-Pawniard number 2" i say with complete confidence in my condition, it is going to be the easiest to train among these 5 pawniards, and the less work i need to do the better, this little guy is so focused that i doubt he will care much if i'm lazy and only if i actually help him with his goals, though i'll have to see how ambitious they are later, cant exactly see that right now.

"huh, i would of choose the left one" my sister says, which i guess makes sense, probably thinks it has the same ability as the kingambit, but i'm well aware of that common mistake, i'm not sure which ability becomes supreme overlord, but i know its not a hidden ability, so the pressure ability that pawniard has will always be the pressure ability, which isn't a bad ability since it makes enemies use more energy, it's just notoriously hard to train.

"alright, lets get this over with" i say as i start to take of my bag and rummage though it, its a standard white and black silph co expando bag, pretty nifty tech i don't really understand, but it's bigger on the inside somehow, after a little bit i find the pokeballs my sister bought me a while back, because apparently i was 'destined' for greatness by being related to her.

as i pull the pokeballs out, i quickly follow with the needle required to bond with a pokemon, as i prick my finger and drop the blood on the front of the pokeball to get ready, i start to approach the pawniard and hold out the pokeball to it, it quickly follows by chipping a part of its armour off and dropping it on the front of the ball and then quickly touching the centre button. he quickly disintegrates into a red energy that gets sucked into the pokeball.

one shake

two shake

three shake

BING!

after being almost blinded by the pure red energy he turned into, i quickly open my eyes to look at the pokeball, knowing that they are probably in statis, and as i release them i pull out my pokenav, and quickly check on the pokedex app to check out the pawniard.

Pawniard

the sharp blade pokemon

gender- male

height- 2 foot, 1 inch

weight- 25.2 ibs

age- 5 years, 3 months

date of catch- 9 / 6 / 898

ability- inner focus

trainer compatibility- 86%

moves-

-leer

-scratch

-fury cutter

-false swipe

-metal claw

-endure

-assurance

-fling

-shadow claw (least proficient)

-iron head

-low kick

-rest (most proficient)

-quick guard

-mean look

after looking at the compatibility, i look at the more in depth stats to see what could make it relate so much to me.

nature- relaxed

species strengths-

hp- peak

attack- high

defence- peak

special attack- (insufficient data)

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special defence- mid

speed- low

aptitudes-

dark- 100%

steel- 89%

fighting- 64%

bug- 56%

flying- 50%

poison- 45%

ghost- 42%

water- 40%

ground- 37%

normal- 36%

rock- 36%

electric- 32%

psychic-28%

grass- 26%

fairy- 0%

fire- 0%

dragon- 0%

ice- 0%

after just a glance i can see that his aptitudes are quite similar to mine, but the connecting factor is most probably it's nature, relaxed, it's probably pulling a facade with inner focus to make it seem skilled and focused, his goal to go with me is probably to get away from, i look back at the surrounding pawniards, still stabbing just about everything, that.

as i turn my gaze back to the pawniards in front of me, i can see that Bisharp is already had some sort of speech and they are walking away, the only one really dejected is still the one with the expectations while the confident one just looks down right insulted and glares at me while they walk away, and i realise that the one that was defiant has scarred metal going down its back, that seemed to go quite deep.

as i look down to my right i see the pawniard i've selected looking at me, but now that i look closely, it's more just looking in my direction, almost like... "hey" as i say this it snaps to attention. i think i know hoe it's so proficient in rest now, probably uses inner focus to wake up at the lightest disturbance, this should make the journey easier, definitely the best choice of these five.

"huh relaxed, thought it would unlock stuck up or something" my sister says from over my shoulder, probably reading my Nav screen, pawniard visibly flinches when my sister says this, probably thinking he could get away with his rest strategy for a while longer, it seems to catch the Bisharps attention as well who looks intently at pawniard as if searching for something then sighs and starts to walk away, gesturing for us to follow. my sister quickly runs to catch up and i follow in pursuit, based on the dull thumps behind me, i believe that pawniard is also following behind us.

after around another twenty minutes of walking and stopping so that the other Bisharp can say good luck or something to pawniard we finally reached the place where we arrived from, a quick look at the sandshrew tunnels around here confirmed it to be the same place, we make a quick bow to the Bisharp who waves us off, before my sister sends her staraptor back out. i look at pawniard and gesture to his pokeball, after a quick nod i return him into statis and mount the passenger seat on staraptors saddle.

on the way back the only thing that seems to have changed is that a herd of cufant had entered that field from before, and the kingler on the beach was fighting something, but we passed by to quickly for me to be able to see, nothing new really happens on the oceans surface and canalive city quickly comes back into view.

as we land in the impromptu landing field my sister built in our backyard that somehow passed inspection. my mom quickly comes out the house and basically pulls us off of staraptor, not even letting my sister return him before pulling us in the house.#

"alright i want to meet them" my mom said the second she got us in the living room, the only difference in her appearance was that she had tied her hair into a ponytail, her face one of pure joy, like she knew i was gonna be successful or something, but with my laziness mixed with pawniards relaxed nature, i doubt we are going to get much done.

"alright, alright" i say, finally free from her grasps as i pull pawniards ball out my pocket and releasing him in the living room, were lucky pawniards don't have bladed feet yet, or we would have two brand new holes in the floor, the second he is released, he jerks up right and i barley catch it, but i see his eyes opening, but he is quick about it. i think we will get along fine.

it barley takes 2 seconds after releasing him before my mom is already trying to dote on him, which is proving to be difficult with all the blades on his body, it takes her about another 10 seconds to just settle for patting the back of his helmet, which he quickly walks away from her for, this results in a game of pursuit where my mom is shimming while crouched towards him and he is taking steps away from her.

i let it go on for a minute before i just pull my mom away before i get distracted after gesturing him to follow me i go up to my room, as i have a few things that will need to be sorted out with him.

after reaching my room i quickly close the door as pawniard walks in, after i take a seat on my bed i stare him in the eyes and with all seriousness say "i know you want to relax". he doesn't even flinch when i say that, probably his ability but he slags his shoulders slightly, knowing he can relax about me, after all this isn't like the old days where wild pokemon aren't aware of the benefits that come with getting a trainer, it makes getting a starter pokemon easier, there's obviously still sanger from mid level pokemon, but that's just how it goes, the weak grow, the average get aggressive and the strong settle and help the young grow.

"you can sit if you want" i say holding back a laugh as he still tries to maintain his persona. "i'm not like the bisharp and pawniard at your board" he finally relents and takes a seat on top of a random pillow on my floor, stabbing it in the process, "alright, so your a danger rating: 2 on the scale so you are safe for me to train as someone who passed the trainer exam, and also eligible for me to use in gym battles. now that's what i want to talk to you about, you probably already know that but trainers do the gym challenge, that's where you go from city to city and challenge one of the two gyms that are stationed there that year, i don't know what gyms are stationed where yet as that doesn't get realised for another week when the circuit starts, but the first one we are going to challenge will be here in canalive. the question i want to ask you is if you want to compete." as i say this, trying to be threatic, he just stares at me and nods. i guess he is just the quite type anyways then.

"alright i'll be honest with you, this journey is unwanted on my side, but i don't really have a choice, so i'm going to take it slow, it lasts 9 months anyways, so we should be fine, the question that i really want to ask you if your nature really is relaxed is if you want to travel with me, you wont have to walk since i can just put you in your ball, but would you be willing to fight wild pokemon if we have to" i ask the question that needs answered, he takes a moment this time before.... tilting his head. "are you asking me a question?" i respond with, he just shakes his head, motions a sigh then nods. i really need to get him to be more.. emotive if i'm going to be with him for a while.

"alright so now you need a nickname" he just continues to stare at me, not being helpful at all.

"i need to distinguish you from every other pawniard, so what about-