AN: For some reason it won't let me make room between two lines, so I will now use (_) to make room.
When Lexi woke up the next morning she still felt a little low. Even the call she had with her mom had not helped. She quietly ate her breakfast and walked to the shops to get some supplies. Going home wasn't an option, she didn't want to be weak, and it would probably get better, wouldn't it?
Suddenly Serafine, who had been walked next to her, started running towards the woods. She was bucking and jumping, running back and forth, and let out a whinny. It seemed like she wanted to play. Lexi wasn't really in the mood, but Serafine did not care. She took Lexi's sleeve between her teeth and started pulling. Serafine was going so fast that Lexi had to run in order to save her sleeve from tearing. The running actually felt kind of nice, it cleared her mind. Serafine let go and continued running, but now Lexi ran with her.
When Lexi sat down a couple minutes later she felt a lot better. She was tired but felt calm and happy. She was ready to go out and explore, together with Serafine. The running had made her feel closer to her.
Lexi couldn't wait to go to the forest and start catching pokémon. Serafine seemed to have endless energy, the fire pony continuously ran around Lexi as they walked through the forest. The forest was beautiful, the grass was moving in de wind, the tree branches were bursting with buds, the ground was covered with little pokémon footprints and the sun was shining through it all making everything light up.
''Serafine! Where are you?'' Lexi hadn't seen her in a while. She heard a loud neigh and followed the sound to a small open space. There stood Serafine, in fighting position, staring at a very smug looking geodude. Serafine had found them a pokémon to battle!
The geodude smashed its wrists together, trying to look intimidating. It planted its hands firmly on the ground and pushed itself towards Serafine. But the ponyta was way too quick on her feet and dodged his tackle easily. ''Tackle it Serafine, as much as you can!'' Lexi shouted enthusiastically.
It turned out to be a little harder than she expected, because no matter how many times Serafine hit the geodude, it never seemed like it had taken any damage. The geodude grabbed a small rock of the round and threw it. It seemed to have some power behind it but the angle was wrong and it landed in a shrub nearby. Now that the pokémon was distracted Lexi gave a nod to Serafine and shouted ''One more time Serafine, full speed!''
Serafine hit the geodude right in the middle and threw it against a tree in the process. The geodude had some trouble getting back up but didn't seem to be giving up yet. Lexi quickly took a pokéball out of her backpack. If this pokémon could take all that, it had to be very strong. She threw the pokéball and hit the geodude right below his face. Now she had to wait for the red light to stop blinking.
It took a whole minute but eventually she heard a soft *click* and the button stayed white. Lexi picked up the pokéball.
''Serafine! We have caught our first pokémon! What should I name it? Wait, is it a male or a female?'' Lexi pointed the pokédex at the pokéball, but it didn't seem to be able to recognize it. ''Well, I will name it when it comes out of its pokéball again. Maybe…Ava or….Pero!''
Lexi quickly went back to Diptera Town to get her new pokémon healed and found out it was a male geodude. The geodude turned out to be a very proud pokémon, and challenged Lexi to a second fight. ''Sorry Pero, I don't really have the time for that right now, but I promise you we will have another fight. Okay?'' The geodude looked at her with a stern look on his face. Lexi held out the pokéball and Pero reluctantly pushed the button with his finger causing him to change into red energy and be pulled to the pokéball.
Lexi sat down at a park bench and looked at her ponyta who was eating the grass while lying down. They had trained in the forest still the sun started to set. Lexi wanted to wait with using Pero till she felt a bit more confident, it seemed to be a pokémon with an attitude. After having a small dinner herself, Lexi had brought Serafine to a nice clean meadow where her pokémon could graze while she tried to make a plan. ''This is going to be our last day here. Tomorrow we will start traveling towards Crocuta Town to challenge the gymleader, hopefully I will have caught my third pokémon by then.''
''Crocuta Town you said? I'm going the same way, maybe we can travel together.'' A young boy with black hair appeared next to her. On his shoulder stood a small hoothoot.
Lexi was unsure. Her parents had told her it was very common for trainers to travel together and that it could be very helpful and fun. But Lexi still felt uncomfortable with the idea of traveling with someone she knew nothing about. After weighing the pros and cons Lexi made her decision.
She stood up from the bench and extended her hand, ''Sure, my name is Lexi Blue.''
The boy was a little bit smaller than her and had a tanned skin. His eyes were green, which matched the green glasses he had in the pocket of his red t-shirt. ''Nice to meet you, my name is Aiden Krean. I'm a pokémon trainer too. This here is my buddy Hoothoot, ''Aiden said while pointing to the pokémon on his shoulder,'' and I also have Pidgey''.
''Well this is Serafine, my ponyta and I also have a geodude named Pero that I caught today.''
''Serafine? Pero? You name your pokémon?'' Aiden said surprised, ''My parents had always just called them by them species.''
''Oh,'' Lexi said also slightly surprised, ''well that´s fine too. Naming isn´t that important.'' Lexi found it a bit strange to not name a pokémon, but she didn't want to tell him and maybe cause a fight. They said goodnight and they both went to their own rooms to sleep. They would meet at the park bench near Grey Forest and continue their journey together.