//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 : The Beginning (Edited) // Story: World Anew, A New Chapter Unfold // by Uber Reaper //------------------------------// A young man in his early twenties, chocolate brown hair and wearing a pair of khaki pants and black leather jacket with a diving eagle in the back while carrying an over the shoulder bag and a normal rucksack shouted at the Salamance in the middle of a field as an opposing male trainer Chesnaught charged with a Wooden Hammer in tow. “NOW, MEGA EVOLVE!”He held out his mega ring and touching it with his left hand thumb. The Salamencite Sally held began to glow white alongside herself. Her appearance began to gradually change. It didn’t take long for the glow to fade away, revealing her mega evolution form. Her wings meld together into a single huge, crescent-shaped wing, while the rest of its body looks more streamlined. Sally tail become shorter, and her underside markings grow in size to allow Sally to tuck in its front legs. Her head spines grow longer, and the ones directly on the side of her head turn inwards and reach its mouth. The underside of its mouth turns red, matching the markings on her neck. In this state, the young man knew that Sally would experience a dramatic increase in speed and strength. He grinned at the change of the battle tide. The other trainer jaw dropped, not knowing that a Salamence could mega evolve as well. “SALLY! DODGE AND ‘FLY’ UP HIGH!”The man shouted. “Sal!”The Salamance known as Sally dodged by flying to the side, appearing as if Sally disappeared for a moment, causing Chesnaught Wooden Hammer to entirely miss and hitting the ground before flying up high with incredible speed. The trainer just stared at the sky. “Chesnaught, prepare to dodge!”The other trainer shouted at his Chesnaught and it readied itself to dodge from any incoming projectile. The Salamance now are now all the way to the sky. The ’s trainer squinted his eyes in order to track it, it worked if only a little. His day are about to get a lot worse when the young man just observed quietly. As soon as he sees Sally, he smirked at his latest scheme toward the other trainer. “TIME FOR THE FINISHING BLOW! GIGA IMPACT!”The young man yelled at the top of his lungs. The other trainer’s eyes widened, once he realized what it meant. If the Giga Impact executed that high up, the young man intent to ram the other’s trainer with maximum velocity with the help of gravity too to boot. The dramatic increase of Sally’s speed didn’t help matters either. That could end up Knocking Out even a hardy Snorlax with as soon as it made contact. The opposing trainer didn’t even know of Aerilste, the ability of Mega Salamence. Changing Normal-type into Flying-type. Giga Impact will be highly effective against Chesnaught, due to it being a dual Grass and Fighting-type The Salamence stopped in the blue skies for a moment before angling herself and shooting down like a bird discovering it’s prey. Covered with streaks all around the body, she prepared to give the most hurt to her trainer’s enemy. “CHESNAUGHT! DODGE!”But it was too late, the streak that is Sally impacted. This in turn, caused a massive explosion alone that let dust fly everywhere.”Chesnaught?”The trainer on the other side muttered. It didn’t take long for the dust to settle, causing the young trainer grin to almost split his face.“NICE JOB, SALLY! ANOTHER VICTORY FOR US!”Her trainer shouted, Sally couldn’t agree more. The Chesnaught had swirly eyes with Sally standing triumphantly over it. Not many knew that Salamence could mega evolve which at times put Eric at an advantage because Kalos were rather isolated from Hoenn. Ever since hearing from a certain source in the International Police about those cases popping up, Eric resolved to get one himself for Sally. Once Eric set his eyes on something like an angry Galvantula sticking to the ceiling, there’s no turning back which is why he went all the way to Hoenn just to get a stone using his savings from trainer battles and those that he saved when he’s a kid. After receiving it, he went to Kalos in order to have the advantage of surprise. The surprise that the trainers there didn’t know that Salamence could and can mega evolve. First rule of trainers, always try to take your opponent by surprise and don’t let them catch your intention. They bounded for each other while the other trainer recalled his Chesnaught, still feeling the adrenaline after mega evolving. Finally, climaxing in their signature high five in mid-air using both hands and paws. “Sal, sala, la, mence.”Sally said cheerfully which escaped the knowledge of her trainer. “Don’t know what it is you’re saying, but this calls for a picnic. It’s been a two months since we had one.”The young man said as he hugged the Salamance’s neck, feeling a little embarrassed for his cheesy reason for getting a picnic. ‘I said, can I get one of those poképuff, Eric?’ She said internally with a blush at the display of affection. Either way, that worked. she still can’t believe he forgot about our annual picnic every month. She frowned when she couldn’t convey that she wanted to try out some poképuff found in Kalos. Sally the Salamence internally shook her head on how she wished her trainer and best could understand her. She tried to convey her messages many times, only for it to fall short on her trainer, sometimes she even thinks he’s quite dense despite being an intelligent trainer. Despite that, she still loves her trainer. As the pokémon who’d known Eric for much longer than any of her teammates, it is her responsibility to always be by his side as the strongest of his team. Sally couldn’t help but smile back at Eric as he released the hug while patting her on the head. This caused her to nuzzle him like a household cat would. “Whoa, Sally, no need to nuzzle me.” This in turn, caused Eric to blush as well. Sally started to glow white once more, a few seconds later, Sally de-evolved back to her normal Salamence form. “Impressive you two,”They were surprised to see the male voice that belongs to the trainer that they just defeated. “Never before have seen such display of combination attacks. You really ought to become a coordinator.” Eric rubbed his neck nervously, it wasn’t often that he got praised like that. Most of the time, they’d just grumbled or give a simple ‘congratulations’. “Ah, it was nothing. Besides, I have no interest in those contest.” The trainer smiled. “Very well, then I shall give you some of my money, then.” The male trainer reached into his pocket, taking out a wallet. After pulling out some paper money, he gave it to Eric.”1254 pokédollar to be precise.” Eric took it into his palm, staring at it before putting it in the trainer’s palm again.”You know, you don’t have to give this amount of money to me. Victory is already enough. Besides, I already got a lot of money already.” “Please,”The trainer stared at the money before putting back on Eric’s palm.”Just consider it a personal gift.” Eric knew it was tradition for defeated trainers to give a random amount of money of their liking to trainer for as a sign of respect for the one that defeated them. He was surprised at first a long time ago, but he just shrugged this time.”Okay, thanks again.” “It’s no problem, I hope you best of luck.”The trainer waved before leaving. In turn Eric also waved before turning to face his faithful Salamance. “Now I think I need to give you a bath before having a picnic and returning you to your pokeball!”Eric said all too cheerfully. “Salamence!”Sally cried out suddenly while giving Eric a death glare. ‘You wouldn’t dare!’ “C’mon, it’s not that bad, besides. I just Mega Evolved you with that keystone for you from this old man whoever he is in Shalour City which I rarely did unless necessary. I even went through the trouble of going to Hoenn to get one Salamencite. At least he was nice enough to give me one after battling Korrina, but that’s beside the point. All that running around is causing you to sweat. I’ll let you have some extra special pokéblocks again if you take a bath,” Eric said slyly with a sing-song tone. Hoping she would take the bait, even if it’s a cheesy one “Sal, sala, la, mence!” ; ‘I’m an adult pokemon for goodness sake. You can’t bathe me! I can bathe myself just fine.’ “Nope, whatever it is you’re saying. I’m not gonna take no for an answer,” Eric cheerfully said as he pushed his unwilling Salamance toward somewhere.”Besides I’m bored I don’t get to bath you again all that often. With all the pokéblocks I made which is a lot, I’ll give you the special ones” “Salamence.”Sally said reluctantly, causing her ears to drop as she stopped struggling when her trainer pushed her, leaving small trench behind her. Maybe it wasn't too bad, for her at least. She'll get some delicious pokéblocks and poffins for the first time after this. This was beginning to be a truly bad day for Sally the Salamance. She thought that this day was going to be a good one, what with the battle the boiled her blood and achieving victory. As much as she loves her trainer Eric as well as his best friend, sometimes she hated him for letting her go through with this. She’s now currently being bathed in one of the streams of Kalos Route 15, in itself it’s also a popular hangout. Of course, because of that, many people looked bewildered when they’re passing by, witnessing a mighty, sometimes aggressive and uncooperative Salamance being.....bathed. Knowing Eric’s personality, of course he ignored all of them. She wondered how can he be so dense and ignorant at times. “You know, you suddenly gone all quiet there Sally.”Eric said as he run the soap up and down her back.”I thought you would be excited for the imminent pokéblocks, seeing as those things are usually your favourite things, Sally.” “Sal, sal, salamence.”She said dryly. ‘It would be if you didn’t bath me.’ This is the second time in Kalos you bathed me. She closed her eyes with one paw, unable to look with any sense of dignity. I’m so embarrassed. First time, Sally actually bathed because Eric blackmailed her into submission because he slyly told her that he’ll tell every teammate of her very embarrassing ‘moment’ that day which of course caused her to immediately surrender. Although she didn’t have to like it, she actually secretly enjoyed the back rub her trainer gave her. It would be enjoyable, if not for the fact that some very obvious laughter as her fellow teammate watched getting a bath treatment by her own trainer and best friend which caused her to be embarrassed every time he decided to bathe her. She glared at the Archeops just beside the pond whom Eric had released earlier just for the reason he could let him out. It was because he hadn’t let said Archeops out in a long time. Of course, Eric wouldn’t hear any laughter, it would just appear as Pokéspeak to him. To her, it’s utterly infuriating. How much she wanted to dunk his head into the water right now. That would have been quite painful seeing as Archeops is part Rock-type. “Shut up, Larry,”Sally growled.”Before I decided to go over there and dunk your head in.” Larry the Archeops decided that it’s wise to clamp his mouth shut as the irate Salamence is fully capable of carrying out the threat. He couldn’t help, but still having some muffled laughter in his mouth. While a Snorlax is resting or more like ‘Snoring’ by the looks of it beside the mischievous Archeops. Who’ve been let out for the same reason. “Awww, c’mon, you’re no fun, Sally.”Larry said with muffled voice.”I thought I told you to relax and let Eric take care of the molesting for you.” Sally at that time decided that it would be fun later to dunk the Archeops thin head into the water.”HE.IS.NOT.MOLESTING.ME!”Sally shouted while making sure each word is emphasized. Eric covered his ears at the shout.”Hey, don’t go screaming, Sally. You know that I’m right behind you, right?” “Sal.” ; ‘Sorry.’ “Awww, look at that, Sally’s gone soft on us.”Larry continued while holding an infuriating grin that could probably drive someone crazy.”I thought you’re supposed to be the fearless “Larry, so help me, that if you don’t shut up right now, I swear to whatever god out there,”Sally pointed at the grinning Archeops.”I’m going to dunk you in a water, tie you up, carry you into the atmosphere, teach you how to fly without wings, and force feed you a weed so much that you’ll vomit your picnic food on the grass.” Sally knew that Archeops is a prehistoric predator pokemon, of course, she concluded that they would eat meat. Shoving a weed into the mouth of a sapient carnivore bird is not exactly pleasant if you can’t digest it which caused Larry to actually back off a little. “Okay, okay, no need to go over there. Geez, I just messing with you woman.”Larry muttered as he sulked away.”Sometimes, I wonder why she can’t just relax.” Of course, knowing Sally, she heard that last part.“I swear that bird sometimes pisses me off.”Sally muttered to herself as she felt her back rubbed.”But I probably wouldn’t traded him for anyone else.” “Almost done there, Sally. After this, we’ll have our celebration picnic with everyone.”Eric said as he moved toward her front and started rubbing her legs.”Wouldn’t that be amazing?” “Salamence!”Sally said. Yeah, Eric! That would have been....oh yeah, right there. Sally enjoyed as he rubbed her paws and gapping between claws with those delicate fingers that only humans and some pokemons have. This is the part where she actually enjoyed the bathing Eric gave. Unfortunately, this caused Sally to have some very ...... ‘naughty’ thoughts about Eric. About where she could get him alone and.....and she shook her head to get rid of any of those thoughts. Bad Sally, bad girl. Sally almost tried to dunk her head just to get rid of those thoughts, she resisted that urge. Besides she didn’t want to get Eric getting on the wrong side of the law just because she secretly have a crush on him. She knew full well about the consequences of Poképhilia. Sally decided to remain as friends as a sign of loyalty to him. What she heard is that there are one known case of Poképhilia that’s been going on for a long time, Sally didn’t know the culprit, but just catch the name Gene or someone else. “Alright done!”He stepped back to witness his handiwork, suffice to say that he’s satisfied at Sally’s cleaner state.”Well, what do you think, Sally?” “Sal?” ; ‘What?’ She stared at her paws and gapping between claws, surprised to find them quite clean. She checked her entire body, wings, belly, back and all, feeling that she’s a bit cleaner than before after she got dust all over herself during that Giga Impact. The Salamence smiled, Eric did have a knack when it comes to bathing someone, even if that someone is unofficial first pokemon and long time friend. Sally felt more at ease because of that. “So....”Eric walked over and patted his loyal Salamance in the head.”What do you say about that picnic, huh, Sally?” “Salamence!”Sally answered happily. ‘I would love to. Knowing how your cooking taste.’ Eric nodded.”Let’s call out the other teammates then.”He pulled out three other pokeballs, expanding them before throwing all of them into the air. The picnic had gone quite well, considering that Eric had done so with his teammates repeatedly for a long time anyway. He already made some pokéblocks and poffins and shared them with his team who all sitting all around him. Sally the Salamence, of course sat beside him. Larry the Archeops perched on the the Snorlax’s head, both happily munching on their pokeblocks, except that the Snorlax is munching on a load of poffins Eric had prepared along with some pokéblocks. Meanwhile, by some unknown means, a Reuniclus is also....munching on the pokéblock with somehow got inside the bubble thing before being munched on? “Whoa, easy there, Ricky.”Eric said to the Snorlax in an attempt to make sure he didn’t munch all that food into his black hole of a stomach.”Leave some for others.” “Reu, Reuniclus!” ; ‘Speak for yourself! That fatso is biting more than he can chew.’ A Reuniclus exclaimed. “Syl, ve, ve, sylve!” ; ‘Calm down, maybe he’ll leave some for us.....maybe.’ A sylveon spoke calmly in order to defuse the situation. “Reuniclu, clus!” ; 'Easy for you to say, Silas, you weren’t here when he chomped the food down with one bite.' Silas the Sylveon frowned, he indeed the newest addition to the team so he didn’t know what happened. “Sylveon, syl, sylve!” ; ‘I get it, Will. Please, let’s just defuse the situation calmly?’ “Reuniclus!” ; ‘Go right ahead!’ Will the Reuniclus motioned one bubbly arm toward the fat Snorlax. Silas is more than willing anyway, so he stepped up to Ricky.”Hey, Ricky, can you spare us some pokeblocks. We’re also hungry here.” Silas didn’t know if the Snorlax even heard him or not, so he decided to continued prodding him with his rather fleshy ribbons.”Hey, Ricky, I’m talking to you.” “Whazat?”Ricky finally noticed after the latest prodding on his head and saying it while munching on pokeblocks. “I said, you already ate enough, please spare us some of those pokeblocks and poffins.”Silas continued.”Everyone else is also hungry, including Eric.”The aforementioned trainer just sat quietly while eating his pokeblocks while the Sylveon gestured to everyone else. Sadly, Ricky only brushed her off.”I’m still hungry.”And so, he continued to devastate the supply of hard-made pokeblocks. “But we-“Silas tried to argue before being cut off. “Just leave it be, Silas.”A rather regal-looking Serperior slithered up to them.”It’s helpless anyway to get Ricky to quit eating.” Silas sighed.”Sometimes, I wonder, how big that stomach of his can get.” The Serperior slithered while patting the frowning Sylveon on the head with a whip.”You’ll get used to his company later. We all did.” Silas pointed a paw accusingly.”That’s exactly what I meant. I’m still getting used to here, Helen.” Helen the Serperior nodded.”You’ll just have to get used to it, Silas. It comes with the package.”Helen smiled with those.”Trust me, you’ll like him in time.” Silas sighed again, louder this time.”Fine, sometimes I wonder why I’m the only sane one here?”The Sylveon grumbled to himself. Eric just watched his pokémon speaking with each other, now understanding after letting Will the Reuniclus out.“At least now I can understand them with Will’s help.”Eric sighed internally while shaking his head.”Wish I could understand pokemon speech without telepathy or something.”He muttered. Sally, of course, also heard that.”Sal, la, salamance!” ; ‘That’s what I wanted to know for a long time. Besides, I want that special pokéblocks you mentioned.’ “Don’t worry, Sally!”Eric said, actually knowing what she had actually said earlier.”You’ll have it in no time.” Before either Eric or Sally could continue their conversation, all of the ones present in the picnic suddenly got felt very tired and drowsy, right as a rather ethereal voice spoke in a soothing tone in all of their minds. And it only says a sentence before their worlds turn upside down. “Rest now my children, for when you awake, a whole new world shall be your home!” And rest they did. Each one of them dropping down onto their backs. Not knowing of the new chapters of events about to unfold.