A couple hours later Megan and Cyni had stopped for a rest. Megan glanced at her watch. It was 11:30 am.

"Do you want to have lunch now?" she asked her Pokemon cheerfully.

"Quil!" Cyni nodded vigorously.

"Ok," Megan chuckled. "Let's let Orville out."

She took out the Pidgey's pokeball and pushed the sphere. The brown-and-white feathered bird appeared. Orville squaked in delight. Megan sat down and opened up her backpack. She took out a big bag of Pokemon food. She gave a handful to Cyni and one to Orville. Then she opened up a bag of sandwiches and took one out. Everyone began to eat their food happily.

From out of the sky came a brown bird Pokemon with a long, curved beak. It swooped down and stole some of Orville's food. Orville squaked at it angrily.

"Hey!" Megan cried. "Cyni, ember!"

Cyni blasted fire at the Pokemon. It dodged the attack just in time. Megan smirked as it flew away. But she gasped as the Pokemon appeared with a whole flock of its kind. She pointed her pokedex at them.

"Spearow, a flying Pokemon," it informed. "Unlike Pidgey, Spearow have a terrible temper. They are very wild and will sometimes attack other Pokemon."

Megan figured she should let Cyni rest a while from battling. So she sent our her Pidgey. "Orville, use sand attack!"

Orville flapped his wings really hard, causing sand and dust to fling up and blind some of the Spearow, who then flew away. There were five Spearow left. They all swooped down and grabbed at both Orville and Cyni with their sharp beaks. Megan realized fighting back was useless. She picked up her Pokemon and ran ahead. The Spearow pecked at all three of them.

"Speeeeeeearow!" they screeched.

Megan tripped over another root. They all went tumbling to the ground. The Spearow were closing in on them. Her Pokemon were too afraid to attack. She saw no way out. Suddenly a whirling sound was heard and the Spearow were stuck with sharp leaves. Megan turned her head to see a light green grass Pokemon. It was a Chikorita!

"Chika!" it cried as it wipped the Spearow with its vines. Then the Chikorita attacked with razor leaf again, cutting the Spearow in numerous places. The Spearow screeched in frustration. They figured they've been hurt enough for one day and flew away. Megan got up and hugged the Chikorita happily.

"Thank you!" she exclaimed before she let go and stood up. Cyni stood beside her and Orville flew onto her shoulder.

"Chika!" the Chikorita cried and jumped up and down.

Megan got the idea. "Are you challenging me to a battle?" she guessed.

"Chika," it nodded firmly as it got into a battle stance.

Megan out Orville back into his pokeball, then sent out her Cyndaquil. "Go Cyni!"

"Cynda," Cyni ran in front of Megan and got into a battle stance as well.

"Tackle!" Megan instructed.

Cyni ran towards the Chikorita, but it dodged the attack. It turned to face its opponent and flung sharp pointed leaves at him. Cyni tried to get out of the way, but a few leaves struck him. Then the Chikorita pickes Cyni up in its vines and began hitting him against the ground.

"Quil!" Cyni cried out in pain.

Megan had to think of something to makeit let go. "Leer!" she called.

The little Cyndaquil used the attack. The Chikorita instantly dropped Cyni and started to shake in fear. Cyni looked back at his master for further intructions.

"Ember," Megan told him.

Cyni nodded and turned to face the Chikorita. He shot out flames of fire at it. The fire hit the Chikorita, burning it all over. It weakly fell onto its stomache. Megan took out a pokeball and threw it at it. The Chikorita was caught.

"I'll name you 'Sophia'," Megan said thoughtfully as she picked up the pokeball and put it away.

1 Hour Later

With Cyni on her shoulder, Megan trudged through the lush forest. Soon they reached a small clearing. Megan walked over to it and realized that it was the edge of a ciff! She stood by the very edge and looked down in amazement.

"Wow!" Megan exclaimed in wonder.

"Cyndaquil!" Cyni nodded in agreement.

All of a sudden, the ground beneath her moved, and Megan slipped off the cliff. "Aaaah!" she cried in terror. As she was falling she saw a branch and grasped it. Cyni clung onto her back fearfully. Megan looked around frantically. She had to do something! Getting an idea, she grabbed a pokeball and threw it at the top of the cliff. Sophia appeared.

"Use vine whip to pull us up!" Megan called to her.

"Chika!" Sophia nodded. She extended her long vines down to the girl and her Pokemon and wrapped them around them. Struggling, she slowly lifted them up.

When they were safe, Megan embraced the Chikorita, crying out, "Thank you, Sophia!"

"Quil!" Cyni cheered.

Megan stood up and chuckled a little. "Wow. I just began my journey and already I almost died! Mome isn't going to like this." She put Sophia back in her pokeball, then kneeled down for Cyni to climb on. "Well, we better move on if we want to reach the Pokemon Center before dark." With that she was off.