Falling for leafeon, Chapter 2

The rumors

"Grrr! Damn it Alex! Open!" Said Quinn, trying to force feed an Energy Root to his pokemon.

"No! It's gross!" Screeched the leafeon, biting his trainer instead.

"I know! I had one too! Just stop being a big baby!" He replied, getting very frustrated.

"Nnnnooooooo!" yelled Alex while struggling in Quinn's grip.

"Eat it!" Quinn was trying to stuff it into Alex's muzzle now.

"Never!" And with that, Alex charged an iron tail, twisted around, and smacked alex's neck, pushing him back five of six feet before he collapsed on the ground.

"Gah! Cough* Hack* Oh arceus! I think you dented my throat!" Alex choked out.

"Well good! Maybe now you'll stop trying to feed me those wretched things."

Alex got up onto his feet, still holding his throat and looked at alex like he was already planning his funeral. "You. Will. Eat. This." He said holding up the energy root, a deadly calm in his voice.

"Will not!" Alex replied defiantly.

"If I bring Callahan out then yes. You will." Quinn threatened, reaching for Callahan's pokeball.

"You know I can beat Callahan easily." The leafeon challenged.

"Oh can you now?" Quinn asked, smiling evilly. "Don't you remember the last move he learned?"

Alex took a couple steps back. "Y-you wouldn't." He said fearfully.

"Yes I would."

Alex hesitated, a look of fear crossing his face but it was gone in a second. "No you won't. You're bluffing." He stepped forward.

Quinn took Callahan's pokeball from his belt and threw it toward Alex. "Callahan! Center stage!" He yelled.

A flash of light, and out came a larger than average absol , almost five feet tall! "Alright Callahan use Thunder Wave!"

"Cal don't even!" Alex screamed in desperation. Callahan gave a look of 'I'm sorry' and charged the attack.

Alex turned tail and tried to flee but he wasn't quite fast enough. The thunder wave hit his right side and spread throughout his body, making him shudder and stop in his tracks. He looked thoroughly scared and started shaking his head with his eyes closed, he looked like he was in physical pain.

"Grrr. Qu-Quinn. I'm g-gonna k-kill you!" He sputtered in anguish.

Quinn sighs. "I'm sorry alright? But now we can finally heal you."

Alex gave up and let Quinn feed him the bitter root. He felt defeated, embarrassed, and betrayed. He couldn't even look at Quinn. He felt like crying, but he told himself that he wouldn't give Quinn the satisfaction, even though behind his anger and hurt he knew that Quinn wouldn't hesitate to wipe his tears as Alex and he had done for each other multiple times before over the years.

Callahan padded over to Alex and very sincerely attempted apologize. "Al I'm-"

"D-don't c-c-call m-me Al!" Alex stuttered through the paralysis.

"Um sorry. Alex I'm sorry. I know how much you hate being paralyzed. I was just following orders. I really am sorry." He paused, then added, "You know I wouldn't do that if Quinn didn't tell me to right? And please don't blame him, he was only looking out for you."

Alex lowered his voice to a whisper while Quinn went to find a parlyz heal." I-I kn-know." Alex sighed a shaky breath. "I s-st-still w-want t-to k-kill im' th-though."

The absol laughed lightly. "There will be plenty of time for that. But we seem have spectators at the moment. Mind telling me who they are?" He inquired, nodding to the hiker and the fit girl with him who had been silent this whole time.

"Oh. I-I fo-f-forg-got they w-were h-here." Stated the smaller pokemon.

Callahan thought for a second then spoke," Alright I'll see if I can get their names. Hang tight friend."

"D-do I have a-a ch-choice?"

"Haha! No. Be right back." With that he calmly and slowly walked over to them as not to scare them, (which is kind of hard to do when you have a giant knife sticking out of your forehead) and bowed to each, waiting expectantly, looking at the girl first.

"Um, hello." The girl said.

"Yes hello. Name?" He responded, knowing she wouldn't understand.

"Hmmm. Are you asking me to do something?"

Callahan tilted his head from side to side as if to say 'kind of'.

"Well are you asking me something then?"

Callahan nodded.

"Well we haven't introduced ourselves have we? Is that what you are asking me to do?" she said, catching on faster than most people would.

Callahan nodded again happily. "Yes good! This is going much better than I thought it would."

"Alright then." She responded cheerfully. "My name is Ashlynn Greyer and this is my friend Rhobert Hews. We work for a travel magazine called Sinnoh Traveler. Well I do anyway, I hired Rhobert – you can call him Rob, to show me the best hiking and climbing places in Hoenn, and this," She paused and took a luxury ball out from the side of her pack to toss it into the air, "is Camron, or Cam for short." out came a very small riolu, most are about two and a half feet tall but this one is only about one foot nine, he was wearing a little camera strapped to his torso. The riolu walked straight up to Callahan and held out a paw.

"Hi! Nice to meet ya!" He said in a surprisingly loud and confident voice, it wasn't annoying but it sure was loud.

After a momentary cringe at younger pokemon's volume Callahan held up a much larger forepaw which Cam took in both paws and shook up and down firmly.

"And you as well little one- I mean-" He struggled to correct what might be mistaken as a jab at the pokemon's small stature, only to be interrupted by him.

"It's fine" He said with a sigh and a wave of the paw. "I get it all the time and I've come to terms with it."

"Okay." Replied the absol who looks in Quinn's direction.

Quinn was coming over to the group now. "Bad news guys. I don't have any parlyz heals or full heals or cheri berries and we just ran out of lava cookies so I'm going to have to scout around for more."

A scream came from Alex. "I'm g-going t-t-to k-kill you Qu-Quinn!" He then started stuttering profanities and trying to stumble toward Quinn as best he could only to trip over his own paws in the process which only served to infuriate him even more.

Quinn gulped. "Okay, Callahan? Can you guard Alex just in case the paralysis wears off? I think he needs to just chill out for a minute. And you, Cam right?" He directed his attention to Camron who nodded yes." Alright would you mind helping?" The riolu nodded again. "Alright thanks. If he overpowers Callahan just spam Force Palm until he becomes paralyzed again kay? Oh and if he comes close to hitting you even once then just run. Don't try and be a hero either alright?"

"Got it!"

"I'll assume that means yes." He then turned to the other two humans. "You two? If he gets over the paralysis hide." They gave the affirmative and he turned his head to Callahan. "Alright I'll head out then. I'll be back within ten to fifteen minutes and if I'm not then I want you to use Thunder wave on him again and come look for me alright?" With that said he got up and jogged into the nearby trees with a determined expression on his face.

Callahan started to stride over to Alex in order to help him up when he heared Ashlynn speak. "Is Alex really that dangerous? I mean come on he's the most beautiful leafeon I've ever seen, a shiny coat and un-torn leaves. I mean I know he is pretty angry right now but still." Callahan wheeled around and faced her.

"Mrs. You have no idea what he is capable of." He said gravely. The girl may not have been able to understand what he was saying but she got the message.

He turned back to Alex and motioned for Cam to help him get the screaming leafeon to his feet up. "Watch the teeth now." Callahan told him

"Okay."

Back with Quinn, He was squinting his eyes, trying to spot some cheri berries.

"Damn. I usually find them by now." He said looking disgruntled.

"Hm. Alright fine."

He grabbed his second to last remaining pokeball(besides the empty heal balls which he uses only in emergencies) and threw it up in the air "Come on out Thyme!" With a flash of light and a sparkle, out came a shiny vibrava wearing a thin, sparkly pink scarf.

Quinn smiled up at the vibration pokemon who flew down to her trainer to nuzzle his neck, normally this would have been impossible due to Alex's possessiveness but he wasn't there now.

"Haha! Hi girl. I need you to help me find some cheri berries okay?" Thyme smiled and then buzzed away leaving Quinn to continue his search.

Not two minutes later Thyme came back carrying five or six red berries in her claws-er hand… things.

"Great job! This should be more than enough! I might need backup when we feed them to Alex though."

They both shuddered as Thyme deposited the berries into his open palms with a happy thrum and motioned for him to follow her. Quinn followed her through the trees with no question. If she asked him to follow then it must have been important.

After about a minute of walking Thyme settled on Quinn's shoulders and started pointing him in the direction to go. After another three or four minute he started hearing voices.

"Will you hurry up!? We've been here for like two hours and all you've done is screw with the radio frequencies!" A feminine voice complained.

"Well maybe if someone remembered to write down the correct frequency we could have left two hours ago!" another, deeper, more masculine voice said, putting emphasis on the word someone.

"Well maybe that someone would have remembered to do so if they weren't busy trying to get a thousand pounds of equipment into one drop box!"

"Well I- Hey I found it!"

"Finally! Now let's get the hell out of here before someone sees us!"

"Sigh* Fine. But seriously who's going to see us? All of those little kid trainers who actually go off the beaten path go back to school in like five days. No one is going to see us."

"You have a point but still, I don't want someone seeing two team aqua grunts messing around in the woods. There are already rumors of us coming back and I don't think that adding to it would help our cause much."

Quinn held his hand to his mouth to stop from gasping. He ever so slowly peaked around a tree to see two team aqua grunts in the same uniforms from years before except a lot more revealing. The girl's outfit was little more than a striped sports bra and running shorts and the guy's was the same except he had a full shirt, though skintight, and they were both sporting dark blue bandanas with dark red team aqua symbols on the front. They were in front of a what looked like a large metal box with an antenna. They both stood up and started walking to the edge of the clearing.

"Alright fine, I'll give you that one. Did you hear about what happened to the last two who got seen?" The guy asked.

"Oh yeah! I heard they got put in the mail room." She responded.

"Yeah and they won't ever get out." He said as they disappeared into the trees.

Quinn felt like he was gonna throw up. The last time team aqua tried to take over they took prisoners, some people were even killed in their raids.

He looked to Thyme whose expression reflected exactly what he was feeling. "Let's get back to the others." He choked out.

Back with the others.

Cam spoke up. "Jeez. I've never heard this many curses in my whole life." He stated, as he looked on to the leafeon in front of him.

"You should see him at his worst points." Said Callahan, then after a few more seconds, "Actually, you're too young for that."

"What? I'm almost thirteen by human standards." He retorts.

The absol looked straight at him. "Everyone is too young for that."

"Oh." Cam said, looking down then back up, his ears flicking. "Do you hear that?"

"Hm? One second. Alex shut up for a second!" He yelled.

"F-fine you ass!" Alex screamed. He sounded hoarse.

"Thank you." Then they all paused for a second, listening. Sure enough, after about fifteen seconds Quinn burst out of the woods gasping for air with Thyme trailing behind him.

"Guys! I-It's Team Aqua!" He gasped, "They really are back!" He cried.