Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Pokémon and I am not making a profit by writing this story.

As we plodded along, there was a crackle in the bushes and out sprung a dog like Pokémon. I quickly got out my pokedex and aimed the sensor at the Pokémon.

Poochyena

A Pokémon with a persistent nature, it chases its chosen pray until the prey becomes exhausted.

"Torchic how's about we capture it? You ready for your first battle?"I said quickly and quietly. She gave a loud chirp and walked steadily towards Poochyena.

"Torchic peck now!" I shouted as she ran. She hit it hard on the chest." Well done! That was a bulls eye!". The poor Poochyena fell to the soft mudded ground. Now was my chance I through a poke ball and with the red light surrounding it and Poochyena disappearing into the ball I watched with hope. I heard click, click, and click and then the ball stopped moving.

"Yes we did it Torchic we did it!". She came running to my heels and cuddled into me happily. "Are first catch Pokémon, should we have a look?". She gave me a big chirp which I took as a yes. "Come on out Poochyena!"And with a flash of light Poochyena appeared." Hiya I'm Adriana and this is Torchic, I'm your trainer from now on is that ok?".

"Pooch, pooch!" It said which I took as a yes as it cuddled into my side.

"So are you a boy or a girl? I know you tell me, go over to that tree if you are a boy or if you are a girl go to that big shiny rock" I said as it started to move slowly. It moved over to the..... Tree." You're a boy, cool! Well welcome to the group Poochyena how about you and Torchic have a battle to improve your skills?" I said looking around for a space to battle in. They both nodded. "Ok let's go". We jogged over to a big space hidden by trees.

"Tor torchic"

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Ok let's go Torchic scratch and Poochyena tackle" I shouted. There was a lot of movement and a full on scratch and tackle both Pokémon where effected by the good attacks. "Perfect!" I bubbled happy to see them learning. "Now something harder, um, Torchic smokescreen and Poochyena use howl". The whole pitch disappeared into the black smoke but you could hear everything and especially the loud howl. "Brilliant!" I said as I watched in amazement. They were really going for it.

"Right you ready to try really hard as this is going to be difficult? Right Torchic ember! You can do it!".She looked into my eyes and breathed in. Then there was a puff of smoke but no fire." You can do it have another go!" I said trying to encourage her. She tried but failed... again. "One more try go on" I myself did not believe she could do it on the 3 time. She concentrated at Poochyena breathed in, breathed out then once more in filling her lungs and out came a small amount of the ember attack not enough to hit Poochyena but enough to see it go to the tree that was next to her. " You did it, we need to work on it but you did it I'm so proud of you but now it's Poochyena try using bite on that tree that Torchic used you can do it you just have to believe!".

He ran at the tree and opened his mouth so wide I thought he would swallow the tree not bite it! His teeth were pearly white, and as he bite the tree he looked at me as if to say "I did it (even though I thought I couldn't)!". He was very happy with his result. I looked at the tree and saw the bite marks, they were sure deep!

Right how about some food after all that effort?" I asked as they ran to are camp. After are meal we headed to Oldale we were going to get there ready.