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I have traveled for about 6 hours when I decide to stop and take a breather. I rest my back against a tree and take deep breaths. The scenery out here is nice, but not nice enough to keep me staring. I get up after a few seconds and continue onward. A large hill is in front of me, but I climb up it as if it were nothing. Near the top, I am about to place my hand when I hear a cry of a pokémon. "NIDORAN!" It yells, and it peaks over the edge. That's a male nidoran, I think, and it aims the horn on top of its head at me and dives. I wince and jump off, landing on a small padding of earth nearby. I take eevee's pokéball out and release it.
"Eevee, use a quick attack on that nidoran, it almost poisoned me!" I yell, and she spins around to face the nidoran. It landed on a part of the hill opposite of us, but it is still close enough to make the gap easily.
Eevee runs forward and jumps, and lands near the nidoran. Upon landing, she becomes a blur as she slams herself into nidoran's side. Nidoran is sent sprawling off the side, down the hill. It hits the bottom in a heap, and doesn't move. I laugh at how easily it was taken down and return eevee to its pokéball. I climb the rest of the hill and come to a small clearing with a berry patch.
"All right!" I say aloud, excited to get some food, and regretting having skipped breakfast. That nidoran must've been protecting its food, I think. Meh, I'm not going to eat even half of it, let alone all of it. I head over to a small, orange, tree-shaped bush and pluck a round, blue berry from it and let the combination of flavors in this miraculous berry fill me up. Oran berries are so great.
I look around and beam when I see a Pecha berry bush. I pluck one from there and look at it. Small, pink, and a 3 large wrinkles at it's bottom. I take a bite and grin even more. Oh, so sweet, it tastes good after not eating all day. I get the bag the keeps the pokéballs together from my pocket and place the balls on my waist, keeping their place there with small magnets that are attracted to the thin metal in the waist.
I take the bag and fill it up with some Pecha berries and Oran berries. I then let out Eevee and let her have her share of berries. There are other berries around, but they are kind of odd tasting, like the Tomato berry, known to keep your lips swollen for days, they are so spicy. But eevee only eats the dry, very mildly flavored chesto berry. I wonder if it means anything, but decide to not think about it now. After eevee has had her share, I pack some of the chesto berries too, just so she can enjoy them later. I carefully tuck the bag in my pocket and ask Eevee if she'll walk with me. She simply shakes her head (pokémon can understand English on the equivalent of a small kindergartner, when they are at adult age) and lies down. I shrug and return her to her pokéball and continue down the way I was heading for Viridian. Just as I'm about to head over the steep side, I stop myself and go back to there side and glance over. The nidoran is trying to scale the side of the cliff, but it's hurt to badly. I shake my head at my own kindness as I reach back for an Oran berry and toss it down gently in front of the nidoran. It lands in one piece and the nidoran eyes it curiously, but wolfs it down anyway. When it's done, it looks up at me and lowers it's head, as if to acknowledge that I am more powerful than it. I shrug and continue again toward Viridian City.