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Hiro, Smoke, Trina, Stormy, Ella and Nina drop into the local malt shop to talk about things before the start of the news semester and school, the conversation take a news turn when Les shows up.
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PCA-The Malt Shop
By
LordJaguar
The new semester had only just begun at the Pokemon Combat Academy, but the training had been going on the entire summer for Team Rebels .After a tough decree from their leader Ben “Bling” Glinteyes all other membesr of the team had spent the summer off months in a harsh training schedule that Bling had prepared with special tutors for each of his fighters.
Hiro was reflecting on that fact as he and Ella where deep into a no powers sparring match.
“Ready Ella?” Hiro asked as he went into his fighting stance.
“Do you really have to ask?” Ella answered as she got into her own fighting stance.
“Very well then on three.”
“THREE!” Both fighting types shouted out as they charged each other, what followed was a fury of fighting moves that a movie director would sell his soul to put into a kung fu movie.
This was the scene that Smoke, Nina, Stormy, and Trina walked into as they tried to cool down from their daily workout. The group paused as they watched the fighters practice pure fighting with the benefit of the special powers that pokemon could access.
“Should we stop dem dis time or let em fight till dey drop?” Smoke asked the other as he took a swig of hot coal water from his thermos.
“”Well last time they where sparing it took them an hour and a half to stop, I still say Ella won that round.” Stormy commented as she did a few cool down stretches.
“Nope it was Hiro all the way, he scored that point clean WHOA!” Trina gasped as both Hiro and Elaa spun high up into the air still trading blows. After the pair landed they rushed toward each other, Ella giving off loud battle cries while Hiro remained silent.
Nina wincing as the two fighters returned to exchanging blows. “Ninjask it’s so creepy the way that Hiro keeps his trap shut during a fight, I only hear him say anything when he pulls off that punch combo he uses to finish off his opponents.”
“About da only ting that his folks taught em,” Smoke commented. “Ok dis is gunna take forever and I want a coal milkshake, whose gunna break dem apart dis time? NOT ME!”
“NOT ME!” Trina and Nina cried out at almost the exact same time.
“Not oh you guys suck!” Stormy moaned as she walked toward the fighting types. As the pair broke away from each other for a brief break in the fight Stormy let lose with a brief dragon breath attack. It worked on getting the pair to stop attacking each other but it also turned their attention on her, in three seconds Stormy had both of her wings pulled behind her back. “UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE!!” She squawked.
“Dang it birdie what’s up I was this close to finishing him off when you interrupted us!” Ella complained as she twisted one arm.
“I was about to spring my master plan when you interrupted us.” Hiro commented looking vaguely annoyed as he contorted the other wing.
“MERCY I’m buying at the malt shop but only if I have functioning wings!” Stormy cried out.
“Ohh ice cream well why didn’t you just say so,” Ella perked up as she released Stormy’s wing. “Last one to Krestman’s is a rotten exeggcute.” Ella ran out of the gym not bothering to look back at her friends.
“Well it’s great to see her looking so up again come on guys ICE CREAM!” Nina happily shouted as she took off for the ice cream shop.
“WHOA WHOA Nina!” Smoke called out as he grabbed Nina on take off. “We is still training here so youse gotta run ta da ice cream shop no wings.”
“Smokey I hate running!” Nina complained as the torkoal reeled her in for a landing.
“Smoke grinned as he pulled Nina in for a quick hug and whispered in her ear. “If youse can beat me to da shop den youse can pick da next movie we goes ta.”
“Oh Momma Mia here we come!” Nina cried out as she ran from the gym.
Smoke grinned as he took off from the gym in a more even pace than Nina. Trina and Stormy began to jog off but Trina quickly turned around as she noticed that Hiro was not off and running with the rest of them.
“Anything wrong Hiro are you not coming?” Trina asked her friend.
“Of course I am Trina I will merely be taking a more challenging path.” Hiro evenly said as he picked up him gym bag.
“OOk whatever you say Hiro, Hey guys wait for me!” Trina gave out a loud shout as she chased after her friends.
Hiro gave his friends a few more seconds head start before he put on his macho brace trainer, and began to move toward Krestman’s in a more direct line. Look for the direct path it can lead to great rewards, Hiro thought to himself as he began his jog. Right through the middle of the campus, as he ran past the dorms Hiro came to the heavily forested area just beyond the campus as he really began to hit his stride. Dodging among the trees and rocks Hiro raced through the back woods. In just a few short minutes his short but tortuous run was finished as he came to a commercial section of town, he quietly began to do a few quick cool down exercises, and taking off his brace, before walking into Krestman’s noticing that he had once again beaten his friends to the soda fountain.
Hiro quickly walked in and placed the orders for the entire group as he took a booth in the front of the restaurant and he began to count down. “Five , four three two one and cue Ella.”
Ella ran into Krestman’s using Extreme speed to outdistance the rest of her friends in the foot race, she grinned briefly in triumph until she saw Hiro in the front booth calmly waiting for her and the others. Soon Smoke arrived at the shop have easily outdistanced the others by jogging a steady pace, Nina, Trina, Stormy both arrived soon after, the panting mon just stared at the relaxing Hiro as he sat in the booth calmly waiting for them.
“How do you keep doing that Hiro whenever we race somewhere you’re the last to leave and the first to arrive!?” Stormy asked in an irrated voice.
“Ancient fighting type secret. Now if you who all please be seated I’ve already placed our orders.” Hiro simply answered while hiding a sly smirk.
“I still think he just takes a cab or something.” Nina huffed as she sat down disappointed at losing the race to both Hiro and Smoke.
“He always wins, I would just love to know how you do that Hiro.” Stormy commented as she at the booth her mind seemingly elsewhere at the moment.
“I just look for a good path.” Hiro explained as his friends began to settle in and they where served by the the restaurant staff.
As the group of friends settled in for their ice cream treats Stormy’s cell phone suddenly rang, the altaria took the call and quickly gained a concerned look on her face.
“Sorry guys but an issue has come up I need to talk to my attorneys.” Stormy hastly said as she made to leave.
“Is there a problem Alicia?” Trina asked concerned for her friend.
“No no it’s nothing that you can help with. Just some problems over a photograph some jerk newspaper took. My parents are handling it I just gotta talk to somebody else about it. You guys have some fun!” Stormy gave a final wave and took off after paying for the ice cream at the counter.
“What was that all about?” A confused Ella asked as Stormy departed from the ice cream shop.
Smoke just shrugged as the altaria left, “It’s a rich girl ting apparently, She’s gotta deal wit da press sometimes.”
Ella seemed to brighten as the groups snacks where delivered to them. As everyone began to dig in she announced. “Well I have some good news everyone wanna guess what it is?”
“Your cousin has entered therapy?” Hiro guessed
“Da regional tournament will be held in town?” Smoke hazarded an answer.
“Husk has forgiven me for painting him purple and putting a tape player with “Flying Purple Mon Eater” in him?” Trina asked.
Ella shakes her head, “Nope! Thomas is going to get a clean bill of health.” Ella stands up and cheers at the news.
Smoke huffed a smoke ring as he began to crunch his way through the coal milkshake before him. “Dats nice I've missed the daily we're doomed speeches.”
Hiro simply nodded as he began to eat his snack as he answered, “That is well.”
Ella nods eagerly, “He won't be allowed to do any fighting for about a month or so but at least he'll be back and training.... , She has a tinge of sadness to her face after she finishes the sentence, Considering what happened to him...”
Nina promptly whacks Ella upside the head and almost into her neon Tutty Fruity ice cream.
“Ow! What was that for?” Ella asked as she rubs her head.
“You were getting depressed again! There is nothing wrong with what Thomas did to save you and he survived so it's nothing to worry about!,” Nina turns to the others. “Right? Honestly I didn't think he had it in him!?
“That was impressive, Now I know how to get a decent fight out of him next time.” Hiro commented.
“If youse tried dat I tink dat you'd have more ta worry about from Ella. Smoke answered as he began to make eyes with Nina.
“Well it beat the bad news I just got from Bling.” Trina said as she stirred her mocha ice cream.
Nina ignores the others as she gives Smoke a wink back.
Ella began to rub her head as she looks to Trina. “Really? What's wrong? Did something happen?”
Trina shrugs as she answers. “Nope but are you guys ready for this his grandfather is sending the Fixers to school!”
Smoke immediately does a spit take all over Ella covering her in coal flavored ice cream.
Hiro does not react to the news as he answered, “That is distrubing I also have bad news my sister is coming to school.”
Smoke stops trying to clean up Ella and apologize as he drops napkin holder on Nina.
Ella and Nina both shout out as the are covered in ice cream or napiks!
Smoke sputter an apology to the pair, “Sorry Nina youse get ta choose da next date. Sorry Ella I wus just surpized der.”
Ella sputters and tries to towel off, “Who're the "Fixers"?
Nina asks gets the napkin holders off of her and onto the table, “Okay I've heard you had an ousts of some kind with your family but what's so bad about your sister?”
Trina gave the others a concerned look as she answered Ella, “The Fixers are his two cousins Ella they're soldiers in training for the Family business imagine Tenebra and Methelza only a hell of alot meaner!”
Hiro locked Nina and the others in a serious gaze. “Well the last time I saw my sister she tried to kill me and had to be sedated after I defeated her for the title of family gym leader so I'm guessing no happy family reunion.”
Ella now all but cleaned of the ice cream, “Sounds like a pair to avoid... any reason why their being sent here? And are they the kind of "Leave us alone we'll leave you alone" fighters or should I warn Thomas to start hideing?”
“Ella they're called the Fixers for a reason they've been trained to Fix family problems, Now just who has our favorite sableye been having problems with? For the first time ever I feel sorry for Methelza”.
“The school has certainly gotten more interresting but my sister should be easy to handle she never had much imagination.” Hiro mumbled to himselth.
Ella sighs thinking about all the problems facing not only her but all the friends she has made as she suddenly remembers Hiro's comment earlier about her cousin. “Wait what did you mean about Les and therapy?”
Hiro gave Ella a look like she had never even seen her easily angered cousin. “Ella, He jumps in a screaming rage anyone who says that he looks cute, I'm surprised he is still attending the school with the new principals rules on fighting.”
“I know... he just has issues okay? He thinks the worlds out to get him so he tries to get it first... and his teammates have helped him stay out of trouble...” Ella sighs in response
“Issues is putting it mildly, I once complemented his stance and he charged me, I had to knock him halfway across the gym before he stopped.” Hiro answered with a annoyed look on his face..
“Its all in how you say it, if you say any form of complement that could be used to denote female he flips out. Please don’t be to hard on him Hiro.” Ella pleaded as the other listend to their conversation.
“Well he better get a handle on it soon. I have to much to worry about than a enraged pink lopbunny following me around daring me to do something.” Hiro began to dig into what was left of his ice crea with a vengeance.
“Wow Les is making Hiro loose his cool. Dats really scarey hey Nina youse got any pictures of Les that we can use ta blackmail em?” Smoke asked amazed at the usually stoic Hiro actually annoyed by something for once.
“Nothing that his girlfriend and Ella wouldn't kill me for giving you!” Nina answered as she gave her mon the most evil smile she could.
“Well as Nina said he recently found a nice girl that seems to be helping him calm down... a little anyway so there's still hope.” Ella said in a hopeful tone of voice.
“Oh Aancestor give me strength.” Hiro pprayed as the other turned to see what he was looking at.
A shiny lopbunny dressed in a leather jacket walked into the store looking very depressed.
“Well speak of the shiny, HEY LES OVER HERE!” Ella shouted as she spotted her cousin.
Les just gave the group a sad deflated look as if to say please don’t bother me, but after a long sigh he begins to walk over to the group.
Ella suddenly looked concered, “I’ve never seen him like this I hope nothing is wrong.”
“I just hope he stays that way for a long time.” Hiro said.
“Drepressed?” Trina asked while scratching her head.
“No calm”
Trina slides over and makes a place for Les, after she sees his pink fur, and hips, she quickly mistakes him for a female as he walks toward the group. “Hi girl what you looking so down for?”
Les looks at the kleceon for a moment and seethes in anger, “I'M.. A.. Guy!” He shouts out as he suddenly then gives a sigh and deflates* “Oh forget it...” Les states as he sits down and slumps miserably.
“Who are you and what have you done with the real Les?” Hiro asked.
Nina leaned over and whispered to Trina, “Something must be wrong, normally he clobbers anyone who makes that mistake!”
Ella now really concerned for her cousin. “Les you okay?
“Shut it, I'm in no mood.” Les said as he slumps down in his seat.
“Really Les what's wrong?”
Les gives a sigh and all but spits out, “Vanessa is back to haunt me....”
“ Oh dear... didn't you leave her back at your hometown?” Ella asked.
“She called me earlier today to tell me she's going to get her someday and she refuses to take no for an answer again...” Les slumps his head onto the table, “God I wish she'd just die and leave me alone already...”
“Who or what is a Vanessa?” Hiro asked.
Les shoots Hiro a glare as he answers, “Vanessa DeBaron a rich bitch of a gardevoir who lives to make other people jealous or envious of her. She wants me to become one of this little group of guys she just drapes on her arm to match her outfits like purses. The thing is all of them have about as much personality and free will as a log, so the rumor is she keeps slipping psychic suggestions to them until they end up like that... nobody can prove it though.”
“ I talked with her once, she considers males to just be something for women to bend and manipulate. She honestly doesn't think of them as people.” Ella said as she looks more sad then angry.
“She spent the last two years trying to convencie me to join her with bribes, threats, traps, and I could swear to you she tried to screw with my mind a couple time before!” Les cried out as he began to pull on his ears in frustration.
“Maybe if youse shaved off all da pink fur?” Smoke suggested.
“Better tell the facuality to keep an eye out for her she can’t be on campus.” Trina suggested.
“You had best learn some dark and ghost attack to ward her off,.” Hiro said calmly as the rest of the group began to jabber.
“Not the problem, I could probably floor her with one punch but by the time I get through her dumb and as tough as a cement wall bodyguard I'm too worn out to get at her and she just teleports off!” Les answered as he listened to all the advice just getting even more depressed.
Ella reaches out and gives him a reasuring pat on the back. I'm sure you'll figure something out Les...
“If you cannot confront your obstacles directly then seek to confront them indirectly..” Hiro sagely said as he signaled the waiter to bring something for Les.
Les began to pull on his ears even harder and one could swear that tears where starting to form in his eyes, “I just want the bitch to go away... I was f*cking born like this isn't that enough emotional trauma for one lifetime?”
Hiro began to stare hard at Les even as the waiter set a chocolate sunday in front of the lopbunny, “And I was born like this, Yet I overcame my family to gain possession of my ancestral gym. Do you face such odds as I did?”
“All I want is respect, and I have tried everything I could think of to get it or earn it. But so far almost nobody has been able to actually look at the fact I look like "This' and actually take me seriously! I'm tough, maybe not as tough as some people but still tough and its gotten me nothing!” Les almost shouted as he turned and looked Hiro in the eyes.
Ella reached over and patted him on the back trying to calm him down, while Smoke and Nina went off a little to thew side to try and move breakable things out of Les’s reach. Trina just looked confused as to why everybody was on such pin and needles. While Hiro just stayed calm and continued to look Les straight in his eyes.
“If the path you travel does not bring you your desires then go another path.”
Les stopped stewing into his ice cream for a second and looks at Hiro for a moment, “What are you? A fortune cookie?”
“The voice of experience, what do you think my life was like? I come for a people who put great pride in their physical strength and appearance. But I was born malformed as my own mother put it, because of my size my father threw me out of our dojo and ordered me never to return. For a hariyama to not fight is torture. Yet it was not until I learned to embrace who and what I am that I found success and happiness.” Hiro explained.
Les began to chuckle as Hiro explains his story, “You're a better mon then me at least. My life has only be miserable because of other people and I can't accept that or move past it...at least not yet. Doing that would be the death of who I am... and I merely fight because I feel it's all I can do against this world... so like I said, you're a better mon then me.” Les then slumps back down face on the table in utter misery and confusion.
Ella leans over and whispers to Hiro, “He must really be miserable, normally he never would talk like that.”
One lopbunny against the world such long odds But I can tell you that you have one thing that I did not have in my struggles Les.” Hiro said as he began to pack up and prepared to leave.
“What?”
“Family that cares for you. Do you really think that they would allow anything horrible to befall you?”
Ella leans over and hugs Les after Hiro has left. “Right! Your parents love you, I love you, your girlfriend loves you.!”
Les’s eye begins to twitch as he begin to regain his former angry at the world look on his face. “Ella remember what I keep telling you every time you do this?”
“Oh right no hugs in public! Sorry!” Ella then begins to laugh as she lets go of him.
“I also said no hugs in private, or at all for that matter but you seem to ignore that.” Les comments as he begins an angry sulk while every begin to laugh.
Hiro turns to look at his friends as he leaves, “I wish I could join in but unlike you Les I must face my problems alone, or I will never prove myself to my ancestors of running our great gym,” Hiro lets out a great sigh and as he turns one could hear him say, “OK my sister Ayumi give me your best shot.”
The End
Les, Nina,Thomas and Ella copyright to
The_Lost_One
Other characters copyright to LordJaguar.
By
LordJaguar
The new semester had only just begun at the Pokemon Combat Academy, but the training had been going on the entire summer for Team Rebels .After a tough decree from their leader Ben “Bling” Glinteyes all other membesr of the team had spent the summer off months in a harsh training schedule that Bling had prepared with special tutors for each of his fighters.
Hiro was reflecting on that fact as he and Ella where deep into a no powers sparring match.
“Ready Ella?” Hiro asked as he went into his fighting stance.
“Do you really have to ask?” Ella answered as she got into her own fighting stance.
“Very well then on three.”
“THREE!” Both fighting types shouted out as they charged each other, what followed was a fury of fighting moves that a movie director would sell his soul to put into a kung fu movie.
This was the scene that Smoke, Nina, Stormy, and Trina walked into as they tried to cool down from their daily workout. The group paused as they watched the fighters practice pure fighting with the benefit of the special powers that pokemon could access.
“Should we stop dem dis time or let em fight till dey drop?” Smoke asked the other as he took a swig of hot coal water from his thermos.
“”Well last time they where sparing it took them an hour and a half to stop, I still say Ella won that round.” Stormy commented as she did a few cool down stretches.
“Nope it was Hiro all the way, he scored that point clean WHOA!” Trina gasped as both Hiro and Elaa spun high up into the air still trading blows. After the pair landed they rushed toward each other, Ella giving off loud battle cries while Hiro remained silent.
Nina wincing as the two fighters returned to exchanging blows. “Ninjask it’s so creepy the way that Hiro keeps his trap shut during a fight, I only hear him say anything when he pulls off that punch combo he uses to finish off his opponents.”
“About da only ting that his folks taught em,” Smoke commented. “Ok dis is gunna take forever and I want a coal milkshake, whose gunna break dem apart dis time? NOT ME!”
“NOT ME!” Trina and Nina cried out at almost the exact same time.
“Not oh you guys suck!” Stormy moaned as she walked toward the fighting types. As the pair broke away from each other for a brief break in the fight Stormy let lose with a brief dragon breath attack. It worked on getting the pair to stop attacking each other but it also turned their attention on her, in three seconds Stormy had both of her wings pulled behind her back. “UNCLE UNCLE UNCLE!!” She squawked.
“Dang it birdie what’s up I was this close to finishing him off when you interrupted us!” Ella complained as she twisted one arm.
“I was about to spring my master plan when you interrupted us.” Hiro commented looking vaguely annoyed as he contorted the other wing.
“MERCY I’m buying at the malt shop but only if I have functioning wings!” Stormy cried out.
“Ohh ice cream well why didn’t you just say so,” Ella perked up as she released Stormy’s wing. “Last one to Krestman’s is a rotten exeggcute.” Ella ran out of the gym not bothering to look back at her friends.
“Well it’s great to see her looking so up again come on guys ICE CREAM!” Nina happily shouted as she took off for the ice cream shop.
“WHOA WHOA Nina!” Smoke called out as he grabbed Nina on take off. “We is still training here so youse gotta run ta da ice cream shop no wings.”
“Smokey I hate running!” Nina complained as the torkoal reeled her in for a landing.
“Smoke grinned as he pulled Nina in for a quick hug and whispered in her ear. “If youse can beat me to da shop den youse can pick da next movie we goes ta.”
“Oh Momma Mia here we come!” Nina cried out as she ran from the gym.
Smoke grinned as he took off from the gym in a more even pace than Nina. Trina and Stormy began to jog off but Trina quickly turned around as she noticed that Hiro was not off and running with the rest of them.
“Anything wrong Hiro are you not coming?” Trina asked her friend.
“Of course I am Trina I will merely be taking a more challenging path.” Hiro evenly said as he picked up him gym bag.
“OOk whatever you say Hiro, Hey guys wait for me!” Trina gave out a loud shout as she chased after her friends.
Hiro gave his friends a few more seconds head start before he put on his macho brace trainer, and began to move toward Krestman’s in a more direct line. Look for the direct path it can lead to great rewards, Hiro thought to himself as he began his jog. Right through the middle of the campus, as he ran past the dorms Hiro came to the heavily forested area just beyond the campus as he really began to hit his stride. Dodging among the trees and rocks Hiro raced through the back woods. In just a few short minutes his short but tortuous run was finished as he came to a commercial section of town, he quietly began to do a few quick cool down exercises, and taking off his brace, before walking into Krestman’s noticing that he had once again beaten his friends to the soda fountain.
Hiro quickly walked in and placed the orders for the entire group as he took a booth in the front of the restaurant and he began to count down. “Five , four three two one and cue Ella.”
Ella ran into Krestman’s using Extreme speed to outdistance the rest of her friends in the foot race, she grinned briefly in triumph until she saw Hiro in the front booth calmly waiting for her and the others. Soon Smoke arrived at the shop have easily outdistanced the others by jogging a steady pace, Nina, Trina, Stormy both arrived soon after, the panting mon just stared at the relaxing Hiro as he sat in the booth calmly waiting for them.
“How do you keep doing that Hiro whenever we race somewhere you’re the last to leave and the first to arrive!?” Stormy asked in an irrated voice.
“Ancient fighting type secret. Now if you who all please be seated I’ve already placed our orders.” Hiro simply answered while hiding a sly smirk.
“I still think he just takes a cab or something.” Nina huffed as she sat down disappointed at losing the race to both Hiro and Smoke.
“He always wins, I would just love to know how you do that Hiro.” Stormy commented as she at the booth her mind seemingly elsewhere at the moment.
“I just look for a good path.” Hiro explained as his friends began to settle in and they where served by the the restaurant staff.
As the group of friends settled in for their ice cream treats Stormy’s cell phone suddenly rang, the altaria took the call and quickly gained a concerned look on her face.
“Sorry guys but an issue has come up I need to talk to my attorneys.” Stormy hastly said as she made to leave.
“Is there a problem Alicia?” Trina asked concerned for her friend.
“No no it’s nothing that you can help with. Just some problems over a photograph some jerk newspaper took. My parents are handling it I just gotta talk to somebody else about it. You guys have some fun!” Stormy gave a final wave and took off after paying for the ice cream at the counter.
“What was that all about?” A confused Ella asked as Stormy departed from the ice cream shop.
Smoke just shrugged as the altaria left, “It’s a rich girl ting apparently, She’s gotta deal wit da press sometimes.”
Ella seemed to brighten as the groups snacks where delivered to them. As everyone began to dig in she announced. “Well I have some good news everyone wanna guess what it is?”
“Your cousin has entered therapy?” Hiro guessed
“Da regional tournament will be held in town?” Smoke hazarded an answer.
“Husk has forgiven me for painting him purple and putting a tape player with “Flying Purple Mon Eater” in him?” Trina asked.
Ella shakes her head, “Nope! Thomas is going to get a clean bill of health.” Ella stands up and cheers at the news.
Smoke huffed a smoke ring as he began to crunch his way through the coal milkshake before him. “Dats nice I've missed the daily we're doomed speeches.”
Hiro simply nodded as he began to eat his snack as he answered, “That is well.”
Ella nods eagerly, “He won't be allowed to do any fighting for about a month or so but at least he'll be back and training.... , She has a tinge of sadness to her face after she finishes the sentence, Considering what happened to him...”
Nina promptly whacks Ella upside the head and almost into her neon Tutty Fruity ice cream.
“Ow! What was that for?” Ella asked as she rubs her head.
“You were getting depressed again! There is nothing wrong with what Thomas did to save you and he survived so it's nothing to worry about!,” Nina turns to the others. “Right? Honestly I didn't think he had it in him!?
“That was impressive, Now I know how to get a decent fight out of him next time.” Hiro commented.
“If youse tried dat I tink dat you'd have more ta worry about from Ella. Smoke answered as he began to make eyes with Nina.
“Well it beat the bad news I just got from Bling.” Trina said as she stirred her mocha ice cream.
Nina ignores the others as she gives Smoke a wink back.
Ella began to rub her head as she looks to Trina. “Really? What's wrong? Did something happen?”
Trina shrugs as she answers. “Nope but are you guys ready for this his grandfather is sending the Fixers to school!”
Smoke immediately does a spit take all over Ella covering her in coal flavored ice cream.
Hiro does not react to the news as he answered, “That is distrubing I also have bad news my sister is coming to school.”
Smoke stops trying to clean up Ella and apologize as he drops napkin holder on Nina.
Ella and Nina both shout out as the are covered in ice cream or napiks!
Smoke sputter an apology to the pair, “Sorry Nina youse get ta choose da next date. Sorry Ella I wus just surpized der.”
Ella sputters and tries to towel off, “Who're the "Fixers"?
Nina asks gets the napkin holders off of her and onto the table, “Okay I've heard you had an ousts of some kind with your family but what's so bad about your sister?”
Trina gave the others a concerned look as she answered Ella, “The Fixers are his two cousins Ella they're soldiers in training for the Family business imagine Tenebra and Methelza only a hell of alot meaner!”
Hiro locked Nina and the others in a serious gaze. “Well the last time I saw my sister she tried to kill me and had to be sedated after I defeated her for the title of family gym leader so I'm guessing no happy family reunion.”
Ella now all but cleaned of the ice cream, “Sounds like a pair to avoid... any reason why their being sent here? And are they the kind of "Leave us alone we'll leave you alone" fighters or should I warn Thomas to start hideing?”
“Ella they're called the Fixers for a reason they've been trained to Fix family problems, Now just who has our favorite sableye been having problems with? For the first time ever I feel sorry for Methelza”.
“The school has certainly gotten more interresting but my sister should be easy to handle she never had much imagination.” Hiro mumbled to himselth.
Ella sighs thinking about all the problems facing not only her but all the friends she has made as she suddenly remembers Hiro's comment earlier about her cousin. “Wait what did you mean about Les and therapy?”
Hiro gave Ella a look like she had never even seen her easily angered cousin. “Ella, He jumps in a screaming rage anyone who says that he looks cute, I'm surprised he is still attending the school with the new principals rules on fighting.”
“I know... he just has issues okay? He thinks the worlds out to get him so he tries to get it first... and his teammates have helped him stay out of trouble...” Ella sighs in response
“Issues is putting it mildly, I once complemented his stance and he charged me, I had to knock him halfway across the gym before he stopped.” Hiro answered with a annoyed look on his face..
“Its all in how you say it, if you say any form of complement that could be used to denote female he flips out. Please don’t be to hard on him Hiro.” Ella pleaded as the other listend to their conversation.
“Well he better get a handle on it soon. I have to much to worry about than a enraged pink lopbunny following me around daring me to do something.” Hiro began to dig into what was left of his ice crea with a vengeance.
“Wow Les is making Hiro loose his cool. Dats really scarey hey Nina youse got any pictures of Les that we can use ta blackmail em?” Smoke asked amazed at the usually stoic Hiro actually annoyed by something for once.
“Nothing that his girlfriend and Ella wouldn't kill me for giving you!” Nina answered as she gave her mon the most evil smile she could.
“Well as Nina said he recently found a nice girl that seems to be helping him calm down... a little anyway so there's still hope.” Ella said in a hopeful tone of voice.
“Oh Aancestor give me strength.” Hiro pprayed as the other turned to see what he was looking at.
A shiny lopbunny dressed in a leather jacket walked into the store looking very depressed.
“Well speak of the shiny, HEY LES OVER HERE!” Ella shouted as she spotted her cousin.
Les just gave the group a sad deflated look as if to say please don’t bother me, but after a long sigh he begins to walk over to the group.
Ella suddenly looked concered, “I’ve never seen him like this I hope nothing is wrong.”
“I just hope he stays that way for a long time.” Hiro said.
“Drepressed?” Trina asked while scratching her head.
“No calm”
Trina slides over and makes a place for Les, after she sees his pink fur, and hips, she quickly mistakes him for a female as he walks toward the group. “Hi girl what you looking so down for?”
Les looks at the kleceon for a moment and seethes in anger, “I'M.. A.. Guy!” He shouts out as he suddenly then gives a sigh and deflates* “Oh forget it...” Les states as he sits down and slumps miserably.
“Who are you and what have you done with the real Les?” Hiro asked.
Nina leaned over and whispered to Trina, “Something must be wrong, normally he clobbers anyone who makes that mistake!”
Ella now really concerned for her cousin. “Les you okay?
“Shut it, I'm in no mood.” Les said as he slumps down in his seat.
“Really Les what's wrong?”
Les gives a sigh and all but spits out, “Vanessa is back to haunt me....”
“ Oh dear... didn't you leave her back at your hometown?” Ella asked.
“She called me earlier today to tell me she's going to get her someday and she refuses to take no for an answer again...” Les slumps his head onto the table, “God I wish she'd just die and leave me alone already...”
“Who or what is a Vanessa?” Hiro asked.
Les shoots Hiro a glare as he answers, “Vanessa DeBaron a rich bitch of a gardevoir who lives to make other people jealous or envious of her. She wants me to become one of this little group of guys she just drapes on her arm to match her outfits like purses. The thing is all of them have about as much personality and free will as a log, so the rumor is she keeps slipping psychic suggestions to them until they end up like that... nobody can prove it though.”
“ I talked with her once, she considers males to just be something for women to bend and manipulate. She honestly doesn't think of them as people.” Ella said as she looks more sad then angry.
“She spent the last two years trying to convencie me to join her with bribes, threats, traps, and I could swear to you she tried to screw with my mind a couple time before!” Les cried out as he began to pull on his ears in frustration.
“Maybe if youse shaved off all da pink fur?” Smoke suggested.
“Better tell the facuality to keep an eye out for her she can’t be on campus.” Trina suggested.
“You had best learn some dark and ghost attack to ward her off,.” Hiro said calmly as the rest of the group began to jabber.
“Not the problem, I could probably floor her with one punch but by the time I get through her dumb and as tough as a cement wall bodyguard I'm too worn out to get at her and she just teleports off!” Les answered as he listened to all the advice just getting even more depressed.
Ella reaches out and gives him a reasuring pat on the back. I'm sure you'll figure something out Les...
“If you cannot confront your obstacles directly then seek to confront them indirectly..” Hiro sagely said as he signaled the waiter to bring something for Les.
Les began to pull on his ears even harder and one could swear that tears where starting to form in his eyes, “I just want the bitch to go away... I was f*cking born like this isn't that enough emotional trauma for one lifetime?”
Hiro began to stare hard at Les even as the waiter set a chocolate sunday in front of the lopbunny, “And I was born like this, Yet I overcame my family to gain possession of my ancestral gym. Do you face such odds as I did?”
“All I want is respect, and I have tried everything I could think of to get it or earn it. But so far almost nobody has been able to actually look at the fact I look like "This' and actually take me seriously! I'm tough, maybe not as tough as some people but still tough and its gotten me nothing!” Les almost shouted as he turned and looked Hiro in the eyes.
Ella reached over and patted him on the back trying to calm him down, while Smoke and Nina went off a little to thew side to try and move breakable things out of Les’s reach. Trina just looked confused as to why everybody was on such pin and needles. While Hiro just stayed calm and continued to look Les straight in his eyes.
“If the path you travel does not bring you your desires then go another path.”
Les stopped stewing into his ice cream for a second and looks at Hiro for a moment, “What are you? A fortune cookie?”
“The voice of experience, what do you think my life was like? I come for a people who put great pride in their physical strength and appearance. But I was born malformed as my own mother put it, because of my size my father threw me out of our dojo and ordered me never to return. For a hariyama to not fight is torture. Yet it was not until I learned to embrace who and what I am that I found success and happiness.” Hiro explained.
Les began to chuckle as Hiro explains his story, “You're a better mon then me at least. My life has only be miserable because of other people and I can't accept that or move past it...at least not yet. Doing that would be the death of who I am... and I merely fight because I feel it's all I can do against this world... so like I said, you're a better mon then me.” Les then slumps back down face on the table in utter misery and confusion.
Ella leans over and whispers to Hiro, “He must really be miserable, normally he never would talk like that.”
One lopbunny against the world such long odds But I can tell you that you have one thing that I did not have in my struggles Les.” Hiro said as he began to pack up and prepared to leave.
“What?”
“Family that cares for you. Do you really think that they would allow anything horrible to befall you?”
Ella leans over and hugs Les after Hiro has left. “Right! Your parents love you, I love you, your girlfriend loves you.!”
Les’s eye begins to twitch as he begin to regain his former angry at the world look on his face. “Ella remember what I keep telling you every time you do this?”
“Oh right no hugs in public! Sorry!” Ella then begins to laugh as she lets go of him.
“I also said no hugs in private, or at all for that matter but you seem to ignore that.” Les comments as he begins an angry sulk while every begin to laugh.
Hiro turns to look at his friends as he leaves, “I wish I could join in but unlike you Les I must face my problems alone, or I will never prove myself to my ancestors of running our great gym,” Hiro lets out a great sigh and as he turns one could hear him say, “OK my sister Ayumi give me your best shot.”
The End
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