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Jen groaned as she got up from her corner. She had tried staying up till 3:00 am but must have fallen asleep. It was probably for the better since she probably wouldn't have been able to get far. But since she had gotten a little rest she had more energy.
Checking the clock Jen cursed. It was 6:30 in the morning. If she left now she might make it to veridian city tonight. Her curfew was 6:00 pm and if she was late she got more beatings.
"Well, best get up," Jen muttered to herself as she slowly got dressed. Once she was done, Jen checked herself in the mirror which had a crack in it since she hated her reflection. Jen was wearing black pants with red lining. It had a lot of pockets since she was NOT going to carry a backpack. Jen also wore a black netted shirt to be a little relaxed on all the cuts, and a black shirt with a strange symbol on the back. The last piece was a black trench coat. Jen loved this trench coat since she had made it herself and would be damned if she left it behind.
"This is it" Jen said to no one as she grabbed her money, (1,500$) put it into her pocket and made her downstairs.
Downstairs, Jen had reached for the door but stopped when she heard a nasty little voice.
"So where do you think your going Jen?"
Suppressing a shudder, Jen turned and face Blade, the sneasel, on the couch licking a paw.
"Going for a walk. Couldn't sleep last night and I'm pissed." Jen replied.
Blade chuckled. "Sure, a walk. Probably trying to get away from your father for a while."
Jen ignored him and walked toward the door before stopping. Blade had a claw right in her eye, the same eye with the scar. "Answer me when I speak to you or I might get mad. You know what happens when I get mad."
Jen gulped. "Sorry. I'm sorry. Just going out for a while, won't be back till later."
Blade smirked while Jen left the house and continued down the road. Once she was out of eye sight Jen ran as fast as she could to Veridian city.
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11:30 at night and far away from pallet town Jen collapsed. She couldn't believe she had ran most of the way and barely stopped.
Blaze sat down next to her. "We're almost there. It should take about another hour."
"An hour? I don't think I can walk anymore." Jen gasped.
"Of course not! You ran all the way here! Now go to sleep, I'll look out for you." Blaze scolded but couldn't help but feel joy that they were gone from that place.
"I…I can't. What if Max sends some more pokemon for us?" Jen pleaded.
Long ago she had stopped calling Max her father and just called him by his name.
"We ran from Pallet to Veridian. It's a two day walk but you made it in one. Now rest. I'll take care of any pokemon that come near."
Jen could only nod once as she fell asleep. Blaze sighed. She needed to eat. Being beaten and then running a whole day is not good for you. Shaking his head, Blaze thought abut what happened today. Mostly running but the two had battled some wild pokemon. One particular pidgey was on Blaze's mind.
(flashback)
Jen and Blaze had resorted to jogging so they could catch their breath when A pidgey flew in front of them. "I got this one Jen! I need a battle." Blaze said with a toothy grin.
"Fine but lets not take that long." Jen replied.
The pidgey seemed to have taken that as an insult and flew right at Blaze. Blaze, who only grinned, jumped to the left and landed on all fours. "Ya missed you dumb bird," Blaze laughed.
"Don't get overconfident," Jen thought to Blaze.
"I'm not, I'm not." Blaze thought back.
For almost as long as they could remember, the two had a connection. During a battle, Jen kind of became Blaze. She felt what he felt, knew what he thought, could give out orders, and most importantly it seemed to give Blaze extra strength.
The bad part was that when Jen felt Blaze's pain, it hurt. It wasn't too bad since getting beaten up a lot was kind of like training so she had a lot of endurance.
The pidgey, for some reason, got really mad when Blaze was in his four legged stance. "Damn freak! Using that stance when your kind lost their right to use it! How dare you do that and upset the gods!"
"Stupid bird! Mind your own business! I have every right to fight with this style!" Blaze roared.
"You'll be punished! Mark my words you stupid lizard! Don't defy fate!" the pidgey yelled before it was burned.
Jen, who had been silent the whole time, watched as Blaze started to rip the pidgey's wing off. She was back to normal because when Blaze experiences a lot of anger, their merge thing stops. She didn't really understand the whole thing and didn't know why the bird pokemon got so mad at Blaze for using that fighting stance.
However, Blaze was a predator and had every right to kill so Jen made no movement. Blaze was just about to make the finishing move when the two heard a hissing sound. They turned to the bushes and saw a seviper come out. Not just any seviper, but this was her father's seviper, Venom.
"Oh…Plsss don't ssstop because of me," Venom said with a hissy laugh. "Thingsss were jussst getting good."
Jen shuddered. Damn it! She was too busy with the battle to notice the snake come. He was one of the newer pokemon but knew of her beatings and was sometimes sent out to find her if she was late.
"What do you want Venom!" Blaze snarled.
"Sssss. To bring you back of coursssse," Venom said, just as he lunged at Jen, fangs exposed.
"Jen!" Blaze shouted.
Jen had heard the warning and managed to jump out of the way. "At least he's slower than Blade," Jen thought.
Venom started to laugh again. "You will come backssss."
Blaze snarled and jumped in front of Venom and snarled. "Like hell she is! I'm gonna rip you to shreds. Why does that bastard even care if we're gone? Why does he want us to stay!"
Venom was silent, regarding the small lizard. "Itsss not my place to tell you. Don'tsss worry, you'll learn ssssoon enough." Venom lunged at Blaze.
Blaze, who was still thinking, wasn't ready for the attack. This time it was Jen who called out. "Blaze watch out!" The call came too late and a huge cut appeared on Blaze's belly. Blood was seeping out of the cut.
"Ahhh! Damn it! That hurt." Blaze was just about to run at Venom when a soothing voice entered his head.
Jen 'watched' as Venom continuously kept cutting Blaze. "Just don't move. Wait for that one moment and strike. 'We' are poisoned. This must end quickly. Aim for the final blow." Jen thought, knowing Blaze could hear her.
"Thisss isss too eassy!" Venom yelled as he prepared for the final strike.
"I can't wait any longer or I'm finished." Blaze though and jumped out of the way. "Now!" Blaze jumped on top of venom and sunk his teeth into his throat.
Venom hissed in pain. "You will not hurt Jen!" Blaze made a final slash on the wound on vemon's neck before falling to the ground.
"Blaze!" Jen shouted. She ran to the fallen Charmander. "Please be ok." Thinking quickly, Jen pulled out a few berries that she had found earlier. Stuffing a pecha berry in Blaze's mouth, Jen was relieved to see Blaze look a bit better.
A low hissing sound brought her attention to Venom. Its neck looked bad. It wasn't dead but a nerve had been hurt. Walking slowly, Jen pulled out a knife. "Survivor of the fittest," Jen whispered before driving the knife into the stunned pokemon.
There was complete silence. As soon as the knife hit the neck, complete silence. All the pokemon in the forest didn't make a sound. Perhaps mourning over a fellow pokemon? Sighing, Jen stuffed another berry in Blaze's mouth. His was health returning.
"Let's go," Jen whispered quietly but Blaze heard her. He had seen it all. They both felt no pity. Like Jen said, 'Survivor of the fittest.'
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When the thought finally passed, Blaze looked over at his trainer…no…his friend. Yawning slightly, Blaze closed his eyes and fell asleep.
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The next morning Jen woke up with alarm. She had a bad dream. She had dreamt that her father had come back to claim her. Not only that, but the world was in shambles. The legendaries were fighting and a giant green dragon had fired a strange red/yellow light at a Charmeleon and Dragonaire. That was when she had woken up.
Jen turned over to see Blaze already up. He was rubbing a scratch with berry juice.
"Blaze? Where did you get that?" Jen frowned. That was a new cut.
"Oh…there was a weedil going through your bag. I burned it to a crisp but it cut me. I didn't know what it was until I opened your bag," Blaze said with a sheepish smile.
Jen frowned. "You're poisoned. Hop on my back. We are going to Veridian City right now."
"What about breakfast?"
"I shouldn't have even stopped. We are leaving now."
Blaze sighed as he got on Jen's back. He didn't want to admit it but he was close to losing consciousness.
Jen could feel Blaze's strength leaving. Running quickly, she made it to the next town in only 30 minutes. By that time, Blaze had fainted. "Gotta hurry!"
When Jen reached town she saw a huge building with a giant pokeball on it. Rushing in, Jen ran to the closest nurse. "Please help! Blaze is really hurt and poisoned."
"Oh my!" cried the nurse. She turned angrily to Jen. "How could you let your pokemon get treated like this! I could have you arrested for pokemon abuse!"
Jen fumed. How dare she! "You damn crazy woman! I would never abuse a pokemon! It makes me sick! A freaking Seviper attacked us yesterday and this morning a Weedil hurt him! Twice he was poisoned! Next time wait until I have told you what happened! Now please heal Blaze!"
The nurse had turned as white as snow. "Ye…yes. Please forgive me. It will just take a moment," the nurse said before carrying Blaze into another room.
Jen sighed as she sat down on the couch. She was pissed off and she really wanted to be farther away. Not only that but she was hungry. A few moments later the nurse came back.
"I am Nurse Joy and could you please spare a moment?" Joy asked.
Jen shrugged and got up. "Now you said it was a Seviper?" Jen nodded. "Are you aware that Seviper do not show up in these parts?"
"Look lady, the damn thing just came out of no where and attacked us. Blaze defeated it but was hurt. I gave him some berries but we were too far away from the city and it was really late. He told me to stop because I was tired as well. Then this morning he got cut by a weedil in my bag."
Joy frowned. "That's very interesting. Could you please show me the Seviper?" Jen let out a 'huh'. "Are you telling me, a young trainer just starting out, did not take this opportunity to capture a Seviper? Which is rare in these parts, I might add."
Jen gulped. "It's dead. It was trying to kill us but Blaze killed it before it got us."
Joy's face turned suddenly serious. "Are…Are you sure? Are you positive the Seviper is dead?"
Jen nodded. "Probably for the best. It was crazy. It tried to kill us but we didn't even do anything."
Joy looked shocked. She was shocked that anyone would say something like that. "A pokemon is dead and this little girl doesn't even care that much?"
"So when is Blaze ready?" Jen brought Joy out of her thoughts.
"Just follow me. He is fine and you may leave as soon as you like." Joy said. "I'll have to alert the next town. Jenny isn't here right now and I don't think it's safe to allow a pokemon who has tasted blood to still be allowed to fight. Besides, he's there as well."
Jen entered a room and saw Blaze on a bed eating some food. "At least he's eaten."
Blaze smiled as he read her thought's. Tossing her an apple, Blaze got up. Jen smirked as she ruffled his hair. "Thanks buddy."
"Yea yea. Let's get outta here! I need to fight! I have so much energy," Blaze laughed.
Jen smirked. "Whatever. Next is the Veridian Forest."
"Good! Plenty of bugs to burn."
Jen smiled. "And we will be even farther away from that man."
Nurse Joy watched as the two walked out, laughing to each other. "Interesting. A beginner and yet she already understands her pokemon. Oh well, still, I have to make that call."
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This chapter is a little short but I really don't have time. School sucks with the amount of tests. Anyway's next chapter will be much longer and have a lot more descriptions of things.
Also who is he? Find out next time. Please R & R This fic will stop if no reviews come after third ch.