Chapter 4. Beginning sessions

After Stephen was done talking to Oak and picking out his starter Pokemon, he went over to the medical Bay and went to see how Ralts was doing. Luckily the Ralts was not too heavily injured so it did not need emergency surgery, but he would be in the hospital in the professor's lab for about two to three days. His horn would still be broken as that was something the chancey simply could not fix with her healing ability. Ralts was awake and was sitting on the bed staring nervously around it, not knowing where it was and what was going on. Ralts saw Steven come into the medical bay room and noticeably breathed a sigh of relief upon his entry into the room.

Ralts looked at Steven, 'human steven, i appreciate your bringing me to this shelter of healing. If it had not been for your quick thinking, the chancey informed me I would have likely perished under my ailments.'

Steven pondered this for a moment before thinking to the ralts a response,' I know you most likely do not want to be captured and have anything to do with humans' he thought to the ralts with a serious tone,' however i have a proposal for you.' The ralts thought about this statement for a moment and then nodded for Steven to continue. ' I have not been granted a pokemon adventurer license yet as i have to be 15 years of age and i have only just turned 14 only a few weeks ago' he thought to ralts, recalling what Oak had told him, ' so my proposal is this, allow me to train you and my starter pokemon growlithe for a year until i start adventuring, if by then you wish to set out on your own for revenge i will release you and we will part ways.'

Ralts was stunned and he knew that this was a very serious matter to consider but… his instincts were telling him to follow this person. His father had told him that as a physic pokemon and as well as a rarer male of his species on top of his coloration his instincts should be top of the line and that most of the time he should follow it. This was one of the last things his father had taught him before their demise. The lesson could be said to be one of the most important from his father, for the instincts of his race were very high and this is the reason they were so prosperous despite being called a rarer species by the humans. Ralts stared at Steven and thought to him,' Although I do not know your leading abilities, your commanding abilities, your training methods, or really any of your main ideals, my instinct is practically screaming at me to accept your request, so I shall.'

Ralts hopped down from the table and walked up to Steven and took a knee in front of him. Steven was taken aback by this seemingly abnormal behavior from his new friend. Ralts paid no mind and continued,' My lord, by the instincts that guide me, i swear to train with you in times of peace, serve you on the field in times of battle and protect in times of crises, it would be an honor to be by your side,' ralts thought to Steven who was getting slightly emotional from grand display of allegiance ' please, my lord, bestow upon me a name worthy of my dedication.'

Stevem smiled and thought back,' I accept your oath and my feelings are the same. As for your name, I thought of it long ago upon hearing your story,' he said as he tossed a pokeball at ralts. The ding of a successful catch rang out in the room. Steven picked up the pokeball and released the ralts who was still motionless in the bent knee position,' welcome to the team, Prince'

-- 2 days later --

The last 2 days had been hard and easy for Steven. After moving into Professor Oaks shed home he had moved the growlithe and the egg into it, and immediately started to gain the trust of the young fire hound. He put the egg near the resting area of the growlithe as he knew fire types had excellent egg hatching abilities from his time egg breeding in the games over the pokemon series. Although his growlithe did not trust him at all. It was very obvious that the growlithe had a severe distrust of humans. Now as the last 2 days had passed he had sat across the room on blankets to show the growlithe he would not get near it unless it engaged first. He would feed growlithe by putting his pokeblock in a bowl and setting it next to the young pups water bowl and then sitting next to the egg while watching the pup as he gently stroked the egg. This was a strategy he had personally come up with to gain the growlithes trust, first he would show him he would not attack him and second he would show that he cared for the young and he cared for him even if the feeling was not mutual.

Steven woke up this morning and looked down in shock at what he saw, the growlithe was laying around the egg! He had curled into a ball and was warming the egg with his body heat. This touched the young trainer's heart as this was the first time the young pup had shown any sign of affection and was not actively hiding away from his sight or trying to seem as small as possible. Steven took this as a sign of good things to come and proceeded to walk over to Oaks to check up on Prince and see if he was well enough to begin training and to introduce him to growlithe.

Steven walked into the medical bay and saw ralts sitting on the table in a very happy mood. It was very apparent that he had gotten some good news. Steven asked him why he was so happy and ralts had confirmed that he had indeed completely recovered and that Oak had cleared him about 20 minutes ago and he had been waiting for Steven to show up. Steven wasted absolutely no time and went with ralts to a small training field where he took out a pokedex Oak had given him a day prior when he asked Oak what the moves, Iv's, and Ev's on the Growlithe were. What was weird about that conversation with Oak was that Oak had absolutely no idea what IV or EV was and looked at him with a confused expression. Steven had decided not to press for answers and simply asked for equipment for growlithe. Then oak had given him a pokedex, although Steven had decided to not scan growlithe until he started training with himself and Prince.

Pokedex entry: Ralts

Egg move: Will-O-Wisp

Moveset: Growl, Confusion

Gender: Male

While this was indeed helpful in knowing what ralts' moveset was currently, it did not tell him a good chunk of information that he really needed to know for proper training. This worried him as not only on top of EV and IV training, he didn't even know what ralts' nature was. He thought about it for a minute while ralts looked around the training area. He quickly surmised that it was possible that either these things did not exist in this world, the pokedex either couldn't tell or didn't know, or the people of this world hadn't discovered it yet. This would hinder his plans a bit but he knew almost every pokemon's move set by heart so he could teach them whatever move he needed to cover for his losses in these areas.

He turned to Prince and thought to him,' I hope you have looked at the area well, this will be our main training area to hone your powers.' He said and Prince nodded in confirmation. ' I believe that a trainer should train with his pokemon so i will be exercising and working out while supervising your initial training. My pokedex says you know the moves growl and confusion so you already know how to use your psychic power. However I can pretty much guess that it's not as powerful as it should be, so for your first 2 weeks of sessions what you will be doing is a combination of practical application training.' He explained to a confident looking ralts,' everyday we come here and you will switch between an hour of meditation where you will focus your psychic power and two hours where you will take the power you are growing through meditation and unleash it as confusion attacks. Although this method has not been tested, I believe this will be helpful in training your psychic power to monstrous proportions! Now! Let us begin our first session of training!'