Chapter 11: The art of dual-wielding
We spent another night in the Pokémoncenter of Violet City. I grabbed a mirror again to inspect my new face. It was just like my chest covered in light-blue fur. On my cheeks there were now white whiskers formed like a V. My nose was Pink now and a little smaller, therefore it formed a small muzzle. My ears were now like my hands, feet and tail covered in black fur. On the back of my head a single strain of fur was pointing upwards. Besides the physical changes, I noticed that my voice didn't sound like a child's voice anymore. It was just like Travis' voice now more of a teenager's voice, just slightly higher pitched. Another positive aspect about my evolution was, that I was now tall enough to open doors on my own without help.
It was a long and exhausting day for Travis and me, but since we both evolved today, we were packed with energy, and we couldn't just sleep yet. So we decided to sneak out at night and do some Midnight training while Jess was asleep. Our room was in the first floor so getting outside was kind of difficult without using the door. Good thing, I found a small rope in Jess' Backpack. It wasn't very thick but enough to carry Travis' and my weight. I attached the rope to the window and bound Travis with the other end of the rope. His paws weren't meant to climb on ropes, so I let him down on the rope and climbed it down myself afterwards.
When we were both outside, I freed Travis from the Rope and we ran into the near forest. I never really tried how fast I could run, and I was actually faster than I thought, but Travis was faster, due to running on four legs. Not too far from the Pokémoncenter we found a nice place to train.
Alright Travis, this place should be fine, just try to not set the trees on fire.
Travis went over to a Rock and practiced his fire-type moves.
I needed to try something. In my last battle I learned that Razor Shell move. It's pretty cool, but now I have two scalchops, and I wanted to try if I could dual-wield them. 'But let's start with one first.' I took my left scalchop with my right hand and prepared a Razor Shell move. The scalchop was engulfed in blue light, forming a blade of water. 'And now the other one.' I took my other scalchop in my left hand and charged another Razor Shell. When I did so, the other Razor shell went unstable and the energy collapsed. 'Hmm not too easy, this takes a lot of concentration. It took me some tries until I managed to charge both blades at the same time, but it took a lot of my concentration to keep them up. Whenever I got distracted one of my blades would collapse. 'I guess I need more training.'
For the next hour I just tried to keep both of my blades up. With every try I managed to keep them up longer. I soon could even walk around without losing concentration. But I still had a long way to go if I wanted to use this for fighting. I then decided to try some moves with only one scalchop, striking invisible opponents, and then using both shells in turns, by quickly shifting the blades during a series of attacks. This exercise made me pretty fast in charging my Razor Shells. I wanted to use both of my scalchops at the same time, though.
'I need to train harder to master that. I can keep both blades up when nothing distracts me, but I can't attack like that, yet. So I need to work on my concentration.' For another hour, I tried to keep up both blades, while doing some other tasks, as walking around, talking to Travis, and then performing some simple moves with the blades. Slowly I managed to keep them up, adding more complexity to my moves. Travis, who already stopped training, watched me, fascinated of what I was doing.
When I finally got tired of it, we went back to the Pokémoncenter. The rope was still there. I bound Travis to the rope, and then climbed up; finally I pulled up Travis who was hanging on the rope. After removing the rope and putting it back into Jess' backpack, I closed the window and we then both fell asleep next to Jess.