This is where the story will split, they will reunite soon and will call each other nightly, Remember Chaos-Knux has Riku's side
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Hello Star,
"...So we're going to try to collect eight of these badges?" Amber asked Rush as they were walking along the pathway
"Yeah, and when we get eight. We can take on what they called the leauge" Rush said
"Sounds hard, we're gonna have to become very strong if we want to win." Amber said sounding excited
"well yeah, but why do you sound so happy about that? I mean battling is fun and everything..."
"I've always wanted to become a blaziken!" Amber interupted, sounding very excited, this was just heard as a pokemon cry to Chase's ears, he turned around to see a happy torchic
"What's got Amber so excited?" he asked. Amber began to run around Chase, he knelt down next to her "What going on girl?" Amber began to shoot small embers around to show she was eager for battle "so your excited about going with me, huh?" He asked her. Amber gave a happy chirp in response "She sure is enthusiastic isn't she rush?" Chase said to his eevee. Rush smiled and nooded to him, "Well we'll probably meet a lot of trainers along the way, battling is the way us trainers make our money. My survival depends on you guys" he said. they continued walking down the road. as they were walking down the road, a smell hit Rush's nose, a smell only he could pick up. He followed the smell until he hit the center of it and began pawing at the dirt, the smell was driving him crazy, "Rush?" Chase said looking back and seeing what the eevee was doing. When he dug it up it was revealed to be a blue shining stone. "Rush be careful" chase said to him, Hearing this Rush jerked his head back, Chase went over and picked up the stone, "This is a water stone, it will make you evolve". Rush tilted his head in curiosity at Chase. Chase pulled his pokedex out and showed it to Rush.
"The five forms eevee can evolve into are as follows, Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Espeon, and Umbreon, to evolve into three of the forms one must find an evolutionary stone, to evolve into Espeon or Umbreon, the eevee must love it's trainer enough and be exposed to either the sun or moon." it explained
"I don't know what form you want, so I'll let you decide" Chase said to his eevee. This made Rush begin to think as they continued to walk down the pathway. by this time it was around noon so the group decided to stop and rest for a while. they sat at the side of the path as Chase pulled out some snacks for him and his pokemon.
"Here Amber, you might like these" he said pulling out some sunflower seeds and setting them next to Amber
"Yummy! seeds!" Amber shouted happily, Chase chuckled slightly, amused at Amber's jolly nature
"And this is for you Rush" Chase said, pulling out a green apple, he took a bite of it but was still thinking.
"Hmm, Jolteon...Flareon...Espeon..." he was muttering to himself. Chase started chewing on a candy bar he packed, after a while Amber finished the seeds.
"I'm still hungry" Amber said to herself, she sniffed the air and caught a scent "Berries!" she shouted and followed the smell.
"Amber? where you going?" Chase asked watching the torchic wander off, she continued to look around
"There they are!" she said as the went and pecked at a few and ate them happily
"Hey berries, these can come in handy," Chase said he grabbed a few of the Oran, Pecha, and Cheri berries that were there and went back to his backpack and placed them in a pocket meant for berries, Chase sat back down and relaxed for a while when a Trainer came up to him. he had all black on and had a mean looking glare
"You there!" he shouted at Chase
"Yeah?" Chase said,
"You know the Rules of Trainers if they lock eyes right?" the trainer said
"You're challenging me aren't you?" Chase said back, still new to being a trainer
"Well your a smart one" the trainer said sarcasticly, Chase just glared at him and stood up, the word Challenge made Amber and Rush instanly focused.The trainer glared at Chase as he got himself ready for battle "This victory will prove to Team Specter that i'm good enough to join them" Chase wondered about this but shrugged it off
"Alright Amber, time for your first battle!" Chase said to his torchic. Amber got excited and greeted battle with total enthusiasm.
"Heh, that's the best you got?" The trainer smirked "Go houndour!" He shouted as he threw the ball, releasing a dog-like pokemon with a black coat and rust-colored muzzle and underbelly, bones apeared to be around it's ankles and on it's backside, and a skull was on it's forehead. It seemed to be frightend and had a scar across it's face.
"What's that?" Chase asked, He pulled out his pokedex and pointed it at the houndour.
"Houndour, the dark pokemon. Houndour communicate with each other using a variety of cries to corner their prey. This pokemon's remarkable teamwork is simply unparalleled"
"Why are you wasting your time with that piece of crap!" The trainer shouted at Chase, sounding irritated
"Alright, sheesh" Chase said putting his pokedex away, he then got ready for battle
"Houndour bite it!' The trainer shouted, houndour began to charge for Amber.
"Amber, don't let him bite you! dodge it!" Amber tried to jump out the way, but the houndour was too fast and caught her foot and slammed her in the ground "Amber!" Chase called as she hit the ground, Amber was hurt, but not badly, she stood up and got ready once again.
"Hahaha! bite it again!" The trainer shouted, laughing evily. Amber was ready this time, as the houndour charged forward Amber lept up and landed on the houndour's back.
"Nice work Amber, scratch attack!" Chase shouted, Amber listened and scratched at the houndours back, Houndour yelped and started thrashing until Amber was knocked off, Rush started jumpind up and down in support of Amber
"Don't give up Amber!" Rush shouted
"Grr, Houndour, Smog attack!" The trainer shouted, houndour looked scared but released a cloud of gas and Amber was quickly enveloped in it. Chase began to worry because he heard Amber coughing in the cloud. When the smog finally cleared, Amber looked like she was in bad shape
"Amber's been poisoned!" Rush shouted, Chase saw this too and imediatly called Amber back
"Amber return!" Chase shouted, amber made her way to Chase, she knew that she was defeated, She looked at Chase with sad eyes, she was breathing hard from the poison, coughing any time she took too deep of a breath
"It's ok Amber, you're gonna be alright." Chase said, as he opened his berry pocket and pulled one of the Pecha berries that he found earlier and gave it to Amber. Amber ate the berry and felt the poison go away but she was still tired."Amber you fought well, Rush can finish this battle"
"Hahaha! I beat your weak pathetic little bird!" the trainer mocked
"Shut up!" Chase shouted angrily "Rush, teach this guy a few manners" Rush nodded and went to face the houndour.
"Just as pathetic as the last...I'll make short work of him too" The trainer smirked
"Why..." the houndour said softly, Rush didn't hear this though, he might have done something if he did.
"Houndour, this isn't the same type as you now! Ember attack!" the trainer shouted, the houndour still looked frigtened but obeyed, it built up heat and focused it into the back of it's throat, then released it and shot small fireballs at Rush.
"Rush, sand attack!" Chase shouted, Rush turned around and kicked dirt at the houndour, this hit the embers and negated it, then hit the houndour in the face, the houndour tried to get the dirt out of it's face, "Rush now! Tackle! Full speed ahead!" Rush chareged at the houndour and hit it with full force, knocking it back at the feet of the trainer.
"Get up!" the trainer shouted angrily at his houndour, "I said get up damn it!" he pulled a whip out and starting whipping the houndour. seeing this made Chase , Amber, and Rush all freeze and stare in shock "You stupid pokemon!" He shouted, still whipping the houndour.
"What the hell are you doing!" Chase shouted in pure anger, he ran up and tore the whip from the trainers hand
"Hey you!" the trainer shouted "I was teaching her a lesson!"
"You..." was all chase could get out in his rage, he grabbed the trainer by the shirt and pushed him against a tree
"You never treat pokemon like that" Chase growled at him, The trainer was getting frightened now. Chase ripped the pokeball from the trainer's belt and threw him down on the ground. "Get out of my sight. you don't deserve to be a trainer." Chase said, still angry. The trainer got up and ran into the forest. all of chase's rage subsided and he ran to the houndour who was still on the ground. as he knelt down next to her, she closed her eyes tightly, as if expecting pain.
"It's ok, i wouldn't have hurt you if I knew..." Chase said, feeling sorry he did what he did, he reached into his pack again and pulled out an oran berry "Here, eat this, it'll make you feel better" the houndour slowly ate the berry, when she swallowed she had enough strength to stand, all she did though was stare at Chase, not knowing how to feel about him.she flinched when Chase held a hand out. "It's alright" he said soflty "He won't hurt you anymore, I'll take care of you" Rush and Amber watched this and slowly made their way toward her. She looked at them, fright still in her eyes.
"Am...Am I safe now?" she asked softly
"You won't have to worry about that trainer now, and Chase is a good trainer" Rush said. still a little uneasy She made her way toward Chase. And licked his hand to see how he reacted, Chase smiled and started petting her.
"I am safe now" The houndour thought, and for the first time in a while, a smile was on her face.
"It's getting late" Chase said, noticing the sun going down, "we better stop to make camp" they went a small way to find an ideal camping spot, they found one and Chase began to make a fire pit, afterwards he went around to gather wood for a fire,
"Why do you do it?" the houndour asked Rush, wondering why he battled
"Do what?" Rush asked, confused about the question
"Why do you battle?" she asked more specifcally
"Because i enjoy it" Rush replied with a smile
"Yeah! battling can be fun! even if you lose" Amber said happily as she ran by, collecting twigs for Chase
"I always found battling a terrible experince" The houndour said
"That's probably beacuse weather you won or lost, your were greeted by pain", Rush said "Having Chase as a trainer, don't expect any of that"
"His name's Chase?" ths houndour asked
"Oh yeah, you never got our names did you? you were probably to occipied to hear it during the fight. My names Rush"
"And I'm Amber!" the torchic said in a deep heroic sounding voice, followed up by zipping around in circles and making zoom noises. the houndour couldn't help but laugh a little at Ambers silliness
"What about you?' Rush asked
"...I never got one" she said, sounding depressed
"Well I'm sure Chase will give you one, your one of us now" Rush said. as they were talking, Chase came back with some wood and placed it into the pit, Amber saw this and placed the twigs she found.
"Being my little helper there Amber?" Chase chuckled, amber gave a few happy chirps and lit the fire with no effort. "Thanks Amber, now i can get started on some food" Chase grabbed his pack and pulled out some of the cooking gear,Rush was curious as to what Chase was cooking, he looked into the pot of noodles and smelled it.
"Hmm, a little weak isn't it?" he said, he thought for a second and remember Chase had picked some Cheri berries earlier, he went over to chases backpack and carried it over to Chase.
"What's this for?" Chase asked, curious about the eevees actions, Rush stared nudgding at the berry pocket, Chase opened it and Rush looked at the Cheri berries, "Oh i get it" Chase said , catching on "you want me to spice up the soup" Rush smiled and nodded, Chase took a berry out and place it into the pot, it seemed to melt into the soup. meanwhile, the houndour was staring at the stars, she thought they were beautiful and never got a chanse to just gaze at them in a while, she was thinking about her new trainer, she was hoping that maybe she finaaly found a good trainer her thoughts were interupted by a call. "Dinner's ready" Chase shouted to his pokemon, he placed a bowl down for them all, soon they all gathered around for some food. the houndour was a little cautios but soon went up when she realised one of the bowls were for her. they soon began to dig into the spicy soup.
"Hey, it's not bad, nice move on adding the berry rush" Amber said to him
After dinner was done and all the stuff was put away, it was fairly late. Chase decided to check on how Riku was doing, he got his pokenav out and used the match call system to call Riku, he shortly heard ringing on the other end
"Come on, work ya stupid thing!" was what Chase was greeted with
"What? Riku, it me Chase" Chase said confused
"Huh? Oh, Hey Chase! What's up?" Riku said, Chase came to the conclusion that Riku was having trouble using his pokenav
"Not much, just thought I'd call see how your first day on your own went" Chase said
"Nothing really. We had to beat this trainer, then a crazed Poochyena attacked us," Riku explained.
"I faced a trainer too, not only that but a third member joined my party!" Chase said
"What? Who?" Riku shouted, sounding surprised
"I got a houndour!" Chase said happily
"Well...I um..." Riku stuttered "I...found a...a Snorlax!" he said out of panic "Yeah, a Snorlax that's it..." He obviously lied,
"You always use the snorlax when your bluffing, I figured that out years ago Riku" Chase said, calling Riku's bluff
"...Uh, I'm not bluffing! He was in a...shoe store!" Riku continued
"...Give it up Riku, I know you too well" Chase said, trying to end it
"Look I'll...let him talk to you!" Riku still tried, Chase the heared Riku talking to Dash, something about telling him telling him to sound like a snorlax. Chase rolled his eyes
"Yes, hello Dash" he said to the eevee on the other side of the phone.Dash greeted Chase happily through the pokenav
"Why you little...umm...Snorlax is asleep right now." Riku said, not giving up
"Yeah right, if you had a snorlax right now I would be able to hear his snoring" Chase said, sounding anoyed by now
"...Well ya blew it Dash." He accused Dash, Chase heared a growl and Riku suddenly shouting in pain, Chase didn't know what happened but he knew Dash hurt Riku, Chase stared laughing
"Quiet you!" Riku shouted in the pokenav. "Dash, get off of my ear! That hurts!"
"Get a free piercing there Riku? Courtesy of Dash!" Chse said, realising where Dash bit him and continued laughing "How many rings can you fit in your ear now?"
Oh, I'll get you for this..." Riku said, a threatng tone in his voice "Dash, bad boy! Down!" he heard the eevee drop to the ground
"Heh heh...nothing like some quality time with your pokemon right?" Chase said
"Shut it..." Riku growled "..Anyway, congrat's on the Houndour and all. Whatcha ya name it?" Chase looke over to his houndour and saw she was staring at the moon, shortly after she gave a loud howl
"What the? Chase, run! Mighteyenas!" Riku shouted, hearing the howl
"That was my houndour, she seems to be happy about her new freedom" Chase said, he then noticed houndour gazing at the stars "Her name is Star" Chase said, the newly named Star looked over at Chase, and smiled
"Oh...could've sworn that was a Mightyena...anyway, tell Star I said hello." Dash and Slasher shouted something that could be heard "Slasher and the traitor here says hi too. And about Star, how did you get a houndour? Where are you anyway?"
"I rescued her, she needed me" Chase said
"And new freedom...?" Riku continued questioning
"As I said, I rescued her. She deserved better than that slime ball that was her former trainer" Chase said, remembering that evil trainer
"Idiot former trainer huh?" Riku asked
"Black-hearted, he was whipping her for losing" he growled "I had to stop him"
"He what!" Riku shouted "That's it! he's going down!"
"I don't think he'll show his cowardly face around here anymore, I scared him off" Chase said
"good...cause if I see him..." Riku muttered
"he mentioned something about a "Team Specter"...you have any knowledge about this?" Chase said, remembering what that trainer had said
"Team Heater? Never heard of 'em..." Riku said confused
"um...that's "Specter" Riku" Chase corrected
"Oh...I knew that!" Riku said, sounding embarased, Chase looked over and saw Rush was already asleep, and Amber was getting ready as well
"Well, it getting late, I'm gonna get off to bed now, Talk to ya later Riku" Chase said, yawning
"Okay, see ya later Cha - no, Dash, no biting your teammates!" Riku shouted then hung up, Chase decided not to question that and got his sleeping bag out, he used a small water bottle to put the rest of the smuoldering fire out and lied down to go to sleep
"Good night...Star" he said to the houndour
"So, my name is Star now...I think it's a beautiful name." She thought to herself as she too curled up to go to sleep as rush started twitching a little in his sleep, he was having a dream...