Chapter 4

Meanwhile in a non-descript alley in Brooklyn

All of a sudden, a flash of light illuminated the dark surroundings, quickly forming a glowing ring, if you looked then you would see a mountainous backdrop with ancient buildings surrounding a paved courtyard.

Three people shot out and upon raising their hands they were surrounded by the same glowing energy with mystical runes running around the circumference. The two rear most people looked toward the front person, being a women of unknown age with a lack of any hair on top of her head.

"Ancient one, can you sense what made the disturbance?"

"No Kaecilius, I cannot, there is a hint of special distortion around this area, with two different events, the first has the highest reading and the second is minor in comparison. But I cannot discern what the source was, the Eye isn't giving me anything, it seems to be obscured by some form of barrier." She answered, looking slightly uncertain but it vanished as quickly as it appeared.

Having another look around they tried to find any sign to give them a clue of what happened but to their disappointment they came up with nothing, seeming frustrated they formed the glowing circle again and stepped through to their original location.

In a penthouse apartment in Brooklyn

Utterly over joyed with my new partner I took some time bonding with the little guy, moving into the home gym I had, yes that's right I have a home gym...in an apartment…..in Brooklyn, 'Bow Before me Peasants!' cough cough, enough megalomaniac Sam lets keep it down.

Seeing the Charmander staring up at me with adoration in his eyes was just amazing, wanting to see what he could do we moved to an open area and turning to the little guy, "hey buddy so how about we give your moves a bit of a run through, see what you can do and what to improve on."

I could see the determination in his eyes to give it his all, pointing at a sparring dummy "Charmander 'Growl'", opening his maw he unleashed a roar that shook the surrounding windows and set my teeth chattering. WOW that was intense, glad I wasn't on the receiving end of that, seeing the dummy not only was knocked over but moved back 2 metres had me shocked as growl wasn't suppose to affect someone physically.

A bit apprehensive of what the effect of scratch and ember would be after growl, I took a breath and after standing the dummy up in it's original position I moved to the side.

"Use Scratch"

Growling under his breath and running at the dummy I could see his claws gain a faint glint under the light and with a quick swipe of both claws he jumped back. Waiting for any result of the move I watched the dummy, I stared at the dummy and could hear a faint grinding noise and to my amazement it slowly separated into many pieces, his claws had completely bisected the dummy with no obstruction.

Ok we are going to have to keep that under control and if he uses it on anyone, I need to make sure he restrains himself as it could very well kill an ordinary being. Seeing the result it really puts in perspective the durability of Pokémon. I mean even in some of the media you see scratch used on people, from what I remember they have only ended up with as per the name, scratches.

There must be something about the Pokémon world that influences the physique of both humans and Pokémon. I wonder if I'll change as I can use aura and psychic powers, maybe it will get me to similar levels to Captain America or some super humans, the thought of it got me pretty excited.

Thinking of the last move I looked around and found the fire extinguisher in the gym and got it primed for our next step. Not being able to use the dummy anymore I looked around and found a tall dumbbell rack and hung a weighted vest with iron inserts on the outside, with the money I have I can replace them easily and they are far more durable than the training dummy.

Getting the fire extinguisher ready and standing well behind Charmander,

"Ember!",

Seeing the virtual fire ball fly towards the rack and upon hitting it acted more like napalm with how it spread and remained burning after the initial contact. I could feel the high heat from here and ran forward to neutralised the flame. Upon putting out the fire I could see that the iron inserts had started sagging down, showing that they are getting close to a melting point, I had no idea what that would be but probably pushing past 1000 degrees C.

Well then this is all a bit terrifying, any chance of me wanting to create a pokemon world and help others would have to be well past the time of us training to get the abilities under control. With Charmander's inherent fire affinity I wonder if he could control the temperature so it would be less lethal. Ah well we will have to make sure that before we go out helping anyone that we get some work done on our end. I need to create a disguise and come up with a code name for my escapades.

"Char", looking down seeing my little lizard starting up at me I bent down, patting him on the head and giving him a scratch he lent into my hand growling in contentment.

"Good job little guy, I'm so proud to have such a strong partner with me." Giving him a bright smile.

STATUS

NAME: SAMUEL FARTHING

AGE: 21

LEVEL: 0/??

EXP: 0/500

JOB: N/A

BOND: CHARMANDER (65%)

DRAW CHANCES: 0

POKEMON: 1/∞

POKEMON STORAGE: 0/∞

ABILITIES/ PERKS: Mental Fortitude(MAX), Genetic Anomaly, Inventory, Inspect (MAX), Aura (Beginner), Psychic (Beginner)