Secrets Without Shame (A Pokémon Fanfiction)

Chapter 42

[Warning: Senstive material (I'm not sure if it's sensitive material, heck you all watch more anime than me, you probably handle it better than me XD) firearms, and blood shed are in this chapter]

"So how have you been, Sky?" Leia asked the older trainer as he, Leia, and Mira walked down the Route 12 road. "We haven't seen you since you got hurt. How are you feeling?"

"Better," grunted Sky, unable to think of anything else to say. His true feelings were much more complex.

"Are you sure? I mean, like I said, we haven't seen you a lot lately. You're usually in your room..."

"I just wanted to think over some things, that's all..."

The tension between Sky and the two girls had never been so awkward. He usually got along very well with them. He could relax around them, be himself.

But that was when he had been inferior.

Insignificant.

An idiot.

Mira had also liked him back then, maybe even admired him. Now she couldn't even look at him. She made sure to never make direct eye contact with him. The only one who looked at him with some form of kindness anymore was Leia. She was honest, she didn't hide anything from him.

"Well you could have come down sometime," Leia said a little defensively. "We've missed you!"

"Right," Sky merely replied, unable to take her entirely seriously.

"We have!"

"You I can believe. Everyone else, probably not. I'm the runt of the group. I'm easily forgettable. I cause too much trouble, and I know some of the group members would be happier without me."

He heard Mira wince at the sudden harshness in his voice. She knew he included her in this. Leia also looked taken aback and hurt by this. Sky felt something like cruel satisfaction in his heart. He wasn't about to be the same weak fool he had been.

But Leia suddenly turned around and in front of Mira and Sky, her hands on her hips and a serious frown on her face.

"Look, you both should be ashamed of yourselves!" Leia snapped at them angrily. "You're both acting like children! I don't know what happened between the two of you and White, but you need to make up!"

Sky Blue was about to say something unkind when he began to sense something moving toward them. The Aura Guardian part of him sensed a powerful something coming straight toward them from ahead.

"Leia-" he began nervously, but the younger trainer growled, "No, don't 'Leia' me! You need to hear this!"

But he could almost hear the thing now. A dark silhouette could be seen ahead, but Leia didn't see it since she was too busy scolding them. Mira, on the other hand, could. She squeaked and exchanged a terrified look with her older brother.

Now she'll expect you to come back into her life, he thought bitterly to himself, but he went against all of his instincts.

"Both of you duck down!" Sky shouted as the Pokemon's blazing red aura became brighter and brighter as it pelted toward them.

Without thinking, the young man formed a black, red, and blue aura sphere between his hands. Leia had ducked down with no questions asked, giving Sky a clear view of the Houndoom pelting toward them. He released the aura from his grasp and hurled it at the Pokemon.

The Houndoom howled with pain and went flying backwards. As it crashed to the ground, Sky rounded on the two girls and ordered them, "Go back to the Pokemon Center! Head in separate directions of each other, that will make you harder to track!"