The Journey of Johto
Chapter 10
The next day, they all woke up with sunlight in their eyes. Jayden rubbed his eyes, and slowly sat up. Larvitar rolls downward onto his lap, and Larvitar woke up as well. Larvitar looks up at Jayden, and said, "Good morning papa."
"Good morning Larvitar," said Jayden, and he looks at his Pokemon. Croconaw, Charmeleon, and Chikorita sat up, Feebas sort of made a splashing motion on the ground. Misdreavus slowly rises into the air, and looks at them all. Ekans just raises her head from the ground in a snake motion. Jayden said to them all, "Morning Croconaw, Charmeleon, Misdreavus, Feebas, Chikorita, and Ekans."
"Morning Jayden," said Croconaw and Charmeleon at the same time. All the other said good morning right after, and said it to each other.
Jayden looks over to see if Andy and his Pokemon, and saw them all awake. "Good morning Andy," Jayden said.
Andy got out of his sleeping bag, and looks at them all. He said, "Good morning, had a good sleep?"
"Yeah," said Jayden, as Larvitar got off of him. Jayden slowly gets himself out of his sleeping bag, and wraps it up. He went to check his backpack, and pulls out the red and yellow egg.
Holding it in his hands, and looking at it, it isn't glowing so it isn't time yet. So he places it back down onto the ground, and Charmeleon and Croconaw went to take a closer look at it. Jayden takes his wrapped up sleeping bag, and puts it into his backpack.
Without noticing, Andy and Gandray came over. Seviper looks at Ekans, and they both nodded to each other. Andy saw the Pokemon egg, and he asks, "How long have you had that Pokemon egg?"
Before Jayden could reply, Charmeleon said, "Few days along, before he caught Chikorita. Before Jayden got me, Larvitar and this egg, my original trainer had it for less than a week. He had Larvitar much longer…"
"Very interesting," said Gandray.
"You say few days and a less than a week, maybe your egg is going to hatch soon," said Andy.
"Oh, that sounds good," Jayden said, as he took hold of the egg. Looking at it, and said, "I still wander what is in it."
"What do you hope is in it?" Chikorita asks.
"I want the strongest, the fastest," said Jayden. "Actually I prefer it to be healthy," changing his answer.
"A good answer, because all Pokemon become faster and stronger through good training," said Andy, and he turns around and headed back to his backpack and his other Pokemon. Seviper follows behind, as she looks at her friends.
Jayden puts his egg back into his backpack, and zip it half way. Just to make sure if the egg glows, they'll know it. Jayden looks at his seven Pokemon, and said, "As Josephiroth said before. Choose six Pokemon per day, so other trainers won't know."
The Pokemon nodded, and waited for his choosing. Jayden chose Croconaw, Charmeleon, Misdreavus, Chikorita, Larvitar, and Ekans. So he puts all of his Pokemon into their poke balls, all except three. Misdreavus, Chikorita, and Charmeleon wanted to stay out.
Misdreavus hasn't been out for a while, so she stays out and hovers over Jayden's right shoulder. Jayden puts his backpack on his back, and Chikorita got onto his left shoulder. As soon after, Jayden and Charmeleon walk over to Andy and his Pokemon.
Andy stood beside Shade, his Grovyle. Andy has his backpack on his back, and Fireheart on his right shoulder. The Cyndaquil looks at them, and said good morning to them.
Jayden asks, "Have you chosen your six Pokemon?"
"Yep, as you can see that Shade and Fireheart are among the six I chose," Andy said, and Cyndaquil and Grovyle nodded. Andy asks, "Have you chosen.
"Yes, shall we go on to Azalea Town," Jayden asks, and the Pokemon and Andy nodded. And so, all seven of them walk together. All of them going down the path, it will be a couple of days before they could reach Azalea Town.
Later that day, they got farther down the path. They stopped at a good area for lunch, and both trainers let out all their Pokemon. Andy fed his Pokemon, and Jayden fed his as well. He carefully fed Ekans, and she ate her food. As the Pokemon ate, so did the trainers. Both of them had a sandwich each, with tomatoes, lettuce, and cheese.
As soon after, Andy said, "Let's do some training."
"Why not," Jayden said, after he finished his sandwich. He then asks, "What Pokemon does the Azalea gym leader uses again?"
"Bug types, so the best types to use against bugs are fire, flying, and rock types," said Andy. He looks at his Pokemon, and said, "The Pokemon I am going with is Fireheart, Terrador, and Matas. Which ones are you going to go with?"
"Well all the types I have with me are two water types, a ghost type, grass type, fire type, a poison type and a rock type," said Jayden, looking at his Pokemon. "The best ones to go with are Charmeleon and Larvitar," Jayden said.
"I know those two are good choices, but has Larvitar battled before?" Andy asks him.
"No, not even Chikorita and Feebas. I caught Ekans yesterday, so I haven't trained them to be ready for any battle yet," Jayden said.
"Well today and along the way to the town, you can have better chances at it," said Andy, as he got up. He walks over to his Pokemon, and said, "Alright than, since the gym we're going to uses bug types. I would like Fireheart, Terrador, Matas and Cyril to train today."
Cyndaquil, Lairon, Vibrava and Absol nodded, and they finished their meals quickly then left their group. Jayden saw them walk off to another part, and saw him partnered up Matas with Terrador. And Fireheart is partnered up with Cyril, and they are to train with each other like a tag battle.
Jayden got up, and walks over to his Pokemon. His best choices are Charmeleon and Larvitar; he needs to choose the third. Poison, water, and grass types pretty much have no chance against bug types. So he looks at his Pokemon, and they look at him. He said, "Alright, we're going to train a bit. I would like Charmeleon, Larvitar, Chikorita, and Misdreavus to train for today."
They nodded, and they followed behind Jayden. He headed to one side of the area, and his chosen four followed behind him. They then walk in front of him, and the rest of Jayden's Pokemon came and sat down behind Jayden. He took off his backpack, and sat it down beside Croconaw.
He looks at his four Pokemon, and said, "Well I would like Charmeleon to train with Misdreavus, and Larvitar with Chikorita. Will that be alright?"
"Fine with me," said Misdreavus.
"Alright," said Charmeleon.
"Uh, I never battled before," said Larvitar, looking up at Jayden with a worry look.
"Don't worry Larvitar, I will go easy on you," said Chikorita.
"Wait a second," Jayden said, as he pulls out his Pokedex while the Pokemon looks at him. He said, "I don't know what moves what you can do, Larvitar. With this, it can help us know."
He points it at Larvitar, and presses some buttons. The Pokedex said, "Larvitar can use bite, leer, sandstorm, screech, and rock slide."
Jayden looks at Larvitar, and said, "Nice moves, good indeed."
"I know you say its good, but I never battled before. What if I mess things up?" Larvitar asks, sounded worried about it.
"Don't worry about it Larvitar, it is only training. This helps you get better at when you get into a real battle," said Charmeleon, looking at him.
"Besides Larvitar, if there was going to be a Pokemon battle. I would go with the others, because first things first. We need to build your strength," Jayden said.
Larvitar smiles, and said, "Okay, I'll try."
"That's the spirit," said Chikorita.
"Okay, let's start," said Jayden. Charmeleon and Misdreavus went to one side of the area, while Larvitar went with Chikorita to another side of the area. And soon they started, and Jayden made his neck sore from looking from left to right and right to left just in order to tell them what move to use.
Charmeleon went at Misdreavus with smokescreen, flamethrower, and leer. Since those moves are best against ghost types, and scary face is useless since Misdreavus does that a lot. Misdreavus uses the moves confuse ray, screech, and Psybeam. So far, Misdreavus has the advantage. When Charmeleon uses flamethrower on her, she used psywave to block it instead of attacking.
Now to the right, Larvitar is using the moves bite, leer, and rock slide. It seems Chikorita is good at dodging; she dodged each attack and each falling rock. Jayden wanders why she was scared when he went and caught her. Chikorita uses the moves tackle and growl; she is definitely going easy on Larvitar.
Jayden notices that Larvitar is getting frustrated when Chikorita kept dodging his attacks. That he started glowing for some unknown reason, and he, Chikorita and the rest of the Pokemon saw it.
Several small orbs of light went around Larvitar, and he just stares at Chikorita in concentration. Then they heard Larvitar say, "Hidden Power!" Launching those orbs right at Chikorita, and Chikorita tries to dodge them. But she failed, as she got struck by the hidden power attack.
This surprised them all, and Jayden rushes over to Chikorita to see if she is alright. Chikorita said, "I'm fine, I didn't expect that."
Larvitar rushes over, and said, "Sorry about that Chikorita."
"It is alright Larvitar," said Chikorita. She looks at him with a smile, and said, "That was a good move you performed."
"I don't know what I used," said Larvitar, feeling confused.
"Larvitar, you learned a new move. You've learned hidden power," said Jayden. "That is one good move," and this made Larvitar smile. As he stands up, and said, "You two are done training for today."
As he turns around, he looks at Charmeleon and Misdreavus still battling each other. He, Chikorita and Larvitar headed back to the group. They watch Misdreavus and Charmeleon battle each other; Charmeleon tries to strike her with flamethrower. Misdreavus tries to strike back with Psybeam, and they both dodge each other's attack.
As they continued, Jayden was about to step in and stop the training. But Charmeleon's fangs went on fire, and he went straight at Misdreavus with an attack that could only be called Fire Fang.
This amazed him and the rest of his Pokemon and as Charmeleon went to strike Misdreavus. Misdreavus manages to dodge the attack, by making several copies. That move is no doubt double-team, and this surprise Jayden even more.
As both Pokemon turn to each other and they're about to perform another attack. Jayden said, "That's enough you two, you did very well in your training."
Both Charmeleon and Misdreavus stopped, and turn to look at Jayden. They came over, and Charmeleon asks, "How did we do in our training?"
"You both did great," said Jayden, smiling at them. "Charmeleon, you learned fire fang. And Misdreavus, you just learned double-team. This is one amazing day today."
"We did well alright," said Misdreavus.
"I'll say, and the fire fang I used. My mouth still feels hot," said Charmeleon.
Jayden looks up at the sky, to see that the training took all afternoon. The sun is close to setting, and means that they should go to bed. He said, "Well we're done for today, best stop and get a goodnight rest." They all agreed, and Jayden picks up his backpack and they headed back to see Andy.
Appears that Andy is done, and he is getting his sleeping bag out. He saw them coming in, so he asks, "How did your training go?"
"Good, very good," said Jayden. He looks at his Pokemon, and said, "Larvitar, Charmeleon, and Misdreavus learned new moves."
"Good for you, Fireheart also learned a new move too," said Andy.
"Ah, good things has happened to day a lot," said Jayden, and he sat the backpack back down. Opens it, and pulls out his sleeping bag. He opens it, and got himself in.
Charmeleon went and lies down beside the backpack with the egg in it. Croconaw and Feebas lies down on his left side, Misdreavus lies down in her usual spot. Larvitar went and lies down on top of him and Chikorita on his right side. Ekans coils around them, and they're all about to go to sleep. They all said goodnight to each other, and said goodnight to Andy and his Pokemon. So they all went to sleep, as the sun has just set.
A few days later, Jayden and Andy still traveled south to Azalea Town. Every day, they trained and their Pokemon became stronger. Their Pokemon gotten better with their new moves, and Larvitar became confident that he can handle Pokemon battles.
Today, as they traveled down the path. Jayden has Croconaw beside him, Larvitar on his left shoulder, and Misdreavus floating above his right shoulder. Andy has Brightheart walking beside him, and Fireheart on his shoulder.
Andy has a book in his hands, reading as he walks south. A thought came to mind, as he read one part about ghost Pokemon. He closed it, with his right hand index finger in the book so he wouldn't forget which page he was on. He looks at Misdreavus above Jayden's shoulder, and he asks, "How come Misdreavus hasn't scared you in the past couple of days?"
Jayden looks at Andy with a confuse look, and before he could answer. Misdreavus said, "I stopped, because I scared him right after the incident."
"Why did you want to know?" Jayden asks.
"Well I just read information about ghost Pokemon," said Andy. "For screech Pokemon like Misdreavus, do you know what they used with that necklace?"
"No, I thought it was just part of her," Jayden said.
"Well, you know Misdreavus likes to scare. Well that red necklace absorbs fear, which is why she likes to scare so much. Besides Pokemon food, Misdreavus also eats fear with the use of her necklace," said Andy.
Jayden looks at him in surprise, and said, "I didn't realize that. I didn't know a Pokemon can eat fear, which is new to me."
"Yeah I know that, but I just feel sorry of scaring him all the time," said Misdreavus, looking at Jayden with sad eyes.
Jayden said, "Well you can start doing it again. Even though you stopped now, you should start doing that again."
"Thanks," she said, smiling at him. Larvitar, Jayden, and Croconaw saw her smile. They sort of flinched, for they will be expecting her to scare them sometimes soon. Misdreavus slowly disappear, and this spooks them.
All three of them looks left to right, to see where she goes. Andy went back to his book, without knowing that his two Pokemon were also wandering where Misdreavus went. He opens his book, and notices a shadow over it.
He looks up to see Misdreavus, and she yells, "Boo!" This scares Andy in surprise, as he falls backwards onto his back. His Cyndaquil falls off his shoulder and onto the ground as well.
Misdreavus laughs and they all look at her. Andy said, "Maybe I should've kept my big mouth shut." He sat up, and Fireheart jumps onto his left shoulder to get back in place.
He slowly got up, and he saw something glowing. He said, "Hey, something is glowing in your backpack."
"What?" Jayden asks in surprise, he kneels down. Larvitar jumps off his shoulder, and he takes off his backpack to see the glow. The glow is just like when Larvitar hatched, so he carefully slides his hands into his backpack. He pulls out the egg, and they all look at it.
The glowing of the egg begins to change its shape, and there sitting on the ground is a new born Pokemon. It looks like a small baby bird covered in orange and yellow feathers. Its wings are underdeveloped, but its legs and feet looks well developed. On its head looks like a crest that resembles a flame, and it said, "Torchic." But to them, it asks, "Mama?"
"You got yourself a Torchic," said Andy, looking at it in surprise.
"Hello Torchic," said Jayden.
"Mama," said Torchic, sounded happy as it jumps into his arms.
Jayden notices that Torchic is quite warm, and Jayden said, "Actually call me papa instead of mama. Okay?"
"Papa," Torchic said, sounded happy. It also sounded male, and Jayden puts Torchic down.
He pulls out his Pokedex from his pocket, and points it at Torchic. The Pokedex said, "Torchic, the chick Pokemon. Torchic has a place inside its body where it keeps its flame. Give it a hug – it will be glowing with warmth. This Pokemon is covered all over by a fluffy coat of down."
"Hello Torchic," said Larvitar, coming over to Torchic.
Torchic looks at him with a curious look, looking at him from left to right. Then he notices Croconaw, and walks over to the Pokemon and looks up at him. Croconaw said, "Hi Torchic," Torchic didn't reply. He went and looks at the tail of Croconaw, then the front. Torchic saw Andy, and came over to look at him.
"Very curious are you," said Andy, as Torchic looks at him. Torchic went to look at Cyndaquil, and Poochyena, and lastly Misdreavus. All the others said hello to Torchic, and Torchic went back to Jayden.
"Hello to you all," said Torchic, still sounded happy.
Jayden pulls out a poke ball, an empty one. He said, "Welcome to the team Torchic." Holding the poke ball right in front of the Pokemon, and Torchic looks at it with a confuse look.
"What is that?" Torchic asks, sounded curious of it. Torchic went to take a closer look at the red and white ball, and wanders what it is.
"It is a poke ball," said Andy.
"It is used to keep us Pokemon in, just in case if we need to sleep. It keeps us registered with to our trainer," said Croconaw, and all of them looks at him in surprise. He said, "What? I listened to Professor Elm a lot, had no choice since he talks a lot."
"So interesting, let me try," said Torchic, and it went and sort of pecked at the poke ball.
"Here," said Jayden, after seeing Torchic hit the poke ball several times and not hitting the button. He went and presses the button on Torchic's head, and he glows red and went right into the poke ball. He looks at the poke ball with a smile, and said, "I got myself a Torchic."
"Yes you did," Andy said, as he stands back up. He went and looks into his book, and went to see the map in it. He said, "Well now, we're almost to Azalea Town. Why don't we keep walking, camp somewhere and train once more? And tomorrow morning, we go to town and have our gym battles."
"Good idea," said Jayden, as he puts his poke ball into his pocket. He put it beside the other poke balls that hold Charmeleon, Chikorita, Feebas, and Ekans. He puts his backpack on his back, and Larvitar leaps onto his left shoulder as he did. He looks at Andy, and asks, "Ready to keep going?"
Andy nodded, and so all of them travel on. Jayden has Larvitar above his left shoulder, and Misdreavus floating above his right shoulder, and Croconaw walking right beside him. Andy has Fireheart on his shoulder, and Brightheart walking beside him. They traveled down the path to Azalea Town.
As they came to grassland, they see the town farther away. By the time they would reach the town, it will be late in the night. So they stopped, and both Jayden and Andy took out their sleeping bags.
Andy let's out all of his Pokemon, and so did Jayden. When he let out Torchic, Torchic went to look at all of them. Torchic is very curious of them, looking at Gandray. After her, he looks at Zoc and Shade. After looking at Andy's Pokemon, went to see Charmeleon, Feebas, Ekans, and Chikorita.
They said hello to him, and he said hello to them. Ekans sort of gave him a hug instead of saying hello. They all are happy to see Torchic.
Andy looks at Jayden, and said, "Best finish up some training for tomorrow gym battles."
"Good idea, just going to practice the moves," said Jayden, he looks at his Pokemon. Charmeleon and Larvitar nodded, and they and Jayden walks few feet away from the group. And Andy went to one side of the area with his Vibrava, Lairon, and Cyndaquil.
Jayden looks at Charmeleon, and said, "Let's try out your fire fang."
Charmeleon nodded, and opens his mouth. His fangs went on fire, and ready to strike something. Jayden finds a dead branch on the ground beside a lone tree on the grasslands. He picks it up, and said, "Try to strike this as this falls from the skies." He throws the branch high up into the air.
"To easy," Charmeleon said, as he leaps up into the air as the branch came falling down. Charmeleon struck it hard with fire fang that as soon as he lands back onto the ground. The branch is no longer there, but a pile of ashes falling from his mouth. He spitted out some of the ashes that was in his mouth, and then looks at Jayden.
Jayden looks at Larvitar, and said, "Okay, now let's try rock slide."
Larvitar nodded, and then struck at the ground to left a big rock. Lift it into the air, jumps up and strikes at it to shatter. The rocks came downward, and Charmeleon was in the way. So he dodges the rock slide, and got out of the way.
"Okay, Charmeleon, use iron tail," said Jayden. Charmeleon nodded, and leaps up into the air with his tail glowing. He slams his tail on one of the rocks, and it shatters.
"Good move Charmeleon," said Larvitar.
"Thanks," said Charmeleon.
Jayden said, "That is good, just in case when we have rocks on the field and the opponent uses them for defense." Both of them looks at Jayden, and nodded. "Okay and now. As a surprise attack, Larvitar, use hidden power on all those rocks."
Larvitar nodded, and begins glowing once more with small orbs of light going around him. Then he launches hidden power, hurling those orbs right at those rocks. All those rocks from the previous attack, shatters into several pieces.
Jayden said, "That is good, good attacks. Now we need to work on defenses in case if the gym leader has the advantage." He looks at Charmeleon, and said, "Use smokescreen, and dig right after."
Charmeleon nodded, and breathes out smoke that covered the area. Then as the smoke clears, Charmeleon is gone and in his place is a hole. Near them, the ground cracks and Charmeleon pops out of the ground. He looks at Jayden, and asks, "How was that?"
"That was good, very good use when facing any opponents," said Jayden.
"What defense move should I use in case if I get attacked?" Larvitar asks.
"Well, as I recall the best defense you can use is leer, screech, and sandstorm," said Jayden. He thought over the moves, and said, "Since leer we already know, and screech hurt our ears. How about we go with sandstorm for now?"
"Okay," said Larvitar, and he sends a wave of sand. Causing a small tornado of sand, and it is in the wind. Good move to use on other types that aren't rock or ground, and a good defense as well. Soon it stops, and Larvitar looks up at Jayden and asks, "How was that?"
"That is good too," said Jayden, and Larvitar feels happy about it. He looks at the two Pokemon, and said, "I have a feeling, that tomorrow we are going to get our next badge." Larvitar cheers and Charmeleon just nodded.
"Hey, can I try? Please can I try?" someone asks behind him, and Jayden turns to look. To see Torchic coming over to them, and really wants to try what they are doing.
Jayden asks, "You sure?"
"Yeah, after seeing all those things... I really want to try it out," said Torchic. "And maybe try out this gym battle you say."
"Okay, but first let's see what moves you can do," Jayden said, as he pulls out his Pokedex.
He points it at Torchic, and presses a few buttons. The Pokedex said, "Torchic can use scratch, growl, focus energy, ember, peck, and sand-attack."
"Good moves I see," said Jayden. He closes the Pokedex, and puts it back into his pocket. He looks at Torchic, and said, "Try ember."
Torchic blew out some small embers from his beak, and strikes at one of the cracked rocks nearby. Torchic uses it as the target, instead of hitting someone us. Torchic stops, and looks at Jayden with hopeful eyes.
Jayden said, "Pretty good Torchic, and next up. Try peck." Torchic smiles, and went and starts pecking at the cracked rock. Stops, and looks at Jayden. "Good attacks you have, now let's try your defenses. Try sand-attack," he said.
Torchic begins using sand-attack, sending waves of sands towards the rocks. Using his feet, and sending the waves of sands. Stops, and turns to look at Jayden. Jayden tries to say something, since the sand-attack wasn't pretty good. He said, "Well that is good. Good attacks, but I think. Maybe you shouldn't enter the gym battle tomorrow, with some more training. You will get better for the next gym, but not this gym."
"Awe," said Torchic, sounded sad.
Charmeleon and Larvitar walks up to Torchic, and Charmeleon said, "Hey, don't worry about it. You'll get your chance."
"And during the match, you can help cheer us on," said Larvitar, and Torchic just smiled.
Torchic nodded, and asks, "Okay, how about some more training?"
Jayden notices the sun in the sky, in a few hours it will set. So he said, "Best stop for now. Have our meals now, and go to bed. So we all can be ready for tomorrow." The Pokemon nodded, and they and Jayden headed back to the group.
As soon as they came back, they saw Andy there as well. He was getting some Pokemon food for the Pokemon, and as soon as the Pokemon got their food. Andy handed Jayden a sandwich, and have himself one. Croconaw sat beside him with his food, and so did all the other Pokemon. The only Pokemon that sat beside Andy with their meals are Gandray, Shade, Brightheart and Fireheart.
Andy asks, "How did your training go?"
"Good actually, Larvitar and Charmeleon are ready for the gym," said Jayden.
"Who's going to be your third Pokemon?" Andy asks him.
"I don't know, but what if it is two on two like the last gym? Well if is three on three, I will probably go with Croconaw," said Jayden.
"I am the back-up," said Croconaw, sounded happy about it. Torchic isn't so happy, but he knows that he will get his chance someday.
"Just like before, but this time Larvitar is with us at a gym battle," said Charmeleon. Both Charmeleon and Croconaw look at each other, and they did sort of a high-five.
"Good team," said Andy. As he finishes his sandwich, he said, "Well tomorrow, I and my Pokemon will beat the gym before you."
"No, I think I will beat the gym leader first," said Jayden, and he just finished his sandwich.
"Well then, who every wake up first tomorrow will go first," said Andy, and he got up and went to his sleeping bag.
"Good idea," said Jayden, he too got up and headed to his sleeping bag. He got into his sleeping bag, and said, "Goodnight Andy."
"Goodnight Jayden," said Andy. As the sun about to set, Gandray curls around him. Both Brightheart and Fireheart went and lay down on top of him. Matas and Terrador went and lay down beside Seviper. Shade did so as well, and Cyril and Zoc lay down nearby.
Charmeleon would've went and lay down beside the backpack, but there is no egg to warm up. So he went to lie down near Jayden's head, giving enough room for Misdreavus to get down and lay down beside his right side of Jayden's head. Chikorita went o lay down on his left side, and both Larvitar and Torchic went on to of him. Croconaw and Feebas lay down on his right side, and Ekans curls around them and placing her head in between Charmeleon's head and Chikorita.
They all went to sleep, as the sun had set. The only lights are the stars, the town lights nearby, and Charmeleon's fire on his tail.
End of Chapter 10
Written by Josephiroth