When Shinichi woke up the next day he felt something heavy on his chest. It was the fox-thing, Vulpix, that had came out of it's ball. He pushed it off himself and sat up. The girl was gone, but her stuff was still there. He stood up and looked around. The girl was standing on a small grass-field next to the road. She had a big bird, half the size of herself, floating infront of her, and the dog facing the bird. "Timo, use Quick Attack against Lily!" she said and the bird started flying towards the dog with slightly glowing wings. The dog dodged it and spit out fire from her mouth. "Nice FlameThrower Lily!" she shouted to the dog who was concentrating on the fight. He walked slowly towards them. "Lily, try the FlameWheel!" she said and the dog started burning on it's body and rolling towards the low-flying bird. "Dodge, and then use Wing Attack!" she shouted and the bird dodged and attacked. The dog wasn't quick enough to dodge. "Good job both of you" Zoey said and walked towards Lily and Timo. Lily looked at Shinichi who just woke up. Vulpix was sitting next to him, but he didn't seem to have noticed. Both of Zoey's pokemon where slightly damaged, so she gave them a berry each and then she gave them breakfast. She then sat down in the grass with her pokemon, feeling that Shinichi was watching her every move. After a while she saw him walking towards her, and sat down with her. Vulpix followed him.
"How come it's following you?" she asked him. He looked at her and then at the Vulpix who layed down in front of him.
"I don't really know, but when I got here it was the first thing that saw me. But it was in a cage, so I didn't really know what to do. I released it after many buts and ifs. And after that it was following me" he answered. He looked at the bird and the dog.
"What were their breeds called again?" he asked her.
"Growlithe and Pidgeotto?" she said slowly and pointed at the pokemon. "And yours is a Vulpix. Remember to take care of it"
He nodded slightly before he looked at the Vulpix. "Do I name it or something?" he asked.
"If you want to. Do you know the gender?" she replied.
"A girl I think..." he said doubtful.
"I think she would like a name, don't you?" she said.
"Then...Ran..." he said and slowly petted the Vulpix.
"That's a unusual name..." Zoey said. "But it's pretty" she added with a smile. "Want a sandwhich?"
He nodded to everything and then she took out two sandwiches out of her backpack and gave one of them to him. They both started eating. When the pokemon were done they started playing. He took the opportunity to ask her stuff.
"What where you yelling to them earlier?" he asked.
"Attacks" she answered with a mouthfull of sandwhich.
"...aha?..." he said. She swallowed and took a deep breath.
"All pokemon have differend types. For example, Lily and Ran are Fire types. So they use Fire type moves like Flame Wheel and Flame Thrower. But Timo is a Flying type, and can't use Fire type moves. Sometimes pokemon can learn other Type moves. Most pokemon can learn Normal type moves. I don't know much more. You will meet different kinds of pokemon trainers. And most gyms have type pokemon. Like fire gym, flying gym, water gym and so on" she explained.
He nodded and placed it in his memory before speaking.
"So Vulpix can learn Normal moves? Anything else?" he asked her.
"No, nothing that I can think of. Do you wanna come with me to Viridian?" she then asked.
"I don't know where or what that is, but sure" he answered. She shuffed in her sandwhich and stood up and started to pack her stuff. He followed her example and picked up all of her stuff.
When they where done Zoey picked out a pokeball. "Timo, return" she said and Timo went inside the ball. Shinichi looked at her with a astonished face. "Shall we go?" she said with a smile and started walking.
As they where walking a shadow of a bird was nearby them all the time. Zoey didn't notice, but Shinichi did. As he was a great detective he had to notice things. He looked at Ran and Lily, and they seemed to have noticed aswell. But they didn't tell Zoey.
He looked at the horizon, and something was beginning to show. Except for trees and bushes.
"Zoey, is that Viridian?" he asked her. She looked up and smiled at him.
"Yepp, almost there. But it's almost lunch. Do you want to eat now or when we get there?" she asked him.
"I think we should eat there..." he said. He looked down on his blue school uniform. It was slightly dirty, and had some small open stitches. I should find new clothes... he thought. But I don't have any money..and I can't ask Zoey..
He sighed loudly and looked up at the sky. A black bird-alike thing was still flying over them, and now he started to think it was slightly annoying. He was about to say something to Zoey when the bird thing came down towards them. He was ready to dive to the ground, but the bird, that was bigger than Timo, landed quietly next to the road. Zoey turned towards the bird. This world is quite friendly, I gotta say..Shinichi thought when a boy jumped off the bird's back and smiled towards her.
"Drake! Where were you?" Zoey asked with a loud voice. The boy, Drake, blushed.
"I got lost...sorry" he answered. Shinichi directly saw that he was lying, but he didn't say anything to Zoey. Drake looked at Shinichi. "Who's he?" he asked. Zoey turned back and smiled at Shinichi.
"Shinichi" she said. He walked towards Drake and stopped a few steps away.
"Yo. I'm Shinichi" he said to Drake. Shinichi saw right through the boy. There were something weird about him. "Eh Zoey, maybe we should get going?" he said with a smile towards the girl. She looked at him, a little shocked, but then she nodded and smiled one last time towards Drake and then started walking. Shinichi looked at Drake and then walked up to Zoey.
Drake just looked after them, and what they didn't saw, was the lurking smile on his face.