Phaenomena
Chapter 2- The Art of Battling
Hermione
Hermione had never been one for interacting with others. While she wanted attention of others she was afraid to be rejected, which left her in limbo when she started living with Kagami and the others. She didn't interact with the others and instead retreated into her books. She would always remember how lonely and scared she was, until that fateful trip to Saffron city that one summer.
She had been bored the whole trip, as she was not allowed to bring any books with her. They were visiting the Saffron city gym leader when Hermione had gotten separated from everyone. She wondered, trying to find her way back to Kagami when she had come across a small gym. She entered the gym. The sight of the men confused the young girl.
The men were all dressed in white robe like outfits with different color belts. They were going thru a series of motions like they were dancing rather roughly with these weird human looking Pokemon. Most of them looked brown with a spiky head and looked as if they were wearing purple clothing with boxing gloves. However the man leading them had a similar, but different Pokemon. The Pokemon was brown and smooth with no nose or mouth and had long arms and legs.
She was so amazed by the men and their pokemon, she didn't notice the old man that was watching over the group. "Oh Oh little missy this isn't a place for young girls."
She let the little missy comment slide, she had been taught to respect her elders. "What book did they learn that from."
The old man stroked his beard and laughed he sat Hermione down. "Little missy, that is called martial arts, and while you may be able read about it, to truly learn martial arts like they do, you must experience it."
"I don't believe you, you can learn anything from a book." Hermione simply discredit the old man. He smiled at the young girl and patted her head.
"True there are many thing you can learn from a book, but look at the men and Pokemon here what do you see?"
The men had finish their practice and were now laughing and talking with one another, while some were talking care of their Pokemon. There was something their that Hermione had never experience. There was warmth and closeness, the type of closeness she had wanted from her parents but never received, the type of closeness she desperately wanted with Kagami and the others.
"This is the bond between people and Pokemon, you can not learn this from book, you have to live and experience this for yourself, it is true that life is never an easy journey, but that is proof you are alive and that you one day will be able to get back up and try again."
she had been impressed so much by that old man and that dojo, that she had asked Kagami the moment that she had gotten home (despite the very harsh scolding she got from both Hagrid and Kagami) to join the local dojo. That was the start of Hermione slowing coming out of her shell. With continued trips to the dojo, she had gain self confidence, and did not feel the need to boast and brag about her superior knowledge, but the major turn around was with her new family, she became more interactive with her family, This had led her to what her dream was, to become a Pokemon professor, that dealt with power level and training of Pokemon.
Which was now influencing her decision on what Pokemon she wanted. Hermione, unlike the rest of her siblings consider herself to be a type-specialist, a Pokemon train who only dealt with one type of Pokemon. She knew the risk of being a fighting-type specialist as she had two weakness, to flying Pokemon and psychic Pokemon but she was sure with the training she would give her Pokemon, they would be able overcome those weakness.
That and she knew the Pokemon she was looking for would be scarce, as they tended to stay close to urban areas, and was known to be domesticated. So as everyone started to head deeper into the forest, Hermione stood near the entrance. After two hours of searching, she finally found what she was looking for, the pokemon Tyrouge.
She knew Tyrouge were extremely loyal but eager Pokemon, she really didn't want to have to fight it, so she crept down and crawled towards the distracted Pokemon, making sure to stay out of sight. When she was close enough she threw a rock at its head. Now normally this wouldn't faze Tyrouge but Hermione was closing in on her black belt soon, she threw the rock with all her might thus knocking the poor Pokemon out before he knew what hit him. Hermione chucked a Pokeball at the unconscious Tyrouge and it transformed into a beam of red light disappearing into the Pokeball. She crossed her fingers as the ball rocked back and forth before it stopped with a click.
Hermione had picked up her pokeball and let her newly caught pokemon out. It was as she tought it was not pleased with how it was captured. It didn't try to attack her but it did give her a mean glare. That could be a serious problem for her if she didn't fix this now. She knelt to her pokemon.
"I'm sorry that I used such a cheap trick to catch you, but your my partner now and we need to work together, and if you work with me you get to fight strong pokemon."
It's face lit up when she meation strong pokemon taking that as a sign it had forgave her she got up and held out her hand to him.
"My name is Hermione and I'm your Partner."
When they exited the forest, she was a little disappointed to see that Blaise had beaten her. Beside him was a human like Pokemon that looked like a cross between a knight and a bandit that was made of steel. "Yo, meet Gambi." he pointed to the odd looking Pokemon.
"Gambi? As in Vincent Gambi?" she met his happy gaze with question.
"Yeah, why not, Pawniard and it's evolved form Bisharp are known for acting like bandits so I thought why not name him after a cool pirate like Gambi?" Hermione just shook her head, before looking over the Pokemon again.
"Where in the world did you find a Pawniard?"
Blaise looked as if he was remembering something unpleasant. "It's a long story, one that I don't wish to revisit anytime soon, but enough about my adventures, that guy there you partner?" Blasie pointed at her new friend. "Yup, this is Chulainn." her brother looked at her with the most unbelievable look.
"And you had the nerve to ask me about my naming choice?" Hermione did the most mature thing and stuck her tongue out at her brother.
Humming and singing gain the duo's attention as Susan came out of the forest with a Vulpix on her heels, that looked every bit as happy go luck as it's new trainer.
"Heeeyyyy, have you guys seen Harry yet?" she asked as she finally caught up to her other siblings.
"No, but the majority of the class is still in the forest." their mother's voice came from behind them.
"You three back to the castle and prepare for the rest of your class for tomorrow." Hermione and the others started to protest, they had wanted to wait for Harry so that they could show him their Pokemon But there mother shook her head.
"I know you want to wait for Harry, but it might be awhile before he come out, and you know I do not condone slacking of any kind, if it's not late when Harry comes out then you can see him."
The three sighed and did as they were told. Hermione had caught up with Su Li and her newly caught Litwick. They along with Dean Thomas from Gryffindor who had a Piplupcompared Pokemon during dinner, but there still was no sign of Harry.
An hour after the feast, their mother came and got them. She explained that Harry had been attacked by a raging Nidoking. They rushed to the hospital wing, just see a slightly bandaged Harry, with an overly affectionate Dratini. Susan, was the first to react by hugging the life out of Harry. After a few "he's can't breathe like that Susan," and a more than a few hiss from his Dratini, Susan finally let Harry go.
"Only with your luck Harry, would you find not only a Nidoking, but an Dratini." Hermione simply shook her head and Harry smiled sheepishly and everyone laughed.
"Okay, we have to introduce our partners, me first this is Sol." Susan pick up her Vulpix happily showing it off to her brother, her Vulpix looked just as happy to be shown off.
"This guy's Gambi." Blasie pointed to the quiet Pokemon in the corner of the room. Hermoine saw Harry confusion.
"It's a Pawniard, they are native to Unova that's why you've never seen one."
Hermione was last, she brought Chulainn close to her Harry, "This is my new friend Chulainn. Harry nodded as he stroked the head of Dratini as it found it's way around his neck. "This is Circe."
"Alright, Alright, everyone I need you to escort your brother to his dorm room, I don't trust him to get there without an accident."
Kagami joked and Harry rolled his eyes. "Great, one incident and they never let you forget." Susan had grabbed Harry's arm and they walked back to the Gryffindor dorms.
Hermione sighed, things were going to get really lively around here, now that everyone had their pokemon.
"Now that you have your Pokemon, let me explain something to all of you, Pokemon are dangerous. Deaths are not uncommon in Pokemon battles, though they are less common in Pokemon Contest."
"It was the second week of class, this time they were in a medium size classroom. Their mother was giving a lecture this time. Everyone had their Pokemon side by side with them. Kagami had forbiden them to battle, telling them that they had to learn to take care of their pokemon before exposing them to battles.
"It is up to the trainer to know when their Pokemon have had enough in battle, those who know that Their Pokemon have had enough and continue to put their partner through battle is guilty of abuse and will have their trainer cards taken away, first years are only allowed to battle other first years and at towards the end of the year, all the first years will take part in the minor carnival, but that is still a long way away."
"Pokemon are our friends and partners, not tools, and now that you have your own Pokemon it is time to learn how to take care of them
She walked to the front of the class and wrote several words on the board.
"Status ailment are a series of aliments that effects a Pokemon ability to battles. There are two types Non-Volatile and Volatile, we will go over Non-volatile today."
"Burn, Freeze, Paralysis, Poison, Sleep are the five Non-volatile status aliments, they are also the most common that can happen to your Pokemon in battle."
Her mother scanned the crowd of students before picking on a Hufflepuff that was busy passing notes rather than paying attention.
"Since Miss Abbott is paying so much attention to me, can you tell me what does a Burn do to your Pokemon?"
The blonde girl's face tinged pink as she thought about the answer. "Ummm..."
Kagami sighed disappointingly. "five points from Hufflepuff, maybe instead of passing notes in my class, pay attention you might learn something, okay how about..."
She scan the crowd again, Hermione didn't raise her hand though she knew the answer. Her mother knew she knew the answer, she wanted to give the others who didn't know a chance to learn. Her mother's eyes landed on the dark skin boy that was sitting behind her.
"Mr. Thomas can you tell me how does a Burn Status effect affect your Pokemon in battle?" the boy had been drawing in a notebook, but didn't look put out like Abbott did earlier.
"A burn is a non-volatile that inflicts continuing fire damage to your Pokemon even if the Pokemon has been called back to it's Pokeball, you can treat a burn with a burn heal or a Rawst berry."
"Ten points to Gryffindor, now for home work you are to write a short essay on one of the Non-volatile status effects, Make that a long essay let's say about four feet for you Miss Brown, since you have so much to talk about."
The resident gossip queen of Gryffindor had shut her mouth quickly and Kagami finished and released the children to their next class. On her way out of the classroom she was met by Malfoy.
"Alright Mudblood time to teach you a lesson, we battle right now!" He had called forth his Elekid. As hermione looked over the yellow baby pokemon she noticed that it's yellow color was brighter than usual. Her assessment was cut short when Chulainn stepped forward ready and eager for battle. Hermione had glanced at her mother, Kagami just shurgged her shoulder."first years can battle first years." was all she said.
Hermione had sighed, this wasn't going to be good, not at all. She wanted to wait awhile, and then battle some people. Now she was out it the open, and this battle could make or break her reputation.
"Alright since you called this battle you can go first." Hermione used this time to continued her assessment of the pokemon judging by it coat it was a shiny telling by it's muscle tone it was low level, it seem that Malfoy did take the time to even try to train his pokemon. She sighed once again this wasn't going to good.
"Elekid use Swift," a volley of star erupted from the small pokemon's hands, aimed towards Chulainn.
Without needing his trainer command Chulainn dodge the attack. "Chulainn use work up." Tyrogue started to glow orange, it also started to get really excited.
"Wait, keep your eye on him." Chulainn did as it was told and didn't move, but followed Elekid every movement with it's eyes.
"if your just going to stand there I'm going to finish this now, Elekid use thundershock!" Elekid started to build up energy, then relased it towards Chulainn.
"Now Fake him out and use tackle!" Before the attack him him Chulainn disappeared, the attack missing him all together. Before Malfoy could register, Chulainn was in front of Elekid tackling him into unconsciousness.
"It looks like Elekid is unable to battle, Chulainn is the winner, Winner of this Battle Hermione."
While some were laughing at Malfoy very short battle, most were congratulating Hermione her first win.
Hermione looked at Malfoy as he recalled his Elekid, one look at his enraged face, and Hermione sighed again, now she was a target for his petty vendetta. But she had to say she was proud of Chulainn, it had taken all her spending money to get the T.M. For work up, but she was glad she did.
Yup things are going to get lively around here, and fast."
Dear readers
we end this chapter with Hermione winning her first pokemon battle, and also the first pokemon battle of the story, so how was it give me some hints if you think I could do better
Love ReiaJade.
