Paragon

Hisui Incursion [12]

PARAGON

Hisui Incursion Arc [12]

Chapter 64 : Fear of the Unown

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"Huh...? Me...?"

Rei clapped his hands together and bowed. "Please, Sabrina! No, Miss Sabrina!"

"Master Sabrina!" Akari begged, bowing in turn. "Please help us become stronger trainers."

Sabrina simply stared at them, speechless.

"We can't go on like this! If we encounter another Alpha Pokémon, we'll just be useless again!" Rei's eyes were squeezed shut. "If the Alpha Pokémon follow the same pattern as the rest of Hisui, that means the ones here are the weakest ones! They'll only be more dangerous from here on out!"

"And you're actually taming one! You're not afraid of them at all! It's just...incredible!" Akari gushed.

Sabrina felt her cheeks heat up and she fingered her hair unconsciously. Not afraid at all...?

Rei looked up but his hands were still together. "We'll do anything! Any time we're on dinner, you get extra portions! And you get first dibs on any rare items we find out here! Hell, we'll carry your bag instead of Ash!"

Akari nodded. "We just...it's to protect the Professor, of course. But also...we want to get stronger too! Like you guys from the future!" She clenched her fist, eyes blazing with determination. "Even if we don't have any special powers, our pokémon are strong! And they can become even stronger, I know it!"

Sabrina felt herself deflate a little. They seemed to have so much faith in her, yet she'd never trained anyone before. She opened her mouth. "I don't really... I think A—"

His name stopped in her throat. No. No, I can't say that. Ash is training to take on one of the two Paragons. He won't have time for this. It...It has to be me. She swallowed, trying to down as much trepidation as she could.

"A-Alright," she said. "I'll do my best."

Rei sank to the ground and prostrated himself. "Thank you!"

"You don't have to do that!" Sabrina wailed.

Akari kicked him with the side of her foot and he bolted up, standing straight. "So," he said resolutely. "What should we do first?"

Uhhh. "Y-You want to start now? Like right now?"

"No time like the present!" Akari said, a hand already on one of her pokéballs.

They had three pokémon each.

Sabrina's eyes flit between them. She'd known them long enough to get an idea of their personalities, and though she hadn't witnessed much of their battling, she believed she understood their preferred styles.

Rei was bombastic. His strongest pokémon was his Growlithe and he used it as often as he could. He took pride and pleasure in using flashy moves with lots of power. And though he didn't send them out as often, he didn't neglect his other two pokémon at all.

Akari was reserved. The pokémon of hers that Sabrina had seen the most of, Staravia, was not her strongest. She preferred its mobility and the distance it could create between itself and its opponents. She was the type to save her trump card for later.

"I don't have any pokémon right now, so I can't train you how you two are used to training..."

It was a bit intimidating the way they stared at her, seemingly clinging to her every word. Plus, if she was to go through with this, she'd have to talk about each of them in a rather intimate way. But this was the least she could do. For them and the others.