Training Time with Melody!

“Wakey wakey!” You feel an arm on your shoulder, shaking you.

Muttering, “No, five more minuets…” You try to ignore the voice, but it proves futile.

“Get up lazy, you have slept enough.”

As you wake up you wonder why you hear Melody’s voice, then you remember that you fell asleep in Melody’s room, and what happened yesterday. That is enough to wake you up, a little anyway. Sitting up, you rub your eyes and look around. Sure enough, you see Melody, standing next to the bed with a coffee carrier, and two cups of coffee. “Here, take this.”

You take the offered coffee, telling her “Thanks”. You take a sip of the drink and are pleased to find out that Melody got you a mocha. In between sips you ask her “What time is it?”

Laughing, Melody tells you “Tomorrow.”

You freeze up for a second as you process what Melody just said. “By the time I got back to the room, you were fast asleep. I didn’t feel like waking you up, and then you just stayed asleep.” She shrugged and took another sip of coffee. “But you have officially slept enough, we got gym challenges to train for.”

“Wait, what?” Ok, now you were awake.

“Oh, I signed you up to challenge the gym in…” You see Melody think for a bit. “3 days.”

“3 days!? I’m not ready, I need to” anything else you are about to say is cut off by Melody raising her voice at you.

“AMBER!” She takes a deep breath before continuing in a calmer voice. “Amber, you do want to be a Pokémon Trainer, right?”

What kind of question was that? “Of course I do!” You had wanted to be one almost your whole life.

“Good. Now get up and take a shower. We have 2 days to get as much training in as possible”

“Wait, why two days?” Why does everything have to be happening so fast, you just woke up!?

“Because the gym only accepts challenges once a week, and Pewter City’s challenge day is Monday, which is in 3 days from now.” She finishes off her coffee and throws the cup onto the ground. “There is no point training the day of the challenge, so we have two days.”

“But why does it have to be THIS week?!”

Melody looks at you, a serious expression on her face. “Are you serious about being a Pokémon Trainer Amber?”

“Of course I am.” Of course, you were, you weren’t going to abandon your dad’s dream, your dream.

“Then stop making excuses, get out of bed, and take a shower!” Melody looks, well not angry, but certainly emotional. Deciding that it is better to do what the probably hormonal pregnant woman says, you get out of the bed and head to the shower.

You suppose that Melody did have a point. You did need to get some training in, and you were here to challenge the Pokémon Gym. Besides, if you were training you could delay talking to Mom, or thinking about how your life had spiraled out of control…

***

“AGAIN!”

Listening to Melody, you command your Pokémon to “ATTACK!” and watch as your Numel and Poliwag launch their attacks at Melody’s Pokémon. A Starmie, which was spinning around the field like a Frisbee and had so far managed to dodge every single attack your two Pokémon fired at it.

Meanwhile your Bulbasaur and Nidoran were busy chasing, attacking, and being chased by, and attacked by Vicky. At first you were worried, but to your surprise Vicky had done little more than grab your Pokémon. But every time she caught one, she soon let it go. The whole thing almost looked like a game of tag. Except Vicky was over 7 feat tall and looked like she could swallow your Pokémon whole.

Your Pokémon had been doing these, exercises as Melody called them, for almost an hour now. “All, right, that’s enough. Bring it in everyone.” Vicky and the Starmie quickly move over to their trainer while you watch your Pokémon slowly shuffle over, clearly exhausted after being put through their paces. She pulls some packages out of her pack and throws it to you. “Open that up and make sure everyone gets a bite to eat.”

You look at the package, and it seems to be some kind of dried food. You open up the bag and are about to simply dump the whole thing onto the ground when you hear Melody call out. “And make sure to not over feed them. If you feed them too much your Pokémon will get lethargic and won’t want to continue.”

“Wait, we aren’t stopping?”

“Of course, not. We have barely been out here for an hour.” She pulls a thermos full of water and starts pouring the water onto the Starmie. “There should be another thermos in the bag, make sure your Pokémon get some water as well.” She stops pouring water onto the Starmie and hands the thermos to Vicky who quickly chugs down the rest of the water. “We will switch them up what they are doing though.”

You easily find the thermos and it seems that Melody called this break at just the right time. Even your Fire Ground Numel seemed thirsty. For a few minutes the only sounds are of your Pokémon eating and drinking. You are enjoying the silence, but apparently Melody was not. “You’re worrying too much.”

“What?” You turn your head to look at her, but Melody seems focused on her Starmie, even while she speaks with you.

“You are worrying too much. It is your first gym challenge, you’ll be fine.” You don’t bother saying anything, knowing that the Gyaru will continue speaking. “Even if you lose, you will just have to challenge the gym next week.”

You guess Melody had a point. Besides, you were a Pokémon Trainer. If you were too chicken to challenge your very first gym, what kind of trainer were you?

Author’s Notes: Melody’s third Pokémon is finally revealed, and it is Starmie. Why a Starmie? Because Starmie is AMAZING THAT’S WHY! You have a fast Pokémon with high special attack that knows Spin Attack, Recover, STAP Water & Psychic, and the amazing Bolt Beam COMBO! Even accounting for generations of Pokémon Power Creep Starmie is STILL good.

This makes Melody's current team a Nidoqueen(Vikcy), Gardevoir(Rose), and a Starmie. (Still need to decide/reveal what the rest of her Pewter City Team is/will be.)

Amber’s team is a Bulbasaur, Nidoran(F), Poliwag, and Numel. Not sure what else I want her to catch