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Jasper just sat there for a moment, not reacting even though the Ultraball was still in front of him, it took his tense nerves a moment to realize it was over...well, at least partially.
But when he finally calmed down from the most intense seconds of his life, he rushed to the Ultraball to check that Zorua was really caught and that the ball didn't have some kind of defect. It was irrational as every signal from the ball was correct, but Jasper just had to check it out or he couldn't quite calm down. He also chastised himself for closing his eyes at the last moment, as that was a big part of his fear of a somehow false capture, and since if Zorua had broken out of the Ultraball, Jasper would have had zero chance of defending himself with his eyes closed.
After seeing that everything was normal with the Ultraball and that Zorua was truly captured Jasper slumped down with his back leaning against Zorua's training rock and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Ye....." Jasper began to shout but quickly clasped his mouth with his hands. 'Damn, that capture excited me so much I nearly forgot in which situation I am and more importantly how bad Magbys situation is. Now, Jasper, think calmly and follow the plan.'
Thinking that Jasper turned around and peeked behind the rock.
There he saw Magby stretch his arm back and then shoot his clenched fist forward with a mega punch.
Zoroark responded in kind, unleashing a Night Slash.
The punch and slash collided between the two combatants and just for a moment Jasper thought that Magby could win that confrontation, but that hope quickly died down when Zoroark started overpowering Magby and launched him away.
Magby hit the ground and rolled a few meters before stopping, he tried standing up again, but despite all his efforts he couldn't get back up. He finally had to give up and slumped to the ground, bleeding and totally exhausted. It was literally a miracle that Magby was able to stand against the much stronger Zoroark for so long.
'Magby is a real fighter' Jasper tought admiringly. 'He cleverly leveraged his small size and combat training against his overwhelming opponent.'
'In addition, this Zoroark seems to be quite young and has little combat experience since it drives away all other Pokémon with its strong illusions. Zoroark was only able to fight with its inborn instincts, but this is good for me as that means Zoroark only had minimal or even no contact with Pokémon-Trainers and has no idea about what we are able to do.' Jasper observed. He would have noted these things down in his reseearch log if the situation wasn't as dire.
Just then, Jasper saw Zoroark walking towards Magby, his claw still wrapped in Night Slash's dark-type energy, ready to finish off that pesky foe once and for all.
Jasper quickly reacted and jumped out from behind his hiding place. "Hey Zoroark, stop right there."
Zoroark actually stopped and turned, even Magby lifted his head, although desperation was building in his once clear eyes and he was preparing to offer his last stand.
When Zoroark let its gaze wander around and couldn't find its child, Zoroarks eyes turned bloodshot and it fixed its gaze onto Jasper, seemingly just waiting for him to move so that it could rip him to pieces.
'What an absolutly frigthening gaze' Jasper shuddered.
Zoroarks eyes narrowed and its musceles tensed, it was ready to pounce on its enemy, but then they abrubtly slackend and its eyes ripped wide open when a shout echoed through the otherwise quiet grove.
"I kidnapped your child, so don't you dare take a single step more!"
SILENCE!
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For a few seconds time seemed to stand still, nobody said anything or moved an inch,frozen in place. They tried to understand what was being called. It was an absolutely surreal situation.
Jasper felt utterly ridiculous after yelling that sentence. Altough there was a certain part of him that danced in joy for having done somthing so crazy, that only someone from another world could have thought of.
'I better take the intiative now or Zoroark may do something drastic.' After a short few moments Jasper raised the Ultraball in his hand and began speaking again. "You see this Ball here in my hand? Zorua is inside it."
Zoroark immediately fixed its eyes on the ball as if trying to poke a hole in it with just its gaze.
"I can set it free and capture it again whenever and whereever I want." Jasper sent out Zorua, but just when it finished materializing he immediatly re-captured it. "See? You can do nothing to stop me."
When Zoroark saw its kidnapped child in front of it and how it was immediately called back to the ball, Zoroark let out a really terrifying low-pitched growl, it sounded like it came straight out of the mirror dimension, and slammed its Night Slash clad hand so hard on the Ground that grass and dirt spattered in all directions and Jasper even felt a slight tremor under his feet.
This display of strength and anger was so intimidating that the 11-year-old froze, wide-eyed. He even almost dropped the Ultraball, but he quickly fixed his grip and held it even tighter in his hand.
Then Jasper quickly took out Magbys Pokeball, that was also a Ultraball, and recalled him before Zoroark came to its senses.
Realizing it had lost its leverage, Zoroark seemed to get even more angry for a moment, but eventually let out its breath and calmed down. Its anger wouldn't help it, so Zoroark let it go.
"You will clear the fog now, then I will let go of Zorua and me and my friends will go our way and never come back. If you try attacking me or my friends I will immediatly warp this ball away into the humans territory and you won't get to see your child again. Do we have a deal?" Silence reigned again after Jasper proposed this deal. A bead of sweat slowly trickled down his face, but he didn't dare wipe it away while holding eye contact with Zoroark instead.
Internally Jasper was praying that Zoroark doesn't know that only by using a Pokedex you could warp away a Pokéball and he didn't have one yet. A Pokedex is a simply miraculous machine.
Zoroark thought for a long moment, but finally agreed. It lifted the mist and then waited for Jasper to do his part of the deal. Jasper quickly bagged Magbys Ultraball, released Zorua and then switly retreated the way he came from. He walked backwards though, having long since learned to never show your back to an enemy.
Zorua ran behind Zoroark and then together with its parent gazed at the retreating human boy. There was quite a bit of respect in Zoruas eyes, it followed all the events from inside the Ultrabll, so it knew what happed and had grown to admire the young humans mind.
After a few tens of meters Jasper met Ducklett, Elekid, their trainers and Cynthia and upon seeing that the five were okay he dragged them away before they could ask him any questions.
It wasn't until they left the grove that Jasper exhaled deeply and sat down, leaning his back against a tall tree, eyes closed.
The others waited a bit with their questions when they saw Jasper being this exhausted and him having no Magby by his side, though there was intense curiosity burning in their eyes.
Roughly ten minutes later, Jasper finally opened his eyes and stood up. "Let's continue our walk to the Pokémon Center, I'll tell you what happend on the way."
The others agreed with him and they started walking while listening to Jasper recount the exciting and frigthening events of his lifes most intense Pokémon encounter.
Jaspers three friends also told him that shortly after they entered the fog the sounds stopped and since the silence inside the mist terrified them they swiftly made their way back outside.
When the battle between Magby and Zoroark started they wanted to come to Jaspers and Magbys help, but the fog suddenly started to warp and undulate so they didn't dare enter it and could only wait anxiously. The three girls were really glad that Jasper came out on top in this scary encounter.
After fifteen minutes the four humans and two Pokémon finally reached to Pokémon Center. Jasper and Cynthia immediately ran up to nurse Joy so that she could heal their Pokémon. Nurse Joy naturally accepted them and tasked her Chaneira to begin Magbys and Gibles treatment at once.
Only then could the four trainers relax completly. Jasper lied down on one of the lounge couches and not even two minutes later he was deep in the dreamlands.
The three girls settled down too, made a few jokes at Jaspers expense, but switched the topic shortly after.
Jasper was woken up about one hour later as the treatment was finished. The Pokémon were perfectly healed and the trainers were all too happy about that.
Then the four teenagers informed their parents that they would spend the night at the Pokémon Center and then retreated to their roomes to rest.
Jasper quickly changed into sleepwear and Magby and him then immediately slept again, totally exhausted from the long day.
What nobody saw was a Pidove that sat on a branch right outside of Jaspers window, staring at Jasper and Magby unblinkingly.
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Hey there, here's the author, Black_Dragongod.
If you notice a mistake in the grammar or logic, make sure to write it in the chapter comments!
This is my first time writing a novel so I welcome all tips to make myself a better writer.
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Note #1262 of professor Acacia's pokemon research log.
Subject of research: Route 16 and Magby
Personal notes:
It's been a month and two weeks since we started exploring Route 16, but it feels a lot longer. We have explored quite a large section of the Route, though still not the entire Route and whenever we got near Zoroarks grove we made a large detour around it.
Cynthia and Skyla sadly left last night as the two months they had planned to stay had come to an end. They are great trainers and even better friends so I was pretty down that I wouldn't be able to see them for a while but at least Elesa is still here.
On another note, my parents surprised me with a vacation starting tomorrow, saying that I can decide where to go, but that it should have a beach, my mother demanded half-heartedly.
I didn't have to think long and decided on Cinnabar Island in the Kanto region, many tourist attractions, beautiful beaches, tropical forests and above all a volcano to finally evolve Magby. As icing on the cake, there's Gymleader Blaine, the leading Magmar expert who lives on this island.
I plan to find Blaine and ask him about knowledge on Magmar and his help at evolving my Magby. I also read in one of his conjectures that Pokémon absorb energy of their typing when they evolve and that a Volcano is the best place to let Magby enter his next phase. Maybe I can even get him to teach me the special technique his Magmar uses to nullify electric-type attacks, that would be super awesome.
But I digress.
I also plan to catch another Pokémon when we are in Kanto, but I still don't know which one. I then let my parents register it as theirs as I am only allowed to own one Pokémon and when I start my journey they transfer it to me. Quite a lot of trainers get their starters from their parents, so there is no problem with that legally.
Now that I come to the topic of Pokémon, some Pokémon seem to stalk us, especially me, whenever we enter the forest on Route 16. Sometimes it's a Pidove, other times a Minccino or Gothita. What's extra strange is the fact that they steal food from us everyday, but they steal only Magbys food from my backpack, nobody else's.
I have a theory as to why they're stealing Magbys food and I am gonna test it today.
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At around 11 am, two hours after he finished his log entry, Jasper entered the forest of Route 16 with Magby.
'This feels kinda weird.' Jasper thought while walking through the underbush. It was the first time he and Magby went into the forest without the girls and their Pokémon.
But Jasper didn't stay on that thought and instead focused on the Pidove that was following them for some dozen meters already.
'I will let Magby fight a few battles and then take a rest, I hope that will be enough for the Pidove to take the bait and steal Magbys food again.' Jasper then looked at another Pokémon on top of a tree branch, roughly 15 meters infront of him. 'And this Liepard over there seems like a nice first opponent for Magby.'
The Liepard turned out to be a much stronger fighter than Jasper thought, even stronger than the alpha of the pride that hurt Gible.
While Magby had superior close quarter capabilities and a fairly strong Flamethrower, the Liepard had the advantage in speed, agility and strength and it was also quite smart.
Once Liepard noticed that Magby could easily beat it in melee combat with his martial arts and Fire Punch-infused attacks it changed its attacking pattern to ranged attacks and single-hit ambushes to maximize its higher strength its evolutionary stage allowed for.
Despite being disadvantaged, Jasper and Magby stayed calm and defended while waited for an opportunity to act. Their patience got rewarded when Magby managed to dodge one of Liepards Shadow Claw-ambushes and following that hit Liepard with a Flamethrower.
The lacking might of Magby's flames meant that Liepard managed to tank the flamethrower without taking too much damage and then retreated fastly, but Magbys assault wasn't over with that.
"Now Magby, Psychic" Jasper exclaimed excitedly.
Magby roused his sleeping psychic powers, his eyes began to glow bright blue, and controlled the fires of Flamethrower to keep sticking on Liepard.
Liepard jumped and rolled around, but couldn't get the flames off it.
Magby took his chance while Liepard struggled. He quickly closed in, struck down Liepard with a one-two combo of Mach Punch and Mega Punch and then kept bathing Liepard with his Flamethrower until it stayed down.
'I'm glad that worked' An elated Jasper watched that beatdown with pride shining in his eyes. 'The battle would have been much easier if Magby could have immobilized Liepard with Psychic, but its dark-typing kept it safe. Right now Magby just controlled the flames, not Liepard itself, so its dark-typing was ineffective.'
After the fight Jasper healed Magby by spraying a Potion on his wounds and then the two set off in search of their next opponent.
The Pidove was still following them.
About 2 hours and a few battles later Magby and his trainer sat down while leaning against a tree and rested for a bit.
Jasper deliberately placed his backpack on the other side of the tree trunk, outside of his field of view, to bait the Pidove.
Comfortably leaning against the tree with his eyes closed Jasper couldn't stop the smirk that rose on his face.
'If I am right about what is wrong with these Pokémon following me around then having Magby use Psychic directly to immobilize them won't work, so I have to catch them using a different plan. A spicy surprice awaits this little thief for I rigged the inside of Magbys lunch bag with a pepper bomb that goes off the instant someone opens the bag.'
A few minutes later, just when Jasper thought that his trap failed, he heared a loud sneeze from behind the tree. He jumped up happily and together with Magby swiftly went around the tree.
There he saw a Pidove wildly flapping its wings without taking off and sneezing again and again. Magbys lunch bag laid open by its side.
But Jasper noticed that something was off about that Pidove, everytime it sneezed a sort of ripple went through it, as if it was a being of water and someone threw a stone into it.
That finally confirmed Jaspers theory about which Pokémon this was.
"Ok Zorua, quickly cancel that illusion and come here, I will help you." Jasper said while taking a nasal douche and a saline solution out of his backpack.
The Pidove stopped flapping its wings and dissipated, in its place appeard the small red-grey Zorua. It had tears in its big blue eyes and was scratching its nose while sneezing.
Jasper filled the saline solution into the nasal douche, walked over to Zorua and got on his knees. Then he held Zoruas head and used the nasal douche to free Zoruas nose of the pepper.
When it's nose finally stopped hurting and it didn't have to sneeze anymore, Zorua sat still and let Jasper stroke its soft fur.
"You were following us around disguised as different Pokémon, right Zorua? Did you steal Magby's food as some kind of test or did you just want to annoy me?
Zorua looked up at Jasper with its big blue eyes and then turned its head to Magby. "Zorua Zo-Zo-Zorua Zorua-Rua."
"Please translate it for me Magby." Jasper requested his partner.
Magby nodded at that. "Magby Ma-Ma-Magby Magby-by."
Jasper then fixed his gaze onto Zorua again, who was also watching him. "So you are saying that you were impressed by my intelligence when I escaped your parent and decided to observe me from then on to determine if I deserved to be your trainer as in the Zorua community intelligence is counted highly. When you were satisfied with me you subjected me to a final test by stealing Magbys food. I passed the test by setting a trap for you and finally catching you red-handed. That's correct so far?"
Zorua nodded at that.
Jasper stroked his chin for a bit and then spoke again. "I would gladly have a Pokémon such as you in my team, but I have a final question for you before I can accept you. Does Zoroark know about this? This is important, I don't want to be chased around by an enraged Zoroark again."
While Jasper waited for Zoruas answer, he saw Magby nodding furiously at his question, and nearly burst out laughing at the comical sight but stopped himself at the last moment.
Zorua then responded and Magby translated another time.
"Then I am glad. If Zoroark supports you to be here I have no other reason to reject you, welcome to the team." Jasper stood up, took out the Ultraball he caught Zorua with over a month ago and presented it to Zorua.
Zorua walked up to the Pokéball and upon touching the button it was swiftly absorb into the ball.
The ball shook just once in Jasper hand and then confirmed the catch with a bright "Ding".
Jasper then released Zorua from the Ultraball again and Magby also walked over to them. "You are now my second Pokémon, Zorua. Let us three work together to learn more, become stronger and catch more good friends."
After saying that Jasper streched out his hand, looked at both Magby and Zorua and grinned.
Magby and Zorua looked at each other and then stacked their hand and paw atop Jaspers hand.
"For a brilliant future!"
"Ma-Magby-By!"
"Zo-Zorua-Rua"
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