We're Rivals (Klance)

We're Rivals

Klance Week 2k16 day 1 - Red/Blue. I did put a little bit of Spanish in this so please tell me if it's wrong because I don't speak it well. I'm still learning. I want to stay respectful, so I would really appreciate any corrections.

Prompt 1 (4th) - Red/Blue - We're Rivals

"Why do you have to keep following me around?" Keith asked, irritated, as he continue his fast-walking; following the trail through the forest.

"Because we're rivals. We have to travel together so that I can make sure you don't get ahead of me. We have to stay neck and neck. You know?" Lance explained, like it should be obvious to Keith, as he jogged to catch up with Keith and match their paces. Keith rolled his eyes but allowed the other to walk beside him.

Keith had met Lance a couple days ago by chance. He had been traveling around looking for some new pokemon to add to his team. Lucky enough, there had been an event at one of the nearby pokemon centers where they were giving out pokemon that had been left behind to good homes. The nurses weren't able to take care of them all anymore. It was sad that they were left behind in the first place but at least now they had a second chance. Keith had decided to adopt the torchic that had been following him around the center the entire time he was looking around, and named her Red. Apparently her old trainer was an ass who hatched pokemon until they found a good one and abandoned the rest. Keith really hated people like that. Lance had happened to be at that same center, finding and adopting a small vaporeon that didn't seem to let anyone touch her besides Lance. He named her Blue.

Lance had been the one to approach him first.

"You! You're Keith Kogane, right?" The taller boy had pointed and yelled to him, rushing over to where Keith had been relaxing on one of the many couches in the center.

"Uh... yes?" Keith didn't know how to respond to the sudden outburst. "And you are?"

"Um, I'm Lance. Lance McClain. You seriously don't know who I am?" He looked genuinely upset that Keith didn't know who he was. It confused Keith to say the least.

"Am I supposed to? And how do you know who I am?"

"We went to Trainers School together. We were rivals." Oh yah. The guy who always thought Keith was trying to one-up him. Keith had never really been trying to, he just really liked to train and be good at things.

"We were never rivals." Keith responds. Lance gasps loudly. Shit, he probably thought Keith meant that he never even acknowledged him as a rival because he thought he was better than Lance. Which wasn't true at all, but Lance would never believe that answer and Keith's pride was too big to say otherwise.

"Fine. I'll prove to you, Mullet Boy, that we are rivals. I'll make sure you never get ahead of me again!" Lance announced. At that time Keith hadn't understood what that would entail. Now though, he was regretting ever acknowledging Lance in the first place. It had been two days since their first encounter and Lance was still going strong. Keith had tried everything to get the other boy off his tail. Walking through brambles, climbing rocky hills, you name it. He had given up early on though after realizing that Lance was too stubborn to give up. But two could play at that game; and, if Lance wanted them to be rivals, then rivals they would be.

The two had been traveling in relative comfort. Keith and Lance walked side by side and Lance's new vaporeon, Blue, was sleeping soundly on his shoulders. Keith's torchic seemed content to just sit in his backpack. It was quiet and, dare Keith say it, nice. That is, until Lance started singing. It had started out quiet and progressively got louder until he was obnoxiously belting out lyrics to "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira.