Chapter 4 – Procrastination, Training and all that good stuff.

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"Speech" - 'Quotation'- 'Emphasis' –Pokéspeech –Telepathy –Legendaries – Pokédex.

Nidoran, The poison pin Pokémon. It stiffens its ears to sense danger. The larger its horns, the more powerful its secreted venom.

This Nidoran knows the moves: Leer, Peck, Focus Energy, Double Kick and Poison Sting. Its Ability is Poison Point; this ability may poison the foe upon contact.

"So, er how are we going to train my Pokémon?" Ash decided to ask his companion, breaking the silence between them.

"Well training differs for each form and each Pokémon." Misty replied flatly, like the answer was common knowledge.

He hated it when she treated him like he was stupid; just wait till his Pokémon were strong enough. He'd show her, by knocking her of her pedestal – but in order to do so he would have to take in everything she told him and soak it up like a sponge.

"Well you know how certain Pokémon can evolve right?" Ash nodded, "Well each form a Pokémon undergoes has certain changes that need to be taken account for; take your Nidoran for example. Nidoran stands on all four of its legs due to the structure of its body, whereas the final evolvement of Nidoran – Nidoking stands upright, on its two back legs, with its tail lengthening in size and helping support the entirety of its weight."

"But how would this affect training."

"I'm getting to that you impatient idiot" Misty huffed out, rubbing her temples to calm her growing temper, before turning to Ash with a bittersweet smile, making said Trainer sweat drop at the sudden mood swing. "Well, with a Nidoran, Trainers would usually put them through speed and strength training, to strength the power they hold in their legs, so when they would evolve, adjusting to the new changes and size differences would be easier. Trainers make it a point to strengthen the horn of their Nidoran and Nidorino; you see experiments have proven their evolvement is directly related to the strength and size of their horn. Remember this kind of training is most efficient for Nidoran and Nidorino due to them needing as much power in the their legs and horns as possible in order to finish their battles of as soon as possible, since stamina, nor defences are either of these Pokémon strong suits, with both actually being the Nidoran lines biggest weakness – well until they become Nidoking that is."

"Why is that?"Ash asked, feeling as though he wasn't getting any headway with this.

"Because this is where things get interesting." Ash rolled his eyes. She was doing it again. The whole 'matter of fact' tone when he answering his questions. Either she didn't see his reaction or didn't care to react to it – most likely the latter – Misty continued. "You see Nidoking and Nidoqueen are very versatile Pokémon. They can be trained to become strong both defensively and attackingly. They're in the same league as Pokémon like Kingdra, Rhypherior and Milotic. Heck I've seen a Nidoking one shot a Gym trained Gyarados!"

"Wow." Ash exclaimed, mouth agape. "I always thought Gyarados were nigh unbeatable in combat."

"Well apparently not." Misty snorted. "Well what do you say we get a move on and start with the training?" Misty asked rhetorically.

Ash just simply nodded.

"Well what are you waiting for? Hurry up." Misty asked impatiently, it wasn't like her Pokémon were going to get stronger just staying in their Pokéballs.

Training wasn't anything extraordinary like most would have expected. There was no thunder or blast of fires, all it really consisted of was sprints, attacking boulders and the occasional spar. Even then, the spars weren't too great since Abra had to restrain its powers to stop itself from harming its team mates too badly. But from what Misty had told him, this was how he should start training and then once his team were strong enough and in more in control of their powers he should move onto more advanced training. Either way Ash didn't mind, if anything, the tip Misty had given him made him want to get his Pokémon stronger that much faster. Maybe then training would be exciting.

Trainer battles. Now that was something Ash loved. The thrill and excitement within each battle was almost a high to the young Trainer – making his heart race, pumping his blood faster throughout his body. The most exciting prospect of battling to the young Trainer was meeting new Pokémon he hadn't seen before, like today he had seen a Trainer who was travelling with all 3 Kanto starters, and a Dratini. A FRICKIN' DRATINI! There was no way ash was going to miss the prospect of battling this specific Trainer! Na-uh. After winning the battle with against Nathan – The Trainer with a frickin' Dratini – Ash asked him just how he had gotten his Pokémon, as all of his Pokémon happened to be rare and rare Pokémon were either caught (which was rarely ever hence the word 'rare'), buying it or receiving it. In this case Nathan had bought his Pokémon from a Breeder named Brock. The same name as the Gym Leader he was going to be fighting soon, talk about weird coincidences.

Talking about Trainer battles. Would battles against other Trainers be classed as training? Hmmm, now THAT was a question that needed answering.

He was doing it again wasn't he? Ash sighed dejectedly before clenching his left fist and raising it to the skies to let out his frustration. Not even caring about weird looks he was going to receive from those around him.

"DAMN YOU PROCRASTINATION!"

Yeah he sure wasn't one for subtlety.

(The next morning)

Yeah not all dreams last huh. Some dreams are even ruined by witches, like Ash's was this morning. A witch named Misty. She had the gall to throw a bucket load of water on him and saying it was all in the name of proper Training. Bitch. How much he wished the girl would fall and break her leg and get mauled by a rabid Raticate.

Okay maybe not the Raticate part, she didn't deserve that kind of treatment.

Mope she didn't deserve that kind of mercy. Maybe getting mauled by a rabid Crobat would do nicely. At this Ash laughed evilly to himself gaining his companions attention.

"Erm Ash, are you okay?" Misty asked the freaky youngster in front of her.

Ash quickly recovered, the evil glint in his eyes completely gone, leaving no traces it even being there in the first place.

" Er yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Because you just did an evil laughter." There was that matter-of-fact voice that annoyed him again.

"Oh."

"Yeah, 'Oh'. Do you mind telling me what you were thinking off when you did the evil laugh?" Misty questioned, no demanded, narrowing her eyes.

Yep she was definitely curious now so yeah one could most definitely assume correctly that he was going to be hurting after this confrontation.

Damn. He was screwed. Now what was it that Gary had said all females liked? Hmmmm. Oh yeah flattery. Now came the hard part; finding a way to flatter Misty. Double damn.

"Er nothing, Oh Grand Master Misty-Who-Is-ExtremelyCool-And errrrrr. Yeah, y'know I've been doing some thinking and I have come to realise – all this dillydallying were doing is wasting precious time. Time we could have used more proactively. Time we could have used to train our poor Pokémon?" Ash almost questioned Misty for her approval of his excuse.

It almost looked like she wasn't taking his answer, but she finally gave in –probably because of the puppy dog eyes he did but hey he was one to look a gift horse in the mouth!

"I guess you're right. But if I find out you was having wrong thoughts about me then I will hurt you. Got it?" Misty said, moving her massive forehead close to butting with his, whilst jabbing her pointy index finger into his chest for further emphasis on how she was sure to castrate him had he been doing so.

Not one to back done, Ash lightly butted his head with Misty's before going red, realising the implication Misty had just made, making the Ginger giggle, very femininely?

He almost forgot she was a female.

Training was the same as the day. His team improved exponentially with Nidoran being the first of his Pokémon to evolve after some workouts to strengthen its horn. It was kinda weird to be honest but Meh, his Pokémon became stronger from the process so who was he to complain.

Misty had him train his team a lot more rigorously after that for two reasons. Firstly because she felt his Abra was close to evolving too and secondly to compensate for the bad Trainer they had leading them, whatever that meant.

...

That bitch..

Misty was right though – about Abra that is, but apparently something was stopping him from evolving, not the physical aspect rather the mental.

Sounded weird right? A Pokémon line renowned by the Pokémon Community for its mental prowess could only evolve when it felt mentally ready. Y'know when put like that it kinda makes sense.

Enough about that, he needed to get all the sleep he could because tomorrow he would taking on his first ever Gym Leader challenge.

His first true challenge since he became a Pokémon Trainer.

His measuring stick to see just how he fared against someone with better combat abilities than his own and more experience under their belt – Misty not included since her team was wayyyyy too over-powered for his team to fight. For now that is. Soon. Soon not even her team would be able to stand up to his.

With that thought, Ash fell asleep, letting his consciousness leave his body so he could rest for the victory which awaiting him.

Brock's up next chapter. Just so everyone know if the fight scenes aren't exactly amazing please do forgive me since it will technically be my first fight scene so yeah.

Also sorry it has taken soooo long with the chapter update, it's just I just can't seem to motivate myself into switching the damn computer on to start the damn writing!

Don't worry I will keep updating, you're just going to have to be patient.

Also I hope any and all Muslims who are reading this story had a blessed Ramadan and a very special Eid!