POKEMON JOURNEY
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Chapter 3: Camping Out
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"We have to eat this?!" Gemini screamed.

The troop were camping out in one of the few clearings of Viridian forest, a plate of roasted Beedril in front of them.

"It's all we have." Ramza muttered.

A roar resounded in the trees.

Ramza took out his translator device and pointed it in the direction of the roar.

[DID I HEAR A COMRADE SAY HE WAS OUT OF RATIONS?!!?!?!]

Ramza was frightened, he heard about Russian pokemon that were carefully taught in they ways of the communist, and they were army trained, not to mention they were savage and were trained to eat the dead bodies of their enemies.

Needless to say, his pokemon were frightened too, Aries was curling up to Ramza, eyes wide and shivering, while Gemini and Cancer were getting ready to fight, both sweating uncontrollably.

A green blur shot out of the top of a tree and gracefully landed on the ground with a soft thud.

Ramza immediatly checked his Pokedex, Delita, which responded, "Stonetriever, a dog/wolf pokemon, it's type is Grass/Ground/Bug/Rock, A pokemon breeded in Russia, very powerful, also the only pokemon with four types. It's cry can echo no matter where you are and the stones on it's back can be regrown if lost in battle. Attacks: Pin Missile (BUG), Ground Zero(GROUND/ROCK), Magnitude (GROUND), Vine Whip (GRASS), Solar Beam (GRASS), Sunny Day (GRASS/FIRE), Mother Russia (NORMAL), Carnivour (GRASS), Rock Slide (ROCK), String Shot (BUG), Echo Howl (???), Hidden Power (GRASS)."

[Da, comrade, I heard that you are a pretty good trainer, I'f you manage to defeat me, I will join you on your worthy venture.]

"Woah, what luck!" Ramza exclaimed.

[Send out your men!] The Stonetriever reared back and roared, responding with it, millions of echos rebounded back.

"Ground, Grass, Bug and Rock... Ice! That's it! Go Gemini!"

Gemini sprinted onto the battlfield, a wimpy expression on his face suggesting that he won't come out of this battle alive. Gemini and the Stonetriever stood against eachother, the atmosphere was dead silent.

"Gemini! Ice Beam!"

Gemini jumped back and let out a stream of steady ice that covered the whole area, making it very slippery.

The Stonetriever leapt from tree to tree firing String Shot after String Shot, the silk trapped Gemini's body, making his movements sluggish.

"Gemini! Blizzard Fang!"

A gigantic blizzard flew forth and crashed into the Stonetriever.

"Alright! He's down! Ice Beam!"

The beam that errupted from Gemini's mouth hit the Stonetriever right in the chest, and froze him in one spot.

"Great! Go Pokeball!"

Ramza spun the red and white sphere on his finger and shot it towards the Stonetriever, capturing him in a flash of red light.

"Alright!" Ramza cheered.

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It was night and the team had made camp, everybody sat around the campfire, the Stonetriever had been named Scorpio, for obvious reasons.

"Eat up!" Scorpio said cheerfully.

Everybody else looked at the plate, and made a face.

"What is this?!" Cancer asked.

"Da! Must you ask? It's grilled Growlithe!" Scorpio said.

Everybody except Ramza and Scorpio vomited.

"How can you eat a fellow dog pokemon?!" Gemini said, scared for his life, what if the Stonetriever wanted to eat him?

"I eat my enemies, this soldier just happened to be in my way." Scorpio said, matter-of-factly.

All the others vomited what they had left in their stomaches.

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Ramza plopped down on his sleeping bag, all the others had gone to sleep already.

"What's my team again?" Ramza asked no one. "Oh yeah, a innocent little child, a feirce lone-wolf type guy, a cowardy little wolf, and a cannibalistic psychopath that believes in Stalin and has military training." Ramza sighed and thought about it. Then added, "Just my luck."

With that, he sighed and fell asleep.

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"GET UP SOLDIER!!!" A scream rang off.

Ramza immediatly jumped up and, in his boxers and a t-shirt, saluted in a style that would make a true soldier proud.

"Da, I see they have sent you to Boot Camp once." Scorpio said approvingly.

Ramza sighed, this was what he was afraid of, he was sure it was still 6 o'clock in the morning, and if there was a guy with military training in the team, he was sure the pokemon will try to make them toughen up. He was also pretty sure that this was the purpose of the Stonetriever's ability to make their roars echo.

Scorpio had arose everybody and made breakfast, which consisted of Pidgey legs and Miltank steaks, which were actually edible. (Chicken legs and normal steaks for all you people out there.) After that, they packed up camp and left on an early morning jog. After a few kilometers they arrived in Pewter City.

Ramza blinked. "Gosh, I just wanted a little bit of excercise, not to get here already, but, hey, who's complaining?"