***Freezer Frolic***
~~By: Kat of Pokemon: The Hokubu and Nanka Trek~~
Eevy thanked the Eevee Squad profusely for their help, even though she was still quite angry with them. Medira snorted in Pyro's face as she noticed him watching her. He backed off quickly and sat down and began joking with his brothers and sister again. After the group had made fairly good progress, they stopped for the night and set up camp. Sooney's Bayleef was recalled to her Poke Ball and Medira found this a good opportunity to reveal another of her precious Pokemon.
"Come on out! Blackstorm!" she shouted as she tossed the Moon Ball straight up into the air.
With a few spirals and a fizzing popping sound, an Umbreon landed in front of her. It shook itself off a bit and walked over to his master's side. He sat down obediently and inched over so he was right on top of her. He yawned calmly and laid down.
"You stay awake," Medira said as she fluffed him up by puffing his sides, "You wake up!"
"That's not such a bad idea! Go! Yovo!" Eevy tossed her own Moon Ball into the air, showing Yovo.
Yovo cried happily and sat staring up at the sliver of a moon that was out. Eevy smiled and started making up her tent until her phone rang.
"Don't I ever catch a break?" she asked as she answered it, "Hello...Oh, hello Cain...Caino, sorry."
"Doesn't he ever give up?" Yuu-Yuu asked as she started setting up her tent.
"Guess not," Sooney shrugged and muttered.
"Eusine? He went home...Yes, back to Celadon...I don't know when he's coming back...No! Don't turn PKMN TV on! Don't!...Just don't!...Please, leave the TV off for a very long time...I heard that! Turn it off!"
Eevy was shouting her head off as Cain turned the TV on and flipped to PKMN TV, "Hey look at that!" he said, "Eevy's on TV!"
"You turn that TV off right now!" Eevy shouted at him, "I mean it!"
"Why?"
"You heard me!"
"You're not my boss, you know."
"Turn it off or I'll hang up!"
"Hey, come on! Don't be so nasty."
He was too late she turned the phone off and slapped the camera's lens cover on, "How do you like watching black?" she snorted as she finished setting up her tent.
The camera man didn't take the lens cover off for a while. He was afraid of what Eevy would do to him. He left it there for about ten minutes before slowly removing it. Eevy huffed inside her tent, pulling her pack behind her.
"I'm going to bed," she snorted.
Everyone looked at each other and shrugged before going about their own business.
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Lance sat up wobbly as Entei finally revived him. Jason was just beginning to sit up as well from Raikou's desperate actions to wake him. Suicune snickered at the thought of the great Dragon Master fainting. Lance shook his head back and forth to wake himself completely and spied Luri still clinging to Will's waist. Just as Jason and Lance were about to go out again, Suicune sprayed them in the face with ice cold water to keep them up. Lance spit out a long stream of water while Jason rung out his shirt. The two of them slopped to stand.
"That was lovely of you," Jason snorted at Suicune, "Thanks for the bath!"
"Don't mention it," Suicune laughed at his dripping form.
Lance shook his hair up with his hands, sending spritzes of water everywhere, "Well, I was going to take a shower."
Luri peered up into Will's eyes and pushed herself away, "I'll be going now," she said in a deep breath as if nothing had happened, and proceeded to walk away.
"Get back here," Will stated plainly as her grabbed her wrist and snapped her back towards him.
"Excuse me!" she shouted, "I was leaving!"
"No you weren't," Will said as pulled her closer.
"I wasn't?" she asked as she cocked her head to the side, "Then what was I doing?"
She didn't get a verbal answer, but she did get a kiss. She straightened right up and tried to push away, but her arms wouldn't obey. Lance and Jason fell flat on the floor once again, this time with no one to revive them, for the Legendary Beasts were also laid out on the floor.
"Do you think we should wake them up?" Luri asked as she looked down at the fallen Elite and Pokemon.
"Let 'em sleep," Will said as he pulled her back.
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Eevy awoke from Vovo kicking her in the head. She pushed him away and sat up, blinking a bit to adjust her vision.
"What the heck time is it?" she asked herself silently as she reached for her Poke Gear.
She pressed it right up against her face and hit the button on its side for the light. Seeing that it had just turn 4:23 in the morning, she fell backwards onto her sleeping bag. She put her hands behind her head and lay staring up at the roof of the tent. The moonlight projected shadows of trees through the tent making it feel quite eerie. She watched the shadow of a Beedrill pass over the top of the tent as it flew from one side of camp to the other. She rocked her head back and forth as she watched the shadow of a tree branch sway in the wind. She was thinking of Raikou, like she always did, and who this supposed mystery man could be. Not Cain, she knew. Not Taylor, she hoped ferociously. One of the Gym Leaders? Another trainer? Certainly not one of the Elite. She had never told a soul what she had originally wanted to meet Lance for. She had been wanting to meet him since she saw his face. Morty knew, so did Eusine. Morty didn't care for Lance, but Eusine considered him the next best thing to sliced bread. She rolled over on her stomach and put the side of her face in her right hand. She sighed a bit and blushed. Good thing there was no one around to hear that, she would have gotten a million questions as to why she was suddenly red faced and fantasizing. She would never tell them, of course, but still. She finally fell asleep after about twenty minutes of dreamily staring into space.
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Morty snuck down the stairs as quietly as he could. The third from last step creaked a bit and he stopped to ensure no one was awakened. He looked over his shoulder and then down then left and right. No one, he could continue. He skipped the last few steps and walked slowly to the door. He popped the lock and grabbed his cloak and bag from the hook on the wall. He stepped slowly out the door and closed it behind him. He whirled his cloak around his shoulders and started to walk away, but was stopped by two figures.
"I'm not letting you leave, at least not alone," Kayla said as she pushed back the hood of her coat.
"King, king!" the figure beside her said, seemingly her Kingdra.
"If you come, you have to be careful."
The three figures walked silently down the road, heading for Tulip Town.
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"How far is Tulip Town, Eevy?" it was Yuu-Yuu who whined today.
"About ten minutes. The Gym is right on the edge of town, just inside the gate. We'll stop by there first," Eevy said as she scanned the map.
The group continued toward town and passed under the arc that indicated they had entered the city. Eevy turned her head to the right and spotted the Gym. Her eyes widened as did everyone else's when they saw it. It was twice as big as Daffodil Gym, made out to look like an iceberg.
"Medira," Eevy said wearily, "Who's the Gym Leader here?"
"I don't remember, to tell you the truth," Medira said as she eyed the building.
Eevy approached the door and jumped back as it slid open, "Yee! Geez, it's automatic..."
She stepped inside and found herself shivering. The entire room was like the inside if an ice cave. It was hard to breath it was so unbearably cold.
"The next challenger is here!" someone bellowed from behind her.
She whirled around to see a man about her age leaning up against the wall to the left of the door. She looked to the other side and noticed a young woman standing there. The two of them nodded and the doors slammed shut right in Medira's face.
"No! Eevy!" came two shouts from behind the group that had been locked out.
One of them ran to the door and pounded it as hard as he could with his fist, "I don't believe it!" he shouted as he slammed it again, "Shurdi! You let her out!"
The other walked over and pulled him from the door as he struggled against them. She threw him to the ground as his hood flipped off.
"Morty?" Yuu-Yuu asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Killing someone!" he shouted as he stood up and ran to the door, but the other person released a Kingdra which jumped in front of him and stopped him.
"Don't you dare go beating on that door!" she said into Morty's ear.
"Let me go!" Morty screamed as he pushed past.
Kayla trotted up behind him and pinched the mussel in his right shoulder blade, sending him to the ground like a blown light bulb.
"Who are you?" Yuu-Yuu asked as she backed away.
"I'm Kayla," the girl said as she took down her hood.
"Kingdra king," the Pokemon said as he slid Morty onto his back.
"You're the Kayla from Rose Town?" Sooney asked.
"Yes. That's me."
"What do we do? Eevy's stuck in there!" Mizu cried.
"She has to beat Ran, Iskur and Shurdi before they'll let her leave," Kayla said as she moved Morty from her Pokemon's back to a bench.
"Who?" Medira asked with a completely blank expression.
"Ran and Iskur are trainees to Shurdi, the Gym Leader. They only let their opponents leave after they've beaten at least one of them."
Morty started to stir and opened his eyes ever so slightly. He groaned and stood up shakily. Pulling a Poke Ball from his belt, he released Haunter.
"Haunter. Project the images from inside," he mumbled as he sat back down.
"Haunter, haunter," the Pokemon said as he projected the image.
"Hey! What's the big idea? I'm not staying in here with you nut cases!" Eevy shouted.
"If you get our badge, you can leave," the man by the door said.
"It's you an me first, sister!" the woman said as she stepped forward, "I'm Ran! Let's go with a one on one!"
"You've got yourself a match, bozo!" Eevy blared as she ripped the Jolt Ball from her belt.
"She's insane," Morty murmured, "Absolutely insane."
"No, she's determined," Kayla said as she watched Eevy start the match.
"Let's go! Lovo!" Eevy threw the Jolt Ball up into the air.
The ball skidded across the floor and started to spin. Lovo popped from the ball and cried out with quills shooting from his fur. Eevy put her arm up and reattached the ball to her belt.
"OK! I choose Seadra!" Ran tossed her Rain Ball as hard as she could.
It connected with the ground in a hard crack as some of the ice beneath it shattered. A hissing noise came as the Seadra burst from the ball, shooting warning specks of ice.
"Let the battle commence," the man said from the doorway with a sly smile.
"Go, Lovo! Use Pin Missile!"
"Seadra! Smokescreen!"
Lovo got a burst of gas in his eyes. He coughed and gagged as the smoke slowly dissipated. Seadra burst through the remaining cover and slammed into Lovo in a quick and unexpected Take Down. Lovo recovered gracefully by popping himself to stand with his front legs and sliding back a bit with what was left of the speed from the slam.
"Great recovery! Go Lovo, Quick Attack!"
Tearing ruts in the ice was a blast for Lovo as he tore towards the Seadra. As he neared his enemy, he bared his quill like fur and smashed into the Seadra's face with bared poison barbs. Seadra flew back and into the wall above the door with a huge slam.
"Seadra! Return!" Ran grunted as she recalled her Seadra, "Your turn, Iskur."
"OK!" the man by the door said as he stepped forward, "I'm Iskur, let's have some fun!"
"Fun is hardly the word I would use," Eevy grunted, "Locking people in here with no friends is wrong and sick if you ask me!"
"Well, I didn't. Go, Omastar!"
"OK! Sovo! Your turn! Go!" Eevy threw her Sun Ball.
Both Poke Balls opened in front of each other in sparks of light. Sovo hissed and scowled and Omastar grunted and waved his tentacles.
"Sovo. I have total confidence in you," Eevy said as she watched Sovo's back.
"Omastar! Go! Use your Spike Cannon!"
"Sovo, Barrier!"
Omastar shot string after string of spikes and poisoned barbs at Sovo, but the Espeon was able to block them as they hit his Barrier and fizzled away.
"Omastar! Water Gun!"
"Sovo, Confusion!"
Sovo hit Omastar dead in the eyes. Omastar toppled over backwards and shot his Water Gun straight into the air. It went plummeting straight back down into himself. Being half Rock- type, it crammed him in one hit. He laid on the ground, eyes spiraling.
"Oh man! Omastar! Return now!" Iskur shouted, "That really stinks!"
"How many more of you jerks do I have to go through to get out of here?" Eevy asked, "I'm quickly losing patience."
"That's good," someone said from behind her, "I like girls with hot tempers."
Eevy spun around, fists held high in defense, "Don't make me gag. If you want a battle, you high tail your sorry hide out here. Now!"
"Why, I'm sitting right before you, my dear Evangelina of Rose," the man said as the lights brightened to show him sitting in a thrown like chair at the far end of the ice rink.
"Let's go! I want my badge and I want out of this place!" Eevy shouted, not intimidated the slightest bit.
"Is that a challenge?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Just a lot!"
"Well then. One on one will suit me. I imagine anything would work for someone like you," he smirked.
"If he hurts my sister, I'll snap him in half," Morty growled.
"Over protective, aren't you?" Kayla laughed.
Morty turned and scowled for a moment before he realized she was right.
"Well?" Eevy asked impatiently, "What are you waiting for? Let's get this over with!"
"Let's get to it," the man said with a laugh as he stood up, "I'm Shurdi, by the way," he said as he took her left hand and leaned to kiss it.
She ripped her hand away and rubbed it furiously on the side of her pants, "Don't touch me! We're here to battle! I choose..." she held her Flame Ball up above her head, "Zovo!"
"A Flareon," Shurdi said as he stepped back from where the Ball burst open, "Good choice. Good choice. I'll take Snorlax!"
Eevy backed up about six feet while the Heavy Ball burst open revealing a huge, hulking Snorlax, "Woah!"
"Geez!" Morty cried, "She'll never beat that!"
"Don't you think he's a bit heavy for this ice?" Eevy asked.
"No. The ice you're standing on, my dear, is only an inch thick," Shurdi boasted.
"Is that, in some way, supposed to impress me?"
Shurdi scowled at her before smiling, "What does impress you?"
"Nothing," Eevy said flatly, "Zovo, go! Use Flamethrower!"
"Snorlax, Body Slam!"
Zovo ripped out a long rope of fire, propelling it into Snorlax. Snorlax just pushed right through and plowed Zovo as hard as he could, bouncing him back to slide towards Eevy's feet.
"Zovo, can you get up?" Eevy asked frantically.
"Flare, flareon," Zovo growled as he took a stand.
"Determined, are we? Snorlax! Body Slam again!"
"Think, Eevy," Morty said as he watched the battle, "What's wrong with it? What's it messing up?"
Eevy watched as Snorlax ran at Zovo, but Zovo was able to dodge. The fault was plain to see; Speed. This thing's speed was incredibly low. Zovo was beat up and hardly moving and he was still outrunning him. His accuracy wasn't too great either.
"Let me think," Eevy thought, "If we attack, it pushes through. If we focus on defense, we'll never knock it out...Speed, accuracy...What?"
"Snorlax! Hyper Beam!"
"Oh no!" Eevy looked up and saw Snorlax launch a huge Hyper Beam directly at Zovo.
Zovo wasn't quick enough and was hit dead on he toppled over and slid to the door.
"Finish this with a Blizzard!"
"Zovo!" it clicked to her then, "Stand up! Just stand!"
"Hit it with the Blizzard now!"
"Zovo! Jump away!"
Zovo moved as fast as he could to get out of the way. The Blizzard ripped past him. Morty saw this and quickly shoved everyone from the door. The Blizzard blasted right through the door, slamming the huge metal slabs out into the street. Yuu-Yuu and the girls let their mouths hang open in absolute astonishment. Kayla laughed and Kingdra nodded. Morty just kind of stood there.
"Zovo!" they heard, "Fire Spin!"
The fire whipped around Snorlax's feet causing him to topple over. He crashed down into the ice. Being so bulky, even that inch of ice trapped him, making it impossible for him to stand.
"No! Snorlax! Return!" Shurdi grunted, "This isn't over yet!"
He approached Eevy with a scowl larger than life. He got a huge surprise when Morty cracked him in the face with a well-armed punch. He stepped back and took good aim as he cocked Morty right back. Damaging Morty's fighting pride was the worst possible thing he could have done. Morty caught his chin with the toe of his boot and kicked him with his heel as hard as he could, sending Shurdi toppling backwards. Morty laughed haughtily until he turned around and came face to face with a steaming Pokemon trainer.
"What are you doing here?" Eevy hissed at him.
"Finding you," Morty said as he stepped away.
"Why are you here?" Eevy asked, warping her question ever so slightly.
"Keeping an eye on you?" he answered in a half statement/half question.
"I'll tell you what you were doing," Eevy snarled, "You were spying! You go back home! I don't expect to see you around for a good long time, Mister Mortimer Hikoboshi!"
"Geez," Morty whined, "I don't even get a thank you."
"Out!" Eevy blared as she swung her arm and pointed to the door.
"Eevy? Are you OK?"
Eevy turned and spotted Kayla, "Oh! Kayla! How's it been going?"
"Fine. Kingdra and Tauros are really a challenge..."
The two of them gabbed away with each other for a bit before Mizu broke in, "Eevy. You didn't get your badge."
"Here," Shurdi snorted as he rubbed his chin, "Take it. It's the White Badge. I expect you to win at the Rainbow League. I'll look really bad if you lose after you beat me."
"Too late," Medira commented.
Eevy recalled Zovo and the group quickly headed for the Pokemon Center. Kayla opted to go back home to Rose Town, no matter how much Eevy didn't want her to. The group decided to spend the day in Tulip Town. Medira noticed a flashy poster on the wall of the Pokemon Center.
"Hey," she tapped Eevy on the shoulder, "Look at this."
Eevy left her Poke Balls with Nurse Joy and turned to see the poster, "A Pokemon Party? 'Welcome all trainers to the first annual Poke' Party in Tulip Town's City Hall. Anyone owning at least one Pokemon may attend. Gym Leaders and beginning trainers alike. Black tie/Costume'."
^*^In The Next Chronicle:^*^
Pokemon Party
~*~Notes~*~
Another not-so-right chapter. I like it though. The next chapter is going to be kind of strange, but I've got it all planned out in my head. (Which, in all actuality, isn't saying much.) It's going to be a lot of fun to write that one! Ash and the others come back and 'new' trainers show up while they're at the party. You can probably guess who, but ya' know...The 'behind the scenes' part you can probably guess too, but just in case. I'd better get started!
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~~By: Kat of Pokemon: The Hokubu and Nanka Trek~~
Eevy thanked the Eevee Squad profusely for their help, even though she was still quite angry with them. Medira snorted in Pyro's face as she noticed him watching her. He backed off quickly and sat down and began joking with his brothers and sister again. After the group had made fairly good progress, they stopped for the night and set up camp. Sooney's Bayleef was recalled to her Poke Ball and Medira found this a good opportunity to reveal another of her precious Pokemon.
"Come on out! Blackstorm!" she shouted as she tossed the Moon Ball straight up into the air.
With a few spirals and a fizzing popping sound, an Umbreon landed in front of her. It shook itself off a bit and walked over to his master's side. He sat down obediently and inched over so he was right on top of her. He yawned calmly and laid down.
"You stay awake," Medira said as she fluffed him up by puffing his sides, "You wake up!"
"That's not such a bad idea! Go! Yovo!" Eevy tossed her own Moon Ball into the air, showing Yovo.
Yovo cried happily and sat staring up at the sliver of a moon that was out. Eevy smiled and started making up her tent until her phone rang.
"Don't I ever catch a break?" she asked as she answered it, "Hello...Oh, hello Cain...Caino, sorry."
"Doesn't he ever give up?" Yuu-Yuu asked as she started setting up her tent.
"Guess not," Sooney shrugged and muttered.
"Eusine? He went home...Yes, back to Celadon...I don't know when he's coming back...No! Don't turn PKMN TV on! Don't!...Just don't!...Please, leave the TV off for a very long time...I heard that! Turn it off!"
Eevy was shouting her head off as Cain turned the TV on and flipped to PKMN TV, "Hey look at that!" he said, "Eevy's on TV!"
"You turn that TV off right now!" Eevy shouted at him, "I mean it!"
"Why?"
"You heard me!"
"You're not my boss, you know."
"Turn it off or I'll hang up!"
"Hey, come on! Don't be so nasty."
He was too late she turned the phone off and slapped the camera's lens cover on, "How do you like watching black?" she snorted as she finished setting up her tent.
The camera man didn't take the lens cover off for a while. He was afraid of what Eevy would do to him. He left it there for about ten minutes before slowly removing it. Eevy huffed inside her tent, pulling her pack behind her.
"I'm going to bed," she snorted.
Everyone looked at each other and shrugged before going about their own business.
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Lance sat up wobbly as Entei finally revived him. Jason was just beginning to sit up as well from Raikou's desperate actions to wake him. Suicune snickered at the thought of the great Dragon Master fainting. Lance shook his head back and forth to wake himself completely and spied Luri still clinging to Will's waist. Just as Jason and Lance were about to go out again, Suicune sprayed them in the face with ice cold water to keep them up. Lance spit out a long stream of water while Jason rung out his shirt. The two of them slopped to stand.
"That was lovely of you," Jason snorted at Suicune, "Thanks for the bath!"
"Don't mention it," Suicune laughed at his dripping form.
Lance shook his hair up with his hands, sending spritzes of water everywhere, "Well, I was going to take a shower."
Luri peered up into Will's eyes and pushed herself away, "I'll be going now," she said in a deep breath as if nothing had happened, and proceeded to walk away.
"Get back here," Will stated plainly as her grabbed her wrist and snapped her back towards him.
"Excuse me!" she shouted, "I was leaving!"
"No you weren't," Will said as pulled her closer.
"I wasn't?" she asked as she cocked her head to the side, "Then what was I doing?"
She didn't get a verbal answer, but she did get a kiss. She straightened right up and tried to push away, but her arms wouldn't obey. Lance and Jason fell flat on the floor once again, this time with no one to revive them, for the Legendary Beasts were also laid out on the floor.
"Do you think we should wake them up?" Luri asked as she looked down at the fallen Elite and Pokemon.
"Let 'em sleep," Will said as he pulled her back.
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Eevy awoke from Vovo kicking her in the head. She pushed him away and sat up, blinking a bit to adjust her vision.
"What the heck time is it?" she asked herself silently as she reached for her Poke Gear.
She pressed it right up against her face and hit the button on its side for the light. Seeing that it had just turn 4:23 in the morning, she fell backwards onto her sleeping bag. She put her hands behind her head and lay staring up at the roof of the tent. The moonlight projected shadows of trees through the tent making it feel quite eerie. She watched the shadow of a Beedrill pass over the top of the tent as it flew from one side of camp to the other. She rocked her head back and forth as she watched the shadow of a tree branch sway in the wind. She was thinking of Raikou, like she always did, and who this supposed mystery man could be. Not Cain, she knew. Not Taylor, she hoped ferociously. One of the Gym Leaders? Another trainer? Certainly not one of the Elite. She had never told a soul what she had originally wanted to meet Lance for. She had been wanting to meet him since she saw his face. Morty knew, so did Eusine. Morty didn't care for Lance, but Eusine considered him the next best thing to sliced bread. She rolled over on her stomach and put the side of her face in her right hand. She sighed a bit and blushed. Good thing there was no one around to hear that, she would have gotten a million questions as to why she was suddenly red faced and fantasizing. She would never tell them, of course, but still. She finally fell asleep after about twenty minutes of dreamily staring into space.
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Morty snuck down the stairs as quietly as he could. The third from last step creaked a bit and he stopped to ensure no one was awakened. He looked over his shoulder and then down then left and right. No one, he could continue. He skipped the last few steps and walked slowly to the door. He popped the lock and grabbed his cloak and bag from the hook on the wall. He stepped slowly out the door and closed it behind him. He whirled his cloak around his shoulders and started to walk away, but was stopped by two figures.
"I'm not letting you leave, at least not alone," Kayla said as she pushed back the hood of her coat.
"King, king!" the figure beside her said, seemingly her Kingdra.
"If you come, you have to be careful."
The three figures walked silently down the road, heading for Tulip Town.
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"How far is Tulip Town, Eevy?" it was Yuu-Yuu who whined today.
"About ten minutes. The Gym is right on the edge of town, just inside the gate. We'll stop by there first," Eevy said as she scanned the map.
The group continued toward town and passed under the arc that indicated they had entered the city. Eevy turned her head to the right and spotted the Gym. Her eyes widened as did everyone else's when they saw it. It was twice as big as Daffodil Gym, made out to look like an iceberg.
"Medira," Eevy said wearily, "Who's the Gym Leader here?"
"I don't remember, to tell you the truth," Medira said as she eyed the building.
Eevy approached the door and jumped back as it slid open, "Yee! Geez, it's automatic..."
She stepped inside and found herself shivering. The entire room was like the inside if an ice cave. It was hard to breath it was so unbearably cold.
"The next challenger is here!" someone bellowed from behind her.
She whirled around to see a man about her age leaning up against the wall to the left of the door. She looked to the other side and noticed a young woman standing there. The two of them nodded and the doors slammed shut right in Medira's face.
"No! Eevy!" came two shouts from behind the group that had been locked out.
One of them ran to the door and pounded it as hard as he could with his fist, "I don't believe it!" he shouted as he slammed it again, "Shurdi! You let her out!"
The other walked over and pulled him from the door as he struggled against them. She threw him to the ground as his hood flipped off.
"Morty?" Yuu-Yuu asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Killing someone!" he shouted as he stood up and ran to the door, but the other person released a Kingdra which jumped in front of him and stopped him.
"Don't you dare go beating on that door!" she said into Morty's ear.
"Let me go!" Morty screamed as he pushed past.
Kayla trotted up behind him and pinched the mussel in his right shoulder blade, sending him to the ground like a blown light bulb.
"Who are you?" Yuu-Yuu asked as she backed away.
"I'm Kayla," the girl said as she took down her hood.
"Kingdra king," the Pokemon said as he slid Morty onto his back.
"You're the Kayla from Rose Town?" Sooney asked.
"Yes. That's me."
"What do we do? Eevy's stuck in there!" Mizu cried.
"She has to beat Ran, Iskur and Shurdi before they'll let her leave," Kayla said as she moved Morty from her Pokemon's back to a bench.
"Who?" Medira asked with a completely blank expression.
"Ran and Iskur are trainees to Shurdi, the Gym Leader. They only let their opponents leave after they've beaten at least one of them."
Morty started to stir and opened his eyes ever so slightly. He groaned and stood up shakily. Pulling a Poke Ball from his belt, he released Haunter.
"Haunter. Project the images from inside," he mumbled as he sat back down.
"Haunter, haunter," the Pokemon said as he projected the image.
"Hey! What's the big idea? I'm not staying in here with you nut cases!" Eevy shouted.
"If you get our badge, you can leave," the man by the door said.
"It's you an me first, sister!" the woman said as she stepped forward, "I'm Ran! Let's go with a one on one!"
"You've got yourself a match, bozo!" Eevy blared as she ripped the Jolt Ball from her belt.
"She's insane," Morty murmured, "Absolutely insane."
"No, she's determined," Kayla said as she watched Eevy start the match.
"Let's go! Lovo!" Eevy threw the Jolt Ball up into the air.
The ball skidded across the floor and started to spin. Lovo popped from the ball and cried out with quills shooting from his fur. Eevy put her arm up and reattached the ball to her belt.
"OK! I choose Seadra!" Ran tossed her Rain Ball as hard as she could.
It connected with the ground in a hard crack as some of the ice beneath it shattered. A hissing noise came as the Seadra burst from the ball, shooting warning specks of ice.
"Let the battle commence," the man said from the doorway with a sly smile.
"Go, Lovo! Use Pin Missile!"
"Seadra! Smokescreen!"
Lovo got a burst of gas in his eyes. He coughed and gagged as the smoke slowly dissipated. Seadra burst through the remaining cover and slammed into Lovo in a quick and unexpected Take Down. Lovo recovered gracefully by popping himself to stand with his front legs and sliding back a bit with what was left of the speed from the slam.
"Great recovery! Go Lovo, Quick Attack!"
Tearing ruts in the ice was a blast for Lovo as he tore towards the Seadra. As he neared his enemy, he bared his quill like fur and smashed into the Seadra's face with bared poison barbs. Seadra flew back and into the wall above the door with a huge slam.
"Seadra! Return!" Ran grunted as she recalled her Seadra, "Your turn, Iskur."
"OK!" the man by the door said as he stepped forward, "I'm Iskur, let's have some fun!"
"Fun is hardly the word I would use," Eevy grunted, "Locking people in here with no friends is wrong and sick if you ask me!"
"Well, I didn't. Go, Omastar!"
"OK! Sovo! Your turn! Go!" Eevy threw her Sun Ball.
Both Poke Balls opened in front of each other in sparks of light. Sovo hissed and scowled and Omastar grunted and waved his tentacles.
"Sovo. I have total confidence in you," Eevy said as she watched Sovo's back.
"Omastar! Go! Use your Spike Cannon!"
"Sovo, Barrier!"
Omastar shot string after string of spikes and poisoned barbs at Sovo, but the Espeon was able to block them as they hit his Barrier and fizzled away.
"Omastar! Water Gun!"
"Sovo, Confusion!"
Sovo hit Omastar dead in the eyes. Omastar toppled over backwards and shot his Water Gun straight into the air. It went plummeting straight back down into himself. Being half Rock- type, it crammed him in one hit. He laid on the ground, eyes spiraling.
"Oh man! Omastar! Return now!" Iskur shouted, "That really stinks!"
"How many more of you jerks do I have to go through to get out of here?" Eevy asked, "I'm quickly losing patience."
"That's good," someone said from behind her, "I like girls with hot tempers."
Eevy spun around, fists held high in defense, "Don't make me gag. If you want a battle, you high tail your sorry hide out here. Now!"
"Why, I'm sitting right before you, my dear Evangelina of Rose," the man said as the lights brightened to show him sitting in a thrown like chair at the far end of the ice rink.
"Let's go! I want my badge and I want out of this place!" Eevy shouted, not intimidated the slightest bit.
"Is that a challenge?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Just a lot!"
"Well then. One on one will suit me. I imagine anything would work for someone like you," he smirked.
"If he hurts my sister, I'll snap him in half," Morty growled.
"Over protective, aren't you?" Kayla laughed.
Morty turned and scowled for a moment before he realized she was right.
"Well?" Eevy asked impatiently, "What are you waiting for? Let's get this over with!"
"Let's get to it," the man said with a laugh as he stood up, "I'm Shurdi, by the way," he said as he took her left hand and leaned to kiss it.
She ripped her hand away and rubbed it furiously on the side of her pants, "Don't touch me! We're here to battle! I choose..." she held her Flame Ball up above her head, "Zovo!"
"A Flareon," Shurdi said as he stepped back from where the Ball burst open, "Good choice. Good choice. I'll take Snorlax!"
Eevy backed up about six feet while the Heavy Ball burst open revealing a huge, hulking Snorlax, "Woah!"
"Geez!" Morty cried, "She'll never beat that!"
"Don't you think he's a bit heavy for this ice?" Eevy asked.
"No. The ice you're standing on, my dear, is only an inch thick," Shurdi boasted.
"Is that, in some way, supposed to impress me?"
Shurdi scowled at her before smiling, "What does impress you?"
"Nothing," Eevy said flatly, "Zovo, go! Use Flamethrower!"
"Snorlax, Body Slam!"
Zovo ripped out a long rope of fire, propelling it into Snorlax. Snorlax just pushed right through and plowed Zovo as hard as he could, bouncing him back to slide towards Eevy's feet.
"Zovo, can you get up?" Eevy asked frantically.
"Flare, flareon," Zovo growled as he took a stand.
"Determined, are we? Snorlax! Body Slam again!"
"Think, Eevy," Morty said as he watched the battle, "What's wrong with it? What's it messing up?"
Eevy watched as Snorlax ran at Zovo, but Zovo was able to dodge. The fault was plain to see; Speed. This thing's speed was incredibly low. Zovo was beat up and hardly moving and he was still outrunning him. His accuracy wasn't too great either.
"Let me think," Eevy thought, "If we attack, it pushes through. If we focus on defense, we'll never knock it out...Speed, accuracy...What?"
"Snorlax! Hyper Beam!"
"Oh no!" Eevy looked up and saw Snorlax launch a huge Hyper Beam directly at Zovo.
Zovo wasn't quick enough and was hit dead on he toppled over and slid to the door.
"Finish this with a Blizzard!"
"Zovo!" it clicked to her then, "Stand up! Just stand!"
"Hit it with the Blizzard now!"
"Zovo! Jump away!"
Zovo moved as fast as he could to get out of the way. The Blizzard ripped past him. Morty saw this and quickly shoved everyone from the door. The Blizzard blasted right through the door, slamming the huge metal slabs out into the street. Yuu-Yuu and the girls let their mouths hang open in absolute astonishment. Kayla laughed and Kingdra nodded. Morty just kind of stood there.
"Zovo!" they heard, "Fire Spin!"
The fire whipped around Snorlax's feet causing him to topple over. He crashed down into the ice. Being so bulky, even that inch of ice trapped him, making it impossible for him to stand.
"No! Snorlax! Return!" Shurdi grunted, "This isn't over yet!"
He approached Eevy with a scowl larger than life. He got a huge surprise when Morty cracked him in the face with a well-armed punch. He stepped back and took good aim as he cocked Morty right back. Damaging Morty's fighting pride was the worst possible thing he could have done. Morty caught his chin with the toe of his boot and kicked him with his heel as hard as he could, sending Shurdi toppling backwards. Morty laughed haughtily until he turned around and came face to face with a steaming Pokemon trainer.
"What are you doing here?" Eevy hissed at him.
"Finding you," Morty said as he stepped away.
"Why are you here?" Eevy asked, warping her question ever so slightly.
"Keeping an eye on you?" he answered in a half statement/half question.
"I'll tell you what you were doing," Eevy snarled, "You were spying! You go back home! I don't expect to see you around for a good long time, Mister Mortimer Hikoboshi!"
"Geez," Morty whined, "I don't even get a thank you."
"Out!" Eevy blared as she swung her arm and pointed to the door.
"Eevy? Are you OK?"
Eevy turned and spotted Kayla, "Oh! Kayla! How's it been going?"
"Fine. Kingdra and Tauros are really a challenge..."
The two of them gabbed away with each other for a bit before Mizu broke in, "Eevy. You didn't get your badge."
"Here," Shurdi snorted as he rubbed his chin, "Take it. It's the White Badge. I expect you to win at the Rainbow League. I'll look really bad if you lose after you beat me."
"Too late," Medira commented.
Eevy recalled Zovo and the group quickly headed for the Pokemon Center. Kayla opted to go back home to Rose Town, no matter how much Eevy didn't want her to. The group decided to spend the day in Tulip Town. Medira noticed a flashy poster on the wall of the Pokemon Center.
"Hey," she tapped Eevy on the shoulder, "Look at this."
Eevy left her Poke Balls with Nurse Joy and turned to see the poster, "A Pokemon Party? 'Welcome all trainers to the first annual Poke' Party in Tulip Town's City Hall. Anyone owning at least one Pokemon may attend. Gym Leaders and beginning trainers alike. Black tie/Costume'."
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Pokemon Party
~*~Notes~*~
Another not-so-right chapter. I like it though. The next chapter is going to be kind of strange, but I've got it all planned out in my head. (Which, in all actuality, isn't saying much.) It's going to be a lot of fun to write that one! Ash and the others come back and 'new' trainers show up while they're at the party. You can probably guess who, but ya' know...The 'behind the scenes' part you can probably guess too, but just in case. I'd better get started!
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