Alfa and Omega

Part 4 - The Begining of Friendship

Greetings fellow humans! Part 4 is posted! It's a lot of fun to write this, and I hope you all are enjoying reading it. Please comment if you liked it, and constructive critiques are welcome!

Note: There are a couple of Pokémon listed in this chapter, and if you don't know what they look like, I find the most simple thing to do is to just run a search, and you should find all the info you need.

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Third person P.O.V. Focused on Jayralia

The night after Zorua had returned her hair clip, Jayra left a small berry cake on the back porch for him to hopefully find as a thank you. The following day, the cake was gone, and a handful of nuts took its place. Thus the next week passed.

Jayra and Zorua never saw each other, but would sometimes leave little somethings on Jayra's back porch for each other to find. They weren't friend  friends, but it seemed that Zorua wasn't totally against having contact with her. All the pokemon that Jayra saw in the meadow would continue to run away from her in fear, and she was still slightly put off by that, but the sort of friendship she had with Zorua made it more bearable.

Jayra had also started taking the twenty minute walk into the nearby town of Alavill (random place I made up, not part of the anime) to watch trainers battle at the battlefield in the square. She was there now, watching a fight between a girl and her Sandshrew, and a boy and his Tepig. (These people are again, no one of consequence. Maybe. I might use the girl later. They are not in the anime)

"Sandshrew, use Scratch!" The girl called.

"Dodge it, then use Ember!" The boy commanded.

Sandshrew's claws glowed, then he ran at his opponent, slashing the air wildly. Jayra was not a trainer, nor did she have any experience with pokemon battling, but she thought that the way Sandshrew attacked was a little too hasty, and not all that controlled. Tepig dodged to the side easily, his snout and tail tip glowing red, and shot a burst of sparkling, scarlet embers at Sandshrew, who was knocked down.

"Come on Sandshrew! Get up!" The girl snapped. But Sandshrew only rose a little, before falling down again and fainting. Jayra was not surprised at the result. The small, dusty pokemon had taken at least four direct hits before this, and had been at low health when Tepig had done the final move of the fight. There was polite clapping from the small crowd that had gathered to watch as the boy was declared the winner.

"Great job Tepig!" He said holding up a pokeball. "You were amazing. Now return."

"Te Tepig!" Tepig said before a red light shone out of the ball and sucked him in.

Jayra walked over to the girl trainer who was just returning Sandshrew. "Nice battle." She said. "You fought hard."

The other girl rolled her eyes. "Whatever. I didn't win. Sandshrew wasn't attacking right. I don't think I'll ever be able to get proper battle techniques through its thick head."

Jayra was shocked at this statement. "I don't think Sandshrew did all that bad. Also, he's a he, not an it."

"Oh, like you know much about battling? I don't see any pokeballs on you. That means you're not a trainer. Don't tell me how my pokemon perform. And I can call them whatever I want."

"That's not very nice to them."

"I'm their trainer, they have to do what I say!"

"Pokemon aren't just mindless creatures you know!"

"With how Sandshrew fights, it might as well be."

"No he isn't!"

"I would challenge you to a battle to deside this, but you don't have any pokemon, so that would just be a waste of time. Wait till you start your journey to pretend you know anything about pokemon battling, kid."