"ᴊᴜsᴛ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ʏᴏᴜ'ᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴇɴᴅ, ɪᴛ's ɴᴏᴛ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇ ᴜᴘ. ғɪɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅɪғғᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ʀᴏᴜᴛᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ғᴏʀᴡᴀʀᴅ."
After breakfast, everyone heads to their own rooms to get ready to leave. I grab my bags from outside and put all my Pokemon back except for Brionne. Rotom Dex comes out of my bag and I give him a friendly wave.
"Olivia, you have a video call from Samantha do you want to accept the call or decline?" Rotom asks.
"Accept please," I say.
"Got it." Rotom says and Samantha appears on the screen.
"Hello," I say and do a small wave.
"Olivia I know you're on your journey, but you promised a week before you made that decision that you would come perform at another showcase for me."
My manager that I get after becoming champion said.
"But Samantha I just promised these people I would join their journey," I say pleadingly.
"You promised me first, so a car will come to pick you up in ten minutes to bring you to Laverre City." She says.
I sigh, looking down and Brionne gives me a sad look. "Okay, but after this, I'm finishing my journey," I say.
"You still have to finish your guest appearances for this year. For the anniversary of the showcase. I promise my dear after the Master Class. You will have a long vacation." Samantha says.
"I can still do my gym battles, right? You promised me I could do the Kalos League." I say.
"And I tend on keeping that promise as long as you continue your appearances." She says then hangs up.
I fall down on the grass frustrated. I really wanted to join them, but now I can't...I really wanted to help Serena, I really wanted to learn more about Clements so-called inventions, I really wanted to play with Bonnie, and I really wanted to battle Ash some more...
How am I going to tell them? I can't face them now... I run into the Pokemon center lobby writing a quick note.
𝙳𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜. 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 𝚂𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝙸
𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚓𝚘𝚒𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 :( ~𝙾𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚊
I hand it to nurse joy, then run out the lobby to the back alleyway of the Pokemon center, sending the driver my location, and when it pulls up in front of me I look around then get inside. I look out the window to see
Ash runs out the Pokemon center calling my name. He looks toward the Limo but he can't see me since it's tinted windows, but I have a feeling that he knows it's me. The others join him and they watch the limo leave. Brionne climbs on my lap and rubs her face into my chin for comfort. I smile softly at her and rub behind her ear, making her smile. I feel a tear fall down my face, but I quickly whip it away.
The driver drops me off at my hotel and Samantha is waiting at the entrance. I sigh, looking down avoiding to look at the flashing cameras from nearby tourists wanting my picture and paparazzi. Samantha takes my hand and checks us in.
"Can I go for a walk?" I ask softly, not meeting her eyes.
"Be back in two hours. You need to sleep in early tonight because there is lots of performance practice this week." She says waving me off.
I nod, then make a run to the back door, putting on my black hoodie so no one can recognize me. I walk onto the busy streets sliding on some sunglasses and looking around.
Brionne and I go to many different stores taking a couple of pictures with silly outfits on. Then we decide to get some ice cream to eat while we walk in a park. I get two bear cones then Brionne and I walk through the park. I see a couple of trainers battling with each other, a couple of performers practicing, and some people just playing with their Pokemon.
Brionne and I sit on the bench just watching everyone. Everyone seems to be having so much fun with being free. "One day buddy, we will have our freedom to do what we want," I say and brionne finishes her Ice cream and snuggles on my lap.
I finish my ice cream and run my hand on her back to relax her and she falls asleep. I didn't think to do what I loved meant taking away some of my happiness. I wanted to be Kalos Queen, but I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to perform. I love being Champion, but I want to be able to go out on the busy streets and not be recognized. One can only hope I guess...
As the sun goes down I decide to wake Brionne up so that we can eat then head back to the hotel.
I sigh, standing up. "Come on Bri let's get dinner and head to the hotel," I say and Brionne goes on my shoulder and we walk to a restaurant that's not that far from the hotel. As we sit down I decide to let all of my pokemon out, so that we could eat dinner.Once we're done, I pay the waitress and leave. I make it ten minutes before my curfew and climb into bed.
ıllıllı 𝚃𝚠𝚘 𝚆𝚎𝚎𝚔𝚜 𝙻𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 ıllıllı
The next two weeks go by in a flash, but that's a good thing. The sooner I do this performance, the sooner I could see the gang again. Tomorrow is the performance and I have decided to use Braixen, Lycanroc, and Pikachu.
We have been constantly switching up routines trying to find the best one. Maybe we should just wing it like always.
The next day, I do the usual for the performer's. I give a speech to the performers then head to my own dressing room to get my Pokemon ready. Braixen, Pikachu, and I all have pink and purple on. Rocky has purple anklet ribbons that flow when he walks, a purple vest that has gold buttons.
The stage director gives us the signal and we walk to the platform. The platform starts to rise to the main stage and we all get in position.
"Braixen Flamethrower! And Pikachu thunderbolt!" I say lifting Pikachu above my head. Braixen runs around us creating a vortex of fire, and the thunderbolt mixes with the fire.
"Ok Rocky uses Hidden Power!" I call out, and he jumps up and the Jidden Power brings up the thunderbolt and flamethrower making a vortex that almost touches the ceiling then it explodes into fireworks.
The crowd cheers at the many colored fireworks. Braixen makes fire hoops for both Rocky and Pikachu to jump through.
"Braixen use Fireblast! Pikachu use Volt Tackle!" I say. Braixen makes a fire star appear from her torch and Pikachu runs through it with her volt tackle. The volt tackle absorbs the fire and turns into a flaming volt tackle then Pikachu does a nice flip and it goes away.
"Rocky use Stone Edge!" I shout then big stones circle around us.
"Pikachu Iron Tail!" I call out. Pikachu curls up into a ball and rolls around the stage with it's Iron tail breaking through all the rocks as it rolls faster then flips so it lands on my shoulders.
"Braixen Psychic!" I say loudly. Braixen uses Psychic and all us lift into the air doing little flips and twirls. Once we're back on the stage.
They create a triangle and I stand behind Rocky.
"Braixen Pysbeam! Pikachu Thunderbolt! Rocky Hidden power!"
They use their moves that turn into a big multi-color star that lifts into the air and explodes into rainbow sparkles all around the arena. We all walk to the center and bow.
The crowd gets louder than before, making us smile, then the platform goes down. Once it reaches the bottom floor I go to my dressing room where Samantha is waiting and she gives me a knowing smile.
"You're free to go, but you have another appearance in Anistar City, then you can do your gym battle." She says. I hug her tightly while she just pats my back, pushing me to go. I run out the room after getting into my other clothes to see my driver.
I get in the car and we take off. I let out Rocky out so we can cuddle in the car. We drive for many hours and I fall asleep in the car with Rocky. I wake up and the driver told me I slept through the whole day and it's the next day and I laugh.
After a little more driving I decide I want to stretch my legs with my Pokemon.
"Can you let us out at the next Pokemon center? It's lunchtime." I say. He drops us off at the next Pokemon center and I let him know that he can head back to Samantha and I will just walk from now on.
I put on a fake wig and a black hoodie with sunglasses. I go to the cafeteria to eat some lunch and let all my Pokemon eat their lunch as well.
I remember eating with the gang...Everything just reminds me of them. I only knew them for one single day and yet I'm so upset that I won't be able to see them again.
Maybe it's just the fact it's been a long time since I had...friends. Yeah, I do have my Pokemon, but I want to be friends with people as well. I don't know, maybe I'm just being ungrateful.
I take the last bite of my food and look out the window to see a battlefield and squeal. I clean our mess and the Pokemon get excited to be able to go outside as they run ahead of me outside.
I freeze when I see the gang and almost fall, but Kirlia uses her psychic powers so that I can't. "You're a lifesaver," I said hugging her.
"O-Oliva?...." I hear Bonnie say. I freeze and turn around slowly
"Umm Who is this Olivia I am the....Dutchess " I say in a weird accent. I feel my disguise fall off and I send the gang a nervous wave. They stay silent as they look at me and I sigh frowning.
"Guys as much as I did want to go with you I had to do an appearance. Being Kalos Queen and Champion isn't easy you know!" I shout. They completely ignore me, and I just nod walking all the way to the other side of the battlefield so that I can be far away from them. I came all this way and you would think they would at least hear me out.
"How about some performance training? Samantha would hate me if she finds out we're slacking." All my Pokemon cheer and I nod.
"Braixen, Brionne, and Kirlia in position." I say standing with my back towards the gang.
I wish they didn't hate me.....
"Ok guys let's test out some combinations! Braixen Flamethrower! Brionne Hyper Voice! And Kirlia use Dazzling Gleam!" I say.
The Hyper Voice turns the Flamethrower into like a fan of fire, the Dazzling Gleam outlines the fire to make a realistic glow stick of fire.
"Ok next combo! Brionne use Aqua Jet! Kirlia uses Psychic and Braizen Flamethrower!" The fire and Aqua jet combine and sets out zaps of electricity. It turns out to be a combo of the three elements and Kirlia is using Psychic to move Brionne around so beautifully.
I hear a set of clapping and turn to face the others. I smile softly and we take a bow. "Thank you, thank you!" I say while giggling.
Clemont clears his throat and sends a small smile, that has me less scared of what he is going to say. "Olivia we talked about it and we understand your life is busy now, and we wanted to apologize." Clemont says and I look at everyone. The sincere apologetic looks on their faces made me believe what Clemont saod, I was never angry with them just sad.
"Aww I'm so sorry guys I really didn't want to leave, but I promised my manager before I promised you and I always commit to my promises," I say looking down.
"Group hug!" Bonnie suddenly said, hugging my waist, making an "oof." Come out of me and I hug her back while the others join in.
"Is it too late to join you guys?" I ask shyly.
"It's never too late," Ash says, giving me a thumbs up.
"Great! Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. How about you guys?" I say, turning to my Pokemon who jump up and cheer.
"Olivia your moves were just amazing!" Serena says taking my hands into hers.
"Thanks but they were just sampling moves the real art is when you put them in a certain order," I say gently pulling my hands away and gesture to my pokemon.
"Can you watch my performance?" Serena asks and I nod.
"Sure," I say returning my Pokemon to their pokeballs. We walk over to the other battlefield where Panchum and Braixen were waiting. I sit down on the bench with the others as Serena gets in position.
"Braixen use flamethrower and Panchum jump!" Serena commands. Both Pokemon obey but mess up.
"Ok try again!" Serena says anxiously and sends me a some what confident smile. Braixen makes fire hoops out of her flamethrower, Panchum runs and jumps through, but then falls on Braixen breaking her branch.
"Oh no," I say as my eyes widen and we all run to Braixen. Braixen tears up, then glares at Panchum.
"Brai braixen!" She screams at him.
"Braixen calm down, it was an accident," Serena says. Panchum looks down at the ground feeling rather guilty and I squat down next to him rubbing his head.
"Don't feel bad Panchum, it was an accident. You didn't mean to do it on purpose."
"Maybe we can find Braixen a new branch!" Bonnie suggests.
"That's a great idea, Bonnie, we can find a new one that looks just like the old one," Clemont says.
"Maybe my Braixen can help! Braixen come on out." I say, tossing up Braixen's Pokeball. Braixen comes out and looks at the scene in front of her and sees Serena's Braixen branch broke.
"Braixen can you help us find a new branch?" I ask my Braixen who nods excitedly. Everyone runs to the forest behind the Pokemon center besides Serena's Braixen.
My Braixen helps me grab a few branches that look like they match the old one. I met up with Ash and Clemont who have a few good couple branches as well and we head back. We all set the branches in front of Braixen while Serena and Bonnie come behind us and set down the branches that they found.
Braixen looks at all of them with a slight pout and shakes her head at all of them. "Aww, I thought we found some good ones," Bonnie says pouting. Braixen holds her old branch starting to cry.
My Braixen goes up to her, patting her back for comfort. "What can we do?" I say sighing sadly.
"We can go find more branches! We're not giving up." Ash says.
I nod towards him. "That's the right kind of attitude, let's go!" I say and we all run back. Bonnie joins me since Serena decides to stay with Braixen.
"Braixen use Pysbeam to break the branches at the top of that tree!" Braixen points her branch towards the top of the tree and lets out a Pysbeam making a few branches fall down in front of us.
"How do these look Bonnie?" I asked, picking up a few branches. She examines a few of them along with my Braixen and nods happily.
"They look great, let's go meet with the others." We run back to the Pokemon center to see Ash and Clem not there, but not Serena nor Braixen.
"There you guys are," Clement says.
"Where's Serena and Braixen?" Bonnie asks as we both drop the new branches we found.
"We don't know we were waiting for you guys to show up, so that we can all find them together."
"Ok let's go," I say then running inside the Pokemon center with the others following behind. I make it to the front desk where Nurse Joy is at.
"Nurse Joy have you seen Serena?" I ask as the others stand beside me at the front desk.
"Um yes, she came in here earlier with some man. I sent them to go see a tree surgeon, who is great at fixing wood." She says showing us a news article about the guy who fixed a Sawsbuck antler.
"Well let's go find them, thanks for everything Nurse Joy!" I say as I take Bonnie's hand running out the center and in the wood shop.
"Why do we always have to run so fast guys?" Clement says out of breath as he tries to keep up with us. We eventually make it to the shop and walk towards the back since no one is in the front. I see Serena, Braixen, a guy with blue hair, the old man, and a Gallade at a battlefield.
"Serena!" Bonnie shouts. Serena turns towards our direction as she hears her name.
"Oh hey, guys! This is Mr. Woodward, he's going to fix Braixen's branch if we beat him in a battle." She explains.
"Well, I say go for it! You can do it, Serena." Ash says and Pikachu agrees.
"Show him a good fiery battle!" I say smirking.
"Go Braixen and Serena!" Bonnie cheers.
"Ok Braixen scratch!" Serena commands and Braixen obeys but it misses since Gallade is so fast and agile. Braixen uses scratch again but misses. We all gasp as Gallade gets a good hit at Braixen.
I bite on some of my nails and my leg shakes from nerves. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look to see Ash, who just sends me a comforting smile and nods. I nod back and look towards the battle.
Braixen gets hit again and falls. Then out of nowhere a net gets dropped near Pikachu almost catching him but he jumps back.
"What the-" Two voices interrupt me making us all turns up towards a tree. Where I see a woman with pink hair and a Meowth. Then they jump down along with a guy with blue hair.
"Team Rocket!" Ash growls.
"Prepare for trouble!" The pink lady says.
"Make it double!" The blue haired guys say.
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!" The pink haired lady says.
"James!" The blue haired guy says.
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" Jessie says.
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!" James says.
"Meowth! That's right!" The Meowth says. I chuckle as I take a step forward.
"Team Rocket? Wasn't Giovanni and Team Rocket terminated after I beat his sorry butt." I say as I grab one of my pokeballs while smirking.
"Don't you dare talk about the boss that way." The Meowth says with a harsh tone.
"A talking Meowth huh? I guess you see something new every day, Pikachu let's go!" I say throwing Pikachu's Pokeball.
Pikachu comes out and stands ready to fight.
"Pika Pikachu!" She says looking at me ready. Jessie grabs another net from James. Serena blocks Pikachu along with her Braixen.
"If you want Pikachu then you're going to have to get through me too," Serena says.
"I think you can handle this on your own," I smirk giving Serena a supporting pat on the back.
"Thanks, Olivia. Ok team let's do this!" Serena shouts. Panchum uses stone edge, then Braixen jumps on the stones launching herself high in the air and tries to mend the two broken parts of the branch together, letting out a strong fireblast which ends up breaking the branch into millions of pieces.
The fireblast lands hard on Team Rocket doing some real damage. I look towards Ash with a knowing look and he nods.
"Pikachu thunderbolt!" He shouts.
"Pikachu use thunderbolt too!" I shout. Both our Pikachu launch a strong electric attack sending Team Rocket flying.
"Those idiots never change," I growl clenching my fists, then take a deep breath unclenching them.
"Brai Braxien." Braixen cries out as she looks at the last of her branch.
"Mr. Woodward can we please finish our battle so that you can fix Braixen's branch," Serena says.
"My dear that branch was no longer repairable when you first brought it to me." He says crouching down in front of Braixen.
"Braixen you know why I asked you to battle with me right? You used your broken branch to use a flamethrower but it came out as a fireblast. It was unintentional, but you still pulled through it because you were really determined."
Panchum brings out the first branch he wanted Braixen to have and reaches it out to her for her to take. Serena smiles, placing her hand gently on the new branch.
"You know I didn't become Kalos Queen with the first branch when we made our promise. So let's make a new promise, to try harder and always pull through together to achieve our goal." She says. Braixen slowly but surely nods and accepts her new branch. Serena reaches into her bag, pulling out a red ribbon, then ties it around Braixen's new branch.
"This is to remember the new promise, we made." Serena says.
"This is too emotional for me." I let out slowly as I wipe away a tear. Bonnie giggles and rolls her eyes at me along with the others.
"Let's test out the new branch with finishing our battle." Mr. Woodward says to Serena. We all get into position and Clemont resumes the battle.
"Gallade use pysco cut." Mr. Woodward commands.
"Braixen dodge it!" Serena shouts and Braixen obeys launching herself into the air dodging the pysco cut.
"Fireblast!" Serena shouts. Braixen lets out a strong fireblast making Gallade receive some serious damage and Mr. Woodward says that's enough. Braixen runs to Serena for a hug.
"We won!" Serena shouts happily.
"I'm happy everyone is at ease now," I say.
"Yeah, that fireblast is something amazing," Clemont says.
"Yippie yay!" Bonnie shouts along with her Dedenne. Mr. Woodward grabs the remains of Braixen's old branch.
"What are you going to do with those?" Ash asks.
"Yeah, you said the branch is unfixable. " Clemont adds.
"It was but..." Mr. Woodward says, then walks away and amends the branch slightly, then adds it to the ground.
"Whenever you come back you can always see it and have great memories." Mr. Woodward says.
"That's beautiful," I say.
"Well, gang it's time to get going," Clemont says.
"Thank you for everything, Mr. Woodward," Serena says.
"No problem take care." He says, waving to us as we leave.
"Anistar City here we come!" Bonnie shouts jumping up in the air.
"My next gym battle. I'm totally psyched!" Ash fist pumps the air.
"Me too! And I have an appearance, performance at the Anistar City showcase." I say.
"Really? I'm performing there!" Serena squeals.
"Well, I can't wait to see your performance live," I say.
"I'm still not ready." She sighs. I pat her back with a comforting smile.
"You will be I promise....now last one there is a slowKing!" I shout while laughing taking off.
"Oh, you're definitely losing," Ash shouts running after me.
"Don't forget about us," Bonnie yells at her and Serena take off after us as well.
"Do we always have to be in a hurry guys?" Clemont says trying to keep up.
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