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Hi. I'm a Houndour. I think that's what the human called me. My name is Zane. I heard a human call another human that and I liked it so I chose it as my name. Not all of us have names, but I wanted one.

If you're wondering why I'm in Kanto right now, my old human was a jerk and I left them because they were a jerk. One of the others broke my pokeball for me when I was out somehow and they told me that I could leave if I wanted to. Since most of us can hear some things through our pokeballs, it wasn't that hard to figure out where the human brought me to. The human didn't let me out much, so it took me awhile to get used to being outside again. I have been here for several sun cycles now.

I'm staying by this weird area has a tree barrier that isn't that good at keeping me out that the others say is the lab. I don't really know what that means, but there's a lot of food around here so I'm staying here until another human captures me. I hope they'll be a nice human. I will also leave if something interests me and I like it.

There is an old human that I see sometimes come from the den and he doesn't really bother me. There are other younger humans that are older than pups and one time there was a pup that reminded me of the human that had me before, but nicer. The others say that they think that I belong to a trainer. I think that is another name for a human, but I'm not sure. He gives the others these weird brown things that they eat for some reason, but they smell weird and I don't want it.

I saw three pups go into the den and come out with pokeballs when I first got here and the others say that they come every fourteen sun cycles. I think that was ten or eleven sun cycles ago, but I'm not sure. The other humans will probably come back soon and then I'll know.

I like to sleep in the tall leaves outside of the barrier because some of the others are mean. There is a round water in the barrier that some of the others let me drink from. They say that they let me drink because I am a pup. I'm ok with that because I don't want to drink from the fast water or the water that makes my mouth dry.

I only go near the other dens when the moon is out. Some suns I don't want to stay not sleeping and I just sleep and after I am done sleeping and the moon is out is when I sniff around the dens. I asked one of the others and they said that that is because I am a fire dark type and I can choose when I want to sleep. They did not know when other Houndours usually sleep. I just sleep whenever I want to and sometimes I stay up for more than a single sun cycle because I don't want to sleep.

One time I saw another pup walking towards the barrier and they tried to get inside. Before they could get inside a human that is older than a pup grabbed them and told them not to because we are dangerous. I don't know what that means. I'm going back to the tall sleep leaves now.


Four pups went into the den today and they all came out with pokeballs, but one of them also had one of the yellow others with them. The yellow other doesn't like the pup and I think that it's the same pup that tried to get into the barrier. I am confused because he is not supposed to get near us because we are dangerous. Maybe the den makes us not dangerous somehow. There is a group of humans near them and they look happy. I'm not close enough to see everything, they are making lots of noise and the yellow other is mad. He used a flash attack and the humans do not look as happy anymore. The humans are leaving and the pup is trying to make the yellow other move. I'm going to follow them because I'm bored.

I am hiding in the tall leaves and the yellow other knows that I am here, but they have not told their pup yet. The yellow other still is not moving right. I don't know how the pup has not smelled me yet, I am very close to them. Their is a string connecting them.

"Pikachu, are you going to be like this the whole way?" the pup asks the other. If they are calling the yellow other Pikachu then I will also call them Pikachu. I wonder where they are going.

"Yes," Pikachu says. He sounds a little bit angry.

"Is it because you don't like me?" the pup asks and Pikachu says yes again. I am wondering how the pup understood Pikachu. My human could not understand us. Maybe only pups can understand us. My human was a human that is older than a pup.

"Well, I like you a lot. And since you're the Pokemon I'm training, don't you think you could be a little nicer and just open your mouth and tell me what's wrong?" the pup asks. I do not understand why he is calling Pikachu pokemon now. Maybe Pikachu is his name and pokemon is what Houndour is to me. I will still call them Pikachu. I also wonder what training means. The others at the lab said that their humans were trainers. Maybe the pup is a trainer, but I still don't know what training means. Pikachu is not looking at the pup anymore and they are not looking at me either.

"Uh, that's not exactly what I meant. Is your name all you can say?" the pup asks. I don't understand. He could understand Pikachu earlier. Pikachu is also not saying his name.

"I'm saying all kinds of things, you just can't understand me because you're stupid," Pikachu says. I don't know what stupid means. I think it is a human word.

"Well, then, your just like all pokemon, all you should act like one, and get inside the pokeball - just like it says in the pokedex," the pup says and now they are holding a red thing. The other pups that came today also had them and I don't know what they are.

"While being trained, a pokemon usually stays inside it's pokeball," the red thing says. Maybe the red thing is also an other. It does not look like a human and it talks, so it must be another other.

"You see?" the pup asks to Pikachu. He probably can see.

"You're not training me, I don't have to do anything," Pikachu says. He still sounds angry. He points at the red other and it starts talking again.

"However, they are many exceptions: Some pokemon hate being confined," the red other says. The way they use the word pokemon is confusing to me. Now the pup put the string on the ground and he also took off the skin on his paws. I don't know how he did that. My human had a purple other named Ekans that one time took off all of his skin. Maybe the pup is like that other. I tried to get closer so that I could sniff the string and skin, but the pup heard me and he is looking at me now.

"What kind of pokemon are you?" the pup asks and he points the red thing at me. Maybe pokemon is the name that humans call others. I think that makes sense. That means that Pikachu doesn't have a name probably.

"Unknown pokemon detected, unknown pokemon detected," the red pokemon says. The pup seems surprised and I walk closer. He looks at me and I keep walking closer until I am close enough to sniff him. I look up at him.

"Hi! I'm Zane!" I say. Me talking does something somehow and the pup pulls out a pokeball and throws it at my head. I let it eat me, but this pokeball is not the same color as my last one so I can open it and I do that. The pup seems surprised and tries to walk backwards, but they fall over. I look around, find Pikachu, and then I look back to the pup.

"Did I do something wrong?" I ask the pup. They get back up and continue looking at me.

"What's your name?" the pup asks to me.

"Zane," I say to him. I don't know if he can understand me, but he wants to know my name so I said my name because maybe they didn't hear me say it when I said hi to them. Something hits my head and I jump and turn around.

"Idiot, he can't understand you," Pikachu says to me.

"Oh. But why'd he ask my name?" I ask Pikachu.

"Because humans only hear us say our name when most pokemon talk because they're stupid, but when you talk he'll probably only hear growls and barks because of the type of pokemon you are," Pikachu says.

"Oh."

I turn back to the pup and they seem confused.

"I don't know what that means. I'll ask the Professor what you are when we get to Viridian City," the pup says.

"Ok! I don't know what all of that means, but let's go!" I say and start running in the direction that they were going before.

"Hey, come back!" the pup says loudly. I stop and turn back towards them, confused. The pup runs towards me and Pikachu runs behind him.

"You can't just run off like that!" the pup says to me once they stop running. I'm still confused.

"But we're supposed to go to Viridian City and you were going this way before," I say and tilt my head.

"Just stay with us please, don't run off," the pup says.

"Ok!"