Return of the defeated (on hold)

/Part 10/

"Well I caught Dratini on my way back to Kanto actually. We were flying towards New Bark Town, when we spotted a small lake that was kinda secluded. We landed near it seeing a lot of berry trees and the water looked fresh so we stopped to take a quick break." Ash glanced over his pokemon as they trained before continuing. "It turns out that it is a sort of breeding ground for Dratini, and they all became really intimidated by us, all except one. I had Pikachu quickly go explain that we meant no harm to them and we'd be on our way shortly. They all were still slightly leery of us but relaxed, then suddenly the one who wasn't afraid of us hit Pikachu with a small Twisterattack. I told Pikachu to stand down, that the Dratini was just protective over its friends. I decided to let them be and we'd take off then, when a smaller Dratini approached me and nudged my leg. Lucario translated what she wanted and she said that she would like to come with me because my pokemon and I felt comforting to her. I looked to the leader of the group who simply nodded and went back to lake. I caught her and we left afterwards to come back home."

"Wow that's a cool story Ash. I never knew that there were breeding grounds like that for Dratini." May said as she watched the small dragon pokemon push her self to keep up with the other pokemon. The pair trained with their pokemon for another hour before calling it time to quit. They returned all their pokemon minus Pikachu, Lucario and Glaceon. They went inside and gave their pokemon to Nurse Joy so she get them healthy again. After a few minutes they had all their pokeballs back and went back to their room to change. After cleaning up, they made their way to Brock's house to say goodbye before leaving town. They exchanged hugs and farewells, then the duo and pokemon turned towards Mt. Moon.

They had been walking for two days through the forest towards the mountain, following a schedule of working out and training in the morning, a light lunch midway with a light training session, then towards night fall they would pick a place to camp and train for a few ours before dinner then bed. On the third morning while stretching out they heard what sounded like a pained pokemon cry.

"That sounds like a pokemon or someone is in trouble."Ash said as he looked towards the noise. "We need to go check it out."

"Right, let's go Ash."

They quickly made their way towards the noise when the came to the edge of a small clearing. The sight that was before them would make any self respectable training angry. A small Clefairy was caught in a poacher's snare.

"Ha, finally got you, you like sucker." came a gruff voice from the tree line. A tall man dressed in tan cargo pants and black t-shirt stepped into the light. "You'll fetch a fine price in Kalos." he said with a sadistic laugh.

Before May could say anything to Ash, or come up with a plan, Ash jumped into the clearing and landed a solid hit to the mand jaw. The poacher groaned as he hit the ground hard, slowly getting up holding his jaw he spoke to Ash "Boy you've got some nerve to do that, I've beaten men bigger than you with no problem."

"Well then," Ash spoke with venom in his voice "Bring it on scum." With that the man lunged at Ash, May was. about to call out to Ash when he quickly sidestepped the attack and forcefully kicked the man in his ribs. He gasped as the wind was forced from his lungs as he landed Ash approached him to hold him until the authorities could be called. Just as he reached the poacher, the man threw dirt into Ash's face causing him to stumble backwards and fall over.

"Now you're gonna get yours boy." he said holding his ribs lightly, with his other hand raised to strike Ash in the face a poké ball opened. Dratini landed next to Ash prepared to defend her trainer no matter what.