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The adventure begins part 4

Deep in the depths of mt silver, a human boy just slightly older and taller than Max was sitting against a wall, sporting long light blue hair, wearing a blue vest, undershirt was black and his jeans were colored similar to his vest. The most distinctive feature about him were his eyes which were a darker shade of blue than his lengthy hair, a cold unphasing stare into space while his Nidoking took down three ursarings with one swing and devour them just as fast. "That's three more down Nidoking. This place is supposed to have the toughest pokemon to train with but they're no match for you are they?"

His Nidoking paid him no mind at first, swallowing down the first two unconscious ursarings without any resistance but looked a little agitated that the third managed to pull itself back up and started limping away but decided it wasn't worth the trouble and let it run away. "You know better Jesse. No one is a match for me. Least none of these pokemon are. We should just head back to Newbark. Unless you think there's anything worth actually finding here."

Jesse simply stood a moment more, staring at Nidoking's bulging belly before smirking. "No. There's nothing here of any real value to me. Let's head back down and into town." With that he climbed onto his Nidoking's back. His nidoking was special, not because it had unbelievable attacking and defensive powers but because it spoke in fluent human english from the moment he recieved it as a nidoran. "We've been out in this region for the past year. I don't think anybody aside from the champion would be able to take us down."

His nidoking made is way to an open area of the mountain before jumping clear off it's edge and landing right on the grounds of route 28 with a huge rumbling underground from the force of his weight, he snorted in amusement. "The champion himself fears us though. As I recall the last time we challenged him he declined the match. What would you do though if you were faced with someone you've known a long time...like say Max?"

This question caught Jesse off gaurd for a moment before he looked to the open road which Nidoking began walking through. "Isn't it obvious? I'd crush him...just like anybody else. We may have been friends once but that was a long time ago. If he did come to challenge me he'd wind up just like every other trainer we've battled."

Nidoking started rubbing his belly and nodded. "In my belly, fated to be Nidoking pudge...You've certainly become a dark trainer after we'd left the island. Even if you feel that way and don't consider him your friend...could you really condemn him to such a fate?" It was an honest enough question, it wasn't that Nidoking doubted his trainer, but he wanted to make sure that Jesse was dedicated to his own mission.

"I'd do it in a heartbeat..." Jesse replied coldly, looking up at the sky. "If he tried to stop me in my quest I'd do whatever it takes to get him out of the way. I have questions and I'm going to find those answers and I can't do that with him getting in my way...You however...these questions you ask are unsettling. Are you getting weak in the head?"

Nidoking growled at this comment, spotting Newbark town just ahead, he then began whispering so that the locals did not hear his voice or the conversation they were having. "Just like you Jesse...I have questions I need answered." He spotted a trainer that looked like Max heading in the direction of cherrygrove city but chose not to inform Jesse of it just yet. "As for my weakness..." he looked down to his belly. "I believe I made it clear that my only loyalty is to you." with that he carried his Pokemon trainer to the lodge to rest.

Meanwhile on route 29, Max and Fang were getting started on their trip to cherrygrove, both of them wanted to get there and have Max registered to the pokemon league as soon as possible, Bulbasaur however was in no rush as he sunbathed on max's head. neither he or his trainer knew just how close they had come to their adventure ending right away.

Fang wiggled through the thick bushes and grass along with Max, ears splayed to the side. "You know...you two cause me a lot of trouble and the adventure hasn't even started yet! now let me get this straight...That dragon...That rainbow dragon ate you?! And you just let it happen?!! What if something bad happened to you!"

Max giggled, sweat dripping from his forehead from the heat, he didn't understand how his bulbasaur could take that sun but smiled. "Well...I don't know something just told me to trust him. Besides it wasn't a bad thing by any means! Before he took me to the lab he said next time we meet he'd teach me how to reform on my own just in case something bad happens. Until then he gave me this." he pulled out a necklace with a red stone at the end of it. "It has enough magic inside of it to reform me once...least that's what he told me but after that the stone would shatter so I need to be very careful."

Fang couldn't believe Max's carefree attitude about the whole incident, or the fact that he didn't even think about the bad that could have happened. "If he thought it was so important why didn't he teach you before he took you to the lab?!"

Bulbasaur opened one eye, stared at Fang and gave him a vine whip behind the head which the wolf yelped. Max laughed and rubbed Bulbasaur's snout who enjoyed the attention. "He would have had to eat me again with both of us still conscious. And he and I both knew you were waiting for me so there wasn't any more time. He said that he'd be going to goldenrod city though...maybe we'll meet him again there."

Fang's ears remained splayed a moment more and sighed heavily. "Your cheery attitude isn't a bad thing but I think your trust is misplaced...you think that you can save your friend and you think that just because someone is friendly right away that they'll be your friends."

Max stopped walking when he spotted a sentret eating a berry that fell from a bush nearby, he petted bulbasaur a few times, whispering to him. "Hey...wanna have your first battle?"

The sunbathing pokemon's eyes opened up and leaped off Max's head and towards the sentret, he waited for his trainers command and the sentret to stop eating.

Once Max was sure that the sentret was done he saw it turn it's attention towards bulbasaur and smiled. "Alright let's weaken this guy with a vine whip!" His bulbasaur nodded, extending it's vines to attack the sentret who avoided the vines.

"That won't work! Plus it was just born right so how does it know vine whip?!" Fang asked, amazed but cringed when the Sentret tackled bulbasaur, knocking it on it's side before bulbasaur pulled itself back up.

"My master told me pokemon learn moves that their parent pokemon learned so he was born with the move vine whip! Lets see what else he has..." max quickly checked his pokedex and smiled wide. "Alright use sleep powder now Bulbasaur!"

This time it was the sentret's turn to be caught off gaurd when his bulbasaur sprayed a thick mist of sleep powder over the encountered pokemon. Once the Sentret was out cold Max tossed a pokeball at it, waited for the ball to stop rolling a few times and grinned when he successfully caught his first pokemon. "Alright!" He grabbed the ball, placed it in his pocket then reached out and hugged Bulbasaur tightly, laughing. "We did it! We caught our first partner bud!" His bulbasaur seemed equally impressed with itself as it used it's vines to hug around Max happily, Laughing it's own name and jumping around once it was set down excitedly.

Fang started wagging his three tails also, his mood now much better and having forgotten the other day. "Congrats Max! you caught your first wild pokemon. So are you going to name it?"

Max stopped laughing when he realized that he'd yet to nickname it then shrugged. "I'll find a name rater and name it later...I'm too excited to think about a clear name right now! Let's get to Cherrygrove so we can heal it and bulbasaur then register to the league!"

The rest of the day was uneventful until they made it to the next town, making it to the Pokemon center Max was finally able to register to the pokemon league like he'd been hoping for. His adventure would be getting much more interesting from now on. And unknowingly with Jesse following his trails the two are bound to meet up soon. (Chapter 1 end)