Chapter 26: It's all about the Moves
After a while of walking through the forest, I found a nice little clearing that would serve my intentions. When I held that Waterpulse in front of Gavins face I got some ideas of how to manipulate my own moves. Until now, I only performed the moves like my body told me to. But what if I'd do some things differently?
'Let's try out.' I thought.
I formed a Water pulse in my paws like I used to do it. But just like before with Gavin I didn't fire it instantly, like my body told me to, and tried holding it in my Paws. I needed to concentrate on not firing it, even though my body told me to. After a minute I managed to completely supress my instincts, so I could hold my Water Pulse like a levitating ball of water.
'So, what can I do with it now? Can I maybe change its form?' I imagined a cube, and the ball of water changed its appearance to a cube.
'So, that works, but that doesn't really make it any more usefull. Maybe I should think of something else.' It took me a while to get an idea of how to use this new insight in my move. 'Maybe I should give it a smaller form, so it's harder for my enemy to see what I'm even doing.' I liked that Idea and I thought of a fitting form for those small projectiles, and since I really liked using my Razor Shell like a sword, I thought that throwing Knifes would somehow fit. It took me some time to figure this out, since it was a much more komplex form than just a ball or a cube but I eventually did it. I contentedly looked at the knife in my hand, although it was'nt actually a knife but a Water Pulse. I threw it against the next tree, and as soon as it was hit, the Knife exploded like a regular Water Pulse. I was satisfied with the outcome. I repeated the whole process until I could use it without thinking about it too much. I could also fire it off a lot faster than before.
'Alright that's done, but now I need to try something else...I wonder why Pokémon can only remember four moves at the same time. My actual moves are Razor Shell, Water Pulse, Revenge and X-Scissor. But what if I wanted to use a Move that I once knew? I mean I already knew how to perform it so maybe I can still use it even without 'knowing' the move...I better try it.'
I prepared to use a Water Gun. 'Shouldn't be too hard, I mean I used it so many times...'
It turned out that it was much harder than I imagined. If you're using a move you know, you've got some kind of instruction of how to use it inside your body. If that instruction is missing, you need to figure out everything by yourself. I even had to use all of my other moves first to check out what I'm even doing while using them. It was a lot about circulating energy inside my body and how to manipulate it. After some tries I finally managed to figure out how to manipulate this energy in a way that let me use my Water Gun move.
'Wow I didn't expect this to be so complicated, but at least I figured out how to do it, and now I know that it's actually possible to learn more than four moves.' I spent some time using Water Gun over and over again until I didn't need to think of all those complicated steps.
'I should figure out how to use my actual moves like this before I unlearn them...'
I went on with some of my other old moves, and realised that even a simple move like Tackle followed this pattern.
When I finished I was kind of exhausted. But there was something else I wanted to try out. 'If I could use my old moves, could I maybe also use the Moves that I yet have to learn?'
Before I could even try anything I heard a voice shouting for my name.
Nick?! are you there?! The last egg is hatching!
It was Silvers voice.
'Well that's gotta wait for another time I guess'
I headed back to the others, running as fast as I could.