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To Route 14

Amie continued to run while still trying to hold the two pokemon in her arms. The Petilil still was struggling around in her grip, but she had a good enough hold on the pokemon to keep it from being let go. She tried her best to keep up with Mezame, who said they were close to route thirteen. Amie felt relieved as she saw grass and a trees ahead of them, thankful that they could get away from the sea soon. She watched as Mezame rounded a corner and told Amie to follow her as she dived into a space between a cluster of trees.

Not wanting to be left behind or get hit by the giant wave forming behind her, Amie dove into the trees, the wave crashing right behind her as she barely made it. She knocked into Mezame's back who was stopped in a clearing. "Ouch..." Amie muttered to herself taking a moment to recover. "Everyone ok?" She then asked looking around at the pokemon and her friend. It didn't look like anyone was injured on the outside at least, so that was a good thing.

The Petilil was still wiggling around in her arm, so now that they were on land it would be ok to let them go. "Fine, fine." Amie said a little annoyed as she let the Petilil jump out of her arm and set down the calmer Cherubi. Petilil dusted herself off after she had a firm footing on the ground. 'Pet, petilil petil.' She said calling over the other grass pokemon over to her. Once the others were around them, a small conversation started among the grass type pokemon.

Amie wasn't really sure what they were talking about so instead she took a moment to catch her breath. There was too much running today and she was feeling exhausted. Taking a look up to the sky, Amie saw the the sky was clear hear mostly. Not raining and not the intensity of heat that sun had before. It felt nice, or at least nicer compared to what was on route twelve. She also noticed as she looked up at the sky that the sun had moved a lot since that morning, maybe it was almost noon.

"How about lunch?" Amie asked Mezame. She was getting a hungry and that run before had added to that hunger. Plus just having some time to rest would be good enough for her. The clearing seemed like a good place to rest too since it was pretty quiet there. Besides a few small wild pokemon, including the group they had rescued, the two would have the place to themselves.

While Mezame went to set up lunch and a fire, Amie decided it would be a good idea to sit and keep an eye on the group of pokemon huddled together. She also let out her Abra, who went to go sleep under a nearby tree. They were definitely calmer than before. She didn't have any idea what they could be talking about. Maybe it was how they were going to thank the two trainers for rescuing them. She had only received a very grateful look from the Cherubi, but nothing from the Petilil, who ignored her after getting on the ground. Didn't she at least deserve a thank you, Amie thought to herself.

Looking around the clearing again, Amie wondered if there was anything she could do besides watching the pokemon. It looked like Mezame had already begun boiling some water and the noodles she was just putting in it smelled good. Lunch would be good today, Amie thought to herself with a smile.

Shuffling through her relatively dry bag, Amie pulled out a small clear zip-locked packet. Inside could be seen pieces of a baguette pulled apart that Amie had taken earlier today from the pokemon center after she saw how much Abra had liked them. She got up and walked over to her seemly asleep pokemon. Once she pulled out a small piece of the bread, his head followed the piece until she handed it to him. "A snack before lunch." Amie told him as he munched on it.

Turning back around to check on Mezame's progress, Amie was surprised to see the group of grass pokemon behind her staring up at her. While the other two were quietly waiting for something, the Petlitil was more yelling at higher pitch 'Pet Pet Pet'. It took her a moment to realized that they weren't really looking at her, but at her bread that she was going to put away soon. "Oh, you three can share this." Amie broke up a piece up into threes hoping that that the pokemon could share like this. They each took their given piece, happily moving back to a distance they were at before. She was still kind of annoyed at the Petilil's attitude, but hearing that Mezame had finished lunch put her mind at other places.

Amie walked over to the fire pit, her Abra following behind her at the mention of food. She saw the Pecha berries divided up and picked up a few to have later. Before she went to go get a bowl, Amie pulled out some psychic type food packets she had bought back in Celadon. It had been a few days since she bought it, since she mostly let Abra share her meals, but since they weren't close to any places where she could make sure he didn't get sick or anything else on people food, generic pokemon food would have to do for him now, along with what ever bread he wanted. She opened up a packet for Abra and gave it to him, happy that the bags were portioned sized depending on the weight of the pokemon.

The grass group seemed to enjoy the pecha berries given to them. The small group split the berries between them, saying they must get along pretty well. Amie also noted that whenever they talked amongst themselves they never seem to be angry at the others, expect for the Petilil who seemed to lead the others and yell now and then at the other two and towards the two trainers.

Taking a bowl from Mezame, Amie thanked her before going back to sit next to her Abra, who had taken a seat near the fire. Seeing Mezame's pokemon she felt lucky, Amie probably wouldn't be able to handle two very active pokemon. She was happy to have a quiet mellow pokemon like her Abra. Slurping some of the noodles down, they were pretty ok for instant noodles, not tasting bad like cheap stuff like that normally did. But she wasn't really sure if this was the cheap stuff or if Mezame just was good at cooking.

Amie continued eating her noodles, taking her time to enjoy the meal and the weather. Abra had finished up his food and was starring off into the distance or maybe he was watching the fire, she couldn't really tell. Her food was quickly finished too and she let out a yawn. A filling meal, good or bad, always made her feel tired afterwards. She fell backwards unto the cool grass, placing her now empty bowl beside her. A nap sounded good to her, but she knew taking a nap would end up taking more time than she wanted to take out of their day. Plus, even if the ground was cool, it was still too hard for her to fall asleep on.

A rustling sound caught Amie's attention as she looked over to her bag placed nearby to her. It had gained a bulge in the center that moved around making the noise that she heard before. Now confused, Amie got up and walked over to her bag, poking the bump with her finger. At the touch, it moved and scurried backwards out of her bag. Amie was surprised to see that it was the Petilil from before.
"What are you up to?" Amie asked, confused about the grass type's motives. Maybe she should have felt more concerned about the fact that the grass type was looking through her bag, possible trying to steal something, but she didn't seem too bothered by that thought. The pokemon also came out of the bag with nothing in her hands or crumbs on her mouth, so Amie didn't think that that was the case. She was bothered by the fact that the pokemon was just randomly going through her stuff.
'Pet Pet.' Petilil said dismissively and started walking away back towards the other grass pokemon. Amie was already annoyed by the pokemon's attitude, but this irked her again.
"Hey, don't just leave like that!" Amie stood up and told Petilil, her voice rising but not to the point of yelling. The Petilil stopped and turned around facing Amie. "Can't you at least pretend to give me a good reason for going through my stuff?" After that question, the Petilil turned away and continued walking towards her group. Tired of being ignored by the tiny pokemon, Amie said raising her voice a little bit more. "Hey I'm talking to you!"
'Petilil, Petilil!' She yelled and hopping around to face Amie again. Her face mirrored Amie's annoyed expression, seemingly tired of being questioned by the trainer. She jumped in the air and twirled around, glowing leafs formed around the pokemon then shot at Amie. 'Lil, Petilil!'
Seeing the attack coming toward her, Amie got ready to dodge, but the attack was intercepted by black orbs. Her Abra teleported and appeared right in front of her, not tolerating an attack on his trainer. The Petilil looked less than thrilled about his joining into this as she released another array of leaves at him. At the second attack from her, the other two grass pokemon fled into the thicker bushes.
Deciding that she had stood blank faced for long enough, Amie took action commanding her pokemon. "Flash and dodge!" Amie told him. Abra's body glowed brightly, Amie shielding her eyes to keep up with him, blinding the Petilil but the attack was already on its way to him, and even with him trying to dodge, the attack still hit. Amie was baffled when she thought that the leaves followed Abra before they finally hit him. She looked over to her Abra that was getting back up after the hit.
"You ok?" Amie asked him, receiving a nod in reply as he stood back up.
Petilil wasn't giving them anytime to rest as she let out another flurry of leaves at him.
"Teleport behind it!" Amie getting an idea in her head. Abra heard and disappeared from his spot and reappeared right behind the Petilil, who hopped around to face the other pokemon. "Now use hidden power!" Being this close the Petilil couldn't dodge the orbs that hit her, but adding to the attack was the leaves that she sent out earlier. They hit the bulb pokemon in the back, originally aiming for Abra but since she was between them it hit her. After the two hits, the Petilil seemed dazed as it wobbled around.

Amie smiled a bit, thinking about the battle and believing that she had taught the little pokemon a lesson. Reflecting on it, she couldn't remember what that lesson was, or if she was really mad enough to have this much of a battle about something small, even if the other one started it. She felt a little bit badly that she had pushed the battle this far. Amie got another inspiration, as she went over to her bag, still lying on the ground. Picking into one pocket, she pulled out a pokeball and ran back towards the other two pokemon. If she caught the pokemon, she might not feel so bad about that battle. Plus, this way Petilil would have to pay attention to her more at least. She threw the ball at the pokemon as it was enveloped in red light and she waited to see the results.

Beep...beep...beep...Ding!

Another smile crept on Amie's face as walked over to pick up the now still pokeball. Holding the pokeball in her hand, it dawned on her that this was her first pokemon she had really caught and the satisfaction it gave her felt pretty good. This was her first really accomplishment on her journey, other than starting it in the first place. Next she registered the Petilil on her pokedex, checking out her moves and a few other quick details about her new pokemon. There could be more time later to check the small stuff and she put her pokedex away.

"Nice catch, don't you think?" Amie asking both Mezame and Abra for their opinions. Abra yawned in response and walked back over to Amie, letting her notice that Abra was scratched up from the battle. Once again Amie went into her bag, finding a potion inside for him. She bent down to his level and sprayed some of it on him. Abra flinched but the magic of the potion started to work as some of the cuts faded away. After that she wanted to bring out her new Petilil to heal her, but she thought maybe the pokemon would be a bit upset after just getting caught.

Charmeleon was looking around, he had to find food for himself, his trainer and the other pokemon. Suddenly he smelt something, he was not sure but it could be food, he started walking into the direction the smell came from and suddenly he heard a voice. Charmeleon hid behind a tree and saw two trainers, an Abra, an Starly and a Skitty. Suddenly H saw a fourth pokemon, a Petlil, it hid in a bag and looked like he was stealing food, one of the trainers tried to stop her but was attacked. The Abra protected his trainer and started fighting the Petlil, the Abra was knocked down but used teleport to attack the Petlil from behind. The trainer threw a pokeball at Petlil and after a few seconds the light stopped flashing and the girl picked up the pokeball. Charmeleon realized this was his best chance, the trainers and pokemon were distracted and it would be easy to grab one of the bags and leave before they noticed. Charmeleon started running, he did not pay attention to the trainers and pokemon but just grabbed one of the bags and turned around.

"Thanks." Amie responded back to Mezame. She did like the feeling of accomplishment that came with catching another pokemon. She felt a proud of her Abra too, who had helped her with the catch. Now that things were calming down, maybe she would have some time to heal up her new team member and get to know the new pokemon. She squatted down and rummaged through her bag looking for another potion so that she could heal up Petilil, but stopped looking when she heard Mezame yelling about something.

Amie stood back up, slinging her own bag over her shoulder. She saw Mezame having a tug-o-war, her bag instead of a rope, with a big red pokemon with a flame on it's tail. Even without her command, Abra had joined in on the action, helping Starly by blocking the burglarizing pokemon from escaping, now and then yelling at the red pokemon. Amie now realizing what going on joined herself. She stood next to Mezame and took a firm grip with both hands on the bag, trying her best to help pull the bag back from the thief.

Amie fell backwards at the sight of the flame, letting go of the bag. She probably should have expected a fire pokemon to be able to do something like that, but she still was caught off guard by the attack. Now sitting on the ground, she patted the top of her head, panicking that some embers might still be on the top of her head. After making sure everything was still up there, Amie stood up to go look at what happened to the fire type.

'No need to steal.' Abra said calming down looking at the pokemon below him. He really didn't want to waste energy on fighting with this pokemon. He walked closer to the other pokemon, looking for where it was holding the bag. 'You look smart. Go find own food.' Abra told the red pokemon holding out his hand, hoping the pokemon would give the bag back, but ready if the pokemon decided to get aggressive again.

Charmeleon looked at the Abra who stopped him. I am sorry, he said, but my trainer has got to eat something and he cannot eat berries like we do. I don't want to hurt you so if you just let me go you will never hear about me again. Charmeleon looked up and saw the blue haired girl, ready to catch him once he tried to run away. Charmeleon had to find a way to escape and suddenly he got an idea. Instead of passing the trainer and Abra he walked straight towards Abra and jumped over him.