water.
"Oh sh-" Matt couldn't finish his sentence as he was hit in the face with my Water Gun, pushing him back as he had to endure it. I stopped to catch my breath as he shook his head wearily. "C'mon!? Torrent had to activate when I was winning!?"
Lydia yelled something again, but I smirked as I had a brilliant plan. "Don't be a prick!" I called to him.
He tilted his armoured head at me. "How could I be a prick? That doesn't make sense." Score one for British insults. "Well then, I'll just have to give it my best shot!" He charged at me with another Rock Head and I had to take another impressive air jump to avoid it, this time landing behind him on my feet.
Matt turned around to face me. "Damn it!" He said, but I was running out of steam as I felt sweat drip down my forehead, I needed to focus on Water Gun the most now that I had Torrent. I spat another blast at him which he narrowly avoided.
"Phew!" He sighed before he dodged another one. I had no other option then to keep firing at him, and he had no choice but to keep dodging.
My onslaught of Water Gun's made me realise just how into the battle I was getting, it felt like all my senses were honed and sharpened for battle, everything seemed clearer. This was what it was like to be a pokemon.
Soon we were both exhausted from our attacking and dodging, I just didn't want to move at all. "Hah...hah...I won't lose!" Matt declared as he came at me with a Tackle, he didn't have enough strength to use his other moves.
I had to plan this carefully, don't ask me how I thought of it it just popped in my head. I waited as Matt came closer...and closer...and closer...
And at the very last second I swerved away and put all my remaining energy into one last Water Gun, hitting him in the side.
"AHHHHHHH!" Matt yelled as he was thrown into a nearby tree, and fell to the ground with swirls for eyes.
"Matt is unable to battle! Elin wins!" Mew announced.
For a minute my mind couldn't comprehend what I'd just done, my body didn't have the same problem as I just fell flat on my back and gasped in deep heavy breaths.
Liz and Harrison poked their heads into my viewpoint. "You did pretty good." Liz nodded.
"Thanks..." I wheezed.
"Here, let me help you up." Harrison offered as I used him as a support.
I plodded over to Matt,who was being helped up by Lydia. "I can't believe I lost..." Matt sighed.
"You'll get over it, you always do." Lydia reassured him.
"H-Hey Matt?" I gasped, turning his attention to me. "G...Great battle..."
"Yeah, you too." Matt said as we shook stubs.
"Here, I've prepared some beds for you two to rest on." Grace smiled. We both thanked her as we were led over to some moss with leaf blankets, it was actually pretty cosy. "You both get some rest, okay?"
"Hm-hm." We both nodded as Grace ushered everyone away from us. I closed my eyes and steadied my breathing as I tried to get some well deserved slee-
"ELIN YOU WERE SO COOL OUT THERE!" I clutched my ears as a certain Ralts yelled right in my ear.
"Oooooow!" I said in an annoyed tone, I turned my head to see Vi, Sarah and Luke all next to me. "Hey..." I managed.
"THAT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME BATTLE!" Luke shouted.
"Yeah! You were all 'FWOOSH!' and Matt was all like 'KAPOW!' and it was so cooool!" Sarah squealed as she chased her own tail.
"I thought you were done for for a minute, but you pulled it off!" Vi praised me.
"Thanks..." I mumbled, still not over the shouting. "...Actually, you helped a bit, Vi."
"Me?" She pointed at herself. "What did I do?"
"Didn't you use telepathy to talk to me?"
"...WOOOOW! I can use telepathy!?" She gasped. "I wanna try it out! Sarah! I'm gonna talk to you with telepathy!"
"Okay!" The Skitty agreed as the two ran off.
"Wait! I want a voice in MY head as well!" Luke complained as he gave chase.
I sighed as I thumped my head back against the ground, at least I could get some rest now.
Grace came over to us after a little while with two wooden bowls containing some blue juice. "Here you go, these are made from Oran Berries, they'll heal you up in no time at all!"
We both thanked her as we took the bowls. 'So this is Oran Berry juice huh?...Well, try it before you dislike it.' I thought to myself as I tipped the bowl slightly and gulped down a mouthful.
...
WOAH! That stuff was SWEET! I mean sugar covered strawberries sweet! "This is really good!" Matt agreed as we both quickly gulped down the rest, it already felt like my wounds were fully healed and my strength was returning.
"Now just rest for a little longer." The Shiny told us as she walked away, but now the only thing I wanted to do was get out of bed!
"This is boooooriiiiing!" Matt stated.
"I agree with that statement completely." I agreed.
We both couldn't resist and got up, hiding in the bushes and watching the others train. "Did you bring any snacks?" Matt asked.
"If I did I would have eaten them by now." I replied.
"Good point." He nodded.
"Hey."
We both froze. Human voice. Right behind us. We both slowly turned to the individual.
Standing there was a dark skinned guy who looked about 5'6, and he looked pretty skinny, he had blue eyes and...orange dreadlocks?...I'm not gonna question it. He wore a white sleeveless hoodie with brown cargo shorts and brown combat boots.
"Sorry I scared ya." He said in a laid back tone. "Looks like there's a whole bunch of pokemon running around here, you guys having a party or something?"
Me and Matt looked at each other. "Er, who are you?" "Ar, Ar Aron?"
I facepalmed. "He can't understand us." "Osh Wott Oshawott Osh."
"Sorry, can't speak pokemon." He shrugged, verifying my point. "Call me Cooper." Cooper? What kind of a name was that? He nodded to the others. "Mind if I introduce myself?"
Us two pokemon shook our heads, and gestured to the group. "Thanks." He nodded as he stood up.
We walked in to find everyone staring at us, Grace must have seen ahead. Cooper tilted his head in thought. "Y'know, this reminds me of the Mystery Dungeon gam-"
"AHHHHHH!" Guess who jumped up and kicked him twice in the face and knocked him out.
We all stared down at the unconcious Cooper. "What did you do that for!?" I yelled.
"He mentioned IT!" Chris growled.
A-...Namae sighed. "You've gotta work on your anger issues."
"I don't have anger issues!" Behold, the biggest lie this year.
"Is he dead?" Ray asked.
"I'll check." Mew said as she poked him with a stick.
"He's not dead!" Most of us yelled.
"...Hey, what's up with his hair?" Ray pointed and we all looked to see it was getting longer.
"Yep, he's compatible." Mew nodded.
"Grace?" Liz asked as we all turned to her.
"Try guessing." She told us, so our game of 'sick' guessing began once again.
His orange hair slowly turned into orange fur that grew all over his body, apart from his stomach, chest and lower face where cream coloured fur grew.
"Teddiursa!" Sarah guessed.
"Raichu!" Harrison guessed.
"You aren't seriously doing this, are you...?" Namae sighed as she crossed her arms.
Now Coopers teeth sharpened into points as his fingers shrunk down into three rounded, stubby fingers, then his legs shrunk into his slowly lengthening torso until only his now rounded feet were left. He began shrinking as two small blue fins grew out either side of his arm, and his neck bloated up into a yellow buoyancy tube.
"Buizel." All of us said together.
A long orange tail slowly grew out and then split in half at the end, gaining a cream coloured tip. His face pushed itself out into a half-muzzle as his ears disappeared and thin whiskers grew out of black marks on his face, and to finish it off two little tufts grew out of the back of his head. Luckily he had kept his dreadlocks.
"Lucky, he was unconcious so he didn't get any pain." Liz complained, she then walked over and glared at him. "WAKE UP!" She shouted where his ears previously were.
He immediately jumped up. "Whaaaa!? I'm up! I'm up!" "Buiiiiii! Buizel! Buizel!" He then stopped and looked at all of us. "That came out of me, didn't it?" "Buiz Zel Buizel Bui Zel?" We all nodded.
He looked over his new body, flexing his tail and inflating his buoyancy tube before he finally spoke: "This is pretty cool!"
"At least he didn't freak out!" Lydia nodded.
He first turned to Liz. "Hey, what's up with your hair?" He gestured to Liz's purple curls.
"It's dyed." She replied with a shrug.
"It looks good with the fur...oh hey! I kept my dreadlocks!" He smiled, it kinda made me stroke that patch of fur on my head that was a reminiscent of my hairstyle."
"Want us to explain?" Mew asked.
Cooper shrugged. "Sure."
SplitWorlds
"This is great!"
"Told you."
Me and an acquainted Cooper were swimming in the lake underwater, Cooper was acting like a guy new to driving a car trying to get his tails to spin together, I can only move mine up and down.
"I've always liked swimming, its just so relaxing to feel weightless and just drift along, y'know?" He said.
"I'm not one for competitive swimming, just fun swimming." I admitted, how our voices travelled through the water I have no idea.
"You think my voice will be this pitch forever?" Cooper asked.
"I dunno, I hope not for me! Mine's all squeaky!" I said, causing him to laugh.
He inflated his tube and floated to the surface, with me following shortly after, we both then noticed the orange sky. "It's getting late." Cooper stated.
Now that I thought about it, all of this had taken place in one day! That was kinda scary when you thought about it!
"Heeeeey!" We turned our voices to Mew, who was at the edge of the lake. "C'mon! It's getting late and we're having dinner!" We both quickly swam over to the edge and climbed out.
A fire was lit thanks to Liz, Chris and Ray, during which I noticed Namae shuffle uncomfortably away from it, guess she didn't like fire. Mels looked like she was trying to cough out a furball. "How do I get my fire to start!?" She asked no one in particular.
"Braixen's use their sticks." Grace told her helpfully.
Mels pulled the stick out of her tail and got a small fire going at the tip. "That's more like it." She nodded.
"Hey! Can I try!?" Luke asked in excitement.
"Woah! Woah! Woah!" Mels yelled. "Don't touch my stick!"
"Why nooooot?" He gave her puppy eyes, which was quite fitting for a Poochyena.
"...Just...just don't! Okay?" She placed the stick back in her tail.
"I feel your pain!" I called over to her, she looked at me as if I was mad.
Suddenly bowls with blue auras floated above us, thanks to Mew's Psychic. "These are courtesy of Grace!" The pink legendary told us. "So say thank you!"
"Thank you Grace!" We all said as the bowls floated down. I peered in to find some good looking noodles.
"Wait! What about cutlery?" Harrison asked.
"How am I supposed to use cutlery?" Chris waved his wings.
"Hello? Your pokemon? Eat with your hands or paws or whatever." Latias sighed.
"...Sweet." Liz said before she dug in face first. We all just shrugged as we started eating as well, my method was to twizzle it around my stub for an arm before stuffing it in my mouth. Grace really was a good cook.
After dinner we put out the fire (My Water Gun) and walked over to several moss beds.
"Does this mean we're all here?" Namae asked Mew.
"Nope! They'll be more tomorrow!" Mew cheered as the Grovyle groaned. Then Mew turned to Latias. "Now you go and sort the untransformed and uncompatible ones out!"
Latias glared at her. "I'm sure they can take care of themselves."
"Go back there and be the sweaty old man you are destined to be!" Mew said as she pointed onward.
Latias groaned as her image distorted and she turned into the bus driver. "You owe me for this."
"Don't care." Mew smirked as Latias stormed off. "Okay! Night night everyone!"
"G'night." We all said as we relaxed.
It really was eventful today, can YOU say you got turned into a pokemon and met a legendary all in one day?...Didn't think so. I just stayed up drifting looking at the beautiful night sky until I drifted off to sleep...
SplitWorlds
"Whaaaaat!?" Kana yelled at the disguised Latias.
"How can you be so heartless!?" Nina pouted.
Latias covered her ears as she had to listen to the ranting of the campers. They had just finished dinner when she returned and said she had been searching all day, and she had made the suggestion that they stopped for the day.
The guy with the DBZ jacket, who was called Dalton, stepped forward. "We have to kerp looking! More people are disappearing! This is serious!"
Connor snorted. More people were going missing with their clothes turning up, who gives two shits? Oh wait, EVERYONE around him, it was just stupid in his opinion.
Louis, Melanie and the green haired girl known as Sana were staying well clear of the confrontation, it was just a bit much for them.
"HOLD UP!" Everyone froze at Latias' cry, then she sighed. "Listen to yourselves, your all getting hysterical. Yes! This is a problem! But shouting isn't gonna change anything!...The best thing to do right now,is to go to sleep, and recharge our energy for a bigger search tomorrow! Now does ANYBODY have ANY complaints!?"
Everyone clammed up.
"GOOD! I'm going to LOCK the doors and BOLT the windows, and youin turnkeep your lights off! Agreed!?" They all nodded. "So what are you standing around here for!? BEDTIME!"
"Rei! C'mon!" Kana called out. The Tree Climber obediently made his way down and filed up with the rest of them.
Latias hurried everyone into their cabins (Noticing Nina stick her tongue out at her) until it came to the ladt of the boys, Sean.
"...You know what's going on don't you?" Sean asked her, she didn't give anything away. "I'm not an idiot, this isn't Britain, pretty sure it's not even Earth...something is going on here...gonna say anything?" She kept her firm face. "...Good talk." He nodded as he walked in.
Latias locked the door behind him and rubbed her temple. If he wasn't compatible they could have a problem...maybe is she used Luster Purge-
'NO LUSTER PURGES!' Mew telepathically shouted at her.
Latias grimaced as the annoying voice rattled in her head. 'I hate you.'
'Feeling's mutual.'
*Sips tea* Ahhh...it sure was nice of NRMania to invite us here.
Pawniard: Better author then you at least. *Drinks tea*
Heeeey...anyway, another chapters done! And I FINALLY introduced Dalton and Sana! As well as Cooper by Bass the Echidna!
Pawniard: Took you long enough you shitty author.
Awwww...thank you for reading! Reviews are much appreciated! Oh! And the first half of Elin and Matt's fight scene was written by m-meistiNator! So, for the author in question, here's our next matchup!
Liz vs. Cooper
Yep, I'm doing these each chapter now! So Bass the Echidna! If you want the battle to play out a specific way just PM me!
Pawniard: Hey, Two-Tailed Mouse or whatever the hell your name is, since the shitty author forgot to answer your questions I'LL do it. Vi is pretty much dead set on thinking Elin is her partner, its a fact of whether Elin returns that thought, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't for the moment.
Please stop calling me that...thank you for reading! See you next chap-
Pawniard: HOLD ON!
Waaaaaah! What!?
Pawniard: Something else is going on!
What? Really?
Janine delicately floated over to Grace and nudged her slightly, the Glaceon stirred but didn't awaken. The Floette nudged her again and this time she did wake up. "Hmmm? Janine? What's the matter?"
"...I...I was wondering if...you could help me with something..." She admitted shyly.
Grace stood up carefully so as not to wake the others. "With what?"
...
Gael couldn't sleep. Ever since Elin and Vi startled him and caused him to trip into the water he had gotten a terrible cold, now he was just trying to suppress his sneezes.
"...Gael?"
"Eep!" He buried his face in his scarf and turned to see Janine floating there. "...Janine?...What are you doing up...?"
"...Ummm...here." She quickly placed something in front of him before hiding her blush with her flower. The Zorua picked the object up with his paws to find it was soft, rounded and pink.
"...Is...is this...a Poke-Puff?" He said shyly.
"I...I wanted to see i-if I could still bake..." She mumbled as she rubbed her flower stalk nervously. "A-And you were sick and I...just...wanted to help..."
Gael looked at the food and then at the Fairy-type, before taking a bite out of it. "It's terrible...isn't it?" The Floette looked close to tears.
"...N-No." Gael said with a small smile. "It's...really nice...thank you..."
The two blushed and hid behind there respective items. "I-I'll place some for...e-everyone f-f-for the morning...then..." She stammered. "...Thank you Gael..."
"No...problem..." He almost whispered as he tried to finish off the Poke-Puff quickly.
Pawniard:...Now we're done.
Well, there's something extra for you readers!
Pawniard: *Rolls eyes* Because your soooooo nice.
*Gets depressed* Please review...
Pawniard: They do help this idiot.
Your a mean girl...
Pawniard:...What did I say...ABOUT MENTIONING MY GENDER!? *Psycho Cut*
AHHHHHHHH!