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Chapter # 12 - Water Loving Giant
Alex stared out the window at the orange and red sunset with her eevee curled up on her lap. Paul lay on his bed, glancing at the girl occasionally. She had changed her normal outfit to a pair of turquoise shorts with a dark purple tank top, a black and blue yin and yang necklace hung loosely around her neck, matching her black and blue shoes.
She picked eevee up in her arms and headed towards the door. "I'll be back later, I'm going for a walk to clear my mind."
She walked outside of the center and into the cool, fresh air. She leaned against the railing overlooking the picturesque lake. It was a beautiful sight; the water was so clear that Port Valor reflected off the lake, making it look like there were two cities, one on top of the other. Eevee hopped out of Alex's arms to perch on the rail with her trainer.
After a few peaceful moments, a bright light glowed in the river, and a shadow of a pokemon floated gracefully in the air before going back into the beam it came. Alex and eevee blinked.
"Isis, you saw that too, right?"
"Ee." She nodded slowly.
"M'kay, that proves it, we're both going crazy. We've had too much excitement for one day, let's go back inside."
*****
Alex looked at the screen to see who her second battle victim would be. "Nice." She snickered at the cards' selection.
"Okay, for our next second stage battle, on the left, it's Alex. And on my right, it's Ash. The time limit is five minutes. Let's go!"
"Alex up against Ash? She better crush him." Paul grumbled, subconsciously griping Alex's eevee tighter to him. He would defiantly not travel with somebody who couldn't beat that pathetic loser.
Ash tried to keep his calm as one of his childhood rivals, and friends, stood across the stage from him, prepared for a battle. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, hidden under his black top hat. He had entered to help buizel become stronger and to have fun, but now he was also fighting to show her how strong he became.
"Tada. Buizel, I choose you!" Ash exclaimed. An orange weasel like pokemon confidently stood on his floating platform, arms crossed over his chest and eyes narrowed.
"Tempest, center stage!" called Alex. A long, blue, serpentine pokemon with a pure white belly and small unicorn horn dove out of a cloud of fluffy white smoke and into the pool. Water trickled down the dragons shimmering, sapphire-blue scales and the blue orbs under its neck and end of its tail. "Tempest, start us off with dragon pulse!" Dragonair charged up power in a large bluish orb.
"Buizel, use sonic boom!" The attack caused dragonair to be thrown out of the water and into the air. Ash smirked at Alex, only to see her shake her head and chuckle. Ash looked up to see dragonair flying directly above buizel.
"Now, finish your dragon rage please." Buizel got hit hard by the strong, but pretty attack and stood back up. "I know you too well Ash. Contests just aren't your thing. Tempest, use ice beam!"
"Okay go for it, use aqua jet!" Ash called.
"Huh?" Alex frowned as the water pokemon's water attack coated over with ice and proceeded to hit her blue dragon effectively. "Well that was new. Alright, use twister!" Dragonair recovered quickly and manipulated the water into a huge tycoon, trapping the orange fish within its rage.
"Oh no! Buizel use sonic boom to get out." His plan succeeded in freeing his pokemon, but Dragonair was ready and coiled around it like a snake to its prey. It squeezed tightly causing buizel to cry out in pain and lash out, attempting to get free.
"Finish this off, thunder." Dragonair's orbs shone bright yellow and cackled with electricity; its thunder lit up the entire arena dazzlingly. The dragon splashed back into the pool and the orange fish pokemon kneeled on a platform weakly.
"And our time is up. Moving on to the semi-finals is… Alex and dragonair!" Announced the MC.
"Yes! Awesome job Tempest." Alex cheered.
She watched as the other three semi-finalists were announced and saw whom she'd be up against.
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"Discharge now; dodge and then spark; use quick attack to evade! Okay guys that's good for now." A lion like pokemon landed on its paws and skidded back to a stop as the flurry of attacks against it had stopped. Its new trainer walked over and petted his black mane. "Not bad." Alex complimented her newest pokemon.
After losing the contest with mantyke, whom battled against May's beautifly in the semi-finals, she not long after ran into a sad little girl seated on a bench outside if the arena.
"Hey, what's the matter?" she asked taking a seat beside the slumped over girl.
The girl looked up in surprise, revealing a pokeball resting on her lap. "Oh, I was going to enter the contest, but while I was training my shinx it evolved into luxio. Now it won't listen to anything I say." She replied, returning to her depressed state.
"Hm, that is a problem." Alex mumbled, also looking at the pokeball in her hands. "Oh, I know! How about we trade? This pokemon I have here is a mantyke; it's really sweet. And an electric type sounds perfect for my next gym battle."
The young girl brightened considerably. "Really? You would do that?" She asked shyly.
"Of course!" Alex waved it off, holding her pokeball out for the young girl to take. She did, also handing back the luxio, and smiled widely.
"Thank you so much lady!" She side hugged Alex's waist tightly before merrily skipping away like there hadn't been anything wrong 5 minutes prior.
"Well, that's my good deed of the day. Being nice takes a lot of energy, I better find Paul so we can get something to eat."
Seeing as where the girl didn't train him a lot, Alex had to make up for lost time if she were to get him ready for the water type gym. She was on the path to Pastoria city with luxio, now known as Star, up against eevee, marowak and charizard, testing his agility and power. "Let's take a break you guys, return." Eevee and luxio remained to keep her company. "We should probably go and see where Paul ran off to." She sighed.
Luxio snarled at the mentioned name, not getting along well with the purple haired boy as he called the electric type pathetic, resulting in him getting a nasty shock. How's that for a weakling, Paul?
"Come on Star, he didn't mean that. You just have to get used to him." She said as they walked through the woods. Paul and her actually conversed now, even if it was just a fragment of a sentence, or one criticizing the other. He reminded her a lot of her best friend Gary, except slightly harsher.
She noticed luxio hissing across a stream of water, and found Paul on the other side. A drapion tunneled underground from her side, and the rumbling of the ground caused her to lose her balance and yelp as she landed in the chilly water. Paul was too busy watching a teary-eyed gligar fall from the sky to acknowledge her arrival.
Luxio whimpered and paced along the edge of the river. Alex surfaced, looking at it confused as it eyed the water warily. She splashed water in its direction and it swiftly jumped out of its way and shook with fear. With a sigh, she returned the pokemon and swam over to Paul, eevee right behind her.
"My clothes are soaked and I have an electric pokemon that's afraid of water. Wonderful." Alex grumbled while wringing out the water from her hair. "No worries Paul, I'm fine. Just going to put some dry clothes on." She said as Paul ignored her, unimpressed at the gligars disruption of his training. She walked back to their campsite, water dripping from her soggy clothes and hair.
Alex arrived back in time to watch a battle play out between Paul and Ash. She smiled as it brought back childhood memories of Ash, Gary and herself. Ash's chimchar went into an uncontrollable blaze affect, and the battle went unfinished as Paul walked away from his rival, leaving Alex to catch up to him.
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"Arg, why does it have to be the Marsh City?" Alex whined as her sneakers slightly sunk into the spongy ground, resulting in a gurgling each time she lifted her foot. Muddy water coated her new shoes as she tried to keep up with Paul. Eevee got to travel on her shoulder as soon as they hit the soggy terrain, lucky for her.
Paul shrugged indifferently, keeping a brisk pace as they drew nearer to the gym. Upon entering the building, they both were greeted by a boisterous voice, belonging to a giant man. He strongly resembled a masked wrestler with his spandex like, blue and black pants, orange boots, white cape and lastly, his mask.
"Welcome to my gym. I'm Crasher Wake!" He shouted, striking some kind of pose.
"The names Paul," "And I'm Alex." "We're here for a gym battle."
"Well then come on in, you're in the right place!" He replied with a booming laugh.
"…Any chance your related to ?" Alex asked, remembering her meeting with the giant, electric type gym leader of Vermillion City.
"Not that I know of." His laugh vibrated through her ears, "Now who will be my first challenger?"
*****
A wide pool separated Alex from the loud gym leader, several floatation devices spread out on its cerulean surface. Paul sat with a bored expression on his face, secretly quite content at the moment as he insisted Alex battle first so he would have the opportunity to analyze both battling styles.
The referee stated the rules, and signaled to start.
"Okay, Crasher Wake is in the house!" Shouted the water gym leader as he tore off his cape, leaving him shirtless and making Alex slightly uncomfortable. I mean, it is rather odd to battle a shirtless man. "Now, gyarados, on the water!" An intimidating light blue dragon emerged, almost reaching as high as the ceiling. It studied her with lavender eyes.
"Totodile, you're on." The small, blue, hyperactive crocodile hopped about excitedly, unfazed by the opponent it faced. "Please focus totodile. Use crunch."
"Gyarados underwater." Both pokemon dove under the blue depths, the quick totodile in pursuit of the large dragon, managing to clamp onto its tail. Gyarados roared up, flicking its tail back and forth to fling the large jawed pokemon off.
"Good totodile, now get on its back." The pokemon sprinted forward and leapt on the aqua scales of its opponent's sleek back. "Ice fang!" Gyarados bellowed in pain as a blanket of ice began forming. With a few attempts, it successfully slammed the tiny pokemon on its back into the cement wall of the pool leaving it knocked out.
Alex sighed while returning her pokemon. "Needs more training; good try totodile." She whispered. "Eevee, you're turn." The fox beside her nodded and jumped onto one of the many islands.
"Gyarados give it your dragon rage!"
"Destroy it with shadow ball, then blizzard!" The combination attack brought the dragon plunging into the water.
"Gyarados, you were great. Now quagsire, on the water." A rather simplistic looking, light blue fish jumped onto a platform opposing eevee.
'This might be difficult, quagsire have a high pain threshold.' "Eevee, start us off with a shadow ball." The fish narrowly avoided the violet orb and dove straight into the pool.
"Sludge bomb." Called Wake. Dozens of mud bullets hit an unsuspecting eevee, causing her to topple back and land on a different island, shaking off the attack.
"Quick eevee, charge your energy!" Alex shouted to her partner. The little brown fox remained still and began gathering energy in her mouth.
"Ice beam." Quagsire leaped out of the pool water and directed a stream of ice at eevee, who jumped out of the way just before she got hit.
"Finish it now, solar beam!" With the gathered energy, she blasted the yellow beam as the final blow. Quagsire splashed belly up in the pool, and eevee landed back on a platform. She cried and flinched, with short breaths, and turned to look at her frozen hind leg. "Oh no eevee, come back and take it easy." Obediently, the fox leapt back over to her trainer's side.
"Wow, I must say I am impressed by your battling skills. But now it's time for my ultimate test. Floatzel, on the water!" The large, orange, sea otter like pokemon smirked smugly, bearing its sharp fangs.
"You're my best bet. Luxio, time for battle!" The blue, black and yellow lion was petrified being surrounded by water, but nonetheless snarled back at her opponent. "Luxio, spark."
"Dodge, floatzel, and use razor wind." The lion lunged at nothing but air as the orange fish appeared above it, its arm fins glowing white and slashing with a double bladed attack. Luxio howled and Alex bit her lip in thought.
"Bite!" She called out in aggravation.
"Bulk up."
'Bulk up is a move that raises both attack and defense' "Luxio, stay back!" Alex cried before Wake shouted out for a whirlpool attack. It was too late and the scared feline was eaten by the vortex of water. She flailed hopelessly around, whimpering and crying, as her fur got waterlogged. Alex clutched her pokeball, starting to raise it for a return. As a final attempt, luxio discharged a great bolt of electricity to evaporate her cage. She landed on all four paws gracefully, ears laying flat on her head and fur bristled as she viciously shook the liquid off her body.
Alex cried out with joy as she saw the fainted floatzel being returned by his trainer, apparently getting electrocuted as well. "All right luxio!" She cheered; jumping over to the lion and wrapping her arms around her still soaked body.
"Alright Paul, it's your turn now!"
I'm pretty sure this is my longest chapter yet! Well, that's all for now. I really like getting reviews so please do so.
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