I Love You Lucario... - Chapter 3
#3 of I Love You Lucario...
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"What this is my dear boy, is a Lucario."
"A...Lucario?
"Yes, that's it.
There was a moment of silence between them all. Mark had a blank stare. Rowan had an excited smile on his face from talking about the mysterious creature in front of him.
"Not to be rude, but what is it? I've never heard of anything like it." said Mark.
Lucario uncrossed his arms and widened his eyes when he heard this. He made a low tone growl showing some of his teeth.
"Down Lucario." said the Professor. "It's a male so he's a bit more...what's the word, ballsy? He can also understand everything you say. Some are even rumored to speak, but this one has shown no signs of that. Anyway, he belongs to a trainer who lives up in northern Sinnoh and you're gonna need her permission if you want him." Lucario looked up at the professor with even wider eyes than before.
"Ehhh, I don't know. You sure you don't have anything else."
"No, I'm sorry, this is all we have for today. If you want a different one, you'll have to wait a few weeks."
Mark didn't want to wait any longer for a pokemon. He had waited long enough. Plus, the strange creature looked pretty cool standing there with his arms crossed. It also looked pretty ferocious so he thought he would be able to battle with it.
"Alright then, I'll take it." said Mark.
"Really now? Are you sure?"
"Yes sir, I'm positive."
"Ok then, we'll have to get in contact with the trainer." Rowan looked around the room like it was his first day in the lab. "Ummm this way please." Mark, Brad and Jake followed the professor to a big LCD screen on the wall. Rowan pressed a button on the screen and a punched in a few numbers on the keyboard. A rotating pokeball popped on screen with the words "Contacting server please wait..." below it. Then the image changed to a woman with a smile on her face.
"Why good afternoon Professor, how are you doing today?" the woman asked.
"I'm doing great Linda, how are you?"
"Oh I'm fine. I'm actually moving and I wanted to talk to you about something."
"I wanted to talk to you about something as well."
"Oh well, you go first."
"Ummm alright then. Well this boy here, his name is Mark by the way..." he was cut off.
"Hello Mark my name is Linda."
"Hello." Mark said quietly.
"Go on professor." said Linda.
"Ahem. As I was saying, Mark here came to my lab to get a pokemon, but it seems that we have yet to finish the tests on them all and we don't have any pokemon to give away right now." Linda was nodding at what the professor was saying occasionally. "The only one we have finished with is your Lucario."
"Is that so? Well professor I see where this is going."
"Y- you do?"
"Yes, and I have a plan. You see, I'm moving back into the city, but the place isn't really all that large. I will be very hard to take care of pokemon while I'm living there and I've decided I'm not going to bring any."
"I don't understand Linda."
"Well, I'm not going to keep Lucario. I was gonna have you give him away. If this boy here needs a pokemon, he is of course welcome to have my Lucario." This made the five in the lab, including the Lucario, drop their mouths wide open.
"You're going to give away your Lucario, just like that?!" said Rowan.
"Well I can't take him back now that I'm moving into the city. You'll have to find a home for him, and if this Mark needs a pokemon, then he may have him, as long as he promises to take amazing care of my sweet Lucario. So what do ya say kid? You want a pokemon or not?"
Everyone turned to look at Mark with their mouths still hanging open. Mark felt nervous for a few seconds. A voice inside him was screaming "Take it!! Take the pokemon!! This is your chance!! Don't fuck it up!! Take the chance!!" Mark stood up straight and made his hands into a fist.
"Yes ma'am! I promise to take goo- amazing care of your Lucario!" said Mark in a bold tone.
"That's great, then everything is settled. The Lucario now belongs to you Mark. Bye bye sweetie, mama's gonna miss you!" The Lucario was still quite shocked from his owner basically handing him over to some wannabe trainer. "Bye professor Rowan!" said Linda in an excited tone.
"Umm... bye...?" said Rowan confused at what just happened and at the speed that it did. The screen went back to the rotating pokeball.
"So, it's mine, the pokemon?" asked Mark still thinking about who this Linda was and why she had just handed over her Lucario.
"I, guess so?" replied Rowan. He walked over and picked up a pokeball off the counter and walked back to the others. He raised the pokeball up and pointed it at the Lucario, who was unaware due to the shock he was in from being given away by his trainer. "Lucario, return!" Suddenly, a beam of red light shot out from the white circle in the middle of the pokeball. The red light shot at Lucario and completely engulfed him making him appear red. Then, it appeared as if he had been sucked up by the red light. The beam went back into the pokeball and the Lucario was gone. Rowan held out the pokeball to Mark who picked it up slowly.
"He's yours now, take goo- I mean, amazing care of him." The professor said smiling.
"Tha- thank you so much! Don't worry professor I'll take amazing care of it!"
"I'm sure you will son, no go test out your new pokemon."
"Let's go Mark. We can stop off at the pokemon mart before we head home." said Brad.
"Sure thing dad!" Finally, Mark had his very own pokemon, which was his, and no one else's, well, not anymore anyway. Mark placed the pokeball in his backpack that he was wearing and got on his bike. The other two got on their bikes as well and headed deeper into the city. They rode on for about five minutes before reaching a small building with a blue roof and a pokeball on it. In the window, there was a sign that read "Help Wanted". Jake's face lit up when he saw this.
"Hey, maybe I can get a part time job working here. I'll get to see pokemon on a daily basis. That would be so awesome." The three walked into the building and felt the cool breeze of the air conditioning. There were lots of aisles and freezers in the pokemon mart. They shelves were lined with all kinds of supplies like food and healing items to accessories and pokeballs
"Wow! Look at all the cool stuff!" said Mark with a sense of awe in his voice.
"Yep, you can get anything you need for pokemon right here at this store." said Brad.
The store clerk came out of the back room and went up to the counter. "Can I help you folks with anything today?"
"Yes, may I apply for a job here?" Jake bursted out.
"Well we are looking for a part time clerk currently if you'd be interested."
"Definitely! I'll take an application!" The clerk grabbed a piece of paper from under the counter and handed it to Jake. Brad stepped to the counter next.
"Um hello sir, were gonna have a few bags of pokemon food and uhhh...."
"Hey dad, can I get those gloves. They look neat. He picked them up off one of the counters and showed his dad.
"Oh, those are our special pokemon trainer's gloves." said the clerk "They're all the rage for pokemon trainers today." Mark looked up to his dad with a smile. Brad rolled his eyes and said "Sure, we'll take those too."
"Awesome! Thank you dad!"
"No problem."
"Will that be all sir?" asked the clerk.
"Yes that will be all."
"Ok then, that will be, 800 poke please.
Brad handed over the money to the clerk and took the bags of food off the counter."
"Thank you for shopping at the Pokemon Mart." said the clerk before the three left.
Outside, Mark tried on his new trainer gloves. They were all black with a pokeball logo on the side where the top of his hands were.
"Oh my god, these gloves are so awesome! Thanks again dad!"
"No problem Mark, you're an official trainer now, you deserve them."
With that, the three got on their bikes and rode all the way back to Mark's house. Mark was still thinking about how life would be from then on. He finally had his own pokemon now, his life was complete...
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