Genesis Of A Creation

Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon.

Author's notes. I think that after this chapter comes out and I don't get enough reviews to help me (most reviews should have info I asked from readers since I need everyone's help), I don't think I will continue the next chapter. But then again, if you don't review, I have more time to study. It's your loss, so decided if you wanna review!

Also, I would like to thank Optimus Magnus for his help.
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Ash placed one foot on the low wall as he surveyed the street below him. He had risen up in the ranks faster than anyone had been known to, and no one questioned him. His eyes swept the street to find his target, which didn't take long.

Amidst the brown and black, Lt. Surge's blonde hair made him stick out like an advertising neon light. Furthermore, he was at least a head taller than most people.

Ash smirked as the stupidity of it. At ground level, Lt. Surge's height and posse of 'bodyguards' would've been slightly helpful in clearing a way and protecting him from assaulters, but from this height... Ash was going to have no problem hitting his target.

He brought the scope of the gun to his eye, tracing the direction where the gym leader moved. Patiently, he waited for when his target was most vulnerable, and where it would ensure a sure kill.

Lt. Surge turned, his action as though in slow motion to Ash. Ash took his aim and slowly pulled the trigger. Less than a second later, he heard the silenced explosion, smelt the smoke as the gunpowder burned.

On the ground, a small red dot appeared at the giant's temple, causing him to stop in mid-action. One of his posse gently nudged him to make him move, only to shout as he fell heavily to the ground. Chaos ensued as people clambered to get out of the street in fear that they would be next.

Ash picked removed the scope and kept it in a pocket, and replacing the dun in its holster. Reaching into his breast pocket, he took out a pair of sunglasses, putting it on before vanishing into the shadows of the building.

Ash pushed open the door to the gym, only to be greeted by silence. Looking around, he saw that the gym was not just a gym. Instead, it was also a performance stage. So this is the Cerulean Sisters' stage, he thought to himself.

It was a large place to accommodate for the many people who watched the three sisters' performance. The gigantic tank was filled with water, and had ice floes on it. All the more the better, Ash went on, looking in vain for the gym leader.

"I wish to challenge the gym leader," he called out when he saw no one else in the area.

"Yeah! Hold on!" a woman's voice replied from behind him. Ash turned to see the source of the voice, and spotted a hand waving from a window above him. "I'll be down soon!"

Ash shifted his loosely hung belt, revealing his two pokeballs as he waited for the woman. He hoped that she would be more of a challenge than Lt. Surge.

"Sorry," a red headed woman appeared at the stairs a few moments later.

"Who are you?" Ash asked her as he took note of her features.

The woman blushed a deep red before replying, "I'm Misty Waterflower, the cerulean gym leader."

"Isn't the gym run by the cerulean sisters?" Ash questioned again.

Misty sighed as she leaned against the wall. "I can't blame you for not knowing me. I'm the youngest of the cerulean sisters. I don't really have a talent for acting so I don't perform in any of the performances," Misty answered. "Anyway, they left for another of their traveling performances so I'm left in charge of the gym again," she ended. "Not to mention the paperwork too," she growled under her breath.

"Don't gym leaders have a secretary to help them with that?"

"Quit asking me questions. Are you here to challenge me or are you here to know me?" Misty snapped at him, irritated. "For your information, I'm not interested in finding anyone yet."

"......" Ash fell silent at her outburst. "I must apologize. It happens that I was simply... curious," he replied. "I challenge you for the cascade badge," he went on.

"Good. Two pokemon each, no time limit, fine with you?" she growled, glaring at him slightly. "Good," she headed for one side of the tank-like arena after he nodded. "Go Gyarados!"

"Take it down," Ash replied, sending out the dragon pokemon.

Misty gapped at the pokemon. "What kinda pokemon is that?!" she yelled at Ash who did not reply. Instead, he snapped his finger, causing it to rush at her Gyarados. "Gyarados, evade it and create a whirlpool" Misty formulated a quick plan.

The water dragon dived into the water, as Ash's pokemon flew upwards. Taking the chance, the Gyarados swam in circles underwater, forcing the water to spin around it as a vortex.

"Gyarados, once you get it in the whirlpool, freeze it with a blizzard attack and then fire a thunder bolt at the ice to finish it off" Misty had found what she thought was a sure fire winner

The water shot up quickly , virtually engulfing the flying pokemon. "Eidra, dive into the vortex," Ash commanded. The creature reacted instantly, folding back its wings and entered the whirlpool.

"Quick, Gyarados, fire the blizzard attack now" Misty saw that this Eidra was an adaptable pokemon. Gyarados stuck its head above the surface of the water and blew a great sheet of snow and ice towards Eidra. When it was sure it had frozen its opponent, Gyarados jumped out of the water and prepared to thunderbolt.

Ash stood motionless, his arms crossed. Misty was slightly astonished to see him not giving his pokemon any commands. Gyarados' mouth was charged with electricity as it gathered power, ready to execute the command.

The frozen whirlpool suddenly disappeared, as water took its place, causing a miniature waterfall, as Eidra flew back upwards.

"Gyarados, fire the Thunderbolt into the air, fill the whole roof with the attack" Misty made a small adjustment to her previous instructions. Gyarados fired a wide spread of lightning bolts into the air. The whole gym lit up an eerie yellow glow. Ash simply looked at Eidra.

Eidra needed no further instruction and deflected the bolts of electricity by spinning, forming a shield of red, orange and yellow. Specks of flame and sparks shot out at the invading charges, neutralizing them.

Misty was at a loss. This was like no other Pokemon she had ever battled with. Usually the mere sight of Gyarados gave her an edge in battle, never mind the moves it could perform. "Gyarados, HYPER BEAM ATTACK" Misty went for broke and used Gyarados' most powerful move.

Gyarados' inhaled and formed a ball in its mouth: it was made of lightning, ice, fire, water, rock and all other elements. With a great roar, the dragon fired the powerful beam attack, at Eidra

"Refraction egg," Ash muttered. His pokemon took the chance that while the Gyarados shot the miniature particle beam, quickly formed another shield under it's current two, made up of the water which still clung onto its body.

The beam exploded from the Gyarados' mouth. Eidra stayed motionless as the beam approached.

Misty was shocked. Most pokemon would do their best to escape, but this creature just waited for it...

The beam sliced through the lightning and fire shield, before touching the final layer of protection... and the beam split into many small rays which angled away from the pokemon, forming many small rainbows.

"Finish it," Ash muttered.

Drakon sped toward the Gyarados using speeds faster than anyone had ever seen before, blasting it with flamethrower, causing it to roar in pain and anger. Having been blinded by the flames, Gyarados was unable to do anything, giving Drakon the opening it needed to finish it off.

"Electrical tail slam," Ash ordered it pokemon. The dragon turned upside- down, slapping the Gyarados with enough strength to throw it back into the water, where the attack's effect was amplified.

Misty brought her arm up to shield her vision from the blinding yellow light as the water was electrified, electrocuting the pokemon within it. When the light subsided, Misty's hand shot to her mouth as she saw her pokemon thrashing in the water in great pain.

"Gyarados! Return!" she called, retrieving her pokemon into its pokeball. "You put up a good fight, Gyarados," she whispered to the pokeball, before keeping it. Misty turned to look at her challenger who had retrieved his pokemon as well. Who is this guy, and how did he get that pokemon? she asked herself, only to find no answer.

"Go Dewgong!" she called, tossing another pokeball into the arena. The pokemon materialized on the ice and gave a bark. "Be careful, Dewgong," she cautioned. However, she wondered if she should really send out Dewgong. It was her favorite pokemon.

Steeling herself for battle, Misty soon began to take charge and issued the battle orders to Dewgong. "Dewgong, dazzle him with Aurora Beam, then dive under the water" Misty used a similar tactic, but this carried a hidden message.

"Gong" the creature said and fired the dazzling beam at the new pokemon, which was another pokemon Misty had never seen. It was like a pure white tiger, but had wings as well. Once Dewgong was sure he'd blinded or at least distracted his foe; he dove under the water and swam under an ice area. Once there he began using his horn to bash a small hole in the ice.

"Halgre, you know what to do," Ash told his pokemon, who growled in reply and stood on the ice, unmoving.

Dewgong was unaware of what was going on, and the warnings Misty was now shouting to him were inaudible under all that water. He penetrated the ice and prepared an Ice Beam attack. He fired upwards and then scampered out of his hidey hole and resurfaced looking very pleased with himself. "DEWGONG, LOOK OUT" Misty screamed

Halgre waited for the Dewgong to appear from the hole it had made, before attacking. Long sharp pieces of ice javelins formed around Halgre. Once the Dewgong was completely out of the water, it launched the javelins at the unsuspecting pokemon. Icy mist formed from the attack, and Halgre growled angrily.

Its attack had managed to injure the seal pokemon, but it had failed to take it out. The Dewgong had managed to slide away in time only to take a few scrapes.

Misty was worried. This pokemon looked like creature straight from the Legends of years ago. She had seen the power of the other one and it had taken her Gyarados out with little trouble

"Dewgong, hit it with Hydro Pump" Misty commanded Dewgong use its most powerful water move. Dewgong spat a huge column of water almost a foot across at Halgre. Hoping if not to defeat it outright, to maybe make it connect with the roof of the gym to maximize damage

Halgre's eyes glowed as the water rushed at him. As it did, the water rapidly began to slow down, until it stopped at the middle of the arena. Suddenly, it shot upwards, turning in circle, forming a whirlpool.

Dewgong stared at the water and was for a while mesmerized by the swirling vortex of its home element. Misty on the other hand was on the ball.

"Dewgong, launch another Ice Beam attack, freeze the water before its used against you" she cried. Dewgong powered up the attack by lowering its head and concentrating the element to its horn. With a long bark the dark blue beam rushed towards the water vortex

Once again, Ash left everything to his pokemon. Giovanni had always told him that to have a pokemon at his beck and call would show his power, but he felt that a pokemon without initiative was useless. It was proven now as Halgre allowed the whirlpool to freeze.

Misty saw a chance to at least bring this match to a draw. Since the water was frozen, she could reasonably assume that Halgre was frozen to it. So she opted for a bit of creativity. "Dewgong, Slam attack, send that Pokemon into orbit" she ordered. Dewgong leapt out of the water and used all its might to slam the frozen block with its tail.

"Spiked wall," Ash ordered. The seemingly frozen pokemon suddenly appeared behind the Dewgong, even as the seal's tail approached the ice. The ice from the ground and the frozen whirlpool exploded out into sharp points which stuck out like the jaws of a shark.

"DEWGONG, EVADE" Misty screamed. It was however too late. The sharp icicles cut into Dewgong like razors. Although fast enough to avoid being impaled by one of these spikes, Dewgong suffered numerous deep lacerations to its body.

"Oh god!" Misty yelled as she jumped from floe to floe to get to her pokemon, where she cradled it to her chest. Shakily, she reached out to touch one of the cuts to be replied with a wail of pain from the Dewgong.

Angrily, she turned to look at Ash. "Look at what you did to my pokemon you- you bastard! You only have to knock it out!" she yelled at him. "Get lost! The badge is on the table!" she continued, before pulling Dewgong closer to her and burrowing her face in its soft warm fur.

"......" Ash stood there for several moments, looking at the gym leader and her pokemon. He then retrieved his pokemon quietly and left the gym, not stopping to get the badge.
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Author's notes again!:

Alrighty! Another chapter finished! So readers, (whoever you are) are you ready to review? Please do! It's one of my best works! looks at readers with puppy face okay. Maybe that won't work.

Anyway, I think this title and summary is rather... crappy, don't cha think? I would appreciate it if you were to suggests names and help me think of a better summary...

Once again, I thank you for reading this story! Even if you don't want to help me...TT

If I get enough reviews are is motivated enough, the next chapter would be out soon. By the way, thanks to Optimus Magnus again for his help in writing the battle scene!