On the Road
Bryan whistled something tuneless as he trudged doqn the path, the professor's speech already gone from his mind. He could barely remember what the man had said, too focused on what he could do in the future. As he wandered down the path, he pulled out the pokeball he had stolen from the grunt. With a smirk, he noticed it was a Great Ball, but noticed it was empty. Oh well.
"Well, what do we have here," Bryan muttered as he came across a split. Glancing from side to side, he finally sighed and dropped the pokeball holding Minun.
Immediately, the psyco pokemon hissed, black eyes glinting darkly. When it realized there was no opponent, it glared at Bryan questionly. "There are two paths," Bryan explained. "Which way do you think we should go?"
Minun looked at Bryan suspiciously before glancing between the two paths. "Mi," Minun said, pointing toward the Woody Path.
"Alright, Grassy Path is where we'll go," Bryan said resolutely marching on. Minun scoffed, though didn't look offended, already knowing Bryan would do that.
Within minutes, high grass covered their ankles, Minun almost invisible. If it weren't for Minun's large ears, Minun would have disapeared completely. Bryan just hoped his only pokemon didn't make a break for it.
"Start looking for a pokemon," Bryan ordered, pleased to see the blue ears bob up and down.
After a moment, his psyco companion hissed and unleashed a small electrical bolt off to the right, gaining a surprised squeak. An angry growl quickly followed as the pokemon jumped in front of Bryan.
"Zigzagoon," the small, brown pokemon growled, baring its teeth in agitation. Its tail poofed up, as if for show, but Minun was completely unimpressed. "Gooz!" Zigzagoon howled, charging toward Minun.
"Minun, dodge," Bryan barked.
Minun attempted to jump high over the normal type, but the high grass got in the way and held it back, thus making it easy for Zigzagoon to bash Minun right in the head.
"Nun," Minun grumbled, holding its nose. Removing its paw, Minun had a dark glint in its eye, looking as if it would kill is attacker. "Min!" Minun screamed, cheeks sparking dangerously.
"Thundershock!" Bryan said quickly, seeing an opportunity.
Zigzagoon ran to the side, the electricity just barely scraping its tail. "Zi," it growled lowly, dashing at Minun for another Tackle.
"Duck," Bryan shouted. Just barely missing, Minun duck low, now completely invisible. "Stay under the grass," Bryan commanded, not bothering to lower his voice. He already knew Zigzagoon could hear him if he whispered. Minun did as ordered and began to creep quietly among the tall grass, aiming to get a direct hit in.
"Goon," Zigzagoon grumbled, looking around carefully. Its black circled eyes were wide and attentive, its tail twitching occasionally.
While Zigzagoon couldn't see over the grass, Bryan could, and he could see that Minun was about half a foot away from Zigzagoon and was looking like it wanted to bite down on its neck and suck out its blood.
"NOW!" Bryan screamed, startling the Zigzagoon so bad that it jumped at least a foot in the air.
Muu!" Minun snarled, leaping at Zigzagoon in the air, whole body sparking with electricity. Minun hit the normal type quite bodily, slamming it to the ground. "Nun," Minun smirked, black eyes darker that usual. With an evil grin, electricity surged through Zigzagoon's body.
"Goon!" Zigzagoon screamed, writhing on the ground in pain. With a monstrous snarl, Zigzagoon whcked Minun away with its tail, causing the electric type to bounce several times on the ground. With a smirk, Zigzagoon rushed at Minun again.
"Get up!" Bryan commanded quickly. "It's coming at you! Use Growl!"
Snarling, Minun's eyes lit up, causing Zigzagoon to falter, fear in its eyes as it skidded across the ground. In the end, it simply leapt at Minun. Minun, with a smirk, quickly fell on its back. "Giz?" Zigzagoon gasped.
It was like slow motion. Zigzagoon was right over Minun, its stomach completely open, and Minun right below, evil smirk in place and body sparkling. And then the moment was over.
"Minu!" Minun shouted, focusing its electricity into its tiny legs. "Nu!" Minun kicked out, getting a loud squeal from Zigzagoon as it went flying through the air. "Min min min," Minun chuckled, watching Zigzagoon finally fall in a clump on the ground.
"Zi," Zigzagoon growled angrily, eyes full of rage as it tried to stand. It's body shook horribly before it finally collapsed, its teeth still bared in a snarl.
"Nu," Minun said, spitting to the side.
"Good work," Bryan said, taking out a pokeball. He stared at the pokemon, wondering if he should even bother with this pokemon. Zigzagoon were rather common, but this one had seemed like a good fighter. Making up up his mind, Bryan smirked.
And with that, he through the ball, watching it engulf the pokemon in red light...