I looked at Nial in disbelief.

"Really, Well damn, I thought I was the special one with a Pokémon" I said

"Yeah, she left earlier today to go to pallet town" he said

"See that's weird because I went there about 30 minutes ago. Well anyway if she's going to get a Pokémon then I'm going to try and make sure I can kick her ass in a battle. That means training." I went to walk out of the house when charmander ran in front of me and pointed to pidgey.

"Charmander charman charmander char" he said

I didn't realize what it said but then I remembered something. Pidgey had just been in a battle and I had not healed it yet. I gestured for my Pokémon to follow and walked through town to the familiar red roof of the Pokémon centre. I walked inside the sliding red doors into the lobby and then up to the cities nurse joy and asked if she could heal my Pokémon. I put my Pokémon into their pokeballs and handed them to her.

"Do they have any wounds or would you just like them to be energised" she said in an almost too cheerful tone.

"Just energised please" I said.

She took my pokéball's to a machine and put them in two of the six empty slots in the top six on the machine. She then closed a clamp down on them and switched a button on the machine. The top flashed different colours and then went blank. She lifted the lid and pulled the pokeballs from the machine and handed them back to me.

"Is that all" she said in that unnaturally cheerful tone

"Yep, that's all "I replied and walked out the Pokémon centre

I decided to walk out to route 5 to find some Pokémon to train with and instantly found a couple of oddish. I sent out charmander and ordered him to use ember. One of the oddish saw the ember coming and dodged but the second did not and got hit square on by the ember. The hurt oddish ran to its friend and spat out an acid attack at charmander that caused it to fall down. The damaged oddish walked up to charmander with acid bubbling in its mouth.

"Charmander use ember" I shouted.

He jumped up and shot flames at the oddish and knocked it out. The other oddish went red with rage and started to dance causing petals to be realised form its leaves and shoot at charmander. Some hit but I quickly commanded charmander to use ember which burnt through the last of the petals and hit the oddish. The oddish tried to run away but was too clumsy and fell over. Charmander used a scratch attack and finished it off. The oddish clumsily got up looked around, spotted charmander and ran off. A meowth walked out of the bushes wanting to see what the commotion was about. It looked up at charmander and extended its claws. It ran towards charmander but I told charmander to dodge and use ember which hit the meowth. The Meowth fell over and hissed at charmander. Another mewoth heard the hiss and jumped form the bushes. I told charmander to use ember on mewoth 2 which knocked it out in one hit. Meowth 1 however saw this as a chance for revenge and slashed at charmander 4 times. Charmander took the attack and then countered with a scratch attack that knocked the Meowth to the floor. The meowth tried to get up but I told charmander to use ember and it knocked out the meowth. Charmander looked pleased with itself as it turned back to me. It however turned back as a large yellow Pokémon floated out of the bushes. It had a red star on its forehead and it was holding a spoon. Charmander looked at it and started to walk back to me.

"Don't worry Charmander. We can take on this this thing. Just trust me" I said encouragingly

Charmander looked me in the eye then to kadabra and let out an intimidating shout of "Charmander!"

I got out my pokedex and found out the Pokémon was called kadabra and that it was a Psychic type.

"Charmander use ember" I said

As the flames burst out of Charmander's mouth I realized that he was getting stronger. Before he only breathed smaller flames and at a slower pace, but now he was spitting more flames and he was doing it much faster. The flames hit the kadabra but they didn't seem to harm it much. Kadabra put its spoon in the air and a beam of rainbow like energy blasted from it. The beam hit Charmander straight away without me getting time to tell it to dodge. Charmander looked dizzy but he instantly focused and when I told him to use another ember and it hit the kadabra straight away. I noticed that when the ember hit kadabra its body seemed to glow red and even after the ember attack was complete there was still some flames burning on the kadabra. Kadabra looked weak but it still went to use another psybeam at Charmander. This time without me needing to tell Charmander to dodge he jumped aside and the attack just missed. But Charmander started to ready another attack without me telling it to and it looked different than ember. Purple flames started to leak from its mouth. Charmander then opened its mouth and purple flames in the shape of a dragon shot out. The kadabra was about to dodge but the burns on its body suddenly flared up and it flinched causing the huge purple flames to completely envelop its body. When the flames disappeared the unconscious body of kadabra dropped to ground, but instead of hearing a thud the Pokémon flashed a white light and teleported away. I looked at Charmander and smiled.

"Since when did you learn dragon rage Charmander" I said.

Charmander shrugged but then he smiled and eagerly looked into the bushes for any more opponents.

This was going to be fun.

30 minutes later

Pidgey watched as his latest opponent a gloom, fell to the floor in defeat. The Pokémon got back up and ran off into the bushes. The training was worth it because Pidgey had become much faster and had learned quick attack and Charmander leaned dragon rage and both of their old attacks had become much more powerful. I was about to search for another Pokémon when I heard a voice call out from behind me.

"Hey Adam, over here" a girl my age called out. She had black hair and was wearing a purple top with jeans on. A Pokémon that I remembered from professor oaks lab to be bulbasaur was running behind her. As soon as Charmander saw bulbasaur they ran up to each other and had a mini conversation.

"So Priya, Chose bulbasaur did you" I said.

"Yeah, it's so cool and awesome looking. And guess what. Mine knows vine whip, tackle and leech seed. And it's so strong cause on the way here I trained in the tall grass" she said all at once

"Whoa calm down. You seem way to hyper". I said

She took a breath, looked at me and said "you know what this means know though. We both have Pokémon so now we have to" "battle!" I interrupted excitedly

Bulbasaur and charmander both turned around at the mention battle and returned to their masters.

"Priya prepare to get your ass kicked"

If anyone does read this then sorry for the long wait for this chapter. Mostly because of Christmas and be getting a copy of Pokémon mystery dungeon explorers of sky which if I may point out is an awesome game. I guess it's not really a good excuse but if I got some reviews (ahem definitely not begging for attention ahem) then I might write more because I know I have people to please. Also sorry for such a short chapter but I get kinda bored with writing long chapters. Anyway RIVAL BATTLE!