Two days had passed since my first training experience with Martin, and since then me, Oliver, and Trapinch have done exceedingly well. I'm able to get around without crutches, but I still must wear a special shoe on my right foot that softens the impact of stepping on the ground. Oliver was actually starting to use Aerial Ace without using Focus Energy first. And now Trapinch was also able to leave the PokeCenter, but I still haven't decided if that's good news or bad news.

We were all sitting down at a table in the PokeCenter enjoying a nice breakfast. After I saw Trapinch ravenously eat a raw piece of Tauros meat yesterday, I lost my appetite for meat. I was enjoying a nice stack of pancakes, while Oliver was picking over some Sunflora seeds and sometimes roasting them before eating them. Trapinch had to be content with grilled Magikarp, since they no longer gave him premium beef, since he was no longer sick or in horrible condition.

I looked out the window and the sky looked rather bleak, with the sun being covered by clouds, and the only thing there to remind you that it was still there was its ghostly pale glow through the clouds which seemed to actually add to the depressed feel.

Martin had cancelled on account of there might be some bad weather, but the sky wasn't moving. It didn't rain and the clouds failed to make way for the sun brilliant rays. The sky just stayed the same, as if someone had painted the sky with a single color: gray.

I was planning on celebrating all of us being able to do stuff, but the weather outside just made me want to stay inside and play cards, but I refused to stay in this hospital full of sick and injured Pokemon, and often times trainers as well.

A drop of water hit the window I was looking at it. Just then a sheet of water the Great God of Rain, Kyogre, couldn't have created better fell upon Mauville City drenching everything it touched. People were running around trying to find a place to stay dry. It was kind of funny watching the pandemonium that a rainstorm could bring with it. The funny thing is, though Mauville receives tremendous amount of rain, Lavaridge receives barely any. I wonder why that is. It's like Kyogre's boundary of where he can rain on stops right there.

I turned to see that both of my Pokemon looked at the rain as if it was the beginning of Judgment from Arceus. It was just a rainstorm and nothing more, surely they couldn't be afraid of drops of water no bigger than the tip of my fingers. I knew that Oliver was a Fire type and Trapinch was a Ground type, but seriously being afraid of the rain.

Oliver stopped eating his seeds and hopped up in my lap snuggling into my shirt to keep warm. I could feel that the more heat was coming out of him than usual, which I assumed was because of the rain. My Trapinch stared at us for a few minutes trying to resist the urge of acting like he was a part of this family now, but he failed. He clambered up the table dropping Magikarp chunks from his mouth in the process. He crawled across the table then fell in my lap right beside Oliver, who, by the way, was much lighter than my desert demon. Unlike Oliver his skin or shell or whatever his exterior was, was hard and cold to the touch. He tried nestling into me and Oliver but Oliver retreated from his cold body, moving farther up onto my right arm. I felt bad for my Trapinch so I wrapped my left arm around him, despite it being quite uncomfortable for me. He let out a few soft clicks then laid his head down, and within a few seconds soft snoring could be heard.

The rain was starting to let up and people were starting to come out of their hiding places and continue on their merry way. I couldn't see very clearly through the window, but I saw a blurry mass moving towards the PokeCenter door.

Swish. The doors opened and in walked a girl who looked around my age with dark brown hair that stopped at the middle of her back. She wore a black blouse and a white skirt. Water dripped from every part of her body as she started to shake her arms in a poor attempt to get dry.

She started walking in my direction. Her black flip flops making a squish-squash sound instead of their normal flip-flop. I looked around and noticed that all the other tables were filled with wet trainers and their irritated Pokemon. The only table that had room for her was my table.

She sat down and looked at me with her brown hair plastered to her face. "Hi." She had spoken to me. I ended up dropping Trapinch on my right foot, but even though it caused excruciating pain, I didn't really care. I noticed her eyes were a dark shade of green. Oliver then pecked my arm bringing me back into reality.

"Hi." My heart started racing as she smiled at me then turned her attention to the window. "So…did you get caught in the rainstorm?" Stupid, stupid, stupid. Of course she got caught in the rainstorm, why else would she be soaking wet?

"Oh, yeah. I was practicing my Contest Appeals, until the rain came down on us like no other downpour I have seen before." She participated in contests? I was not a big fan of contests, but for her I would change. I smiled weakly trying to think of something to say back to her, until I had noticed Trapinch was gone.

When I dropped him, he must have wondered off somewhere. "You, um, have to excuse me. I just, uh, lost my Trapinch." I placed Oliver on the floor and we both started walking to find my Trapinch.

"I'll help."

"What?"

"I said: I'll help. By the way, my name's Naomi." She wanted to help me find my desert demon. She did not even know me, and she was willing to help me.

"Oh, hi. My name's, umm, Tyler."

"Well I'm bored Tyler. I just down want to stare out the foggy window at a drenched Mauville. I'm sure I have someone who can help. Come on out Diablo." She pulled out a Pokeball that was mostly blue but had two strips of red on it, and tapped it.

It opened and released a stream of white light that formed the shape of a dog. The only dog Pokemon I know that's around the size of the thing coming out was Archie, but even still the shaping was all wrong. When in doubt, always take the Pokedex out.

Pokedex Entry:
Houndour, the Dark Pokémon
Houndour hunt as a coordinated pack. They communicate with each other using a variety of cries to corner their prey. This Pokémon's remarkable teamwork is unparalleled.
LV 9
Known Moves:
-Ember = 40
-Smog = 20
-Nasty Plot = N/A
-Will-o-Wisp = N/A

Her cheeks blushed bright red as the Pokémon's level was read aloud. "Yeah, he's a new addition to my team. He hatched about two weeks ago, but he has a knack for smelling things out when something needs to be found. Do you have anything with Trapinch's scent on it?"

"Will his Ultra Ball work?"

"Yeah, that will do." I pulled out Trapinch's Ultra Ball from my backpack and leaned down to let the Houndour sniff it. As soon as my hand got in range, Diablo tried to bite it off, but my reflexes have been growing faster with my Trapinch trying to do the same thing, except with a much more powerful jaw. "Oh sorry! I should have warned you that he does not like anyone near him except me." She looked to the side mareepishly and grabbed my Ultra Ball from my hand, and then placed it in front of Diablo's (proper name for the little demon dog) nose. He sniffed it for a few seconds then barked and started heading down the hall.

We arrived at my room and she immediately opened. I should have told her that that used to be my room, but ever since Trapinch and I got better, we were booted out and into a smaller, less comfortable room. She burst into the room to see a man and his Machoke both with their arms in slings looking awkwardly at us.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" She turned around embarrassed and her cheeks once again turned a cherry red. Before I could apologize for not warning her, Diablo was already sniffing moving towards the room that I was currently in. This time she cautiously opened the door. There was no Trapinch. All that was there was just a messy bed with an empty box of pizza on top of it.

"Sorry. I have no idea where my Trapinch could have wondered off to." This wasn't like the Trapinch. He was free from being restrained yesterday and he pretty much stayed at my side trying to eat me or Oliver. Surely his stubby legs couldn't have carried him too far.

Diablo put his paw over his nose ashamed of himself. Just then I imagined how the PokeCenter, no…Mauville City would end up if Trapinch stayed lost for too long. I imagined fire running rampant all throughout the city as many people were still trapped inside burning buildings. Chaos and destruction ruled over every street, while the Blastoise fire department couldn't cover the whole city, and major parts of the city were lost. All because my Trapinch bit through electrical wiring in the PokeCenter because he thought it was a gummy Wurmple.

That's it! If there is one thing I've learned about Trapinch so far, is that he loves to eat. When we first arrived here, he ended up eating five of the monitors that were attached to him. "I know where he is!"

We burst through the kitchen door to see a sickening sight. Well, sickening to me at least. Trapinch was giving the cooks in the kitchen a show for pieces of raw Miltank. He would roll over when told to roll over, make clicking sound when told to speak, and just stare at them when told to play dead. Each time he did one of the three, he was rewarded with a treat.

Diablo then went beside Trapinch and started mimicking him earning him a nice fair chunk of Tauros meat. Oliver decided he wanted a piece of the action and started mimicking Trapinch too. They threw down a raw piece of Miltank. He pecked at it a bit then looked at it in disgust and ran back to me. Trapinch quickly devoured Oliver's piece then ate the rest of Diablo's as well.

Trapinch let out a satisfied click sound then waddled over to me. "Okay you have caused enough damage for today. Return." Trapinch was absorbed back into his Ultra Ball in a flash of red light.

"Well that was a nice change of pace. I'm glad you found your Trapinch." She smiled at me, and even though it was raining outside, it was all sunshine in here. "Hey do you think that there are any other open rooms here. I just came from a contest in Verdanturf Town."

"Well how did you do?" She looked down at her flip flops then to the side trying to avoid my eyes. "Oh, you lost…"

"Of course I didn't lose! " She seemed a bit flustered just by me stating the fact. "I just saw someone there. A friend who has lost their way. But anyway…I better go check in and try to get me a room here." With that she turned. Her hair seemed as if it was moving in slow motion and her devil dog followed her out.