A/N: Aww… Only one review. Oh wellz, thanks for the review! I'll try to make this as good as I can, but just so you know, my attention is very split right now. On with chapter two! Please Review!
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Ch2: Fire is as Fire BURNSTraining with Lina
Charmander heeded Lina's silent call and came out of the pokeball onto her lap. Lina smiled warmly at it and stroked its head and back while she spoke. Charmander seemed to like it quite a bit.
Lina calmly told Charmander, "I know we're not battling anyone or any pokemon right now, but I called you out so that we could have a little chat."
At this, Charmander opened its eyes that it had lazily closed, cocked his head to one side, and only murmured a questioning "Char? (Chat?)"
Lina nodded. "That's right, a chat. First things, first; I'm going to give you a nickname so that whenever I'm telling you something, I don't have to say 'Charmander'. For one thing, it's very informal and for another, it's much too long. So I'm going to shorten it to 'Pyro'. How's that?"
Charmander blinked his big, blue eyes at Lina before slowly nodding, and then enthusiastically once he really caught the drift.
Lina went on. "Alright, Pyro. The next subject is training. Back at home, I raised pokemon without actually catching them. I practiced having them learn special techniques in order to catch opponents off guard. Now that I have pokeballs and am an official trainer, I plan to do the same with all of my top pokemon – including you. Of course, this means you'll have to do special training, but when we're through, you'll be able to do attacks never before seen by a very good percentage of people, trainers and non alike. How does that sound? Do you want to grow strong and powerful and eventually into a Charizard?"
At the last part, Pyro was much enthused and even accompanied his vigorous nod with a, "Char, Char! (Yes, Of course!)"
Lina grinned at this and picked Pyro up off her lap. "Alright then. The first step to regular training is battling slightly weaker wild pokemon. What attacks do you know right now?"
Pyro seemed to be thinking before he answered, "Charmander, Char Char (Scratch and Growl I think)".
Lina sighed. "The best attack ideas won't work until you at least learn Ember, a fire attack. But for now, show me your 'claws'."
Pyro held out his two little arms, each with a set of three very dull little nubs that looked like it could belong to a small dog. Lina sat him down again and examined them. She 'tsk'ed and shook her head. Then she rummaged through her cape as she said, "You must be pretty young still. Probably haven't even been in a battle yet."
Pyro answered, "Char Char, Charmander Char man, Char Char (I'm only a 5, of course I haven't been in a battle.)"
Lina nodded and continued after finally pulling something out of her cape. She held it up in front of Pyro; it was a sort of nail file, apparently. Lina took one of Pyro's arms and started sharpening Pyro's small claws by filing both sides so that the end became more pointed. She told Pyro stories of the Pokemon World so that he wouldn't be too surprised upon seeing new things. Lina told him about Team Rocket, and how trainers can leave home to be trainers at age 10, about various pokemon, just about anything she could think of until she was finished with the filing. It took about two hours, but neither of them really noticed. Now Pyro's claws were little triangles, and about three times as effective as before. Finally setting Pyro on the ground and standing up herself, Lina realized that her legs had fallen asleep from staying in the same position for too long. She gestured for Pyro to walk alongside her on the road as she loosened up her legs again.
Since it was now nearly noon, Lina and her new pokemon stopped to have a picnic lunch. As of yet, they had not encountered any other pokemon. Well, they did see Pidgey and Spearow, but Lina didn't think it would be a good idea for her rookie Pyro to go against a flying pokemon just yet. Lina looked at a map, and saw that they still had about 5 miles until the next town. Lina figured that they could walk it before nightfall, so after cleaning up their little picnic, they set off on the road once more. When they were fairly close to the town – about a mile, Lina spotted another Spearow, but this one seemed much stronger than the others – either that or extremely pompous for no reason whatsoever. Lina decided that Pyro should have at least one battle before reaching the next town, so she declared a challenge to the Spearow.
Lina told Pyro to run as fast as it could towards Spearow and scratch it. He tried – he was pecked. Lina said to try a jump kick, but Spearow dodged it and pecked him again. Lina was starting to get annoyed. She told Pyro to try whatever it took to win. Pyro attacked with another jump kick quickly followed by a Scratch attack. The kick missed, but the Scratch hit the Spearow's wing in a way that made it impossible for the bird pokemon to fly away. Pyro took this chance to double Scratch him with his newly sharpened claws. Spearow was knocked out. Lina quickly caught the Spearow in a Pokeball. When it stopped struggling, she went over and congratulated Pyro on his first win and on helping her capture her first pokemon. Lina then picked up the now occupied pokeball and attached it back on her belt.
During the battle, Lina had pulled out a strange contraption that looked extremely similar to a Gameboy except it had a telephone number pad (complete with the letters above the numbers.) Above the screen, instead of saying, "Gameboy", it read, "Statidex". When she used it, it was easy to tell what it was used for. A device similar to the Pokedex, it told the stats of whatever living life form, pokemon and humans alike, it was pointed to. What the number pad is used for, was still a mystery to many. Anyway, Lina had pointed the Statidex at the Spearow. Lina scrolled down the screen to view all the information as a female pokedex-like description was voiced. This is what she read:
Name: Spade
Race: Pokemon
Species: Spearow
Type: Normal/Flying
Height: 1' 1"
Weight: 5 lbs.
Area: Viridian City
Level: 5
Attacks:
-Peck
-Growl
Levels to Evolution: 15
Status: Wild
Overall Grade: A
This information was what intrigued Lina enough to capture Spearow. He would be useful for Lina's plans.
After the battle, Lina challenged Pyro to a race. She told him that the next town was about a mile away from where they were, and it would be good exercise. Pyro accepted. They got back on the road, and the goal was the welcome sign at Viridian. Get Ready, get set, GO!
For a pokemon, Pyro ran pretty fast. Of course, he was on all fours and had youthful zest. Lina had obviously longer legs, but she was used to running. In order to make sure that she didn't lose Pyro, she only ran a little in front of him, even though she knew she could run much faster. When the goal was in sight, both of them automatically sped up. Of course, Lina won the race, but Pyro wasn't that far behind. Lina picked up Pyro and went over to the Pokemon center. She promised that after Pyro and her new Spearow were healed, she would treat them to dinner. This made Pyro happy, so he obediently let Nurse Joy take him to heal.
While she was waiting, she headed over to the lobby. She saw her favorite magazine (Double Trouble News) and sat down to read it. There was a new article that posted the best of the most recent ideas on how to use pokemon to make money. There were the usual things for festivals and shows and such, but Lina didn't care for it. About half an hour later, Nurse Joy came with her now healed pokemon. She thanked Nurse Joy and went to the phones to check in with Prof. Oak.
"Ah! Lina! How was your first day as a pokemon trainer?"
"It's going pretty well. I'm at the Viridian Pokecenter. I would have arrived sooner, but I took a detour to file my Charmander's nails."
Prof. Oak sweatdropped slightly. "File his nails? You mean, so that they're prettier?"
Lina vigorously shook her head. "No! To make them sharper!" Lina released Pyro and put him on her lap in front of the screen. She held up Pyro's arms so that the claws pointed up.
"See?"
Prof. Oak chuckled nervously and changed the subject. "Did you catch any new pokemon?"
"Yup! ^_^ I caught a Spearow. I would have caught a Pidgey or a Rattata, but I figured that I'd wait a bit to find stronger ones. Besides, I already have the best pokemon there is ^_^"
"Yes, well, Gary came to the same Pokecenter about two hours before you, and that Naga came an hour before that. They both caught a Pidgey."
Lina grinned, "Well if the trainer's different, their outcome will be different."
"How right you are."
"Did that whats-his-name Ash boy call in yet?"
"I'm afraid not. He should have reached Viridian by now though."
"I'll keep a watch out for him. I'm staying the night. Well, I have to go now- I promised my pokemon that I'd treat them to dinner."
Prof. Oak smiled and nodded. "I wish I had your help back here. Feeding all these pokemon is so tiring. Well, my tofu's done as well. I wish you luck on your journey."
Lina nodded. "Thanks. Enjoy your dinner! I'll keep in touch!"
Prof. Oak and Lina hung up at nearly the same exact time. Lina went back into the cafeteria with her new Spearow on her shoulder and Charmander in her arms. The Chansey there knew her very well and brought back Lina's normal order.
About another hour later, a young, messy black-haired trainer came running in carrying an injured pokemon – a Pikachu apparently – in his arms. He was positively soaked and dirty from head to toe.
Lina finished her last plate and went over to the corner to watch what happened. She was just in time to overhear, Nurse Joy telling Officer Jenny, "We /do/ have a driveway, you know."
"Well, sorry about that," Officer Jenny replied, "but this is a sick pokemon, please do what you can."
Nurse Joy agreed. "Right, but next time use the driveway."
Officer Jenny left and Nurse Joy turned to the trainer. "Now let's take care of this Pikachu, you irresponsible young man."
Apparently, the boy didn't know what Nurse Joy meant with the last part. "What?"
Nurse Joy explained, "You shouldn't let a pokemon battle until it's in this condition."
The young trainer insisted, "But, you don't know what happened."
Nurse Joy didn't seem to really care what happened. "No buts, you'll have to stay in the waiting room while we take care of this Pikachu."
A Chansey came and wheeled off the Pikachu on a silver cart used especially for pokemon. Nurse Joy followed Chansey and Pikachu into the infirmary.
The young boy waited in the waiting room for a while before going to the vid-phone booths. While he was sitting, Lina pointed the Statidex at the trainer and read:
Name: Ash Ketchum
Race: Human (Even she knew that)
Hometown: Pallet Town
Height: 4' 9"
Weight: 90 lbs.
Pokemon:
Pikachu (Lv. 6)
-Thundershock
-Growl
Overall Grade: C
Status: Newbie
# of Badges: 0
Voice-Over: Ash Ketchum is a beginning trainer from Pallet Town at age 10. He tends to make rash decisions and rely on gut instincts both inside and outside of battles. His goal is to become a pokemon master.
Lina sighed. She decided to go to Nurse Joy and lend some help. Lina had been to Viridian many times, enough for Nurse Joy to know that Lina could be trusted with the injured pokemon and that every so often, Lina lent some help.
She knocked on the infirmary door, where Nurse Joy and Pikachu were in, and announced herself. Nurse Joy said to come in and she did, closing the door behind her. Lina watched as Nurse Joy patched Pikachu up. Lina looked around at the other pokemon. Actually, there were no other pokemon in that room. Lina asked if she could be of help.
"Actually, this Pikachu is more hurt than I thought. You wouldn't happen to have one of your special potions, would you?"
Lina answered, "Of course, I just left home today for my pokemon journey. What size?"
"Hmm.. A super potion would do it."
"Okay, hold on." Lina rummaged through her cape again and took out a small vial with purple liquid inside. She gave it to Nurse Joy who gently let Pikachu drink it. Before, Pikachu seemed to be putting on a slight fever, but the moment that the liquid went down Pikachu's throat, all traces of it disappeared and Pikachu slept on happily and healed. Nurse Joy thanked Lina and they went outside. Lina decided that this would be a rather interesting little show, and watched the boy that she knew had to be Ash, from her own chair in the corner. One should have noticed the bright glare of Pyro's tail, but they didn't look in that corner. Before long, Pyro curled up and went to sleep. Lina had long since returned Spade to his pokeball.
Lina watched as a young redhead, charged into the Pokecenter and started yelling at Ash- something about a broken bike. Then a big Meowth balloon crashed in from the roof and some duo with a talking Meowth was reciting some stupid motto, apparently. They then stated that they wanted to steal all of the Pokemon at the Pokecenter. Ash informed them that he'd never let them take Pikachu, but they didn't seem all that interested in a scrawny little pokemon (they had bigger ideas for bigger pokemon). The male member of the duo ordered his Koffing to use an attack that extinguished all the lights.
Anyway, Nurse Joy called out a legion of Pikachus that worked together on a machine that soon generated enough electricity to turn the lights back on. Then Nurse Joy ran to the room with all of the stored pokemon, and Lina guessed that she was trying to transferring the pokemon. (Okay, now I'm just telling what happened in the second pokemon episode. Sorry but I'm telling it like Lina's watch) After a little while, they all came back out and Ash hopped onto this exercise bicycle and started pumping up his Pikachu with energy. Eventually, his Pikachu let out a huge thunder-type attack that sent the potential thieves off into the quickly darkening sky. Lina had to admit that she was pretty impressed – with the Pikachu. Soon afterwards, Ash and that redhead bid farewell to Nurse Joy and they set off for the Viridian forest. Lina yawned and said good night to Nurse Joy before turning in, and returned Pyro to his pokeball. Tomorrow, they would start training again.
***The Next Morning***
Lina was woken up by the sunlight coming in from the un-curtained window. She yawned and stretched. Lina walked out of her room and went to the cafeteria. It was still fairly dark outside, so of course, no one else was awake. Lina shrugged and decided to train in order to work up a sufficient appetite first. She went to the pantry and took a few travel-friendly foods. Before leaving, Lina left a note saying goodbye and that she took some food for her journey. As a present, she also left a large flask of her special potion. With that out of the way, Lina made her way outside and headed towards the Viridian Forest. It would do no good if anyone saw her special training – early as it was.
With her usual exercise, Lina reached the forest without even breaking a sweat. She released Pyro and started to explain her schedule. For minimal suspense value, I cannot tell you what Lina told Pyro, but I will let you have a small glimpse of the training.
They walked until they were in a small clearing. Lina stood back and released Spearow. "First stage: Getting to a high enough level to use fire. Pyro, spar with Spade. Spade, don't back down as long as you still have energy. Start!
Well, let's just say, Spade the Spearow had a /lot/ of energy and Pyro had a fierce goal in mind. The first stage didn't end until mid-morning, when the sun had already been up for at least an hour or so. Lina knew it had ended when Pyro gave Spade the finishing blow with an Ember attack. By now, Pyro was sweating and breathing hard while Spade was knocked out. Lina quickly healed both of them. Lina returned Spade to its pokeball and started the second stage by collecting a few large branches. While she was doing this, she gave Pyro a treat along with his breakfast.
"Second stage. Accuracy and power. Pyro, try to hit all of these branches separately while they are flying through the air. You'll have to increase the strength of your flame to disintegrate some of them. Ready? Go!"
Lina sent a barrage of five small branches into the air in front of Pyro. He took a deep breath and launched a version of a fire spray that split into five flames and took out all five branches simultaneously. Lina applauded and sent the next wave with slightly bigger and more sticks. Pyro took another deep breath, breathed fire into his "paw" and slashed the ground in front of him. The flame traveled on the surface straight towards the branches in the form of three lines or three claw marks. The flames suddenly burst up in a circular pillar of fire, completely destroying the branches and singing the ground. Lina smirked with approval and revealed a ball of leaves about the size of a grapefruit. She told Pyro to try creating a ball of fire, similar to shape, to burn the ball. Pyro nodded and sent the attack after Lina threw it into the air. The plan worked perfectly; a ball of fire emitted from Pyro's mouth and it got bigger before it engulfed the ball of leaves.
"Now that, is called a Fireball, okay? When you split your flame into five separate attacks, in what I like to call arrows, that will be known as a Flare Arrow. The attack that you channeled through the ground should be called, 'Mega Brand.' Understand?"
Pyro plopped down on the ground, exhausted. He nodded his understanding and made as if he were going to faint. Lina hurriedly gave him another of her healing potions and gave him a treat. Once finished, she stood up and gestured for Pyro to do the same.
"That's all the offense training today. Now, we'll walk to give you exercise and to build up your muscles. Try going at a brisk pace. Alright? Let's go."
Lina walked deeper into the forest with Pyro by her side. Soon, she stopped because she heard something. Then, when the sound came again, Lina knew what it was. They watched as a Caterpie came inching down a nearby tree. Lina knew that Caterpie weren't at all hard to catch, so she just asked Pyro to Growl. While Caterpie was caught by surprise, Lina used a pokeball to catch it. Caterpie came without a struggle. Certain girls don't like bug pokemon at all, but Lina knew what powerful potential they had when they were fully evolved, so she persevered. Of course, Lina, too, had her dislikes. Luckily, she hadn't seen them anywhere but on TV and in books.
Lina and Pyro walked on. A while later, they caught sight of a feeding Pidgey. Lina scanned it with her Statidex. It was only a level 4. Nevertheless, Lina decided to use it to boost Pyro's experience. She told Pyro to use a 'Mega Brand' attack. The Pidgey tried to run away, but it was still caught in the flames. It was knocked out. Lina decided to just move on.
Later, she caught sight of a Rattata, which was surprising since the Viridian forest was usually only home to bug-types, Pidgey, and the occasional Pikachu. Lina scanned it. It was wild and at Lvl. 6. Lina decided to catch it just for the heck of it. She called out Caterpie who was still a Lvl. 4.
Rattata came running towards Caterpie for a Tackle attack. Lina quickly ordered a String Shot. Rattata's legs were lassoed and he couldn't use them to save his life. Lina told Caterpie to String Shot his head as well. Then she had Rattata finished with a Tackle attack. Lina threw the Pokeball and Rattata hardly struggled. As she was about to call back Caterpie, Lina found herself watching an evolution. Before long, Caterpie was no longer with them; instead, there was a Metapod. With a cheeky grin, Lina returned Metapod to her pokeball. Lina and Pyro moved on, deeper into the Viridian Forest.
A/N: Okay, I should end here. Did you like it? In case I didn't say it before, I'll say it again: I don't own Pokemon and I don't own Slayers, just the way I linked the worlds. I would have had Lina scan Misty (the redhead), but I decided to wait on that one. Hmm… Let's see. Lina now has a Charmander, Spearow, Metapod, and Rattata. Well, please review! Thank you for reading!
P.S. For those of you who read my regular Slayers stories, this has nothing to do with it- I'm just doing this for the pure fun of the possibilities. Ja ne! (See ya!)