Day Two

It turns out before I can go off and start capturing some pokemon, my rival wanted to duel. I felt pretty hopeless since he has my favourite pokemon, Charmander, and I only have Bulbasaur. Isn't Bulbasaur week against Charmander anyway?

Like every good self-fulfilling prophecy, I lost that match. I guess the best way to be a trainer is to be confident in the abilities of my pokemon, and not go into the match thinking my team is inferior. I'll take that away and see how my new attitude handles future battles.

That duel finished, I hang my head in defeat and begin my journey to Veridian City. Along the way I run into some wild pokemon I haven't seen before.

Sadly, I don't have any pokeballs and I can't capture them. Oh well, at least the incomplete entries can go into my pokedex. Plus, I now know where these two are when I do have some pokeballs.

In Veridian City I found that the store wouldn't sell me anything. Instead they gave me a package to return to Professor Oak. After finishing that, the professor gave me some pokeballs so I can start capturing and growing my team out.

First on my list, Pidgey and Rattata. I ran into Rattata first. Weakened him until he was almost dead and tossed out my pokeball.

Success!

One more pokemon captured. It feels like I still have a huge task ahead of me, but at least I have a solid start -- unless you count my loss against my rival.