Pali-chan and VoidsMoon, thank you guys so much for catching my mistake in the Park Contest chapter! I know the Sun Stone can be used to evolve a Sunkern into a Sunflora, but my bad, didn't see that, thanks so much. Here's the next two chapters!
Chapter 15: A Chance With Ghosts And Fog
The very next day and after breakfast, Angelina and Jeremy walked around Ecruteak and stood by a fountain where they had a perfect view of the Bell Tower and what was beneath it. Sitting near its base was a shrine in the nagare-zukuri style, characterized by its very asymmetrical gabled roof, projecting outwards above the entrance. Behind the shrine, trees filled with orange and yellow leaves dotted the path to the tower, almost as if it were eternally autumn along the path. The Bell Tower itself was a massive pagoda, made entirely of wood with a massive beacon-like structure sitting at the very top.
After admiring the view for a while, Angelina decided it was time to tackle the Ecruteak Gym. So they made their way back to the gym and walked inside, through the lobby and into a room with a battle field, Morty was there meditating.
"Hello Angelina, you want a gym battle, correct?" Morty asked, opening his eyes and stood up to greet the trainer.
"Yes, please," Angelina answered. "What's the rules?"
A small man with white hair made his way to the middle of the battlefield with raised flags. "Challenger Angelina Murakami of Pallet Town will now challenge the Ecruteak Gym Leader, Morty. The battle will be three on three with only the challenger making substitutions. The challenger may substitute Pokemon, leader shall not."
Within a few minutes, Jeremy was on the side-lines holding Togepi while Angelina stood was on the challenger's side of the battlefield and Morty at the other.
"I'm sure you know that if you win, you'll get this," Morty held up a piece of metal that vaguely resembled a stereotypical ghost. "The Fog Badge. I hope you'll provide a good challenge for my Ghosts and I."
"Don't worry, Morty," Angelina grinned. "That Badge will be put with my other three soon enough."
"We'll see," Morty smiled.
"Okay Flower, I choose you!" Angelina enlarged a Pokeball and threw out her Pokeball, revealing her Bellossom as it twirled around a flurry of pink flower petals.
"Interesting," Morty remarked and enlarged a Pokeball, he threw it quickly in the field, "Let's go, Gastly!" from the Pokeball the Ghost Pokemon appeared.
"Begin," the judge announced to signify the beginning of the battle.
"Gastly, use Screech!" Morty directed his strange Pokemon. The ghost Pokemon echoed a terrifying howl; worse than nails on chalk board.
Angelina cried and put her hands over her ears as Morty smiled at the sound. "Use Petal Dance!" she shouted over the pain-splitting scream.
Bellossom chanted and flew into the air, Gastly look confused upon watching his opponent (not literally though). After about four seconds, Bellossom blasted pink petals at Gastly, the sharp edges of the petals slashing hard and leaving burning purple marks on him.
"Not bad," Morty replied to the attack, "But Gastly is a tough Pokemon, show that Bellossom your Shadow Ball!"
Gastly blinked him eyes, creating a large black orb of ghostly power. With a quick screech, the Ghost Pokemon fired the ball at Bellossom.
"Dodge it!" Angelina commanded.
Bellossom flipped into the air as the Shadow Ball hit the ground and created a pillar of dust, clouding the battlefield and confusing Gastly.
"Now we got it!" Angelina victoriously shouted, "Use Solar Beam!"
Bellossom began to glow white as it collected sunlight from the flowers on her head. After a few seconds, she opened her mouth and released a beam of white energy and struck Gastly with tangible force, throwing up a cloud of dirt, and when it finally cleared Gastly's eyes were rolling in its head.
"Gastly is unable to battle," the judge announced, "Bellossom is the winner!"
"Gastly return, you did well," Morty smiled as he recalled his Pokemon. "You're tougher than I thought."
"Well, what can I say," Angelina smirked. "I'm a good trainer."
Morty enlarged another Pokeball, "Go Haunter!" the Ghost Pokemon appeared with a wicked smile on its face below its mischievous eyes.
"Bellossom, Magical Leaf!"
"Night Shade," Morty replied.
Bellossom spins its body around, releasing glowing green leaves from its body toward Haunter. Haunter's eyes glowed red, then it fires black beams from its eyes, but before the attack could hit him, the leaves fall to the ground.
"Flower, use Toxic!"
Bellossom opened its mouth and releases a thick purple stream of liquid at Haunter, which faded away.
"Where'd he go!" Angelina asked.
"Psychic!" Morty swiftly commanded.
Haunter cackled and reappeared behind Bellossom, his eyes and body glowed as Bellossom was captured by a blue psychic force Haunter was controlling.
"Try breaking free!" Angelina shouted.
Bellossom struggled as Haunter lifted her into the air with his mind. She cried out and was slammed into the ground, its eyes swirling in unconscious.
"Bellossom is unable to battle. Haunter is the winner!" the judge replied to the attack by Haunter.
Angelina returned her Bellossom and enlarging another Pokeball, "Go Rocky! Dig!"
The Rock-and-Ground Pokemon, Graveler appeared and dug a hole in the floor of the gym with its large arms, and therefore Haunter did not know where the rock Pokemon was. Graveler came up from the ground and struck Haunter dead on.
"Haunter, you've done enough," Morty said and recalled the Pokemon, then he threw out a Dusk Ball. "I choose Gengar!" he smiled as another ghost Pokemon appeared; its narrow red eyes gleaming with trickery and its huge white smile stark against its short indigo fur.
"A Gengar!" Jeremy was stunned, "That's one of the strongest pokemon…."
"What's with you and purple Ghost Pokémon?" Angelina yelled.
"Well, as a matter-of-fact, all Ghost Pokémon are purple, and there's nothing either of us can do about that. Hey.… this is all besides the point. Gengar, Giga Drain!" Morty calmly commanded.
Gengar glows green and sends out green energy and drains Graveler completely, it wasn't moving once the energy beam disappeared. Angelina recalled the Pokemon and sent out another Pokeball.
"Go, Spritz!" the aqua-mouse Pokemon Marill appeared with a little dance to tease Gengar.
"A dancing Pokémon. How cute. But being cute isn't gonna win you this one! Gengar, Thunderbolt!"
Gengar's body becomes surrounded by yellow electricity and it fires multiple beams of yellow electricity. This damaged Marill so much, Angelina thought that her Pokemon couldn't win and was just about to recall Marill when it started to glow.
"What the-?" Angelina exclaimed.
"Huh, no way!" Morty exclaimed.
When the glowing stopped, the pokemon was much taller with rabbit-like ears, a white bubble-like pattern on its stomach, it still had the wiry black tail and blue bouy ball and its eyes are circular with blue irises. The color of its body could almost represent a wave now.
"Azumarill, the Aqua Rabbit Pokemon. By keeping still and listening intently, it can tell what is in even wild, fast-moving rivers." Pokedex informed.
"Okay Spritz, Bubblebeam!" Angelina ordered as her new Pokemon releases white bubbles from its mouth at a great speed, inflicting a lot of damage to Gengar. It wasn't looking good for him.
"Gengar, Thunderbolt!" Morty commanded.
"Spritz, watch out!" Angelina cried, her Azumarill jumped towards the left, barely dodging the powerful bolt of electricity.
"Again, Gengar!"
Gengar kept shooting electricity out towards Azumarill, but the water Pokemon's evasiveness was amazing. For such a large Pokémon, it had great speed.
"Spritz, quick! Use Bubblebeam!"
Azumarill rolled to its right, missing a Thunderbolt, and then released about blast of white bubbles, which knocked Gengar unconscious as swirls appeared in his eyes.
"Gengar is unable to battle. The winner of the Ecruteak Gym Battle is Angelina Murakami from Pallet Town!"
"Yeah!" Angelina ran and hugged her Azumarill gratefully, "You did it, Spritz!"
"An amazing display of moves," Morty remarked as he walked across the battlefield and held out his hand, which contained the Fog Badge. "Well done, Angelina. You earned it."
Angelina stood up and accepted the purple fog-shaped badge, "Thank you for a great battle, Morty." She flashed the new badge to Jeremy, "I got the Fog Badge!"
"Good luck on your journey," Morty smiled.
"Thanks, I'll do my best," Angelina replied.
Outside the gym and back at the Pokemon Center as the day was turning into night, Jeremy and Angelina were discussing the next stop on their way.
"Olivine City," Jeremy pointed on the map of Angelina's Poke-Gear, "It's a good ways from here so we better start early…. like tomorrow morning!"
"Sure," Angelina smiled as she started toward her room, with Jeremy quickly following to his.
§To Be Continued§
*Angelina battles and defeats Morty, the Ecruteak Gym Leader, for the Fog Badge
*Morty uses three Ghost-type Pokemon: Gastly, Gengar, and Haunter.
*Angelina's Marill evolves into Azumarill
Okay, so this chapter was the gym battle of Morty against Angelina. Let me know if there are mistakes in this (and be honest). Read on to the next chapter! Thanks!