FINLLY CHAPTER 3! XD

I just want to tell you guys that I won't be able to update frequently because school has start up again and I am currently focusing on my youtube series: "Pokemon Academy: Love Wars"! Please come check it out!~

Anyways, this chapter was kind of rushed and I'm not sure if it is any good, but please enjoy!


A rustle of grass. Two boys tread as cautiously as possible. Another rustle. Shinichi braces himself as Kaito grins. The boys peer over the tall grass at the wild pokemon. It was brown and furry, with cute black eyes—a Zigzagoon.

A hush murmur hisses from Kaito, "Shin-chan, go do your stuff!"

And on those words, Shinichi jumps out of the grass, startling the small pokemon as he calls for his Mudkip. The wild Zigzagoon growls at the opposing blue fin pokemon. With a smirk etched on his face, Shinichi orders, "Mudkip! Use tackle!" Mudkip zooms towards the raccoon-like pokemon, crashing into it with a powerful tackle attack. The Zigzagoon can barely recover from the blow, standing on its four wobbly legs. Shinichi then gives a calculative look to the pokemon, before grabbing a pokeball from his bag, and throwing it at the pokemon. The pokemon is helpless, and can only enter the pokeball. On the grass, the ball rolls onve, twice, and on the third time a little bing sound is heard.

Kaito claps in the background as Shinichi reaches towards the pokeball on the ground and picks it up. Shinichi archives the ball into his bag, and Kaito skips over to him. The boys continue on the road to Oldale Town.

As they were walking, Kaito brings something to Shinichi's attention. "Hey, Shin-chan."

"Hmm?" Shinichi grunts.

"Don't you think you look kind of lame when throwing a pokeball?"

Shinichi's eyebrow twitches as he laughs sarcastically. "Ahh, I do huh? I wouldn't know, since I can't see myself, exactly."

"I mean—it's your form! It just looks so awkward!" Kaito throws his arms in the air, "It just isn't graceful at all!"

Shinichi frowns at his cousin, stopping in the middle of the road. "So? What should I do, then?"

Kaito also stops, and stares at the other brunette hard. "Hmm… I don't know… Maybe kick it—or something like that!" Kaito smirks playfully, "You are more accurate when kicking anyways."

The neat brunette blinks in surprise, before bringing a hand to his chin as he thinks. "Actually, that may not be a bad idea…" He then brings himself to smile, putting a hand on his cousin's shoulder. "Thanks, Kaito!"

"It's nothing~" Kaito snickers. Abruptly, Kaito froze. A rustle from the grass echoes through the area, and Shinichi's indigo eyes examine the area quickly for the source.

After locating it, Shinichi turns to Kaito. They exchange looks before nodding, and slowly tip toe to the grass. The boys peer over the tufts of grass to see a swarm of wurmple.

"Hey Kaito, did you know?" Kaito peeks over at Shinichi's grinning face. "Wurmple have two evolutions: it can evolve into a Silcoon that evolves into a Beautifly, or a Cascoon that evolves into a Dustox."

Kaito turns away from Shinichi to observe the Wurmples. "Ahh—I know. A Wurmple's evolution is usually by random, so if you wanted a specific one than you have to be lucky." Kaito smirks as he stands up, exposing himself to the swarm. "Thankfully, I pay tribute to Lady Luck!" He grabs a pokeball and calls out his Torchic. "Now let's get a Wurmple Shin-chan, and play the gamble of evolution!"

Shinichi also stands up, calling out his mudkip with a smirk on his face. "Okay." He grabs a pokeball from his bag and readies it for capture. "Let's do this, Kaito."

"Yeah!" Kaito snickers, "Tori, ember the three Wurmple on the left!" Tori responds by blowing out flames at the three Wurmple, which super effectively defeated them, causing the pokemon to faint.

The two Wurmple left get a bit agitated. In their irritation, they aim a string shot at the fire pokemon, but Tori dodges gracefully. Shinichi, seeing the prey distracted, orders. "Mudkip drench them with water gun!" Mudkip gushes out a strong water gun that hits its target—the Wurmple. From the blast, the Wurmple are heavily damaged, but have not fainted.

Kaito readies a pokeball, as does Shinichi. However, they both take different actions. Kaito throws the ball lightly at one of the fallen Wurmple, while Shinichi places the ball on the ground and kicks it at the other Wurmple. Two pokeballs drop on the grass, simultaneously turning like a pendulum three times before two bings are heard.

The cousins turn to each other, smirks on both of their faces. Kaito and Shinichi both raise their arms, then slap their hands together in a high-five. They quickly grab the pokeballs off the floor and place it back in their bags for safe keeping, before continuing on with their journey.

As the cousins walk, their two merry pokemon stroll along the side. Tori, the fireball of energy skips alongside Kaito singing. On the other hand, Mudkip was observing the nature around him as he strolled, making sure to catch up to his three companions when he falls behind. Soon, the four travelers face the end of Route 101, and welcome Oldale Town.

"Hmm… this place is just like Littleroot, huh…" Kaito examines the small town.

"Well, what did you expect? A ciry? Petalburg is more of a city than Oldale." Shinichi explains as he too looks around. "Come on, let's find the pokemon center to heal our pokemon and contact Hakase." Shinichi calls back Mudkip before he motions for Kaito to follow him.

"Okay!" Kaito snickers as he returns Tori and catches up to Shinichi.

The boys step into a white building with an orange roof, and a pokeball design on top and are greeted by a cheerful, sing song voice. "Welcome to the Pokemon Center." Nurse Joy stood behind the counter in middle, with a soothing and welcoming smile. Shinichi leads as Kaito follows, and the boys stand in front of the counter.

"We would like to heal our pokemon and get a room for the night." Shinichi smiles at the nurse as he places down two pokeballs: one containing his Eevee, and the other his Mudkip. Kaito mirrors his cousin, taking out two pokeballs himself: his Swablu and Torchic.

The nurse nods as she takes the pokeballs and places them into the healing machine. She then presses a green button to start the machine and turns around so that her back is to the boys. She opens a drawer and grabs a key before turning around to face the boys again. She places the key on the counter and pushes them to the boys. "Here is the keys to room 27, please return them before you leave!" The chime of the machine goes off, alerting that the healing has finished. Nurse Joy carefully takes out the pokeballs and hand them back to the boys, who in turn pocket the balls. "Thank you, have a good day." Nurse Joy bows.

Suddenly, a smirk spreads across Kaito's lips. The brunette boy leans closer to the counter, surprising Nurse Joy. A rose pops out of his empy hands and Kaito hands the rose to the lady as he takes her other hand and brings it to his lips. He gives a light kiss to her hand and with a mischievous smirk he let's go. "No, thank you, mademoiselle."

Kaito and Shinichi leave the counter, with Nurse Joy blushing slightly at the act and rose. Shinichi sighs after looking over his shoulder back at Nurse Joy. He gives Kaito a disapproving stare. "Geez, Kaito… Why do you have to be so flirty?"

"Oh~ Is Shin-chan jealous?~" Kaito snickers.

Shinichi immediately gets defensive, "Idiot! It's not like that! I'm just worried what Aoko would think of you is all!"

At Shinichi's comment, Kaito grumbles. "That's none of your business…"

After a few minutes, the boys make their way to a PC. After turning on the computer, they make a call to Agasa Hakase. "Oh! Shinichi! Kaito! How are you guys? Where are you?"

"We're fine, Hakase. We just got to Oldale town." Shinichi explains.

Kaito grins in the background, making silly gestures and pulling pranks on Shinichi's hair as he talks to the professor, causing the professor to laugh. Shinichi swats Kaito away after getting annoyed with his antics. "Oh! Hakase!" Kaito squeezes into view. "I want to send over the pokemon we caught!"

"Oh! You two've caught some already! That's Shinichi and Kaito!" Agasa praises. "I have everything ready on my side! So feel free to send them over!"

"Okay!" Kaito takes out the pokeball holding the Wurmple he just caught.

Shinichi notice this and inquires, surprised. "You aren't going to raise it?"

"Nah, I don't think I want to take the risk. After all, I don't want to open Pandora's box." Kaito snickers. "Plus, this way Hakase can do research on Wurmple's unique evolution and maybe find out how to determine it!" Kaito places the pokeball in the transfer machine and with a flash the pokeball disappears.

"Hmm… True…" Shinichi ponders on the idea. "I'll send back mine too, and the Zigzgoon and Poochyena I caught earlier." Shinichi takes out the pokeballs and transfers them one by one through the machine.

Still on the phone, Hakase alerts the cousins, "I got the pokemon! Four of them, right? I'll keep them in my lab and let them roam in my garden, so don't worry about them!"

"Thanks Hakase, take care." Shinichi hangs up and shuts down the PC.

Kaito twirls the keys around his finger as he and Shinichi make their way through the pokemon center and upstairs to the cafeteria. "Let's get dinner first Shin-chan, then rest up!"

"Yeah." Shinichi agrees and the boys go to the dining area. They each grab a meal and move to an empty table to sit. Shinichi had grabbed a curry plate, and was leisurely eating it while researching on his pokenav. Meanwhile, Kaito, across from Shinichi, had a hamburger and a soft drink and was too busy eating to make a conversation.

At that same time, a certain tan skinned boy enters Oldale town. He had finally managed to get to the town after leaving Littleroot that afternoon, his two pokemon by his side were exhausted by the amount of training they had done along the way. Heiji exhales a sigh of relief and lets his body crumple to the ground. He pants, "Ahh—we've finally made it! Alright! 'nd before sundown too!" Heiji throws his arms in the air in joy. Suddenly, a ring echoes out of his backpack, catching the attention of Heiji and his exhausted pokemon. Calmly, Heiji takes the pokenav out and checks the caller ID. "Oh, it's Kazuha!"

He quickly presses the answer button and holds the pokenav to his ear. "Yo, Kazuha. What'cha want?"

"HEIJI!" a booming high-pitched voice screams from the pokenav, making Heiji pull the pokenav away from his ear instinctively.

Heiji winces at the screech, and slowly brings the pokenav to his ear again. "Kazuha?"

The girl behind the call, Kazuha, scholds. "Heiji, where 're you?! You said you'd be home by sundown!"

"A—ah! Well, ya see… It a took a while longer to ahh—get to Oldale, so umm… I won' be back 'till tomorrow!"

"What! Heiji! But we were supposed to leave tomorrow!"

"So ya! 'night, Kazuha!"

"Wait! Heiji—!" Heiji hangs up the pokenav and quickly pockets it away in his bag.

The boy lets out a sigh of relief. He then quickly glances at his two pokemon at his feet before giving them a lazy smile. "Ya guys want some rest too, huh." Heiji scavenges for the two pokeballs and then returns the pokemon. "Okay, get some rest, now." After returning Poochyena and Treecko, he scans the town for the nearest pokemon center.

His calculative teal eyes land on the orange roofed building. Heiji tilts hit hat up, "So, that's where ya are!" Steadily, Heiji strides to the center and enters through the automatic sliding doors.