The next day
The sheer amount of happiness radiating off from daisy had greatly unnerved the competitor and a the staff but they went with it. The only thing in her mind was the talk with me and her happiness. She still remembered back when she was 11 and it was ash who helped her and believed in her even though she herself had never thought she could do it.
The fact that only he could be so brutally honest and still be motivational was so ash that she couldn't even describe it. Everyone told her that they would never be disappointed or about how great it was that she was able to reach the finals. In the end the person who initially made her start her journey was the one who had told her the brutal truth without any padding but it still made her happy to not be surrounded by a bunch of masks and not people.
If only she knew that my mask ran deeper than she could ever hope to sense. Anyway today was the day. The final countdown. The finals of the Coordinators battle.
"Good morning everyone. Today is the finals of the coordinator championship finals.
Our first competitor Daisy oak. She started completely on her own and in just 4 short years has reached the very top of the competition. She is known to be humble and very excited. She collected all the ribbons she could before challenging the reigning champion and now she is here face to face.
Our final competitor Lisia the dragon type coordinator. Lisia has been the reigning champ for more than 3 years. She is very well known for her using only one Alteria for all her competitions. She collected the ribbons in record time of 8 months and immediately rushed for the championship unlike daisy who patiently waited and took her time.
Today we are gonna see who is gonna win and who is gonna lose between these 2. Daisy also seems to have gotten a confidence boost as she is practically radiating happiness. Lisia also seems to be unnerved by this happiness. But lets not waste anymore time and get on with it"
Daisy let out a chansey and a little clefairy. Her signature pokemon. She was sticking to the basics while Lisia let out an Altaria and another altaria, Lisia was going to the extremes, it seemed like a clash of different styles. She reminded me of an pop idol or something.
Anyway lisia was going first. Her performance consisted of a pretty boring and repetitive moves but the audience ate it up like a wolf. The judges however seemed to agree with my thought process. She was making easily digestible content for an audience but not for the judges. It was like a very good toy company. No matter how innovative it was, it would never be usable for adults. Never
Her moves were graceful but I could find faults in it but not bad. She kept her showmanship and performed admirably and with no hesitance at all and was a bit boring for me but whatever.
Still she did a lot of flips and had a lot of basic symmetry. The only way she could get this far is that in 99% of all competitions are decided by the audience and judges are more like critics. However the champion is decided by both. She didn't even use any elemental attacks, her pokemon were not trained at all, and I could see the exhaustion on their face. I could also see that they weren't trained for endurance very well but meh.
She ended her performance with two dragon breaths colliding and her coming out from the dust in the air left by the attack. This was practically a disgrace, such a weak dragon breath? My own garchomp could do that when he was a Gibble. Sheesh anyway even the audience was a bit disappointed by a weak ending but they still clapped.
"That was an amazing performance by lisia but she had a weak ending. Will the challenger use this opportunity to become the champion? Let's find out"
"Now for daisy oak." Daisy was wearing a cute dress. She had clefairy on her shoulder and acha sey by her side," begin"
Chansey let out a dazzling gleam while clefairy started singing in a low near inaudible voice. Daisy went on for the rest of the performance, she kept on doing unorthodox but berry pleasing maneuvers in a very cute manner. Her performance was a bit unique but just the happiness and joy in her moves the slow singing of clefairy and the chansey contribution made them smile as they felt a serene calm. It was like a basic concept taken to the Max. No major moves, no showy maneuvers but only plain and simple performance from the bottom of her heart
Daisy ended the show by having chansey envelop clefairy and herself in an egg. The egg started breaking and cracks showed. Out of those cracks came a pink energy and slowly the daisy burst out with fairy energy. It was a pretty amazing finish.
"That was absolutely amazing. Daisy instead of going for showy, has stuck to the basics and still be such a great coordinator, her performance was simple but very complex and her strategy was impeccable. Her pokemon are also very well trained and aren't showing any signs of exhaustion unlike the altaria of lisia."
I don't know what the people see in such a competition but meh. I couldn't care less about anything other than daisy in this competition
It took an her hour of waiting but the results came out and DAISY HAD..
CLIFFHANGER NO JUTSU!
1 moment later
WON yayayaayyaay! Daisy was so happy that she was ready to cry tears of joy. Instead of waiting to congratulate her later like a normal person, I instead opted to jump from the stands and hug her." You did pretty nicely sis. Now I can brag to everyone. Yay!" Lisia was going off like a fountain crying and mumbling unintelligently. Daisy being daisy went up to lisia and in a great show of sportsmanship, offered her hand to the crying lisia.
Ahh the proud feeling in my chest was so nice. She has grown up so well. Even the audience has their heart melted.
Of course we celebrated like the last night of our lives was upon us, of course no alcohol as we are minors and mom and oak don't drink. It was a nice night were I made many memories. I petted her a lot, gave her a few hugs and I may or may not have punished her for being too lax with her pokemon.
I made her very happy. I stuck around and helped her a bit and made sure that the win didn't go to her head and reminded her that one region isn't enough and that she has other regions to beat as well. She was understandably disheartened by the harsh truth but she still kept on and persevered. For her dream.
It was nearly a week later when I said that I needed to get a move on for 1 reason. The hoenn league was in 4 months, which of course I was participating in. And I couldn't quite back door my way in without seeming like a sell out to the public. I will need to beat every single gym leader in less than 4 months.
It took a lot of persuasion but I managed to convince Daisy and mom to let me adventure plus daisy would be busied with many many sponsorships and many more advertisements and maybe a few roles in a movie. She had only managed to get 1 week as a grace period and now she was busy with her job. She was living the life and would hopefully not be disheartened by this too much.
I was also busy proofreading my book for release. I finished correcting a few mistakes and I had sent it back yesterday, if we include all delays, it should be on store shelves in 1 month. This release also coincided with my peak popularity. The entire book was basically a trainers guide, complete with my advice and adventures. All of my experiences.
It went from healthy diets to types of pokemon to catch to physical training and many other topics, it was basically an trainer encyclopedia. The sheer amount of facts packed into 500 pages was a large amount but I had somehow managed to write it. Anyways oak had to fly back with mom to kanto cause you know.
Since I was registered here and people knew I was coming, there will be a lot of hype for me. Hopefully I have a good time. O.g. Ash took 10 months to finish the gym circuit in Hoenn. After which he took a one month break before the hoenn championships. The sheer amount of time he wasted blows my mind but you do you buddy. Plus ash did spend 2 whole years in johto so...
Anyway, I will be leaving today for a new adventure with only one small and one major Interesting fact. Minor fact. I can only hold 12 pokemon at one time. I have 6. I can catch 6 from hoenn, but What about other regions? What if I wanna catch more pokemon later. What shall I do. Pokemon professors are allowed 18 pokemon slots, and that is the highest you can carry.
The only way to keep more would be to open a ranch and keep 18 on you personally. Sheesh. I guess I can worry about that later and instead begin with hoenn.
Now Major fact. may is currently 8 years old, I as ash am 10 years old. Cynthia isn't the champion of sinnoh and I don't even know If iris has even been born. Misty and Serena are both ash's age or a bit older, ash was 12 when he met the 10 year old may. I don't even wanna know the romantic angle.
A few things in ash's journey are very depended on ash's age, the year or his companions. So this isn't ash's journey but mine.
Still I shall be catching all pokemon from scratch while training my kanto pokemon as well. Anyway Pikachu shall forever stay with me, riolu won't be leaving anytime soon. Ari is almost like a den mother to the younger pokemon, charizard prefers solitary along with garchomp. Leviathan was also more of a father figure than a fighter
Anyway, I am leaving today. I knew that I couldn't challenge Norman with less than 3 pokemon. I knew that ash got a treecko but I was more of a torchchick fanboy myself. Still whatever I find on my journey shall be my team.
The next day
I left yesterday and I am currently walking towards Norman's gym, why you may ask? For a battle of course. I am gonna be using riolu. Riolu has been training very nicely with aura. He doesn't have a power limiter and is similar to Pikachu. Of course I have made riolu train both his
Aura and body to the maximum along with aura weapons.
Of course I will only be using him for this battle cause I had him for almost 2 months and I have been training him for a while. The sheer amount of progress he made impresses me. Of course he is the weakest on the team and as such he has been training much harder.
It took almost a day to reach Norman but when I reached littleroot I found a cozy comfy title town with a gym in the center. Norman is a pretty good gym leader in my opinion. I hope he provides a good challenge to riolu. I was also welcomed into the town as the townsfolk were very friendly. Pretty friendly to a random stranger but I am not complaining.
After asking for a few directions I reached the gym. Knock knock. I knocked on the door a few times before it opened and I say a little girl with long brown hair tied in a cute manner, I guess this is may." Hello little girl, can I know where your father is? I am here to challenge him to a gym battle."" but dady told me to never talk to strangers"" don't worry I am not a stranger and aren't you a good little girl. Listenening to your father. You deserve a reward here. Take this candy bar."
I had gotten the candy bar too munch on while eating. What I get bored of walking as well. Anyway I patted the little girl on the head before she ran off to get her dad. I had to wait for a few minutes but I was greeted by a normal looking man who was most likely Norman. The normal type gym leader.
"Hello Norman, How are you? Little Steve has already told you about me right?"" You must be ash, yes I have heard about you. So you wanted to challenge me?"" Of course."" Why are you challenging me now. You could just as easily backtrack a bit?"" Wynaut."... I heard a great amount of laughter from behind the door corner and I saw may and max on the floor laughing. Guys it's not that funny. Meh.
" Well since you asked so nicely. I accept. Let's go to the battlefield."" Sure sure."
Norman was a good guy, a bit of a family guy but I respect that. He was a bit overprotective of his daughter but I was never a father so I don't know much regarding that. We had a good conversation until we reached the battlefield where he tried to trash talk me. Tried being the keyword.
"You are gonna lose little boy. Just don't go crying to your mom" Oh he didn't just insult me. You don't insult the guy from the 21st century where roasts are hotter than the sun. I guess I should hold back a bit since I can feel max and may listening in and I he is only playing in jest
" Well at the very least the post code for my eyes aren't at a different axis and I do my hair with a comb, not a iron and gel." You don't mess with me. Hahahahahaha, his expression was priceless. Of course our audience of 2 were also extremely surprised." We gonna talk or are we gonna fight?"
"Sure. Go slakoth use body slam " riolu go. Bone rush, agility and swords dance.." slakoth jumped into the air and came down onto riolu only to be met by a bone in the face and stomach. Riolu had used slakoth sown momentum against it, and then used swords dance and agility.
By the time slakoth had gotten back to its feet, riolu had reached 5 swords dance and 4 agility which was its current limits. Of course I had riolu bone rush straight into slakoth. Knocking it out of stage." I should have seen that coming but meet my second strongest pokemon slaking."" Riolu staff and remember what I taught you. Use close combat and counter"
Riolu created an staff made of aura out of thin air and rushed towards the slaking who was trying to feint attack. As riolu was approaching, slaking brought down his hand almost like a hammer but riolu jumped onto soakings arms and used the newly created staff to hit slaking in the face with a full power bone rush. Before slaking even had the chance to prepare for another attack, Riolu struck once again with close combat.
In the end the slaking fainted and fell under its own weight. The amount of dust particles that fell and the position of riolu and slaking reminded my of David and the Goliath. Still Norman had one more pokemon to go and riolu was getting a bit tired." Go slaking, this is my most powerful pokemon. He hasn't been beaten for quite a while. Use hammer arm." Shit.
"Riolu dodge and keep on using extreme speed. Whittle down the pokemon and use close combat and use counter if necessary. Shunpo." Shunpo is the art of lowering ones gravity while using extreme speed and agility along with max sword dance to become a blur and to create a platform of aura just under ones feet to use as a stepping stone.
Riolu essentially turned into a blur who disappeared and reappeared around the field and near slaking. It would randomly attack slaking from different sides at random intervals. Slaking attacked the ground and flung its hands around for the chance of randomly hitting riolu. The uneven ground made it much harder for Riolu to hit slaking but slaking was hit with a close combat in the face and was knocked out.
When the dust settled a panting and with a major bruise on its arm. It turns out that slaking had managed to hit riolu in the arms. Anyway after the referee proceeded to end the match, I walked to riolu and gave him a good little hug and congratulated him properly. Of course Norman came out to me.
" You did very well. It was my fault for underestimating you. You have earned this badge. Take it."" Thanks Norman"
I guess this isn't so bad huh.