Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon but I do own Blade Star and my other OC's.
Looks like it's time to get Chapter 7 started!
Last time on B.L.A.D.E:
Umbreon: Pathetic…
Mia: Poor thing…
Eevee: If it's a battle you want; then it's a battle you're gonna get!
Luxio: Starting to get a reputation are we?
Riolu: Wait, you idiot!
Blade: Since when did you learn all of this?
Blade, Mia and Riolu started to walk towards an open field about 3km away from Jubilife City to train for the following tournament.
"Time to get some training don't you think?" Mia suggested. "Besides you haven't seen all of my Pokémon either so let's have a practice battle!"
"Alright then, go Eevee!"
"Vulpix, make it shine!" Mia shouted as a red fox with 5 tails was released from her Pokéball.
Name: Vulpix NO.37
Known as: The Fox Pokémon
Type: Fire
Ability: Flash Fire
Evolution Chart: Vulpix, Ninetails
As it develops, its single white tail gains colour splits into six. It is quite warm and cuddly.
"Since when did you have a Vulpix? Well then, start off with Swift!"
The Eevee attempted to shoot an array of stars but only released 4 instead of 8. "It looks like we need to work on Swift."
"Vulpix, dodge and use Ember!"
The fox Pokémon couldn't dodge the stars but managed to release small flares of fire.
"Eevee, Double Team and Shadow Ball but were gonna call this Double Shadow, okay?" Blade explained to Eevee who gave a nod. "Use Double Shadow!"
The Evolution Pokémon smirked before disappearing into several clones. Afterward all the clones shot a purple ball of darkness at the fire-type.
"Vulpix, try to dodge them!"
But it was too late; Vulpix attempted to dodge the consistent barrage but was literally slaughtered. She was obviously unable to battle and the clones disappeared with a smirking brown fox jumping out of a tree.
"Return Vulpix, you did great. Go, Bronzor! Use Extrasensory!"
"Watch out Eevee!" Blade shouted as he saw the Evolution Pokémon was lifted in the air and thrown into a tree. She shook off the pain before standing on her quaint paws again. "Now use Quick Attack to speed up a Dig!"
"Quick use a Psybeam before Eevee gets underground!"
Eevee sped up and barely managed to dodge the first Psybeam but the second one caught her leg by the time the Evolution Pokémon dived into the hole.
"Ha! Got her!" Mia shouted in glee. "Great job Bronzor!"
"Eevee, finish off Dig and use Copycat!"
The Evolution Pokémon jumped out of its hole striking Bronzor in surprise. Afterward, it glowed yellow and released a rainbow-like beam which stopped the Bronze Pokémon from being able to battle.
"Grrrr, Eevee sure has gotten stronger! Go, Kricketot!"
"Eevee you sure you can carry on?" Blade suggested.
"Vee!" (You bet!) The Evolution Pokémon shouted whilst licking its paw.
"Start off with a Bide Kricketot!"
"Use Hidden Power!"
The Eevee released colourless balls of energy whilst Kricketot continued to glow. The Evolution Pokémon stopped her attack as she realised what the Cricket Pokémon was doing.
"I don't think that's a Bide attack, Blade." Riolu suggested.
"Kricketot? Kricketot!" Mia shouted but to no avail, there was no reply.
"What's happening then if you think you know?" Blade wondered as he took photos with his Pokédex.
"He's trying to evolve and he's using Bide to do so." Riolu pointed out.
The glowing light that surrounded Kricketot continuously got brighter until its body shape wasn't visible. The Bug-Type started to morph into a longer, thinner figure and skinny; long claws were shaped. When the light dispersed, there was a Kricketune standing at that spot instead of a Kricketot.
"YES!" Mia shouted in joy. "Kricketot finally evolved, great job! Now use Fury Cutter!"
"Try to dodge Eevee then use Tackle!"
Eevee dodged the attack by jumping in the air but due to the extra-large claws, the Evolution Pokémon was hit. She rolled several times before lying on her belly.
"Alright Eevee watch out," Blade warned. "Kricketune has got stronger!"
"Veeeeee!" (I've battled a Kricketune before, let me battle alone!)
"Alright but be careful,"
Blade walked away and sat on a rock whilst reading the books in his bag that was based on combinations and strategies to training.
"Kricketune, use Bug Bite!"
The Evolution Pokémon dodged the attack and released Hidden Power. The colourless orbs pelted the Cricket Pokémon like a hailstorm before succumbing to the pain.
"Great job Eevee! You defeated her all by yourself!"
"Wait, so you weren't even commanding Eevee at all?" Mia stuttered. "Mark my words Blade Star I will defeat you one day!"
"Sure you will, now let's head towards Jubilife City and get your Pokémon healed." Blade suggested as they walked along the pathway. "Wait, where's Riolu?"
"On your head…"
Blade looked up to see a sleeping Riolu hanging on his head sleeping like a child.
"And how DIDN'T I know about that?" Blade wondered.
"Because, you are an IDIOT!" Mia stated. "All battle and no brain!"
"We'll see about that when I win the tournament and defeat you!" Blade shouted back whilst growling.
"Whatever lets go,"
The duo had finally reached the busy city of Jubilife where engines roared and the countryside peace made this seem like a music concert. It was too loud for even Riolu to keep sleeping.
"Hey guys," The Emanation Pokémon snored. "Why is it so loud?"
"We just got to Jubilife again and we're going to enter the tournament!"
"What about the Eterna City Gym?" Riolu pondered whilst resting on his trainer's head.
"We're gonna use this competition as a training boost but we got about a week to train anyway." Blade explained whilst flicking through his book. "First we need to register though…"
"We need to find out where to register first and you would've known that if you didn't pay so much attention to that stupid book!" Mia growled. "Hey look, there's a poster!"
JUBILIFE CITY POKÉMON TOURNAMENT
TRAINERS + GYM LEADERS + EVEN ELITE 4 MEMBERS COME FAR AND WIDE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT THAT ONLY HAPPENS EACH YEAR. NEXT YEAR'S WILL BE HOSTED AT SUNYSHORE CITY!
THERE'RE PRIZES FOR THE TOP 32 CONTESTENTS AND WE'LL ACCEPT UP TO 512 ENTRIES.
ALL GYMS WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL THIS TOURNAMENT IS COMPLETED.
TO REGISTER GO TO THE JUBILIFE CITY POKÉMON CENTRE AND REGISTER USING YOUR POKÉDEX
ONLY LEGITIMATE TRAINERS WITH A LICENSE STATING THEY'RE OVER 10 YEARS ARE ALLOWED TO COMPETE
THIS IS SPONSORED BY THE SINNOH ELITE FOUR AND POKÉTCH COMPANY AND CHAMPION CYNTHIA IS HOSTING THE EVENT
ALL REGISTERED CONTESTANTS ARE TO MEET AT THE TRAINER SCHOOL WITHIN 7 DAYS
BE THERE!
"I guess that helps," Blade coolly states whilst putting his large book in his bag. "Let's go to the Pokémon Centre!"
Since the Pokémon Centre was about 5-10 minutes away, it didn't take long to reach the Nurse Joy.
"Hello and welcome to the Pokémon Centre," Nurse Joy sang. "Did you want to heal your Pokémon or did you want to register?"
"We both would like to register for the following tournament; me and the bookworm over there." Mia replied whilst pointing to Blade over at the other side of the room. "Blade, give her the Pokédex so you can be registered!"
"ALRIGHT!" Blade shouted whilst handing her the white and orange pulse Pokédex.
Both Pokédexes were slotted inside and they started to blink a bright blue. Eventually the glowing stopped and a DING noise occurred.
"The registration is now complete; Blade Star and Mia Phipwell are registered for the upcoming tournament." The electronic voice spoke.
"Thanks Nurse Joy…" Blade replied. "Now how about some training!"
"What are we waiting for? Riolu shouted. Let's go!"
They both walked out of a Pokémon Centre and headed towards an area full of battling trainers. On one side, there was a Shinx and on the other side there was a Miltank.
"Quick Miltank, use Rollout," One of the trainers shouted. She had pink hair and bright, pink eyes.
"Quick Shinx, dodge it!" Another trainer shouted. He had an orange top with blue shorts. However, the cow-like Pokémon prevailed and defeated the electric type.
"Whitney wins again! Can anybody beat her?" One of the trainers shouted over the constant cheering.
"As a Johto gym leader, of course I'd win! The pink-haired teen shouted. "Not to mention being cute helps." She then winked and pulled a peace sign to the crowd.
"I wanna battle!" Blade shouted.
"No. You get always get the fun so now it's MY turn!" Mia shouted in confidence.
"And we have ANOTHER challenger to a 2v2! What's your name?" Whitney declared as she pointed at Mia. She then looked at Blade and smirked at him but the young trainer simply looked away rising her temper.
"I'm Mia Phipwell from Twinleaf Town!"
"Then I, Whitney from Goldenrod City accept your challenge!" she growled.
"Don't embarrass yourself out there!" Blade laughed before nudging Riolu.
"Alright, alright I'm watching!" Riolu snarled. "I was just reading this book. You should build up our endurance against our specific weaknesses and…"
"Yes we know, now just watch." Blade cut in before thinking to himself. 'Her cute? Mia looks loads better anyway…'
"Go, Clefairy!" Whitney shouted as a pink puffball popped out.
"Go, Vulpix!" spoke Mia as she threw The Fox Pokémon's Pokéball. "Flamethrower!"
"A Clefairy!" Blade wondered as he took out his Pokédex.
Name: Clefairy (No. 035)
Known as: The Fairy Pokémon
Type: Normal
Ability: Magic Guard
Evolution Chart: Cleffa, Clefairy, Clefable
Its adorable behaviour and cry make it highly popular. However, this Pokémon is rarely found.
The jet of flames burned the Fairy Pokémon before it stood out again.
" .No! Clefairy, take down!"
"Dodge and use Ember!"
Clefairy began to rush over to Vulpix head-on but Vulpix jumped out of the way and shot the Fairy Pokémon with tiny embers. Afterwards, it was affected by the recoil of being burned.
"Great job Vulpix! Now finish it off with Iron Tail!"
"Big mistake. Grab it Clefairy"
The Fox Pokémon slammed its hardened tail into its opponent but it was grabbed. Clefairy didn't even feel a thing.
"What? But how?"
"Clefairy's ability; Magic Guard stops physical attacks from hurting her so you left yourself wide open." Whitney explained with a wide grin as she looked back at Blade. "Now go run back to your boyfriend…"
"He's not my boyfriend!" Mia shouted. "Vulpix like we practised, Fire Blast!"
The Fox Pokémon drew in energy before releasing a Kanji sign of fire enveloping the Fairy-like Pokémon before she was unable to battle.
"Don't make me angry and besides, you're not even that cute…" Mia replied smoothly before giving Blade a smirk saying 'told you so'.
"That was cool, don't you think Blade?" Riolu shouted as he started cheering.
"Go, Miltank!"
"Return Vulpix, go Kricketune keep dodging and use Fury Cutter consecutively!"
The second round went quite quick. The cow tried to roll over Kricketune but as each Fury Cutter got stronger, it was harder for Miltank to endure the pain. Eventually, the bigger Pokémon fell without Kricketune taking damage.
"That was easy," Blade replied. "C'mon Mia, let's go train!"
"Great battling Mia, nice job!" Riolu shouted.
"Yeah sure Blade, let's get out of there cause it's too crowded." Mia replied as they left a shocked crowd and a crying Whitney behind.
It took about 10 minutes to reach the start of Route 203 again. Back to the tree where they had first met.
"Alright, the tournament is in about a week. So we should train our Pokémon to learn new moves and increase their strength and stamina." Riolu suggested as he climbed up a tree. "We should sleep out here too, it's cheaper."
"Cool, well I did get a few TM's anyway so Chimchar can learn Drain Punch whilst Eevee learns Weather Ball! And as for Riolu, I got something special planned for him." Blade smirked as he placed each disk on Chimchar's and Eevee's heads respectively.
"Eevee you work with Riolu and learn to control Swift and take Fighting-type moves. If you can, try to master Weather Ball and that Shadow Ball power-up." Mia suggested as she released her Pokémon. "Chimchar and Vulpix can train together to increase their fire-type capabilities whilst Bronzor, Piplup and Kricketune train with me…"
Blade was startled with Mia's confidence. "So you're not COMPLETELY useless in pokémon training after all; we'll return in two hours for lunch!"
"Sounds like a plan!" Mia shouted. "C'mon guys let's go!"
Blade looked towards all the pokémon training and watched Riolu's battling Eevee. Riolu clearly had the upper hand but Eevee did do a good job at outlasting the strongest pokémon out of the 7. Every now and again, the Evolution Pokémon would release a Weather Ball that had about a 65/35 chance of succeeding and failing. Sometimes, it would be a direct hit whilst other times, it would just fade away or even splash-back on Eevee.
"Hahaa!" Riolu laughed as the Evolution Pokémon ran humorously around with a burn. "Time to finish this, Blaze Kick!"
The Emanation Pokémon had flung a scorching red-hot leg of fire towards the Eevee.
"Veee" (Did I do well?) Eevee panted as she laid on the ground in fatigue.
"You did very well," Riolu reassured as he put his right paw on Eevee's head.
"Riolu, come here for a second!" Blade shouted as he waved his book in the air to signal him to come.
Riolu heard Blade shout and ran towards him. "What is it?"
"Can you still use Protect?" Blade wondered.
"I don't think so, why?"
"I'm sure you can, you used Protect when we went up against Riley's Steelix." Blade suggested as he checked Riolu's moves. "Yes, you can use Protect and it also says you're a few levels off learning Copycat as well!"
"What's your point?" Riolu blankly asked as he saw Chimchar master Drain Punch and break Vulpix's flame barrier. He then looked at Eevee but then quickly looked away as he tried to get this Shadow Ball form in control as the purple tentacles wiggled all over the place.
"You and Eevee carry on training but you can only use Protect. That way we can improve your endurance," Blade explained as he looked in his book for guidance.
"Just like how we did with Teleport?" Riolu asked as he watched Mia's Kricketune virtually dominate the other pokémon.
"Just like how we did with Teleport," Blade replied as he walked towards them. "Now, Eevee use Shadow Ball!"
The Evolution Pokémon released a dark, purple ball of energy at Riolu just for a green barrier to flicker and protect Riolu.
"Again, again!" Blade shouted.
1 Hour Later:
Riolu had collapsed about 5 times after the amount of Shadow Balls Eevee had thrown towards the Emanation Pokémon. The good news was that Riolu had learned how to use a basic variation of Protect and Eevee learned how to curve a Shadow Ball; well she's working on it anyway.
"Great job guys!" Blade Star shouted as he looked in his book. It had diagrams of a Protect barrier and how it can be improved. "Hang on…"
"What is it?" Riolu asked as he stood back up.
"I like you're training, you are doing well but that was just stage one. As you know, a Protect creates a green barrier in front of you so if Eevee used a curved Shadow Ball; she could still hit you from behind." Blade explained. "Look at these pictures, stage two is where the barrier protects your whole body. Demonstrate for us Eevee and Riolu, get a shield up."
The Evolution Pokémon gulped down a Shadow Ball, gained a power-up and began to focus. She then formed it in a spiral-like form before it became that familiar purple sphere of energy. As she released it, dust began to 'jump' away from the attack and it moved in a peculiar way. It curved on TOP of the barrier just to strike in Riolu's back.
"Nice job Eevee, now we just need to get you to be able to curve Shadow Balls without using your power-up." Blade replied in encouragement. He handed his starter pokémon his trusty book. "Here, you're gonna need this 'cause I'm going to check on Chimchar and Vulpix."
"Eeeveveee!" (C'mon Riolu, let's go!) Eevee replied tauntingly.
"Alright then," the Fighting-Type replied.
Blade walked to see how the Fire-Types were up to. You could tell they were fighting well as there was a giant pile of ash and debris was all over the place. Chimchar was better with close-range whilst Vulpix easily was better long-range. So the battle continued to be even.
Chimmchar!" (Hurry up and come closer so I can win this!) The Chimp Pokémon shouted as he released a Flamethrower but Vulpix simply absorbed it.
"Vul! Pix!" (I don't think so.) The Fox Pokémon replied as she released a powered-up white flame.
"Chimchar, you need to get in closer!" Blade shouted. "Vulpix, increase the accuracy of your attacks."
"Lunchtime, guys!" Mia shouted. "Who's bringing food?"
"Blade's making it today; he's actually a good cook!" Riolu shouted.
"I doubt that…" Mia scoffed as her pokémon moved closer towards her.
45 Minutes Later:
"Here you go," Blade Star said whilst handing the Pokémon and Mia Pokéfood and chicken and rice respectively.
"If I die, I'm gonna kill you first Blade!" Mia laughed as she took a bite out of the chicken. "MMMM!"
"You were saying," Blade replied confidently as she handed the feminine trainer a small bowl of sweet and sour sauce. "It's better with the sauce."
"When did you become this good?" Mia stated as she munched down on the rice like she was going to die of starvation.
"Wow, and I thought you was bad!" Riolu laughed. "Your mother was right."
"She sure was Riolu, she sure was…" Blade reminisced as he remembered the words that she spoke before they first started learning.
"Veee!" (I'm stuffed!)
"Chimmm!" (Me too, I feel like I could die a happy chimp!)
All the pokémon were currently relaxing under the tree whilst they had lunch. It was a peaceful, lush and calm environment and some of the Pokémon began to fall asleep even though it was still afternoon time.
"What time is it?" Blade stated before he released a yawn.
"About 4:30, what do we do now?" Mia wondered before resting her head on the tree. "All the Pokémon are asleep."
"We should just talk," Blade suggested as he lay on the grass.
"Alright."
"When did you start your journey?" Blade asked.
"About a few months ago, I've got 4 badges now and I met you whilst heading towards the port to Canalave." Mia explained. "Fantina was unavailable so I took a detour to Jubilife and met you on the way!"
"I've started about a week ago but I've been training with Riolu for 3 years so he has more experience than everyone else." Blade wondered.
Mia curled her hair behind her ear in interest and moved closer towards Blade. "How, did you start your journey earlier?"
"Nope, I trained with a guy named Riley at Iron Island for about 2 years." Blade told the female trainer.
"What did you really do there?"
Blade explained everything he did at Iron Island and at his house. Mia was silent in awe of how much experience Blade has actually had.
"You don't think it's bad do you? Blade pondered. "Having a head-start before everyone else because my dad was an ex-champ?"
"You're gonna make an amazing trainer one day, Blade." Mia reassured the younger trainer. "You have the dedication that not many trainers have." Her angelic blue eyes drifting off into sleep.
"Thanks, that really means a…" Blade replied before looking at the now asleep Mia. "Oh C'mon."
"Might as well get some sleep…" Blade thought to himself as he packed everything away and fell asleep.
Chapter 7 Completed!
This chapter has taken pretty long, especially since it's a casual chapter with no action to it.
Nothing really happens this chapter but we'll see how this will progress next time in Chapter 8!
PlasmaRiolu467 out, R+R!