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After some time, Caleb began to spar with his pokemon. Even with the height differences, Caleb and Magby still had a proper spar with each other.

Naturally, Magby had much more power than Caleb. Being a pokemon have it's perks.

Pokemon, as it's species entirely had a vast difference of recovery than humans, they only required to rest one-tenth of the time for a human to recover from injuries, training, sickness and etc.

Additionally, they are much stronger than humans since the beginning of birth.

Even though Caleb wasn't slacking at all regarding his physical exercise, that even his friends, relatives and other people who had witnessed his regime thought that Caleb was torturing himself every single day by exercising to the extreme.

Fortunately, it won't hinder the growth of his body since he took special prescriptions given to him by their personal family doctor.

Morever, Caleb was using cold-weapons too when sparring against Magby.

It wasn't unnatural in this pokemon world for trainers to carry a weapon with them. It was much more abnormal for one to not to.

Since this world carries unknown dangers and accidents are bound to happen in any trainer's adventure. So when they became second year students, their battling instructor, who by the way was still the same person, Instructor Ross, made them pick a weapon of their choice.

Caleb's weapon of choice was a unique one. It was a halberd.

Naturally, he was only using a wooden halberd when sparring against Magby and his friends.

Of course, Caleb personally would have preferred swords or even bows compared to this heavy weapon. But, when he had tried to use this particular weapon at that day, he found it pleasing to hold in his arms, so with his logic he picked it as his weapon of choice.

It had been two years since then and he avoided using any different weapons and consistently practiced the halberd everyday. In any case, he practiced with the weapon at the start slowly since Caleb had no relatively much experience in any weapons even in his past life.

With the help of his grandfather, he was given a manual containing fundamentals of spearmanship's basics and other moves. Since the spear and the halberd have a ton of similarities, Caleb applied the moves to his weapon.

Once Caleb got used to it, he began to use moves much faster and precise as he put effort to practicing. Eventually, he sparred with others and with Magby.

After years of practice, many times his hand hurt that he couldn't even move it and as his calluses thickened, Caleb now was considered average at using the halberd.

After Caleb and Magby finished sparring. They were about to continue working on Magby's Fire Spin when Noraima suddenly appeared and called him.

"Caleb, your friends are here. Come here and greet them."

"I'll be right there, Mom!" Caleb was surprised when he heared his friends were at his house, they didn't planned anything today, did they? Did he forgot something? Caleb wondered.

Diantha, Eusine and Eclairisse was sitting comfortably at their living room sofa.

When Caleb got near them, he asked. "What are you guys doing here? It's 05:00pm, did we plan something today that I forgot?"

"Nope, we came because we're bored. Anyways we wanted to train with you for tonight, I called Eusine and Eclairisse, they were down doing it." Diantha said with a smile. She picked a piece of snack on the table Mrs.Laurent prepared for them and began munching on it.

"You guys really are annoying. I'm not your baby sitters you know. Hays, forget it. What are you planning to train anyways?" Caleb sat down next to Diantha and rested his body. Magby was still out of his pokeball so when he saw the snacks on the table he lunged at'em and ate anything his hands could shove on his mouth. "Eat slowly buddy, they would think I've been starving you to death acting like that in front of them."

"That's a possibility, you are a muscle head after all." Eusine jabbed a joke on Caleb.

"Uh-huh? Is that so? At least I'm not losing so much when sparring." Caleb returned with a sly smile.

His friends just laughed at their exchange, it was just a joke of pure joy, no malicious intentions involved. Hanging out with each other since the start of school made them very comfortable with each other's presence.

"Well, we wanted to train on our pokemon's battle prowess and importantly, our own hand to hand combat power. I really want to earn a spot in the Rookie Tournament and I was wondering if you could help us. Since ya know, you being the most knowledgeable one among us four in terms of training and what shortcoming we could improve on." Eclairisse said with a soft voice at the side. Diantha and Eusine who were proud kids, didn't even refute to what she said. Instead, acknowledged her words by keeping their silence.

"Not just that, but I'm also better than all of you in different aspects." Caleb teasingly said. "Although, I'm surprised. I didn't know you view me as such, even though I already knew that myself."

"Stop being so cocky, Caleb Laurent. Are you gonna train with us or not? Be done with it." Diantha seemed to have been tilted on Caleb's cockiness. As she loudly said.

"Eh? Stop being so fierce, Diantha. Or else, no one will be willing to marry you with such image. All boys will be too scared to even get close to you if you act like that." Caleb wore a serious expression as he continued on teasing Diantha.

"Heh! I can marry whoever I want. Enough of this, I'm too young anyways. Or are you implying something here, Caleb? Don't tell me you liked me?" Diantha widened her eyes in exaggerating manner.

"Don't get too full of yourself chopping board. I like girls who have some fat in them not bones-" Before Caleb could finish his words, he dodged a angered punch from Diantha. Al the while Eclairisse and Caleb were laughing at them at the side.

"HAHAHAHAHAH, alright enough with the jokes. I'll train with y'all. The more the merrier, right?" Caleb stood up and walked ahead of them to the backyard.

Diantha was calmed down by her fellow gender, Eclairisse. Thry then stood up and followed Caleb to their yard.