Well, I'm now on chapter 8! I can't believe I got this far XD. I hope any readers enjoy. If you see any errors please notify me of them (unless they have to do with the word said)

Chapter 8: Reunion

I woke up at about six today, which is a bit late for me, though that was probably because I had a lot on my mind. Ever since I arrived here, people have been saying I'm good and that I had a lot of potential. But was I really that good?

"What's on your mind, Felix?" I turned to see Alisa sitting up as well looking at me.

"Not much. But I can't stop thinking about how everyone says I'm good but I'm not!"

Her answer came with a disappointed sigh. "You know Felix, you really aren't that good compared to a lot of the trainers you are going to meet here. You probably won't ever be the best. But sitting here doubting yourself isn't going to make you any better." With that she got up and went to one f the bathrooms, probably to get changed for the day. Well there was no need for me to stay here.

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"Master, you know Alisa is right. Sitting here doing nothing solves nothing."

"Ann, what did I tell you about calling me master?" Ever since I name her yesterday she kept calling me master, which was slightly irritating. However, Anna, like Alisa was before her, was right. I need to get up and do something. Thankfully, or unfortunately, something did come.

"Hey, Felix. It's been a while." I turned to see Joey smirking at me. I couldn't help but smile after missing him for so long. "How has the new region been treating you?"

"It's fine." I could see the disbelief on his face though, one disadvantage of having a close friend.

"No it is not fine. I've known you for eight years, and that's the look you get when something is seriously bothering you."

"Everyone keeps telling me I'm supposed to be all that good, but what if I'm not cut out to be a trainer. What if I don't have what it takes?"

"Well, even if you aren't cut out to be a trainer do it anyways!" He laughed at the dumbfounded way I was looking at him. "My favorite saying is 'Do something because you can't'. It was told to me by my two sisters, Emi and Rin."

"I've never meet them." What kind of best friend doesn't even know about his best friend's sisters?

"That is because they are always away. But they are awe inspiring. Rin is an excellent painter and Emi is one of the fastest people I have ever seen.

"But what does your quote have to do with them?"

"Because, Rin has no arms and Emi has no legs." I gasped in shock at what he said, but then again who wouldn't? "They were both in a car accident that took some of their limbs away. But that didn't stop them fro being what they wanted to be. And you being insecure shouldn't stop you from being the trainer you want to be. Now let's go do some practicing."

As we walked out of the pokémon center to find some trainers to battle, the words he said to me kept echoing in my head.

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I was hoping it was my imagination but all of my friends seemed to be growing stronger faster than me. Joey and I tried to stay together and do double battlers but he might as well have done the battles alone. He destroyed everything easily with just his dratini. Even ice types were beaten easily.

"Hey Felix you haven't been doing much. You sure you aren't just trying to get free experience?"

"Weird, I could promise you were the freeloader last time." We both laughed at our old joke. When we were younger we would play games in which one of us would do all the fighting and the other just level up doing nothing. We would always mock complain about how the other was a freeloader even though we did it the next chance we got.

We began looking for a new match, though no one seemed willing to battle us. "Hey, Joey, you should have gone easy on them. Now we can't get a match."

"Hey, I don't believe in holding back and you know that." As much fun as it was to hang out with Joey, it was getting annoying, being unable to find a match.

"Well, why am I not surprised to see you two?" Joey and I turned to see Alisa smiling at us. "I was told that there was a team of battlers who no one could beat." My smiled dimmed a bit from the comment. I truthfully didn't see myself as that good.

"Master please don't sulk about it. If you don't see yourself as good, then make yourself better!"

"Great now I have my own personal cheerleader." I laughed at how human her faced looked as she pouted.

"Um Felix did you just talk to your pokémon?" I laughed at how stupid Joey looked with his mouth wide open.

Before I could answer Alisa jumped in. "I see the training we did that day didn't go to waste. Though I thought it would take you at least a few weeks to hear your pokémon. Well anyways, are we going to have that battle?"

By then Joey had already recovered and had a smirk on his face. "Well we would but you need a partner. We're only doing double battles!"

"Well then it is a good thing I showed up then." We all turned to see a familiar face; well it was familiar to me.

"Hey Mark." Both Alisa and Joey face faulted at that, though Alisa was the first to recover.

"That's the legendary Mark?" We could all see Mark scowl at Alisa's remark.

"Who has been going around calling me legendary?"

"No one cares man. Let's do this battle!"

"As impatient as always huh, Joey? Okay what about we have a battle between me and Felix, versus you two, Mark and Joey?"

"No, I got dibs on Felix; we've been in a team since the beginning of today!" They spent the next five or so minutes arguing over whose team I would be on. It felt kind of stupid having friends argue over you.

Finally Mark got fed up with the arguing. "Okay, Felix and I will be together while the arguing retards team up!" Even though both of them were my friends, I laughed. Before we could argue Mark literally threw me to the other side of the arena, which was six or so feet away, before joining me. "Now let's do this! Ikazu, I'm counting on you!" Out of the pokéball he threw came out a nincada.

Joey was the next to send out a pokémon. "I need your assistance Luke!" Why does it seem that I never get the cool pokémon? There in front of us was a riolu, a healthy looking one at that.

And finally Alisa let her pokémon out. "Charcoal, let's go!" Her charmeleon came out of its pokéball in a burst of red flames. And though I wasn't afraid of her charmeleon the matchup wasn't in out favor. The riolu could take my eevee and buneary and the charmeleon could take my chikorita.

"Ditzy, take the stage!" I decided to go with my buneary. That way we wouldn't both be weak to the same type. I pulled out my pokédex to see what moves my buneary knew, and suddenly I felt a lot better. "Ditzy use quick attack on Charcoal!"

"Charcoal use fire punch!" My buneary tried to turn from the attack, but just like me yesterday, was going to fast to get out of the way. The attack left her fur singed a bit but she looked to still be okay. "Charcoal, use slash!" The giant lizard ran at my buneary but right before it could land the hit Mark's nincada burst from the ground and hit the charmeleon right in the stomach.

"Luke use force palm on the nincada!" The jackal-based pokémon sped to the bug, which was still recovering from using dig, and slammed its palm right into it. Thankfully the move was not super-effective or that attack would have hurt a lot more.

"Ditzy use Ice Beam!" What are the chances your newly caught rabbit knows ice beam? Who knows, though I truthfully didn't care right now, though the riolu she aimed at did.

"Charcoal cover the field with smokescreen!" At Alisa's command the lizard covered the whole stage in a thick black smoke that was impossible to see through. "Now ignite it!"

Joey, me and Mark all gasped at that. Not only would she hit both me and Mark. She would torch herself and her partner. However Mark had a plan.

"Ikazu, grab Ditzy and use dig!" The bug dug under right before the blaze covered the whole stage .When the smoke finally cleared it showed an unhurt riolu and charmeleon. Of course she had a plan to keep herself and her partner safe.

"Luke use counter!" The moment our pokémon came out of the ground the riolu was already on us. My buneary took the blunt of the blow as if she was trying to protect the bug, though it truthfully would have made more sense for it to get hit. That was till the bug jumped from the falling bunny and grabbed the riolu.

"I teach my pokémon to think ahead in a situation. That also keeps me from having to say every command and leaves the opponent to guess. I looked back to see the bug pokémon attack its opponent. It wasn't using any specific move but was just attacking with its claws. The riolu was trying to fight back. However, it obviously wasn't use to fighting without its trainer's commands and was getting beat easily.

"Quick, Charcoal get that bug off of Luke!" But I wasn't going to let Alisa mess up our chance at winning.

"Ditzy intercept Charcoal with low kick!" Ditzy easily got between Charcoal and his; I assume it was a he, partner and kick him in the leg. But my buneary, courtesy of being raised in the wild for so long, didn't stop there. She quickly charged an ice punch and slammed it into the charmeleon's face. I gasped in horror though at the small amounts of blood coming from the pokémon's mouth.

Alisa noticing my gasp said, "Don't worry. Pokémon heal a lot better than pokémon. They're made to take the pains. You, unfortunately, can't get through every battle without injuries. That is why you need to train your pokémon so that it won't get hurt so much. Charcoal use smokescreen in her face." The lizard, now having an order, quickly shot the smoke in my buneary's face, making her cough and jump back. Now ignite it again!"

"Ditzy make a wall of ice between you and Charcoal!" My buneary quickly used ice beam at the ground before her. Thankfully she was faster or she would have been burnt badly. The ice beam made a nice wall between the blazing smoke and Ditzy, saving her from the attack.

"Luke use counter!" I turned back to Mark's side of the battle to see the jackal throwing the bug back. Ikazu was by no means done but you could see he was tired. Now finish the bug, use force palm!" The bug wouldn't have time to recover from being thrown and block the attack.

"Ditzy protect Ikazu by using endure!" My pokémon smiled and preformed what I asked her to. It was then that I realized what I had asked my buneary to do. This wasn't the game we played as kids, where you could just protect your partner with no consequences. As the force palm connected with her chest blood flew from her mouth. She looked would have fainted but the endure attack held her up.

"Luke, use quick attack, finish her now!" But Luke wasn't following Joey anymore. Instead he was staring at Ditzy as if she was hotter than California. "What the…" Everyone, except Joey, had to laugh. Even our audience broke into a fit.

"Who ever said luck didn't help in battle didn't see this fight." I wasn't surprised to see that Mark was the one who commented, since Alisa and I were turning blue from laughter.

"But why is my riolu staring at Felix's buneary?"

Alisa now took her turn to comment saying, "He's infatuated. Charcoal use fire punch on Ditzy, and hurry before it gets worse." But she was too late. As Charcoal ran at Ditzy, who was too hurt to move, Luke got in his way and force palmed him. The charmeleon, not ready for the attack howled in pain before fainting.

And now the tides were in our favor. "Ikazu use slash!" The bug jumped in the air before coming down with his bladed arm cutting the jackal. The pokémon didn't howl like the charmeleon but just fainted, like most pokémon did, I guess pokémon only made noises like that when they were in a lot of pain. And with that, Mark and I won the battle.

"Aw, what luck." Joey said while returning his riolu.

"Hey everyone needs a bit of luck. Good job Mark and Felix, and nice try Joey. Now I think my charmeleon would greatly appreciate a visit to the pokémon center." With that Alisa left and Joey followed, probably to go to the pokémon center too.

"Well hopefully we will meet in the tournament." With that Mark took off and the audience we had started to scatter. I myself needed to go to the pokémon center since my other pokémon were tired and Ditzy seemed to be hurt badly. But on the walk back the words Joey told me were stuck in my head, 'Do something because you can't!'

"I will become a great trainer, and no one will stop me from my dream!" And with that I hurried on to the pokémon center.

Chapter 8 done! It took me a bit of time but I'm quite proud of it. If you haven't noticed I'm backing my story a bit more mature. Pokémon, and their trainers, can get seriously hurt in this story. But I hope you all enjoyed it.

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