Swanna Song, Sung Throughout Sinnoh

Perpetual Frustrations

Day Three:

Gary was brushing his teeth on the morning of day three of his sentence, having showered already, and was staring at himself in the mirror. His wrists were still hurting badly from the handcuffs he had worn days ago, but his eyes were on his growing, thickening, darkening hair while his mind was on the previous day. So once this crap is over, Drock and I will exchange Pokemon... My Beedrill, that she owns, for her Kingdra that I own...

The newbie Pokemon Trainer Drock, standing behind a rampant Charizard in Native Village, let out a terrified scream and turned to Gary, who was in front of the Pokemon alongside his grandmother, aunt, and a guy from Team Solace. "JUST KEEP HER!! PLEASE!!" Her head shook frantically as she stumbled backwards. "TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER!! I LOVE HER!! PLEASE!! I'M SO SORRY!!" She ran away as fast as she could.

She just comes back, outta nowhere, after all this time, to just... Gary thought bitterly, brushing his teeth harder now.

"We're friends, Kingdra," Gary had told Kingdra on the beach, surrounded by his other Pokemon, his eyes overflowing with tears. "We don't leave each other behind. But, Kingdra..." He moved closer to her and kneeled down to her level. "Don't hold anything against Drock. It wasn't her fault."

Charmeleon hugged Gary and Kingdra from one side.

Primeape doing the same from the other side.

Hoothoot hopping over and resting against them.

Dugtrio digging through the sand and resting on Gary.

Butterfree landing on Gary's shoulder and placing her large wings around them all.

"We'll never leave you, Kingdra."

All that we've been through... She just thinks she can just come back and... Tears ran down Gary's cheeks as he aggressively cleaned his teeth. He sniffled hard, and then spit out his toothpaste angrily. His head hung over the sink as he cried, tears falling fast. It's not fair. She tried to figure this out sooner, with Prof. Oak, but the old man just forgot a couple of times to bring it up to me, so I never knew about it. But it's not fair that... this is the time that I finally get hit with this news. Not after all we've been through. All we've accomplished.

Kingdra... doesn't deserve this...

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"Let go!" Gary grunted, struggling with his net full of feeders against the tank that had a pair of Tentacool in it.

"I told you this would be crazy. You got this, man!" Ish urged him on.

"Go Gary! Go, Gary!" Tiny cheered. "Puuuuull!!"

"WHOA!" Gary was nearly tugged into the tank, but he held his stance on the step ladder and fought back. Finally, he yelled out and flew off of it backwards and hit a tank behind him, dropping to the floor.

Ish and Tiny ran over to him.

"Gary!" Tiny cried.

"You good, nigga?" Ish asked.

Gary groaned, but he managed a smile and let out a short laugh. He held up the net, which was snapped in half!

Everyone looked to the tank to see that the two Tentacool were splashing water, trying to eat the feeder goldfish still inside the other half of the net!

"We can always get that out later," Ish said hesitantly.

"Yyyeeeaaaah... Yous two can deal with that," Tiny said hesitantly.

"Can anyone help me with any crickets?"

The three turned to a guy who had come in.

"Sure! Right this way!" Tiny walked to the man.