Pokébook

Kent| Thursday 7:34| Route 31

"Snout, use mist!" Kent commanded, grabbing his Pokemon. A thick fog covered the area, making for a perfect diversion. Tyler, Sam, and Max all dove out with Kent. "Fang, use Dragon breath! Snout, Mud shot them!" "Gumbo, water Pulse!" "Lady, Psybeam!"

As the attacks spiraled towards the monkeys, Sam and Max took off to follow the thief. The fog slowly faded away, revealing two, severally ticked, Infernapes, hunched over their fainted son, or something. The two turned toward the now revealed and vulnerable team. Their entire bodies covered in intense flames, ready to dash to us. Flame Wheel.” Fang, dig. Snout, follow and use attack plan C guys," Kent yelled, before tackling Tyler into the bushes. "We need to lead them away from the forest; if they have friends...we don’t want them to hear. us."

Tyler nodded, "Gumbo can take care of that," he replied. Despite the fight, Gumbo stilled smiled at the half compliment.

"Just wait a second," Kent said, pointing back to their camp, now the battle scene. After a few seconds, there was a sudden rumble below, and the entire camp exploded in green flames. Gible and Swinub blasted from the ground, clinging within Swinub's endure. "Plan C, use dig to make an elaborate vent system, then, once it ready, full out attack barrage, and endure it," Kent smiled at his own brilliance.

"Nice...now then...let's see if it worked," Tyler said, squinting to see through the smoke and sand. Fang and snout landed in a heap next to them, smiling, but exhausted. "Good job guys, here, eat up," Kent whispered, and handed them Oran and Sitrus berries. "And if that didn't work, I am a 80 year old woman who rides Ho-Ho."

"Well, Gladice, might want to get on your bird," Tyler said, ducking down and quickly crawling to the next bush. "Gumbo, use Crab hammer on the tree, make it rain berries, then run outside, okay?" the Corpfish nodded eagerly, and jumped out from the hiding place. The little hyper beast jumped around the holes, jumped on top of the Infernapes, and then banged his heart out on the trees. It rained a rainbow of colors, as Apricorns and Berries fell. Corpfish quickly made his escape, making sure to snap at the primates once more.

Kent and Tyler sprinted out of the hiding place, ready to strike again. "Gumbo, rain dance, then water pulse! Casper, use Toxic then follow it with Night Shade!" Tyler commanded. "Gible, one more Dragon Breath, Snout, be ready to mist when I signal."

The fight was on.

Sam - Thursday, 7.37 AM, Route 31

Sam ran after the thief. Adrenaline roared in her ears and her feet actually hurt, but she didn't care. That thief was going down.

The thief made her way through the tall grass, all in a vain attempt to lose Sam and Max. Where was Max anyway? Sam threw a backward glance to see the boy walking towards them instead of running. God, what was wrong with him?

The tall grass scratched at her, and it was making Sam itch. She knew she ought to have worn pants today. Sam only hoped that no wild pokemon would ambush her while she was heading for the thief. That would be a disaster.

And their breakfast today was delicious, too. No wonder the thief stole it. Maybe she ought to cook something less aromatic the next time.

Suddenly a Ponyta and a Vulpix jumped in front of the thief, who turned around to face Sam. Sam narrowed her eyes as the thief smirked.

"Tell you what. I'll give you back your food."

Sam snorted. "Yeah right."

Max ambled up just then, looking as calm as ever. "Did I miss anything?"

Both the thief and Sam ignored Max.

"But. There's a condition."

"Let me guess. We have to win a battle against you." That was rather expected. Couldn't she be more original? Beside Sam, Blaze and Kite tensed, ready to attack at any moment. They bristled at the Ponyta and Vulpix.

"Yeah. But if I win you have to stop following me."

"Why do we have to battle you again? We can get the food back even without a pokemon battle," Max said.

Sam stared at Max with wide eyes. He was right. They could get the food back without a pokemon battle. Sam meant, yeah, this girl was freakishly tall but she wasn't a very fast runner, for what it was worth.

The thief took a step backwards. "W-what?"

"Max is right. Why do we have to battle you?"

She stiffened and tensed. "Because. Because if you win I'll stop bothering you forever."

There was an awkward silence.

"...Does that mean you planned on stalking us?"

"N-no! J-just battle me, okay?" The thief's Ponyta and Vulpix bared their teeth. The flames on Ponyta flared to a gorgeous array of colors.

Sam nodded at Blaze. She was going to fight fire with fire. Literally. Blaze stepped in front of his trainer.

Max groaned. "Do I have to battle again?"

Could he get any lazier? With a sigh he called out his Miltank. "Come on, Milkdud."

Sam only hoped that Max would be as good at using his Miltank as he was with his Misdreavus. If that was the case, then they should win this fight no problem.

Kisa - Thursday, 7:40, Route 31

Apparently I seemed week to them. Apparently they thought they could get the food back no problem. But they are underestimating me and my Pokemon. They are underestimating my strength. I had lost everything, and I wasn't about to lose this battle.

I looked at the Pokemon: the cow would be easy. My fire could defeat it in two blows. The ghost I wasn't so sure of. The only ghost Pokemon I had ever encountered, my mother said to run. We never challenged any, so I didn't know what good my fire would be.

The rock-headed Pokemon looked tough, but was probably weak. All it was good for was his head.

Then... the Charmander... A fire Pokemon. That wouldn't be good. I hated fighting fire against fire. Plus, I had a bad encounter with a Charmander once. I tried to capture it, but instead it blasted fire at me and I fell to the ground while running from it. It wasn't a pleasant memory, and made me want to cry. It was a sign that I wasn't as strong as I looked.

But that was when I was without my babies. Now that I had them, I wasn't afraid of anything.

I squatted before Pixie and stroked her red fur. "It'll be alright. We got this!"

"So," I said, turning to the boy and girl. "So, how're we gonna do this? Surely you don't think I'll fight all four of your guys, do you?"

Tyler Cohen | Wednesday, 7:45AM | Route 31

And the monkeys. Threw. Fire.

Kent and I scrambled out of the way of the fire just before the embers could land hits. Corpfish jumped in front of both of us and gave out a meditative cry: "Coooorp....Fiiiiish!" Its claws both began to shine a bright blue before he clapped them together, sending a ball of blue light into the sky.

And the morning sun suddenly vanished.

The Infernapes looked around, wondering where their precious sun went, and Corpfish wasted no time in blasting the closest one with a super-powered water pulse. The Infernape shook the water off his doused shoulders, but seemed pretty unfazed. But while Infernape continued looking for the sun, Ghastly crept up behind him, comically dropping a huge purple loogie of TOXIC onto the Infernape's face.

The flaming monkey danced about, grasping at its burning face, but Ghastly was too quick for him. He blew up like a balloon and vomited a black miasma over the Infernape's body.

And that's when the rain started.

The second Infernape began to charge at the two of us right as Kent signaled for Snout's Mist. The ape stopped dead in its tracks, lost in the frosty liquid around it. The flames on its body began to sizzle, and then died out as the rain began falling.

"Quick, Fang! Dragonbreath!"

"Gumbo, water pulse!"

The tiny dragon and the lobster Pokemon stood side-by-side, releasing a green-and-blue blast of water and fire, knocking the Infernape down without a second chance. Kent grabbed my shoulder and nodded towards the others. "Let's go!"

Max Daniel| Wednesday, 7:40AM | Route 31

“Then it will be two on two,” Sam suggested. “One of mine and one of his against the two of yours.”

The thief nodded her head.

I sighed. Two fights in one day. This was seriously eating up my time. “MilkDud I choose you,” I said without enthusiasm.

MilkDud looked up from her patch of grass and reluctantly got up and waddled to the center of the field.

“And I choose Blaze,” Sam said. Her charamander ran forward next to my miltank.

The girl thief raised her hands and her two Pokémon stepped forward.

MillkDud still seemed apprehensive so I sang its favorite song that I created when milking

"My miltank brings all the tauros to the yard,
And they're like
It's better than yours". . .

Both girls gave me dirty looks so I stopped. At any rate it seemed to raise MilkDud’s spirits and she looked ready to fight.

The thief called out first. “Pixie take out the cow with ember,” she screamed.

“Defense curl,” I yelled. MilkDud Curled into a ball just as the flames slammed into her. I knew her tough fat skin coupled with her Defense curl would protect her from the flames.

Sam made her move next. “Blaze use dig and get underneath Vulpix.”

Her charmander dug its claws into the dirt and uprooted the ground and disappeared into a hole. “Now use flamethrower,” Sam called.

“Pixie dodge.” The thief yelled. The Vulpix jumped out of the way just as the ground erupted from the ground a pillar of flame. Sam’s charmander leaped out of the hole after the vulpix. Now use focus punch. Her charmander was about to land the blow when the thief ordered her ponyta to use Fire spin. A jet of spiraled fire hit charmander and sent him flying into a tree.

My MilkDud got out of her ball and I ordered her to use Body Slam. She jumped into the air and used her mass to land on her vulpix in mid air slamming it to the ground. “Vulpix is unable to continue battle,” I said.
Sam’s charmander about to get back up but the thief girl made her ponyta use quick attack. In a blur the ponyta slammed it’s hooves into charmander.

“Charmander is unable to continue battle,” the thief said.

I sighed. It looked like it was my Miltank against her ponyta.

MilKDud use milk drink to replenish your strength. She did as I was told and after drinking she jumped up ready for the next part of the battle.

Kisa / Wednesday 7:40 AM / Route 31

A tear almost fell as I called Vulpix back into her Pokeball. I hated seeing my Pokemon hurt. But her pain was turned into my anger, and my craving for revenge. And seeing the Charmander lying and quivering was the icing on the cake. No matter whose Pokemon, I hated seeing them hurt. And over a stupid battle like this.

I thought about my strategy, and suspected the boy was thinking about it, too. He stood staring at me, his hands in balls of fists. I stared back, revealing my greatest poker face, not letting him see inside of me at all. But I could see his emotions all across his eyes and twitching mouth. He was afraid. But why? Of losing, or being embarrassed. Well we'll soon find out.

Defense curl. That was a killer move. It had completely dodged my last attack. But what could I do so he couldn't call on the defense before I did? There was only one solution: the cow would have to attack first.

"Poni, growl!" I shouted, breaking the silence.

"MilkDud, body slam!" he said, a smile on his face. He thought he had me.

"Poni, look out!" She quickly slid out of range and the cow's attack was dodged. For a second, it would be lying on the ground, recovering from the hit. I took my chance. "Finish 'em! Ember!"

Poni's hair released a great burst of fire.

"MilkDud, defense-" But it was too late. All around the pokemon were red flames, and it was on the ground.

"MilkDud is unable to fight..." I whispered, and ran over to Poni. I stroked her chest and fed her a third of the food I had stolen from the group. I put another third in my pocket for Pixie, and walked over to the defenseless cow. "Here you go," I said, crouching down and handing it to the pokemon.

"You beat me... how did you-"

I stood and called Poni back into her pokeball. "Strategy. Battling is all about strategy; being one step ahead of your opponent; observing their moves." I sunk my head. "I'm sorry I stole your food. And I'm sorry we had to fight."

Then out of the bushes, two boys ran into our little opening, angry looks on her faces. I frowned, hoping they wouldn't give me any more trouble.

Kent Warner| Wednesday 7:45| Route 31|

"So, this is the punk who stole all out food," Kent announced. "Did you guys get the food back?"

"No," Sam said. "We made a bet, winner got to keep the food."

"Ah...so you lost," Kent said. "No surprise there, that Bagon does look a little weak. Probably has brain damage too, and that Charmander might be black, but its flames are really weak. Both need some drastic training. If you ask me." No one asked. Same gave him a death glare, as if ready to send her Bagon at his groan. He didn't give her a chance too.

"I say, we battle for it," Kent said. "Me, and you. My Gible versus you;re...whatever your Pokemon are."

"No," the girl replied. "My Pokemon are hurt, I don;t want them to injure themselves anymore."

"Words spoken by a true Feebas," Kent said. He was worried though, his Pokemon barley had gotten out of the Infernape fight..they weren't ready to battle, anyone. "But, if you must, how about we battle later. We're going to Violet City, to get the badge. If you want to, you can follow, from a far. We can fight after our respective challenged, deal?"

The girl started at them for awhile, not sure if it was a wise choice. After awhile she nodded. "I will fight you then."

"Good," Kent said.

"And me!" Sam screamed. "I want a rematch to-"

"No wa-" Kent tried to argue

"Separately. Two One-on-One battles. Same shot Kent a look worth a million words, all saying something along the lines off "Screw you."

"Fine."

"Now then, let's get Violet City," Tyler said. "We all need a good rest.

8:20 AM| Violet City

"Soooo, I call dibs," Kent said as the entered the Pokemon Center.

"On what?" Tyler asked.

"The gym, of course," Kent replied. "Beside, as I told Max, they might need some weaker Pokemon to fight. I'll take the Big Birds, my Pokemon need the challenge."

Everyone, including the mystery girl, handed their Pokeballs to Nurse Joy, who told them they would be ready soon.

"What your dream team?" Tyler asked. "I've been thinking about what I want for my team..I think I want a specialty...."

"I was leaning toward no type" Sam said. "I do know I few I think would be a good. I either want a Mareep or a Shinx. Oh and a Tootadile and Rydon."

"Sort of...a weird mix," ax said with a laugh. Sam shrugged, and took a bite of the breakfast they had bought.

"What about you, Max?" Tyler continued, breaking the awkward loud chewing and yawns.

"No clue," Max answered, with a large yawn.

"Personally," Kent said, without anyone asking him to join the conversation. He was only there because he had money."I was raised around Dragon types, and Dragon like, Pokemon. What I really want is a Flygon, but its impossible to get them here. They need to be imported from Honnen. I have tried to get my dad to give me one..but he said I had to earn it..yet I don;t even live at home to earn it anymore."

"Shut up, Kent," Sam interrupted.

"Whatever. I'm going to go make some Pokemon food, anyone want some?" Kent got some strange looks. "For the Pokemon, geez." They all nodded.

11:15 AM| Outside Violet City Gym|

"Snout come on out!" Kent commanded, letting his brown fur ball out. "Ice Shard!"

Kent had already taken out Falker's first two Pokemon, by way of Fang. A few crunches had left its jaw sore, so it was time for Snout to shine, or rather muddy. "Follow it up with Mist, and use a Takedown, quickly." The brown blur shot into the air, slamming in to the Pigeot's wings, knocking it into a windmill state. Followed up with a final Ice shard. Falker was done with.

"Too easy," Kent said with a chuckle, returning Snout to his gold ball sized home. "So, who is up next?" Kent asked, adding his first badge to his belt.

Sam - Thursday, 11:30 AM, Violet City Gym

"But Sam, it's almost lunch," whined Max. "Can't you wait until after lunch to challenge the leader? I mean, think about it. His pokemon will feel better then -"

"No!" Sam was not going to leave this gym, especially if it meant that she would have to put up with Kent having a badge while she went empty-handed. What was that going to say about her? That she was the weakest. What if her brother came along? He'd see that she was no good at battling, and that giving her Blaze only served to make her a mush.

As much as she loved her pokemon, she knew she had to be a trainer first. Sam ignored the annoyance of her friends and tried her best not to grumble about being the last to go and fight the gym leader.

It wasn't fair for Kent to have called dibs. Now he always going to be mercilessly teasing her about wining only because he weakened the pokemon first. Her pokemon trailed behind their trainer, watching her with worried eyes. They'd never seen her so agitated before.

When she finally came face to face with Falkner, he seemed calm. Almost as if he expected it. He nodded at the other trainers in the gym, who picked up his pokemon and probably rushed them to the Pokemon center nearby.

"I suppose you want to challenge me too?"

Sam nodded. "But if you don't have Pokemon, how are you going to -?"

Falkner laughed. "People can have as many Pokemon as they want, you know?"

Sam almost froze. That meant Falkner had...fresh Pokemon. Pokemon who would be willing to battle her.

Sam - Thursday, 12:04 PM, Violet City Gym

Sam apparoched her friends again, a huge grin on her face. Blaze was a little hurt, but apart from that he was fine.

Kent smirked. "So did you beat his weakened Pokemon or did you need someone else to beat them up even more?"

"Actually, Kent, Falkner had other Pokemon. He used the other Pokemon in our fight. So you didn't help me at all. I won this badge by myself."

The look on Kent's face was priceless. Sam didn't think that battle was easy - in fact it was sort of hard - but she would go through it a hundred times just to see that stupid dumbfounded expression on Kent's face.

Max|Thursday, 12:08pm, Outside of Violet City Gym

I surveyed the gym leader Faulkner and decided he would be a waste of my time. So after Sam one her battle we left.

“You guys are so slow,” I said taking the lead.

“This coming from Mr. Yawn a lot,” Kent said.

I gave him and the others a backwards look. “You misinterpret my boredom as laziness. To battle several times a day is tedium and time consuming. While I’m battling my third gym leader I could be riding a Lapras across an ocean or flying on a Noctowl. No I choose my opponent very carefully. If I think they’ll provide something new then I’ll fight them but otherwise I’ll pass.”

They all gave me dubious looks but I kept on walking. We found a picnic table and cooked up some lunch for us to eat.

All the Pokémon were relaxed and were running about, although Lady stayed close to me hovering over the food and snickering at Tyler. Tylers Gastly also hovered around. I couldn’t understand how Tyler was afraid of Lady when he had Gastly. In my opinion that was the scariest of the ghost type Pokémon. I mean its name alone was scary and then it would evolve into Haunter. That name said it all. After that it would involve into Ginger with its creepy smiling.

We ate for the most part in silence save for Sam and Kent competing in whose gym battle was more amazing, a rather mind-numbing play by play account of their actions. I imagine a similar conversation could occur between two Apalm quarreling over who could throw poop the farthest.

I got a call and I looked to see it was my sister. She gloated about obtaining her first ribbon.

“So where are you guys headed,” she asked after I filled her in on my exploits.
I told her and I could hear her laugh. “Well good I’ll be there too,” she said before hanging up.
I grimaced.

“Who was that,” Tyler asked.

“My sister,” I said.

The thief that we now knew to be Kisa was feeding her Pokémon some milk. “Are we going to meet her,” she asked.

“Unfortunately yes,” I said.

Note: I will be telling you when you have 4/6 points, the next post you make you are allowed to evolve or catch a new Pokemon, due to you have 5 points at that time. Hope that makes sense lol

Also, you have to edit your character profile when a Pokemon evolves or is caught.

Kent|12:30 Thursday| Violet City

"Wait,” Kent suddenly said, jumping out of his seat. His dramatic statement was ruined as his pants leg got snagged on the table, making him tumble over and fall on his own ass. Picking himself up as if nothing happened, he continues. "Kisa. Battle. Me. Now. Fang. Come. Here." Kent was a true Neanderthal at times, or rather was a human sometimes.

The loyal Gible jumped on top of the table, and then right on to Kent's head. "NOT NOW FANG!" Kent screamed, flailing his arms trying to remove the beast. "I think Gible is tired," Kent continued through gritted teeth. He tend to do this when he is tired. You should go first Sam, I need to use the bathroom anyway." Kent darted away, knowing that Sam would make many comments about this later on. The pain made it hard for him to care though, mostly because of the lack of blood flow to his brain.

In a drunk like state, Kent wobbled to and fro, attempting to stay conscious as his Pokemon left permanent scars on his skull, he could only imagine the pain if it ever evolved. Finally the Pokemon unclenched his jaws, but it was a good time after Kent has already fallen on the ground, semi conscious.

"Guble? Giiiiib GIB!" Fang cried, pulling at his trainer. In his own head he was saying "Wake up pet, I require food. Your master commands you!" Pokemon had a backwards look on their relationships. Finally Kent rose, after his Pokemon had a brilliant idea, take a crap in front of him.

The putrid aroma not only awoke Kent, but made him flee up into the trees, away from the strange goop. Kent was at a lose of words. How did he tell a Pokemon not to poop in his face? That was unheard of, or at least untalked of.

"Sudo!" came a deep cry. Kent looked around, Gible never made a cry like that, Pokemon usually could only say their name, as that is where their names came from. But this sounded close...what Pokemon started with Sudo? Kent thought deeply for a minute, little did he know it was staring him in the face, well actually ass, which was far worse. Finally it hit him, Sudowoodo. Kent quickly whipped out his Pokedex. “Sudowoodo, the rock tree Pokemon. It will often hide itself in forests, to avoid predators.”

“Ah...wait....” Kent slowly turned around to see a ticked face behind him. “Whoops...sorry bubo.” Dropping quickly, Kent put Fang in his Pokeball, and tried to back away from his ticked tree friend slowly. It didn’t work. The nature oddity lunged at him, but before it could even hit him, his hand was eaten. Literally eaten. See, little did the Sudowoodo know, while Kent was sitting with his ass in its face, a Munclax was slowly licking his arm, ready to eat it, in sudden surprise, it had clamped on, and taken it clear off. Now handicapped, the sudowoodo ran in tears.

“Lax!” it said going towards Kent’s bag. All his berries had fallen out, from all the running and falling he had done, and so the Munclax had its pick of the buffet, and it picked everything. After eating everything, even that fabled kitchen sink, it sat down, ready to doze off after a long day’s napping.

Needless to say, Kent was furious, explosive, angry, and even flabbgasted. “Take my berries, fine, but you will pat me back for it,” Kent said, throwing a pokeball right at his savior.

Kisa, Thursday, 12:10 PM, Violet City Gym

I stood outside the gym and peered at the magnificence and meaning of the building. I had seen Sam and Kent (yes I had learned their names) walk out earlier, giant grins on their faces. I knew it wasn't my quest to get badges. But, I had told myself that as soon as I turned sixteen, I would leave my Mother with my Uncle, and be on my own. So why not start a bit early? Plus, I was thinking that I could tag along with the group, at least until I found my mother.

That day I had already visited the Poke Center to see if my mother had rolled through, but no one recognized her by description. So I had walked around, keeping a close eye on the group; making sure they didn't leave me without a fight.

Finally after moments of contemplating, I walked in.

The fight was not hard, since I was fire and he was bird. It took me all about two minutes to finish off his Pokemon. Falkner even complimented me on how strong my Pokemon were. I explained to him how they were very old and wise. I walked out actually happy. I was a trainer. A real trainer...

12:35 PM, Violet City

I was sitting down on the dirt while the group ate at a picnic table. They gave me some food, but I just fed it to my babies. I was facing away from them, looking towards the town, hoping to see my mother, when Kent said my name.

"Huh?" I muttered and turned around. He was standing up tall, his fists clenched and teeth grinning a very taunting grin. I wanted to punch him in the face.

"You should go first Sam, I need to use the bathroom anyway," he said as if I was prisoner or something, waiting around, stalling my life just so I could battle them.

I stood, my babies practically sighed. They were a bit tired. But, it wasn't going to do them harm for one more battle.

"What'dya say?" I asked, straightening my belt. "Rematch?"

Bart| 12:40 Thursday| Violet City

"No F'in way!" Kent screamed charging back into the scene. Same and Kisa were standing parallel, Pokemon ready to fight. "I got first dibs. Stand a side, little girl."

Same was about to punch Kent square in the Jaw, but she didn't get a chance. "Time to unveil my secret weapon!" Kent screamed, grabbing a Pokeball from his belt. it was not the standard white and red Pokeball, but a Heavy Ball, which not only looked awesome, but held awesome. "Lax, show them what you got!"

What came was the most anti-climactic scene in history. "Laaaaax," the chubby whatever yawned, before laying down again, nibbling at a stray berry.

"Great weapon," Sam mocked. "Now then, if you don't mind, let a real battler go."

"Hey let the thing wake up. They're not called sleeping Pokemon for nothing!" Kent argued, coxing at the Pokemon with a Poffin. "Come on Munchlax, wake up, if you win you get more Poffins!"

Its eyes instantly lite up, and it jumped into battle mode. "MUUUUUUNCHLAX!"

"Good boy" Kent said with a smile. "Now use Lick on Vulpix!"

The Pokemon completely ignored Kent, and instead stood still, making waves of energy around it. As it charged its power, the Vulpix let lose round upon round of embers and Flame wheels. Lax finally ended the charge, letting out a huge roar. And only to fall asleep right after.

"Good for nothing Pokemon, wake up!" Kent screamed. Munchlax was in too deep of a sleep to care though, snoring softly as Vulpix stared.

"Do I win?" Kisa asked, Sam softly chuckled in the background, she was loving it.


"No....come on Munhclax, do SOMETHING!" Kent commanded, desperate. He couldn't stand to lose....

"Cragh! Crah! Yawgel!" loud rumbles of gibberish came from Munchlax, sound waves erupted from him, in a dense attack. Snore. The statue still Vulpix was hit hard, and flew back towards its trainer. After a few more rumbled, Lax woke up, ready to fight for his second lunch. He charged at Vulpix with all his weight, combining Rollout, Lick and Body Slam in to a spinning, sticky and wet cannon ball. Vulpix was knocked out from the combined disgust, weight and surprise of the attack, all at once.

"Vulpix is unable to battle," Tyler said. "The winner is Kent!"

"More like Munchlax, Kent didn't do anything," Same chimed in playfully. She was going to be milking this for awhile.

"Stupid, good for nothing Pokemon. I'm your trainer, and you will listen to me!"Kent screamed. "if I say attack, attack with what I say. If I say wake up, wake up. If I say jump you say how high while jumping!"

"Lax," was the simple response. "Laaaax!" it then added, pointing to his belly. "Fine, here." Kent threw his Poffin case at Lax. "Go head Sam."

Samuelle Park - 12.50, Violet City

Sam had wandered away when that little prick Kent had come up and demanded to battle Kisa first and gotten ignored by his pokemon. That moron. He wasn't better than Sam. Heck, he was probably just full of it. She stomped away into the tall grass, where she could vent some of her anger out on wild pokemon.

Kite seemed as fired up as his trainer, snapping at everything and anything in sight. Maybe because Kite was trying to hard to appear moody, not one Pokemon appeared.

Until the weird penguin jumped in front of her. A Piplup. She knew them, since her brother's first Pokemon was a Piplup. A Piplup which became an awe-inspiring Empoleon. Sam always wanted an Empoleon, and she found her chance.

Sam didn't hesitate. She grabbed the great ball she'd found and used it on the Piplup. It struggled and struggled and struggled - and then the great ball calmed.

"YES!" Sam scooped up the pokeball and ran back to the others. She couldn't wait to show them her new Pokemon, couldn't wait to use Piplup in her battle against Kisa, couldn't wait to -

Wait.

Kent was still battling Kisa. That couldn't be right. Why were the two taking so long? Sam paused and sat down beside Tyler to watch Kent try and use his new Pokemon. One thing struck her: the Munchlax wouldn't listen to Kent, no matter how much the loser screamed at the Pokemon.

"That's weird," Sam murmured.

"Hmm?" Tyler raised an eyebrow.

"I thought it'd listen. He's got a badge and all."

"That's what you thought."

When it was all over Kent was just about ready to murder his Munchlax. Munchlax won...not that Kent helped. Sam couldn't help laughing, even when Kent glared at her.

"You're such a crappy trainer that your Pokemon won't listen...even though you have a badge!" Sam fell on her side, gasping for breath.

"Shut up, Sam."

"Oh my God. That's how much you suck."

"Let's see you use a new Pokemon," Kent snapped. He threw a pokeball at Munchlax, who was peacefully sleeping again. It hit Munchlax squarely on the side of its head. "Stupid Munchlax."

"Fine." Sam got up and brushed the grass off her clothes. "Watch and learn, loser."

"Stop calling me a loser! I won that fight!"

"No, Munchlax won that fight." Sam snickered as she got up and approached Kisa, who glared at Sam.

"I'm not fighting until I can get my Pokemon help."

Sam rolled her eyes. "I'm not letting you. We're going to finish this fight, then you can go and get your Vulpix help."

But Sam wasn't able to stop Kisa from running towards the Pokemon center with her Vulpix in her arms. Sam stamped her feet.

"You little -"

"Ha. You suck so bad you can't even get her to battle you."

"Shut up, Kent." Sam narrowed her eyes at him. "If you think you're so good, then why can't you get your Munchlax to listen to you?"

"You want to see how good I am? Fine. Let's battle. Here. You and me, one on one. Then we'll see who's better."

"That won't change the fact that your Munchlax won't listen to you."

"Why are you so obsessed with my - GAH. You know what? I'm going to battle you using my Munchlax. That was a fluke! Munchlax will listen to me this time. And I don't see you having any new Pokemon."

Sam smiled smugly and threw the great ball on the ground, watching Kent's eyes widen as Piplup came out.

"What was that you were saying about me not having any new Pokemon?"

Kent|1:00pm| Violet City

"Okay now, listen here Munclax-I said listen!" Kent whispered to his Pokemon. Sam was standing behind him her Piplup ready to kick some ass. "Now, if you win this, AND, remember the AND, you listen, you get these special wonders." Kent held up a case of Pokeblock, it was almost impossible to make them in Jhoto. Drooling, Munclax dove at them, but Kent quickly put the away. "After the battle."

"You gonna fight me or what!" Sam yelled.

"I'm coming, geez," Kent called, pushing Munchlax into the field. "Ladies first."Kent mocked bowed.

"Pipulp, peck!" Sam commanded, starting the battle.

"Dodge and use Body Slam!" Lax collapsed onto the ground in a blob, and bounce back up like a ball. It fell in a graceful bell flop, right on top of Pipulp. There was a loud cackling sound, as Piplup struggled to break free "Keep using bubble beam!"

"Lax, us Stock Pile!" Kent commanded, Munchlax gave Kent a look, but began to focus his energy. Piplup was able to break free as he took his attention away from trapping it. Perfect, for Kent. "Now, Lax, rest and snore!"

The pudgy beast fell soundly asleep in the air, and unleashed a powerful wave of sound, headed straight for the ground. It somehow kept him in the air, making a barrage of attacks hit Piplup head on. "Use Bubble beam to get in the air, and then Brine!" Sam commanded Piplup slid out of the snore stream, and flew right into the air. A huge wave of water knocked Munchlax back down to earth and woke up pissed.

"LAX!" it screamed, charging towards Piplup. "Munchlax, calm down and use Lick!" It kept charging at the agile Piplup, who just jumped and dodged, laughing. "Calm down or no snacks." Now use Lick! Then follow it up with Rollout!"

Munclax charged, calmly now, at Piplup, tongue extended. "Pipulp, meet it head on with Peck!" Sam cried. The penguin's beck began to glow and grow, and it rushed to meet Munclax."Munclax, jump and use Body Slam!"

At the last possible moment, Munclax leaned back, and flipped right into the air, right over Piplup. The thing was dead before it even noticed. "Piplup is unable to battle, the winner is Kent and Munclax!" Tyler announced.

"Woot!" Kent cried, and ran to hug his new friend. Kent quickly recovered from the display though. "Not that its a big deal. I mean, a Magikarp could kick your Pokemon's ass."

Kisa/1:30pm/Violet City

I ran inside and cured by Vulpix. Sure I backed out of that fight - who wouldn't? I was done fighting those who were going to be on my team... hopefully.

"I'm sorry baby," I whispered to Pixie as she materialized into her pokeball. I massaged it a bit before placing it back on my belt.

I ran outside, and Kent and Sam were battling. I walked over to Tyler and sat down. He was quietly sitting and studying the battle. It reminded me of when I was just given Vulpix. I was so curious, I would creep in front of crowds to see a battle when we passed one. I was always curious what went through their heads as they battled. Trainers stood so cool-like, the way Kent and Sam were at the moment. They had their legs stretched and firm, and their fists seemed like they wanted to join the battle, too.

I could tell Tyler was smart. He always stood back when Sam and Kent were bickering. He seemed to also, like me, think about things before he did them.

I stared at a giant scar on my leg and asked, "You're not a fighter, eh? I mean you didn't even take on the gym lead."

Tyler played with his pokeball in his hands, still watching the fight. "Nah, I already had the badge."

My eyes opened wide for a moment, but I quickly caught myself. Trainers started young... I was probably one of the only trainers to get their first Pokemon so late in life.

Kent's fat Pokemon smothered the small and adorable penguin Pokemon. I smiled, thinking of how jealous I would be of Sam if I weren't simply addicted to fire Pokemon. They just gave me that thrill.

"Not that its a big deal. I mean, a Magikarp could kick your Pokemon's ass." Kent smiled proudly over his victory. I, again, had the urge to punch him in the face.

"Hey," I said, standing up. "If we're all done acting like children-" I softened my voice, "Well, I'm all alone. If you all wouldn't mind... me tagging along with you for a bit?"

They all looked at each other and nodded. I smiled. The thought of not having to steal food, sleep with my Pokemon's heat burning my skin just so I didn't feel alone, cowering whenever a bird flew overhead. It was a good feeling.