I spent the next week and a half in Celadon, mostly because Kandy had wanted to battle the pokemon Gym Leader and wouldn't hear of me leaving the city without her. So I got stuck with having to wait and watch as she battled her way through four junior trainers and then the Gym Leader herself. It was a good match as Kandy had been able to fill up her team of pokemon with what she said was her usual set that she used in battle.
Personally I couldn't see why Kandy wanted to battle the Gym Leader the badge would be useless for the Johto Championships but she just shook her head and said she wanted to see how hard the Kanto Gym Leaders were before she decided if she'd want to compete for the league here. I just sighed and shrugged and went along with her, I knew that I wasn't going to sway her.
One plus I guess with having to watch her battling was I got to get some good images to draw while watching. Bob had sent my stuff the day after my call and I'd recieved it all two days later. I'd rung him back after recieving my things and thanked both him and Marcus for looking after them and returning them to me. Saying this with Kandy fluttering around behind me trying to see Marcus was rather irritating but I mostly ignored her with some effort. That was something I rather disliked about her, everytime I wanted to use the video phone she'd ask why and who I was going to talk to and if I was going to speak to Marcus could she say hello. I had to continually make up lies to keep her from following me and just generally hanging around me as I talked on the phone.
After Kandy had finally won her badge we had to stay in town for two more days so she could totally check out the Celadon City megamart and then we could leave. I guess that was ok as I got to restock on a couple of items I was running out of and there were some rather unusal items to see as well, a couple of which I bought. A small vile of sleeping powder from Butterfree spores was my faveourite though. Kandy also badgered me into buying three more pokeballs as she'd realised I only had the one pokemon and became rather insistant that I should get some more seeing as I was meant to be a pokemon trainer. I guess I can see the logic in that, I just hadn't been interested in having any more pokemon other than Are'ea, plus she got into this habit of becoming jealous whenever I gave the inclination of getting another one.
It was the day we were leaving Celadon and had just left the city when Are'ea gave a cry of surprise and came running from somewhere off the track towards me and Kandy being chased by something a lot larger than her. She streaked straight between my legs and me and Kandy froze turning around to see a large cat pokemon bounding straight towards me. I bowled straight into me and sent me to the ground with itself ontop of me. Are'ea had run straight to Kandy and behind her legs and the cat that'd become slightly dazed as it'd hit me head on started back after her. Kandy got to move first though and within moments her Mankey had come out of its pokeball and she was ordering it to attack the cat while it was still mostly ontop of me. I can't say I was in anyway grateful about this as the large cat slashed more than a fair share of long scratches through my entire body. At least it finally got off of me as it went to attack the fighting pokemon.
Getting up I watched as the Persian, as that's what it was, leaped away from a barrage of fury swipes from the Mankey before launching its own fury swipes back as a counter attack. The Persian was a higher level than the Mankey and despite the Mankey's type advantage it was taking a lot more damage than it was dealing out, it wasn't going to last that much longer.
I shouted at Kandy just as the Mankey took a deafening blow as the Persian used a strong screech technique that sent the Mankey howling with pain as it held its ears. Kandy recalled her pokemon and was just about to send out another when I told her to stop and told Are'ea to get ready for an attack. She looked at me in a manner as if to ask if I was mad but I reassured her as best I could and putting her full trust in me got into a position ready to attack the Persian.
The Persian was laying low to the ground looking from Kandy to me then to Are'ea and seemed to find the fact that it's previous play thing was about to battle it. I watched at the Persian carefully as it mocked Are'ea by starting to clean one of its paws but it was obviously still on high alert as its eyes stayed trained to the Vulpix.
I knew close range attacks weren't going to work to well with the Persian, it was larger and faster than Are'ea and she'd have no chance, we had to depend on her fire abilities.
"Are'ea wait for it to make the first move and stay absolutely still until I tell you to move ok?" She nodded without looking at me and the Persian seemed to realise it was time to move as it stopped its cleaning and got into a defensive position ready to defend or attack, depending what it felt like I guess. It became impatient quickly and launched the first attack, a weak scratch that was badly aimed. I gave Are'ea the cue at the very last moment and she dodged, the next moment she spun around and took a quick snap at the Persian's paw as it retreated again. She missed but that didn't matter. Though the next swipe of extended claws from the Persian cuffed her over the head and she went sliding along the ground a short distance. I swore but she got up onto all fours again and fanned her tails out.
"Good Are'ea! Do that move we've been practicing, I'm sure you can do it!" She didn't give any movement or sound to show she heard me but started up an agility around and around the Persian in an attempt to confuse it and take it off the scent of what she was really doing. It worked and the Persian had to shake its head to get rid of the dizziness that was becoming plainly visible in its eyes.
"Are'ea JUMP!" I shouted quickly as the Persian suddenly started taking massive swipes at the air around it hoping that at least one would hit home. I started calling out movements so she could dodge each of the attacks and she followed the orders exactly leaving the Persian with only hitting nothing more than air.
"Ok, Are'ea Now!" and she leaped away from the Persian and just stood there, appearing to do nothing what so ever and the Persian faulted from confussion. I grinned and suddenly a turret of flames went spiraling out of Are'ea's mouth and towards the Persian. The Persian having had no prior warning and somewhat shell shocked from the sudden attack of flames took the full hit to its body and went sailing across the grass a good couple of meters. Are'ea cried out happily as she'd gotten her move down perfectly and I cheered along with her. Suddenly Kandy called out from behind me, "Throw a pokeball while it's dazed Damon!" So I did.
Grabbing one of the empty pokeballs from my belt I enlarged it and threw it towards the dazed Persian in nearly the same moment. The pokeball bounced off the Persian's body and hit the ground before bursting open and sending a crimson red beam to its belly and sucking it inside. I waited a few moments as the pokeball shook then stopped moving as the indicator button went green to say I'd just caught a new pokemon.
I couldn't help but grin and be somewhat happy at catching a pokemon again, I hadn't done it in a long time and it's a wonderful feeling. Are'ea quickly rushed over to the pokeball and picked it up in her mouth before racing back to me and dropping the pokeball at my feet. She scowled at it somewhat before turning her rapt attention up at me, she was most pleased with herself for finally getting her hidden flames attack down perfectly. I bobbed down to pick up both my new pokemon and Are'ea and was about to go running around like a mad man cheering when Kandy suddenly popped up infront of me grinning broadly. That stopped me dead. But she ran up closer to me and put her arms around me in a tight hug that somewhat squished Are'ea before letting go and starting to talk a mile a minute. She seemed more excited than I was and I faulted a moment just watching her bouncing around like an idiot and speaking quiet loudly about how I'd handled Are'ea and the Persian. Then she suddenly stopped and was in my face again and I had to take a step backwards as she looked down on me and asked how I'd taught my pokemon how to hide its flames like that. All I could do was stutter and make sounds instead of form full words so I wasn't exactly able to answer her. She didn't seem to mind exactly much and went back to moving around and talking loudly again.
That went on for a good solid fifteen minutes more even after we'd started walking along the path again and even still after that she kept on bringing the subject up again and again and going over everything a million times. For me the novelty wore off quiet quickly and I couldn't see what exactly was so special about what I'd just done. Are'ea seemed to be of the same mind as me if not more so. I just sighed and decided to just let Kandy go on and on about whatever she wanted, I wasn't exactly listening anyway and just watching the countryside change instead as we walked.


************* That ended crappy like and and...... I can't do fight scenes x.X; *wavies* better next time maybe.. ************