Chapter three has obviously arrived. The first two chapters I wasn't really able to get that involved with the lives of the pokémon since no one catches anything different until they reach Jubilife. I would appreciate some help here.

Riley: Lunarsnowdrift doesn't own pokémon but does own the names and nicknames of any pokémon or people.

Charge! (Dramatic charging music) dun dun duh Na!

"Here you go." Nurse Joy said handing us our pokémon. "They look great."

We had decided to come to the pokémon center before going anywhere else. We had planned on going to the Pokémon School so that we could see what they did, but Jamie wanted to go and see if he couldn't catch a new pokémon just north of Jubilife. I was all for it really, because I wanted a new pokémon as well.

"Well this is the route here." Lucas had led us to the route since he had been here multiple times with the professor. It wasn't really a big route but there did seem to be a lot of people there.

Lucas went over and asked some people about the types of pokémon that lived here. Apparently there were starly, Bidoof, and Budew mainly. You could catch magikarp in the pond though. Chimchar was pretty much bouncing on my shoulder as he was guessing the reason to why were here. I had been letting him ride on my shoulder more and more seeing as he seemed to like his pokéball less and less.

I wandered around through the grass thinking of the potential pokémon that could stand in a battle. "Hey Lucas, what is the gym type in Oreburgh?"

"From what I hear he's a rock type user." Lucas replied looking for pokémon of his own.

Okay that was simple enough. About 10 minutes later we stopped to watch Jamie get pecked by a starly that he'd knocked from inside a bush.

"Hey ouch, quit that, aw not the hair not the hair." The little starly was pulling Jamie's blonde hair in any direction that it would go. "You're a tough little guy aren't you?" Jamie said when the starly finally settled down. "You know, I think you and me could go a long ways together little guy. What do you say, you want to come?"

The starly really seemed to be deliberating the idea before making a choice. Jamie was about to give up and leave it alone when it softly bumped its head against his leg. He pulled a pokéball from inside his back pack and held it out. The starly touched it with its wing and disappeared in a beam of red light. The ball blinked red several times before becoming still.

"Alright, a new team member is always something to celebrate." Lucas gave thumbs up and we started making our way back into the city limits.

"Chim!" I turned to face the small monkey riding on my shoulders.

"What is it Chimchar, is something wrong?" He nodded at me before jumping down and running off through the trees. I chased after him with Jamie and Lucas not far behind me. We stopped in a clearing where there were several men with nets and bug boxes running around.

"Come on you stupid pokémon stay still so I can catch you!" Yelled one of the men running towards us while chasing a small Budew at the same time. The Budew ran behind my legs and I could feel it shaking through the fabric.

"Chimchar use scratch on that net." I pointed at the net that the bug man was waving around in the air. Chimchar shot forward and cut the net in half.

"What have you done?" He shouted at us. "Now I won't be able to catch that Budew."

"I don't think that a creep like you deserves any pokémon. Look you've scared the poor thing to death." I indicated the small green bud pokémon that was peeking out from behind my leg.

"I don't care look at the healthy green color. This Budew would be worth something." He said staring at the Budew.

I was disgusted. How could anyone think about a pokémon like that? Just to make money we capture them against their will. I disliked these people even more when one came up from behind us and tried to catch the Budew while we weren't paying attention.

"Well since you seem so determined to get this little guy how about we make a deal." I said "I want you to battle me."

"What happens if I win or lose?" he asked suspiciously.

"You win I might consider letting you have Budew." Budew cried out behind me. "If I win you leave Budew and all the forest pokémon alone."

He thought on it for a minute while eying Jamie and Lucas. He relented when he saw no other way. "Fine." Was all he said before throwing a pokéball up into the air. "Dustox lets show them what happens when you mess with a bug maniac!"

"Dustox!" it replied, already flying around ready for the battle.

I threw my arm out for Chimchar to land on. The bug maniac blanched. He hadn't been expecting this.

"Go Chimchar, help me protect the Pokémon!" Chimchar jumped off my arm and landed on the ground already posed in his battle stance.

"Go Riley!" Jamie cheered us on from behind us. He had let starly out of its pokéball so that it could watch the battle.

"Dustox, use confusion!"

"Dodge it Chimchar and use ember!"

Dustox's confusion attack skittered across the ground at my feet for a few moments; which effectively scared the poor pokémon behind me, before finally fading away. Chimchar jumped up and launched a small barrage of flames from his mouth.

"Dustox use protect." The bug man called out suddenly.

A green shield wove its way around Dustox's body. Chimchar's ember did nothing. Only when Chimchar pulled back did the shield recede.

I went over strategies in my head. Normally we would have the advantage in this situation but with that protect it was more or less even. From what I knew about the move its chance of failing was increased ever turn that it was used.

"Riley what is Chimchar doing." I pulled myself away from planning an attack and looked at Chimchar. He was doing some sort of dance in front of the Dustox, he was making it angry.

"He's using taunt." Lucas said excitedly. "It only allows for moves that have damaging effects to be used. Since protect doesn't damage its no longer effective."

"Chimchar you're awesome!" I called to him.

"Fine then, Dustox darling let's use silver wind on that meanie of a monkey." The bug maniac said wiggling around (Just think about Harley people)

"Chimchar, use dig to dodge!" Chimchar jumped up and dove into the ground.

"What!?" the bug maniac pointed at me. "That's not fair."

"That's an authentic pokémon move, how is that not fair?" Jamie asked from behind me.

"Because I said so." …Okay what wonderful logic.

"Chimchar finish this with ember!" The ground erupted behind Dustox as Chimchar jumped up. He released a barrage of flames before Dustox could even turn around. It landed in the middle of the field. Lucas ran to check on it.

"Dustox is unable to battle. Chimchar and Riley win the match." I picked Chimchar up and swung him around.

"Thank you Chimchar. You did wonderfully little guy." He crawled on my head.

"Chim!"

"This isn't over. You haven't heard the last of me you meddle some kids." The bug maniac recalled his knocked out Dustox before running off through the trees.

Time skip

"Well I think that all of those bug people have finally left. I would think that our work is done here." Lucas said covering a yawn.

"Then what are we waiting for, come on we have enough time to make it back for dinner at the center." Jamie said cheerily walking off with his starly still on his head.

Lucas and I merely sighed before following him. I stopped walking when something drove into my back making me stumble. I turned around to see the Budew staring at me with a determined expression.

"If I didn't know any better Riley, I would say that Budew wants to come with you." Lucas smiled at me.

"Do you want to come?" I held out my hand towards the Budew.

"Budew!" It started glowing green in color. I focused on the grass in front of me as it was doing something very strange. The ends of the blades were tying themselves together.

"That's unusual indeed." We turned to look at the face of the unfamiliar voice. It was a tall woman in dark cloths. She had something hanging out of her hair but I couldn't tell what it was. One of her eyes was covered by her hair. She gave off a very strong aura. "Most Budew can't really teach themselves how to use grass knot in the wild."

I squinted at her. She seemed so familiar, but I couldn't place where I had seen her before. Jamie too looked as though he was trying to recognize whom she was. She smiled at us one last time before walking away and into the darkness. Budew nudged my arm again and I refocused towards it.

"So what do you say, you want to come?" I asked again.

"Budew!" Chimchar jumped down from my shoulder and started to communicate with the small pokémon. They seemed to be getting along fairly well. I though ideally as I rummaged around in my backpack for a pokéball. When I finally found one I held it out towards Budew.

It knocked its head against the capturing device and disappeared in a beam of red light. I sat it down on the ground and let it rock a few minutes before it stopped. I picked it up and stared at it fondly. Chimchar climbed back onto my shoulder and I called out Budew so that I could carry it in my arms.

"We can go and visit the trainer school tomorrow." Lucas said as we walked. "I really want to see what kinds of things that they do there."

"Whatever as long as we stop and get something to eat tomorrow I don't care what we do, but I'm really hungry so can we focus on what we are doing right now?"

Time skip

"Come on Jamie, you can't eat everything." I pulled Jamie by his ear out of the pokémon center. "Other people have to eat to you know."

"I don't want to eat everything I just want to eat most of it." He said defiantly.

Lucas again had to drag Jamie and myself out of bed, but Jamie was making the day a lot harder than it needed to be.

"We'll let you eat lunch after we visit the pokémon trainer school." Lucas strolled up behind us. "I think it's unhealthy, the amount of food that you can eat in one sitting."

Jamie hmped at us but continued to let me drag him down the road. People had stopped to look at us but he seemed to pay no attention to them. He was focused on acting mad at us.

"You know what I think I remember who that person was that we saw last night." Jamie said after I had let go and he continued to walk on his own. "I saw a magazine in the lobby this morning and saw her on the cover of it. It was the Champion of Sinnoh. Her name is Cynthia."

"I knew it. I knew that I recognized her from somewhere, but I couldn't remember where." We slowed down as we approached a large building. There was a sign in front that said "pokémon trainer school, learn everything you need to know about being a trainer and be a good trainer to your pokémon."

"Well isn't that just the coolest thing you youngsters ever did see?" An old man that was standing out front asked us. It wasn't really the coolest but he seemed to think so, so we played along.

He led us inside the large building. As soon as stepped through the door I was envious. I wished that I had had the opportunity to go to a school like this when I was their ages. Kids ranging anywhere from four to 11 ran around the large lobby. Two spiral staircases led to upstairs classroom and the pokémon storage room.

"Let's get started with the tour shall we."

Time skip (Just so that I wouldn't bore you with all the details)

I wondered vaguely how we had gotten ourselves into this situation. We had been led all around the school and finally made our last stop in the advanced battler's classroom. These were the school top battle students. We had taken no more than three steps into the room before we were viciously challenged by most of the students. The teacher whom was an ace trainer herself selected the top three out of the class and placed us in our match. Lucas was fighting a kid on his own, while Jamie and I were in a tag battle with two others.

"Budew, battle stance." I cried throwing Budew's pokéball up into the air. She came out in a beam of white light and was already for the battle at hand. "Starly, show down!" Jamie had decided that he would use his starly in this battle in order for it to get the hang of battling.

Because Lucas's battle was going to take less time he and his opponent had gone first. It had been an incredibly close match, but in the end Lucas came out victorious.

"Abra, let's show them!" The student's called out together before throwing up two pokéballs. Two abras appeared on the indoor battle field. It appeared that they had been asleep, but when they moved they depicted anything but laziness. They were confident battle pokémon and had good self confidence in their own power.

"Let the battle begin!" The teacher of the class was also acting as the ref.

"Abra, hidden power!" They said in unison again.

"That's just kind of creepy if you ask me." Jamie stated shaking his head. "Starly fly up."

"Budew dodge and use absorb."

Jamie's starly flew up towards the ceiling while Budew jumped out of the way. One of the hidden powers changed course and flew up towards starly; starly cried out in pain as it was hit dead on with the attack. I say small electrical sparks flying off of its feathers.

"Jamie it's an electric type." Jamie caught starly as it fell. He rubbed its head a few times before it flew back up. "Leave that one to me you take the other one. Budew is resistant to electric type attacks."

"You got it.!" Jamie pointed to the other Abra. "Starly, take out that one."

"Budew you take out the one on the right." Budew nodded at me before jumping around the field waiting for the right moment.

Our opponents launched another double attack.

"Starly quick attack!"

"Budew use stun spore!"

Budew unleashed a large amount of pollen from the tip of its head and sent towards our opponents. It hit there pokémon dead on; starly knocked into one of the temporarily paralyzed abras. "Now Budew use grass knot."

Budew began to glow green and screamed out in its little high pitched voice. Grass began to sprout up all over the field. One of the abras that had already recovered from its paralysis ran towards Budew but tripped when one of the knots developed in its way. It fell over but wasn't completely KO'd. "Budew absorb."

The Abra began to glow as you could see its energy being sucked away by Budew. When the transfer of power was over one Abra was unconscious while the other one was still completely healthy.

"We have one more, what can we do?" Jamie asked me.

"Budew use grass knot to keep Abra from moving." Jamie caught on. "Starly attack the Abra using Wing attack."

Four pieces of grass ran up the abras legs and stopped it from running any further. His trainer called out from him to use hidden power.

"Starly go." Starly rammed into the side of the stuck Abra effectively knocking it down. When the dust from the impact cleared Abra had stars in its eyes.

"Both abras are unable to battle. The victory goes to Riley and Jamie." Jamie and I high fived. The two children that we had defeated walked up and handed us two tm's.

"These are the tm's for hidden power. They can only be used once so make sure before you use it." They walked away after recalling their pokémon.

"You know guys." Lucas wrapped an arm around our necks. "I think that Abra are pretty cool pokémon, I'd like to see if I can't catch one while we are on the way to Oreburgh."

"Hey can we eat before we go?" Jamie scratched the back of his head as Lucas and I laughed.

Elsewhere

"Sir, we have reports that the champion is in Eterna City. Looking up something about pokémon mythology." A feminine voice said from the shadows.

"You may take some grunts to the base there and we shall leave Mars to the Valley wind works."

"Yes sir."

Le gasp! Who are these dastardly fends. I'm sorry that I am leaving this the same. I just don't want to take too much away from the real thing.
As you do know however if you have bothered to read this far is that not everything is the same. I think that I did put in a few author notes right in the story itself so I apologize if that annoys you. Please tell me what you did or didn't like. Tell me what you think I got wrong and I shall tend to it immediately. See you in chapter four.