Got the chapter up when I said I would! Anyway, I would have updated sooner but I went ski tripping with my friends! :D
Espeon shiny: Thanks for your review (so much!) Good news, I stayed with one viewpoint the whole time! And I like the idea of having Meowth in the story, but s/he will probably come in further in the story. And your English is great, I didn't notice at all. (my first language was Spanish too! but I learned English really early (like 4-5) and (like an idiot) stopped speaking Spanish. I'm currently trying to relearn it 0_o' )
Anyway, everyone can thank you for having this chapter out so early (and long). Enjoy!
It was the first night with a new team member, Gold. I had managed to introduce him to Sam by pointing insistently at a small bunch of yellow papers stuck together in Sam's backpack then to Gold for five minutes until he had finally guessed the color gold. I stretched a little from the position I was lying in, eyes still closed when something forcefully nudged my side. I cracked an eye open and to my surprise, I recognized the foot smushing into me. I guess that's what happens when you battle with someone.
"Whadda yuh wannd?" Above me was Gold. The hot-headed sandshrew had his arms crossed, his foot pressing on my side and a very intense expression on his face. I shook off my sleepiness. "Whats up?" I asked carefully neutral, like I hadn't been woken up by a semi-sadistic looking sandshrew who was practically stepping on me.
"This is the second time you've stepped on me," I observed when he did not answer, hiding my nervousness as well as I could. Suddenly, Gold's pointer finger was in my face. "I challenge you to a rematch!" He declared. I blinked. That's what he was so fired up about.
"I guess I can spare a little time to beat you." I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly, hoping my acting was up to par. The irritated look in his coal black eyes indicated it was. I followed him into a small part of a clearing a little off from Sam's sleeping form. "You ready?" He asked.
"Definitely." I charged at him, this would be easy. I already beat him once, how hard could it be to do it again?
Gold held his fist to his side, smirked and I realized what was going to happen one second in advance. I tried to react. I started to turn. His fist impacted into my shoulder and I went tumbling a few feet away in a discolored eevee lump.
Well, that was a surprise. Maybe he is stronger than me? Why did I trust this recently-wild-turned-unwild pokemon whom I had just battled with over dominance yesterday enough to let him take me away from Sam before he was even awake? Of course he would want to get revenge, we had forcibly taken him from his home. He probably saw this as his only way to get out of this. Wait! If I lost did that reverse the effects of capture? Was he just trying to escape? I growled furiously. He wasn't gonna ditch Sam that easy, not if I could help it.
I jumped at him claws extended. This guy is going down, I decided.
The split second before my claws made contact with Gold's skin, I realized most his armor was as hard as a tree. I decided to use my claws as a fake out to get a good shot at his jaw or chest. But Gold seemed to realize my clumsy fake-out and crouched a little lower, putting his arms in front of his face. My claws just scraped against his armor. I withdrew my paw, shaking the soreness from my nails. I looked up to see a swinging fist closing in on my head.
I tensed and crouched, trying to defend myself as much as possible for what was about to happen when I realized Gold's fist was taking an awfully long time to connect with my face. I peeked. Gold had an intensely amused look on his face.
"Huh?" I blinked. Gold smirked as he withdrew his tiny tight fist from my face.
"Don't go thinkin' just cause your owner caught me and you managed to get a couple hits in doesn't mean yer stronger than me. That fight was nothing, Rusty." Gold told me.
"W-wha?" I protested to the name 'Rusty,' I had really come to like my name the last two days. I forced my insulted brain to think about the situation at hand, however. Gold's strength. It made sense, in a way. His punch was about two or three times stronger now that he wasn't oxygen deprived thanks to the tunneling he had been attempting.
I shook my head to clear it. In front of me, Gold had his arms crossed. We stared at each other for a couple slightly awkward seconds before he broke it off to glance at Sam's waking form. "I guess we should go an' get the boss to get a move on. Sounds like we have places to be."
I agreed.
After the first hour of walking, I had been running out of steam. Approximately five minutes later, a bird Pokémon (I later found out was spearow) decided it was a good idea to try and ambush Gold. Two punches and his foe was flying for the hills, despite his disadvantage. Sam let out a cheer and I decided that it was of the utmost importance that Sam knows I could do that someday (soon, hopefully) so I pushed aside my feet's tingling complaints and continued walking.
Around an hour and twenty minutes into the long forest trek, I realized my feet were starting to twitch with their own volition. I annoyed me because it did nothing for my ignore-it-and-it-will-go-away plan and frankly, twitchy legs are hard to balance on. Another couple of minutes until they started to shake. Any moment, it would noticeable to Sam, four feet above me and moron Gold five feet away from me who was humming a rhythmic beat that I had been relying on to give me energy for the last ten minutes. A slight shudder and shrill but quiet cry of a weedle was enough to send me over the eevee edge.
I jumped up, landing somewhere between my paws and on my stomach. I whined a curse at the bug and Sam stooped over me to see if I needed anything. Gold either didn't notice or just didn't care because he just kept humming his little hype-up music. With some quick thinking, I pretended I got a thorn or something in one of my paws and moaned a tiny bit (all the while realizing that I was currently 180 degrees away from the image I wanted) and Sam picked me up.
So what the hell happened to being strong enough to protect him?
I agonized over that for a almost half an hour before I saw the edge of the forest and something that resembled the outside I had seen with Sam in my first ten minutes of freedom. A town? Yes! Finally!
And suddenly, I had an epiphany. I had promised to become twice as strong when we left the forest. And I was. I could feel it in my core. No way a rabid ratatta could down me now. I knew from a couple battles' experience that one, some only attacks affect certain pokemon and others are useless in other situations, and two, we hit our first milestone in our journey, but I still had a lot to learn.
And I would learn it.
Arriving in Viridian City was a weird thing. Almost my entire life outside the lab had been in that forest. And I felt I owed it something for becoming stronger. As soon as we entered the gates of the town, Sam recalled Gold but scooped me back up into his arms. Not like I was going to go along with that plan though. I had more or less recovered from all the walking and I really wanted to take in the town at my own sight level and view. So Sam and I walked into the bustling town.
It was so strange, I'd never seen more than three or four people at a time before, and honestly, it was kind of unnerving. The first place we stopped was a place called a Pokemon Center where another trainer said Pokemon trainers go to heal their Pokemon. A pink haired lady with a melodious voice named Nurse Joy asked for Sam's Pokeballs and Sam took Gold's Pokeball off his belt and set it onto the tray. All I could do was stare in confusion. What was that lady gonna do with Gold? Then Sam scooped me up and set me on another tray.
"Behave," Sam told me with a smile and thumbs up and a Chansey took me and carried me into a separate room and I tried to figure out what the heck was going on.
From there I was put on a tiny, cheap hospital bed, then Chansey set a glass half cylinder above me but before I could properly protest, I was falling into a warm, restful sleep.
When I finally woke out of my daze, I was being handed back to Sam by Nurse Joy. She gave him a smile and assured him that we were at full health. Sam took me and scratched me behind my ear.
"Is there a Pokemon Gym here?" Sam asked eagerly.
Nurse Joy shook her head sadly, "I'm sorry young man, the leader of the gym is away on business. He won't be back for at least a few months. But he is one of the strongest gym leaders in Kanto so I wouldn't recommend trying until your eevee and sandshrew are a lot stronger."
Sam nodded sadly and carried me out of the Pokemon Center and sat on a bench.
"What are we gonna do now, Nova?" He asked.
I knew I had to find some way to get him out of his funk, but how?
We started walking around town, when Sam suddenly stopped, looking a bit sheepish. "I guess we should let Gold out too, huh?" His stomach rumbled. "And maybe get something to eat?" He took Gold's Pokeball off his belt and tossed it in the
Gold appeared in a flash of light. "San-san-shrew!" Gold looked around and by his cool expression, I guessed that he had passed by or even entered Viridian City as a wild Pokemon.
Sam looked to excited to hold back any longer so he pumped his fist into the air and yelled, "Let's eat!"
We entered a restaurant with wide tables designed so people could eat with their Pokemon. Gold and I climbed up onto the table. Promptly, a waitress on roller-skates with just-past-shoulder length, dark blue hair with side bangs and a sea green headband brought two dishes of Pokemon food and took Sam's order. She looked at us with interest.
"My name's Rae, nice to meet you. Where are you from?"
She asked with a small smile.
"I'm Sam Greyson. This is Nova and Gold." Sam replied kindly.
"They're so cute! I've never seen an eevee in real life, is it supposed to be that color?" Rae asked innocently.
I growled lightly, pulling my ears back as she extended a hand to touch me.
Sam looked at me for a moment before giving her an apologetic smile. "Sorry, she seems pretty wary of strangers." Rae withdrew her hand and easily shook off the rejection.
"No problem, I'll get your order right away." And with that, she skated away.
What do you think of Rae?
Any comments/concerns/ideas?