Chapter 2 Title: Episode: 2 Season: 1

A new Recruit!

As the sun came up once again it awoken Alisia and Robbin. Alisia thought she was still at home in Cleska town and murmured, "Ten more minuets, ma.." Robbin grinned at her. Pichu woke up at the sudden stop of the bus. Robbin fell out of the seat and landed on the floor with many other surprized kids. "We're here!" called out the man driving the bus, opening the sliding doors. Alisia helped Robbin up and packed up the pillows she used the night before into her pack. She looked up and was startled to see Yuro still talking to other peoples Pokémon. "Your still doing that?" she asked, getting up and placing her bag on her back. "What do you mean, I always do this. Oh, and your Pichu is hungry… Just saying," he said after a long pause. She laughed and called Robbin. The three kids got off the bus and stepped into a soft blanket of grass. Alisia looked about and saw 13 wooden cabbins. A man walked out from the main Cabbin. He had a green shirt and shorts. "Alisia, here," Yuro said, handing her a medium bag of Pokémon Food, "You'll need it." He smiled and walked away. The man stood infront of the crowd of kids and yelled, "Alright! I want you all to line up, please." Every one lined up in a horizontal fashion, having some of their Pokémon by their side. "As I call your name," he started, "Please go to your assigned cabbin, you will be here for one day to look around the town, and gather a few supplies you might have forgotten coming here," he sighed, "unfortunately you may not catch any Pokémon the day you spend here. We have teachers that will teach you everything you need to know. This is not like school, you may choose not attend classes but it is recommended. Alright!," he said happily, "Carlos Forle! Kristie Manalo! George Tenasod! and Toby Hill! All of you are in cabbin one!" Alisia stood next to Robbin and poked him. "Hopefully we are in the same cabbin, I don't know theese people." Robbin looked at her and smiled. "Me too." he said. The man continued name calling and it was up to the last cabbin.

"Okay, kids in cabbin 13 are Yuro Young, Alisia Legendary, Stephanie Coles, and Robbin Sheikolu!" the man said pointing to an old cabbin next to a fruit tree.

Alisia smiled and grabbed her things off of the grass.

"See, I told you," Robbin smirked, also grabbing his bag.

"You didn't tell me anything!" Alisia laughed. Yuro walked into the old wooden cabbin wich looked as if it had seen many days. Alisia frowned and so did Robbin. They all looked out of the door hearing the most unpleasant sound. "No! Don't touch my Delcatty! Ughh! Just go away!," a small girl in a pink dress yelled at a man in a tuxedo standing next to her. "But Stephanie!" the man pleaded.

"No! Your fired! Fired Fired Fired!" she yelled, her Delcatty hissing at the man. He sighed and walked away. Alisia looked at Robbin, then Yuro, with a worried expression. "Wow," Yuro and Robbin said at the same time. The little girl picked up her belongings and walked into their cabbin. "I call the top bunk, so no one can have it," she hollered.

"But I put my stuff there 'cause I wanted to sleep there," Robbin frowned.

"Well to bad," she said, crawling up the ladder of the bunk bed and slid all of his stuff onto the wooden floor.

"Whats your deal!" Robbin yelled. Stephanie stuck her tounge out and laughed.

"My deal is you, so leave me alone and unpack my stuff, you two, too!" she looked at Alisia and Yuro and crossed her arms. "Get me something to drink, and my Delcatty! She only likes pure Moomoo milk that is at approximately warm room temprature."

"Dell, catty catty!" Delcatty hissed.

"Okay, look little girl," Alisia said, "We are not your servants, do it yourself!"

"Pa-leeze! Just never mind, leave me alone," she stroked her Delcatty and left the cabbin, slamming the door. Yuro stood there with a blank expression looking out of the window.

"Guys, watch out for her Delcatty, it said some pretty messed up things…"

"Like…?" Robbin asked, sitting on a twin bed. He layed back and looked up at the wooden ceiling.

"Heheh…. Like things you don't wanna hear?" he said in a worried tone. "Plus, she looks eight to me, and you have to be ten to venture out into the world of training," he pointed out.

"God I hope she doesn't come back," Alisia sighed.

"Me too, hey! Alisia, want to battle! It would be mine and yours' first battle ever!" Robbin roared, jumping out of the bed and grabbing his green Pokémon ball. Alisia nodded and got her red Pokémon ball out as well. Yuro widened his eyes and said, "No! Not in here, you'll reck it, go outside, there is a battle area painted next to the tree."

"Okay, thanks Yuro!" Alisia waved as she darted out of the door with Pichu close behind. The area was worn down with holes and scratches. The breeze was steady and Alisia's hair blew beind her. She exhaled softly and tensed her muscles. Robbin grabbed a green hat from his bag and put it on. "Lets go!"

"Okay! Get out there Pichu!" Alisia said, getting out her PokéDex out and scanning her Pichu.

'Pichu, the eletcric mouse Pokémon. If injured, this Pokémon may heal itself using electricity around it.' She went to moves and the Dex read aloud. 'Thunder shock, wich does forty damage and accuracy is one hundred percent, Charm, the user charmingly stares at the foe, making it less wary. The target's Attack is sharply lowered. unknown accuracy, and Tailwhip, the user wags its tail cutely, making the foe less wary. The target's Defense stat is lowered.'

Alisia smiled and called out, "Go on! Call out your Pokémon!" Robbin smirked and threw out his Pokémon. The ball opened and a small lizard creature popped out. It had a metal plate sheilding its head and down its small back. It was at least half the size of Pichu. Robbin frowned and sighed. Alisia smirked back and said, "Use your PokéDex!"

"Okay."

Robbin took out his PokéDex and scanned the lizard monster.

'Grazzon, the small lizard Pokémon. It likes to battle Pokémon larger than itself.'

Robbin went to moves in the Dex and it read, 'Tackle, a move that does twenty damage. It has the accuracy of 95 percent. Roar, a move that rises the user's attack.' The Dex stopped and Robbin put it away in his bag. "Okay! Lets do this battle thing!" Robbin called out, smiling.

"Pichu! Use Thunder shock! Lets go!" Alisia shouted, pointing at the Grazzon.

"Piiii!" the Pichu charged up and sent a beam of electricity towards it's awaiting target. The Grazzon sat there and looked at Robbin expectantly.

"Oh, uhh, use Tackle!" Robbin said, looking at his Pokémon.

The bolt hit Grazzon with a hard blow that sent it a few feets back. It growled and ran towards the Pichu, hitting it with it's steel forehead. Pichu flew back and hit the ground, it had fainted.

"Pichu!" Alisia said, running over to her fainted Pokémon. She picked her up and returned her into her unused Pokémon ball. "You did awesome," she whispered.

"Okay, your pretty tough, lets go! PokéBall!" Alisia said, throwing out her red PokéBall. A dog form popped out. It was mostly red and had intricate yellow markings that flowed through it, as almost if there where living flames on it. The breeze made it look feirce as its fur flowed past. It growled at the small lizard. Alisia once again took out her PokéDex and scanned her Pokémon.

'Runire, the feirce dog Pokémon given the name of Fire. It is said that on cold nights you can feel its warmth a mile away. It will fight anything that might endanger its owner or pack."

Wow…thought Alisia, smilling. Seems like a good friend to be!

"Don't let size fool ya' girl! We still have a lot of power left!" Robbin called out, grinning.

"Whatever!" Alisia called back. She went to moves and it read aloud once more, 'Bite, The foe is bitten with ficously sharp fangs. The target may flinch. Tailwhip, the user wags its tail cutely, making the foe less wary. The target's Defense stat is lowered.'

"Okay! Now, use Bite!" Alisia called out.

Runire growled, showing it's teeth, and ran up to Grazzon, snapping it on its left leg. Grazzon let out a cry and fainted. Runire snorted and trotted next to Alisia, rubbing his neck on her leg.

"Good battle!" Alisia cried out, hugging her Runire. It licked her and wagged it's tail.

She called out Pichu and she rested on her head. Runire refused to return to his ball so he sat next to Alisia, like a guard. Robbin trudged towards Alisia and shook her hand.

"I am glad I lost to you," he said, rubbing the back of his neck, fake-smiling.

"Its okay, I had the advantage, I had two." She leaned down and patted Runire. He swished his tail ecxitedly and licked her. Pichu snored aloud and they both giggled. Yuro walked outside of the house with a piece of wite paper in his hand. Alisia and Robbin stopped to see what he had.

"Whats this?" She asked, looking at it. She ghasped and called over Robbin. They stared at the paper for a long time.

"You drew this?" Robbin asked, looking at an extremely good drawing of a ghost dog creature.

"Yup, that's me. You wanna meet her?" Yuro asked, getting out his Pokéball.

"Its real?" Alisia asked.

"As real as you and I," he said, smiling. He flung the ball in the air and a dark mist came out. A purple mass formed into its shape as a half dog, half fog.

"Her name is Ferdina, she is a Dailo." Yuro patted her and smiled.

"Wow! Where can you get one?" Robbin asked excidedly.

"Not sure. My father gave her to me for my tenth birthday. She must be at least level twenty four by now."

Yuro smiled happily and hugged Ferdina.

"Me and Arai will soon be the best of buddies!" Alisia said eagerly, hugging her sleeping Pokémon.

"Yeah, me and TinyTerror will be too!" Robbin said, holding up his PokéBall.

"TinyTerror? Wow, that's very intimidating." Alisia said, smiling. Robbin crossed his arms approvingly.

"Indeed, it is."

"Stop trying to sound smart, you'll hurt yourself." Alisia smirked, punching him slightly on his shoulder. He smiled also and they both focused again on Yuro.

You children are very playfull, yes?, the voice said, eminataing by Yuro.

"Oh, she talked! Wow!" Robbin exclaimed. Alisia smiled as Pichu awoke and jumped from her head and down right by Ferdina.

"Chuu! Pichu! Pi..Pi." she said, smiling at Ferdina. Yuro laughed and sat down in the grass that they where standing in. Alisia took a sit, so did Robbin.

"So, lets get to know each other. My name is Yuro, age 13. I started my journey at age 10. I have stayed in Clesku town all my life. But soon after I got Ferdina, wich she wasn't evolved yet-" Yuro was cut off my Alisia.

"Evolved? What is?"

"Umm..It's when a Pokémon takes a different form from having the right amount of experience, by battling. And some take stones to evolve, just like Ferdina here. Some also need items. Such as a special plate, or a quick claw, or sharp claw. And, some such as Pichu, need love." Yuro smiled.

"My Pichu can…evolve? Wow! Don't tell me what she will turn into, I want to find out!" Alisia said, hugging Pichu tightly.

"Aha…Um. Yuro, will TinyTerror evolve?" Robbin said.

"Well, of course, all starter Pokémon evolve two more times, then after they are done fully evolving to their last stage, they wont change form again, and they can't un-evolve either." Yuro sat on the ground and played with Ferdina.

"Wow, you seem to know a lot about Pokémon." Alisia smiled, siting also, petting Pichu. Robbin smiled and looked up. He looked wide eyes across the large field that seperated the cabins from the wilderness. A large dragon figure sat ahead, looking down upon what seemed to be a trainer. Alisia followed his gaze and gasped. Yuro smirked and got up quickly.

He waved his hands into the air and yelled.

"Hey! Draia! When did you come?"

The female trainer looked away from the beast and at Yuro. She had tan skin with deep green eyes. Her hair was black and tied up into a pony tail. She wore a red skirt and blue shirt that had a picture of a dragon thing on it. Her shoes where black with buckles on them with white socks. "Hey!" Draia said, running torwards the trio, along with her Pokémon. The beast followed her, walking with a limp. She smiled and said, "Hey Yuro! Who are these guys? Nice to meet you!" she was really happy, but at the same time you could see a hint of worriedness. Alisia smiled, letting Pichu jump out of her grasp and hugging the stranger. She got up and gestured to shake hands with Draia. Draia smiled back and shook her hand. Robbin walked over to Draia and shook her hand also. Yuro walked up and bowed to her. Draia giggled and hugged him. He put his arm around her shoulder and giggled. They both looked at Alisia and Robbin. Draia's Pokémon sat behind her, looking expectantly at the the two embracing. Draia stopped the hug and smiled. "I seemed to have forgoten! This is Exatru, my Levagon!" she gestured to the dragon. Robbin gasped and looked up. "Its amazing!" He scanned the Pokémon with his PokéDex. 'Levagon, the Dragon Pokémon. The evolved form of Shankeko. This Pokémon comes in variants of colors. They all have different moods according to their color that day. Green is the normal color, wich is nuetrial to its actions. Trainers with Red Levagon's are more likely to end up losing a match than that of a Green Levagon.'

Alisia laughed at him and put Pichu on her head. The Levagon smiled and licked its jaws, looking hungrily at the Pichu. Pichu cried a light cry and dug itself into Alisia's head. Draia nodded 'No' to her Levagon. Yuro laughed as Draia returned her Pokémon and he sat back down on the floor. Alisia, already standing, took Pichu off her head and held her in her arms. She smiled, "Guys, I gotta go back in. I need to make sure I got everything, then…we got to hit the books!" Robbin sighed and put his head in his hands. "But why? We just started summer, and you want to go back to school?" Alisia smirked, "No, Pokémon school. We need to know how to do things before we actually go out there into the wilderness." Robbin followed Alisia into the cabbin, while Draia and Yuro where talking away.

"Hmm, what outfit should I ware? The schooly girl? Or the Emo Chick?" Alisia asked, holding the outfits up to her. "Well, to give my opinion, I don't really care. We are just gonna be there for like, two hours." Robbin sat down, and put on his beanie and nerd glasses. Alisia decided to look like a nerd with him, so she put on her matching pair of glasses and a beanie. Robbin smirked and got up, holding TinyTerror's Pokéball. "I don't think we are allowed to bring our Pokémon, Robbin, wont it pop out or something?" Alisia asked, a bit worried, now holding Pichu. "Nonsense, It only pops out when I throw it or something. Plus, we might be doing exercises with our Pokémon," Robbin said. Pichu smiled and hugged Alisia. "Ok, lets go."

The two walked out of the cabbin with their Pokémon and bags and waved to Yuro and Draia and made their way to the school yard about 1 half mile away. It was a nice sunny day. Alisia and Robbin where accompanied by other Trainers and their Pokémon. A Pokémon that caught Alisia's eye was a kitten. It wasn't a furry, soft kitten, it was a scaly, slimy, adorable creature. It was inside of a boys bag, filled with what seemed to be pure water. Alisia gulped and looked at the Trainer that owned the Pokémon. It was Cal, the boy Alisia and Robbin where always bullied by. Alisia nudged Robbin and whispered, "Dude! Cal is here…he has a Pokémon too…" Robbin looked over his shoulder and sighed. Pichu glared at Cal and she started to let her electricity leak from her cheeks. "Pichu, not now.." Alisia sighed and walked into the large classroom, along with all of the other Trainers. She and Robbin sat in the back, Pichu now laying on the cold desk of Alisia, sleeping. Alisia checked in the bag she had brought and took out a notepad and pencil. Robbin listened to what the teacher was about to say. She was a beautiful woman. Her hair was a deep blue and short. Her dress was a flowy rich blue, dancing across the air as she walked over the the black board. "Is everyone here? Settle down. Okay." The kids stopped chattering and sat still, no longer talking to their friends nor Pokémon. "Today you will learn the basics of Pokémon and their abilities, habitatats, et cetera. Now, who here would want their Pokémon to partake in an example?" She asked the whole class, kids rasing their hands, almost jumping out of their seats. Robbin, he rose his hand patiently, expecting to not be seen by anyone. "Ah, yes. Boy in the back." She pointed directly at Robbin, in shock, he rose from his seat, taking TinyTerror's Pokéball with him. He handed her the ball, and she called TinyTerror out. The Grazzon sniffed the air, looked around to see many people, and turned blue, curling its tail near itself. It looked at Robbin, Robbin was almost blue too. "Ah, nothing is wrong with him, as I see he lives up to his expectations! Copying its trainers mood, and it seems you are very nervous." She pat the Grazzon on its top armor blade, and it calmed down a bit. Cal looked up from his Pokémon and looked at Robbin, shocked. Robbin made eye contact with Cal, then looked away, looking back at Alisia, who was jotting down notes, even if there was nothing to jot down.

"Thank you, what did you say your name was?" the teacher asked.

"I didn't..Its Robbin."

Robbin walked back to his seat and sat down, returning Grazzon all the way from the back of the room. He put the ball back into his pack and slid deeply into his chair, some kids still looking at him.

"Okay, class! My name is Ms. Seria, Ms. S for short! Today we have much to learn, much to see! Please, if you take notes it will help you very much on your journeys. First lesson. Pokémon weaknesses and ressistances. Basics are, Grass is weak to Fire, Fire weak to Water and Water weak to Grass types. Like a cycle. But other types may vary. Such as-" The rest of the afternooon she tought the class all the basics, type advantages, about evolution, areas, cries, and even did a little show and tell. Alisia's Pichu hopped on every childs head, except for Cals, for he kept on trying to grab the little mouse and squeeze her. Pichu was having a fun time, meeting other Pokémon and their trainers. One girl had a small badger looking Pokémon. It was mostly green, with a yellow neck-flap and black eyelids. Alisia took out her PokéDex.

"Woah, that is so cool!," Alisia pointed her PokéDex torwards the Pokémon.

It read aloud, 'Feareath, the badger Pokémon. Some scientist believe it is actually a small sheep, but its claws and tough features say otherwise. It uses its Yellow-like neckflap to take in the suns rays to power up Grass-Type moves.' The Dex showed a small hologram of Feareath.

"Oh, may I scan your Pokémon? My Feareath's name is Chandler, what's yours," the girl that owned the Pokémon asked, petting Pichu, making her hair stand on end.

"Uh, sure! Her name is Arai, I'm Alisia," Alisia plced Pichu on a desk that belong to someone, but he didn't seem to mind. Pichu looked at the girl and smiled. She scanned Pichu and the Dex told her what it had told Alisia.

"Oh, wow! A Pichu. I've never seen one. My name is Carissa. Nice to meet you, too." The two girls went back to their seats.

School is over shortly after lunch break and they are set off to gather supplies at the store not to far. It was getting dark and the light from the store illuminated the night. Alisia bought some Pokémon food, Pokémon Potions, and six blue ajustible collars with 'L' on the golden shiny part. Of course it was fake, plastic gold, but Alisia liked how they shimmered. She wrapped the first one onto Pichu, making sure it fit comfortable, and purchased her things. Robbin also got some Pokémon food and potions. He also got a camera for the journey. They both walked all the way back to the Cabins and called Yuro.

"Yuro! You ready? We got all the things we need to start this epic quest!" Robbin put his index finger over the top of his upper lip and pretended it was a mustache. Yuro emerged from the cabin with Draia, him stuffing papers into his sidebag. Draia waved and called out her Levagon, hopped onto its upper back, and flew off into the darkening sky.

Yuro cleared his throat, "Hey, guys, we need to take the first left when we leave, its an off-trail trail to explore and we could camp there for the night."

Alisia nodded, along with Robbin and Pichu. They walked on, setting up camp, waiting for day to come once more.

To be continued….