They stood at the large glass doors with determined looks on their faces.
Around Dominic and Cara was Rustboro City - the second largest city in Hoenn and the first stop for trainers looking to get their badges in order. Rustboro Gym was home to the trainer or rock-type pokemon, Roxanne. Although she was ranked number one on the gym leader list, that didn't mean her pokemon were weak.
Currently Dominic had the shivers. It was his first gym battle - not to mention that it was only his second battle in the last four years. Pierre had put up an interesting fight, but Dominic couldn't decide if it was difficult or not..
"Dom, I just hafta do something.." Cara said, pulling out her pokegear. She punched in something on the cellphone-like device. It suddenly spoke.
"Woah. Is that what the pokegear does?" said Dom, pulling out his own and inspecting it.
"Yup. It's one of the functions.. it has comprehensive data on all the cities and important areas in Hoenn, Johto, Kanto, Orange Islands.."
"That's wicked awesome," said Dominic. Cara nodded and snapped her pokegear shut.
"So, the theme is obviously rock," said Cara. It certainly was - Dominic had been looking around at the city for a long while. All the buildings were made of granite, save a few made of mixed rock and pewter. In the northwest corner of the city was a grand hall that could be seen above all other buildings. It was Devon Corporation - leading manufacturer of pokegear, pokedex, pokemon navigators, and pokeballs. They were the first in Hoenn to introduce the Master Ball. Walkways of slate covered the roads of Rustboro, and all other sidewalk areas were made of tan colored sandstone.
"Sure is.. which means that grass and water pokemon are most effective.." said Dominic.
"Also fighting, ground, and steel types," corrected Cara. Dominic looked over his pokeballs.
"I have electric, psychic, and poison.."
"I have water and grass.."
"Jeez, Cara, you always have the right thing at the right time.." Dominic frowned.
"Haha, you'll do fine, Dom!"
"Are you kidding? Electrike won't have any effect of rock, gulpin's attacks will do half as much as their supposed to.. I can really only hope to win with spoink."
"Since when did you become a pesimist? And where did you learn all this?" said Cara.
"I've been studying the pokemon combat chart.. your pokedex has one built in. Now you know what I do with my spare time." Dominic chuckled.
"That's awesome.. I wish I had known.. Alright, well, we've spent enough time out here, eh?" said Cara. "Let's go kick some gym butt! Wahoo!"
And with that Cara kicked open th glass doors and jumped inside. Dom simply followed after her, not understanding why she had to be so extravigant with everything she did.
* * * * * * * * * *
Dominic and Cara had been sitting in the waiting area for at least ten minutes. The woman at the front desk had givin Dom a slip saying "Match 8", Cara's said "Match 7". Only one other trainer was waiting in the same room as them.
Twiddling his thumbs, Dom felt extreme nervousness rush through him. What if Cara won and he didn't? After all, she had the best possible types of pokemon to use.. or what if he won and she didn't? She probably wouldn't think he was being fair..
But what if they both lost?
Dominic tried not to think about what was going on. Currently, a voice from a loudspeaker flooded the waiting area.
"Match number 6! Match number 6!"
The girl in the waiting room got up and strided of through swinging doors into the arena. Cara was next..
Hours seemed to pass while they waited. Dominic continually rubbed his hands on his pokeballs, reminding himself that he would do fine. After what felt like a day the girl came through the doors with a proud look on her face. She held in her hand a small badge - she had obviously beaten Roxanne.
"Match number 7! Match number 7!"
The same voice flooded the room. Cara looked at Dom and smiled. She looked confident, and as she stood up Dom really hoped that she won. She had to..
In an instant she, too, had gone through the swinging doors. Dom sat back and his chair with a large sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Hey, are you up next?"
The girl who had already beaten Roxanne was sitting down next to Dominic. She was about Dominic's age and had copper colored hair that was fairly short - she couldn't pull it into a ponytail but it still came past her ears.
"Wha..? Oh.. er - yeah.. my friend is in there now."
"Roxanne is a pushover. Her pokemon are are no higher than level 15. Pretty easy, if you ask me," said the girl. She had blue eyes that shone like crystals.
"Not when you have the pokemon I do," said Dominic.
"Oh? Which would be..?" she said. Dom now noticed she was wearing baggy jeans and a black cut-off tanktop. She had a red bandana tied around her head.
"Um, I got an electrike that I've had since I can remember, a spoink that was givin to me after I escaped from jail - er - don't ask, and a gulpin I got as a starter."
"Yikes. Well, you could use the spoink,"
"That's the plan.."
"By the way, my name's Rilee. Rilee Talon." She smiled and put out her hand for Dom to shake.
"Oh, hey.. I'm Dominic." He shook her hand. "Dominic Jenkins."
Her hand fell limp to her side. She stared at him with her mouth gaping open.
"What? What's wrong?" he started to get nervous.
"As in, son of Archie Jenkins?"
"What? Omigosh. Um - if you want to think of that way.."
"Oh my friggin god! You are ARCHIE JENKINS' SON?"
"Shhh! Not so loud -"
"Lord up above! I can't believe it! He said he didn't have any family, kinda like me.." she scratched her head.
"You..you..what? You talked to him?"
"Dominic, I worked with him. I used to belong to Team Aqua."
Now it was Dominic's turn to stare at Rilee.
"You WHAT?"
"I joined when I was 13. My mom told me it would be a good experience. Ha! Yeah right. I got up to commander of my unit.. met a couple times with Archie. They said I was one of the youngest members to get as far as I did. Then I got kicked out.. didn't follow orders.. long story.."
Dominic looked at Rilee and tried to figure out how all these people in his life were connected to his father. "That is way bizarre."
"I know.. but back to the gym. I've decided I want to get the badges, maybe take the league challenge.. I want to change my life. Oh - and I want to get revenge on Team Aqua."
Dom shook his head. This girl had a lot of charisma.
"Is this your first badge?" asked Dom.
"Yup. I'm getting them in order like you probably are.."
"Yeah.."
Suddenly the doors swung open and Cara was standing in front of them. Her face had dust marks on it and her face looked the least bit happy. Even her usual perky hair was drooping.
"Cara?" Dominic stood up and walked over to her, leaving Rilee on the couch.
"Dom I lost! How the hell did I lose? I had perfect pokemon to use.."
"I.. you.."
"Honey, I think they're a little too young." Rilee said. She had walked over to the two and was looking at Cara, as if she was sizing her up.
"Say what? My pokemon are NOT too young.. I.." Cara looked hopeless.
"It's okay, if you battle the guys in the righthand gym you can gain experience," Rilee pointed at a swinging door across the room.
"Dom, who is the girl?" asked Cara.
"Names Rilee Talon. I beat Roxanne," said Rilee. "I was just talking to your boyfriend."
"BOYFRIEND? I ASSURE YOU THAT I -"
"Calm down Cara. Rilee, I can tell you that Cara and I are romantically involved.."
"Oh, sorry! I just thought -"
"Match number 8! Match number 8!"
Dominic had forgotten that he was next. Rilee and Cara both turned to look at him. He smiled and scratched his neck.
"I guess, um, I hafta be going!" he said, running off just as he thought things were getting as bad as they could be.
* * * * * * * * * *
The arena was made similar to the ones Dominic had seen in books: a large rectangle cut into equal sides for each trainer. There were things around the arena complimenting the theme - in this case, rocks - and the gym leader stood at the far end of the battle field.
"Hello. You're number 8, I presume?" Roxanne said from across the room. Dominic looked at her. She had dark brown hair that was tied into a long ponytail which ran the length of her shoulders onto her back. She had bright pink eyes and pale skin. Dominic thought she looked like a cannibal. She wore a small blue skirt , pink tights, and blue shoes. Dominic rethought her appearance - she was a cannibal dressing for a special occasion.
"Er - yeah. I'm Dominic.. and I challenge you to a fight for the Stone Badge."
"Very nice.. receiting the official league gym challenge.. extra points for that.." She was walking closer to Dominic every second.
"Er - yeah.. I try.."
"So, ready to start? I must say, I've only had one defeat today." Roxanne said. Dominic imagined Rilee laughing in Roxanne's face as she handed over the badge.
"Um, yeah, I'm ready." Dominic felt for spoink's pokeball and grasped it tightly.
"I must say, boy, you are nervous. Not as nervous as the pathetic girl before you, though." Roxanne laughed.
"God lord stop making fun of my friend and let's battle!" shouted Dominic. He figured Roxanne was in her mid twenties, but she shut her mouth and withdrew her pokeball.
"Fine. Two pokemon each. One's fainted, not my problem, use the next one, no argument. Ready? You better be. Go geodude!"
Dominic had just understood what she was saying when her first pokemon materialized on the battle field. Dominic had seen geodude before, but this one was huge. It was three times the size of a normal geodude and looked ten times as angry.
"Oh, God, help me and my pokemon!" Dominic whispered. "Go, spoink!"
The purple pig paled in comparison to the gigantic geodude - which wasn't saying much. For kicks Dominic pulled out his pokedex and aimed it at the geodude.
"Thanks for the encouragement.." muttered Dominic.
"Are you ready to actually start the battle? Done with the little toys? I could have told you that, stupid boy.. now let's go!" Roxanne yelled.
Dominic was beginning to get very annoyed with Roxanne.
"Spoink, psywave!"
"Geodude, rock throw!"
The two pokemon glared at eachother. The ball on spoink's head stared glowing and a purple wave was emitted from it. Geodude hopped over to one of the rocks growing from the stadium and hurled it toward spoink.
Dominic closed his eyes as the attacks collided. Geodude was thrown back as the psywave hit it. It looked unscathed. Meanwhile, spoink was smashed by the thrown rock and was laying on it's back .
"Er - Spoink, confuse ray!" Spoink slowly got up and started glowing black. The room grew dark and spoink shot a white ray toward geodude. It was struck and suddenly fell back, it's eyes spinning.
"Geodude! No! Ugh.. try to tackle that thing!" Roxanne screamed. But the geodude was walking in circles. It lifted it's fist and punched itself in the face.
"Alright, spoink! You confused him!" Dominic began to have hope.
"Geodude! Ugh.. it's no use. That was your last bit of hope, Dominic. He's too confused to battle. I hate to do this, but.." Roxanne pulled out her pokeball and withdrew geodude.
"That's one down, Roxanne!" yelled Dominic. Spoink turned and looked at Dominic. "Alright, spoink, just a little longer."
"You'll never win, now!" she hollered. "Go nosepass!"
A large, purple rock-like creature emerged. It had an extremely large, red, nose of rock.
"Noooooose.."
"Alright spoink, how bout another psywave!" said Dominic.
"Noooooose.."
"Nosepass, thunderwave!" screamed Roxanne.
"What..?"
"Nosepass can pick up electrical currents in the air! You like?" asked Roxanne. Dominic frowned, focusing back on the battle.
Currently the two waves met eachother and blasted backwards at the attackers. Spoink was thrown out of the arena, but nosepass remained in the same spot.
"No! Spoink! Ugh! Return!" Dominic said. His plan was going downhill.. spoink flew back inside it's pokeball. "Go, gulpin!"
In a burst of red light out came gulpin. The sleeping green blob looked funny in comparison to the large moving rock formation.
"Oh come ON! You think you'll win with THAT thing?" Roxanne said, cackling.
"Ignore her, gulpin.. if you can hear.. and you damn better.. YAWN!" Dominic said, remembering that this was one of gulpin's only attacks.
"This is pathetic.. nosepass, rock tomb!"
"Just yawn, c'mon.."
"This is the end for you!" screamed Roxanne. Her eyes were glowing crazily and she looked about ready to kill something.
"Yawn, goddammit!" yelled Dominic. He felt kind of bad for yelling at gulpin in its first battle, but for god's sake he was just sitting there!
Nosepass moaned and slowly walked over to a pillar on it's right side. Lifting out it's triangular hands it clamped onto the pillar and started shaking wildly. From above, huge boulders started falling - aimed right for gulpin.
"C'mon, gulpin!" said Dominic. Sweat was running down his face.
Roxanne put her hands on her hips. "Can we call off the match yet? This is pretty obvious.. I mean you can tell -" But she was cut off. Her and Dominic's jaws dropped as gulpin's small mouth opened and grew larger and larger as the rocks grew closer and closer.
"PIN!"
In one quick gulp it swallowed all of the rocks and spat them back at nosepass.
"Oh my friggin god! OH MY FRIGGIN GOD!" shouted Dominic, jumping up and down.
Nosepass was hit in the nose with the rocks, causing a small crack to run up and down the stone formation.
"Nooooooose.." and with that the large rock pokemon fell backwards and smashed on the floor.
"Nosepass! NO! You.. you.. you won? How did that little gulpin.. omigosh!" Roxanne collapsed on the floor and hugged nosepass. "You broke my nosepass! UGH! Return!" she held out a pokeball and all the broken pieces flew back into the ball.
"I.. I.. wow," said Dominic. He bent over and picked up gulpin in his arms, stroking it's head.
"Pin."
"You are one awesome pokemon, gulpin! How would have thought!"
"I give up. That was thuroughly amazing and extremely lucky. Here's your badge," said Roxanne, walking over to Dominic, "and.. good luck. I think your relationship with your pokemon causes them to be as powerful as the are.. I'll look for you on TV."
She placed a small badge shaped like a stone in Dominic's hand.
"TV? Wha..?"
"You'll be on TV someday, Dominic.. someday." Roxanne shook his hand, turned, and walked off the battle field and into the shadows behind it.
Dominic returned his gulpin and smiled. He had won.. HE HAD WON HIS FIRST BADGE! It was awesome! He knew that it was possible.. now he could get the next seven, become the pokemon champion.. show his father that he was more powerful than him! Things were looking up.
Dom walked through the swinging doors and found Rilee and Cara sitting on the couch.
"Well?" said Cara.
"You didn't did you?" said Rilee.
"Haha.. I, um.. I WON!" screamed Dominic and he ran over to Cara who hugged him.
"That's great, Dom! I wish.. I wish I could have," said Cara.
"Wicked cool, Dominic. I told you she was a pushover! I guess we'll see eachother at Dewford Gym.." Rilee got up and smiled.
"Alright.. well.." Dom said. "Cara, don't you want to stay and try and get the badge?"
Cara looked at Dom and shrugged. "Dom, I've made a descision."
"Wha..?"
"Dom, I.. I'm staying in Rustboro to work at the pokecenter. I was offered a job way back when we were in Fortree.. I.. I promised I would tell you that after you had your gym battle.."
Dominic stared at her. "But.. you said that.."
"I was going to tell you about your dad, too, but.. as you know.. that was already discussed.." She looked at Dominic with wide eyes that were slowly filling with tears.
Dom sat down next to her. "I'm sorry, Cara.. I.. We.. Er.. I can't believe it. I feel bad going on without you.."
"Go on, Dom. I got a great job, a place to stay.. just come visit every once in awhile, eh?" Cara put her hand on Dom's shoulder. "I'll miss you. You'll be great."
Dominic smiled and stood up. "It's just gonna be weird going by myself."
"You don't necessarily hafta go alone.." said Rilee, who Dom forgot was standing beside him.
"Rilee? You wanna..?"
"Let's go, Dom! I've been looking for someone to travel with! We can come visit Cara after we get a few badges, be famous.."
Dom looked at Rilee and back to Cara, who nodded. Dom nodded back and walked out the front door of the gym, waving at Cara as him and Rilee were swallowed by the crowd.
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Awww how sad. As you can see Rilee is one of the characters I received.. I hope I got her personality down right. Anyway, I had to let Cara go.. but I still want more traveling partners besides Dom and Rilee. Hopefully another guy. So review and send in characters! BYEEEE
Around Dominic and Cara was Rustboro City - the second largest city in Hoenn and the first stop for trainers looking to get their badges in order. Rustboro Gym was home to the trainer or rock-type pokemon, Roxanne. Although she was ranked number one on the gym leader list, that didn't mean her pokemon were weak.
Currently Dominic had the shivers. It was his first gym battle - not to mention that it was only his second battle in the last four years. Pierre had put up an interesting fight, but Dominic couldn't decide if it was difficult or not..
"Dom, I just hafta do something.." Cara said, pulling out her pokegear. She punched in something on the cellphone-like device. It suddenly spoke.
"Woah. Is that what the pokegear does?" said Dom, pulling out his own and inspecting it.
"Yup. It's one of the functions.. it has comprehensive data on all the cities and important areas in Hoenn, Johto, Kanto, Orange Islands.."
"That's wicked awesome," said Dominic. Cara nodded and snapped her pokegear shut.
"So, the theme is obviously rock," said Cara. It certainly was - Dominic had been looking around at the city for a long while. All the buildings were made of granite, save a few made of mixed rock and pewter. In the northwest corner of the city was a grand hall that could be seen above all other buildings. It was Devon Corporation - leading manufacturer of pokegear, pokedex, pokemon navigators, and pokeballs. They were the first in Hoenn to introduce the Master Ball. Walkways of slate covered the roads of Rustboro, and all other sidewalk areas were made of tan colored sandstone.
"Sure is.. which means that grass and water pokemon are most effective.." said Dominic.
"Also fighting, ground, and steel types," corrected Cara. Dominic looked over his pokeballs.
"I have electric, psychic, and poison.."
"I have water and grass.."
"Jeez, Cara, you always have the right thing at the right time.." Dominic frowned.
"Haha, you'll do fine, Dom!"
"Are you kidding? Electrike won't have any effect of rock, gulpin's attacks will do half as much as their supposed to.. I can really only hope to win with spoink."
"Since when did you become a pesimist? And where did you learn all this?" said Cara.
"I've been studying the pokemon combat chart.. your pokedex has one built in. Now you know what I do with my spare time." Dominic chuckled.
"That's awesome.. I wish I had known.. Alright, well, we've spent enough time out here, eh?" said Cara. "Let's go kick some gym butt! Wahoo!"
And with that Cara kicked open th glass doors and jumped inside. Dom simply followed after her, not understanding why she had to be so extravigant with everything she did.
* * * * * * * * * *
Dominic and Cara had been sitting in the waiting area for at least ten minutes. The woman at the front desk had givin Dom a slip saying "Match 8", Cara's said "Match 7". Only one other trainer was waiting in the same room as them.
Twiddling his thumbs, Dom felt extreme nervousness rush through him. What if Cara won and he didn't? After all, she had the best possible types of pokemon to use.. or what if he won and she didn't? She probably wouldn't think he was being fair..
But what if they both lost?
Dominic tried not to think about what was going on. Currently, a voice from a loudspeaker flooded the waiting area.
"Match number 6! Match number 6!"
The girl in the waiting room got up and strided of through swinging doors into the arena. Cara was next..
Hours seemed to pass while they waited. Dominic continually rubbed his hands on his pokeballs, reminding himself that he would do fine. After what felt like a day the girl came through the doors with a proud look on her face. She held in her hand a small badge - she had obviously beaten Roxanne.
"Match number 7! Match number 7!"
The same voice flooded the room. Cara looked at Dom and smiled. She looked confident, and as she stood up Dom really hoped that she won. She had to..
In an instant she, too, had gone through the swinging doors. Dom sat back and his chair with a large sinking feeling in his stomach.
"Hey, are you up next?"
The girl who had already beaten Roxanne was sitting down next to Dominic. She was about Dominic's age and had copper colored hair that was fairly short - she couldn't pull it into a ponytail but it still came past her ears.
"Wha..? Oh.. er - yeah.. my friend is in there now."
"Roxanne is a pushover. Her pokemon are are no higher than level 15. Pretty easy, if you ask me," said the girl. She had blue eyes that shone like crystals.
"Not when you have the pokemon I do," said Dominic.
"Oh? Which would be..?" she said. Dom now noticed she was wearing baggy jeans and a black cut-off tanktop. She had a red bandana tied around her head.
"Um, I got an electrike that I've had since I can remember, a spoink that was givin to me after I escaped from jail - er - don't ask, and a gulpin I got as a starter."
"Yikes. Well, you could use the spoink,"
"That's the plan.."
"By the way, my name's Rilee. Rilee Talon." She smiled and put out her hand for Dom to shake.
"Oh, hey.. I'm Dominic." He shook her hand. "Dominic Jenkins."
Her hand fell limp to her side. She stared at him with her mouth gaping open.
"What? What's wrong?" he started to get nervous.
"As in, son of Archie Jenkins?"
"What? Omigosh. Um - if you want to think of that way.."
"Oh my friggin god! You are ARCHIE JENKINS' SON?"
"Shhh! Not so loud -"
"Lord up above! I can't believe it! He said he didn't have any family, kinda like me.." she scratched her head.
"You..you..what? You talked to him?"
"Dominic, I worked with him. I used to belong to Team Aqua."
Now it was Dominic's turn to stare at Rilee.
"You WHAT?"
"I joined when I was 13. My mom told me it would be a good experience. Ha! Yeah right. I got up to commander of my unit.. met a couple times with Archie. They said I was one of the youngest members to get as far as I did. Then I got kicked out.. didn't follow orders.. long story.."
Dominic looked at Rilee and tried to figure out how all these people in his life were connected to his father. "That is way bizarre."
"I know.. but back to the gym. I've decided I want to get the badges, maybe take the league challenge.. I want to change my life. Oh - and I want to get revenge on Team Aqua."
Dom shook his head. This girl had a lot of charisma.
"Is this your first badge?" asked Dom.
"Yup. I'm getting them in order like you probably are.."
"Yeah.."
Suddenly the doors swung open and Cara was standing in front of them. Her face had dust marks on it and her face looked the least bit happy. Even her usual perky hair was drooping.
"Cara?" Dominic stood up and walked over to her, leaving Rilee on the couch.
"Dom I lost! How the hell did I lose? I had perfect pokemon to use.."
"I.. you.."
"Honey, I think they're a little too young." Rilee said. She had walked over to the two and was looking at Cara, as if she was sizing her up.
"Say what? My pokemon are NOT too young.. I.." Cara looked hopeless.
"It's okay, if you battle the guys in the righthand gym you can gain experience," Rilee pointed at a swinging door across the room.
"Dom, who is the girl?" asked Cara.
"Names Rilee Talon. I beat Roxanne," said Rilee. "I was just talking to your boyfriend."
"BOYFRIEND? I ASSURE YOU THAT I -"
"Calm down Cara. Rilee, I can tell you that Cara and I are romantically involved.."
"Oh, sorry! I just thought -"
"Match number 8! Match number 8!"
Dominic had forgotten that he was next. Rilee and Cara both turned to look at him. He smiled and scratched his neck.
"I guess, um, I hafta be going!" he said, running off just as he thought things were getting as bad as they could be.
* * * * * * * * * *
The arena was made similar to the ones Dominic had seen in books: a large rectangle cut into equal sides for each trainer. There were things around the arena complimenting the theme - in this case, rocks - and the gym leader stood at the far end of the battle field.
"Hello. You're number 8, I presume?" Roxanne said from across the room. Dominic looked at her. She had dark brown hair that was tied into a long ponytail which ran the length of her shoulders onto her back. She had bright pink eyes and pale skin. Dominic thought she looked like a cannibal. She wore a small blue skirt , pink tights, and blue shoes. Dominic rethought her appearance - she was a cannibal dressing for a special occasion.
"Er - yeah. I'm Dominic.. and I challenge you to a fight for the Stone Badge."
"Very nice.. receiting the official league gym challenge.. extra points for that.." She was walking closer to Dominic every second.
"Er - yeah.. I try.."
"So, ready to start? I must say, I've only had one defeat today." Roxanne said. Dominic imagined Rilee laughing in Roxanne's face as she handed over the badge.
"Um, yeah, I'm ready." Dominic felt for spoink's pokeball and grasped it tightly.
"I must say, boy, you are nervous. Not as nervous as the pathetic girl before you, though." Roxanne laughed.
"God lord stop making fun of my friend and let's battle!" shouted Dominic. He figured Roxanne was in her mid twenties, but she shut her mouth and withdrew her pokeball.
"Fine. Two pokemon each. One's fainted, not my problem, use the next one, no argument. Ready? You better be. Go geodude!"
Dominic had just understood what she was saying when her first pokemon materialized on the battle field. Dominic had seen geodude before, but this one was huge. It was three times the size of a normal geodude and looked ten times as angry.
"Oh, God, help me and my pokemon!" Dominic whispered. "Go, spoink!"
The purple pig paled in comparison to the gigantic geodude - which wasn't saying much. For kicks Dominic pulled out his pokedex and aimed it at the geodude.
"Thanks for the encouragement.." muttered Dominic.
"Are you ready to actually start the battle? Done with the little toys? I could have told you that, stupid boy.. now let's go!" Roxanne yelled.
Dominic was beginning to get very annoyed with Roxanne.
"Spoink, psywave!"
"Geodude, rock throw!"
The two pokemon glared at eachother. The ball on spoink's head stared glowing and a purple wave was emitted from it. Geodude hopped over to one of the rocks growing from the stadium and hurled it toward spoink.
Dominic closed his eyes as the attacks collided. Geodude was thrown back as the psywave hit it. It looked unscathed. Meanwhile, spoink was smashed by the thrown rock and was laying on it's back .
"Er - Spoink, confuse ray!" Spoink slowly got up and started glowing black. The room grew dark and spoink shot a white ray toward geodude. It was struck and suddenly fell back, it's eyes spinning.
"Geodude! No! Ugh.. try to tackle that thing!" Roxanne screamed. But the geodude was walking in circles. It lifted it's fist and punched itself in the face.
"Alright, spoink! You confused him!" Dominic began to have hope.
"Geodude! Ugh.. it's no use. That was your last bit of hope, Dominic. He's too confused to battle. I hate to do this, but.." Roxanne pulled out her pokeball and withdrew geodude.
"That's one down, Roxanne!" yelled Dominic. Spoink turned and looked at Dominic. "Alright, spoink, just a little longer."
"You'll never win, now!" she hollered. "Go nosepass!"
A large, purple rock-like creature emerged. It had an extremely large, red, nose of rock.
"Noooooose.."
"Alright spoink, how bout another psywave!" said Dominic.
"Noooooose.."
"Nosepass, thunderwave!" screamed Roxanne.
"What..?"
"Nosepass can pick up electrical currents in the air! You like?" asked Roxanne. Dominic frowned, focusing back on the battle.
Currently the two waves met eachother and blasted backwards at the attackers. Spoink was thrown out of the arena, but nosepass remained in the same spot.
"No! Spoink! Ugh! Return!" Dominic said. His plan was going downhill.. spoink flew back inside it's pokeball. "Go, gulpin!"
In a burst of red light out came gulpin. The sleeping green blob looked funny in comparison to the large moving rock formation.
"Oh come ON! You think you'll win with THAT thing?" Roxanne said, cackling.
"Ignore her, gulpin.. if you can hear.. and you damn better.. YAWN!" Dominic said, remembering that this was one of gulpin's only attacks.
"This is pathetic.. nosepass, rock tomb!"
"Just yawn, c'mon.."
"This is the end for you!" screamed Roxanne. Her eyes were glowing crazily and she looked about ready to kill something.
"Yawn, goddammit!" yelled Dominic. He felt kind of bad for yelling at gulpin in its first battle, but for god's sake he was just sitting there!
Nosepass moaned and slowly walked over to a pillar on it's right side. Lifting out it's triangular hands it clamped onto the pillar and started shaking wildly. From above, huge boulders started falling - aimed right for gulpin.
"C'mon, gulpin!" said Dominic. Sweat was running down his face.
Roxanne put her hands on her hips. "Can we call off the match yet? This is pretty obvious.. I mean you can tell -" But she was cut off. Her and Dominic's jaws dropped as gulpin's small mouth opened and grew larger and larger as the rocks grew closer and closer.
"PIN!"
In one quick gulp it swallowed all of the rocks and spat them back at nosepass.
"Oh my friggin god! OH MY FRIGGIN GOD!" shouted Dominic, jumping up and down.
Nosepass was hit in the nose with the rocks, causing a small crack to run up and down the stone formation.
"Nooooooose.." and with that the large rock pokemon fell backwards and smashed on the floor.
"Nosepass! NO! You.. you.. you won? How did that little gulpin.. omigosh!" Roxanne collapsed on the floor and hugged nosepass. "You broke my nosepass! UGH! Return!" she held out a pokeball and all the broken pieces flew back into the ball.
"I.. I.. wow," said Dominic. He bent over and picked up gulpin in his arms, stroking it's head.
"Pin."
"You are one awesome pokemon, gulpin! How would have thought!"
"I give up. That was thuroughly amazing and extremely lucky. Here's your badge," said Roxanne, walking over to Dominic, "and.. good luck. I think your relationship with your pokemon causes them to be as powerful as the are.. I'll look for you on TV."
She placed a small badge shaped like a stone in Dominic's hand.
"TV? Wha..?"
"You'll be on TV someday, Dominic.. someday." Roxanne shook his hand, turned, and walked off the battle field and into the shadows behind it.
Dominic returned his gulpin and smiled. He had won.. HE HAD WON HIS FIRST BADGE! It was awesome! He knew that it was possible.. now he could get the next seven, become the pokemon champion.. show his father that he was more powerful than him! Things were looking up.
Dom walked through the swinging doors and found Rilee and Cara sitting on the couch.
"Well?" said Cara.
"You didn't did you?" said Rilee.
"Haha.. I, um.. I WON!" screamed Dominic and he ran over to Cara who hugged him.
"That's great, Dom! I wish.. I wish I could have," said Cara.
"Wicked cool, Dominic. I told you she was a pushover! I guess we'll see eachother at Dewford Gym.." Rilee got up and smiled.
"Alright.. well.." Dom said. "Cara, don't you want to stay and try and get the badge?"
Cara looked at Dom and shrugged. "Dom, I've made a descision."
"Wha..?"
"Dom, I.. I'm staying in Rustboro to work at the pokecenter. I was offered a job way back when we were in Fortree.. I.. I promised I would tell you that after you had your gym battle.."
Dominic stared at her. "But.. you said that.."
"I was going to tell you about your dad, too, but.. as you know.. that was already discussed.." She looked at Dominic with wide eyes that were slowly filling with tears.
Dom sat down next to her. "I'm sorry, Cara.. I.. We.. Er.. I can't believe it. I feel bad going on without you.."
"Go on, Dom. I got a great job, a place to stay.. just come visit every once in awhile, eh?" Cara put her hand on Dom's shoulder. "I'll miss you. You'll be great."
Dominic smiled and stood up. "It's just gonna be weird going by myself."
"You don't necessarily hafta go alone.." said Rilee, who Dom forgot was standing beside him.
"Rilee? You wanna..?"
"Let's go, Dom! I've been looking for someone to travel with! We can come visit Cara after we get a few badges, be famous.."
Dom looked at Rilee and back to Cara, who nodded. Dom nodded back and walked out the front door of the gym, waving at Cara as him and Rilee were swallowed by the crowd.
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Awww how sad. As you can see Rilee is one of the characters I received.. I hope I got her personality down right. Anyway, I had to let Cara go.. but I still want more traveling partners besides Dom and Rilee. Hopefully another guy. So review and send in characters! BYEEEE
