I heard them talking.
What the hell?
"You heard my pokemon...talking," Touko said, looking at the guy. (He looked around their age, maybe a few years older.) He nodded, and he looked sincere. He was obviously lying, though. Nobody could understand exactly what pokemon said. Translators had been made before, but none had been very effective. But the thought of a person being able to understand pokemon speech was impossible.
...or was it?
Touko glanced at Cheren, trying to decipher his reaction. Maybe he'd know something from his books. The black-haired boy looked thoughtful, as he scratched his head, but he offered no explanation. Bianca looked confused, to put it simply, and so did Hilbert.
"Yes, they were talking," the guy said firmly. "They were saying..."
He trailed off, seeing that none of them responded. "So you four can't hear them... How sad. My name is N."
Touko looked back to her friends, mouthing, what do we do? This guy was peculiar for sure, but she had no idea if he was good or bad. Did he pose a threat to them? What if they just ran and ditched him right now?
Cheren seemed to take the polite approach. "My name is Cheren, and these are my friends - Touko, Bianca, and Hilbert. We're on a journey to help the professor complete the pokedex."
"The pokedex, hm?" N asked. "You're going to have to catch lots of pokemon and keep them in pokeballs to do so. I'm a trainer myself, but is this really right? It makes me wonder..."
He trailed off and turned to face Touko with a determined look. "Well, Touko, let me hear your pokemon's voice again! Go, purrloin!"
N tossed a pokeball, and a purple and furry quadrupedal pokemon came out, landing lightly on four paws. It had cream-coloured markings on its body, and intelligent green eyes. "Purrloin!" it cried, dropping into a crouch.
"Touko, let's go. We don't need to get into a battle with this guy!" Cheren called out desperately, but Touko ignored him. She was already tossing her snivy's pokeball in the air, shouting, "Jade, come on out!"
Her snivy appeared with a flash of red light, and turned to face the purrloin with narrowed eyes. "Sni!"
"Jade, use vine whip!" Touko commanded immediately. She was eager to test out the new move. Jade ran, two vines growing from her body, and leaped into the air before the purrloin, lashing out multiple times with the vines. The purrloin cried out and flinched, stumbling back as Jade continued to hit her with her vines.
"Purrloin, get out of the way!" N shouted. "Then use scratch!"
"Stop using vine whip, and dodge it if you can, Jade!" Touko cried. Her snivy landed back on her feet, the vines retracting into her body as she did. N's purrloin started running at Jade, surprising Touko with its agility. Waiting until the last second, Jade leaped up, but the purrloin had somehow predicted the action. The feline pokemon leaped up as well, scratching her snivy with a claw before landing lightly. Jade cried out and fell back, barely managing to land on her feet.
N went for the offensive next. "Use scratch again!"
"Dodge, and use vine whip!"
"Use growl!"
Jade managed to hit the purrloin away with a few vine whips, stopping it from using growl. Feeling more confident, Touko shouted, "Now finish it off with a tackle!"
"Scratch, purrloin!"
Both pokemon collided into each other, purrloin scratching snivy, snivy hitting purrloin with a vine. There was a small dust cloud from the impact, and when it cleared Touko ran over worriedly. To her relief, Jade was on her feet, looking determined, and breathing hard. N's purrloin stood up shakily as well, and collapsed, causing the green-haired trainer to cry out. "Purrloin!"
He ran to his collapsed pokemon and picked it up, eyes wide with worry. Touko almost felt a pang of pity, but she pushed it away. He was just another weirdo, someone she shouldn't care about. She'd probably never see him again after this, anyways.
Touko recalled Jade to her pokeball, and straightened up.
"I can't believe it...I've never heard pokemon saying such things," N murmured, after recalling his pokemon. "As long as pokemon are being confined in pokeballs, they'll never be perfect. I have to change the world for them...because they're my friends."
Without another word, he walked off.
"Oookay," said Hilbert slowly. "That was a little bit weird."
"Are there always this many weirdos?" Touko grumbled. "First some crazy guy who wants to 'liberate' pokemon, and now a guy who can apparently talk to pokemon."
"I never came across people this weird when I was travelling," Hilbert admitted, laughing slightly. "Although, I did come across Team Plasma before...they stole a little boy's pokemon. I helped get it back."
"They sound like terrible people," Bianca mused, and Touko agreed. What right did they have to go around, stealing people's pokemon and saying that it was 'for a good cause'?
"Oh, and Professor Juniper gave me this," the blonde added suddenly, fishing out a letter from her pocket. "She asked me to deliver it to a girl in a house located in the northeastern part of the town. Apparently her house is on an outlook..."
Touko peered ahead, seeing several streets with houses and apartment buildings, and saw an outlook with a single house. That had to be it.
"Isn't it the house there?" Cheren asked, pointing in the outlook's direction.
"That must be it!" Bianca agreed cheerfully. "Let's go, guys!"
Inside the house, they found two people. A brunette girl with pigtails sat playing the piano, and a brunet boy sat playing the drums. They didn't seem to notice the four trainers' presence for a while, and Cheren cleared his throat. That caused both of them to look up, and the girl grinned widely as if they were old friends.
"Would you like to hear us play a song?" she asked, beaming. "It's our specialty."
"Oh yes!" Bianca exclaimed happily, grinning back. "We'd love to!"
The blonde seemed to have forgotten all about the letter they were supposed to deliver. But one song wouldn't hurt. Besides, I could do with some music right now, Touko thought. The girl beamed again and said, "Great! Let's start!"
They immediately started playing a happy, upbeat tune, which made Touko close her eyes and grin. It was very catchy, and pleasant sounding. She opened her eyes to see her friends moving slightly to the rhythm, even Cheren.
Too soon it was over, and the girl grinned widely at them. "So? What did you think? I'm Grace, and this is my brother Sage. We love playing music!"
"That was awesome!" Hilbert exclaimed. "Really aw - "
"I have a letter for you!" Bianca sang, interrupting him, and thrust the letter at Grace. The brunette girl took it and opened it, her eyes widening as she read it. "Sage," she began breathlessly. "You won't believe it. We've both been accepted into that fancy music school mother applied us to!"
She turned to the four trainers, and said, "Thank you so much for delivering the letter to us! You're trainers, aren't you? I wish you luck on your journeys!"
"Don't need it," Hilbert responded jokingly, with a grin. "You're welcome, by the way."
The boy smiled now, and Cheren spoke up. "We should go, but congratulations," he said.
"Of course. Thank you again!" the girl smiled widely.
Touko followed her friends out of the house, and as they descended the stairs leading to the outlook, said, "That music really was nice. I've never heard anything like it."
"It was just so catchy!" Bianca agreed. "Anyways, what do we do now? Split up, or keep travelling together?"
Her question left a silence for a while, as Touko and the others contemplated the thought. The blonde was right, though - what should they do? Hilbert probably wanted to continue his own journey, and they shouldn't keep him back. The three of them would probably want to travel at their own paces, too. But did she feel comfortable, travelling on her own? No one to rely on but herself?
"I think we should split up, at least in twos," said Cheren, breaking the silence. "It might be best. After all, we have different goals, don't we?"
That made Touko feel uncomfortable. She knew Cheren wanted to be the strongest, Bianca was interested in being the professor's assistant, and Hilbert just liked to travel and explore. But she had no idea what her goal was. So far, none of them had the same goal.
"None of us have the same goals," Touko said, slowly. "So I think it has to be everyone on their own - for a while, at least. Maybe we could travel together later."
Her heart sank slightly as the others nodded. It was for the best, but she'd miss their company. Even Hilbert was looking serious for once.
"Then it's settled," the brunet boy said, with a sad smile. "We're officially splitting apart."
"It won't be permanent, right?" Bianca asked hopefully. "Like Touko said, we could travel together sometime again."
"We will," Cheren promised, with a slight smile. "Sometime. Maybe even after we reach the next city."
"Sounds good," Touko agreed. She opened her arms with a smile. "Group hug?"
"Group hug," the three echoed, and they embraced each other tightly. Again, Touko reminded herself to let go. This wasn't permanent, after all. It was only for a short while. Soon they'd be back together.
"See you later, then," Cheren said immediately, after they broke apart. "I'm off to Route 2." He was gone in a few minutes, walking to the west from where they were. Touko peered after him, seeing a tunnel-shaped building up ahead. His figure disappeared into it, and she turned back to Hilbert and Bianca.
"I'm going to explore this town a bit more," the blonde decided cheerfully. "See you two."
She was gone too, headed down a street to their left, and it was just Touko and Hilbert left. Hilbert shuffled his feet, and said, "To be honest, I don't really know what my goal is. I think I'll just travel at my own pace."
"Same," she agreed simply. There was a silence.
"Well.." Touko began. "I think I'll go to Route 2 as well. See you later, Hilbert."
She hesitated for a moment as he responded, "Actually, I'm thinking of doing the same thing." He paused, and smiled sheepishly at her. "Is it okay if I tag along? I don't really have anything else to do. I've already been here, after all."
"Sure, why not?" Touko agreed, brightening up. She shot him a cocky grin. "I did say everyone in their own, but hey, what Bianca and Cheren don't know won't hurt them. Besides, it's not like we took an oath or something."
He grinned back. "Gotcha. So...let's go?"
"Let's go," she responded confidently. "Although - could we stop at the pokemon center quickly? I want to heal Jade."
Hilbert shook his head at her in mock disappointment, but smiled goofily. "Sure."
It didn't take them long (although the nurse had to take some extra time to heal one of the scratches purrloin had made), and soon they were heading out to Route 2. Touko hadn't gone far when the XTransceiver on her wrist started to ring, indicating a call. She muttered a quick "excuse me" to Hilbert, and looked down at the screen. It was her mother calling. She quickly pressed the pick up button, and her mother's face appeared on the screen.
"Touko! How are you doing?" her mother asked immediately, smiling. "From what I can see, you look well."
Touko laughed, and responded, "I'm great, thanks mom. Hilbert and I are headed out on Route 2. We've just left Accumula Town."
"Hello, Mrs. White!" Hilbert leaned over, grinning. "Good to see you!"
On the screen, Touko's mother chuckled. "Good to see you too, Hilbert. Touko, I couldn't help calling to check on you. Everything's fine, then?"
"Perfectly, mom," Touko told her, smiling. "I love you. I promise I'll visit sometime."
"I love you too, sweetie. Have fun."
Her mother hung up, and Touko turned off the screen of her XTransceiver. She straightened up and turned back to Hilbert. "Shall we keep going?" she offered.
"Obviously, yes," was his response, making her chuckle. They kept walking, and up ahead to their right was a large patch of tall grass. Rows of trees surrounded the grass, and to their left was a large boulder, which Touko tried (and obviously failed) to push out of the way. Hilbert told her that it required a pokemon to use the move strength on, which made her upset.
They continued through the tall grass, and bumped into a purrloin. But Touko didn't catch it. All it reminded her of was the peculiar green-haired guy back in Accumula Town, and that just confused her. He was just some weirdo on the streets, and she'd probably never see him again. But why did she feel like they would?
"What do you think of that N guy we met in Accumula Town?" she asked, turning to look at Hilbert. "Do you believe that he can actually talk to pokemon?"
He frowned thoughtfully, and shrugged. "I don't really know. I've never heard anything like it, but I don't think it's impossible, though. I'm curious as to who exactly he is - his name can't really be N."
"Maybe it stands for something," Touko suggested, stepping over a tree root in the grass.
"Probably," Hilbert answered, a grin appearing on his face. "Maybe it stands for 'nuts'."
She laughed in response. "Yeah, maybe."
They continued making their way through the tall grass, until they reached a neat-looking dirt path that led forward to another patch of tall grass. There was grass growing here as well, but it was very short and definitely did not have any pokemon hiding in it. They continued for a good twenty minutes, and reached the tall grass. As Touko walked through it, she almost bumped right into a pokemon. She managed to stop right in front of it, and frowned as she looked at it. This was a pokemon she didn't recognize.
"Au," the pokemon said, stepping back. It was pink and cream coloured, and stood on two short legs. Its blue eyes blinked at them, and it beamed.
"What's that?" Touko asked, while digging into her bag for her pokedex. As she pulled out the device, Hilbert said, "It's an audino. They help out at pokemon centers, and they also give a good amount of experience to your pokemon when you fight them."
Curious, she held her pokedex to scan it. Text appeared, saying that audino was the hearing pokemon, able to access the physical and mental state of a pokemon using its ears. "That must be why it helps out in pokemon centers," she mused out loud, whole glancing down at her snivy. "Jade, ready to go?"
"Vy!" her pokemon responded determinedly, and behind her, Hilbert chuckled. "So you're taking it on? Good luck!"
Touko nodded to him, and said, "Jade, use vine whip!"
Her snivy burst into action, lashing out at the audino. The battle went fairly quickly, and soon the audino had fainted. She felt a bit bad for hurting it, but that was just part of pokemon battles, wasn't it? They continued along the route, until a patrat ran up to them.
"Patrat, pa!" it cried. It didn't look like a wild pokemon to Touko, and they weren't in the tall grass, either. So it belongs to someone, then, Touko thought. Maybe it's a trainer's pokemon.
"Hey, patrat! What're you doing?"
A boy's voice reached them, and Touko looked up to see a boy that looked around their age running towards them. He was dressed in a yellow t-shirt and blue shorts, and brown hair peeked out of his blue cap. A bandage was on his nose, and there was a grin on his face. He stopped in front of them, and patrat started to point at her, jumping up and down.
"Think she's a strong one?" the boy asked his pokemon, ignoring her and Hilbert. The brown pokemon nodded, and kept pointing. That made the boy's grin grow wider, and he looked up to examine Touko. There was a twinkle in his eyes, and he said, "Hey, you! Want to battle me?"
Touko glanced back at Hilbert, her eyes shooting him the question, You okay with that? Hilbert nodded in response, looking slightly amused. So Touko beckoned her snivy forward, and turned to face the boy with her own grin. "You're on."
"Great! Patrat, use leer!" The boy shouted. "Then follow up with tackle!"
"Jade, beat him to it! Vine whip!" Touko commanded. Her snivy started to run forward, but froze in her tracks when the patrat' eyes began glowing red, giving it an intimidating look. That made the boy grin, and say, "Good, now tackle!"
The patrat started to run forward, and Touko yelled desperately, "Jade, snap out of it! Vine whip, hurry!"
To her relief, Jade unfroze and ran nimbly towards the patrat, easily dodging its tackle, and landing multiple lashes of her vines on the brown pokemon. It fell backward, with a cry of pain. Jade landed on her feet lightly, waiting for Touko's next command.
"Tackle!" she shouted, deciding that patrat would have a hard time dodging it, since it was hurt and her snivy was in close range.
"Dodge!" the boy said quickly, and to Touko's dismay, the patrat managed to jump out of the way, making Jade skid to a stop, losing time. By then the patrat was already slamming into her snivy with a tackle.
"Crap," Touko muttered under her breath. The tackle seemed to do a lot more damage than usual, and that made her think back to the leer patrat had used. Of course, she thought. Leer lowers the opponent's defence.
"Jade, go for your own tackle!" she shouted. This time the tackle landed, and the patrat wobbled on the spot before collapsing, having fainted. A grin made its way onto Touko's face, and she ran forward to pick up Jade, hugging her tightly. "We won our first trainer battle!" she exclaimed, dancing around on the spot. "All thanks to you, Jade!"
"Snivy, vy," her snivy responded, looking pleased.
True, she'd already fought Cheren and Bianca, but they hadn't technically been trainers back then. This guy probably was a real trainer.
Touko looked up to see the boy digging into his pocket, pulling out a few bills. A confused frown appeared on her face, as he made his way towards her. "Why are you paying me?"
The boy raised an eyebrow. "You don't know? It's common courtesy to pay the trainer you lost to. If you don't know that, then you must be a newbie."
"Got anything wrong with that?" she responded immediately, crossing her arms. He frowned, holding up his hands, and laughed. "Nope. Not at all. I like meeting newbies."
Touko raised her own eyebrow, but didn't question it.
"So." His frown was replaced with a wide, and rather flirtatious grin as he pressed several bills into her hands. "I don't believe we introduced ourselves. I'm youngster Jimmy. And you are...?"
Touko shuffled quickly through the bills, counting mentally in her head. 100, 110, 112 pokedollars. She looked back up to the youngster, who was still grinning. "Uh...I'm Touko. Touko White."
"Nice name," the youngster responded, winking. "So, mind if I register you on my XTransceiver?" As he spoke, he pulled the device from his pocket, fastening it onto his wrist, which he held in front of her. "I'd like to be acquainted with you, if you don't mind."
"Er..." Touko turned to look back at Hilbert, looking for his reaction. Her companion looked like he was struggling to hold in laughter, probably at the boy's attempt of flirting. Well, to her it sure looked like he was trying to flirt.
"Uh, sure, why not?" she ventured, with an awkward laugh. If there was one thing she was bad at, it was dealing with flirty boys. Not because she got embarrassed easily, or found them cute - she was more of a tomboy, who didn't like dealing with boys who flirted. She liked boys who accepted her as one of them, and didn't think of her as just 'a girl'. Her mother often joked that she should've been born a boy. Anyway, Touko decided that she might as well add the guy as a contact - who knew, maybe he could actually be a potential friend.
He registered himself as "The Awesome Youngster Jimmy" on her XTransceiver, and she just called herself "Touko". After exchanging a quick goodbye, she and Hilbert continued down the route.
"That guy was weird," Touko began, as they walked. "I'm starting to think that all the guys in Unova are weirdos. Except, you know, you and Cheren."
Hilbert laughed. "Maybe you're right. I dunno, I guess I could say I'm kinda weird. Same goes for Cheren. Depends on what your definition of 'weird' is."
"You've got a point," she admitted.
They took a break for a while, sitting down in the shade of a tall tree. Hilbert let his pokemon out, and Touko let Jade play along with them, but warned her to be careful of getting squashed. (All of Hilbert's pokemon were considerably larger than Jade.) After a while they packed up, and continued down the route. They had a few more wild pokemon encounters, and Touko noticed how much stronger Jade seemed already. She couldn't wait until she evolved.
The outlines of buildings soon appeared in the distance, meaning that they were almost at Striaton City - her first gym challenge. ("You'll have to fight the gym leader with a pokemon that has the advantage over your starter," Hilbert had told her. "I recommend you catch another pokemon to use instead of snivy.") As Touko walked, she nearly tripped over something on the ground. Once she'd righted herself, she peered down to see a potion lying on the ground.
"Huh," she said, frowning. "Where'd that come from?"
"Lots of trainers drop things," Hilbert said, shrugging. "I've picked up things like evolution stones, potions, pokeballs..."
"It doesn't feel right taking it," Touko admitted, picking up the bottle. But she still slipped it into her bag.
"Well, I'd rather make use of it than let it stay on the ground," he replied.
He had a point. They trudged further along, and the entrance to Striaton City grew nearer. The grass turned to cement, and the buildings were a few meters away from them. Touko quickened her pace, excited, and -
"Hey! Touko, wait up!"
She and Hilbert froze, turning around to spot Bianca running towards them. The blonde was gripping a pokeball in her right hand, and stopped in front of them.
"Touko, let's have a pokemon battle!" she exclaimed excitedly. "My pokemon have become a little stronger! Please? Hey, Hilbert," she added as an afterthought, making the brunet boy chuckle.
"Uh, sure," Touko responded, reaching for her snivy's pokeball. She had recalled Jade a while back, wanting to let her rest. She pressed the release button, and Jade appeared on the ground, looking determined. "Ready, Jade?" she asked her pokemon.
"Sni!" Jade responded, narrowing her eyes, and she took that as a yes. Looking up at Bianca, she saw her friend toss a pokeball in the air. The lillipup from before appeared, now looking determined as well. Its eyes were narrowed, and its fangs were bared. It looked much more intimidating than before.
"This one's up first!" Bianca proclaimed, grinning. "Both my pokemon and I are going to give it our all!"
"Alright, Jade, use vine whip!" Touko commanded.
"Leer, lillipup!"
Lillipup's eyes started to glow red, giving it a more intimidating look. Jade started to falter, just like she did when the patrat had used leer, back with youngster Jimmy. Touko clenched her fists. "Snap out - "
But the words had barely left her mouth before Jade sped up again, managing to land a successful vine whip. The rest of the battle went in her favour, with a tackle enough to bring down the lillipup. Bianca's oshawott was no problem at all - one vine whip was enough, thanks to grass being strong against water.
"I can't believe how strong your snivy is, Touko," Bianca mused, as she handed Touko some bills. "We've only started today, yet your pokemon seems to trust you a lot."
Touko gave her friend a grateful smile. "Thanks, Bianca. That means a lot to me."
The blonde grinned back, and said, "Well, I'm going to train my pokemon a bit more here, so I won't lose next time. See ya later! Bye Hilbert!"
Then she was dashing off, before they had time to reply.
"She's right, you know," Hilbert spoke up. "Your snivy really does trust you a lot. I don't think I had that strong of a bond with my tepig when we first set off."
His praise warmed her, especially it was coming from him, a more experienced trainer. Touko laughed lightly, and shrugged. "Maybe my snivy just likes people in general."
"It's more than that," he told her, but let it drop. "Anyways, we should be going on. Striaton City's literally right here!"
Striaton City is definitely city-sized, Touko thought to herself, as they walked in. Like Accumula Town, there were mainly apartment buildings, all towering over them. Several flanked them on both sides as they walked along the path, and up ahead she could see the pokemon center with more buildings on either side.
As they walked into the center of the city, Touko spotted several small streets to their left. There were more apartment buildings, and to their right was a similar layout. It was all quite overwhelming for her, a girl who had never left Nuvema Town in her life. (That she could remember, at least.)
Hilbert saw her expression, and grinned. "Wait till you see Castelia City," he told her teasingly. "It's way bigger than this city."
She laughed. "I bet I'll get lost immediately."
He opened his mouth to respond, but she cut him off. "Anyways, I'm gonna go to the pokemon center. I want to get Jade checked up, and I'll probably stay here for a few days to train and get my badge."
"Sounds good to me," Hilbert said. "I might stay a day or two and then leave earlier, just so you know."
"That's perfectly fine," Touko answered, with a smile. "So...let's go?"
They had to wait a little longer for Jade to be healed up, since the tackles she had taken after lillipup's leer had done significantly more damage. That, and added on top, the patrat's tackle. It took about ten minutes before an audino wheeled out the cart with Jade on top.
Touko jumped up from her spot on an armchair, and ran over immediately. Her snivy was looking much more alert and healthy. "Jade!" she cried in delight, and picked up her and her pokeball.
The audino beamed at them, and the nurse from the desk smiled. "Thank you for waiting. Have a nice day!"
"Audino, au," the audino added, waving.
As they left the pokemon center, Touko asked, "So is there anywhere to train around here? Before I challenge the gym?"
"There's the dreamyard," Hilbert replied immediately. "It's a popular place for beginners to train. It's located to the east of the city." He nodded in a direction as he spoke. "Just go down that street and keep going east."
"Thanks," she answered, giving him a grateful smile. "So...I guess we're splitting up for now?"
"Sure, I'm thinking of relaxing for a bit here," Hilbert said, grinning. "I'll stay the night, though, that's for sure. Good luck training."
"Oh, and one more thing," Touko said suddenly. "Do you by any chance know a Fennel? Professor Juniper told Bianca and I to look for her here.."
Hilbert tapped his chin, looking thoughtful. "I'm pretty sure she lives in that house," he said, pointing at the house directly south of the building next to the pokemon center. "The house south of the gym."
"So that's the gym," she answered, brightening up. "Awesome. And thanks again."
"No problem," he told her, and walked off. Touko decided to visit Fennel first - maybe she had something to teach her, or give her. Training could wait for now. She started walking towards the house, knocking on the door when she approached.
A little boy opened the door, frowning at her when he saw her. "What're you doing here?"
"Is there a Fennel here?" Touko asked. He shook his head. "She's busy. She's not here right now."
"Can I wait for her?" she ventured, and the boy shook his head again. He flung out his arms, as if to block the doorway. Touko bit her lip, and said, "Can I come back later, then?"
The boy nodded stiffly, and she shot him a tentative smile. "Thanks."
He said nothing in return, so she took it as her cue to leave. Touko turned and walked back onto the main street. Catching sight of the pokemon center again, she quickly reminded herself which way the dreamyard was. East.
As she set off through one of the streets, a grin appeared on her face. She was excited to find out what kind of place the dreamyard was. And more trainer battles as well! Who knew, maybe she'd even see Cheren or Bianca there.
"Let's go beat up some trainers, Jade!" she exclaimed cockily, her grin growing wider.
"Sni, snivy!" the pokemon on her shoulder responded.
Her first gym badge challenge was drawing nearer, and she couldn't wait.
AN: I'm sorry, I just had to include a short scene with that house in Accumula Town. Every time I go to Accumula Town I always have to visit that house to hear the remix of the town music! xD I can't help it, it's awesome. Please tell me I'm not the only one who does that :P
Just a question I have - would words like "crap" and "hell" and "damn" and such need a T rating? I changed it to T just in case, but I'm not sure if that's just me being paranoid. (I've heard much worse 'swears' before I turned thirteen, though.) So would a K+ rating be fine? Anyways, the gym battle will probably be next chapter as well, and then some other stuff. As always, please review if you can ~ It means a lot to me! :)
