Chapter 7
Standing in front the gym, I took a deep breath, then grinned down at Beowulf.
"Ready?" I asked him. He gave me his savage grin and I felt better.
Raven laughed, "With Beowulf on your side, there's no way you could lose!"
Murkrow crowed her own encouragement and I felt enormously better. My friends and Pokemon believed I could do it, so I did to. Raven opened the door went we went in. Inside the gym, there was a group of girls chattering away. Beowulf barked to get their attention ad the girls looked up.
"What do you want?" one of them asked.
"I want to cha-" I began when another girl interrupted.
"Not you, him!" she said and pointed at Raven.
"I'm here to watch my friend Robin get a Plain badge" he said blinking, a little taken aback at how they addressed him.
A different girl sneered and spoke snobbishly, "I guess that's alright. Just as long as a mere boy doesn't try to challenge our leader."
Murkrow cawed angrily and Raven snapped, "Listen you little snobbish b-"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" A girl of about 18 came in through another door and shouted, "You shouldn't treat challengers OR their friends this way! I want all of you to leave this instant!" The other girls glared at Raven then left through the door the first girl came in.
"I'm sorry.' She said rubbing her forehead with one hand.
"Those were some of my fans. They don't like boys very much." I shrugged, but could see that Raven was still a bit angry though. He had gotten pretty mad. I touched his arm and he sighed. "That's alright" he grumbled, less angry. Murkrow was still glaring at the door those other girls had gone through. Beowulf was just sitting looking amused by the whole thing.
"It's ok" I said, smiling at the girl. She smiled back.
"Are you here to challenge the gym leader?"
"I am" I told her.
"Then that would be me. I'm Whitney."
"I'm Robin and this is Raven" I told her shaking her hand. Raven nodded curtly.
"Let's get this battle started!" she said excitedly clapping her hands together. "I warn you though. I won't lose."
"We'll see." I said as Beowulf came to stand besides me grinning wickedly.
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"This will be a three on three battle with no time limit." The referee said. "Let the battle begin!"
"I choose you, Sentret!" Whitney called as she threw out her pokeball.
"Sentret!" it said standing on its tail.
"You can do it Robin!" "Murkrow!" Raven and Murkrow yelled encouragement from the sidelines. I gave them a smile threw a pokeball.
"Bo, I choose you!"
"Maarreep!" Bo said, happy to be battling.
"Sentret, TACKLE ATTACK!"
"Bo, QUICK ATTACK!"
When Sentret came in to tackle Bo leaped to the side and came at Sentret at a rapid pace.
"REEP!" Bo shouted as she ran into Sentret.
"SENTRET! SCRATCH ATTACK!"
Sentret made a fast recovery and quickly turned around and started to scratch Bo furiously.
"MAREEP!" Bo cried out in pain and surprise.
"Hang in there Bo!" I yelled. "Use your thundershock!"
"REE!" Bo exclaimed as electricity flowed out of her wool and shocked Sentret.
"TrrrrETTT!" It screeched.
"ACK! SENTRET!" Whitney yelled jumping up and down. I was surprised too. That thundershock was more powerful than I expected.
"Sentret! Agility!"
Sentret started to run in circles around Bo. She tried to keep thundershocking it, but it was to fast.
I saw she was running out of energy so I said "Bo, use Quick attack again!" She stopped with the thunder shock and started to try and chase down Sentret. It didn't seem to be working though. Every time she tried to attack it, Sentret ran out of the way. Bo didn't look like she would give up though! Then finally, Sentret misjudged and Bo slammed into it. When she slammed into the Sentret she let lose a thundershock at the same time I yelled, "THUNDERSHOCK!"
The combined force was just too much for Sentret and it fainted. Beowulf howled, Murkrow crowed, and Raven yelled their joy for the little sheep that had just won her first battle. I went to my knees and Bo jumped into my arms.
"reep, reep, reep!" she said happily as I hugged her.
"You did it Bo!" I told her, full of pride. Whitney smiled and recalled her pokemon.
"You did very well." She said to me. "but let's see you beat my Clefairy! GO!"
She threw out her pokeball containing Clefairy,
"Clefairy!" it said happily.
I set Bo down with a final pat and stood up throwing a pokeball, "Falcon, I choose you!"
"Pidgaa!" she said as she came out of her pokeball.
"Clefairy, double-slap!"
"Falcon, Peck!"
Clefairy grabbed Falcon and started to repeatedly slap her. Then Falcon grabbed Clefairy in her talons and started to repeatedly peck Clefairy. This went back and forth for a bit until I yelled "Gust Attack!"
Falcon flew away from Clefairy's paws and started to flap her wings, causing a mini whirlwind that went straight for Clefairy.
"Defense Curl!" Whitney yelled to her pokemon.
Clefairy curled up into a ball just as the Gust hit her. After it passed, Clefairy uncurled.
"Fairy!" she said defiantly.
"Now use Metronome!" Whitney ordered.
"Falcon, use sand-attack!"
Clefairy waved its hands back and forth then used…… Thunderbolt! Just before Clefairy used the attack however, a cloud of dust engulfed it. Temporary blinded, Clefairy shot off the Thunderbolt, but in the wrong direction!
"Quick Attack!" I yelled to Falcon. Falcon dove down through the dust and hit Clefairy squarely in the stomach, knocking them both out of the dust cloud. Clefairy and Falcon slid across the floor, Clefairy on bottom, Falcon on top. Falcon had Clefairy pinned with her talons.
"Use double-slap and get that bird off of you!" Whitney screamed in frustration. Clefairy brought up her paws and slapped Falcon off of her.
"Falcon fly up out of range!" I yelled to her.
"Pigea!" she chirped as she fluttered about 6 feet into the air.
"Now use another Gust! Give it all you got!" As the Pokemon and Raven shouted encouragement from the sides, Falcon summand up the rest of her strength.
"NOW!" I shouted and Falcon let lose a devastating Gust attack. Cleafairy tried to jump out of the way, but it was too slow. When the Gust attack faded, we could all see Clefairy, fainted on the floor.
"YES!" I shouted as Pidgey tiredly perched on my shoulder. Beowulf barked his excitement, Bo baaed her happiness, Murkrow cackled her relief, and Raven laughed his joy. I stroked Falcon's feathers and whispered to her how great she did and how proud of her I was. Whitney recalled her pokemon and looked at me in surprise.
"I'm surprised that you've gotten this far." She told me. "No matter, there is no way you'll beat my next pokemon."
"You can do it Robin! Don't listen to her!" Raven shouted from the side.
"Krow MURK mur!" Murkrow added.
Beowulf came up and gave her a look that said all too plainly "Bring, it, ON!"
I smiled at Raven and Murkrow and laid my hand on Beowulf's back.
"Beowulf and I are ready for anything."
She smirked and fingered her last pokeball. "We'll see about that."
"Pokeball, GO!"
"MILTANK!" the Miltank mooed, getting into a battle pose.
"Let's do it Beowulf!" I said cracking my knuckles and Beowulf ran up and bared his teeth at the Miltank.
"Let the battle begin!" the referee called out and brought down his hands.
"Miltank! Rollout!" "Beowulf, Bite!" we yelled.
Miltank curled up into a ball and started to roll towards Beowulf. Beowulf leaped to bite Miltank but the cow hit him first!
"Beowulf!" I exclaimed worried. He fell back, rolled, and then got back up.
"Keep it up Miltank!" Whitney shouted as Miltank turned around for another roll.
"Beowulf try Smog!" I said urgently. If Miltank couldn't see then maybe…. Beowulf opened his mouth and a poisoned cloud of smoke came out of it. Miltank rolled right into it. She stopped rolling and started to cough.
"Now use ember!" I told Beowulf. His flames came out of his mouth and hit the cloud, which caught on fire, causing a small explosion. Miltank fell to the side and slowly got back up. Then she cringed looked slightly green.
"Yes! She's become poisoned!" Raven shouted from the side.
"Miltank try Rollout again!" Whitney called. She sounded worried. Miltank swallowed hard and curled up into a ball again.
"Beowulf, just try and dodge the attacks!" I told him.
"Dour!" he barked and leaped out of the way of Miltank. He dodged her two more times but then she caught him off guard and slammed into him. He howled in pain and fell to the floor. As Miltank turned around for another blow, I knew that if Beowulf was hit again, we would lose the battle.
"Beowulf Smog and roll out of the way" I cried as Miltank came closer. Beowulf spewed out a black cloud again that Miltank rolled into. Confused she started to go farther to the left as Beowulf rolled to the right, making Miltank miss by a few inches.
"Now use bite attack!" I yelled. Beowulf took a wild leap and landed on Miltanks back. Then he bit down as hard as he could.
"TANK!" she screeched in pain.
"Miltank! Shake him off!" Whitney cried. Miltank shook violently and I could see Beowulf's grip weakening.
"Beowulf leap off and use ember!" I told him. He jumped off Miltank's back and shot out an ember attack. I could tell that Beowulf was very tired. If this didn't work…. Miltank turned just as the flames reached her. She fell back and with the poison already weakening her, she just couldn't get back up.
"The Winner is the Challenger!" the referee said and the gym filled with shouts. You'd never heard such noise. Raven was shouting, Murkrow and Falcon were screeching, and Bo was bleating at the top of their lungs. The loudest were Beowulf and I though. Beowulf let out an ear-piercing howl as I yelled my joy to the world. We had just won our FIRST Gym badge. I ran to Beowulf and hugged him hard. He jumped on me and started to lick my face. Then Falcon flew to my shoulder and Bo jumped into my lap. As I patted them and told them how wonderful they were, Raven and Murkrow came up. Raven was laughing as put his arm around my shoulders and gave me a hug.
"You were awesome!" He said happily. Murkrow flew onto my other shoulder and clicked her glee. Through all of this, Whitney had recalled Miltank and taken something out of her pocket. She walked over to us and handed me two things. One was an envelope and the other was the Plain badge.
"I, Gym leader Whitney, present you with the Gym badge and 300 dollars." She told me formally. Then she smiled. "you deserve it"
I smiled back at her, "thank you, it was a great battle."
"I haven't had one that good in a long time." She told me. Then she smiled down at my pokemon, " You have some very special pokemon here" she told me, "take care of them." Then with a nod to Raven and Murkrow she left through the same door, she came in from.
See, that chapter had more of a point then the last. Now since I put up two chapters I expect reviews form each and everyone of you. *eyes the readers* I mean it! *grins* see ya in the next chapter!
