To Oreburgh! (42)

"Vul?" Vulpix growls out distressed. Looking at the sight of an Alolan Vulpix, my face got a gentle expression. This little one must have had a hard time if it's scared. Usually a high quality Pokemon are treated quite well because of how expensive they can be sold for.

So instead of a scared demeanour, I thought it would be more prideful.

While taking some food from my spatial ring, I connect the telepathic link between Aegislash, Fomantis and I with Vulpix.

She probably can only speak a few words, but I can get the gist of things she wants.

-Hello Vulpix, my name is Aichi and I'm your new trainer- I introduce myself. Vulpix who is still tensed up, backs up a little while quivering.

'What could of happened to Vulpix? Probably a shit breeder who didn't treat it well' I thought with a frown. At least treat the thing nicely if you're gonna sell a Pokemon.

-Trainer? Hungwy…- Vulpix pitifully says in the link as it stomach grumbles. Hearing this I start to chuckle, losing my frown. Stretching out my hand with the high quality Pokemon food, I gave it an encouraging look.

Its like how I usually do things, to take a Pokemon you shove it high quality food. If it doesn't obey, then you shove more food at it.

-It's food Vulpix, you don't want to starve now don't you?- I tell it. The Vulpix after a little bit, started to cautiously walk up to my hand. Vulpix sniffing my hand, starts to take a nibble and gets a glint in its eyes.

-Yummy!-

Vulpix now with a dazed look, loses its caution and starts to help itself to the food. It seemed to have been very hungry.

Vulpix seems to be a high maintenance Pokemon and likes to be spoilt from my knowledge of the species. In the anime, Kanto Vulpix's love to get bushed and it's the same here. So I might ask for Dawn's Pokemon Brush for a little bit before buying one myself. The more I bond with Vulpix the better.

"Flo flo!" The ever cheerful but malnourished Fomantis squeals out. Flomantis started to chat with Vulpix while I started to pull out some more food.

-Vulpix, I'm your new trainer okay? Just listen to me and you will get food- I told it. It's simpler to give a Pokemon what it wants rather than trying to discipline it at times.

-I'll protect her when you leave her to do the wild training- I hear Aegislash tell me privately. Smiling at his attitude, I remember a specific type of training I made up on the run.

To train my Pokémon's decision making and instincts. I make them go into the wild and survive on their own, but with the goal of battling as much as they can. I dont actually "ditch" them completely but give them some protection.

When a Pokemon is in the wild, they correct their mistakes and adapt to their surroundings. So this will let them make their own decisions mid battle if they see it's the best option.

A disciplined Pokemon listens to you but it's like your commanding a robot. So they aren't actually able to reach their full potential.

Talking about discipline, it usually works for stubborn Pokemon like an Axew for example or a Pokemon who doesn't listen. These are Pokemon usually given or caught out in the wild as they already have these "instincts" on what to do when they want to.

Vulpix is a "given" Pokemon, but isn't as naughty/prideful to cause trouble. So if I bond and feed it well, it will listen and bond with me.

I'll give Vulpix the "talk" about how if it listens to me I'll reward it. It's the same as Chimchar and Turtwig.

-Food!- It responds. Hearing this I smile while lying down on the bed. Pulling out a phone, I spent the rest of the night resting for the next day as the gang and I will be heading towards the next city.

'My first gym battle huh.' I thought to myself.

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*Ring!* *Ring!*

"Ugh." I groan out. Feeling the sunlight hitting my face, I reluctantly got up. After rubbing my eyes, I quickly turned off my morning alarm.

Looking over to my side, I get greeted to the sight of a sleeping Alolan Vulpix with a Flomantis using it as a pillow.

'Holy shit that's cute.' I inwardly squeal. Grabbing my phone, I took a few photos of the cute duo. They seem to have gotten along as they were in a similar situation so it makes sense.

"6:37." I mumble out looking at my phone. I guess it's time for me to prepare myself. The gang and I usually wake up at 6:20 and get a move on at 7:30 and it's gonna be the same today.

Even if we were in the city, we all agreed to get ready.

…

"Dawn I want you to take care of this Pokemon." I tell her with Fomantis in my embrace. Dawn still in disbelief, pulls out her Pokedex and scans the Pokemon.

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"Fomantis, the sick grass Pokemon. This Pokemon loves to bask in sunshine and if its a hot day, it can help recover Fomantis' stamina"

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"I'll take care of Fomantis, how could those trainers abandon such a sweetheart." Dawn says in a gentle tone as she takes the Pokemon from my hands. I already gave her the excuse of it's trainer abandoning the poor thing.

I also reassured Fomantis about this but it still reluctantly left my hands as Dawn hugged it gently.

Not only does it being abandoned explain it being malnourished, but also how I found it.

"Dawn can I also borrow your Pokemon brush? I was able to get a new Pokemon called Vulpix from a breeder." I asked her. Dawn not seeing anything wrong with this, kneels to the ground and opens her bag.

They don't have any reason to dig into how I got my Pokemon, so I may as well tell them a made up excuse like a breeder. I don't just want to just tell them where I was last night.

It would look pretty bad on my part.

Dawn taking out a brush, hands it over to me as I put it in my spatial storage.

"I'll teach you how to use it later, kay?" I hear her say. Nodding at her words, I suddenly heard two voices behind us. Looking behind, I see Ash and Brock having a good chat as they make their way towards Dawn and I.

"Hey guys!" I call out, while waving at them. The two of them hearing me, wave back and jog over to us with Pikachu on Ash's shoulder.

"Pika pika!" The cute mouse Pokemon squeals out.

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"I want a rematch!" Dawn shouts. Hearing her nag Ash about wanting to battle, I start to brush my Vulpix while walking.

Dawn has started to battle more than in "canon" which I think is a good thing. Not only does this help in contests, but ir helps her overall Pokemon prowess.

"Dawn can't you wait a bit? We are just a few hours away Oreburgh." Brock says, trying to mediate the situation. Dawn and Ash started to get a few sparks between them as they [Headbutt] each other like idiots.

Already having enough of this, I started to frown.

-Vulpix, use [Powder Snow] on the idiots- I tell her with my telepathic link. Vulpix hearing the command, uses [Powder Snow] but instead of hitting Ash and Dawn, it hits me.

"Waht da faak." I shout as I'm bombarded with a small amount of snow from Vulpix. The gang looking at my predicament started to laugh.

"It seems like you didn't brush Vulpix enough." Ash chimes in. Hearing this I bonked his head as the snow from Vulpix's attack started to melt.

'Fuck my clothes. Well, we are almost at Oreburgh anyways.' I console myself. Ignoring the snickering from the two idiots, I start to smile. The two of them stopped fighting.