Disclaimer: If you don't get it by now, there's no hope. I don't own Pokémon. I only own this story, and a few of the characters within it.
Chapter 6: Stepping Up
"Just follow this route and you should be able to get to the next town in half a day."
Cael just couldn't get through to this woman. No matter how much she refused, Rin would just brush it off. First it was dinner, than spending the night. Next thing she knew, all the hair she had grown to her shoulders was cut. In the morning, she wasn't allowed to leave until she and her bulbasaur had breakfast. She was told it was to make up for cutting so much of her hair. Lastly, Rin decided she would see Cael off. Despite how many times she said no, Rin just wouldn't listen.
"You should be fine as long as you stay out of the forest. The people looking for you should be searching in there, if they went by what I told them. Oh, and I just remembered. If you happen to see my brother, I want you to tell him something." Rin said with a smile. Cael was beginning to think that that was the only expression she had.
"What is it?"
"Hit him once and tell him he's an idiot and he should have come home last night." Cael barely kept from laughing at that. A woman like Rin telling her to say that? "Ah, that's the first time you've smiled while you've been here. I was beginning to think you didn't know how to." Cael looked at Rin.
"Well it's a bit hard to smile when you're taken in against your will. Especially since you cut my hair off."
"If you didn't want to spend the night you could have tried to sneak out. Besides, you needed a way to change how you look and this is the only thing that could do that fast. Now get going. You don't want to be stuck in the wild starving." Rin turned Cael around and pushed her forward.
Cael stepped forward to keep balance. She looked back at Rin one last time before walking on the path in front of her. Well I could have had a better start, but at least I know where Toren headed first. Suddenly, a loud noise interrupted Caels thoughts. She looked down to see what made the sound and found a bird under her foot.
Cael jumped back, surprised that she hadn't noticed the bird. The bird got up and glared at her. Its feathers ruffled at her as it flapped its wings a bit. Before Cael knew it, sand and dirt was blowing up in front of her.
The only thing Cael could think to do was to reach into her bag and throw out her pokeball. With a flash of light, her bulbasaur appeared. It looked around in the cloud of sand, confused as to what was going on.
"Bulbasaur, find it and tackle it." Cael told it. The small green dinosaur-like creature turned and ran through the cloud. After a bit of searching, the bulbasaur rushed forward at the bird, stopping it from continuing the dust cloud.
As soon as the dust cleared, Cael pulled out her pokedex and aimed it at the bird. The screen came to life with a picture of the bird on it. "Pidgey, a tiny bird Pokémon." The small device explained. "It is a docile creature that kicks up sand with its wings to hide itself from its attackers."
"Tackle again before it can kick up anymore sand." The small Pokémon jumped forward before the bird could start flapping its wings again, easily knocking it on its back.
Bulbasaur carefully walked up to the bird to check if it was knocked out. When it got close, the bird jumped up and pecked at the green Pokémon, making it jump back. The Pidgey stepped forward and pecked at the bulbasaur again, making it jump back further.
Keeping an eye on the bulbasaur, Pidgey started flapping its wings. Soon enough it started flying in the sky, out of reach of the grounded Pokémon's attack. It then started to swoop down on the small Pokémon, scratching it with its talons.
"Bulbasaur." Cael cried out, running up to her Pokémon to check if it was alright. It had a few scratches, but otherwise seemed fine. "If you had a way to get it up there, you'd be able to bring it back down."
As those words left her mouth, the Pidgey swooped down and scratched at the bulbasaur again. The Pokémon dodged the attack and started to growl. As if out of nowhere, two vines came out from under the bulb on its back and snared the Pidgey in its grasps. As soon as the Pidgey was caught it was slammed against the ground.
Cael couldn't believe her eyes. She checked the Pidgey and found that it was unconscious. In an instant, her starting Pokémon had learned a new move and won with it. From what she heard from Toren, that was near impossible.
Remembering the situation, Cael searched through her bag for a pokeball to capture the Pidgey. Turning her bag inside out for the second time in two days, she realized that she had lost the only 2 pokeballs she brought. She sadly looked at the Pidgey, knowing that she wouldn't be able to do anything with the Pokémon her Bulbasaur had just defeated.
Sighing, Cael pulled out her bulbasaurs pokeball and called it back. "You did a good job." She told it before putting the pokeball back in her bag. After depositing the pokeball, she continued on the path.
A/N: Hey there peeps. Sorry I wasn't able to do this chapter as fast as the last one. Some things happened, failed attempts at conquering small countries occurred, and some alcohol was consumed. Anyways, I hope I've somewhat gotten better at fight sequences with this chapter. And for those who would ask, I didn't necessarily think about the system for finding pokemon in the game when I wrote out the stepping on the Pidgey thing, but I realized afterwards that it could go that way.
