Okay, winner of the votes was Ponyta. So, lets get through this chapter and introduce her and Misty too.
Ash continued his walk down route 1, it was relaxing with the wind in his hair and the gently snoring of his little Togepi. Well, it was serene until something drastically changed. A loud scream, feminine in tone, shot through the route. It came from the nearby river from the sound of it, knowing the location sent Ash into a frenzy to save whoever was in danger. He arrived at the embankment to the river and carried on, following the gently blue sapphires until he reached the exact location. It was at the route's fishing spot, so it would be popular to fishers. And sure was it, there was a girl there with luscious tangerine haired girl with viridian colored eyes.
But that wasn't the interesting part, 'mostly' Ash's mind was still scanning the girl's curves and hips. But there was something in front of her, now it was known that Magikarp were common in fishing spots but it's evolution wasn't. Yet, here one was. A massive Gyarados towered over the girl, preparing to attack and potentially feed on the girl's scrawny body. Ash snarled, looking down at Shinx. He did know that the little lynx didn't have a electric move yet, but surely he would be able to handle this. "Shinx, use Leer to lower its defenses and then quickly attack with Facade!"
Shinx nodded, leaping and bounding on the field. His tail sparkled with electricity, as a red glow wrapped around the Gyarados to show it's decreased stat. A orange aura that wrapped around the lynx's body as he charged at the Gyarados, which knocked it back. Yet, it wasn't prepared to be beaten as it moved in with a bite. It's giant mouth clenched around Shinx' body as the Flash Pokemon gasped and cried in pain. "Shi-Shinx!"
"Shinx!" Ash gasped, as he stood in front of the still terrified girl that he wanted to protect. She was terrified, but also surprised by the boy's willingness to help her out. "Use Flash, blind it!" Shinx's body glowed very brightly and temporarily blinded the Gyarados, giving the lynx a chance to escape. Ash took his chances and yelled out. "Tackle it!"
Shinx quickly bolted forward once more, slamming into Gyarados' face and even stunned it with the movement. Suddenly, Shinx' tailed glowed a metallic silver and slammed into the Atrocious Pokemon. "Shinx!" the Pokemon cried, as his tail constantly slammed back and forth into water/flying dual type.
"Iron tail..." breathed Ash, with shock. "Wow, you learnt a new move. Now finish it with Facade!"
Gyarados attempted to use a Hyper Beam, it's mouth gearing up to latch the powerful move. It worked and the beam of yellow light came trembling out. Shinx barely dodged, as the beam destroyed a nearby tree. The electric type's body's aura turned yellow once again as he charged forward and finished out Gyarados. The dual type fell back into the river, giving an pained and annoyed cry.
Ash sighed in relief, getting out Shinx' poke ball upon seeing the electric type's tiredness. "Have a good rest, Shinx. Be rejuvenated for the next battle, will you?" the red light recalled the electric type, who gave a happy smile. The black haired boy then turned behind him and asked. "So, how are you, m'lady?"
The tangerine haired girl's eyes widened as her cheeks darkened, but she was somehow more relaxed then her frightened appearance from behind. "I-I'm fine..."
The ten year old chuckled, reaching out to grab the girl's hand to pull her back to her feet. "So, how you end up attracting that Gyarados to you? It didn't seem intentional, that was for sure."
"W-well...I was finishing, hoping for a rare water Pokemon or something. I don't know, I didn't intend on attracting that...beast," the girl seemed rather nervous when she said the word 'beast', it was very weird to hear the obvious nerves and fright in her voice. Was she scared of Gyarados? "I just caught a Magikarp and suddenly that Gyarados began to attack...," she then flinched, holding her arm in pain. There was a jagged bite mark, bleeding gently from those holes. It looked very painful and shocked Ash to the core.
He quickly grabbed her arm from her, looking at it closely. The bites were deep and bleeding tremendously. "This isn't good, it needs treating right away and we're still about half-an-hour off Viridian City...wait, maybe..." he began to think, getting into the bag that Togepi wasn't in. He was sure that his mom had packed a first aid kit and relief filled him when he found it. "Okay, hold still..."
He began to dab disinfectant along the injured region, which stung quite badly judging by the girl's expression. He then grabbed out one of his spare bandages and quickly wrapped it around, it wasn't perfect and would need proper doctor's attention. But it'd hold until they got there and protect the tangerine haired girl from blood lost. "There we go, is it too tight or anything?"
"No...it's fine," came the girl's soft reply, she was still confused by his willingness to help out. "Why are you helping me, you don't know me?..."
"'Cause I can't leave anyone in danger, it's not right and nobody should refuse helping out. My name is Ash Ketchum, by the way," he said with a smile, as he checked the bandage a few more times.
"Misty Waterflower...is my name," the girl said with a mild blush on her face, she seemed embarrassed that she hadn't thought of something as obvious as what he had said. "Your Shinx seemed quite powerful..." she complimented, with a cute smile. "It listened to you well and even learnt a new move from the sounds of it."
"Yeah, he's my battler at the moment. As my other Pokemon is still only a baby," when Ash saw Misty's confused face, he gently lifted Togepi out of her bag and showed the tangerine hair girl. "Here, my little baby Togepi,"
"Wow...it's so cute..." Misty whispered, trying not to wake to sleeping infant. "Where'd you get it?"
"She hatched from an egg I received from Professor Oak, was my starter Pokemon as I was late and didn't get one of the regular trio. She thinks I'm her daddy though so I couldn't leave her alone," he chuckled quietly, explaining the story of his starter. He then gently placed Togepi back in her bag, as he just smiled at his sleeping 'daughter'.
"Oh...my starter is a Staryu, which I received a little while ago. My eldest sister, Daisy, got 'her' for me and 'she' has been with me for a year or so...," the girl thought, trying to think of the exact number with no avail. Apparently, the Staryu and trainer had been together for quite some time so the trainer couldn't remember when she got the Staryu anymore.
"I see, so how old are you?" he asked, as they began to walk towards Viridian City. "Most trainers' get their starter Pokemon when they were 10 at the end of the day, so are you eleven or something?"
"Not exactly," Misty chuckled, though she didn't explain why. Her eyes rested on the bandage that encased her arm, before giggling. "I'm the same age as you, to be truthful."
Ash just looked at her with plain surprise and a quick. "Wait, what!?" Which elicited an adorable laugh from Misty, which he found to be more interesting then the fact she was his age and everything. She was just adorable, from head and toe and she had beautiful curves and everything. Yet, she was more of a tomboy beauty then a girly girl beauty if that makes sense. She had tomboyish hair, being that the beautiful tangerine was being held up into a lop-sided and messy ponytail. Her clothes were skimpy, revealing her belly bottom and most of her arms and legs.
"If your gonna stare then look at my face, not my clothes," said the girl sternly, snapping Ash's wandering eyes back to her own. She looked quite angry, though her cheeks were dyed red. "See, my eyes are up here and not down there. You boys are always so perverted...," she then shrugged and walked ahead, holding her arm in clear pain still.
"Sorry," Ash nervously replied, only to be ignored. He wasn't even certain on how to get back on the girl's good side, but then he remembered. She loved fishing, correct? So maybe she loved water types, he knew there wasn't many water types nearby but there were a few. He wasn't fully sure however, so he opened his pokedex and looked up route data for the route he was thinking of. Route 22, he planned to go there anyway to help training. But he could catch Poliwag, Magikarp was a bad idea judging by Misty's earlier reaction, Psyduck, Slowpoke and Buizel if Sinnoh music is played. His best bet was the Buizel, it was also the easier as he didn't have a rod and didn't expect Misty to lend hers out.
When they arrived in Viridian City, Misty made sure to go to the Pokemon Center to get her wound checked on and to heal her two Pokemon - both had been knocked out when she had attempted to battle Gyarados. Ash too went to the center, but only to heal Shinx so he could head out again. Misty's arm had turned out worse then it looked and required a bit of surgery to remove a Gyarados tooth from her arm - ouch! Ash decided to leave and get Buizel whilst Misty's operation was taking place as it could take awhile the doctors had said.
He arrived in route 22, taking in the fresh air. He had Shinx out and had his radio playing Sinnoh songs. He hoped to draw out a Buizel soon, but the only thing that seemed to be moving was a random Ponyta. It seemed interested in Ash and wouldn't leave him alone, often scaring potential Buizel when they appeared. Ash eventually gave in and turned to face the Fire Horse Pokemon, asking. "What is it that you want, Ponyta?"
"Taa!" it called, neighing out loudly before nuzzling one of Ash's poke balls on his hip. He realized instantly, the Ponyta wanted to be caught by him. Hmm, it could be interesting. A fire type, wasn't the best idea for the first gym but it could come in help during the grass gym later on.
"Alright!" he picked up his poke ball and was about to thrown, when he was harshly neighed out and the Ponyta pointed at Shinx. "Oh, you want me to beat you in battle first before capture. Don't you?"
"Pony-ta!" the fire type nodded, giving a smile.
"Alright, it gives us chance to pratice our Iron Tail!" He grinned, getting a nod from Shinx. The Flash Pokemon was always excited for a battle.
All the moment had awoken Togepi, who pulled herself up onto Ash's shoulder and then she tugged his ear to get his attention. "Togepi?"
"Toge-toge!"
"Oh, you wanna watch?"
"Togeprii!" the little one gave the affirmative nod.
"Alright," he pulled the fairy type into his arms as he looked down at Shinx. "Are you ready?"
"Shinx!" the Pokemon hopped forward, giving a big smile and leap of energy.
"Alright, begin with Iron Tail!"
Shinx's star tail gave a metallic glow as he charged forward at the Ponyta. Sure, the move wasn't super effective but it still made contact and did some damage. It was powerful, very. It was definitely Shinx' most powerful move besides Facade when status was taken into account. Ponyta moved forward, with a Flame Charge around its body. Ponyta's speed was much quicker now, but something happened when it hit Shinx with the attack. A burn? Flame Body, Ash's eyes widen with the realization. "Shinx, you've been burnt. Time to activate your ability!"
Shinx' body glowed, its attack raising back to normal after the attack drop. Guts had kicked in as well as the boost to Facade. "Alright, time to use Facade!"
Ponyta was faster, now attempting to stop Shinx with an interesting Double Kick. But Shinx was agile, fast on his feet and was able to just about dodge as the yellow aura swirled around his body and he slammed into Ponyta. The boost was all it took to knock Ponyta down and allow Ash to throw his poke ball, successfully capturing the Fire Horse Pokemon on the third click.
He threw the Ponyta out and quickly sprayed it with a potion to help it stand, giving a smile. "Sorry about that, Ponyta. But looks like your my Pokemon now."
"Pony-taa!" the Pokemon cried, happily running around. It didn't seem to mind the pain it had previously felt, she didn't even seem all that fazed by battling. It just seemed like she wanted to confirm that Ash was a good trainer.
"Alright, lets check you out," he got his pokedex out and quickly scanned the fire type before him. It took a while, especially since getting Ponyta to stand still took longer then it should have. But the Pokedex eventually clicked and began listing.
Ponyta, the Fire Horse Pokemon. Ponyta is very weak at birth. It can barely stand up. This Pokemon becomes stronger by stumbling and falling to keep up with its parent. This Ponyta is female with the ability Flame Body. Her moves include Flame Charge, Double Kick, Flame Wheel, Ember, Tackle, Growl and Morning Sun.
"Looking good, Ponyta. You'd make a great addit-," Ash tried to compliment, but Ponyta wasn't listening. In fact, she was now carrying Togepi on her back...wait, how did the infant get on her back in the first place? "Looks like your more for the caring and motherly type then battler, aren't you?"
"Pony," the fire type gave a gently nod, as she nuzzled Togepi gently. She then bent her head down to allow Togepi to wander off, which the little baby did. Togepi looked back up as the Fire Horse Pokemon neighed. "Ponyta."
"Prii! the little one squealed, as Ash picked her up.
"Come here, you little wanderer. What were you doing?"
"Toge-toge!" the little one waved her hands, trying to tell her daddy something. It was hopeless to understand, but it didn't matter to Ash as he found the actions to be just adorable. The little one was just that cute. "Togeprii!"
"Now, you little rascal. Its time for you to have your bottle and go back for nap-time," he pulled out a bottle of milk from his bag and gently placed it to Togepi's lips, which she took happily. She drank away, adorably and soon fell to sleep. She was only a baby, so sleep was very important to her at the moment. Ash placed her back in the bag and let her sleep. "Alright, you two. We need to get that Buizel," he said, staring at Ponyta and Shinx.
He turned his radio back on and waited, a Buizel soon came scurrying over. Luckily, it didn't take a battle to catch him since all it took was the promise of a kind ('ish' Ash thought) trainer to take care of him, so he could practice his battling, as well as nice food. Ash couldn't wait to present the Buizel to Misty, get her to forgive him the perverted looks he gave her earlier - unintentionally, he swore.
Ash arrived back to Viridian, finding Misty sat at a table in the Pokemon Center. Her arm was now in a sling, much to her clear annoyance. Ash winced at the sight of the sling, but walked closer with Buizel's poke ball in hand. "Hi, Misty. Um...how's your arm?"
"Can't you see for yourself," Misty sighed with evident annoyance "It's mostly fine, apparently the bite had left a tooth or something," she seemed quite drowsy, much have been the effect of the medication she was put on to relieve the pain. "Plus, it's broken..."
"Well, I got something that might make you feel better," Ash responded with a smile, getting the tangerine haired girl to look up at him with confusion. "Here," he handed her the poke ball and waited until she called the Buizel out.
Misty's drowsy eyes took a while to register the water-type but when Buizel hopped into her arms, she just fell in love and squealed as she hugged the Sea Weasel Pokemon. "Where you get this little cutie, Ash?"
"Over on route 22, I got a new Pokemon myself and thought that I could catch Buizel to cheer you up. I knew you'd be tired and in pain from that injury and I just thought it'd be nice."
"Well, thanks..." she bashfully said, hugging the Pokemon closely. She was still incredible tired, evident by her yawn and expression. "The nurse said I should stay here overnight, not to put too much stress on my arm..."
"Alright, I planned to stay anyway. Shinx still needs to master Iron Tail and I want to test out my Ponyta's moves," Ash chuckled, looking at her adorable drowsy expression. "Now you, m'lady, should be getting some sleep. It's not good for you to still be up when your healing."
"Okay..." Misty weakly whispered, she hated being treated like a weakling but she felt weak and tired so she couldn't help it at the end of the day. "Well, um. See you tomorrow..." her brain then clicked on something. "Wait, why does what I'm doing potentially effect your plan?"
Ash grinned. "I was hoping you would travel with me or something."
"Oh...I guess I could...got nothing better to do.." Misty tried to sound like she didn't care much, though there was a glimmer of excitement in her eyes. She wanted to find out more about this trainer before her.
Ash was also excited, the tomboyish beauty had said 'yes'. Admittingly with no care, but she had said 'yes' in a way. He couldn't be more excited to travel with Misty, her fiery and passionate nature just popped out and made her look stunning. It was gonna be amazing, that was for sure.
Quite a long chapter today, but I felt it was worth it. Hinted feelings, yes. But the true shipping is gonna be a bit of a wait, I'd rather develop them as friends initially and Misty has yet to show much feelings. Plus, sure Ash has physical attraction, I wouldn't call it a crush just yet. But oh well, next chapter takes us to Viridian Forest. Lets wait to see our favorite tomboy be scared, only for Ash to comfort her.
Ash
Togepi (Female)(Starter)
Shinx (Male)
Ponyta (Female)
Misty
Staryu (No-gender - could be considered female)(Starter)
Tentacool (Male)
Buizel (Male)
