Amme: I have a new chapter out! And, I know that Mira's rival's name is supposed to be Brendan, but I don't like that name. So I changed it to Brandon. Also, is WAS a Suicune that Mira and Peachi saw, I just forgot to mention it. Thanks to all of the people who reviewed my stories, and sorry for the delay for this chapter! Someone said one of my stories were abusive ((rolls eyes)) and I couldn't get on for a week.
Just a few reminders:
Tony is a Torchic
Peachi is a Poochyena
Disclaimer I can't believe I haven't put one yet! Ok, I don't own Pokemon. Though I do own Mira and Lori.
CHAPTER THREE: A Winging Chance.
"It's still sunny out, you wanna battle?" I asked, trying to get the subject off of the Suicune Peachi and I saw earlier.
"Sure. One-on-one battle." Lori answered me. "Numel, let's go!"
"Nu nu Numel!" Lori's Numel called. She and Numel ran outside.
"Ready Peachi?" I asked. Peachi barked and then growled.
"Poochyena, Yena!" She said. We ran outside too, closely followed by Tony, Azurill, and Gloom.
"Ready?" Lori asked. I looked at Peachi. She bristled out her tail and barked.
"As we'll ever be." I answered.
"Alright then, go! Use tackle!"
Numel rushed at Peachi.
"Nuuuuuuumel...." It said.
"Peachi, use your growl attack!" I shouted. Peachi opened her mouth and let out a really big and loud growl. So loud that Numel had to stop his attack.
"Now use growl again!" I called.
"Yena yena!" Peachi answered me.
Peachi was about to give off a super-large growl to decrease Numel's attack.
"Numel, use flamethrower before Peachi has a chance t' respond!" Lori said. Numel unleashed an immense amount of fire from his mouth that hit Peachi. Peachi fell to the ground and seemed to be struggling to get up.
"Peachi! Get up!" I called. Peachi struggled to her feet.
"Now use double team!" Lori commanded Numel. The Numel that stood in front of Peachi multiplied. There were many Numels and they were surrounding Peachi.
"Yena?" Peachi asked. "Poochyena yena Poochyena!"
I could tell she didn't know where the real Numel was. We had to find out.
"Peachi, listen! Give off the biggest growl you can!" I said.
"Yena!" Peachi answered. She gave off an ear-piercing growl. The double team that Numel had stopped, and the real Numel was left.
"Now use bite!" I shouted to Peachi. Peachi bit Numel on the back. Numel staggered backwards and fell on the ground.
"Can you get up Numel?" Lori asked him.
"Numel!" Numel cried. He bolted up.
"Now use another flamethrower!" Lori ordered. Fire came out of Numel's mouth again."Peachi, use sand-attack at the flamethrower!" I shouted again. Peachi turned around and threw sand at the flames that Numel made. The flames stopped in their tracks.
Peachi was exhausted. I could tell by the way she was breathing and the way she looked.
"Yena.... Yena.... Yena...."
She couldn't go on much longer. But on the bright side, Numel looked pretty tired too. The flamethrowers, that tackle, and not to mention that double team, must have taken a lot out of him.
"Mel... Mel... Mel..."
That made me wonder how long Lori had had Numel.
"Mel mel Numel..." Lori's Numel sighed. Lori laughed.
"You have a pretty good strategy Mira, but... you're not going to win today." She said. "Use take down!"
Numel seemed to thrust all its body weight to the front of its body to make it go faster. If his attack was pulled off, I would lose!
"Peachi, use bite!" I ordered. Peachi bit Numel right when Numel struck with the take down.
"Numel!" Lori shouted.
"Peachi!" I also shouted. No one knew which attack hit first. Both Pokemon were still standing. They were... growling at each other?
"I'm going to stop the match now Lori... Peachi's pretty tired." I said. "Peachi, come back."
"Me too." Lori said back. She held up Numel's pokeball. "Come back Numel."
"It looks like they're evenly matched." I told. Lori nodded.
"Wurmple!"
"What was that?" I asked. We looked around.
"Wurmple Wurmple!"
"It sounds like a Wurmple." Lori answered me. I rolled my eyes.
"I know that, but where is it? I LOVE Wurmples! Ah, there it is!" I said. I had found the Wurmple. It was outside the grass, but it was there.
"Great! Pokeball, GO!" I took out one of the empty pokeballs from my bag and threw it at the Wurmple.
"What are you doing? You have to battle it first!" Lori shouted. I had forgotten about that!
"Oh, no!" I said. The ball hit Wurmple and the Wurmple disappeared inside it. The ball wiggled.
"Huh..." Lori gasped. The ball kept wiggling. Then it stopped.
"I... I caught it?" I asked. "I just got caught up in the moment and threw the ball and it... caught it..."
My voice perked up when I picked up the pokeball.
"Yeah. I caught a Wurmple!" I shouted.
"Yena yena!" Peachi called.
"Torchic!" Tony yelled at the same time a Peachi.
Beep...beep... BEEP BEEP!
I took out my pokedexette
WURMPLE: The Worm Pokemon.
WURMPLE is targeted by SWELLOW as prey. The Pokemon will try to resist by pointing the spikes on its rear at the attacking predator. It will weaken the foe by leaking poison from those spikes. This one is a female.
"Whoa... cool... another girl huh? Nice." I said.
"Yena!" Peachi barked happily.
"Now you have to nickname her." Lori said.
"Oh yeah! Ok, let's see... A girl Wurmple... how about Wiona!" I said. Lori sighed and rolled her eyes.
"You make up the craziest names..." She mumbled loud enough for me to hear.
I ignored that remark threw the pokeball into the air.
"Come on out, Wiona!" I called. Wiona came out of her pokeball.
"Wurm Wurmple Wurmple!" She said.
"Hi Wiona! You wanna go with us to win it all?" I asked.
"Wurmple!" Wiona shouted happily.
"Great!" Lori said. "Which do you think Wiona will become? A Beautifly or a Dustox?"
"I don't really care, as long as she gets strong and pretty so we can crush people in all things!" I answered.
"Wurmple!" Wiona shouted again.
"Ok, Wiona, return." I said as I held up the pokeball. Wiona disappeared inside her ball.
"Hey Mira, let's get going to Petalburg. Wait till you meet Norman, the Gym leader. He's hard to beat." Lori said.
"I know he is." I answered.
"Huh?" Lori asked. "How do you know?"
I walked away towards Petalburg City before she made me answer.
Lori and I walked a short ways just talking. Then someone ran up to us.
"Hey!" They said. "Do you two want to battle?"
"Not really, not right now." Lori answered.
"Then you might want to stay out of sight from other trainers. All of them are like blood-sucking Pokemon that will attack anyone they can see with Pokemon." The person told us.
Ewwwww... I thought. Then I said out loud: "That's a gross analogy."
"But thanks for the advice. We'll be sure to stay out of eyesight." Lori said for me. The person walked off.
"Hmmm... did she have to use the blood-sucking Pokemon analogy?" I asked. I got shoved a little by Lori.
Then Lori pulled out a little yellow thingy.
"Wazzat?" I asked.
"This is a PokeNAV. Short for Pokemon Navigator. It can tell us what direction to go in." Lori answered. She pressed a button and the PokeNAV opened up. "Ok... we're right here, so we need to go this way." She pointed in some direction.
So I walked that way.
"Hey you!"
Oh, joy I thought. Some trainer saw me didn't they?
Someone ran up to me.
"My name's Calvin. I'm a Youngster. You have to battle me now!" He said. He took out a pokeball.
"Go, Zigzagoon!" He shouted as he threw the ball into the air. A raccoon looking Pokemon came out.
"Zig zig Zigzagoon!" It cried.
"I don't have a choice do I Lori?" I asked her. She shook her head solemnly. I shrugged.
Then, let's give Wiona a try... I thought. I took out a pokeball.
"Let's go, Wiona!" I shouted after I hurled Wiona's ball into the air. Wiona came out of the pokeball.
"Wurm wurm Wurmple!" She called.
"Zigzagoon, use tackle!" Calvin shouted once again. The raccoon thing rushed Wiona.
"Uh, Wiona, use string shot on that branch!" I called. Wiona shot a long piece of white string out its mouth onto one of the branches of a tree and used that to jump away from the tackle.
"Whoa... that was smart!" Lori said.
"I learnt from my dad!" I told her. Of course, I won't tell her who my dad is... I want to see her face when she finds out who he is.
"Fine. Zigzagoon, use your sand-attack!" Calvin ordered.
"Zig zig zig!" His raccoon replied. It shot an immense amount of sand onto Wiona.
"Wur!!" Wiona cried.
"Wiona, use tackle!" I called. Wiona threw herself at the Zigzagoon, but missed.
That sand-attack must have taken its toll on Wiona. She can't see very well.
"Zigzagoon, use growl!" Calvin yelled. His Zigzagoon let out a really loud growl.
"Wuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrmmmmmmppppllllllleeeeee!" Wiona screeched. If she had hands she would have covered her ears from the sound.
"Finish it off with scratch!" Calvin commanded. Zigzagoon threw its claw at Wiona.
"Think fast Mira!" Lori called. I shut my eyes tightly and focused on the battle.
"That's it!" I shouted. "Wiona, use string shot to form a web between those two trees!"
Wiona nodded and used her string shot between the two trees like I told her to. The string shot was turning into a web.
"Now get behind it!" I shouted again as soon as she had finished (which was very quickly, I might add). Wiona lunged behind the web just as Zigzagoon's scratch attack fell down on her. Zigzagoon turned to the web and tried to scratch Wiona, just to scratch the web. He got caught in it!
"Zig? Zig zig Zigzagoon!" The raccoon called.
"Ah! Zigzagoon!" Calvin called. "Try to get out!"
Zigzagoon started struggling against the web. But he couldn't get out!
"Now Wiona, get in front of Zigzagoon and use poison sting!" I ordered. Wiona did so.
"WURMPLE!" She shouted.
Zigzagoon fainted. I had won.
"Gah! Zigzagoon was my only Pokemon! You're good!" Calvin said to me. We shook hands.
"Thanks. But you almost had me." I told him. Wiona crawled up my leg on got onto my shoulder.
"Wurmple Wurmple!" She said.
"Uh, why did you nickname that Wurmple?" Calvin asked. I shrugged.
"I wanted to name it." I told him. "Now we have to get on our way. See ya!"
I motioned for Lori to hurry up and leave. She got the message and we power-walked off.
"There's a bug catcher." Lori said. "Let's go behind him."
"But behind him is grass!" I said. I only had two pokeballs left, and I didn't want to waste them.
"So? You don't have to catch every Pokemon you battle. You can battle them for experience." Lori countered. Then she pushed me into the grass.
"Gull gull Wingull!"
I must be a Wild Pokemon Magnet or something. There's another Pokemon wanting to battle!
The Pokemon looked like a really constipated bird.
"Wingull!" It shouted again. I shrugged.
"Mira, you can't battle that! All of your Pokemon are weak against either water types or flying types!" Lori complained.
"Really?" I asked. I could feel a smirk flying across my face. "That's al the more reason to battle it. Maybe even catch it."
"But you said that you didn't want to catch any more Pokemon!"
"I changed my mind." I blew her next statement off and took out Tony's pokeball. "Come on out Tony!"
"Torchic chic!" Tony said.
"You ready for a challenge?" I asked him.
"Chic chic Torchic chic!" Tony yelled. I think that meant yes.
Let's see... Wingull is a water/flying type... and Tony is weak against both of them... so.... I have no clue what to do.
"Wingull!!!!!" The flying Pokemon called. It shot water out of its mouth.
"Dodge it Tony!" I shouted. Tony jumped out of the way by inches. "Now use sand-attack!"
I should be able to lower its accuracy low enough so it will always miss its attacks and I can catch it easier.
Tony's sand-attack hit its mark.
"Way to go Tony!" Lori yelled.
Wingull tried to hit Tony with its wings. A wing-attack. It missed.
"Keep up those sand-attacks!" I yelled to Tony.
END
Amme: Will Mira and Tony beat and catch the Wingull? Who knows! Thank you to all the people who reviewed and I won't be making another one until I get fourteen reviews so get your friends to review! And F.Y.I, this battle with Youngster Calvin is how most of my battles go. Well, not the web thingy but they're short. Ok, until next time!!