Chapter Pov Sanne, Hanna & Tammy

Us 3 girls meet up when we are pitching our tent. It just so coincides that we are neighbors. We immediately hit it off well. For each of us there is a parent that is a Pokemon trainer who helps us learn about Pokemon since we are young. We hold a lot of knowledge about Pokemon, but no idea on how to use that knowledge.

After talking till late we decide to sleep. Before dawn we hear some rustling and wake up. Two boys come out of their tent and start doing sit-up push-up and squads. Then they finish with a run around the camp. They work out for an hour before taking a towel and closing their tent. They are joined during their exercises by their Pokemon. 15 minutes after closing their tent they wear different clothes and make their way to the food tent. When they arrive adults start waking us kids up and bringing us to the food tent too.

We take a seat close to the two early birds but are unable to pull their attention over the noise everybody makes. Lucky for us after breakfast we are in the same group as those two. We introduce ourselves to them and they to us, Mav and Vailein. Vailein asks us questions about what Pokemon we like and what we like to be when we grow up. To us it seems like he already has his future set on how he wants to live. Mav follows in Vailein his footsteps but does leave his own unique mark behind on every step. We hold knowledge to compliment Vailein his wants and share it with him freely. He in turn shares methods to become stronger.

Some bits of information we shared with Vailein are about the life expectancy of a human. A worker inside the walls has an average lifespan of 50 this includes important people who do research and govern places and can grow 150 years old. A trainer under the elite level has a average lifespan of 30. Those on elite level have a average lifespan of 90. Champion and up can become 300 years no problem. Only bug Pokemon have that short a lifespan. Most Pokemon live into the 1000s of years of course not counting defects in genetics, illness etc.

With genetic defects we are referring to most caterpillar Pokemon. In the first stage they should be eating 18 hours a day and gain as much fat as possible. During their cocooned stage they are unable to eat, since they have no mouth and generally overdraft their life force to be able to evolve into the next stage. Of course nutrition can still be absorbed through the skin but try find that in the wild. This results in their adult form to be drained of 90% of their life force. This is unrecoverable and causes an early death after about 50 years.

While a well fed Kakuna evolves into a Beedrill that is capable of rivaling dragons, the cost of raising them is the same if not higher. We exchange information for training methods that Vailein designed himself.

What we notice is that Vailein and Mav are very hard working. Much more so than that we are. We just want a comfortable and safe live not a warmongers life. Vailein shows that a frail person can never be with a warmonger. Only a strong person can. A warmonger is always carrying a burden and needs a strong backbone at home. If the warmongers partner is frail that person will either get depressed because of the warmonger or get killed by a simple mistake in the current society. This causes us to put in some more effort into training.

We also see the error of our ways theory can be learned but imagination allows you to put it to use. Currently we are 7 years old and we have 3 years left to set up for our future. We have to start thinking of a setup for a Pokemon team that we like and start adding to that team. We can become specialist in one or two types or generalist. A specialist is easier to become so we think we'll chose that. However as Vailein said each good Pokemon team has at least one Pokemon capable of healing. So I think that we first need to find one Pokemon with that skill before we go and pick the rest of our team.

We also decide to give up on the tournament. We don't stand a chance, both Vailein and Mav have advanced level Pokemon and they are not the strongest trainers we saw of our age group. One person trains a Gible. Though it should only be 2 years old it looks ready to evolve into a Gabite. Meaning it is close to elite stage. To reduce his weakness against fairy type Pokemon he also has a Skorupi at his side. Since that is still a bug Pokemon it can have a very short growth cycle if fed well and believe me it is. He is likely one of the top candidates to win. Well his clothes suit a rich young master who is spoiled rotten. Problem is that unless imagination is used a Pokemon will never reach Pseudo-king level, let alone king level needed to become an Elite trainer. He also tried to bind a few girls to him by promising to take care of their financial need in the future together with their Pokemon. We doubt he'll be able to hold onto his fortune when his parents pass on to the next world. Most girls refuse but some have a lose promise to him. Doubt they will follow through on those promises after talking to their parents.

This way our camp slowly comes to an end. We learned how to train for specific elements. Vailein got information that isn't readily available. Finally we learned a lesson on our behavior. Before we thought that the boy we described was the highest we could aim for but now we aim to be strong ourselves so the husband can do his own thing. We are from now on training properly together with our Pokemon.