Welcome back to my story, when we left off Lilly and Chad had decided to spend the night in viridian forest. Well without further interruption let's get back to the story.

I don't own pokemon.

Chapter 3

A fiery rivalry

Lilly and Chad got up and packed up their tent.

"Well today is another day and hopefully I will catch a pokemon too, I mean I need to if I want to get better" Lilly commented hopefully looking around.

"You're just saying that because the Pikachu got away," Cad commented.

She remembered how conceited it looked when it stuck its tongue out at her.

"Who wants such a rude pokemon anyway," she commented.

"Well anyways, come on out Eveith," she said pulling out the ball and throwing it.

In a flash her pokemon appeared once more. It cried out playfully and nuzzled Lilly's leg. She bent down and pet her Eevee under its chin. The bushes across from them parted and a caterpie wiggled out into view.

"Yeah, I knew it, there's one right now, this is my chance" Lilly exclaimed.

She reached into her trainer bag and grabbed another of her poke balls pressing the button that enlarged them.

"Alright, go get it," she exclaimed as she threw the ball at it.

The ball hit the pokemon and it was pulled inside by a red light. The ball shook once but snapped back open landing at Lilly's feet. The caterpie stared at her cautiously.

"Maybe you should weaken it first," Chad told her.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that," she said picking up the poke ball.

"Now Eveith us tackle," she exclaimed pointing at caterpie.

Her pokemon ran foreword and lunged at the bug pokemon. The caterpie shrieked as it was hit and was knocked to the ground. The pokemon got back up and began to flee.

"Not this time," Lilly said throwing the poke ball again.

The worm pokemon was pulled inside and the ball began to shake.

"come on work," she wispered.

There was a loud ping and the ball came to a stop. A big grin spread across her face as she retrieved her now occupied poke ball.

"Awesome, I actually caught a pokemon, that was so much fun," she exclaimed.

"I knew you could, we should press on, the sooner we make it to pewter city the better," Chad told her.

"I think I'll name her…Beth," Lilly comented as the two of them began to walk further into the forest, Eveith flowing close behind.

"Huh, name who," Chad inquired.

"The pokemon I caught," she answered with a smile.

"Do you have a name for your other pokemon," he inquired intently.

"Um…no not really, lets see…uh, spike sounds nice," she answered with a smile.

Soon they approached a large tree. Several yellow cocoons hung from it. She looked around appraisingly.

"I wonder what kind of pokemon this is," she commented.

Just then a swarm of beedrill swooped down from within the trees branches.

"Ahh, beedrill," Lilly exclaimed recalling her Eevee,

The two of them began to run and the swarm of angry insects followed. Lilly tripped and the insects continued to close in. Chad looked back and reached for his marill's pokeball, but before he did anything a stream of flames shot towards the insects scaring them off. She looked up to see a teenage boy with slick black hair. He had a pair of shades, a leather jacket and a pair of jeans.

"Thanks, they would have gotten me for sure," Lilly replied thankfully.

"Well I wouldn't have needed to help if you knew what you were doing," he commented.

He was standing beside a tan humanoid pokemon with a long tail, and floppy ears. A green fluid was dripping from the tails tip. Lilly growled and stood up.

"I never asked you to help anyway, Chad would've handled things," she replied.

"What, can't do nothing for yourself," he commented.

"Hey, quit messing with my friend buddy," Chad replied.

"Well if I'm such a buddy you won't mind some harmless chatting," he chuckled, his pokemon laughing along.

"Hey mister, why don't you and me battle, and when you lose you let us be," Lilly challenged him.

"Well sure, winning would be its own reward, but we use only one pokemon each," he replied.

"Agreed," she said picking her poke ball.

"Uh, maybe you should have made the wager, for him to show us the way to pewter city," Chad commented.

Lilly sweat dropped and the man grinned.

"so you are lost, me and da Vinci are her doing some training, I'm hoping some of your pokemon's moves are sketch worthy," he commented.

"Well I don't need the help of some arrogant jerk, go Eveith," she exclaimed as she threw the pokeball.

Her Eevee appeared in a flash.

"Heh, I figured you were a novice, you haven't even evolved your Eevee yet, what an armature thing to do," he chuckled.

"What she does with her pokemon is her decision, you've got some nerve," Chad growled.

"Da Vinci, use flamethrower," he exclaimed.

His pokemon lifted its tail and thrust it forward unleashing a stream of flames. Eveith leapt backward narrowly avoiding the flames.

"Okay Eveith use tackle attack," Lilly ordered.

Her pokemon ran towards his and prepared to tackle it.

"Use teleport now," he ordered.

His pokemon vanished and Eveith skid across the ground. His pokemon had reappeared near a tree.

"What kind of pokemon is that," she growled.

"A very special one, you'd have to practically be an expert to expect to be able to train it properly though," he commented.

"Grr…why you, Eveith try sand attack," she ordered.

Her pokemon kicked up a spay of sand that flew towards da Vinci.

"Pathetic, use flamethrower," he exclaimed.

His pokemon lifted its tail and unleashed another stream of flames that turned her sand attack into a few small shard of glass.

"And now follow up with your extreme speed," he exclaimed.

The pokemon vanished once more appearing before the Eevee striking swiftly. Eveith cried out as she toppled backward and skid across the ground.

"You aren't even a challenge to me or da Vinci, you mind as well give up now, for your Eevee's sake," he chuckled.

Her Eevee got back up and glared at her opponent.

"Extreme speed again," he ordered.

His pokemon vanished from sight again.

"Umm…Eveith us tail whip," she called out.

When his pokemon reappeared her pokemon began to use the move but da Vinci struck first and sent her reeling again.

"Eveith, are you alright," she exclaimed nervously.

Slowly but surely her pokemon got back to its feet.

"Big deal, extreme speed one last time," he cackled.

The pokemon disappeared from view and Eveith's eyes narrowed. Her pokemon leapt forward and opened her mouth. When da Vinci appeared in front of her it bit him on the nose. Da Vinci flinched and staggered back.

"Wow, she knows bite," Chad commented.

"Tackle," she ordered.

Her pokemon lunged forward delivering a punishing tackle to da Vinci.

"Don't let that runt push you around use flamethrower again," he exclaimed.

Eveith cried out as the flames hit her.

"Eveith," Lilly exclaimed.

The attack had left a burn on her side. She was breathing heavily now staring angrily at her foe. She shortly collapsed, she had fainted. Lilly ran over to her pokemon taking it into her arms.

"Heh, see yah," the man said as he and his pokemon left.

Chad had dug into his bag and pulled out a small spray bottle.

"Here, this'll help Eveith's burn," he told her.

She placed Eveith back on the ground and took the medicine form her friend. She sprayed her burn and it soon began to vanish.

"She deserves a rest, she fought well," she said returning her to her pokeball.

"So where do we go from here," Chad commented.

"Uh…this looks to be a good direction," she said pointing.