Of Bread And Nights

"Zhat was Zeelicious Hrock"
"Don't talk with your mouth full," Misty sighed, wiping the crumbs off her shirt.

As usual, Brock had insisted on doing the lunch (much to the cooks dismay) and treated everyone to a scrumptious meal of his special tempura and soup a la creme of corn. (The pokecenter's rations were lousy, that's all I can say.) Even Nurse Joy was impressed.

"This is really nice of you guys," she complimented, sipping her soup with zest.
"Prrrrrrriiiiii!" Togepi squealed, munching the breaded prawns.
"Anything for you, the joy of my life. I could even cook up a joyful..."
"Enough!" And a UltraDeluxe Mallet 2000 was brought down onto Brock's unprepared head.

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"ITAI!!!"
*Do they always do that?*
"Aaaahhh..." Ash sweatdropped profusely. Pikachu just let out an exasperated sigh.

On one of the other chairs, Ilona's houndoom crunched up a few tempura in one go.

"So what did you wanna see me about?"
Instead of an answer, Ilona got up from her chair and walked to the counter where Nurse Joy had returned (Brock was being dragged savagely back to his seat). Collecting her pokeballs, she walked back to the table

"Wow Ilona, are those your pokeballs?" Misty exclaimed, examining the half black pokeballs she had on her belt, all except for one which was a lure ball and another a great ball.


*Well, a few months back, I had a battle with a red haired senior. I was attracted to fight him because of a dark pokemon he had on him. After the quick defeat, he said something that I was more of a match for Ash than his high level pokemon. I've been training ever since.*

"Pikaka!" Pikachu nodded its head wisely.
"Do you mean Gary?" Misty queried. Togepi giggled in her arms.
The world suddenly stopped spinning. Everyone stopped breathing...

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Ash kneeled on the floor, cringing at the name, his head twitching in his hands. ~*And the pidgeys sing songs of truth...lalalalalala*~
"Ahhh.... rivalry," Brock commented, sitting crosslegged as the two girls tried in vain to wake him up from his misery. (Honestly!)
The houndour looked on with a slight trace of boredom. He walked up to Ash and gave him a refreshing bath of fire.

At least in Ilona's opinion.


~1 hour and 5 potions later~

"Okay, Ilona, I accept your chall...OW!" Ash groaned as the burn mark on his mouth was still raw. But never fear, Misty! Anime people always heal rather fast.

*I forgot Pup's fire could sting a little...* Ilona sighed hopelessly.

=Houndoom. The dark type pokemon. It's fire is extremely hot and the pain of the burn will never go away=
"THE PAIN WILL NEVER GO AWAY?!?!?!?!?!" (Dexter quickly snapped shut to avoid the din)

"Ash, remember the time when charizard roast you?"
"Don't rub it in Misty," Ash tapped his lip cautiously.
*It'll heal...*
"But I won't be able to eat!"
"Hai..." Brock tried simmering him down.

"This will be a survival battle. Both trainers will use all their pokemon and switch at will. No time limits. Let the battle begin!"

Ilona chose first, being the one to challenge Ash.

Out of the pokeball popped a vulpix, which strangely had one single black tail.
"A vulpix? This will be easy. I choose you, totodile!"

Totodile popped out of it's ball and did a little jig of joy. (Brock: OH, Nurse Joy! BianHu: Quiet, you!)

*My specialty is Nocturnal pokemon. Xander so happens to have been cross bred so she was a dark type.* Ilona explained, motioning at the weird tail.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure we're gonna beat 'er."
"Tatadall! Tatata!" Totodile agreed, prancing around the battlefield.

And so the battle commenced.

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