Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Author's Note: after a long wait I'm back with another chapter for this story. So enjoy!
Chapter 4
After the battle with John, the rest of the trip to Viridian city was very calm. We arrived in Viridian in the early afternoon. Our first stop was the Pokemon Centre. We asked for a room for the night and had lunch (since we didn't take a lunch break at noon). During lunch we discussed what we were going to do the rest of the day.
"It's too late to set off to Viridian Forrest today, so I suggest we leave tomorrow. For as far as I know it's the easiest road to Pewter City, where we can challenge Brock to a gym battle." I said.
"Hey, I just thought of something. You said that the Pewter City Gym would be the first gym we'd run into right? But isn't there a gym here in Viridian City as well?" Leila asked.
"Well, yeah, there is a gym here in Viridian City, but the gym leader is too strong for us at this time." I explained.
"How do you know that?" She asked.
"Like I probably already explained, my friends who just left for Johto have sent me all the info they had on all the gym leaders. And my info states that Giovanni, the Viridian City Gym leader, uses five high level Ground type Pokemon. His team consists of Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Dugtrio and two Rhyhorn. So each of us only have three Pokemon for a 5 on 5 Pokemon battle. Any of our Pokemon would be knocked out in one hit, even those with a type advantage." I explained.
"Besides, the gym is closed until further notice." Someone said. I turned around and saw nurse Joy standing there with our Pokeballs.
"Here you go, your Pokemon are in good shape. As for the gym: Giovanni left last week, nobody knows where he went or why he left, but everybody knows that he'll be back since he does that every now and then." Nurse Joy continued.
"Well, maybe we can spend the afternoon training our Pokemon. Nurse Joy, do you think it would be a good idea to go to Route 22? I heard it's a good place for training." I said.
"Sure, a lot of trainers go there to train." She responded.
"What are we waiting for then?" Leila asked taking her backpack and getting up.
"You're right the sooner we go the more we can train. Thanks, nurse Joy, see you tonight." I said, before taking off after Leila.
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We stopped about halfway Route 22, where there was a small lake of water and a lot of trees.
"This looks like a good spot. Come on out, Flametail, Brutasaur and Shellshock!" I said, releasing my Pokemon.
"Go, Saury, Ratsy and Pidge!" Leila said, releasing her Pokemon as well.
"So, what do we do now? Have our Pokemon spar with eachother?" Leila asked.
"No, we start off with training the basic attacks like Tackle and Scratch on these trees." I explained.
"What good does that do?" Leila asked, not convinced that was a good training method.
"Well, Tackle and Scratch are the base for attacks like Aqua Jet, Skull Bash and Slash. And it's a good attack to warm up." I explained.
"Well, it's worth a try." She finally agreed. She then turned to her Pokemon and ordered them to attack the trees while I told my Pokemon the same.
"Give it all you've got." I encouraged my Pokemon. The training was going great the shocks to the trees did cause them to shake and lose leaves, but that wouldn't be a bother. Or at least we thought, but then something fell out of the tree Brutasaur was practicing on. It looked like a white ball of fur when it fell down.
"What was that?" Leila asked, having seen whatever it was that fell, fall. Out of the bush jumped a round white Pokemon that looked like a monkey and seemed very angry.
"It's a Mankey." I said. The Mankey shot forward and delivered a kick to Brutasaur, making Brutasaur fall over. But Brutasaur wasn't letting it slide and got back up and charged at the Mankey.
"You have to stop them." Leila said to me, afraid that one of them was going to get seriously hurt.
"From what I've heard the only way to stop this is to catch the Mankey." I said taking an empty Pokeball and readying myself for battle.
"Brutasaur, Leaf Storm!" I ordered my Pokemon. He promptly obliged and shot several leaves at the Mankey, which replied by scratching my Bulbasaur.
"Brutasaur, try another Leaf Storm!" I yelled. However, what happened next wasn't Leaf Storm. Instead Brutasaur shot a small seed from his bulb that latched onto the Mankey and started sapping it's strength.
"What's that?" Leila asked.
"I think it's Leech Seed, but he didn't know that attack before." I explained. Shortly afterward, the struggling Mankey fell over, exhausted.
"Go, Pokeball!" I yelled throwing the round object in my hand, which I had taken from my belt, at the unconscious Pokemon. The ball wobbled once … twice … three times … and "ping!", it was caught.
"Thank God, that's over." Leila sighed.
"All right, my first capture! And since you're so temperamental, I'll call you Rager." I said as I picked up the Pokeball, before releasing the Mankey. He had already come too and I released him from his vines.
"So, you wanna train too?" I asked the Pokemon. It nodded in return and I explained our training method, after which it started kicking and scratching the tree it had fell out of. After a while I decided that it was time for a different approach.
"Hey Leila, you think we should focus on their other attacks a little now?" I asked my companion who had been very quiet.
"What do you mean?" Leila asked, confused.
"Like Flametail's Ember and Pidge's Gust." I explained.
"It's worth a try." Leila agreed after thinking it over. We quickly called our Pokemon over to tell them what to do.
"Okay so, Leila do you think that Pidge could use his Gust on that small body of water there, to make a small whirlpool?" I asked.
"I think so." She replied looking at the Pidgey in question, which nodded in reply.
"Good, then Flametail can practice his aim by firing his Ember as close to the centre of the whirlpool as possible. And maybe Shellshock can train his Bubble by trying to hit Ratsy while that one is using Quick Attack to dodge." I suggested. All the Pokemon in who I just named nodded in agreement.
"Then only the two Bulbasaur and Rager are left." Leila stated.
"Yes, now that's a tough one. Saury probably doesn't know a lot of attacks yet does it?" I asked.
"Not really. Though I think it won't be long before it learns Leech Seed." Leila replied.
"Maybe Saury should keep training on the Tackle and Brutasaur … train your Leaf Storm and Petal Dance techniques on the trees as well. Rager, you train you Fighting type attacks on the branches Brutasaur knocks out of the trees." I ordered. The Pokemon nodded and went to try the training I said.
Flametail and Pidge worked very well together as did Shellshock and Ratsy, though Ratsy seemed to be taunting Shellshock since the latter seemed to be losing his temper. Brutasaur was cutting through some seriously thick branches and Rager had no trouble turning them into splinters. Saury kept tackling another tree and every now and then stopped to try a Leech Seed attack, and she was starting to be able to produce the seed.
But then it happened, Shellshock finally had enough of Ratsy's taunting and used Aqua Jet on the rat Pokemon, sending it flying in to the Gust Pidge was maintaining. That catapulted the purple Pokemon into a tree where it fell out together with another Pokemon. The other Pokemon was mostly brown and had red wings.
"A Spearow?" I said seeing the Pokemon get up. Ratsy however stayed down.
"Oh no! Ratsy is knocked out!" Leila said, taking it's Pokeball and recalling it. The Spearow in the meantime started glaring at Leila before flapping it's wings and charging at her with a Peck attack but it wasn't fast enough to be saved from a double Tackle by Saury and Pidge. The Spearow got up again and started growling at the two (not the attack however).
"I don't think you'll get away with this without at least battling it." I said after seeing how the Spearow had reacted to all that happened. I was about to have Brutasaur attack it when Saury and Pidge had intervened.
"Fine then. Pidge, let's go!" Leila said taking a step forward and clipping Ratsy's Pokeball to her belt. Pidge came closer to Leila before landing in front of her as Saury went out of the way, awaiting orders if any would come it's way.
"Start off with a Tackle!" Leila yelled, pointing in the direction of Spearow. Pidge flapped it's wings and charged at Spearow, whom took off as well and charged at it with a Peck attack. Pidge was able to duck under the Peck and hit Spearow with a Tackle going back up again.
"Good job! Now use Gust!" Leila continued. Pidge started flapping it's wings even harder, blowing a strong gust of wind at the Spearow. Spearow, however, charged right at it and flew through and struck with a Fury Attack. Pidge crashed down into the ground but was able to get up again.
"Pidge, you did good. You can catch your breath. Saury, let's go!" Leila yelled. Me and my Pokemon kept watching excitedly (except for Mankey who kept chopping at the tree). I don't know what it was but Leila seemed more confident now, especially compared to when I met her when she was battling Ratsy.
"Okay, Saury, Tackle!" Leila commanded. Saury, who had by now switched places with Pidge, charged at Spearow who charged back at him. There was big collision between the two and both rolled back. Before Leila could say anything Saury shot a seed at Spearow. The seed landed on it's head and sprouted immediately, draining energy from the already weakened Spearow, who started struggling against it's bonds before fainting.
"Pokeball! Go!" Leila yelled, throwing one of the red and white balls that currently resided on her belt towards the fainted Spearow. The ball sucked up the KO'ed Spearow, wobbled a bit and then gave a "ping" to acknowledge the capture. Leila walked over to the Pokeball and picked it up.
"I'll call you Spearbeak. You should rest up a bit. And you two should take a rest as well." Leila said to the ball before clipping it to her belt and taking the Pokeballs of Saury and Pidge, recalling them.
"You guys, trained well. Let's call it a day too." I said before recalling my Pokemon as well. After clipping my Pokeballs to my belt I picked up my backpack and turned to Leila.
"We should head back, maybe stop at the Pokemart to pick up supplies we could need tomorrow." I suggested as Leila picked up her backpack.
"Good idea. That way we save time tomorrow." Leila said, turning to me before we started back to Viridian.
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We entered the Pokemart a little later and looked around a bit. We went to the camping goods (neither of us had a tent) and to look for a good tent. I ended up taking one of the biggest tents in the store: a big tent in the shape of a half iglo divided in 5 compartements which all connected to a 'commonroom' of sorts. Leila picked up a normal tent, because she didn't feel comfortable to sleep in the same tent with a guy she met only yesterday (which I don't blame her for). We also stocked up on potions and all kinds of heals and some food for ourselves and our Pokemon and let's off course not forget the most important thing of all: Pokeballs. We paid our stuff (thank god I just got a lot of money for my birthday) and we went back to the Pokemon Centre to get our Pokemon healed and to get a good night's sleep before heading out again tomorrow.
Big B and Leila both have new Pokemon. Will there be more to follow? Will they ever make it to Pewter City? To find out, keep reading "Big B's Kanto Journey".
End Note: Well another chapter done (though it did take a long time(3 months if I'm not mistaken)). But anyway: Big B caught a Mankey, which he called Rager due to the fact that Mankey are know for their fits of rage, and Leila caught a Spearow, which she called Spearbeak because the Pokemon's name contains the word 'spear' and Fearow's beak has something spear-like. Also both of them bought tents and are preparing to entering Viridian Forest to head to Pewter City for their first gym match. And now there's only one thing left to say: PLZ READ & REVIEW!