Chapter 3: The training begins
"Here, your pokédex and your pokéballs," Leana gave Jeff a pokédex and five pokéballs.
"What is this pokédex?" Jeff asked Leana. Leana giggles.
"This device will record any new pokémon that you will encounter during your journey. You can also use it to check the information about the pokémon that you wanted to know."
Juniper approaches Jeff after she's done her job recently.
"Jeff, you will stay here with Leana for your training. I need to get back to my lab at Nuvema," Juniper looked at the pokéball in Jeff's hand. "Capture more pokémon so your adventure will be easier."
Juniper went out from the room. Jeff looked at his pokéballs that was the same size as a ping pong ball.
"Hey umm… how to make this pokéballs as big as this one," he shows the pokéball that has a snivy in it to Leana.
"You just need it to be in standby mode and it will automatically change its size as its normal size," she grab one of Jeff's ball and handle it in her fist.
The pokéball changes its size into a normal one which is the same size as a baseball.
"Let's go to the battle club. We'll train there," Leana throw the ball to Jeff and he catches it.
The both went to the battle camp on foot walking on the path.
It was a long way from the lab to the battle club so on the way, they decided to stop at the city's pokémon center which is closer than the battle camp.
Jeff and Leana finally reached the pokémon center of Striaton City.
They enter the red roof building and went to the counter with a nurse.
"Hi, my name is Nurse Joy and welcome to the pokémon center. We help to rest your pokémon and heal them. Do you want to rest your pokémon?" the nurse asked them.
"Yes please, I wanted to rest my oshawatt," Leana gave her pokéball to Nurse Joy.
Nurse Joy then put the pokéball on some kind of healing machine which can store six pokéball at once.
"Here you go, may I help you with something else?" Nurse Joy asked Leana while giving Leana her pokéball.
"Maybe you can ask the boy next to me, he's a new trainer," Leana whispers to Nurse Joy.
Nurse joy looked at Jeff with a smile. "Can I help you?" she asked.
"No thanks but I think we have met before right?" Nurse Joy giggles.
"No but maybe you've met my sisters…" she shows Jeff a picture of Nurse Joy's siblings.
"See, this is me…" she pointed at the Nurse with a blue cross at her hat on the picture.
"And this is my sisters," Jeff seems to be confused. He just pretend that he understand that.
"Well Nurse Joy, I think I need to go now. We are going to the battle club to train our pokémon," she lowered her head and back up again.
"Thanks for using our service, hope to see you again!"
Jeff and Leana leave the pokémon center and went to the battle camp. They walk along the path near the road at the city.
"Hey, here I'll give you something…" Leana grabs something from her pocket.
"Here, it's a potion. It can heal your pokémon during a battle if your pokémon started to feel hurt." Jeff grabs the potion and put it in his bag's pocket.
"Thanks Leana, you're very helpful," Leana giggles. "No thanks, I'm glad to be your mentor."
Leana and Jeff reached outside the battle club. It is a big green building with a huge pokéball logo in front of it.
Outside of the battle club is decorated with green bushes and colorful flowers.
They went inside the battle club and heard people battling.
"I think we should take a look," Leana said.
They both run to the battle room where a practice battle is on going.
"Tepig, use ember!" the male trainer orders his tepig to fight its enemy.
"Pansage, avoid!" the female trainer order her pokémon to avoid the attack and female trainer's pokémon fainted by the attack.
"No, pansage," she lift her pokémon and leaves the room.
"That's enough, Unive. You win this round," a man approaches the male trainer named Unive. The man turned back and look at Jeff.
"Hey there! Can I help you?" the man approaches Jeff.
"Umm… we wanted to train our pokémon here, can we?" he smile proudly.
"Of course, every trainer can train their pokémon here before a contest or just for fun," he said.
"Oh, and my name is Leader Luke. I'm a new leader for this battle club."
Unive approaches the three and he looked at Jeff.
"Hi, my name is Unive and err… I'm a new trainer here," Unive observe Jeff from top to toe.
"I see you're a trainer too. I'm glad to see you. You wanted to battle?" suddenly, Leana breaks their talks.
"Umm… hey…ummm… let me… err… battle you instead," Unive proudly smiles.
"Ok, I'm glad to battle another girl," Leana and Unive went to the battle court. It is square just like a tennis court without a net.
"This is going to be great!" Leader Luke shout excitedly.
Jeff only standing firm and observe the fight. Both Leana and Unive are staring to each other and they are ready for battle.
"Go oshawott!" Leana summons oshawott. "Go pidove!" Unive summons a pidove.
"I should let girls do first," Unive give a permission to let Leana attack first.
"Oshawott, water gun!" a spray of water splash through pidove's face.
"My turn, pidove, use gust!" a gust of wind blow oshawott away making the oshawatt hurts badly.
"Pidove, use peck!" Unive order his pidove to attack the half-fainted oshawott.
"Oshawott, avoid!" oshawott avoids the attack making the pidove to slam its face on the ground. Pidove instantly fainted.
"What the… this isn't possible!" Unive shocked.
"You only have one pokémon left, boy. Why don't you use your tepig instead?" Leana stand loosely while putting her both hand on her hips.
"Well ummm… one is enough… err… I guess you win," Unive smiles to Leana.
"That's enough! Unive, bring your pokémon to the pokécenter for healing," Leader Luke tells Unive to bring his pokémon to the pokécenter.
"Well young lady, you and your pokémon are strong, how did you do that anyway?" Leana smiles to Leader Luke.
"It's just… a lot of practice." She winks to Luke.
Leana approaches Jeff.
"See Jeff, it isn't that hard. Now you'll try," Leana stands on the other side of the court and Jeff stands opposite of where Leana stands
"Ok, now summon your pokémon," Leana grab her pokéball that contains her oshawott and throw it at the ground. The ball releases the pokémon.
"Ok, go Snivy!" Jeff throws the pokéball and summons his snivy. Both snivy and oshawott are ready to fight.
"Jeff, order your pokémon to attack," Jeff was confused.
"I don't know what kind of move it can do," Leana does a face palm.
"He can use tackle and leer. Leer can lower the defence and tackle can use to attack the opponent's pokémon."
"Umm… err… Snivy…err… use tackle!" the snivy approaches the oshawott and tackles it using its tail.
"Nice, now it's my turn. Oshawott, use water gun!" oshawott spray the water to snivy and make the snivy fall to the ground.
"No! Snivy, get up!" Snivy get's up.
"Now, use leer," Snivy use the leer and drops the oshawott's defence.
"Good, lower the defence will give you an advantage," Leana said. "Oshawott, use tackle!" oshawott tackles Jeff's snivy.
"Snivy, use tackle," Jeff's snivy tackles Leana's oshawott and it makes the oshawott felt dizzy.
"Now, it's my chance. Snivy, use tackle. This attack might make the oshawott faint," Leana just looked at Jeff while giving her finest smile.
"Impressive, he is a fast learner," Leana said.
Snivy uses the tackle against the almost-faint oshawott. With one strike, the oshawott fainted.
"Oshawott, return," Leana grabs her pokéball and return her oshawott back to its pokéball.
"You make a quite good progress here. Now, you have won your first battle," Leana puts her pokéball in her pocket after shrinking it.
"Shouldn't you revive your pokémon?" Leana puts her right hand on Jeff's shoulder. "Yeah right, let's go to the pokécenter."
At the pokécenter, Leana and Jeff are waiting for Leana's pokémon to be revived.
"Leana, here is your oshawott. He might need some rest, other than that he's ok," Nurse Joy hand the pokéball to Leana.
"Thanks for reviving him," Leana takes the ball. "Sure, hope to see you again!"
Leana turn around and went to Jeff. She grabs a pokéball from her pocket.
"Let's go catch some pokémon. I'll show you how," Leana said while giving a smile to Jeff.
"Uhh…umm… ok…let's…go catch some…err…pokémon," Leana giggles.
They both leaves the pokécenter and went outside the city. Leana will teach Jeff how to catch a pokémon.
Now, Jeff has known how to battle and win. Is he will being able to conquer the Striaton City gym?