Chapter 2- True Beginning
"Come on, Layla! Let's play!"
" What, now?"
" Come on! You promised us!"
"Can't you see that I'm NOT in the mood?"
"Pretty please?"
"sigh Okay. Just once."
Perched up high in a tree, a lone Pokémon heard their conversation. She just rolled her eyes and slowly relaxed onto the branch she was sitting on as she saw the two Tyrogues pestering an obviously ill-tempered Charmeleon who would just scream like right about... now.
"Gah! Noobs! You find them everywhere!" the Pokémon muttered.
She then slid down the tree afterwards, feeling bored as it is. She then walked away in a relaxed mood. " Just why do people never leave others alone? Especially when they need to?" she muttered cursingly.
"Julia!" she heard a voice call out. The Pokémon rolled her eyes. " Must be for something stupid, like a battle. Ain't gonna happen." She muttered and kept walking.
Julia was a young treecko and our heroine. She was rather pretty and actually quite sweet, but an intense loner. And she hated battling for either she'd lose or can't stand seeing anyone hurt. Too sensitive for words.
Suddenly, she felt someone grab her from behind. " Surpriiiise! Howdy, Jules!" "You promised me a battle yesterday, so you'll have to honour the conditions!" screamed the Budew who was holding her.
"Roseanna! Let go!" screamed the pokemon.
"Not until you agree to battle."
" Absolutely not! I'm a lover, not a fighter!"
" Ewwww. You have a lover? That's gross! I'm gonna tell everyone."
"What! Blush Not that way ..."
"Julia has a boyfriend, Julia has a boyfriend!"
"That does it! I'm gonna have to shut you up... my style. Prepare to be creamed!"
Roseanna, the budew was thrilled. She was always up for a challenge and knew very well that Julia would hate to fight her, but that was part of the fun.
They braced themselves for action. Anyone would be intimidated seeing the fire in their eyes, but that didn't deter a couple of other young Pokémon from entering to watch. Five Pokémon peered from the bushes nearby and seemed to be pretty excited. Getting to fight Julia was a rarity and it was always a blue moon moment, so it was enthralling, even if she was a loser.
" Wow!" a Burmy named Petunia exclaimed " A battle!" Her eyes gleamed in innocent awe. "This should be fun! Come on guys! Let's watch!"
Mustering their confidence, a Surskit, Combee, Chatot and a Skorupi came out.
They were really excited and could clap their hands in joy... if they had them.
"Wow! Julia is battling after so long! I must spread the message." The Chatot flew away and in 10 minutes, a modest crowd appeared all ready to witness an epic battle.
Julia panicked on seeing the crowd, lost her confidence and started getting cold feet. Battling someone itself sucked and now having a crowd of 20 Pokémon watching her every move was unnerving.
" Rosa, can we like go somewhere else and do this?" she asked politely. " Come on, Jules! Stop being so self conscious. They're here to cheer you. I mean, it has been six months since you've battled anybody!" Roseanna replied with a sweet smile. " Now come on! Show me what you've got!"
" I have to fight you...?" Julia blurted out, clearly panicking. " Um, yeah. This is a battle!" Roseanna was getting irritated. " What's a battle?" Julia was getting a wee bit paranoid.
Irritated enough already, Roseanna tackled into Julia and screamed " Just do it! You'd promised me this a long time ago, and this time, there's no wiggling out of this one!"
Just how was she to get out of this?...