I do not own pokemon or any reference I may make, they belong to their respective owners.

Characters are based of me and my friends with a few twists.

There I was, standing in the harbor of Vermillion City, in front of a big boat.

"Do you have a ticket?" the sailor asked. I flashed him my ticket. "Alright step right this way"

I stepped in and I gasped. The boat was huge.

"Hey can I let out my pokemon?"

"As long as they aren't too big"

First there was one thing I had to locate. I finally found it, the dining room. The buffet was huge and the food looked amazing. I let everyone out; they looked at the food and gasped. Within in a few minutes our table was covered in plates of food. Meats, Vegetables, hell even those shrimp things.

"Let's pig out"

'Finally' Firaga was fed up with waiting

'I hope we can eat all this?'

'Need to build up my strength if I want to be stronger'

With that we started to devour what was on the table. While eating, I noticed people and their pokemon were staring at us. They were all dress nicely and here I was in my casual clothing, did I care, nope, I was too hungry. Within a matter of minutes we ate everything.

I then drank from my bottle and some of the higher adults looked a bit disappointed with me, so what I'm drinking a beer.

"What's their problem, I need something to wash down the food, plus I haven't had one since I left home" That's right, I drink. One of the workers came up to me.

"Are you old enough to drink?" he asked

"Do I look old enough?" I kind of deepened my voice.

"Well yes, but I wanted to make sure" I am so glad I lost my razor; I haven't shaved in a while, so my beard was growing in. It wasn't too long, but it grew in. "Sweet, maybe I should shave less often". I noticed Firaga looking at my bottle.

"No, you can't have any. This stuff is flammable, so I don't want an explosion to happen in here. Maybe another time, if I can get some more and when we're outside no where near something that could burn" he nodded and went to his water.

After we ate I heard that they were having a tournament, so I joined. I not going to bore you with the little fights, being that these people didn't have their pokemon trained to well. I made it into the final round, while on my way to the field I ran into Jon.

"Hey, are you in the finals"

"No, I lost to Salem"

"He's here too?"

"Yeah and he has new pokemon. Watch yourself one of them is really strong" he warned and then left.

I walked up to the battle field and sure enough, Salem was there.

"Hey Eddy, you made it here too. That's good, now you get to see two new pokemon"

"This will be a two on two battle, ready, GO" the announcer announced

"Go Predator" "Go Psyduck" He sent out this yellow duck thing. It looked confused just standing there with its hands on its head. My pokedex said it was a water type.

"Alright use Peck" Predator charged forward and started to peck at Psyduck.

"Use Water Gun" it shot pressurized water at Predator knocking him out of the air.

"Quickly get air born and use Fury Attack" Predator quickly shot back into the air and then towards Psyduck. He attacked Psyduck in the head and this kept going until Predator froze in place.

"What?"

"Psyduck is different from other water pokemon. They have psychic powers, but they can only use them when they get headaches" Salem explained

"Oh Crap"

'What's going on you big yellow blob'

'Psy, Duck' it said before sending Predator crashing into the ground.

'Okay that's it, I'm not losing to two Psychics in one day' Predator got back up and charged forward. Psyduck was about to retaliate, but Predator picked up speed and got behind it and struck before anyone could see it.

"What the" I looked at my pokedex and saw that Predator had learned Aerial Ace.

"Quick, use Confusion and then Water Gun" Once again Predator was thrown by an invisible force and Psyduck fired another Water Gun.

"Quick Aerial Ace" Predator dodged the attack with Aerial Ace and then struck Psyduck from behind, knocking it out.

"Nice try, return. Now go, Scyther" Oh boy this thing looked dangerous. He sent out what looked like a mantis, but with scythes for hands.

"Use Fury Attack"

"Counter with Quick Attack and then use Wing Attack" it was fast. It shot forward and hit Predator and before he could counter attack, Scyther's wings glowed and he struck Predator, knocking him out. I started to sweat "Crap, it's strong and fast, but it's a bug"

"Go Firaga" I sent out my starter.

'Wow, this thing looks though. This is going to be fun' Firaga looked thrilled.

"Careful it's fast" I warned and he nodded.

"Get in close and use Slash" Syther ran forward. He got in front of Firaga and lifted his scythe and brought it down. Thankfully Firaga moved fast enough to avoid it.

"Quick Thunder Fang" Firaga bite down on Scyther's leg. It seemed to do more damage than I thought it would.

"What the" I looked at my pokedex and it said that it was dual bug and flying. Man this thing is useful.

"Now use Ember"

"Deflect it" Scyther started slashing down on all the embers, cutting them I half.

'Shit' Firaga said

"Now use Slash" While me and Firaga were in shock, Scyther ran forward and slashed Firaga. He left a scratch.

"Okay, good he isn't bleeding, but this doesn't look good, it keeps retaliating. Dammit even after all that training were still going to lose again" I had lost hope. Just then Firaga shot an Ember attack to push Scyther away, ran up to me and chomped down on my hand again.

"OW, what the hell is wrong with you, I'm going to lose this hand one day"

'What the hell is wrong with you' he seemed to know what I was thinking, like he read my mind. 'If you're going to be my partner then you shouldn't know how to give up. Even when were down, were not out. Remember we don't know how to give up' I stared at him; I just knew what he was saying.

"Man, I can't believe my pokemon taught me something that I already knew. Alright were winning this" Firaga turned around and just to glow. He grew bigger and when the light faded he looked like Salem's Aphirex, only instead of being red, he was gold.

"Sweet, now we're serious" I pulled out my pokedex. "Alright charge in with Slash"

"Use Slash too" They charged forward, Scyther slashed at Firaga, but he dodged under it and slashed at him with his claws. Scyther tumbled back. "Now finish with Ember" with that Firaga fired an Ember attack which hit Scyther dead on. The match was over.

"And the winner is Eddy and his Charmeleon"

"Yes" Firaga walked up to me.

'Told ya'

"You know, it's about time you evolved. If we were going by video game logic, you should have evolved back before we challenged Misty" he wasn't pleased. He may of change size, but his habit didn't change as well.

"OW, your jaw is bigger now; you're going to break my hand"

Well it's about time Firaga evolved. Anyways, next time rematch with Lt. Surge. Review please.