Since I wasn't much of a flyer (even though I do like to sit on top of Prism Tower – logic) we decided to walk. We peacefully walked through the beautiful garden that connected Santalune City to a route that led to Lumiose City. We had already been walking for like six hours and sunset was quickly approaching… I had let Staraptor out of his pokeball to have a little fly around. At the moment he was flying above me as I spectated the garden. I hadn't realised that it had been over a year since I'd relaxed in this garden, as it is quite a relaxing place to be and makes you feel connected to Pokemon. They accept humans in their little home and will be friendly to you as long as your friendly back.
Up ahead I could finally start to see Santalune City and I saw Staraptor start to speed up. We had made it here on time, thankfully. We had left home at 12pm and it was about 6:00 now. The distance between Lumiose City and Santalune City was quite a short distance compared to other cities. Well, nothing like the walk between Vaniville Town and Aquacorde Town. That was only ten minutes.
"Star!" Staraptor chirped as a wild flock of Fletchling and Fletchinder flew right past Staraptor, some even hitting him.
I sighed and murmured, "No respect," to myself. Staraptor floated back to down to the ground as he no longer felt like flying in the sky with other birds who were dis-respectful and rude. I then looked closely at Staraptor's feathers and saw a bald patch where a scratch was. "Hey one of those birds scratched you!" Staraptor sadly nodded. "And it looks like it was with their beak. It was intentional then. Hmph!" Those birds better watch themselves!
We continued walking along the garden path after I potioned the scratch on Staraptor's wing and finally, we had made it to Santalune City! We walked into the all so familiar town side by side and it was a refreshing sight. I hadn't come back and visited here in so long. We moved when I was just 7 so it had been six- whole years. It brought back memories that had been long forgotten. 6 years had washed them all away.
I could see the Santalune City Gym from here and I knew I wanted to challenge it. I had known the Gym Leader, Viola, when I was young and told her when I became a trainer I would return to challenge her. And that's what I intend to do once I get my starter Pokemon!
BOOM! My attention was drawn away from my memories as an explosion summoned itself nearby.
"Star?!" Staraptor seemed startled by the sudden explosion and squawked as a reply to the loud noise. Staraptor wanted to start flying away like birds do when there's an explosion but I stopped him by tugging down on his wing.
"Staraptor stop! Keep calm. It was probably just a nearby Pokemon battle," I explained. Staraptor nodded his head and kept calm. "You should probably stay in your pokeball for now since we're in a big city." I then took out his pokeball and a red light beamed him inside it. I looked over towards where the explosion seemed to have come from and I saw a bit of smoke coming from the air. That sure doesn't seem like the smoke from the collision of two attacks, that seems like the smoke of a fire! Maybe I should swing by to see if everything's ok.
I ran up to the place where it was coming from and I saw that the smoke was coming from the Santalune City gym!
"What's going on here…?" I questioned someone who was also standing outside.
"…Team Flare…" the young boy murmured as he watched the Bug-Type gym begin to burn down. Ugh. Not Team Flare… Team Flare was an organisation of people in the Kalos region that promised all they wanted was to make the world a more beautiful place, but all they did was destroy things and treat Pokemon like garbage that they argued were "not beautiful enough". Every Pokemon was beautiful in some way, such as a Dunsparce or Goomy. Even they have beauty, if not on the outside then on the inside. And it seems they were burning down a Pokemon Gym this time. They have some nerve.
"AHH! Not my Vivillon!" a woman cried in fear. After a moment I retaliated,
"That was Viola!" after realising who screamed. I'm not usually the type of person to rush into situations like this. I didn't make rash decisions, I was calm, but there are Pokemon in there and also Viola! "Staraptor, go!" I threw Staraptor's pokeball underarm and into the air; my signature throw!
"Starrr-aptor!" Staraptor screeched as he whizzed into the air.
"Into the Pokemon Gym!" I commanded him as I started to run inside. He nodded and sped ahead, flying straight into the gym. When I got in there I saw Viola's beautiful forest Gym being burnt down. And, thankfully, the webs that were on the ceiling were burning too. I never really liked them. It just made it seem like it was forever Halloween. "Staraptor, use Whirlwind to extinguish some of this fire!"
"Raptor!" Staraptor called in agreement with my command. He then started to forcefully flap his wings which stirred up a heavy gust that started to blow some of the fire away. With some of the fire put out, it made us a path to Viola and Team Flare.
"I have to admit your Vivillon was a beautiful Pokemon. But you had to use it in battle. Couldn't you have used something less exquisite?" a woman with orange hair asked the Bug leader. Viola looked like a scared little girl as the woman's Pyroar seemed to be getting closer and closer to her.
"Brave Bird!" All of their heads jerked towards Staraptor and I; Viola, the woman with orange hair, the two men in slightly different uniforms to her with red hair, and the woman's Pyroar (who was actually a female Pyroar; you could tell by whether they had a mane or a long ponytail thing at the back of their heads). Staraptor came smashing into her Pyroar and it was slammed up against the wall with a lot of force. Pyroar fell to the ground with swirled eyes, meaning it had fainted.
"You little brat! How dare you come in here and make my Pyroar faint!" she moaned. She then opened half of her mouth and it showed her teeth clenched as she started to growl.
"Who are you?" I questioned the woman.
"I'm Aliana, one of four admins of Team Flare," she responded. She now had a smirk on her face and looked at Staraptor impressively. "So that's your Staraptor?"
"My brother's. He's loaning it to me so I can make it to Aquacorde Town so I can get my starter Pokemon," I responded.
"You're not even a trainer yet?!" she gasped, before smiling again and looking devilishly at me. "Impressive young boy. Hmph! I have a feeling we'll meet again."
"Unlikely, I wouldn't want to get involved with people from Team Flare."
"Well, until that time comes then," she softly said. She had gone from being a hot head like herself and her two teammates to being calm as still water. "Depart!" Suddenly a glass pane in the ceiling shattered and a ladder cam rolling down. They all grabbed onto a rung on the ladder as it started to slowly rise up again.
"You're just going to leave like that?! Coward!" I shouted. She just shook her head and smiled at me and eventually, was lifted out of sight and into a massive grey helicopter. Although there was the all so familiar red flame on the side, Team Flare's symbol. The helicopter flew away and all that was left was a burning gym. It wasn't like Team Flare to give up without a fight though… "Let's go Viola!"
"Right!" she responded as we ran outside to find that some fire fighters had just arrived and were already working to put the fire out. We felt the cool air on our skins after being near the scorching heat of a fire for so long and just sighed and sat on a bench next to the Roselia fountain near middle of town. "Are you by any chance Ty-"
"Tyler, yeah," I assured her with a cheesy grin. Yeah that's right, my name is Tyler. Tyler Colt's my name, and Pokemon's my game.
"Wow! You've grown up so much!" she screamed. I scratched my back embarrassed and replied with a simple "Yeah". "So, you're finally becoming a trainer. Remember our promise?"
"The Pokemon battle!" I shouted. "I assure you this will be my first stop after I get my starter Pokemon."
"I don't know about that. It might take a while to have the gym fixed from the fire…" she muttered with a sad look on her face.
"No matter – I'll wait," I told her. She gave me that 'oh you' look with a sigh to go with it. But she also gave me that 'you'll be waiting a while' look. Oh well, guess after I get my starter, I'll be spending a lot of time in Santalune City! My hometown. But before that, on to Aquacorde Town!
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