We come back to our travelling duo three months after obtaining the poke’dex from Professor Birch, they had just passed through Mauville city and were headed towards Mt. Pyre hoping to get some information from a hermit that lived around the mountain itself. As the pair travelled they failed to notice the two figures following them in the forest until it was too late. The pair jumped out of the shadows and stood in front of Akira and Badboy. The two figures were both male and seemed to be wearing identical clothes. Their clothes consisted of a red half-hoodie (which had black horns on the top of the hoods), on the front of the hoodie was what appeared to be a black M. Underneath the hoodie was a plain grey shirt, they also wore plain grey pants with a red belt and red arm and leg protectors. Upon seeing the symbol on their hoodies Akira visibly tensed and glared at the two strangers who were standing in front of her.
“Hey is your name Akira?” one of them asked.
“Why would I tell you Magma scum!”
“Hey watch your mouth little girl,” the other growled reaching for the poke’ball on his belt.
Badboy moved in front of the two magma members and growled at them.
“Well the description does fit... let’s take her even if she isn’t the right one.”
“Fine with me...though we’ll have to take out the pipsqueak first,” the one on the right commented gesturing towards Badboy.
“My pleasure...Go HOUNDOUR,” the man on the left yelled throwing the poke’ball on his belt.
The poke’ball opened and a black dog with a silver skull and armour came out standing in front of its trainer. The houndour growled at Badboy waiting for its commands, Badboy returned the glare.
“Houndour bite.”
“Dodge it Badboy.”
As the two trainers and their poke’mon began to focus on the battle the second magma member began to move around behind Akira, once he was behind her he knocked her out and picked her up. Badboy turned and saw his trainer in the arms of the other Magma member, the Houndour took its chance and lunged forward biting into Badboy’s body.
“That’s it Houndour now crush the little pipsqueak.”
The houndour did as he was told and bit down harder on its prey, both magma members started to laugh as the Houndour used Badboy as a chew toy.
At this point Badboy was really angry at himself for not being strong enough to protect his best friend, he started at his friend in the enemies’ arms completely unconscious at this point he flet his core temperature begin to rise...
The two magma members stopped laughing when Badboy began to glow white.
“What kind of a move is that?” the man holding Akira asked his partner.
“I don’t.... Houndour drop the bird now and get back!”
The houndour dropped badboy onto the ground and backed away from the glowing poke’mon, Badboy continued to glow brighter and brighter until his form could no longer be seen in the light. Akira started coming too and found herself in the arms of a very confused team magma member, she followed the gaze of her captor and found herself staring at a ball of light in the middle of the road. Taking advantage of her captors’ distraction, Akira quickly jumped out of his arms and kicked him in the stomach. The magma crumpled to the ground and groaned in pain. As Akira turned back to look at the light she noticed that it was receding, after a few seconds the light completely receded. Now standing where the light had been was a poke’mon which was orange and yellow in colour and was standing on two legs facing towards the Houndour. Akira opened her bag and took the poke’dex out and pointed it at the poke’mon standing in the road. The poke’dex screen flickered on showing a picture of the poke’mon and stated:
“Combusken, the young fowl poke’mon. It’s kicking mastery lets it loose ten kicks per second. It emits sharp cries to intimidate its foes, it is also the evolution of Torchic.”
“Badboy?” the girl asked confused.
The combusken turned its head slightly, nodded to its head in her direction and turned back towards the houndour.
“Alright...let’s see what moves you know now...Badboy let’s try double kick!”
The Combusken nodded in agreement and ran towards its foe lashing out with his legs. After four kicks in quick succession the houndour fainted.
“Damn brat, we’ll get you next time,” the magma member growled recalling his hounour into its poke’ball. The man ran past Badboy and Akira and helped his partner up before disappearing into the forest.
“YAY you did it,” Akira exclaimed while running over and hugging Badboy “You’re almost up to my shoulder.”
“Combusken,” Badboy chirped hugging Akira back.
Akira then stepped back a bit and looked around for any other people that could be a threat to her and her friend, after a few minutes of checking the area Akira looked at the road ahead and then at her travelling companion.
“shall we?” she asked.
Badboy nodded his head and began to walk with his friend on the route continuing towards Mount Pyre and the hermit of the mountain.
Two days later the two travellers came face to face with what seemed to be the back of a mountain.
“hm...this is the right way...isn’t it?”
Badboy shrugged his shoulders and walked over to the tree line, Akira followed him not wanting them to be separated after what had happened with Magma. Travelling a few metres into the forest the pair came across what appeared to be a rundown shack, the two headed towards the door and opened it stepping back when they were hit with a wave of dust and dirt.
Once they had finished coughing Akira entered the shack, closely followed by Badboy. The two looked around the shack and found no evidence of life in the small building.
“Well this was a waste of time,” Akira sighed kicking an odd stone across the room.
“Hey watch what you’re kicking kid,” a deep voice complained.
The pair jumped and looked around the room searching for the source of the voice.
“Heh heh can’t see me can you? Oh well might as well let you see...”
Akira watched with fascination as a weird wisp of smoke came out of the stone that she had kicked, after a few seconds the smoke took on a the shape of a blue pinwheel with purple spots and eyes. Akira pulled out her poke’dex and pointed it at the poke’mon before her. The poke’mon appeared on the screen in different colours and it stated:
“Spiritomb, the forbidden poke’mon, It’s constant mischief and misdeeds resulted in it being bound to an odd keystone by a mysterious spell.”
“Is that all it can say? I’m over five-hundred years old and that’s it?”
“f-f-five-hundred wow you must be really strong,” Akira stuttered.
“I was at one point…until I was bound to this stone, since then my powers have weakened somewhat…”
“ SO if I was to battle you now I might win?”
“Yeah but I won’t join your team,” Spiritomb stated matter of factly.
“Why not?”
“Cause I want my trainer to have brains as well as skill.”
“Com BUS ken,” Badboy huffed staring at the Spriitomb.
“Like I care what you think,” the Spiritomb sneered.
“How do I prove myself to you?” the girl asked.
“Answer my riddle and I will join your team.”
“Fine bring it on, but I’ll hold you to your word,” Akira growled.
“Alright then, here it is:
Witty and smart, incredibly sly.
Like the rest of my brethren, I am quite shy.
Not fire or water or even lightning,
No snowflake or leaf blade, nor even a wing.
To grow, my cousins, they need a stone,
for what I can do with experience alone.
They're known for their tales and their tails
But only with one, I do just as well.
In the dim light of dusk, it's when I eat my fill,
not yet part of darkness, but one day I will.”
After giving its riddle the Spiritomb watched as Akira’s brow knitted together in thought, after what seemed hours Akira came up with her answer.
“Hmph, the riddle is a little out of date but here is my answer, the Poke’mon is an eevee.”
“You are correct…And what do you mean out of date?” the Spiritomb grunted.
“Well you see it was discovered that Eevee had another four possible evolutions, though two of them can not occur in this region,” she explained.
“And what are the names of these evolutions?” the Spiritomb asked.
“Oh, Espeon, Umbreon, Glaceon and Leafeon.”
“Greeeaat,” the Spiritomb sighed.
“Well you said if I answered the riddle you’d join my team, so…GO poke’ball.”
Akira threw a poke’ball at the Spiritomb, the ball hit the poke’mon and made the Spiritomb enter the ball. The ball fell to the floor, rocked three times and stopped. Akira approached the ball and picked it up, she then opened the poke’ball and the Spiritomb re-appeared in front of her.
“You could have at least warned me,” the spiritomb grumbled, glancing up at its new trainer.
“Heh heh sorry…can I ask you a few questions?”
“Go ahead…”
“OK one, can I shorten your name to Spirit? It’d be easier for me and you most probably.”
“Fine, and the other question?”
“UH…why are you blue and purple instead of the purple and green in the poke’dex?”
“Just after my sealing to this stone my colours started changing, don’t ask me why because I don’t know.”
“OK then, I’ll return you to your Poke’ball so we can leave and continue our search and training.”
“What are we searching for?” Spirit asked
“CoMbus Ken, coombuusken Com” Badboy explained.
“Her parents? What happened to them?”
“They were taken by team magma and I’m going to find them,” She explained to Spirit.
“Sounds like fun,” Spirit replied sarcastically.
“Well as I said, we’re going to train as well as have some fun along the way…Now return,” she stated aiming the poke’ball at Spirit.
The girl smiled down at the poke’ball in her hand then placed it in her bag in the poke’ball compartment. The girl motioned to her partner and they both left the shack with their new friend safely hidden in Akira’s bag.
End?