First Battle? (8)

-Hello Honedge, I know we didn't get to talk much yesterday but now we can-

I tell Honedge. It's now been a day and I'm now very curious on how Honedge got here in the first place.

-It's okay I, will serve master!-

A rough robotic voice could be heard in my head. I gave him some Pokemon food but he didnt eat any of it. He said he didn't have a mouth and in he needed sustenance would consume other Pokemon.

Still not sure how though but I'll get a demonstration about this later.

-Do you have a name?-

I ask curious. I have no prior knowledge about Honedge as I didn't really read his dex entry back in my world.

-I use to have a name. I was called William Marshal an Earl. I don't remember much besides lots of battles.-

He answers making me confused as that's the name of a famous knight back in my world. I don't really remember much as I never invested myself much in history but he was a pretty loyal guy apparently.

-William Marshal was a well known knight, but I don't really know much besides him being very loyal and a good battler. Say how did you get to my backyard?-

Looking at Honedge eagerly I unknowingly had stars in my eyes. Honedge starting to shift side to side responds.

-a big shiny white guy picked me up with his hands and then I was suddenly dropped from the sky into your backyard as a sword.-

Wincing at the last part I start to converse with him slowly but surely while making my way to the backyard. I ended up telling him I would still call him Honedge as if I named him it would be his old name as I have a bad naming sense.

He has no emotional attachment to his past life much because of lack of memories so it should be fine anyways.

I need to see his move set as I don't want to get into a battle without knowing what he could do.

"You can still understand my verbal words right?"

I quickly ask.

-Yes master!-

He responds excitedly? Still can't tell what he feels like but hopefully this gets fixed somehow. Making it to the outer fence of my backyard I first ask for a demonstration on his moves.

The first move he ended showing me was [Slash] which makes sense, he is a sword.

He also ended up showing me [Fury Cutter], [Autotomize], [Tackle] and [Shadow Sneak].

Speaking about shadow sneak he told me it's how he apparantly eats, Honedge consumes things with a shadow hand which I thought could be a [Shadow Claw] but it was too weak.

He has a nice set of moves that has a lot of combo potential.

Fury Cutter combined with Autotomize would be devastating while shadow sneak is usually pretty hidden.

For every successful hit I think the attack power increases which is nice. Now that I know his move set and with me being impatient I wanted to battle immediately.

When using a psychical move in most cases a hue of the colour indicating what type it is covers the Pokemon. Like when a Bidoof uses tackle it's whole body gets a white hue.

I remember naming my multiple Bidoof gods or tm slave. Quite the funny time to be on the internet as Golden Bidoof was a thing.

"Honedge go bait an aggressive Pokemon over here and come back to me for further instruction."

Before Honedge left though he unsheathed himself and gave it to me.

Soon after this Honedge makes his way to the forest.

A few minutes pass and I finally see Honedge coming back. He was currently getting followed by a single Starly.

Honedge getting in front of me, turns around making the Starly flinch.

'My first battle.'

I giddily think to myself.

-Use slash-

Honedge hearing me, he get a white hue over his body and floats towards the Starly with his sharp tip infront of him.

"Starly!"

The Pokemon growls out. But it was too late and Honedge gets up in front of Starly and uses [Slash].

Instead of "cutting" the Starly though it kind of smacks it sending it a metre away from the impact.

The Starly getting up starts to get a blue hue over its body.

-Dodge it-

I command. Honedge seeing the attack heading his way tries to dodge but moves at a slow pace. Starly using this opportunity gets a direct [Wing Attack] as he was already pretty close.

-I'm sorry Master it's hard to dodge right after using a move-

I hear Honedge say to me.

-It's fine, use [Shadow Sneak]-

I tell him still remembering that there is a Pokemon in front of us.

Honedge quick on the up take materialises a shadow hand and attacks soon after. The Starly not giving rest goes for a tackle imbues itself with a white hue and flies at Honedge.

As expected Starly passes through Honedge and gets confused, Honedge not letting the situation go past him blend into the ground and smacks Starly.

'Honedge is using his own thinking in battle. He baited Starly in knowing the opponent would expect the attack if he became a shadow and that he couldn't get hit. This worked out for him and he went for it's exposed back.'

I say to myself in amazement. While I was doing that Honedge went for another attack by itself using [Slash] to finish off the Starly making it faint.

-He's knocked out master-

I hear a voice interrupting my thoughts. Regaining myself I see a Honedge above a fainted Starly shaking?

-Master can I eat?-

I hear Honedge ask while looking down at the regional bird.

'Well this got interesting.'

"Sure go for it."

I respond in anticipation. I wonder how will he eat, will he suddenly get a mouth or what?

Contrary to popular belief Honedge started to surround the Starly with its shadows and some miasma looking stuff fully covering it, and every few seconds a bit of the Starly would dissapear.

'That is some creepy shit, no wonder barely anyone wants ghost types as their first Pokemon. That's brutal.'

I thought to myself with an odd look, Honedge not noticing my look happily enjoys his food.

'Well atleast its "censored" by the shadows.'

Honedge finishing up the Starly, comes back to me while swinging sideways in a seemingly a happy mood.

-It was my first time eating and it was great! Eating a soul is a bit weird though, a bit minty-

'What the fu-'