"So Zoey, which ones are you getting?" Leon asks looking at the selection in the shop as they bake new donuts.
Zoey sighs frowning at him. "You owe me later."
"But, I won the bet and I am only looking at one or two donuts for myself," Leon says.
"Good enough," Zoey says crossing her arms. "Make your choices and let's get going."
"Those glazed chocolate donuts look good?" Leon says looking at them.
Zoey points to them and the person behind the counter grabs some and puts it into a bag and waits for more.
"What do you want?" Leon asks her seriously.
"I don't need any," Zoey says.
"Come on, you won. Celebrate a bit," Leon says smiling at her as mareep presses his face against the glass display.
"I would rather not ruin my appetite," Zoey points out.
"Then we save them for after dinner," Leon says pointing her to mareep so she sees what he is doing.
"Meep," mareep says pointing to the glass at a sprinkle covered donut and the pokemon helper picks up a few for him and tosses it into a bag as he drools.
"Adorable, isn't he?" Leon says trying to resist a laugh.
Zoey smiles. "Yeah."
"Oh alpha fluff. Now come on Zoey, you have to pick a few at least," Leon says.
"Alright, fine. I will get the raspberry filled ones," Zoey says shaking her head at mareep.
Mareep cheers to himself as he kept watching his bag be placed at the checkout counter.
"Does glameow eat donuts?" Leon asks as Zoey picked out a few more for a dozen total.
"Kinda…at times," Zoey says.
"You need to give her a bath afterwards?" Leon asks, trying to imagine how she eats them.
"I usually leave her alone on that," Zoey says looking to him. "She and other glameows hate baths."
"So how do you do it then?" Leon asks.
"Tongue bath…by glameow." Zoey says sighing. "I'm not complaining as long as it takes a dip once in a while."
"Before each contest?" Leon asks.
"She lets me do it then," Zoey says shrugging.
"I don't know why, but that sight seems funny to me," Leon says as they walk away with the donuts after paying.
Zoey hums and holds his bag out to him. "Here."
"So what now? We are going to stay the night in the city or start heading out?" Leon asks taking the bag.
"Depends. You want to do anything else?" Zoey asks looking at him.
"No need to ask me. You make the call," Leon says.
Zoey sighs. "And this is your journey. You can't rely on me."
"I want to come along with you though and well…you seem to be the only one in our group who knows where they are going," Leon admits.
Zoey smiles at that and nods. "Alright. Let's get some sleep and head out in the morning."
"Alright…" Leon says stopping as he read a sign.
"What?" Zoey asks looking and reads that the sign says a store has pokemon eggs for sale. "Really?"
"Find this address," Leon says writing down the address listed after setting down the donuts.
Zoey shakes her head. "You know that's a crapshoot…right?"
"Uh huh?" Leon says as mareep keeps trying to walk around to get to the donut bag on his back.
"Seriously. Why an egg?" Zoey asks finally.
"Oh…what?" Leon asks registering her question as mareep kept walking in circles around them.
"Why an egg?" Zoey asks crossing her arms.
"It's a baby pokemon," Leon says making her give him a blank expression.
"But why a baby pokemon?" Zoey tries to understand.
"We are trainers. So we raise pokemon so…umm…" Leon says trailing off.
Zoey raises an eyebrow and crosses her arms still.
"Ok, I get it. The case isn't as strong as I thought it would be," Leon explains, showing that was all he had.
Zoey shakes her head. "Geez."
"Also, Alpha fluff is circling you still," Leon points out.
"Oh. Sorry boy. Here," Zoey says taking his bag off his back and places it into his paws for him.
"Um…shouldn't you just give him one of the donuts as he has no fingers and may end up like what happened with your backpack," Leon says.
Zoey looks to mareep as he digs his head into the bag and obviously tries to bite at the donuts before she picks up the bag and takes one before tossing it towards him and he snaps it out of the air and starts to chew. "How's that?"
"Ma," mareep replies sending crumbs everywhere from its full mouth.
Leon smiles as he watches. "At least I have some great friends…where are we staying anyways?"
"The pokemon center has some rooms," Zoey informs before getting them moving again.
"So…any other tips for me?" Leon asks.
"I hope you enjoyed your break," Zoey says smirking, making Leon suddenly uneasy how she said that.
'Oh, boy,' Leon thinks dreadfully.
"And that is how you properly feed an electric type," Zoey finishes the next morning as he was half asleep.
Leon stares almost blankly and then yawns.
"Did you not get what I said?" Zoey asks with the same expression when he tried to make a valid argument to go buy pokemon eggs.
Leon yawns again.
"Mareep thunder wave," Zoe instructs.
Amber watches as Leon yells out in pain and falls to the ground twitching as static travels over him. "Chim?"
"You awake now?" Zoey asks innocently.
"Ow…" Leon groans.
"Good. Back to the lesson then," Zoey says as mareep snickered.
"We got everything, right?" Zoey asks.
"Should be," Leon says looking through his bag.
"Alright. Then time to go. We will be heading north from here. Through the forest of route 204," Zoey says.
"What pokemon are in there and do trainers really try to capture every pokemon they meet?" Leon asks curiously.
"First, do you expect me to know all the pokemon there by heart and two, no," Zoey says.
"I just wanted to know," Leon mutters looking away.
"Now come on. No being down," Zoey says.
"I just wanted to know," Leon slowly shrugs.
"Come on you. No more of that," Zoey says patting him.
Leon sighs. "Please tell me you have a guide."
"I have a map," Zoey says moving along with him.
"Good enough," Leon says taking it and look it over.
"Feeling better?" Zoey asks.
"Yeah…I'll see what I can find on my own," Leon says reading the map closely.
"A river?" Zoey asks.
"Looks like," Leon says.
"You are about to fall in one," Zoey says.
Leon dead stops and moves the map to see he was about to fall into a deep river. "Oh…thanks."
"Come on. Let's find the bridge," Zoey says pulling him along.
"Yes ma'am," Leon only says as he was dragged along the ground.
"So…um…Zoey, do you prefer sleeping in a tent or not?" Leon asks.
"I like to sleep in tents at times. But sometimes I would sleep outside," Zoey explains.
"What do you feel like tonight?" Leon asks.
"Want some noodles?" Zoey asks almost deadpan as she holds up a bag of it.
"I meant tent or no tent," Leon says matching her expression with his own.
"I'll take no tent for tonight," Zoey says.
"Alright," Leon says looking around, thinking he heard something.
Zoey hums as she goes to find a spot to lay down.
"So do we have to worry about anything?" Leon asks, going silent when he spots a caterpie coming down a tree.
Zoey smiles as she hears him get up and beckon over Amber as he goes over to the capterpie. 'He'll learn.'
"Zoey…you got a friend there," Leon says as she feels something climbs on her.
Zoey looks down and sees the capterpie tilting its head at her. "Oh. Hey, there little guy."
"I have two jokes, but I need to know it's gender," Leon says smirking.
Zoey yawns as she sits up and picks up and holds capterpie. "Let's see…" Zoey says looking the caterpie over and hums as it chitters. "Female," Zoey calls.
"Alright. Looks like you're a chick magnet," Leon says as he ducks behind a tree.
Zoey rolls her eyes and puts down caterpie as she looks at her. "Go get him," she whispers smiling.
"Chim," Amber says walking up.
The capterpie chitters and crawls over to where Leon is hiding and chitters out to him.
"Here," Leon says offering a Oran berry.
"Ca…?" Capterpie seems to ask and crawls over before sniffing the berry and then takes a bite and then takes it and starts eating.
"There is a good girl. Want to come with me?" Leon asks as Zoey smiled as he was doing as she had taught him.
The capterpie chittered happily as she kept eating
Leon then offers his hand to be crawled on by caterpie.
Caterpie seems to smile as she crawls up onto his hand and then up his arm before resting on his shoulder.
"I think I will name you Breeze," Leon says holding up a pokeball.
Breeze smiles and wags her tail as she is sucked into the pokeball without resistance.
"Good day?" Leon asks, still not poking his head out, but doesn't realize she wasn't there anymore.
"Good?" Zoey says from his blind spot before slapping the back of his head.
"Ow," Leon groans rubbing his head.
"That was for the bad joke," Zoey informs smiling before patting his head.
Leon blinks confused and looks at him. "Slapping my head and now patting me?"
"Punishment then distracting for Amber," Zoey says and on cue, Amber jumps onto his head.
"Is this going to be every day?" Leon asks rubbing his head and avoids Amber's perch.
"No, I hope not. I mean, you did learn that from me. I don't think you would take long to learn not to tell bad jokes," Zoey says.
"Oh…I thought it was good," Leon says to side.
"Geez, well, I guess it cannot be helped. Come on, let's get some food in us then sleep," Zoey says.
"Sure. Sounds good," Leon says following.
"Alright Glameow, shadow claw!" Zoey calls in the practice battle.
"Amber, dodge and use ember!" Leon calls.
Amber smiles and jumps to the side before unleashing a torrent of small flames that singe parts of glameow's fur.
"Not bad, but can you avoid glameow's shockwave?" Zoey questions before glameow's tail sparks with yellow electricity and a ball of blue electricity appears at the end of it before being fired at Amber in beams.
"Amber, move!" Leon yells afraid now and Amber tries to dodge before being hit and shocked before hitting the ground. "Chim…"
"Are you ok?" Leon asks rushing over and picks her up.
"Chim…" Amber moans as her eyes had swirly eyes.
"I guess that is the end of the practice battle," Zoey says walking over.
Leon sighs. "Guess I need more work."
"It was an improvement and Amber is getting better with her new attack," Zoey encourages.
"Yeah…aren't you?" Leon asks as Amber picks herself up now and sits up in his arms.
"Chim," Amber says nodding.
"Good girl," Leon says petting her head.
"Now what about Breeze? You think she is doing well?" Zoey asks.
Leon looks over to Breeze as she tackles a rock and trains herself to become stronger. "Going along well."
"Breeze, don't hurt yourself," Zoey calls.
Breeze chitters at them before going back to tackling and breaks the rock in half and cheers chittering.
"Whoa…she is far stronger than most caterpie," Zoey says surprised.
"That's awesome. Come here, Breeze. I got a reward," Leon says almost drooling as he holds up another Oran berry.
Breeze happily chitters as she crawls over smiling with her eyes.
"You did good," Leon says feeding it to her and rubs her head.
Breeze chitters as she eats away and Amber rubs her head as she watches a bit jealous.
"And Amber?" Zoey asks.
"I saved something for her," Leon says.
"Which is?" Zoey asks.
"Amber," Leon says showing her the last donut.
Amber cheers and rushes over before snatching it with a jump and starts to snack on it. "Chim!"
"Knew you would like that," Leon says as she eats the jelly donut.
"Chim! Chim!" Amber cheers.
"And that just leaves Alpha Fluff over there still napping," Leon says looking at the napping mareep.
"Meep. Meep. Meep. Meep," mareep murmurs as he snores.
"How can we train him if all he does is sleep?" Leon asks looking to Zoey for the answer.
Zoey hums. "You can just train him in his sleep."
"How about somehow jump into his dreams?" Leon asks sarcastically.
Zoey remains silent at that.
"No answer?" Leon asks sweatdropping.
"No…it's just there is a way," Zoey says.
"So…will you tell me it?" Leon asks.
"Nope," Zoey says simply.
"I see. How far is the nearest water source?" Leon asks.
"Just a bit of a walk down that way," Zoey says pointing in a certain direction.
"Be right back," Leon says before soon returning with water.
Zoey smiles greatly as she watches Leon dumps the water onto mareep and makes him squeals and run around trying to fling the water off of him and his coat.
"Ready to train now?" Leon asks.
Mareep frowns at him now.
"Come on, Breeze already smashed a rock with a tackle and Amber has been training with Glameow," Leon says pushing him along to Zoey.
Zoey kept giggling as she waits for the slow and lazy pokemon to get over to her. "You need to work out and you are going to get it."
"Lead the way Zoey," Leon says smirking.
Mareep hangs his head as Zoey leads him to another clearing to train as Leon looks toward Amber and Breeze still eating away. "So…how's the food?"