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Pokemon Journey: Part 2: Practice Battles

"I got a Charmander!" Was the only thing I could think at that moment, it was like a dream come true! After we all stopped freaking out about the pokemon we got, Elm and Oak handed each of us a Pokedex.

"These are highly informational devices that can tell you the gender, type, and moves of all the pokemon you see! Once you see one it will even record where it was for if you want one later! Cool huh?" Oak said to all of us as he beamed when we all smiled at the gift.

"Excuse me everyone, but I would like you all to go outside and meet your new pokemon! Let them breathe some fresh air!" Elm told us, and we all rushed outside excited to meet them. I tossed the bell into the air and a red light shot out of the ball, creating the outline of my Charmander. As soon as it was out it just let out a deep breath, I guess it had been in there for a while!

"Hey little guy, ill be your new Trainer!" I said as I stared at him. All he did to reply was to flip his, or was it a her, tail around. Wondering that I pointed the pokedex's camera at it and it instantly buzzed out "Charmander, male, level 5, knows Scratch, Growl, and Smokescreen, and Ember." I looked back at my Charmander and walked over to him, and noticed he was about to fall asleep. I pet him on the head and he just closed his eyes, as if enjoying my motion. "You like that little guy?" I said as I bent down to look at him more closely, and he was smiling! I just hoped I'd be able to come up with a name for him, I had no clue!

"Children," Elm started, "We will be having a few battles now, one where you will have a type advantage and then one where you don't, or vise versa for some." Everyone started whispering to each other about them winning, losing, their pokemon, etc, etc, etc.

For my first matchup I was paired against Melody, who had a Bulbasaur. Knowing I had the type advantage I was pretty confident, but that changed when I saw Drake, with a Cyndaquil, lose to Nathan, who had the Chikorita. Drake looked pretty ticked about it, but the funny thing was that Cyndaquil was lookin' pretty mad too!

"Hey look, they're perfect for each other!" Joe whispered to me, and I was thinking the same thing.

"Jake and Melody, please come outside," Elm said as he beckoned us out with his hand. Once we were outside, we lined up on the chalk battle square they set up for everyone. I was on the left, and Melody was on the right.

"Battle!" Oak said suddenly and everything launched into action.

"Bulbasaur, use Tackle!" Melody commanded and her Bulbasaur charged right into my Charmander, pinning him to the ground.

"Charmander, use Scratch and get out of that Tackle!" I commanded, and he pulled his arm back and swung it, claws out, right across the Bulbasaur's face. The Bulbasaur then backed off a bit, letting Charmander get free.

"Bulbasaur, hit him with Vine Whip!" Melody yelled, but I was one step ahead of her.

"Charmander, use Smokescreen and dodge that Vine Whip!" I commanded, and soon the large chalk square was shrouded with smoke. Melody didn't know what to do, so I took the opportunity and screamed, "Charmander, find that Bulbasaur and finish it with Ember!"

"Bulbasaur, dodge tha-" Melody started but was interrupted by a big flash of light in the center of the smoke.

Once the smoke cleared it was shown that Bulbasaur was hit by Ember and fainted, which meant I won! "Good job buddy!" I said as Charmander trotted over triumphantly, looking proud of his victory. "You did great!" I said as I picked him up and gave him a short hug.

"Good battle Jake," Melody said, carrying her pokemon gingerly. "I didn't expect that Smokescreen, it surprised me."

"Thanks," I said back, "Your Bulbasaur put out a thrashing in the beginning though, you did good,"

We headed back inside and healed our pokemon at Elm's healing machine. Once done, Melody instantly pulled Bulbasaur back out and gave it a hug, "You did great! It doesn't matter if you lost, you were at a disadvantage!" She explained to her Bulbasaur, and it indeed did cheer her pokemon up a bit. I was just holding my pokemon happily until I noticed my legs were a bit too close to Charmander's flamed tail, and it burned pretty bad.

After some other people battled, it was me and my pokemon's turn again. This time I had to go against Joe!

"Good luck," he said.

"You too,"

"Battle!" cried Oak again, and all heck broke loose.

"Charmander, use Scratch!" "Totodile, dodge that and use Scratch back!" "Charmander, hit him with Smokescreen!" "Totodile, stop that move with Water Gun!" And before Charmander let out his Smokescreen, he injured by a gush of water hitting him square in the chest! After he got back up, Charmander looked angry, his tail was burning bright and larger too. "Charmander, use Ember to make him back off and then let out a Smokescreen!" "Totodile, stop Charmander by hitting him with Scratch and another Water Gun!"

After many missed moves and clashes of fire and water, Totodile was victorious. I shook hands with Joe and ran inside to heal Charmander. I instantly let him out and didn't need to encourage him, because it looked as if he was just excited to be out again! After the rest of the battles, Oak took us to the nearest PokeCenter, which was located in the next town Cherrygrove, and showed us that most Trainers slept in these Centers overnight. We all got to choose whether to go home, or sleep here. Being that I already said goodbye and packed everything, I choose to do the same. Turns out that Melody and Joe were doing the same thing, and everyone else went home.

"Has anyone named their pokemon yet?" I asked our group of three.

"I named my Bulbasaur Kira," Melody said.

"I named my Totodile Torrent," Joe said with his usual beaming smile.

"Oh. I haven't named mine yet," I said sadly, looking at my Charmander that was just smiling next to me.

Once Melody and Joe were asleep, I was still up thinking about names and listing them for my Charmander to hear. I had wanted mine to be about his main type fire, like how Joe did with Torrent. "Flare, Ember, Inferno, Blaze," I said listing fiery names for him, but on that last name he let out a cheerful "Char! Char," and I just looked at him. "You like the name Blaze little guy?" I asked him and he just kept exclaiming "Char! Char!" while nodding his head a bit. "Ok, ill call you Blaze then," and my Charmander instantly smiled and laid on my feet to go to sleep. "Night Blaze, see you in the morning," I said and then went to sleep.

Stay Tuned for Part 3!

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