Chapter 6: Like Night and Day
We find our three heroes waking up inside a Pokemon center in new Kory City after an eventful day ready to start their journey to Botson City. After they eat their breakfast the three exit the pokemon center and head for the shopping district to stock up on supplies before heading out on their estimated 4 day walk north.
Noah, "Okay so Ben and i will look for food and medicine, while you go shopping." finishing his thought in a sarcastic tone
Selena, "Yup that sounds good how about we meet back here in about two hours!"
Ben, "Sure thing see ya back here!" as they split up into two groups
*** 2 hours later Ben and Noah's POV***
Noah, "Well i got everything i think we'll need food and medicine wise for our journey"
Ben, "Okay, but first before we head back can we check out that stand over there" as he points to a heavily crowded stand with a sign saying 'Master Balls Here!'
Noah, "That's odd, i read about master balls before and thought they had not perfected them but it will be interesting to see what they have"
As the two walked over to the stand, Ben immediately recognized the two people running the stand. They were the man and woman that tried to steal the larvesta eggs earlier in his journey
Clay, "Come one Come all, buy your very own master ball here for the premium price of 100 pokedollars!"
Wendy, "We guarantee you catch any pokemon you want with these!"
Ben then told Noah the story about these two from before and the two immediately began making a plan to get everyone their money back
***A Few Minutes Later***
Noah walks up to the stand, "I read online that no one has completed the master ball?" as the crowd realized this and started listening for an explanation.
"Well kid, were really smart" Clay said trying to get the pressure of him
Noah, "Well then use it on a pokemon without damaging it"
As the two looked at each other trying to figure out what to do, Ben had snuck into back of the stand cornering them in.
Wendy, "You can buy one and figure it out" at that moment most of the crowd started to realize what was going on and formed into an angry mod. Clay, "Sorry everyone but we are closing shop have a nice day." and as the two tema cosmo members turned around Ben and his charmander were standing there
Ben, "Charmander use flamethrower" Clay and Wendy then started running the other way to find Noah
Noah, "Go Beedrill, use poison sting" At that moment the two goons realized they were done and shot up into the air and out of the city
Noah and Ben then started passing everyone their money back and went on to meet Selena at the front of the Pokemon Center.
Selena, "God, what took you too so long, enough shopping more than you thought?" with a smirk on her face
Ben and Noah looked at each other for a second and said, "No, just got side tracked a little" and began to tell her the story.
Selena, "Wow you two had a good day then, but mine was still better. You want to see what i got!"
Ben quickly interrupted, "We should probably start heading out or it will be night time"
The three then started walking out of the city and on the pathway to Botson City while Selena talked on and on about the great deals she got on all her new clothes.
***Night time***
Noah, "Well this looks like a pretty good spot to camp out at, there's a pond right over there"
Ben, "Yeah it's as good a spot as any"
Selena gasping, "Wait we are actually going to sleep in the wilderness?"
Noah, "Yes what else would we do keep walking for 5 days straight, and i'm assuming you don't have a sleeping bag. Thankfully i'm always prepared!"
Selena with a frown on her face, "Thanks"
***Later that night***
With Ben and Noah asleep , Selena just woke up while also waking up her mawile in the process, "This isn't so bad right mawile, we just have to get use to it?" mawile nodded while yawning back to her. Selena looked around for a second and saw they were surrounded by pokemon, causing Selena to duck back into her sleeping bag. Mawile then gave her a little tug and Selena came out slowly to find that the pokemon surrounding her and her friends were not actually scary but instead were just going about their lives peacefully.
Selena, "The nights not as scary as a thought it was i guess!" as a wild venonat came up to her making her feelings change change drastically causing a loud scream. Luckily she had not woken up Ben or Noah who were both in a deep sleep. However she did cause the pokemon surrounding them to run frantically away but one little venonat who actually got closer to her of fear of the sudden noise.
"Oh your not so bad are you" as she pulled out her pokedex
Venonat, the insect pokemon, Lives in the shadows of tall trees where it eats insects. It is attracted by light at night.
Selena then thought to herself 'We not catch it, it already seems to like me'. Selena then proceeded to slowly pull out a pokeball and tape it against the venonat's head and to her surprise it actually let itself get caught with no resistance.
"Wow i just caught my first pokemon!" she said quietly to mawile who had gone back to sleep on a blanket next to eevee. Selena then released venonat out who then went straight to her and fell asleep next to her "You just wanted a friend didn't you". Selena then began to fall back to sleep.
***The next morning***
Ben and Noah are waken up by Selena practicing with her mawile and an never before purple fuzz ball. "Who is that?" Selena then looked back surprised to be not be the only one awake, "Oh, i forgot you two haven't meet my new pokemon" as she then told them the whole story from the night before.
Ben, "Wow i didn't realize you were so scared of the dark Selena?"
Selena, "Well now i'm not thanks to my new friend!" gesturing toward venonat who was being pet by Noah
Ben excitingly, "How about you try him out in battle, me and charmander could us some practice?"
Selena, "Sure sounds like fun! Noah can you make sure things don't get out of hand?"
"Sure thing" as Ben and Selena separate and create some distance between them
"This will be a one on one battle between venonat and charmander, Selena you get the first move"
Selena, "Okay venonat use supersonic"
Ben, "Charmander dodge and use flamethrower" as charmander leaped into the air just in time and used flamethrower
Selena, "Venonat use psybeam"
The two attacks meet half between the two it created a large cloud of smoke disabling the trainers vision of their pokemon
Noah, "This battle is over, it's a draw. I don't smoke to cover my stuff"
"Good battle Selena, you two looked really insync for your first battle",
"Yea, same with you and charmander" as the two trainers shook hands, and venonat and charmander played around. Then suddenly they heard a loud noise and looked over to see a stampede of Gogoats and Skiddos.
"Wow what are those pokemon?"
Skiddo, the mount pokemon, thought to be one of the first Pokémon to live in harmony with humans, it has a placid disposition.
Gogoat, the mount pokemon, It can tell how its Trainer is feeling by subtle shifts in the grip on its horns. This empathic sense lets them run as if one being.
Noah quickly chimed in, "We must have startled them with our Pokemon battle" as Ben started running after them with charmander, "Good thing we did because i'm going to catch one!" noticing one straying from the pack "charmander use smokescreen to separate it". Smoke started shoot from charmanders mouth and settle between the stray skiddo and the rest of the pack. The Skiddo noticing Ben had done this sprinted full speed at charmander using what appeared to be tackle.
"Jump up and hop on its pack Charmander and use scratch". Charmander then jumped and pulled of the move successfully causing the Skiddo to trip over, "Go pokeball!" as Ben threw a pokeball at the fallen skiddo. The skiddo however came out angrier than ever and used razor leaf.
"Wow, your a tough cookie. Charmander flamethrower now", the fire eradicated the razor leaf skiddo created and hit him. Skiddo had fallen again. "Lets try this again go pokeball!" and this time was successfull
"Yes i caught a Skiddo!" as Selena and Noah ran over to congratulate him and then the group continued on their way toward Botson City.