(OOC: Oof, haven't been here for a while.)
Rin looked into the deep forest, and the many bug Pokémon that inhabited it, crawling around, and...uggh. Rin shuddered as a shiver ran down his spine. He did not like bugs. Well, except for Nex. But he didn't count, he was more of an... octopus thing? Anyways, regardless of what Nex was, Rin sped straight out of the forest, and summoned Sonic again. "Can you just fly over Viridian Forest?" Rin asked the blue drake. Sonic peered down at Rin, and immediately returned himself into the Pokéball. "What?" Rin asked himself, before sending the mighty dragon out again. "You WILL fly me over this forest." He commanded with all the confidence he could muster. Sonic glared at Rin, before letting out a large blast of Dragonbreath up into the air, and then sending himself back into his Pokéball. "Why won't he listen to me...?" Rin muttered. An old man had been watching from afar this whole time, and approached Rin. "Your Salamance won't listen, I presume, because it doesn't respect you. From the looks of it," The old man gestured towards Rin's jacket,"You haven't gotten a single badge! Powerful Pokémon won't respect Trainers without any badges!" The old man told him. Rin looked back in confusion. "But he was fine on the way here! My dad..." Rin realised what he was saying. The old man shook his head. "This is your dad's Pokémon? Well, that explains it. Salamance followed his original Trainer's order with compliance, but he doesn't respect you. Sure, he may help you out when you truly need it, but other than that, he won't comply with your orders. Get yourself some badges, Trainer, before you try and order around a powerful Salamance like that. From what I've seen, it could have killed you, no, should have, five times by now." The old man started walking away, Rin's eyes burning into his back. Once the man walked away, his knees started quaking, before he fell to the ground, his eyes started leaking a bit. "A-am I really that incompetent t-that my FATHER'S Pokémon won't even listen to me?" Rin started sniffing a little, before getting more angry. "No, no! I can't get like this again. I'll go and get badges, and make that Salamance respect me!" Rin stormed off in a tizzy into the dark depths of the Viridian Forest. He didn't notice the sky slowly becoming dark, and a suspicious figure with a Banette following behind.