03/18/2005 - 07:30 - Route 101

Half hour.

Its been half hour since Chances said anything to Claus and it was starting to make him worried. Claus know that the key for a trainer's success is the friendship between the trainer and their pokemon, but Chances didn't want to open himself even a bit, Claus even tried to start simple conversations, like talk about the weather, the favorite food and how was his life, but Chances didn't even slowed down to reply him. It made Claus start to think about the reason why he doesn't like to talk. Was it his fault?

The sound of a bush shaking was everything that Claus needed to stop his day dreaming.

"A wild pokemon?" Claus asked to Chances as both of them prepared a defensive stance. The torchic only nodded using his head.

After few seconds a, apparently, 10 years old girl jumped from it. She was using a shirt with some brown and white stripes, all of had a zigzag style. Her skirt had the same coloration as her shirt . Her tan skin were dirty and very sweat. She was using a pair of sandals, one white while the other was brown. Her short tail was hurt, probably from some fight.

"Hey look, a HM Slave." Chances said, looking like he was interested in seeing something else coming from the bush. "Alright, do I kill her or hurt enough for her to live remembering this day for the rest of her life?" Chances said to himself.

"You have to help me to catch her." Claus used Convince.

"Where was zigzagoons weak spots?" But it failed.

Claus hurted himself in confusion. (Also knows as facepalm.)

"CHANCES!" Claus used Hyper Voice.

"Okay. Okay. Guess we need someone to use Cut." It was super effective. "Alright let's do it just like a video game."

Chances used Scratch.

Wild zigzagoon used Growl.

Chances used Scratch.

Wild zigzagoon used Growl.

Chances is annoyed.

Claus threw a pokeball.

Claus caught a zigzagoon.

"That was fast." Claus commented.

"It is a zigzagoon. What did you expected?" Chances asked. "Anyway. Now you have zigzagoon's data."

"Oh yeah." Chances said and picked his pokedex from the pocket then ran over to the pokeball. "Let's see." He said placing the pokeball on the pokedex for two seconds.

ANALYZING...

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DATA OBTAINED.

ZIGZAGOON: TINY RACCOON POKEMON.

IT GET INTERESTED IN EVERYTHING, WHICH IS WHY IT ZIGS AND ZAGS. IT IS GOOD AT FINDING ITEMS. MOST DON'T SEE THEM AS USEFUL BECAUSE OF THEIR LOW STATUS, MOST EVEN CALL IT HM SLAVE.

LIMIT AGE: 10 YEARS OLD.

THIS ZIGZAGOON'S AGE IS 20 AND SHE SEEMS TO BE LONELY.

The information gathering stopped by showing the photo of the zigzagoon that Claus catch.

"She feels lonely?" Claus asked to Chances.

"A lot of wild pokemon dies per day. It's a dangerous life. Thanks to the pokeball, domesticated pokemon doesn't have as the same intincts that the wild have, we might don't have the need of kill each other to live, but it make us have the capacity to be friends with a prey." Chances said and started to walk. "This might be the reason why she tried to attack, she thought that we were looking for her to eat her."

"That seemed awful." Claus said and Chances simply shrugged and said.

"Welcome to the wilderness."

*Later*

Claus finally let the zigzagoon be out of the pokeball. She looked confused by what happened and soon landed her eyes on the human and his pokemon.

"What did you do?" She asked and noticed something after few seconds. "What happened to my voice?"

"Hello for you too." Chances said and walked to a tree, where he started to scratch using his extended and glowing nails.

"He really need to open himself." Claus said and turned to his new pokemon. "So... uhmmm... Hello. It might seems out of nowhere, but now I am your trainer." He said then started to murmur. "Or as your human, but only if you think like Chances."

"My trainer?"

"But I may not be, but only if you don't want to be my pokemon. You can still talk like before, you just are capable to talk and understand the language of the one who used the pokeball, nothing else new, but now you are capable to think enough to make you feel guilty because of the food chain... that actually was another new thing." Claus answered.

In that moment, the raccoon started to think about every the wurmples that she ate during her life. She actually didn't kill them, she just used the facts that some poochyenas attack weak pokemon to get exp and be able to travel to somewhere that have better food, but eat a corpse still seems to be a awful thing. Fortunately, she is omnivore and she could eat some plants.

"What is this feeling?" The zigzagoon asked.

"Probably guilt." Claus said. "I have a machine that told me that you are feeling lonely. Could you tell me why?"

"I actually don't want to do it. It's too personal to be told to someone that I don't know."

"Makes sense. Do you want to be in my party? It wouldn't be a problem if you decided to stay out of it. You can still talk on your original language and live your life ignoring that ever was caught by a trainer. It might be hard to ignore your new conscious, but a lot of pokemon managed to forget that they had trainers. You could try it. But if you stay with me, I can make you get a better amount of power and I can bring you to a lot of places."

"... I accept. I actually already wanted to leave this place and if I need to receive orders for it to happen then I will receive them."

"Thank you. I will make sure that you will get much stronger."

Claus Star

Chances: Level 6 - Adamant - Blaze - 22 years - Growl and Scratch

Lailaa: Level 2 - Lonely - Pick up - 20 years - Tackle and Growl

Deaths: 0

(Editor Comment: I wonder how everyone is going to react to a party Pokemon death. Like Claus. Anywho, there were small grammar errors, but it was fine nonetheless!)

Chances: Don't worry about his reaction, I would kill him before he react.

Claus: What!?

Cara normal: He said nothing.