-Chapter 2, Before the Storm-
"I sure wonder where Arcanine's scampered off to..." Alex said, with the response being a dead Magikarp dumped at his feet and Embers shot at the pile of wood to ignite it.
"You... You're back, then." Alex said. the Arcanine nodded her haid vigorously before dragging the Magikarp onto the fire. "What would i do without you?" Alex stroked the Arcanine's mane, causing her to sit down, and then lay down near him,
wagging her tail contentendly. One slightly burned and badly-cut (Survival knives for you.) Magikarp and several fillets later, they both fell to sleep.
the Arcanine was laying next to Alex, her warm fur keeping him warm as he slept. He needed a backpack and some other kit, but he always keeps his knife on him in his boot.
Old habits die hard.
Alex woke up at 6 to Arcanine licking his face. "Okay, Okay, Arcanine, we'll go.. Just five more minutes." Arcanine barked in his face. "God, my ears! Okay, Okay, now, now." Alex got up, his ears ringing from the barking.
As he got up, he noticed a flame in the background. It looked like it was on the end of a tail of some sort because as soon as he saw it, it swished away. "Let's go..." Alex counted the money in his pocket. still $10,000 Pok , which was enough to buy a translator. The rest, well, his Arcanine could deal with - As she so aptly demonstrated, catching a Magikarp from Arceus-knows-where, he judged that he was around 3KM away from Viridian, and he could make it by evening if they set off now. "Arcanine, It's time to go." Alex announced, getting up and leaving. (As he didn't have any camping kit, or a backpack, apart from his survival knife which he recieved when he signed up for the Pok mon Rangers.
As he walked, he saw that flame in the distance. Alex just thought it was some sort of Ponyta at this point. At realizing that it was found, the owner of the tail quickly dissapeared, althrough Alex could still tell it was tailing ( no pun intended ) him. After a few hour's walking (and a few running away from the wild Pok mon that took a dislike to a human in their territory),
they arrived at Viridian. "Wow..." Alex exclaimed in amazement. He hadn't really ever left the Pallet Ranger Base too much, and he had heard tales of how it was possible to live in the city for several years and not to have even seen a third of it. But wow, it was massive!
As he entered the city, he saw the 'Tech Store'. It was a pretty big store, and, figuring it would have the translator that he wanted, he entered. The more premium ones cost a good 3000 Pok , but there were a few that were a better deal. There was a great one for 500 Pok , but it only came with Normal type translator as standard.
You had to buy additional translator parts, but they only cost around 500 Pok for extra addons, he considered buying them. After a few minutes of considering it, he decided to buy it. They were out of Fire-type parts, but they said that they were taking a delivery tomorrow.
After he bought the translator, he decided to tell his Arcanine what had happened. She seemed particularly dissapointed in the fact that she'd have to wait until tomorrow to talk to her new master, but she decided that at least she was going to be able to talk, and not many other pokemon had a opportunity to talk to their trainers, and in her time in the wild she had encountered many trainer Pok mon that would have killed to at least be able to say a few words. They were still quite tired from the walk there, and neither man nor dog had fully recovered from their injuries, so they decided it was a good time to turn in early for the night, at the local Pok mon Centre.
Alex fell asleep on the bed alone, but awoke with a rather happy Arcanine snuggling up to him, her internal flame warming him as he slept. It was hailing outside. and Arcanine was asleep; she looked like she was having a happy dream.
She'd best enjoy the happiness for now...
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"Is everything on track?"
"Yes. Pallet has forced us to begin earlier."
"We begin tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"God help us."
"God help us all."
A/N Sorry for the short chapter! Been busy this past month as i suppose you can all guess. R&R! :)