Alright, Chapter 8! Enjoy!
-Chapter 8: Training Days-
-Treecko's POV-
After I fell asleep that first time, my life seemed to rush by in a blur, even though my mom had explained that the world was frozen in time. It's a difficult concept to grasp.
I caught glimpses of them expanding walls and making wooden furniture to put in these new rooms, but of course, I minded my own business.
After a little while of listening to my parents converse with each other, I kept trying to piece words together and verbally say them, but it was like putting together a puzzle, except there were no edge pieces, and there were four pieces that didn't fit at all into the picture. So in other words, it took forever.
In spite of much difficulty starting to speak, before I knew it, I could carry on conversations with my mom in three different languages; English, Unown, and Footprint runes.
She was the best teacher ever; She didn't teach me all of the stuff I didn't need to know like the fine arts and poetry and stuff; As soon as she started on that, I zoned out from boredom, so she changed the subject to keep me interested.
The lessons that really got my attention were the legends of Arceus, the supreme deity pokemon and how he made the world and all of that. She had never gotten too into it, though. I guess that she didn't like something about it; She never told me why.
My parents took turns teaching me different stuff; My dad taught me how to properly defend myself and make the most of my abilities, and my mom taught me the actual educational part.
I only fought against my dad in little duels occasionally, but most of the time, he constructed little mannequins out of leaves and sticks for me to practice on. I hacked with leaf blades extended from my wrists like knives, slicing off the limbs of the dummies as I leapt across the room that my dad had set up.
One of the training days, he completely surprised me; He had somehow managed to make real, walking plant mannequins! The walked slowly, with their arms to their sides, so I thought that it would be easy. Boy, was I wrong.
They moved slowly, but they sure as heck weren't easy to take down. I slashed them with my leaf blades, but the leaves just split around the blade and sealed back up; It's like I wasn't doing anything at all!
I tried to keep slashing, but once they got ahold of me, I was done. They had me pinned to the wall, and I couldn't move. My dad blew a solid note on a leaf whistle, and the leafy people sunk into the ground.
He smiled as he looked at me, "Alright… Now you know what it's like to battle real, moving things, and not just stationary objects."
I frowned, "Yeah; It's hard."
He smiled warmly, "It's alright, my son; It isn't easy to overcome large numbers; No matter how weak the enemy is, if they have large enough numbers, they can conquer anybody they wish."
Yeah, but why am I even doing this? I haven't even been outside of the cave before. They keep telling me it's too dangerous, and training me like outside is super hostile; How bad can it be?
I kept these thoughts to myself as I nodded and said, "Yes, sir… I understand."
He had taught me to say yes sir, no sir, yes ma'am, no ma'am when addressing anybody, but I haven't even seen another pokemon!
I looked down in thought, but the sentence he said caught my attention once again; "So, I heard that your mother was wanting to teach you in full detail the stories of Arceus?"
I perked up, a gleam in my eye as I exclaimed, "Really?! Awesome!"
I don't think that I have ever seen my dad not smiling, because he continued grinning as he said, "Yes, your mother is in the library awaiting your arrival."
I leapt onto him, clinging to his body with my adhesive hands and feet as I gave him a big hug, and said, "I love you dad!"
I buried my head into his chest as I hugged him tightly, and he stroked my head with affection, "I love you too, son…"
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-PL
