The Girl of Legend

Of Earth and Fire

---Reshon's POV---

"Go away," I scream to no one in particular as I rip the covers off the bed and throw them to the floor. I then reach behind my head and flung the pillow to the far wall, which was neatly cut in half when it bounced off the wall and nearly hit my Larvitar that I affectionately named Solo on the head.

"Reshon?" Black Dratini calls out to me in her child-like tone.

"Just leave me alone," I shout at her and then proceed to tearing the rest of the bed sheets away from the mattress. A hurt look crosses my pokemon's face, but I never noticed it as I continue my rain of terror. Finally like the calming of the sea my anger begins to die down as a calm yet soothing muscular voice begins to sing out.

"Venom?" I blurt out before I collapse on the bed as the cobra like pokemon continues its lullaby.

…The next day…

When morning comes the next day my mind was a total blank as to what had happen last night as Black Dratini recoils from my touch and I found myself sleeping on a cover-less mattress.

"What happen?" I asked them, for you see, since the meeting with Black Dratini a good while ago I have been able to talk with a few other pokemon and of course my own. Venom and Blitz (Jolteon) simply looks away from me, while Solo just like always turns his back on me. Something that normally ticks Growlithe off, but this time he didn't seem to notice.

Instead he clears his voice and spoke in his even yet steady tone," Reshon, we need to talk." He stated just as plainly and simply as a commander to one of his underlings did.

"Okay," I then twisted my body a little so that I would be sitting down on the bed instead of lying down and then Growlithe told me all about what had happen during the night. He told me about my screaming, and then he told me about my nightly rampages on the sheets. It was horrifying not just because I couldn't remember it, but because it had been going on for three nights straight.

"Reshon," a small voice squeaks as I felt her smooth skin rub across my arm," I forgive you for yelling at me last night."

A flicker of a smile creep across my face as I reach down and hug her," Thank you, Black Dratini." That one gesture was the cue for my other pokemon to rush in and hug me or rub up against me in a gesture of love and sympathy. And all of them participated, at least all of them except for Solo who sat by himself alone in the corner of the room. His only constant companion was the small spotted egg that laid on one of my extra pillows next to him.

I found myself staring at him wishing I could just hold him once, or that he would at least listen to me. Oh, well, such a thing will hopefully come in time, but as for now, I had no intention of making him.

"Stupid," I heard Growlithe mummer under his breath as his eyes lock on the pokemon in the corner. Since their first meeting at Mt. Moon, Growlithe and Solo had never really gotten along.

"So what are we going to do today, Reshon," Black Dratini coo as she slid into my lap as Blitz took up her position beside me.

"I'm tired of being stuck here in Cerulean," Venom smirks as he content himself with coiling up on the floor below my feet," lets go take care of that Gym leader so we can go already."

"Be patiented," I chided him," remember why I chose to stay here for the last three day."

"Yeah, we're waiting for that stupid egg to hatch," Blitz remarks as he jumps off the bed and lands gracefully on the floor beside Venom.

"You know, Reshon," Growlithe declares as he walks to his place at the foot of the bed," stay indoors all the time can't be good for the egg."

"It can't?"

"Nope," Black Dratini butts in with a smile on her face as I notice a slight snicker from the puppy-pokemon.

"So how about you get dress and take us out doors?" Growlithe straighten up his face and continues.

"You can go, but you're not taken this egg," a cold voice speaks up as Larvitar for the first time since the Mt. Moon incidents talks.

"Why," I ask him, but he gives me no answer.

"Why?" Blitz asks him in hopes of getting an answer, but he doesn't get any either.

"I guess I'll just have to trust him," I shrug my shoulders as they look at me in bewilderment.

"Well, there goes our time in the sun," Venom moans as he lays his head down in his coils.

"Not necessarily, Solo," I look at the silent green pokemon," since you don't like coming outside while its light out, would you mind watching the egg."

"What every," he answers back as he curls up into a ball.

"That's as close to a yes as we're going to get," Black Dratini grins as she teleports herself from my lap to the floor.

"Thanks Solo," Blitz smile," lets go!"

"Ok, lets go," I then slid off the bed taking some clothes with me and open the door to the room releasing my pokemon as they rush out of the room and down the stairs. As I turn to go I notice Growlithe still sitting on the bed.

"Aren't you coming?" I ask as I watch a small wisp of steam rise from his orange-red fur.

"No, not right now, but I'll be along shortly," he answer me with a steel resolve in his voice. As I look at him I could already tell what it was that he was going to do, and I knew that if I didn't let them settle it now they'll eventually settle it later with devastating results.

"Fine, just try not to mess up my room too much," I sign. I was very lucky that both my parents worked on weekdays and my sister had to attend school or there would be no way I could get away with this sort of thing. I then wondered as I looked at the pokemon around me; how was I going to get enough privacy to change in peace?

I shut the door behind me leaving those two alone in the room. What happen after that was something that only Growlithe and Larvitar could tell you as they finally even up the score between themselves.

---Author's POV---

"So, you think you can handle me," Solo replies the minute the door was shut. He quickly uncurled himself and looks at Growlithe with his brown eyes as the light hit him in the face clearly showing off the scar over his left eye.

"What can I say, I'm tired of your attitude." Growlithe smirk as he hop off the bed and faces his foe. "We're all in this together, but you act like you don't want to be apart of us."

"Bingo, I guess you're not as dumb as you look." He spoke though clenched teeth as he pick up the egg and deposited it inside the safety of the dresser where it was placed during the night. "I never ask to become one of you." Solo sneers as he faces his opponent again.

"Well, you are, so just get over it," Growlithe growl as his black head fur stood up in attention and his solid black tail swept back and forward in anticipation.

"You and the rest of your tame friends don't understand," Solo started to charge up for his first attack," I promised my Mother on the day that she was taken from me by a trainer that I would never get caught!"

"You was alone in that cave," Growlithe growls as the fire inside of him began to burn," the rest of your kind had either been killed or captured." "You had no reason to stay."

"I had no reason to go!" "I was finally safe." Solo screams as the air around Growlithe and him began to grow thicker and more solid.

"Safe?" "Reshon caught you there remember, and while I'm on the subject; Reshon is a good trainer you should give her a chance!" Growlithe fumes as his breath begins to burn the air when he breathes.

"If you defeat me, I will," Solo grin as he walks right into Growlithe's trap.

"If you wish," Growlithe's brown eyes reflects his eagerness to fight as the pokemon ears laid flat against his skull.

"Let's do it then," Solo then started off the fight with Sandstorm as the entire room were caught up in a rain of sand.

"Reshon told us not to mess up her room," Growlithe protested as he leapt to the floor to try and escape the fury of the sand as it hit his back unmercifully.

"Sue me," Solo laughs as he begins to concentrate on making the sandstorm worse.

"You'll pay for this, flame-thrower," Growlithe then open his mouth and releases his newly learn attack as the flames quickly engulf Solo.

"Is that the best you can do?" Solo teases him as the flames died down to reveal him perfectly unharmed. "I'm a rock and ground pokemon your worse nightmare."

"Nah, all my nightmares have to do with water," Growlithe then pointed his head toward him and Roar. Solo jumped at the noise as his sandstorm disappeared, and Growlithe took that moment to use Extreme Speed and ram him into the wall.

"Larvitar," Solo curses as Growlithe then used his body to bounce off of him as he did a back flip and landed a few feet away.

"Reshon could teach you a lot."

"But I can teach myself more!" Solo spat out as Growlithe charged him again using Extreme Speed and once more back flipped off his crushed body and landed a safe couple of feet away.

"Time to end this," Growlithe begins to charge up for his final blow, Take Down.

"You don't know just how right you are," Solo mummers to himself as he manages to get back on his feet, and then just as Growlithe was ready to strike Solo launches himself at him with a slash attack. Time seemed to slow down as Growlithe seeing the charge manages to flip over him, and Solo immediately realizes his mistake past harmlessly underneath him. He never got to see the blow as he manages to stop himself just short of the wall only to have Growlithe knock him through it.

The puppy pokemon look at the wall in awe as Solo a few minutes later poke his head out of the hole and say," you win."

"I'm dead," Growlithe whimpers as he hears the approach of Reshon as she returns to check-up on them. "I am so dead."

"Ha, ha, I guess you didn’t win after all," Solo smirks and points a claw-finger at Growlithe, which breaks the puppy-pokemon from his trance of self-pity as he grins also.

"Well at least I won't be alone," he spoke with acid in his voice as Solo for the first time takes a real good look at the mess he made with Sandstorm.

"Oh well, what could she possible do to me?"

--- Later that night---

The scene opens up to show the two pokemon chained in the front yard trying their best to get away. They was pulling and struggling with all their might against their chains, and at one point tried to pull together on one of their chains in hope of at least helping one of them escape. Suddenly Reshon appears from behind the house as she pulls out a wash tube full of water and stands before them with a bottle of soap in one hand and a brush in the other.

"Who's first?" she asks as the two pokemon scream in usher.

…To be continued