7 years old

"Are you going out?" My mom asks.

"Yeah, I'm going to battle." I shout back.

"You're too young for that!"

"Virtually!"

"Better be! Take Togepi with you."

"Okay!"

I make sure I look okay. I look in the mirror. My afro is well brushed. My clothes look good. I will look great for my victory today. Me and the little girl are getting along way better. Her ability must be cute charm, cuz she does kinda makes me like her more. she'll use metronome and the wackiest thing happens. She used one time and she bounced so high I couldn't see her anymore. she fell so fast that I was sure I was going to see an omelet, but no. she just stood there a minute and started laughing. I just started laughing too. she also tried to use it to get her favorite snack. she double edged the wall. the wall won. I gave it to her. she earned it.

Minto Meadows, my city, is full of trees. The streets are almost always shadowy because of the trees covering the street. My mom says that from the sky, there are so many trees that it looks like a forest. I pass by the huge forest park that's in the middle of the city where an eevee often comes to say hi. I looked up what they like and brought some razz berry for it. I brought extra since I know this little eevee can eat. After gobbling all my berries so fast it goes back where its parents are waiting for it maybe. I hear some adults say that this little passage is dangerous. some come back beaten and badly bruised. Even my mom says not to go there, but I really like eevee. if i could make a 7th spot on my team it would for sure be it, especially this one. I hear branches shake. I look at togepi who looks up as it moves further away. it gets farther and farther and Togepi cheers it on, which makes me think that it's fine.

I arrived at the local competition, in our little town's pokemon center. There's a typical place to heal pokemon, the store and the infirmary, but right on the side is a section for pokemon items. Books, games, cards, plush etc. Everything you'd want has a pokemon fan, you can find here. I'm finally ready to win a simili-badge. A practiced type super effectiveness, hunted for perfect IVs which took forever. IVs are secret stats that boost or hinder a pokemon. The better you have the more chances you have to outspeed or outdamage or even endure a hit. I don't like breeding so I just kept looking for them in the wild. captured a ton of gibles for exemple took the best ones and breeded a few times to get the best nature. Could probably have had way better but it wouldn't have felt right. I sit down. I'm ready.

I'm in the finals, my Dragonite enters the game. I'm staring down a weavile and incineroar with about 25% of its health. on my side, I also have my valiant Garchomp. weavile uses choice scarf which boosts its speed. there's no way I'd out speed it. Garchomp has a little above half of his health and weavile just switched in. he'll probably try to fake out or knock off if any of this happens, i'm done. So I'll earthquake them which'll knockout incineroar then it'll be a 2v1 in my favor. I use iron head on weavile and earthquake on everything. Though weavile uses fake out on Garchomp. It loses quite a bit of life by the combination of rocky helmet and rough skin that both causes damage on contact. Then incineror uses flare blitz which Crits. it knocks Garchomp. the iron head makes contact and weavile and it's down. Thank Uxie, I didn't protect. Incineroar heals itself up with a sitrus berry, but it's done for. It doesn't have the fire power hehe, to take down a multiscale Dragonite. I use outrage which wins me the tournament. I love having Togepi here. I'm not sure how much she understands she's a great cheerleader. When I win she always cheers along. I hold her then go handshake the opponent who is surprisingly a girl my age. A lot of finalists are often older.

"How does it feel?" She asks.

"Pretty good!" I say a little bit shy.

"yeah, I guess luck does feel like that hun?"

I thought she was joking, so I laugh it up, but her face stays straight. She's really pretty, but she's kinda getting on my nerves. She has deep green eyes, which pops out cuz her skin is kinda golden.

"well you got pretty lucky, too. it's rare to suck that bad."

She glares at me and makes her handshake firmer which, not gonna lie, kinda hurts.

"Ah yeah, why don't we rematch now?"

"If I wanted to do charity work, I'd go to the shelter, they smell better."

Suddenly she doesn't seem so bad. I look at Togepi. I don't know what she's doing, but I feel like it's because of her. I take Togepi and prepare to head home.

"I guess you don't smell that bad." I say.

She huffs but is clearly more calm then she was before. The organizer gives me a badge. it's not the real thing, but it still feels great. Surprisingly beautiful too! And 10000 pokedollars!!! I buy a bunch of snacks and berries. it's dusk so I still have a bit of time to go see eevee. I search a little bit but don't see it. It must be by the river. I come by to it and two beautiful espeons are toying with it. must be its parents. I drop the berries whistle a little to get their attention. they come aggressively.

"Togepi use swee…"

Then eevee comes and licks me and they start to grow tender. I play with them until it starts to get dark.

"Alright, I have to go guys but I'll come back soon."

Togepi has been looking at the trees for a while. i look at it and suddenly it moves. I still can't figure out what it is.