Wow, the whole chat room section took up a whole page.

Chapter 8: Friendly Neighbor

PKMNMSTR45: Fire beats ice, so moltres would beat articuno hands down.

Headbutter99: Zapdos is an electric type. The other two are flying types. He'd win.

Ralts32: I honestly don't know what you're talking about.

PKMNMSTR45: Which is the strongest legendary bird.

Headbutter99: Why'd you call yourself Ralts? R U a girl?

Jonathan stopped to think how to respond to that before typing in a large amount of words that would only be allowed on an M rated show.

Headbutter99: Oops, sorry about that.

Ralts32: Just remember that there are MALE Ralts.

PKMNMSTR45: There are male Ralts?!

Ralts32: And you call yourself PKMNMSTR.

Headbutter99: Imaging seeing a Ralts in the wild! What would you do?

PKMNMSTR45: I'd use my poochyena to attack it repeatedly 'till it was weak enough to capture.

Headbutter99: Poochyena, huh? I've got a Mightyena! That would hurt a Ralts a LOT more!

Ralts32: Why not let it go free and uninjured?

PKMNMSTR45: HAHAHAHAHA!!! A pokemon as rare as Ralts?! You've got to be kidding!

Headbutter99: No trainer would let a Ralts escape their sight!

Ralts32: I'm hungry, bye.

(Ralts32 has left the chat room).

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Jonathan didn't want to continue a conversation that had him imaging himself getting hurt. He also was kinda hungry.

Jennifer left behind some fruits for Jonathan to eat. Best to be safe and give him natural foods in case human food was poisonous to some pokemon. I'm gonna miss pizza.

As he was failing at peeling a banana, he thought he heard something behind him. He turned around and saw nothing. Figuring it was his imagination, he returned to trying to bite open the banana. It wasn't until he heard someone knock over something that he decided to check.

Being about a foot tall wasn't good for intimidating burglars, but it was good for being stealthy. "If I get attacked, I'm sure I could dodge it," thought Jonathan, "Like that time I dodged a school bully's punches for three minutes straight before he landed one, or that time I accidentally wandered into the archery field."

Everything looked normal in the restroom and living room. When he entered the bedroom he noticed a glow coming from the closet. As he approached, he couldn't quite make out who it was in there. All he could see of the intruder was two glowing eyes and a little fire swinging back and forth behind them. It then pounced onto him.

"Hello!"

"Uh, hey? …Could you get off of me?"

Pinning him to the floor was what seemed to be a large, orange lizard. It was about two feet tall, but what caught his attention was the flame on the tip of his tail. Jonathan knew that this was a starter pokemon known as Charmander. "Where did you come from?"

"The window was open." You'd think Jenny would've closed it after the incident with the firework. "Anyways, I'm Ember! What's yours?"

"Ember? That sounds like a girls name."

"Well, at least I don't look like a girl!"

"Touché, I'm Jonathan, by the way," he extended his hand for a handshake, which Ember took. "Now, what are you doing in here?!"

"I wanted to meet the new pokemon Jennifer got! So were you caught in the wild, or are you a starter pokemon!"

"I'm not caught technically."

"You don't have a poke ball? That means you're wild!"

"Wild?"

"It means that any trainer with an empty poke ball can catch you!" that thought had not crossed Jonathan's mind. If he were to run into a trainer, he would most likely be caught (he was sure, seeing how people reacted online about Ralts).

"Wait, does that mean you're wild?"

"No, I've got a trainer! He's the kid that lives next door in the two story house!"

Jonathan remembered that kid. A ten year old named boy Mark who wanted to go on a journey with his pokemon. Jonathan had heard that he had gotten his first pokemon, but he broke his leg before he left. Now he has to stay home for a few months to let the leg heal. Jonathan was planning on visiting, but you know what happened. "So, wanna be friends?"

"Sure, I guess," might be useful to have someone he could talk to. They then heard knocking at the door.

"Who's that?"

"Must be Jenny."

"Who's Jenny?"

"It's what I call Jennifer." Jonathan's horns felt eagerness, like when your gonna give someone a gift. "She got me a surprise present," he said as she entered.

"Hello, little guy! Oh hello, I see you've made friends with Ember" Ember said hello in Charmanderese. She turned back to Jonathan, "I got you a present!"

"Wow, how'd you know that?!"

"I'm psychic." Jennifer then reached into her pocket and pulled out a box with a ribbon glued on top. She handed it to him and he opened it taking out a little blue bowtie. "Wasn't expecting this."

"I kinda felt bad that I thought you were a girl at first (Ember fell to the floor laughing and only stopped when Jonathan kicked him) so I got you a bowtie so people wouldn't confuse you for a girl," Jonathan quickly put it on after that statement. "Oh, I see you like it! You don't look all that much like a girl anymore!" That much?

Jennifer went to her room, coming back with a mirror. "What do you think?" Jonathan looked at himself. He looked almost the same, but with the blue bowtie it wasn't easy to confuse him for a girl. This made Jonathan's mood better.

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Jonathan was standing next to the window saying goodbye to his new friend. Ember entered his house by getting on the apartment's fire escape then jumping onto the one attatched to his home. His natural pokemon reflexes kept him from falling. After that he climbed into the window. "See you tomorrow Jonathan!"

"Yeah, see ya. Hey, Ember, I heard something fall earlier. Do you know what it was?"

"How did this vase break?!" Jennifer yelled from inside.