I panicked as I threw the covers off me,it had been about 15 minutes since I woke up in the pokemon centre,and only one day since I got my first ever pokemon and now I had lost him. "Camolote? Are you here?" I asked in a hushed voice,aware of those sleeping in nearby Aaron was also missing,so I figured finding him might show my where my lotad was.I rushed down the off white corridors,before I heard a long,held out call of a pokemon,obviously part way through some sort of attack.
"Man...tine!"This pokemon in its heavy,deep voice.
Following the source of the sound I say Aaron with his mantine,and my Lotad down at a nearby dirt lotad was by his side,but scurried toward me when it saw me,happily running around me.
"Hey Starky,you up! Finally."Aaron joked
"Its 10 past 8,really not that late Aaron," I said as I checked my pokeguide.
"I woke up at seven so I came out here to train my mantine,sorry but Camalote wanted to join in,sorry for not telling you,wait,I've been meaning to ask,can your check my Mantine with the pokeguide?"
" Sure,wait a second" I pulled out the device to check on the pokemon which was happily gliding around.
"Mantine,the kite swims along freely, eating things that swim into its mouth. Its whole body is very Mantine knows raindance, surf, and wing 's ability is swift swim and it is not holding an item." The pokeguide informed us.
"Thats great,Starky.I Managed to figure out that mantine knew wing attack,but to know raindance and have swift swim,as well as your means that Mantine her can boost our pokemon's speed!" Aaron stratagised
"Yeah,that's cool," I replied "But we really need to watch our for electric attacks,they would devistate mantine,being super effective for both its type"
"Your right,but I'm going to have to rely on speed, or a partner thats good against far as water pokemon go,your lotad will be ok against electric attacks."
"I suppost so,but its still only normal way I think our pokemon choices so far are great,they both have two types,and so will have an advantage of being able to attacks that the other pokemon aren't resistant to."
"Good point,we should always have duel type poemon," The ex-soldier agreed.
Flying round for such a long time had tired the 2 meter long manta pokemon out,and it breavy was heavy and torn.""Man,Man,Man," It puffed as Aaron laugh.
"See this mantine,get a bit carried away,doesn't really think about things," Aaron told me."Mantine I think you should go rest in the lake," Eager to rest the kite of a pokemon flew straight to the large,natural also seemed to want to swim,so it looked up and questioned me to see if it could go.I nodded and told him he could always go to water as long as I could see him.
The mantine splashed and kept throwing a slighly scared lotad into the air,who would always glide to the ground the camalote got bored of being chucked about by the large pokemon and sat at the side of the lake,and munched and somepond weed that mantine had thrown up by and Aaron talk about using the two pokemon in a double battle,how Lotad could protect Mantine from electric attacks and how mantine could carry had established that at the moment,Mantine wass likely to be a lot stronger than Camlote who was still as his first evolution.
"Lo,Lotad" Camalote said in a drawn out,awe-inspired tone.
"What is it Camalote?" I asked,sensing that the Lotad was looking at something interest.
"Lotad,Lotad" The blue pokemon chanted as it scuttled toward a girl around our age,stroking the shell of a shellder.
"Now then shellder,time for your to evolve." She told her pokemon before passing a clear blue stone to the shellder
"Whats she doing?" I asked
"She making her Shellder evolve,giving it a water stone.I think Camalote might be a bit jealous,wanting to become a Ludicolo." Aaron informed me
"Oooh that makes sense" I remarked as a white light surrounded the Shellder and left to reveal Cloyster.
"Hey did you ask to watch my Shellder evolve?No? Then I'm going to punish you in a pokemon battle!"The brown haired girl of about Aaron's age (24) shouted. " Me and Rich here know everything about shelled pokemon,and how great they are"
"Well not really everything Judith" A quiet boy,definitely much younger then her said modestly.
"We do!" Judith insisted " And were going to show them in a double battle!"
"Cloyster,you're up!"The confident young women instructed as her pokemon glided towards
" Go on then clamperl..." Rich said reluctantly
"Well this will be fun" Aaron said before calling running to the lake so mantine could remain in the water for the battle
I followed suit and stood by Lotad who had returned to the edge of the almost perfectly clear lake,that was only obscured by some aquatic plants in the centre.
" Come on then Cloyster,lets use Aurora beam" The shelled pokemon opened up slightly and threw at glowing beam at mantine.
"Mantine,fly upward." Aaron used its wings to easily glided upwards and dodging the attack before happily gliding above the two crustaceans.
" Now Camalote,use nature power on Clamperl" I instructed knowing that being on the grass would produce a grass type attack. The Clamperl was met by seed bomb,but Rich had already told it to use Iron defence and it survived the attack.
"Clamperl,I think you should use whirlpool on that lotad," Rich suggested passively.
"Dodge it lotad" I said,but Lotad wasn't fast enough and soon was caught up in an aquatic whirlwind. "Lotad! No"
"Lo,Lo,Lo,Lo,Lo" Camalote gurgles as it was thrown around in the vortext
In reaction Aaron commanded Mantine immediately " Mantine use wing attack in an opposite motion on the whirlpool, you are then to catch Camalote,understood?"
"Mantine!" The pokemon answered enthusiasticely as it began disapating the whirlpool with its long fins.I couldn't help but notice the military style of Aarons battling,and the way he ordered his pokemon so confidently.
Soon the whirlpool was no longer strong enough to hold Camalote and Mantine swooped down to catch the falling lotad. "Lotad" The pokemon said affectionately as it rubbed its head against the mantine to say thankyou.
"Right then Starky,lets take out that Clamperl, Mantine use Surf"The Mantine happily obeyed
Judith got ready to protect her companions pokemon "Cloyster, lets use supersonic" A high pitched noise was beamed toward the two airborne pokemon,and left leaving the two pokemon wobbling in the air, and mantine lotad had began speaking to the mantine,and appeared to be direct the kite pokemon.
"Lotad,Lotad" Camalote directed as it steered the manta toward clamperl.
"Good work Camalote" Aaron addressed my pokemon " Now order Matine to use wing attack"
I joined in the the assult "Now Camalote,Use bubblebeam on that cloyster" Mantine managed to launch a large attack on the clamperl,but as Camalote was busy it was left without a pilot and crash landed ,straight into the clamperl,leaving them both unable to battle.
Aaron recalled his Mantine with his pokeball. " It's up to you now,Starky"he said.
I went to order and attack but Judith was quicker " Cloyster,aurora beam,keep firing"A flurry of beams were sent toward my lotad as it turn as swerved from side to side as it kept dodging the attacks.
"Great idea Camalote,now head towards the lake and dive underwater." The pokemon took a glancing blow just before he was safely in the water. I had formulated a plan. "Camalote,fire a bubble beam into the air so cloyster can't see you,then hide among those lillypads,"
With a loud call Camalote had managed to obcure cloysters veiw and once the bubbles were popped using supersonic, the lotad was one of many lillypads.A sort of manual double team.
"We'll show them,Get close Cloyster and use clamp on all of them"I saw Rich face palm as he saw the blatant flaw in Judith's cloyster began cutting the lillypads with its shell violently,but there were well over 30 lillypads.
"When Cloysters got his back to you,use absorb full power."
The Cloyster panicked and turn around,scrutinising every saw one that was a darker shade and went for it, luckily for my lotad ,the cloyster was no where near him,and a large rainbow shimmer flooded from cloyster to Camalote,and left and fainted Cloyster floating among a pool of half lillypads.
"Well done,Cloyster" Judith snarked sarcasticly as she return her pokemom. "Well you two are both cheats anyway,dont think I'm paying you any money," She said a she stormed off.
"Sorry about her," apologised Rich, and he handed out huge amount of money to Aaron.
"Well that went well,Starky, Now lets head to the pokemon Mantine took quite a crash landing," Aaron remarks as we headed to back to the Wheelgate pokemon centre.
