This one is gonna be around 1000-1300 somewhere. I thought it would be cool to make the last chapter 1000 words exactly, so yeah. Hope you enjoyed the 'humor' in the last chapter. As usual, thanks to all my readers. Annnnnnnd, as a way to get you guys to review a bit more, if I get 10 reviews by tonight I promise to do two chapters tomorrow. That's 4 reviews with like... 12 hours to get them. Anyway, lets get on with the chapter, shall we?

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I woke up to the sound of a Pidgey chirping in the distance. Followed by the sound of a Pidgey squealing in terror. I turned to see if Blake was still asleep. Sure enough, he was gone, probably terrorizing the flock of Pidgey. I got up and stretched my front paws forward, followed by walking over to the river and grooming myself. While I was grooming, Krystal was glaring at me from her bed. She was starting to freak me out with her random growling, glaring, snarling, and hissing. While I was trying to get enough courage to walk over to Krystal and ask what I did wrong Kera walked over to me smiling.

"Hey Kera!" I said excitedly. I realized that I started smiling too. Then that weird feeling in the pit of my stomach happened again, and I felt like I was gonna throw up.

"SO DID YOU HEAR THE STORY ABOUT THE PIDGEY AND THE BEEDRILL WRESTLING?!" I yelled, unnecessarily loud with my eyes squinted and head down. I earned an icier glare from Krystal (if that was possible), and a confused look on Kera.

"Uh..no?" she had no idea what I was talking about, and honestly, neither did I. I felt like an idiot. I put my head down and walked back to my bed. I laid down and got in a comfortable position, looking at the river next to me. The water was crystal clear, and you could see straight to the bottom. There weren't many signs of life, mostly because of Blake, who had used Psychic to get a quick meal a few weeks back. I turned around and curled up into a ball. I sat there for a few minutes, and was about to drift into sleep before Kera curled up next to me. My heart stopped beating for a second. I got really nervous, and I was about to get up until something picked me up. I turned my head to see Krystal picking me up by my extra skin.

"Uh...eep?"I whispered.

"I think Blake wanted to see you Saph. Why don't you go wait for him over there?" She pointed to the other side of the clearing. There was a very clear tone of anger in her voice and I immediately went to where she told me. I laid down and curled up, trying to listen to what Kera was saying about me. After failing to hear anything I patiently waited for Blake to return from his feast. After about 5 more minutes of staring at a Wurmple try to climb a tree Blake returned.

"Hey..." I muttered.

"What's wrong with you?" he questioned, but I could tell by the look on his face he didn't care.

I began to tell him the story just like I did the day before.

"...and then Krystal told me to wait for you because you needed me for something." I explained. Although he was obviously disturbed by the story, he didn't seem angry like Krystal was.

"I see... actually I did need you for something." he said indifferently. He motioned for me to stay where I was and he walked in the woods. I waited for a few minutes, messing around with my tail, before he returned with a brown bag in his mouth.

"I cm acrs a hmin whoo hd dis," he spit out the bag and continued, "I came across a human who had this. He's gone, but I kept the bag!"

He motioned for me to look inside and , of course, being the curious creature I am I peered inside. There were 3 spray can type objects in there. They looked similar to what Blake had gotten Kera for her birthday... VM's? I didn't remember much about them, except that they made Kera learn a few new moves. I remembered how jealous I was that Blake, Kera and Krystal could form a Shadow Ball and I couldn't.

"That's all about to change." I thought to myself with a smile.

"I'm gonna assume by your sadistic smile that you remember what these are. There's three TM's here. Shadow Ball, Protect, and Iron Tail." he explained to me, but while he was doing that I had already sprayed myself with the one he said was Shadow Ball.

"Now don't expect to learn these all straight away, because it takes time practice and a lot of determination.

Blake began to give me the whole 'with great power comes great responsibility' lecture. I tried to use a few Shadow Balls, but as Blake said, it was too challenging for me to do it right away. I yawned a little bit before sitting down to rest. A few minutes later I decided to learn one move at a time instead of using all the TM's at once. Using the Shadow Ball TM had left me relatively weak, and I was forced to sit down and take a small nap. Right before I fell asleep I heard Krystal and Blake talking about me and Kera. I tried to listen, but sleep took me over before I even had the chance.

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I woke up around 2 PM, according to the sun, and began to stretch. As usual there was no real sign of life anywhere. I could hear Rattata in the distance. They were the most annoying creatures on this planet. Well, not counting Wurmple. I remembered waking up to find one staring at me. I screamed so loud a Scyther came from his clearing about 4 minutes away and told me to keep quiet. I shook it off. I was going to groom myself but decided against it since I had already done it a few hours ago. Blake and Krystal were nowhere to be found, and Kera was asleep in her bed. I prodded over to her to wake her up, but once I saw her face I stopped for a second. She looked really... I couldn't find the word to describe her and shook it off. I nudged her awake, and as usual it had zero effect on her. I proceeded to splash her with the water from the river, but before I could I felt someone push me in it. I looked up to see Kera, smiling. I laughed and climbed back up, shaking myself in order to get her wet. She laughed and we began playing tag.

"Watch this!" I yelled, and turned towards a tree. I opened my mouth, imitating what Blake had always done, and tried to move energy from the rest of my body into the ghost energy orb. After a few tries I succeeded and used all my energy to push it forward. It flew at an alarmingly fast rate, but unfortunately there was little to no power in the orb. There wasn't even a scorch mark where it had hit.

"Wow, that was pretty good for just getting it!" she praised, and I began to practice more. After about an hour there was no improvement at all. Kera was sitting on her bed, watching me and grooming herself.

"Maybe I just can't do it." I announced, my ears drooping. Kera walked up to me, and licked my cheek. I froze for a second, I think I even stopped breathing for a short amount of time. My face got real hot, and I looked at her to see her blushing.

"You can do it!" she said reassuringly before walking back and sitting back down on her bed. I turned my head and looked at the tree. I was filled with confidence. I began to move all my energy into the orb, watching it grow to about the size of my whole body.

"C'mon...3...2...1!" I focused all my energy and sent the ball flying. There was a huge hole in the trunk of the tree where the orb hit. I jumped in the air with joy, before I realized how much that Shadow Ball had drained me. I walked over to Kera and licked her on the cheek.

"Thanks..." I mumbled, and then everything went black.

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This one was WAY long than what I thought it would be. As usual, review guys! Thanks for reading!