POKEMON JOURNEY
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Chapter 1: My Start Of The Journey
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Ramza walked around Route 1, he had just started his pokemon journey in Pallet Town, as most starter trainers were, he was ten years old since that's the minimal age for starter trainers, he walked inside the grassy area.

Ramza had a Eevee for his starter pokemon, it definitely didn't take a lot of work, Ramza was favoured by the old professor and was like a second son to him, he certainly spent a lot of time in the old scientist's labratories, they were packed to the brim with rare pokemon and facts about them and Ramza was sure he learned them all.

Ramza was a blonde haired boy with a silver jacket, purple T-shirt and blue jeans, he wore goggles, since he was always at Professor Oak's lab and had witnessed a number of experiments that nearly cost other scientist's eyes sight. He was a wandering soul, that, and his love for pokemon made him go on a trainer's journey.

Ramza walked around, alertly, suddenly, a flash of movement crossed his eyes, he took a hold of the pokeball that contained Eevee, fingering it nervously.

Suddenly, the pokemon leapt from it's hiding place and lauched itself at him. Ramza immediatly recognized it, a Houndour. The pokemon jumped over the trainer's head and landed on the other side, growling and snarling fiercly, as if it was waiting for a meal and Ramza was god's gift to her. Ramza took out his pokeball swiftly, seeing that this was a valuable chance to get a new and pretty rare, in Kanto, pokemon. He twirled the red and white sphere around on his pointer finger, and, like an expert, flung the ball to the ground, out came a cute and un-intimidating fox pokemon. Ramza clicked open his pokedex and pointed it at the hound-type pokemon.

"A Houndour, Dark/Fire type, It uses different kinds of cries for communicating with other of its kind and for pursuing its prey."

"Eevee, tackle!"

Eevee pranced left and right, trying to avoid the furious onslaught of flames coming towards it, however, none of it's attempts to get close to the Houndour worked, although it was fortunate to note that Eevee, although tiring, was succesfully dodging the powerful streams of fire scorching the grass where it's paws had just been.

Ramza thought quickly, 'A Eevee, although has potiential to become twelve types of -eon pokemon, has the ability to use the attacks of the form it will benifit most in, even before it turns into that type, or even in another type! My Eevee seems to mainly concentrate on speed and attack, that make's it's most powerful form..."

"Eevee! Thunderwave!"

Eevee unleashed a wave of energy, paralysing the dark pokemon and leaving it unable to move, it then stopped dodging and took the time to ready itself a little.

'It worked! My Eevee's most natural form is the Jolteon form, I've always wanted one!'

Eevee was just about to go in for the finish when Ramza stepped in, "Wait Eevee, whether it wants to join me or not is it's choice, we can't make it for him." With that said, Ramza approached the Houndour with his translator device on, upon reaching him, Ramza knelt down upon the soft grass.

"Do you want to come with us? If you don't, I'll just set you free, no worries."

The Houndour looked shocked as if he had been hit with a Thundershock, a trainer asking a pokemon if he wanted to be captured or not? This one was speacial and Houndour knew it, besides, he would be caught one day so why not be caught by a thoughful trainer instead of taking chances. Decision made, the dog pokemon barked a reply to Ramza.

The translator device translated the reply and showed Ramza the answer, [Ah, fine, I'll get captured someday, I only have one request.]

"What is it?"

[Never, ever, hit me with a Thunderwave again.]

Ramza laughed and laughed, then he saw the sky darkening and made camp.

Eevee and Houndour helped put up the tent, tying the lines to the pegs and holding the tent in place while Ramza went off to gather dried up branches. A few minutes later, the tent was put up and a campfire was blazing beautifully.

"There, that should do it."

Ramza was putting a tiny chip inside his pokemon's fur so that people will not hear them saying their names, instead, hear what they are meaning.

"Try it."

"Whoa! It works!" Eevee was delighted.

"I only got it because I was Professor Oak's assistant. I'll say I'm pretty lucky."

"Why is my voice so deep?" Houndour asked.

"Your voice depends on what type of pokemon you are and how you look."

"Isn't that the same thing?" Eevee chimed in.

Ramza and Houndour laughed.

"No, how do you think that pokemon from the same species know whose who?" Ramza asked.

"They smell different?" Offered Eevee.

"No, what about the pokemon with no noses?" Asked Ramza again.

"I give up." Eevee said defeated.

"Pokemon have birth marks you see, these marks distinct between each pokemon. None are ever the same." Answered Houndour.

"Correct, the bigger the mark is, the more powerful the pokemon, can I look at your marks?" Ramza asked.

"Fine with me." Houndour grunted, his mark looked like the Zodiac sign, Cancer, it was pretty huge too.

"Woah, that's a big one, I dare say if you train enough, you could grow past level three-hundred. What a lucky trainer I am." Ramza said amazed.

"Check mine too!" Yelled Eevee. His sign looked like the Zodiac sign, Aries, it was pretty much as big as Houndour's.

"Hell..." Muttered Ramza.

When he had calmed himself down, helped by a quick stream of fire, courtesy of Houndour, that left him charred and black, they returned to what they were saying.

"You need nicknames, how about the zodiac signs that your marks look so much like?"

"I've always wanted one!" Aries seemed positively delighted.

"Hn, not a bad idea." Cancer grunted.

"Let's get to bed now." Ramza said as he got the sleeping bag ready and cushions for the two pokemon. Then they all went to sleep under the starry night.

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Ramza woke up at about five in the morning, he yawned and got out of his sleeping bag. Everything was fine and dandy, the Pidgeys chirping, Rattatas scurrying around, Caterpies and Weedles crawling around, Metapods and Kakunas resting in the trees, Cancer buring his head into the backpack... Wait a minute!

"Cancer?! What arre you doing?!"

Cancer turned around, surprised. Ramza took one look at him and instantly went into a laughing fit. Cancer had candy all over his face, and a Twizzler was hanging from his jaws.

"What are you doing? If you eat all that, you'll go hyper!"

Cancer looked sheepish.

"I was addicted to candy ever since I stole some from a wandering trainer in these parts." Cancer muttered.

"How did you do that? A trainer would notice a wild pokemon checking his pack wouldn't he?"

"You are looking at the only Houndour that had ever learned Stealth, Agility, Acid Armor and Mist, and the only Houndour to learn Thief naturally." Cancer stated proudly.

"I've had enough of being surprised, my face will stay that way if I keep it up. Wake up Aries, are we ready to go?"

"Alright."

It was a peaceful morning not mentioning the part where Aries didn't want to wake up and Cancer, being the considerative guy he is, blasted him with Fire Blast and the rest was history. However, everbody was quite content when they trudged down the trail of Route 1 that would take them to Viridian City. The road of Route 1 was about a kilometer long, and Ramza, being the nice trainer he is, let both his pokemon out to soak in the sun.

"Ramza, why did you let us out to suffer?"

"How was I supposed to know that it would get this hot?"

It was our heroes, sitting on a nearby boulder, each of them sweating and Aries ready to pass out.

"If only you had an Ice or Water pokemon, we wouldn't be suffering..." Aries panted.

"Where can I get one?"

Then, they heard a low growl behind them, Aries jumped a foot, Ramza fipped to the ground and turned around, while Cancer turned around and charred the area where the growl had come from. A Beowulf stood there, black from the smoke.

[Jeez, I was just asking if you had some food.]

"Huh?"

[Jus' joking. Can I come along with you guys?]

"HUH?!"

[If you were a pokemon, people would think your race was named Huh.]

"Sorry, that was a bit shocking, what's your name?"

[My buddies that got caught called me Gemini since my mark looked like the constellation and my favorite move is Double Team.]

"Why do you want to come with us?"

[My mother said that I had come of age and was supposed to come out and get a trainer.]

"Why do you choose me?"

[What's this? Twenty questions?]

"That depends."

[Okay.]

"Yep."

[Fine.]

"Alright."

[Okay.]

"You said that already!"

[SO?!]

Cancer just sighed while Aries looked totally puzzled and confused.

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The team went into Viridian city all cooled down... literally.

"Where's the pokemon center?"

Aries, Cancer and Gemini were trapped in Icecubes while Ramza himself didn't look that hot either... In fact, he was the complete opposite, he was covered in what looked like snow and was completely drenched.

The fact is you see, they were cooling themselves off with Gemini's Hailstorm when all hell broke loose, he accidently created a blizzard when they walked near a river and the blizzard blew them in, when they arose out of the deep underwaters, the three pokemon were frozen and the trainer had to use his wits, which was far and few between, to get them out of that icey situation, thusly, he had to swim out of the river while using the three icecubes as floats. I can assure you that the three pokemon had quite a few objections to the plan. Although Cancer wasn't as fond of Gemini now, but no one could blame him, he just got dunked in water, which he feared, frozen, which messed up his fur, and dried up by accidently thrown into the oven.

"Gemini... I want to have a few words with you."

Gemini cowered.