I know, it's been ages since i updated. I'm sorry, I'll start to refocus on this story again I didn't abandon it. I'm also planning on going back and revising some of the earlier chapters.

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Chapter 8, The way to Scarlen

"You sure your ok down there?" Evan asked me

"I'm fine" I said, the storm had made the path wet and Evan offered to carry Jenna and I, bt felt that the two of us would be too heavy, I let Jenna be the one carried. we were heading to the docks to go to a city Evan called Scarlen. "I'm just glad it wasn't a dirt road, now that would be horrible" i said trying to pass the walk.

"Yeah it would be wouldn't it" Jenna said from atop Evans shoulders, it feels odd how the one you called your traoner is now looking at you with pokemon eyes, yet it also seemed as if it was supposed to happen. We soon reached the docks and I saw a large boat, Evan Pointed to the ship

"That's the one we're going on" he said as he put Jenna down.

"Why is it so big?" I asked,

"Because it was made for long range," Jenna said "Our next trip is going to take us a day and a half, at least, this ship has a built in pokemon center and such" A day and a half? seems like a long time to me. We boarded the ship along with the other trainers who were going on, we then headed down to the cabins where we would be staying, then my brothers were released,

"Is Greg gonna be ok?" I heard Kevin ask.

"He should be fine, i got us a room near the center of the ship, you feel less movement that way." Evan said

"If you say so" greg said, sounding nervous.

"Anyway, feel free to explore, just don't get yourself lost alright?" Evan said to us, I decided to get a look at the ocean as we started to depart, I saw other pokemon and trainers as i walked upstairs. to the deck of the ship, I saw the ocena pass by, I just sat there admiring the ocean view. I was wonderinf what to do when I saw Evan talking with another trainer,

"Yeah, i got all the eons and two flareons" I heard Evan talking about he looked over to me "See? here's one of my flareons. His name's Andrew"

"Nice coat" the other trainer said "I love the silver eyes, does he battle as good as he looks?"

"Are you challenging me?" Evan asked, the other trainer gave a smug grin. "I take that as a yes"

"Two on two, get another of your pokemon and let's battle" the other trainer said as he blew a whistle, a growlithe and mankey ran up to his side, Jenna was listening in on all this and stepped up

"I'll fight" she said, the two trainers nodded and we got to an indoor part of the ship that was meant for battling. we got into our positions and redied ourselves

"You ready Jenna?" Evan asked

"Call me Forge" she said confidently

"Right, now then Go!" he shouted and the other two charged at us, the growlithe glared at us and I felt like backing down, was this intimidate? I shook it off as best I could and embraced myself as I charged full speed at the growlithe, we hit eachother and both got knocked back, I recovered and returned to my feet, Jenna was having a decent time with the mankey, it started to attempt to attack her but she was dodging surprisingly well. How she was so good at battling when she just became a pokemon is a mystery to me.

"Ok Jeff see if you can get with take down!" the trainer shouted, the growlithe began charging at me when I had my guard down, it stuck me with full force and i got knocked down, i was hurt but not too badly, I got back up and waited for a command

"Cannon bite it! Forge try out your new attack!" Evan called, I ran toward the growlithe and sank my fangs into it's side, It started struggling to shake me off, I held on as long as I could, It succeded in throwing me off, I regained balance and once again got into a ready stance. Shortly after, I saw Jenna fire her flamethrower attack, it hit the mankey but it looked as if he were on guard, blocking it with his arms

"Nick, karate chop, Jeff get him with Flame wheel!" The trainer shouted, flamewheel? why was he ordering a fire attack on me? before I could react I saw the growlithe shoot a rotating disc of fire at me, I didn't bother to move since it probably wouldn't hurt me much anyway. When it hit me it didn't burn at all, in fact I felt stronger for some reason.

"Cannon, your flash fire absorbs any fire attack thrown at you!" Evan called, "Now's your time to attack!" he shouted, I felt like I could now pull of my attack I was thinking up, I ran forward and lept at the growlithe, as I did I unleashed all my excess heat. As planned, it surrounded mt body and it appeared as if i were a big fireball, I was moving too fast for the growlithe to move out of the way and I slamed right into him. He gave a howl in pain and was sent slamming into the wall of the ship. The mankey was looking in fright at all of this, Jenna saw this as an opportunity and launched another flamethrower attack, the amnkey was too distracted by all of this and took it with full force. I too saw this as a chance and ran into the stram of fire to administer the finishing move, I tried to hit him but I didn't count on him being down on the ground I missed and collided with another wall, I felt a little dazed from it and my head urt, but I was ok

"You alright Cannon?" I heard Evan call out to me

"Yeah I'm fine, Just a little dizzy is all" I said, the flamethrower was all that was needed anyway, the mankey was looking rather burnt and was on the ground and was pronp drawn back into hs pokeball

"I won!" Evan shouted, "Good job you two!"

"You sure your ok?" Jenna asked me

"I'm fine, I just took a few hits" I assured her. "So how did your first battle feel?"

"It was exciting!" she said happily "I'm also glad I got to share it with you" she said, I could feel myslef blushing from that comentI really don't know whats going on, every time she gets near, I feel strange. Do I...? I'm not sure...

"That was a good battle guys, we still need tog guys checked up at the pokeom center. we both nodded and headed to get a checkup.

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Another chapter at last, again I'm sorry for the long update time