Chapter 12. Travels in the Viridian Forest

A few days later.

Gray had gathered all the necessary items for his long journey into the forest. Upon his return, there would be an exam that would show who was next from the faction worthy of receiving their pokémon. Gray set off, on his way to the forest he let Beedrill out to protect him in case of a sudden attack by a wild pokémon or human. After a while they arrived at their old training place.

"Beedrill, do you remember this place? It's where we trained here while you were still a weak Weedle.... It seems like it was only a week ago, but you've already turned into a strong Beedrill." spoke Gray to his pokémon. Beedrill hummed in response, remembering exactly all of his training.

"We'll stop here for the first time. The pokémon here are pretty weak so there's no strong danger, also there's a body of clean water nearby" Gray told Beedrill. While the trainer was putting up the tent for the night, Beedrill went hunting. Gray asked him to catch a Pidgey or Spearow for him. Beedrill was very glad that his parent had started asking him for some business. He remembered all his sacrifices and wounds, just so he could grow up in peace. So now that he was grown, it was his responsibility to try his best to make things easier for his parent.

In one of the trees he found Pidgey's nest. He immediately attacked it using Fury Attack. The pokémon screamed at Beedrill, but did not leave the confines of its nest, enduring the attacks of the huge pokémon. After a few attacks, the pokémon finally lost all of its strength. Beedrill pierced its body with his sharp stinger to take its dead body to Gray. He looked into the nest. There he saw crackling but not yet hatched pokemon eggs. It looked like this Pidgey was their mother and was trying to protect and evict his children to the last. Beedrill ate these eggs indifferently. They contain a lot of nutrients, so many Pokémon hunt them down to eat them. That's the law in the Pokémon world. Only the strong have the rights to live.If Pidgey was stronger, the food could have been Beedrill already.

The pokémon returned to its trainer, bringing Pidgey's body to him. Gray only nodded towards Beedrill and proceeded to eat. As usual, he didn't cook the pokémon, but ate it raw. The ghostly power absorbed the life energy found in the pokémon's meat and blood. But the pokémon was too weak for Gray to notice any changes. However, as long as he was in the forest, pokémon would be his main food, so he didn't give it a second thought. The smell of blood should attract a few pokémon. They would be Beedrill's first opponents. 

At this point, the pokémon hadn't arrived yet, so Gray sent Beedrill off to train his wings. They are a rather vulnerable part of the pokémon's body, so they need to be strengthened. It also helps to increase Beedrill's speed. The trainer instructed the pokémon to use its wings to attack trees. The fragile wings of the pokémon were torn in several places, branches piercing them and leaving through holes. Despite the pain from the training, the pokémon continued to follow its trainer's orders. In time, Beedrill's wings would get used to such strain and become stronger.

Half an hour later.

Gray heard a stirring in the bushes. He told Beedrill to prepare for battle. The pokémon, who had stopped training, flew up to his trainer and awaited his command. Beedrill's flight was a bit uneven due to the damage to his wings. A one-eyed Ekans crawled out of the bushes. The same one that wanted to eat Weedle's egg back then.

"Beedrill, it's time to get back at him, use Fury Attack," the pokémon flew at Ekans. The snake hissed angrily and used Bite. The pokémon's body stretched out and it jumped at Beedrill. Gray's pokémon didn't dodge, but met the pokémon with its stingers. Ekans bit one of Beedrill's stingers as the other attacked his body. 

"Don't let it get out and use Bug bite," Gray commanded. The pokémon held Ekans and brought it up to his face. Beedrill's mouth became covered in pale green energy and it began to bite Ekans body. The pokémon hissed pitifully and twitched, trying to get away. Beedrill's teeth closed on the yellow ring on Ekans' body. A critical attack, enhanced by Beedrill's latent innate Sniper ability killed the pokémon instantly. Ekans' dead body fell to the ground.

"Beedrill, cut open its body and get the poison sac from there. You must absorb it," Gray ordered. Beedrill's body was now developed enough, which meant his poison could be improved again. Weedle had reached the peak of his venom development when he was able to absorb Ekans venom, but his body simply wouldn't be able to withstand stronger venom. Beedrill followed his trainer's orders and carefully pulled the poison pouch out of the pokémon's body. After twisting it in his hands for a bit, he absorbed the poison pouch. There were no signs of poisoning as his poison was stronger, but the amount of poison in Beedrill's body became a little more. Gradually, the quantitative change would lead to a qualitative transformation of Beedrill's poison. The rest of Ekans' body would become dinner for Gray.

Night had fallen

Gray was about to go to bed when he noticed Beedrill's strange look at a group of Beedrils flying through the sky. It was the first time he had ever seen a Pokémon like him. It surprised him greatly that he was different from them. His color, height, weight, everything was different. Gray walked over to his pokémon. and stroked its back since he couldn't reach its head. Beedrill came down to the ground.

"Beedrill, you are a Shiny Pokémon. You have a different body coloring and stronger potential than other Beedrill since birth. But in Pokémon groups, people like you are usually either cast out or ignored because you don't look like the others. Remember, it's not your problem that you're different from them. You are much stronger than each of them. That's the point. The main thing in this world is to become strong enough, and then any human or pokémon, it doesn't matter. Everyone will recognize you and respect and fear your strength" Gray was talking to Beedrill and explaining some things to him. The pokémon listened to his parent attentively and at the end of the speech he hugged him. Gray reciprocated and also lightly hugged his pokémon.

 After a while, he went to bed and Beedrill decided to become the strongest pokémon by all means. After waiting for his trainer to fall asleep, he went to train. The pokémon remembered Gray lifting weights to get stronger, and also found a large boulder for him to carry on his arms. Both of his stingers cracked from the weight of the boulder, but he picked it up anyway and began trying to fly with that weight. His wings, still not fully recovered from his previous training, flapped very weakly as he tried to keep Beedrill's body in the air. After flying like that for about an hour, he finally brought the boulder down. One of his stingers cracked and fell. But for a pokémon like Beedrill, that meant progress. In its place tomorrow, a new stinger would appear, one that would be stronger and sharper than the interrupted one. This phenomenon was common to many pokémon, as some parts of their bodies wore out and new, stronger ones grew in their place. For example, Mamoswine's tusks, Pinsir's horns, Haxorus' Blades. After practicing his physical condition, Beedrill set out to perfect his moves. Bug bite, Fury Attack, Twineedle, he performed each of them in turn. After a while, Fury Attack consistently had three hits in a row, and sometimes even four. 

The sun was already rising on the horizon as the pokémon returned to his trainer's camp. The pokémon looked very tired and weak, but you could see the satisfied look on his face. He was going to go to his own training every day to please his parent with his strength. As he flew toward the camp, his wings felt a strong gust of wind and Beedrill ducked down sharply. He turned around and spotted a group of three Spearow attacking him. They swooped down on him together, their beaks burning white, which meant they were using Peck. In response to their movement, Beedrill used String Shot and tied one pokémon's wings. it couldn't fly anymore and hit the ground painfully. The other two Spearow got even angrier and sped up, trying to attack Beedrill. The pokémon crossed its stingers and held back one pokémon's attack, but the second one hit him in the body. The super effective attack did enough damage, the pokémon's fatigue preventing it from using all of its strength. 

Beedrill gathered himself and was able to use Fury attack, attacking one pokémon. Two of the attacks hit, but the bird did not pass out. While Beedrill was attacking, another Spearow attacked him in the back again. The pokémon briefly lost its balance and began to fall. Near the ground, he was able to regain consciousness and using all the strength of his wings, cushioned his fall. There was a loud sound of falling. Gray woke up and climbed out of the tent. He noticed that Beedrill was not around. He looked to the other side of the river and noticed his pokémon fighting two Spearow on the ground. He ran sharply and jumped into the water, swimming across the river. Luckily it was small and it took him a couple minutes. Once on the other bank, he assessed the condition of his pokémon. A missing stinger, torn wings, and a tired look. The two Spearow definitely couldn't have gotten him to this state. leaving this conversation for later, he shouted:

"Beedrill, wait for them to approach and use Poison sting on one of them" ordered the trainer, running up to the battle scene. In his palm was a small dark orb. When Spearow attacked him again, Beedrill fired a Poison spike at one of the pokémon on his trainer's orders. His face turned a purple color and he stopped his attack. Another Spearow flew up to Beedrill, but suddenly a Shadow ball flew at him. There was an explosion. The pokémon took no damage as it was a normal type pokémon. But that meant that the opponent was now not alone. he looked at his partner. Who had already fallen to the ground and was squirming from the poisoning. Assessing his chances, he turned around and quickly flew out of here, leaving Beedrill and Gray alone.

The trainer looked angrily at his pokémon and returned it to the pokéball without saying anything. Let him recover there, and a very serious conversation would be waiting for them in the evening. Gray walked over to the lying Spearow. He assessed him

*****

Pokémon: Spearow

Type: Normal/Flying

Level 7

Character: Jolly

Potential: Yellow

Characteristics:

Health - 22/22 

Attack: D+

Defense: D-

Special Attack: E-

Special Defense: E+

Speed: D+

Ability: Sniper.

*****

"Not bad, this pokémon will be good for my faction members" Gray pulled out a pokéball and threw it at the lying Spearow. He went to vent his anger in training as he was very angry about Beedrill.He didn't know what happened but he was almost defeated by two weak pokémon. He began to doubt Beedrill's ability to protect him. 

Evening came

Gray spent the day training and socializing with some non-aggressive pokémon. By now Beedrill should have gotten enough rest. He threw a Pokéball and his pokémon appeared in front of him.

"I'm waiting for an explanation," Gray said furiously and looked at Beedrill, who bowed his head upon hearing the intonation of his trainer and parent. He seemed to have upset and angered him greatly.

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