Story Notes:
Highly important: I can't stress this enough to tell anyone who is about to read that my character(s) does some impossible stuff. I don't want to spoil anything but I'm going to have to since this has happened before. The reason why my character is enhanced in many ways at a young age is because he has aura, the same power Lucario have. This enables him to be much enhanced physically and mentally at a young age. Updated chapters will explain this more in depth.Warning: Do not attempt or reenact any combat performed in the following. Much of the combat used is highly dangerous and requires long practice. This story also contains extreme gore, extreme language, and sexual scenes much later.Welcome to Power of the Wave A4 Edition, the fourth complete rewrite. Even though I've read this over and over and over again there might still be errors but probably very minor but still drop a notice so I can learn something new.Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
Luck Was Required
Chapter 3: Luck Was Required
The three of us continued to walk away from the markets and back on the quiet paths towards the residences. Still hand in hand, I saw the pitch of Ralts's face remain low. Based off my past studies, ralts hate being around negative emotions, so why should this one feel so negative?
"Whatever Aipom said, he didn't mean it. It's okay; please don't be sad," I soothed stroking her back as we walked.
"No... he did mean it," Ralts replied softly almost like a whisper, "Everyone thinks that because I only have one horn means I'm weak and worthless." Her sadness started streaming down her face again.
"That's not true! I know you're way better than those other stupid pokémon. You are an awesome pokémon with a nice heart because you like me now and trust me even though I'm human. I never knew pokémon could be so mean though! Does everyone think that?"
"No, but there are still these other pokémon that make fun of us, and Aipom is one of them," Riolu explained with a low expression as well, "I'm also made fun of because they think I'm weak for being with Ralts. I don't care if I'm made fun of, but if they drag Ralts into the conversation it just makes me angry. Aipom even made fun of you too just for being human with no family of your own. But I know that's not true... You have us."
I got pretty annoyed myself hearing about Aipom bringing up that I have no family. Let's see him get his whole family killed in front of his own eyes and see how he likes it. "I know I have a new family now, and I love my new family."
"I'm so sorry for the way I was acting towards you last night and earlier today Rayn," Ralts suddenly sobbed, "I now clearly see that you're different from humans and these other pokémon around here. I'm so sorry for being scared of you and even threatening you last night. Riolu is right, you have us now."
Wow, Ralts definitely trusts me now... "Aww, it's okay Ralts. I'm not surprised that you were scared of me earlier so it's okay."
"I'm also sorry for being scared of you last night too," Riolu added.
"It's okay guys, it's okay really I forgive you," I chuckled.
After we all smiled and felt better I forgot I had been gripping something firm the entire "Oh yeah, this is for you Ralts, so both of you guys can use it. My mom always said it keeps cherished memories forever, so take pictures of things you enjoy most," I smiled.
Ralts took the camera while I placed the accessories in my pocket. To my amazement, Ralts found out how to turn it on. The lens extended and Ralts began aiming the device around observing the digital screen. She aimed it at Riolu who hid right behind my legs in response which caused me to stop in my tracks. A blinding flash went off stunning me a bit. She showed the result of the picture to us. I saw a slightly tan boy with short black shaved hair, light baked brown eyes, who was wearing wrinkled clothes with a cute Riolu peaking around my legs in curiosity within the screen. Then she took the camera in one of her hands, turned around, and aimed the camera back towards her face with Riolu and me in the background before clicking the button. Ralts is already learning how to use this camera very well since the resulting picture of all of us turned out very well. She then began rapidly clicking on the button with all three of us still in the frame constantly blinding us.
"Wait, you can probably take a few pictures at once. You must've taken like over ten pictures just now within two seconds."
"You did say take pictures of things you enjoy most." I t was my turn to blush at that point. "Thank you so much, Rayn."
Things she enjoys... that means she must really enjoy my company then. Ralts, finally cheered up, placed the strap of the camera around her neck. Riolu was also happy and she walked over to Ralts to play with the camera. We walked back home to see if Gardevoir had the picnic she was talking about this morning ready to go. We arrived in the residential part of the village to find our home. Before we spotted it however, three nidoran approached us. One of the three was light blue colored which made me believe it was female. The largest one located in the middle of the group started speaking.
After hearing a bunch of "nidos" and "rans" I started asking Riolu to translate. "Okay, what is he saying?" I didn't get a response. Looking at Riolu she had an angry glare towards the nidoran. Looking at Ralts on the other side of me, she wasn't sad but also angry as well. More bullies...
"They're talking about you, Rayn. I'm seriously close to beating the crap out of all three of them. I'm finally sick and tired of their crap!" she growled lowly packed with an intimidating tone I never knew would exist in her.
All three began taunting us as I just stood there completely intimidated about this situation.
"I'm done... I'm done with getting picked on by you three!" Ralts had some real anger in her telepathic tone. Oh no, I hope no one starts fighting right now... I won't be able to stop anyone this time.
The nidos laughed and then began asking for a fight. I know this because the female nidoran started staring down Ralts face to face.
"We're going to beat your ass. That's what I'm gonna do for sure," Riolu argued and Ralts joined in as well completely frightening me with the shear anger that was forming.
I never knew Ralts would ever talk like that. I mean she was always the more cautious one while Riolu was shyer but tougher. I don't even know what to say because I don't even know what the nidoran are saying. One of the nidoran got in front of me. Does he want to fight three on three? I have never fought anyone before, and I care about pokémon too much for me to harm one unless if it was a professional pokémon battle, but even if it was harming me I couldn't hurt it back. I just can't. I saw a few pokémon stop to look at all of. Some of them went off hopefully to warn someone about the situation.
"Stop, le-let's talk about this!" I suggested a little shakily, "Why do you nidoran pick on these girls so much?"
The bigger nidoran answered my question even though I didn't get any of the words.
"He said because we are worthless, and now that you're with us, three's a company; a worthless company." She finished translating and then began arguing again. "Well we aren't worthless. It's them that are worthless! All they do is tease for their entertainment!"
"Wow, you three are just bad. There isn't a need for a fight. Riolu and Ralts never did anything wrong to you guys."
The nidoran started laughing before speaking again. The larger nidoran walked up to me and communicated with me, but before I could respond he pounced towards my stomach too fast for me to react knocking me on the ground. Winded and on the ground I gripped my stomach barely able to breathe almost so hurt I nearly cried. He just used Tackle on me and his horn doesn't help alleviate the pain.
Finally feeling the pain spike into searing burns around my abdomen I let out an ear-splitting scream. I looked down and saw a small but burning wound right on my stomach which was inflicted by his poisonous horn. I lifted up my hand from under my shirt and was horrified to see some blood on my palm. After squeezing my eyes shut from the excruciating pain and sitting up recovering enough only to groan, Riolu ran at a very high speed towards the nidoran that attacked me and delivered a quick attack with her swinging fist. The attack knocked him back several yards slamming him into a nearby tree. I set my sights on Ralts who used Confuse on the female nidoran then hit her with her small hands but it was hard enough to knock the staggering nidoran on the ground. The last nidoran standing was surprised by a thrust from Riolu's paw slamming directly into his face with blue flames discharging from the impact causing the nidoran to fly into his sister nidoran. Wow, she can use Force Palm too! I slowly stumbled up to my feet trying to ignore the pain I felt. I was about to stop this battle but someone beat me to it. A large purple nidoking and Lucario separated the fight. Both moved the three nidoran, which were all getting up, while Lucario stopped Ralts but struggled to keep his daughter under control. The Nidoking roared angrily at the three nidoran, which must've been his offspring.
"Come on. We gotta get you to Gardevoir before the poison spreads," Lucario suggested.
I nodded letting Lucario help me back home with Riolu and Ralts next to him. Within a minute we were inside the home. I lied down on my bed after Lucario informed me he was going to get Gardevoir's help. Less than a minute later Gardevoir and Celsius entered my room, and gasped as they saw the wound on my stomach.
"What happened to you!" She took a look at the wound before pulling in a chair next to my bed. "This is not deep at all but you got poisoned by toxic. Look straight up for me and take a deep breath." I did as she told. "Release your breath when I say 'now'. Now!" I exhaled then suddenly grunted a little as I felt pincer pressure against the area I was stabbed. I stayed strong though trying to stare at a spot on the ceiling.
"Gah, I should've been there to protect you! I'm so sorry this happened to you, Master. I hate seeing you hurt like this. I screwed up as your pokémon." Celsius hung her head low and just stared at the ground.
"No, it's not your fault Celsius. You didn't even know. It's okay I'm fine," I tried to cheer her up.
"Still, I should've just gone with you..." Her eyes really began to glisten showing her upset state.
"You don't have to protect me to be my pokémon, Celsius. You know I still love you."
Gardevoir's hands glowed turquoise in color above my wound. "So I heard by Ralts. She told me a little bit about what happened to you three." As she moved her hands around above my wound the pain ceased, and to my surprise the wound started closing. As the wound got smaller before my very eyes she applied some aloe to that area. "So you bought my daughter a... camera?"
"Yeah, she liked it a lot so I just traded some human money for it," I smiled.
"Aww, that's very sweet and affectionate of you to do so. I can tell she really loves the gift." The wound began to close shut with a large scab around the cut. After treating my wound she continuously moved her hand, which was still glowing, around my abdomen.
"All the poison is gone now. I'm going to have to talk to their parents... again. Some conflict always happens between them but Riolu has never fought Nidoran and his siblings before; nor has Ralts," she sighed
"Maybe they just got tired of their words and finally did something about it. Fighting is still bad though." Actually I do believe that fighting is the best thing to do for self defense, but I didn't want to say anything bad.
"Actually fighting is good only if your opponent throws the first hit, and I won't get mad if Riolu wins the fight which is what Ralts and Riolu both did," Lucario interjected walking into the room, "Nidoran attacked you so Riolu lost her temper and protected you."
"Yes, but I never knew Ralts could be that aggressive. She only has one psychic fin which is only part of a Ralts' power," Gardevoir protested.
"But she was within appropriate range to use a physic type attack. With just one fin she can use powers if an opponent is not that far off."
I stood up looking at both Gardevoir and Lucario. "Nidoran shouldn't be bullying Ralts anymore and that's all that matters, right. Now she proved to them that she's not weak," I added.
"Absolutely," Lucario smiled followed by Gardevoir moments later.
Knowing that I'm fully healed, we walked out of the room to see Ralts and Riolu both sitting down in the living room. Both of them had their heads down as if they were anxiously waiting for punishment.
"You two aren't in trouble," Lucario wholeheartedly laughed from the sight of the two as they sulked in shame, "Nidoran shouldn't be hurting you two anymore, especially after what my little cub just did."
"Well maybe they deserved it. They've been tormenting Ralts and me for too long, and now they bring in Rayn. It hurts too much, and I'm very sorry that they hurt you Rayn."
"Don't worry; they shouldn't be hurting us anymore. That was so cool what you two did to them!"
"Okay let's not talk about it anymore. It just makes me want to confront their parents more than ever. Lucario and I are going to talk to them right now," Gardevoir finished.
After they left Riolu, Ralts, Celsius, and I found the food for the picnic on the counter was already packed and ready to go. "So where is the picnic going to be at?" I asked.
"The Flower Field," Ralts answered joyfully.
"What's that?"
"It's where you go to relax in the great smell of the flowers... in the field," she answered the obvious.
"Just like the name says, sounds like a cheesy place to me," Celsius replied.
"Celsius, that was rude," I shunned.
"I'm sorry master, but a flower field isn't really my kind of place to relax," she complained.
True, Celsius all of her life never enjoyed anything feminine, but that doesn't mean Celsius isn't sensitive at times. "Well that is where the picnic is going to be, so try to have fun, please. It's the least we can do to say thanks for giving us a home," I convinced.
She agreed with me since they were taking care of us. There were two light brown woven baskets and a small green blanket that was also hand stitched. Celsius was too small to carry anything, so I carried the two baskets while Riolu insisted on carrying the blanket.
We followed Ralts out of the back of the home as she skipped dragging her robe leading us along the way. Next to the lake was a path that was made of short grass bordered by bushes and other vegetation. We walked for about two minutes traversing through the vegetation before we arrived shortly at a large clearing literally covered entirely by flowers of all colors. A tall oak tree in the clearing complemented the view. Wow, you would never find places as tranquil as this in human civilization. We set up the picnic under the large shade of the tree laying the green blanket down before I placed the baskets on top.
"Let's go back and wait for those two to come back," I suggested.
"No, they know that we set up the picnic. Father can read the aura that stores thoughts so he should know that we're out here."
I found that pretty interesting knowing that my mind can probably be read almost at anytime. Then again Gardevoir is a psychic type so she can read my mind also. The four of us sat there and waited in silence. The only sound was the warm, fresh breeze rustling the leaves above us. I looked onward and there were flowers of all colors as far as the eye can see. The petals full of different pigments brightened the horizon in the distance even though I did faintly see the border of the surrounding forest far ahead. Yep, nature's canvas lies underneath us right now.
"You guys seem pretty quiet," I broke the long science.
"Oh, it's nothing," all three answered almost simultaneously. I didn't expect Celsius to contribute in unison.
Riolu and Ralts seemed a bit reclusive about something. I saw that kept Celsius oddly shooting them an intimidating glare at the two of them for some reason. Ignoring it, I lied on the grass which cushioned my back in a soft green envelope around me. I shut my eyes from the sun light before I was all of a sudden blinded by an immediate flash. I looked at Ralts with her camera drawn up.
"Sorry, you did say take pictures of things you enjoy most right?" Ralts and Riolu took a look at the picture of me probably lying down with my eyes closed. They both began to giggle to themselves.
Wow, I guess I've definitely made some improvement with bonding with them. "So now you two enjoy me being around you guys?" I asked just to make sure. I saw Celsius sharpen her glare at them though.
"Yeah, and I think Riolu enjoys you a whole, whole lot, right Riolu," Ralts asked with a playful tone.
"Huh... wh-what do mean," Riolu responded very quickly sounding nervous.
"You know what I mean, you told me this morning when we were bathing, remember..." Ralts added continuing to use that same tone which caused me to feel out of place. What is she talking about?
"What! Don't you dare-"
"Raaaaayn," she called out to me while trailing my name and giggling.
"Don't!" Riolu interrupted.
"Riolu has a very big secret," she told me slowly while using her teasing telepathic voice.
"Don't do it!" Riolu and even Celsius told too in unison. Now I really wanted to know this secret.
"Riolu li-" before Ralts could finish though both Celsius and Riolu held there paw or talon foot up to her mouth to stop her talking. "Uh, I'm using telepathy..." I heard her say which shocked the two females around her, "I was only just kidding anyways, Riolu!" Ralts giggled.
"Hold on," Celsius squawked while lowering her foot.
The three turned around and started whispering to each other in a small huddle. What were they talking about, and more importantly what was Ralts going to say to me?
"It's just forbidden okay!" Celsius blurted out a few seconds after they turned around.
"What's forbidden?" I asked since that was the only thing I heard in their conversation causing Celsius to jump and turn towards me. Before any responded, we heard Lucario and Gardevoir approaching behind us.
"Okay, Nidoran is definitely not going to bother you three anymore," Lucario reassured.
"Probably because Riolu and Ralts showed them that they were tired of their words," I added.
Lucario laughed at that comment, but Gardevoir wasn't too happy about the fight at all. The two took a seat on the blanket and I sat up while the three females turned around. Gardevoir opened the baskets which revealed fresh berries and fruits, six sandwiches with actually sliced bread preserved with a giant leaf wrapped around them, and some berry juice in small wooden cups! Gardevoir took out all the nourishments and placed them in six different spots for each of us. We each took a seat in front of one of the spots, and I began eating the sandwich finding it to be unexpectedly good. There wasn't any sauce since pokémon can't make condiments, I think; if they know how to make or get bread then who knows what other things they can make.
"So how did you get that body-I-I mean what do you do to stay in shape?" Riolu asked.
"It was a routine where I worked my butt off for four to six hours a day. Every day I would go to school which is a place where humans go to learn about the basics of... everything, and school lasts from the age of five to ten."
Everyone only goes to school for six years and learn ABC's and 1 2 3's to Classic and Modern Literature and Trigonometry within only six years before they're given the choice to either become a pokémon trainer, go to college, or live with their parents. That's the normal schooling for most students. Sometimes people would either quit or graduate early. First year is elementary, second is middle school, third is freshman, fourth is sophomore, fifth is junior, and the last is senior at the age of ten which is optional.
"I was a freshman and I was in a football youth league, which is a very hard sport to participate in. So I worked out five days a week during practice, then I would go home train with my dad on more physical conditioning, and then I would train Celsius and Lithium for fun and they loved it. Before bed I would do fifteen pushups and fifteen sit ups. And a couple days a week I would also go to jiu jitsu training after school."
"You know jiu jitsu?" Lucario questioned.
"Just around ten lessons. I had planned on learning all of them within three years."
"Really, I bet that if you trained with Riolu and me each morning you would be better than all of your trainers back at that gym within only a year. Just give me a little less than a year and I can make you master that form."
"Less than a year, that seems a bit fast! My trainers actually snapped bones, knocked out people from blood constrictions, and some of the students from other fighting classes did all sorts of cool tricks where they would like jump and flip around and spin kick people-it was really cool but looks so hard."
"Spins and kicks... you mean like this?" Lucario got up and began getting in a pose that involved doing a right leg lunge and stretching out his right arm above his right leg while folding his left arm in a right angle with his paw above his head. It was like he was posing in a martial arts stance. He inhaled and exhaled slowly. A moment later he suddenly jumped up high into the air turning his body level to the ground in mid air so that it looked like he was lying in midair. Then he began spinning while spanning his limbs out while still horizontally floating in the air. Finally after countless barrel rolls, he perfectly landed back softly in his "kung fu" pose. "Like that? So just pretend that there were opponents all around me, for if there was then my feet and paws would've struck them all knocking them out. I don't learn these moves just to show off. What about this one?"
He abruptly darted full speed towards the tree behind us then literally ran up the trunk; just like running up a wall. He ran almost complete underneath the lowest branch where he started kicking rapidly at the base from underneath and then used his last kick to spring away from the branch. While flying down I saw within a fraction of a second that he tucked in his arms and spiraled in mid air towards the ground. Before making contact he put his arms out to catch himself on his feet landing perfectly low and sprawled on all fours, and then he twirled around planting his foot on the ground while facing the tree.
"Pretend that was a giant pokémon and that branch was its chin. That can cause a lot of damage, and I know I can teach you how to do that within a year and much more moves and techniques. Since you are in shape and know a little bit about jiu jitsu it should be easy."
Everyone, including Riolu her own daughter, was shocked at what they just saw. He just did a wicked flip in the air; he just did several wicked flips in the air. That looked so impossible to do, but he did it with ease and he really thinks I can do that?
"Way to show off, Lucario," Gardevoir giggled after the initial shock.
"Now I have never seen any of my trainers do that before... but you're a pokémon fighter type and I don't think I can do that within a year. That just looks too hard for me to do something as... intricate ever."
"A fighter type is just like any human who fights professionally for a living, except without powers."
"But-"
"Trust me, Rayn. I can literally see it with my very own reader eyes that you are more than capable of completing that trick." Celsius and Gardevoir both gave him and me a worried look. "I want you to forget absolutely everything you have learned about fighting because I can teach new and better techniques, but I only train early in the morning two to three hours a day."
"Um... wh-who will wake me up?"
"Riolu will get you. We do more than fighting in practice. We also do a lot of endurance runs to condition the body," he smiled.
"I guess that sounds...good. We did similar stuff in football...I think."
Lucario looked as if he had "perfect" written on his face from the devious smile he just made.
"Anyways, so you exercised every day basically?" Riolu concluded.
"Yeah, basically."
"Ooh, can I please exercise with you guys in the morning too then?" Ralts asked while jumping up to get our attention, "I want to learn self defense too!"
"I don't know if you can even handle it, no offense, but it's because I've always hated conditioning," I added.
"I don't care because I want to be strong and fit just like you and Riolu one day."
"Then all you got to do is when you get up from bed in the morning do ten, fifteen, maybe even twenty pushups and sit ups. Then when you feel that number is too easy just move it up by intervals of five. That's what my dad told me. Then run a mile or two in the morning. My dad ran in the morning but I never did."
"I'll...I'll just do all of those things when you do it," she chuckled nervously.
"I don't even know if I'm okay with you getting up that early just to exercise, Darling," Gardevoir sighed with worry in her voice.
"She can handle it once we start slow with her. We'll start slow with Rayn too. She can even learn new powers from this training," Lucario reassured.
"Yes, so please mommy. I want to stay in shape too."
"You're not even out of shape! But I guess it's really not up to me if you want to become knowledgeable in self defense. You can train with them only if you are okay with that," Gardevoir answered.
"I'm just skinny, and I want a little bit of muscle."
Lucario and I laughed from hearing that. It just sounded too cute how she said that. He seemed to be happy about having new students for his training. I was getting excited myself because I like learn how to defend myself, but not the conditioning part.
After we talked Riolu, Ralts, including Celsius, and I played around in the Flower Field. Honestly I actually found it entertaining. It was still fun playing with Ralts, and Riolu. All we really did was chase down each other and climb the tree. Even Celsius participated with us and based off her chirps and cries she was having a good time. When we finally became tired Ralts, Riolu, Celsius, and I relaxed under the tree while Lucario and Gardevoir went inside. They told us that curfew was when the sun had set below the horizon. At this time of year it was fall so the sun would go down a lot sooner than normal. I can't even tell time over here unless if Aipom had an accurate, solar powered watch that was already set for me to by with two dimes or something. For the remainder of the time we were in the field, we just lied down near the tree and let the sweet smell of the flowers relax our minds.
The sun finally set so Ralts, Celsius and I went home while Riolu was going to her own, but in Ralts' home Lucario and Gardevoir was already sitting in the living room appearing to be waiting for our arrival. I got Riolu before she went too far off to warn her that her dad was with us. She and I came back so all of us were in the living room.
"We need to talk." Lucario had a serious look on his face causing me to think I did something bad.
"Okay about what," I tried to calmly ask.
"No, we mean only Ralts and Riolu because this is uh... parent cub talk."
"Wait, uh... when do humans normally hit their maturing age?" Gardevoir asked me.
"What?" I didn't know what she was talking about until Celsius answered for me.
"Not for another five to six years for him. He won't know what you guys will be talking about, so we'll leave you four alone."
Celsius and I walked back to my room to leave them to talk. It was awkward being stuck in the middle of the living room with a bunch of serious faces anyways. Once I got back to my room I just took a seat on my bed.
"Okay, since I'm here I might as well check how much money I have left."
"Why? It's useless here."
"Actually the coins are worth more here. That camera I bought for Ralts is supposed to be over a thousand for humans when I actually just paid him a dollar fifty for it with quarters."
Celsius was very amused with that. "You ripped him off badly," Celsius laughed out, "You need to find more quarters fast then."
"I still got a lot more too," I laughed. We both began cracking up at that comment. I'm basically rich over here. "So what do you think they're talking about right now?"
"Oh just a certain part of life where you start... let's just say growing up," Celsius answered. "Kind of awkward for us to be arriving here at that time," she whispered to her self.
"So they must be getting new powers."
"Uh no, it's not powers I can tell you that."
"Well than what is it."
"When you're older I'll explain it."
I gave up on trying to find out what they really would get. "I need to wash up. I always took a shower in the morning and at night, but now I have to do it at the lake every morning and night."
"Just wait for them to finish there little talk first."
I agreed while Celsius began leaving the room. "Wait, where are you going?" I exclaimed.
"I'm going out there because I'm a fully mature Torchic so it's okay for me. Just stay here."
That doesn't make any sense! However, I did as she told since I didn't want to be rude. Looking back to my first day here it was actually fun. Besides getting stabbed by a nidoran it was really cool here, and it shouldn't even be happening anymore. I reminisced about this day for about ten more minutes before Celsius finally came in and told me I was clear to go into the living room. I just wanted to go through the back door through the living room so I can bathe in the lake before I go to sleep.
Once I was out there I stripped down and took a step in the lake shore seeing that no one was around. I walked into the water without creating any noise to wake up any other pokémon. Surprisingly the water was still quite warm, wow. Once I was in I soaked my body and relaxed against a small wall surrounding the lake; my back facing the home. I relaxed in the water until I heard a little bit of rustling in the bushes around me. I ignored it until I started hearing it again.
I stood up from the shallow water and turned around looking through the bushes. "Who's...who's over there?" There wasn't a response, but before I sunk back in the water I was blinded by a familiar light. If that was what I thought it was, then Ralts just took a picture of me standing up with the water to my knees fully naked.
"RALTS!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Still looking I saw another flash but it was dimmer this time. That's when I saw something black with bright yellow rings illuminate past the vegetation. The yellow circles kept flashing to intimidate whatever it was chasing as it deeper into the dense forest. Oh, woops. "Just...just an umbreon. Okay, phew-wait, an umbreon! Holy sh-" I placed my hand over mouth to stop myself from slipping a curse word. "That's...so...awesome! They are so rare too!"
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"Hope my plan worked," I whispered taking a peak at Rayn one last time before he sunk back in.
"It did look," Riolu pointed to Rayn who was still looking at the umbreon.
While Rayn is bathing I thought we should probably spy on him. I saw Umbreon so I knew he was going to start glowing, so that's when I took the picture of Rayn. My plan worked! He did think it was Umbreon. I started to giggle to myself from this thought. This picture is perfect. I got his whole body.
"What are you two doing out here?"
I froze for a second and both Riolu and I slowly turned around to find Celsius giving us a serious glare. She knows what we were just doing?
"Didn't we talk about this at the Flower Field?" Celsius continued.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help it!" I yelled.
"Me neither. I want to see him umm... down-"
"Look I know how you two feel," the torchic sympathized, "But right now I can tell that you two are trying to tell if it's really love... or just a sinful emotion called lust.
"Lust?" We both asked in unison then looked at each other with clueless features on our faces.
"Yeah, it's when you just want his body and nothing more from him. Especially since you two only want him because of young curiosity. You two do know he's my master right? He took care of me my whole life from me hatching to us escaping. I was born a year after him on the same birth date; right after my breeder gave his dad the egg that I was in. So I love him and I have always loved him. I doubt that you two even feel that way for him, and you two just met him. That's not love, girls," she chuckled at the end.
"He's the first male that ever cared about us or was nice to us other than my father. I do love him," Riolu admitted.
"How cute, young love," she said sarcastically, "No, I'm sure that that's lust you two are feeling when you think about him because it's your first emotional experience of love. If I'm correct you were scared of him last night until you searched his past. You expect me to believe that you two love him after just talking to him for a day. It's actually a crush that you two are experiencing, there's a difference between them but you young females don't know it and let alone care," she snickered, "There's no such thing as love at first sight."
"Not uh, I-we do love him! I know I love him because ralts, kirlia, and gardevoir naturally know who their mates are when they see it first sight. We are sensitive to emotion, so I can tell who my true love is just by looking. Mommy described the feeling to me earlier today. I feel it when I look at Rayn. How can you say you love him and not believe in love at first sight," I yelled back.
"That's hard to believe that gardevoir have that emotional sense, and besides he's only seven now meaning his body has not grown fully so you two can't 'want' him. It's almost impossible and meaningless. He won't hit maturity until he's around twelve, thirteenish, so he might get confused. Pokémon can't understand that because we all mature when we're just one human years old. Oh, and it took a while to convince myself that I truly have feelings for him; a long, long time."
"I can wait five years," I quickly blurted out.
"From the way you gazed at him this morning, I don't think so. Look, I know you two just got done talking about the flyers and the combees with your mom and dad, so you two are probably curious."
"Yes, you got us. We admit it, but I still love him," I answered hoping to admit whatever she's thinking so she can leave us alone.
"It's okay. He'll start growing when he gets older mentally and physically, if you know what I mean," she giggled, "But most importantly Rayn is a human and we're pokémon. Humans find pokémon to human relationships a taboo. It's illegal. They think it's bad while we still think it's completely natural. Humans are too blind to see what love really is now. Damn media..."
"But it's actually natural, I've heard stories before from others," Riolu pointed out.
"Only natural to us, but not to them. It has always been natural for humans and pokémon since the beginning of time to be together in a loving mate relationship, but long ago humans started to think it was bad. They still think we're different." Looking at the picture of Rayn I took a moment ago I couldn't believe that humans think that we can't be together. "I'm sorry but you have to accept that fact."
"I guess you're right." I winked at Riolu without Celsius knowing to show her that I think Celsius is wrong just so she can leave.
Celsius began to turn around and walk back towards the home. "Perfect, more of him for me then. I've never liked sharing; especially if it's my master," Celsius whispered to herself in triumph.
"Her, I can see through your mind Celsius!" Riolu blurted out.
"Sorry, but I don't want to confuse Rayn," she twisted around, "I can wait 'till he hits maturity. I guess I'll be okay with you two always spying on him, but don't try anything funny, or I'll lose my fiery temper and take it out on both of you!" she growled lowly.
Neither Riolu nor I flinched. I love him and I know it. So does Riolu and apparently so does Celsius. Riolu maybe a good friend of mine, but I might also have to stop her if I have to. I just hope Rayn will stay for five more long years. There shouldn't be any kind of force that'll split us apart...
To Be Continued
I hope you all understand how the education system works in this story's universe since it was pretty hard to describe. Now sorry to some for doing that whole "love at first sight" crap. I normally don't do bullshit like this, so in return I hope I gave a clear explanation for it. But if you didn't mind then cool. It's hard to tell if I do stuff right without feedback, and usually if I don't get any feedback I just think something is wrong because this story is boring and or clichéd.
Anyways, go forth and review/comment, read the next chapter, or move on to the next story on this website to read. Either way, it's up to you, the reader.
The three of us continued to walk away from the markets and back on the quiet paths towards the residences. Still hand in hand, I saw the pitch of Ralts's face remain low. Based off my past studies, ralts hate being around negative emotions, so why should this one feel so negative?
"Whatever Aipom said, he didn't mean it. It's okay; please don't be sad," I soothed stroking her back as we walked.
"No... he did mean it," Ralts replied softly almost like a whisper, "Everyone thinks that because I only have one horn means I'm weak and worthless." Her sadness started streaming down her face again.
"That's not true! I know you're way better than those other stupid pokémon. You are an awesome pokémon with a nice heart because you like me now and trust me even though I'm human. I never knew pokémon could be so mean though! Does everyone think that?"
"No, but there are still these other pokémon that make fun of us, and Aipom is one of them," Riolu explained with a low expression as well, "I'm also made fun of because they think I'm weak for being with Ralts. I don't care if I'm made fun of, but if they drag Ralts into the conversation it just makes me angry. Aipom even made fun of you too just for being human with no family of your own. But I know that's not true... You have us."
I got pretty annoyed myself hearing about Aipom bringing up that I have no family. Let's see him get his whole family killed in front of his own eyes and see how he likes it. "I know I have a new family now, and I love my new family."
"I'm so sorry for the way I was acting towards you last night and earlier today Rayn," Ralts suddenly sobbed, "I now clearly see that you're different from humans and these other pokémon around here. I'm so sorry for being scared of you and even threatening you last night. Riolu is right, you have us now."
Wow, Ralts definitely trusts me now... "Aww, it's okay Ralts. I'm not surprised that you were scared of me earlier so it's okay."
"I'm also sorry for being scared of you last night too," Riolu added.
"It's okay guys, it's okay really I forgive you," I chuckled.
After we all smiled and felt better I forgot I had been gripping something firm the entire "Oh yeah, this is for you Ralts, so both of you guys can use it. My mom always said it keeps cherished memories forever, so take pictures of things you enjoy most," I smiled.
Ralts took the camera while I placed the accessories in my pocket. To my amazement, Ralts found out how to turn it on. The lens extended and Ralts began aiming the device around observing the digital screen. She aimed it at Riolu who hid right behind my legs in response which caused me to stop in my tracks. A blinding flash went off stunning me a bit. She showed the result of the picture to us. I saw a slightly tan boy with short black shaved hair, light baked brown eyes, who was wearing wrinkled clothes with a cute Riolu peaking around my legs in curiosity within the screen. Then she took the camera in one of her hands, turned around, and aimed the camera back towards her face with Riolu and me in the background before clicking the button. Ralts is already learning how to use this camera very well since the resulting picture of all of us turned out very well. She then began rapidly clicking on the button with all three of us still in the frame constantly blinding us.
"Wait, you can probably take a few pictures at once. You must've taken like over ten pictures just now within two seconds."
"You did say take pictures of things you enjoy most." I t was my turn to blush at that point. "Thank you so much, Rayn."
Things she enjoys... that means she must really enjoy my company then. Ralts, finally cheered up, placed the strap of the camera around her neck. Riolu was also happy and she walked over to Ralts to play with the camera. We walked back home to see if Gardevoir had the picnic she was talking about this morning ready to go. We arrived in the residential part of the village to find our home. Before we spotted it however, three nidoran approached us. One of the three was light blue colored which made me believe it was female. The largest one located in the middle of the group started speaking.
After hearing a bunch of "nidos" and "rans" I started asking Riolu to translate. "Okay, what is he saying?" I didn't get a response. Looking at Riolu she had an angry glare towards the nidoran. Looking at Ralts on the other side of me, she wasn't sad but also angry as well. More bullies...
"They're talking about you, Rayn. I'm seriously close to beating the crap out of all three of them. I'm finally sick and tired of their crap!" she growled lowly packed with an intimidating tone I never knew would exist in her.
All three began taunting us as I just stood there completely intimidated about this situation.
"I'm done... I'm done with getting picked on by you three!" Ralts had some real anger in her telepathic tone. Oh no, I hope no one starts fighting right now... I won't be able to stop anyone this time.
The nidos laughed and then began asking for a fight. I know this because the female nidoran started staring down Ralts face to face.
"We're going to beat your ass. That's what I'm gonna do for sure," Riolu argued and Ralts joined in as well completely frightening me with the shear anger that was forming.
I never knew Ralts would ever talk like that. I mean she was always the more cautious one while Riolu was shyer but tougher. I don't even know what to say because I don't even know what the nidoran are saying. One of the nidoran got in front of me. Does he want to fight three on three? I have never fought anyone before, and I care about pokémon too much for me to harm one unless if it was a professional pokémon battle, but even if it was harming me I couldn't hurt it back. I just can't. I saw a few pokémon stop to look at all of. Some of them went off hopefully to warn someone about the situation.
"Stop, le-let's talk about this!" I suggested a little shakily, "Why do you nidoran pick on these girls so much?"
The bigger nidoran answered my question even though I didn't get any of the words.
"He said because we are worthless, and now that you're with us, three's a company; a worthless company." She finished translating and then began arguing again. "Well we aren't worthless. It's them that are worthless! All they do is tease for their entertainment!"
"Wow, you three are just bad. There isn't a need for a fight. Riolu and Ralts never did anything wrong to you guys."
The nidoran started laughing before speaking again. The larger nidoran walked up to me and communicated with me, but before I could respond he pounced towards my stomach too fast for me to react knocking me on the ground. Winded and on the ground I gripped my stomach barely able to breathe almost so hurt I nearly cried. He just used Tackle on me and his horn doesn't help alleviate the pain.
Finally feeling the pain spike into searing burns around my abdomen I let out an ear-splitting scream. I looked down and saw a small but burning wound right on my stomach which was inflicted by his poisonous horn. I lifted up my hand from under my shirt and was horrified to see some blood on my palm. After squeezing my eyes shut from the excruciating pain and sitting up recovering enough only to groan, Riolu ran at a very high speed towards the nidoran that attacked me and delivered a quick attack with her swinging fist. The attack knocked him back several yards slamming him into a nearby tree. I set my sights on Ralts who used Confuse on the female nidoran then hit her with her small hands but it was hard enough to knock the staggering nidoran on the ground. The last nidoran standing was surprised by a thrust from Riolu's paw slamming directly into his face with blue flames discharging from the impact causing the nidoran to fly into his sister nidoran. Wow, she can use Force Palm too! I slowly stumbled up to my feet trying to ignore the pain I felt. I was about to stop this battle but someone beat me to it. A large purple nidoking and Lucario separated the fight. Both moved the three nidoran, which were all getting up, while Lucario stopped Ralts but struggled to keep his daughter under control. The Nidoking roared angrily at the three nidoran, which must've been his offspring.
"Come on. We gotta get you to Gardevoir before the poison spreads," Lucario suggested.
I nodded letting Lucario help me back home with Riolu and Ralts next to him. Within a minute we were inside the home. I lied down on my bed after Lucario informed me he was going to get Gardevoir's help. Less than a minute later Gardevoir and Celsius entered my room, and gasped as they saw the wound on my stomach.
"What happened to you!" She took a look at the wound before pulling in a chair next to my bed. "This is not deep at all but you got poisoned by toxic. Look straight up for me and take a deep breath." I did as she told. "Release your breath when I say 'now'. Now!" I exhaled then suddenly grunted a little as I felt pincer pressure against the area I was stabbed. I stayed strong though trying to stare at a spot on the ceiling.
"Gah, I should've been there to protect you! I'm so sorry this happened to you, Master. I hate seeing you hurt like this. I screwed up as your pokémon." Celsius hung her head low and just stared at the ground.
"No, it's not your fault Celsius. You didn't even know. It's okay I'm fine," I tried to cheer her up.
"Still, I should've just gone with you..." Her eyes really began to glisten showing her upset state.
"You don't have to protect me to be my pokémon, Celsius. You know I still love you."
Gardevoir's hands glowed turquoise in color above my wound. "So I heard by Ralts. She told me a little bit about what happened to you three." As she moved her hands around above my wound the pain ceased, and to my surprise the wound started closing. As the wound got smaller before my very eyes she applied some aloe to that area. "So you bought my daughter a... camera?"
"Yeah, she liked it a lot so I just traded some human money for it," I smiled.
"Aww, that's very sweet and affectionate of you to do so. I can tell she really loves the gift." The wound began to close shut with a large scab around the cut. After treating my wound she continuously moved her hand, which was still glowing, around my abdomen.
"All the poison is gone now. I'm going to have to talk to their parents... again. Some conflict always happens between them but Riolu has never fought Nidoran and his siblings before; nor has Ralts," she sighed
"Maybe they just got tired of their words and finally did something about it. Fighting is still bad though." Actually I do believe that fighting is the best thing to do for self defense, but I didn't want to say anything bad.
"Actually fighting is good only if your opponent throws the first hit, and I won't get mad if Riolu wins the fight which is what Ralts and Riolu both did," Lucario interjected walking into the room, "Nidoran attacked you so Riolu lost her temper and protected you."
"Yes, but I never knew Ralts could be that aggressive. She only has one psychic fin which is only part of a Ralts' power," Gardevoir protested.
"But she was within appropriate range to use a physic type attack. With just one fin she can use powers if an opponent is not that far off."
I stood up looking at both Gardevoir and Lucario. "Nidoran shouldn't be bullying Ralts anymore and that's all that matters, right. Now she proved to them that she's not weak," I added.
"Absolutely," Lucario smiled followed by Gardevoir moments later.
Knowing that I'm fully healed, we walked out of the room to see Ralts and Riolu both sitting down in the living room. Both of them had their heads down as if they were anxiously waiting for punishment.
"You two aren't in trouble," Lucario wholeheartedly laughed from the sight of the two as they sulked in shame, "Nidoran shouldn't be hurting you two anymore, especially after what my little cub just did."
"Well maybe they deserved it. They've been tormenting Ralts and me for too long, and now they bring in Rayn. It hurts too much, and I'm very sorry that they hurt you Rayn."
"Don't worry; they shouldn't be hurting us anymore. That was so cool what you two did to them!"
"Okay let's not talk about it anymore. It just makes me want to confront their parents more than ever. Lucario and I are going to talk to them right now," Gardevoir finished.
After they left Riolu, Ralts, Celsius, and I found the food for the picnic on the counter was already packed and ready to go. "So where is the picnic going to be at?" I asked.
"The Flower Field," Ralts answered joyfully.
"What's that?"
"It's where you go to relax in the great smell of the flowers... in the field," she answered the obvious.
"Just like the name says, sounds like a cheesy place to me," Celsius replied.
"Celsius, that was rude," I shunned.
"I'm sorry master, but a flower field isn't really my kind of place to relax," she complained.
True, Celsius all of her life never enjoyed anything feminine, but that doesn't mean Celsius isn't sensitive at times. "Well that is where the picnic is going to be, so try to have fun, please. It's the least we can do to say thanks for giving us a home," I convinced.
She agreed with me since they were taking care of us. There were two light brown woven baskets and a small green blanket that was also hand stitched. Celsius was too small to carry anything, so I carried the two baskets while Riolu insisted on carrying the blanket.
We followed Ralts out of the back of the home as she skipped dragging her robe leading us along the way. Next to the lake was a path that was made of short grass bordered by bushes and other vegetation. We walked for about two minutes traversing through the vegetation before we arrived shortly at a large clearing literally covered entirely by flowers of all colors. A tall oak tree in the clearing complemented the view. Wow, you would never find places as tranquil as this in human civilization. We set up the picnic under the large shade of the tree laying the green blanket down before I placed the baskets on top.
"Let's go back and wait for those two to come back," I suggested.
"No, they know that we set up the picnic. Father can read the aura that stores thoughts so he should know that we're out here."
I found that pretty interesting knowing that my mind can probably be read almost at anytime. Then again Gardevoir is a psychic type so she can read my mind also. The four of us sat there and waited in silence. The only sound was the warm, fresh breeze rustling the leaves above us. I looked onward and there were flowers of all colors as far as the eye can see. The petals full of different pigments brightened the horizon in the distance even though I did faintly see the border of the surrounding forest far ahead. Yep, nature's canvas lies underneath us right now.
"You guys seem pretty quiet," I broke the long science.
"Oh, it's nothing," all three answered almost simultaneously. I didn't expect Celsius to contribute in unison.
Riolu and Ralts seemed a bit reclusive about something. I saw that kept Celsius oddly shooting them an intimidating glare at the two of them for some reason. Ignoring it, I lied on the grass which cushioned my back in a soft green envelope around me. I shut my eyes from the sun light before I was all of a sudden blinded by an immediate flash. I looked at Ralts with her camera drawn up.
"Sorry, you did say take pictures of things you enjoy most right?" Ralts and Riolu took a look at the picture of me probably lying down with my eyes closed. They both began to giggle to themselves.
Wow, I guess I've definitely made some improvement with bonding with them. "So now you two enjoy me being around you guys?" I asked just to make sure. I saw Celsius sharpen her glare at them though.
"Yeah, and I think Riolu enjoys you a whole, whole lot, right Riolu," Ralts asked with a playful tone.
"Huh... wh-what do mean," Riolu responded very quickly sounding nervous.
"You know what I mean, you told me this morning when we were bathing, remember..." Ralts added continuing to use that same tone which caused me to feel out of place. What is she talking about?
"What! Don't you dare-"
"Raaaaayn," she called out to me while trailing my name and giggling.
"Don't!" Riolu interrupted.
"Riolu has a very big secret," she told me slowly while using her teasing telepathic voice.
"Don't do it!" Riolu and even Celsius told too in unison. Now I really wanted to know this secret.
"Riolu li-" before Ralts could finish though both Celsius and Riolu held there paw or talon foot up to her mouth to stop her talking. "Uh, I'm using telepathy..." I heard her say which shocked the two females around her, "I was only just kidding anyways, Riolu!" Ralts giggled.
"Hold on," Celsius squawked while lowering her foot.
The three turned around and started whispering to each other in a small huddle. What were they talking about, and more importantly what was Ralts going to say to me?
"It's just forbidden okay!" Celsius blurted out a few seconds after they turned around.
"What's forbidden?" I asked since that was the only thing I heard in their conversation causing Celsius to jump and turn towards me. Before any responded, we heard Lucario and Gardevoir approaching behind us.
"Okay, Nidoran is definitely not going to bother you three anymore," Lucario reassured.
"Probably because Riolu and Ralts showed them that they were tired of their words," I added.
Lucario laughed at that comment, but Gardevoir wasn't too happy about the fight at all. The two took a seat on the blanket and I sat up while the three females turned around. Gardevoir opened the baskets which revealed fresh berries and fruits, six sandwiches with actually sliced bread preserved with a giant leaf wrapped around them, and some berry juice in small wooden cups! Gardevoir took out all the nourishments and placed them in six different spots for each of us. We each took a seat in front of one of the spots, and I began eating the sandwich finding it to be unexpectedly good. There wasn't any sauce since pokémon can't make condiments, I think; if they know how to make or get bread then who knows what other things they can make.
"So how did you get that body-I-I mean what do you do to stay in shape?" Riolu asked.
"It was a routine where I worked my butt off for four to six hours a day. Every day I would go to school which is a place where humans go to learn about the basics of... everything, and school lasts from the age of five to ten."
Everyone only goes to school for six years and learn ABC's and 1 2 3's to Classic and Modern Literature and Trigonometry within only six years before they're given the choice to either become a pokémon trainer, go to college, or live with their parents. That's the normal schooling for most students. Sometimes people would either quit or graduate early. First year is elementary, second is middle school, third is freshman, fourth is sophomore, fifth is junior, and the last is senior at the age of ten which is optional.
"I was a freshman and I was in a football youth league, which is a very hard sport to participate in. So I worked out five days a week during practice, then I would go home train with my dad on more physical conditioning, and then I would train Celsius and Lithium for fun and they loved it. Before bed I would do fifteen pushups and fifteen sit ups. And a couple days a week I would also go to jiu jitsu training after school."
"You know jiu jitsu?" Lucario questioned.
"Just around ten lessons. I had planned on learning all of them within three years."
"Really, I bet that if you trained with Riolu and me each morning you would be better than all of your trainers back at that gym within only a year. Just give me a little less than a year and I can make you master that form."
"Less than a year, that seems a bit fast! My trainers actually snapped bones, knocked out people from blood constrictions, and some of the students from other fighting classes did all sorts of cool tricks where they would like jump and flip around and spin kick people-it was really cool but looks so hard."
"Spins and kicks... you mean like this?" Lucario got up and began getting in a pose that involved doing a right leg lunge and stretching out his right arm above his right leg while folding his left arm in a right angle with his paw above his head. It was like he was posing in a martial arts stance. He inhaled and exhaled slowly. A moment later he suddenly jumped up high into the air turning his body level to the ground in mid air so that it looked like he was lying in midair. Then he began spinning while spanning his limbs out while still horizontally floating in the air. Finally after countless barrel rolls, he perfectly landed back softly in his "kung fu" pose. "Like that? So just pretend that there were opponents all around me, for if there was then my feet and paws would've struck them all knocking them out. I don't learn these moves just to show off. What about this one?"
He abruptly darted full speed towards the tree behind us then literally ran up the trunk; just like running up a wall. He ran almost complete underneath the lowest branch where he started kicking rapidly at the base from underneath and then used his last kick to spring away from the branch. While flying down I saw within a fraction of a second that he tucked in his arms and spiraled in mid air towards the ground. Before making contact he put his arms out to catch himself on his feet landing perfectly low and sprawled on all fours, and then he twirled around planting his foot on the ground while facing the tree.
"Pretend that was a giant pokémon and that branch was its chin. That can cause a lot of damage, and I know I can teach you how to do that within a year and much more moves and techniques. Since you are in shape and know a little bit about jiu jitsu it should be easy."
Everyone, including Riolu her own daughter, was shocked at what they just saw. He just did a wicked flip in the air; he just did several wicked flips in the air. That looked so impossible to do, but he did it with ease and he really thinks I can do that?
"Way to show off, Lucario," Gardevoir giggled after the initial shock.
"Now I have never seen any of my trainers do that before... but you're a pokémon fighter type and I don't think I can do that within a year. That just looks too hard for me to do something as... intricate ever."
"A fighter type is just like any human who fights professionally for a living, except without powers."
"But-"
"Trust me, Rayn. I can literally see it with my very own reader eyes that you are more than capable of completing that trick." Celsius and Gardevoir both gave him and me a worried look. "I want you to forget absolutely everything you have learned about fighting because I can teach new and better techniques, but I only train early in the morning two to three hours a day."
"Um... wh-who will wake me up?"
"Riolu will get you. We do more than fighting in practice. We also do a lot of endurance runs to condition the body," he smiled.
"I guess that sounds...good. We did similar stuff in football...I think."
Lucario looked as if he had "perfect" written on his face from the devious smile he just made.
"Anyways, so you exercised every day basically?" Riolu concluded.
"Yeah, basically."
"Ooh, can I please exercise with you guys in the morning too then?" Ralts asked while jumping up to get our attention, "I want to learn self defense too!"
"I don't know if you can even handle it, no offense, but it's because I've always hated conditioning," I added.
"I don't care because I want to be strong and fit just like you and Riolu one day."
"Then all you got to do is when you get up from bed in the morning do ten, fifteen, maybe even twenty pushups and sit ups. Then when you feel that number is too easy just move it up by intervals of five. That's what my dad told me. Then run a mile or two in the morning. My dad ran in the morning but I never did."
"I'll...I'll just do all of those things when you do it," she chuckled nervously.
"I don't even know if I'm okay with you getting up that early just to exercise, Darling," Gardevoir sighed with worry in her voice.
"She can handle it once we start slow with her. We'll start slow with Rayn too. She can even learn new powers from this training," Lucario reassured.
"Yes, so please mommy. I want to stay in shape too."
"You're not even out of shape! But I guess it's really not up to me if you want to become knowledgeable in self defense. You can train with them only if you are okay with that," Gardevoir answered.
"I'm just skinny, and I want a little bit of muscle."
Lucario and I laughed from hearing that. It just sounded too cute how she said that. He seemed to be happy about having new students for his training. I was getting excited myself because I like learn how to defend myself, but not the conditioning part.
After we talked Riolu, Ralts, including Celsius, and I played around in the Flower Field. Honestly I actually found it entertaining. It was still fun playing with Ralts, and Riolu. All we really did was chase down each other and climb the tree. Even Celsius participated with us and based off her chirps and cries she was having a good time. When we finally became tired Ralts, Riolu, Celsius, and I relaxed under the tree while Lucario and Gardevoir went inside. They told us that curfew was when the sun had set below the horizon. At this time of year it was fall so the sun would go down a lot sooner than normal. I can't even tell time over here unless if Aipom had an accurate, solar powered watch that was already set for me to by with two dimes or something. For the remainder of the time we were in the field, we just lied down near the tree and let the sweet smell of the flowers relax our minds.
The sun finally set so Ralts, Celsius and I went home while Riolu was going to her own, but in Ralts' home Lucario and Gardevoir was already sitting in the living room appearing to be waiting for our arrival. I got Riolu before she went too far off to warn her that her dad was with us. She and I came back so all of us were in the living room.
"We need to talk." Lucario had a serious look on his face causing me to think I did something bad.
"Okay about what," I tried to calmly ask.
"No, we mean only Ralts and Riolu because this is uh... parent cub talk."
"Wait, uh... when do humans normally hit their maturing age?" Gardevoir asked me.
"What?" I didn't know what she was talking about until Celsius answered for me.
"Not for another five to six years for him. He won't know what you guys will be talking about, so we'll leave you four alone."
Celsius and I walked back to my room to leave them to talk. It was awkward being stuck in the middle of the living room with a bunch of serious faces anyways. Once I got back to my room I just took a seat on my bed.
"Okay, since I'm here I might as well check how much money I have left."
"Why? It's useless here."
"Actually the coins are worth more here. That camera I bought for Ralts is supposed to be over a thousand for humans when I actually just paid him a dollar fifty for it with quarters."
Celsius was very amused with that. "You ripped him off badly," Celsius laughed out, "You need to find more quarters fast then."
"I still got a lot more too," I laughed. We both began cracking up at that comment. I'm basically rich over here. "So what do you think they're talking about right now?"
"Oh just a certain part of life where you start... let's just say growing up," Celsius answered. "Kind of awkward for us to be arriving here at that time," she whispered to her self.
"So they must be getting new powers."
"Uh no, it's not powers I can tell you that."
"Well than what is it."
"When you're older I'll explain it."
I gave up on trying to find out what they really would get. "I need to wash up. I always took a shower in the morning and at night, but now I have to do it at the lake every morning and night."
"Just wait for them to finish there little talk first."
I agreed while Celsius began leaving the room. "Wait, where are you going?" I exclaimed.
"I'm going out there because I'm a fully mature Torchic so it's okay for me. Just stay here."
That doesn't make any sense! However, I did as she told since I didn't want to be rude. Looking back to my first day here it was actually fun. Besides getting stabbed by a nidoran it was really cool here, and it shouldn't even be happening anymore. I reminisced about this day for about ten more minutes before Celsius finally came in and told me I was clear to go into the living room. I just wanted to go through the back door through the living room so I can bathe in the lake before I go to sleep.
Once I was out there I stripped down and took a step in the lake shore seeing that no one was around. I walked into the water without creating any noise to wake up any other pokémon. Surprisingly the water was still quite warm, wow. Once I was in I soaked my body and relaxed against a small wall surrounding the lake; my back facing the home. I relaxed in the water until I heard a little bit of rustling in the bushes around me. I ignored it until I started hearing it again.
I stood up from the shallow water and turned around looking through the bushes. "Who's...who's over there?" There wasn't a response, but before I sunk back in the water I was blinded by a familiar light. If that was what I thought it was, then Ralts just took a picture of me standing up with the water to my knees fully naked.
"RALTS!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Still looking I saw another flash but it was dimmer this time. That's when I saw something black with bright yellow rings illuminate past the vegetation. The yellow circles kept flashing to intimidate whatever it was chasing as it deeper into the dense forest. Oh, woops. "Just...just an umbreon. Okay, phew-wait, an umbreon! Holy sh-" I placed my hand over mouth to stop myself from slipping a curse word. "That's...so...awesome! They are so rare too!"
"Hope my plan worked," I whispered taking a peak at Rayn one last time before he sunk back in.
"It did look," Riolu pointed to Rayn who was still looking at the umbreon.
While Rayn is bathing I thought we should probably spy on him. I saw Umbreon so I knew he was going to start glowing, so that's when I took the picture of Rayn. My plan worked! He did think it was Umbreon. I started to giggle to myself from this thought. This picture is perfect. I got his whole body.
"What are you two doing out here?"
I froze for a second and both Riolu and I slowly turned around to find Celsius giving us a serious glare. She knows what we were just doing?
"Didn't we talk about this at the Flower Field?" Celsius continued.
"I'm sorry, but I can't help it!" I yelled.
"Me neither. I want to see him umm... down-"
"Look I know how you two feel," the torchic sympathized, "But right now I can tell that you two are trying to tell if it's really love... or just a sinful emotion called lust.
"Lust?" We both asked in unison then looked at each other with clueless features on our faces.
"Yeah, it's when you just want his body and nothing more from him. Especially since you two only want him because of young curiosity. You two do know he's my master right? He took care of me my whole life from me hatching to us escaping. I was born a year after him on the same birth date; right after my breeder gave his dad the egg that I was in. So I love him and I have always loved him. I doubt that you two even feel that way for him, and you two just met him. That's not love, girls," she chuckled at the end.
"He's the first male that ever cared about us or was nice to us other than my father. I do love him," Riolu admitted.
"How cute, young love," she said sarcastically, "No, I'm sure that that's lust you two are feeling when you think about him because it's your first emotional experience of love. If I'm correct you were scared of him last night until you searched his past. You expect me to believe that you two love him after just talking to him for a day. It's actually a crush that you two are experiencing, there's a difference between them but you young females don't know it and let alone care," she snickered, "There's no such thing as love at first sight."
"Not uh, I-we do love him! I know I love him because ralts, kirlia, and gardevoir naturally know who their mates are when they see it first sight. We are sensitive to emotion, so I can tell who my true love is just by looking. Mommy described the feeling to me earlier today. I feel it when I look at Rayn. How can you say you love him and not believe in love at first sight," I yelled back.
"That's hard to believe that gardevoir have that emotional sense, and besides he's only seven now meaning his body has not grown fully so you two can't 'want' him. It's almost impossible and meaningless. He won't hit maturity until he's around twelve, thirteenish, so he might get confused. Pokémon can't understand that because we all mature when we're just one human years old. Oh, and it took a while to convince myself that I truly have feelings for him; a long, long time."
"I can wait five years," I quickly blurted out.
"From the way you gazed at him this morning, I don't think so. Look, I know you two just got done talking about the flyers and the combees with your mom and dad, so you two are probably curious."
"Yes, you got us. We admit it, but I still love him," I answered hoping to admit whatever she's thinking so she can leave us alone.
"It's okay. He'll start growing when he gets older mentally and physically, if you know what I mean," she giggled, "But most importantly Rayn is a human and we're pokémon. Humans find pokémon to human relationships a taboo. It's illegal. They think it's bad while we still think it's completely natural. Humans are too blind to see what love really is now. Damn media..."
"But it's actually natural, I've heard stories before from others," Riolu pointed out.
"Only natural to us, but not to them. It has always been natural for humans and pokémon since the beginning of time to be together in a loving mate relationship, but long ago humans started to think it was bad. They still think we're different." Looking at the picture of Rayn I took a moment ago I couldn't believe that humans think that we can't be together. "I'm sorry but you have to accept that fact."
"I guess you're right." I winked at Riolu without Celsius knowing to show her that I think Celsius is wrong just so she can leave.
Celsius began to turn around and walk back towards the home. "Perfect, more of him for me then. I've never liked sharing; especially if it's my master," Celsius whispered to herself in triumph.
"Her, I can see through your mind Celsius!" Riolu blurted out.
"Sorry, but I don't want to confuse Rayn," she twisted around, "I can wait 'till he hits maturity. I guess I'll be okay with you two always spying on him, but don't try anything funny, or I'll lose my fiery temper and take it out on both of you!" she growled lowly.
Neither Riolu nor I flinched. I love him and I know it. So does Riolu and apparently so does Celsius. Riolu maybe a good friend of mine, but I might also have to stop her if I have to. I just hope Rayn will stay for five more long years. There shouldn't be any kind of force that'll split us apart...
To Be Continued
I hope you all understand how the education system works in this story's universe since it was pretty hard to describe. Now sorry to some for doing that whole "love at first sight" crap. I normally don't do bullshit like this, so in return I hope I gave a clear explanation for it. But if you didn't mind then cool. It's hard to tell if I do stuff right without feedback, and usually if I don't get any feedback I just think something is wrong because this story is boring and or clichéd.
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