??? Pov
'"I'm in a bit of a whirlwind of emotions. Over the past month, I've been shadowing my trainer, grappling with conflicting feelings about our journey together. It all started when he stumbled upon me in the woods, offering a kind gesture of food. Curiosity piqued, I decided to tag along, expecting a brief escapade.
Then, he offered to take me with him, at the time i thought that he was just a normal boy takeing a stroll by the woods and i had nothing better to do so i accepted, worse case scenario i could just leave since humans cant fly, but that just couldn't be, trainers walk in the daylight after all.
When we stopped he asked me to show him my moves i started suspecting but in the end i decided that it couldn't hurt so i did.
When that mankey appeared due to my uproar and decided to battle i finally understood that this human was a trainer too, once the battle ended i went to him to say good bye as a last gesture since he had feed me and he misunderstood me and started petting me and i just couldn't resist, it's not like staying a few extra minutes could hurt...Then primeape appeared.
What followed was a run in the middle if the forest trying to lose him of our trail or that is what i thought, what actually happend is that the trainer wanted to get to that dumb slowpoke so that we could battle against that primeape that was way beyond our league, how did we got out alive is a mystery that still baffles me to this day.
When i got woke up after thinking this would be the last time i would ever open my eyes i found that the trainer had healed me back to good health and left a berry for me to eat for when i woke up. In that moment i decided that at the very least i would at least help him get to the nearest the nearest human settlement.
The rest of our Journey was fairly relaxed and he left me out of my ball at all times so i could just fly as much as i liked and then rest on his shoulder.
There where a few battles against another trainers here and there and in one of those i was about to receive a thundershook in the face when slowpoke jumped in front of it and ended the battle with a confusion, after he saved me the trainer explained us that although it was a good act to save me, he should not do it in the middle of a fight against another trainer unless he says so because otherwise we would lose the battle. Slowpoke just nodded and we kept walking.
I don't know what to think of slowpoke, he barely speaks and only concentrates when he is in battle, yet he is clearly aware of his surrounding because he saved me from getting knocked out.
When we got to the city i decided to stay a little longer, you know, just to make sure my trainer is okay, i didn't have anything to do after all and the battles and training although exhausting would then be followed by a lot of free time to do what we wanted, and some days we wouldn't train at all.
I guess i will stay with him a few days more since he even got a jacket where i stay confortable in the cold nights... Yeah just a few days more.
Pov End
During the week and a half of travel, we found a bunch of rattatas and a couple of raticates so it was probably a family and i entered their territory... i dont wanna talk about it.
Beside that it was a pretty chill journey, although i did not find a lot of trainers since i like to travel at night and train during the afternoon and sleep when the sun goes up so i only made 120$ in two battles .
When i got to vermillion it was night and about 1 am, so we went back to the river that i saw about 30 minutes ago to go fishing and if slowpoke wanted to swim, i would not recommend to take a shower in the night, the water is cold, really cold, hypotermic levels of cold
' slowpoke is a psycho, and since most of his body is numb and he is a water type he can handle that cold water'
but while the moonlight was at his best slowpoke decided to fish for a while and i decided to pet the hoothoot inside my jacket and started thinking about what i would do during the next week and a half
'im not near strong enough to beat Surge with a flying and water type that would be just asking for a beatdown and i dont feel like takeing a gamble with almost 0% chance of winning, next its the fact that a ticket for the s.s anne costs 5000$ and its a week of travel with a battle arena and food included that would take us to fuchsia city where i would try for my third badge so priority number 1 is to start makeing money and i only have 2220$ so i would need around 3000$ if i wanna have a little bit for food, surge is known for his strength and most of his challengers usually use an earth type being the most common Diglett since they exist in masive numbers to the point they have a cave in their name so i can assume if i ask for a battle to any trainer here Diglett would be a common choice so its for the best that slowpoke stays in his pokeball when asking and only have hoothoot out'
we stayed in silence with the ocasional sound of a fish bitting slowpoke's tail, that would make hoothoot jump out of my jacket and start eating with slowpoke
'thank arceus that they both like fish'
and like that, a few hours went by and by 4 Am i cleaned the blood from hoohoot an slowpoke's mouth and walked back to the city and asked for a room and went to sleep.
I woke up at 11 am and started grinding, this was gonna be a long week.
By the time the week ended i maneged to get 4000$ that when you take food and room bills left me with 3250$ worth of profits and i had a total of 5470$ so the next thing to do was to train for my next battle
'i know that abra and pidgeotto are almost 100% in his team so i can prepare for that and deal with the rest with what i currently have'.
The next 2 days where spend training a move that started developing during our week of battles and only needed a little more.
Then during one of my walks i found him.
'i thought i was the only one that liked to walk during night'
it was 12pm when i saw him, he was sitting on a coffee shop that was starting to close and a wartortle at his feet that was eating a piece of cake
so when he got up and payed i decided to go near him
" hey! you are profesor oak's grandson right? "
that got a sour reaction out of him
"What do you want?"
'don't mencion oak, got it'
" i saw you on an article a few weeks ago about how you beaten the cerulean gym so i decided to ask you if you wanna have a battle?"
'that seemed to be the correct answer since he started looking at slowpoke and hoothoot that woke up when i stopped petting him and got out of my jacket at the mention of battle
"How many badges do you have?"
"i have 2 badges right now"
to that he snickered
"come back when you have at least 3 badges, you aren't worth my time and i doubt you could beat surge with a water and flying type so clearly you aren't the smartest that there is if you decided to come to vermillion"
I did my best not to smile and scare blue, after all...
'thats where you are wrong, i didn't came for surge, i came for you... but how the hell does he get his badges so fast, its not fair'
i just smiled as little as i could
"well if your time is so worth it then i guess i can up the stakes a little"
so i pulled the disc from my bag
" This, is the TM psychic i got it from sabrina and its around 30000$ think you can match the bet?"
that did got his attencion and then he looked back at slowpoke and then at the tm and i just simply smiled which made him take a more serious look and then smiled
"ok you got my interest lets go to the poke center"
and with that we went back to the poke center asking nurse joy for an arena to battle so she guide us but before blue asked for a revision of the tm to make sure that it was psychic
'smart cookie you are'
and then we proceded to make it to the arena
"you have 2 pokemon right? then i guess its fair that i do the same"
i nodded and then the battle started
AUTHOR NOTES: I'm curious what you think of the story so far and what are your thoughts about the characters