Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. However, I do own the characters I create. Also, submitted OCs belong to their creators.
Note to All Before You Start Gettin' Confused: Just so you all know, when Pokemon start talking English and stuff, know that they are indeed talking in the Pokemon language, or whatever it would be called. I didn't feel like italicizing every single dialogue for them, and your reading eyes will thank me.
Oh, and get ready for a LONG, LONG CHAPTER, guys! (The longest I've written!) Make sure you're comfortable – well, if you're a fast reader, than don't bother…? Sorry for the mistakes in here as well, since I got tired with this...
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Chapter Seven:
The Start of the First Round
Amaya groaned as she reached out for her cell phone that was currently blaring off an alarm to wake her up. She touched the bedside lamp, the hotel room phone and her belt before getting a hold of the Gastly phone charm she had on her cell phone. She picked up her cell phone and turned off the alarm. Currently, it was 9:10 AM, and her match was at the lovely time of 10 AM.
She looked to the right and squinted. The curtains didn't really keep all the bright summer sunlight away. She frowned as she then remembered the events of yesterday. Amaya sighed and repeatedly told herself not too think about it.
"Spinnn~da!" Amaya immediately looked at the foot of her bed and alas, there was her Spinda with its goofy grin that all Spindas had. She then laughed, feeling a little bit better now.
"Good morning," Amaya smiled back. "I see you—AH!" She fell flat on her face and then she felt a glass of…orange juice being poured on her head. Amaya groaned in pain and looked up to see her laughing Gengar still holding Raichu's tail, who was holding an empty glass with. Amaya sighed and got up, her hair dripping with orange juice.
"Damn," Amaya said as she rubbed her eyes furiously. "Not so early in the morning, you guys…" She quickly headed to the bathroom.
Suddenly, Empoleon, who probably let itself out as well, loomed behind the two while they kept laughing away. Spinda looked up and seemed about ready to cry. The two then froze, noticing the eerie presence behind them...
Empoleon sighed as he picked up the near-crying Spinda and smacked Gengar and Raichu in the back of the head hard.
Gengar rubbed the back of his head as looked at the Spinda about to wail its head off. "I'd Hypnosis him, but you'd probably smack me again, right?"
"Damn right." Empoleon glared at him as he cradled the Spinda slowly from side to side. Amaya's Lucario, named Luki, then released itself as well, glaring down at the surprised Gengar and Raichu on the floor.
"Well, you don't let yourself out very often." Gengar raised an eyebrow. "And yeah, yeah..." Gengar rolled his eyes, turning away from both of them. It was kind of funny since Gengar was the oldest and the first of Amaya's Pokemon, but he sure didn't act like it. Since Empoleon was next oldest, he was the one who set his foot down. Luki wasn't one of the oldest at all, but she set her foot down as well. Luki took the Spinda from Empoleon's arms and set him on the bed. "You gotta lighten up a little, Polo-olo!"
"Yeah, Polo-olo!" Raichu snickered. "You too, Luuu~ki! You're both such stiffs!" Lucario looked ready to smack Raichu, who slowly backed away in fear while holding her tail.
"I told you guys not to call me that. Only Amaya can call me that when she wants to." Empoleon narrowed its eyes. "And since you pulled that little prank, Amaya might get to the match late!"
"Hey, don't only glare at me!" Gengar held its hands up. "She was my accomplice!" He pointed at Raichu.
"Geez, that's cold, Gengar!" Raichu growled at him. "It was his idea in the first place!"
"Awh, shut up," Gengar waved his hand dismissively at her. "Polo, you know that she's always been my partner in crime anyways, so—"
"Shut up, you two." Empoleon looked ready to slap them again so they immediately stopped.
"And it's kind of Amaya's fault for being such a sleepy-head. And she should pay attention more so she could dodge our pranks." Gengar folded his arms over his chest while he eyed his irritated penguin comrade. "She'll get there, you know that Empoleon. She manages. And if she's running a little late, she can ride on you. You're faster than a jet boat, right?"
"Yeah." Empoleon nodded slowly.
"See?" Gengar grinned.
"Problem solved!" Raichu ended, grinning along with Gengar.
"Empoleon!" Amaya shouted as she came out the bathroom, wiping her hair with a towel as fast as she could. She was currently wearing her purple sleeveless dress without her jeans. "Can I get a ride to Citrine Isle?"
Gengar looked at Empoleon, as if he was saying "See?" Empoleon rolled its eyes. He turned back to Amaya and nodded.
"Great!" Amaya threw the towel randomly. "...Hey, what's everyone doing out, anyways?" She grabbed her black jeans and put them on, also grabbing her white belt in the process. "Time to go! I'll just skip breakfast, I guess." She put on her belt and got out everyone's Pokeball, returning them all except for Empoleon.
She stopped before opening the door. "It isn't the time to think about that bastard Paul." Amaya told herself quietly while Empoleon stared at her curiously.
"Emp?" He stood next to her and saw her pained expression. "Empo, Emp."
"Huh?" Amaya snapped out of her thoughts. "…Yeah, let's go."
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"Scizor, use X-Scissor!" A random trainer shouted out as their Scizor's claws began to glow a bluish-white light and ran across the field towards its opponent with its arms in an x.
"Crawdaunt, dodge it and attack with Crabhammer, then ended with Guillotine!" A boy with medium blue hair shouted to his Pokemon. He was wearing a black jacket over a dark blue checkered button up, dark blue jeans and a dog tag necklace.
His Crawdaunt dodged with ease and gave Scizor a strong Crabhammer that made Scizor stumble back while grunting in slight pain. Crawdaunt then jumped up as its claws began to glow white then dealt the deadly, final blow to Scizor's neck.
"Scizor is unable to battle! The battle goes to Devin Adessi from Sunyshore and his Crawdaunt!" The referee yelled out, seeing as the Scizor was hit from the one-hit knockout move. The boy with the blue hair, Devin waved to the cheering crowd and looked at all of them with his blue colored eyes.
Amaya "hm"-ed while she moved around her seat to get more comfortable. After she won her match, she had decided to check out her competition. She didn't have anything else to do anyways…
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"Let's rock the boat, Magmortar!" A girl with bright red hair that ended above her shoulders shouted out happily. She was wearing a bright green tank top, a gold circle belt, a white skirt and a short-sleeved bolero that ended below the bust along with the collar popped up. She also had her dark blue tote bag directly behind her, which held her Pokemon. The girl, who was named Ning Li, then pushed her sideswept bangs out of her eyes and waited for her opponent to release their Pokemon.
"Go, Muk!" The boy shouted that almost immediately let out a foul stench that went around the whole stadium. Everyone started to boo at him and his vile smelling Pokemon while holding their noses.
"Ew, ew, ew!!" Ning looked at the Pokemon in digust while also holding her nose. "What the heck, man!?" Even her Magmortar was deeply sickened. "Ugh, let's just start, Magmortar! Use Lava Plume!" Despite the smell, he stomped on the ground which made several blasts of lava come from the ground around Muk.
"Muk, use Acid Armor! Then use Sludge Bomb!" The Sludge Pokemon felt nothing as the Lava Plume attack continued. Afterwards, it opened his mouth wide open to shoot mud.
"Burn that mud away with Flamethrower!" Ning shouted out before the barrage of mud could reach Magmortar. He held up both his cannon-like arms and released an orange-red flame at all of the mud. "Use Heat Wave!" Ning ordered as soon as all the mud disappeared. Magmortar inhaled deeply then exhaled a heated breath that made Muk cringe.
"Muk, shake it off and get close to use DynamicPunch!" The Muk had a delayed reaction to the command, but it still managed to get close and punch Magmortar. He stumbled back slightly, cringing ever so slight.
"Fight back with Fire Punch and send him back with an Iron Tail!" He punched Muk with a fist engulfed and flames, which made Muk growl in pain. Then, Magmortar's fiery tail turned steel hard and he turned around to quickly send the squishy Muk flying back.
"Muk is unable to battle!" The referee shouted. The other trainer grumbled as he returned his smelly Pokemon. The crowd all seemed to be in relief from the stench and started to slightly cheer for Ning's Magmortar.
"…Go, Slowking!"
Ning didn't seem fazed at all. "Just because you have an advantage over Magmortar doesn't mean you'll win, kid!" She grinned as she put a hand on one hip. "I defeated one of your Pokemon, and I'll do the same to your Slowking and your third Pokemon. Let's go, Magmortar!"
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After watching Ning Li's match, which resulted in her win, Amaya saw that it was almost one o' clock. Once she headed out the stadium, she got back on her Charizard to fly back to Hanami Isle and into the nearby gigantic restaurant/café that was in directly between the hotel for Kanto and Hoenn. Once she entered, she could see that it was quite full. There were five enormous TV screens scattered across the restaurant that showed four battles at once. Amaya frowned slightly, as she couldn't find a seat.
"Hey, Amaya!" A voice called out and Amaya searched out from where it came from. She looked at the right back corner of the restaurant to see a waving Ash sitting with Riley. Their table was right across from one of the TV screens. Amaya's eyes widened slightly. They really got good seats.
"Hey, Riley, Ash!" Amaya waved and smiled as she neared the table. "Hello to you too, Noki and Pikachu!" Amaya looked down at Riley's Lucario and Ash's Pikachu, who gave a happy squeak in reply. "I heard your matches were at 12, but I didn't get to see them. I was in another stadium. I'm guessing both of you won, right?"
"Of course!" Ash exclaimed, while Riley nodded happily as well.
"Come on, sit down with us." Riley said as he politely pulled out the chair for her. Amaya nodded back and sat down. "I saw your match. Your Dusknoir was great!"
"Thanks."
"Oh, and how is Luki doing? Is she a Lucario now?"
"Oh, yes!" Amaya smiled, about to get her Lucario out when she let herself out. Almost immediately, Luki walked up to Riley's Lucario, Noki. She then stared at him with admiration and with her hands clasped together.
"Haha," Riley laughed. "She's the same as she was when she was a Riolu!"
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"Well, thanks for helping me get out, Riley." The 13 year old Amaya took a deep breath. "I'm glad you were here, because I'd surely get lost in here."
"No problem." Riley nodded.
"Training Ghost-types against Steel-types is pretty darn hard," Amaya laughed as she rubbed the back of her head. "But, it really helped my Pokemon out to use different attacks on them."
"The hard training is definitely worth it." Riley said. "If you ever need more training, Iron Island's a good place to go. But don't train TOO much; you gotta give the trainers a chance so they can win the Spectre Badge!"
"Haha, I know, I know." Amaya put her hands on her hips. She looked down at his Lucario, Noki, and the small Riolu, Luki. Amaya thought for a second. "I've been meaning to ask this… Did she just hatch?"
"Oh, she did about a month ago, actually." Riley looked down. "I got her egg from one of my breeder friends. He and I had no idea what the egg would turn out to be, since the egg appeared randomly and because there are so many Pokemon at his place, so he wouldn't be able to guess. I find it funny that the egg turned out to be a Riolu!"
"Haha," Amaya smiled down at the young-looking Riolu and waved. "Well, I do have to go back to Hearthome. I bet there are some angry trainers waiting in line for me," She laughed nervously. "Bye, Riley, Noki, and Luki!" Amaya waved and turned around. But before she would walk away to find a boat, she felt something tug on her dark purple yoga-styled pants. "Hm?" She turned around slightly and looked down to see Luki.
"Hm…" Riley thought. "I think after seeing your strength, she wants to go with you."
"Awh, well…" Amaya bent her knees to look directly at Luki. "I'm only using my Ghost-type Pokemon right now. My other Pokemon I used while I traveled are just hanging around with my dad in Mossdeep."
"Rio, Riolu..." Luki had a determined look on her face.
Amaya sighed but then smiled. "All right. You can come with me!" Amaya stood up straight while Luki nodded. Amaya took an empty Pokeball from one of the pockets of her black belt. The Pokeball took Luki inside. Afterwards, Amaya let her back out. "You can ride with me on the boat back to Canalave."
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"RAI~CHUUU!"
"GENGAR!"
"Huh?" Amaya said as she looked behind herself to see her Raichu and Gengar outside of their Pokeballs. "Guys, why'd you release yourselves...?"
"Let 'em be, Amaya." Riley smiled as the two walked over to Noki and Luki. "Seems like they just wanted to talk." If only they knew...
"Ohoho, what's this?" Gengar said as he floated around Luki.
"It seems that Luki is a Noki fangirl~" Raichu snickered, triggering Luki to blush madly and turn away from everyone else. Noki raised an eyebrow at Gengar and Raichu.
"This is just too weird." Gengar looked surprised. "She's usually a brooding loner."
"True, true." Raichu agreed with him. She then turned around to continue tormenting and embarrassing Luki. "Teehee, Luki has a wittle-ittle-bitty crush on No—"
"LUKI!" Amaya quickly shouted, seeing her Lucario about to Force Palm Raichu. Luki immediately stopped and looked down so Amaya wouldn't see her red face from Raichu's teasing. She looked at her Gengar, who was pointing and laughing at a scared-out-of-her-wits Raichu. Noki was silent as always, but he was facepalming.
"What the hell...?" She sighed and turned back to Riley and.
"Y'know, I always wondered what Pokemon talked about to each other." Ash said as he glanced at his Pikachu before turning back to the two of them.
"You're not the only one." Amaya rubbed the back of her head.
"Miss," A waitress softly tapped Amaya on the shoulder. "You and your Pokemon disturbing the other people who are here... I'm going to have to ask you to leave or you have to return your Pokemon into their Pokeballs."
"Oh, yes, I'm sorry..." Amaya nervously laughed. "Return, all of you." Amaya took out three Pokeballs. Raichu and Gengar put their heads down as they were returned, but Luki shook her head. Amaya put the two Pokeballs into the pockets of her white belt. "What's up?" Luki made a quick glance towards Noki.
"I think I get what she's trying to say." Riley said while Amaya and Ash both looked at him questioningly. "You want to go out for a little walk with Noki, right?" Luki nodded profusely.
"Awh, well, go ahead." Amaya grinned as she put her chin in her right palm. "Be back when we leave here, okay?" She watched the two Lucarios walk out. "Cute."
"Look!" Ash said suddenly as he pointed to the nearby TV screen. In one of the four views, Ryuu was getting ready to battle. In the other view was Paul, also getting ready to battle.
"Oh, that's right," Amaya said, "I remembered Ryuu saying he had his match at 1. Seems like Paul happened to have his match at the same time, too."
"Two interesting matches at the same time," Riley glanced from Ryuu's and Paul's matches. "I'm glad we're in here, or else we'd have to choose which one to watch."
Currently, Paul's Weavile was savagely attacking the opponent's Ivysaur. In Ryuu's match, his Altaria quickly knocked out a Starmie with Sky Attack. However, unlike Ryuu, Paul had already knocked out two of his opponent's Pokemon.
"Look at that Ivysaur!" Ash exclaimed. "Paul's Weavile is brutal…Too brutal." Ash winced as he saw the Ivysaur slam into the wall, but Weavile continued on with its onslaught of attacks.
"That's Ivysaur's in bad shape," Amaya looked at the struggling Ivysaur that was clearly in pain. "The next attack will end it…" And she was right. Weavile swiped the Ivysaur with a deadly sharp Metal Claw and then finished it off with lethal Blizzard attack.
"The match goes to Paul and his Weavile!" The referee shouted, and almost immediately, there were boos in the restaurant/café. Amaya laughed as people continued to boo once the camera closed up on his smirking expression.
"Haha, everyone hates the guy," Amaya laughed as she sat back in her chair, listening to the insults fly inside the place. The waiters and waitresses tried to calm them down, but Amaya could see they agreed with their diners as well.
"Are you all ready to order?" The waitress shouted over the yells in the restaurant. Amaya take a quick peek at the menu. Ash waited for her, and when she looked up and nodded, he nodded back. The all ordered what they wanted and began their talk again.
"I guess Paul is the one that has to wait for Ryuu now." Ash said as he sat back in his chair.
"Huh?" Riley looked at him questioningly.
"Paul challenged him to a battle," Amaya answered as she sighed. "Right after the Opening Ceremony. They were going to have it today after their matches, though."
"I really want to see their battle!" Ash crossed his arms over his chest.
"Same. Maybe after we eat we can head on over to Citrine Isle and find the third training facility."
"Yeah!"
"Do you wanna come, Riley?" Amaya turned her head around to look at him.
"Ah, well," Riley shrugged. "My match is at two, though. Once I finish eating, I have to hurry down to the fourth stadium."
"Oh well." Amaya said.
"Let's hurry so we can go already!" Ash exclaimed as he saw someone nearing the table with their food.
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Amaya stepped into the third training facility before Ash, since his friends arrived to greet him. Absolutely no one was inside the large facility, since everyone was either having their matches or probably training in the first training facility, which was much closer to the stadiums. She sat down in one of the bleachers that were in front of a battling field. Amaya then looked to the doorway once she heard voices.
Ash was walking in with his friends and nearing towards the bleachers that she was sitting at.
Amaya waved. "I'm Amaya Dalisay, nice to meet you all," She said politely. "Hey," Amaya looked at a girl with orange colored hair that was in a side ponytail. "You're Misty from the Cerulean Gym, aren't you?"
Misty smiled. "I am!"
"…And," Amaya looked at the guy with a slit eyes. "You're Brock, the previous Pewter City Gym Leader. I hear your younger brother took over." Brock nodded and smiled.
"Well," Ash looked at his other friends. "Since you already know those two, I'll introduce these guys!" He turned to them. "This is May and her younger brother Max, and this is Dawn." He gestured towards a girl with a green bandana over brown hair, a young boy with blue hair and glasses and a girl with a white hat over blue colored hair.
"Nice to meet every single one of you—" Amaya was about to say until she saw Paul walk in by himself. She narrowed her eyes while everyone turned around to stare at him.
"What are you all doing here?" Paul glanced at them. "Whatever, I don't care." He walked over to one side of the training field and stuck his hands in his pockets, waiting for Ryuu.
"So that's Paul." Max fixed his glasses and sat down in the bleachers with everyone else.
"You're right Ash." Misty said as he saw him scowling. "I can definitely see it now."
"I'm here!" Ryuu ran into the training facility and then to the other side of the training field opposite of Paul. "Thanks for waiting." Paul shook his head slightly while he got out a Pokeball from his left pocket. Ryuu turned his head to Ash and Co. and Amaya sitting down in the bleachers. "Seems like we've got an audience as well."
"Let's just start." Paul said impatiently.
"So," Ryuu then put his hands in his pockets casually. "Why don't we make it… two out of three? Substitutions allowed. " Ryuu eyed Paul while he thought for a second.
"Let's make it a full battle. No substitutions. " Paul said while Ryuu's eyebrows went up in slight surprise.
"He's rather determined." Amaya frowned.
Ryuu hesitated before replying back to Paul. "All right, I'm fine with that." Ryuu took out a Pokeball from his pocket as well. "We have nothing else to do since we both already had our matches for the day anyways."
"Right." Paul said. "Standby for battle, Electabuzz." And out came the Electric Pokemon, waiting for Ryuu to release his Pokemon. Ryuu smiled slightly at his choice.
"Go, Flygon!" Ryuu released his Mystic Pokemon. Paul narrowed his eyes but went on.
"Electabuzz, Ice Punch!" Paul commanded, and his Electabuzz dashed across the field with an icy fist over to where Flygon was. Ryuu and his Flygon seemed unfazed.
"Wait for it," Ryuu said calmly as the Electabuzz neared his Flygon that in mid-air. When Electabuzz was about to jump up and punch Flygon, Ryuu shouted out a command. "Block the punch with Iron Tail! Then surround Electabuzz with Sand Tomb!" Flygon's tail turned steel hard and smacked Electabuzz flying down into the ground. Then, Flygon slashed the air and almost immediately, a whirlpool of sand surrounded Electabuzz.
"Electabuzz!" Paul glared at his Pokemon gradually getting weaker due to it being a super-effective attack. "Get out of there!"
"Get in there and use Dragon Claw!" Ryuu shouted as his Flygon quickly dived down with deadly, glowing blue claws towards the now weak Electabuzz. The weakened Electabuzz couldn't attack back as it was slashed.
"You're just pathetic," Paul returned his Electabuzz. "You got knocked out so easily." Ryuu frowned at the treatment of his Pokemon, but didn't say anything. "Standby for battle, Weavile." And again, Ryuu and his Flygon held no surprise reaction as the Sharp Claw Pokemon came out.
"Weavile, Ice Beam!"
"Cancel it out with Dragon Pulse!" At once, the icy-cold beam collided with blue-green ball of light and created smoke that covered the whole field. "Use Flamethrower!" Once the smoke cleared, Flygon, who surprised Weavile by being less than a meter away from him, shot out red-orange flames. Weavile screeched while it slowly stumbled back in pain. "Finish him off with Stone Edge!" And at once, Weavile was sent flying back from sharp rocks that were directed at him and fainted.
Paul narrowed his eyes as he returned his Weavile. "You had a type advantage and you lost!" He glared daggers at the Weavile in the Pokeball.
"Weavile lost even though it was an ice-type..." Ash remarked.
"Well, you know that type advantage isn't everything," Brock spoke up. "That Flygon is strong. I wonder what Paul is going to put up against him now…"
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Sorry, I have to end it here! It was just getting TOO LONG. I don't have much to say but…
My birthday's tomorrow! (July 9) Whoot! I'll be turning 14. But still, I'll try to get the next chapter out before I go out anywhere, so you're itching to see the outcome of the battle, don't worry! The next chapter will probably be short, since this one was long.
Ning Li belongs to Sephie Sun.
Devin Adessi (name changed due to request, thanks, you made my life easier) belongs to hiruma21.
