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Melody took one of the tissues and dried her eyes "Thanks" she stretched and winced. "Aha I should probably be a little more careful, we haven't even left our hometown and I'm already hurting myself" she laughed and dusted off her satchel

"I am sure you won't do it too often....At least we can only hope." Rowan tried to reassure her through it probably wasn't working. Instead to change the subject Rowan cleared his throat loudly.
"Anyway, shall we begin our adventure?" Rowan asked with a slight grin as Twig finally strolled on over.

Melody giggled "Yes! I am so looking forward to my first battle, isn't that right Emp?" Emp jumped up and squawked his agreement.
Melody pulled out her town map, and passed a spare to Rowan "Here, according to these maps the first stop would be Sandgem Town but there's a lot if tall grass between here and there" Melody followed her map back up neatly and slid it back into her satchel before passing Rowan his give of the empty pokeballs and his packed lunch. "Here these are from my parents, make sure you eat up because we'll need our strength"

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Rowan accepted the items from Melody with a slight nod as he went back over to his camping pack before slinging it back onto his back.
"Sandgem town huh? If memory serves lots of Starly live in the long grass on the way there." Rowan thought aloud as he started humming the tune for route 201. He placed the pokeballs and lunch in his pocket before returning Twig, if there were Starly using a grass type would probably be a bad idea.

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"Maybe we should try to catch a Starly? Having a flying type could be helpful. Also I hear that there's a professor researching Pokemon in Sandgem." Melody smirked "I can't quite remember his name" she laughed, while leaning back against a tree

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"Hahaha very funny." Rowan rolled his eyes and said sarcastically "And I don't plan on battling Starly's early on thank you, flying types don't match well against Grass types." Rowan shoved his hands in his pockets and started to walk off not really checking behind him to see if Melody was following him or not.

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Melody ran up to him, and grabbed his arm "Come on, we're going on an adventure. Get excited!" She spun him around before running ahead into the tall grass with Piplup in hot pursuit. She scattered a flock of Starly as she ran.

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Rowan stumbled slightly as his vision was now blurry due to Melody's spinning of him.
".....Remind me why we're on a journey together again?" Rowan asked with a sigh as he wandered after his energetic childhood friend. This was such a bother trying to keep up with her energetic ways.

"Because we're best friends and you can't get rid of me?" Melody laughed, then she suddenly noticed something in the grass up ahead, a small group of Bidoof, five in total. She turned to Rowan "Ready for our first battle together?" She grinned

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Rowan nodded in reply as he looked down to Twig and gestured to him to get ready.
"Razor Leaf." Rowan ordered the Turtwig. He wanted to get the first hit in, and the why not be one which can hit all 5 at once?
The Turtwig brings its head back before whipping it forward, causing a series of razor sharp leaves to now come streaming out of its head and towards the 5 unsuspecting bidoof.

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"Come on Emp, we can't let them get a headstart on us. Follow that Razor Leaf with your Bubble attack!" Emp nodded before jumping forwards and releasing a stream of bubbles that followed close behind the flying leaves. The two attacks quickly landing amongst the group of oblivious Bidoof, easily hitting them.

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The bidoof obviously enraged by the razor sharp leaves smacking into their faces now turned around and glared towards Rowan and Melody, before beginning their assault on Twig and Emp.
"Twig tackle the nearest then launch a leech seed." Rowan commanded.

"Emp, follow his lead, hit the second one with a peck and follow that up with a few pound attacks!" The two Pokemon, rocketed forwards into the fray quickly landing their respective attacks on the the two closest Bidoof.

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After landing a solid blow on the first bidoof, Twig fired a seed at the bidoof. Once it impacted a series of vines erupted from the seed and wrapped around the bidoof, slowly draining its energy. After watching Emp finish up it's bidoof with a solid pound to the face Rowan gave out his next set of orders.
"Ok now leech seed the bidoof in the middle before tackling the one on the right!" Twig nodded in understanding before once again launching the seed at one of the bidoof, and before the seed had even impacted begun charging at another bidoof.

Niesha had had her first Pokemon for a week. Solias, a Chimchar, was curled up on her bed, as she finally, finally, packed for her adventure. First aid supplies, spare clothes, some poke balls, some food for the next couple of days, both for herself and Solias, and a sleeping bag. She also had a blanket, and some supplies for her Pokemon-potions and such. She was finally ready to go, as she slid in, carefully, a yellow and black striped egg, with pink dots on it. She was so excited to find out what Pokemon it was. She whistled, and Solias sat up with a yawn.

"Time to go, buddy!" She said brightly, starting out her room, she farewelled her mother and father once more, before dashing outside, Solias by her side. They exited town, and soon, Niesha was sure she heard the unmistakable sounds of a battle. She looked to Solias with a grin, and together they started off in the direction of the battle.

A short girl, Niesha was roughly 5"4, she had a stunning color of red hair, and bright, eager green eyes. She had a splattering of freckles across her face, and an almost pixy like face. They found the two trainers, both with what was considered started Pokemon too, a piplup and a turttwig. They appeared to be fighting several bidoof's.

Guessing they were outnumbered, Niesha called out "mind if I help? Solias needs to have his first battle!"

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Melody looked back as she heard the newcomers voice. "Sure we don't mind, do we Rowan?" She grinned "Better hurry though as they aren't going to be standing for much longer." She noticed one of the remaining three Bidoof lunging towards Emp. "Emp dodge that tackle and counter with Peck, as soon as you hit him unleash a bubble at point blank range!" Emp hurried to complete his trainers orders.

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"Eh the more the merrier." Rowan replied with a shrug as the bidoof which Twig now tackled was sent hurtling towards Solias, falling just short and now angrily attacked the chimchar.
"Twig use tackle followed up by Razor Leaf on the last bidoof." Rowan commanded as Twig now charged towards the bidoof which was still on the ground being drained by leech seed.

Niesha grinned, and said to Solias "well, get in there, buddy! This is what we have practiced! Scratch then ember, okay? Just do your best!" The chimchar raced into the fight, attacking the last bidoof with eagerness. The young Pokemon hit the bidoof with scratch, leaping back, twirling in the air, to land and fire a quick stream of fire at the wild Pokemon. "That's it Solias! And again! Let's weaken it enough to catch it!" Solias once more attacked the bidoof, and this time win it swayed and looked to be falling, Niesha threw a pokeball at it, waiting with her breath held to see if it would be caught

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Melody watched Emp finish dispatching his Bidoof and then turned to watch Nieshas pokeball, crossing her fingers and holding her breath. She watched as the ball began to shake. 'One... Two...'

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'...Three...' the ball made a slight clicking noise as the bidoof was caught.
Twig finished off the bidoof it was fighting as it returned to Rowan's side having taken minimal damage from the fight, and any damage it had taken had been healed by the leech seed.
"Good work Twig." Rowan praised the turtwig as he patted his head.