Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm back. Sorry about my few year hiatus I've been rather busy with college and moving houses, etc.
Now we've got that out of the way let's get on with story. BTW I don't own any places, Pokémon or characters from the franchise most of the characters are my own characters. I am also sorry if any of the names of my Ocs are the same as actual people's names, that is completely accidental. I came up with this idea a few days ago, completely on my own so if it similar to anyone else's story then I am very sorry, but I can't really stop now.
This story is set in the game world with a handful of anime aspects thrown in. This is my first Pokémon fanfic and I've not had much success in writing battle scenes in any of my previous fanfics so please bear (not the animal sort) with me.
Grand Capture Competition: Kalos Region
Prologue: A Rivalry Begins!
It was around midday in Rustboro City, the morning had been somewhat normal, well for all of those NOT attending the local Pokémon academy. As today was the day when all the top classes of from all over the nation came together for a special "curriculum" day. All the students had been sat for the best part of a few hours while the heads of the academies introduced themselves and made rather long boring speeches that might have meant something to some people but those people were few and far between, where the hundred odd students packed into the hall were concerned.
It was currently coming up to about 1 o' clock when they were let out and separated into groups of their chosen subject and led away for their individual "lessons". 1 of these subjects was the Pokémon battle class where people learned how to battle with the best of their ability and how effective some types of moves were against other types of Pokémon. Among the students in the class was one rather big student how had the uncanny ability to turn the tide of battle exactly when it mattered most and half of his victories had been won by something as simple as a piece of sticky string left over from his Spinarak's string shot attack, this boy's name was none other than Josh Rosethorn.
This, of course, was just how he'd beat the top student from the academy in Santalune City, Kalos, and a boy simply known as Nicholas Ringloss and his Pokémon, Psyduck. It had been a rather tough battle both Pokémon were around the 11/12 level mark, so psyduck hadn't yet learnt confusion yet. With the battle more or less even for both sides and the timer, that had originally been set to 10 minutes, now approaching the 2 minutes left mark, both Pokémon were highly exhausted, but both of them and their respective trainers wanted to lose. It was around this time when Psyduck got its foot caught in some of the string left over from a string shot attack, that Spinarak had used earlier, what made it worse for Nicholas and psyduck than Psyduck just getting it's foot caught was the fact that the string was covering a large section of the floor and was very sticky and Unfortunately this is also the time that Psyduck lost its balance and landed face first on to the sticky string covering the floor.
Seeing this, Josh, not one to miss such an opportunity, ordered his trusty Spinarak, whom he had caught a few months prior on Johto's route 2, to use his poison sting attack on his downed opponent, at first the attack didn't seem to do a great amount of damage but what neither trainer seemed to realise at the time was that Spinarak's poison sting had done more than just physical damage, it had successfully poisoned Nicholas' Psyduck. All of the damage that had been done combined with its exhaustion and the poison now coursing through its veins was too much for the duck Pokémon to handle and it consequently fainted giving the victory to Spinarak and its trainer Josh. To the dismay of Nicholas Ringloss, who had never took losing quite so well as most of the other students who had been watching the battle.
Unknown to both of the lads, this is what would spark quite the rivalry in the months to come especially as the Grand Capture Competition was right around the corner, and this year it would be taking place in Ringloss' backyard region of Kalos.