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Chapter 10: Ash's Second Gym Battle In Almia!
After a scary moment for Ash, our heroes are almost to Tulip City when, they stop for the night in a small clearing just off of the trail that they were on, which was by a river.
When Brock was getting the food ready, he noticed that Ash was lying on the ground, on top of his sleeping bag for some comfort, just like he was back in Cove Town.
He decided that the thing was really bothering Ash, and he needed to lie down for a little while to get rid of the pain that was probably racking his body.
Once he was done getting the food ready, he served it, and surprisingly enough, Ash ate all of it despite having the thing in his stomach.
Then, they went to bed, but Ash was having a hard time trying to go to sleep because of the baby moving around, but after a couple of minutes, he was out like a light and the creature had returned for the baby too as an appetizer.
(With The Creature)
"I should thank the human side for taking such good care of the baby while I was gone." said the creature in its mind as it was rubbing its stomach on a good appetizer.
It had just gotten done with eating the baby, but, of course, it was still hungry, wince the baby didn't fill it up as much as an adult or kid, so it went out a little ways into Tulip City and found another man to satisfy its hunger while waiting in an alleyway.
(With Mike And Peter)
"Come on, Peter! Before it gets another innocent!" said Mike, following the tracking device to there the creature was from their abandoned building.
"Give me a break, Mike! I can only run so fast!" said Peter, following Mike to where the creature was.
(Back With The Creature)
It was just about t o capture its food when Mike and Peter came charging in to stop it again before it grabbed the man.
"I wish that they would take a hike! I think that I'll give then an Overheat and follow it up with a Shadow Ball to send them flying." said the creature in its mind, thinking of a plan on how to deal with Mike and Peter.
It sent an Overheat right at them and, of course, they dodged it an then, it hit them with two Shadow Balls, one for each of them, to send the flying just like what the gang does to Team Rocket.
As soon as they were gone, it grabbed the man by surprise with Vine Whip and took off running into the forest and stopped not too long after it started.
Somehow, the man got free from the Vine Whip and started to run away from it, but it stopped him dead in his tracks by using Psychic and to make him stop trying to run away, it put him into its mouth and swallowed hard as the man was still kicking while he was on his way down to the creature's stomach, where the kicks slowly disappeared.
"That was the hardest meal that I've gotten since I've gotten here. At least the other annoyances won't bug me for a while anymore." said the creature in its mind, running toward where the gang was.
Before it reached the gang's campsite, it stopped and looked up at the moon and then, disappeared like usual.
(In The Morning)
Ash was just starting to wake up when he realized that the baby was gone because stomach wasn't in pain like it was when he went to sleep the night before.
He decided to take another walk in the forest as he wanted to feel the freedom from having that darn baby kick him all day in the stomach the day before.
As he was about 10 minutes from their campsite, he started to feel something in his stomach and he wondered if it was the baby again, but it felt like someone had just punched him in the stomach because he was on his knees, clutching his stomach again.
It moved around a little bit more after the punch and then, it disappeared almost magically from within his stomach.
Ash wondered what happened until he started to cough once again and a couple of bones came out along with a little bit more of blood than the day before yesterday.
He was starting to wonder how come he's starting to cough up blood with the bones unlike before when he was just coughing up bones by themselves.
He was starting to get scared as he looked at the bones and then, he realized that the gang must be starting to wake up by now so he headed back to the campsite where he found the others still asleep.
(Back With Mike And Peter)
They were just waking up after hitting the ground so hard that it knocked them out on impact with the ground.
"What just happened?" asked Peter, getting up from his lying position and holding his head with his right hand.
"We got our butts kicked by the creature once again and it's all thanks to its special powers again." said Mike, starting to head back towards Tulip City with Peter following soon after him.
They arrived back in Tulip City in an hour or two to their abandoned building that they were staying in.
(Back With The Gang)
Once they had their breakfast, they started back on their way to Tulip City on the trail that they were walking on yesterday.
They arrived in an hour so that they could get to the gym before dark like they had planned when they were Cove Town.
Once they went to the Pokemon Center to get a room and they got done with putting their stuff in their rooms and claiming which bed was who's, they headed for the Tulip City Gym, which just down the road from the Pokemon Center.
(At The Tulip City Gym)
They entered the gym to find the gym leader talking to the referee, who was a girl, about how the last match went, which was yesterday.
The gym leader noticed the gang, waiting for them to get done talking and when they got done, they gym leader walked over to them to introduce herself to them.
"Hi, my name's Rose and I'm the gym leader for the Tulip City Gym." said Rose, who was a woman and surprisingly enough, Brock didn't go after her because she had a body that was about the same as Lucy the Battle Pike's, but she had shoulder-length rose-colored hair as they figured out why her name was Rose and she wasn't as tall as Lucy was, introducing herself to the gang.
"Hi, Rose. My name's Ash Ketchum and I would like to challenge you to a battle." said Ash, introducing himself and challenging Rose to a battle at the same time.
"I accept your challenge, Ash. Follow me to the battlefield." said Rose, leading them to the battlefield, which was covered with grass and a few trees here and there.
(On The Battlefield)
Once they were on the battlefield took their battle positions, and Brock and Dawn took their seats up in the stand, the battle was ready to begin as the referee came and stood in the middle of the battlefield on the sidelines.
"This match between Rose, the gym leader, and the challenger, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town, is about to begin! Trainers ready?" announced the referee, looking between Ash, on her left, and Rose, on her right.
"Yeah!" said the two in unison.
"Then let the match begin!" announced the referee.
"Go Venusaur!"
"Go Chimchar!"
"Venusaur, Vine Whip followed by Razor Leaf!"
"Chimchar, Dodge followed by Flamethrower!"
Chimchar dodged the Vine Whip by jumping into the air high and then, hit Venusaur hard with the Flamethrower burning up the Razor Leaf before it hit Venuasaur.
"Venusaur, Leech Seed followed by Frenzy Plant!"
"Chimchar, Dig followed by Flame Wheel!"
Chimchar dodged the Leech Seed just before it hit it with Dig and then, it hit Venusaur hard when it came out of the ground and dodging the Frenzy Plant all at once and Venusaur was knocked out by the Flame Wheel in two attacks from Chimchar.
"Venusaur's unable to battle. Chimchar's the winner!"
"Go Meganium! Meganium, Vine Whip followed by Solarbeam!"
"Chimchar, Flame Wheel followed by Flamethrower!"
Chimchar dodged the Vine Whip by jumping into the air and almost hit Meganium with a full power Flamethrower before the Solarbeam collided in mid-air, knocking both Chimchar and Meganium out.
"Meganium and Chimchar are unable to battle. It's a draw!"
"Go Sceptile!" (Rose's Sceptile)
"Go Staravia!"
"Sceptile, Leaf Blade followed by Pound!"
"Staravia, Aerial Ace followed by Quick Attack!"
The Aerial Ace pushed the Leaf Blade back and stopped it completely while the Quick Attack also pushed Pound back to Sceptile got double the damage from Aerial Ace and Quick Attack.
"Sceptile, Quick Attack followed by Solarbeam!"
"Staravia, Wing Attack followed by Brave Bird!"
Staravia stopped the Quick Attack in its tracks and then, dodged the Solarbeam by flying high into the air along with attacking with Brave Bird, knocking Sceptile out in a flash.
"Sceptile's unable to battle. Staravia's the winner and the match goes to Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town!" announced the referee.
"Good job, Sceptile. Return." said Rose, putting Sceptile into its pokeball.
"Great job, Staravia!" said Ash excitedly, hugging Staravia loosely as to not hurt it.
Rose walked over the battlefield to Ash and Staravia to give them their badge for winning along with a great battle.
"Congratulations, Ash, and to prove that you have won here at the Tulip City Gym, I give you the Flower Badge." said Rose, handing the Flower Badge to Ash.
"Thanks, Rose. Alright, we got the Flower Badge!" said Ash, doing his usual pose after getting a badge.
They said "Goodbye" to Rose and her referee before leaving for Cades Town the next day since it was already getting dark out.
"Oh, Ash, the next gym is in Volt City." said Brock as they were on their way to the Pokemon Center.
"Awesome and that badge will be all mine too!" said Ash excitedly.
After beating Rose for the Flower Badge, our heroes are going to the Pokemon Center for the night and tomorrow, they will continue on their way to Cades Town for Dawn and May's next contest.
...Rose, the Flower Badge, and Volt City along with Cades Town and Tulip City. Hope you enjoyed Chapter 10. Chapter 11 will be the ultimate chapter until later on. I also have a poll on my profile and it will be up until I get my lazy butt to type up the next chapter and post it because the next chapter will have big revelations in it. :D Yeah! See ya later!
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