May didn't hesitate to give me a list of the moves that I nodded after hearing. "Lets start by having you use headbutt , tail whip and mudsp so I get a feel for your profi them." I said sternly to Sly. The pokemon eagerly but awkwardly performed the three requested moves and I sighed loudly. "Is it really that bad?" May asked not uanding why I seemed disappointed. "It's ly a secret but when pokemon use moves the move itself differs in strength and speed. This is because of the species innate abilities as well as how familiar they are with the move." I expined calmly.-

  May nodded along uanding what I was saying "I know what the familiarity of moves looks like after having fought many battles at the mountain and THAT was about as unfamiliar as you get." I said motioning at Sly. "Is there really that big of a differen a new move and orained a lot?" she asked curiously. "Of course there is , watch. Vul use a novice level stomp on that spot over there." I said while pointing at a spot a few meters away. Vul jumped up and glowed weakly on it's paws before crashing into the stone ground that cracked slightly.-

  "Now do it again at your curre!" I called out and the legendary followed the order fwlessly as it jumped up and glowed brightly on it's paws before falling much harder causing the stoo shatter and crater slightly. "That's the differeween an untrained and a highly trained move , speed , power and utility are all qualitatively better irained version. The good news is that I defirain this ones moves to an acceptable level before I leave in a couple weeks." I said calmly.-

  "Gaia , Vul while I am busy whipping this pokemon into shape I want both of you to turn this hard stoo sand before mixing it all up with the soil underh it. Leave the cave and pond alohough." I ordered and after getting firmation from my mons they went to work. Birch returned from the b at this point eager to watch me train Sly. May expined what he had missed in the short time he was go he didn't write it down since he already khis information.-

  He also firmed what I said about it not really being a secret since pretty much every trainer learns it if they train their pokemon enough. "That said I am unsure how one goes about training a move other than stantly using it." Birch said and looked at me eager to see if there was something specific I would do. I didn't disappoiher as I had Sly use the moves but ge the way it did so slightly. Basically all I was doing ointing out the parts it o work on and having it do so.-

  It was b monotonous work that exhausted Sly rapidly causing the training to switch over from move training to movement training. Zigzagoon as a whole were quick footed and fast moving things and I had Sly using push that irait as hard as it could. It tripped more than a few times fating hard but I didn't care and had it stand back up and run again. "You are pushing it too hard aren't you?" Birch asked worriedly seeing how wretched Slys dition was as it anting hard and had scabs on it's nose from the dried blood of it's fatings.-

  I shook my head "Pokemon are different from humans in that unlike us they thrive under pressure of this sort. If a human did something like this they might ihemselves horribly but a pokemon only needed a good meal and some sleep to not only recover fully but even grow more powerful , they are simply built differently and so train much more strenuously." I expined and he nodded serious and wrote that down. "That said they do have limits and he has reached his , watch." I said and both the professor and May saw the Zigzagoon stop and sit down to recover.-

  I walked over to the tired creature and gave it some water as well as an oran berry. "Good work , we are done for today so you head back to the professor for now." I told the tired creature with an approving smile before returning it to it's ball. I then walked back to the father and daughter pair and hahe ball over. "When you feed it ter give it some extra meat and vitamin supplements so it's body has the fuel it o grow stronger." I said seriously.-

  "You really do seem to have training pokemoy figured out." Birented appreciatively. I shook my head "I've got the way to train okemoy figured out but anything after that is still guess work to me at the moment." I corrected seriously. "Is there really that big of a differen how they o be trained?" May asked and Birodded also curious. "Yes" I say seriously. "For okemon it's mostly training their moves as well as the strength of their bodies and bat experience. But what do you do when the pokemon has a strong body , firm mastery of it's moves and ample battle experience? I haven't figured it out yet." I expin helplessly.-

  I myself hadn't quite reached that poi sih of my pokemon were species that naturally sat higher up on the food and thus needed far more training to really hit the "strong" threshold for their species. Gaia for example wasn't even in her final evolutionary stage yet and thus had a LOT of room to grow. At the moment she couldn't really do physical training besides giving her lungs a serious workout but trol and move training was still totally viable for her.-

  After my expnatiowo of them fell silent as they pondered what exactly the step beyond the type of training that okemon underwent was. After that I rexed a bit as I watched my own pokemon pete about which of them could powderize the stone fastest. The little girl on Vuls back was having a bst as Vul and Gaia destroyed every piece of stohey could. 'That girls going to grow up into a terrorist if she enjoys destru so much.' I thought with a chuckle while eating a pecha berry.-

  The berry was super sweet and soft with an overabundance of juice that made it great on a hot day like this. The clouds gathering in the distaold me that rain was ing and I o cook dinner early. We still had a few hours until it got dark but I would like to avoid setting a fire in the cave if I could. While it was fine in the mountain cave sihere was grass and forest nearby but now that I was in town and there lenty of pces to set it up outside the cave safely I did so.