Chapter XXXIX- No time to fool around in this Battle
"I'll do it." Erika said and stood from her seat.
".........but..." I said, but she turned back around for a second and said,
"Don't worry it'll be fun!^_^" and ran down the stairs to the field.
"She's nuts!!" I mumbled under my breath. The judge held up a red flag and announced,
"Trainer number I49 Erika Crimson from Cinnibar Island has decided upon batteling
trainer number F20 Raiuko Arashi, of Ecruteak City! Trainers take your places!" Once
they had both taken their places on the field and I had wished Erika good luck, the judge
brought the flag down to the ground and yelled, "TRAINERS BEGIN!"
"GO Raichu!" Raiuko yelled and threw the yellow Master ball form the prevoius battle
out on to the field.
"Go Arbok!" Erika yelled and threw out his pokeball. The battle started almost right
away.
"Raichu, extreeme speed!"
"Arbok! Dig under ground and wait for my signal!" Arbok dodged the attack and Raichu
looked around puzzled.
"Hugh?...Raichu....Thundershock!" She yelled and Raichu thundershocked the ground
with no sucsess.
"NOW ARBOK!!!" Erika yelled and stomped her foot on the ground to tell Arbok what
direction Raichu was facing. He burst out of the ground and wrapped Raichu up.
"Raichu!" Raiuko yelled. It seemed that she wasn't so sure of herself when she knew she
was up against some on who was better than her.
"Arbok, bite!" Arbok bit Raichu, injecting it with poison and then dropped it to the
ground.
"Raichu, Slam!" Raichu got up and slammed it's whole body into the retreating Arbok.
"Arbok, tail whip!" Arbok swung around and swung it's tail at Raichu, who quickly
jumped over it and bit down.
"RAICHU!" Raiuko was surprised that Raichu had done something she didn't order it to.
"Arbok, slam it!" Arbok raised it tail with Raichu still attached and slamed him into hte
ground. Raichu let go of his tail and lay on the ground for a moment, got back up, and
was ko'ed by the poison. "Raichu, return!"
"Arbok return!" Erika said and waited for Raiuko to make decision on what pokemon to
use next.
"Go Magneton!" She yelled and threw out it's Ultra ball.
"Go Vaporeon!" Erika yelled and threw her pokeball out on to the field.
"Magneton thundershock!"
"Vaporeon! Mist!" Vaporeon shook her mane of fins and created a mist that she used to
dodge the thundershock.
"Magneton spin as fast as you can!" Raiuko seemed to be regaining her confidence. Not
good. Magneton spun in place and cleared the mist around itself so it could see if
Vaporeon was coming.
"Vaporeon, hydro pump!" Vaporeon jumped above the mist where Magneton could see
her and she fell down to the ground hitting it with her hind legs making fissures that burst
water that hit Magnetons' steel body and began to erode it.
"Magneton!.......Thunderbolt!" It spun out of the hydro pump and created bolts of
lightning that hit Vaporeon. She began to dodge some of them as her spped increased
because she had gained a level.
"Vaporeon, Whirlpool!" Erika yelled, and Vaporeon barely dodging the last thunder bolt,
ran in a quick circle around Magneton, using water gun. It eventually picked him up and
spun him around. "Ok! Now body slam!" Erika yelled, and as the water died down,
Vaporeon could see Magneton and bashed it.
"Magneton, return! Go Lanturn!" She yelled and threw her Lure ball.
"Ryu!" Erika yelled and took his pokeball off of it's spot on the ribbon of her
odango(bun).
"?" Raiuko was confused beyond belief. Erika kept the pokeball small for effect, and
dropped the marble sized Master ball onto the ground, letting out Ryu. Raiuko's mouth
hung open in disbelief that such a huge pokemon could come out of such a tiny ball.
"Ah... Lanturn...Water gun!" She yelled as she pulled herself together.
"Ryu, Psychic!" Ryu lowed it's wings and closed it's eyes creating a forcefield around
itself that the water gun hit and fizzled out on.
"Lanturn Flail!" Lanturn hopped over to Ryu and began to shake it's head, hitting the
gems on it's antenae on the forcefield that protected Ryu.
"Now RYU!" Erika yelled and he dropped the force field releasing all his psychic energy
on Lanturn, who fell back, flopped over.
"How can he be so strong!!??" Raiuko yelled loudly and deliberetly across the field to
Erika.
"He's legendary! You won't be able to stop him that easily!" She deliberetly yelled back.
"Lanturn, return! Go Ampharos!" Raiuko yelled and threw out her yellow Ultra ball.
"I'll leave Ryu out. He still has enough energy left."
"Trainer Erika Crimson has made a wise and rare descion to leave Ryu on the field!" The
announcer yelled over the loud speaker.
"Fine then! Ampharos, Cotton Spore!" Ampharos turned around and wiggled it's gem
topped tail at Ryu and tons of little gems appeared around Ryu, then burst into Cotton that
Ryu's huge feet got caught in. "Now Thunder!"
"Ryu! Fire Blast!" Erika yelled and as the thunder hit Ryu, it caused his Fire Blast to
miss.
"Come on Ryu! Fly out!" Ryu flapped his wings and blew some of the cotton away from
around his feet.
"Ampharos, Take Down!" Ampharos ran at Ryu, but just then, he got one of huge talons
free and slashed him. Ryu used his talon to cut up the rest of the cotton and fly free.
"Ryu flamethrower!" Erika yelled and he sent a massive streak of blue fire down tword
the ground, that engulfed Ampharos and ko'ed him just as the sun set.
"Erika Crimson of Cinnibar Island is the winner! We will continue the final battle
tommorrow morning at 9:00 sharp! Good Night Trainers!" The judge yelled.
"........I.......won.....she only...had 4 pokemon with her?...." Erika asked the judge puzzled
as I hoped over the last row of seats and onto the field.
"That's right young lady! Congradulations!^_^" He said and I hugged her tight after she
called back Ryu.
"This is sooo great!^_^ Now we have to battle each other!" I said excited as we walked
back to our townhouse.
"Yeah.....Great..." Erika said, when all of a sudden, the phone in my back pack rang.
"Hello?........OH!! Hi mom!^_^ How's everything....oh....you saw us on
tv............thanks......ok..........don't worry, I'll be home soon..............Love you too
mom^_^.........bye." I said and hung up.
"What did your mom have to say?" Erika asked.
"Oh she just wanted to tell us that she saw us on tv and congradulations on our victories.
She also told me to come home soon." I said as I fumbled through my backpack looking
for the key. "Ah! There it is." I said and pulled it out as we walked up to the door. Noki
and Jarod were already waiting and I gave the key to him. We walked inside and Erika,
Noki, and Jarod went upstairs to their rooms, while I went into the living room and fell
asleep on the couch.
I was in a dark black room in my dream. I looked around for a while, but didn't
see anyone at first.
"Hey Marcy! What's the big idea!? I was having a dream about Malachite a second ago."
Erika said and walked over to me. "Oh...I get it. You had time to think about tommorow;
you were thinking about that before you went to sleep hugh!?" She gave me an evil look.
"I'm sorry that I disturbed your dream about Malichite....but..............ok. The pokemon
Leauge challange is to find out who are the best trainers, right? What if one of us doesn't
make it. Then, we'll be failures..."
"Oh......Marcy. That's not true. Just think of it as a big game of chess." She created a chess
board infront of us, I took one side as she took the other. I created the illusion that we
were outside in a field sitting on a hill. "We all make some good and bad moves. It's the
order that counts." We continued to play the chess game. I had trasparent crystal peices
and Erika had dark green crystal ones. We played until, finally, only our Kings were left.
"A stalemate." I said abruptly and woke up. I heard some loud noises outside the glass
slidding door and went to investigate. I slowly opened the glass sliding door and peered
out. "What!....." I said and quickly covered my mouth. Someone with a small pokemon
had appeared out of midair and it turned to me. What is that!? I said to myself. It zipped
over to me and flew over my head. It sounded like a bummble bee when it flew.
"Hey....what's the...." I said slowly and fell to the ground asleep.
The next morning, I woke up on the couch, right where I had fallen asleep the
night before. But I couldn't remember what happened after I went outside, and I don't
know how I got back in. I got up and got my stuff together because it was already about
8:00, and we had to get going. Everyone was already in the kitchen and dressed when I
walked in.
"Hey Angel. How are you feeling?" Jarod asked as he finished off a peice of apple.
"Ok, I guess. But did you guys..." But Noki interupted me.
"I was really worried when I found you outside. I thought you had been knocked out by a
pokemon."
"Was that you outside?" I asked her. She ignored my question.
"It turns out, a pokemon had used some sleep powder on you."
"But was that you outside."
"............." She didn't answer for a while then said, "Yeah. I'm sorry."
"For what? Did you knock me out?" I asked suspiciously....my next question 'why?'.
"No, a pokemon did use some sleep powder on you; but it was my pokemon."
"Then it was an acciden...."
"No." She interupted. A few moments of silence, then, "I didn't want you to find out
about my Sylebi.(pronounced see-le-bee)"
"Your....what?" I asked now compleatly confused. Noki explained as we walked down
the path to the stadium that, a few days before we came to her dimesion, a Celebi left it's
egg on the pokemon ranch where we lived on the island. It turned out to be the offspring
of a Celebi and one of the Sythers on the ranch. It was a Celebi that could use both Celebi
and some Syther attacks- such as sleep powder. It all made sense now. But it was time to
forget all of that. We had arrived at the stadium, and we all took our seats as the clock
registered 9:00 and the announcer came over the loud speaker.
"I'll do it." Erika said and stood from her seat.
".........but..." I said, but she turned back around for a second and said,
"Don't worry it'll be fun!^_^" and ran down the stairs to the field.
"She's nuts!!" I mumbled under my breath. The judge held up a red flag and announced,
"Trainer number I49 Erika Crimson from Cinnibar Island has decided upon batteling
trainer number F20 Raiuko Arashi, of Ecruteak City! Trainers take your places!" Once
they had both taken their places on the field and I had wished Erika good luck, the judge
brought the flag down to the ground and yelled, "TRAINERS BEGIN!"
"GO Raichu!" Raiuko yelled and threw the yellow Master ball form the prevoius battle
out on to the field.
"Go Arbok!" Erika yelled and threw out his pokeball. The battle started almost right
away.
"Raichu, extreeme speed!"
"Arbok! Dig under ground and wait for my signal!" Arbok dodged the attack and Raichu
looked around puzzled.
"Hugh?...Raichu....Thundershock!" She yelled and Raichu thundershocked the ground
with no sucsess.
"NOW ARBOK!!!" Erika yelled and stomped her foot on the ground to tell Arbok what
direction Raichu was facing. He burst out of the ground and wrapped Raichu up.
"Raichu!" Raiuko yelled. It seemed that she wasn't so sure of herself when she knew she
was up against some on who was better than her.
"Arbok, bite!" Arbok bit Raichu, injecting it with poison and then dropped it to the
ground.
"Raichu, Slam!" Raichu got up and slammed it's whole body into the retreating Arbok.
"Arbok, tail whip!" Arbok swung around and swung it's tail at Raichu, who quickly
jumped over it and bit down.
"RAICHU!" Raiuko was surprised that Raichu had done something she didn't order it to.
"Arbok, slam it!" Arbok raised it tail with Raichu still attached and slamed him into hte
ground. Raichu let go of his tail and lay on the ground for a moment, got back up, and
was ko'ed by the poison. "Raichu, return!"
"Arbok return!" Erika said and waited for Raiuko to make decision on what pokemon to
use next.
"Go Magneton!" She yelled and threw out it's Ultra ball.
"Go Vaporeon!" Erika yelled and threw her pokeball out on to the field.
"Magneton thundershock!"
"Vaporeon! Mist!" Vaporeon shook her mane of fins and created a mist that she used to
dodge the thundershock.
"Magneton spin as fast as you can!" Raiuko seemed to be regaining her confidence. Not
good. Magneton spun in place and cleared the mist around itself so it could see if
Vaporeon was coming.
"Vaporeon, hydro pump!" Vaporeon jumped above the mist where Magneton could see
her and she fell down to the ground hitting it with her hind legs making fissures that burst
water that hit Magnetons' steel body and began to erode it.
"Magneton!.......Thunderbolt!" It spun out of the hydro pump and created bolts of
lightning that hit Vaporeon. She began to dodge some of them as her spped increased
because she had gained a level.
"Vaporeon, Whirlpool!" Erika yelled, and Vaporeon barely dodging the last thunder bolt,
ran in a quick circle around Magneton, using water gun. It eventually picked him up and
spun him around. "Ok! Now body slam!" Erika yelled, and as the water died down,
Vaporeon could see Magneton and bashed it.
"Magneton, return! Go Lanturn!" She yelled and threw her Lure ball.
"Ryu!" Erika yelled and took his pokeball off of it's spot on the ribbon of her
odango(bun).
"?" Raiuko was confused beyond belief. Erika kept the pokeball small for effect, and
dropped the marble sized Master ball onto the ground, letting out Ryu. Raiuko's mouth
hung open in disbelief that such a huge pokemon could come out of such a tiny ball.
"Ah... Lanturn...Water gun!" She yelled as she pulled herself together.
"Ryu, Psychic!" Ryu lowed it's wings and closed it's eyes creating a forcefield around
itself that the water gun hit and fizzled out on.
"Lanturn Flail!" Lanturn hopped over to Ryu and began to shake it's head, hitting the
gems on it's antenae on the forcefield that protected Ryu.
"Now RYU!" Erika yelled and he dropped the force field releasing all his psychic energy
on Lanturn, who fell back, flopped over.
"How can he be so strong!!??" Raiuko yelled loudly and deliberetly across the field to
Erika.
"He's legendary! You won't be able to stop him that easily!" She deliberetly yelled back.
"Lanturn, return! Go Ampharos!" Raiuko yelled and threw out her yellow Ultra ball.
"I'll leave Ryu out. He still has enough energy left."
"Trainer Erika Crimson has made a wise and rare descion to leave Ryu on the field!" The
announcer yelled over the loud speaker.
"Fine then! Ampharos, Cotton Spore!" Ampharos turned around and wiggled it's gem
topped tail at Ryu and tons of little gems appeared around Ryu, then burst into Cotton that
Ryu's huge feet got caught in. "Now Thunder!"
"Ryu! Fire Blast!" Erika yelled and as the thunder hit Ryu, it caused his Fire Blast to
miss.
"Come on Ryu! Fly out!" Ryu flapped his wings and blew some of the cotton away from
around his feet.
"Ampharos, Take Down!" Ampharos ran at Ryu, but just then, he got one of huge talons
free and slashed him. Ryu used his talon to cut up the rest of the cotton and fly free.
"Ryu flamethrower!" Erika yelled and he sent a massive streak of blue fire down tword
the ground, that engulfed Ampharos and ko'ed him just as the sun set.
"Erika Crimson of Cinnibar Island is the winner! We will continue the final battle
tommorrow morning at 9:00 sharp! Good Night Trainers!" The judge yelled.
"........I.......won.....she only...had 4 pokemon with her?...." Erika asked the judge puzzled
as I hoped over the last row of seats and onto the field.
"That's right young lady! Congradulations!^_^" He said and I hugged her tight after she
called back Ryu.
"This is sooo great!^_^ Now we have to battle each other!" I said excited as we walked
back to our townhouse.
"Yeah.....Great..." Erika said, when all of a sudden, the phone in my back pack rang.
"Hello?........OH!! Hi mom!^_^ How's everything....oh....you saw us on
tv............thanks......ok..........don't worry, I'll be home soon..............Love you too
mom^_^.........bye." I said and hung up.
"What did your mom have to say?" Erika asked.
"Oh she just wanted to tell us that she saw us on tv and congradulations on our victories.
She also told me to come home soon." I said as I fumbled through my backpack looking
for the key. "Ah! There it is." I said and pulled it out as we walked up to the door. Noki
and Jarod were already waiting and I gave the key to him. We walked inside and Erika,
Noki, and Jarod went upstairs to their rooms, while I went into the living room and fell
asleep on the couch.
I was in a dark black room in my dream. I looked around for a while, but didn't
see anyone at first.
"Hey Marcy! What's the big idea!? I was having a dream about Malachite a second ago."
Erika said and walked over to me. "Oh...I get it. You had time to think about tommorow;
you were thinking about that before you went to sleep hugh!?" She gave me an evil look.
"I'm sorry that I disturbed your dream about Malichite....but..............ok. The pokemon
Leauge challange is to find out who are the best trainers, right? What if one of us doesn't
make it. Then, we'll be failures..."
"Oh......Marcy. That's not true. Just think of it as a big game of chess." She created a chess
board infront of us, I took one side as she took the other. I created the illusion that we
were outside in a field sitting on a hill. "We all make some good and bad moves. It's the
order that counts." We continued to play the chess game. I had trasparent crystal peices
and Erika had dark green crystal ones. We played until, finally, only our Kings were left.
"A stalemate." I said abruptly and woke up. I heard some loud noises outside the glass
slidding door and went to investigate. I slowly opened the glass sliding door and peered
out. "What!....." I said and quickly covered my mouth. Someone with a small pokemon
had appeared out of midair and it turned to me. What is that!? I said to myself. It zipped
over to me and flew over my head. It sounded like a bummble bee when it flew.
"Hey....what's the...." I said slowly and fell to the ground asleep.
The next morning, I woke up on the couch, right where I had fallen asleep the
night before. But I couldn't remember what happened after I went outside, and I don't
know how I got back in. I got up and got my stuff together because it was already about
8:00, and we had to get going. Everyone was already in the kitchen and dressed when I
walked in.
"Hey Angel. How are you feeling?" Jarod asked as he finished off a peice of apple.
"Ok, I guess. But did you guys..." But Noki interupted me.
"I was really worried when I found you outside. I thought you had been knocked out by a
pokemon."
"Was that you outside?" I asked her. She ignored my question.
"It turns out, a pokemon had used some sleep powder on you."
"But was that you outside."
"............." She didn't answer for a while then said, "Yeah. I'm sorry."
"For what? Did you knock me out?" I asked suspiciously....my next question 'why?'.
"No, a pokemon did use some sleep powder on you; but it was my pokemon."
"Then it was an acciden...."
"No." She interupted. A few moments of silence, then, "I didn't want you to find out
about my Sylebi.(pronounced see-le-bee)"
"Your....what?" I asked now compleatly confused. Noki explained as we walked down
the path to the stadium that, a few days before we came to her dimesion, a Celebi left it's
egg on the pokemon ranch where we lived on the island. It turned out to be the offspring
of a Celebi and one of the Sythers on the ranch. It was a Celebi that could use both Celebi
and some Syther attacks- such as sleep powder. It all made sense now. But it was time to
forget all of that. We had arrived at the stadium, and we all took our seats as the clock
registered 9:00 and the announcer came over the loud speaker.