Chapter 12 Pokémon Ability (rewrite)

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Five days later.

"Weedle, Bug Bite!"

On the training ground, Weedle bumped into a well-developed Squirtle, biting Squirtle's tail.

"Jennie!"

Squirtle was in pain, and he was about to cry.

"Stop!"

As Trainer called out to stop, Weedle let go of his mouth and ran to Natsu's side.

"Here today, your Weedle is great, the best Weedle I've ever seen, thanks for your sparring." The Trainer put away Squirtle and said to Natsu.

"Thank you."

Natsu nodded, crouching down so Weedle could climb onto his shoulder.

"I didn't expect Weedle in the Silver Pokémon club to be so strong. This is the biggest club in Saffron City."

The Trainer left the practice room with emotion.

This is Natsu's client today, the sparring goal.

Kenji, a junior high school student, still has to go to school. He was at school during the day, so sometimes other club members would appoint him as a sparring partner.

But most people choose it because they think Weedle is a weak Pokémon.

It wasn't until the battle with Natsu's Weedle that this view slowly changed.

"Wow!" Weedle held his little head up high.

'He said I was the best Weedle ever.'

Natsu snapped his head with a smile "Don't be so proud, you're the best just because he hasn't seen too many other Weedles, you and the best, and Not a small gap."

Giovanni's Beedrill impressed him too deeply.

"Wuu~~"

Weedle had gotten used to Natsu's words to remind him not to be too arrogant whenever he was complacent.

Similarly, whenever he lost and blamed himself, Natsu would comfort him.

As sparring partners, Natsu and Weedle have faced many Pokémon and Trainers, and not all Weedle can face them calmly, even often lose and fail.

Natsu wouldn't blame Weedle every time he lost, but before resting each night, he and Weedle summarized the reasons for his failures and shortcomings, and tried to be able to fight in the next battle. to avoid this problem.

However, most of the trainers who used Weedle as a sparring partner weren't very strong, so Natsu and Weedle mostly lost less and won more.

"Your connection with the previous Bug Bite is still a bit stiff, and the Bug Bite's strength hasn't reached your current level. This is a shortcoming and needs to be strengthened." Natsu recalled the previous Battle, commenting.

"Woooo~~" Weedle nodded, looking at him sadly.

"You."

Understanding what it meant, Natsu scolded with a smile, took a crystal clear Pokéblock from his pocket and handed it to Weedle.

"Wuu~~!"

Weedle shouted with joy, curled his tail over the Pokéblock and ate it, and hummed a small tune.

"Let's eat, if we don't have customers after eating, we will continue training."

Natsu walked to the corner and held up the book "Bug-Type Pokémon Abilities" "Relationship Development and Battle Ability".

In his impression, Weedle doesn't have much ability to learn, except String Shot, Poison Sting, Bug Bite, there should be the most difficult one which is Electro Web.

How this move trained Weedle until he found out that it bothered Natsu quite a bit.

Right now, Weedle could only weave threads of spit into a net, but could not touch the energy of the Electric Type Attribute.

It's a little hard to let Bug-Type and Poison-Type Pokémon develop Electric-Type moves.

"Take your time." Natsu said to himself, "The focus is still on mastering existing abilities. Currently, Weedle's String Shot and Poison Sting are almost at the mastery level. And Insect Bite can only be considered proficient."

Through reading, Natsu learns that a Pokémon's ability to move and the ability to connect during battle is divided into stages.

[Learn], [Proficient], [Master].

Pokemon's energy is limited, and there are lots of moves to learn and understand. It is impossible to train every move to the Master level.

Therefore, it is the trainer's responsibility to select the moves that best suit the Pokémon's characteristics and the Pokémon's fighting style.

And as long as the move reached the Advanced level, it could almost be unleashed well in actual combat.

Fortunately, Weedle had no trouble from moving around too much. There weren't many moves for him to learn. Of course, everyone needs to be trained and mastered.

Besides that.

After this period of training and fighting, Natsu decides that Weedle's Traits are "Run Away", not the general "Shield Dust", which falls under the Implicit Characteristics.

Characteristic Traits are special abilities that each Pokemon has, similar to passive Abilities in many games.

Traits Run Away, if in the PM game, can play a very limited role, only 100% can escape when encountering a Wild Pokémon.

But here, Characteristic Traits Run Away feature gave Weedle a lot of speed.

This is also a relatively good Characteristic Traits, although the speed of improvement is not great.

Night came.

Natsu and Weedle send Kenji and his Bulbasaur.

Before leaving, Kenji kept insisting that he should spend the day after tomorrow to adventure in the dense forest together.

After five days of training and fighting, Natsu and Weedle's comprehension and strength had greatly improved. There shouldn't be too much pressure for the dense timber forest already under the control of the Alliance.

So Natsu agreed.

And just as he was about to take the most part of Weedle's practice and return to Rest, Anna, who was in charge of reception and sparring duties, looked for him.

In the past few days, Natsu and Anna had been in frequent contact with each other, and their relationship was relatively close.

"You train so late, you madman."

Anna walked into the training room and saw Natsu and Weedle sweat profusely, and the admiration in her eyes became more and more intense.

She had seen some strong Trainers, but not many who worked as hard as Natsu and Weedle.

Natsu stopped and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Ann?"

"Here, here is your present for today." Anna handed him a stack of banknotes.

Due to Kenji's care and occasional sparring duties during the day, Natsu's daily income has been around 400-500 Alliance coins in the past few days, and he has accumulated over 2,000 Alliance coins in 5 days. This barely completes Weedle's continuation of Pokéblock.

But more or less is not enough.

"Thank you." He wiped his hands on his clothes, took the money, and kept it carefully.

"There is one more important thing, which was explained by the supervisor. This might be your chance." Anna said again.

"Oh?" Natsuo was taken aback.

Natsu only heard Anna explain: "Two days ago, the club received an assignment from the Els Pokémon School in Saffron City, they hope our club can send some people to clear the dense forest outside Saffron City tomorrow, because the difficulty is not high, so the supervisor decided to let the Primary Rank sparring do it."

Natsu's expression became a little strange.

Forest forest?

Anna didn't seem to notice the change in her expression, and continued:

"Director means that each of you is in charge of an area, clearing out potentially dangerous and aggressive Pokémon."

Perhaps he didn't think he had mentioned the most important point, he said again, "This mission is probably related to your Primary Rank. If you want to make more money, take this opportunity."

Is this a way to get promoted? Do some

quest for Silver Pokémon Battle Club?

"Understand." Natsu nodded.

Looks like a dense forest, can he make double money?

"And this is a map of the Forest and the area you are responsible for." As she spoke, Anna handed over a document.

"Thank you." Natsu took the file.

"By the way, there is also an evaluation from you and your Weedle, you can take a look, maybe it can help you. Rest early today, and work will start tomorrow morning."

With that, she turned and left.

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(End of this chapter)