[PKMN FULL] Stars of Sinnoh [IC][T]

Bro watched the poke'ball slowly click. He wished that it would've gone quicker, but he didn't linger too long on the thought. Instead, he went and snatched up the poke'ball and took off. He needed to get the Kricketot to a Pokemon Center.

Bro spent a full minute sprinting up the hill, before he found himself before Jublife City. It was about the same size as Opelucid, just a little more plain. Bro wanted to look around more, but he didn't have time for that. He could sight see later.

It didn't take much to locate the Pokemon Center, even in the large city. How many orange buildings are there? Not a lot, because Bro managed to find the Pokemon Center right away. Perhaps he was just lucky though.

He continued on his dead sprint, ignoring anybody who asked him to slow down. He kept going until he was just steps outside of the Pokemon Center, where he slowed down so the automatic doors could open. He continued on, heaving with each step. Nurse Joy looked at him, eyes alert.

Bro explained the whole situation to Nurse Joy as fast as possible. She simply nodded her head and took the fainted bug Pokemon. She rushed back to the infirmary.

Bro went and found a nice chair to sit in. He sat and took a deep breath. He was praying to Arceus that Kricketot was okay. Mostly because Growlithe now belonged to him and he would feel responsible. He then realized that Growlithe needed a nickname. He also needed to be healed along with Shane. Either way, he released the two Pokemon.

"Hey Growlithe, you need a name -" Bro was interrupted by Growlithe attempting to rip up the furniture. Bro quickly returned the Pokemon and groaned.

"You know what, your name is Sphinx. You don't get an option." Shane smiled at that also tried to bite the furniture. Bro then had to return him too.

Bro patiently waited for about thirty minutes, finding different things to amuse his ADHD ways. There were a lot of things to see in a Pokemon Center. From different people to paintings on the wall.

Nurse Joy eventually came out with a Poke'ball. Bro looked at her hopefully. She gave him a big smile and nodded her head.

"Your Pokemon is all better now. You can-" Bro interrupted the Nurse.

"Umm... It isn't my Pokemon. I just found it in the wild," Bro said.

"Oh, well that would explain the Poke'ball thing. I decided to put it in one of ours, but I think it should have the choice to join you. I wouldn't be surprised if the Kricketot did want to stay with you. "

"Oh, well then. How about we let Kricketot out and set out one of my Poke'balls. If he jumps in, I keep him. If he doesn't, I'll release him into the wild," Bro proposed. Nurse Joy agreed and let out Kricketot. Bro set out a Poke'ball and watched. Kricketot looked up confused. Bro proposed his idea, and waited on the bug Pokemon to make a decision...

​

This didn't look well. Where on earth could I have left Truffles's PokéBall? It must be somewhere around here. That seemed a good start of the day, Mireille hadn't even started her Pokémon journey yet and had already screwed things up. Well, that wasn't today, actually. She packed all her stuff yesterday, but only realized now that she needed Truffles to get in her PokéBall. Not the weirdest thing to forget, if the Swinub is normally able to just walk around freely through the house and its surroundings. Okay, right. Why did I start this again? She knew in fact the answer to that question pretty well. Her Dad used to be a Pokémon Trainer in his younger years and thought that Mireille should follow his footsteps. But then they moved to a new region and Mireille had to get used to the new place for quite a while and it never came to becoming a real Pokémon Trainer... until now. Her fieldwork biology project demanded studying Pokémon from different areas than just the few nearby. Combining that with training Pokémon goes terribly easy and gives a good company too, so why not?

Finally Truffles's PokéBall was found, at the bottom of one of her drawers. Gotcha! "Truffles! Where are you? We're leaving." Truffles scampered from the kitchen to the stairs. "Oh, there you are, girl. Were you begging for food again?" A growl sounded to confirm this. "You already had breakfast this morning. We must leave now, we have an appointment with Professor Rowan."

After Mireille closing the door behind her, she whistled through her fingers. The sound was responded by a bird Pokémon raising from the forest next to her house and landed on his favored spot on the lawn. Itaru looked just as carefree as always. Mireille stroke the Fearow on his neck. "Ready for a flight, Itaru?" The bird spread his wings and raised his head, showing his readiness. Mireille called Truffles in her PokéBall, climbed on Itari's back and took off.

It was nice Dad let her borrow Itari for trips like these. Because the passage through the Ravaged Path is blocked by some rocks, cycling to Jubilife City has a shortest route going via Eterna and Orebough, which takes way to long. In the air Floaroma and Jubilife lie just adjacent to each other.
They flew over the largest city of Sinnoh and landed on Route 202, the short route connecting Jubilife with Sandgem Town, the latter being this trip's destination. Mireille dismounted and thanked Itaru for the ride. Itaru stroke his beak over Mireille's shoulder in way of greeting goodbye, stepped four feet backwards and rose into the air again, heading back towards Floaroma.

Mireille walked to Sandgem town and immediately enjoyed the nice atmosphere the small village had, just like Floaroma. The slight difference is that the flower scents were replaced by sea air, but she found that nice as well. "Go, Truffles!" The Swinub immediately got out of her PokéBall and happily ran a circle around Mireille. "Good to have some more space again, right?" Mireille said to her pet and patted her on the head. "Now let's find Rowan's laboratory." In such small town, finding the only important building wasn't a hard job. Mireille read the sign again. "Rowan's Lab" it said. Yes, it must be here. She opened the door and entered the building, followed by Truffles. A blue haired girl introduced herself as Dawn, professor Rowan's assistant. She led Mireille further and introduced her to the professor.

"So you're miss Birkshire? Nice to meet you. Here, these are some forms you need to fill in order to officially become a Pokémon trainer." Rowan said while handing some papers to Mireille. Mireille took the time to read through everything and signed them. "Here you go, professor."
"Thank you. And here is your PokéDex, a device able to store data of all Pokémon you have encountered." Mireille accepted the PokéDex and checked what is had to say about Truffles.

Swinub, the pig Pokémon.
It has a very sensitive nose. It can locate mushrooms, berries and even hot springs buried under ice.

"I knew about the berries and food, but it looks like you can even find hot springs. That might come in handy sometime." Truffles jumped enthusiastically. Mireille thanked professor Rowan and was about to leave the lab, but was stopped by Dawn running after her, showing five PokéBalls in her hand.
"Mireille, these are for you. We give those to each starting trainer to catch the first few Pokémon."
"Oh, thanks. I'll use these wisely."

Mireille stood outside again. So now I'm an officially registered Pokémon trainer. The only thing I did was signing some papers, but I feel different that yesterday. Where should I head next? Quickly after she decided to go to the beach, Truffles showed her detest of large amounts of water and kept at distance from the shore. Mireille took off her shoes and started reading a book while her feet were continuously overflowed and by the water, moving a little backwards every now and then, as the water is slowly getting closer. Truffles entertained herself digging in the sand behind Mireille.

In the afternoon, Mireille got approached by a boy asking: "Weren't you that gal that landed here this morning on that cool big bird Pokémon?"
"Yes, that's me. However the bird is my Dad's. I'm just a beginning trainer."
"Really? Then I can win! I challenge you for a Pokémon battle!"
"Consider your challenge accepted."

Kai Manning

Fiker

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A Day in the Jubilife

Huff. Huff. Huff. Kai had only ridden up Route 202 a couple times before. It was steeper than she remembered. And windier. If it weren't for all these dang traverses—she shook bangs and sweat from her eyes and glanced over her left shoulder. Fiker was keeping up determinedly, breathing hard but keeping good form. Yep, she had raised a runner! She was watching him proudly and not looking where she was going, and she realized her mistake when she saw his eyes widen and he cried in alarm. Facing forward again, she only had a split second to avoid colliding with a youngster, which nearly wore out her breaks and sent her skidding out in a forced turn. When the dust settled she was in a heap with a scrape up her left arm and along her jaw. Her shinx ran over, tail straight up and sparking, and made anxious rumbles as he licked her. Kai coughed hollowly and rubbed dust from one eye as she looked for the kid. "You okay?"

"Alright mister, our eyes have met, and you know what that means! Time to battle!"

"... What?" Kai stood and dusted herself off before picking up her bike—seemed like it was fine.

"When two trainers' eyes meet they are destined to battle!"

" Kid, I just flew off my bike, I'm not really—"

"You've got a pokemon, haven't you?" He cried enthusiastically, pointing at Fiker.

"I mean yeah, but we don't really—"

"Then let's go, Starly!" He threw a pokeball, and a starly flew out of the red glow. "Starly, use quick attack!" The starly looked at Fiker and didn't seem to want to attack, but obeyed its trainer.

"ARE YOU CRAZY?" Before Kai could react the Starly flew at Fiker and got in a hit. "We're not ready! I haven't even che—" she was interrupted by a flash as Fiker used discharge without notice. "Fiker! You too?" The shinx looked at her defiantly. This was the point of their journey, wasn't it?

"Starly! Tackle!"

"Uh okay, bite it!" As the Starly made contact Fiker clenched his jaws onto its wing. Both sustained some damage, but Starly looked more exhausted. "Alright Fiker, next time charge up your bite!"

"Starly, tackle again!" This time when they collided Fiker used thunder fang, and the type matchup was too much for Starly.

"Huh, you beat me this time, but you just got lucky, having an electric type against my flyer. That thunder fang is pretty strong."

"... Right," Kai said, keeping a poker face. Planned it all along.
"Good match! See ya around, mister! And next time watch where you're going, I had to walk out right in front of you to get your attention."

Kai watched the youngster walk away with a confused look on her face. "He meant to get in my way?" she asked, turning to Fiker, who twitched his ears indifferently. "Well, good job, partner! First battle won!" she said with a grin. He let off sparks and flashed a few times as if to say 'I'm all riled up!' "Whew, well I guess we can get back on our way to Jubilife. Oh... gross," she said, wiping at her chin and looking at the blood on her fingers. "Eh, it'll scab, right? Let's go!"


In Jubilife, Kai made a beeline for the most important building there: the Trainer's School. She could hold her own in hand to hand combat, but she had no idea how to pokemon battle. She didn't even know what moves Fiker knew. Sitting on the small stool had her knees bent up nearly to her chest, she seemed a giant pouring seriously over books at the comically low table. "Mister, why are you all bloody?" asked a boy sitting across the table. "She's not a boy, are you, Mister!" said the girl next to him, slamming her hands on the table as she stood and glaring intently into Kai's eyes. "I know because you have blue eyes and boys don't!"

"Um, that isn't true—"
"Hah, told you so, Christine!"
"Shut up, Harrison!"
"No, I am a girl, it's just that—"
"Told you."
"Boys have blue eyes too, sometimes, it just depends."

Both school kids eyed her suspiciously. She eyed back, warily. "Got any books about the moves a shinx might know?"

"Battle me and I'll tell you, no need for a book." Kai looked over her shoulder at a woman with pretty brown hair.
"Oh! Are you an aroma lady?"
"I'm actually a teacher here," she said, smiling."But you can call me Taylor. I am a bit of an aroma lady, when I'm not at work. Let's have an assessment test of your shinx, shall we?" They took Fiker's enthusiastic growl for a yes.


"Alright Cherubi, come on out!" The cherry pokemon quaked unhappily when it saw Fiker. "Your shinx seems to be quite intimidating!"

"Yep, he's a tough guy!" Kai said proudly, and Fiker's fur crackled with electricity as he puffed up proudly. "Okay, so he should just give it everything he's got?"

"That's the idea!"

"Alright buddy, just do whatever you want, I guess."
Electricity began accumulating around the shinx in a crackling ball, causing it to glow yellow. "That looks like charge, a move to power up electric type moves."
In a flash he loosed it in a radiating ring from his body. "And there's discharge, a special type electric attack. Cherubi, use morning sun." The cherubi glowed slightly as she regained energy from the sunlight coming through the windows. Next the shinx used bite (Kai already knew the name of that one), thunder fang (learned that from the trainer on 202) and ice fang, something Kai had never seen before. Taylor's cherubi healed up between attacks using morning sun, and the assessment was a success. Kai thanked Taylor for all her help, and took her advice of heading up to route 204 to catch some more pokemon for her team, after stopping at the pokecenter to patch herself up in addition to her shinx,. Kai winked at the kids as she left. Christine stuck her tongue out.


"What a day, huh! My legs are sore already!" Fiker agreed appreciatively as the pair strolled along their familiar route 204. "Is it time for lunch do you think?" Kai checked her poketch, which had been on her wrist for years and had certainly seen better days. It's a real credit to the company that it was still functional. Satisfied that they gone far enough to break for lunch, she fished around a saddlebag and pulled out a plastic container with rice and seaweed in it. She scooped some into the lid and put it down for Fiker and dug around the bag for a spoon. The two sat in front of their food with their eyes closed for a moment, then tore in, gulping down food unceremoniously. They belched in unison, then Kai poured water from her bottle into her emptied dish for Fiker. He finished the water and licked up any stray rice grains, and Kai put everything away.

"Okay! Time to stretch!" The pair busily went through various stretches, but Fiker stopped suddenly, ears pricked as he stared into the tall grass nearby. "Oh?" Kai said, standing. The grass shook, and a sewaddle crawled out. Its eyes widened when it saw Fiker's grinning face. "What a cute sewaddle!" Kai said happily, and went back to stretching. Fiker had other plans. The sewaddle gulped, but readied itself to fight. To get the upper hand, it attacked first with a bug bite. "Oh-ho, a feisty guy! Okay Fiker, use thunder fang!" The sewaddle squirmed in alarm, but resisted the attack. It wiggled away and turned back to shoot off a string shot. Fiker stumbled in the goo and tripped. "Discharge! We don't want to hurt it too bad with an ice fang, given the type. Let's try to catch it! I like its spunk." Fiker seemed annoyed, but gave a look to Kai that indicated a grudging respect for the sewing pokemon. The sewaddle took the zap pretty well, and charged forward with a tackle. Fiker's mobility was compromised by the string shot, but the sewaddle seemed to be able to walk across the sticky silk; it crawled all over Fiker's struggling body, exchanging bug bites for discharges. Both pokemon were starting to get exhausted, and the sewaddle seemed to be having a hard time focusing its eyes after all the zaps. "Okay! I'm gonna throw the pokeball!" With a huge windup and probably more force than necessary, she launched the pokeball at the fighting pokemon.

Welcome to Jubilife!​

Dan was amazed by the size of Jubilife city. He was used to the small town of Celestic, and Jubilife seemed to be the opposite. Sky scrapers almost kissed the clouds, and every path was paved. Buildings went as far as Dan could see. He felt a small rush of excitement, as the huge city was new for him.
It took him mere moments to get lost.
"Ehm, ma'am, can I…" The woman ignored Dan, and went on without even acknowledging him. "I'm sorry to bother you!" he yelled. The streets were crowded, and the lack of good signs confused Dan more. He was sure he passed the same boutique three times now, but it seemed to be next to another shop each time. After half an hour of more stumbling around and bumping into people, Dan decided to go inside a small corner shop. It was run by an incredibly old woman, whose head barely stuck out above the counter.
"Can I help you?" She asked, with a voice that sounded like it was rusting.
"I'm looking for directions," Dan answered, "A pokecenter or a hotel would be handy to find."
The old woman shook her head. "No service if you don't buy anything, young man."
The looked around awkwardly. He scanned the store quickly, but there really wasn't anything he needed in this store. "I… I don't think I really-"
"No service is you don't buy anything!" She slammed her hand on the counter. She stepped away from the counter, and came to Dan. Her head barely came above his hips. Two hands firmly put themselves in his back, and she started pushing him. Strong, the woman was not, as Dan barely moved.
"I'll buy some water then," he said.
The woman kept pushing him, and said: "That's not enough. Any expense should be more than 500 pokedollars."
Dan sighed. He stepped aside, and the woman almost fell over. He walked up to a rack and grabbed a six-pack of bottled water.
"That will be 500 pokedollars!" The tiny elder said. She grabbed a map from under the counter, and showed it to Dan. "And 1000 pokedollars for the map!"

Dan had visited the pokecenter. He was really glad his license made it free, because he didn't really have much money left after that old ha- ehm, lovely old lady let him out of the store. He was on his way to the trainer school now, and he managed to find it without getting lost. He did take the wrong turn thrice, but nobody would know that. He didn't plan on enrolling at the school, but he hoped to find someone to battle. He really wanted to let his Turtwig experience a real battle, and it wouldn't hurt to see what Litleo was capable off.

Welcome to Jubilife!​

The inside was filled with people. Dan guessed there were at least 200 people walking around the school. He walked up to the counter, dodging the groups of school kids that walked through the lobby.
"Ehm… I heard we could battle here?" He said, "I don't know if I'm at the right place?" The lady behind after the counter was pretty, with long brown hair.
"You are at the right place, don't worry," she said, smiling, "just fill in a sign up here, and follow the hallway to the end." Dan received a piece of paper, and quickly scribbled down his details, in his squiggly, terrible handwriting.
"Do I take this with me, or, ehm, do I, well, leave it with you?" He said. The girl just smiled and pointed towards the hallway. Dan awkwardly smiled and almost tripped when he tried to disappear into the hallways.
"You're so smooth, Dan," he said to himself. At the end of the hallway was a big door, and the word 'arena' was printed above it in thick black letters. The door was opened automatically, and it opened to a stairwell that spiraled to a lower floor. The basement was a big training ground, with around 8 battlefields. A big burly man walked up to him.
"Hiya kiddo!" Dan was hit by a big hand, with a lot of force behind him. "You look like you want to battle!" He pushed Dan towards one of those fields.
"Colin, I found you a partner!" The big man yelled to a boy apparently named Colin at the other side. Colin was a lengthy kid with red curly hair, and wore a school outfit a size to small.
"I'm Colin," he yelled from the other side of the field, "nice to meet you!"
"Nice to meet you too," Dan yelled back, "so, now we just battle?"

"Yes," the big man said, now standing at the side line.

Dan's Turtwig landed on all four, and showed he was ready for action. Colin sent out a Cubone.
"Turtwig, use razor leaf." Razor sharp leaves shot out, hitting the Cubone with full force. Not a second later, a bone hit Turtwig from behind. Turtwig lost balance, and fell flat on the ground.
"Use absord!" Turtwig drained the ground pokemon's energy. The Cubone walked towards him, seemingly getting weaker with every step. He grabbed the bone that lay next to the Turtwig, and started hitting him on the head. Turtwig returned inside his shell, without stopping the draining of energy. The Cubone started hitting harder, and shook the shell with every hit. Leaves started shooting out from every side in the shield, catching the Cubone of guard.
"Turtwig, use absorb again!" This time the draining was too much for the Cubone, and it fainted.

Colin's next pokemon was an Oddish.
"Oddish, use Acid!" Purple liquid sprayed over Turtwig, drawing out a scream from the turtle, fainting it.
"No worries, buddy," Dan said, "you did great." He sent out his Litleo, who he used in battle for the first time now. The pokemon ran around the field, incredibly excited, and completely clueless to the situation.
"Litleo, use ember!" The Litleo spit out small embers, but they landed nowhere near the Oddish. A little flame burned on the battlefield, as Litleo received an Oddish to the side, toppling him over. He got up and started running around, grabbing the leaves of the Oddish in his teeth, dragging it with him. The Oddish used Acid again, but its uncomfortable position made it impossible for him to hit the Litleo, and instead, the poison dripped unto the field. The fire pokemon dropped the Oddish, and curiously looked at the puddle of purple poison. It stuck its tongue in it, and immediately pulled away from it, running around with a face that screamed disgust.
"Litleo?"
It kept on running, no regards for its trainer nor its opponent. After a second or ten it seemed to have figured out that the Oddish was the cause of the burning feeling on its tongue, and it jumped towards it, using ember again.
"Welp, you just do you," Dan said, while his Litleo fired small embers at the Oddish, until the grass pokemon couldn't handle it anymore, and fainted.

Mireille quickly stood up, exited by the chance to test her skills as a trainer. The boy detached a PokéBall from his belt a called for his Bidoof. Truffles was still occupied by digging a hole in the sand and Mireille had to call the Swinub by her name to make her notice she was needed for a battle here. Back on the surface, Mireille gave the first command of the battle, to use Mud Slap. Mud splashed in the Bidoof's face partially blocking its sight. "Bidoof, use Tackle!" was the counter move proposed by its trainer.
After the Bidoof rammed into Truffles, she responded by Biting the beaver Pokémon. The latter tried to hit another Tackle, but estimated the Swinub's location wrongly and hit the beach sand at full power, making an easy target for Truffles to finish it with another Bite. Wohoo! First victory! Then it appeared the kid had a second Pokémon, a Pidgey.
The second part of the battle didn't last very long. The Pidgey opened with a simple Tackle attack, dealing a good amount of damage to Truffles. Mireille could notice it, Truffles didn't have much energy left to keep on battling. Pidgey, I've seen those a lot back in Johto. The bird is normal/flying, which means it should be weak against an ice type attack. "Truffles, use Powder Snow!" A wind of snow flakes circled around the Pidgey, which fell down and was unable to stand up again.

The boy gave a shout of disappointment with his loss when he recalled his Pidgey. "How could I lose two versus one?"
"Even when I only just started as a Pokémon, my Swinub and me have been together for thirteen years now, meaning our bond is really strong, that helps too. But I'm sure you'll get there point too and be much stronger than me when you reach my current age." Mireille answered, patting the boy on the head. They greeted each other goodbye and Mireille headed back to Sandgem Town.

Mireille entered the Pokémon Center and walked towards the desk. "Hello, can my Swinub be healed, please?"
"Of course. But you need to call it back into its PokéBall first, otherwise the machine wouldn't work."
Mireille nodded, looked for the PokéBall in her bag, recalled Truffles and handed the Ball to the nurse. The machine made some bleeping noises, some lights flashed and it was done already.
"Your Swinub has been restored to full health." the nurse said and handed Truffles's Ball back. "We hope to see you again."

Those last words stuck in Mireille's head. 'We hope to see you again.'? Weird. Do they want our Pokémon to get hurt? Probably because they'll otherwise lose their jobs. Or maybe it's just some standard slogan they have to say. Mireille kept thinking about that for a bit when she walked further and before she completely realized it she already stood in Jubilife City. Those are really close. Now I wonder why I've never visited Sandgem before.

Jubilife wasn't Mireille's favored type of city, too big. Flats showed up everywhere and the streets were as crowded as always. Luckily she was familiar with the city already and could find her way, meaning not having to wander about through the whole city to actually find where's she's going."Okay, there's a lot to do here. Where shall we go?" asked Mireille. Although she directed the question to Truffles, she particularly asked it to herself.

Chapter 3: The Oreburgh Gym!​

After taking in the incredible city of Jubilife, it's time to go to Oreburgh. Oreburgh is the city on stones, laying in a valley, and filled with minerals. It thrives on their mining industry, led by Roark, the Oreburgh gym leader.

Objectives:
Reach Oreburgh City, and get the Oreburgh gym badge.

Optional Objectives:
Explore the Oreburgh's gate lower floors.
Take a tour in the mines. Don't go in unsupervised though, they are very dangerous!

Routes:
Route 203
A rocky route that connects Oreburgh and Jubilife. The route is very peaceful, and has a very natural atmosphere.
Pokemon:
Zubat, Abra, Shinx, Kricketot, Starly, Cubone, Ralts, Lotad, Seedot, Spewpa, Wurmple

Oreburgh Gate
A small cave on top, the Oreburgh Gate is a big cave network, with lots of space to get lost in. The top floor is small, but the lower floors are great places to explore
Pokemon, Floor 1:
Geodude, Zubat, Psyduck, Roggenrola
Pokemon, Floor 2:
Zubat, Woobat, Geodude, Roggenrola, Aron, Machop, Onix, Shellos, Barboach

Route 207
A route filled with grass and dirt, divided in half by a very steep hill, that's not climable.
Pokemon:
Phanpy, Machop, Ponyta, Phanpy, Gligar, Stantler, Larvitar, Sawk, Throh