Red Eyed Master

Chapter 05

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I DO NOT OWN POKÉMON!

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"Hello" – Speech

'Hello' – Thoughts

"Hello" – Pokémon speech/Aura/Psychic communication

'Hello' – Pokémon thoughts

[Hello] – Pokédex Entries

:Hello: - Typed Speech

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Ash's Pokémon Team – 5 Slots out of 8 filled:

Snivy – Female – Moves: Tackle, Magical Leaf, Vine Whip, Wrap and Leaf Storm.

Seviper – Male – Moves: Wrap, Lick, Bite, Dig and Poison Tail.

Torchic – Unknown – Moves: Unknown.

Froslass – Female – Moves: Astonish, Bite, Shadow Ball, Icy Wind and Confuse Ray.

Mismagius – Female – Moves: Psychic, Shadow Ball, Lucky Chant, Payback, Mean Look and Sucker Punch.

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Ash hung up the Video Phone and sighed quietly, he turned around and stared at the door where Torchic was having surgery. Why did he not try harder to heal Torchic? Was it not the point of having Aura; to help Pokémon? Ash clenched his fists into his pants as he thought about Torchic and second-guessed himself.

Eventually Ash realized he had been brooding and standing up he headed over to the couches located to the left of the Nurse's Station. Chansey was trotting about doing her duties and seemed quite content in the process. Ash smiled despite his mood, he remembered when Chansey was a Happiny and scared of absolutely everything to do with other Pokémon; she used to cling to his legs or demand to be carried about but once he'd pick her up, she'd snuggle into his chest. Many times he'd lose himself to the many books available to him at the Lab and usually had Happiny fast asleep in his arms or lap while he read; it was one of the few happy memories he still had at the Lab as soon after, Gary started learning from his Grandfather personally as well.

Ash conceded to the fact that Gary would make an excellent Pokémon Researcher, perhaps when he was older though but right now, he was arrogant and more disgustingly; he was a bully. Leaf and Ritchie got the worst of it as Gary had learned earlier on that Ash wouldn't react to his taunts and it usually ended with Gary running scared and hiding from Ash's apathetic gaze. Ash had stepped in on many occasions to defend Leaf or Ritchie when Gary had started and Gary learned the hard way that Ash didn't tolerate Gary's attitude or his bullying.

'Come to think of it" Ash thought 'Wasn't it around then that Leaf started acting weird? I mean she always had a more serious attitude compared to the other girls in Pallet Town; but after I stepped in with the Tauros incident, she started to act differently around me ... was it perhaps the nobility of the act? Doubtful, as we were too young to think of or have that sort of emotional response ... but then again; girls and boys grow up far differently than boys and hormonally speaking ...'

Ash was torn from his thoughts when the power for the Pokémon Centre suddenly died and Ash was instantly on alert. Closing his eyes and augmenting his sense of hearing with his Aura he could make out the sound of scratching on glass, then a curse and then finally; after a high pitched sound the roof smashed open and two pokéballs dropped through the smashed glass from the hole on the roof.