Ocean's Torrent: The Horsea Chronicles

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Episode 2: Samantha's the Name!

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"Hey you, are you a trainer?" an unknown voice yelled at Vincent. "Uh. yea, why?" "Because I wanna battle you," a girl said as she stepped out of the bushes.

Vincent looked at this seemingly odd girl standing in front of him. She was half an inch taller than Vincent was. Her hair was chestnut colored, and was also long and straight, as if she spent half her morning messing with it. Her eyes were a greenish-blue, but a pair of glasses covered them. She was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, with a green short-sleeved pullover on top of it, and a green skirt that went halfway to her knees covered her legs. "Battle me?" "Yea you know, we battle using our poke'mon, hey, do you have a name?" The girl asked Vincent. "Uh yea, I'm Vincent, and this is my horsea," "Samantha's the name, nice to meet you" Samantha said with a smile. Vincent caught himself before he could noticeably blush and quickly shook it off, "So do you wanted to battle me, or what?" Samantha nodded and grabbed a pokeball, "We'll use two poke'mon a piece, first one to lose both of them loses the battle. Good luck." "You too" Vincent replied with an anxious smirk.

"Go zubat!" Vincent yelled as he threw his zubat's pokeball onto the field. "Zubat!" "Go clefairy!" Samantha yelled as she tossed her own pokeball onto the field. Vincent switched on his poke'dex so he could see what clefairy was "Clefairy, the fairy poke'mon, Clefairy is a rare poke'mon that uses attacks like metronome and double-slap, Clefairy was once thought to be from outer space, but that theory is very unlikely." "You ready?" Samantha yelled at Vincent. "Let's do this, zubat, leach life!" " Sing clefairy." As zubat used its leach life attack, clefairy used sing, which made zubat fall asleep. "Zubat return!" Vincent yelled a little annoyed, "Horsea, go, use water gun!" "Horsea!" it happily chirped as it unleashed a stream of water at clefairy sending it flying back a little bit. "Clefairy, use your metronome." Clefairy started wiggling its fingers only to have the attack be a splash attack, which caused everyone to sweatdrop. "Horsea, use tackle!" Vincent yelled as horsea charged into clefairy knocking it out. "Uh... Clefairy return, go pichu!" Samantha yelled as she tossed her Pichu's pokeball into the battle. "Pichu!" the energetic little mouse yelled as it jumped around. "Horsea, smokescreen!" "Pichu, spark!" both pokemon unleashed their attacks resulting in a shocked horsea and pichu, both of which were knocked out. "Pichu" "Horsea" Samantha and Vincent both yelled as they went to check on their poke'mon. They both picked their poke'mon up, Samantha putting hers in its pokeball, Vincent putting his on his shoulder. "That was a great battle, I guess it was a tie" Samantha said as she looked into Vincent's eyes. "Where you heading?" Vincent asked, "Cause I was wondering if you wanted to join me, since it might get boring being alone," Samantha smiled as horsea let out an angry chirp, "I'd love too, I'm not really into the gym challenges, I just want to fill up my poke'dex." Vincent smiled at her, "I'm heading to Violet City, so that I can start my gym challenges," he looked up towards the sky, "We'd better get moving to Ecruteak, its gonna rain soon." Samantha only nodded as she grabbed her things and started walking next to Vincent.

"Look, its a house, come on" Samantha yelled at Vincent in the pouring rain. "The lights are on maybe we can get out of the rain," Vincent replied running after Samantha. After another minute or two of running through the rain, the couple (not literally) made it to the house and the person that answered the door let them inside.

"Thanks a lot ma'am" Vincent panted with his left hand on the wall. "Its no problem at all, we wouldn't want you two young'uns to catch a cold would we, Gregory?" the older woman said to her husband. "Not at all Jennifer, now you two need to war up by the fire, follow me" Gregory said in a jovial tone. He led the two teens into a smaller, comfortable, living room with a quaint fire going. "I'll go get some blankets for you kids, while Jennifer sets you up a room to sleep in. "Thanks a lot" Samantha replied with a smile. Gregory only nodded. After he left, Samantha started to shiver a little. "Are you ok?" Vincent asked when he saw her start to shake. "I... I'm f...f...i..ne" Samantha said clutching her elbows. Vincent sighed and scooted closer to her so he could rub her arms to try to keep her warm. At first she seemed a little surprised, but she eventually began to doze off. "I wonder where that Mr. Gregory is?" Vincent muttered to himself. A few minutes after that, Samantha dozed off into a peaceful slumber, on Vincent's shoulder. Gregory then walked in and told Vincent that the beds were ready, and they should get some sleep. "Samantha?" Vincent quietly whispered into her ear. She was still asleep, so Vincent and Gregory picked her up and carried her into the room and gently put her on the cot in the room. "Night" Vincent mumbled as he climbed onto his cot and let his horsea out as Gregory smiled and shut the door behind him. "Horsea?" the little dragon tiredly asked. " Sorry, thought you might wanna stay outside tonight. "Horsea" it quietly mumbled as it snuggled against Vincent's cheek causing him to chuckle. "Night buddy" Vincent said as he dozed off into a restful sleep.

The next morning, Samantha was the first to stir, when she did she found herself lying on a cot in an unfamiliar room with a softly snoring Vincent sprawled on the cot next to her. "He's cute when he sleeps" Samantha thought to herself as she got out of bed. "Horsea?" the little poke'mon quietly questioned as it slowly opened its eyes. "Horsea? You ok?" Vincent also mumbled as he slowly woke up. "Morning sleepy-head," a familiar voice greeted him as he got out off of the cot. "At least I'm not the one who nearly got sick last night" Vincent countered with a smirk. Samantha only gave him a sarcastic glare and left the room. "Come on Horsea," Vincent chuckled to himself.

"Good morning kids" Jennifer greeted them as they entered what looked to be the kitchen, "Breakfast will be ready in a minute." The two 'kids' looked at each other and said the same thing "We don't mean to intrude on you." but they were quickly shut up by Jennifer saying it wasn't any problem. "Have a seat kids," Gregory said as he pointed at a few chairs around the table. "Breakfast is ready" Jennifer said from the kitchen and brought a few plates of food, which consisted of pancakes and bacon. "Thanks a lot!" Vincent exclaimed as he started eating causing everyone to sweat drop. Samantha quickly it off and began eating at a much slower pace, with the other two starting right after her. After about fifteen minutes everyone was don. "That was great!" Vincent exclaimed leaning back in his chair. "Vincent, how could you tell? It looked like you were just vacuuming it up without actually eating it" Samantha replied with a smirk. Vincent only half-glared and chuckled as he started rubbing his finger on the side of his lip at Samantha. "What's wrong? Is there anything on my face?" Samantha looked a little worried starting to wipe off her lips. Vincent smirked and replied with a grin "Nope, just wanted to get you back for your little 'comment' a minute ago." Samantha looked shocked at first, but quickly kicked him under the table causing him to flinch in pain.

"Thanks for letting us stay the night and for breakfast" Vincent yelled at Jennifer and Gregory as they left the house and started down the dirt path. "That was nice of them to let us stay there last night," Samantha said as soon as they got into the woods on route 38. "Yea it was, maybe we can see them again when we come back." Vincent's only response was a quiet nod from Samantha. "You know, I've known you for a while day, and I still don't know anything about you," Samantha started after a long silence. "Well if you didn't fall asleep on my shoulder last night maybe we would know each other a bit better," Vincent replied which cause a small blush to creep to Samantha's cheeks, and yet another long silence. "It looks like the forest is ending, and is that..." Samantha started. "Ecruteak City!" the two of them both exclaimed as they started running down the slowly darkening path under the setting sun.

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Episode 3: On the road to Violet City!