Author's Notes: 24.09.09
Wow, i've been uploading a chapter per day for the last few days now!! I'm progressing faster than i expected. This is great.
Yesterday Silver Leafx posted a chapter called "Electric Wool" in her FF "Unseen, Unheard, Unfelt." that is actually like another side to this chapter. Ok, screw chapter 9, because by far i think this chapter is the best (and longest) and certainly rocks POKEMON SOCKS!! Silver Leafx's version is actually the stuff and so much more funny than mine is ;) If you like this FF be sure to check out "Unseen, Unheard, Unfelt" and take the time to compare/contrast between her chapter 4 ("Electric Wool") and my chapter 11 ("Kanto's Forest Fight")!!! It's awesomeness!!!
Okay, besides that i'd like to say that "Sophie Ng" is Silver Leafx's OC and i do not own her ;)
OH!! Cannot forget! Read and Review, and also keep in mind there's only a certain amount of OCs i will accept!! Get those OCs in so i can include them in my story (i need some spots filled). You can find some more detail on Chapter 7 ("Yoshi vs. Denzi") and get a form from there if you aren't sure what to include with your OC. I love OCs. It's so much more fun tingling around with them than knocking my head into a knife trying to think of a good charactor. :ll
In anycase ima stop my jabber now. I hope to post the next Chapter soon and show you some more overlapping of "Unseen, Unheard, Unfelt." and "Belief at Dawn."
Enjoy!! Sorry its so long, but i hope its worth it!!!
Chapter 11: Kanto's Forest Fight.
Finally, Yoshi and I arrived at Pallet Town, after what seemed to be like forever. No, seriously, spending two days on a rocking boat is not very entertaining.
Even after the whole day delay, I finally get my first glance of Kanto (Vulpix was just a little too adventurous, sleeping in the ship's coal burner causing some serious clogging, almost getting me a float for swimming my way to Kanto. Flash Fire just made Vulpix a little TOO special…).
Kanto was unusually green, the shores were clean and the sand was nice and white. The water was magnificently clear, so clear, I could see the bottom and the inhabitants; water Pokemon of all kind, varying from Goldeen to Starmi to flopping Magikarp. I leaned against the dock's steel brim, looking down at the Pokemon, craving to catch them. I glanced up at the tall trees, most with unusual fruit that I haven't seen in my life. A flock of cute bird Pokemon (that Yoshi pointed out as Starly) flew over the trees in the distance as a few Butterfree emerged from the leaves. I gasped in delight at the scenery which was so different than I had imagined.
Finally the ship had come around to a more populated area ( when I mean populated, I just meant I could see a few buildings). It pulled up next to a lonely dock with only a single port and no other ships in sight. I squinted and looked past the thin trees and saw a cottage and a few houses, and then a middle-sized station to buy boat tickets at, but other than that it was pretty empty of people.
"Yoshi…" I murmured in thought. He turned to look at me.
"Hmmm?"
"Why is there so…little people?" I asked, grabbing my bag ready to go. He shrugged.
"Most people don't get off here. They get off on the ship's last stop at Cinnabar Island," Yoshi yawned, getting his stuff as well, "Plus Pallet Town is like a Kanto version of Kinya. Not much to it."
I hopped down off the last of the S.'s stairway step and landed on the dock, bowing down and kissing the wet, soggy wood, part of me thinking Landdddd….at lastttt!!! and another thinking Ew, that was gross.
I got up, and saw Yoshi staring at me in an awkward fashion, like I was a mentally handicap thirteen year old that excaped from an Insanity institution. Riolu was flopped over on his head, looking at me in confusion. It quirked its head to one side, letting out a small Luuu…
"What you want?" I looked at him, giving off a look of unforgiveness, my face burning with embarassment.
"Kid, I want you to be normal," Yoshi stated, applying presure to the word "normal" a bit too much. He rubbed his face deadly before turning around to walk away.
"W-Wait!!"
We came to the heart of Pallet Town, Yoshi in lead, happily playing with Riolu that was on his shoulder. At that I realized he was completely ignoring me, since I had tripped over the uneven terrain more than five times and Yoshi never noticed one bit. Finally we were walking on a few walkways (thank Arceus) headed towards a small red roof building labled in giant letters "P.C".We stopped at a Pokemon Center to heal our Pokemon real fast and I convinced Yoshi to let me buy a few Pokeballs. Soon enough Yoshi had led me up a hill towards a fairly large, white building, which Yoshi pointed out was his professor's lab. When we finally reached the top of the hill (oh my, it was hell of steep), I saw a fairly large crowd of people, mostly a bunch of kids and a couple of teenagers. I took it as a bit of surprise, since I thought that Pallet was close to being deserted like explained to me that these kids were Pokemon-trainers-to-be, and that the infamous Professor Oak was giving them a starter Pokemon and a Pokedex for their journey.
I looked over at the variety of kids, from the jumpy joyful "the-world-is-filled-with-Roselia-and-Sunflora" little kids, to the "I-wish-I-was-a-mentally-unstable-Magikarp" teens. I couldn't help but notice a magnificent Rapidash that was galloping here, its beautiful fire mane blowing in the breeze. Three girls were on its back, all of them looking somewhat like one another, with the one in the back looking slightly younger. The Rapidash came to a stop, and the young one dismounted in such a way that she ended up on her butt to the ground. I couldn't help but laugh with the rest of the crowd at the sight, but before I could see what happened afterwards Yoshi grabbed my wrist and dragged me trough the occupied crowd to near the front of the locked glass doors of the giant white lab.
A figure could be seen walking towards the glass doors. After a small click it slid opened and standing there was a middle-aged man wearing a white robe around his casual dressing. His hair was unevenly grayish and whitish balding above the forhead slightly. The crowed grew silent as all eyes were on him before he began to speak.
"Ah," he began, sweeping his eyes amoung the people, "Glad to see you all here on this most pleasant day. I am Professor Oak as some of you may know."
To his statement there was a scattered bunch of "Mm-hm" as a reply. Of course, none coming from me. And even if I did know him, I wouldn't be going Mmmmmm-hmmm!! as a reply anyways. After a long moment I finally realized that his voice was the one of the man Yoshi called a couple days ago back at Versuaz.
"I suppose I shouldn't keep you waiting," Oak continued, "So I need to ask you all to enter calmly and quietly. The starters are all out in the pens. If you find the one you would like, please notify an assistant."
With that, Oak turned around and retuned into the lab, people following him close by. Yoshi hurried and dragged me through the crowed, clawing his way to reach Professor Oak. In my mind I was repeating Oak's words, and every time I did I realized that Oak had mentioned we follow him calmly and quietly.
Not long things were getting less and less like canned Barboach, as everyone scattered around and looked at the pens, debating which pokemon would be the best one. I saw a really cute Charmander, so I drifted away from Yoshi to go see it closer. Before I could however, Yoshi grabbed my hand and dragged me again, passing the pen filled with a bunch of Squrtle in a mini pool and a few Bulbasaur's in the neighboring pen that were using their vines to touch the excited children.
Yoshi and I were the first one's to reach Oak, unsurprisingly. I could see little kids eyeing and pointing at Riolu that was pearched on top of Yoshi's head, enjoying the chaotic view. I knew they envied Yoshi and wanted that cute and unusual Pokemon…so did I.
"Hello, Yoshiro. Long time no see," Oak greeted Yoshi with a smile, "What have you been up to lately?"
"Umm…nothing important that you should know right now ," Yoshi replied, "I've came here for the Pokedex I've ordered for Kira."
"Oh, that," Oak muttered softly, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small, bright red Pokedex, "I've already entered Kira's information, so you should be good to go."
"That is great," Yoshi said, grabbing the Pokedex with one hand and my wrist with the other, "We'll be off now, alright?"
Yoshi left no room for Oak to say goodbye. He hurried through the crowd once more, dragging me along without caring who's feet I stepped on.
"Why are we in a hurry again?" I asked, adding a "sorry" the person next to me which I just bumped into.
"We have to get to Celedon City fast, or else I'll be late for my business," Yoshi replied. We had finally gotten away from all the people and were now headed down the hill, my mouth still complaining.
"Ahh…and I wanted to do some Pokemon hunting with the new poke balls I just bought…"
Yoshi and I had already arrived at Viridian City, but Yoshi didn't stop to eat like he said he would. He told me the food was much better at Celedon than Viridian, but I really took it as a lie. We had reached the outskirts of town, the Viridian forest in sight. Yoshi and I followed the trail that led around the forest and to an underground passage way that Yoshi claimed would get us to Celedon faster. I didn't know about him, but I would rather take the hard way around and go through a giant, spooky forest filled with Pokemon rather than a stupid underground tunnel.
"Pi-piiii…"
I turned around at a high pitched cry dragging from some nearby trees. I looked up, seeing a small Pidgey pearched up on the branches, looking down on me in a devious manner. Excited and full of joy, I grabbed onto Yoshi arm and pointed at it, receiving a smirk from Mr. Know-it-all.
"You seriously want a Pidgey?" he asked, snorting.
"No, but I do want a Pidgeot!"
Soon enough the Pidgey hopped off its branch and started flying into the forest, me running after it in pursuit. I could hear Yoshi's voice yelling at me in shock, but I didn't have time to make up his words. I trampled through bushes, keeping a good eye on Pidgey, daring not to let it get away. The forest got thicker and bushes were coming up to my knees, its thorns tearing through my black tights and catching onto my skirt. I brushed leaves off my head, and suddenly in a blink of an eye the Pidgey was out of sight, gone with the wind. Furious, I stopped and looked around. It was several minutes later I spotted it sitting on another tree branch.
"Pi-piii…" it called, once again hopping off to fly away, hopping on the ground, tired.
I wasn't going to let it get away this time. I pulled out one of my brand new Pokeballs from my hoodie pocket and aimlessly threw it at the Pidgey. Disappointingly, before it could reach the Pidgey it had smacked into another Pokeball, and fell to the ground with a plop. Confused, I walked towards it and ended up in a clearing where the sky could actually be seen. I kneeled down to pick up my ball, and saw someone standing across from me. Looking up, I saw a girl that seemed to be around my age. Her short hair was tied into a tight ponytail, and grabbing onto it was a small Cubone sitting on her shoulder.
"You idiot!" She yelled suddenly, her dark eyes glaring at me with fury "What were you thinking? You knocked my pokéball right out of the air!"
"I could say the same about you!" I snapped suddenly, unable to control my anger. Usually I was polite and very lady like, but this girl with an attitude was enough to get on my bad side.
"Of all the one's you had to catch, why that one?" She snarled wildly, "Or was it just the perfect one?"
"You make me sound like an airhead," I replied with a snort, giving her a glare.
"Oh my. How silly of me. How could I possibly mistake you for one?" The girl added with a tone of sarcasm. If there was one thing I hated the most, it was sarcasm.
"Oh you…." I kepted my glare, looking at her with an expression of filth. I examined her; Papa's words telling me that you can sometimes tell how people were by looking at their appearance echoed in my mind. The girl looked rather devious, someone you wouldn't want to mess with, with her short-sleeved hoodie and jeans. Taken back negatively of the similar dressing style, I soon came down and saw a Bulbasaur clamped hard on her leg. The sight was both appealing and priceless.
"No..no…you couldn't…you couldn't…" I stated, unable to keep my laughter in. Tears were dripping down and I gasped desprately for air. The girl gave me a demon glare, muttering something under her breath.
That was my cure from laughter.
Her Bulbasaur came soaring at me, its mouth wide open. It chomped down on my leg, its teeth sinking in as I cried in pain. I did an idiotic dance of "get-the-pokemon-off-my-leg". Before anything else could happen, though, I heard a feint sound coming from not to far away, and I looked over to see the Pidgey I was after looking at us, wondering what on earth was going on. It shrugged lightly, before flying away.
"Oh no you don't…" I growled under my breath, and looked at the girl. She looked at me looking at her, franticly, and in a split second we took of like runners towards the Pidgey, both with Pokeballs in our hands.
Halfway across the clearing, right when I thought I was under that Pidgey, something came of nowhere, and out of the corner of my eye I saw the red and white blur smack right into the girl's face (which I found rather entertaining).
"What? What?" the girl questioned, looking around confusingly.
"What happened?" I asked her, squinting my eyes trying to find the owner of the Pokeball that randomly came out and hit the girl's jaw. The next thing I knew I was hearing the fluttering of wings and when I looked up Pidgey was already flying away. I sighed and put my Pokeball away as the girl returned her Bulbasuar back to her ball. I felt a fast rush through my numb leg as Bulbasaur was gone with a feint "Saur..".
The girl shuffled back and forth a bit, then turned at me and began, "Hey…Are you o-"
"What in the world were you two imbeciles doing, blocking our Pokéball like that?" A voice filled with aggrovation interrupted. With that, two figures stepped out from the forest and into the clearing, revealing a tall, well dressed sassy blond with a much shorter little boy that shared very similar charactoristics from her.
"We didn't block it. You threw it at us!" The girl snapped, revealing her white fangs as she glared at the two newcomers. The tall blond thined her eyes at us, filling them with disgust.
"Why in the world would we want our Pokéball touching the likes of you?" The tall blond sneered.
"Why would we want your Pokéball to touch us?" I replied with a mental backhand to her snotty face, her body falling three feet back in my imaginations.
"Why…" The the little boy began, "…don't we settle this with a battle."
Right on spot the girl and I spoke daringly in unison, "Ha. You're ON!!"
"The rules will be... Two Pokémon each, one-on-one battle. We get first move." The little boy continued, smirking in a mocking matter. Ha! He thinks getting first move will get him very far? Nice way to get cocky.
"It won't matter if they get the first move. We'll still beat them," I leaned over and muttered in the girl's ears, making sure she wasn't intimidated by his cocky act. She mearly looked at me and smirked.
"You know, you don't sound air-headed at all," she replied.
"I should hope so," I laughed, "Go, Mareep!!"
Right then I dug my hand into my hoodie pocket and pulled out the cloudy and dull Pokeball, throwing it on the ground. The red mist-like flames spit out the now dazzling Mareep fresh from the Pokemon Center, all pumped and ready to fight as she stomped the ground and cried out her high pitched "Ma-arrr!!"
"Rui, take them out!!" The girl cried before turning to her Cubone on her shoulder and nodded. Cubone jumped off and did a flip before landing, its bone weapon clutched in its paw. Cubone's growl and Mareep's stomping didn't intimidate our foes. They just stood there, smiling patronizingly.
"Try this for size. Roselia!" The tall blond shouted and threw in her own Pokemon now. In the blink of an eye a Roselia was standing there, showing off it's thorns. For it's small size it did seem frightening, but something barely a foot tall couldn't scare Mareep.
"Rattata!" The boy cried, sending out the purple rat that was just a weeeeee bit bigger than the Roselia. The Rattata seemed to be as cocky as his trainer, licking its purple fur and making it obvious that he thought beating us was a piece of cake.
"Why that one, Ryan?" The blond whined at the little boy, who seemed to be named Ryan.
"Because Squirtle would get fried by that thing!" Ryan moaned, pointing at Mareep with a stern look, "I know my type disadvantages, Aris."
"Fine," The blond, or should I say, Aris, muttered, completely ignoring Ryan. Without warning she gave an evil glance at Cubone and shouted, "Roselia!! Absorb!"
"Rui, dodge and Bonemerang!" The girl cried without delay. Cubone jumped out of the way of Roselia's attack and threw it's bone weapon right at Roselia's skull with a loud Clank!
I watched in awe as Cubone and Roselia exchanged attacks rapidly, forgetting that I had my own battle to fight. I came to my senses when I heard Ryan's loud and annoying voice yell, "Rattata!! Use Tackle attack!!"
"Mareep!!" I yelled almost seconds after Ryan finished, "Counter it with your own Tackle!!"
Mareep charged forward and clashed skull to skull with Rattata. Rattata's light weight and small size was my advantage, and I saw Rattata being pushed back, skidding across the ground. Rattata didn't waste anytime there. It got right back up, and came again head on with another Tackle attack.
"Mareep, counter it again with Tackle!!"
Once again Mareep charged head first towards the coming Rattata. To my surprise, this time, instead of bashing head to head like before, the Rattata jumped up over Mareep's head, and using Mareep's face as footing, leaped over to behind Mareep. Rattata turned around and used a Tackle attack, knocking Mareep to the ground and taking me by surprise.
"Get up, Mareep!!" I whispered to myself and halfly her. Mareep got up and faced Rattata, which was coming at her quick once again. Assuming it was another Tackle attack, I yelled out to Mareep:
"Mareep! Jump back and use Thundershock!!"
Mareep let out her high pitched cry and released a large electric bolt from her wool. It missed Rattata by and inch, and by the time Mareep used another Thundershock it was too late. Rattata tackled Mareep once again, jumping back to get another head start for another attack. I was starting to get sick of this. This Rattata needed to stop moving around.
"Mareep, use Thunderwave quick!!"
"Rattata, Quick attack now!!" I could hear Ryan call out, "They can't kill us if they can't catch us!!"
Oh Fearow, I heard myself think. This bundle of purple crap can get faster?
I watched Mareep release her Thunderwave, but it missed as I expected. Rattata was now moving at blinding speed, spinning our heads as we tried to find where it was. Every few seconds I saw Mareep whine as Rattata hurdled into her sides. Rattata was coming from all directions, dominating with light weight attacks. Mareep rustled and turned, frustratingly pounding her hooves into the ground and snorting as it winced again from yet another attack.
"Mareep!! We got to slow it down with Thunderwave!!" I yelled, already knowing it was useless. The attacks were way off. They just hit the ground as Rattata went off dogding and lodging attacks. I was getting iritated.
Think..Think..Think…I cried to myself. There had got to be another way to get this dumb Rattata off Mareep. I glanced at the battle taking place next to me for just a second, seeing Roselia shooting needles franticly at Cubone as Cubone blocked using his club. If only Mareep had a weapon for blocking that Rattata, or better yet, if only Mareep had thorns that oozed poison into anybody who came into contact like Roselia. All that Mareep had was a body wrapped with electrified wool.
A light bulb went off. That was is. Electrofied wool.
"Mareep!! Use Charge!!" I screamed to get it from my head to Mareep's head loud and clear. Mareep nodded and stood still, focusing herself on the attack. Not for long I started to see sparks go off like Super Novas on her wool. As the clock ticked, the wool got more static releases while Mareep stood there focused, trying to ignore to Rattata running around her, planning on where it would land its next attack.
"Wait for it…." I muttered to myself, keeping one eye on Mareep and the other on Rattata. Finnally, the purple rat striked. It rammed itself into Mareep's sides again, but this time it was up for a "shocking" surprise. The electricity in Mareep's wool electrified Rattata, shocking it as it fell to the ground motionless. It tried but failed to get up on all fours. The shock had Paralyzed the Pokemon, thanks to Mareep's Static Ability and Charge that intensified it. It couldn't move now.
"Mareep!! Don't delay use that electricity on Rattata with Thundershock!!"
"Maaa….REEEP!!!"
With a loud cry, Mareep sent a giant thunderbolt at Rattata, this time way bigger than the last. It hit Rattata so hard, that I really did think it would get roasted. Rattata was burned and knocked out, and Ryan returned it to it's Pokeball with a snort.
I looked over to the other battle on my right to see how it was progressed. Cubone had a wound that was oozing toxin, and it was just laying there. Obviously, the girl had no Pokeball for it. In battle was her evil leg-nipping Bulbasaur, vivciously using Vine Whip on the guarding Roselia. Sunlight beat down hard on the clearing, and I heard Aris yell out, "Solarbeam!!"
I stood there as shocked as the Rattata on the ground. Did Roselia learn Solarbeam? Or was it a TM?
"Bulbasaur! Tackle and bite her head! Don't let it see sunlight!" The girl yelled. Bulbasaur leaped forward, chomping down real hard. The roots all over Roselia's body seemed to be Bulbasaur's Leech Seed, and it seemed to be doing a great effect on the battle. Aris was growing in panic.
"Roselia! Use Poison Sting, Absorb, anything!" She cried, her voice cracking with madness. Roselia, however, was done for. It fell to the ground knocked out. Another down. This girl and her Bulbasaur was better than I expected.
The girl returned her Bulbasaur and pulled out a potion to heal her Cubone. It was about time, I thought in the back of my mind. I really felt like asking how it was doing, but it occurred to me that this wasn't a good time.
"Go Squirtle!" Ryan's voice filled the clearing, and I turned to pay more attention to Mareep.
"Aipom, make my time worth it!" Aris called, throwing out an Aipom that I saw mocking Cubone from the corner of my eye.
I looked at Mareep. It was so worn down that it was barely standing. All those attacks from Rattata had really beat her, plus that Thundershock at the end must've drained all of what she got. I could switch her out with Vulpix, but all the type advantages were pointing to Mareep, telling her to stay. It was a hard dicision to make, but I decided to use Mareep to wear Squrtle down enough and finish it off with Vulpix.
"Squirtle!! Use Bubble!!" I heard Ryan call out for the first move. Squrtle began blowing bubbles out from its mouth. The bubbles floated lightly to Mareep, bursting on contact with a loud POP!! Mareep whailed as she tried to move away from the attack.
"Mareep, use Thunderwave!!" I called out, thinking of moves randomly by now. Mareep was too occupied to use the attack, which came to my disapointment. Mareep was so tired she couldn't prepare the attacks fast enough. She was too tired to dodge the Bubble attack. It seemed like Mareep was at her limit, but in the back of my heart I knew she could go on. Like Yoshi said, a good trainer knows his Pokemon's limits.
"Mareep!! Charge!" I cried, thinking if only Mareep could get just a little bit more electricity she could land somewhat of a Thundershock. Mareep stood there once more in focus, aborbing electricity as her wool began to puff up and crackle.
"Squrtle! What are you waiting for!?! Use Water Gun!" Ryan cried at his Pokemon. With that, Squrtle was like a hose, squrting gallons and gallons of water from it mouth onto the charging Mareep. I couldn't wait any longer. It was hitting Mareep.
"Mareep! Take whatever you got and turn it into Thundershock!!"
This had really back fired on me.
Mareep released her Thundershock, only to get shocked back. The Bubbles and the Water Gun attacks got her wool soaked before she could use Thundershock. Mareep cried out in pain, falling back half conscious. Squrtle didn't hesitate. It zoomed right in with a Tackle attack merciless.
"Mareep!!" I cried, bending down to look at my Pokemon. Mareep got back up steadily, and nodded at me with a "Reep!" She wanted to fight till the end.
"Alright!" I flared up, "No holding back, Mareep! Use Thunderwave right now!"
With a loud battle cry, Mareep sent bolts of lightning right at Squrtle. Unfortunatly, Squrtle saw it coming, and used Withdrawal, hiding its body in its shell to weaken the already weak attack. Squrtle used another Tackle attack, and Mareep was lucky enough to dodge it with just a graze. Squrtle took a sharp turn and leaped into the air, shooting out water from its mouth again. The attack gave me a great idea.
"Mareep!! Dodge and use Thundershock from the side, but don't attack Squrtle!! Attack it's Water Gun!!"
"Reep!!" Mareep replied, and jumped out of the way of the Water Gun attack. Mareep shot her lightning at the Water Gun. Just as I thought, the lightning didn't go straight through, but it took a sharp turn and followed the water up straight to Squrtle's mouth.
"Sqquuurrrrr!!" Squrtle cried as it rolled on the ground electrocuted. That wasn't enough. Squrtle easily got up and stood mad, blowing bubbles towards Mareep.
"Dodge it, Mareep!!" I cried, but Mareep was too slow now. She jumped but got attacked, and was blown back as Squrtle dashed forward with yet another Tackle. Mareep was at her limit. She did well.
"You were awesome out there, Mareep," I muttered and smiled at the half unconscious Mareep. She looked at me sadly and failed to reply as I sent her back into her ball.
"Hahaha, what is this? Water beating Electic?" Ryan mocked at me, holding his stomach as he cracked himself up, "If you can't win with a Type advantage then you're Pokemon is just plain weak!!"
"I'll show you a win with type disadvantage, you cocky jerk!" I cried furiously out as I replaced Mareep's ball with Vulpix's, "Go, Pix!!"
Out of the red mist-like flames came the beautiful Vulpix, its yellow fur and gold tail shining brighter than ever. Although I haven't even used Vulpix in a battle before, I felt like Vulpix could pull this off smoothly.I saw Ryan watch Vulpix growl with confusion, and he finally opened his mouth.
"I thought Vulpix were red!" He hollered. I simply smirked.
"Ever heard of shiney pokemon?"
I glanced off to the right and saw Cubone dominating the Aipom with bare hands and extremely stunning fighting attacks that wasn't even pokemon moves at all. Heck, I never knew a Cubone could fight like a fighting type pokemon. Seems like Swipe wasn't a good move for Aipon to use with a Cubone and it's weapon. I smiled, turning back to Vulpix, thinking harder than ever. If I were to beat this Squrtle, I'd have to find a way, other than attacking it with some fire attacks.
I remembered Yoshi's battle with Denzi. Defense and a good comeback was just as important as offense. Vulpix would be ok for now, since she had high Special Defense, but soon enough those Water Guns and Bubbles will get to Vulpix deep. I just had to try.
"Pix, use Confuse Ray!!" I cried. Vulpix's eye's turned light as she sent a colorful orb flying at Squrtle. It flew round and round Squrtle, confusing it. It hit itself trying to snap itself out of confusion, but failed.
"Pix!! Hurry and use Flamethrower now!!"
"Pixxx!!" Vulpix replied, shooting super hot flares of fire at Squrtle. It was a direct hit, but it wasn't hurt that much at all.
"Pix! Try Ember!!"
Vulpix nodded, and breathed in a gasp of air before blowing out a large fire ball towards Squrtle. It hit it right on it's stomach, but like before nothing seemed to happen.
"This isn't going to work," I muttered to both myself and Vulpix. I tried to think of more Yoshi Wise Words, because the one about defense wasn't working right now. Sadly, nothing came up, besides the one where he kept on saying during the "Battle Breaker" epidsodes and cermercials: "A good trainer learns from experience."
(no, not "DANG YOU ARCEUS!" )
Oh, well, that was nice, I thought sarcastically. What possibly would I have done in the past to get me out if this situation!!? Would it have been the time where I won a battle just by using a random attack off the top of my head? Or wait, what about the time where I ran stupidly away from the grunts and ended up revealing myself because I didn't think the door was locked!? Oh, I know, I certainly got experience from the time where I just shot Thunderwave at a Rattata running around with Quick attack at the speed of lightning!!
I had no time to think and talk sarcastically with myself. Squrtle had snapped out of confusion and used Bubble as Vulpix barely dodged out of its way.
Think!! Come on, there has got to be a way out of a bad situation like this. Obviously, fire attacks aren't going to work. This was a big loss on my side. I thought about what I've done in the pass, and thought about what Yoshi has done, and even thought about what the girl next to me has done, but nothing came up right.
Oh..that was it!
"Pix!! I cried out of excitement, "Use Quick Attack now!! Overwhelm them with speed!!"
Yes, why didn't I think of that before. The battle between Rattata and Mareep, how I couldn't counter Rattata's Quick Attacks at all. Looks like Yoshi's words came in handy once more.
Vulpix was almost imitating Rattata exactly, becoming a blur of yellow and gold, striking Squrtle from everywhere. Squrtle squinted at each concussion, trying to counter. I saw Ryan smirk, and opened his mouth to yell.
"Squrtle!! Use Gyro ball!!" This took me by a large surprise. I never knew Squrtle could learn Gyro Ball, or was he using a TM like Aris? No, he couldn't be. Is his Pokemon even at a high enough level to handle that attack?
"Pix!! We can't let it attack!! Occupy it with Confuse Ray!!" I cried. Vulpix stopped as her eyes turned light once again.
Confuse Ray hit, but was too late. Squrtle had already shot it's Gyro Ball, and Vulpix's speed had gone against it as it enhanced the attacks power. If only she were still using Quick Attack she would've had a better chance of dodging it. Vulpix didn't get hit by the giant silver orb directly, but she still fell to the ground so hard I thought she was knocked dead. Notheless, Vulpix got up, and I saw Squrtle suddenly beat up and gasping for air tiredly. The Gyro ball must've been too much for it. Squrtle shook its head, trying to snap itself out of confusion once again. I needed to end the battle now. It was my only chance.
"Pix!! Take all that you've got and use you're best Flamethrower ever!!" I cried. Vulpix shot a line of fire out of its mouth again, but Squrtle snapped out of confusion just in time to counter the attack with Water Gun. The burning fire and super fast glimmering water collided in the center. Steam arose viciously as the battle came to a stalemate.
Both sides were tired, giving it their all to outlast the opponents attack. It was down to whoever ran out of gas first. I watched irritatingly, waiting for someone to just knock dead. My heart pumped out of my chest and into my throat, pleading that Vulpix would just hold on a little longer.
Seems like I was in luck.
I saw out of the corner of my eye, Aris's Aipom flying in the direction of the Water Gun-and-Flamethrower frontline, tossed by the girl's Cubone. It blocked Squrtle's line of fire and allowed the Flamethrower to advance as Squrtle aborted the attack out of surprise. Squrtle was hit head on with Vulpix's best Flamethrower yet. Squrtle was done for. The match was over.
I looked over to my right at the girl, both of us smiled ear to ear.
"YES!" we cried before jumping up and hugging each other, forgetting we were total strangers. I turned to look at Vulpix trotting to me, looking hurt and half dead but happy as ever. I was about to reach down to give her a hug, when..
"I can't believe you would cheat like that," The sound of Aris ruined the fun for all of us. She stood there with a sour look on her face, sassy as ever.
"You would accuse us of cheating?" The girl said, watching as Aris brushed her blond hair off her shoulder.
"Hmph. It is the obvious conclusion to draw," Aris replied, perking her nose in the air.
"Just because we won doesn't mean we cheated," I took a step forward, frustratingly controlling myself not to run up there and punch her in the face, "After all, we didn't use TM's or anything like you did."
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Aris said cheaply.
"Oh, come on! Don't be thick!" the girl next to me rolled her eyes with irritation, "Roselia doesn't learn Solar Beam on its own. I would have thought you would know that,"
"Well, I would love to prove you wrong, but you are a waste of time. Come along, Ryan," Aris spoke loftily, turning away to trot out of the clearing like an 8-year-old would, her brother Ryan dragging his feet behind her.
"What a bunch off.." the girl started, trailing into a long line of swearing that really made me want to back of before they came around about to me. She turned to look at me and stopped,
"Sorry. I don't think you know my name," she held out her hand, "I'm Sophie Ng."
"Kira," I replied short and simply, and shook her held out hand.
"Eh... I'm sorry about earlier... I was kind of... You know..." She looked over sheepishly and smiled, "You aren't really bad at all."
"It's fine," I laughed, "I hope you'll forgive me too."
Sophie gave a quick nod.
"Friends?" she asked.
"Friends"
I laughed at Sophie as she breathed out in relief.
"We should probably get back to Viridian, these girls need to get a check up," she said, nodding to her Cubone and Bulbasaur.
"Mine too.." I muttered, looking down at Vulpix and patting her head. She made a soft sound that was similar to purring, before beginning to rub her head on my hand. I looked over to Sophies two pokemon.
"Erm... If you don't mind, what is wrong with your Bulbasaur?" I finally asked, seeing the Bulbasaur clamped on Sophies leg right back where it started. She sighed deeply.
"To be honest, I have no idea."
*Woo more awesomeness!! its a long chappy!! Did chu like the battle...or was it too long to bare?! :(
Lol i have nothing better to do. I typed some random stuff down here to get the words up to 7k. Its not going to well, aparently lol!!!
Aw, Fearow ( i love saying that instead of...you know XD ) screw this. I got 100 words to go lol. JUUUUUUUSSST wasting your sweet time here, you know.
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