Becoming the Best
A week of intensive training later, Sarah walked into the gym (Seth and Hayley were going in to watch too) with some much stronger pokemon, along with a Wartortle. He had evolved during the week, and Sarah had screamed in excitement, before running over and hugging Blue. She then took him by the hand and ran off to find the others. She found Seth walking around and ran up to him,
"Seth, Seth look!" she squealed. He turned around and looked at Blue.
"Woah, pretty awesome!" he smiled, keeling down to look at him properly. As he did so however, Blue squirted his face with water before erupting in a fit of giggles again.
"Good to see evolution hasn't changed the guy one little bit," Seth laughed, wiping his face with his sleeve. When Blue heard him say that, he laughed again and hugged his legs.
"So, when are you facing the gym?" he asked Sarah,
"I'm unsure, Blue still needs alot more training. Maybe by the end of the week I'll be ready," she said, pondering for a moment,
"Fair enough. Are you going to use Blue in the fight?"
"I have no idea. Hopefully I can get Zen and Arcane tough enough to take Kristy's pokemon down by themselves,"
"You think it will be that easy?"
"I may aswell try," Sarah reasoned.
And now she was standing inside the gym again, with newfound hope and stronger pokemon.
"I see you want another challenge eh? Okay. You know where to stand," Kristy waved her hand, skipping the introduction and what-not.
"Okay, send out your first pokemon and let's battle!"
Lamb-Chop hopped out onto the battle ground as Arcane smirked.
This is gonna be easy.
"Okay Lamb-Chop, try a cotton spore" Kristy yelled out, Arcane jumped out of the way quickly to avoid the sticky looking spores that floated about in the air, waiting to latch onto his fur,
"Use an ember to burn them," Sarah told him, Arcane responded by burning away all of the evil spores, then ran at the Flaafy with a flame wheel. However, Lamb-Chop had been practising too and she jumped quickly out of the way before shooting a thunder wave at Arcane, paralyzing him.
"Damn it! This is supposed to be easier not harder!" Sarah cursed, kicking at the ground. Arcane merely laughed and charged at the Flaafy, his fangs bared-fire licking at his mouth. With a sharp snap, he chomped down on Lamb-Chop with a strong fire fang. The Flaafy squealed and instinctively let out a bolt of electricity, blowing Arcane back a fair few feet, his jaw still enclosed on the wooly pokemon. He stood up from where he landed, spitting out a mouthful of fur with a grin on his face and a gleam in his eye. Then, with a loud roar, he pounced on Lamb-Chop, once again his jaw was flaming with searing hot fire.
"Woah, Arcane's on fire!" Seth gasped from the sidelines. Hayley started laughing at the unintended pun, Seth not even realising the bad joke he had made.
"Go on, you can do it!" the two friends shouted from the stands. Sarah and Arcane both looked up, smiling. A big mistake. Lamb-Chop took the oppurtunity to charge up her fur then launched a tackle at Arcane. While he was still on the ground, Lamb-Chop let out a powerful thundershock from her static fur, driving the Growlithe deep into the ground, blasting out a hole in the floor. Arcane tried to jump out of the hole he was in, but the paralysis took a vice-like grip on him, preventing his movement and rendering him helpless. Lamb-Chop let out a 'baa' of gloating, proud to be showing the Growlithe that she wasn't such an easy opponent. In return, Arcane growled angrily, not being able to do much else. Lamb-Chop laughed coldly and released a barrage of thundershock's until Arcane could no longer battle. He lay at the bottom of the pit, his breath came in ragged, uneven rasps and Sarah ran onto the field herself, pulling her pokemon from the hole. She returned him into a pokeball and walked back to her place on the field. She stuck out her chin indignantly, furious at Arcane's defeat,
"You are going to be so sorry you just did that," she scowled, bringing out her next pokeball.
"Zen, finish off this little thing. Maybe we can have lamb chops for dinner," she spat, glaring at the small Flaafy, who glanced fearfully at her own trainer,
"Hey! Don't threaten her like that!" Kristy yelled,
"I didn't threaten anyone. I simply stated what I might cook for dinner. Zen, let's kick things off with a double kick!" her voice echoed around the room as she called out her first command; Zen's eyes sparkled and she surged forward, swinging her legs so that they collided harshly with Lamb-Chop. The Flaafy was pushed back across the floor and into the hole. Combined with the harsh beating she had recieved from Arcane, Lamb-Chop was feeling very weak at that point, but she forced herself up regardless and her fur crackled violently with electricity. She was just about to let loose when Kristy shouted out,
"Lamby stop! It has volt absorb, remember? You're going to have to use tackle,"
Lamb-Chop growled in annoyance, she knew her tackle was weak and would be useless in this fight, but she had no other choice. With a high pitched cry, she flung herself out of the hole and towards the Jolteon,
"Zen, use your double kick to trip it up," Sarah laughed. Zen's eyes sparkled with a smile as she aimed a powerful kick at Lamb-Chop's ankles, sending her sprawling across the floor. Hayley and Seth stifled a laugh up in the stands as the pink fluffly pokemon lay spread eagled across the floor. She didn't get back up.
"You did well my little Lamb-Chop. Now make no mistake challenger Sarah, Cell will pulverise your team," Kristy muttered grudgingly as her Luxio trotted onto the field, tossing his glossy black hair out of his face, fixing Arcane with a menacing leer, lowering his defence.
"Zen, use double kick," Zen ran swiftly at the Luxio, who crackled with the thrill of battle and bounced out of the way. Zen did a brisk pivot on her paws to face her foe. Cell gave her a quick smile before leaping at her with open jaws, fortunately Zen managed to slip out of his grasp at the last minute, causing his jaws to snap shut on thin air. The two pokemon stood once facing eachother once again and stared for a long moment before their feet started to pad across the ground, lightly circling eachother, tension building.
"Shock him Zen!" Sarah called suddenly. The tense atmosphere was shattered as a crackling beam of light shot at Cell, hitting him squarely in the face. He recoiled quickly, but regained his posture and leapt at Zen, his jaws clamping around her head.
"This is going to be tough," Hayley mumbled,
"Yeah, but Sarah has three pokemon, Kristy only has one. I know the others are weak against electric, but surely the numbers should even the odds out," Seth reasoned,
"Good point, I just hope she can do it," Hayley added.
"I'm sure she can,"
With a roar, Cell and Zen both hurtled towards eachother, all tooth and claw as they grapples with one another, each trying to gain the upper hand. They bit and scratched, electricity sparking off them as they tore into eachother. Cell's strength seemed to be winning out and he managed to push Zen over the edge and into the hole, but the Jolteon's claws were embedded into Cell's fur and he went tumbling in after her. The trainers could no longer see their pokemon battling it out in the hole, but they could hear many growls and roars from Cell, while Zen remained quiet as usual. Suddenly, a huge flash lit up the enire arena, blinding everyone in the room. As quickly as it arrived, the light subsided and all was quiet.
"Zen?"
"Cell?"
With a growl of victory, Cell climbed out of the hole, dragging Zen out as gently as he could, letting go of her at Sarah's feet. He then smiled up at Sarah before bounding back over to his own. Kristy bent down to stroke her Luxio in praise, he rubbed his head up against her legs with joy while Sarah looked on in confusion.
"What the heck just happened?"
"I'm not sure," Kristy said, equally confused, "Well, I'm sure the spectators can tell us," she said apprehensively, turning to look at Seth, Hayley and some gym trainers who were watching the match avidly. As the two battling girls turned to ask them what happened, every single one of them started to talk at the same time, confusing the two battlers even more.
"Woah, one person at a time!" Kristy yelled in irritaion. The gym trainers immediately sat down, embarrassed at being rebuked by the gym leader. Seth however, wasn't fazed and stood up,
"Zen was losing, so she let out a thundershock just as Cell bit her. Didn't do him much harm though did it?" he said, looking down at the poor Jolteon.
"Thanks, I hadn't noticed that like!" Sarah shouted sarcastically. As if she needed reminding that she was now down to her two pokemon that had weaknesses to her (very strong) opponent.