Hope you liked my last chapters, I know things are going slowly, but the real story is right about to start. Also can I just say that this story isn't meant to be really good, just a…creative outlet! I guess you'd call it.
It was lunch only too soon, I visited the pokemon centre before heading to the canteen with my friends, James and Niall were with me to collect their injured pokemon from PE as well. As we made our way through the hallway, pushing our way through hordes of cocky first years, until we saw a group of people from our year, all of them standing around a poster. We gathered around with the rest of them, but James being so tall was the only one who could read it properly.
"What does it say?" I asked him standing on my tiptoes in an attempt to make it over the crowd.
"The school is forming a battle team, they have to compete in a tournament of all the schools in Ireland!" He said.
"Shit, that's a lot!" Said Dortz who had given up on trying to see the poster.
"How do we make the team?" I asked curiously.
"It's a triple battle tournament in the school?" He said sounding confused.
"What's that?" I asked puzzled, Dortz rolled his eyes.
"Think about it, what's a double battle?" He asked.
"A battle with a team of two-oh!" I said suddenly getting it.
"We should be in a team, we'd win easily," Said James, looking away from the poster.
That week we spent every minute we weren't in class, planning strategies for the tournament on Friday, we stood an amazing chance of victory, as long as we kept our pokemon well fed and exercised for the next few days. The rules of the tournament were simple, you could have six pokemon, but only use one each per match. The school had gone all out for the event, they had even rented the huge stadium in Derry, the Brandy well, it was where all the major pokemon battles happened in Derry, which wasn't often. Everyone who wasn't taking part was watching in the stands. Once the day arrived we stood together in the prep room secluded for us.
The first contestants, please make your way onto the field!
"That's us," I said, for the first round we had decided to wing it, none of us really knew who we were up against so at this point their was no real reason to know which pokemon each other would use, this way it was more exciting. We stepped out into the stadium, in front of us was a podium obviously built for three people.
"What do we do?" Asked James, I stepped onto it, I had seen this done in double battles.
"We each select a side of the field, middle, right or left," I stepped up towards the middle, James was on my left Dortz was on my right, "Now put your pokeball in the hole," They followed my instructions.
"Now what? That was pretty pointless," Said Dortz as the team on the other side of the field mimicked our actions.
"It's so that all the pokeballs get sent out at the same time, so if you had a water type out, they couldn't decide to use a grass type." I said as if it were simple, which it was.
"So now wha-" James was cut-off because at that moment everyone's pokeball was launched onto the field, almost simultaneously everyone caught their now empty pokeballs.
Begin!
In front of me was Houndoom, he looked back at us and grinned, next to him was James' Beautifly and Niall's Sandslash. I had never seen James' Beautifly before, he must have caught it when he was on holiday, perhaps he had many more pokemon we didn't know about.
"A Pinsir, a Kadabra and an Azumarril," Said Dortz, I hadn't even been looking at the other team's pokemon, "We all need to stay away from Azumarril, Sandslash dig!"
"I've got Azumarril," Said James, "Beautifly use sunny day!"
"Houndoom use Dark pulse on Kadabra!" Houndoom instantly followed my command, he sprinted forward and let out an extremely loud howl, and from his mouth he produced a darkness which rippled through the air towards Kadabra.
"Pinsir attack Houndoom with Guillotine now!" Yelled a boy from the other side of the field, the pinsir charged at Houndoom, just as Kadabra was knocked back by the dark pulse, but as soon as pinsir was within striking distance of Houndoom Sandslash burst out of the ground underneath him, knocking pinsir back, it wasn't as super effective as Houndoom's dark attack was on Kadabra, but it was still strong enough to leave pinsir unbalanced and he fell backwards. Kadabra pulled himself to his feet slowly, the attack had done a great deal against him.
"Now. Sandslash us slash on Kadabra, finish him off!" As Niall bellowed out the order Sandslash glanced back at him to confirm he understood, he then dropped down on all fours and scrambled towards Kadabra, who only realised what was happening too late.
"Kadabra use-" But his owner was too late as Sandslash delivered a devastating blow, knocking Kadabra back to his pokeball as his trainer returned him.
"Azumarril use surf!" Shouted Azumarril's owner.
"Crap!" Yelled Niall, me and James shared his anxiety, this was the worst thing that could have happened, Azumarril was a threat to all of us, but her attack would take us all out.
"Now Beautifly" James yelled sounding unconcerned, "Use solar beam!"
As Azumarril rose up on a wave which towered over Houndoom and Sandslash who were on our opponents side of the field, closest to Azumarril and pinsir, but Beautifly was on the other side of the field blasting out a powerful green blast of energy, but instead of hitting Azumarril it was headed straight for Pinsir.
"What are you doing?" I yelled at James.
"Pinsir will be hurt by the surf as well, I'm just making sure that he definitely get's knocked out, then Beautifly will avoid the attack and use another solar beam on Azumarril," He said very quickly and calmly.
"You could've saved Sandslash and Houndoom!" Remarked Niall obviously as annoyed as I was.
"Your pokemon can't do squat against a water type this way- Beautifly dodge!" The wave crashed down, we returned our pokemon as the water filtered out of the arena, "Now use solar beam and wipe out Azumarril,"
As James had commanded, Beautifly took out Azumarril with only one shot.
The match is over the winners are Kloud, James and Niall! The crowd cheered loudly, but I just turned to James as Beautifly perched on his shoulder.
"What the hell? I thought we were a team!" I yelled at him as we were moved away to our prep room, "You idiot!"
"I just saw a better strategy I guess," Stammered James unable to come up with a real reason.
"You better stick to the strategy next time," Niall sighed deeply, all the anger had been drained out of us, we just smiled at James.
"Still," I smiled, " We won,"