<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">"I'll go after the Oran Berries," Davey answered when Jackie presented him with the choice of berries to pick, Oran or Pecha, Davey opted to go after the Oran Berries.  Hopefully, he would find a lot of them, not only just for Jackie's curry ingredients and the breakfast for everyone's pokémon, but so that Kraken and Xena might have them as held items when they were going against other Pokémon.  Except in rare cases, they couldn't be poisoned so the Pecha Berry wasn't as important as the Oran Berry which could boost their heath in a battle.<br/>
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Not far from their camp, Davey spied some Oran Berry plants growing in some soft an loamy soil.  There were a couple unavoidable patches of tall grass between him and the berry bushes.  Before yesterday, he'd have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get to the bushes without possibly encountering any pokémon, but now he had pokémon of his own!  Still it was best to be wary and not step on anything like an Ekans or Seviper and Davey wasn't sure about all the types of pokémon inhabited this Route.<br/>
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A couple of steps into the first patch of tall grass and he found that he'd startled a Rattata.  It turned to challenge his right to be there and Davey responded by releasing Xena onto the battlefield.<br/>
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<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">The wild pokémon responded by taunting Xena with the Tail Whip move, but Davey countered by telling Xena to used the Harden move.  Davey then swapped Xena out and Kraken in.<br/>
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The Rattata again tried Tail Whip, but Kraken's Clear Body ability stopped his defense value from being lowered.  Davey then had Kraken use the Supersonic move and it immediately confused the enemy, causing the Rattata to hurt itself.  Next, Davey had Kraken use its newly gained Constrict move.  This did less damage to the Rattata than hurting itself did, but every point of damage on the enemy increased their odds of winning against it.  The Rattata remained Confused and again hurt itself as its muscles moved its skeleton in a way it wasn't designed to move.  Davey had Kraken repeat the Constrict move and the enemy likely could not possibly endure the combination of self-inflicted wounds and Constrict moves more than twice more.<br/>
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Davey briefly considered having a Rattata on his team, but decided against it.<br/>
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A third time the Rattata suffered under the effects of Confusion, this time biting it's own rear right leg and again Kraken embraced it with its tentacles in a Constrict move.  It was practically over....  And then it was as the Rattata threw itself against the ground and stunned itself.<br/>
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It was a 'perfect victory'.  Neither Xena nor Kraken had suffered any damage at all!</div>
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Davey found four Oran Berry bushes with ripe and ready fruit.  He collected twelve berries, but planted four of them back into the loamy soil, leaving him with eight berries to take back to Jackie at their camp.<br/>
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On the way back, Davey encountered another Rattata and battled it.  Their team was again victorious, but Xena and Kraken did take a small amount of battle Damage.  A little rest or maybe some healing Potion and they'd be back in perfect health.  Even with all the scratches, the pair of pokémon actually looked stronger.  A quick scan with his  pokédex confirmed that they actually had gotten stronger!<br/>
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Jackie hadn't yet returned, in spite of the time it took Davey to get the Oran Berries.<br/>
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While he was waiting for her, Davey took his knife out and prepared a fruit.  He scored with many small vertical and horizontal lines and then began to break it into small pieces....</span></span>