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Rudy had lost. His very first pokémon he ever got was now fainting, stumbling down on the floor. You could tell Psi wasn't sleeping as he usually did. His face didn't have its usual calm expression. It was just plain blank now. It scared Rudy.
Norman lowered his head and sent back Girafarig into its pokéball, mumbling a word to it. Then he looked up at his so, on the other side of the big dojo room.
"Do you see now?" he asked the silent boy. "You have lost."
"I don't care!" Rudy suddenly blurted out. "I'll challenge you again! We'll just go to the pokémon center and-"
"Rudy," Norman said and started to walk across the room towards Psi and Rudy. He stopped at the fainted pokémon and looked down on it. "Return your pokémon, he needs it."
Rudy didn't nod, but he did send Psi back into the pokéball. His fist was shaking as he clutched the orb.
"There is nothing strange about you loosing to me," Caleb Norman said and let his face lighten up a bit. "You are, really, a rookie trainer. I am very much not. Once, I was young and new like you. But I traveled and trained to reach the point I am at today."
Rudy finally looked up into his father's face. He was determined. He had decided what to do even before Caleb had told him that last part. "I'm gonna travel," he said stubbornly. "I'm going out on a journey. And one day, I will beat you."
Caleb smiled. "That's my boy!" he said.
The sun fell on their faces as the son stared at his father.
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Rudy left Petalburg that same day. He pretended to be angry with Caleb Norman, but in reality... a part of him was pretty pleased. Sure, he hated losing. But now he was going on a journey! With a cool team of pokémon. His father had told him that they would grow up and evolve into strong and menacing creatures if he trained them right. So he would.
He entered route 4, this time in daylight, and decided to let his pokémon out of their pokéballs as usual. He felt more comfortable with having them around him rather than walking alone. They had been healed at the pokémon center and fed a large meal which Caleb prepared for them and Rudy. They were ready.
Rudy walked with his pokémon on the road from Petaburg to Foggyshore, and onwards to the big, dark Petalburg forest...
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Current Setting: route 104
A pretty well laid out road leads to the west from Petalburg, to the sea.
By the cliffs and beaches lining the shoreline, there lies a smaller town called Foggyshore Town. It's called that because there's always a dense fog hanging over the town from midnight until the sun has completely arisen. In the middle of Foggyshore lives the old, eccentric sailor Mr Briney. There's no pokémon center and only a small shop and a few houses and fisherman huts.
North from Foggyshore there's a dusty road leading to the dense Petalburg Forest. It's pretty well traveled though.
Goals: Control Rudy, make up enemy trainers or wild pokémon, explore route 4 and Foggyshore and get to the entrance of Petalburg Forest.
Allowed posters: Everyone.
Team: Psi (lv
9), Desert (lv
8), Scrapper (lv
8), Buzz (lv
7), Claw (lv
8), Bagon (lv
7)
- Claw learned Encore!
- Scrapper learned Mud Slap!