Chapter 3

Learning the moves

"*yawn* well I think that was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time" I said opening my eyes and stretching to see the morning sunrise on the blue ocean, I looked around our little den and didn't see anyone else around or in there beds. "what the…" I started go wonder where they could have possibly gone. I grabbed one of the Oran berries, ate it, then walked out of the den, still they were not in my range of sight "maybe they are in treasure town" I said to myself remembering the name of the town itself. When I entered the small town of treasure town the first local I saw walking outside was a Larion "hey hi uh have you seen a buizel, jolteon, or bulbasaur walking around here lately?" I asked him. The larion turned to me and replied "Ya I believe I over heard the bulbasaur talking about going to Marowak's Dojo" then he walked off to do god knows what. I walked around Treasure town and couldn't find where the dojo was "come on how hard is it to find a stupid dojo? I mean this is a small town…" I said starting to get irritated, I looked around a little longer before I finally found it "of course… it's the only building with the head of a Marowak on it" I said to myself feeling like an idiot. I walked in and the place was empty "hello? Anyone home?" I yelled into the room, No answer, "is there anyone in this household?" I said again. "yes there is, this is my dojo, and I feel that you're here for your friends" a mysterious voice said. I looked around to see where the voice came from but it seemed as if it was coming from all different angles "who and where are you?" I asked. There was no answer for awhile before I got a reply "who am I? I am dojo master Marowak, and where I am is of no concern to you" Marowak's voice said again coming from all sides.

I started getting both frustrated and irritated at Marowak staying hidden away from my sight "come on just show yourself to me" I yelled out. Again there was no answer for seconds "the more angry you get, the worse you will do in any kind of fight… do you even know how to use your moves? I think not!" he bellowed, "You are the same as the three other Pokémon who came in here earlier...WEAK!" I didn't know how to respond to his accusations "what did you do to my friends?" I yelled. "I have done nothing to them, they are training on how to use their various moves, and you will start right now." He said. Immediately after Marowak finished his speech I heard a creaking sound then a slam, I looked below my feet and saw the floor move below me as it extended to the walls of the building. "Are you quite satisfied" I yelled as i backed up to the edge of the wall "nope" Marowak said. "Thought so." I said before the floor caught up with me and I plummeted downward with a rather good copy of Goofy's "YAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEEEEYYY!" .

When I hit the floor at the bottom of the hole I felt tremendous pain rush around my body, i could not move even a inch it was so bad. i heard some footsteps get louder as they approched me "is he still breathing? Is he even alive?" a familiar voice said "Ya he's still alive I can see him breathing" said another. I sat up with my vision relatively fuzzy and out of focus "*moan*...what?...who's there?" i felt something pat my back and help me to my feet "dude you just fell from the ceiling to the floor...rather hard i might add, oh and if you can't really see it's me Jacob" he explained. my vision cleared and i saw everyone in front of me happy to see that i finally came. i was a little irritated "why didn't you guys wake me up to tell me you guys were leaving?" i asked standing back up on my four feet. " its called common curtsy Chance, we didn't want to disturb you in your restless sleep" Zoei commented "and for you information we came to the Dojo so we can at least defend our self's here in this world" I was puzzled for a moment. Pokemon born here can use the various moves they acquire throughout their life time with out any problem, but for Pokemon not born here... would it be just as easy? I had to ask "so have you guys learned any...moves?" Aaron smiled rather widely which was his 'normal' smile, but it just looked creepy with his new Jolteon muzzle "yup, in fact we all have learned the max amount of moves we can learn! watch this.".

Aaron turned his attention to a small target that was suspended on a wall about 20 feet away from us and stared at it for a good 10 seconds. "um... is something supposed to happen or am I just being fooled here?" i asked rather doubtful he learned anything at all. i continued to sit and watch him, was anything gona happen? I noticed that Aaron was starting to get a little upset and the more upset he got, the more sparks of electricity came off of his body when finally, in a sudden flash, a bolt of lighting shot off of him and turned the poor target completely black. "FINALLY! god that took way longer then last time..." he said "but thunder bolt isn't all i know, I also know thunder fang, double team, and thunder!".

I got a sudden chill down the back of my spine when i heard the move thunder fang, if I upset I'm he might use it on me and ill tell you I'm not a big fan of being bitten and chomped on. Jacob spoke up next "Chance get a load of this!" I turned my body and was now focusing my attention on Jacob to see what he learned. he covered himself in a veil of water which to my knowledge was the move aqua jet, a move in which the host Pokemon covers its self in water and launches at the target of which it wants to harm. And Jacob did just that, he launched him self at a boulder which was conveniently placed in the middle of the room and upon impact was shattered into pieces. "that's the first of 3 other power full moves, I also know how to use ice punch, water gun, and sonic boom" he said rather proud of himself. "don't think to highly of those moves Jacob they are moves every buizel learns early on" Zoei said in a rather snappy tone. "ok princess what do you know? go on, show our friend" Jacob snapped back.

At this point I didn't really care what they knew, all it meant to me was that they could defend them selves here and I can't. " to save time Jacob I'm just going to tell him, Chance i know vine whip, energy ball, leach seed, and solar beam" Zoei said. "good work young pupils, you have learned well in your training and are now able to defend thy selves in a fight." said marowak as he came out from the shadows "but as for you young umbreon, I suspect that you have had no proper training in this regard...how would you like to start you training?" I remained silent for a good minute, did i want training? I wasn't so sure... if I did I would know how to defend MY self, but i would have the potential to harm others as well. "um... yes I would appreciate the help Dojo Master, but as you have so obviously stated, I cant use any moves to save my life" I stated "and you never will if you don't try to learn, and I'm the only trainer for miles around" marowak said.

"well lets get started Dojo Master Marowak." I said, he nodded his head to my request then started my training. "lets start with some basic moves that I have memorized for a umbreon such as your self, try focusing on using the ranged attack called shadow ball" he said "and how would you suggest I do that?" I asked with a sigh. marowak jumped on to a very thin pole which stuck out of a pool of water and balanced on it with out a sweat, "to learn such moves you must think like a ghost, think of the way they move without sound, or the way they are never seen unless they want to be seen" he said. I didn't get his training method at all, it was just all words of which had no meaning to me, but I went along with it anyway. I positioned my self so that it could clearly see a target, it was relatively small for a target maybe 10 cm wide. I thought of what shadow ball looked like in the cartoon, it was a small black/purple sphere if i recalled right. I opened my mouth and with the image of the cartoon in mind the small sphere appeared in my mouth and, with a quick flick of my head, was launched at the target with extreme precision and upon impact was shattered. "Whoa! that was awesome!" Aaron said enthusiastically "just because he has learned the move doesn't mean he has mastered it, mastering such moves take years, although i have never trained a pupil that has had such great accuracy..." Marowak stated "lets try your skills with a physical move rather then a ranged one" I nodded to him ready to learn much more.

Marowak jumped off the thin pole he was standing on and stood about 40 feet from me "try using Iron tail, most steel type moves are about crushing their way through the defense of the opponent and dealing a significant amount of damage." Marowak said "Now, try it on me, to preform this move, one must do as a steel type would and smack the object with a great deal of force". Why would he want me to attack him? Again I didn't understand his training methods one bit, why would the master want to put himself in harm's way to try and teach his student? But despite all that I did as he told me, I took a quick look at my tail and noticed it was glowing a very bright white color knowing fully well that this is exactly what the move was supposed to look like. I ran at master marowak and when I came close I quickly spun around in a full 360 motion and hit Marowak dead in the face. the dojo master, to my surprise, was unfazed when my move connected with his skull helmet, he didn't fumble or move at all. "very well done young one, you catch on quick, but next time try to make yourself turn faster" he stated "now for your next move, this one is a defensive type move called double team" double team? where have I heard that one before, in my games I rarely ever used defensive moves cause I thought that they were a waste of a battle turn. "double team is where I can create fake copy's of my self that move on their own correct?" i asked him "correct pupil, this move creates life like images of your self, but even though they are fake the moves they use are very much real and can harm your opponent, its used mainly for distraction so you can hit just the right spot for a critical hit." he plainly stated "To preform this move one must envision seeing them self in a mirror, and once this has been accomplished, you will be surrounded by fake versions of yourself."

To be completely honest I wasn't so hot about the fact that I was about to learn a defensive move, I was normally all about offensive attacks, but if it helps me survive, I'm willing to learn. "ok ill try it" I said closing my eyes with everyone else holding their breath to see what would happen. like Aaron before, nothing seemed to be happening. what was going on? I was doing so well with the other two moves. "hm... something isn't right" the Dojo Master stated "what are you better with? offensive or defensive?" "personally I'm a offensive person" I clearly stated. this apparently stumped Marowak considering his training methods so far have worked " Aha! young one, the reason you cant preform double team is because you think that you can only do offensive type moves, try to let go and believe that you can accurately accomplish the move" he said, I did as he requested and again closed my eyes.

As my eyes shut I felt an odd tingling feeling that went on for a good 5 seconds, I opened them once again ,and in front of me stood an illusion of my self with the same facial markings, it smiled and to me it was creepy to stare at myself. " very well done my pupil, you have successfully accomplished the move with relative ease" Marowak said sounding proud of me "well" I started to say knowing full well that this was gona sound self conceded " if that's what I look like...I'm not as handsome as I would have hoped" everyone laughed at that. "you have done relatively well in comparison to your companions, more so then I would have thought you would have, but I still have one more move for you to learn and its a rather... nasty one" Marowak said.

I was interested in this secret move " well what is it? I'm dieing to know now that you brought it up" he had a very faint look of concern "its a move known as toxic, it has the potential to instantly poison any type that isn't a steel type" he said "this move you will not be using on me because I don't have a stock of pecha berries lying around nor, now that I think about it, will I ever need them because I rarely teach poison type moves" I started to doubt myself, this is a move in which can seriously harm another. "well I will try and it will only be used in extreme cases" I said with authority "alright then, I shall teach you this move." he said again standing in a rather intimidating stance. "to attempt this move you have to get... angry" he said again. I couldn't really think of anything that could make me angry...except one thing that I just couldn't bear to think of it again "I ...I don't think me learning this move is gona be good for any one, but I guess I could try for the fact of having four moves" I said unsure of myself, marowak nodded as he apparently thought I can handle it. I stared at a training dummy and thought of my worst thought, the one that would peak my irritation. soon enough the dummy turned into a illusion of the figure in my mind and it just pushed my buttons to far and I freaked out.

ever ones face turned in to a look of shock when what looked like purple static started appearing around me, my eyes went white as a purple ring was create around the dummy and in as quick as a flash it shot up enveloping it in a cage of poison. Jacob ran up an started shaking me to get me out of the trans I was in "HEY SNAP OUT OF IT!" he yelled, I turned to him, my eyes still as white as a blank piece of paper. "how about a little friendly fight? you vs me?" i asked him. i could tell he was speechless "ill take that as a yes, me first" since he was right next to me it was the perfect time to use iron tail, i quickly spun around and smacked him in the face with the move which in turn knocked him back a few feet onto the ground. "using cheap shots now are you? ok then...my turn" he said as he spit out a small drop of blood from his mouth. Jacob ran at me with his ice punch and landed a solid hit with a uppercut type movement to the head, the hit made me stumble around and my vision blur out for a good five seconds before going back to normal. i smirked and then used double team to create five illusions of myself which surrounded him. me and the illusions charged a shadow ball and all shot them at Jacob, all of the shadow balls hit but created a small cloud smoke. i cautiously viewed my surroundings for anything that might jump out of the smoke, of course even when i was a human i wasn't really good at paying attention. Jacob came from the side in his aqua jet and rams into me with incredible speed, i started to stumble around again out of being tired from the hits and my low stamina, and in my fumbling Jacob took advantage of it and with a series of well placed ice punches knocked me onto the floor. i tried to stand up to fight back but those last few hits wore me out. on the floor with blood coming out of my mouth, i blacked out.