Hi all! This chapter is probably going to be rather long, so get comfy and get a shnack and buckle up for this emotional rollercoaster. I also changed the rules for the showcases slightly.
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Reader POV
Today was the day, the day where I finally started my journey to becoming a professional Pokemon performer. I was raring to go, I had woken up early in the morning to practice my teams routine twice more. When it was time to leave for the theatre, Nurse Joy wished Serena and I luck. I had gotten word that the Princess cup was during the morning and the Princes Cup was scheduled for the afternoon.Â
Once we arrived at the theatre we saw Shauna, and surprisingly Tierno.
“Hey guy!” They said.
“Hey Shauna and Tierno.” We waved as they walked up to them.
“Tierno, have you come to support Shauna?” I asked.
“Nope! I’m here to compete in the Princes Cup! I was the late entry that everyone’s been talking about.” My heart sank as I realised that I was going to compete against him. But I uplifted it off the ground as we all walked into the theatre, Serena and Shauna parting from us to get ready.
As the show began, the ladies were asked to create effortless looks to dress up their pokemon, they were supposed to be high-end looking fashion icons. The first three contestants created such cute looks, the winner of that round just so happened to be Shauna. Winning the audience vote, and positive Judges critiques.Â
When it came down to Serena, my heart was racing for her. Fennekins look was stunning, but the runway walk was a different story. Fennekin ended up tripping on the bow it had around its neck and falling, smashing the beads it was wearing. Serena fell to the ground with her pokemon clutched in her arms. When it came down to the voting and critiques, she unfortunately didn’t pass through to the freestyle performance. One of her critiques was an extreme slap to the face.
“Darling, that runway walk was absolutely shambolic, you and you’re pokemon should work in tandem together to excel.” The cruel judge remarked. I could see that Serena was close to tears, extremely close to tears.
After that, it was then down to the freestyle performance, something of which I was looking forward to see. Shauna managed to win with flying colours, her performance was exquisit. Her flabebe and Bulbasaur worked well together to help shauna win.
After saying goodbye to Shauna, it was now down to me, to win this rookie class performance. I was backstage, preparing everything for my performance. I was in the second group, however Tierno was in the third group.
“Our handsome Monsieurs are also creating a high fashion look for their pokemon partners. However, with this, they must also create a short explanation as to why they’ve created the look they made.” The Kalos Queen, Aria announced. Aria was the commentator for the Princes cup, whereas Pierre was the commentator for the Princess cup.
We were then lifted out on platforms onto the stage, Swablu rested on my head. Looking out at the crowd I saw a liepard and a crobat. Shivers ran down my spine, but swablu comforted me and reassured me that I was going to be ok.
I went through the styling boxes to pick out an outfit for Swablu, nothing really spoke out to me, apart from some beautiful hanging jewels. I strapped them to Swablu and said.
“Can you still fly?” I asked. Swablu jumped up and flew around the small box.Â
“Great! Now lets hit this out of the park!” I high-fived my pokemon as we were called out onto the stage.
“And here we have Y/n, with his super amazing Swablu!” Aria brought the mic towards me as swablu flew off of my hand, the jewels caught the lights and sparkled as my pokemon danced around the stage. “So what inspired this outfit Y/n?”
“I inspired this outfit by looking at Swablu’s wings. To me, they look like clouds! And what do you get with clouds? Rain! So I thought that the Jewels could represent the rain.” I said into the mic, I saw some of the judges smile at me. Swablu then landed on my outreached arm and we walked to the back together.
“Oh my Arceus! Did we just do that in front of an audience? We did that in front of an audience!” I chuckled, hugging Swablu tightly. We were next then given the critiques, and the winner of the challenge.
“Now, onto Y/n.” Aria smiled.
“All I have to say is, wow!” The first judge smiled. “The way that you concept this look in such a short amount of time is phenomenal, you should be very proud.”
“Meh.” The second judge remarked, they just so happened to be the Judge that slandered Serena. “I feel like you overdone it, comparing Swablu to a pokemon like that Scrafty, it looks traditionally masculine. However, Swablu doesn’t.”Â
“I think it’s incredible. That’s all.” Pierre said.
After that, came the voting. We each had a special gem on our ties, this was where the collected points went to tell us our scores. Each member of the audience voted, including the judges, however their votes counted 4 times more than a standard vote.Â
“And now! Cast your vote!” Aria pointed to the audience. When I looked up I noticed I had a considerable amount of votes. “Congratulations to Y/n for winning this challenge! Your prize will be a tip of 10,000 Pokecoins!”Â
“Thank you so much.” I smiled, knowing that I could pay for somethings myself for a change.Â
When we went backstage, I noticed the same Liepard from before scouring the halls, I managed to run into the dressing room before it could spot me. Tierno smiled and shook my hand.
“That was amazing Y/n.” He smiled.Â
“Thank you.” I huffed, after hearing the liepard go away.
“Now it’s time for the freestyle performance!” Tierno letting go of me and walking out of the room.
I watched him on the screen, his performance was incredible, my stomach made pleats and tucks and turns. He was dancing, on the stage, with his Squirtle, and his Lotad. They made it rain, and danced in the rain to the song, Don’t rain on my parade by Barbra Streisand. Straight afterwards, it was my time to shine, I was very nervous. Before being raised up on the platform. I said to Floette and Swablu.
“Remember, we’ve been practicing this for ages, we can’t slip up now.” I said. “Let’s show this damn audience, who we are!”
I got into my starting position, as soon as I was raised up and the music kicked in, I was in my element. I turned around quickly as the lyrics kicked in. My pokemon flew forwards, The aromatherapy/ Aerial ace move striking applause from the audience. I next did my signature cartwheel, with a roundoff afterwards for extra flare, we also changed the Razor Leaf to a Petal blizzard, it flew past me and I felt so good. However I noticed something in the crowd that didn’t seem right, there was a pair of blue eyes which stuck out to me. I suddenly froze, I couldn’t move my body an inch. I suddenly noticed that the solar beam from swablu was facing directly for Floette. Before I could stop it, Swablu had taken floette down, a plume of dark grey smoke inhabited the stage. I couldn’t think of anything worse happening. We next all came crashing down, into one spot. I then regained control in my body just as the performance ended. There were no claps from anyone in the theatre. I looked at my friends, with tears in my eyes. Not even they would clap for me. I turned towards those eyes again, My eyes widened as I realised who was to blame for the shambles of a performance.
I sat there crying for a moment before running off the stage. I crashed my way through the hallway and quickly changed into my ordinary clothes. I looked at Swablu and the fallen Floette and burst out crying once more.Â
“We’re finished Swablu.” I said, putting it in its pokeball and walking with my head down out of the theatre. When I got out, I saw the others waiting for me. Serena too, with some new haircut.
“You still did well Y/n.” Ash said.
“Save it Ash, I don’t need your pity.” I sniffled.
“C’mon Y/n.” Clemont approached me. I pushed him away from me. “What was that for!?”
“I didn’t want it to go out like this.” I said, tears falling down my eyes. “Goodbye…”
Without thinking, I dropped my two pokemons pokeballs and ran away. I didn’t know where I was going, but it certainly wasn’t anywhere near here. I just kept running and running. When I got tired, I sat down on a bench, it seemed to be in front of the port. I sat down and just cried. My dreams had been shattered. All thanks to my parents, finding me like that and sabotaging my performance. And now I was going to be taken back to Anistar city. I heard rustling next to me, so I decided to look. I thought it would be someone coming to laugh at me, however it was a pokemon.
“What do you want?” I sulked. The small blue thing held a berry up to me. “Is that for me?”
The pokemon nodded and smiled, I took the berry and bit into it. It was sweet, I smiled at the kind gesture. I held my pokedex up to it and scanned it.
“Pampour. The spray pokemon. Pampour often give out berries to those who are in need of happiness.” I giggled, the cute Pampour then began to water the berry bushes, behind where I was sitting.
“Well, that was a nice gesture.” I smiled, watching it water the bushes.
“Liepard! Use gunk shot!” I heard a voice come out of nowhere. Suddenly, I was hit in the face with a pile of smelly poison. My body twitched as the poison seeped into my skin.
“Crobat! Air cutter!” Within seconds, I felt sharp gusts of wind cut my body, It hurt so badly. I looked for the Pampour, to make sure it was safe. When I couldn’t find it, it made me panic, however it just so happened to be in my lap. Pampour jumped up onto the bench and used Ice beam on the Crobat, it ended up freezing it. It then used attract, which allured Liepard. Pampour then signalled to me to start to run. I tried my best to, but the poison and the cuts were getting too bad. Pampour was with me the whole time. We ran towards the end of the Quay. However we were cornered by the other two pokemon.
“Thunder wave!” The liepard responded to the command and used thunder wave on Pampour. Which paralyzed it.
“Pampour!” I shouted, holding it in my arms.
“Now, this proves that little boys like you shouldn’t run off without explanation.” The cruel voice of my father evilly looked at me. “You could’ve had it all! But you chose such a life. YOU’RE AN EMBARRASSMENT!”
I couldn’t bear to hear the shouting that I got from both of them. I felt as hopeless as I did before I ran away.
“We had plans for you to marry a rich woman, so that you could carry on the heir to your father’s Company.” My mother weeped, as if she was the victim. “THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!”
“I ran away because of one thing…” I just about managed to stand.
“And what is it?” My father retorted.
“Because, I’m not like you!” I screamed, boldy standing up to my parents. “I WANT TO LIVE MY OWN LIFE! NOT YOURS! I DON’T WANT TO MARRY A WOMAN! I WANT TO MARRY A MAN! I’M GAY!”
I screamed it so loudly, but the truth was, I didn’t care anymore. I’ve been brought down so many times by these people, but it was time to show them how I truly felt.
“Tch, don’t even bother returning home, you disgusting little sinner.” My mother and father both said. “Both of you, use dark pulse!”Â
I waited for the impact however I heard a familiar voice.
“LUXIO! USE SWIFT!” I turned to see my friends just over the railings.
“So these are what you call friends? A useless girl, an unauthoritative boy, a coward gym leader and a weak little child?” My father mocked. “How cute.”
“No! We’re not any of those things you call us! We’re Y/n’s chosen family!” Hearing those words from Clemont. It made me cry, knowing that despite what I did to him, he was still there for me. No matter what the situation is.
“Dark pulse!” They both growled.
“Luxio! Use Discharge!” Clemont shrieked, making the first move.
“Flamethrower Fennekin!” Serena shouted.
“Pikachu! Use thunderbolt!” Ash cried.
Even combined, there moves were no match for my parents pokemon. So, I had to help them out, one way or another.
“SWABLU! TAKE CENTRE STAGE! USE THE STRONGEST SOLAR BEAM YOU’VE EVER DONE!” I screamed, using the last of my lung power to call out my first pokemon. Within seconds of saying the command, Swablu burst out of its pokeball, using an incredibly strong Solar beam. Combined, our pokemon inhiliated my parents team. The withdrew their vicious team and walked back to their limousine. They got into the car and my father said.
“You’re no longer a part of the L/n family.” He said, he then rolled up the window and they drove away.
“Good, because I’ve found a new family. My chosen family.” I said, a tear fell down my eye, as I saw my friends run towards me, Clemont in front of the others. I then closed my eyes, hoping that they would take care of me.
A while later, I woke up. Nurse Joy was looking at me and smiled. “Glad your awake Y/n.”Â
“Is it over?” I asked.
“Yes, it’s over now.” She said. “You’re able to leave now, just be careful.”
“Thank you Nurse Joy.” I then remembered, “Nurse Joy! Where’s-!”
“Right here.” She said. She pointed towards my friends, and in the middle of them, standing on the table, with a pokeball in its hands, was Pampour. I walked over to them and smiled.
“Thank you guys for everything.” I smiled.
“From now on Y/n. We are your family.” Serena said.
“And we still love you, even if you like guys.” Ash stood up and shook my hand.
“I made this for you, Y/n.” Bonnie handed me a picture, it was a picture of us 5, all holding hands and having a picnic together. I gave bonnie a hug.
“Thank you so much for this, I will treasure it for as long as I live.” I said. I then turned to the Pampour sitting on the table. Its head was down, looking at the shiny pokeball. “Don’t think I forgot about you.”
The Pokemon looked up as I took the pokeball from its hands. I took a deep breath and threw the pokeball. “Go pokeball!”
Pampour jumped up and smacked the pokeball with its tail. WIthin 2 shakes, it was caught. I was elated with excitement.
“Yay! I just caught a Pampour!” I rejoiced. Everyone cheered with me.Â
“Now that you’re all better. Where to next?” Serena asked.
“Lumiose city!” Ash cheered.
“Not yet.” I smiled. The others looked at me funnily.
“What do you mean?” Clemont asked.
“Give me a couple of hours.” I approached the door. “Its makeover time!”Â
I ran out of the Pokemon centre and threw all of my pokeballs up into the air. Each one of my pokemon burst out of there pokeballs doing some sort of performance move. Swablu using cotton guard. Floette using Aromatherapy. And the new addition to the team, Pampour, was using Attract. I then shouted…
“EVERYONE! TAKE CENTRE STAGE! BECAUSE I’M FREE!”
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I hope you enjoyed the longest chapter I’ve written yet for this book! This chapter was fun to write! Especially the ending scene! So now, I am going to have to create an upgraded look for our reader! Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
-Potato
Word count: 2660
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