I don't own pokemon. All rights go to their original owner.
Four Island: Kole's House
Kole rolled out of bed and looked out his window at the sight of his street. As always Baryl was out and about playing with Scratcher the Sneasel in an exciting game of tag-hide-and-seek with Baryl doing his best to keep up with his partner pokemon. It had only been a week since Kole and the gang had gotten their partner pokemon and already Samantha and Dan were training their partners while Carol, Baryl and Kole just sort of played with their pokemon all day.
Kole went over to his bookshelf where he left his partner pokemon and sent out North the Delibird who yawned and stretched itself out before looking up at its trainer.
"Morning North," said Kole as he patted the Delibird who took the pat with a smile but didn't give any verbal response (as usual).
After breakfast the two made their way outside where they soon saw Carol (with strands of yellow coloring in her hair this time) and her partner Marsha the Seel walking down the road towards the ocean (most likely to have Marsha swim around and mess with either Samantha or Dan's training… again).
With little to do Kole decided to go for a walk around the town and think about what he and North would do today (and hopefully get the Delibird to start speaking to him even if all Kole would ever hear from him is the pokemon's species name). As they continued the walk around the town Kole soon found himself beside the docks where he saw a familiar-looking red headed Elite Four member, Lorelei.
Lorelei made her way out to the edge of one of the piers where she turned towards another person (most likely a trainer) on the end of the pier parallel to the one she was standing on and sent out her Cloyster into the water between the two piers and while the trainer standing on the end of the other pier sent out a Skarmory which took flight just above the water.
Kole made sure to stay out of sight of the two as the battle began their battle. The Skarmory started out strong with a quick Steel Wing attack and a use of agility to avoid an Aurora Beam counterattack but Lorelei quickly gained the upper hand by having her Cloyster dive beneath the water and increase its defenses with Withdraw. However the trainer ordered Skarmory to use aim a Swift attack at the water causing Lorelei's Cloyster to jump out of the water in an effort to dodge the attack but when the swift attack continued to follow the Water/Ice type Lorelei quickly countered with Ice Shard destroying all of the stars.
The trainer seized the opportunity and ordered Skarmory to do another Steel Wing attack but as soon as the Steel/Flying type was mere feet away the Cloyster spun around and used Ice Beam to freeze the Skarmory's wing causing it to fall downwards towards the water. The trainer ordered his Skarmory to use Peck on its frozen wing but it was too late as Lorelei ordered Cloyster to finish Skarmory with a Water Pulse attack destroying the ice on its wing but caused it to faint before it even hit the water. The trainer quickly returned Skarmory to its pokeball and thanked the Elite Four member for the battle before running off towards the Pokemon Center.
Kole stood there for a few minutes then made his way towards the Ice type specialist, "Uh… hey."
Lorelei turned towards the young boy and after a few minutes of dialog Lorelei asked, "So how are you and your friends handling your pokemon?"
Kole explained what him and his friends had doing with their pokemon and then looked at Delibird who was still standing not saying anything and sighed.
Sensing the tension between the trainer and his pokemon Lorelei thought for a second and said, "Well then… How about I help you teach a move to your Delibird?"
"Huh? Why?" asked Kole
Lorelei explained that Delibird rarely (if ever) learn any moves on their own and that it would require special training for it to learn all of its moves and maybe a little training would help Delibird open up to him.
Kole looked at Delibird again and thought for a moment before nodding, "All right let's try it."
For the record Lorelei's explanation that Delibird 'rarely learns any moves on its own' is my own idea that since TMs and HMs don't seem to exist in the anime (not counting Pokemon Origins) I'm just going to assume that a pokemon needs a trainer to teach them a move that is in the TM/HM/Move Tutor's slots that you'd see in the pokedex. However I'm using the word 'rarely' in this case because I would like to keep my options open later on in the story.