Disclaimer: If you are still unsure as if I own Pokemon or not, I don't.

53. Practice battle

Camilla let go of my hand as we reached the middle counter.

'Hello.' I greeted nurse Joy.

She looked like she had finished rushing around and now looked like all the other nurse Joys in the Kanto region.

'Hello.' She replied. 'How may I help you?' She asked.

'I'd like to sign up to enter the Pokemon league.' I replied.

'Of course,' she started. 'If you would like to put your Pokédex in the slot below.' She said.

I did as she said. She turned to a computer and typed a few things in the computer before turning back.

'You can take it back.' She informed me.

As soon as I took it back the machine beeped.

'Jordan Hale of Pallet Town in now registered for the Pokemon league. Number of badges in possession: Eight, this means he qualifies to challenge the Indigo Plateau.' The machine said.

'This is yours.' Nurse Joy said handing me a silver Pokemon league logo badge.

I looked on the back and it had my first and last name engraved on it.

'That's yours.' Nurse Joy started. 'Good luck.' She said.

I walked towards the tables where my friends were waiting with what looked like an eager Jason Green.

I sat down in between Camilla and Leaf. It seemed she and Liam had found us as soon as we made it through.

I had joined in when they were having a conversation.

'…ready for the Pokemon league?' Leaf asked.

'He's not sure.' Rachel replied as I sat down.

I knew this conversation was about me.

'Seems ready to me.' Liam commented looking at me from the other side of the table.

'I am.' I replied hesitantly. The truth was I was nervous, but since I was to have a few days before the Pokemon league started I guessed that I only needed to focus on them, besides I was going to have a battle with Jason today sometime. He looked like he couldn't wait, he looked like I did when I started my Pokemon journey, when I acted rash.

'Pika.' Pikachu shook his head, he knew I was lying.

I ignored him as I was supposed to be concentrating on today.

'So, Jordan.' Rachel said. 'Jason says you're going to battle today.' Rachel said.

'I can't wait to show Jordan how strong I have become since he last saw me.' Jason said

'Just remember I have also grown stronger.' I reminded Jason. I didn't want him to get too cocky, I wanted this battle to be good and not him being too careless. 'So, since Fuchsia you have beaten the rest of the Gym leaders so you could get here and battle me?' I asked.

'I have trained so much just so I could battle you.' Jason agreed.

I looked at Liam, he didn't seem too interested, instead he was talking to Leaf.

'This battle will be good for both of you.' Brock intercepted. 'It will give you a taste of the Pokemon league no matter the outcome.' He said.

'Yes, this place is full of powerful trainers. I have seen some of the battles through the doors.' A man said coming up to our table. I looked up.

'Lance?' I questioned.

'Hey.' He replied casually.

'You are observing the Pokemon league competition?' I asked.

'Yes, I am a trainer also, looking at the competition will give me an incentive at the most powerful trainers.' Lance said.

'It's been nice seeing you today, I hope to see you battle in the Pokemon league.' Lance said before he walked off to another table.

'You know Lance?' Jason asked me.

'Met him a few times.' I replied.

'You met a former elite four member?' Jason asked in astonishment.

'I met Koga on the St. Anne with Lance. Then I met up with Koga again in Fuchsia' I told Jason.

'And I missed him in Fuchsia?' Jason asked rhetorically.

'He left as soon as his daughter took over the Gym.' I replied.

'Koga's Janine's father?' Jason asked.

I knew that Jason was not set on being a Pokemon master, not as much as I was, he didn't know a lot about people, but he didn't have the experiences or same goal as I did, he only had the same goal once he met me.

'Were you in the water tournament?' I asked Jason.

'Yeah, but I got knocked out of the first round by Misty.'

'Did you battle her after that?' I asked.

'Yeah, I beat her in the Gym battle.' Jason replied.

'And your last Gym battle?' I asked.

'In Viridian a few days ago.' Jason said.

I nodded, I guessed it wasn't as hard as my battle, but then I realized that Giovanni was no longer the gym leader.

'Who did you battle?' I asked.

All my friends realized my question and everyone turned toward Jason.

'Uh…Blue, the Champion, well previous champion, he said he was taking over the Gym, until he could find someone permanent.' Jason said.

So, Blue has taken over for a while.

I stood up.

'So, Jason, want to battle now?' I asked.

'Do you even have to ask?' He asked.

He was up and ran toward the doors before the rest of my friends got up from their seats.

'He's eager.' Liam commented.

'Like you and I when we first started.' I replied.

'Yeah.' Liam chuckled. 'How rash we were.' He said.

I walked with my friends through the doors on the opposite side to victory road.

I was sure there were loads of People in the Pokemon centre place it was nothing compared to the people in this room, but the space was about four times the size of the previous room, the roof was a little lower and it and the walls were man made and not made of stone, but the floor was kept as a rocky floor.

As soon as we entered Jason pointed at me, I saw a referee wearing a red shirt and white trousers he had a white and black flag in his right hand.

He and Jason talked a bit more before he went to stand one side of the battlefield in front of me.

'If you please?' He asked me gesturing to the opposite side.

'You ready buddy?' I asked Pikachu.

He nodded in agreement, this was my first battle that would prove my strength against the strongest trainers besides the elite four and Champion of the Indigo league.

I stood opposite Jason and waited for the referee.

'This battle will be between Jason Green of Fuchsia City and Jordan Hale, champion of the water tournament, of Pallet Town.' I knew Jason asked the referee to say that. He was hyped up on the champion of the water tournament. It wasn't that much of an achievement, sure it was hard back then, but now I think it would be a bit easier.

'Each trainer will have the use of six Pokemon. The battle will end when one trainer is unable to use anymore Pokemon.' The referee said. 'Begin.'

'Beedrill, you're up first.'

Out came a Pokemon I had never seen before.

The Pokemon that came out looked like a sort of wasp, but it had two black legs and two black arms, each arm had a silver needle on the end, they looked like thin cones. The abdomen was large compared to his body and head. It had two black striped going around it, the tip of the abdomen had a small needle the same colour as its body. Its head was pointed at the front and then it was rounded and larger at the back. It had two black feelers on the top of his head. Its eyes were red and looked like tear drops. The wings were the same size, all four of them, they all came out of its body.

I took out my Pokédex as did my friends. I noticed neither Leaf or Liam did.

Of course, Leaf had this in her Pokédex and because she was traveling with Liam he had it in his also.

'Beedrill, the poison bee Pokemon. Beedrill is extremely territorial. No-one should approach its nest – this is for their own safety. If angered, they will attack in a furious swarm.'

I didn't know who I should sent out. I couldn't use Sandslash since Beedrill was above the ground, my moves wouldn't be able to attack it.

I noticed on Beedrill a small orb around its neck. I then looked on Jason's wrist, he had a mega bracelet like me. So, he must want a mega battle. If he wanted that kind of battle I would give him that.

I knew exactly who to use.

'Charizard, I choose you.' I said letting Charizard out first. I knew Rachel also had one, but she had her hardest battle ever and I knew she was stronger than I was, her battles were fierce.

'Beedrill, use double team.'

Beedrill shot into many copies of itself and now Charizard was limited to guessing.

'Charizard, use flamethrower on all of them.'

Charizard let out a flamethrower, the copies disappeared, but Jason called out an attack before Charizard got rid of all of them.

'Use fell stinger.'

All remaining Beedrill headed towards Charizard.

Beedrill put its two silver needles together and hit Charizard in the back.

Charizard stumbled forward but managed to stay on its feet.

'Use seismic toss.' I said.

Charizard turned quickly, neither Jason or Beedrill expected Charizard to turn so quickly.

Charizard grabbed Beedrill and shot up.

As soon as he got up with Beedrill in his grasp he shot back down, a few feet before he hit the ground Charizard threw Beedrill toward the ground.

Beedrill had no time to stop itself, it hit the ground a dust cloud appeared.

Charizard landed softly a few feet in front of me.

'Finish with Flare blitz.' I said.

Charizard enveloped itself in fire before charging straight towards Beedrill who just managed to get up.

As soon as Charizard hit Beedrill it fell back over.

I blinked and I saw Charizard on the other Beedrill who was on the floor and wasn't moving.

Charizard was no longer enveloped in fire and it fell onto one knee.

I knew that Flare Blitz was a move that gave you recoil damage, but I wanted to show Jason that Charizard was strong and I didn't want him to show us his mega Beedrill yet.

'Beedrill is unable to battle, the winner is Charizard.' The referee said.

Jason called back his Beedrill, he seemed unhappy that his Beedrill had fainted, but his sadness didn't stay on his face long. He just took a second Pokéball from his belt and looked at me.

'I thought you were better than that Jordan, using a fire against a bug, I thought you would use a type that might actually have a challenge.

I smiled. Jason didn't know the reason why I picked Charizard. If I had another Pokemon I could have lost if he mega evolved.

'Dewgong, you're up.'

A white furry Pokemon that looked a lot like a sea lion came out. It had two large arch-shaped black eyes, it had a small button nose. Two small tusks protruded from its upper jaw. It has a slender body with two front flippers. It had a long flowing tail. A small horn protruded from atop its head.

I took out my Pokédex, as did my friends. I also noticed that neither Leaf or Liam had the Pokemon registered.

'Dewgong, the Sea Lion Pokemon. Dewgong loves to snooze on bitterly cold ice. The sight of this Pokemon sleeping on a glacier was mistakenly thought to be a mermaid by a mariner long ago.'

I didn't want to switch my Pokemon out, I didn't normally.

'Use hail.'

Dewgong roared upwards and soon enough white clouds formed and it started to hail.

I quickly looked up hail on my Pokédex.

'A weather changing move that causes it to hail for a while.'

I had started to find out what moves did what.

I didn't know why Jason didn't take advantage of my hesitation, maybe he was being fair.

'Use water pulse.' He said.

I had to counter that or, Charizard would faint almost if not straight away.

'Flamethrower.'

Both attacks connected and created a large steam cloud.

'Use fire punch.' I said.

Charizard charged through the steam cloud, but as soon as he disappeared through the cloud he emerged back this side landing on this side.

I hadn't heard Jason call out a move.

As soon as the steam cleared I saw Dewgong was closer to Charizard.

Charizard struggled to get up, but eventually managed.

'Dewgong, use Ice shard.'

Dewgong opened its mouth and shards of ice came out.

Charizard put its arms in front of it to protect itself.

'Dewgong, aqua jet.'

'Charizard use flamethrower.'

Before Charizard could open its mouth Dewgong hit him with its aqua jet, Charizard fell back.

This time he didn't get back up.

'Charizard is unable to battle, the winner is Dewgong.' The referee said.

Now I had one Pokemon left. I felt like using Aerodactyl as it was super weak to Dewgong and ice and water against a rock and flying, it may be a bad choice. It might turn out as a disaster or I could win. Then again, I could use Sandslash, but he was also super weak to Water and ice. Blastoise also wouldn't work very well. Dratini also wouldn't do well as ice would destroy it. Pikachu was my only good choice, but the ice may slow it down.

I had made my decision.

'Blastoise, I choose you.'

I saw Jason raise an eyebrow. I knew why, most people were surprised that I would have two fully evolved starter Pokemon.

'Blastoise rapid spin.' I said.

Blastoise hid in its shell and began spinning.

'Use ice beam.' Jason said.

Dewgong shot an ice beam towards Blastoise, but since Blastoise was spinning so fast the ice beam shot upwards and froze the ceiling, I didn't expect this. I was sure that Blastoise would freeze, so I was surprised when he didn't freeze.

I wasn't the only one surprised. Jason was also, as were my friends.

I saw that Jason and I had gathered a few people that were now watching our battle.

I realized that the hail was still falling, it had been a bit longer than a while I was sure.

I noticed something behind one of Dewgong's flippers It looked like a rock covered with ice and snow.

'What's that?' I asked.

Jason knew exactly what I was talking about.

'It's an icy rock.' He replied. 'It, extends the move hail, so it will last longer than without the item.'

I was learning so much since I had met my dad, the mega stone, a move, new Pokemon, and the effect of items.

'Blastoise, use hydro pump on the ceiling.'

Blastoise shot both of its pumps towards the same point on the ceiling.

They reflected and blasted Dewgong.

It skidded back towards Jason.

As soon as it stopped it looked a little worn out. Otherwise it was fine.

'Use ice beam.'

'Turn back.' I said to Blastoise. It turned around and its shell covered with ice.

Now what was Blastoise going to do.

This ice may make it cold inside its shell, I didn't want Blastoise to slow down.

Jason raised his eyebrow.

'Use ice beam again.' He said and the ice grew of Blastoise's shell. He looked concerned. I didn't know what to do eventually, Blastoise would eventually be frozen in a block. I couldn't think of anything to stop that. If I got Blastoise to turn around there may be no time to call out an attack before Jason used an ice beam. It would be worse if Blastoise had a layer of ice on its front. It may hurt it, and I didn't want to lose Blastoise to an ice type.

'One more ice beam.' Jason called.

Dewgong shot a third ice beam towards Blastoise's shell.

I saw Blastoise stagger backwards as the third ice beam created a third layer.

As soon as Dewgong stopped Blastoise fell backwards

I had to think of something before Jason use a fourth ice beam to completely freeze Blastoise.

'Use rapid spin.' I said.

'Not trying that again.' Jason said. I saw him roll his eyes.

'Use sheer cold.'

Oh no! was my first initial thought. I knew this was one of the moves that would KO another Pokemon.

But before Dewgong could carry out that attack it got hit in the face with ice.

I wondered where that came from.

I looked at Blastoise and saw small pieces of ice coming off its back as it used rapid spin.

Dewgong was getting hit in the face and couldn't come up with enough power quick enough to use sheer cold, plus even if it did, it had a high chance of missing, that was the condition with KO moves, it had a low accuracy.

The ice was coming off quicker as Blastoise's rapid spin got quicker.

As soon as most if not all the ice had come off Dewgong looked like it had been battered up quite a lot, around halfway through Dewgong halted the move, sheer cold.

'Blastoise, water pulse.'

Blastoise came out of its shell standing forward toward Dewgong who was no trying to control its breathing.

The ice on Blastoise's shell fell off.

Blastoise shot a ball of water towards Dewgong, it rippled to a ring and hit Dewgong.

Dewgong fell and didn't look like moving anytime soon.

'Dewgong is unable to battle, the winner is Blastoise.' The referee announced.

Now I was going to see Jason's third Pokemon, I think he was having the same thoughts as I, as of now I only knew two Pokemon that he had, and he knew only two of my Pokemon as of now.

He picked up two Pokéball's and shuffled them in his right hand before placing one back and enlarging the one that was left in his right hand.

'Fearow, you're up.' He called.

I knew that Camilla had a Fearow and hers was well behaved, If Jason had managed to keep Fearow calm like Camilla then he had definitely taken his training to battle me seriously.

'Don't test him Blastoise.' I said. 'He might not be as well trained as Camilla's.' I told him.

Blastoise nodded in understanding.

'Fearow, use air cutter.'

Fearow began flapping its wings and was pushing Blastoise back, it tried to push against the force, but slowly skidded back towards me.

'Blastoise, in your shell.' I said.

I had tried this before with a different opponent, but I didn't remember who.

The force of the wind that Fearow produced made Blastoise shell spin and I waited until the right moment, I was a lot smarter now than I was then.

'Blastoise, use rapid spin.' I said.

I saw Jason roll his eyes, but he didn't know what I was planning.

I didn't know that Blastoise could spin that fast. It was so fast that dust was beginning to form around him and spin as fast as he was.

As soon as Blastoise stopped spinning a cloud had obscured him from Jason's view.

'aqua jet.' I said.

Before Fearow could react, he was hit by a column of water.

He was hit backwards, but regained his flight, so he was still in the air. The attack had just dazed him.

As soon as Fearow regained its position it glared at Blastoise.

My immediate thought was, uh oh! I opened my mouth to tell Jason to call Fearow back, but Fearow just dived for Blastoise.

'Aerial ace.' Jason called.

Faster than I could Blink Blastoise was hit on his back.

I didn't see Fearow hit him, but I knew that he had Blastoise would fall on its back for no reason.

Blastoise spin.

It spun before landing back on its feet, I knew that was the only way to get Blastoise back on its feet and I anyone else had a different way I needed to see them.

'Fearow finish with brave bird.'

I didn't like Fearow's moveset, two quick unmissable attacks in a row.

Fearow became almost unseeable. I didn't get time to give Blastoise a move as it only just got up as Jason called out his next move.

Blastoise fell again, but this time I could help him get up.

'Blastoise is unable to battle. The winner is Fearow.'

Now I was going to send out a Pokemon I wanted to show the whole stadium. It would probably attract a few more spectators, I noticed that Blastoise and I did.

I returned Blastoise and brought out a challenging Pokemon.

'Aerodactyl, I choose you.'

I heard a few gasps.

I looked back to Liam, he just nodded saying that Aerodactyl would be fine. I did believe him, but I was still worried. Aerodactyl might act up. I knew his instincts weren't gone, they never would be, he just needed to control them.

Fearow looked at Aerodactyl as if he was sizing him up, he thought he was the biggest flying type. News Flash: Aerodactyl was relatively larger.

Aerodactyl didn't look like Fearow was worth it, but knew that I was here behind him. I know he wanted to show me that he was just a strong as I trained him to be.

He wanted to prove to me that he was strong.

'Use rock tomb.' I said concentrating on Fearow's weaknesses.

'Dodge.' Jason said.

Fearow narrowly dodged the rocks that were hurled towards it.

So, this is how he was going to play it.

I nodded to Aerodactyl

'Use smack down.'

If I was going to win this I needed an advantage and this was a s good as I was going to get for now.

Aerodactyl was above Fearow it just let itself fall upon it, this grounded Fearow and now there was no way it could dodge.

'Aerodactyl, use rock tomb.' I said as soon as it was back in front of me.

Aerodactyl wasted no time.

Rocks landed around Fearow to stop it from escaping.

And now I was going to finish it.

I knew that Aerodactyl had wanted to unleash this move.

'Hyper beam!' I called.

Aerodactyl didn't waste any time. He opened his mouth, a few seconds later a large red beam projected from its mouth ant hit Fearow.

I knew that this was it for Fearow, nothing had survived Aerodactyl's, hyper beam. Cinnabar almost got destroyed because of it.

Once the hyper beam stopped we saw Fearow, it was still there, the rocks were not anywhere to be seen, the hyper beam obviously got rid of them.

Jason had surprised me, his Fearow was still up, it was breathing heavily, but otherwise it looked like it hadn't been effected.

How? That hyper beam was a direct hit.

I couldn't wait for an answer I had to concentrate on beating Fearow, but realized that Aerodactyl had to wait a bit as hyper beam drained a lot of power, it had to rest a while.

I didn't know how long that was as it was always random as shown on Cinnabar.

'Fearow, use perish song.'

I think I remembered this move, it was a move that's faints Pokemon after a number of turns. I had refused to switch any of my Pokemon and I would stick to that. I know Jason didn't, but would he keep do exactly as I would.

I could only wait until Aerodactyl had recharged and I didn't know if the perish song would end before or after that.

I saw Aerodactyl was still tired, and I couldn't do anything to make it feel better or reduce its fatigue quicker.

I saw Aerodactyl wince and I knew the countdown had ended.

Jason didn't look too concerned he had three Pokemon left as did i. I was worried though.

Jason was proving to be a formidable opponent. I thought he would have just trained to become stronger, but he also had a strategy that was a perfect counter to mine.

I didn't give him enough credit. From being a little kid a few months ago, and now he was a strong Pokemon trainer, clearing six Gyms within a few months, that was a massive feat.

I would have never been able to do that.

Jason had impressed me.

'Both Aerodactyl and Fearow are unable to battle, this one ends in a draw.' The referee said.

Once both our Pokemon had fainted I called mine back, Jason called his back.

This was like cleaning the slate, halfway there and we each had the same amount of Pokemon.

I knew I was going to choose, no matter who Jason had.

'Sandslash, I choose you.'

'Tangela you're up.' Jason said.

A small Pokemon with blue vines all around it came out, the vines intertwined and made the Pokemon look round. I could see two of its eyes through a hole in its vines. The only other thing I could see were two red rounded feet, like they were small red boots.

It looked like a water type.

'Tangela, the vine Pokemon. Tangela's vines snap off easily if they are grabbed. This happens without pain, allowing it to make a quick getaway. The lost vines are replaced by newly grown vines the very next day.' My Pokédex told me.

I also saw it was a grass type and not water.

Not much change, especially when it came to Sandslash's disadvantage.

'Tangela use grassy terrain.' Jason said wasting no time in using his strategy.

I figured out his strategy, he would use a move to power up his Pokemon or give himself an advantage no matter how large the margin of that advantage was.

Grassy terrain was probably a move that would boost its grass type moves, and I guess it would have a few of those in its moveset.

I wanted to deal some damage before anything happened.

'Hang on.' I started. 'Sandslash, magnitude.' I said.

Sandslash jumped and a soon as it landed the ground shook violently, the whole battle room shook. I saw hundreds of heads turn in my direction. This was a massive magnitude, it must have been a nine, it wasn't the strongest, but it sure was close.

A few people had staggered, a few had fallen, including Jason.

Now I had distracted him, I could get Sandslash to use that to its advantage.

'Use slash. I said, but Jason was up to par with me.

'Use stun spore.'

Oops. Forgot that was a grass type move, from some of its vines yellow powder came out and landed on Sandslash and it suddenly froze.

'Giga drain.' Jason added.

I heard of mega drain, giga sounded worse.

I saw Sandslash's health being sucked away, and now Tangela's grass types were more powerful, maybe I was being cocky earlier with magnitude, maybe I shouldn't have used my trump card and Jason wouldn't have used his.

Sandslash fell and I saw Tangela instantly felt better.

'Sandslash is unable to battle, the winner is Tangela.' The referee announced.

Well that was a quick battle.

Now, Jason would regret taking out Sandslash.

I had a Pokemon he hadn't seen before. I bet most people didn't.

But Jason had probably saved his strongest Pokemon for last.

I returned Sandslash and switched it with my dragon.

'Dragonair, I choose you.'

Jason raised his eyebrow.

Most people took out their Pokédex to scan it and I let them.

As soon as Jason put his Pokédex away I wasted no time.

'Extreme speed.' I said.

Quicker than you could blink Tangela was moved from one side of the battle field to another. It blinked once before falling.

Was that all it took to get rid of a small Tangela?

If I knew it was going to be that easy, I would have started with Dragonair, obviously, I may have lost against Dewgong, but the rest I may have swept through.

Jason was in shock that his Tangela had gone down so quickly.

'Uh…Tangela is unable to battle, the winner is Dragonair.' The referee struggled to announce.

Jason called back Tangela and let out his fifth Pokemon.

'Snorlax, you're up.'

Oh great. Not Snorlax. I had problems waking this thing up, it may have been a different one, but all the same it was annoying.

'Use Stockpile.'

Snorlax opened its mouth and it looked like he was absorbing light, but the lights didn't flicker not even the slightest

I looked on curiously.

'Stockpile.'

I finally realised what it was stockpiling, its energy. It would be able to release a massive force if I let it do this too much. I had to get rid of it before it stockpiled too much.

The attack would be devastating, even if I managed to dodge.

'Dragonair, use Dragon rage.'

Dragonair sucked in air before releasing a strong beam of purple that hit Snorlax, it managed to push it back a foot at least.

Snorlax rubbed its stomach as if to say that hurt.

'Stockpile.' Jason said.

Once again Snorlax did exactly the same.

'Extreme speed.' I said.

Once again before I could blink Snorlax had been moved, but only a few inches from its original spot.

It rubbed its stomach again. It looked pretty annoyed at my Pokémon's attacks.

Maybe a few more would get rid of it, but its defense seemed to get raised every time it stockpiled.

'Stockpile.' Jason said again.

I didn't know what to do. I was stuck with ideas. Jason had trained this Snorlax. I only knew one of its moves, but that was enough to admit that there was no way I could beat it.

'Snorlax, spit up.' Jason said.

Snorlax opened its mouth and all that force hit Dragonair and all I could do was stare and watch.

As soon as the light died down I looked at Dragonair and I had lost it.

'Dragonair is unable to battle, the winner is Snorlax.

The spectators had grown quite remarkably, I saw hundreds and hundreds of people crowded around. I guessed they thought our battle was heated.

I returned Dragonair, well that didn't go as planned. I thought Dragonair might have won that.

All the bragging I had gone on about earlier, forget that.

'I only had one Pokemon left, but I knew there was no way he was going to let me down, none of my Pokemon had, but Pikachu always wanted to make sure that he was the one to even it out or win for me.

I had definitely underestimated Jason, here I was a Pokemon down, when he still had a Pokemon I didn't know about, but I knew he would save the best Pokemon till last. I knew Snorlax was trouble to beat. I had to get rid of it quickly now.

'You ready bud?' I asked.

'Pika!' he replied in pure determination as if he already knew the outcome.

Before Jason could call out an attack I had issued mine.

'Electro ball.'

Pikachu jumped into the air like he had practiced jumping onto a small tall pole.

Hu spun and a ball of electricity formed at his tail, he let it loose and it is Snorlax in the gut.

Just before Pikachu landed I called out the next attack.

'Quick attack.'

Before any of us knew Pikachu had hit Snorlax, this caught Snorlax off-guard. It looked surprised before it fell over.

It wasn't going to move and Jason couldn't believe that a small Pokemon like Pikachu had just fainted a massive Pokemon such as Snorlax.

My Pikachu had taken down a Gyarados, even without the typing it would have taken it out, it took out an Onix when it was only a few levels higher than when I got it.

'Snorlax is unable to battle, the winner is Pikachu.'

Now here came Jason's trump Pokemon.

'Kingler, you're up.'

I had a bad experience with this. My dad had used Kingler against my Pikachu and I lost. I did not want that to happen. I wanted for this to be different. Both Pikachu and I had a score to settle with a Kingler and that is exactly what we were going to do.

'Pikachu, use agility.' I said Pikachu increased its speed quite quickly, and now we would be fast enough to move to dodge its attacks.

'Crabhammer.' Jason called.

Pikachu dodged without me telling him. He knew his speed had increased, he knew that he had to dodge.

'Use quick attack.' I said.

Pikachu hit Kingler dead on It skidded back towards Jason, since Pikachu was faster now and the hit was direct it dealt much more damage than you would have expected.

'Kingler, use bubble beam.' Jason said.

He obviously had a strategy, we were not going to fall for it.

This bubblebeam was only to distract us.

'Pikachu, agility.'

I knew Jason either wanted us to attack or not attack, so we decided to raise our speed.

Jason wanted to end this quickly I knew since I had heard the next attack only once before.

'Guillotine.' He called.

Pikachu and I winced in preparation, but it never came. Pikachu looked as surprised as I did.

I was going to teach Jason.

'Pikachu, how about we finish this?' I asked my best friend.

'Pika?' He questioned as if he was saying "Why not?"

'Pikachu, use thunderbolt.' I said.

A bolt of lightning was produced from Pikachu as he jumped into the air so magnificently, the shock rained down on Kingler. The shock caused a massive explosion the explosion created a massive gas cloud which almost cause my hat to blow off.

I held it down to keep it on.

The whole room waited anticipating the outcome. I hoped that my lined were right and I had finished the battle.

The smoke finally cleared and the outcome was clear, although Pikachu was worn out.

Kingler had fainted.

'Kingler is unable to battle, which means Pikachu is the winner, the victory of this battle goes to Jordan Hale of Pallet Town.' The referee. I was glad he didn't use my other titles Jason had told him to give me.

Pikachu jumped on my shoulder and I made my way towards Jason, who just returned his Kingler.

'I can't believe it.' He started. 'I trained so hard just to come here to beat you.' He said.

I chuckled.

'You don't know how many people have wanted to battle me and win.' I said 'It has been countless.' I quickly remembered everyone who had agreed to battle me 'Besides, if you want to continue with that dream there is only one thing to do' I continued. 'Compete in the Pokemon league. You are strong enough.' I told him. 'That battle was proof enough. It was a great battle. I had fun.' I said.

'Battles aren't supposed to be fun.' Jason replied.

'If they aren't fun then there's no point, if you and your Pokemon enjoy it, it becomes easier for you to focus. My friend and I learned that the hard way, don't make the same mistake.' I said.

Jason didn't say anything so I continued.

'Have a go at the Pokemon league.' I suggested. 'If you don't win why don't you come back next year and have another go, who knows one day you might become champion.' I said. 'I know I'll see you again Jason, but I have two more battles before I can enter, maybe you could find other trainers to battle, since they've all watched, I'm sure some would love to have a go at battling you.' I replied.

With that I left, the crowd dispersed while I went to the Pokemon centre.

'Jordan!' I heard a familiar voice call.

I kept walking, but I knew he would catch up.

Alan fell in stride with me as soon as I made way out of the room.

'Chatelaine Rachel.' Alan bowed before turning back to me.

Now my friend would be treated as royalty by everyone but my friends and I, we were her true friends. And that would never change.

'Remember our promise to each other?' Alan asked.

'Couldn't forget.' I replied.

So, here is Chapter 53, I hope you like it and the outcome of the battle and how it turned out. The battle was fun to write, so the next one should be even more fun, all of Alans Pokemon have fully evolved unless their evolutions are past the first generation. Maybe he will have a Mega Pokemon, can you guess what it is. Until next time.

Chapter Fifty-four: Alan & Dragons