AN: Ok, I know this is a short chapter and it's been a while, but I honestly was having a bit of writers block on how to write the battle portion of the chapter. I've also had so much going on in my everyday life that i havn't been able to do a lot of writing, besides having plot bunnies from hell for stories of a non final fantasy/pokemon base. So here's the chapter as I have it, and I'll work on the next one as soon as I can.
AN2: There may be more added to this chapter at a later time, if that happens, I will delete this chapter and replace it with the new one so that alerts do go out. I'm just going to give fair warning on this right now.
Chapter 3 The First Battle
Beta'd by: Stormy-Mist, and Keith
Kassie laid out the ground rules of the battle, mostly so that both Baralai and Markus would be able to understand what a Pokemon battle was about. The rules were simple, one pokemon each, which was mostly so Kassie would remember not to bring out any of her other pokemon, and no time limit. Markus flipped a gil coin to see who would get the first attack. The coin flip ended up declaring that Baralai would get the first move, which Kassie was willing to accept. Kassie did not plan on going extremely easy on Baralai, but she didn't want to be too tough on him, as it was his first battle. Soon the battle commenced. Baralai addressed Leafstorm to start off with a Tackle attack, as his Bulbasaur currently only knew two moves, Tackle and Growl. Kassie decided that for her first move, a Tail Whip was in order. Bulbasaur rushed forward hoping to catch Arcee in the side, with it's tackle attack, but missed when Arcee jumped out of the way, then proceeded to hit Bulbasaur with her tail, just enough to lower it's defense, but not enough to seriously injure it. Bulbasaur shook off the tail whip attack and prepared for her next set of orders from Baralai. Baralai called to her to try tackle attack again which this time hit Arcee. Arcee fought back with a tackle of her own, sending Bulbasaur flying to the other end of the field.
The battle continued on in this matter of fashion until finally Bulbasaur could take no more and collapsed. Baralai picked up his injured Pokemon and then approached Kassie, whom had Arcee in her own arms. The two shook hands, satisfied with the result of the battle. Baralai had managed to gain a great deal of knowledge regarding pokemon battles, and Kassie had been able to give Arcee a much needed chance to battle.
It was shortly after the conclusion of the battle that everything, that had been routine in the past year since Vegnagun, collapsed. Baralai, upon returning to his office and setting Leafstorm in the small basket he had set up for her in his office to lie in, received an incoming transmission via comsphere.
