Recovering from The Loss

[Darkaan]

He sat at one of Lecana's nice little Cafe's. He needed personal space.
He needed time right now to not think about pokemon. He talked to some locals and talked about the latest movies that were coming out from Kantex Central with the people on the table next to him.

He picked up a newspaper... It read:

Kantex Central Bulletin News!!!
Reports of an imprisoned pokemon breeder (Herald), has escaped from tight security prison. He is also an unregistered pokemorph said police authorities. If you notice anything suspicious spread the news! If you find Herald yourself, report him to authorities. If you capture him and bring him into authorities you'll receive a $20,000 reward.

"Hmmm... Darkaan returns the illegal pokemorph to jail." He imagined.
"Why not! I don't want to battle or really want to be involved in pokemon for a while anyways."
He had a another tea then bought lunch then headed back to the pokecenter to withdraw all his pokemon.

[Darkaan]

He came out from the PC with his bag full of his pokemon. He could here his pokemon talking in their pokeballs about his loss.

He went to the village square (it seemed big enough and released 10 of his pokemon).
When Pyro was released he was sobbing and waddled up to Darkaan sobbing.
<I'm sorry about your loss! I would have done my best for you!>
<So would I!>
<So would I!>
<Me too!>
<Me three!>
"Thanks guys! Thankyou for your support guys! I want you to know that yesterday's battle was solely my fault."
<No!>
<Don't say that!>
<It was my fault!> Said Schwabz.
<No it was mine!> Said Fearow. < I fell asleep while on task.>
"You couldn't help that Nimbus! That was a sleep attack." Said Darkaan.
<Oh! Then it was your fault Schwabz!> Nimbus said, making Schwabz turn a gloomy grey. Her entire body started to cry raindrops from her cloudy wings.

"Guys! You did your best and tried your hardest to obey my commands! The problem is this..." He squirmed as they all looked at him.
"I'm letting you all know I love you all very much-"
<You're not going to release a bunch of us into the wild are you?>
"Heavens no! I love you too much to have to part with you! The thing is..." HE hesitated again.

"I'm going to only select a few of you to travel with me. I don't know you all that well. And if you want to be the best you can, you've got to rely on my judgment. If I just train with ten of you and take only six of you when I travel outside settlements, then I'll be able to value each one of you for who you are. Your character, your abilities, moves, strengths and weaknesses."

There was an awkward silence. He didn't think they got him.

"Did you guys realise when you battled these gym leaders, how well they knew their pokemon?"
His pokeomn nodded.
"I have an army of really loyal pokemon (except Vain-Glory and Coboom). I love you and you love me. But who can honestly say I know you well?"
Pyro tugged on his hand and Nimbus raised it's wing.
"Part from you two."
None of his other pokemon did.

"So starting from today, ten of you will be hanging with me today. Please be happy. It is sad that we have lost this very important battle, but there's always tomorrow to try again!" He commented. They all agreed.

"And to show you all that I really love you, I've got a surprise for you!" He said unveiling the 12 luxury balls.
<WOOOOW!!!> They all cheered. He dropped one on Pyro, Cortez, Stigmata and VX next to him. He threw one at Nimbus, Tek, Pablo, Thundigar, Marco and Solstice. They all cheered and begged to be picked.
Vain-Glory didn't care and tried to spore his remaining pokemon. It did so successfully, which really got up Darkaan's nose.

"JUST COOPERATE WITH ME PLEASE!" He yelled throwing the second-last luxury ball at Vain-Glory. And then a miracle happened.!
Vain-Glory finally spoke! It's first words ever!
<Oooh niccce!>

[Darkaan]

Darkaan finally went back to the PC and deposited all of his pokemon.

For the six he chose to be with him for now he chose Stigmata, Nimbus, Pyro, Thundigar, Tek and Vain-Glory.

He looked at Stigmata and decided to change his name.
"Stigmata! I'm now changing your name to Balthazar! I'll call you Balto for short!"
Balthazar barked happily.
With that Darkaan called Fearow to fly him towards the Breeding Farms. He was going to see this fellow 'Herald'.

[Darkaan]

He arrived back at Lecana two days later after the Herald incident. Exhausted he headed to the Pokemon Drop in center, also known as the pokeclub, to crash for the night.

[Darkaan]

The next day he flew off again doing other random activities around Kantex.