Chapter37: Fighting the graceful Erika
The day came for the cousins to fight Erika,they were at the gym and Draco who was fighting first with her, brought her down to her last pokemon, she was fighting with a victreebel and he was using dratini ''ok victreebel use sunny day and then leaf blade'' ''aaahhh'' screeched the pokemon, ''dratini, twister shield'' ''um'' victreebel who had boosted speed from sunny day was heading fast towards dratini who then managed to use in time twister around himself and managed to repel victreebel's attack ''quick, flamethrower''. Then, dratini unleashed flamethrower on the still flinched victreebel and made it faint ''victreebel is unable to battle, dratini wins. Therefore, the winner is Draco'', ''yes,we won dratini'' said Draco who hugged dratini ''congratulations Draco-kun,you sure have your mother's blood, but I bet you will surpass her soon'' said Erika.
''Thank you Erika-san'' he said ''as proof of your victory, I give you the Rainbow Badge'' she said and gave him a rainbow flower like badge ''alright, two more to go'' he said fired up as he put it in his badge case ''alright, who is next?'', ''I think it will be me'' said Nyx who was stretching her hands ''good luck Nyx'', ''thank you, I will win for sure'' she said closing her one eye''. ''The official battle between gym leader Erika and challenger Nyx will begin, each trainer will use only three pokemon but only the challenger may change pokemon, begin!'' said the female referee ''ok bulbasaur I choose you'', ''bulba'', ''a bulbasaur huh? Go nidorina'', ''ok bulbasaur, use vine whip'' ''bulba'', ''catch it and use shock wave''. Nidorina then did as ordered and caught the vine whips and unleashed through them shock wave ''now bring him to you and use poison fang'', ''oh no bulbasaur try to get out of her grasp'' said Erika concerned.
Bulbasaur was trying his, best but nidorina had more strength and brought him close enough to use a good poison fang. Nidorina was biting him hard and long enough to make him faint ''bulbasaur is unable to battle, nidorina wins'' ''alright, good job nidorina'', ''return bulbasaur, your nidorina is good, but what if she had to battle a grass/psychic type?'', ''a what?'' asked Nyx shocked. ''Exeggutor come out'' ''exeggutor'' then a tree like pokemon with three faces came out '' Exeggutor, The Coconut Pokemon. It is called "The Walking Tropical Rainforest." Each of the nuts has a face and will of its own''. ''Nidorina, use ice beam'' ''I don't think so, psychic and sent it back'' ''exeggutor'' then exeggutor stopped ice beam and send it back on nidorina who got frozen, ''oh no'', ''now use egg bomb'' exeggutor then unleashed a barrage of egg like balls that broke the ice and hit nidorina, fainting her ''nidorina is unable to battle, exeggutor wins''. ''Return nidorina,you were great'' said Nyx who returned her to her pokeball, in the meantime, Cassidy and Butch were spying them with special binoculars ''hey Cass, they are too focused on their battle, let's go find the room where the gym leader has her pokemon and steal them'', ''nice idea Botch, let's go'', ''it's BUTCH DAMNIT!'' he said screaming but she ignored him and they moved on.
Back in the gym, haunter have defeated exeggutor and was battling leafeon ''leaf blade leafeon'' ''um ''double shadow punch, go'' ''haunter'' haunter then unleashed shadow punches on leafeon who was dodging them gracefully, despite the dodging she was eventually hit but she shrugged it off and run at haunter ''haunter let her hit you and catch her'' haunter was hit by leaf blade but caught leafeon with his detached hands and she was struggling to get free ''sludge wave''. ''Leafeon, use energy ball'' haunter opened his mouth to unleash his attack but leafeon unleashed a green energy ball that interrupted him and he let her free ''no, what can we do? Under sunny day she is super-fast, only if we could use sludge wave everywhere…everywhere haunter, use sludge wave on the whole arena'' haunter then unleashed hit attack everywhere, filling the arena with a deep purple toxic sludge. ''What?'' ''your leafeon is really fast and with sunny day in effect even more so, but now that the whole arena is filled with sludge wave, her every step will be lethal'' said Nyx and like she said, leafeon stayed in one place and was hesitating to move ''use energy ball'', ''oh no she doesn't, shadow punch and then sludge wave'' ''haunter'' haunter then used fast shadow punch to hit leafeon and then unleashed sludge wave, damaging and covering her with toxic sludge that fainted her ''leafeon is unable to battle, haunter wins, therefore the winner is Nyx'', ''yes, we did it haunter'' she said as they high fived'', ''you were amazing Nyx-chan, I give you the Rainbow badge'', ''thank you Erika-san''.
''Now it's my turn'' said Marina in her battle mode ''yes, but I have to tell you this first: I have two pokemon that can fight right now, you can use three pokemon if you want because they are my strongest'', ''ok Erika-san'' she said ''Rosie there is no need to say anything, I just explained the conditions'', ''ok Erika-sama, but let me distribute the masks just in case'' said the referee girl and gave to everyone masks, ''we are ok now, go vileplume'' ''vi'' said a pretty big purple pokemon with red petals that had white spots '' Vileplume, The Flower Pokemon. The larger its petals, the more toxic pollen it contains. Its big head is heavy and hard to hold up''. '' In that case…come out vaporeon'' ''um'' ''has Marina gone crazy?'' wondered Draco who was shocked by her choise'' ''a vaporeon huh? Interesting, use poison powder everywhere'' ''vileplume'', vileplume then unleashed from his flower poison powder in the whole arena ''oh no, take cover'' said Draco as he and everyone else put their masks on ''vaporeon become water with acid armor'' vaporeon then melt and became a moving puddle of water ''now use aurora beam'' she ordered vaporeon as she was behind vileplume and then materialized her head, unleashing a colourful beam at vileplume, damaging it badly.
''Use petal blizzard on her'' ''let's try our new combination, rainbow haze'' ordered Marina excited vaporeon that then unleashed a thick haze to block vileplume's sight and then used aurora beam on the haze. The haze then absorbed the properties of aurora beam and as a result, not only the haze became multi-coloured, but it also damaged vileplume and when the haze cleared, vileplume was down fainted ''vileplume is unable to battle, vaporeon wins'', ''good job vaporeon'', ''um'' said vaporeon that materialized herself to her true form but she didn't feel well ''seems that she inhaled the remaining poison powder in the air, I will put her out of her misery, come forth venusaur'', ''venusaur'' said the very huge venusaur ''vaporeon use aurora beam'' vaporeon then used the move on venusaur who seemed fine after that. ''Use it repeatedly'' vaporeon then used it three more times but it then began to breathe heavily due to the poison ''finish it, use frenzy plant'' venusaur then stomped his foot on the ground and thorny vines appeared from the ground that hit vaporeon, fainting her ''vaporeon is unable to battle, venusaur wins'', ''saur'' said in triumph ''return vaporeon, you were amazing''.
''I have to say Marina-chan, I never thought that a water type trainer would make me this excited, to show our gratitude, we will give our all'' ''I wouldn't want anything less, come out chinchou'', ''chin'', ''use thunder wave'' chinchou then unleashed from his antennae an electric wave that paralyzed venusaur ''now ice beam'' chinchou did as ordered and began to freeze venusaur slowly and damaging him a lot ''try to use solarbeam to defreeze your flower'' ''saur'', venusaur then collected sunlight and unleashed solarbeam on chinchou. Chinchou was avoiding the move as best as he could but in the end got hit and fell with swirly eyes ''chinchou is unable to battle, venusaur wins'', ''return chinchou, you did very well'', ''now for your last one Marina-chan'', ''this one will bring me victory, come out wartortle'', ''wartortle'' he said battle ready.
''Let's see if what you said will come true'' ''it will, I know now venusaur's weakness'', ''fufufu, weakness you said?'' she asked laughing without underestimating her or feeling too sure for herself ''solarbeam'', ''rapid spin'' venusaur then was charging solarbeam, but wartortle hit it in time with rapid spin, sending it back and venusaur unleashed solarbeam on the wrong direction, ''again'' venusaur then used the remaining energy he had absorbed and hit wartortle. '' Venusaur, frenzy plant'' ''I was waiting for this, wartortle, face it with ice wheel'', ''with what?'' asked Erika shocked at her command, wartortle then did his combination of rapid spin and ice beam and faced frenzy plant head on ''impossible'' said Erika when wartortle tore through the move and hit the exhausted venusaur, fainting him. ''Venusaur is unable to battle, wartortle wins. Therefore, the winner is Marina'', ''we...we…we won!'' shouted Marina excited hugging her wartortle ''I see, she knew that frenzy plant is like hyper beam and waited us to use it in order to counter it with a super effective move like this one'' said Erika to herself.
''Good job Marina, now we all won'' ''naturally'' said as they all high fived ''congratulations Marina-chan, you gave an extraordinary battle and won this Rainbow badge, It's yours'' said Erika giving her the badge ''thank you Erika-san'', ''oh by the way, your mother's perfume is ready Draco-kun'', ''thank you Erika-san'', ''now you will go to Cinnabar right? To go there, go to Fuschia city and take the boat, I wish you the best'', ''thank you Erika-san'' they said as they took the perfume and left. Cassidy and Butch found the room, filled with many pokemon ''hehehe, bingo'' they said but then they triggered the alarm and the pokemon woke up and send them flying ''damn, we are not like Jessie and James damn it, we are blasting off again!''.