Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own Pokemon, obviously.
3)I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs
4)Pokemon's speeches are "Like this"
Jack and his pokemon went to the car along with John. The man drove them for twenty minutes until they finally arrived at the farm. The travel was calm and Hiro, Touma and Misaka were enjoying the view through the window, because they had never went to that area before. They liked to explore new places and they were as anxious as the boy to take a look at the farm.
Fortunately, for Touma, the ache in his chest had fallen significantly, but it was still there. He didn't know why he was feeling that and why this weird feeling appeared and disappeared so often.
This didn't go unnoticed by the boy. He could tell when his pokemon were acting weird. Touma seemed to have lost some of his enthusiasm and Hiro and Misaka looked concerned and they often talked to the abra.
The boy considered to talk with them as soon as he could get some alone time with them.
When they finally arrived at the farm, everyone got out of the car. The boy and his pokemon were quite surprised to see that it was a quite big place. But there were some building still under construction.
The man then said: "Come, son. Before I give you a tour around I need to first see how things are going. I hope that it's not a problem."
The boy shook his head and smiled: "There's no problem. I'm okay waiting for a while."
John smiled and guided them towards a big house who was also being built. "Wait here. I won't take long." He said before he left to talk with some of his employees to now about the progress in the construction of the main house. The boy had decided to wait outside with his pokemon while he enjoyed the sight. But then he felt something grabbing his pants, near his ankle.
When he looked down he saw Hiro with his pant in his mouth pulling it to call the boy's attention. When the poison type pokemon noticed that the boy gave his attention, he started drawing on the floor.
Jack looked at the floor as Hiro drew with his horn on the soil. The nidorino drew an abra's head and a cross nearby it. Jack had established a series of drawings and their meanings for his first pokemon. The boy instantly recognized it was 'Touma needs to see a doctor'.
The boy got concerned, because this was actually the first time he had seen his pokemon asking for medical attention. He turned to the abra and asked concerned: "Are you feeling sick, Touma?"
The abra somehow felt great. All unpleasant feelings were vanished from his body. He then looked to Jack and shook his head as he said: "Well, I don't feel bad anymore. But I still want to go just to make sure."
Jack was still worried about his psychic friend and he told him as if he could understand what the abra had just said: "I think I'll still get you there. I'll ask Mr. John to take us to the pokemon center when we go back home."
The boy then looked back to the house and to his pokemon. They were all looking at the land with obvious curiosity in their eyes. He smiled softly and said: "You guys can go explore. But with Hiro's nose, I bet you guys can find us. But in any case, if you get lost, try come back to the car and wait for us, okay? But, Touma, try not to stress yourself. If you feel anything bad, just lie down and Misaka stay with Touma, while you, Hiro, come and take me to Touma, understood?"
The pokemon nodded and then left to explore the farm a little bit. Jack watched them leave but with a worried expression on the face. He got concerned about what Hiro tried to say to him about the abra and he hoped it was nothing serious.
After the boy was alone, he waited patiently for his foster father to come out of the building. When John did so, he raised an eyebrow and asked his son: "Jack, where are your pokemon?"
The boy then replied: "They wanted to take a better look on the farm by their own. We can meet up later. I hope it's okay. By the way, can we go the pokemon center when we're done here? I think my abra is getting a little sick."
The man blinked for a few seconds and then replied: "Very well, we shall do that later. But for now, would you like a tour around the place? I have many interesting places to show you, son."
The boy nodded in reply.
Meanwhile the pokemon where having a good time exploring the grounds of the farm. They saw many humans carrying some materials around and also a few other pokemon like machokes and machamps helping them out.
Touma was feeling very good so that raised his mood a little bit, but his friends were still worried and that's why didn't ran around and kept a close eye on their friend.
As they walked they spotted a field being plowed by some dugtrios. They were making the land to be ready to be properly used to cultivate many different typed of fruits.
After some more time, they noticed a lake where there were several tauros nearby drinking the water of the lake. They were resting after working for some hours pushing some wagons full of heavy materials.
They decided to be friendly with the normal-type pokemon and went to chat with them for a while.
"Hello" said Hiro when they got near them. "My name is Hiro and these are Touma and Misaka. What are your names?" he continued.
The tauros blinked for a while and on of them said: "We weren't named like you. You obviously belong to some human, isn't it?"
The little three pokemon were quiet for a while. They always found it weird to see nameless pokemon. They were liked the names Jack gave them and they wondered why didn't all human name their pokemon.
"Yeah. His name is Jack. We're checking this area. Is there anything interesting around here?" Misaka asked out of curiosity.
"There isn't much here, yet. I've overheard the humans saying that they're building a place to take the wool of mareeps, milk from milktanks, use some pokemon to help with the cultivation and the harvest and, if I'm not mistaken, the humans mentioned some running pokemon here."
"Racing pokemon? You mean the owner of this place raises pokemon for the annual race?" Touma asked.
The tauros nodded and replied: "Looks like it. I've seen some dodrios and some rapidashes being brought here a few days ago. They're on that barn over there." the normal-type said looking to a barn a bit far on their left side."
"Wow." Hiro said. Then he looked to his two friends and said: "Do you guys want to check there?"
When they nodded, the poison-type looked to the tauros and said: "Thanks a lot for your help. We're exploring this place because we're new around here. I hope you didn't mind all these questions." He finished saying with a friendly smile.
But the bull-like creature smiled and said: "There's no problem. We're still resting because of our work here, I wasn't doing anything but looking at the grass. So I can't really accompany you. Have a good time."
The three pokemon thanked the tauros and went towards the barn where they were told were the fast pokemon were. "I'll race you guys there!" Touma said grinning as he continuously teleported towards the barn.
"Hey! No Fair!" Misaka said as she ran as fast as she could, but she was still behind Hiro.
When they got there, they found their psychic friend with his hands on his chest. "Are you alright, Touma? Is the pain back?" Hiro asked worried.
But after he asked that he smelled two familiar scents and they noticed that Jack and John were already there. The boy was also told about the pokemon who were going to be used for the annual race and he followed his foster father there.
Jack was worried about the abra's sudden change of condition and he kneeled down and checked if the abra had a fever. Having a negative response he then checked his pulse on his wrist and it was also normal. He then asked a few "yes" or "no" questions to his pokemon in order to know what he was feeling exactly. He got a "no" for headache, stomachache, dizziness, nausea and numbness. But he got an "yes" for pain and another one when he asked if it was his chest.
The man looked amazed how the boy was detailed in his questions and how he checked for the abra's vital signs. He was also surprised seeing how the teen managed to make his pokemon fully understand his questions and also give a somewhat precise answer bypassing their language barrier.
"This is really weird. I don't know any disease that has such symptoms…I hope it's nothing serious. You'll go to the pokemon center as soon as we get out of here, understood? And please be good with the doctors. Don't start teleporting again just because you're afraid of a syringe. They're for your own good." The boy said sternly to Touma, who flinched when the boy mentioned needles.
The pokemon truly wished he didn't have to take and shot. The other two tried to comfort him, but this did little to sooth the abra's anxiety.
"Well, if your pokemon isn't feeling very well, I guess I'll just finish showing this place and then I'll take you to the pokemon center." John said.
The boy smiled softly at his father's comprehension, but then a red-haired man, who was an employee at the farm, approached them and said to John: "Sir, I think we have a little problem here. One of the rapidashes was pregnant and her, for some reason doesn't want to breast feed her child. It's crying a lot and we don't know what to do. The milktanks aren't here yet and we don't have any bottles or anything we could use to help the cub."
"Where is it?" Jack suddenly asked worried. He had heard that some mothers simply abandoned their offspring for one reason or another.[1] It was quite sad and he hoped he could do something to help the poor cub.
The employee guided them to a stall and saw that a ponyta cub was crying because it was hungry and feeling lonely because its own mother refused to give it any attention.
Jack then got near of the little cub and kneeled down to check on it. The cub was newborn and didn't have much strength. He wondered if he could take it to the pokemon center, after all he was already going there and he couldn't just let it starve to death.
Hiro, Touma and Misaka didn't know why a mother would abandon their child like that and they wanted to share their own piece of mind about it, but there was so many rapidashes in that places that there was no way they could know who was the mother and nobody seemed to care about the state of the little cub.
"Shh. Everyone is going to be fine. You don't have to cry. I'm going to help you. I promise." The boy gently petted the pokemon's muzzle and back in order to give it some safety feeling. And it was working.
The little ponyta stopped crying with the physical attention it was getting from the boy. It looked at the human in front of it with attention and it decided to get nearer of the boy hoping he could give it the cares it longed for. But when the cub did it, it lost control of its own flames and slightly burned the boy's hands.
"Are you alright?" John asked carefully looking at the boy's arms. He noticed they were slightly burned, but nothing serious. The man then looked to the little ponyta and said angrily to his employee: "I want this pokemon out of here. It's too dangerous to have it around here."
"No! It's alright! Ponytas need their mothers to teach them how to properly control their flames. It can't be blamed for an accident. I know it didn't mean any harm. Please, let me take care of it."
The man didn't know why the boy wanted to train such a troublesome pokemon, but he conceded to the boy's whish as long as he could somehow make the ponyta learn how to control the flames, because it could be harmful to the teen.
The boy smiled and accepted his father's terms. He went back to pet the ponyta who was really confused and somewhat saddened because it had hurt the first person to give it some love and attention.
Hiro, Misaka and Touma approached the little ponyta and provided it with a warm welcome. After all, their family had gotten a little bigger now.
End of chapter 6
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More Author Notes:
[1]Real fact. It does happen sometimes in the animal world.