Arc Of Embodiment (Hiatus) - Chapter 85

Hey guys! I’m finally Back! It kinda sucks that I wasn’t able to get the M1 MAcbook since my order got cancelled, but whatever. I still like the new one that I bought.

Anyway enjoy the new chapter.

-Draconic Deus-

Serafall was with Sona in the Student Council room in Kuoh Academy. She was talking to Sona all about Jaune, but there was a problem. Sona doesn’t seem to remember who Jaune was. No matter what Serafall tells Sona about Jaune, she doesn’t remember him at all. This confused Serafall. She remembered Jaune talking to Sona, so why doesn’t her sister remember her boyfriend? She doesn’t get it.

“I’m telling you, Sona-chan, that I do have a boyfriend! Why do you not remember him?! He was there in the Peace Treaty! He was the one that killed Fenrir,” Serafall said.

“I don’t know who it was that killed Fenrir, but I don’t remember it being killed by somebody with the description that you just gave me,” Sona said.

“What? Then what did the person that killed Fenrir look like to you?” Serafall asked.

“He looked shadowy. It’s like when you look back in your memory that you’ve forgotten and try to remember. It’s foggy and shadowy. That’s what he looked like to me when I try to remember that person,” Sona said.

‘Wait. Could this be something that Jaune did, or is it something else? Rias and her Peerage seems to remember Jaune just fine. What’s the difference between them and Sona’s Peerage?’ Serafall thought. She doesn’t understand why some devil such as Sona and her Peerage and the young devils in the Peace Treaty did not remember Jaune. But people such as Rias and her Peerage and the Satans remember him well.

‘What’s going on? I need to speak with Jaune when he gets back. It sucks having a boyfriend that your sister doesn’t even remember,’ Serafall thought.

-Pokemon-

Saphron and Terra pulled Jaune and Adrian around to take pictures the other day, but it was already getting late when they arrived in Pewter City. Therefore they didn’t have much time to see as much as they wanted, so today, they were touring the entire City of Pewter. As for Vivian, she wanted to explore on her own, which Jaune allowed as she was strong enough to protect herself. Plus, with some of the magic that Jaune taught her in their journey to Pewter City, she should be able to escape if something was to go wrong.

At the end of their touring of the city, Terra asked Jaune if he was planning to challenge the Gym Leader of Pewter City any time soon. Jaune told her that he would challenge Brock the next day. For now, he wanted to spend some time with his son and two girlfriends. Those words made Saphron and Terra smile.

The following day, Jaune was ready to challenge Brock for his first badge. Jaune and the others entered the Gym of Pewter. The first thing they saw was darkness. Looking around, the girls could not see anything, but Jaune can. He can see Brock. The man was sitting on top of the stairs meditating. Moments later, the lights on top of Brock turns on, revealing him.

“What are you doing here?” Brock asked the people that walked into his Gym.

“My name’s Jaune. I’m here to challenge you for the Boulder Badge,” Jaune said.

“I am,” Jaune said with confidence.

“Then show me what you can do,” Brock said. Then the area in front of Jaune and the girls started shaking as a Pokemon battlefield appeared.

“The rules are simple. We will each use 2 Pokemon. In the middle of the battle, we are not allowed to switch Pokemon. The first person to win both battles win,” Brock explained.

“Do I have to have two Pokemon? Because I only have one, and I plan to keep it that way,” Jaune said.

“That’s fine. But if your Pokemon loses, then you are out,” Brock said. Jaune nodded his head and told Vivian to get on the arena that appeared earlier.

The first Pokemon that Brock brought out was a Steelix. Jaune was surprised. He thought that Brock would bring out Geodude or Onix, but it was a welcome surprise when Brock sent out Steelix as he realises that not everything will go according to the Pokemon show.

“You know. For a trainer to challenge this Gym, I would have used Onix and Geodude, but against you, I have this feeling that you aren’t going to be like other trainers. I can feel an Aura of confidence and power coming from you. That’s why I decided to use Pokemon that I’ve trained for a long time,” Brock said.

“That’s fine by me…Vivian, let’s show him what we got!” Jaune shouted.

“Sylveon!” Vivian shouted.

During the battle, the landscape was not in Vivian’s favour. Therefore, she used her nature energy to sprout trees, grass, flowers and all kinds of plant life to give her an advantage. Doing this, she was quickly able to take the upper hand against Steelix. Seeing this, Brock asked Steelix to break tear down the trees so that Vivian wouldn’t use them to her advantage. It was a futile act. The trees weren’t typical trees to begin with. They were trees born from Vivian’s nature energy, and they are incredibly durable. The moment Steelix hit the tree, it did not damage it at all. Instead, Vivian used this opportunity to command the trees to grab Steelix and slam him to the ground, which knocked the Pokemon out. And that was the first fainted Pokemon of Brock.

Next, Brock sent out a Pokemon that Jaune didn’t think he has, and that was a Golem. Brock sent out this Pokemon, hoping that it would have enough mobility in the arena that altered in favour of Vivian. But alas, Golem was more hopeless against Vivian than Steelix. Vivian just used her ribbon to grab Golem and start bouncing him up and down like a basketball.

Jaune laughed at this, and so did Saphron and Terra. On the other hand, Brock was shocked that Vivian could lift Golem as it was a Pokemon that weighed over three hundred kilos (661.4 lbs). Not long later, Vivian was getting tired of using Golem as a ball and decided to knock out the Pokemon but blasting it with water magic. Oh, and if you’re thinking that Vivian was cruel to Golem by using it like a ball, don’t, because Golem loves falling off mountains, being used as a ball is nothing to the Pokemon. With that, the battle between Jaune and Brock has come to an end. Brock gladly gave Jaune the boulder badge.

“Congratulations on gaining your first Pokemon badge. I’m glad to have fought someone like you. It showed me that I have more to learn,” Brock said.

“It was great fighting against you,” Jaune said.

With that, Jaune and the girls left the Gym.. Moments later, Ash came into the Gym to challenge Brock, but that’s not important as he is not the hero of this story, and he never will be.