Next chapter in the series of adventures! I personally didnt like this and next chapter too much but after chapter five things will get much more interesting...hopefully youll be staying tuned!
Chapter Three- Brian's first battle
Brian went to his side of the battlefield looking stern. His Sunkern kept her mouth in a thin line releasing little puffs of air.
"This is going to be our first battle Sunkern. All the reading about it in books, all the practicing it on a rock, it's time to put it to use! Let's see Growth powers you up while Absorb can suck some life out of the enemies. Well anyway let's go, Nathan and his Tangela are confident they can beat us. Show them whose boss!" Brian declared.
He scratched the back of his bright red head vigorously, which he usually did when he was nervous. Sunkern leaped off of Brian's shoulder and eyed her opponent. Tangela released one of her vines and pointed it to herself.
"Tan Ta Gela (Bring it on Shorty)!" The vine pokemon taunted
"Kern Sun Ker (You'll regret saying that)!" The seed pokemon replied. Brian pointed his PokeGuide at Tangela.
"Tangela, the grass pokemon. This pokemon uses its vines effectively and is known to be able to release a variety of spores. It currently knows Constrict, Sleep Powder, and Vine Whip"
"Nothing new to me! Tangela, you ready for this?" Nathan yelled to his pokemon. Tangela nodded, and Sunkern smirked.
"VINE WHIP!" Nathan ordered. Tangela closed her white eyes and released two thick, blue vines at Sunkern.
"Dodge and use Absorb attack!" Brian commanded.
Sunkern stood firmly until the blue vines were about a couple of inches away from her chest. She then jumped up and leaned a bit toward the right. Tangela immediately redirected her vines to go to the right, but Sunkern giggled her usual snicker and changed direction mid-air and landed to the left.
"Sun Sun Kern Sun (I hear surfing makes you lose brain cells)," Sunkern commented. Tangela scowled and began to redirect its vines.
A dim pale green light surrounded Tangela stopping her attack and tiny bubbles of the same color popped out of the blue pokemon and began to fly toward Sunkern who absorbed the life energy. Tangela stood there indifferent with her white eyes staring at Sunkern; if she had eyebrows, they would probably have been raised. Sunkern hung her mouth open in confusion and felt no effect from the attack.
"Gel Tan Gela (Have you been surfing)?" Tangela taunted. It was Sunkern's turn to scowl now.
"Dang Brian, I thought you were smarter than that. Grass attacks have very weak effects against other grass pokemon!" Nathan commented. Brian stood scratching his head so hard a little blood appeared, although it was blinded by the rest of the blood red hair.
"Umm Sunkern try making your attack stronger by using Mega Drain," Brian said.
Sunkern screwed her eyes in concentration and the light around Tangela became stronger and bright yellow. The spheres of energy coming out of Tangela also became larger and bright yellow, but it made little difference to either competitor.
"All right Tangela time for another Vine Whip attack! Your Sunkern's a pretty good jumper by the way," Nathan commanded. While still glowing yellow, Tangela released two thick blue vines again which sped through the air like a bullet striking the seed pokemon and stopping the attack.
Sunkern flew a couple of feet backward before struggling to get up again. Brian looked at his pokemon worrying it was hopeless. "Sunkern, I have a plan, use Growth! Every time you dodge, use Growth too!" Brian yelled out. Sunkern was panting hard and began to shine a bright green color for a few seconds before she returned to normal.
"Really? I have a plan too. Tangela use Constrict attack and bring the pokemon close to you," Nathan ordered.
He and Tangela were both very confident about a win lying ahead. Tangela extended her already released vines to grab Sunkern, but the seed pokemon jumped out of the way and used Growth attack in mid-air.
Julie and Natalie (who was holding her hurt Jigglypuff) were watching from the sidelines.
"This is an amazing battle I have no clue who'll win. I wonder what Brian is doing though?" Natalie commented.
Tangela was still chasing Sunkern with her vines and began to send out more thick blue ones while Sunkern managed to jump over each and every one of them, managing to find time to sneak in a quick Growth attack as well.
"Growth powers up special attacks like Mega Drain right? Brian is definitely powering his attacks up. I have a bad idea about Tangela though. Nathan wants Sunkern up close, and I think I know why," Julie replied.
"JIGGLY PUFF PUFF PUFF (You beat her Tangela. And cream that ugly thing for beating me)!" Jigglypuff screamed.
Machop gave Jigglypuff another leering eye and the balloon pokemon twitched in her trainers arms out of fear. "Chop Chop! Machop Mach! (Sunkern you have it in you! I'll understand if you want to lose because you don't want to face a strong pokemon like me though)."
Sunkern smirked while dodging seven of Tangela's thick blue vines and flashing a strong green shade sporadically. When Sunkern jumped onto one of the vines and jumped to the right, Tangela's instinct proved correct as a strong eight vine came hurtling through the arena and knocked Sunkern out of the air and onto the ground. All eight vines swooped downward toward Sunkern and struck her hard. The seed pokemon winced horribly and two of the vines wrapped around Sunkern tight while the other six flew back into Tangela.
"Tangela Gela Tangela la (You should have taken Machop's advice)!"
"Ah crap!" Brian moaned.
"Oh yeah! Now Tangela, bring Sunkern face to face." Nathan smiled. Tangela pulled Sunkern toward her when Brian declared:
"MEGA DRAIN!"
Tangela's entire body was blinded by the bright yellow light and a sphere of energy roughly half the size of the vine pokemon herself came toward Sunkern and replenished nearly a quarter her life energy. Tangela's vines collapsed along with Sunkern, who was now only a few feet away from Tangela and still draining energy.
"Wow, all that growing sure helped. Looks like this battle is over," Natalie said smiling brightly. Machop was rooting Sunkern on while Natalie struggled to hold Jigglypuff with her cheeks inflated.
"It is over, but not for whom you think," Julie moaned.
"Send Sunkern to where Greg and Slowpoke are!" Nathan ordered. Along with another large sphere of energy, came a cloud of green powder, Sleep Powder. Sunkern plopped down asleep before she could even take in the life energy.
Tangela was released from the sooped up Mega Drain and sighed. She had little energy left, but was determined to finish the battle off. "Tangela give it all you got!" Nathan commanded with his blue eyes were shining brightly. It would all be over soon.
Tangela released about fifteen vines and struck Sunkern repeatedly and repeatedly while she stayed asleep the entire time. Finally, Sunkern was blown back to Brian's feet with little swirls replacing her closed eyes.
"Looks like you won. Oh well, it was a great battle. Is your Tangela okay?" Brian asked. His brown eyes were looking away from everyone. This was his first battle ever, and he lost. There would be other battles he knew that, but there was just something special about the first one.
"Yeah, she'll be fine I think, but we'll need a little rest before the next battle though. Sunkern could use a little rest too," Nathan replied. He tried hard not to look too pleased with himself.
"Good job Nathan and Brian. That was an amazing battle. I think we could all use a little break," Natalie said with her usual cheery tone.
"Cheer up Brian. Everyone loses sometime. I'll make sure Machop creams him in the next round," Julie said patting Brian on the back. Brian held his head up and smiled.
"I'm fine. I just hope Sunkern doesn't hate me. I think I drove her a little too hard." Brian responded. He picked up the sleeping pokemon and cradled her softly. The four were about to turn and exit the room when someone burst through the door, shut it quickly, and ran down the stairs.
It was Greg and Slowpoke, panting heavily while someone or something was pounding heavily at the door. Greg lifted his head after panting for several minutes to face four confused adolescents.
"Fred's Drowzee was eating my dream- such a good dream- and I woke up and gave it a piece of my Fury Swipes. That didn't really make Drowzee happy, and it tried to pound me- but ended up hitting Slowpoke in the tail and waking it up. Now that mad thing is trying to kill us both!" Greg yelled. The pounding on the door began to stop, and Greg looked around with his eyes becoming very dreamy.
"Such a good dream where Misty gave me one hell of a…" Greg snapped back into reality and noticed the expressions changed from confused to eager "Errm was beaten by me in the Whirl Cup Competition. Anyway, what were you guys doing here, and why is Sunkern sleeping Brian?"
"We were having a little battle tournament. Machop beat my Jigglypuff, and Tangela beat Sunkern, who got a whiff of sleep powder," Julie answered. Greg's eyes widened at stared incredulously at Brian.
"You got beaten by Surfer Ghetto Dude over there! I thought you were stronger than that!" Greg yelled. Nathan scowled at him, and Tangela gave Greg an evil eye.
"Yeah Sunkern and I were close, but in the end Tangela beat us," Brian said quietly and dangerously. Sunkern began to bat her eyelashes and yawned herself awake.
"We're going to take a little break before I face Nathan," Julie added trying to steer away from the fact Brian lost. Greg was getting redder and faced Nathan.
"All right pretty boy. Me and you, go now!" Greg declared.
"Tangela's pretty tired. I don't know..." Nathan responded. Tangela raised one of her vines and nodded. They went back to the normal field and Slowpoke and Tangela took their places in opposite sides of the battlefield.
"Slow (What are we doing)?" asked Slowpoke. He wasn't zoned out, but not as angry as when Greg pulled his tail.
"Gela Tan Gela (We're battling, so you better get into reality Dimwit)!" The vine pokemon responded. Slowpoke narrowed his eyes and let out a growl. He was ready to fight.
"All right Slowpoke let's start things out with a Water Gun attack!" Greg declared. He was rummaging through his bag, until he found his gel which he immediately applied to the front of his hair. Slowpoke began to inhale deeply, but before Nathan could even say anything two blue wines whipped through the field and tightened around Slowpoke's mouth.
The water was already beginning to come out of Slowpoke's throat, but couldn't escape with Tangela's tight grip around the pink pokemon's mouth. Slowpoke's cheeks began to expand larger than Jigglypuff's until the water couldn't stay in any longer and broke through Tangela's grip. A stream of water whizzed past the field like a bullet and hit the wall, missing the vine pokemon. However, the powerful force of the attack sent Slowpoke flying back and crashing into Greg.
"OWWW! Hey that was a dirty move," Greg yelled struggling to get the large bear pokemon off of him. Nathan shrugged and walked away along with the rest of the gang, none stopping to help Greg. "Help? Anyone? Hey, kid that should be in a tree making cookies, can you help a fellow brother out?" Greg pleaded. All he got in return was a barrage of needles from the annoyed kid's Ekans.
Greg winced as the painful needles struck his face. The grumpy man from before approached Greg with his Fearow flying at his side. Greg smiled thinking he was going to escape from the massive lard on top of him.
"Hey kid! I saw you battling. Look at the field; it's all wet and now I have to clean it all up! Fearow get him and his Slowpoke!" he ordered. Fearow wasted no time bringing his long orange beak down on Greg and Slowpoke, who finally woke up and rolled off of Greg, now trying to escape the Fury Attack.
"OWW! Hey quit it! Ouch! I'm going to call my lawyer. Ahh! As soon as I'm old and rich enough to get one!" Greg screamed running from the large bird and out the door. He slammed the door on Fearow who screeched as it struck the door, leaving an indentation. Slowpoke immediately gambled off to be behind Melissa's Shellder yet again.
Brian and Julie were going through their packs, Natalie was waiting in line to play pool while Nathan and Tangela were glued to the Pokemon Surfer Show. The four other pokemon were socializing with other pokemon. Greg plopped in between Brian and Julie on the couch.
"So, what's in our bag Julie," he asked. Julie looked up and responded.
"Umm some Miltank Jerky, Juice boxes, Money, seven pairs of clothes for each of us, Compass, and various pokemon medicines," Julie responded. Greg raised one blonde eyebrow. The bag was only the size of a school book bag. "Oh Brian, do you have the pokeballs on you?"
Brian nodded. "Whoa wait a second. I thought we didn't get any pokeballs." Greg asked.
"Oh yeah, you were in La La Land. Brian got a letter and package from his dad containing 15 various pokeballs. You missed it. There was some strange Hoenn pokemon called a Pellipper that delivered it." Julie said. Greg pouted and opened up his PokeGuide.
"Hey these have in depth information about single pokemon. I wonder if there's some way to turn a Slowpoke into Seaking," Greg said wearing out his fingers, pressing the PokeGuide's buttons. Brian and Julie rolled their eyes. "Hey here it is. Slowpoke is a blah blah blah. Similar to Psyduck as it can only use attacks when provoked. Blah Blah bidy Blah. Hey it can evolve into two different pokemon: Slowbro at level 37 and Slowking when a King's Rock is attached."
"I don't think it will be evolving soon Greg," Brian commented with a smart alecky tone. Greg ignored him and began to scan his PokeGuide some more.
"Hey this thing can tell you what level your pokemon is at. Maybe my Slowpoke is at level 36 or something." Greg pressed a light blue button and pointed the guide at Slowpoke.
"Based on the experience and battles Slowpoke won he would be approximately level six," The pokeguide responded.
"Well, it's only thirty one levels to go!" Julie said laughing along with Brian. Greg's ears turned a violent shade of red, and he began breathing slowly.
"All right that's ok. HEY ALL YOU PEOPLES! DOES ANYONE HAVE A KING'S ROCK?" Greg yelled straining his throat. Many people turned from their activities to give Greg a weird look but immediately resumed.
"I also heard that Slowpoke can evolve by having a Shellder bite onto its tail or head," Julie added. She flung her hand to her mouth and blushed. She was very smart in the world of pokemon, but she also tried to hide it. Greg gave a huge grin as he looked from Slowpoke to Melissa's Shellder. Melissa was playing pool with Natalie unaware of Slowpoke and Shellder. "Great, why did I say that?"
Greg slowly picked up the shell pokemon who immediately squeaked. "SHELLDER!" and clamped its shell. Greg started squeezing the poor pokemon onto Slowpoke's head, knowing the consequences of trying to attach it to the tail. Slowpoke was in his usual dream state and unaware of Greg's struggle with Shellder. Shellder refused to open up and bite Slowpoke. Greg felt a light tap on his shoulder.
"Go away! I'm busy can't you see," Greg said. The tapping continued getting slowly harder and harder until a particular hard one made Greg finally turn around "Are you deaf! I just…" Greg's pale green eyes went wide as it saw the tall brunette face of Melissa looking down on him. She took her fist and drove it straight into Greg's cheek like a cinder block into a window
Greg skidded a few feet until he hit the wall; Melissa grabbed her Shellder and walked away. Brian and Julie were rolling on the floor, beet red from laughing. They continued to use the leisures of the boat for about another four hours while Greg enjoyed the leisures of ice until they felt the boat stop. Nathan and Natalie rushed to the three.
"The ship must have landed in Olivine. Hurry, we gotta finish up the mini tourney before the other kids want to battle!" Natalie commented. The five called their pokemon from their socializing and rushed into the battle room where the normal battlefield was still unoccupied.
"Good luck Julie." Nathan said holding out a large tan hand. Julie shook it and added her own words of advice.
"Luck? Luck is for novices. Good luck to you though!" she smirked. Nathan gave a wry smile, and they took their spots along with Tangela and Machop.
"Chop Machop Chop (Tell your mom I have her money)" Machop said to the vine pokemon.
"Tangela Tangela Gela (Tell your mom she's the sexiest Gyarados I've ever seen)," Tangela responded grinning beneath the vast cover of vines.
"Ma Ma Chop Chop (Where do you think I got all my power from)?" Machop responded.
"Tan Tan (And your dragon breath)," Tangela said. They would have gone on longer, but the trainers began commanding.
"Tangela, let's finish this up quickly! Vine Whip with all you got!" Nathan ordered.
"Machop, just use Focus Energy for now," Julie replied calmly. Machop closed his eyes with his arms ready and relaxed while Tangela sent eight vines shooting out across the field. When the blue vines were nearly three feet away from Machop, Julie Declared "KARATE CHOP!"
With five fast movements of his arms, Machop sent each of Tangela's vines collapsing onto the floor as the vine pokemon winced painfully. "Tangela quickly bring back the vines! Pretty nice move Julie" Nathan ordered.
"Grab them and play with Tangela anyway you want!" Julie ordered wearing a big smile. Machop got all the thick vines in a swoop of a fist, and he began to swing Tangela over his head smashing her on the ground to his left and right.
Meanwhile, Brian, Natalie, and Greg watched from the sidelines.
"Jeeze that Tangela's easier than I thought. How bad are you Brian?" Greg commeted as Tangela continued to smash into the ground.
"Not that bad. Just wait till Machop gets a whiff of Sleep Powder." Brian responded. Sunkern was frowning at Greg from her trainer's shoulder.
"I don't think Julie or Machop realizes this, but Tangela is retreating her vines and drawing herself closer to Machop each time he swings," Natalie pointed out. Jigglypuff, Sunkern, and Slowpoke were also yelling there encouragements to the two fighters.
"Puff Jiggly (You can do it Tangela)!"
"Kern Sun Kern (Don't let my loss go in vain)!"
"POKE! POKE (Remoraid and Bits! Remoraid and Bits)!"
Tangela wasn't being swung as far anymore, and Machop realized that to his horror. He looked up to see Tangela only a few feet directly over him as she released a green cloud of Sleep Powder.
Machop immediately fell into a slumber and released Tangela's vines. Tangela was on her two red feet now, but extremely worn out.
"Tangela, once you're ready, attack as hard as you can!" Nathan ordered. He wasn't too happy seeing how his Tangela was very hurt.
"Come on Machop wake up!" Julie pleaded. Machop was still sound asleep spread eagled on the battlefield. Tangela retreated all her vines completely and panted hard.
"Machop won't stay asleep forever, and he's at perfect health! Tangela has to take advantage now!" Natalie yelled.
Tangela, who seemed to be fighting out of desperation, rammed her entire body into Machop several times, groaning each time. "Is that a Struggle attack?" Brian asked.
"What's that?" Greg asked. He never was one to pay attention in class.
"Struggle is a move pokemon use when they can't use any other moves. It's not very strong, but takes energy out of the pokemon using it too!" Julie yelled. Even though she tried hiding the fact she was smart, she loved being a walking encyclopedia as well. "Tangela! Don't worry. It's okay; you don't have to keep hurting yourself!" Nathan pleaded with his pokemon. Tangela shook her blue head and rammed into Machop one more time before collapsing. Machop finally began to stir and woke up. He rubbed his eyes and noted Tangela laying facing down on the hard floor. He flipped her over to see swirls replacing her eyes.
"Looks like you won Julie." Nathan said. His blue eyes watered slightly and his normally bright face was dull and expressionless.