Two weeks passed since the start of the festival.
Rex started his training again after his friends and his brother left for the journey of catching pokemons. When they were leaving he also wanted to know stance of his mother regarding this topic so he went to her to ask.
"Mother I also have a pokemon can I also go to catch the pokemons outside the city"
She was firm on her stance.
"No , even if you have pokemon you are still young , you don't yet know how cruel the pokemon fights can become."
"But I also had a fight few times in the past."
"That was not a real fight but just play with pokemons , you still haven't seen how real fights with pokemon result in , they are not just about pokemons but they also include the trainer"
Well what she was telling was pretty much the reason I need to avoid fights early. The battle I had with the spy was much more advantageous to me. He just came to capture the Turtwig so he was just attacking it , if he really wanted to harm me he would have attacked me directly , you can say it is more of a zatch bell world than a pokemon world where trainers strength matters a lot.
At that time I also took the risk knowing this because I knew they will not dare to hurt a Son of Duke , if hurt the consequences will be far harsher than just stealing a pokemon , even Royal family needs to take that seriously.
"Hmm.. I really wanted to catch pokemons , can I do it in Duke city ?"
"No , no catching pokemons to catch them you need to fight , you are not ready yet"
"But what if I can catch them without fighting ?"
Mother was silent after hearing this..
Catching pokemon without fight is not that much rare it's just that such pokemons doesn't have good potential , these pokemons are not motivated to get stronger as they accepted their partner without looking at their strength.
"Fine you can catch them without fighting , but how are you planning to do it?"
"I will just give them some good pokemon food to eat, I also came to ask you if you have some good food which will help me catch them".
"You really know what to ask , take this it will help you getting the pokemons"
Knowing mother's nature she will not say catching this way I will get a less powerful pokemons.
She gave Rex a glass jar full of brown blocks.
"This is a pokeblock , use it carefully as this is the only amount I am giving you for this festival."
"Yes!! Thanks mother , I will definitely catch a lot of pokemons."
Rex really happy wanted to check the effectiveness so he put pokeblock near the Turtwig who started droolling over it. Of course he was not planning to give it. It made some fuss but again started his training.
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After Training Rex went outside with an additional bag which is hung on his shoulder. He started going towards the southern part of city , close towards the wilderness. He can see others also going towards it. Many were using their pokemon mounts to reach destination rapidly but Rex preferred walking , he was not in hurry or you can say he didn't have a mount yet.
When he arrived at the gates of the city , he can see a lot of Rapidash resting just outside the city below the tall and wide trees, Ponytas were also there some resting while some playing , some even started entering the city to explore human city. Many people were gathered outside the city a considerable distance away from the pokemons giving them space , some were approaching Ponyta or Rapidash asking for a spar or if they are interested in becoming their pokemons. But these people were just average trainers as most powerful trainers left the city early to good places to catch powerful pokemons.
Other than these a Man can be seen standing in the middle of the group of pokemons talking to the very tall Rapidash , most probably the clan leader , he was Duke. This scene although looked chaotic will become normal in some time as lot of clans will enter the city.
Rex who just reached started observing the clans with his sight.
Just one blue level pokemon and it is the clan leader , Some dark green Rapidash , Oh a Dark green Ponyta is also their but it is currently sparring with someone else , lets try on this green level ponyta.
Rex directly approached the Ponyta with green radiation which was close to him.
"Hello, my name is Rex , do you want to become my pokemon ? "
As he asked the atmosphere around him suddenly became silent. All people who just heard stopped what they were doing and started staring at him. As people around him stopped suddenly even the people who didn't hear anything started looking at this direction curiously.
What , why did it became so silent , and why why? are you staring at me , I have seen many asking same question isn't this normal. Even Duke now is looking at me.
"Is that really the tenth."
"Yes , I haven't seen him for a year or so, he should be two years old now right?"
"Two years old and catching pokemons , did he get starter already"
"Don't know , if has gotten his starter it will be from the old Duke"
"Will he fight it with the powerful starter?."
"What starter, didn't you see that Ponyta in earlier fight how effortlessly it defeated an Advance level pokemon , that's at least an advance level pokemon."
Lots of discussion started among the people. They have seen all his brothers going for adventure with a celebration like they are going on war. Now seeing this little one catch his first wild pokemon is a good show to watch and not just any pokemon but an advance level one.
Rex who was still uncomfortable again started observing the Ponyta. Ponyta on the other hand hearing this started getting ready for battle.
"Stop !! stop !! I am not hear for battle , if you don't want to become my pokemon that's fine.... , but if you want to eat this .... "
Rex started pulling one pokeblock from his bag and showing it to the Ponyta.
" ... you need to become my pokemon."
Ponyta after hearing that almost lost it's interest but seeing the pokeblock in his hands it started to reconsider again. That pokeblock looked really delicious. But after some time of reconsidering looking back and forth between delicious food and little human cub it gave up on the food and started going away from Rex.
"It failed"
"Of course it will fail , how can someone just catch a advance level pokemon with food"
"But catching with food , that was disappointing , I thought I will get to watch some good fight."
And everything went to normal again , everyone started doing their own tasks. Rex who got rejected on his first try didn't gave up and started giving same offer to other pokemons of above green , but not surprisingly no one accepted his offer.
Well it was expected powerful pokemon don't accept trainers easily and these are Ponyta who have lot of pride. Even if they want to accept, they are afraid of others opinion if they accept the offer. It's fine I will try below green ones at least they look like intermediate level.
He started giving offer to other orange level pokemons who were still refusing until he came near a Ponyta. It looked really proud of itself, giving an arrogant stare to others but when Rex presented food near it , it directly accepted the offer and ate the pokeblock.
Now all other Ponytas started staring at it with disgust, which Ponyta completely ignored.
Rex pulled one pokeball from his pocket and quickly caught the Ponyta and after successfully capturing it in pokeball he released it.
"Yes , you are the first pokemon I have caught , you can do farewell to your clan after that we will return"
"Ponyta !!"
Ponyta went to do his farewell and Rex waited their observing others spar the Ponyta and Rapidash. Until now some people have even captured the pokemons , only one or two were green ones other were orange ones.
"He really captured the pokemon !!"
"Was that Ponyta powerful ? "
"Not likely , a pokemon who can't resist food how powerful can it be."
Buzz again started around Rex which he ignored successfully this time making his future plans in his mind.
Potential is not my priority currently , but having good potential is always good, Ponyta will really help me a lot in my early stages for traveling. Ponyta fell for it , it might be due to his characteristics but I am now confident of catching some pokemons from other clan also with pokeblock. Having rich family has really lot of early advantages of you can make use of it carefully.
Ponyta retured after some time and Rex taking back the Ponyta started returning.
From tomorrow I will also start learning to ride Ponyta. Turtwig was also getting bored lately having new teammates will make the training more exciting.