Chapter 28
Miracle had rushed out of the house at about eleven in the morning. She made her way over to the Pokemon center and made a call to Professor Oak.
"Hello, this is Professor Oak speaking."
Miracle Smiled at the old man, " Hey Oak its me."
"Oh Miracle its you, what can I do for you this morning?" He asked her.
"Did you get my Ghastly, professor?
"Yes I did, he seems to be a happy little guy, he seems to like pulling pranks." Just then a bucket of water was dumped over his head. Miracle could hear a throaty laugh in the background. "See what I mean."
Miracle laughed a bit. "I am sorry Oak...But I have another request. I need to make a quick team change."
"Oh, am I to assume you need Parasect."
"No, I am looking for something with a little more girth." she smiled.
BACK AT THE HOUSE
Sakinah was sitting at the kitchen table with Fyre and her mother when Miracle walked back in.
"Where did you go sweetie?" Sakinah asked.
"Oh over to the Pokemon center, I needed to make sure Oak got Ghastly." Miracle said. She tried to hide the fact she had called in a ringer.
But it did not fool Sabrina. She knew they were going to have a battle, so she figured Miracle might switch out for a different Pokemon. "Are you ready for our match today Miracle."
"Yes, I am." Miracle told her. "I am ready to battle whenever you are."
"Hmm, let me call Clint. He will be our referee for the day."
Saki looked at her girlfriends evil smirk, "Mira what have you done."
"Nothing yet, but when I am done your mom wont know what hit her."
IN THE GYM
The gym was desolate, Sabrina and Clint chose not to open the gym to the public for the day so they could concentrate on the matches. Saki sat on her girlfriends side while Fyre did the same.
"This is an official gym battle between the challenger Miracle of Pallet Town, and the gym leader Sabrina Surge of Saffron City. It will be a three on three battle, and the leader cannot substitute. The winner will be the one who knocks out all their opponents Pokemon...Let the gym battle commence," Clint preached.
"Go Bellossom." Miracle said releasing her newly evolved Pokemon.
Sabrina smiled then countered, "Go Kadabra." The whiskered Pokemon appeared and flipped his spoon into the air.
"Bellossom, lets set things up, use sunny day." the hula Pokemon closed her eyes and let out a chant. The entire gym lit itself up like a Christmas tree.
"Start off with calm mind Kadabra, keep your cool."
"Knock him off his game with petal dance," The grass type unleashed a tempest of pink leaves out at the Kadabra.
"Stop it with confusion," Sabrina told her Pokemon. The attack engulfed the petals. "Now send it right back." The grass attack turned an about face and launched it right back at the Bellossom.
"block as much of it as you can with another Petal dance." The two attacks struck dead even, and they were left in the same position they started. "Now fire solar beam." Bellossom took in sunlight quickly and launched a powerful attack.
"Use light screen Kadabra." The psychic blocked a majority of the damage the solar beam would have done. "Now, catch her in confusion."
"Use toxic Bellossom." she shot out a thick purple liquid from her mouth just as she was hit with confusion. The liquid hit and poisoned Kadabra. But Sabrina could only smile.
"Nice try Miracle, but Kadabra's ability kicks in now." Sabrina chuckled.
Miracle looked back to Bellossom, she to was inflicted with poison. "Damn... It doesn't matter."
"Use Psycho Cut Kadabra." Kadabra's spoon glowed, then he started launching discs of psychic energy.
"Double solar beams." The little Pokemon knocked away the psycho cut with her first, then obliterated Kadabra with the second.
Clint raised a flag for Miracle, "The challenger has won, the leader may release her next Pokemon."
"Gengar it's time to play." The ghost appeared and started laughing. "Stop being an idiot, use shadow ball." He shot a dark energy from his hand at Bellossom.
"Dodge then use another sunny day." The attack barely missed, then Bellossom set up another sunny day. But the poisoning was taking its toll. "you can do it, now use petal dance." The pink petals shot out at the ghost.
"Double team." the ghost spit up into half a dozen different clones and let the attack pass right through him. "Now put her down with sludge bomb." Gengar smiled then proceeded to collect snot in his nose then spit it out at the little grass type. It hit her and unfortunately ended it
"That is disgusting." Miracle gagged as she returned her little flower Pokemon.
"I'm sorry, he is not as refined as I had hoped he would be after all these years. But I still love him." The ghost started to do some lewd gyrating and yelled some nasty things as well. "I might rethink those choice of words later." She sighed.
Clint raised a flag for Sabrina, "The gym leader has won, the challenger may release her next Pokemon."
"Okay then, I hope you are all wearing you iron underwear, Go Onix." Miracle released the giant rock snake and for some reason forgot how big he was.
"Oh GOD, he is huge," Fyre yelled.
"What are you thinking Mira you have never used him before." Saki shouted at her.
"No need, he is a fighter. And that is all I want out of him. Start things off with Iron tail Onix."
The large Pokemon roared to life and swung his tail out at the ghost type.
"Dodge it with double team." Sabrina commanded. Onix's tail squashed Gengar, but not before his clones popped out of nowhere.
"Fine, I can play like that, Onix use rock slide." The rock type slammed his tail into the ground, and then launched the debris at the Gengars. It hit everything in its path, destroying all of the clones and hitting the real Gengar in the process.
"Get up Gengar, use sludge bomb." The pudgy little ghost hocked another loogie but it was not that powerful and barely did anything to the massive creature in front of him.
"Use iron tail again," Onix swung his metal encased tail and struck the ghost hard, sending him flying high into the air. "Now blast him with sandstorm." Onix stopped all of his momentum, and started spinning like a top. This sent dirt and debris everywhere. But than Onix focused it and sent it toward the Gengar.
A worried Sabrina was at a loss, she was simply out muscled by a girl and her snake. "Double team." She tried to yell but it was too late, Gengar was hit and thrown to the ground. "Gengar, don't push yourself too hard."
"Onix end this with dig."The large snake nodded and quickly disappeared into the ground.
The scene was silent and still.
"Gengar you did goo but you need to use destiny bond." The ghost sighed and closed his eyes. He covered himself in a purple aura and just waited.
"Fuck, nice one Sabrina." Miracle said silently to herself. When Onix came up and hit the ghost type, miracle saw the ghosts strategy take hold and soon they were both on the ground fainted.
"This match is a draw, the next battle will be the last. The leader will throw out first." Clint said.
"Alakazam, its time to end this," Sabrina released her longest tenured Pokemon.
"ALA...KAZAM."
Miracle looked over the psychic type. she first reached for Charizard, but then changed her mind in hopes of keeping an edge. "Come on out Vespiquen." The female bee came out in a twirl, and then stared at her opponent. "He will be a tough opponent Vespiquen, but you have all the tools to beat him." She told her.
"Vespi!"
"Good, start it off with power gem." Vespiquen launched a dozen little boulders from her head piece.
"Like clock work, send it back with confusion." Sabrina told her Pokemon. Alakazam crossed his spoons in front of him and caught the rocks with his attack and threw them back.
"Deflect it with silver wind Vespiquen." She flapped her wings and sent out the crescent like blades. The two attacks hit but Vespiquen's ripped through the stones and hit Alakazam with great force.
"She is stronger than she looks Miracle but she will not be enough, Use fire punch." Alakazam coated his fist in fire and barred down on the bug type. Vespiquen dodged the first couple tries but was eventually struck in the head a few times.
"Get him off of you with power gem." A tired vespiquen hit Alakazam in the stomach with her attack and made him stagger back. "Now use gust."
"Light screen now Alakazam." HE protected himself from most of the damage, but was still standing tall. "Get close with fire punch."
"DO NOT LET HIM NEAR YOU!" Miracle yelled.
Vespiquen started spinning around and let loose an ominous wind.
"Change it up, use focus blast fight up the middle." Alakazam stopped running and collected a huge amount of energy into a large blue orb and tossed it right up the gut of the bug types attack. The ominous wind was unaffected by the focus blast and vice-versa, thus resulting in both Pokemon being hit. But Alakazam's light screen caused him to take less damage then Miracle wanted. "it looks like were are approaching the end of this match Miracle, to bad you will not come out of this the victor." Sabrina was trying to goad her into a mistake, but she didn't know that her father drilled that type of training into her.
"Hold back Vespiquen, let her strike first."
Sabrina was happy to see that her prodding wouldn't work. "Alakazam toss a few focus blasts right at her." He gathered all the energy he could into one giant ball, then split it in half and threw them like a dart at Vespiquen.
The bee Pokemon started to move but was told to sit still, so she did. They were right on top of her when Miracle gave her the order to move. Vespiquen ducked down and flew out at Alakazam. She did a little pin wheel spin around his attacks and picked up even more speed and slammed into the psychic Pokemon with such force. The Alakazam dropped his spoons at the point of contact and was then sent tumbling to the feet of his trainer no longer able to continue.
Miracle just stared at what had happened. Her shy little bee had just used a physical attack and blasted perhaps the strongest non-legendary psychic type Pokemon in the region.
Sabrina on the other hand had seen this coming, she truly felt like she only had a small chance to defeat the rookie trainer. She smiled and started clapping for her opponent.
"Alakazam is unable to continue, the winner is Vespiquen. The victory goes to Miracle Ketchum of Pallet Town." Clint declared.
Sabrina walked over to Miracle and her Vespiquen. "Well it looks like your Pokemon learned a new move today Miracle."
Miracle snapped out of her daze, "I see that but what the hell was it?"
"If I am not mistaken, I do believe that it was Arial Ace."
"Arial ace, what kind of arial ace was that."
"Pokemon use moves differently, that is how some use hyper beam with their mouth and some shoot it from their hands, but that is not important." Sabrina motioned for Saki, Clint and the others to join them. "Miracle for your efforts, and the efforts of your Pokemon I give you the proof of your victory here today...the Marsh Badge." she pulled the small item out of her pocket and handed it to the still bewildered girl.
Saki gave her a hug and kiss, "You were incredible sweetie, you used a multitude of strategies and two Pokemon you never used before." (She used Gloom, never Bellossom. I refer you to Ash and Grotle.)
"Yeah, I never knew you had an Onix, especially one that big." Kobi told her. "That guy was huge."
"Yes he was indeed, so what are the three of you going to to next?" Clint asked.
The teens were all thinking, before Sabrina interjected. "Tomorrow, you three will go to Hindering Falls with Fyre and myself." Sabrina said sternly. "Two of you need to get your heads in the game."
The three of them looked back and forth with each other.
"That would be you Kobi, and Sakinah as well." Clint added.
"What? Why?" Kobi asked aloud. "And why not Miracle."
"Because she is stronger, smarter, tougher, and more strategic then the both of you. If Sakinah's visions are correct then you two will need to be at the top of your games to protect her and each other." Fyre added.
"Son, you will not be doing much I have a few more aura techniques that you need to learn. But since I cannot teach you, Fyre will." Clint told him.
"She uses aura?"
"I am a master. But my use is different then your fathers and he wants you to learn how to use it my way." She smiled. Kobi nearly started to cry.
Saki was looking away from her mother, "Sakinah, my sweet little girl, I know I told you you never had telekinesis but that was a lie. You actually showed great power, but a lot like me your emotions guide you. When you rid yourself of emotion you hurt your power and even gave yourself amnesia. But I am going to unlock it and allow you to let it grow."
"So then what am I going to do?" Miracle asked.
"You Miracle get to do a little training with your Pokemon, either here at the gym or up at the falls." Clint told her.
"But let us deal with that tomorrow. Because tonight we celebrate Miracle's victory." Kobi yelled in laughter.
"Yes, it is a great achievement. Dinner is on me tonight." Sabrina told everyone. And she watched carefully as the others filed out of the gym. She sighed deeply, and accidentally let a few tears escape.
Fyre noticed her girlfriend wasnt with them and then back tracked. She saw her crying and ran up to her. "Baby, what's wrong? She said as she pulled the powerful psychic into her arms.
"I have a feeling Fyre, something about their whole journey is not sitting right with me. I have seem my daughter's visions in the past and none of them were good. Someone always gets hurt, and I just feel it is going to be my baby."
Fyre stroked her hair and tried to calm her down with soothing words.
"You do not get it Fyre, I have seen my precious little girl die, die at the hands of Miracle herself!"
