A new path to the top
Chapter Four: Contest training
Eve and Lucy continued walking down route one, it was starting to get late as the sun was setting. All of the Pokémon were going to sleep and Eve was even getting a bit sleepy.
"Ok, this will be a good place to set up camp for tonight" Lucy said as she stopped,
Lucy then got her folded up camping tent out of her bag and started to set it up with Eve's help. After setting up the tent, Lucy got some sandwiches from her bag and some poke chow, then called Shade out of his poke ball for some tea.
"Ok guy's time to chow down" Lucy said as she put the bowls of poke chow in front of Eve and Shade
"Hey Eve how are you, I hope you're ok from our battle" Shade asked Eve
"Yeah I'm fine Shade, I'm just glad that we can be friends now, how about we eat" Eve said with a smile.
"Wow this is tasty" said Shade before he scoffed his food down
"Good right?" Lucy asked Shade, but Shade was too busy eating to notice she just finished eating her sandwiches. Once they were done eating, Shade was put back inside his poke ball.
"Ok Eve time for bed" Lucy said as she went into her tent "come on Eve, you don't want to sleep outside do you?" Lucy asked, holding the tent door open, at that point, it started raining so Eve ran into the tent and Lucy closed the tent door behind him. The tent was small but had space for a few items, it had a pink sleeping bag and a matching pillow and a space for her bag and poke balls. When Eve saw Lucy, she was already getting undressed "oh yeah Eve, tomorrow we will have our first Pokémon contest practice, oh yeah Eve, I bought you your own bed, its right here" Lucy said taking a small pet bed from her bag that was pink, it matched Lucy's sleeping bag and she then placed it near Lucy's sleeping bag. Lucy then got into her sleeping bag and Eve got into his pet bed and went to sleep.
*What a day I became a Pokémon and then was given to someone and after that I get a guy fall head over heels for me and I'm a guy too he only thinks I'm a girl just because my names Eve, I just hope tomorrow is better" Eve thought as he fell asleep.
-The next day 8:30am-
Eve woke up, Lucy was not in the tent and the tent door was open so Eve stretched and walked out of the tent and saw Lucy making breakfast.
"Morning" Lucy said to Eve with a big smile.
"Eev" said Eve.
"Shade, come out" Lucy said as she threw Shade's poke ball.
"Morning Shade" Eve said to Shade.
"Morning Eve, you sleep well?" asked Shade.
"I had a nice sleep thanks for asking" Eve replied.
"Ok you two, breakfast is ready" shouted Lucy.
"Sweet, I hope it's the same poke chow as we had last night" Shade said as he ran to Lucy "you coming Eve?"
"Yeah keep your fur on I'm coming"
-After breakfast-
"Ok you two it's time to start our Pokémon contest training" Lucy said.
"Ok so 1st is the performance round and the performance round is where you show off your Pokémon and their moves and since Eve is the cutest she will be in this contest and Shade we will need your help to train for the battle round ok, but first our performance training" Lucy said.
"Ok now Eve we are going to dance but it's you who is the star not me. Ok so follow me" Lucy said as she started dancing slowly so Eve could keep up.
*wow this is fun* Eve thought as he followed Lucy around
"Come on Eve you need to be more graceful, I know you can do this" Lucy encouraged Eve. Eve followed Lucy and tried his best to keep in sync with her then
"Ok now Eve do a backflip and land on my shoulder" Lucy asked Eve but when Eve tried it he missed and landed on Shade.
"Why Eve have you 'fallen' for me already" Shade asked Eve
"You wish Shade, it was an accident" Eve told Shade as he got off of Shade and walked back to Lucy.
"Ok Eve let's try it again, you need to remember to be graceful and aim for my shoulder when you do the backflip" Lucy told Eve.
So Lucy and Eve worked hard and eve was getting the hang of dancing as he was, the dance was wonderful
"That's it Eve, just like that now for the backflip I know you can you can do it, remember practice makes perfect" Lucy said encouraging eve.
Eve then jumped and did a backflip then landed on Lucy's shoulder but he was wobbling a lot and yet he was happy that he done it
"Well done eve, I knew you could do it we just need to practice it until you can land on my shoulder without wobbling" Lucy praised Eve.
"Ok next is battle training, the battle round is a bit different from the performance round you will be battling but you need to be graceful because the battles have points and you are judged on how graceful and how unique you use your moves are in battle, so now Shade lets battle to help Eve get some more battle experience" said Lucy.
"Eve let's start off with quick attack" Lucy said.
And Eve ran right to Shade at full speed then Shade jumped up and fired a shadow ball right on Eves back.
"Come on Eve you need to be faster than that" Shade told Eve.
"You don't say" Eve replied.
"Eve jump and use quick attack while spinning" Lucy said.
Eve jumped then used quick attack but when he tried to spin he lost control and his a nearby tree.
"Eve, are you ok?" Said Lucy as she ran to Eve, she then Picked Eve up and smiled at eve said "looks like we need to work on spinning first before we do it with quick attack, let's take a little break".