Sky's the limit

Chapter 6

Gina let out a surprised grunt when something heavy landed on top of her. Forcing her eyes open, she saw that her vision was filled with nothing but thin blue fur. She sighed. Riolu had rolled out of bed and on top of her.

"Ugh... Seriously, Riolu..." she muttered. "Get off of me."

She got no response, except for the sound of her partner's heavy breathing. He was sound asleep.

"I mean it, buddy, get off. You're suffocating me."

No response.

Gina growled, roughly placing her paws on his arm, ready to shove him off. "Fine then. If you won't get out yourself, then I'll just have to-" She cut herself off as her vision began to blur, her head spinning. She groaned, holding her head in one paw. Not now...

Her sight went to black, clearing up not too long after.

~o~o~o~o~

There were three Pokemon, two of them adults and one a child. A Lucario was holding the child, its ruby eyes bright. The other adult was a Mightyena, a retired explorer, walking out of a doorway and to the other Pokemon. The child, a Riolu, looked up at the Mightyena, eyes wide and shining with curiosity.

"Mightyena," Lucario said, its voice feminine-sounding. "Come meet your new son."

Mightyena came closer, inspecting the small child. The baby made tiny, incomprehensible noises, almost as though it was saying hello to its father. "Hey there, little fella," he murmured.

"I hope he grows up well," Lucario mused. "Then again, with you as his father, that's almost guaranteed, isn't it?"

"And with a mother like you, he'll probably have the skills needed to be a fantastic explorer," Mightyena added with a smile. "If he wants to be an explorer, that is."

The scene switched. Riolu, now appearing to be a little bit older, walked into a house, a medium sized rock in his hands. A strange pattern was etched on the surface. Riolu knew it wasn't like any regular rock, so he decided to call it his Relic Fragment.

"Daddy?" Riolu called. "Daddy are you in here?" He got no response, and sighed, heading into a small room and sat down on an even smaller bed. He stretched his legs out in front of him. "Mommy's out doing her explorer stuff, and I don't know where Daddy is," he muttered to himself. He shrugged. "Mommy won't be back until late, but Daddy should be home soon."

A door slammed, and Riolu sprang to his feet as his father, Mightyena, walked past Riolu's room and into his own.

Riolu snatched the Relic Fragment off his bed and scampered into Mightyena's room. "Daddy! Daddy, lookit what I found today!" He wasn't looking where he was going, and he tripped over a large stack of books. The books scattered into a disordered pile, some of the pages even falling out. Riolu stumbled around, tearing up pages in the process.

Mightyena stared at the mess, his red eyes slowly becoming angry. A scowl spread across his muzzle. "Do you have any idea what you just did?"

Riolu slowly got up, his legs trembling. "Uh... No. B-but look what I-"

Mightyena came closer, his claws scraping against the floor. "I was trying to keep those in order and not torn up," he growled, giving his attention to the ripped pages on the floor. "Thanks to you, they are both out of order and completely destroyed! And you barge in here like that just because-"

"I wasn't barging in!" Riolu protested. "I just wanted to show you something I found when I was outside today!"

He soon found this to be a mistake, when his father bared his fangs and lowered himself to the ground. "You know you aren't supposed to go outside," he growled. He lunged forward. "And don't interrupt me when I'm speaking to you!"