Chapter 2: A first for everything
***The entrance to Kory Forest***
"Alright Eevee, this is my official first time outside of Bradford town and I'm happy to be doing it with you" says Ben as Eevee makes a happy face. As they walk through the forest for a couple a minutes Ben freezes at the sight of a Kricketot.
Kricketot, the cricket pokemon, it shakes its head back to front, causing its antennae to hit each other and sound like a xylophone.
"That's going to be the first Pokémon I catch" He says very confidently "Go Eevee, use tackle" Eevee then tackles the lonely bug type Pokemon but the Kricketot begins to cry as Ben and Eevee watch it for a minute. Ben then runs up to it, "That's not how this is supposed to work, your need to fight back!" However the Kricketot continues to cry. "Alright then, go pokeball" as Ben throws a pokeball at it and appears to have successfully caught it.
"Well, now what?" looking confused at Eevee, "Oh I know, Come on out Kricketot" as he releases kricketot's ball. As Kricketot comes out Ben and him stare at each other for a good minute until Kricketot starts to cry again.
"Damn it, can't you go a minute without crying?" as the Kricketot stops crying and uses uproar
"AHHHHHH" screams Ben until Kricketot stops and starts crying again, "Well at least your powerful, well let's start walking again, we're not going to get to New Kory City by standing around."
A few hours later
"Well this looks like a good place to stop don't you guys think so?" as Horsea nodded in acceptance and Kricketot stopped crying for a second and then continued on. "Well I guess that's a yes" As Ben sets up his tent. After he finished he screams excitingly "Now it's time to train!, go Eevee use your quick attack on that tree, go Kricketot use uproar on the pond." Eevee began eventually putting a dent in the tree while Kricketot kept crying. Ben ran up to it "How do you expect to beat the gym battling like that" as Kricketot keeps crying, Ben then got madder "Fine if you don't want to even try then you can go" then Kricketot stopped crying and looked at Ben and then started walking away.
Meanwhile Eevee kept practice quick attack on the tree until a nest fell. Hearing the sound Eevee stopped and Ben looked over slowly. Then a bunch of angry beedrill appeared and used poison sting. As the attacked Ben screams "Eevee dodge it and use sand attack" Eevee then jumped trying to dodge it but got hit and fainted. The beedrills then shifted their attention to Ben used poison sting. While Ben stood there shell-shocked at what was about to happen, Kricketot jumped in front and absorbed all the damage. Kricketot began turning white and shifting form as Ben opened his eyes and saw what was happening.
Then the beedrill stopped attaching and Kricketot as no longer there but instead a Kricketune. It was then that Ben had figured out what happened, "Okay Kricketune, now it's our turn." Kricketune then unleashed all the energy from the attacks it just absorbed toward the beedrill, causing them to flee.
"Wow that must have been bide" said Ben as Kricketune nodded happily, Ben then went over to Eevee, how was regaining conscience and returned him to his ball "Well now lets sleep!"
***The Next Morning***
"Ahhh, I thought I could sleep as long as I wanted without my mom with me?" as Ben was woken up by his two Pokémon Eevee and Kricketune. Ben even noticed that Kricketune looked much braver than when he was a Kricketot after what had happened yesterday. "Well based on the map Prof. Spruce gave me I believe we are a day's walk from New Kory City" said Ben excitingly, "Hopefully we don't get in any more trouble like we did yesterday."
An hour later, Ben happened to walk upon what looked like a shrine in the middle of the forest with tons of people surrounding it. This seemed odd to him considering this was a forest but was very interested in it so he walked over to the crowd.
"Welcome everyone to the Volcarona nesting ground; it is here that every year volcarona from all over the world come to lay their eggs. It is also a hotspot for Pokémon poachers since volcarona and larvesta are very rare Pokémon but as you should know it is illegal to steal from these grounds." Said the tour guide
Ben then shoved his way to the front of the crowd to see the beautiful red and green eggs in a small single wood house that was open from the front. While looking at these eggs, Ben overheard two people both dressed like normal tourists, one was a ginger man and the other was a black haired women behind him talking "I can't wait to get our hands on those eggs, it will really increase our rank and impress the boss" said the man, "Yea, maybe he'll even put us in charge of something", said the other.
After hearing this, Ben turned around confused "Did you say what I think you said?" The two looked completely shocked saying "Ummm No, we were just respecting the tranquility of the nest." Ben looked away and then thought to himself 'Better come back tonight to make sure nothing happens tonight'
***That Night***
'Maybe this was a waste of time' thought Ben while crouching behind a tree while all the sudden he saw two figures dressed in dark purple sneaked through the forest. After seeing this Ben immediately said "hey stop, what do you think you're doing" and as they revealed themselves Ben instantly recognized them from the day before.
"Hey look it's the kid, we saw yesterday when we were scouting the area Clay" said the women
"Oh yea and he thinks he can stop us Wendy, go spinarak"
"Go Oddish" Said Wendy
Ben quickly threw out his Pokémon as well, "Go Eevee us quick attack, Kricketune use bug bite"
Kricketune immediately took out Oddish while Eevee sprinted at Spinarak
"Use string shot spinarak!"
"Dodge it eevee and continue your quick attach", eevee landed a direct hit and spinarak fainted
Clay and Wendy were stunned some kid had just beat them, "good battle kid, but you haven't seen the last of us" Then they ran into the forest and vanished. Immediately after three park rangers came out, "what has happened here!" they all said franticly. "This guy and girl dressed in purple tried to steal larvesta eggs from the shrine" ben said quickly trying to dismiss any guilt from him. "It must have been Team Cosmo again, thanks kid but we got it from here." as they ran in the direction that Clay and Wendy escaped. All that was left was Ben in a confused state "Team Cosmo?"