Okay, Thanks to ThunderBender, didygal, and Fire-Streak for being my first reviewers. Here is Chapter 2, and I hope more people will eventually review. So, here's chapter 2 :
Chapter 2- An Understanding
I rubbed the bruise on my head as I walked down the Route to Bacchae City. Ivy trotted behind me as the petals on her back shone a bright orange, so I guessed that she was pretty happy. I was so excited that I was able to get a head start on the other four trainers who were supposed to start their journey in Echo Town that day.
"I bet you can't wait for your first battle, right Ivy?" I asked my Pokemon. I looked down to see her, but she wasn't there.
"I-Ivy… Where are you?" I panicked. How could I lose my first Pokemon? I was thinking that I was the worst trainer in the world.
"Peta…" growled a voice from behind me. I turned around expecting to see Ivy behind me. I saw her crouching down and growling at a tiny little Ralts, while her petals were glowing a bright red. Before I could run over to the scene she lunged right at the Ralts throwing him back against the dirt road.
"Wait, wait, Ivy I'm suppose to tell you when to start! Wait un…" Before I could finish Ivy tackled the Ralts for the second time. I ripped out my Pokedex to learn more about Ralts.
"Ralts, the Feeling Pokemon. Ralts can sense the feelings of other people and Pokemon. It does not usually confront humans, but when they do they are drawn closer to a trainer with a positive mood."
"Okay fine, if you want to battle, we will! Ivy, hit it with a tail whip right in the face!" I ordered. The Petapur turned around and raised her tail, but unfortunately this gave Ralts just enough time to aim a Confusion right for Ivy's backside. The psychic energy picked up Ivy and threw her against the ground.
"Umm… Tackle Ralts from behind!" I ordered, feeling stress from my first ever battle. Ivy then jumped over Ralts then crashed right on top of it. I could see that this battle would almost be over.
"Okay, let's finish up with another Tackle!" I said. Ivy jumped off Ralts and crouched down once again, ramming right into Ralts. Ivy then backed up to show a Ralts that had just fainted.
"Yes! Ivy you won your first battle," I congratulated her. Her petals then turned a bright yellow and she started to do her "happy dance". I then took out the one empty pokeball and aimed it right at Ralts.
"Pokeball go!" I yelled as I threw the pokeball at the small psychic Pokemon, but before it could hit a blur passed right in front of me.
"Ow!" A voice screamed, I looked up the road to see a girl on her bike rubbing her. By now the Ralts had run far away. The blonde-haired girl in a purple bandana then got off her bike and jogged up to me.
"Did you throw something at me, Dacian?" she asked, now that she was closer I could see it was one of the other trainers from Echo Town, Noel.
"Uh no, I was throwing a Pokeball, you must of gotten in the way," I told her nervously. I didn't know Noel that well, but everyone knew that she had an extremely short temper. You really did not want to get her mad, ever. Someone told me that the last guy that got her mad ended up with a Ditto lodged in his nose.
I then got on the ground and started looking for the pokeball that hit her.
"What are you doing?" Noel asked, looking down at me like I was a crazy person, while I was looking behind bushes and shrubs.
"I'm looking for the pokeball that hit you, I might want to use it again,"
"There's no reason to look for it, don't you no that once you use a Pokeball to capture a Pokemon, then fail, it's unusable after that,"
"Oh," I said in disappointment as I got up from the ground.
"Hey is that your Petapur?" She asked me. She was looking under a tree where Ivy was watching us.
"Yeah…"She then took a Pokeball from her belt and let out a Pokemon. From the white light came a Shellder.
"I was thinking maybe we can battle, we both need the practice," She said as her Shellder stuck his tongue out at me.
"Okay, Ivy we've got a battle, come on!" I called to her. Ivy rushed over to the Shellder, her petals turned a bright red, ready for a battle.
"Shellder let's start out with an Icicle Spear right in the side!" She ordered. Shellder closed his eyes to concentrate on materializing an Icicle.
"Ivy block the Icicle with your tail whip!" I told my Pokemon. Ivy then put her tail in front of her to guard against the icicle, but when the icicle came charging at Ivy it striked her straight in the head. When she got hit her petals turned a slight purple, but then they flushed back to a deep red.
" Use a Tackle, but be careful for those spikes on his head," I commanded.
"Shellder Withdraw!" Noel screamed this so loud that I had to cover my ears. I then saw Ivy charging right for the top of the Shellder, but before Ivy could hit him he hid inside his shell.
"Uh… as long as Shellder's hiding in his shell there's no way we can hurt him… Ivy, try another Tail Whip," I told Ivy. She nodded then raised her large tail to hit the small shellfish Pokemon.
"Shellder, tackle the Petapur on the top of her head!" She screamed at Shellder, she seemed like she was really into the battle, as if her life was on the line.
Ivy tried to whip Shellder out of the way with her tail but she just missed him and he hit her right in the head. Her petal's rippled with a crimson color as her breathing started to get heavier.
"Hang in there Ivy, try a Tackle attack!" I told Ivy, I looked up at Noel to see that her face was bright red and she was breathing almost as heavily as Ivy.
"Shellder finish this with the hugest icicle you can muster, then hit the Petapur in the side!" I could've sworn that blood flew out of her mouth. She was definitely scaring me.
Shellder materialized another icicle above his head and it charged towards Ivy. The Petapur was trying to hit Shellder, but the icicles hit her before she could even get close to him.
"Petaaaa!" Ivy squealed as the icicles hit her in the side. Her petals rippled a ghostly white, and then she fell to the ground. I sighed as I returned her to a pokeball.
"Hah…um, good battle," Noel said quickly. She seemed to be a little ruffled from the battle, as her hair was all over the place and she was still breathing hard. She returned her Shellder to his pokeball, and then looked back at me.
"Look I want to get to the June Town gym as quick as possible, so I gotta' go," She said. Noel then ran back to her bike, and rode off up the road.
I sighed and since I didn't have any Pokemon fit for battle I decided to just stop where I was for the day. I let Petapur out to see if she was at least rested enough to stay outside, and when I let her out her petals were a faded light green, but she looked like she was doing okay.
" You did a good job Ivy, too bad we couldn't win though," I told her as I petted her small ears.
" It's okay we just have to work harder next time," A mental voice said, seemingly from Ivy. I fell back in surprise, causing me to hit my head on a tree.
"You…but…you talked!" I choked out.
" Don't look so surprised, Dacian, every trainer eventually comes to understand their Pokemon, I think it has something to do with the Pokeballs. I think it makes us more human," She explained to me. I started to slowly calm down a little as Ivy snuggled closer.
"You sure this happens to every trainer, not just me?" I asked, not really sure of what my Pokemon was saying.
" Don't worry about it, you've had a long day. Let's just rest," She said. This actually made sense, it was getting dark. So I took Ivy's advice and set up my sleeping bag under a tree, then just spent the rest of the afternoon and evening talking to her. The more I talked with her the more confident I was that I really could understand her, and I wasn't a crazy person. Why didn't anybody tell me this before?
"So you know about the Legendaries, I mean do you think they're real?" I asked Ivy. It was about dusk, and Ivy and I were sitting on my sleeping bag talking under a big oak tree.
"Well, yes, I know they're real," She answered me.
" Why…How do you know?…Have you ever seen one before?"
" No, I don't think I've ever seen a legendary, but I just can feel it deep inside me that they do exist,"
"Hmm,"
" Look, we have a big day of walking tomorrow, we should definitely get some sleep," She then laid down and closed her eyes.