Chapter 31: Final Preparations
A lot has happened the past days. Silver and I had camped in the trees next to the road watching for trainers coming by, until a young boy, maybe eleven years old, came across. I placed Gavin's Pokéball on the road and climbed the tree again to watch everything. The boy stopped when he noticed the Pokéball on the ground. He looked around to see if anyone was around, then he picked it up.
"Strange, what's a Pokball doing here, wait that's not even an empty one. It's a Pokémon. Did someone lose his Pokémon? Well, let's see come out!" He opened the Pokéball and Gavin appeared before him.
"Oh, it's a Houndour." he said exitedly.
Gavin didn't seem to like the situation he was in.
"Don't be afraid little one, have you lost your trainer? I'll take care of you. Oh wait you're hungry right?" He put his backpack off and pulled out some Pokéfood and held it towards Gavin. He hesitated at first but since we didn't feed him too much all the time, he started to eat it, while the boy petted him with his other hand.
"Good boy. By the way my name is Andy, and I want to earn all the badges in Johto and defeat the elite four to become the champ. What do you think? you want to join my team?"
Gavin obviously didn't like that idea, although he knew that he didn't really have a choice, and he also knew that Silver an I were still watching him, so he nodded reluctantly. Andy called Gavin back into his Pokéball and moved on.
With Gavin gone, we could go for our further preparations. We took turns in collecting some more food for our journey and doing some more training. I also learned a new move duing the Training: Aqua Jet. The move itself isn't too strong but it makes me incredibly fast and it's really great for closing the distance to your opponent, but also for dodging moves. I can also use this move to jump pretty high, I still need some aiming excercise before I can reliably use this though.
When Jess woke up, I apologised for forcing her into a battle. She accepted my apology but she didn't want to talk to me for the rest of the day. I just hope she'll ever forgive me what I've done to her.
Silver and I also made some changes to Jess' Backpack. It was too big for one of us to carry it all the time, but we also didn't want to leave it behind, so we cut it in two pieces and Travis fused the opening with his ember move. Silver and I would carry the bags. Travis and Kathie were not used to do this and Jess was just too small. Now we only had to avoid any humans on our way because they'd probably be really confused to see Pokémon carrying bags, not to mention that we were also a group of totally different Pokémon travelling together, with Dewott not even being a native Pokémon in Johto. So we had to find our way through the wilderness and avoid any roads as far as possible. I'd be optimistic to say that nothing will go wrong, but we'll see...