Here is the second chapter on The Journey of Dale Gaines. Dale and Trapinch are now in the Weststring Forest and must figure out what is causing such a ruckus in the forest. I hope you enjoy it!
The Journey of Dale Gaines
Chapter 2-What is in Weststring Forest?
Trapinch and I, Dale Gaines, have just entered Weststring Forest, the forest that separates Force City, my hometown and Westwend Town, my destination. We are heading there to visit my Aunt Jessica who has a job she wants me to do for her. That is the reason for me journeying around the Obrya region, I want to help out my friends and family with any jobs that might want me to do. So far we have just eft Force City and have entered into Weststring Forest. Not as dense as some other forests I have seen but certainly a forest nonetheless.
"So we should be out of this forest in roughly a few hours and then we will be on outskirts of Westwend Town." Trapinch is moving along happily next to me looking around the forest at the different pokemon that would appear all of a sudden. I could spot a few Oddishs, a Snover, a Phantump, and even a Skitty as we are walking along. It is very peaceful in here and I know we would be just walking around lazily. That is until we hear a tremendous stampede and before we can react, a whole serge of Oddish, Gloom, Stunky, Trumbeak, Liligant, and even a Bulbasaur come out onto the path in front of us and run away.
Trapinch and I are quite confused since we have no idea why a whole heard of pokemon just ran away quite terrified. That is until we hear the ghostly cry coming through the forest. We both suddenly freeze unable to comprehend what we just heard.
"You heard that correct?" I ask Trapinch.
"Inch, inch," It responds. But by looking at it I know it feels the same fear that I do.
"What should we do?" I ask but before it can respond we hear another ghostly groan flow through the forest, until something pieces together in my mind. "Hang on its day time. Ghosts or phantoms don't exist until the night. Let's go find out what is causing that noise." Trapinch looks unsure but as soon as I head in the direction of the sounds, it follows close behind me.
Soon after a short walk I realize that the sound is coming from next to us and see a huge decomposing log on the ground. Trapinch and I both realize the sound is coming from the log and I know a way to get whatever is making the sound to come out.
"Trapinch, use Bulldoze on the log," Trapinch's foot glows white and it stamps the ground hard. A shockwave is created from Trapinch's stomp and it rushes towards the log. Due to the nature of the log once the shockwave hits it the log immediately splits open and crumbles around itself. Out from the log appears an Inkay, looking dazed from the attack on the log.
"Ink," It mumbles and then spots us. It quickly gathers up its wits and darts back into the forest, away from us.
Trapinch looks stunned, as well as me, that it was in fact just a small pokemon that was causing all the panic. I decide to exam part of the log that wasn't destroyed by Trapinch's attack and see what else I can discover.
"It looks like the log has several holes all around it and Inkay probably used its voice on the holes to amplify what it sounded like to make the ghostly groans." I stare off in the direction that Inkay went. I wasn't sure but it seemed kind of afraid of us, almost like it wasn't expecting to be confronted. "Maybe we should go find it and make sure it is ok. I wouldn't want to be the cause of it hurting itself because we scared it." Trapinch looks like it agrees with it and we start walking in the direction that Inkay went off in.
I realize that the direction we are going in is more so towards Westwend town and isn't really putting us off our timetable so I am not that bothered by going to find Inkay. Soon we enter into a nice opening that is covered in mossy grass and trees surround it. There we find Inkay floating around near the center. It doesn't seem to notice so we approach it some more. It turns around and seems scared that we followed it and it moves away from us.
"Wait, its ok. We don't want to hurt you." But Inkay didn't want to listen and starts to move away quicker, until there comes a metallic screeching. Through the forest appears a Metang that looks quite angry at Inkay. Its face looks rageful and it's only a few inches from Inkay, looking like it wants to hurt it. Inkay must have understood its intentions because before I can even call out to it, it rushes away and hides behind me, looking even more frightened than before.
Metang moves closer to us and Trapinch gets in-between me and our opposing pokemon. It starts inching towards us and moving its arms in a fast motion. "That's Bullet Punch. Trapinch, jump above it and use Bite." Trapinch easily dodges the rapid moving punches by jumping and bites onto the steel spike protruding from Metang's face. Trapinch seems to be more bothering Metang than hurting it and easily it's able to shake off Trapinch, where it lands on the ground in front of me.
Metang then charges up one of its arms into an attack and starts moving towards Trapinch. "That's Meteor Mash. Trapinch, use Endure." Trapinch starts glowing white and Metang's attack collided with Trapinch but instead of feeling pain it took the attack and got flung into me. I suddenly had an idea. "Trapinch, use Bite and use all of your weight to launch Metang into the ground. Go!" I said flinging it towards its opponent.
Trapinch starts flying towards Metang and when it's in range latches onto Metang's spike, but instead of staying on, it keeps moving over Metang until it uses its weight to fling Metang over and onto the ground.
"Now use Bulldoze," Trapinch lands quite close to Metang, who is on the ground, and its foot glows white and it stamps the ground, producing a shockwave that collides into Metang. Metang is flung backwards and starts floating again in the air. I expect another attack but the Metal Claw pokemon just floats away, seemingly not wanting to prolong the fight.
"Trap, trap." Trapinch says with enthusiasm at driving its opponent away.
"The Metang is gone. You can come out now." I say to the shaking pokemon behind me. Slowly Inkay comes out from hiding behind me and I turn to face it. "Everything is ok now. But that I can see why Metang was angry at you, you are quite a trickster aren't you?" Inkay seems to smile a bit but looks quite shy at admitting that in fact it was just trying to play a prank on the other wild pokemon. "Well I guess no harm done. We have to get going toward the next city anyway. See you around." I say waving goodbye.
We start walking away and suddenly I hear a cry from behind me and Inkay comes rushing in front of me, looking like it doesn't want me to leave it alone. I turn to Trapinch and it seems to understand what I am thinking as well. "Hey Inkay, do you want to come with us?" Inkay starts nodding vigorously and looing happy at the idea. I open up an empty pokeball and hold it out to Inkay. "If you want to I would be more than happy to have to along for the ride." Before I can say another word Inkay headbutts the pokeball and it opens up and grabs Inkay with a red light. It shakes two times and then the latch clicks indicating Inkay has been captured.
"Hey I captured my first pokemon!" I yell in excitement and Trapinch joins in the merriment. "I should see what Inkay's battle skills are." I open up my PokePhone and let it exam Inkay's pokeball. "It only knows Psycho Cut and Topsy-Turvy. Interesting, it doesn't seem to have a lot of battling experience." I put my phone and Inkay's pokeball away. "Off we go then Trapinch?"
"Trap, Trapinch." It responds happily.
"Off we go then to Westwend Town."
Thank you for reading and please review and tell me what you thought of it. I'm glad I was able to get his first capture so early on. There will definitely be more development of Inkay in the future and as early on as the next chapter. I hope you will all enjoy it.