"Pi!"
"Get lost! I haven't got no time for you!" Says Ajax as he kicks a wild pidove back into the tree it came from for combat.( Poor birb :\ )
No stopping, no halting. It has almost been a hour since he began running. Yet no matter what he did, he failed to even see the silhouette of floccesy town.
It appeared he had underestimated the conversion distance between the games and reality. His earlier motivation gone as he finally reached the end of his current journey.
Tick
The Recovery skill ended, taking away both Ajax's breath and willpower alongside it as he couldn't even control his legs and wobbled until he fell on the floor.
"Huff huff I... Failed." He said before the last of his left him and he slumped onto the ground like a wooden log.
Yet a certain someone saw it as their chance and pulled themselves out of their pokeball. A red briefly flashing as Snivy appeared once more and began looking down on her partner as he was just some garbage in the floor.
"Say it."
Snivy didn't react to Ajax's provocation. Instead she just kept staring with a judging gaze that would made toddler cry from embarrassment and meanness.
"... Sni."
That one word was all Snivy said until she helped Ajax back to his feet with vine whip. Her nature fully showing for once as he couldn't help but sigh in disappointment and carried him to one of the trees.
~
At this moment, a pokemon jumped out of the nearby grass, it's eyes stuck on Snivy while he leered at them but to no avail.(Snivy wasn't looking at it, hence it didn't hit.)
It took a few seconds for Ajax to finally notice the pokemon while he himself tried to pull himself back to his feet. It was pidove, the same one he kicked before and now it was coming back for him.
Yet Snivy didn't care, instead she turned to Ajax and hit with a slap until he finally come his senses and realised what was happening.
"Sigh I know I know. Let's just get this done with.... *Turns to the pidove* Nothing personal."
The pidove shivered, a jolt of fear rushing down its chest as its attack lowered from the fear factor alone.
"Vine whip."
Before pidove could recover a grass whip hit it. Leaving a mark on its skin before It fought back with peck. But-
"Block with this." Ajax called his partner as he threw snivy a twig from the side which she used to block the peck without any damage.
"Bind him down."
Snivy didn't as she heard but nevertheless not everything can be done in one try and Pidove escaped to the air where it held superiority in range and movement.
Without hesitation it fired a gust, a super effective move that hit Snivy head on without much to block it this time.
"Huff Now I can't be resting mid battle can I? Snivy... Use vine whip to launch yourself."
"Sni?"
"Just bundle then and hit the ground!"
The four vine whips gathered, turning into a single giant third arm for snivy which it used to smash on the ground.
Yet Snivy didn't flew up in the slightest, it was just standing there in air a few inches above the ground.
"PIII!"
The pidove saw its chance, gliding towards the mid air with a peck ready as it prepared to deal a critical hit for even more damage. But it never arrived with the attack.
Grab
"You really are a hand full you know that?" Said Ajax as he clutched his hands tighter with the pidove now captured within them.
Snivy also landed on his knee with thump, a embarrassing blush on her face as she hid her face in embarrassment from the pathetic result she did with the vine whip fist.
"Come on! Don't make that face.. both of us are same anyway."
Ajax turned and spoke while he kicked the pidove back into the tree.
"Here. *Shows a oran berry* Mistakes happen."
Snivy turned, her face now seething with anger as she pointed and Ajax began a speech.
"S-Sni! Sni-Snivy! Vy-vy!"
"Hey hey hey! Don't blame that one on me! I saved you from that, Atleast be a little grateful!"
"Sni... SNIVY!"
"You little piece of leaf! Come back here!"
The two began a brawl amongst themselves which soon ended with the same Vine whip hand appearing once more and bashed itself into Ajax's face like a fist.
Crash
The impact flung Ajax into a bush while Snivy took deep breaths to calm herself down before realisation hit her and she strode on her little legs in panic.
But Ajax didn't mind the first, raising a thumbs up from the bush before bursting up and lifted Snivy and began praising her.
"That move will come in hand. Good job"
He smiles widely. His smile immediately causing Snivy to once more punch, this time because she was too shy to take on the praising.
Ajax however didn't recover this time, instead he fainted on the spot.
--
-2 hours later-
"Gasp Where am I? What am I doing here?"
The memories of the punch came back to him.
"Phew. I thought I died for real this time... Now where is that little witch!"
He looked around, his gaze eventually going down and he found himself sitting beside the same tree with Snivy hiding herself near his legs with a blanket of leaves while she sleeps.
He gritted his teeth, wondering if he should punch her in retaliation but eventually let go of it.
"I am too weak... *His mood changes* You know what that means!"
[We ain't giving you nothing]
[Go work yourself some experience points if you got time to be free loading!]
The Unknowns spoke before Ajax even asked them, clearly they knew him to the bottom of his being. So he switched the topics.
"Give me a guide then! I need atleast some training methods!"
[He asked for training methods! Are we dreaming!?]
[For first time in 15 years you asked us for something useful... I guess we can pity you for once]
"Hey! It takes time for a fanboy to calm down okay! It has only been 2 months since I remembered everything." Ajax retorted.
However his words were ignored before the unknown pendant began glowing and a black whirlpool of void was created before Ajax's eyes.
The void coughed out a book. A small 15 page book with a brown cover with no words written on it. Inside was mostly the same with vague descriptions for some basic excercises labled– Exclusively for newbies.
Reading this Ajax felt like puking blood but he swallowed the insults and instead carried on with the excercises with frustration being used as his motivation for working.
He did the excercises one by one, from handstands next to trees to using his arms to lift his body from the ground without touching it with his feet.(Like what some kids do– sitting cross-legged and pushing themselves up for fun)
It felt like torture and Ajax immediately crumpled under the pressure but kept trying to atleast maintain the excercises for 10 seconds atleast.
"I...wanna die.. *head drops* end my suffering!"
[Stop being a wussy. We have seen Nate do all those in the school remember?]
"Oi! Who gave you permission to look up my memories!"
[Well. We are connected after all. We just need to think about them a little bit.]
Ajax frowns, his face twisted in caution but he couldn't find himself a comeback for the argument and gave up on it in seconds.
(He probably gonna find one in the shower lol)
...
Anyway, It took another 10 mins before Snivy woke up from her nap and found Ajax doing some excercises.
'No excuses' was the expression on both of their faces as they locked eyes. Instead they both turned and began walking alongside the path to floccesy town before something else came up to bother them.
They didn't talk. Both of them as silent as trees while they walked side-by-step and beat up every low level pokemon they found attacking them from the grass and bushes.
They also ate up some wild berries Ajax found and healed a little bit everytime they felt low on energy. Yet the sunlight did most of recovery for Snivy, meaning Ajax was mainly the one chewing on some bitter seeds and berries.
With nothing to do, he began walking in daze, his thoughts instead going towards a increasing self-doubt and unnecessary problems he found popping up in his head.
First he thought of his hairstyle, his purplish black hair wasn't the most rare and his slightly spiky hair made him look like a certain lawyer who liked pressing and telling 'objection' every second.
Second he thought of his face. Finding it more of a mix between half of N's and teenager Red's since they were one of the only characters he remembered when he was woken up in the void before coming here.
But leaving those thoughts behind, his eyes lit up as he finally saw a small gate in the distance which said.
{Floccesy town -> 50 mins walking}
He found a little relief that he wasn't just wandering into the forest and a little bit of annoyance since he had to walk for another 50 mins and 60 if you count his regular breaks.
Atleast he was piling up some athletic skill points. His total already going to 4 from 2 from all the walking and maybe he could get another skill before putting foot in the ranch.