Selector: Hey everyone! Here's another chapter I've put together :D
Mack: Things are about to get interesting!
Seth: And I'm going to win that battle!
Dawn: Oh shush up you two
Selector: I do not own Pokemon or its characters
Mack looks out over the battle field confidently. This is where she feels the most at home, a place that is universally the same. Where she can show how strong she can actually be.
Alright, she thinks to herself. She glances across the field to where Seth stands, a single Pokeball already in his hand. A single battle. One on one, no substitutions. Her hand curls around her waist to where her belt of Pokeballs sits on her hip. Her fingers graze across the three spherical surfaces-
THREE?
Her heart jumps at the prospect of having lost three of her most trusted Pokémon but it settled soon after. That's right, she recalls. I left them with Professor Rowan.
"Hey Kennie!" Seth shouts across the field, one hand cupped around his mouth. "Are we going to battle or what?"
"Yea yea hold up!" Mack reaches back and selects a random Pokeball from her belt. Is this Monferno? Or Floatzel?
"Reveal your Pokémon!" She shouts.
"Go Umbreon!"
Seth throws out the Pokeball, letting the dark type eeveelution grace the battle field. It tilts its head back and regards Mack with bright red eyes.
"Let's go!" Mack commands easily, mimicking Seth's movements. The Pokeball opens to reveal the silhouette of her Luxray. "Alright Luxray!"
"Woah a Luxray!" May gasps. "I've never seen one in person!"
"They're very dangerous. Seth better not be too cocky," Paul mutters. Dawn looks to him bashfully and turns back to the match.
"Ladies first," Seth smirks.
Mack purses her lips. "Alright then. Luxray, use Thunder Fang!"
"Luuuuuux!" The gleam eyes Pokémon roars with its mouth opened wide, gathering blue and yellow electricity there before bounding forward to the Umbreon. The dark type sidesteps the lion quickly, making it jump up onto one of the boulders that are scattered around the field to avoid a head-on collision.
"Shadow Ball, Umbreon!" Seth commands.
The Umbreon nimbly and efficiently fires off three blobs of darkness straight at Luxray. The lion barely has time to jump before one hits it in the side. It lands sidewards and slides across the dirt a few meters.
"This can't be all you've got Kennie," Seth teases.
Mack looks to Seth then to his Umbreon. That quick flurry of moves only took a matter of seconds. "Luxray, Double Team then Thunder Fang!"
In front of Mack, Luxray's form shimmers and multiplies into three others, all charging towards the Umbreon with their jaws filled with snapping electricity. Mack watches Seth and his Umbreon with sharp eyes.
"Umbreon, Flash." Umbreon's bright yellow rings glow and a split second later, a blinding light fills the stadium.
Back in the stands, May throws her arms upwards and buries her head into the shoulder next to her. As her eyes adjusted, she sees the black and purple tee in her fingers. Instantly she jerks back upright away from Drew's chest, her face matching her bandanna perfectly and shouts towards the battle: "Go Mack!"
Mack throws her arms up as well and smiles. She barely hears a change in Luxray's dashing footfalls. If anything, he was probably dashing towards the opposing Pokémon even faster. Seth sees it clearly and gasps as the copies of Luxray, completely unaffected, merge into one and deliver a powerful Thunder Fang to Umbreon. The dark type cries as it is lifted up in the Lion's jaws and thrown towards Seth's podium.
"That's it Luxray!" Mack cheers. "Now get up close and use Swagger!"
"Protect!" Seth commands.
Mack grins as the Umbreon's body crackles with electricity, preventing its movement. "Looks like you're paralysed! Go Luxray!"
The Luxray stops in front of Umbreon. A glowing red aura emits from its body as it snaps at Umbreon. The dark type's already red eyes start glowing fiercer as it attempts to regain its footing.
"Shadow Ball, Umbreon!" Seth commands, a new tone adding to his confident voice. Mack singles it out as worry.
The Umbreon powers up a wicked looking Shadow Ball but the eeveelution stumbles to the side and fires it stray, grazing Mack by a hair. Luxray jumps backwards onto a boulder to dodge another. It slams into the rock, shattering it and making the electric type jump higher into the air.
Seth winces. He'd never been in this situation before, paralyzed and confused. However he is battling an opponent of champion status, he must remember that. However, he is also of high status.
He looks to his opponent now. She is looking straight at him. Not a look of curiosity but one full of knowledge and understanding. Almost like she's. . . reading him.
"Come on Seth!" Indie shouts, practically leaning over the railings to his best friend. "I have money on you!"
"Yea, you better pay up pretty soon because this battle looks as good as over," Dawn says slyly, putting out her palm for money.
Indie sweat drops at the usually upbeat girl acting so shady and turns back to the match. "COME ON SETH I HAVE 10 BUCKS ON YOU!"
"Come on Dawn," Misty sighs. "Enough with the gambling."
Back on the field Seth is freaking out. He watches as Luxray continues to dodge the hazardous dark balls of energy on the rocks. Mack sees this too and waits to see what Seth would do.
"Snap out of it Umbreon!" Seth commands. The small dark type totters from side to side, damaging itself by hitting its head in a nearby rock. It's hopeless, he thinks to himself. She still has one more move up her sleeve and it may as well be another egg move. Then it hit him.
The Umbreon snapped out of its confusion, looking around wildly for its opponent. Seth looks around too, the lion had disappeared!
"Doesn't matter," he says. "Use Shadow Ball on the boulders Umbreon!" The dark type starts firing off controlled Shadow Balls at the boulders, completely disintegrating them into dust.
Mack purses her lips. "Luxray, dodge!"
The lion jumps up high into the air just as the boulder it had been hiding behind turns to a pile of rubble.
"Got you!" Seth shouts. "Shadow Ball!"
Mack realizes her mistake too late, Luxray has nowhere to dodge the attack mid air. She's have to counter it.
"Discharge!" She cries. Luxray's fur crackles with electricity a brief second before it explodes outwards, creating a giant star.
"It's so beautiful!" Isobelle gasps to May and Dawn, all three being co-ordinators. The spectators watch as all the energy is brought forward, Luxray controlling the direction of the Discharge.
"That's amazing!" Ash gawks. "It can still control the direction of the electricity even when it has been dispelled from its body!"
"It's not an easy feat, but she's a seriously strong trainer," Misty agrees.
The two attacks collide mid air, sending smoke billowing out over the arena. Seth coughs and tries to locate Umbreon in the dense fog, but it is too thick to see through. Mack on the other hand smiles wickedly. It couldn't be more perfect.
"Luxray, get out of there and use Discharge!"
Luxray jumps up into the air again, firing off a wicked discharge into the smoke. It hits everywhere and everything. The lion lands gracefully as the smoke clears, only to tilt it's head in confusion.
A Wigglytuff stands in front of the injured Umbreon, shielding them both in a protective barrier.
"What?" Mackenzie gasps. "No way! That's cheating!" She glares at Seth. "You cheat!"
"Now calm down newbie," a female voice coos from behind her. Mack turns to a girl with long blond hair and sparkling blue eyes. "I can't have you going around beating up my boyfriend's Pokémon now can I?"
In the stands May, Misty, Dawn and Isobelle all look to each other in unison.
"Who are you?" Mack asks icily from her trainer's platform. From the corner of her eyes she sees May and Misty climb down from the seats.
"I'm Lori, darling. This is my precious Wigglytuff," she motions to the pink fairy-like Pokémon walking over with Seth and his Umbreon.
"Lori, I don't appreciate it when you interrupt my battles like that," Seth says after giving her a peck on the cheek. Mackenzie notices how forced it was.
"It's really rude," Misty agrees with Seth. She and May stand back a step from the conversation. "But we can't blame you, you're always like that anyway."
Mack sniggers at the comment. Lori eyes her like she is a rotten piece of fish. "And what are you laughing at?"
Mack looks to her in confusion. "I was laughing at Misty's comment."
"Well don't," she snaps. "I come here from my own home to find you bashing my boyfriend's Pokémon up with that nasty looking lion of yours-"
"It's a Pokémon BATTLE!" Mack exaggerates. "And Luxray is not nasty. The only nasty thing round here messing up my vision is you!"
"Buuurn!" Indie shouts, the rest of the spectators joining the conflict. Lori shoots Indie a look, shutting him up immediately. "Sorry Lori."
She turns back to the new trainer still up on the platform. "Don't think I won't get you back for that. I own this school. Come on Seth." She turns briskly to a group of girls waiting by the entrance to the stadium with Seth following in tow.
"Seth!" Mack calls out. She thought of how well she liked his name on her tongue. He turns back curiously, so does Lori. Mack smiles. "We will finish this battle later, right?"
Seth smiles back, his Umbreon brushing up against his leg. "Right."
Mack returns Luxray to its Pokeball with some words of praise before jumping off the field. May and Isobelle come up to her immediately with high-fives ready. "Who was that?"
"Seth's girlfriend and continuing May's Grand Tour, the academy's biggest snob," May answers.
"Well we're going to the Ho-Oh Stadium to get ready for that contest next week," Drew says casually. "Any of you want to join?" He quickly glances at May.
"Sure! Dawn and I need to practice that Bubble routine anyway. Isn't that right Dawn?" Isobelle asks the navy haired girl.
Her Piplup jumps out of Dawns arms in agreement, making its way to the contest specific stadium. "I guess that's a yes!" Dawn laughs lightly. "What about you May?"
May shakes her head. "I need to show Mack our dorm first sorry. We may meet you there later."
"I'll go with you and Mack then," Misty says happily from Ash's side.
"Alrighty, let's go!" Dawn announces, marching towards the entrance with Isobelle and the rest of the guys.
"Dawn is such a handful sometimes," Misty sighs. "Anyway I'm Misty but you probably already know that."
"I'm Mack. Your battling was amazing! I heard you're a gym leader too! That's really awesome because I'm-" Mack catches herself. "I'm challenging the Gym Leaders in the Sinnoh Region you see."
"That's awesome," Misty responds, exiting the stadium. "It's good to have another girl who battles instead of co-ordinates." She looks deliberately towards May.
"Hey, it isn't that bad!" May smiles and flicks her hair.
"Whatever you say May," Mack chimes in. May punches her shoulder lightly before she and Misty lead her down another path leading to the right side of the reception building. They enter through a glass door and come to a T-intersection with a long hallway of doors. Mack sees that each door is uniquely decorated with everything from magazine clippings to photos to movie posters. She barely has time to take it all in before she notices Misty and May walking towards a staircase leading to the second floor. Mack catches up quickly to find them already at a half decorated door halfway towards the end of the hallway.
She skids to a stop besides them. On the door are photos of May and the others. Some were taken at the beach and others are grainy shots of contests that were taken in the audience.
"Mack, welcome to the Mayple-Armitage residence!" May says dramatically, unlocking the door and swinging it wide open.
Mack steps into the room. Inside there were two beds, desks, dressers and closets, one on each side. In the middle of the back wall is a window allowing the new trainer to look out to the ocean.
"That's the bathroom," May points to a door to the side of the room. Mack sees cosmetic supplies thrown in a hap- hazard like way to the side of the vanity. "Sorry, I tried to make some room."
"Another reason co-ordinators are a pain in the butt," Misty smiles.
"Anyway," May continues, ignoring Misty's comment. "Your bags are on your bed and Misty and Dawn's room is across the hall."
"What about Isobelle?" Mack asks curiously.
"She's not a boarder. Neither is Indie."
Mack nods and goes towards her bags. "I'm going to start unpacking. I'll meet you guys at the other stadium."
"You don't need any help?" May asks.
"I should be good. Thanks anyways."
Misty nods. "Alright, we'll see you down there."
After the two exit the room, Mack pulls out the pendant from her vest and tosses it onto the bed. She quickly removes her vest and pats down the scorched spot.
"Owowowowowow OW!" She moans as she lifts up her shirt and sees a bright red mark directly under where the pendant had been heating up while she was battling. She puts it back down and curiously picks up the mysterious pendant gifted to her by the Hoenn Champion. It is a smooth round pearl, around the size of a marble embedded in a single ring of diamonds. As Mack holds the now cool pendant up to the light, the diamonds send off small rays of light around the room and the pearl sparkles a pale pink colour. She whistles softly.
Unsure of the heat source, Mack puts the chain back into her vest pocket and puts it back on. She quickly unpacks her bags and exits the room, making her way to the Ho-Oh stadium.
Selector: And there you have it folk-
May: WHY'D YOU MAKE ME CUDDLE DREW?!
Drew: Oh come on, we all know you wanted to, April
May: MY NAME IS MAY!
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