After the battle with Shauna's Froakie, we headed to Ixana's house for me to meet her mom and for her to say goodbye. The visit wasn't honestly that interesting to me, except for the fact that Ixana's mom is a person who believes that every Pokemon should have a nickname, so, of course, Ixana named me then, giving me the name Chenips, not necessarily the best name in my book, but hey, it's a name.

After that, we headed to Route 2, where the Shauna and Calem were waiting. It was a pretty boring meetup, since Calem was wanting to teach everyone how to use a Pokeball, and although Shauna seemed quite interested, it didn't seem like it was anything new to Ixana.

After that though, was were it got interesting, Ixana decided to propose a set of rules for our challenge of the league, any Pokemon that fainted during a battle couldn't be used again in the league challenge, and we'd only catch one new teamate in a given area.

But where it got really interesting was when we encountered our first wild Pokemon.

I took one one look at the wild Pokemon, and it was as if I were paralyzed, it's hair was slicked back in spikes that looked like they could cut through a Rhyhorn's skin, and it was the most beautiful Pokemon I'd ever seen.

And she was fast. She could probably run circles around me. Well... More like squares.

I stepped toward her, crackling a leaf under my foot. It was a soft sound that it made, I could barely hear it, but she made a yelp-like squeaking sound and turned around faster than I've ever seen a Pokemon move before.

"Who... who are you?" she asked, hiding her head behind a spike of fur

"I.... I'm... Muh.... My name's... uh.. nips." I stammered in reply Nips!? Seriously????

"Nips?" she said in tone that sounded like she was trying not to laugh. She started to peek through her hair at me, and I could see a faint smile

"Uh... yeah..." well.... if it makes her feel more comfortable....

"So, anyway, aren't you supposed to attack?" I asked her

"A... attack!?" she said in a scared manor

"Yeah, you're a wild Pokemon, so I'm supposed to fight you!"

She looked absolutely terrified at that point.

"Playfight I mean!' I said quickly, trying to make her feel more comfortable "Nobody's gonna get hurt, it's just for fun!"

"... Alright" she said, managing a scared smile

"Ready?" I asked her while getting in a fighting stance

As her response, she tried to look angry and growled at me.

If you could call that a growl, it was actually quite adorable, she looked like a cub trying to intimidate a full grown Ursaring.

I started laughing, it was just so adorable, I couldn't help it.... And I also didn't see her coming in with a tackle.

She smacked right into my side, and I fell onto my back, getting up and shaking it off, I ran to tackle her back.

By this point we had sufficiently attracted Ixala's attention, and she came over and started directing my movement in the fight.

Right before we were both almost finished, Ixala told me to stand back and threw a Pokeball at her, the Zigzagoon offered little resistance, only shaking the Pokeball once before giving up and letting the capture finish.

Ixala pretty quickly let the Zigzagoon out of the Pokeball and started talking to her, she was scared at first, but eventually she felt a bit more comfortable with Ixala, and after a few tries with naming, Ixala and the Zigzagoon decided on the name Nazga.

Which fit pretty well in my mind, I mean, it's a beautiful name, and she....... she fit that description pretty well