The Journey
By Will C
Part 2
After our totally unsuccessful battle against Sandslash, me and Jordan continued along the path towards Green city.
We were kinda quiet, and depressed, thinking that we had lost our first battle and the harsh words of our opponent made it even worse.
We continued walking along the path through the forest.
Along the way, we heard a faint rustling in the trees.
We stopped to see what it was.
"What's that?" Jordan asked. "Bulba?" Asked his Bulbasaur.
"I don't know."
All of a sudden a group of Pidgies burst from the tree's and flew barely two feet overhead. They landed on the path about forty feet away from us.
"Wow! Look at them all!" I yelled happily.
"There's like fifteen of them!" Jordan yelled back.
"Bulba!" "Squirtle!" Our Pokemon yelled happily.
None of us took our eyes off the bird Pokemon.
"Let's get em! Squirtle tackle attack!" I said.
Squirtle looked at me and smiled, then nodded.
"Bulbasaur, you get one to!" Jordan said. "Bulba!"
Our two Pokemon charged towards the Pidgies, they both attacked big ones.
The other's flew off and landed in trees and on the path to see what was going to happen.
The two tackle's connected and Bulbasaur and Squirtle knocked the Pidgies back.
The Pidgey that Squirtle attacked Sqwaked loudly and hurled itself at Squirtle.
"Squirtle! Dodge!" I yelled.
Squirtle, jumped out of the way, but still took some of a hit as the Pidgey used it's gust attack.
"Tackle it again Squirtle!" I said. "Squirtle!"My Pokemon replied.
Squirtle jumped up at Pidgey but missed.
"Crap! Try again!" I said.
Squirtle connected this time, knocking the Pidgey to the ground. I could tell it was close to defeat, because it had a hard time getting up.
"Yeah! Go Pokeba . . . Wait a sec, we don't have any extra Pokeballs." I said.
Squirtle looked back at me and sighed.
"Ah well. GO SQUIRTLE! Finish it!" I said. Squirtle nodded and tackled the Pidgey a final time.
Pidgey was hit hard but managed to run off and disappeared into the woods.
"Yeah! We won Squirtle!"
"Squirtle!" My Pokemon yelled happily.
Jordan and Bulbasaur also triumphed over the Pidgey.
Squirtle shot a thick stream of water into the air and Bulbasaur shot two vines out of it's back.
"What?" I asked, pulling out my Pokedex.
"Water Gun attack." My Pokedex said.
"Cool! You learned water gun!" I yelled happily.
"And Bulbasaur learned Vine whip!" Jordan said.
"That's so cool!"
We continued to hike towards Green city. Along the way, we encountered a few more Pidgies. We could tell that our Pokemon were getting stronger and stronger because we defeated them easier and easier until we finally arrived at Green City.
We walked over a large hill that surrounded Green city.
"There it is." Jordan said. "Green city home to the Green City Pokemon Gym."
Green city was a lot bigger than our hometown of Waterville.
We were About to walk into the city when we were stopped by two kids who were about eight.
The first was shorter than us, he had flat red hair and the second was a mean looking kid even smaller with a semi-long brown haircut.
"What do you two want?" I asked.
"We want a Pokemon battle!" The kid yelled.
At first Jordan hesitated to answer, the cruel words of the Sandslash trainer still seemed to follow us around.
"Sure I'll battle you!" I said, jumping in.
"I want one to!" The second kid yelled.
"Ok, I'll take you." Jordan said, still slightly hesitating.
"Ok, one Pokemon!" My opponent said.
"Agreed. Go Squirtle!" I yelled. My Pokeball slammed to the ground and snapped open on contact, a huge red flash shot out of the ball and materialized into my Squirtle.
"Go Oddish!" My opponent (who we'll call Tod) yelled.
His small blue planet Pokemon jumped out and got ready to fight.
"C'mon Squirtle! Water gun attack now!" I said.
Squirtle nodded. Squirtle opened it's mouth and sprayed a thick powerful stream of water at Oddish. It connected, carrying the small Pokemon back about sixteen feet before stopping.
Oddish stood back up and shook off the water.
"Ok Oddish! Drain!" Tod commanded.
Oddish ran around Squirtle and jumped on it's back.
"Squirtle?" My pokemon said.
Oddish began to glow and Squirtle began to slowly wobble around.
"Oh no! Oddish is sucking out Squirtle's energy!" Jordan yelled.
"Quick Squirtle! Tail whip, get it off your back!" I yelled.
Squirtle managed to swing it's curly blue tail at Oddish, it connected, throwing Oddish off.
"Now Squirtle! Tackle!"
Squirtle pulled itself into it's shell and began spiraling towards Oddish at high speed.
Squirtle slammed into Oddish, throwing it back into a tree.
The kid ran up to his Oddish and called it back.
"Crap, I lost my first battle." He said.
"It's ok." I said, feeling sorry for him.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"I lost my first battle to, don't worry, just train harder and you'll win one."
"Ok, thanks."
"Now it's my turn." Jordan said, calling out Bulbasaur.
"Ok. Go Pikachu!" The second kid yelled (we'll call him Joey). The small yellow mouse exploded from the Pokeball and landed on the ground.
It didn't look that strong, the two kids were probably not that experienced.
"Ok Pikachu! We can do it! Tackle attack!"
The Pikachu jumped at Bulbasaur and slammed into it, knocking him back.
"Ok Bulbasaur! Tackle him now!" Jordan said.
Bulbasaur nodded and charged at Pikachu, it slammed into Pikachu, sending it flying back.
The Pikachu got up, obviously hurting from Bulbasaurs attack.
"Pikachu thundershock now!" Joey yelled.
Pikachu shot a small electric bolt at Bulbasaur, it connected, leaving Bulbasaur aching in pain.
"Bulbasaur! Don't give up! Hit him with Vine Whip!"
Bulbasaur smiled and shot two scraggily vines out of it's back.
The Vines shot towards Pikachu and tightened around it. Bulbasaur lifted pikachu up and slammed it against the ground once, which was enough to make Joey give up.
"Oh no Pikachu!" Joey yelled.
Me and Jordan smiled, we finally one a battle.
We walked into town and after making a trip to the Pokemon center and getting our Pokemon healed, we headed to the local store to pick up some Pokeballs and food.
It was only about four O'clock so the gym was probably open.
We walked down the streets looking for the gym and soon found it.
It was a large building with huge bold letters saying; GREEN CITY POKEMON GYM.
"So what does the trainer train?" I asked.
"I think I heard his name was Terry. He trains Bug types." Jordan replied.
"Then we should do pretty good against him." I said.
"But he's also a gym master, and we've won like one real battle and he's probably won like a hundred! He's a lot more experienced than we are." Jordan said.
"Yeah, I never thought about it like that before." I said.
"Well, anyways we better try anyways."
"Yeah, let's go."
The gym was very large inside, it was made up of a huge battlefield with a bunch of trees lining it.
A tall man about seventeen or so was standing in the middle, with two Beedrills a Weedle and a Metapod around him.
"Ok Beedrill good job! Nice hustle Weedle! That's right Metapod keep um....hardening?" He said.
"Hey!" I yelled.
The man turned around. He was a tough looking guy, with spiky black hair that hung down in front of his face. He was wearing a black muscle shirt and blue jeans.
"Yeah, what?" He asked. "I'm in the middle of a training session." he said.
"Are you Terry, the Green city gym leader?" I asked.
"That's me."
"Well, I want a battle to earn a badge."
"Well, my Pokemon are a little outta practice but ok, I'm always up for a battle." Terry said, turning around, his Pokemon followed him to the other side of the battle field.
"Who's first?" He asked.
"Me!" Jordan said, stepping forwards.
'Ok, here's the ruled, two Pokemon maximum, no exceptions. No using fighting upgrades such as attack ups, defense ups etc. got it?" He asked.
"Yeah sure." Jordan said.
"Ok good, Weedle!" He yelled.
The Weedle ran out onto the battlefield.
"Call out your Pokemon." He said.
Jordan called out Bulbasaur.
"Ok now, let's get started."
To be Continued...
Coming up In part 3:
Will Jordan win his first gym battle? What about Will? I dunno