Author's Notes: Well, I have to say that I'm a little surprised that no one
guessed Les Miserables for the trivia two chapters ago. I still accept
responses for any trivia question that I get until I specifically put out
the answer. Like here. I won't accept answers for the trivia question two
chapters ago, because the answer was Les Miserables. Anyway, for the last
question, I haven't come across the correct answer yet. Although everything
will freeze, this won't because it will no longer be the same because it
will no longer be hot. That is the clue for the last chapter's trivia.
Anyway, has anyone seen the pokemon movie Pokemon Heroes? Did anyone like
it? I really enjoyed it. Though, I want to work one of the characters into
a fic, I can't because I can't remember that character's name. Oh well.
I'll find out one way or another. Anyway, I'd like to give special thanks
to thunder mouse pikachu, DJ, and Ash and Misty forever for giving me the
information on what happened to Ash's Squirtle. I'd also like to give
special thanks to Arcanine Gal for giving me the sites where I can find
lyrics at. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of the songs I was looking
for. But, nothing I can do about it, but try to figure out how it works
better. ^_^ Anyway, I plan on having the competition in this chapter no
matter how long it is. I've been driven to start another fic after watching
Pokemon Heroes, but I need to get this one finished first. So, here's
Chapter 22!
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Misty was wanting to try and reach her mother one last time. Although her Marill wasn't up for battle, Misty knew that he would be her only real chance. Misty had failed to reach the pokecenter again and decided to try the shop, hoping that one of her friends was working there at the time. Misty had already sent her Blazeon over to Professor Oak and he seemed really excited with getting it. Misty had tried to explain to her Blazeon what was happening, but she wasn't certain that her Blazeon understood. I'll call tomorrow after my first morning match, Misty thought to herself as she dialed the Pokemart in Cherrygrove city.
When the other end was answered, Misty cried out in delight. Her friend Megan was working. "Hey, Megan!" Misty practically screamed.
Megan rubbed the inside of her ear with her finger. "You don't have to scream," Megan replied.
"I know, but I felt like it," Misty replied. Megan sweatdropped.
"What do you need?" Megan asked. "I'm pretty busy right now."
"I just needed to contact my mom. For some reason no one is at the pokecenter," Misty replied.
"They've closed the pokecenter for remodeling. It would make sense that no one would answer," Megan told Misty. "I'll let your mom know to call, okay?"
"Okay," Misty answered. "That's what I needed to tell her."
"Okay, good luck on your journey," Megan said.
"Thanks," Misty replied, hanging up at the same time as Megan. Misty sighed. Now she knew that she wouldn't have to try and catch another water pokemon and have to use it in battle, when she wouldn't know the personality of it, let alone how well it would battle. Misty decided to wait by the phone until her mother called which would probably be later on. Though, Misty didn't want to miss the call when her mother called. Misty also knew that at the soonest, she would get her Marill tomorrow and then she'd be able to use her Octillery while she waited for her Marill.
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Tarin was bored. There didn't seem to be much happening at the orphanage recently. He wished that he could at least do something. He had already taken the Pokemon out to run around a little and they wouldn't need to be let loose for the night. They were asleep anyway. Well at least the ones who sleep at night, Tarin thought to himself. It was just barely 8 p.m. Tarin was wanting to do something. He decided to go on a short walk to alleviate his boredom. He left a note for his mother just in case she came back while he was gone. Tarin didn't get along to well with his sister. It wasn't that they didn't like each other or Tarin thought that Misty got more attention then he did and was upset about it, it was just that they didn't have the same idea of how to work with Pokemon. Tarin hated battling and would rather spend time with them either watching them or running around with them.
Tarin started walking through the surrounding forest. Tarin figured that Misty took after their mother more than their father because Yellow didn't seem to be too fond of battling. Tarin wanted to take after his father as much as he could. Tarin walked over to where his father had last been seen. He often felt comforted by this area for some reason. He never understood why. He often could sit by the gorge and watch the river go by calmly, but swiftly. Tarin sometimes wondered why he could feel so calm in a place that took someone from him that was very important in his life. Is it that I don't care? Tarin often would ask himself, which usually brought tears to his eyes.
As Tarin sits along the edge of the gorge, he lays his back on the soft grass. Tarin closes his eyes and falls asleep before he realizes that he's tired. When he wakes up, it's dark out and much later than he usually was out. However, as he was walking back, he heard cries of an injured pokemon. Tarin rushes to find the pokemon so that he can take care of it. As Tarin reaches the pokemon, he sees that it's a Zapdos. It's quite small, but that's only small for a Zapdos. It comes up about to Tarin's neck. Tarin then does what he can to calm the injured Zapdos. Eventually Tarin is able to get close enough to the Zapdos to see what's wrong with it.
Tarin pulls a big splinter from its wing. That causes the Zapdos to cry out in pain. Tarin also can see that its wing was also broken. Probably because of it's pain and fear, Tarin thought, reasoning why the wing would be broken, while the splinter that was basically a small branch the length of his forearm, from something that didn't seem to be that strong, albeit quite sharp on the tip. Tarin led the Zapdos to the orphanage. Tarin knew that his mother would be able to put the Zapdos in the area that's specifically for very rare pokemon. That way fewer people would know about it, so fewer would be able to try and steal it.
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The day starts off bright and sunny. There were very few clouds in the sky. Misty is rearing to go in her first match. Misty also knows that her first opponent will be beaten by her. Misty has already asked her mother to send her her Azumarill. Misty was surprised to learn that her Marill had evolved and seemed to have more stamina than it used to have. Though, Misty was quite pleased to learn about that. Misty goes to her first match almost in a run. However, Misty makes it there before even the audience has even started forming a line to watch. Misty realized what she had done and then decided to try and get some breakfast.
An hour later, Misty noticed people going to the arena where she would have her first match. Misty was surprised to have learned that the main arena was always under water when they had these preliminary matches. Misty then went in and found that she was first up on the red side. Her opponent, on the blue side was already waiting for her. The announcer announced who was battling and then they were given the sign that they could start. Misty threw her pokeball with her Octillery in it and called out, "Octillery go!"
Her opponent did the same thing simultaneously, but called out, "Kingdra! Come out!"
Misty estimated what would be the best way to go about fighting Kingdra. However, Misty spent too much time wondering what she should do and her opponent called out to his Kingdra, "Kingdra! Hydro Pump!"
Misty quickly told her Octillery to dive in the water to dodge it. Though, Misty only realized that's what her opponent wanted her to do, as he had his Kingdra use whirlpool. Misty had her Octillery suction itself to where he dove in at. Then when the whirlpool had stopped, Misty had her Octillery use Ice Beam on the Kingdra and then with the Kingdra frozen, her opponent decided to call him back. Misty was very ecstatic that she won her first match in the competition. However, as Misty was about to leave, there was a bright flash of light.
At that time a cloud drifted over the sun. And along the edge of the shade provided by the cloud, in the middle of the arena, Misty's Blazeon appeared. Blazeon then ran over to Misty. Misty could not understand what just happened. She was certain that everyone in the audience was also surprised. Misty then picked her Blazeon up and began to make her exit. When she was out of the arena, she began to run back to the pokecenter to call Professor Oak and find out what happened. Though, with this having happened, Misty wasn't certain how, but she wondered if it was a type of teleporting, because it appeared next to the shade and not next to her, as it seemed that it wanted to.
Misty sighed. If anything, Prof. Oak should know what happened. Misty also was glad that her mother hadn't been able to send her Azumarill yet. That was something that Misty was quite pleased about. This way, she wasn't breaking any of the league rules by having another pokemon with her. So, Misty wondered if she should send Prof. Oak another pokemon that wouldn't be able to escape his care so easily.
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Gary was tired from his match. His Blastoise had quite an opponent. Another Blastoise that was almost as strong as Gary's. Gary knew that he had almost lost the match, and that it was his Blastoise that kept him from seeing defeat. Gary was going to the pokecenter to get his Blastoise healed, but he stopped in his tracks when he saw Misty with her Blazeon. What's her Blazeon doing here? I thought Misty told me that she had sent her Blazeon to Gramps, Gary asked himself. Gary then walked over to find out what had happened.
Gary waited for Misty to finish using the phone and saw that Misty sent Prof. Oak another of her pokemon, other than her Blazeon, and Prof. Oak sent her back the pokeball to put her Blazeon in. Gary was surprised to see that his grandfather had the pokeball when Misty had her Blazeon not too long after they had sent Blazeon to his grandfather.
When Misty was done Gary walked over to her and asked, "How'd you get your Blazeon back so quickly without using the computer?"
"I don't know what happened, but it seems that Blazeon can use a move that seems similar to teleport, but it can't seem to appear in shaded areas," Misty answered.
Gary sighed. This Blazeon was full of surprises. He only hoped that there wouldn't come a time when they found out that it wasn't as simple as any other rare pokemon. Even though, those kinds could be quite complex. Gary could only hope that there wouldn't be any more surprises like it's strange teleporting skill.
"I knew it!" a voice called from the entrance to the Pokecenter.
Gary and Misty turned to see who it was that called. "Who are you?" Misty asked.
"I was in the match right after yours and I saw you pokemon come in the arena right after your match. I thought that it looked like an Eevee evolution, and I was right!" the boy replied, walking over to them.
"And you are. . ." Gary left the sentence hanging, trying to give the boy a hint.
"Oh yes! Sorry about that," the boy said, his face turning a light shade of red. "I'm Mark. I specialize in training all of the six different Eevees." There was a pause then he continued, "But now I can see that there's a seventh one."
"What do you mean by that?" Gary asked. "I thought that there were only five different evolutions other than Blazeon for Eevee."
"Well, yes, but I have an unevolved Eevee that doesn't ever want to evolve," Mark replied.
"So, what do you want?" Gary asked.
"I was wondering if I could travel with you," Mark replied. "From the looks of things, I believe that you're on your way to Cianwood city. I'm heading there myself."
"Sure why not?" Misty answered before Gary could refuse.
Gary growled lightly, not pleased with the situation, also knowing that Ash probably wouldn't be quite as pleased as Misty was for the situation.
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"She what!?" Ash cried, really taking the news as bad as Gary had expected.
"She accepted his offer to accompany us," Gary replied.
"You know what you have to do now, right?" Ash asked Gary. Gary wasn't certain that he knew what Ash was talking about, but he was quite certain that he probably wasn't going to like it.
"You want me to keep them from doing anything you and Misty did, right?" Gary asked, hoping that he would be assuming that Ash wouldn't want him to do that much.
"No," Ash replied. Gary started to sigh in relief, but caught his breath when Ash continued, "I want you to get him to leave and travel on his own. I don't care how, but I want you to do that.
Gary knew that Ash was overreacting now. Gary figured that Ash would be protective of his daughter, but he didn't think that Ash would be this protective. "Ash," Gary started, trying to reason with Ash, "I don't think that this would help her out if you had me go through with this. I mean, at best she wouldn't mind, but at worst, she might not be very happy with the idea."
Gary knew that he just made a very big understatement. Possibly the biggest he ever had made. Ash sighed, obviously not pleased with how things were. "Then just keep him from getting too close," Ash growled.
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Misty was watching the main arena drain of water. Misty was awed by the entire area. It all seemed so mystical to her. Misty was excited about tomorrow. Apparently Mark was going to be her opponent in the morning. Misty was glad to have her Azumarill. She planned on using her Azumarill first thing in the battle. That way she'd be able to see how good her Azumarill was.
When Misty woke up the next morning, she repeated the same thing as the day before with running to the arena only to find out that no one was there to even begin finding seats for the match. Misty again was embarrassed and walked back to her room to think about what she should do so that she wouldn't keep on doing this. She decided to write a note for herself and put it on the doorknob of her room. That way she'd be able to see it before she left. Then when Misty was satisfied that she'd be able to keep from doing this again, she left to get some breakfast.
When Misty again returned to the arena, she was all set to battle Mark's Vaporeon. Misty was in her position before Mark was, as they were first up. Misty was a little surprised that she was up first again, but she was glad. This way she'd be able to know if she'd be able to continue on.
The announcer called the match to a start. Misty called out her Azumarill while Mark called out his Vaporeon. Misty knew exactly what she'd need to do right away.
"Azumarill! Water gun!" Misty cried.
"Vaporeon! Water gun!" Mark cried simultaneously.
The water gun attacks from both pokemon collided right in the middle of them. Both pokemon seemed to be equal in strength with water gun attacks because it didn't seem to be going anywhere. Finally both pokemon stopped at the exact same time, realizing that they weren't getting anywhere.
"Azumarill! Icy wind!" Misty cried out.
"Vaporeon! Ice beam!" Mark countered.
Azumarill started blowing cold air out of it's mouth and it began to head over to Vaporeon, who shot a bright blue beam at Azumarill. Azumarill was hit by Vaporeon's attack first, but then when Azumarill was hit Misty called out, "Blizzard!"
Azumarill then began blowing again and a big blizzard formed around him. When it reached it's peak efficiency, Vaporeon was hit by icy wind. Then before Vaporeon could react, the blizzard hit Vaporeon full force. Vaporeon was still able to fight, but considerably weakened. About at this point Misty's Marill would have not been able to continue, but Misty could see that her Azumarill was still full of energy.
"Azumarill! Finish this with Dynamic punch!" Misty cried.
Misty's Azumarill began swimming quickly over to where Vaporeon was. Mark quickly threw a berry to Vaporeon, which Vaporeon quickly ate and then Mark called out to Vaporeon when Azumarill was nearing her, "Hydro pump!"
Vaporeon shot out a massive surge of water out of it's mouth and it would have hit Azumarill, but Azumarill was able to quickly dive underwater before Misty could react. Vaporeon wasn't certain where Azumarill went and walked over to the edge, which was a fatal mistake for Vaporeon. Azumarill leaped out of the water and hit Vaporeon full in the head, knocking her completely out. Misty was even more excited with her victory here, now that she had been able to beat her second opponent.
Misty watched the other matches that day, and was very pleased to see Gary lose to a Lanturn almost immediately. Misty had a hard time stopping her laughter after it began. Misty was surprised to see that Ash and Misty also were doing well. Misty wondered if she would fight one of them in this competition. Misty was really excited to continue battling.
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Gary was devastated. He didn't expect this to occur. Even though it was part electric-type, Gary had been certain that he would be able to beat it with his Blastoise. Now Misty had an advantage over him with how he had been trying to get her to take her training a little more seriously, but now he wondered if she would just do it because she felt like it now or not. He hoped that she wouldn't go back to being the way that she had been. He liked how she had changed with being more bearable to be around. She really focused on what she set out to do and although Gary felt that was a good thing, he knew that she could always seem to find the most annoying ways of going about doing that. That was the main piece that Gary didn't like about her.
Regardless of how Gary's pride was injured, he was still tired and was wanting to take a nap before he met Ash. Gary walked up to his room and when he got there, he released his pokemon in the room and told them that they could do what they liked, as long as they didn't leave the room and didn't disturb him. He also got out a plate to put pokefood on so that they could eat when they felt like it. Gary then took off his shoes and put on a coat so that he would be warm with his Articuno being out. And Gary was quickly asleep.
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The next day, Misty missed the note that she left on the doorknob and again had a repeat of the day before. At least no one else has noticed, Misty thought to herself. Misty then went back and ate some breakfast as she wondered what she could do to have this situation stop. Just in case someone finds out about what she was doing. Misty couldn't think of another way other than putting notes all over her door. That way she at least might be able to see one of them instead of rushing out and not even paying attention to the note that she left for herself on the doorknob.
Misty did what she could in her battle that day, but as she was fighting Misty Ketchum, she realized that she wasn't doing very good. Misty lost her Azumarill and Octillery both to Misty Ketchum's Corsola. Misty was at least comforted by the fact that Gary had lost the day before. This way, Misty knew that she'd be able to do what she could to get out of catching so many pokemon. It really was causing her to not have so much money for other things.
Misty watched the rest of the copetition. While she didn't have any more problems rushing to the arena early, she still wanted to see who won. Finally it was down to Misty and Ash Ketchum. Ash seemed to get off to a pretty good start, but Misty quickly turned the advantage around and took Ash out. Misty Ketchum had won the Whirl Cup.
Misty stayed for the awards ceremony and after that, she decided to leave. Gary and Mark were accompanying her to Cianwood city. Hopefully I can get another badge, Misty thought to herself, as they booked a ferry to take them the entire way.
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Author Notes: How was the competition? Did anyone expect me to end it that way? Anyway, I've thought about what ability Blazeon has and that would be flare. Causes a bright light to shine in opponents eyes. It's only ineffective against opponents that have no eyes, such as Zubat, and other light-types. Anyway, I was thinking that Blazeon could travel along the beams of light that comes from something else, other than teleporting. This way, Team Rocket could try to capture it, but wouldn't know about that little piece of information that would allow them to lose it just after they thought that they securely had it. Anyway, I'm thinking that I'll probably have two more chapters before the final update. So, then I'll wait a week before posting up the final stuff. Anyway, the votes still are 10 ½ 1 ½. The trivia question in this chapter is what legendary pokemon was the first to appear in the show Pokemon and movies. Whichever one you think it was, either e-mail it to me or put it with your review. Anyway, please look forward to chapter 23! ^_^
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Misty was wanting to try and reach her mother one last time. Although her Marill wasn't up for battle, Misty knew that he would be her only real chance. Misty had failed to reach the pokecenter again and decided to try the shop, hoping that one of her friends was working there at the time. Misty had already sent her Blazeon over to Professor Oak and he seemed really excited with getting it. Misty had tried to explain to her Blazeon what was happening, but she wasn't certain that her Blazeon understood. I'll call tomorrow after my first morning match, Misty thought to herself as she dialed the Pokemart in Cherrygrove city.
When the other end was answered, Misty cried out in delight. Her friend Megan was working. "Hey, Megan!" Misty practically screamed.
Megan rubbed the inside of her ear with her finger. "You don't have to scream," Megan replied.
"I know, but I felt like it," Misty replied. Megan sweatdropped.
"What do you need?" Megan asked. "I'm pretty busy right now."
"I just needed to contact my mom. For some reason no one is at the pokecenter," Misty replied.
"They've closed the pokecenter for remodeling. It would make sense that no one would answer," Megan told Misty. "I'll let your mom know to call, okay?"
"Okay," Misty answered. "That's what I needed to tell her."
"Okay, good luck on your journey," Megan said.
"Thanks," Misty replied, hanging up at the same time as Megan. Misty sighed. Now she knew that she wouldn't have to try and catch another water pokemon and have to use it in battle, when she wouldn't know the personality of it, let alone how well it would battle. Misty decided to wait by the phone until her mother called which would probably be later on. Though, Misty didn't want to miss the call when her mother called. Misty also knew that at the soonest, she would get her Marill tomorrow and then she'd be able to use her Octillery while she waited for her Marill.
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Tarin was bored. There didn't seem to be much happening at the orphanage recently. He wished that he could at least do something. He had already taken the Pokemon out to run around a little and they wouldn't need to be let loose for the night. They were asleep anyway. Well at least the ones who sleep at night, Tarin thought to himself. It was just barely 8 p.m. Tarin was wanting to do something. He decided to go on a short walk to alleviate his boredom. He left a note for his mother just in case she came back while he was gone. Tarin didn't get along to well with his sister. It wasn't that they didn't like each other or Tarin thought that Misty got more attention then he did and was upset about it, it was just that they didn't have the same idea of how to work with Pokemon. Tarin hated battling and would rather spend time with them either watching them or running around with them.
Tarin started walking through the surrounding forest. Tarin figured that Misty took after their mother more than their father because Yellow didn't seem to be too fond of battling. Tarin wanted to take after his father as much as he could. Tarin walked over to where his father had last been seen. He often felt comforted by this area for some reason. He never understood why. He often could sit by the gorge and watch the river go by calmly, but swiftly. Tarin sometimes wondered why he could feel so calm in a place that took someone from him that was very important in his life. Is it that I don't care? Tarin often would ask himself, which usually brought tears to his eyes.
As Tarin sits along the edge of the gorge, he lays his back on the soft grass. Tarin closes his eyes and falls asleep before he realizes that he's tired. When he wakes up, it's dark out and much later than he usually was out. However, as he was walking back, he heard cries of an injured pokemon. Tarin rushes to find the pokemon so that he can take care of it. As Tarin reaches the pokemon, he sees that it's a Zapdos. It's quite small, but that's only small for a Zapdos. It comes up about to Tarin's neck. Tarin then does what he can to calm the injured Zapdos. Eventually Tarin is able to get close enough to the Zapdos to see what's wrong with it.
Tarin pulls a big splinter from its wing. That causes the Zapdos to cry out in pain. Tarin also can see that its wing was also broken. Probably because of it's pain and fear, Tarin thought, reasoning why the wing would be broken, while the splinter that was basically a small branch the length of his forearm, from something that didn't seem to be that strong, albeit quite sharp on the tip. Tarin led the Zapdos to the orphanage. Tarin knew that his mother would be able to put the Zapdos in the area that's specifically for very rare pokemon. That way fewer people would know about it, so fewer would be able to try and steal it.
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The day starts off bright and sunny. There were very few clouds in the sky. Misty is rearing to go in her first match. Misty also knows that her first opponent will be beaten by her. Misty has already asked her mother to send her her Azumarill. Misty was surprised to learn that her Marill had evolved and seemed to have more stamina than it used to have. Though, Misty was quite pleased to learn about that. Misty goes to her first match almost in a run. However, Misty makes it there before even the audience has even started forming a line to watch. Misty realized what she had done and then decided to try and get some breakfast.
An hour later, Misty noticed people going to the arena where she would have her first match. Misty was surprised to have learned that the main arena was always under water when they had these preliminary matches. Misty then went in and found that she was first up on the red side. Her opponent, on the blue side was already waiting for her. The announcer announced who was battling and then they were given the sign that they could start. Misty threw her pokeball with her Octillery in it and called out, "Octillery go!"
Her opponent did the same thing simultaneously, but called out, "Kingdra! Come out!"
Misty estimated what would be the best way to go about fighting Kingdra. However, Misty spent too much time wondering what she should do and her opponent called out to his Kingdra, "Kingdra! Hydro Pump!"
Misty quickly told her Octillery to dive in the water to dodge it. Though, Misty only realized that's what her opponent wanted her to do, as he had his Kingdra use whirlpool. Misty had her Octillery suction itself to where he dove in at. Then when the whirlpool had stopped, Misty had her Octillery use Ice Beam on the Kingdra and then with the Kingdra frozen, her opponent decided to call him back. Misty was very ecstatic that she won her first match in the competition. However, as Misty was about to leave, there was a bright flash of light.
At that time a cloud drifted over the sun. And along the edge of the shade provided by the cloud, in the middle of the arena, Misty's Blazeon appeared. Blazeon then ran over to Misty. Misty could not understand what just happened. She was certain that everyone in the audience was also surprised. Misty then picked her Blazeon up and began to make her exit. When she was out of the arena, she began to run back to the pokecenter to call Professor Oak and find out what happened. Though, with this having happened, Misty wasn't certain how, but she wondered if it was a type of teleporting, because it appeared next to the shade and not next to her, as it seemed that it wanted to.
Misty sighed. If anything, Prof. Oak should know what happened. Misty also was glad that her mother hadn't been able to send her Azumarill yet. That was something that Misty was quite pleased about. This way, she wasn't breaking any of the league rules by having another pokemon with her. So, Misty wondered if she should send Prof. Oak another pokemon that wouldn't be able to escape his care so easily.
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Gary was tired from his match. His Blastoise had quite an opponent. Another Blastoise that was almost as strong as Gary's. Gary knew that he had almost lost the match, and that it was his Blastoise that kept him from seeing defeat. Gary was going to the pokecenter to get his Blastoise healed, but he stopped in his tracks when he saw Misty with her Blazeon. What's her Blazeon doing here? I thought Misty told me that she had sent her Blazeon to Gramps, Gary asked himself. Gary then walked over to find out what had happened.
Gary waited for Misty to finish using the phone and saw that Misty sent Prof. Oak another of her pokemon, other than her Blazeon, and Prof. Oak sent her back the pokeball to put her Blazeon in. Gary was surprised to see that his grandfather had the pokeball when Misty had her Blazeon not too long after they had sent Blazeon to his grandfather.
When Misty was done Gary walked over to her and asked, "How'd you get your Blazeon back so quickly without using the computer?"
"I don't know what happened, but it seems that Blazeon can use a move that seems similar to teleport, but it can't seem to appear in shaded areas," Misty answered.
Gary sighed. This Blazeon was full of surprises. He only hoped that there wouldn't come a time when they found out that it wasn't as simple as any other rare pokemon. Even though, those kinds could be quite complex. Gary could only hope that there wouldn't be any more surprises like it's strange teleporting skill.
"I knew it!" a voice called from the entrance to the Pokecenter.
Gary and Misty turned to see who it was that called. "Who are you?" Misty asked.
"I was in the match right after yours and I saw you pokemon come in the arena right after your match. I thought that it looked like an Eevee evolution, and I was right!" the boy replied, walking over to them.
"And you are. . ." Gary left the sentence hanging, trying to give the boy a hint.
"Oh yes! Sorry about that," the boy said, his face turning a light shade of red. "I'm Mark. I specialize in training all of the six different Eevees." There was a pause then he continued, "But now I can see that there's a seventh one."
"What do you mean by that?" Gary asked. "I thought that there were only five different evolutions other than Blazeon for Eevee."
"Well, yes, but I have an unevolved Eevee that doesn't ever want to evolve," Mark replied.
"So, what do you want?" Gary asked.
"I was wondering if I could travel with you," Mark replied. "From the looks of things, I believe that you're on your way to Cianwood city. I'm heading there myself."
"Sure why not?" Misty answered before Gary could refuse.
Gary growled lightly, not pleased with the situation, also knowing that Ash probably wouldn't be quite as pleased as Misty was for the situation.
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"She what!?" Ash cried, really taking the news as bad as Gary had expected.
"She accepted his offer to accompany us," Gary replied.
"You know what you have to do now, right?" Ash asked Gary. Gary wasn't certain that he knew what Ash was talking about, but he was quite certain that he probably wasn't going to like it.
"You want me to keep them from doing anything you and Misty did, right?" Gary asked, hoping that he would be assuming that Ash wouldn't want him to do that much.
"No," Ash replied. Gary started to sigh in relief, but caught his breath when Ash continued, "I want you to get him to leave and travel on his own. I don't care how, but I want you to do that.
Gary knew that Ash was overreacting now. Gary figured that Ash would be protective of his daughter, but he didn't think that Ash would be this protective. "Ash," Gary started, trying to reason with Ash, "I don't think that this would help her out if you had me go through with this. I mean, at best she wouldn't mind, but at worst, she might not be very happy with the idea."
Gary knew that he just made a very big understatement. Possibly the biggest he ever had made. Ash sighed, obviously not pleased with how things were. "Then just keep him from getting too close," Ash growled.
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Misty was watching the main arena drain of water. Misty was awed by the entire area. It all seemed so mystical to her. Misty was excited about tomorrow. Apparently Mark was going to be her opponent in the morning. Misty was glad to have her Azumarill. She planned on using her Azumarill first thing in the battle. That way she'd be able to see how good her Azumarill was.
When Misty woke up the next morning, she repeated the same thing as the day before with running to the arena only to find out that no one was there to even begin finding seats for the match. Misty again was embarrassed and walked back to her room to think about what she should do so that she wouldn't keep on doing this. She decided to write a note for herself and put it on the doorknob of her room. That way she'd be able to see it before she left. Then when Misty was satisfied that she'd be able to keep from doing this again, she left to get some breakfast.
When Misty again returned to the arena, she was all set to battle Mark's Vaporeon. Misty was in her position before Mark was, as they were first up. Misty was a little surprised that she was up first again, but she was glad. This way she'd be able to know if she'd be able to continue on.
The announcer called the match to a start. Misty called out her Azumarill while Mark called out his Vaporeon. Misty knew exactly what she'd need to do right away.
"Azumarill! Water gun!" Misty cried.
"Vaporeon! Water gun!" Mark cried simultaneously.
The water gun attacks from both pokemon collided right in the middle of them. Both pokemon seemed to be equal in strength with water gun attacks because it didn't seem to be going anywhere. Finally both pokemon stopped at the exact same time, realizing that they weren't getting anywhere.
"Azumarill! Icy wind!" Misty cried out.
"Vaporeon! Ice beam!" Mark countered.
Azumarill started blowing cold air out of it's mouth and it began to head over to Vaporeon, who shot a bright blue beam at Azumarill. Azumarill was hit by Vaporeon's attack first, but then when Azumarill was hit Misty called out, "Blizzard!"
Azumarill then began blowing again and a big blizzard formed around him. When it reached it's peak efficiency, Vaporeon was hit by icy wind. Then before Vaporeon could react, the blizzard hit Vaporeon full force. Vaporeon was still able to fight, but considerably weakened. About at this point Misty's Marill would have not been able to continue, but Misty could see that her Azumarill was still full of energy.
"Azumarill! Finish this with Dynamic punch!" Misty cried.
Misty's Azumarill began swimming quickly over to where Vaporeon was. Mark quickly threw a berry to Vaporeon, which Vaporeon quickly ate and then Mark called out to Vaporeon when Azumarill was nearing her, "Hydro pump!"
Vaporeon shot out a massive surge of water out of it's mouth and it would have hit Azumarill, but Azumarill was able to quickly dive underwater before Misty could react. Vaporeon wasn't certain where Azumarill went and walked over to the edge, which was a fatal mistake for Vaporeon. Azumarill leaped out of the water and hit Vaporeon full in the head, knocking her completely out. Misty was even more excited with her victory here, now that she had been able to beat her second opponent.
Misty watched the other matches that day, and was very pleased to see Gary lose to a Lanturn almost immediately. Misty had a hard time stopping her laughter after it began. Misty was surprised to see that Ash and Misty also were doing well. Misty wondered if she would fight one of them in this competition. Misty was really excited to continue battling.
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Gary was devastated. He didn't expect this to occur. Even though it was part electric-type, Gary had been certain that he would be able to beat it with his Blastoise. Now Misty had an advantage over him with how he had been trying to get her to take her training a little more seriously, but now he wondered if she would just do it because she felt like it now or not. He hoped that she wouldn't go back to being the way that she had been. He liked how she had changed with being more bearable to be around. She really focused on what she set out to do and although Gary felt that was a good thing, he knew that she could always seem to find the most annoying ways of going about doing that. That was the main piece that Gary didn't like about her.
Regardless of how Gary's pride was injured, he was still tired and was wanting to take a nap before he met Ash. Gary walked up to his room and when he got there, he released his pokemon in the room and told them that they could do what they liked, as long as they didn't leave the room and didn't disturb him. He also got out a plate to put pokefood on so that they could eat when they felt like it. Gary then took off his shoes and put on a coat so that he would be warm with his Articuno being out. And Gary was quickly asleep.
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The next day, Misty missed the note that she left on the doorknob and again had a repeat of the day before. At least no one else has noticed, Misty thought to herself. Misty then went back and ate some breakfast as she wondered what she could do to have this situation stop. Just in case someone finds out about what she was doing. Misty couldn't think of another way other than putting notes all over her door. That way she at least might be able to see one of them instead of rushing out and not even paying attention to the note that she left for herself on the doorknob.
Misty did what she could in her battle that day, but as she was fighting Misty Ketchum, she realized that she wasn't doing very good. Misty lost her Azumarill and Octillery both to Misty Ketchum's Corsola. Misty was at least comforted by the fact that Gary had lost the day before. This way, Misty knew that she'd be able to do what she could to get out of catching so many pokemon. It really was causing her to not have so much money for other things.
Misty watched the rest of the copetition. While she didn't have any more problems rushing to the arena early, she still wanted to see who won. Finally it was down to Misty and Ash Ketchum. Ash seemed to get off to a pretty good start, but Misty quickly turned the advantage around and took Ash out. Misty Ketchum had won the Whirl Cup.
Misty stayed for the awards ceremony and after that, she decided to leave. Gary and Mark were accompanying her to Cianwood city. Hopefully I can get another badge, Misty thought to herself, as they booked a ferry to take them the entire way.
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Author Notes: How was the competition? Did anyone expect me to end it that way? Anyway, I've thought about what ability Blazeon has and that would be flare. Causes a bright light to shine in opponents eyes. It's only ineffective against opponents that have no eyes, such as Zubat, and other light-types. Anyway, I was thinking that Blazeon could travel along the beams of light that comes from something else, other than teleporting. This way, Team Rocket could try to capture it, but wouldn't know about that little piece of information that would allow them to lose it just after they thought that they securely had it. Anyway, I'm thinking that I'll probably have two more chapters before the final update. So, then I'll wait a week before posting up the final stuff. Anyway, the votes still are 10 ½ 1 ½. The trivia question in this chapter is what legendary pokemon was the first to appear in the show Pokemon and movies. Whichever one you think it was, either e-mail it to me or put it with your review. Anyway, please look forward to chapter 23! ^_^
