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The Dregga Region Adventure: Chapter 2
The Lazy Boy and the Popilu City Gang!
Last time on the dregga region adventure, Ryan tried and failed to escape from obtaining his first pokemon and beginning his journey. He received a cyndaquil who he nicknames Eruption and he battled and defeated Jack after gaining his very own pokemon egg.
"Urgh! I'm tired!" Ryan groaned as he walked on the path between Popilu town and Popilu city. The path wasn't really long and there wasn't really anything much to be seen either. It was just a road that connected the suburb to the city. Ryan had been to popilu city multiple times in the past but this was the first time he would be passing through it while the sun was setting. The lazy boy had wasted most of his time trying not to start his journey that the sun had already begun to set.
Within five minutes or Ryan's crawl of a walk he had now made it into the city. He looked around and his jaw dropped. "Did the city really look like this during night fall?" Ryan thought as he looked around. The buildings which were usually clean and spotless in the morning were now covered in graffiti and it seemed like the entire city had become more like a ghost town. "What in the world is going on here? This doesn't make any sense." He thought as he began to venture into the city. He decided that taking the main road might be the safest route through the city. The place looked like a dump. Trash cans were thrown down and wild rattata and meowth were searching through them for food. It was a disgusting site for Ryan.
He stopped and looked around him suddenly remembering that his cyndaquil, Eruption was walking next to him. The fire type looked up to its trainer and smiled. This caused Ryan to feel a bit better but that feeling didn't last very long. Ryan closed his eyes and began to listen. He could hear footsteps approaching but he couldn't tell from which direction.
"Okay, who is there?" Ryan said cautiously. He was known for getting himself into trouble with his lazy antics but never like this. It wasn't long before a man came out of an alley dressed in all black and wearing a cape with the letters PG on it.
"Hehe, hello there little boy?" The man said in what was a startling deep voice. Ryan looked at the man with a strange look and stepped back. The man stepped forward though so the distance between them remained the same.
"Who are you?" Ryan asked his cyndaquil, Eruption, who was now preparing to stand and protect its trainer began to step forward.
"Haha, me? Well I'm just a guy who loves children oh so much." The man said his voice getting creepier and more devious, however Ryan began to chuckle. Eruption looked up at its trainer confused.
"So in other words you're a paedophile?" Ryan said with a smirk. His smart mouth had once again gotten the better of him. The man stood there in shock. "Did this kid really just accuse me of being a paedophile?" The shock soon began to turn to anger.
"Why you obnoxious little brat, give me all your money or else!" The man said now shouting in his deep and angry voice.
"But I'm dirt poor?" Ryan said slyly.
"That's it kid I'm done playing games with you!" The Man said as he rushed towards Ryan, however this was exactly what he was hoping for. Ryan quickly swiped the man's feet using his right leg causing the man to fall face first into the solid concrete road.
"My mom told me not to play with paedophiles." Ryan said with a smirk before he quickly took up Eruption and began to run. He knew he didn't want to see that man again but the road was straight and long and the man wouldn't be down for very long. He quickly dashed into the nearest ally he saw and began hiding behind the dumpster.
"Grrrr!" came from something behind Ryan. The boy looked around and saw a houndour right behind him glaring at him. "You've got to be kidding me." Ryan said as he quickly ran from behind them dumpster straight into the road where the man was now standing in front of him. Below the man was a rat pokemon with purple fur on the top of it and cream coloured fur on the bottom. It had two large fangs in the front much like a kid with buckteeth. Its tail was long and curled up.
"Rattata!" It said as it walked closer to Ryan. Eruption quickly leaped out of its trainer's hand and ignited the flames on its back. "Cynda!" It said.
"You will pay for assaulting a member of the great Popilu city gang!" The man said. Ryan could tell that he was still angry. The look in this man's eyes was murderous. "Rattata, show him no mercy use tackle attack!" The man commanded as his rat pokemon began charging at Ryan.
"Eruption, quickly stop it with your ember attack!" Ryan commanded as eruption inhaled and blasted fire pellets straight towards the charging rattata. The fire pellets connected and began pelting the rattata. It immediately stopped charging and closed its eyes the pellets began pushing the rat back and then finally they caused it to be blasted back rolling towards its trainer. "This guy's pokemon is weak, wait a minute I just injured it he won't be able to keep up with me now. This is my chance to ditch this guy." Ryan thought. "Eruption use smokescreen!" The Cyndaquil inhaled once more and let out a thick black cloud of smoke from its mouth. Ryan quickly grabbed Eruption and ran. This was not the Popilu city he used to visit for carnivals or for shopping trips. It was a much more dangerous an evil place to him.
He continued running straight along the main road. He didn't want to know if another houndour was waiting for him to try to hide again. He then stopped for a second. "Houndour's are usually very territorial creatures. So why didn't it continue to give chase after I jumped out? Something just isn't right in this city."
"Spearow! Spearow!" came a cry from above Ryan. He looked up into the sky to see a spearow circling above him. The tiny bird pokemon then charged down towards Ryan and Eruption. Ryan quickly ducked which caused the bird to miss. However the spearow clearly wasn't done. It turned around and landed right in front of Ryan. Ryan then looked behind him to see another man in the same get up as the last with another rattata next to him.
"So child, you think you can run from the Popilu city gang? We own this city and no one leaves without paying the fine for trespassing." The man said. It was clear both the spearow and rattata was his and at this rate the other guy who he left behind would also come to join the fray. He knew he had a much better chance in a 2 on 1 battle than a 3 on 1. "There has to be a way to escape this. Smokescreen is a no go spearow's keen eye ability would allow it to get me easily."
"I'm not giving you anymore time spearow peck attack, rattata tackle attack!" The man commanded as both pokemon began charging straight towards Eruption and Ryan. Ryan couldn't help but laugh a bit. He couldn't believe what the man had just done. He waited for the right moment and quickly jumped to the side and rolled up against the wall. Both the spearow and the rattata clashed together pushing each other back. The rattata had clearly taken more damage which meant it was the weaker of the two. Both Pokemon began to glare at each other and went face to face. "Fight the enemy not each other!" The gang member screamed. Ryan pointed his finger towards the two pokemon who were now fighting.
"Eruption use Ember!" The fire mouse pokemon leaped forward reigniting the flames on its back and blasting fire pellets towards the two pokemon. They didn't even get a chance to move before they both began to be pelted by the blast. "Keep it up Eruption; make sure you give it all you've got!" Ryan commanded as the fire pellets continued to blast the two pokemon.
"Rattata!" the rat pokemon cried out as it was blasted back into the wall knocked out. The spearow however held up but was starting to breath heavily.
"You'll pay for that!" The gang member said as he returned his rattata to its pokeball. Cyndaquil's flames once again went back down.
"Rattata!" said another rat one which looked really tired as it charged towards eruption from the side tackling the cyndaquil sending it sliding across the ground. The first gang member had finally caught up to Ryan. Ryan quickly took off sprinting and quickly grabbed his cyndaquil running further down the dark streets of Popilu City. The sun had now completely set and the only light available was from the many streetlights which lined the road.
Ryan didn't know how many more gang members there were but he knew he had to find his way to the pokemon centre or out of this city and fast. He looked behind him to see the second gang member was chasing him and gaining on him. The first one and his rattata were still struggling to keep up. He knew he was getting himself into a lot of trouble now. "I should have just given them the money!" He said before turning around and preparing to face the man and his spearow. The man's spearow leaped forward at an incredible speed. Eruption also leaped out of Ryan's hands and charged the bird Pokemon head on using its tackle attack and both pokemon collided. Spearow was sent rolling back and into a daze while cyndaquil had just been pushed back a little.
"Quickly Eruption, ignite your flames and use ember!" Ryan commanded.
"Quil!" Eruption said as it ignited the flames and inhaled preparing to blast the ember attack at the dazed spearow to finish it off.
"Koffing, tackle attack now!" said another man who had just appeared from a nearby ally. His koffing quickly tackled the unsuspecting cyndaquil sending him flying into a nearby garbage can.
"Eruption!" Ryan called out as he ran towards his cyndaquil. The Gangsters knew the city better than him and this was the second time he had been sneak attacked. If this kept up there was no way he would be able to make it to the pokemon centre on the other side of the city.
"Quil!" Eruption screamed as it reignited the flames on its back. Ryan smirked. Eruption was breathing slightly but he was still in prime form and he looked ready for revenge.
"Ember!" Ryan commanded as eruption blasted the fire pellets.
"Koffing dodge!" The man said but he quickly realised where the fire pellets were headed. "Tackle that cyndaquil quickly!" He commanded as the koffing began charging at Eruption however he was too late. The spearow had already been blasted by the ember and taken out. The second gangster hung his head and fled the scene.
"Quick attack dodge!" Ryan said as Eruption quickly used his quick attack to evade the charging koffing which caused it to ram into the wall.
"Quick attack!" The original gang member who had just caught up said as his weakened rattata charged into the scene.
"Ember!" Ryan commanded as the rattata charged head first into the fiery blast. The rattata fell down defeated. The first two gang members had been taken out but it seemed like they wouldn't give up. "These guys keep coming there's probably an ambush up ahead but I need to keep moving and that koffing is by far stronger than the other pokemon they've used." It was then that the idea came to him.
"Smokescreen!" He commanded to his fire mouse pokemon which once again covered the area in a blanket of smoke. With the spearow's keen eye ability out of the way he once again sprinted over to Eruption and made a run for the other side of town. For a guy like Ryan who would rather stay at home, watch television and eat he certainly knew how to stay fit.
"Run all you want kid my koffing and I won't ever lose you!" The gang member and his koffing then began to give chase to Ryan. He knew that the man was stronger and that I would be troubling for him if he couldn't escape. It was then that he spotted something even worse up ahead. Another man in the same get up as before, another gang member. Ryan stopped and put down eruption. He was trapped. The man with the koffing had caught up and was ready to fight while the other man pulled out two pokeballs and called out his own koffing and ekans.
Koffing was of course a limbless purple ball filled to the brink with toxic gas which was always let out through one of the many holes on its body. He also had a skull and cross bones on his body below its blissful face. Ekans on the other hand was a purple rattle snake. His rattle was yellow along with the ring around its neck and its underbelly.
"Luigi, I think it's time we teach this kid a lesson." The new gangster said to the one who had chased Ryan.
"Agreed Mario." Luigi said as his koffing began hovering nearer to cyndaquil. "If this was a different situation I would be laughing at their names not worried." Ryan thought to himself. He was now in a 3 on 1 situation which meant he would have to think fast if he truly wanted to escape.
"Quick attack!" He commanded as Eruption charged Luigi's koffing pushing it back slightly.
"Poison sting!" Mario commanded as the ekans blasted poisonous white needle like blast at Eruption.
"Use ember to combat it!" Ryan commanded as Eruption quickly turned around and used its ember which began to burn through the attack.
"Koffing now is our chance tackle attack!" Luigi commanded as the koffing rammed into the back of the cyndaquil sending it flying to the floor.
"Ekans wrap it!" Mario commanded as his ekans used the opportunity to slither over to Eruption and coil around him. The ekans then began to squeeze the poor cyndaquil whose fire had already gone out. "Perfect koffing, get ready to administer the poison gas!" Mario said to his koffing which had been staying out of the battle. The Purple gas pokemon hovered over to the cyndaquil and inhaled.
"Eruption, fight it and ignite your flames!" Ryan commanded as his cyndaquil smiled at its trainer. It then braced its self before screaming "Quil!" to ignite its flames which burnt the ekans causing it to release the hold. The Koffing used its poison gas but Eruption had quickly retreated back to its trainer. He was breathing off a bit more heavily now. The battle was beginning to take its toll on the fire type.
"You got lucky kid but next time we won't fail." Both of the gangsters said in unison. It felt as if they were long lost brothers even though Ryan couldn't bring himself to say anything about it at this time. He was in a real sticky situation and needed to find a way to get out and fast. Eruption was a tough pokemon but it was just his first day as a Pokemon trainer and he had already faced a water type and now a bunch of gangsters. It wasn't looking good.
"Smokescreen!" Ryan said as the cyndaquil covered the field in smoke. "Now unleash your ember!" Ryan commanded as the cyndaquil began blasting fire pellets rapidly at full strength.
"Koffing!" one of the koffings cried out as it began to get hit by the barrage. The other koffing and the ekans searched for Eruption but the clever cyndaquil kept moving and blasting from another direction and area.
"Koffing hold on!" Both trainers cried out not knowing which one of their koffings had been blasted. The smoke cleared. Mario's Koffing had looked like it had been cooked.
"Koffing." The poison type said weakly as it fell to the ground defeated. It was now down to a 2 on 1 battle. Eruption was now breathing off heavily now. It seemed like the ember attack had truly taken a number on it.
"Ekans, let us get revenge!" Mario shouted as his Ekans slithered closer to Eruption. Luigi's koffing also ran closed in on the other side. "I've got it! My next move is going to be awesome!" Ryan thought as a smirk appeared on his face.
"Quick attack now!" Ryan shouted as his cyndaquil rammed into the koffi and pointed its mouth in other direction. "Use ember!" The cyndaquil flames burned hotter on the koffing as it blasted its ember towards the ekans which was then hit by the attack and fell back a bit.
"Ekans return fire with poison sting!" Mario commanded. Ryan smirked.
"Move out of the way now!" He said as his cyndaquil quickly evaded the poisonous needle attack which continued flying straight into the koffing.
"Koffing smog attack!" Luigi commanded as koffing blasted toxic gas towards cyndaquil which the fire type inhaled causing it to fall back a bit.
"Now ekans poison sting!" Mario commanded quickly following up on Luigi's assault. The ekans blasted cyndaquil sending it flying near to an ally way. However, Eruption was resilient. The fire type immediately stood up and reignited its flames.
"That's the way eruption now let them have it Ember!" Ryan commanded as his fire type unleashed the largest ember the fire pokemon had ever done and caught both the ekans and the koffing within the attack. Both of the pokemon tried their best to escape but they were ultimately defeated. The fire on cyndaquils back died down and the two gangsters grabbed their pokemon and ran. Ryan ran over to Eruption and picked him up like a baby. He had been through a lot and was really tired now. Ryan began walking in the direction of the pokemon centre. His Pokemon was weak and he knew that the other four members had spoken about their boss. This could only mean that he had one more battle to go through.
After walking for about five minutes the pokemon centre came into view, however he also saw that half way between himself and the centre was a man. His face looked serious. Ryan looked at Eruption whose face was also serious. The final battle against the Popilu city gang was about to begin. As he approached he saw the two first gang members blocking the two side alleys and the other two were blocking the back. He was boxed in.
"Hello there, my name is Ian. I am the leader of the Popilu city gang and I've heard all about how you had my gang chase you all around the city. Are you sure you don't just want to give me all your money now and quit while you're ahead?" Ian the tall muscular brown haired gang leader said.
"Why would I surrender to the likes of you? After facing your cronies and kicking each and every last one of their butts do you really think me or Eruption would just give up?" Ryan said his face as serious as it could ever be. He placed eruption on the ground and the fire type looked up waiting to see what pokemon it would be facing in battle. The five minute walk had given it a little time to recover but even Ryan wasn't sure if that was enough.
Ian smirked. "Good, I like a challenge!" The gang leader than stuck his hand behind his back and grabbed a pokeball he threw it up in the ear and the ball opened up releasing a white light which slowly took the form of an ekans. However unlike the gang member pokemon this one looked much stronger. "Let's see if you have what it takes to defeat me!" Ian shouted as his ekans bellowed its name.
"It's time we end this Eruption be on your guard." Ryan instructed his cyndaquil which nodded. About a minute passed and both Ryan and Ian had not issued a command. Both were feeling the other out. In Ryan's case, his pokemon was tired and if he charged in he might lose the battle in an instant and in Ian's case if he attacked to recklessly he might lose his edge in this battle.
"What's taking you so long little boy, cat got your tongue?" The Gang leader taunted.
"Oh no, I was just intimidated by your scary pokemon." Ryan said sarcastically. Both trainers glared at each other. They could feel it approaching. It was truly time to begin.
"Ekans use poison sting!" Ian commanded as Ryan also issued his command.
"Ember!" Both pokemon released their attacks at the same time and both moves began to clash. At first it seemed like the moved were evenly mashed and that no pokemon had the advantage, but then Ian began to smirk.
"Your cyndaquil is strong I'll give it that but it is far too tired to win against my ekans!" Ian boasted as the poison sting began to overpower the ember attack. Ryan knew what Ian was saying was true but he had to win. He just couldn't give up on Eruption.
"Eruption, abandon the ember and dodge with quick attack!" Ryan commanded as Eruption quickly stopped firing the pellets and jumped to the side using quick attack.
"Bite attack!" Ian commanded as the ekans quickly charged the cyndaquil and stuck its fags into the small pokemon.
"Cynda!" The fire type cried out in pain. It stood on its two feet and used its front feet as arms trying to get the poison type to unlatch itself.
"Eruption, ember now!" Ryan commanded as the fire type blasted the fire pellets directly to the side of the ekans face which caused it to let go and retreat a bit. Ian began to chuckle. His ekans had shaken off the ember as if it was nothing however Eruption looked as if he was ready to fall over.
"Why don't you give up kid, this battle is over." Ian said in a serious tone of voice.
"No way, not until your ekans goes down! Eruption, use quick attack!" Ryan commanded as his Cyndaquil quickly charged towards the ekans moving side to side to make itself more difficult to hit.
"You should have just given up kid, lets end this ekans, use venoshock!" Ian commanded as a poisonous ball of energy formed within ekans mouth. Ekans kept track of Eruption and released the poisonous energy known as venoshock. Eruption was hit dead on sent flying straight into the wall. "Game over kid." Ian said cockily however Ryan ignored him and ran to his cyndaquils side.
"Eruption are you okay? Say something!" Ryan said as he looked over his cyndaquil tears forming in his eyes. He hated to see things get hurt, whether it was a person, a pokemon or even a plant.
"Quil!" Eruption said as it slowly rose up and wiped a tear from Ryan's eyes. Ryan looked down surprised. The Cyndaquil smiled as a red aura soon came over it. The fire on its back reignited and burned hotter than ever. It was Eruptions, ability Blaze kicking in. Ryan slowly got up from his kneeling position and stared straight into Ian's Face.
He pointed at the gang leader "This battle isn't over yet!" and with those words Eruption jumped up and stood in front of its trainer once more.
"It doesn't matter how many times you get up this battle is already over, venoshock!" Ian commanded as his ekans once again blasted the poisonous energy at Eruption.
"Quick attack!" Ryan said as Eruption jumped to the side and charged in fast ramming the ekans sending it back.
"Poison sting!" Ian said his voice beginning to sound a little worried.
"Ember!" Ryan countered as the ekans unleashed the poisonous needle like blast towards Eruption who shot the fire pellets which now under the power of blaze looked more like lava pellets as they easily broke through the poison sting and began scorching the skin of the ekans. The ekans stood up slowly and began to pant heavily. Ian began to sweat, how could the battle be going in Ryan's favour now he wondered.
"Eruption, give it all you've got in this one Ember!" Ryan called as Eruptions flames grew even larger as the Fire type once again spat the "lava" pellets towards the ekans.
"Full power venoshock!" Ian said as Ekans countered with the poisonous shock wave. The attacks clashed for a while and it seemed that both moves were even that was until Ryan began to chuckle.
"What's so funny kid!" Ian said angrily.
"Oh nothing, it's just that this time you're on the other end." Ryan said calmly as the ember then blasted through the venoshock and hit ekans sending the poison type into the wall. It fell down knocked out.
"Blast it!" Ian cursed as he returned his ekans "I underestimated you and lost, good work kid." Ian said as he picked out a CD out of his robe and threw it towards Ryan. Ryan quickly caught it and saw that it was a TM, but not just any TM it was the one for venoshock. Ryan looked up to confused and saw that the entire gang had already cleared out. He then stuck the TM in his bad and petted his Cyndaquil.
"Good battling out there Eruption." Ryan said to the fire mouse pokemon as he entered the Pokemon centre.
To Be Continued…..
Author's Note: Well this is chapter 2 of the Dregga region adventure and for those of you interested in joining the RP don't worry the gangsters don't fight like that. They are part of the tutorial demonstrating the difference between RPG style and Roleplay styled battles.
Randon Dregga Region 2.0 RP Hub Fact: The Pokemon legend is the only category that isn't truly a trainer type as it adopts one of the other trainer type journeys depending on what the trainer wishes to be.
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