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William went to check on Agate. He saw her concentrating on executing the moves. He thought the sight of ice shards reflecting the sunlight was beautiful. It's also refreshingly cold now due to the ice typing of the move. A passing thought of using it like aircon was in his mind. Not possible, he must not use Agate like a convenient tool. She was so intent on training that she did not notice him, so William called her over, "Agate, come here for a moment." It had immediate effect of the feebas swimming toward him, eyes expectant. "Well done, it's a beautiful execution," William praised her which made Agate splashed water at him. Whether it was a sign of joy or dislike, William wasn't sure, he thought he had said his praise properly. Agate's way of expressing herself was often splashing water, when upset or happy, it's like that so far.

" Now that could use it well, it will be beneficial to train how to maneuver on land," William said as he backed off from Agate so as not to get wet. " There won't be always river or pond for you to swim in. It is best to prepare in case I needed your help when there's no water nearby," William explained further of his reason. He noticed that Agate simply stared at him. That was when he became aware that she did not understand him fully. He was too used to Mur company that he had forgotten pokemon normally couldn't understand human speech perfectly, especially young or wild pokemon. " Train. Land," he said in short word while making gesture. "... get it?" William asked Agate afterward. "fee," Agate jumped out of the water to land on the ground. "Alright," William beamed at how he succeeded to convey what he wanted.

"Try to move," William instructed Agate who had came unto dry ground. Agate tried to, but only resulted in her flop about with splash. "Relax, unnecessary move will only tire you out faster," William tried to soothe Agate. He thought it looked tiring to flail like that. Surely, it would be better if Agate did not spend her energy on unnecessary movement that also depletes her oxygen reserve. Agate did not trust him that much yet to stay completely still. Her movement became less erratic though. It's enough for now, he supposed. " Good, now hit the ground hard with your tail to propel back into the water," William instructed further. He had in mind to motivate Agate by letting her went back into water if she's successful. It took her several try before she managed to jump in the correct direction. William told her repeat the exercise for awhile, then told her to take a break while he went to Jasper and Mur.

Time flies when William made preparation plan for their Pewter gym challenge. William finally nudged Mur awake. "Mur. wake up," William shook the espurr. " ess. . . paa?" It only succeeded in making Mur rolled to face away from him. He tried again, this time, by pinching Mur's nose, so he could not breath. Mur's reaction was immediate, he shouted himself awake, while flailing his arms."Rise and shine, it's time to wake up," William greeted Mur and making sure the espurr won't go back to sleep again, "go and find Jasper, we need to set up camp before dark," he instructed. A little walk should refresh Mur.

William did not like the forest at night one bit. He couldn't help feeling that his flash light would alert every pokemon in the vicinity of his location. And it did. A kakuna jumped up on them from above, seemingly offended because they were lighting the area. "Jasper, used tackle!" William ordered. Jasper ran to intercept Kakuna's attack, slamming the pokemon away. it shot poison sting, but it didn't do much damage nor poisoning Jasper. "Again," William said to have Jasper ending the battle with a second tackle. He no longer thought much about kakuna and weedle that infested Viridian forest by now. He had gotten the habit of dealing with them before they could poison anybody. They continued to search for dry branches after William sprayed potion unto Jasper's wound.

Unbeknown to them, another pokemon was watching them. It had ran the moment it had seen the light and footstep. It had watched the battle and was fearful they would come for it too. Fortunately for it, they didn't. Still it couldn't not follow the human, for it did not wished for the human to find their den. It would watch and prevent them from finding it.

Nothing. The rustling ceased to a stop. William was conflicted now, if he turned his back now, the pokemon might be a potential danger. He traded glance with Jasper for advice. "Bulba," Jasper took a step forward. "Bulba Bulbasaur bulba," Jasper called out toward the bush. Silence. The pokemon was hesitant, but it finally decided to show itself, while growling, "piiika chuuu." electricity sparked on its cheek as it charged at Jasper. William was late to issue command, but Jasper already knew what to do. He extended his vine and caught the pikachu which used thundershock on him.

William breathed in relief that Jasper was capable of acting on his own without his direction. He could now get a good look of the pokemon. He did not need a pokedex to know that it was a pikachu, a popular pokemon from Kanto. " ooh, it's just a pikachu," he spoke his thought out loud. The pokemon was known to be timid in the wild. They had tendency to hide from people. Even when Viridian Forest were their main habitat, they were rarely spotted. It never crossed William's mind that he would encounter any. Though he could relax when he saw the pikachu had given up on struggling from Jasper's hold. "You can let it go, Jasper," William told the bulbasaur. He wasn't interested in catching the pikachu nor did he felt the need to battle it. "Bulba?" Jasper tilted his head at how William would let this attacker go. "do it," William said. Jasper finally complied. He released his vine and let the pikachu fell down rather roughly.

"Piii!?" the pikachu was stunned by the fall. When it righted itself, she saw of the back of human and bulbasaur leaving her. "Piiika Pikachu," it was offended that it was treated like it wasn't a threat. Human would usually want to battle or capture them. That human however, showed what it felt as disappointment upon seeing it. "Pika pika pika!" unacceptable. It ran after them, unwilling to let the matter settle the way it was.

"It was following us here. I thought to let the pokemon off the battle since it looked scared," William replied, he glanced toward the pikachu that was still on four and glaring at him. "What do you want?" William asked the pikachu, with Mur here, he would get a translation. "Piika pika pi. Pika chu pika!" the pokemon declared. Mur told William the exact word that the pikachu said. William thought it was a troublesome pokemon. Even after he left the pokemon alone, it pursued him to ask for battle. He sighed and said," alright, Mur will fight you."

"Mur, start with scratch!" William ordered. As Mur advanced toward Pikachu, however, it growled, thus Mur faltered in his attack that his attack did not wound Pikachu as much. It took the chance to shock Mur with thundershock. "Mur, scratch again," William instructed. Mur had other idea. He did not attack immediately, but feinted weakness. When Pikachu came at him again, he swiped it, causing damage. Unfortunately, Pikachu held no item for him to take. William saw that the attack looked different somehow.

Now that the battle had ended, he opened his pokedex to check and found that Mur had learned a move called 'covet' which could steal the opponent's held item if they had any. While at it, he also checked Jasper and Agate, Jasper had learned leech seed and vine whip that day. He was pleased that his pokemon had became stronger after their training. It showed what they did was not for nothing.

The fire finally was set. William made sure to follow proper instruction of starting campfire thanks to survival class. Despite not being a trainer school, it taught basic knowledge that a person needed to know to take a journey. Some of their student sometimes took trainer leave during school period. That's probably the reason. Anyway, with the fire, he could make himself warm food. It was at the level of heating canned goods though. Tonight, he had canned soup and loaf of bread. He offered to warm up the pokemon's food too after his was done. Jasper wanted his cold, while Mur took up on the offer. This action caused smell of food to waft into the air, attracting a murkrow. The bird cawed as it dived in to steal food. They were unprepared for attack as they were relaxing and eating. Murkrow snagged Jasper's pokefood, since mur's was a stew-like substance. It flew to nearby tree, before it swallowed the food. The murkrow wasn't satisfied and cawed for more.