(Author note: Is James's Carnivine a boy or girl? I looked it up and the gender was unknown but they treated Carnivine like a boy but never gave it a gender. For this fic James's Carnivine will be a girl, mainly because Carnivine constantly bites James's head reminding me of his Mareanie who was female)
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With Team Rocket, in a more secluded area Jessie could be seen celebrating her victory in the pokemon contest.
"Yesss, hahahaha! I did it, I won in your face Meowth!"
"Hey I never said you wouldn't win, I just said that the chances of you winning were the same as the twerp with the Pikachu's to win a championship."
"Wobbuffet!"
Jessie with her head still in the clouds ignored Meowth, she continued dancing in circles never taking her eyes off the ribbon.
"But oh Jessie, you never would have won if it wasn't for me", "Growl!"
"And of course not without you too Growlithe"
Team rocket turned, the first person they saw was the all too familiar James, upon looking down or in Meowth's case straight ahead was a Growlithe walking with James.
"Huh? James you're back, while your timely intervention helped me win, with my talent there is no way I would have lost" Jessie said while waving her hand.
Meowth on the other hand was more focused on Growlithe, "so James, what's he doing here?" Meowth asked while pointing towards Growlithe.
"CARNIVINE!!!!" James's Carnivine, realizing who was beside James, charged forward, eagerly wrapping herself around Growlithe. Growlithe, also recognizing the pokemon charging, didn't resist just exhaling accepting his fate.
It was James who explained what happened, "do you all remember the Growlithe from my house?"
They all nodded, at their confirmation James smiled then spread his arms out, "well here he is in Sinnoh!"
"Then we should all celebrate my victory, and your return!"
"Wobbuffet!"
Meanwhile Carnivine was still wrapped up around Growlithe, refusing to let go of its old friend.
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With it being so late we all decided to spend another night in the pokemon center and leave in the morning. Noah, not wanting to spend another night near Brock, slept in the girl's room.
In the early hours of the morning before the sun rose a boy could be seen peacefully sleeping, hair messy, one leg hanging out off the bed and a small trail of drool could be seen coming from the corner of his mouth.
Noah pov: sleep was a beautiful thing, I had the perfect position, the blanket was just right, my head was at the right angle on my pillow meant for maximum comfort, all was well in the world.
Or at least it would be if this ghost stopped pulling my hair. It started around twenty minutes ago when Misdreavus got bored and I guess I was the unlucky one she had decided to annoy tonight.
She and Ghastly first woke me up when Ghastly had licked me, then started trying to make me get up by harassing me using various methods, aka screaming in my ear, more licking, and hair pulling. They couldn't do much since they didn't want to wake Kyra.
Misdreavus had learned that one the hard way, I was internally chuckling at that memory.
I exhaled, then turned my head to the side, now facing the room I was met with Duskull's singular eye at most a foot away from my face.
Duskull didn't really do much, Kyra has started trying to keep Duskull awake during the day but that hasn't made much progress.
He just watched and followed, but hey I'll happily take that over these two. Did I want to get up, no, did I want them to stop yes, but that would mean I would have to move.
Eehh not worth it, now finished with my internal monologue. The last thought I had before I fell back asleep was I would gladly take these three over having to spend another night with Brock.
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"And that's everything for me, do you guys have everything?"
"Nope, I got everything, Kyra?"
"Yes I have everything, wait Misdreavus can you please get my stuff from the bathroom"
"Mis?"
"No the other idiot, yes I mean you."
"MISDREAVUS!"
Noah being Noah was long gone and was probably in the lobby with Petilil, aside from Kyra it was just me and Dawn. With nothing else to do we just watched as Kyra tried to remember everything she brought.
Despite MIsdreavus's complaints she still got Kyra's stuff from the bathroom, though it looks like Kyra's going to need to buy a new tooth brush.
While Kyra was trying to find her missing sock Misdreavus put her toothbrush in the toilet then to finish off Misdreavus placed the tooth brush among Kyra's dirty clothes. Would Kyra notice definitely not.
Would me or Dawn remind her? Hopefully if either one of us remembered later.
"I'm going downstairs, Dawn you coming?"
"Yea, good luck Kyra"
With that we both headed downstairs, after a quick breakfast, and some more time we were all ready to leave.
However we encountered a problem, a problem named Brock. Every time we encounter a remotely attractive older girl Brock would ask her out.
I couldn't take it anymore, "dang it Brock that's the fourth girl! It hasn't even been five minutes since we left the pokemon center, heck we can still see it!"
In one way or another we were all chastising Brock, within the span of a single block in the big city Brock had proposed to four girls. We were still smack in the middle of the biggest city in Sinnoh, by the time we would get to the outskirts of the city the league would be over.
Me, Dawn, Kyra, Ash, and Lucas except Brock who was crumpled up on the ground still recovering from the latest punch from his Croagunk looked at each other.
Ash gave a sheepish smile for his friend, while everyone else just looked done.
"Okay how about for now we split up and go our separate ways", without hesitation Noah and Kyra raised their hands in agreement.
Looking at the rest of the group they either sighed or shook their heads, except for Ash and Pikachu who were used to Brock.
"Bye guys"
"See you!"
"See you in twenty years, bye Brock, Ash, Lucas, and I can't forget the old lady"
The second Kyra said that last part the few fully evolved pokemon I could see all stiffened and instinctively shifted into a battle stance.
The moment Kyra chose violence Dawn may as well have exploded, her face darkened and her eyes once a calm blue glowed red, I could almost see a volcano going off behind her.
"Run Kyra!" x2
"DON'T YOU DARE THINK YOU CAN RUN FROM ME KYRA WHEN I CATCH YOU YOU'RE DEAD!!!"
"Misdreavus!!"
Kyra quickly threw out Misdreavus's ball, Misdreavus at first looked bored but the second she saw Dawn charging at Kyra she used telekinesis to make Kyra float.
"KYRA!"
"Later" and with that Kyra floated off with Misdreavus, Dawn could only strangle the empty air in front of her.
"Are you ready to go Hikari?"
"Yep"
Me and Noah made a tactical retreat, once we were out of the city Kyra walked out from behind a tree, "took you two long enough I was starting to get bored" she said with a dramatic sigh at the end.
Noah meanwhile looked like a weight had been taken off him, noticing our look he shrugged, "I'm not a fan of the big city, it's nice to only trees ahead.
"That's fair" I said while crouching on the ground to open my bag, after a moment of digging around I found what I was looking for. "Our next stop is Oreburgh city, where we will all get our first gym badge."
That got both of the other's attention, they came over to me and while over my shoulders they started looking at the map I got from my bag.
After he was done looking over my shoulder Noah used his brain, "judging by name it's a rock type gym, worst case scenario steel type".
At that me and Kyra could only nod our heads in agreement. "looking at it right now based on type advantage Kyra is even, while me and Hikari both have two pokemon with a type advantage"
"That about sums it up" I said while rubbing Piplup's head.
Kyra, not losing faith in her ghost types pointed at us, "I can work with this, all it requires is strategy and more training."
"Misdreavus", Misdreavus agreeing with her trainer, used a nearby stick to also point at us.
"Then to Oreburgh city we go"
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three hours later
A group of kids with an older boy finally made it out of Jubilife city.
"We finally made it out of the city", both Lucas and Dawn crumpled to the ground, almost shedding tears at the sight of the pure forest.
Ash, the usually eager trainer, was also relieved at the sight of the forest, even Brock's Croagunk was tired, Croagunk had used poison jab so much that he knew if he used it again he would be out for the rest of the day.
For the last stretch Croagunk had been kicking Brock in the balls to get him to keep moving.
"Pikaaa", "you too Pikachu?" Pikachu deflated on Ash's shoulder.
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"PIPLUPPP!!!"
Hearing my penguin's cry I turned around, she was clutching her now empty barrel of Buizel bites. Not once had I put her barrel in my bag aside from me carrying it to the pokemon center Piplup had been out and carrying it the whole time.
Looking at Piplup she was crying, looking at me with pleading eyes as she pointed towards Jubilife. Pinching the bridge of my nose I just gave her a are you serious look.
"All day you had, all day you had, Piplup you have been carrying that thing for days and you only realize now? After we left the city, that thing is empty?"
"Piplup!"
"Didn't you realize that the barrel was becoming lighter at all?"
"Pipluppp", her voice was much smaller, Noah and Kyra had long since stopped walking from Piplup's initial scream. They were just watching, both were well aware of my penguin's addiction, heck she was trying to snort the remaining power in the barrel right now.
Shaking my head, I picked up Piplup with her orange covered beak, then put the empty barrel in my bag. I wasn't going to litter.
Once we were back to walking while Noah and Kyra weren't noticing I turned my hand into water and cleaned off her beak. Some fresh non-cheesy air would do her some good.
We made some good time. Naturally without the unlucky protagonists we didn't run into team rocket or anything. While we did make good time we wouldn't be sleeping in a pokemon center, instead we were stuck in the wilderness.
And you know what I didn't miss the city, no loud cars, no random sirens, maybe the occasional pokemon's call but nothing major.
Settling into my sleeping bag with Petilil on my right and Piplup on my left, what more could I want?