Yay second chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own (a) Pokemon. :(

Dawn joins the troop!

Hopefully this story makes Pokemon a bit more realistic.

Chapter 2

We find room to battle in a nearby field.

"Alright, man. Here we go. You ready?" I inquire, twirling my pokéball on my finger like a basketball.

"Yeah, I'm ready to kick your ass." Barry teases. He takes his Pokéball off his belt and then throws it towards the ground at his feet. The ball explodes with light, and then returns itself to his hand. On the ground is left a small, red monkey with flame-shaped hair and fiery tail. It sits with it's haunches on the ground and its hands in fists on the ground.

"Chimchar!" It shrieks, smiling and pounding the ground with it's right fist. It turns around to look at Barry and smiles affectionately. Barry smiles back.

"Hello there, Chimchar, I'm your new trainer. I'm Barry." Barry introduces himself and then shakes hands with the creature.

It's my turn to call out my Pokémon and I throw out my Pokéball and a small, brown fox with a cream-colored mane pops out. It's adorable.

"Eevee! Eevee Ev Eevee!" It cries, and then jumps at me. I catch it and it starts to lick my face.

After we're done introducing ourselves and associating, it's time for our first battle.

"Alright, here we go!" I say, and Eevee gets into position. Barry sends out his Chimchar and the battle commences.

"Alright Chimchar, use scratch!" Barry calls out. Chimchar, full of determination, sprints at full speed towards my Eevee, its fingers curled and ready to attack.

"Eevee, use growl!" Eevee lets out a pretty threatening roar considering it's cuteness and it's obvious Chimchar is intimidated and slows down. The hit glances off and Eevee gets up, ready to attack.

"Now use tackle!" I call out, and Eevee starts running cutely at Chimchar at an alarming speed. Barry can't put up any sort of defense and Chimchar gets hit hard. It gets up, obviously fatigued.

"Chimchar, hang in there and use scratch again!" Barry calls out, and then Chimchar is charging again.

"Dodge it Eevee!" I call out, but it's too late and Eevee takes the full front of the attack. Eevee is stunned, and weakened, but manages to get up.

"Tackle!" I yell, and a charge of energy surges through Eevee and it's ability, adaptability is activated. Tackle, being a normal type move like Eevee's type, gets doubled in power and it connects hard, knocking Chimchar out.

"Yes! Great job Eevee!" I cry out, excited. Eevee smiles tiredly. I rush over and pick it up. I hold it close and pet it and praise it.

"Great battle, Lucas." Barry says, calling back his Chimchar with a red light from the Pokéball.

"Yeah it was. Looks like we're officially rivals now." I state, laughing.

I don't feel the need to put Eevee back into its Pokéball and Barry and I head to the local Pokécenter, with my Pokémon on my shoulder. A Pokécenter is a place where trainers visiting the town can spend the night, rest and refuel.

We enter the sliding glass door and head inside. We don't plan on staying, the next town is maybe an hour walk ahead and it's still the morning. Barry heads to front desk and hands the nurse his Pokéball. The nurses here offer aid to injured Pokémon.

While I'm standing around waiting for Barry, I look around the room and suddenly my breath catches. The girl from the lab is all the across the room, accessing a computer in the computer. She's smiling and laughing and talking, so she's probably using the video chat to talk with someone. She looks so amazing, I can't keep my eyes off her. Eevee sees what I'm looking at and nibbles my ear. I laugh a little. Already I'm sure it can understand me.

"Hey there, whatcha staring at?" Barry teases, sneaking up behind me and scaring me.

"That girl over there, she's the one we saw in the lab." I say, laughing a little. "Where's your Pokémon?" I ask, reminding myself that my own Pokémon is on my shoulder and I pet it. Eevee purrs under my touch. Maybe it's more of a cat…

"They took it to give it some medicine and rest. He'll be alright." Barry explains. I nod.

"That's good." I state. "I really want to go talk to her."

"Then go." Barry encourages.

"No I think she's on the phone." I explain, and drop it. We turn around to go sit in the waiting room for Barry's Chimchar to be fully restored.

"Oh my gosh! Is that an Eevee?" A voice suddenly calls out. It's feminine. Obviously, whoever called out is referring to me, so I turn around to see who called out.

To my surprise, it's the girl we were just talking about. She's smiling and skipping over to me. I'm beyond surprised and I blush. She's approaching fast. Once she's over to me I answer her question.

"Uh, yeah. I just got her, she's my first Pokémon."

"Oh! She's so cute!" The girl says, smiling wide. "I'm Dawn, nice to meet you." She says, holding out her hand. I smile and shake it.

"I'm Lucas." I answer.

"Can I hold your Eevee?" She asks, excited. I laugh a little. This is great. Eevee is like a chick magnet.

"Sure." I say, and carefully remove Eevee from my shoulder and hand her over. Eevee smiles at me and then cuddles into Dawn's chest. That's amazing. Eevee and I have only been together for less than an hour and she's already on my side and helping me get girls. I can tell we're going to be great friends.

"Oh! She's so adorable!" Dawn shrieks, petting my Eevee.

Barry, Dawn and I sit down in the waiting room to talk and get acquainted.

"Didn't I see you guys at the Pokémon Lab earlier?" Dawn asks, Eevee is on her lab, and she's stroking it gently, while Eevee purrs like she's in heaven.

"Yeah, I think you were skipping out with a Pokéball." I remember.

"I was excited! I got a Piplup from the Professor." She explains.

"So that was you. I would've picked Piplup but it was already taken. That's why I got Eevee, because I didn't want either of the two left." I explain.

"Oh I see. That's cool. I wish I would've known he had an Eevee." Dawn laughs.

"He said he was looking for a special trainer or something for it, it was weird." I explain, my eyes drifting up her leg. She's so hot.

"Hmm, guess you're special then." She says, a hint of a blush appearing on her face. This is awesome! She totally likes me! I laugh it off, and she changes the subject.

"So what are you guys doing here?" She asks.

"We're waiting for my Chimchar to get healed up. Lucas and I had a battle and he won…" Barry explains, drifting off.

"You guys have battled already? That's awesome. I came here to get a hold of my mom, 'cause she's a worrywart, and then I was going to head for Jubilife City." Dawn tells us.

"Yeah, we're headed that way too." I retort.

"Oh my gosh, we should go together!" She's easily excitable, it's cute.

Barry's Chimchar gets out a little later, and then we head out of the Pokécenter.

"Let's get breakfast, and then head out. I'm starving." My stomach wambles to prove the point.

We eat at a local diner, and unfortunately I have to put Eevee in her Pokéball. The diner doesn't like Pokémon running free while people are eating, which I understand.

After we eat, we head out and start heading up route 202 to Jubilife City.

"Dawn, you know how you said that you haven't battled anyone yet?" I inquire.

"Yeah." She answers simply.

"Want to battle me?"

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