[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 4: Koga's the name!
When I got a bit tired of walking in silence, I asked the man that called himself Koga: "How did you actually find me? Since we've been walking so long I must've been far from a town or at least edge of the forest, so how did you?" The man looked at me with an understanding face and answered: "I was just on a stroll, and we're not gonna go to a city, we're going to my home. And I live in the forest itself. So, no more questions, you need your energy to hold on your arm." I backed down at the ground and kept following the old man. "Do you have any Pokémon?" I asked, still bored. "Well, you could say that, but you might also say my Pokémon and I have retired." I looked at him with a hopeful face, but he only shook his head. "If you're that eager to battle, we'll fight after you've regained your strength. 'There's a time and place for everything, but not now.' That's a poetic phrase from an old pal of mine. And so many times I hated it. But it does seem to be true. Ah, we're there." The man suddenly got a big smile on his face as he walked towards a wooden but neatly cabin. There was a small battlefield marked next to the backyard and a carpet that said 'Home sweet home' was sitting in front of the door. The man walked with his firm tempo that I've experienced the last few hours already to the door and opened the cabin. It was furnished with a brown couch were if you would sit on it, you'd have a perfect view at the old television. On the wall hang a picture were 9 people were standing up straight. They were all smiling except one guy with a long white coat busy trying to hold his red instrument correct. Around a corner was the kitchen. Nothing special aside another few chairs and a long table. The old man opened the fridge and started eating what looked like a pumpkin pie. "Sorry, exclusive for me. My daughter Janine made this. You can get some more cabbages." Koga appeared nice since got me out of that dangerous forest. But he isn't really treating me well either, of course it's more then I expected. I looked outside of the window closest window. First I couldn't see very well, but when I sharpened my vision again. Some enormous slime was stick to the windows. I could obviously hear through the wall the word "Muk!"
I immediately fell to the ground, not realizing that I'm safe inside. "Ah, you've made notice of my little friend here. Don't worry, she's always like this. It's her way of saying hi. Come here for a second now." The man kneeled down and started to clean my arm again. After that was done he pulled me up at my healthy arm and told me to sit down on the couch. Once I did that, he approached me with a quite unfamiliar cup filled with brownish water. "Drink up" he said. "I've made it myself" and he went back down some wooden stairs where smoke was coming from. Like any other person would've I doubted if it was good when it was creating with or around smoke. I smelled at it and it reminded me of puke. But they always say, the worse the medicine tastes, the better it works. I decided to drink it in one gulp. The cup reached to my mouth and the corollary slid down my throat. It tasted vicious and I had to cough. The medicine did seem to work though. My arm started to regain health and I could already lift it up without any help of my other hand. I took another look outside the window and I saw the same Muk again accompanied by an Arbok and a Koffing. The Koffing saw me first and started floating upside down, smiling. Despite poison types aren't really in my favorite Pokémon type list, even more at the scary sides, I couldn't suppress a small laugh. It focused itself back to the other Pokémon and Koga appeared again out of the foggy room. "I'm going to go eat some more pie, you can just stay here, but you won't get anything else besides cabbages then!"
He took a fork and a spoon, sat down on one of the chairs, sliced a piece of the pie off, putt it on his plate and started eating. I walked towards one of the chairs and sat down too. "So, am I just going to have to stay here all day? Nothing against it, it's lovely here, but won't I be a burden?" I asked. "Kids are always burdens. But I'm used to it with Janice, so it doesn't matter. And to answer your question, you'll be staying here until you've recovered your strength in your arm, afterwards I'll send you to my daughters academy, they'll take care of you." During the first day I was here I didn't do a lot, I learned a bit to cook and trained my Charmeleon against the wild Pokémon around. At one point I even went so far in the forest I had run into a nest of Durant. I immediately tried to run away but I did had to fight of a Durant that seemed to have followed me underground to the end of the forest. It was quite a hard battle, since every time Charmeleon used a move Durant made an annoying sound that sounded like two scraps of metal were being rubbed against each other, or he dug his way underground. At the end I finally was able to defeat him by sending a Dragon Rage through the hole and finishing the Durant with a strong Slash attack. The poor metal spider-like creature ran away back into the woods, to its nest. Charmeleon and I felt amazing when winning and gave each other a high-five. I couldn't get quite over it that I kept feeling being watched by Koga. The second day was a bit more fun, Koga promised me that he would battle me. He explained that it was mainly so I should keep my mouth shut, but he did seem excited. I sauntered to the trainer box that was lined with yellow colors. Koga went to the trainer box colored purple. "Alright greenie, time to show me what you've got!"
"That won't be a problem, Charmeleon! Go!" I exclaimed. Charmeleon skipped from left to right, excited for the battle. Old man Koga showed me his empty hand and suddenly, out of nowhere he creates a Pokéball. "Alright buddy! Time to shine!" A fierce strong Pokémon was sent out by Koga. Its green skin looked rough and its poison sacs were blown up. He readied himself and took a stance where its knuckle claws would easily hit a Pokémon, whether if that Pokémon was behind, up, left, right or under it. The frog-like Pokémon opened its mouth and in lieu of toxic a loud cry came out.
"Toxi-Toxicroak!"
-That's it for today! More chapters coming, still waiting for a review! -osidien