Becoming The Best
Chapter 21
"Are you kidding me?" Sarah sighed, looking around. On one side, trees were densely packed together forming a deep, dark forest and on the other was a grass plain that stretched for miles. In front of them there was just dry grass as far as the eye could see and behind them was the same.
"In all fairness all we'll have to do is come back the way we came," Seth shrugged and he turned to walk back when something came barreling through the trees and landed in front of him with a bump. Seth jumped back in suprise as he looked at the pokemon in front of him,
"Gah! Blair, use bite!" he cried out, pointing at the small and rather fat pokemon that was sitting infront of him. The pokemon took one look at the charging dragon, leapt up and ran behind Seth's feet, then pointed at the trees, squealing.
"What the heck is it saying and what the heck is it?" Sarah said, screwing her face up in confusion,
"It's a Bidoof. And it looks scared. Blair, don't attack it," Seth said, calming down. He knelt down to talk to the Bidoof, but as he did so another pokemon came charging out of the trees with an angry cry, then turned on the Bidoof.
"Urgh, now I know what that one is. I hate Raticates," Sarah rolled her eyes at the oversized rat. It bared its huge fangs at the Bidoof and ran to attack but Blair stood in the way and tackled the Raticate to the ground. It sprang back onto its feet and jumped at Blair, chomping down on her head,
"Blair, run into a tree!" Seth called to his pokemon. The Raticate was flung to the side as Blair tipped her head on the side; wondering what on earth her trainer was playing at. She then decided that if running into a tree would end the pain that the Raticate's teeth was causing, she would do it She ran headfirst into the nearest tree and the Raticate let out a squeal of pain and let go of Blair,
"Use bite!" Seth said and Blair grinned at the Raticate, pleased that she would be getting her own back. She jumped into the air with her mouth wide open and closed it shut on the Raticates head, to show it how much it hurt. The Raticate once again squealed in pain and started thrashing about, but Blair only chomped down harder, until the Raticate stopped moving. Letting go of the rat pokemon, Blair started stamping her feet with a grin on her face, pleased with her victory. As soon as the Raticate had stopped moving, the Bidoof crept out from behind Seth and sniffed it, to make sure it wouldn't jump back up and attack again. When the Bidoof realised it wouldn't be getting back up anytime soon, it closed its eyes and started to wag its tail in excitement, which made its backside wiggle insanely.
"What's up with the Bidoof?" Sarah asked, raising her eyebrows at the wiggling creature,
"I have no idea. Maybe if we just walk away it'll go back to whatever it was doing," Seth mumbled and started edge away from the small brown pokemon. Zen however, had other ideas. She was intrigued by the wiggling creature and started sniffing at it. The Bidoof then opened its eyes and was shocked to see the face of a strange pokemon sniffing at it. Without warning, the Bidoof opened its mouth and its teeth glowed with a yellow colour and they closed around Zens hide. She closed her eyes with the pain and with a fluent movement she was out of the jaws of the now angry Bidoof. In a swift movement, she ran into the Bidoof and knocked it to the floor.
"Zen, what are you doing?" Sarah said in exasperation. Zen turned her head to look at her trainer, but regretted it when a brown head rammed into her. Sarah realised that Zen would probably need her right then, so she sighed and started giving her advice,
"Okay Zen ca-" Sarah stopped herself, she was about to tell Zen to calm down but then realised she was already relaxed,
"Oh. Well just use quick attack again," Sarah said. Zen flew at the Bidoof, knocking it down onto the grass, but it lumbered back up and used rollout, and Zen fell to the ground as it shook under her and earth got shot at her, shooting up from the ground. Zen stood up and stared at the Bidoof before growling in a pathetic sounding way. The Bidoof thought twice about attacking-could it really bring itself to attacking a pokemon that sounded so pathetic? Its question was answered when the Eevee took the chance to hurl herself at the Bidoof. It got thrown against a tree, which caused a Weedle to fall into the middle of the battle. Sarah rolled her eyes as she recognised the oozing purple liquid that was dripping from the Weedle's stinger as it glowered at Zen.
Poison.
"Not a poison dude again," Sarah groaned.
"What's wrong with poison pokemon?" Seth asked from a safe distance,
"Now's not the time," Sarah snapped, "Zen use sand-attack then tackle!"
Zen blew dust into the eyes of her foes, then tackled the Weedle, who then collided with the Bidoof. The Bidoof then fell to the floor and didn't get up. Zen turned her attention to the small Weedle.
"Use tackle again,"
Zen ran at the small Weedle and knocked it out cold straight away. Zen looked suprised for a second and shot a disbelieving look at Sarah, before simply smiling and reverting to her usual calm self.
"That Weedle was pitiful," Seth shook his head at the weakness of the small pokemon who was lying on the floor.
"Hey, don't pity the poison pokemon!" Sarah snapped, shivering as she looked at the Weedles stinger.
"What's wrong with poison pokemon?" Seth asked her,
"They keep trying to kill me," Sarah said, laughing a bit as she realised how pathetic that must have sounded. Before Seth could answer however, the trees rustled once again and a Beedril emerged, looking furious. It took one look at the Weedle that was lying at Sarahs feet and flew at her, its huge stingers ready for attack.
"This is why you shouldn't make pokemon angry," Seth laughed, not realising the danger.
All of Sarah's pokemon surged forward to attack the Beedril, but Zen got to it first. She barraged it with attacks until it flew back into the forest as if it were limping. Sarah gave a sigh of relief and started to turn to talk to Seth, but a shining light caught her attention. She looked at Zen-a purple light had enveloped her.
"Looks like Zen is evolving," Seth smiled.