[COMPLETE]Reggie's Flawlessly Epic Scheme (Ikarishipping)

Reggie's Flawlessly Epic Scheme

Home sweet home.

A fairly common and overused phrase used by most people whenever they will return home from a long vacation, work or even just being outside for a couple of minutes. Paul, however, was not one of those you call 'most people'. In fact, he's considered to be one of the rare, if not rarest, person currently breathing in this generation who does or say things outside the social norm.

He's unusual, yes, but not enough to be someone considered weird.

He had been walking since early morning after his arrival at the Sunyshore City Port and seeing the red roof of his crib just starting to surface from the horizon in Veilstone City, it gave him a sudden surge of nostalgia and stress-relief.

Paul heaved a sigh as he paused and stretched his back.

"I can't seem to remember but I don't think living back with Reggie could be something bad." He muttered thoughtfully as he continued walking onwards. "Hope I wouldn't have to eat those damn words."

A month had already passed after the Johto League, though he didn't get the first place he got second and it was more than enough for him. And thinking about how tiring it really was being a full-time trainer, he then decided to spend a few weeks back in his home city to relax and relieve some stress before continuing his training.

Now that he had arrived at his house, he was pretty sure he was going to be stressed. He couldn't point his finger at it exactly, but the smile filled with peril and naught on his older brother somehow confirmed it for him.

"Paul!" Reggie clasped his hands together and squealed his name. "I missed you!"

He reacted passively and rolled his eyes at the idiocy of his older brother for failing to be someone who should be a role model for him.

Reggie was standing just near the front porch of their two-story house, holding a peculiar blue pokémon in his arms. Paul then remembered that Reggie gave up his dream of being a trainer to become a breeder instead, to take care of pokémons with love, care, affection and more words more or less synonymous to what he considered himself as something ugly, useless and wasteful.

Paul didn't care whatever pokémon Reggie was currently nursing.

The peculiar blue penguin pokémon perked its head sideways when it saw Paul walked nearer.

"Pip!" It squeaked out happily seeing the purple-haired trainer.

There was something weird about the blue pokémon that gave Paul a weird sensation in his stomach, he may be hungry but he was hundred one percent sure that it wasn't because of hunger. Actually, the thing reminded him of someone he knew, or someone he should have known.

But having great confidence in his memory of knowing everyone he had acknowledged, he just shrugged off the annoying feeling knowing that it might have been someone he just passed by

"Don't you think this Piplup is cute!?" Reggie exclaimed, winking at Paul who got by the door frame.

"Am I supposed to say something?" Paul replied coldly as he pushed his way through. "Because it annoys me just seeing how weak it looks."

Paul dropped his bag on the floor and flopped down on the sofa. He heard unintelligent murmurs coming from the annoying pokémon and his annoying older brother, but he just shrugged it off thinking that maybe it was just something stupid and irrelevant.

"Reggie!" He called out to his older brother when he saw 12:30PM on his pokégear. "Don't you have something for lunch? I'm hungry!"