Chapter One: LEVEL 10: PART 1 OF 3
I walked into the Battle Tower that afternoon feeling pretty confident. I had my little cutie, Kiara the Shinx, on my shoulder, swiveling her cute little head around so much i thought it was going to fall off. I quickly grabbed her as she tried to jump off and growled at another Trainer's Luxio, her Rivalry ability kicking in. She behaves just like her mother. Luckily, the male trainer and his female Luxio didn't even glance in our direction, so all was well.
Patting Kiara on the head, I walked up to the counter were a Nurse in a blue variation of the Nurse Joy uniform was handling registration. Sadly, she was keeping her smile although i could clearly see her eyebags beyond the makeup.
"Your Name, Trainer." She said in monotone; she must've had a rough day of all the people in the lobby were registered and/or registering.
"Zach Perry." I answer.
After registration, I filled in some forms and was soon ready to go. My Pokéteam for 'Baby' level was all checked and ready to go; Kiara(Shinx), Gahool(Hoothoot) and Jaws(Totodile).
After that, I was lead up by Nurse Abigail-said so on her name tag- into a fairly large room with cream walls and ceiling and a light brown floor with a Pokéball design in the middle. I stood behind the white part of the design while my opponent was led in and stood behind the red.
He had on a yellow t-shirt with blue sleeves, a pair of white sneakers and baggy brown shorts. The kid-he was no older than eleven- covered his brown ruffled hair with a blue baseball cap and had blue eyes to finish his look.
"The name's Dusty! Get ready to lose, Trainer!" He exclaimed, taking a Pokéball from his belt and cradling it in his palm.
As soon as I threw Kiara's Pokéball, Dusty did the same, releasing a pretty jagged Geodude. It's surface loooked very rough and abrasive, so i deemed it unsafe for Kiara to make contact with the 'Rough Skin' Pokémon.
He started the battle with a Rock Smash and his Geodude barreled at Kiara, its fist at the ready.
"Dodge! Hidden Power!" I commanded.
Kiara jumped hopped to the left of the Geodude just as shimmering steel gray orbs of energy erupted from her being, blasting small shards of rock off the Geodude with ease. Her Hidden Power was Steel Type.
"Rock Throw!"
"Flash!"
I and Dusty squinted as Kiara erupted into blindingly bright sparks which illuminated the entire room for a few seconds.
While the light was dying down, I ordered another Hidden Power, and the groan I heard was a dead ringer that it hit.
"Rock Throw again!"
There were chunks of the floorboard strewn about, which might have been the Geodude's Rock Throw that had clearly missed.
"Rock Smash into Rollout!"
Seeing that Dusty was starting to get desperate, I knew I had to end this fast.
"Attract!"
Kiara paused for a second and started purring lowly, walking up to the Geodude while a certain smell from pheromones penetrated the room. The pheromone cloud had a dainty and faint pink coloring. I was finally tolerant of the pheromones, but Dusty and his Geodude were reacting... A lot.
Dusty's form relaxed a bit and he was only looking at Kiara and his Geodude with a far-away look in his eyes.
Okay... A bit overboard with the Attract, but maybe he hadn't been hit by one before.
Dusty's Geodude's motions slowed as Kiara kept purring and releasing her pheromones, even going so far as to close the distance between them with a slow 'catwalk'. I watched with amusement as the Geodude dropped his-being affected told me the gender- arms slowly and somewhat reluctantly...
Then she struck.
The Hidden Power was at point-blank range and took out the Geodude in a second. Dusty immediately snapped out of his trance and returned his fallen Pokémon with a frown. He then sent out a Ledian.
"Comet Punch!"
"Dodge! Flash!"
"Reflect!"
"Spark!"
Kiara's static-covered body pushed through the psychic barrier into the Ledian, dealing reduced damage, but still causing it to flop to the floor for a few seconds.
"Spark!"
"Dodge! Bug Buzz!"
The low-frequency waves slammed into Kiara's tiny form with force, throwing her back and making her slide on the floor painfully. As my Shinx got up, i saw that most of the fur on her side had rubbed off, revealing irritated skin. The upside, however, was that the rubbing had produced enough static electricity for one big Spark.
"Spark!"
"Brick Break!"
"D-dodge!" I cried despite knowing that it would be near-impossible to turn.
Kiara had become a bright crackling ball of electricity as she ran with purpose. Seeing the speeding Ledian coming up with a clenched fist, I could only see that the ball only jerked beofre contact was made.
The Ledian was charred immediately, but when the static cleared, Kiara was lying on the floor with a big purple bruise on her head.
I returned Kiara and sent out Jaws while Dusty sent out a Pidgey.
"Water Gun!"
"Dodge! Aerial Ace!"
Jaws craned its neck hard to get a good angle on the Pidgey, but it flew out of the way justbefore the powerful stream of water hit. The Pidgey zipped across the room before turning on a dime and ramming into Jaws from an insane angle. The Totodile couldn't catch it because it was so fast; also because Jaws crouched to protect his eyes from the sharp talons.
"Aerial Ace!"
"Water Gun! Bite!"
"Dodge! Aerial Ace!"
"Bite!"
"Quick Attack!"
"Aha! Ice Beam!"
Dusty's eyes widened as he yelled at his Pokémon to dodge, but it had already become a blur of feathers as it darted through the air, heading straight for the near-lethal ice type attack.
The near-invisible beam of super-cold air and moisture nearly flash-froze the Pidgey which was returned with haste.
"Good battle..." Dusty grumbled, disappointed that he had lost.
I shrugged and went over to the back of the room, where a Nurse was waiting for me with a Healing Table.
Once my Pokémon were healthy again, she left and the next challenger came in.