A pokemon journey:Marek

[Marek]

I would like comments on the storycontent and on my righting style. Please be honest but don't be rude, it is afterall my first fanfic and it isn't in my native language.

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Chapter one: A new beginning:


It was still dark in Oldron town.
The sun would be coming up any minute now and everything lay quite and still. As soon as the sun came over the horizon, a Dodrio started crying loud into the air.

"Darn Dodrio, the same thing every morning. Can't he shut up for one morning?" Marek said to himself as he was awakened by the cry of the Dodrio.

"Well I better get up, it is my birthday after all, got to make it a good day."

Marek turned 10 this day and it was today that he would start his own pokemon journey.

"Wake up Growlithe, today is our great day." He said to his Growlithe.

He and growlithe had always been together.
Growlithe came out of an egg that the two Arcanines of his father had laid.
The egg had hatched the day Marek was born and the newly born Growlithe and Marek were instant best friends.
When they were younger they had a lot of adventures together in the surroundings of the little village where they lived.
At only the age of 5, Marek knew he wanted to become a pokemon trainer and also start with a Growlithe, just like his father.

His father was a great pokemon trainer who had much success in his days.
He could have been a part of the elite four of both the Kanto region as the Yotho region, the two regions where he performed best. But with his wife being pregnant of their first child, he declined the offer.
He had many, many pokemon but of all he still liked his Arcanine the most since it was his first pokemon to start with.
Now he is proud about the fact that his son would start the same way as him.

Since it was only 7 o'clock Marek started packing his stuff and putting on his clothes for his big journey.

"Ok backpack is set only needs a couple bottles of water and that is done.
Yes Growlithe I packed your food too it is already in there." He said after Growlithe let out a soft grunt.
"Laptop is also ready." He said to himself while packing another shoulder bag.
"I-pod is loaded and fully charged." He said putting the chain of his I-pod around his neck, leaving the ears hanging on his chest.

He was wearing blue jeans that he obviously had worn many times before, being all pail and some shreds at the bottom.
Under those jeans he wore a pair of running sneakers in which he felt the most comfortable.
Also was he wearing a sleeveless red T-shirt with a black leather vest that had a hood.

After putting on his clothes he combed his short brownish hair backwards so it would stand up.
Then he put on his very precious necklace that he got from his father.
It had a pokeball attached to it. The pokeball was the ball with which Growlithe was caught.

By now it was 8 o'clock and he figured his parents would be up so he went down to the kitchen to say goodbye to his family.

When he came down the stairs and walked into the kitchen his mom, dad and little sister were already sitting there.
A big banner was hanging above the kitchen table, which read happy birthday Marek.

"Happy birthday son." His dad said, while giving his son a hug.

"Happy birthday my little boy." Said his mom while squeezing him.

"Happy birthday big brother. His little 7-year-old sister said to him.

"Thanks guys." He said while receiving his gifts.

From his dad he got his pokedex. His mom gave him an extra external hard drive for his laptop.

"Just to make sure you have enough space to gather all your trainings on." She said.

"Wow thanks mom, thanks dad. This stuff is really going to be useful." He said while he put the pokedex in the pocket of his vest and the hard drive in the shoulder bag with his laptop.

"Hey Marek I got a present for you too." His little sister shouted.

"Oh really Sofia? And what did you get for me?" he asked while kneeling down in front of her.

"Close your eyes and I will give it to you."
Marek played the game and closed his eyes.
When he could open them again Sofia had put a bracelet around his wrist.

"Wow Sofia, it is beautiful thank you. I will cherish it."

"Ok then I am ready to get moving." He said while getting back up.

"Wait we have one more gift for you." His dad said while giving him a digital camera.

"So you can send us pictures too." His mom added.

"Thanks you all, thanks for everything."

"And what about the cake?" his little sister asked.

"Ok we will eat it first" Marek said unpatiently, eager to start his journey.

After they had finished the cake Marek stood up and gave his family a big hug.

He slowly turned around and walked to the backdoor, followed by his family.

"Grow growl" Growlithe barked.

"Yes you will be able to say goodbye to your mom and dad too." He said while walking in the garden and waiving to all the pokemon in the yard.
Growlithe went to the two big arcanines and rubbed against them.

After giving them a little while, Marek called out to his pokemon that it was time to go.
He took a picture of the pokemon in the garden, a picture of his family and one with all them together.
He put away his camera and went of towards the front yard.
There he said his final goodbye to his family and started walking.
Walking and looking at the shiny sun, at the bright sky where all kinds of bird pokemon flew, he looked at his Growlithe next to him.

"It is a great day to start our journey." He said to his Growlithe with a smile.



As he walked down the path, he enjoyed the sun in his face and the soft breeze that blew trough his brownish hair.
He had put on his I-pod to listen to some music and was humming to the beet.
His Growlithe was growling with him since he new the music too.
It was the music they trained on every time they had a little time for themselves.

After an hour or so they had spotted their first pokemon, a Rattata.
She was rolling in the grass playing with a big apple that was almost half of the size of the Rattata herself.
When she spotted Marek and Growlithe she jumped up and the purple hairs on her back stood up in anger, ready to battle.

"Ok, our first real battle Growlithe!" Marek shouted to his pokemon, while Growlithe jumped forward, ready to battle too.

"Ok, use tackle Growlithe" Marek said.

His Growlithe jumped forwards to tackle the little Rattata that kept standing brave, waiting for the dog pokemon to hit him.
At the last moment she tried to dodge the attack but was to slow.
She got hit pretty bad and was thrown high up in the air.
When she landed, she got back up on her feet just to get hit again by another tackle from Growlithe.

"Alright Growlithe way to go!" Marek shouted to his pokemon.

"Let's finish this. Flamethrower!"

Growlithe opened its mouth and shot out a big stream of fire towards the little rat pokemon that was just getting back up from the last tackle.
The Rattata looked up towards the big red ball of fire and was hit right in the face, blowing him far away, out of sight, into the forest.

"Alright Growlithe, nice battle boy" Marek said as he was stroking the head of his pokemon to tell him he did a good job.

They went on their way again after he had given Growlithe something to eat and drink so he could recover from the fight, not that he had gotten any damage from the Rattata.

While they were walking again, a bunch of Pidgeys flew over them towards a big tree not far from them.
As they approached the tree, he could see that the Pidgeys were eating apples from it.
While they kept coming closer the Pidgey had spotted them and flew off.
All but one. This one was sitting on a large rock enjoying the sunlight.

Marek and Growlithe slowly came closer and the Pidgey was still not moving.

"Hey Pidgey!" Marek shouted.

The Pidgey jumped up and flew into the air but didn't fly away.

"You want to battle?" he asked the bird pokemon.

He nodded and flew right at Growlithe, who did not have the time to dodge the attack and was hit on his back.

"Ok Growlithe, use flamethrower" Marek said.

Again he opened his mouth and shot out a stream of fire towards the Pidgey, but because he was up in the air, he could easily dodge the attack.
After dodging it, the Pidgey came down again to tackle Growlithe.

"Use it again when I say so Growlithe" Marek whispered.

"NOW!" Marek jelled when the Pidgey was almost in front of Growlithe.

He opened his mouth and again shot a stream of fire out, directly hitting Pidgey and causing serious damage.
The Pidgey fell down and was trying to get up when Growlithe came ramming into him with a tackle.
The Pidgey was lifted into the air and came down hard to the ground.

"This one is mine" Marek said as he threw a pokeball at the wounded Pidgey.

The red and white ball flew towards the Pidgey and hit it right on the head.
The ball shot out a red laser to the Pidgey, which turned bright red itself before being sucked into the pokeball.
It stirred and the spot where the red laser came out was flashing red.
Suddenly the light stopped and the pokeball lay still on the ground.

"YES!!" Marek shouted.

"My first catch. Thanks Growlithe, you have done a great job today."

After they had walked for another couple of hours Marek decided to call it a day.
It was only 4 pm but he wanted to give his Growlithe some rest after those two battles from that day and to get the chance to know his newly caught Pidgey.

He stopped at the side of a small forest and started unpacking his laptop.
Immediately he started typing in his diary about his adventures of today.
After he was finished with his story he called out his Pidgey so he could take a closer look at it.

"Pidgey" it called out when it was released from his ball and flew a couple circles above Marek before landing in front of him.

"Hello Pidgey, I'm Marek and this is my good friend Growlithe" he talked to the bird pokemon so he would be calm and peacefull about the new situation.

"Here I got you something to eat" he said and opened a can with pokemon food in it.

Pidgey first stared at the little can of food, then slowly coming closer, he started sniffing at the food.
Eventually it took a small piece and started eating it.
He loved the food and started to take many pieces at a rapid pace down his beak.

"Wow he has got a big appetite" Marek said.

"How about you Growlithe?"

Growlithe was laying in the sun enjoying the sunrays before it would become evening and eventually night. When Marek spoke to him he turned around and saw the pokemon food and barked loud.

"Ok I will take your food too" Marek said with a smile.

He gave Growlithe a bowl full of his pokemon food and a bowl of water from which Pidgey was already drinking.
He had done with eating and was fully charged it seemed.
Although he still had a couple of scrapes on his wings.
So Marek got a potion bottle out of his backpack because he knew that there wasn't a pokemoncenter in the area.
The scrapes healed and Pidgey was perfectly fit again.
Marek took out his digital camera and took a picture of the Pidgey and one of Pidgey and Growlithe together.

After finishing supper for himself he took his sleeping bag, rolled it out and lay upon it, looking up at the now dark sky, full of bright shiny stars.
He said goodnight to his Pidgey and called him back inside his pokeball.
Growlithe was rarely in his pokeball and so was he now.
He was lying next to Marek trying to get some sleep.
After a while Marek fell asleep too, happy about the adventure he had today.

 

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Then he put on his very precious necklace that he got from his father.
It had a pokeball attached to it. The pokeball was the ball with which Growlithe was caught.

Love this idea, emphasies the relationship between Growlithe and Marek




Overall, it was a very impressive story. Loved it!

 

[Marek]

Chapter II


The next morning when he woke up his Gowlithe was still sound asleep. The sun was already up quite high and Marek looked at his watch.

"Oh damn, it is already past 10 am" he gasped.

He started packing his stuff and because of all the noice Growlithe awoke.

"Sorry about the noise boy, but it is already late"

Growlithe looked at the sun and realized they had slept for quite a while. Growlithe stretched its back and started to do a few laps around their camping area to get warmed up and ready to travel.

"Ok all is packed, we are good to go" Marek smiled at Growlithe.
He trough the pokeball that held Pidgey and it came out.

"Pidgey" he called out.

"Ok ready to go Pidgey, we got another day ahead of us," he said to the newly caught pokemon.

While walking, Marek made his pokemon do certain exercises like doing sprints or just go and fetch things. He had been trying to think of a way to get a special exercise for his pokemon but he had not come up with a good one yet.

When the sun was at his highest point, Marek decided to take a break to eat. Because of there quick start this morning they had not eaten yet. Due to the fun he had had yesterday he had not even eaten himself yesterday evening. Marek took out the bole to put food in it for Growlithe and Pidgey. They both were very hungry, as they attacked their bole. While they were eating, Marek made a couple of sandwiches to eat for himself and now he too had a lot more energy.

Close to where they were sitting there was a grassy area and something was coming to them at high speed. Suddenly a male Nidoran jumped out. Apparently he had smelled the food Marek had given to his pokemon.

"All right a Nidoran" Marek said while jumping up, "Ok Pidgey let us see what you can do"

Pidgey flew high up in the sky and prepared itself for battle, facing Nidoran.

"Ok Pidgey use tackle"
Pidgey flew down trying to go as fast as he could to hit Nidoran. Nidoran started running wild and going in al directions to make it hard for Pidgey to follow him.

"Wow this Nidoran is fast," Marek thought.

Then all of a sudden, Nidoran turned around and pointed its horn towards Pidgey and jumped up, hitting Pidgey right in the centre of its body.

This was a hard hit for Pidgey and went crashing into the ground. He tried to get up again but the hit was just so well placed and timed that Pidgey just couldn't go on any longer and fell down.

"Well done Pidgey, you have given me the chance to observe him, now Growlithe can finish the job. Go Growlithe" Marek said after retrieving Pidgey in his pokeball.

Growlithe went straight into attack and started rushing at Nidoran who stood steady and was aiming his horn at Growlithe. But about two meters before they would collide Marek ordered Growlithe to use Flamethrower. This made a full attack right into the face of Nidoran who wasn't prepared for this and went flying. He came down to the ground with a hard pound and stayed down. Marek trough a pokeball at him and Nidoran was absorbed into the red and white ball. Quickly the red flickering stopped and the ball stayed still.

"All right I caught a Nidoran" Marek shouted.

Marek immediately released Nidoran from its pokeball so they could get acquainted. Nidoran was obviously hurt pretty bad and Marek decided it was time to get going to a pokemon centre since he didn't have enough equipment with him to take care of them. He retrieved Nidoran in his pokeball and started packing all his stuff so they could get going.



After about an hour of walking he found a small village that had a small pokemon centre. So that was going to be his first stop. When he entered the pokemon centre he was greeted by nurse Joy.

"Hello young trainer what can I do for you?" she asked

"Give my pokemon a good check-up because they have been battling pretty hard" Marek said as he donated his 3 pokeballs to nurse Joy.

"As you will" she said with a cheerful smile " it will take a few hours and then you can come and get them back."

"Ok thanks nurse Joy" Marek smiled and walked out of the pokemon centre and went into the small village.

There wasn't much in this town. Why, it didn't even have a name. It was just a settling of people around the pokemon centre. That was put here because it was a long road to the next town and many young trainers couldn't make this distance. Just this pokemon centre and 10 small houses was what this town contained.
Marek strolled around trough the small roads these houses combined to a small village. He saw a few people battling each other as training. The 2 pokemon, two Spearow, were tackling each other, trying to see who could take the better beating.

After an hour of walking Marek grew tired of doing nothing and decided to head to the pokemon centre and phone his family to tell him what he had been trough for the past 2 days.

Arriving at the pokemon centre nurse Joy told him that his pokemon were fully restored.

"Thanks nurse Joy, thanks allot" Marek said while he attached the pokeballs to his belt after releasing them. He took some pokemon food out of his bag and gave it to his pokemon who all started eating rapidly because of great hunger. Marek decided he too would eat first before phoning his parents.

After they had eaten, his pokemon were lying in the sunlight enjoying a nice rest, Marek phoned home.

"Hello mom"

"Hey Marek, how are you and Growlithe?" his mom asked.

"Good mom, were good and we have a few new team members"

"Already? You're going at it hu Marek. What pokemon have you caught?" she asked, smiling proudly.

"A Pidgey and a male Nidoran" Marek answered, "they are resting now and getting to know each other. Nidoran is new for about 3 hours or so"

"Oh you are just like your father, he caught 2 pokemon in 2 days as well. Only it are not the same"

"I know mom, but I am not planning on catching the same as dad. I want to do it on my own"

"Yes I know son, I'm just saying how much you are like your dad" she said with a tear rolling from her eye.

"Thanks mom. So how are dad and Sofia doing?" Marek asked to change the subject.

"They are doing great Marek. Your dad and Sofia are playing out back with the pokemon. You want me to call them in?"

"No that's fine mom just tell them I said hi" Marek told her so he wouldn't disturb them.

"Ok then son" his mom said.

"But I am going to have to hang up on you mom. I'm going to train a little more for today and then call it a day"

"Ok son but be careful ok?" she said with a bit of fear in her voice
"Yeah mom it will all go alright" Marek said to calm her.

"Bye mom"

"Bye Marek" his mom said sadly thinking it would be a while before she would hear from him again.

Marek hung up the phone and walked over to his pokemon telling them that they were going to train a little bit for the rest of the day.

He positioned the laptop on a steady rock so that it could film the training session. Growlithe was battling Nidoran while Pidgey got to fly fast on a track that Marek had put up. The goal was to fly it as fast as possible. Meanwhile Growlith and Nidoran were battling and dogging, well mostly dogging, there speed was remarkably high for their levels. Growlithe wasn't allowed to use Flamethrower because that was an unfair advantage that he had over Nidoran.

After doing this for about an hour straight, all 3 pokemon were exhausted and Marek knew this so he called it a day. By now it was 5 PM so it was almost dinnertime anyways. They all went inside the pokemon centre to get supper and then take a good nights rest.

Marek went to the room he had gotten in the pokemon centre and started working on his laptop on his diary. When he was finished with it he too fell sound asleep, just as his pokemon did.

Love this idea, emphasies the relationship between Growlithe and Marek




Overall, it was a very impressive story. Loved it!

thanks for the review, I have been busy for a long time and the story will be continued as soon as i find the time to write it.

 

[Marek]

Chapter 3


After a week of walking and training his pokemon, Marek had reached his goal. Pergan City.
A huge city, which held a pokemon gym. One of the very first gyms in Kanto. It was a very busy city, but due to the heat wave that had been crossing over whole Kanto, not many people were outside and many had taken a holiday to enjoy the weather.
But Marek had been travelling trough this heat wave for the past three days and it had taken a lot of him, not to mention his pokemon. He kept his pokemon out of their pokeballs so that they could train whenever he wanted and it would let them experience high temperatures. Or just to have fun together. But after three days in the hot weather, Nidoran and Pidgey were about to cave in. The low amount of water didn't really help either. Growlithe on the other hand was in an extremely good mood because this was the kind of weather he liked most. Which makes sense since he is a fire-type.

While they were searching for a pokemon centre among all the big and tall office buildings that were now almost empty, they crossed the town centre where there was a huge fountain. Marek raced with his Nidoran, Pidgey and Growlithe towards the fountain and they all dove right into it.

"Hey what is going on there?" a policeman shouted at Marek and his pokemon.

Marek came out of the water, drenched in cool water.

"I am so sorry officer, it's just that me and my pokemon have been travelling in this weather for the past three days and we didn't have much water to keep ourselves hydrated so we saw the water and ran for it."

"Oh all right" said the officer after understanding the situation "but it would be better to just let them drink of it, instead of letting them bath in it."

"Yes of course sir, thank you. Nidoran, Pidgey, Growlithe, get out of the water immediately. Come on let's go find a pokemon centre."

The pokemon jumped out and shook their bodies to get most of the water off. They all drank a little of the fountain and then went on searching.

It didn't take them long to find the pokemon centre since it was so big. Marek gave his pokemon to Nurse Joy so she could take care of them while he was going to take a day off to enjoy the sun. After settling himself at the poolside of the pokemon centre where a lot of young children and pokemon were swimming he was approached by a trainer.

"Hey you there with the red t-shirt" a young girl called out "you wanna battle?"

"Do I? Of course I would love to battle. But my pokemon are with Nurse Joy right now."

"That's not a problem," the young girl told him "Then we can get to know each other better."

"Sure, my name is Marek."

"And mine is Sissi and this is my camera crew." She said while pointing at the two men standing behind her now.

"Camera crew?" Marek asked.

"Yeah I am the star of the new TV-show "pokemon journey" for the new TV station sponsored by S&G INC. And you are going to be my first pokemon battle for the show."

"Wow, battling on TV" Marek tought "just like in the pokemon league."

After talking some more they went inside to find Marek's pokemon.

Sissi was wearing a cute dress with flowers all over it. She had blond hair and green eyes, which had a bright glow in them. She seemed very confident about herself, which was very noticeably in the way she walked with her head held high.

They went to the backside of the pokemon centre next to the pool where there was a battlefield.

"If it is ok with you than it will be a three on three match?"

"Let's get it on," Marek said with a lot of fire in his voice.

"Ok let's go Spearow" Sissi shouted while throwing a pokeball in the air.

A big Spearow came flying out of the pokeball and circled the field high up in the sky.

"Ok you go first Pidgey"

Pidgey came out of his pokeball and took a quick flight over the field.

"Ladies go first," Marek said trying to be kind to the girl.

"Why thank you Marek" she said with a smile "but it isn't going to be good for you. Spearow tackle him now"

"Pidgey dodge and tackle him too"

Both pokemon made circles around each other, trying to find an opening in the movements of the other one.

"Pidgey, use quick attack now"

"Spearow, dodge and use peck"

Pidgey wasn't fast enough and Spearow was able to dodge it and give a couple of peck attacks to Pidgey who got hit pretty well. Pidgey kept on flying but had lost much speed and was now nothing more then a flying target for Spearow.

"Ok Spearow quick attack him and finish it"

Spearow hit Pidgey right in the chest and he came falling down hard on the ground.

"Pidgey is no langer able to fight" the field coordinator said.

"Allright nice job Pidgey" Marek said to the pokeball that had just sucked up Pidgey " you have given me the chance to see her battle. Ok then, let's go Nidoran"

Nidoran came out of the pokeball and sniffed the soft warm air.

"Ok Nidoran it is battling time, hold still and do exactly is I tell you to ok. To help you remember the plan, think of what you did to Pidgey the first time you two battled."

Nidoran nodded, showing that he understood what he had to do.

"A Nidoran? He isn't going to do much damage to my Spearow you know. Ok tackle him Spearow."

Spearow came down and flew at the top of his speed.

"Dodge Nidoran"

Nidoran jumped out of the way right before Spearow would hit him.

"Tackle him again Spearow, get more speed in it than he won't be fast enough"

"Dodge again Nidoran"

Again Nidoran was able to dodge the tackle only by a feather of Spearow's wings.

"Ok that does it, climb very high Spearow, then dive down again and use quick attack on him. That will teach him."

Spearow flew very high, turned and came down very fast with his wings against his body to make him go even faster. He pulled up and used a quick attack to double is speed.

"Now Nidoran!"

When Spearow was only a metre away from Nidoran, he jumped up, pointing his horn directly at Spearow and hitting him with a very hard horn attack, right in the belly. Spearow fell down, knocked out by the impact alone.

"Spearow is unable to fight" the coordinator announced.

"Nice move their Marek. I didn't see that one coming. Ok Bellsprout it's your turn."

She threw a new pokeball out and in a bright flash a wiggling Bellsprout came out.

"Allright Bellsprout use vinewhip on that Nidoran."

"Dodge it Nidoran and tackle him with your horn."

The Bellsprout mist but Nidoran mist as well because of the small body Bellsprout had.

"Haha didn't expect that now did you?"

"Doesn't matter, Nidoran, attack the head with your horn."

Nidoran jumped up and pinned the Bellsprout down on the ground. He stood on the leaves and was hitting the Bellsprout with his horn.

"Stop it, that isn't fair. He can't protect himself like that."

"It's not against the rules," Marek said with a nasty smile.

"All right my first pokemon match and a victory all on television" he thought.

"Bellsprout is no longer able to fight." The battle coordinator announced after Bellsprout fainted.

"All right that is enough! I am going to beat you right now with my last pokemon. Go Squirtle."

Again a bright flash of light and a Squirtle was standing on the field.

"This can become tricky" Marek thought, because his last pokemon was a fire type. "I need to defeat her with my Nidoran."

"Ok Squirtle water gun that Nidoran."

Squirtle aimed at the purple pokemon that was standing in front of him and shot a huge water blast at Nidoran. Which had a direct hit and made Nidoran fly out of the ring and therefore being disqualified for the match.

"Ok nice job Nidoran, it's ok you have done your best. Ok Growlithe it's your turn to shine."

"A Growlithe? Ok this match is so going to be so easy."

"Don't count on it Sissi. Growlithe use quick attack."

Growlithe ran as fast as he could and hit the Squirtle on his side because he could dodge but not good enough.

"What speed," Sissi exclaimed astounded, "but not good enough to defeat us." She commented after coming back to reality after the sight of such speed at such low level.

"Squirtle use your water gun again."

Squirtle shot another water blast right into the face of Growlithe making it slide back, but not far enough to slide him out of the ring.

"That trick isn't going to work on us this time."

Growlithe tackle him again and use all your speed."

Growlithe ran as fast as he could and was able to make a direct hit into his stomach and make him fly for a while.

"Ok now flamethrower at him while he is in the air."

Growlithe obliged and shot Squirtle again in the stomach area. Squirtle was really panting now and had a hard time getting up.

"Ok Growlithe let's finish this with a quickt tackle and don't hold back on the speed."

Again Growlithe ran as fast as he could and hit the Squirtle right in the stomach making it fly far away, into the pool area.

"Squirtle is unable to fight. The winner of this match is Marek from Oldron town."

After Sissi had gotten her Squirtle out of the pool they both brought their pokemon to the pokemon centre to get them taken care of.

"That was a great battle Marek, thank you. You made me see that I wasn't as good as I thought I was."

"But you were good, really. It's just that me and Growlithe have been together forever and he is just really strong so your type advantage didn't matter."

"Ok then. But next time I am going to defeat you Marek just wait and see."

She jumped up and ran towards the pokemon centre to get her stuff, pokemon and camera crew and move on to go train some more.
After a while Marek got up as well, got his pokemon back and went to his room to rest a while. It had been a hot day and a good training too.
Tomorrow he was going to search for the gym and go for his first gym badge.