Chapter Seven

I scrolled through my phone, looking at all the different articles about me. God that was weird to think.

Some were evaluating my fights against the elite four, some were evaluating my fights against the gym leaders, some just wanted to marry me and in response, they were kicked out of the conversation.

Hell, I was in the top ten up-and-coming trainers six years ago...

I turned off the phone and leaned back on the giant rock I was resting against.

Most of my team was out hunting, except for Iron Valiant and

Ceruledge, since well... One was a ghost and the other was a robot.

Shinx was following Zoroark, so he should be safe.

With a sigh, I took out my pack and lit a cigarette. What the hell was this? I only beat three regions gym leaders along with their elite four, not like it was hard or anything.

When you beat the elite four, you have three years to challenge the champion and try to claim the title. I wanted to use those three years to train and ended up beating the elite four of the Kanto Region and then the elite four of the Hoenn region...

All in all, it was an enjoyable period.

The experience stacked up and each battle became easier and easier until I felt like I was ready for the league.

Hearing a robotic hum from my side, I looked over and spotted Iron Valiant looking at me curiously, well, he had his head tilted to the side, so I guessed it was curiosity.

"It's nothing, Valiant, just thinking."

The Pokemon from the future released another robotic hum and kept looking at me... I took a deep breath.

"It's just hard, knowing that all my friends moved into big leagues while I went under. They reached so far and I don't even know if they remember me anymore."

I stared at the moving clouds, for a few minutes.

"It-Feels-Like-The World!- IS MOVING ON-Without you!-Right?"

I blinked and looked back at the robot with an unabused expression. Yes, he could talk, but to do that, he had to replay certain words from different things on the internet. What he just said was gathered from a few movies, probably drama, action, and a musical... wait a minute, was that JoJo? Did they make that here too?

"You don't need to do that, I can understand you without it somewhat."

The future Pokemon had the nerve to give me a shrug.

"And yes, it's... Problematic."

The little shit patten my shoulder consolingly. I don't need to be patronized, I need something to do.

"Zoro-Zoroark."

I looked over in the direction the voice came from and spotted Zoroark dragging Bibarel with Sinx, who was dragging a Bidoof with his mouth.

I chuckled at the sight, looks like those two were getting along just fine.

"Sceptile!"

The grass type jumped down from a nearby tree and presented some berries that were in a grass bad that he made himself.

I nodded as he placed the berries down and sat on the ground next to me. We would wait for the others and eat together.

Then, Blastoise came out of the treeline with Seaking in his mouth...

The question "Where the fuck did he get that" wanted to spill from my mouth but I didn't really give a shit. Behind him followed Garchomp, with an even bigger Seaking that he had to hold in both of his claws.

So they might or might not have killed a mated pair... Meh, big deal.

Now... where are Alakazam and Corviknight?

"Corvi-Corviknight!"

I looked over and noticed a disgruntled Corviknight and a floating Alakazam, who was keeping all the berries they gathered from the armored bird as she tried to peck at them for a snack.

"Shinx!"

I looked to my side to look at Shinx who was presenting me with his find proudly and swinging his tail expectantly.

Patting his head absently, I turned to Zoroark who was smirking at the proud Shinx, and smirked when he nodded at me.

He caught the Bidoof all by himself.

"Valiant, could you cut a few branches for us?"

I asked the one that was philosophical a few minutes back and got a nod in response.

Slamming his fists together, the energy blades on his forearms combined, and when he moved his hands away, an energy line remained between the blades that detached from his forearms.

Tossing the newly made weapon toward the trees, he used Psychic to control it and cut off a few branches that he controlled the same way he was controlling his weapon.

A few minutes later and with the help of Ceruledge, we had a fire.

Well, for a first day, it was sure full of discoveries.