Pokémon Obsidian/Opal a Pokémon fan fiction

Act- 2 Chapter- 6 The Dark of Tomorrow

Night falls upon Reaper as he explores through Fortree City. He is amazed at how these houses have withheld throughout the years just standing on trees, also at how they do not have doors or glass in their windows, “what happens when someone breaks in and takes all of your stuff?" He thinks to himself as he walks into first house and sees a machamp eating a sandwich with its trainer while across the table from him is a Hariyama that barely fits on the chair it is sitting on, “oh right, strong Pokémon to keep them out, duh Reaper," he scoffs at himself, keeps on moving across the rope plank walkway between the houses, where he eventually climbs down a ladder and walks over to the Pokémon center. He enters the Pokémon center and slinks over to the nurse standing at the counter.

She looks up from the computer with her pink eyes sparkling, “um, hi...sorry you're just really cute and is that a Mew?!" She stumbles through her words like she has a habit of speaking before thinking.

"Uh…no, sorry,” Reaper chuckles, “it’s a Zoroark, but you're very pretty yourself, nurse...Joy?" He asks as he notices that her hair is black instead of pink like the other nurses he is used to seeing.

She smiles uneasily, "no not yet, my name is Cammie. I'm a nurse joy in training. But, but, but I swear I'm just as good as the others! I just haven't gotten my certificate yet..." she frowns with a gloomy look on her face, "I keep failing the final test, and every time I am asked if I have what it takes to put a Pokémon down if it's suffering and can't be helped, I always say no...I just couldn't…can’t do it. But I still get to nurse while I'm in training though! So that's nice, right?!" She admits waiting in a long pause for Reaper to answer her. He reaches behind him and pulls out his two Pokéballs and hands them to her.

“Yes ma'am it is. Especially since I need help today with mine. I got beat pretty bad by this guy named Steven..." disappointment roars over his face as his voice is that of embarrassment and shame. She takes his Pokéballs, fumbles them around on the tray, clumsily puts them in the machine, and turns it on.

"Steven stone?!?!" She asks with a star struck look in her eyes as she says his name, "THE STEVEN STONE?!"

Reaper has a bit of anger in his tone when replies, "yes 'The Steven Stone' I met him over on the bridge over at the route east of here," he groans.

She looks as though she is going to burst into tears of excitement, "Oh my Arceus! That is amazing! You met the 'Rock Star' Steven heart throb Stone! What was he like? You must tell me everything while we wait, I want to hear EVERYTHING!!" She gushes enthusiastically.

Reaper looks over to the corner of the building where a single large table sits with a booth along the wall, "I'm gonna go take a seat over there, let me know when they're ready please..." he walks off with his hanging in shame before she can even raise a finger. She looks sad and disappointed that he would not tell her anything, then she realizes what she had just done after she watches him sit down and decides that she is going to apologize to him when she takes his Pokémon to him. Reaper sits down at the table and lays his head down on his arms. Zoroark flies out of his hood then he reaches back and pulls the hood over his head knocking his hat off on the table. Zoroark reverts back to its original form, reaches down, and picks the hat up putting it on its head backwards. It smiles gleefully while scurrying around the building curiously looking at all of the neat paintings, machines, and the entire design of the place, as it is different from ones in Kanto and Johto. It carefully walks over to the Pokéballs flashing in the healing machine and looks closely. Cammie reaches over and taps Zoroark's shoulder, "excuse me, Zoroark?" It turns around and pokes its nose on hers, which causes her to giggle and so does Zoroark while holding its hands over its mouth.

"You are absolutely adorable! So what's wrong with him? Losing a battle isn't that bad...you lose some and win some, it's all about having fun with your partners right?" Cammie says as Zoroark reaches out its hands, touches each side of her temples, and begins to glow. Cammie's eyes start glowing pink and her mouth opens wide as she starts seeing what images Zoroark is projecting to her.

Zoroark shows her everything that Reaper had been through, even before officially meeting Zoroark. It had been following Reaper ever since his family and their Pokémon were killed by the Reapers. It shows her when he got his first Pokémon, a tiny Cyndaquil, and fast forwards to the first battle with him, which he lost to a red haired kid that called himself Silver with a Totodile. While Reaper was carrying Cyndaquil to the nearest Pokémon center, running frantically to make sure his Cyndaquil was gonna be okay, he was tackled by a man from the Reapers. Then a group of them surrounded him and his Cyndaquil, he looked up in terror when all of a sudden the Cyndaquil woke up and jumped up on reapers back, took a deep breath, and unleashed an eruption of fire that was so intense and big that it burned the trees and grass within a hundred foot radius. All of the men ran away singed, burned, and crying, then Reaper jumped up, grabbed his Cyndaquil and started running again, "thanks buddy! I'm happy we have each other, I'm sorry I'm not strong enough as a trainer to really deserve you, but I promise from this day forward we will never lose another battle!" The Cyndaquil jumped out of his arms and Reaper stopped suddenly sliding to a screeching halt. Cyndaquil started to glow brightly, “you're evolving? Already? Wow I wonder why?" The Cyndaquil had evolved into a Quilava right after hearing Reaper’s devotion and love towards him. Zoroark fast forwards to his first gym battle that he beat with ease, and held his gym badge up with pride. Fast forward again skimming through his life to when he met Zoroark, when it was just a Zorua, outside of the Dragon’s Den just on the edge of Blackthorn City. Reaper had just finished beating the trials and walked outside the den with Typhlosion at his side to see Zorua standing there giving him a curious look, “hey there! I'm Reaper! This is my buddy Typhlosion! We are on an adventure to become the strongest in the world! What's your name?" Seeing that he was one of the few humans to be completely friendly towards it, and not trying to catch it, Zorua bumped its nose on Reaper’s and they both giggled slightly. A very old woman walked slowly up towards them and Zorua turned around, and started dancing around excitedly.

"Zo!!" It put its hands over its eyes and pulled them off, and the elder woman put one hand over her eyes and raised it up.

"Peek-a-boo little you," she smiled and started walking again, Zorua gleefully danced towards the woman, “how are you old friend?" She greeted Zorua with a feeling of love.

Zorua had a nostalgic tone to its voice, "Zo! Ru Ru Zo," it answered causing the woman to laugh hardily, then she reached into her pocket, pulled out a black and white berry, held it up to Zorua, and continued walking. Zorua grabbed the berry and started munching with excitement.

Reaper scratched the back of his head, "old friend? How so? That thing is merely a baby?" His voice was that of total disbelief. The woman finally got close to Reaper and sat down on a ledge nearby, laid her cane next to her, and pulled her knapsack around.

She pulled out a few more berries, "enigma berry? They're really tasty and there's not a Pokémon out there that doesn't enjoy one," she looked at Typhlosion and winked. Typhlosion's eyes lit up with a touch of gluttony as he trotted over to the woman with his arms stretched out to grab the berry and plopped down on the ground next to her, then he looked over at reaper and started munching down on the berry.

Reaper sighed and shook his head, "why not? Haha," he walked over to the woman and thankfully grabbed the berry and sat down on the ledge next to her.

She spoke with an earthly tone that sounded like a thousand years of wisdom, "you don't know who that Pokémon is do you?"

Reaper, with his mouth full of the berry, tried to speak, "nom maham."

The woman laughed hardily and patted Reaper on the back lightly, "I'm guessing you were never told to eat before you speak?" He shook his head no, "hmm. I sense a lot of pain in your spirit. You have the aura of a dragon. My name is Wilma, but everyone around here calls me grandma," she introduced herself.

Reaper took a big gulp, "my name's Reaper and this is my best bud Typhlosion. Would you tell me about that Pokémon?"

She smiled, stuck her hand out, and scratched Zorua under its chin, “yes, this is Zorua, it's said to be the illusion Pokémon. It's very friendly, but also very shy. It really only makes itself known to those very dedicated to loving their Pokémon and it deems friendly enough to associate with. Can't blame it though. There are a lot of very dark people out there with evil in their hearts and bad intentions,” she looked over at Typhlosion, reached out her hand, and scratched him behind his ears, "I can tell that you really love your Pokémon and are very devoted to them. So I can see why Zorua took a liking to you,” she looked back at Zorua, "I first met this little fellow fifteen years ago when its mother, a proud Zoroark, was protecting it from some Team Rocket thugs, I was running around playing with my Dragonair, Tintin, when I came upon them. Tintin and I sent those thugs packing, and Zoroark passed out from its wounds, so we got them both to a Pokémon center to get them healed up, but we couldn’t save the Zoroark. Since it no longer had a mother, and it was still a baby, I decided to take care of the Zorua until it was strong enough to go back out on its own, and before it left, it bumped its nose on mine," she recalls, and Zorua hopped up to her face, poked her nose, and they both laughed a little, "just like that actually haha, but ever since that day we've been friends, and it visits often," she smiled at Mew and scratched it below its chin, “however, I believe my time in this life is coming to an end pretty soon. So I would hope this Zorua will accompany you on the rest of your adventure, wherever it may take you. There's no need for it to stay here with me anymore,” she stood up shakily and whispered to Zorua then looked back at Reaper, "may all of your adventures be filled with excitement,” she smiled, turned, and started walking off towards town ahead when a Dragonite flew down, picked her up, and flew off. Zoroark fast forwards to his battle with Steven, then to the present.

Zoroark lets go of Cammie's head and blinks at her, "Zo, Zoro!" It says in a way to say, “now you see…”

She looks over at Reaper and sighs a breath of empathetic depression, "I couldn't imagine having that much done in such a short amount of time,” she looks back at Zoroark, scratches it under the chin, and they both giggle, "so that's your sweet spot huh cutie? Well his Pokémon are done so I'm gonna go apologize and take him some food...you think think that'll cheer him up?" She asks, and Zoroark nods its head in agreement while l*****g its lips, “oh? you must be hungry as well! Okie dokie then, I'm gonna fix something up that'll make everyone happy! Just give me a few minutes and I'll be out with some food and your friends ok little buddy?" She puts one finger over her lips "shh " she winks at Zoroark.

It wiggles its tail and copies her putting a finger on its lips, "ssss" causing her to giggle, then she walks through a door around the corner. Zoroark looks through the window of the door curiously and starts playfully walking around the center with its finger on its lips making the 'ssss' sound. A few moments pass before Cammie walks out of the door rolling out a tray with the Pokéballs and some steaming food. Zoroark curiously prances over to the tray smelling the goodies. It follows her all the way over to Reaper, who is still laying his head down on his arms. "Hey there, I'm sorry about my behavior earlier. I realized a little too late that I was being rude and I want to apologize, also your Pokémon are fully healed and I brought you and your friends some food…Hello?!" Cammie apologizes, reaches down, and lifts his hood up, then Reaper reaches up and grabs her wrist, which scares her a little. He rises up, slides his hand down to hers, and pulled it around to his mouth, then he kisses the top of her hand.

"It's ok, I'm just a sore loser I guess, I'm sorry too, I was rude to just walk away and ignore you,” Reaper admits, and she smiles, grabs his Pokémon, and lets them out of their balls for him, then she opens up the food tray causing Reaper and his Pokémon to begin drooling as their eyes light up in excitement.

She smiles from ear to ear, "well...dig in already! I made it specially for all you guys,” they all start digging into the amazing meal and Cammie sits down on Reaper’s right side, “so Zoroark showed me everything, I just thought I would share that I've had my own run in with some bad people,” she mentions, and he looks up at her with his mouth full interested in what she has to say, "there's this group of people that came here not too long ago that started causing trouble. I think they called themselves Underhade, their leaders were a somewhat short man with long black hair and a beard. His name was Lionida. And there was a woman who was like a tower, she was very tall. Her name was Persafoni. She had short bobbed hair that was a bright fuchsia color. They both wore solid black with accented sashes. His was purple and around his shoulder down to his waist, hers was blue and around her neck and reached down to her feet along her back. All of their grunts and captains wore the same get up but all different colors to tell what rank they are. If you stick around here in Hoenn long enough, you'll see them eventually. But the point of me telling you this is that, when I was just a kid, my mom had this beautiful Gardevoir that helped out around the house and was the best at healing. My dad was a kind man, he was the gym leader of Lavaridge town. These people rushed into town and ransacked the whole town, I remember them saying something about the springs being connected to a great mythical Pokémon and they needed to get into the volcano and find the source of the water. They were being violent and mean to everyone and their Pokémon. My mom and dad tried to stop them. My mom’s Gardevoir put up a really good fight but it couldn't handle trying to fight and heal at the same time. It really took its toll on her, she passed out and one of the odd Pokémon I've never seen before launched a powerful attack at her and my mom jumped in the way to protect her Pokémon. It obliterated her and Gardevoir. My dad witnessed it and became enraged. I could see the fire in his eyes when he directed all 4 of his fire types to attack the Pokémon that launched the attack and its trainer. The leader Lionidas noticed that my dad had left his guard down and sent his 2 Pokémon to attack him with all of their strength. They decimated both my dad and his Pokémon. They kept on tearing into the town and everyone gave up after my parents fell to them,” she recalls while using the condiments and utensils to help tell her story. Reaper looks up at Cammie and notices that she is crying profusely while telling this story. He wraps his right arm around her shoulders and hugs her to try and comfort her.

"You don't have to keep going if you don't want to. I get it,” he says rubbing her arms.

She shakes her head no and keeps going,” I want to finish it, I've never actually told anybody this before. The only one who knows is, well, I'll just finish. The people went up the mountain and into a cave. Everyone in town was trying to pick up, clean up, and help out the best they could. I went over to my mom and in her hand was this," she reaches into her shirt and pulls on a beautiful silver chain necklace, “hold on," she manages a small laugh through her crying, "it's stuck underneath my…well, you know, sorry...hehe," she starts blushing and turns away from Reaper to unbutton her shirt some and get the necklace unstuck. She buttons her shirt back up and turns back around, "this! Tehe,” she holds up the long chain that has a charm with an elongated diamond shape to it. It is silver with a beautiful curly design, and a single small diamond in the middle, “so I took it and kissed her forehead. I reached down to Gardevoir and put my hand on her cheek, I could still feel warmth in her body and cried out, 'she's still alive!' An old woman ran over and helped me get her to the Pokémon center. She told me to wait outside until they got word of her. So I frowned and walked over to where my dad was and he was still so handsome even with all of the soot and cuts on him. I noticed that his left hand was pointing towards something and I looked over towards the direction. There was a single Pokéball laying there untouched and clean. I ran over and reached down to grab it, but it popped open right in my face, it surprised me so much I fell backwards and landed on my back. I looked up feeling something crawl on top of me and it was a baby Magby. It was so small and cute, it was holding a flame mail that read, 'my sweet Cammie, today is your 5th birthday and I think it's time you have your very own partner. This is Maggie, she was found as an egg at the springs and the old lady that runs it gave it to me this morning for you. Please take care of her and have a happy birthday! Love Dad.' And I've had her with me ever since that day,” she starts crying again and pulls out a single Pokéball from inside her nurse jacket, “here she is, I've never evolved her though. I want her to stay the cute little Magby that my father gave me on my 5th birthday,” she sniffles with a smile, then Reaper hugs her again. Zoroark leans over holding a pastry from the food tray and lays down on top of Cammie’s head, Alakazam and Typhlosion walk over to her and hug her as well, “aww, come on, you guys are too sweet," she sniffles and wipes the mascara filled tears from her face, "I can't believe I just told you all of that, wow I just opened up to a total stranger..." she reaches up, pets Zoroark, scratches Typhlosion behind his ears, and finally reaches over to Alakazam rubbing his head. She looks over at Reaper with a face of sympathy with mascara still running down her face, "thank you for listening and thank all of you for understanding. It feels amazing to finally feel that release, I guess you know now why I could never watch another Pokémon die..." she smiles.

Reaper grabs her hand leading her out of the booth bench, and stands up. He walks over to his bag and searches around for a moment, "aha! Here it is," he pulls out an iridescent blue porcelain ocarina, hands it to Typhlosion, and winks at him. Typhlosion takes a deep breath, holds the ocarina up to his mouth, and breaths fire into it. It makes an odd flame filled tune, “he must be a bit rusty from not playing in a while. Try turning it around buddy..." Reaper laughs a little. Typhlosion looks at it curiously, notices he has it upside down, turns it around, and again takes a deep breath before blowing fire into it. This time the tune comes out a beautiful flame filled melody, “much better," he smiles and turns to Alakazam, "alright now here!" Reaper touched his keystone and mega evolves Alakazam.

Cammie's eyes open wide in amazement, “wow...you can use mega evolution? That's awesome!"

Reaper looks confused at her, "that's mega evolution? I thought I just had a really special Pokémon. So that's what Steven was talking about,” he scoffs and shrugs as Cammie smiles and nods to him. Alakazam spins his spoons around in a rhythmic fashion against the floor and takes his two spoons in his hand tapping to the rhythm. Zoroark begins dancing around as it starts singing in tune to the song. Reaper bows and offers his hand to Cammie, "care to dance milady?" Her face is all but sad at this moment.

She takes his hand and curtsies, "I would be honored," she tosses her Pokéball out and her Magby pops out with a huge smile on her face, “join us Maggie! Late night Pokémon dance party!" The little magby joins in on the dancing, Zoroark spins over, grabs Maggie's arms, and starts twirling around dancing with her. The whole group sings, dances, and parties the entire night until dawn. They are all at the table asleep when a strange man walks into the Pokémon center..