CH 35: Training time (Please review or comment)
"Charizard use flamethrower" Ash said. Ash's charizard unleashed a massive inferno and roared as he did. May and her new charmander were watching as Charizard unleashed flamethrower. "Char char" Charmander said in amazement.
"You ready to give it a try?" May said. "Char" Charmander said confidently. "Ok charmander use flamethrower" May said. Charmander took a deep breath then let out a smaller burst of flame from his mouth.
He managed to maintain the flamethrower for a few seconds. "That was pretty good May" Ash said. Charizard was standing near charmander smiled and patted his head. "Thanks Ash, with this training Charmander should be ready for the contest in no time" May said.
There were still two days before the Sootopolis city contest and Ash wanted to spend every minute of them helping May get ready. "Alright this one won't be an easy one but if charmander can get it he'll be in good shape for the contest" Ash said. "Charizard use dragon rage" Ash said.
Charizard gathered up dragon energy then unleashed it through his mouth in a massive violet burst that impacted a large rock and tore it into pieces. Charizard roared at his acomplishment then looked down at charmander and smiled.
Charmander looked slightly nervous at what he had to do. "Ok Charmander use dragon rage" May said. Charmander gathered up dragon energy and tried to unleash it but he couldn't control it and it blew up in his face. "Charmander!" May screamed.
She ran over and picked him up. "Pika chu!" Pikachu said very frightened. "Oh no charmander" Ash said. Charmander's eyes were swirly and he had soot on his face. "Char char" He said quietly. Charizard looked a bit disappointed and concerned for charmander. "I think that's enough training for today" Ash said.
Later they were inside the Sootoplis city pokemon center. "I'm not sure I should ask charmander to use that move any more after what happened" May said. "It's alright May all he needs is more practice and he'll get it down" Ash said. "I just don't want a repeat of what happened today. I mean he could have really gotten hurt" May said.
"May I once knew a girl named Iris who trained dragon types. She had an Axew that had the same problem as your charmander. But she didn't give up , she kept working with him and he eventually got it down" Ash said. "You're probably right" May said.
"Excuse me, I'm done with your charmander" Nurse Joy said. "How is he doing?" May said. "Don't worry he's perfectly fine all he needs is a good nights rest" Joy said. She set charmander on the counter. "Char char" He said happily.
"Thank goodness you're not hurt" May said. She picked him up and left the Pokemon center with Ash. It was late at night in Sootoplis city, May and Ash were inside the Brenton Suites. The hotel that the Sootoplis city contestants were given rooms.
Ash and May were on their room's balcony looking down at the massive lagoon of water in the center of the city. "Two days and then the contest" May said. "Still plenty of time to practice" Ash said. "I hope so, charmander still needs some more training and I'm still a little worried about using dragon rage" May said.
"May I promise you, me and Charizard won't stop until you and charmander are ready for the next contest" Ash said. "Pikachu" Pikachu said confidently. "Thanks Ash, I don't know what i'd do without you" May said.
Early the next morning Ash and May were both up and were flying over Sootopolis city on Charizard. May was holding charmander in her arms as he gazed down at the city and lagoon below. "Char char" charmander said in amazement.
Charizard growled a little saying something to charmander. "I guess charmander likes riding charizard as much as I do" May said. "Someday charmander will be flying so it's a good idea to give him a taste of what it's like" Ash said. "Char char" Charmander said again. Charizard smiled and growled at charmander.
After another half hour of flying they stopped on a high peak high above the main city. "Alright time for some more training" May said. Charmander stood beside charizard as Charizard let May and Ash off him.
"Alright Charizard use flamethrower" Ash said. Charizard unleashed a massive jet of fire in front of him. "Char" Charmander said in amazement. "Ok charmander use flamethrower" May said. Charmander took a deep breath then unleashed a jet of fire smaller than charizard's but bigger than his own flamethrower yesterday.
"Nice work charmander that's bigger than yesterday" May said. Charmander smiled and padded charmander on the head. "Ok let's try something more difficult" Ash said. "Charizard use dragonclaw" Ash said.
Charizard growled then held his claws close to eachother for a moment as they turned violet. He then roared and charged forward slashing a massive rock on the peak smashing it into pieces. "Char char" Charmander said in amazement.
"Alright Charmander you try" May said. Charmander saw a smaller rock and then held his claws close together like charmander. He ran at the rock and smashed his claws into it. The rock hardly even moved. Charmander held his right claws and cried out in pain. "Oh no charmander" May said.
Charizard let out a groan and walked over to him. He bent down and grabbed charmander's claws and showed him how he did it. He then growled saying something to charmander. Charmander looked at the rock again. "Char char" He said determined. Charmander held his claws close together and they glowed violet.
He then ran at the rock and slashed it with his right claws turning the rock into pebbles. "You did it!" May said. "Nice work" Ash said. "Pika chu" pikachu said excitedly. "Char" Charmander said happily. Charizard seemed very proud of charmander and patted him on the back.
"Hey Ash I think your charizard really likes my charmander" May said. "I think I know why" Ash said. "Remember his and Charla's egg is going to hatch any time now and he's going to be a father" Ash said. "I see, he wants some practice in being a dad" May said.
For the rest of the day Ash and charizard continued to help May train charmander. Near the end of the day May and glaceon did some practice with the routine she came up with. That night May and Ash were back at the hotel.
"Charmander and glaceon looked great May" Ash said. "Thanks Ash and we still have one more day to practice" May said. "You still want to give dragon rage another try" May said. May looked back at charmander who was eating some pokemon food with pikachu and the other pokemon. "After what happened yesterday I still a little nervous. Though I would like to see him use it" May said.
"I think i'll let him decide" May said. The next morning May , Ash, Pikachu, Charizard, and charmander were all up and on the same peak as the day before. "Charizard use dragon rage" Ash said. Charizard growled then gathered up his dragon energy and unleashed it.
The burst impacted a rock completely destroying it. Charmander looked nervous at charzizard and May noticed that it. She bent down and saw to charmander. "I'm not going to make you try and use dragon rage again if you don't want to. But if you think you can do it I want you to try" May said.
Charmander looked up and charizard who nodded and growled. Charmander put on a serious face, "Char" He said confidently. As charmander took position he gathered up dragon energy. "Pika" Pikachu said nervously. "Please don't end up like last time" May said. "He can do it May you just have to believe" Ash said.
Charmander opened his mouth and unleashed a powerful burst of violet dragon rage that flew from his mouth at another rock destroying it. "He did it!" May said. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said excitedly. "Char char!" Charmander said excitedly.
Charizard roared happily then picked up charmander in his arms. "That's it charmander i knew you'd get it" Ash said. Charmander and charizard practiced dragon rage another 3 times and charmander got it every time. "Alright you're ready for your first contest charmander" Ash said. "Not yet there's still one more move I want him to learn" May said.
She took out one of her pokeballs and threw it. Blaziken came out and faced May smiling "Blaziken" He said. Charmander smiled at blaziken , but charizard had an angry look on his face. Blaziken knelt down and extended his hand to charmander only to have charizard grab him and pull him away from blaziken.
Blaziken and charizard both growled at eachother. "I don't think your charizard likes my blaziken" May said. "I think he might be a little jealous that blaziken is going to teach him something now. That or he is still mad that he lost to that blaziken back at mount Silver" Ash said. "Char char" Charmander said. "PIkachu" Pikachu said.
Charizard growled and reluctantly put charmander down. "Ok blaziken let's see if you can teach charmander firespin" May said. Blaziken turned around and confidently said "Blaziken". "Great , blaziken use firespin" May said.
Blaziken opened his mouth and spun his head around unleashing a jet of twirling fire. "Char char" Charmander said amazed by the move. Charizard growled angrily when he heard this. Ash stepped beside charizard and put his hand on his shoulder. "Charizard it's ok remember you're going to have your own child soon" Ash said.
Charizard took a deep breath and stopped growling. "Ok charmander you ready to give it a try?" May said. Charmander nodded "Ok then charmander use firespin" May said. Charmander opened his mouth and spun his head. He unleashed a jet of twirling fire smaller than blaziken's but just as accurate.
"Great job charmander" May said. "Char char" Charmander said happily. Late that night pikachu was already asleep at the foot of Ash and May's bed. May was in her pajamas while Ash was just in a pair of work out shorts. May rested her head on Ash's chest and said "Thanks for all your help Ash. Charmander is more than ready for his first contest" May said.
"I just can't wait to see you win your final ribbon out there May you're going to do great" Ash said. May lifted her head and kissed Ash for a few seconds before putting her head back on his chest. After a few minutes both of them were sound asleep and ready for May's contest in the morning.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Sootoplis city pokemon contest. Today we are going to see our contestants compete here in beautiful Sootoplis city. Home to the one and only Wallace" The announcer said.
The spotlight moved to Wallace who was sitting beside Mr. Sato and Nurse Joy. "Now it's time to introduce our first contestant. May of Petalburg city" The announcer said. May took the stage with a pokeball in each of her hands.
"Alright take the stage glaceon and charmander" May said. Glaceon and charmander came out of their pokeballs and landed beside May. Ash was sitting front row with Pikachu on his shoulder and charizard taking up numerous seats directly behind him. Charizard wanted to see charmander in the contest.
"Oh great how am I supose to see with a freaking charizard in my way" a spectator behind charizard said. "Hey kid mind putting that charizard in his pokeball!" The same spectator said. Charizard turned and growled at the spectator said. The spectator stopped talking and sat back down.
"Alright glaceon use iceshard and charmander use flamethrower" May said. "Char char" Charmander said. Charmander took a deep breath then unleashed jet of fire at glaceon. Glaceon opened her mouth and unleashed iceshard. The two collided and cancelled each other out creating small snow flakes that fell down around charmander and glaceon.
"How beautiful" Nurse Joy said. The crowd began cheering for May "That's it May keep it up!" Ash said. "Alright now glaceon use icy wind and Charmander use firespin" May said. Glaceon let icey wing and firespin drew it in carrying it along side the fire. This created a twirling fire and ice combo that also caused bits of ice and fire to sprinkle around eachother.
"I just love her fire and ice combinations. They're simply stunning" Wallace said. "Keep it up May" Ash said. "Alright now for the closer. Glaceon use icebeam and Charmander use dragon rage" May said. Ash , Pikachu, and Charizard leaned in closer to watch this part. "You can do it charmander" Ash said. Charmander looked up and saw charizard watching him and then smiled.
"Char char" he said confidently. Charmander gathered up dragon energy then unleashed it toward glaceon. Glaceon unleashed icebeam at the dragon rage and the two collided. After the collision there were three large pieces of violet colored ice behind charmander and glaceon. "Outstanding , incredible , it's just amazing!" Mr. Sato said.
The crowd was in an uproar when they saw what May had done. "Way to go May!" Ash shouted. "Pikachu!" Pikachu said excitedly. Charizard roared happily when he saw charmander sucseed.
"You guys were incredible" May said. She picked up both charmander and glaceon in her arms and held them as the crowd continued to give her applaus. Later in the coordinator's room May and charmander were watching another coordinator perform "Well that was quite a performance. Ashamed it wasn't as spectacular as mine" A familiar voice said.
May turned and saw it was none other than Harley. "What Harley when did you get here?" May said. "I competed right after you my dear and I must say I gave the crowd something better to cheer about" Harley said. "You know what Harley I've beaten you multiples times already you think i'm scared now" May said.
"Ha you should be just look at how many ribbons I have" Harley said opening up his case and showing five ribbons. "Five ribbons when did you get those I beat you in every contest you were in?" May said. "All the one's you and I were in not all of them. I got my others when you wasted your time going to gym battles to see your idiot boyfriend" Harley said.
"If you have five ribbons why are you competing in this contest?" May said. "Isn't it obvious, so you and no one else here can compete in the grand festival. Less competition the better" Harley said. "That's horrible how could you do that" May said. "All is fair in love and war my dear" Harley said. Charmander growled at Harley "Char char!" He said angrily.
"Oh is the little charmander angry at me" Harley said. Charmander opened his mouth and unleashed flamethrower at Harley. When the flames ended Harley was covered in soot and burnt. "Yahh!" Harley screamed as he ran off. "Char" Charmander said proudly. "Charmander that's a good boy" May said picking him up.