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Chapter 3: History Tends to Repeat Itself Part 2
Dawn's POV
"Okay, now if I were a Unova starter, were would I hide?" I asked to no one in particular as I walked through a forest.
"Sni, Snivy!" I heard a sound from Pokemon, and found a Snivy munching on some Rawst berries.
"Hey there..." I said in a soothing voice as I walked up to it. "I'm here to help you. We're gonna just go back to the lab..."
I never finished my sentence. The Snivy came charging at me using Tackle.
"Hey!" I said as I dodged. "That's not very nice!"
Snivy merely rolled her eyes at me before running off again.
"Stupid Pokemon..." I muttered as I continued on.
Third Person POV
As Dawn searched through the forest for Snivy, someone else was going towards the lab, wanting a Unova starter and Pokedex.
He had lavender hair and onyx eyes, and was wearing gray cargo pants and a black hoodie. There was a single violet stripe going through the jacket. He stood in front of the lab, glaring at the entrance.
He walked in, only to find a mess, and two starters, getting healed.
A lady was hurrying to clean the place with a chinchilla like pokèmon, whom he presumed was Prof. Juniper. He coughed, grabbing her attention.
"I'm sorry, please come back at another time." she said, not even looking up.
"I'm here for a starter." he said in a gruff voice. The professor sighed.
"Okay. You have a choice between Oshawott or Tepig. Unfortunately, our Snivy ran off, but we have another trainer looking for it."
The sixteen-year-old looked at his two choices. Truthfully, he wanted the Pokemon with the most potential to battle. Oshawott looked like it didn't exactly give a crap about being strong, and Tepig looked to be a prankster.
Even though both choices were very mediocre for his taste, he had to choose one.
"I have my grass type, Torterra, and there are much better water types out there. Tepig can become Emboar, which is supposed to outmatch even a Charizard. The choice is pretty obvious."
"I'll take the Tepig."
Oshawott, looked kinda crushed, but he didn't care. The Pokemon should care more about strength.
"Okay, here's Tepig's poke ball, and your Unova Pokedex. Could I please have your name and age, so that I can register you for the Unova league?"
"Paul Shinji, sixteen."
"...And there you go!"
"Thanks."
He turned to leave, only to be stopped by the professor.
"Paul, can you do me a favour?"
"What?" Paul asked as he turned around.
"That other trainer searching for Snivy, she's been gone for awhile. And there's been a recent outbreak of Galvantula in this area."
He looked up Galvantula on the Pokedex. It was identified as the Electric-spider Pokemon.
"I'm worried for her wellbeing; could you go out and search for her?"
He sighed. The last thing he needed was to go out looking for some ten-year-old.
"What's her name?" he may as well know whohe's looking for.
"Dawn Hikari."
That caught him off guard. What was a world renowned coordinator doing in a region without contests?
He then realized how idiotic this girl can be. She got lost easily, was loud, and was so weak; she probably couldn't defend herself against a Bidoof.
"I should probably find her. It's only common courtesy." he thought as he sighed.
"I'll be back." he said as he turned to leave. "Troublesome girl." he murmured just out of earshot.
Dawn's POV
After about two hours of searching, Snivy didn't make an appearance.
I sighed, feeling pretty defeated. I was thinking about going back to the lab, when I heard distressed cries of Pokemon. One in particular catching my interest.
"SNNNIIIIIIIIVVVVEEEY!"
"It's Snivy! Let's go Piplup!"
I tore through bushes and low-hanging branches. Finally, I came across a clearing.
And I saw something that nearly scared me to death. A large web was strung up around at least six trees, creating a semi-dome like effect.
Amongst the web, were several Pokemon. I recognized none of them. There were pigeon looking birds and puppy and rat-like Pokemon. Smack in the middle, was a small snake like Pokemon. It fought against the web and screamed insults to what ever made it.
I ran up to the net, and looked Snivy strait in the eye.
"Shhh... It's okay. I'm gonna get you out of here. Just stop moving please. I'm here to help."
I said in the calmest voice I could muster.
To tell the truth, I haven't been doing well with spiders since the Aradios incident way back in the beginning of my first Sinnoh journey. In fact, I'm scared to death whenever I see even the tiniest bug. Especiallyspiders.
I looked at the nest, and realized the webbing could hold even a human in place. Yeah, it was that thick and sturdy.
I undid the web with trembling fingers, hoping, /praying/, that whatever made this wasn't hungry.
"Gala, Gala, Gala." I faintly heard. It's probably just my imagination.
"Gala. Gala. Gala." I heard, now slightly louder. Pleasebe just my imagination.
"Gaaaallllaaa...!" I heard the growl. I turned...
Only to come face to face with a Thunder attack. Piplup blocked it, but fainted.
"Oh! Piplup!" I cried as I held him in my arms. I returned him to the poke ball, and slowly looked up at whatever attacked.
Low and behold, it was a spider. A big ugly one, at that.
"GALAVANTULA!" it yelled. And then moreof the spiders came out. I reached for Eevee's poke ball, and let her out.
I know she was just a baby, but maybe she could fend off the Pokemon?
"Eevee! Tackle!" I ordered.
Eevee ran up to the spider. It hit, I'll give her that, but it didn't do anything. Once she dropped down, the spider knocked her aside, while another wrapped her in web and put her with the rest of their prey.
"EEVEE!" I yelled.
I made an attempt to reach her, but was blocked off by the spiders. I shrieked as I felt the wet and sticky webbing go up my arms. In desperate attempts to get the stuff off, I somehow managed to place my hands behind my back, which the spiders used to their advantage by wrapping the web around my wrists.
I couldn't move my arms at all.
I felt my self being lifted, and realized they were going to put me on my own web, separate from the Pokemon.
Unable to get down, I went to last resort:
"HELP!" I screamed the loudest I could.
Paul's POV
"Stupid, troublesome girl..." I murmured while I walked through the forest, training Tepig by fighting weaklings like Patrat and Lillipups.
I was in the middle of battling a bird pokemon. My Pokedex identified it as a Rufflet.
They have a natural will to fight, and this one seemed strong, so I decided to try to catch it.
"Tepig, Emb-" I began, only to be cut off by someone screaming.
"HELP!" screamed a female voice. It sounded awfully familiar...
While I was thinking, the Rufflet decided to escape.
When I finally noticed this, it was already long gone.
"Damn Troublesome." I murmured, finally realizing it was her.
I ran in the direction of her screams, still cursing under my breath.
Dawn's POV
I screamed until my voice was hoarse.
I don't know how long I was there, maybe twenty minutes? Why didn't they just kill me? Are they waiting for someone else?
The Pokemon lined up in some sort of path that made its way to me.
Another spider stepped forward, only, it was different in colour.
"A shiny Pokemon." I realized.
It walked up past the spiders, and strait towards the net I was on.
"Oh god... "I thought as it climbed up the net."I'm dinner for their leader..."
Once again, I began to try to thrash around, and actually made some progress, but it wasn't enough to get myself free.
"Stay away!" I yelled at it. Of course, it ignored me.
"Use Ember!" I heard a voice shout. Small fire came and hit the spider, causing it to screech in pain.
Thankfully, a few flames burned through my bonds and I was able to get free. I fell, quite painfully, onto my behind.
The first thing I did was sprint to Eevee and Snivy. I quickly got Eevee loose and returned her. I undid Snivy's web, and she jumped down.
"Are you okay?" I asked. Snivy stared at me intently before jumping into my arms. I think she was crying.
"Troublesome, move!" shouted the voice of my saviour as he grabbed my arm and yanked me out of the way as a Thunder attack burned the net, and released the rest of the Pokemon.
I looked up at whoever saved me. He had lavender hair and deep onyx eyes.
"Paul?" I gasped. He grunted in response. "What are you doing here?"
"Questions later! Tepig! Ember!" he shouted. The Tepig from the lab attacked, willingly obeying Paul.
"Aren't you going to fight?!" yelled Paul.
"Both my Pokemon are unconscious! Who am I going to battle with?"
"You've got that Snivy!"
"She's not mine! She's the professors!"
Snivy jumped from my arms and looked back. Was she expecting a command?
"Fight! She's willing to obey you, Troublesome!"
"Er... Snivy, Vine Whip!"
Vines shot out from Snivy's neck, and wrapped around two of the bugs. I looked at them, and then at Tepig.
"Paul! Gather them all together, and then attack when I give the signal!"
He nodded, and began to round up all the spiders together. I sat waiting for my chance.
"Snivy, now! Vine whip!" The vines wrapped around the Pokemon, tying them together.
Paul seemed to catch on, and attacked them all with a blazing ember.
Due to disadvantage, and Tepig's blaze ability, they fainted almost instantly.
I just sorta stood there for a moment.
"Let's go."
"Huh?"
"Let's go. I don't think we want to be here when they wake up."
o.0.o
"Paul, why'd you help me?" I asked, practically dying of boredom.
He grunted in response.
"Paaaaauuuuuuullll..." I whined. "Why'd ya help me?"
"Because Prof. Juniper asked me to."
"Oh."
Another awkward silence.
"Why are you even here? There are no contests in Unova." he asked.
"I'm kinda bored with contests. I was thinking about maybejoining the Unova league."
Paul smirked.
"Yeah, right. You, a weakling coordinator, are going to battle gym leaders. Sure."
"I'm serious!"
"And I'm going to admire a Pokemon for it's cuteness." he said sarcastically.
"I'll prove it! Let's have a battle!"
"Okay." he said nonchalantly while pulling out a poke ball. "Torterra verses Piplup?"
"Fine!" I said. But then, a very devious idea popped in my head. "But let's make this a little interesting."
He raised his eyebrows slightly.
"If you win, I'll give you my Unova starter. But if I win-"
"Which you won't." said Paul as he smirked.
"I will to win! And if I do win, you, Paul Shinji, have to travel through Unova with me!"
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