Bonding is the Key

[Rose Petals]

Running to get onto the first path of her long journey, Dorinda couldn't wait to see what was in store for her. She knew that it would be just herself and her Ralts for a while, as she had carefully studied the Pokemon that were able to be caught before Centre Town, and she wasn't really that interested in them. So instead, she would train her new Pokemon as much as she could as she made her way to the first sort of civilization.

"Come on out Ralts!" The light from the pokeball that surrounded Ralts slowly dissolved into the atmosphere, and Ralts looked up curiously at her trainer. "Rahl?" the Ralts questioned. She had been captured not long before Dorinda chose her, and so she still knew very little about humans and their speech. "Ralts, we have to think of a name for you. I'm your trainer, Dorinda, and we're going to be best friends forever!" Dorinda laughed enthusiastically, and with as much energy as she always had, she knelt down to be more at her Pokemon's height and gave her a quick hug. Ralts didn't understand what this sort of contact was, but she knew that her trainer was happy, so Ralts decided that this was a happy bearing.

"Alright, I've got a list here of the moves you know, but before we go on to testing them out, you need a good name. How about Trixie? Or Lulu? Maybe Kimi?" Dorinda thought for a couple minutes and decided against the names she had called off. Sitting down, feeling as though, for the first time in her life, she had been beaten, she couldn't come up with a decent name for her Pokemon. "Oh," Dorinda sighed, "I thought naming a Pokemon would be much easier than this!"

The unnamed Ralts tilted her head at her trainer in amazement. She hadn't stopped moving her mouth and making jibberish since she'd let her out of the pokeball. Ralts stayed where she was when she was let out of her pokeball, not feeling quite at ease of moving. What was this thing saying? It made no sense to the Ralts, but she did understand one thing - that she'd be with this energetic girl for a long time. Maybe soon she'd say something that the Ralts would recognize.

[✓Digital™]

A pidgey had been watching them ever since they entered the route, and he wasn`t in the best mood. The bird had been trying to rest so he could train later that night, but with all of the noise Pidgey was becoming cranky. At first, he tried to ignore the shrill sound of the human`s voice ringing through its ear drums, but he just couldn`t take it much longer.

Suddenly in an act of rage, the Pidgey swooped down at the human female and landed on her head. He stared down at her, but she looked upside down to him. Pidgey shrieked and tried to take off, but his talons got tangled in her hair. The bird began to panic until it fluttered free. He staggered toward the Ralts and tripped forwards, making this strange attack an unintentional tackle. Now the bird was like a bowling ball. Could the Ralts escape in time?

[Rose Petals]

Dorinda freaked out when the bird Pokemon landed on her head. "What is this!?" she shouted. Shrieking, she managed to say, "Ralts! Help me, please!" The Pidgey was tangled in her hair and on the ground headed towards Ralts before Ralts could help get the bird out of her trainer's hair. She still didn't understand anything except for her name, Ralts, and that her trainer was scared.

The paper that Dorinda was holding in her hands before the sudden outrage was now long gone, but Dorinda had memorized the list already. "Ralts, Will-O-Wisp, quick!" she shouted. The Ralts nodded quickly, finally recognizing the language her trainer was speaking, at least one thing she had said. The Ralts put her hands close together, only about three inches apart, and in less than one second a big flaming ball was formed. She hurled it at the Pidgey, no doubt in her mind that she would hit dead on since the Pidgey was out of control and headed straight for her. The attack would save her from being hit, but she didn't know if it would keep the Pidgey down.

Dorinda watched in amazement as her psychic friend obeyed the command, but she was on her knees by now due to being panic-stricken. She had never been in a situation like this before, but she knew that this was only the first time something like this would happen, and she knew that she would have to expect the unexpected from now on - that was the first mistake she'd made being a new trainer.

[✓Digital™]

The pidgey regained its footing after a couple of seconds, then saw that he had a little bit of trouble heading his way. When the little fire ball came at him, Pidgey flew up but got hit and it sent him spiraling at the Ralts at a much much faster speed than before. This pidgey was very clumsy, and now he had no idea what was going on. He squawked loudly while he barreled towards the Ralts.

Some other pidgey fluttered in to watch the strange battle occur. They were fairly embarrassed that their fellow bird pokemon was making this battle an epic failure. The birds hid behind their wings, then turned and flew off. The clumsy pidgey had been disowned by the others in his flock.

[Rose Petals]

The Ralts had no time to move, no matter the shrieking coming from Dorinda, the Pidgey was coming too fast. The Will-O-Wisp had only made things worse. Before the Ralts knew it, she was flying threw the air and hit the ground with a hard thud. Rahl! she screamed in pain. The hard impact had given her a headache, but it wasn't because she was hurt what she did next. She had grown quite angry, in fact.

Without a command from her trainer, the Ralts quickly stood up, held her hands about five inches apart, and developed yet another Will-O-Wisp, this time a much larger one. The fiery ball was cast towards the Pidgey with such speed that could hardly be avoided. There was frustration built up in it from the Ralts' energy. Psychic Pokemon could be very dangerous, for they could store their energy and emotions into their attacks. This was something Dorinda was just now learning.