Hi! I'll be uploading this a little more regularly, even though it's been a couple of years, this story is kind of never ending seeing I was typing this up to follow the plot throughly. I didn't have a set, 'main hero' plot for my Oc.

Not that it matters really, the chances of this story being 'complete' is kind of slim unless the Adventures series comes to an abrupt end and that' not happening if Game Freak and Nintendo has anything to say about it. The inner kid in me is happy about that but the other side of me is getting annoyed on their creativity.

But in the end we can all just accept it for what it is and enjoy the fact that there are new ways to crush other players in the new Pokémon games.

Thanks!

October 2, 2015- Finished.
December 6, 2017- Edited.

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I beamed at my fellow players who were sweating copiously and frightened. We held our cards in a similar fashion and our game has attracted a large crowd behind the railings to ensure no one cheats. Even the owner of the place came to see the commotion and watched our game after questioning his employees.

Throughout the game, many people came and went and I was the only one of the original players who initiated this crowd besides this rich man across the table who was doing decently, but still losing.

It's been a few hours since I took my place and I felt great.

My smile turned devious and a glint in my eye became mischievous sending chills down the players spine and they all sent a chorus of 'folds' besides the the rich man. He and I looked at each other, him narrowing his eyes, while my smile lengthened.

"Your good, but I wonder if it'll be the same trick as last time." The rich man commented. A few rounds ago, I won a game like this when everyone at the table folded and I only had one pair. Everybody despaired seeing that.

"We'll see." Was my answer.

"All in." He narrowed his eyes further.

"All in."

He laid down his card. A straight from six to ten of various suits.

I laid down my own. A full house of two aces and three queens.

Everybody cheered clapping their hands as the rich man sighed in defeat. I looked over to Red who was gaping at me while holding my cloak, cane, and Vulpix because the dealer of the game said they weren't allow for security reasons.

"You're good." I hear the rich man say. "I never lost so bad in my life. Who taught you how to play?"

"I was just given good advice." I told him.

His eyebrow shot up. "And that is?"

Everybody leaned in wanting to know my secret. I giggled at their actions and smiled again. "To never stop smiling!"

I hopped over to Red to retrieve my stuff. I felt so high, energized, and tired at the same time. The last time I felt like this was when I was playing a game of hide and seek with the older pokémon that had time to play. They were faster, smarter, and had more acute senses than the younger ones. Mind games like these, where you have to trick your opponents always leave me like this.

But never when playing with Madame Ninetales and the others though, they cheat, I just know it. Psychic should be banned.

"C'mon Red! I have to turn in my coins!" The cartons of coins were attachable just for these occasions and I used my the hook end of my cane to start and drag them in a train like fashion while holding Red's hand on the other.

"Goodness me. I never knew you had this kind of side of you Rayne." Vulpix said while riding on top of the coins to prevent any stray hands. "You're such a devious fox when you want to."

I looked over to Red who still looked stunned. "You know Red, I've been told that your face will freeze into that position if you keep it like that long enough."

Red blushed snapping out of his stupor. "That's only in the winter time." I hear him mutter.

We walked up to the prize booth again. "Hello there! I didn't think you'd actually win so much in a few short hours!" The prize lady gushed. "It was amazing to watch on the security cameras." She whispered giggling. "So I'm guess you're here to take that Dratini out of this place?"

"Yes, please!" I answered excitedly.

We dumped the coins into a little slot where it counted all the coins. I don't remember much but I do remember the lady say I have enough coins for three TMs after giving me Dratini. Earthquake, Protect, and Dig are what I got.

I handed Earthquake to Red. "For worrying and staying by me this entire time." Because he looked so frustrated when he couldn't convince me to not to play and the moment I sat down the table, I could see the stress just pour out of him until I won most of my games. Since this was still a game of chance, I did lose some but when I lost my first game, he started to sweat a little. "You fretted over me way too much today, so here's my thanks."

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It was the next morning when we were training and Red was making a fuss about the TM I gave him. It's seem like the events from last night finally caught up to him.

"You won it!" Red shouted. "I couldn't believe my eyes when I watch you win so much, but it doesn't mean you can just give it to me!"

I huffed. He's been like this the moment I brought it up. "Fine!" I snatched the TM out of his hands. "I'll take it back!" And proceeded to walk towards his Poliwrath. "Would you like to learn Earthquake Poli?"

"What?!"

"Yes I do! But Red seems to be against it though."

"Don't worry about it, and besides, it's my TM and I can do whatever with it." I put the disk on his forehead and watched it crumble and disappear, it was better to use this thing called the 'Teachy T.V.' but the TM makers found a way to let the disk's energy to be absorb since it's created through psychic means or infused with psychic energy or something like that.

Human technology is amazing. Apparently the idea was sparked because of the elemental stones, the energy emission is supposed to be similar but only enough to transfer information. My head spins at the further details but Saffron psychic gym leader and Silph Co. collaborated to make it happen and I'm just going to leave it at that.

"Thank you!" And Poli stomped his feet creating cracks where he's standing and a tremor making everybody lose their balance. "Oops."

I looked over to Red glaring at me. "What?" I said in a bored voice, but my expression betrayed how I sounded. "You didn't want it."

"Nidoking can learn Earthquake to you know."

"Oh no!" I feigned worry in my voice but I was still smiling. "That was my last Earthquake!" I turned to Poli. "Would you be a dear and teach Nidoking if you can?"

"Sure! Once I got it down I'd be happy to!"

I laughed at the situation. "Really Red, it's nothing, and I really do mean it as a thank you gift for sticking by me when there was I chance for me to gamble all my money away."

He sighed falling on to his back. "There's no arguing with you is there?"

"I don't know why you even try." I gave him a toothy grin and he just scoffed at me.

"A devious fox I say!" Vulpix sounded giddy. "I do wish to meet Madame Ninetales soon after seeing you open up like that."

I just continued to grinned and lifted a pokéball that Dratini was in. "Now for Dratini!" I threw the ball sending out the dragon type.

"Where am I? Who are you?!" Dratini became hostile with electricity crackling along its little three-pronged, white fins on its head.

"Pika!"

"On it!"

The Dratini let out a weak bolt of electricity of a Thunder Wave and Pika held up his tail drawing all the electricity to it.

"It wasn't too much to worry about." Pika told us. "He seems to be younger than he looks."

Dratini seemed to get very afraid when his attacks was shrugged off and looked around trying to find a way to escape. I looked worriedly when tears started to form and I ran over to him when he started to cry.

He was curled into himself when I reached him. I kneeled in front of him but didn't touch him. "You'll be fine little one." I cooed softly. "You're not trapped in that little room and alone anymore. You'll be fine."

Dratini lifted his head tears still streaking down. "Really?"

"Of course." I bumped his head and nuzzled his snout with my own nose giving him giving him reassurance. "And I'm sure everyone here would agree too."

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We spent a few days in Fuchsia City searching for the gym that was rumoured to be here only to find it abandoned. It was in such an out of the way place that it's not surprising that it was abandoned. So on the last day, we just toured around until we ended at the Safari Zone.

"No pokémon allowed huh?" I said reading the rule board outside the building. "I'm not really keen on leaving Dratini behind." I stroked Dratini's head as he was riding on my satchel since he was too big to fit in it.

Red sighed. "I guess we'll skip it then."

"Or we can split up for a few hours." I said looking at him. "I can go shop for supplies and you can tour the Safari Zone."

"That's not very fair." He frowned.

I rolled my eyes. "I made you stand for a good few hours so I can play a card game. I think this is fair."

"But you gave me the TM!" Red protested.

"And you gave it back!" I said in the same whiny tone.

He gave a deadpanned face. "You're impossible."

"Because you make it so easy though." I teased. "Just go have fun! And get some pictures. I don't see 'No Cameras' here so make sure you bring your Pokédex. I'll be waiting when you're done!"

I skipped away heading towards the Postmark, we completely forgot to visit the department store in Celadon so we were cutting close on supplies. I need to get the medicine, some food rations, and new hair bands. I keep losing those in the middle of traveling to where I don't want to buy them anymore but they're good in keeping hair out of the way when eating.

I should get a brush too seeing I'm tired of getting rid of knots by hand and Red could use one too even though he wears a hat, he still needs to groom himself.

"What's that? It smells bad." Dratini poked his head out.

I looked over the the cans of Repels he was looking at. "Those are repel, wild pokémon don't like the smell much and it deters them from approaching while we're traveling. We don't need it since everyone is strong enough to fight normal wild pokémon, if a stronger pokémon comes along then Red would love to battle it."

"Not even just for just in case?"

I shrugged. "Nope, haven't been in a situation that we do yet." My eyes spotted little bottles of hair products and the word 'conditioner' immediately drew them.

Ah, temptation, why did Misty have to spoil me?

"Rayne? You've been staring at those bottles for a while now."

"Yes I have and anything that can make the knots less painful is worth spending." I swiped a couple of bottles and a tiny brush. "Lucky for me, they're travel size too." And the little brush has a little chain for me so I won't loose it too easily.

"What is it?" Dratini sniffed it.

"It's something that makes my hair more manageable, don't worry about it." I patted him on his head.

It was pecha scented too.

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"What do you mean I can't go in there?!" I snarled at the man in front of me who coward away behind the others who were also afraid.

Another one of the safari observers gulped. "W-well, i-it's the Bellsprout and its evolution line's evolutionary ritual tonight." He squeaked out.

Dread reached up as horror crept up my being. "You mean that he's going to become plant food?!" Those Victreebel can become extremely vicious when they're disturbed in their sacred ritual.

"H-he might not!"

"But with our luck, he's probably caught by them!" I gripped the side of my head pulling at my hair. I then glared at the men in front of me. "I'm not leaving and I will go with you or I will tear through the forest myself if you try and stop me."

They nodded rapidly and scampered off to the other side of the room where the monitors are that showed various places of the Safari Zone.

"Calm down Rayne. With our luck, he'll be fine with only a scratch to remember by." Pidgeotto said lazily.

Poli nodded. "Red is a battler and a survivor and as you know by now, he thinks better in these kinds of situations. As long as nothing distracts him, he'll be fine." A chorus of agreements sounded from everyone but Eevee and Dratini since they're still new.

"But he also has the tendency to go overboard too when he's excited..."

"Urk... No more bad thoughts. He'll be fine without us, and you'll whack him in the head anyways." Pika crossed his arms.

"That's right! So please stop worrying!" Ivysaur pleaded seeing that my nervous tension was spreading unnecessarily. "You'll need to sleep to find him quickly."

The safari tour was only supposed to be a few hours long and it only took me half the time of that to find, buy, and carry back what we needed before I found out that everything went terrible in that span of time.

A worried sigh just rushed out of me and I laid down with my satchel as my pillow. I listened to the others trying to keep my mind off the situation right now. I can hear Vulpix give both Eevee, who was now Vee, and Dratini the rundown on our journey so far from the last time they left off using my Pokédex that had the pictures stored in it. The two new comers had looks of admiration as Vulpix continued on with the others chipping every once in a while.

Both Snor and Nidoking weren't out being too big, but I could see Pika carrying both of their balls. Their bodies may be in that stasis but they could still hear and see what's going on.

I'm really glad that Dratini quickly warmed up to the team after his little cry. He's seems to have taken everybody in as denmates especially Vulpix. Despite Pidgeotto and Nidoking being the stronger fighters, Vulpix was the one he spends the most time with since they both prefer to be out of their pokéballs. It also doesn't hurt that Vulpix was the smarter fighter with her wily tricks regardless of her mannerly ways.

I felt fur trying to get under my arms and when I lifted them, I saw Vee snuggling close to me.

"Since Red's not here, you'll do."

"Me too!" Dratini slithered over onto my waist.

I smiled to myself. They're both such cuddly pokémon.

I miss home but this was nice too.

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I walked forward through the foliage ignoring the warnings of the safari overseers and followed the directions of the local pokémon here that spotted a human that made a ruckus last night and still is.

"Wow, it's so dense here." Dratini shrunk underneath my cloak curling tightly on the straps of my satchel.

"As long as you don't wander off, you'll be fine." Vulpix said in my arms.

Then a chorus of 'Hello's and 'Welcome's sounded in the brush. The men behind me shrank in fear as they only heard growlings of pokémon they couldn't see.

"Red, I'm not impressed." I scowled.

"Aw, c'mon Rayne!" Various pokémon of the Safari Zone stepped out scaring the overseers. I saw Red ride on Nidoking larger than my own. "I even took pictures!"

He had a stupid grin on his face telling me he had a blast even though he's been roughed up with tears and scratches on him. His pokémon chattered loudly glad to see him okay, so I relaxed and just took to be irritably exasperated than be angry.

"Get down here now Red." I commanded and I narrowed my eyes seeing his reluctance. "I'm going to know what's wrong eventually Red."

"I know but I rather not, you get scary when you're angry."

What am I going to do with you Red? The things we get into are trouble by far than I would like to think, but I guess when we're having fun, danger is just an obstacle that we look back on at another date.

I sighed. "I'm not angry, just extremely worried." I looked at him pointedly. "And Pika did say I'd get a whack in for making me worry so don't make me follow through on that."

Red gulped while giving the electric mouse a betrayed look. I frowned at his limp.

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We got out of the Digglet Tunnel in one piece with only a few scratches. Dratini was getting practice in with Water Pulse that Nidoking showed him to fend off the oncoming hostile pokémon in the tunnel. He had help of course with Poli, Vuplix, and the others, but Dratini was determined to fight it out until the end.

"You were amazing." I patted his blue head.

"And he seems young too, I'm very impressed by him." The man traveling with us said. "Where did you get him?"

The man was tall and was wearing a dark suit. Despite his outfit, he claims to be an archaeologist who wanted to visit the Pewter Museum where they had fossils on display on the other side of the Digglet Tunnel.

"I won him at the Game Corner in Celadon City." I told him.

He blinked in surprise. "But Dratini are very expensive. For most, it'll take a few weeks to even get the amount of coins to win them. The game of chance works both ways and from what I've heard so far, you both don't stay in one place too long."

"Rayne's scary good with cards." Red told him. "He went in and won about five cartons of coins in a few short hours."

He blinked in surprise. "You don't look like a person whose good at gambling."

I looked at him. "And you don't really look like an archaeologist. More like a businessman." Then I frowned feeling a sudden heat. "It's getting awfully hot here all of a sudden." It was then a blast of heat washed over us.

"Fire!"

"Burn stupid building! Burn!"

Two Magmar were setting fire to the area around them including the Museum. It was just pointless destruction from what I can see and I thought back to my last encounter with a Magmar.

Those fire pokémon are vicious. A Magmar decided to trek its way down to the base of the mountain where the house was and tried to claim the area as his own. He was worse than what Nidoking tried to do back then because he started to set fire on everything. If the water types weren't there, the whole area would've been scorched from the continuous stream of fire it was sending out and in the end, Old Zam had to kill it to stop its rampage.

I don't like the thought of taking another's life but Old Zam said sometimes in order to protect, we have to do what we must.

Lucky for us, the area was pretty barren and no easy targets besides the unfortunate burnt building, plus Red was on the case already.

"What is he doing sending out the Sandshrew? He just caught it." The archaeologist questioned. "Your Dratini would be a better match."

I shrugged. "Red's easy to excite when it comes to pokémon battles, but he'll be fine."

"That confident in your friend?"

"Between the two of us, he's the battler and I'm more of a supporting character if that makes sense." I couldn't really describe my fighting since I never thought about it along with the fact that my pokémon are the ones independently fighting.

"Describe how you train your pokémon then." He said offhandedly.

I help train them to be versatile and help how to use moves in a way that can increase their chances of winning. They all needed to learn to move before learning when to take hits, because sometimes, retreating back a few steps can help plow through the end. Red just understands my methods without having me to explain it, Pika was a great example after all, despite our preferences in dealing with a problem.

But again, my team quickly learns to commands themselves and their style is quite similar if not nearly the same as Red's methods solely because it's effective and everybody trained together making it impossible not to adopt them. I'm not complaining seeing I don't have Red's quick feet and instinct to push through an opportunity when he sees it, I focus mainly on keep them safe and conditioning them to get out of the way.

Because honestly, I don't care if they can take the hit, if they can avoid it then they better avoid it. My human insecurities always forget that pokémon are built tougher than us.

"I train them to survive." I said finally. "I don't really concentrate on heavy hitting tactics like Red does but just for ways to complete the task without taking any damage." And again that's my way, my team can go off on a tangent if they think it for the best but since I'm responsible in training them, hammering some dexterity and endurance training is always priority.

"That is very true." Vulpix nodded.

The man seemed to be surprised at my answer. "That sounds a bit grim coming from a young person like you." But continue to watch Red battle.

"Not really. We're two kids traveling this region with the majority of our night sleeping with the stars over our heads. We need to survive for this adventure."

Red finished his battle with the two Magmar by encasing them in a thick sheet of sand.

"Vulpix."

"On it." The little fox ran up to get close and blasted the two trapped pokémon in hot flames melting the sand quickly into a clear glass.

"That was a splendid show of battle!" The man said joyfully. "I had my doubts but you certainly changed my tune."

Red grinned. "Yeah! But, was that necessary, Rayne?" Looking over at the glassed pokémon.

"They'll be fine." And as if on cue, both Magmar had melted a hole for them to breathe fire through. "As you can see, they can still melt the glass and quite quickly too."

"Oh, that's good, but now there's the museum..." We all looked at the burnt building. "It's too bad we couldn't see any fossils."

"Nah, it's fine. In fact, here!" He gave Red an amber. "That there is a fossil." Then he turned to me and gave me a Fire Stone. "I have no use for this thing, but your Vulpix can evolve with it." But then was surprise to see the little fox shaking her head.

"I wish to reach my limits as a Vulpix before evolving."

I laughed. "Vulpix is prideful. Until she knows she can't get any stronger than she is now, she won't evolve. My Pidgeotto is kind of the same."

"You are a strange trainer."

I shrugged. "I'm not the one who chooses not to evolve."

"Are you sure it's okay to take these?" Red asked.

The man nodded. "Yes, think of it as a thank you for helping me get through that tunnel."

A powerful jet of fire caught out attention as we turned to the Magmar. Their heads were free of glass now and started to roar out in anger looking at us. They were slowly moving through the liquid glass inching towards us.

"We'll kill you all!" One snarled viciously.

"Magmar are a bit of... sore losers when it comes to battles." I cringed thinking back to my last Magmar encounter. "They'll hunt down their prey to the ends of any means. I'm afraid to leave them here like this when they can rampage causing permanent damage."

But the archaeologist patted my back with a smile. "I'll handle it. Don't worry."

I hesitated which made Red concern. I feel like a coward making another person deal with handling pokémon like that and I know that it's not pleasant if you have no choice to deal with them permanently.

Here's to blind faith.

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"Red! Rayne! It's been a while since I last talk to you lads!" Professor Oak said cheerfully through the screen. "And I see you've been diving for HMs too. Cut, Flash, and Strength so far I see."

"Yep!" Red replied back soaking wet from his dives.

The professor continued. "You'll also need Surf if you want to travel to Cinnabar Island and the Seafoam Island along the way."

"Yeah! And maybe even see the legendary Articuno that's said to be there!" Red said excitedly. "Though I wonder if we're strong enough to try and battle it? After Mew, I wonder how far I've come."

I couldn't help but roll my eyes. "Battling a legendary is a huge step Red but I guess with you? It's certainly not impossible."

Red beamed at me.

"Which reminds me. Rayne, please plug in your Pokédex to transfer your data to me. I haven't gotten anything from you yet." He waggled his finger in a scolding manner. "Just because you're adventuring doesn't mean you can forget about me you know."

I bowed my head sheepishly. "Sorry, but I can promise you I haven't been doing nothing either." I said as I transfer the data.

The old professor hummed appreciatively seeing the amount of data being transferred "You two sure make a pair. Red may catch many pokémon but he never put anything worthwhile in the Pokédex, but you're just the opposite it seems. Both appreciated of course."

"It's no problem!" I smiled at him.

"I'm glad I've entrusted you two with the Pokédex. This journey did wonders to the both of you!" He laughed jovially. "Good luck you two!"

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"All's clear from up here." Pidgeotto said lazily flying above the sea.

We all were along the rocky coast at the start of Route 19, diving for the HM Surf at the bottom of the ocean. Red was the one actually diving with Poli since Dratini wasn't strong enough to swim against the ocean currents. The little serpent was wading in the pools of water that were trapped by the rock formations right by us.

"Why are we here? Couldn't we just explore some other place than here?" Vulpix was on my shoulders. "Why didn't I just stayed behind at the PokéCenter with the rest of our stuff?"

My cloak and satchel were left behind as were Red's vest and bag so it wouldn't be washed away by a sudden tide. Plus it wouldn't do us too good when trying to lug both to shore.

"Don't be like that! The water's nice!" Dratini wriggled under the water.

"Little one. You're a dragon that's built for the sea and I'm a fire fox. The sea and I are simply not compatible."

"All's clear up here."

I rolled my eyes on Pidgeotto's lazy reports. It's been a while since he's able to flying lazily like this though. Just gliding in the air letting the strong breeze fly for him.

"There's something big coming up!" Pidgeotto squawked out instantly after his previous notice.

A large splash of water came in front of us along with a large shadow behind it.

"Protect!"

"I thank you endlessly for teaching me Protect instead of Dig!" Vulpix screamed out. A green shield surrounded us as the wave splashed harmlessly on it.

I looked over to the water's edge and saw Red jumped out of the water with Poli with terrified expressions.

"What happened?!" I shouted at them.

They just looked at Dratini and shivered. "We found Surf." He said. "And we also found Dratini's final evolved form."

Pidgeotto swooped down perching on a high rock. "Now that's something to come across!"

I rubbed my head feeling headache coming. "Why is there a Dragonite here?" It's way too close to human civilization, pokémon like it tend to avoid them to avoid capture.

"What's happening?" I hear Dratini ask to Vulpix.

"Little one, you're about to taste what you're life will be like from now on."

And how we proceeded to retrieve the HM really did define the craziness we've been through. Red used Pika to draw out the large Dragonite out of the water by using Saur's vines as a fishing line and Pidgeotto would Taunt it continuously distracting the dragon-flying type. And if Pidgeotto failed, Snor was the fall back plan.

Not that the crazy bird would let that happen.

"Wow! Pidgeotto is amazing!" Stars glistened in Dratini's eyes watching his senior out maneuver his final evolution with ease. "Will I be able to fly like that?"

We stood away from the water just in case they took the fight to the sea. "Of course. You won't fly the same way but once you take to the skies, I'm sure Pidgeotto will teach you some aerial tricks that will be just as great."

"And don't forget that you'll be working hard to get where you want. So don't worry about it." Vulpix stood next to the blue serpent.

"That's right, what you see of Pidgeotto is years of practice and training, so there's no rush to becoming strong, alright?"

Dratini nodded furiously and continued to watch the battle in the skies. It's been a while since Pidgeotto could fight like this too, because every battle he had so far was always enclosed in a building or didn't have an opponent that could fly.

But here, he's able to twist, make sharp turns, spin, dive and all the other flying techniques he's been building up and use them to their fullest without restriction. The only thing he has to worry about is getting hit and hitting the ground. He's still a Pidgeotto going against a fully grown Dragonite.

"I never seen Pidgeotto fight like this before, he's always flying low and close to the ground when training with us." Pika commented.

Saur agreed. "I guess we'll need to come up with ways to push him then. He seems to fly higher and farther when it gets too dangerous."

Everything was going well until Dragonite started to use Outrage.

"Run!" I screamed out terrified.

I picked up Dratini and Vulpix and bolted from the area with Red's pokémon right behind me. I never seen an Outrage before but all the elders said I'll know when I see it. And they all said to get out of its range of fire if I couldn't defend myself from it. The draconic anger that Dragonite emitted sent fear striking into me and I just knew that I had to go.

There are two Dragonair that lives near us but we only see them very rarely and they're very peaceful pokémon too. I've been told the most peaceful pokémon were the scariest to anger.

I wasn't too worried about Pidgeotto, but I was worried about Red who's been in the water a little too long.

"Why are we running?!" Pika shouted.

"Because that Dragonite is using Outrage!" I shouted.

Saur shivered. "Then we need to run faster!"

We ran across the rocky terrain and made it to the beach. A Hyperbeam exploded behind us sending rocks our way but Pika destroyed them with his Thunderbolt, any other strays were taken care off with Saur's Vine Whip. We all looked back and saw Pidgeotto still okay and still taunting the Dragonite.

"Is that all you got?!" We heard him screech before he flew away avoiding a Hydro Pump.

"He's not right in the head is he?" Pika asked in disbelief as Pidgeotto seemed to get even more faster.

"It's been a while since he had an aerial battle like this. Every since we left home I believe." His last one was with his sire to prove himself that he doesn't need the flock's protection anymore.

"Why isn't he a Pidgeot yet? He's obviously stronger than Green's." Saur asked.

I closed my eyes when everyone else's was trained on me. "He wants to evolve while fighting a legendary."

"He's not right in the head." Pika deadpanned.

"Never said he was." I sighed. "As my long time friend, it's easy to ignore his quirks and it helps that when there isn't anything challenging happening, he's as normal as he can be. His snarky and sarcastic self comes out with Nidoking because they're strong and they recognize that but with the different body types to fulfill different needs and strategies, it's hard to go all out when you physically have to adjust yourself to fight an opponent that literally doesn't fight on equal levels."

"That makes sense. We've seen Nidoking's prowess because he has plenty of others who would fight him on the ground, but none of us can fly like Pidgeotto." Vulpix said. "It also reminds me why I want to evolve until I reach my limit. Those two have a huge head start on us."

"Yeah, how long they've known each other?" Pika asked.

"Since I was about seven which is about three years now, but Pidgeotto been training longer than that."

But despite Pidgeotto's goal to evolve while fighting a legendary seemingly outright ludicrous, it doesn't seem so anymore now that I think back on my journey. With everything that's happened these past months, I think he'll evolve very soon and I'll be there to record every moment of it.

"I just wish he would keep his radically ideas to a minimum though, when he was trying to learn Quick Attack too early, he ended up with his beak stuck in a tree."

Snorts were heard all around.

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