RPG
Chapter 4
Robin
Lauren's ball hit the floor, and opened with a flash of light. She blinked and looked at the rising sun.
"Have a nice sleep?" Tara asked her, smiling.
It was as good as any other. Lauren looked around confused, Why are we here? I thought we were still at the Pokémon centre. Did you start without waking me up?
"I... couldn't sleep, so I decided to get a good head start."
Aren't you tired?
"Not really, I'm used to-" She almost finished her sentence before realising what she was saying. "I, um, well, I just don't really need to sleep much I guess."
Oh, okay. Lauren stretched and started walking beside Tara. So, do you know how much further Violet City is?
"Not very long now," Tara said, breathing a sigh of relief, "Oh, I caught another Pokémon last night."
Really?
"Yeah, a Spinirak. I called her Amy. I'll introduce you when we reach the City."
They were quiet for the rest of the way, waking past row upon row of trees, almost funnelling them in the right direction. After a little less than an hour they came upon another trainer. He was a short distance away from them, with a Sentret in front of him. He was commanding it to repeatedly attack a large stone, obviously as a method of battle practice. As they approached however he stopped and focused on the trainers walking towards him.
"Hey, hey!" He called to them. They continued to approach him. "Hey, do you want to battle? We really need some training, don't we spring?" His Sentret nodded vigorously.
Tara looked at Lauren. It wouldn't hurt, would it? We could do with training too.
"Sure," Tara replied. "It would be helpful to get in some decent training before facing the Gym."
"Great!" The trainer said extending his hand, "My name's Robin."
"Tara." She said shaking.
"What level Pokémon do you have?"
"A 6 and a 5."
"Excellent, both of mine are 5. This should be interesting."
They took their places 5 metres apart, with the battlefield stretching out between them. Both trainers drew their 'dexes and prepared to release their first Pokémon.
Robin threw a ball into the centre of the "field" shouting "Leo, you're up!", and a blue and red crocodile appeared in front of him, jaws open.
Tara needed no ball as she commanded "Lauren, time to battle."
The two Pokémon faced each other, awaiting the order to attack.
Tara was first to speak, ordering Lauren to use her newly learned Confusion attack. However the moment Robin commanded Leo to use Aqua Jet Lauren was hit by the crocodile and knocked back before she had a chance to attack. She sprung back to her feet though and used confusion on the Totodile, lifting it into the air and slamming it back onto the ground. Both trainers ordered the same attacks, but this time Lauren was ready. She focused, and the ball of water that held Leo, instead of hitting her, stopped in midair. Totodile couldn't get over his confusion before he was thrown back by Lauren's, almost hitting his trainer. He was still too confused to move and so Lauren then attacked with Will-o-wisp, closing her eyes and throwing a ball of blue fire at Leo. This was too much for the water Pokémon to take, so Robin returned him. When Lauren opened her eyes again she fell to the floor, causing Tara to rush to her side.
"Well done," was all she could get in before the Ralts smiled and fell unconscious. She started to worry, "Robin, Lauren's fainted!"
"Don't worry Tara, it's natural for a Pokémon to lose consciousness after it battles because of the massive amounts of energy they use and from being hurt, she's okay"
"Are you sure?"
"Definitely, now hurry up so we can continue our battle."
Tara opened Lauren's ball and it sucked her back inside with a red flash. Then she took out Amy's ball from her belt, ready to battle. Once again the grass in front of them had a pair of Pokémon ready to fight. Spinirak took the first strike, leaping at Spring with Poison Sting. It hit the Sentret, but bounced off without making a scratch. It uncurled from its Defense Curl and Scratched Amy, utilising her surprise at how ineffective her attack was. She was knocked back, but attacked again. The same thing happened, resulting in another scratch. No matter how strong she stung Spring, Defense Curl deflected all of her attacks. Tara thought for a while, then ordered the same attack. Reluctantly Amy leapt foreword and bounced off of the Sentret again, however this time as it uncurled it was met by Amy's attack, Scary Face. Spring was stunned for a second in shock, giving Amy time to use String Shot, completely immobilising Spring. Then it was simple for Amy to finish it off with Poison Sting.
Amy turned back to Tara, a proud and happy look adoring her face. Well, Tara thought it did. She wasn't quite sure about Amy's face. She returned her and walked back to Robin.
"That was a great battle Tara, we should do it again sometime."And he started to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Tara called after him.
"Violet City, I need to heal my Pokémon, and the centre there is easiest."
"Well, that's where I'm heading. Do you know how far it is?"
"We're only 10 minutes from the entrance, maybe we should walk together."
"Yeah."
And they continued to talk while they followed the rest of the road to Violet City.