The Beach (13)

Walking down the stairs I quickly make my way down to the sandy ground. Feeling the small grains of sand on my soles I start to make my way to the shore.

'Walking on the shore is way easier than dry ass sand.' I said to myself as I saw Doublade start massacr- hanging out with the Shellder population.

-Master they're a bit fishy and very salty-

'Who could have guessed.' I chuckled to myself.

I started to walk along the beach and just enjoyed the scenery for a bit.

'I should catch a Pokemon.' I thought to myself. There aren't many opportunities for me to go team searching as I'm always with my parents or in a place without many interesting Pokemon.

Looking around to the obvious mass of water Pokemon. With an interested look I started to search around the place.

The beach mostly had Shellders, Slowpokes, Magikarps and Pidgeys. Not the most unique set of wild Pokemon but some of them are quite good.

Slowpokes are pretty good, they evolve into a psychic type later on so I may as well catch one. I should also catch a Shellder to evolve it.

-Come over to me Doublade-

I call out to Doublade. I don't want to be defenceless while trying to catch a Pokemon now.

-Yesh Masta!-

I hear Doublade say while chewing? He seems to be having a great time.

A method I've found effective to sense the amount of "psychic energy" a Pokemon has. I to spread energy out of my body to act like a sixth sense for me to look around and try to find where the most energy is at. A strong Pokemon with a lot of psychic energy is like a small beacon that I can locate, so the Pokemon I'm trying to find shouldn't be too hard.

-Get in my shadow, I want you to sneak attack the Pokemon I want to catch-

I tell Doublade making him sink into my shadow.

After a few hours of searching I've seen quite the fair share of Slowpokes. Some have decent potential while other not so much.

But just now I've found the perfect Slowpoke, reason?

It knows the move psychic naturally, making it extremely talented.

The reason this is such a big deal is because it has a rough level on how to use the power by itself, unlike how other Pokemon use confusion on an instinctual level they can't replicate any psychic moves on things like objects.

They can be taught the move "psychic" but not actual usage of psychic energy if that makes sense.

Going behind a rock to somewhat conceal my presence, It's now the time to strike.

-Doublade, sneak up to it and use [Night Slash]-

Doublade using [Shadow Sneak] to get up to the Slowpoke, gets behind the Pokemon and pops out of the ground.

*Boom*

A loud impact could be heard from where Doublade hit Slowpoke making a small dust cloud. The dust clouds dissipating, you could see a Slowpoke with it's tail upwards in tense stance.

Slowpoke gathering some energy releases a bush of water from its mouth.

*Swoosh*

Doublade using [Protect] nullifies the attack and quickly uses a [Slash].

*Swish*

The Slowpoke without its stamina shield gets a small cut in its abdomen, knocking it out.

"That's enough."

I call out. Quickly making my way to Slowpoke, I catch the poor guy with an Ultra Ball.

1..

2..

3..

Ding!

With Slowpoke now caught I made my way back towards the house I would be sleeping at for a while.

'Oh yeah, I need a Shellder as well.'

In the games you can level a Slowpoke up to a certain level but here you need a Shellder. I'm not sure what's better so I'll just get the biggest one I can find.

-Go find the biggest Shellder you can, preferably alive too-

Doublade nodding at my commands starts to do a little dance while making his way around the beach.

While he was gone I released Slowpoke from his Ultra Ball.

I shouldn't be in danger as even if I treat him badly the worse thing he would do is try to leave.

*ztszszsz!*

"Slowpoke~"

Looking at my new team member I start to get a surprised look on my face. Glancing down at its abdomen it seems to be healed already.

-Hey buddy, it's been a rough start but how you doing?- I asked Slowpoke in the telepathic link I made. Theres no way he could of healed normally so my Slowpoke probably has his species hidden ability.

-I do fine~ Very tired and Hungry- Slowpoke says through the link. He seems to very young and is just looking for food. I can tell because of his skin being very bright pink while older Slowpokes have darker pink skin.

It's hard to notice these things from afar.

Pulling out some Pokemon food out of my spatial pockets, I start to remove the lid off and take a few bits.

-Here have some-

Slowpoke coming up to my hand, takes a nibble at the first piece of Pokemon food.

-Ish prewty gud!- Slowpoke says with a happy look and starts to munch down on the rest of the Pokemon food.

I fed Slowpoke a few more hand fulls as I had a lot of food to spare. Doublade didn't eat Pokemon food so I was able to stock up on a little bit of "high quality" food.

I'm not sure if they make a difference but they probably do knowing my parents little habit of confirming it's quality before buying it.

Walking back to the house with Slowpoke in a ready pace I start to see two Pokemon in the distance.

Two swords intertwined with a silk scarf connected to their handle called Doublade while a Shellder half a metre in size was being dragged in the sand by Doublade's scarf.

"He really knows his way around Shellders." I say in mild shock seeing the huge Shellder.

-I think that's Fred from down coast- I hear Slowpoke murmur in our link.

"Wait wha-"