Kalos King- Pokemon XYZ x Male Reader

"Defending the Homeland." - 21

Hey! Hope you didn't mind me taking the day off yesterday. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

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Reader POV

As we made our way to the Laverre City Gym, we decided to stop for a brief spot of lunch that Clemont, Serena and I had made together. The food went down an absolute treat! Especially with Floette, Pampour and my newly evolved Altaria. However, the peace was soon gone as Dedenne shocked Chespin with discharge, and also ended up shocking floette, Hawlucha and I in the process, as Floette had a vine wrapped around my wrist and was sitting on top of Hawlucha, to make sure I wouldn't wander off.

Goodra was kind enough to sort out the issue between our pokemon, which was nice to see. After we had packed away, a bellsprout ran up to goodra, which goodra responded positively. Next, a man came up to goodra, like they were old friends of sorts. Ash then introduced himself as Goodra's owner. Then the others introduced themselves, but when it came down to me, the man chuckled and said.

"Wait a second! You're the kid who messed up his freestyle performance in the showcase." My heart wretched at those words.

"Yes... That's me." I mumbled.

We were next all invited to the wetlands, Goodra's home. However it seemed rather uncomfortable with the idea. 

Upon our arrival, it was wet, and icky, and disgusting! I hated every moment of it. But goodra now seemed pleased that it was back in its home. The old man then told us the story about the healing properties of the water in the wetlands. Apparently, a florges was behind the attack. It made me think about my own floette, and how it could never do something like that. Next, a bunch of goodra's friends had joined us. It was such a cute sight, seeing goodra impress his friends. It quickly ended as a swana had alerted the huge dragon type about some sort of attack that was about to take place. Keanen, the old man, had advised us not to get involved, but ash was determined to help. So that's what we all ended up doing.

It was as if all chaos had broken loose. Swarms of bug types had infiltrated the wetlands, Servipers setting things on fire, Beedrill using pin missiles on anything and everything. There were so many pokemon to fight. However we decided to hang back for the time being. This was due to the wetland pokemon having a slight advantage. I had released floette from its pokeball beforehand just in case we needed to fight. Suddenly, the huge, blue flowered florges had jumped from its Yanmega. 

"Ash, I don't have a good feeling about this one." I said.

"How so." Ash asked, Clemont gasped as he realised how dire the situation was.

"Florges is a pure Fairy type, which has a substantial advantage against Goodra, a water and dragon type." I said. "Florges knows a lot of Grass type moves as well."

My theories were correct, as Florges set up a grassy terrain, followed with a Solar beam. which left Goodra in a tricky situation. But amazingly, Goodra managed to pull through by using Ice beam, which sent the Florges packing.

However, the joy didn't last long, as Goodra was hit with two other attacks. Shadow ball and Psybeam. We retreated, but before we could, Florges had eyed up my floette and taken it with a vine whip. I wanted to try and get it back but they managed to escape.

That night was rough, I spent no time asleep, just outside, on the decking, to just be hopeful to catch a glimpse of my pokemon. Pikachu also ended up getting captured by the the bug types.