A Team Rocket Story (Name in Progress)

Chapter 18

We continued driving for a while. Later, Arcanine barked again and made more noises and suddenly Meowth yelled, "YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A LAST NAME?!"

"ARCANINE STOP TALKING TO MEOWTH." I told him and looked at Meowth through my mirror, "And duh. Everyone has one."

Meowth nudged Arcanine, "So what is it?"

I glared at Arcanine, "Don't tell him."

Arcanine glared back and kind of smirked before growling the answer to Meowth, "Reinhold." Meowth snickered.

"Arcanine, why are you suddenly turning against me on everything?" I sighed.

Making more noises, Meowth broke down what Arcanine was trying to say, "He said he's mad because you don't give him enough treats."

"You get five a day. You'll get fat if you keep eating those treats!"

Arcanine barked more and Meowth translated, "No I won't I promise!"

"I'm not giving you anymore treats" I heard Arcanine sigh and that was the last of his little arguing.

James started to laugh now, "You and Arcanine are like siblings."

I smiled looking back at the giant dog, "I guess you could say we are. We were raised together." Arcanine wagged his tail when I looked at him and suddenly stopped and looked out the window, remembering he was mad at me. I just laughed.

"I have a Growlithe..." James said.

"Then why don't you use him?"

James shook his head, "Growly isn't a fighter. He's a protector, so he's with my parents."

Meowth suddenly broke into the conversation again, "His family's rich!"

James sighed, "I now understand why you were getting so angry."

I looked at James, "If your family's so rich, why are you working for Team Rocket?"

"The fortune doesn't belong to me. I'll only get the fortune if I marry this girl named Jessibelle."

"She's horrible." Meowth growled.

James agreed, "She doesn't think I'd make a good husband to marry so she trains me like an animal."

"Ugh." I groaned

"Worst part is, she looks identical to Jessie." Meowth added.

"Oh... I feel like that makes her worse."

"Very." Both of them said.

We drove a little longer, until we got to a nearby town. It turned out to be Safferon City. James parked the car behind a building. All of us got out of the car and we started walking, "Alright... Let's find a Pokemon center." I told James and Meowth. Arcanine walked by my side.

Meowth was riding on James's shoulder once again as we walked down the sidewalk. "Over there." Meowth said pointing to a small building across the street.

"Are you sure?" I asked, "It doesn't look like one."

James looked and agreed with Meowth, "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's it." We walked over to it, and sure enough, on the inside it looked like a regular Pokemon Center, but smaller than one.

"Welcome!" The nurse Joy at the desk, greeted us.

"Hello!" I smiled and pulled my badge case out, "I'd like to register for the Pokemon League."

Nurse Joy smiled, "You just made it, registration ends tomorrow." She started typing into her computer, "Name?"

"Zaria Delphi." I lied, using an alias.