Chapter 10 – Psychic Power
Zack's Home – The First Day
It was called 'The first day of perhaps many more' from what I was told by Espeon a day prior to her coming over to my house and meeting me in the back yard for a one-on-one training session I agreed to take part in to hone my moves. I was part water and part psychic type when the professor said I was a day after I woke to this new form.
Professor Guard also revealed from the Doom Project that all humans who were turned into Pokemon from the serum couldn't evolve into the next stage of evolution. It mentioned something about all so-called members being out of control and something about being too dangerous if they did, or something.
Espeon told me eat well, sleep well and try to relax the brain for what was to come; training which would last not only an hour, not a few hours but several days, perhaps more. Something I thought would take a day or two. Early in the morning I got up and had breakfast and 'relaxed the brain' in the back yard while waiting for Espeon to arrive so the training can begin.
Just as soon as I got to the backyard waiting for Espeon, she immediately entered through the back door using her Psychic greeting me with a smile while carrying a large basket full of apples with Psychic.
"Good morning Zackary, I trust you slept and ate well before our training begins?"
"I did, and I am ready to begin training whenever you are ready to teach me." I said, Espeon sat in front of me and set the basket of apples beside her and smiled.
"Good, my apprentice. Once I am finished with you, you shall become knowledgeable in the ways of the forc- I mean Psychic." She used Psychic to pick up an apple from the basket up to her face. "Soon you will be able to lift objects like so, and then control them. Prevent them from leaving your side, crushing them, or perhaps to cleave in two." Espeon sliced the apple in half and passed one of the halves to me. The cut was smooth and clean, I was amazed by what Psychic could do.
"What you saw before you was something I had to train a long time to fully master Psychic. Training in the art of Psychic types ain't exactly a walk in the park. Think of it like a trek up a very steep mountain. It takes time to climb it, preparation and a strong form. Now I don't know what the heck I am talking about half the time, so let's cut right into our first step on training."
"Okay Zackary, today's lesson is about focusing on small objects." She said, levitating an apple from the basket of apples up in front of her. "Now this step is ideal for any beginner Psychic type. If you truly want to learn Psychic type moves from me, then you must do exactly as instructed, unless you want to lose a limb or have your mind completely lost into the deep parts of your mind. Trust me on that one; I have heard stories about Psychic Pokemon losing not only their memories for a while due to a fault when using Psychic, but their minds altogether."
I quickly nodded, unsure a little on how I felt about the last part; losing their minds through some fault with Psychic type's moves or losing a limb. Yeah, I was anxious about that. But with Espeon as my teacher, I had a feeling I would be safe.
Espeon with her Psychic picked up an apple from the basket up to my face. "Today you will focus on this small apple, an easy and simple object to remember by its looks and touch, and perhaps very soon you can focus on an object nearby with ease without so much as touching it and without taking too long to focus on said object leaving you wide open to attacks."
"I'm ready." I said taking the apple with my paws and examining it more closely, looking for any small cuts, bruises or markings I would remember from this apple.
"Look at the apple in your paws. Feel its weight, look at it, and remember its details, from the green dark color and the dark brown stalk of the apple, to the small markings you may find on it. Possible small cuts, bruising, or anything about it you might remember about it." I stared at it closely, trying to remember everything I could about the apple. There weren't anything I could make out of the apple apart from the green skin, no small or large scratches or bruises I could find, only a green apple with a simple brown stalk at the top. Sounds easy enough to remember, a simple and unforgettable thing shouldn't be too hard.
After an hour had passed, Espeon had (thankfully) brought me out of this boring stare down between me and the apple by clearing her throat. "Okay Zackary, on to stage two." Espeon brought the apple out of my paws and set it down on the grass between us.
"All Psychic beginners have access on using Psychic type moves, including you Zackary. Your abilities, your potential is all within you. You just need to awaken those powers. And to do that, you must practice. Within time, this apple, anything you want will levitate with ease. Now close your eyes and think of the apple and only the apple. Remember everything you can about it."
In my mind, I tried to remember the apple, every little detail I picked up, from its green colored skin, the stalk at the top, anything that may help. But staring at this apple nonstop for an hour I had thought I had remembered everything about it, but I could only remember its green color, the stalk and nothing much else. Maybe that was all I needed. I knew this apple, so I figured I wouldn't have any trouble with this.
"Now Zackary, I want you to concentrate all you can on that same apple." Espeon said placing the apple in my paw. "With your other paw, I want you to point at it with your paw and use Psychic to help lift this apple up to your face. Imagine to yourself you are lifting the apple up. Focus on that apple and that alone. Move it." With the apple in my paw other paw, my free paw pointing at said apple, I tried to imagine it to lift up, or move wanting to succeed in any of the two.
In my mind, I had succeeded in lifting the apple up with ease and Psychic was my first move learnt and on to the next one, but sadly in reality the apple never lifted up by my, or even budged an inch. I loosened my grip on the apple hoping I could have a better chance to lift this apple up with Psychic… nothing. I tried to move it again, but this time at a much slower rate trying to budge the apple to move, still nothing happened.
Another hour went by and the apple hadn't budged at all in my paw. Frustrated and tired I dropped the paw onto the grass and hung my head down low, tired and starting to be convinced that this entire Psychic training was meaningless and I could never learn Psychic or any move.
"Espeon, I couldn't do it." I sighed glumly. "Maybe I can't use any moves and that I'm just a Dewott that can never learn any move…"
Espeon using her Psychic lift up the apple and set it down inside the basket and inched closer to me and placing her paws on top of my shoulders. "It's all about recognition, this test I mean." Espeon moved a little back and touched my paw with hers, and smiled. "I believe you can learn Psychic or any move, you just have to practice. When I learnt Psychic, it wasn't just a simple learn to do in a few minutes or an hour, it took me several days to get it. Believe me when I say this; you did well today on focusing on that apple, I could see the look in your eyes at how determined you were on learning Psychic." She smiled again.
"In your mind, you did as I asked you to; focus on that apple and try to lift it up. In time Zackary, I believe you can move that apple, and then pick it up. You just gotta continue on. To use Psychic you must first focus on what you want to use with Psychic; be it they a target to either push, attack and lift up." With her Psychic, she used it to pick up the apple from the basket and brought it up to her mouth, taking a bite out of it, smiling after swallowing it. "Or a nearby apple. So every lesson to learn Psychic, you must try and levitate that apple up to your own mouth and take a bite out of it. We shall practice every day for a couple of hours until you do. If you don't learn by the day's end, then I will take the apple from you. You must without using your paws, legs or words to talk me out of taking your apple; you must lift the apple with your own Psychic and take a bite out of it before I do… don't know why I repeated there, but who cares."
With my confidence up and a smile formed on my face, I thanked her. I would try to learn Psychic, I needed to and many other moves so I could finally be of use should anyone try to attack those I care for and myself. It would be hard, but at least I was finally past the first day of many.
"Focus the mind on using Psychic to lift up light objects first before heavy objects. Not easy or difficult, just safety reasons so no one gets hurt or items break." She said. "Try to practice on a pillow or something. The more you practice, the faster you'll learn Psychic."
The Second Day
The second day, a bright and early morning with breakfast and sitting in the backyard while waiting for Espeon to show, train to lift an apple up before she ate it, go back inside and focus the mind and sleeping well was my routine to learn Psychic. Second day in and I already miss my computer… but learning Psychic and using it for cool stuff (not sure what though) will be worth it.
Espeon arrived at nine in the morning with the same basket full of apples the same time as yesterday and the next few or more days until I got Psychic done and over with. Sitting down in front of me and setting the basket of apples down. "Good morning Zackary. I trust you slept and ate well before starting our training session today?"
I nodded. "Not only that, but I focused the mind on using Psychic like you told me to. Clear out interrupting thoughts, and I did attempt to lift my pillow last night. But like with yesterday I never moved anything."
"Good." She smiled, levitating an apple out of the basket. "Now as with yesterday we'll be doing the same thing, but what I failed to mention to you yesterday was about energy control." Taking hold of the apple with my paw now, Espeon held my other paw with hers so that it hovered slightly over the apple. "Same as before Zackary; calming breaths, relax and concentrate on the apple. You want to lift it up. So try and use your paws hovering over the apple, connect your energy from your mind to your paw, help guide the energy towards the apple."
Relaxing, calming breaths and trying my all on concentrating on the apple using my paw to help guide my energy onto the apple to lift it. It was a long process. It was so long that I almost doubted myself. Me a normal human turned Pokemon can learn moves like Psychic? It'll never happen. Then all of a sudden, breaking me from my endless concentration from the apple in my paw, a purple spark emerged at the tips of my fingers. But before I could stop, surprised at what I saw, my entire paw was engulfed by the same purple spark. I stared at my paw; mouth agape almost convinced it was Espeon playing a trick on me. But it wasn't her, it was me doing this. The energy around my paw was… slightly cold, but warm at the same time, it was pleasant.
None of us said a word or made a sound. Slowly, wanting the energy around my paw to remain there longer for me to focus on the apple, I hovered over the apple and in my mind had wanted the fruit to move a little instead of lifting it up. It was the first thing that came to mind. The apple in my paw began to move slightly, often hovering a little and slightly crushed at the sides. But then the energy around my paw faded and the apple fell back into my open paw.
"See Zackary, you could do it all along." She smiled. "On this day, you used Psychic for the first time."
"B-but it only lasted a few seconds." I said, unsure of the weak energy we saw just now. "It barely did anything."
"But it did do something. That just now WAS Psychic, only it was still sleeping and not fully awake." She smiled, levitating the apple from my paw. "During the rest of the week, I will do all I can to help your Psychic finally awaken. SO keep doing what you're doing and that Psychic will wake faster than a sleeping person awaking to the sound of a really loud alarm clock."
The Third Day
"Concentrate." She demanded calmly, circling around me as I sat and closed my eyes, breathing calmly and blanking my mind of any thought. "A psychic type can use Psychic type moves without sight. You must focus, stay calm. Use your Pyschic energy and grab an object with it, use it against your foes, or use it to help yourself and others."
Like with yesterday, I felt the flow of energy engulf my paw, aiming it at the apple in my other paw wanting my energy to levitate the apple up towards my mouth and take a bite out of it. Opening my eyes now, the apple was completely surrounded by my newly Psychic powers, now all I had to do was to get it up to my mouth and I could move on to the next step of training.
The apple moved a little, crushed at the side just like yesterday; I thought the same thing would happen; my Psychic going again and Espeon taking the apple. "C'mon, I can do this. Just breathe, stay calm and-" I thought in my head before realizing that the apple was moving up. I had done it! Surrounding the apple was the same purple energy around my paw. "Oh yeah! I did it!" Then my excitement overtook my concentration. The apple still surrounded by my Psychic began to glow before I even realized it… the apple exploded sending small pieces and its juices everywhere, on to the grass, on me and Espeon's face and body, and some on the kitchen window.
Espeon sighed before licking off the apple juice from her paw. "Let me guess; you got too excited when lifting up the apple after all this time of training?" I slowly nodded, laughing nervously while picking the pieces of apple off my face. Espeon laughed too while using Psychic to pick a few pieces of her and my face piling them up next to the basket. "Yeah, that happened to me a few times… but instead of fruit I used a rock the size of my head. Let's just say the shards ain't exactly a nice thing to pull out of your face…"
"Sorry about that…" I said shifting my eyes away from Espeon's towards the pile of a destroyed apple on the side of us. "When I saw the apple finally move with my Psychic after all this time I just… I got carried away and let my excitement take over when I should've been concentrating."
"There is no need to rush with this Zackary. Take it slow and relax, we have more than enough time to practice." Espeon said as she patted me shoulder with her paw drawing my attention towards her. "Let's try it again, but this time concentrate and try not to let your emotions over take your concentration."
So I tried again with a new apple from the basket doing all I could to stop my emotions from clouding my mind whenever I succeed or failed while attempting to lift or move the apple within my paw. It took time, longer than the last attempt to move the apple. The same thing happened again, the Psychic energy surrounding my other paw hovering next to the apple, and then it moved, and lifted slowly but not all the way up to my mouth like I had wanted it to. It wasn't as though the same thing had happened the first time when my excitement overtook me, it was all I could manage at the time, I was weak, not only in experience, but I was tired.
Before I could push myself further to lift the apple with my already weakening Psychic, Espeon immediately grabbed the apple from my Psychic energy with hers. "That's enough." She said handing me a bottle of water she had stored in the basket with the fruit and berries. "I gotta say Zackary, you did amazingly well for today. But unfortunately today I must eat your apple for not succeeding on eating your apple. But tomorrow, I believe it is time I teach you multi levitation."
"Multi levitation?" I asked, did she mean levitating multiple apples with my Psychic?
The Forth Day
"That's right, multi levitation will begin today seeing how you are progressing well with the apple. So let's try a little test today to see if you can do it." Espeon smiled before handing me with her Psychic 5 small pebbles to my paw instead of an apple.
Like with the apple, I focused my energy on the five apples connecting each one with Psychic wanting both of them to lift from the grass resting between me and Espeon as she watched. Shortly, the energy formed at my open paw and I focused on the small pebbles wanting them to lift up. Today, my lesson was to levitate 5 small pebbles to be on equal level with another. I managed to lift three out of five of the pebbles up, struggling to keep them level and often dropping them to the grass. Unlike the apple seeing it as only just one thing to focus on, I had to target five at the same time which proved a little more difficult as I struggled to keep them up.
"Psychic doesn't last forever. So don't get too carried away when using Protect or any other Psychic based move, you can easily run out of them, just like with any other move that isn't Psychic. Know who your target is, how many there are, know your limits. Never become a sitting target free for your opponents to strike, use your moves strategically." Espeon said, helping me with the pebbles by grabbing the ones that dropped and offering them to me so I could grab them with my own Psychic… a very weak Psychic that wouldn't do much in battle or win anything in a contest, but it was something, something I wanted to be stronger. I knew in time my Psychic and other moves would be stronger and better. All of this was to protect not only myself, but those I care for, and others who would be in need of help.
The training for that day ended with me levitating the pebbles up to my face, a very triumphant day for me as I finally got something up at eye level with my very own Psychic… except I only brought up about two out of five pebbles up to my face while the rest levitated lower almost touching the grass. And just like the previous three days, Espeon ate the apple I was supposed to eat should I succeed in training.
I was getting better at using Psychic, Espeon and I both knew this, and soon I would be battle ready.
The Fifth Day
Just like yesterday, I was training with the same five pebbles levitating them up towards my face and keep them up together at equal level.
"Let's get down to business, to defeat our foes. Huh!" She sang with a huge grin on her face. "Did they send me Bent Jackson, when I asked for Zack. You ain't the saddest Pokemon I ever met, but you can bet before we're through. Zackary, I'll make a Psychic out of you!"
"Dammit! I should've sung that song at the beginning of our training montage. It would've made this a whole lot better and have more meaning to it… mission failed, I'll get 'em next time."
After another hour the pebbles were at equal level now (kind of) and up in front of our eyes. Espeon smiled before picking up a nearby thin stick and tapped each one to test my Psychic's strength. Four out of the five levitated pebbles almost dropped when tapped by the stick, but the one that didn't fall when tapped remained stuck in place waiting for the other pebbles to levitate evenly beside it.
But I had failed to levitate the pebbles evenly in time before the lesson was over today, so Espeon took the apple. Tomorrows lesson I going back on training my Psychic with the apple again. Sure the pebbles were alright on training with multiple items at once, but focusing on five pebbles at the same was a little tricky than the apples, so I was alright with the sudden change to our training.
The Sixth Day
That day I woke up a few minutes earlier than I usually did during our training week, not because I wanted to, I just happened to manage to wake up a little bit earlier than my alarm clock was set to. Getting up out of bed and heading towards the door, instead of using the same old bucket I had used to gain a little more height to reach my door handle, I stood there and focused on the handle using Psychic to try and open it. I knew at the time that I shouldn't use Psychic this early, especially when Espeon wasn't around to supervise me, bad things could happen if I did. But I did it anyway without thinking of the consequences. The energy surrounded my paw and then the handle was engulfed by Psychic, I moved the handle so it could open, halfway now until I could finally pull the door open, almost, and then I heard a click… I could pull the door open. Before I could try and pull it, I felt excitement at the success of me using Psychic to open the door without the use of a bucket this time, but remembering my training with that apple exploding in both mine and Espeon's faces, I quickly calmed myself down before the same thing were to happen to the door. The door then opened slowly but not completely since I stopped using Psychic to open it all the way wanting to conserve my energy for the training with Espeon today.
An hour had passed since I used my Psychic to escape my room, had my breakfast and sat in the garden awaiting Espeon carrying the same basket full of the same type of fruit and berries as the previous days.
Again, just like last time holding the apple in one paw and the other hovering slightly above it, I focused on the apple, and at a much quicker time than before, the apple was engulfed by my Psychic and I lifted it up slowly but often struggled to go up more, sometimes going back down again.
Then slowly just like I wanted it to, the apple was nearing my mouth, and I had to concentrate all my energy to keep the apple up towards my mouth staying there while I waited for the right time to move in. The apple didn't move, never flickered back down or soared the sky, or exploded because of my emotions sparking up at unwanted times. The apple stayed in place as I leaned in towards the apple, I opened my mouth and took a bite out of it. I did it; I finally used Psychic successfully after just six days of training. I was happy about that and so was Espeon smiling at my success. I knew I was happy, but unlike last time when my emotions caused the apple to explode, nothing happened, the apple remained levitating near my mouth still locked in place by my Psychic.
"Congratulations, my apprentice. But you still have much to learn. Now you know how to use it, you must practice every day until you have truly mastered it. Only then will you become a true Psychic type." She cheered with a toothy grin.
"Thank you Espeon." I smiled. "I will continue to practice my Psychic and many more moves in the future."
With her Psychic she levitated the apple away from me and held it close to her face as she examined it more closely. "Let's see… hmm, a little bit crushed near the stalk and at the side near where you first took a bite out of it. But you did really well." She handed the apple back to me with her Psychic, and I took it back with my own, almost crushing the apple again in the process of grabbing it.
"Are you sure you don't want to steal my apple this time, Espeon?" I asked moving the apple closer towards her with my Psychic. She shook her head and held up an Oran berry from the basket.
"Nah." She laughed. "I have been eating apples for almost six days straight… kinda gets tiring after a while. Phew, thank goodness that's all over with. But now that you have succeeded on taking a bite out of the apple by yourself, you must continue with your training. Focus the mind, concentrate and train as much as you can. Tomorrow, I will teach you something a Psychic type like myself, Gardevoir and Latias know all about; accessing the mind."
The Final Day – Into the Mind
That day just like the past few days I met up with Espeon in the back yard, only this time she didn't have a basket full of fruits and berries, she had nothing and only sat in front of me with a smile.
"Zack, today marks the first day you become a Psychic type for real now. And to top it all off, all you have to do is pass this test." She said before clearing her throat. "Obviously I don't have apples or pebbles with me for this day of training, because it is all to do with your mind, something I had discovered. And you being a Psychic type, I believe you should also learn about this."
I nodded, accepting to continue with this training involving the mind. I wasn't sure what was about to happen or what this training was about. I was a little anxious about it, but nothing could prepare me for what I was through this training.
"I want you to close your eyes, and empty your mind free of any thought and only focus on the sound of my voice." I closed my eyes, breathed in and out slowly while attempting to block out any thought while focusing on Espeon's voice like she told me. No memory, no thought, everything was blank. "Now Zackary, imagine you are sitting down in the darkness, nothing exists in the plane only you." I did, imagining myself sitting in the dark, nothing else was there with me. But for some strange reason, I couldn't feel the wind anymore. "Zackary, open your eyes. Tell me what you see."
I opened my eyes, Espeon was gone, and I was not in the backyard anymore. Everything was dark; the ground, all around me, and the sky was nothing but pitch black. I thought because of my new Psychic move… I don't know, somehow used Psychic by accident that I lost the use of my eyes and I was now blind. I panicked. But then as I moved my paws up to my eyes, I saw my paws through the darkness, like I could see in the dark if that made sense. "It's dark, there's nothing here… only-"
"Only you can see your entire body as if there is a spotlight shinning down on you?" She finished. "Don't worry; you are not blind if that is what you are thinking."
"What is this place?" I asked reaching out with my paws at anything solid, anxious at this dark world and what was going on. If I wasn't blind, then what was this? Was Espeon using Psychic or some other move to mess around a little?
"Your mind, silly." She giggled. "What you see before you is what I told you to do; empty your mind of thoughts, everything while focusing on my voice. Many Psychics have access to what you see now. Psychic can do this should one need to access some vital information needed later at some point. Access the deepest parts of the mind to search for something either important or to remember things they cherish. Perhaps one could find answers to unsolved dilemmas."
"Why are you showing me this?" I asked, hoping the dark world would quickly cease and I would be back at the back yard again, Espeon in front of me, the blue sky above, back in my back yard again.
"When you were still a human Zackary, I had no knowledge of this dark place or accessing the mind. Then Latias came to me one day and told me all about it after another Psychic type long ago told her about it." I heard her voice as it echoed throughout the dark place. "Within the dark place, accessing the mind isn't the only thing you can do here. But what you can do here is to improve on your Psychic training."
"So whenever I have free time, I can just close my eyes, do the same mind blank focus thing and I'll be here to improve my Psychic type moves?"
"Correct. So how about we start a little test to see if you can use your mind to create things to assist you on your training then?"
"Okay, so what do I do first?" I asked looking all around me for anything else other than darkness.
"Within the dark place, you can think of anything or anyone to appear within your mind. Listen to music you have listened to before, revisit a past memory of happier times or to remember something important, something you may want to go back and explore. Or if you have a photogenic memory you can watch movies you have watched before." Her voice echoed throughout my mind as I sat there looking around in the dark for anything to appear. But nothing did. "In order for you to get anything to appear, you must first focus on what you want, remember what it looks like, sounds or feels like. With your mind, try to imagine an apple appearing in front of you just like what we did for training."
I sat there imagining the same apple, same color and weight I had got to know throughout my seven day training, and like a snap of a finger the apple I had thought up appeared floating in front of me. "I did it!"
Reaching out towards the apple, I could touch and feel its weight within my paw, like this apple was real. "The weight of the item before you is a memory of an apple you have touched and held recently." Espeon said as I examined the apple more closely. "In the dark place, you can imagine anything to appear. I am not going to ask you to view a memory or anything private or whatever. Just play a round a little; something small like an image you know by heart or your favorite meal on a plate just how you like it."
I imagined… another apple again next to the other one in my other paw. After almost a full week of staring at an apple for hours a day, they couldn't get out of my mind. Within a day or two I can actually think of something else and try out new things while I am here.
"A bit of a warning within the dark place just a heads up; try not to think of scary things or unsettling imagery to appear. Believe me on this one, in here they look so real and convincing half the time you almost forget where you are. You may accidentally stand while attempting to escape their realistic threatening pursuits or jump scares."
Hearing that in the darkness of imagining scary things to appear in there had me a little worried. Being in this place; my mind to help me train with my Psychic more and allow me to view past memories would prove useful, but I didn't want to be watching a nice memory or training until all of a sudden I look back and there is this monster right behind me, something that might scare me so much I might get up and either attack or run away from it.
"Remember Zackary; for whatever reason you might have when being within the dark place; you must never ever stand up from your position or linger within your mind for too long. Bad things could happen to Psychic types who do persist longer than they should or attempt to wander the mind. You could get lost within it, trapped within a maze so deep within your mind you may never be able to escape. I have met a few Psychic types during our adventures together whom have had their minds altered, memories whipped clean, who they were, who mattered to them, everything gone."
To enter this dark place, Espeon instructed me how; all I needed to do was sit down, close my eyes, clear my mind of any thought, clear everything with calming breaths as I begun slowly to imagine myself sitting with the dark place until I could open my eyes. They way I had to come back out into the real world was to do the same. Close my eyes. Clear my mind of all thoughts, and then imagine myself back to where I was sitting; in my back yard with Espeon in front of me.
When I knew I did the right thing, I opened my eyes; I was back in my yard happy again to see Espeon and light.
"Nice work Zackary, I'm proud of you!" She jumped up at me wrapping her forelegs in for a tight hug, I hugged back. "After everything, a tiresome week passed, you finally learnt Psychic! Now how's about we call it a day and order pizzas to celebrate, what do you say?"
"Sure." I smiled, letting go of Espeon so she could stand up straight and walk together towards the house.
A week just to learn Psychic… phew, that was tiresome but hopefully worth it should I ever encounter people or Pokemon who want to catch or fight me. But I knew I couldn't just stop at only one move, no. I had to learn more. The second move I had learnt was Protect from Espeon again.
This move was a little easier to learn because of Psychic, took me about three days to get it right without popping the Protect bubble before the impact from Espeon's endless barrage of beanbags at me. Then afterwards, I had learnt from Espeon that I could merge Protect with another Pokemon that could us Protect to create a more powerful and larger version of that move so more could fit inside the bubble protecting more than one.
The next move I had learnt after that was Razor Shell from Dewott, and Water Pulse from Totodile. Razor Shell like on trying to learn Psychic for the first time was time consuming but not as long only lasting four days of hours of slashing with my scalchop at a make believe enemy standing in front of me Dewott had told me to focus on… again with focusing. First I had to find my own form and fighting style every Oshawott and Dewott had, my form was a lot of slashing and thrusting motions while only using one scalchop at a time.
Water Pulse was… surprisingly easy to learn this time, I mean it didn't take as long as the other moves with this one only last a day and a half. Most of it involved relaxing in the laboratory lake, absorbing the water and trying to harness the power within ourselves to form up a water type move (yeah, or something like that will work?)
All of those moves weren't exactly perfect and often sloppy when used, but it was better than nothing and would defiantly prove useful for any confrontations I may have later on.
To be continued...
Trivia:
I originally wanted multiple characters teaching Zack moves he could try out, but instead I focused instead on one character at a time to make way for a future chapter.