I Don't Own Pokemon
Ducking under a branch, I looked around for a bit, noting that I was now out of the forest finally, and now was in a more canyon like area. I had been walking for only about two days which isn't really that bad, but recently I've taken back to training in proper full force. Meaning that all the trees were a bit annoying to have to work around, as while I didn't mind deforesting a large area of forest, I feel like most would disagree with me on that.
Though on a side note, Servine has now taken to napping in the middle of the days that we all only travel on. I think he's pushing himself a bit much to try and catch up, even more now at least, since he is now seeing the insane amount of training that everyone else on the team goes through daily. I think it might of hurt his pride a little when he figured out that his full body training that exhausts him, is the same training I have everyone else do for a quick warm up.
So I've just made sure to spend some one on one time with him while the rest were practicing on controlling their intense power. The reasons behind both my one on one training and the control training for the rest of them were different but came from the same idea. My main thought process is that Servine needs to train some more in his combination moves, which highly depends on the power in the moves that make up the combination, and his control.
Right now I'm focusing much more heavily on his strength than control, because he already has control over his moves to an impressive extent. So right now, I'm having him train in using Growth, while helping him use the tips that Luxray gave him one having extra energy to use, to make sure that he is making use of everything he needs to. Besides all that, I'm also trying to figured out a way to transition Growth in a way to help Servine learn Synthesis, something which will help out a lot for longer battles.
While the other members of the team are training in making sure that they can use only the amount of power necessary, it's more of a mental thing rather than actually proper training. But I think it's important considering the fact that it wouldn't be very fair to everyone else if I only used Servine and any Pokemon that I might capture here because they are on more equal ground.
As every enjoys battling just in general not so much the challenge of it, though that does also have a certain appeal to it I'm sure. So making sure that everyone knows the correct level of power to use in a certain situation can only be a good thing. After all, they haven't actually had to do that, at least to my knowledge, everyone we've gone against could at least hold there own at that current point.
But because that the last we went against were so much stronger than the average trainer, well, it might be asking a bit much for that to hold true. So, right now everyone is training on drawing back on the power of there moves to have the exact output of energy they want. It of course also had a very nice side benefit in the form that if they all can learn to only use the exact amount of energy necessary then they don't have to worry about over taxing themselves as quickly.
Some had more problems with that than others, Luxray actually having the hardest time by far, simply because of how much overwhelming energy he has at his disposal, he never has had to worry about saving energy on other things. Though, he's taking it in stride, and I think he is actually having a good bit of fun messing around trying to find the correct amount of lightning to actually use.
On the complete flip side, Vaporeon is easily having the easiest time in this subject, but I think everyone, myself included, already knew that this was something she excelled in. Her ability to budget her energy usage though, I have to admit, is a lot better than even I expected it to be, so she has recently taken to help out Luxray and Charizard, another that has had a good bit of difficulty in power limiting.
Though on a side note that's only slightly relevant at the moment, Zekrom has also taken to trying to copy my team in learning control, which I think is a little unnecessary, as from what I've seen, the Pokemon already has a mastery over their Electric type moves that even Luxray was a bit, well I'll say envious of it, but that doesn't fit that well. Still I'm pretty sure that another reason as to why he was inspired and trying so much to become that good in controlling his own Electric type moves.
It gave him a nice and clear goal to reach, which I'm completely fine with, plus it also gives another side benefit of the fact that it is also helping build a stronger relation between the Legendary and my team, which I got to say is really nice for me, as I've had to be a mediator or at least calming presence for most of the times that everyone was near each other.
At least during the time when Zekrom first started traveling around with me and everyone else. It's calmed down a good bit in recent times but still, it's nice that everyone is at least in the beginning stages of getting along, and it certainly helps that Luxray is helping a lot to make sure everyone is comfortable with each other. Which has been a bloody blessing all things considered as it's let me not be as paranoid about all that, and allowed me to focus more on something else.
Speaking about focusing on something else, I looked around, while moving my mind away from the events from the past few days and looked at the cliff and almost mountainous area around me. It was a lot more brown compared to the green fields and leafs from the small forest I had just left behind, which wasn't that much of a bad thing. I still certainly appreciate the natural beauty of it all and all that, but at some point it's nice to see something else after an extended period of time in the same environment.
Which might be another reason why I was getting a bit stir crazy at the beach after a couple weeks. Anyway, looking around, I noted that there was a interesting amount of miners around digging into the ground for some reason. I was about to figure that it wasn't anything that I cared to probably learn about as I wasn't really all that interested in this kind of stuff, but before I could turn to walk away, one of the most southern accented voices I've ever heard in recent memory spoke up behind me and said.
"Woo wee! Now's what do we have here? Looks like you's an upscale city brat. So whatcha a kid like you doing here? Are you playing on mocking us folk trying to make a living, or are yall going to see if you'll get luckily and find some of that amberite?" It's actually a lot harder to decipher whatever the hell he said, even though I was raised in a more southern part of the US. Thankfully I never ended up with an accent, thank bloody hell for monotone voices, well at least my monotone voice.
"No to all the above actually, I'm just passing through at the moment, I don't really care about any of this mining you all seem to have going on here" He nodded to himself, before looking over his shoulder, like he was trying to spot if anyone was looking around to notice what he was doing, before leaning close to me. And by close, I mean he was a good half a foot into my personal space and that wasn't exactly comfortable, considering the man was mostly covered in dirt, grime, and the like.
"Well's then, I now can't in just good consciousness just let you's go without you knowing about amberite! See, it's this funny little stone that's worth bucket loads of a fortune, well's at least if you can find some of the stuff. Luckily for you though, I just happen to know of an area nearby that recent sightings reports a whole heck of ah lot of amberite, practically just laying around while these igits just stick here in a dry spot!"
Oh, this is happening now, well that's fun, I don't think I've tried to be scammed in a long while, at least not since that one weird day in, I think it was, Vermilion, this weird guy tried to force a set of overpriced potions and full heals on me. I wonder what happened to him, no wait, I don't actually care now that I'm thinking about it. Anyway, back to the idiot at hand, who had gotten closer, close enough for Riolu to tense, probably from the greedy emotions coming off of the man in front of me.
"Oh really? What would it take for you to give away that little tidbit of information? I tilted my head to the side like I was thinking about the ideas of having more money at my disposal, I mean, I was doing that, and the images are pretty nice. I'm the type of person who doesn't think having to much money is possible, just because I have to much to know what to do with it, doesn't mean I don't like having it on hand, in fact, it's pretty much the opposite.
"In fact, I know just what you can do! You see, I here have a few sets of miner tools, most in pretty good condition, unfortunately, I don't really care much about the practice much nowadays, so how about you buy this stuff off me for, I don't know, say, thirteen hundred, and I'll tell you where this land of riches lays" Over a bloody thousands, I'd rather go cliff jumping than do that, wait a second, huh, his accent is getting lighter and lighter the more he talks, that's neat little lie I just noticed, anyway, back to my outrage.
Who in there right bloody mind would do that? That's just insane, and that's not me just being stingy either, that amount of cash could probably pay for a few weeks of traveling costs for me, and I pay a lot more than I would like on food, every eats a surprisingly large amount. So for a could of tools, not even in proper condition, well, screw that on all possible levels, not to mention who has that kind of money on hand like this. Well, to be fair I do, but that's because I don't like using my card for everything, still, back to playing my part.
"Oh really? For a sample of a fortune you said... man, I don't know, that is a good bit of money to just give away" Never let it be said that even when I'm not a good actor when I want to be. Though on a side note, my throat really doesn't agree with the idea of making my voice convey so many emotions at once. It's my fault really, all voice tricks, at least for me, I need to have some regularity in using them or I get rusty, and I haven't really had to pull something like this in a while. Still the man ate it up.
"Oh, trust me sonny, this is a small price for the amount of money you can have in your near future. Come on, I can't now just wait around all day for you to make a decision. If you don't want practically free money then who am I to change your mind" I'll give him credit, I have to say, he's almost a decent conman, though a time limit is one of the most used pressure techniques out there to force a deal closed, so it's not that impressive. Still, I've lost the entertainment in this after he mentioned that bloody stupid price.
"No, no, trust me, I want to make some money..uh...here, just wait one moment! I'll get you what you need!" He seemed satisfied as he finally leaned away, which was very nice considering the fact that if he got any closer then I would be tempted to punch him, no wait, I'm already tempted to do that, not like that's a new thing to be fair. Anyway, on a side note, Riolu is really confused from her position on my shoulders. Thankfully, she seems to trust me enough to know that I'm not a idiot.
Reaching down to my side, I opened up the flap to my bag, and stuck my hand in, after a moment I pulled out a wad of money and tossed it to the man in front of me, who gave the most lecherous grin I've seen in a long while. I think he might make this the most 'first time in a whiles' I've had, well, at least in a while. Still, after he counted it, which I thought was a bit insulting, he grinned at me, before dropping a rusty as hell shovel at my feet before saying.
"It's about six kilometers under you, that's where most natural metals are found" And with that he turned and walked away with a kick in his step once he saw my very put on shocked look on my face, which hurt my cheeks to be honest, after making sure he was out of sight, I rolled my eyes, bent down and picked up the shovel to look at it. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was, I mean, it wasn't good, and I think it might break if it had a collision with a rock, but I could probably sell it for scrap metal if I care to.
"What the hell was that? I thought you had some fun plan that would lead to that greed scum being humiliated" Blinking, I glanced up at Riolu, who it seems might have either gained a few of my...more questionable traits, or she is finally opening up that she might be a bit sadist, from the amount of times she has smacked my head for commenting something, I can say it's probably the later. Anyway, on to the explaining.
"Well, I mean, at worst I just sent him to jail for a few years, and at best, I've just given him a bad day" She seemed to be very confused at that, which to be fair is quite fair, so I Just gave a small smile, well not that she could see it, but she can tell that I'm pleased so it has the same effects, at least I think it does, thoughts for later. With that anyway from my thinking, I explained my general idea.
"Well, I mean all that money I gave him is illusioned and obviously fake, so, either it'll time out in about three hours, leaving him with nothing but anger, or, he tries to deposit some of it, and the clerk at the bank will call the police about making fake money with intent of use. Which I believe is a very serious crime to commit, and gave give the criminal in question a few years in jail because of it. He deserves to get either one to be honest for that disgusting price on a bloody shovel"
Riolu seemed to pause at that for a second before saying out loud to make sure I heard her.
"Wait, so you did all that, possibly sending a petty crook to multiple years in jail, just because of the dumb price he put on his equipment, that you didn't have to buy. Dear lord, you're petty as hell" I mean, she isn't exactly wrong, but I resent that remark nonetheless, still, looking down at the shovel in my hand, I wondered about what to do with it for a moment before mentally shrugging to myself, because if I actually shrugged then Riolu would be an annoying brat and wack me on the head, which I would have to retaliate for, and I didn't really want to deal with that mess at the moment.
What was I thinking about? Oh yeah, shovel, I just kept in my hand and began to walk through the valley, I probably won't be finding a use for it, but I mean, it's a free shovel, no matter how bad of a quality it happens to be of. So with that, I began to make my way through, Cherrygrove is only maybe about a day out from here so I should be able to try and sleep at the Pokemon Center there, before setting out to the next population for my first gym battle in Johto.
I almost forgot to add something down here at the end of this chapter, don't know why I'm mentioning it at all, but I am. Anyway, it's a bit weird to go from the entire thirty some chapters that was in Unova which plot is almost completely self made to this, an area that is anime only. Sure the whole scammer thing is my own contribution but still, it's interesting to be back to having source material to use and modify instead of making it all up as I go. Anyway, See ya.
