Route 1:Part 3
Evening started to fall upon the sky as our young trainer and his companions continued their trek to Mercury City. The sky had become a brilliant orange behind the clouds the moved gently along the sky. Small rays of light still escaped illuminating the path for travel. Judging solely from this Fallow assumed it must have some near six pm as that is when sundown usually was In Mercury. At this point in his travel Shiva had taken a break from tree hopping and was walking alongside Fallow chewing on a blade of grass for entertainment. Neith was on his back, her arms on his shoulders to keep her from falling. Fallow was looking forward to making it back to town, he had travelled now for roughly a day through the same path, including his trip to Aurora Town.
As the team continued toward their destination a strange sound could be hear in the nearby shrubbery. From the sound of it, it was a pokemon in pain. Fallow quickly combed through the bushes to find two monkey pokemon that looked like panpour but with different coloration picking on a small fire type. The boy pulled out his Pokedex and scanned the three creatures. He first pointed at the pokemon that was curled in a ball on the ground.
Cyndaquil the fire echidna pokemon, it protects itself by flaring up the flames on its back. The flames are vigorous if the Pokémon is angry. However, if it is tired, the flames sputter fitfully with incomplete combustion.
Next Fallow scanned the other two pokemon starting with the one that was currently jumping up and down on the body of the Cyndaquil.
Pansear, the High Temp Pokémon. Pansear lives in caves near volcanoes. The temperature on the tuft on its head can reach 600 degrees when it's angry.
Pansage the grass monkey pokemon, it shares the leaf on its head with weary-looking Pokémon. These leaves are known to relieve stress.
"Hmm Fallow said to himself trying to figure out the best course of action. It was not every day he ran into pokemon acting this rowdy. Not only that but the pokemon he was sighting were not very common at all, at least not in his home region, and he had never done too much exploration since he made it to the Celestial Region, but now was not the time to contemplate on all of this.
"Shiva I need you to get in there and hit that Pansear as hard and fast as you can. Go now!" The grass type then took off at the fastest pace that she had before, in fact an outline was left behind her. It was a quick attack, in a matter of seconds the Treecko elbowed the Pansear in the stomach knocking it off the Cyndaquil causing it to careen into a stump.
"Good job Shiva!" exclaimed Fallow as his pokemon took a few paces back. The Pansage seemed rather frustrated that the fun of harassing the Cyndaquil was cut short and put on a rather serious face. Upon getting up, the Pansear as well dawned the same expression.
"Neith get in there, Shiva is going to need your help." The water pokemon hopped of Fallows back and skipped forward, stopping when it reached Treecko's side. The four pokemon then stood staring each other down. In the center of them the Cyndaquil slowly uncurled revealing its rather innocent looking face. It seemed generally frightened of what was going on and scurried toward Fallow, acknowledging him as the one who saved him from its torture. It hid behind his leg with enough room to watch the battle that was about to transpire.
"Alright you guys, show these two troublemakers what for. I don't tolerate bullying of any kind. Shiva use pound on the Pansage, Neith water gun the Pansear." Treecko then ran toward the grass pokemon, a torrent of water whizzing behind her as she charged. However, the intended target of the water attack had dashed toward the Treecko, evading the water gun, and delivering a nasty fire punch hitting the Treecko to the ground.
"Neith try to get in close and use you Low Kick combo!" As his pokemon moved in for the attacks Fallow started to wonder about this style of fighting. On his previous journey he only got into a handful of double battles. He was never very good at them, but just always managed to squeeze through. He did not know if he would be so lucky. Fortunately Panpour was able to land both its low kick and scratch attack on the Pansear before being restrained by two vines the shot from the wrists of the Pansage. Fallow grimaced knowing there was very little he could do in this situation. If Neith charged forward she would be victim to a hit by the Pansear, which would not be too bad, but with the Pansage still free it could easily land a blow. Shiva couldn't do much as she was still pushing herself up. Before he could give his next command the bush on Pansage's head began to emit small glowing leaves that then shot toward the water type. Fallow recognized the move from Shiva's arsenal, it was a leaf storm. The flurry of leaves devastated the Panpour leaving it passed out on the ground.
"Damn it, I should have recalled her, but I froze." Fallow picked up a pokeball from his waist and recalled the fainted water type. Shiva now stood alone in front of the two wild pokemon. It wasn't before long that the gecko pokemon was in the same position as the water type before it.
I have to do something. I can't let this happen again. thought the boy wracking his mind for a solution. Looking back on the battlefield the Pansear had stepped in front of the Pansage between the vines restraining Treecko's arms and looked to be taking a deep breath. It was clear it was going to use a fire move but there was no clear way to escape.
"I got it, Shiva pull the vines toward you!" The Treecko happy to oblige the trainer tugged hard on the vines making the Pansage collide into the Pansear. The fire attack that the pokemon had been prepping for was prematurely shot out, leaving the grass type with little time to evade. With a large thud the Treecko was thrust to the side by a surprisingly strong quick attack by the Cyndaquil that had been hiding behind Fallow. He didn't even notice that the fire type had moved from beside him. It seemed that the fall of the Panpour and almost defeat of Shiva had heightened its fighting spirit, as the flames on its back burned violently. The small fire type then opened its mouth and shot a small stream of fire at the two foes that still lay on the ground. The Pansage managed to avoid the attack by using its vines to propel itself over the fire. The Pansear however, did not have such a fortunate fate, after taking damage from before it just barely endured the heat of the flames. As it struggled to make another attempt to stand the Cyndaquil hit it with a fearsome tackle attack, leaving it down for the count.
Fallow watched in amazement as the small pokemon that just a few minutes ago was being bullied took out one of its tormentors, and with ease. "Alright Shiva, lets show that little guy that his fight is appreciated, lets end this use quick attack and grab the vines supporting Pansage." The Treecko took off again not quite as fast as its first use of the attack, but still with enough speed to grab the vines of the Pansage before it placed itself back on the ground. "Now use pound to jump and hit him with a second." The grass pokemon gave a small nod and launched itself into the air with the power of its tail. Then in the usual front flip fashion delivered a heavy pound attack to its foe sending it straight into the ground. Treecko, vines still in hand landed next to the fallen monkey pokemon both satisfied and tired from the fight. The Cyndaquil, also seemed somewhat happy, and trotted over to Fallow behind the Treecko.
"Good job, both of you." said Fallow reaching for Treecko's pokeball. "I think you deserve a rest after that fight missy" He then opened the ball encasing the grass type in a red light before it disappeared from sight.
"Cynda, Cynda" cried the fire type gesturing toward the pokeball he had just placed the Treecko in.
"Did you want to come with us? You know you're going to have to get into more battles. From what I saw here I'm not sure you're the type that really enjoys fighting. "The Cyndaquil simply replied with another nudge to his leg assuring the boy it knew what it wanted. "Fine you can come, it will be useful to have you around anyway. You seem to be good in a tight spot." As Fallow reached for a spare pokeball, he heard another rustling in the bushes. When he looked to his surprise a legendary pokemon jumped out. It was an Entei, before he had a chance to even think about tossing the empty ball at the beast it ran off, but it wasn't alone. It was followed by Raikou and Suicune as well. Fallow had remembered reading about these pokemon before he left on his trip, this sight was incredibly rare, not just for him but for anyone. After the pokemon had run off two men in orange showed up, it seemed that they were in pursuit of them as they paid him and the Cyndaquil no mind at all.
"Well Cyndaquil, I can tell you from now, you are going to have your work cut out for you." Fallow smiled down at the pokemon as he opened the pokeball encasing the Cyndaquil in a white light. With three non-stressful shakes the fire type was added to the team, and Fallow headed back to the main path. In the distance he could see Mercury city, it was only maybe an hour away. It had taken a long while but his journey had now seriously begun.
