Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.
Chapter 10
Route 5 to Camphrier Town
I wake up feeling wonderful. Happy memories are bouncing around in my head as I get ready for the day. After dressing I go to the front desk of the Center and collect both Shauna's and my Pokémon. When I get back to the room I Shauna is sitting on the bed waiting for me, with breakfast.
"It's just a couple of breakfast sandwiches, I hope that ok." She says.
"That's great. I'll eat mine on the road. If you're ready I think we should head out for the next town."
"I'm ready anytime." She tells me. So, after I give her Pokémon to her, we check out and head for the gate to Route 5. On the way there my Holocaster starts ringing. I pull it out and answer the call. Terino's face pops up.
"Hey Mike how's it going?"
"Good what about you guys, Trevor still catching every Pokémon in sight?"
"Yup and I've added to my dance team."
"Sweet, so what's up?"
"Just calling to ask if you two wanted to meet up outside of Camphrier, just to catch up and maybe have a battle."
"Sounds good, we were just heading onto Route 5 we'll be there soon."
"Alright, sounds cool, see you then." He says and signs off.
"Well we should step it up a bit; we don't want to keep them waiting." Shauna says
"Right then let's get going" I say and we head off for the gate. It's a short walk to the gate and after a few minutes we are on Route 5. As we step out of the gatehouse I can see there is a small skate park, there are a couple of guys skating in it. As we walk by we start hearing whistles coming from the park. They get louder as we keep walking.
"Hey babe, why don't you come hang with us." One of the skaters calls.
"Yeah I bet we can teach you some new tricks." Another says, clearly not talking about skating.
I feel Shauna stiffen beside me. "Just ignore them, we'll leave them behind in a minute." I reassure her. As the whistling and catcalling continues she grabs my arm and puts her face in my side.
As we reach the end of the park two of the guys come out to the near exit. One has bright red hair and the other dull purple, both on skateboards they quickly block our path.
"Hey girlie did you hear, we want you to come hang out with us." Red says
"Yeah come on, we don't bite." Purple says gnashing his teeth.
"Alright, you have had your fun why don't you go back to playing on your little skateboards and leave us alone." I tell them. I hear their gang gasp as if I insulted them.
"Do you know who we are?!" Red yells.
"We're infamous on this route; anyone who wants to pass has to pay our toll." Purple says.
"And what would you toll be, something stupid I assume?" I ask them.
"We were thinking about a night with your girl. So pay up or turn around." When Red says that Shauna lets out a gasp, I put my arm on her shoulder.
"I think you should let us go before you get hurt." I tell them and hear their gang egging them on, telling them to kick my ass and do worse to Shauna.
"Now you're you dead!" Red yells and they each toss out a Pokeball. Red's opens up to reveal what looks like a lizard that half way through shedding its skin, while Purple has a purple rolled up centipede. Even under the circumstances I remember my promise to the Professor and scan both to them, "Proud of its sturdy skull, it suddenly headbutts everything, but its weight makes it unstable, too" for Scraggy and for Whirlipede, "Protected by a hard shell, it spins its body like a wheel and crashes furiously into its enemies."
I turn to Shauna, "Let me take care of them."
"No, I want to fight with you." She tells me.
"Alright, let's take these guys down." I tell her with a smile, glad she is so tough. As I toss out Fletchling to fight, Shauna calls on Litleo.
Looking at the two Pokémon I tell them, "Ok guys, these two punks insulted Shauna." Litleo bristles, already protective of her. "What's say we teach them not to mess with us." Litleo lets out a big roar for his size and Fletchling takes to the air, eager for a fight. Shauna and I step up to meet the skater punks. They start calling out to us, saying things they are going to do to Shauna after they beat us. Sick of them I make the first move.
"Fletchling, Peck the Scraggy!" He quickly dives and delivers a hard peck to Scraggy's head before he can move. The punks now focused on the fight start to call out orders. "Scraggy Jump Kick the sorry ass bird." "Whirlipede, Rollout on the sissy cub!" "Litleo match him with a Headbutt!" "Fletchling dodge with Agility!" The Scraggy jumps up into the air and shoot toward Fletchling with his knee. Using his superior speed Fletchling dodges the attack. Scraggy lands on the hard road, hurting himself with his own attack. Meanwhile Whirlipede starts spinning in place and with a big puff of dust takes off toward Litleo who meets its charge with his own Headbutt. They collide violently, pushing against each other. After a minute Litleo, angered by the punk's remarks toward Shauna, gains the upper hand and sends Whirlipede flying backwards.
"Great job Litleo, now use Ember!" He sucks in air, filling his lungs, then let loose a close group of small fireballs. They hit Whirlipede dead on and knock him out. Just after that Fletchling, after delivering more Pecks and receiving no damage itself, knocks out Scraggy as well. They skaters recall their Pokémon cursing. With yells from their gang, saying they don't need Pokémon, Red and Purple start walking towards us, cracking their knuckles.
"Screw those worthless Pokémon; we can take you out ourselves." Red says. He and Purple start walking faster, pumped up by their gang.
With a roar Litleo rushes toward them spewing fire from his mouth. When he reaches Purple, Litleo launches himself and clamps down on Purple's arm with Fire Fang. Following his lead Fletchling dives and starts Pecking and Scratching Red's face and arms. Red takes a swing at Fletchling and, to everyone's surprise, knocks him out of the air. Even more surprising is what happens next.
With a loud screech Fletchling starts to glow. In the light Fletchling starts go grow, doubling in size. His body becomes more aerodynamic and his wings lengthen and grow better flight feathers. He takes to the air with a burst of light. Without seeming to even notice the evolution, he immediately starts dive-bombing Red, more viciously. Using his stronger beak and talons he quickly sends Red running, Purple not far behind with an angry Litleo on his heels. When they punks are back in their skate park Litleo comes trotting back with Fletchinder perched on his back.
"Hah good job you two, you really showed them. I don't think they will be bothering anyone anytime soon." I tell them, "Oh and congratulations on evolving Fletchinder. I told you would get stronger if we worked together." With a chirp he flies from Litleo's back and lands on my shoulder and I give him a scratch on his head.
"Mike thank you." Shauna says softly.
"For what?"
"For sticking up for me, if you weren't here, I don't want to think about it." She says and quickly gives me a peck on the lips, blushes and turns away.
"You're welcome, now let's go, no need to hang around here."
"You're right let's go." And with that we continued on our way toward Camphrier.
The route to town is a short one. We can see trainers in the tall grass hunting for Pokémon, and other battling. The worst part is the uphill stretches which, though brief, are very steep. We see a couple of rollerblades on our way but they seem not to be part of the previous gang, waving in one case and challenging me to a battle in the other. A quick affair Ralts, quickly takes out her Bunnelby and we move on our way, both of us in good moods. After a couple of hours walking we can start to make out the walls of Camphrier Town. Just before we get to the entrance the grass starts rustling beside us. We turn to see Trevor crawling on the ground with Terino a few feet behind him.
As Terino greets Shauna I crouch in front of Trevor and tap him on the head. "Hey looking for new Pokémon?"
He looks up, "Hello Michael, yes I thought I found the track of a Pokémon rare for this region of Kalos, but I was mistaken." He stands up and dusts himself off. "So how is your Pokedex coming?"
"It's alright." I say checking it, "I have seen 22 different kinds, you?"
"I have collected over 80 different species of Pokémon. Michael, you do realize we are supposed to collect as much data as possible. I have to say you are doing a fairly bad job." He scolds me.
"Well that's why we have you buddy. You're our group's professor in the making. We can leave all the data gathering up to you and do our own part in our own way."
"Sigh, your right, why try to fix our group when we don't need to. I just wish you would take you job a little more seriously."
"Alright, I'll try a bit harder, if it makes you happy." I tell him. At that point Shauna and Terino walk over to us.
"Hey guys guess what? Me and Terino are going to have a battle. This will be our first time battling each other. So who wants to be reff?"
I look at Trevor, "You're the perfect choice for reff, knowing all the rules as you do."
"Sounds good, let the battle commence." He says, sounding a little excited.
New Pokémon Scanned: 2
Total Pokémon Scanned: 22
Author's Note: DOUBLE POST! A bit of trouble for our new couple, a new evolution, and the promise of a battle next chapter. I decided to add the punks because in the game the skate park is just sitting there, you never do anything in it. So I decided to make it a hang out for a skate gang. The next chapter will start with the battle and proubly include everything up to the encounter with Snorlax. Well that's everything so as always, thanks for reading and please REVIEW!