Authors note: I am soooo sorry it took this long to post this, I had lots of tests and HW and traveling and school and more HW, it was a mess, but here it is, the next chapter in the book.

It was my first battle. All my life I had been waiting for a moment like this. I had strived in my 5 years in trainer's school so I could become a master quickly. But all that didn't seem to matter now. Everything just came, naturally.

My Cyndiquil looked at me, I nodded, telling him that we were ready. I had the type advantage, so I knew this would be a piece of a poffin (Like my Pokemon reference? X3).

"James, you get the first move." I didn't want to make it to easy on myself. I felt like my first battle should have some challenge in it.

My friend commanded something to his Ikey, and it leapt towards us. He smirked; he had some trick up his sleeve.

"Use Icebeam!" James commanded. I could tell he was excited.

"Deflect it with Flamethrower!" I shouted.

James' Ikey was already in the air, pulling back its head to unleash it attack. Cyndiquil was charging up, he had shown me what he could do against those Pidgeys, I knew he could take out a mutated Eevee.

The Ikey The shouted, and released a white and blue beam that zig-zaged in the air. Cyndiquil shot out its fire a second later, they were an even match, even with the type disadvantage. Luckily, Cyndiquils attack broke through the Icebeam and hit Ikey, sending it to the ground. Ikey squealed in pain, I felt bad for the little Pokemon, It was an unfair battle, and it appeared to have little power left, already. I didn't know what other moves my Pokemon knew, so I took the chance and quickly looked up Cyndiquils moved in my Pokedex. He only knew Flamethrower, Ember, Tackle, Quickattack, and Smokescreen. I looked back at the Pokemon. I decided that Cyndiquil could use some practice with other moves than Fire types.

I took a deep breath, and told Cyndiquil to use QuickAttack.

Ikey, now standing, was about to make a move, James had commanded it to use Confuse Ray while I was busy. Cyndiquil ran at a dashing pace at Ikey, and smacked it on the chest. Ikey, with the air blown out of it, fell backward, struggling to get up. It flinched and use its confuse Ray. My Cyndiquil then started acting weird. He was moving slowly around the place, mumbling something in its own Pokemon language, and started smacking itself with various item that where laying around. Cyndiquil was taking damage, and fast. Every hit it took knocked 5 HP off. I was worried, was I going to lose to James? In our first battle? I was grinding my teeth, hoping that my next move would work.

"Cyndiquil! Use Ember!"

When I said this, Cyndaquil looked at me, then Ikey, and darted for it.

I was shouting t Cyndiquil to stop. I told him to use Ember, not Tackle.

Then, Cyndiquil did one of the coolest things I had ever seen. It jumped, did a front flip, and used Ember in mid-air, all while doing sideways 360's.

The attack hit right on Ikeys head, and it fell over. It had fainted. I won…