Hi! I'm studying for a standardized exam that's in October so that means a lot of vocabulary. To make memorizing more fun, here's the first 10 of a compilation of 2000 mini drabbles! If you're uncomfortable with slash then sorry this is a good time to to a step back because I'm probably going to include a lot of my ships throughout these. Pairings will be mostly Red/Green, Gold/Silver and whatever pops up. I'm under the impression that Lance let Green continue school for a while after losing to Red so that he actually knew how to run a gym.

Disclaimer: I definitely don't own Pokemon. The order and definition of the words are from my flashcards so if that's copyrighted, I don't own the English language either?

1. castigate: to criticize severely, especially in public

Red sighed under the surface of the bath's now lukewarm water. Charizard looked over at him, wondering of the water was too cold. Red shook his head and stood up, trying to smell himself. After a long day of training, it was inevitable that he sweat a little, and probably had a fairly... manly odor. But he didn't need Green castigating him loudly for smelling like sweat. A little too loudly, since the mountains echoed on clear days and pokemon flying by always seemed to look at them weirdly when Green shouted his trademark goodbye.

That "smell ya later" secretly nagged Red. It happens when Mt. Silver whispers, "SMELL YA, smell ya, smell ya, smell ya..." after Green turns away and leaves.

2. induct: to place formally in office; to admit as a member

Lance rubbed the crease between his eyebrows irritably. He was sure that a permanent line was developing there. With Giovanni gone and the official Kanto champion at Arceus knows where, the press was all over him asking who the next champion and Viridian leader would be. Lance had quite selflessly taken upon the role of Champion like any good man would have done (right?).

He had extended a (courteous and overly generous) call to Green shortly after Red's victory and disappearance, offering him the position as Viridian's gym leader. Green responded with a dull grunt of acceptance (was that attitude Lance heard? Well he was probably still sulking), on the condition that he get to finish school first and graduate before becoming leader. And after all that time to prepare and think and plan, he arrived at the gym leader induction ceremony one evening, five years later in a purple shirt and black slacks, disheveled (and stupidly smiling) as if he had just come off a mountain.

Lance face palmed. He had sent Lorelei to watch the gym for five years so Green could finish school and grow up a little. Behind the scenes, as Green was about to go upstage and accept his title, Lance unbuttoned his cape and handed it to Green. It would have to do.

3. trivial: of little worth or importance

It was just earlier that morning that Green had been up Mt. Silver. Red looked across the fire at Green. Green was staring into the flames, absentmindedly swirling the water in the pot as he waited for it to boil. Green was so good at talking, something Red had given up since it seemed like nobody listened to him. Green had so many words and stories, ones about challengers and girls and new pokemon and heroes across the world. To Red, these stories were trivial, but didn't complain. Green's voice filled up the empty silence between them and almost made it seem like the time they spent together years ago.

4. corollary: a natural consequence or effect; a deduction or an inference

Green really liked Red. Not that he would admit it, of course, but he really liked Red. So him going up the damn mountain every other Sunday followed as a corollary. Somebody had to check whether or not the idiot was alive. And to tell him to come down the mountain. And to make sure that Red wouldn't forget him.

5. overwrought: extremely nervous or excited.

Green had essentially become Red's calendar. Him coming up the mountain and grumbling was so normal and routine that on Saturday evenings Red would make sure to be especially clean. And if Red was a little nervous to see him, Green was completely overwrought with anxiety. He'd have to make sure to have enough stories to tell, or else the silence would kill him and he'd be squirming on the inside all day. He'd have to make sure that Red hadn't left and disappeared.

And though both sides were fidgety, Sundays somehow passed by, a little less awkward than each feared it would be. One of these days, Green would confess, but not yet. Who knew if Red actually had hormones.

6. disabuse: to free from error or falsehood

And of course, Green's (indirect?) confession came a whole lot sooner than he expected. Green had been talking about Leaf's crappy choice in boyfriends, when Red interrupted him.

"You like me."

These three words, uttered in a voice a little husky from lack of use, caused Green to forget whatever he was talking about, flush redder than Gold's Gyarados, and bury his face in his hands. Red stared impassively, and Green was too embarrassed to try to fake disabusing Red's claim.

7. generic: without a trademark; general

It was only supposed to be a generic "visit Red and bring food and talk" Sunday. As the clouds swathing Mt. Silver's peak turned a shade darker, Green knew it was time to leave and wrapped up his visit with a final Leaf-centric rant. So when Red had spoken to him for the first time in Arceus knows how long, he was unsure whether he was supposed to be happy that Red talked, angry that Red had ignored him up to that point, or deeply, deeply embarrassed at what he said. After his face finally began to cool, he looked up from his hands, and at Red's namesake eyes. "And you?"

8. stipulate: to agree to a fact as part of a larger debate; to state a demand in an agreement

Red's face didn't even twitch or color the slightest as he nodded.

Green's cheeks burned as blood once again rushed to his face and he resisted the urge to roll on the floor in happiness. He then repeated the demand that Red come down the mountain, and was giddy when Red actually stipulated, on the condition he get one more year to wait for a challenger to beat him. Green bit the side of his cheek, and then relented. It would be a start in mending the strange relationship their connection had become.

9. volatile: tending to vary widely; unstable; quickly evaporating

When Green came down (he most certainly did NOT skip down the paths, humming) the mountain and back into civilization, his phone buzzed angrily with twenty three missed calls from Leaf. He ignored the currently incoming call, wary of becoming subject to Leaf's doubtlessly volatile temper. Ah, there was that induction ceremony at Indigo Plateau today...

10. fetid: having a bad odor

Green visited the Viridian gym on his flight back to Pallet. The place was icy and damp in whichever places Lorelei had frozen. The toilets were frozen over, the plumbing cracking and emitting a fetid smell. He expected Lorelei to have left the gym pristine, but maybe she just really hated Green. Yeah, that was probably it, he'd sassed her pretty bad (even in Green standards) way way back, after defeating her in the Elite Four. Well, he'd have a year to clean this place up...