Training and some sloppy kisses

"Thank you for waiting, we have restored your pokemon to full health. We hope to see you back again soon!" Nurse Joy handed over my pokemon, and I left for the exit to the building. I let out a yawn as I stretched my arms above my head. I had ended up staying the night at the pokemon center, and wanted to get an early start training ekins to get him ready for my match with Misty, the cerulean city gym leader.

Heading west back to route 4, I began searching in and amongst the tall grasses for pokemon to fight. Mostly ratatta and spearows came out to fight, which proved a moderate challenge for the little purple snake. In a one on one fight, ekins always won, but the repetetive fights of one right after another was taking its toll. Occasionally, a mankey would pop out of the grass and would pose quite the challenge to ekins.

"Feeling okay? I don't want to train you into exhaustion especially on our first day. Say the word and we can call it a break!" Ekins proudly held his head up as another mankey lay knocked out from his attacks.

"Ekins!" Ekins bobbed his head up and down, clearly understanding my words. You chuckle to yourself as you are reminded that pokemon arent just animals, but sentient creatures and have their own feelings as well. I called it quits for the morning and left route 4 to head back into cerulean city. A quick stop at the pokecenter, as well as the pokemart to grab dome snacks for me and my pokemon, and we were headed back to route 4.

You spent the entire afternoon traing with ekins, as well as charmeleon every once in awhile. He seemed to understand that we needed other pokemon on the team. It was a relief as you had heard horror stories of when pokemon get jealous when their trainer catches another pokemon. You are snapped out of your thinking as ekins beats another mankey. However, that was not the cause for the smap to attention. Ekins was glowing white and growing bigger.

Ekins now stood taller then me. Just below his head a wide hood spread out with almoat what could be described as a face displayed in vibrant colors upon it. Reaching for my pokedex, I scanned ekins and waited for the information.

"Arbok, the cobra type pokemon. The pattern on its belly appears to be a frightening face. Weak foes will flee at the mere sight of it."

"Congratulations Arbok you evolved!" Reaching up I stroked his muzzle, only to be given a long lick as a reward. I laughed as I wiped my cheek off. Arbok almost seemed annoyed that I wiped his kiss off. He began swaying back and forth as he proceeded to lick both sides of my cheeks. I hid my head in my arms, laughing all the while.

"It's a bit early for kisses, but I'll make you a deal. If we beat Misty, I'll let you have all the kisses you want? Sound fair?" I was laughing and trying to get Arbok to quit slathering my face in his spit. At this however, arbok finally relented and backed up a pace. I returned him to his pokeball before heading back to cerulean city. It was time to challenge Misty.