The Journey of Dreams

The Journey of Dreams

Every Trainer learns lessons each day to better themselves; yet sometimes a Trainer needs a little reminding about the love and care of their friends, the pokemon....



Chapter 2: Everybody wants to be a Master....

Since Keishi has received his pokemon, he had been working hard to train him. In one week, Pichu had been in 23 battles. Amazingly, he hasn't collapsed yet, though he is getting very close to collapsing on his own. Keishi checks him every night and treats Pichu's bruises. Keishi seemed to try his hardest to make sure Pichu was strong enough to battle the gym leader. Finally Ryu came over to visit and see how Keishi and Pichu were doing. He walked into Keishi's room with Totodile sitting happily on his shoulders and squabbling about.

"Hey Keishi, how's training going with Pichu?" Ryu asked curiously. Totodile took a peek at Pichu which looked at him with an angry face. Totodile gulped and hid his snout in Ryu's hair.

"It's been ok...Pichu has won most of his battles so far," Keishi responded treating a wound. Pichu yelped in pain at the burn of the cleaning liquid.

"Hold still Pichu! This won't heal if you keep struggling," Keishi shouted. Pichu didn't like the feeling and he bit his lip.

"Have you been taking him to a pokemon center?" Ryu asked now holding Totodile in his arms.

"Well uh...no..not really," Keishi said looking up at him.

"You should! That's a baby pokemon! You should bring it to a poke center for a checkup every day till it becomes strong enough where you just need to heal it every now and then," Ryu said frantically.

"Really?" Keishi asked, feeling bad now that he did the wrong thing.

"Of course! How do you think Totodile stays healthy? He gets a daily check up with Nurse Joy every day! Don't you Totodile?" Ryu asked. Totodile made some squabbling sounds and agreed.

"Oh....well I guess I'll take Pichu to the Pokemon center then," Keishi says as he picks up Pichu. Pichu struggles in his arms, he seems to still dislike him. Maybe more greatly than before. Ryu frowns at Pichu's unhealthy condition and sighs. Before Keishi walks out of the door, Ryu runs after him.

"Hey Keishi!" he shouts to him. Keishi stops and turns around to look at him, wondering what he wanted.

"After you heal Pichu and he gets his check up, why don't you and I have a pokemon battle?" Ryu offered. Keishi smiled just slightly, this would be his first vs battle with another trainer.

"Sure...but Pichu is much lower in level than Totodile is," Keishi reminded.

"Yeah, but Pichu has a type advantage. It would make an interesting battle," Ryu said smiling.

"Uh...ok. Sure than," Keishi said as he walked out of the door.

~~*At the Pokemon Center*~~

Keishi walks in to look around at several injured and sick pokemon. He goes up to talk to the receptionist at the front desk. She seems quite friendly and tells him to take a seat. He watched as a young boy cradles his poor, hurt oddish.

"Don't worry oddish...we will heal you..be brave for me," the boy whispered as he holds oddish close to his chest.

"Poor rhydon...he's got a bad cold," a woman said to a male friend with a porygon sitting in a chair. Rhydon sniffed and sneezed on the ground as it laid down miserably.

"Yeah Porygon took a licking at the Violet Gym today...I don't think he is ready for any more battles for now. Maybe I should upgrade him. He might be much stronger after that," the man said to her,"Hope your Rhydon feels better."

"Thanks a lot, hope your porygon becomes stronger," said the woman smiling at him.

"Thanks! We will work on it," the man responds.

Keishi looks down at Pichu, which seemed to be looking around at all of the different pokemon. He felt that maybe he should be nicer to Pichu. Yet if he didn't push him further, he wouldn't become stronger.

Keishi waited for a while until it was his turn to go see Nurse Joy. Nurse Joy, is Violet City's top pokemon doctor. Keishi remembers helping her take care of pokemon during the summers and after school. He would check the pokemon's pulse and other things. He loved working with all the different type of creatures that came to the pokemon center each day. He met a lot of different trainers that way too when he was Nurse Joy's assistant. He set his Pichu down on Nurse Joy's patient bed. Pichu looked up at Nurse Joy in a very curious manner. Nurse Joy checked Pichu's eyes and looked at his current condition. She then turned to Keishi with a bit of an upset face.

"What happened to him?" Nurse Joy asked putting her hands on her hips.

"I uh...Well...he has just been training," Keishi said weakly.

"He is in very poor condition! Its amazing he is still standing! Keishi! I taught you better than this! What happened to you?" Nurse Joy asked him in a concerned manner. Keishi looks down, sliding his foot back and forth in a ashamed manner.

"I..I'm sorry Nurse Joy," Keishi says looking up in hope she would forgive him.

"And why does he have a training collar on him? That's bad for a pokemon's morality! You should know that!" Nurse Joy asked, examining the black color on Pichu. She petted Pichu and gave him a piece of candy. Pichu squealed in excitement as Nurse Joy healed it with some medicines.

"Well I thought maybe he wouldn't run away if I did that," Keishi explains.

"You know Keishi, if you don't start trusting your pokemon; he will never respect you. Pokemon rely on love and trust to perform their best," Nurse Joy said as she looked towards him, she had one hand on the bed as Pichu looked up at her and then Keishi.

"So I should take off the collar??? What if he runs away? Pichu never was too fond of me from the beginning," Keishi said looking down.

"Keishi! Im disappointed in you! You of ALL PEOPLE would do this to your pokemon! How would Ash Ketchum feel if he knew you were abusing your own pokemon? He wouldn't be very happy now would he?" Nurse Joy said, trying to talk some sense in him.

"Yes..yes..I know..." Keishi said feeling horrible now. After the scolding, Keishi agreed to take off the collar. He walked up to Pichu and snapped it's button loose. Pichu felt his neck with his little paws and felt relieved. He looked up at Keishi and stuck his tongue out at him. Keishi looked back and sighed. Nurse Joy laughed and said, "It will take some time."

Keishi thanked Nurse Joy for treating Pichu and walked out with Pichu in his arms. Pichu looked up at him and wondered what Keishi was thinking. Keishi walked around town till he saw Ryu playing with Totodile at his house. He seemed to be playing tag, as Totodile ran around in a frantic little manner trying to capture Ryu which was skipping around. Finally Totodile got him with a water gun attack. Ryu was now all wet, yet laughing. Totodile ran into his arms and tagged him. Ryu laughed some more at his smart little pokemon. Keishi decided to walk over to Ryu and Totodile to greet them.

"Hey guys! Ready for the battle?" Keishi asked them.

"I see Pichu is all healthy and fit now," Ryu said petting Pichu's head. Pichu waved his arms happily.

"Yeah," Keishi responded softly. He put Pichu down on the ground. Ryu told him to wait right there and went back into his house. Totodile and Pichu played tag together for the while. Pichu seemed to enjoy the company of other pokemon with him. Keishi smiled just slightly. After about ten minutes, Ryu came back out with two other poke balls, he tossed one to Keishi.

"I'm giving you my gastly and I will have bellsprout," Ryu said, "That way we both have two."

Keishi agreed as Ryu tossed his Poke ball to the ground. Out popped out a white light and a bellsprout appeared in front of Keishi.

"Bell Sprout!" it said as it cocked its head to the side.

Keishi tossed out his poke ball up in the air and out popped a blackish gastly. Its purple gases flew behind him when he moved in a circle formation.

"Gastly!" it hissed as it looked at bellsprout with it's fangs.

"Great now lets begin!" Ryu said happily.

"Right! Gastly! Hypnosis!" Keishi commanded. Gastly flew up to the plant pokemon and shot a purplish beam towards bellsprout. Bellsprout in an attempt to dodge, ended up taking the beam and grew sleepy. It fell on the ground with a snore from it's mouth and a bubble blowing from it's nose.

"Grrr.." Ryu said trying to wake up bellsprout.

"Gastly! Use your lick attack!" Keishi yelled. Gastly flew over and licked Bellsprout. Bellsprout shivered from the paralysis he received.

"Bellsprout!!! Wake up!" Ryu said pushing it to wake.

"Yes!" Keishi said as he ordered gastly to lick again. Bellsprout all of a sudden woke up and bounced back, making gastly lick the ground. Bellsprout then looked hard at Gastly and two whipping vines snapped hard towards the flying black sphere. Gastly flew backwards as it tried to regain its balance again.

"Yeah!" Ryu yelled happily.

"Gastly! Give it another shot of your hypnosis!" Keishi ordered. Gastly flew over and tried his purplish beam once more. Bellsprout this time dodged it, he then did vine whip again and slammed gastly into a tree. Gastly flopped to the ground as he blackened out. Keishi snapped his fingers and sent Gastly back into the poke ball. Ryu grabbed Bellsprout and danced around with him. Bell sprout smiled happily at Ryu's excitement. Ryu hugged his plant pokemon once more and sent him back into the poke ball.

Next Ryu commanded his rambunctious little blue alligator out to the floor. Totodile ran excitedly to the center ring. Keishi looked at Pichu and signaled that it was now his turn. Pichu looked at him and then hopped in.

"This time I go first! Totodile! Scratch!" Ryu yelled. Totodile ran over and slammed his claws into Pichu's face.

"PICHU!!" Pichu yelled in quick pain as he hopped to the side, trying to regain his balance.

"Pichu! Thunder shock!" Keishi yelled. Pichu's cheeks flared with the sparks of electricity as he growled angrily.

"PIIIIIICHUUUUU!" he yelled as he shocked Totodile miserably. Totodile yelped in pain as it tried to stay standing. It seemed to take a lot of heavy damage yet it was still standing. Ryu was almost in shock, yet the battle wasn't over yet.

"Phew...Totodile! DEAL SOME DAMAGE BACK! USE YOUR RAGE ATTACK!" Ryu yelled. Totodile flared up his feet and claws as he ran towards Pichu and slammed fast and heavy damage on the little yellow pokemon. Pichu flopped over, he seemed he had been beaten. Keishi ran to Pichu immediately.

"Come on Pichu...don't give up now.." Keishi encouraged. Ryu slapped Totodile's clawed little hand for his victory against an electric.

"Pichu...please.." Keishi said, Pichu looked dazedly up at Keishi.

"I...I know I haven't really been treating you that great the past week..I swear I'll make it up.." Keishi promised him. Pichu looked up at him and then got up slowly. The little pokemon seemed to be hurting pretty badly. Ryu and Totodile looked at Pichu which didn't seem to be finished just yet.

"Tough Pokemon.." Ryu commented as he sent Totodile back in to the center ring.

"All righty...this should be an easy finish...Totodile! Scratch attack!" Ryu yelled.

"Pichu! Charm!" Keishi ordered quickly. Totodile ran over ready for his scratch attack yet a pink bubble shaped like a heart flew into his face, making him miss.

"Now! Thunder wave!" Keishi yelled. Pichu charged up as a small wave of electricity went through Totodile, paralyzing it to the ground.

"Totodile! Water Gun!" Ryu yelled frantically.

"Pichu! Dodge it!" Keishi yelled. In his command, Pichu dodged the huge water blast by just a hair.

"Now give him a thunder shock!" Keishi shouted. Pichu's cheeks once again flared up in a swelling of electricity that sent charging out. The energy was so great, it shocked Totodile to fainting point. Totodile flopped over, unconscious.

"YEAH!!!!!" Keishi yelled as he picked up his little yellow friend and swung around with him as he held on to his small yellow hands.

"I can't believe Totodile lost...I thought he had won," Ryu said,"Not like I was not expecting Totodile to loose any way.."

"Wow that was a lot of fun, but I think we came to a draw," Keishi said as he walked up to Ryu. The young black haired trainer extended his hand out to his best friend. Ryu looked at him and laughed nervously as he shook his hand.

"Yeah, it was a draw, good job for your first time Keishi," Ryu said as Keishi gave him back his gastly.

"We should do this again sometime," Keishi told him as he patted Pichu's head.

"Yeah We should," Ryu replied.

"Pichu!" Pichu exclaimed, cheering in.

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Keishi: Wow! That was a fun chapter! But I cant believe I didn't win. Neo! What's wrong with you???

Neo: HEY! Quit complaining! At least you didn't lose!

Keishi: True...but I'm suppose to be the hero of the story! Ash Ketchum won his first battle!

Neo: You certainly are NOT an Ash Ketchum....

Keishi: Wait..aren't I suppose to be like him?

Neo: No...your motive is you WANT to be like him!

Keishi: *thinks* I'm confused...

Neo: Oh just be quiet and dance for me!

Keishi: Ack! Anything, but that!

Neo: Then QUIT YOUR COMPLAINING!

Totodile: Toto! Totodile! Dile! Dile! *Translation: Yeah! Quit your complaining boy!*