Amme: I've got a second chapter out! Yayness!

Disclaimer Ok, I like writing about Pokemon but I don't own it. So you lucked out!

CHAPTER TWO: Peaches, Friends, and Legendary Pokemon.

Mira's POV (the whole story is going to be her POV so I'm not going to say this again.):

"Here Mira, take these." The Prof. told me. He held out his hands. "Five empty pokeballs so you can catch more Pokemon."

"Oh," I answered. "Thanks."

"Now, don't you need to go tell your mom about what you're fixing to do?" The Prof. asked me again.

Oh, no! I had forgotten all about Mom! She'd never let me go on my own!

"Of course!" Is what I really answered. I ran outside to go tell my mom what I wanted to do to find her already waiting for me on the front porch.

"Mira..." She started. "Brandon told me what you wanted to do. And I know this is totally unlike me, but here you go."

Mom handed me a pair of shoes.

"These are called Running Shoes. They can let you run really fast so you can get around better." She told me. I switched shoes with the Running Shoes.

"Chic... Chic... Chic... Torchic!" Tony's voice rang. He was standing right beside me and tugging and the double-knot I put in the shoes.

"Who's this?" Mom asked. She picked up the Torchic

"Oh yeah. Mom, this is Tony. He's my Torchic." I told Mom. She hugged my little Pokemon.

"He's so cute! You know you have to tell Norman." She said to me.

"Yes mom, I'm going to tell Dad. He's wanted me to go out on my own like this for a while." I answered her. "I'd better be going anyways."

"Alright, just call me when you get to the Pokemon Center in Petalburg. Have fun!" Mom said. She was walking back into the house when I remembered something.

"Uh Mom..." I stated. Mom turned around again. "I need Tony back."

Mom still had Tony in her arms. She blushed and put Tony down. I took out his pokeball.

"Tony, return." I said. Tony disappeared into his pokeball.

Route 101... I've never really been on it except for a minute ago. Well, here I go. I took a step.

"What do I do now?" I asked myself. "Well, I guess I should look for Pokemon to catch while I go to Oldale Town."

"You can only find Pokemon in tall grass." Said a kid. "They hide in there and attack trainers."

"Oh, thanks." I answered. "Do you also know the way to Oldale Town?"

"Sure." The guy answered. "You go straight a little ways then turn right there and then turn left through there and you'll end up in Oldale."

I thanked him and went on my way.

Turn right here... but this is tall grass! Ok... if I run into a Pokemon then I'll catch it. I walked through the grass. Nothing yet...

"Yena!"

I looked around. A Poochyena was growling at me!

"Do you want to battle me?" I asked it. It barked. I took out an empty pokeball.

"Pokeball, go!" I shouted. I hurled the ball at the Poochyena. It hit it on the head and came back to my hand.

There was laughter from the same kid who helped me get directions to Oldale.

"You need to battle a Pokemon first, THEN you need to catch it." He said.

"Oh, ok." I sad back, blushing madly.

I took out Tony's pokeball.

"Come on out Tony!" I called. I threw the ball into the air. Tony came out of the ball.

"Torchic!" It said.

The Poochyena charged my Tony.

"It's using tackle!" I thought.

"Use scratch!" I ordered Tony. Tony's attack and Poochyena's attack canceled each other out.

"Now use ember!" I called again. The stones came out of Tony's mouth again. They hit Poochyena.

"Now," I said. I took out another empty pokeball. "Pokeball, go!"

I threw the ball at the Poochyena that was trying to recover. The ball hit it and the Poochyena disappeared. The ball shook for a minute, and then stopped. I picked up the ball.

"Alright, I caught a Poochyena!" I called.

"Chic chic Torchic!" Tony said with me.

Beep...beep... BEEP BEEP BEEP!

"What is that!?" I asked out loud. I searched through my sack. It was my pokedexette.

POOCHYENA: The Bite Pokemon.

POOCHYENA is an omnivore—it will eat anything. A distinguishing feature is how large its fangs are compared to its body. This Pokemon tries to intimidate its foes by making the hair on its tail bristle out. This one is a female.

"Wow... I didn't know that." I said quietly. Then my voice brightened. "I'm gonna nickname it!"

Let me see, a good name for a Poochyena. A female Poochyena... Peachi!

I threw Poochyena's ball into the air.

"Come on out, Peachi!" I cried. Peachi came out and barked happily. I petted her.

"Hey, do you wanna travel with Tony and me, Peachi?" I asked it.

"Torchic chic chic Torchic?" Tony asked too.

"Yena, Yena, Poochyena. Pooch!!" She barked at me.

"I guess that means yes." I thought. Great! I held out her pokeball.

"Now return." I held the ball up to her. Peachi growled at it and backed off.

"What? Peachi, return to you pokeball." I commanded her. Peachi shook her head violently. "Uh, do you not like it in there?"

"Yena! Poochyena yena Poochyena." It growled at the ball. I shrugged and put it up.

"That's alright. You can stay out. Do you mind Tony?" I said.

"Tor..." Torchic answered. I think he was trying to say 'No.'

"Ok then, Tony, you return." I put Tony back in his pokeball. "You can walk with me."

Peachi and I walked to Oldale town.

"Let's see..." I said. "I guess we should go ahead and head for Petalburg City. But which way is it?"

"Yena! Poochyena! Yena yena yena!" Peachi said. I looked down at her. She was barking at one of the roads that lead out of the city.

"What is it?" I asked her. Peachi just kept barking. Then she ran to the route leaving the city. I followed after her.

"Hey! Peachi! Get back over—"I stopped suddenly. Peachi had a right to bark like that. Right in front of me and Peachi (who had stopped barking), was a really big, blue and purplish Pokemon that I'd never seen before.

I stood perfectly still. Even my blood stopped. I held my breath. I was worried about the Pokemon hurting Peachi. Peachi stood perfectly still also.

The Pokemon ran off after staring at us for what seemed like the longest time.

"Peachi," I started. "Are you ok?"

"Poochyena!" She answered. I nodded. "Then let's go. And don't tell this to anyone ok?"

I got up and walked back into the city. Then I got a taste of something I hadn't felt in a while: hunger.

I walked into the Pokemon Center.

"Excuse me Nurse Joy," I said. (I knew the Nurse Joy in the Pokemon Center in Petalburg Town and I knew all about her identical family.) "Can you take my Pokemon please? I bet they're as tired as I am."

"Sure," The Nurse Joy answered. She looked at Peachi. "Is this your only Pokemon?"

"Oh, no. I have one more. This one just doesn't like her pokeball so I let her stay out." I answered her.

"There was another trainer in here with a Pokemon that didn't like its pokeball. It was a Pikachu." Nurse Joy told me. "Here, let me take your Pokemon for you."

I pulled out Tony's pokeball and put it on the tray Nurse Joy had held out.

"Now you can get something to eat in there." She told me. I got myself some spaghetti and garlic bread and sat down.

"Can I sit here?"

I looked away from the window I had been peering out the last few minutes. There was a girl standing in font of my table. I shrugged.

"Sure, I guess." I told the person.

"By the way, I'm Lori. I'm from Verdanturf Town." The person said to me. She held out her hand. I took it and shook it.

"I'm Mira. I'm from Littleroot Town." I said to Lori.

"Yena!"

Peachi jumped onto the table and licked me.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Lori screamed.

"What? Is there something on Peachi?" I asked. I checked her. There was nothing.

"What's a Peachi? That looks like a Poochyena." Lori answered.

"Peachi is her nickname." I answered her question. It was kind of hard to answer her though seeing how Peachi was both eating my food and licking my face.

"Here is your other Pokemon, Mira." Nurse Joy told me as she gave me the red and white small pokeball.

"Thanks." I replied.

"What is that Pokemon in the pokeball?" Lori asked.

I threw the ball up.

"Come on out and eat Tony!" I called. My little Tony came out of his pokeball.

"Chic chic Torchic chic chic..." He said. Lori's eyes just bulged out of her head.

"Aw!!! Aren't they cute?" She said. "But why did you nickname them?"

"If you catch the same species of Pokemon and don't nickname them, how can you tell them apart easily?" I told her. She shrugged. Then I changed the subject. "What Pokemon do you have?"

"Let's see..." Lori answered. She took out three pokeballs and tossed them up.

"Come on out everyone!"

There was a Numel, a Gloom, and an Azurill.

"Nuuuuuumel...." The Numel growled protectively.

"Gloom gloom!" Gloom called happily.

"Zu zu Azurill!" Azurill said shyly.

"Cute!" I said. They were incredibly cute.

"I know!" Lori answered. "Hey, what do you want to accomplish? I mean, a Breeder of what?"

"Oh, I want to be a Pokemon Master and the world's best Pokemon Choreographer. What about you?"

"I wanna be the best breeder in the world, and have the most knowledge of Pokemon."

"Cool."

"Really. But, can you cook?"

"Not worth anything!"

"That's not good. After Petalburg, there isn't a Pokemon Center around for miles!"

My eyes almost popped out of my head so fast you couldn't see it.

"Really? Whoa, that sucks. I DON'T cook anything." I told her.

"I can cook pretty well." Lori answered hopefully. I knew what she wanted. She wanted to come along with me. That was fine. I needed the companionship anyways.

"Awesome. Hey, d'you think you'd wanna come along with me? We could help each other out." I said. Lori's face brightened.

"I'd like that." She replied.

I felt a searing pain in my leg.

"Nuuuuuuumel... Nu nu Numel..."

"Oh, my gosh, I'm sorry. My Numel is a little protective." Lori told me again. "Numel, stop it! She's fine and we're going to be traveling with her. Calm down!"

"Yena yena yena!" Peachi shouted. She tackled Numel away from me.

"I guess Peachi is too..." I said. We both laughed.

"Peachi, come here." I commanded Peachi. My Poochyena jumped up onto the table and licked my face.

"You and Numel need to get along more. We're going to go with them ok?" I asked her. Peachi looked annoyed but satisfied and hopped down off our table.

Lori and I were silent for the longest time. We didn't even look at each other. Finally when I looked at her she was reading a book.

"What'chya readin'?" I asked.

"Oh, a book about Legendary Pokemon."

I peered at the page she was looking at. There was the same Pokemon that Peachi and I had seen.

"Hold on a minute..." I said. I got up and went to the other side of the table to see the paper better. "Peachi, come here a minute."

Peachi had been sleeping a while and got up at the sound of her name. She got up on the table again and looked at the paper too.

"Is that it?" I asked her, pointing at the picture of the Pokemon. Peachi growled.

"We saw that Pokemon earlier today." I told Lori.

"Don't be playing tricks on me now." Lori told me.

"I'm not lying! Look, check out the Seen part in the pokedexette."

I pulled out the pokedexette and pushed a few buttons.

Beep...Beep... BEEP BEEP BEEP!

The screen on the pokedexette showed the exact same picture on the paper.

"Whoa, you DID see it! What did it look like? How big was it? Did you touch it? Details Mira!" Lori told me.

"It looked like that on the paper, it was HUGE, and no I didn't touch it." I answered her quickly before she came up with more questions. Then I tried to change the subject.

"It's still sunny out side, wanna battle?"

THE END!!!

Amme: That's all! Will Lori take the battle request? Oh yeah, and I said it was BASED on sapphire version. I didn't say it was an exact duplicate. I'm going to twist things sooner or later.