Author's Note:
None.
Chapter 2
"Welcome to the first battle of the tournament celebrating the Bond Gym!" yelled an announcer.
"Hey, why don't they just call it the Bond tournament?" asked a young blue-haired trainer to his sister.
"I don't know," replied May. "It would make more sense than what they're calling it now."
"Yeah, just 'the tournament celebrating the Bond gym' doesn't make any sense."
"In the red corner, all the way from Unova, we have... Cilan!" On cue, the green-haired connoisseur walked out onto his side of the field. Many people cheered.
"And in the blue corner, from Cerulean city, right here in Kanto, we have... Misty!" At this, the red-haired gym leader walked out onto her side of the field. At her appearance, even more people began to clap, so loudly, in fact, that the announcer had to cover his ears for a minute while everyone calmed back down.
"Didn't expect to see you here," Misty directed at the dressed-up trainer.
"Well, I couldn't have possibly missed such a battle opportunity!" he claimed.
"Right..." Misty said. "May the better trainer win." Cilan nodded.
Both trainers simultaneously sent out their pokemon, Misty having a Gyarados and Cilan having his Pansage.
"This will be a one-on-one battle between trainers Cilan and Misty," the announcer said. "Trainers ready?"
They nodded.
"Then let the battle begin!"
Misty started immediately. "Gyarados! Hyper Beam!"
The beam started heading straight for Cilan's pokemon.
"Pansage, get out of the way and onto that Gyarados!" Cilan instructed.
With one swift jump, it cleared the Hyper Beam and landed on top of the large water/flying pokemon.
"Oh, no you don't! Gyarados, Dragon Rage!"
With that, the Gyarados began angrily to try to shake off the grass-type, which was really just standing in front of it, having jumped off.
"Stop, Gyarados," Misty said, as she realized what Cilan had done.
"Nice training job, Cilan. Too bad, though, because it's all about to go to waste."
"Poor Cilan," said Max. "He was doing so well..."
"Gyarados, you know what to do."
The Gyarados began covering itself in water, before suddenly shooting off at Pansage.
"Pansage, quick! Get out of the way!"
But before the Pansage could do anything, it was knocked into a wall, knocked out.
"How could a water jet be so powerful?" Cilan asked, as he returned his unconscious pokemon.
"Easy. Build up speed. It takes some work, but it's totally worth it."
"Interesting..." Cilan mused.
"Well, I won. Ref?"
"...And Pansage is unable to battle, meaning that the winner is Misty!" the announcer yelled to the crowd, finally coming out of his daze from the powerful attack.
The crowd cheered.
Out in the streets, we find Misty, May, Dawn, Cilan, and Max.
"Congrats again for beating me, Misty," said Cilan.
"Thank you," she replied in the politest way she could think of.
Suddenly, Iris walked up to the group, hands behind her head, a smirk on her face.
"Looks like someone's happy," Cilan said. "What's up?"
"I won," Iris stated. "My first competitor wasn't very smart with his Dragonair, so Axew won."
"Axew!" yelled the pokemon, popping out of Iris's hair.
"So he still hides in your hair?" asked Max.
"Yup," Iris said.
"Hey Max, are you excited for your first battle of the tournament?" asked Misty, coming up with a new subject.
"Yes! Too bad it's on day three," Max replied.
"You mean the final day of round one? That is too bad," said Misty. "But that just gives you more time to prepare, right?"
"Right!" Max shouted enthusiastically. "I'm going to challenge someone to a battle right now!"
"Wait!" called May, but it was too late.
"Hi, I'm Max, and I challenge you to a battle!" our overly-enthusiastic young trainer said to another young trainer, one with blue eyes, a red shirt, and a blue hat.
"Huh?" he asked. "I guess I can. Go Leafeon!"
"Alright, then. Go, Mudkip!"
The two pokemon stood across from each other, eyes locked, waiting for the first order.
"Mudkip, use Water Gun!"
"Leafeon, dodge and use Sunny Day!"
As the stream of water rushed toward the pokemon, Leafeon jumped out of the way and the sun seemed to get brighter.
"Now, use solar beam!"
"Quick, dive out of the way!"
Misty, May, and Dawn, who had finally caught up to Max, were currently spectating the battle.
"Looks like Max made a new rival," said Misty.
"Definitely," responded May. "He tends to do that a lot."
After a long break from this story, this is where I picked up.
The girls continued spectating the battle.
"Hey, May..." Dawn finally piped up. "Have you ever noticed how much your brother took after Ash?"
"I guess," responded May.
"Ash..." muttered Misty, just quiet enough not to be heard.
After losing fairly quickly to his opponent, Max was feeling quite down. This did not go unnoticed by said opponent, however, so said opponent decided to cheer him up a little.
"Good match," he said. This seemed to cheer Max up a little.
"To you too," he replied.
"Want to be friends?" The question was sudden and unexpected, but Max quickly decided that there was nothing to lose from it.
"Sure," Max said, and they shook hands. "My name is Max."
"Nice to meet you, Max. My name's Sayd."
Author says:
Well, that could have gone a little better. If you hadn't noticed, I'm horrible with battles. Oh well. At least it's out.
