Ryan's Pokemon Adventure

Ryan's Pokémon Adventure
Ch. 10 The WaterFlower Three
By BlastSage

It was already midafternoon before Ryan, Karen, Ttocs, and Jeremy walked out into the light of day. As soon as they stepped out a large grassy field faced them all with no sign of Cerulean City.

Ryan became a little disgruntled when he saw no civilization. "Hey, I thought you said you knew where Cerulean City was?" Ryan said to Jeremy. "It looks like we're no where near it."

"Hey, chill out dude, it's just around those hills." Jeremy pointed to the hills just east of where they were. "If you want to get to the city by nightfall before they close the gates, you better get going."

"What do you mean you'? You're not coming with us?" Ttocs asked.

"No, I have to go take care of some personal business. Maybe some other time." He said as he started to move toward the other path. He stopped, turned around, and gave a simple nod. "I guess I'll see you all later." And with his short but strange laugh, Jeremy walked back into the cave while Ryan and the others decided to walk in the opposite direction.

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It was already night when Ryan entered the gym. He was escorted by a security guard to the dressing room of the three women, who claimed that they didn't have any time for a battle. But it turned out that the three gym leaders needed an opening act for their show, and decided that a pokémon battle would be perfect. So Karen and Ttocs went to buy tickets for the last show of the night. They found a seat near the front.

"I'm worried about Ryan's pokémon." Karen said to Ttocs after they found a seat and sat down.

"What about them?" he asked plainly, but with a slight hint of concern.

"He hardly has any pokémon strong against water types, except for Abra."

"Is that so" whispered Ttocs. He began to think quickly about raising the chances of him winning. Suddenly an idea popped into his head. "Ill be right back." He said to Karen as he disappeared into the crowd.

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A few minutes later the show began with the announcer's voice ringing through the water filled arena. "Good evening, and welcome to the Cerulean Sister's Water Ballet Show. They will perform in a few minutes, but before they start, they have prepared a small treat for all their fans: a real live pokémon battle!" The crowd roared at the sound of this. "The challenger is young Pokémon Trainer Ryan. He will have to battle one pokémon each in order to win an official Cascade badge. So without further delay, let the battle begin!" Many people cheered as the lights traveled to the pool below.

The red haired sister stepped to the mini island. "I hope my pokémon are ready." Ryan thought.

"Seel, go!" Seel popped out of the water and just smiled its somewhat goofy smile at Ryan.

Ryan enlarged the pokéball in hand. "Abra, attack!" Abra came out of the pokéball and sat on the water.

"Seel, Growl and Headbutt." Seel splashed his tail to confirm the order and started to swim at a high speed toward Abra while emitting a small rumble forward.

"Abra, Teleport!" Abra teleported out of the way, and Seel dove under the water just before it smashed into the wall. It then jumped a few feet into the air, but Abra teleported out of the way. "Abra, Kinesis!" Abra swiped both its hands at Seel, causing it to be blown away and land on a mini island. "Do it over until it faints!" Abra repeated his Kinesis attack on Seel. The audience watched in mixed feelings as it saw the Seel being blown down by an invisible hand until it fainted.

The woman recalled the Seel and petted the pokéball. "Poor Seel. I never even got the chance." She walked off the stage, and the blue haired sister appeared.

"Now that you had a warm-up, it's time for the real challenge to begin. Starmie go!" A star shaped pokémon appeared into existence, its red ruby jewel glistening in the bright lights. "Harden and Tackle attack." Starmie suddenly seemed to get brighter and shinier, then started to fly in the air toward Abra.

"Abra, Invisibility. Try to dodge it." Abra shimmered and disappeared out of sight. But no sooner had it become invisible that it became visible again as Abra fell into the water.

"Starmie, Water Gun." Starmie's jets of water penetrated the surface of the pool and pushed the psychic pokémon deeper underwater.

"Abra, return" The beam retrieved Abra from the bottom of the pool. Ryan clipped the pokéball onto his belt and picked up a pokéball in front. He looked at Ttocs in the audience, who gave Ryan a slight nod in return. Ryan smirked, then threw the pokéball. "Jolteon, I choose you. Thundershock!"

"Jollllteon!" Jolteon barked as thunderbolts raced across the water and connected with Starmie, who was blown away by the electricity. The jewel in its center flickered on and off, signaling its decreasing strength. It finally went limp and fell.

A cheer rose for Ryan. Finally, the third sister walked up to the island. She had a worried look on her face. "Slowpoke, come out. Use Disable!" Slowpoke stood still for fifteen seconds before its eyes glowed blue. Jolteon also glowed blue as its Thundershock was disabled. The Slowpoke waddled over to the still pokémon and Mega Punched it into the water.

"Jollllteon." screamed Jolteon.

"Jolteon, use Thunder in the water!"

"Jolt jolt jooooolllllteon!" It said as the water started to boil. Slowpoke was electrified, but didn't show it. It looked like Slowpoke had stayed awake after the attack, but it just took another fifteen seconds before it fainted. The crowd was at this point jumping up and down at the victory.

"Wow! What a battle we witnessed today folks. Ryan has beaten the gym leaders and is now ready to accept the Cascade Badge." screamed the announcer.

"Ryan, as proof of your victory, we award you the Cascade badge." Just as the badge dropped into Ryan's hands, the arena shook violently, causing his badge to fall into the pool. Ryan caught it, but fell into the water instead.

A Graveler broke out of a wall to the side, spitting up dust everywhere. The audience started to run out of the giant gym as two figures dressed in black stepped from behind the pokémon.

"Prepare for trouble and make it double," two voices sang.

"To pollute the world with devastation."

"To curse all peoples within our nation."

"To spread the evils of truth and love."

"To extend our passion to the stars above."

"Kayla!"

"Harry!"

"Team Rocket, destroying all in its might!"

"Surrender now and forever or you shall fail the fight!"

"Not Team Rocket again," screamed the three sisters. "You already ruined our gym a month ago and you do it again!"

Ryan broke the surface of the water, spitting and coughing up water from his mouth. He managed to sputter out "Harry!" Harry looked where the voice came from and staggered back from the shock into a group of people scattering to get out. Ryan went to the side of the pool as Ttocs and Karen pulled him out. Harry managed to get away from the crowd.

"Uh, Ryan! Iuh, I didn't expect you to be here!" Harry said as he stumbled over to Ryan. But Kayla grabbed his collar and pulled him back.

She whispered in his ear, "C'mon. We have a job to do, not to talk around." Harry realized it and took command of his Graveler.

"Graveler, Spin Cycle. Suck up everyone's pokéballs." Graveler obeyed, and used its long arms to spin itself. It soon whirled around in a blur as hundreds of pokéballs from the crowd flew toward Team Rocket."

"Dugtrio, I choose you! Bury a hole under those pokéballs!" Dugtrio popped into view and started skimming through concrete as if it were nothing. The Dugtrio was almost near the pokéballs until it was knocked to the surface.

"Dugtrioooo." said the three-headed digger as it fell limp. Immediately, a Sandshrew jumped on top of it claiming victory.

"What!" she stomped as she recalled it.

"A Sandshrew? That one looks like Je-"

"Ok Poliwhirl, use Water Gun!" A jet of water splashed all over Graveler, weakening it greatly. Harry and Kayla also got wet. But that wasn't all. "Pikachu, Thundershock now!" Ryan looked to his right to see Jeremy's Pikachu charge and release a thunderbolt. Everyone that was wet was electrified, which included Ryan. "Hahahaha!" Jeremy laughed as Team Rocket ran away.

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"That was amazing," complemented Ryan as he finished his dinner an hour after the encounter had happened.

"So, what made you decide to come back and travel with us?" asked Ttocs curiously.

"Umjust a littlegang in the mountain that tried to challenge me," said Jeremy.

"Oh, okay," yawned Karen. "I'm going to bed now."

"Good idea," yawned Ttocs and Ryan as they followed Karen to the Trainer's Area. "See ya tomorrow Jeremy."

"Sure," he replied. After they had gone, Jeremy called out his Poliwhirl. He checked the slash mark on its arm.

"Poli, poliiii," it whispered faintly.

"I won't let them get us," he told Poliwhirl. "We'll never go back to that life, and that's a promise."