I know this chapter seems a bit overdue, but ideas are getting harder to come by and since school is starting up soon, I'll have to focus more on that, but I'll try to make more chapters. Anyway here's Chapter 15! ^_^
The group had just left Cerulean City and headed South onto Route 5. Route 5 was, more or less, a straight path, with a few hills in the middle of the path. They were stopped when two small white figures ran past them, their heads were green and they had a red spike on their head.
"What was that?" Julia asked
"Should we check it out?" Diego questioned
"It couldn't hurt to see..." Jack said, the group was about to go and follow the two small beings when they found an old rival.
"Well, isn't this a surprise! Good to see you again... Jack!" Alan greeted the group with a coy smile on his face, the twins looked creeped out as they still were not comfortable with Alan. "We're going to battle again, here and now!"
"Well I'm not going to turn down a challenge!" Jack responded, taking out one of his pokeballs, but before Alan sent out a pokemon, he heard a nearby bush rustling, someone was watching them
"Wait... who's there!?" Alan asked, the bush began rustling louder, whatever was in it was afraid. "Suit yourself! Spinarak, use String Shot!" Alan sent out his Spinarak, it used it's String Shot to trap whoever was watching them, but the webbing stopped in mid air and began to glow blue, it was then shot back at Spinarak, trapping it.
"How did that happen?" Renée questioned
"We're dealing with a Psychic type pokemon..." Alan answered, he began walking towards the bush, but whatever was there ran away before he got too close
"We're going to post pone our battle, because I'm catching whatever pokemon that was!" He said, as he followed the pokemon
"So what are you gonna do Jack?" Diego asked his friend
"I'm going to follow the pokemon, who knows it could be really rare!" He answered, running after Alan and the pokemon, the others followed suit
Alan was hot on the pokemon trail, though he couldn't see exactly what it was.
"You're not getting away!" He called out to it, the pokemon left the tall grass, exposing it. It was the same pokemon that ran in front of the group earlier, it had another of its species behind it, though the other looked sick and weak.
"Hmph, got you now!" Alan said, getting an empty pokeball ready, but before he could throw it, the pokemon began glowing a light pink, it exhaled a pink cloud that obscured Alan's vision, preventing him from catching the pokemon.
"Pidgeotto, use Whirlwind to blow the mist away!" Alan commanded, sending out a Pidgeotto, it flapped it's wings to generate a strong wind that blew the mist away, but the 2 pokemon were already gone...
"Damn, where did it go!?" Alan cursed as he continued his search
Meanwhile, Jack was searching for the mysterious pokemon when he heard his friends approaching.
"Jack, did you find anything?" Diego asked, The group was silenced by a weak panting, the followed the noise and found the 2 pokemon resting by a tree, one of them looked very sick, it's body turned purple often, it's horn was also slightly larger than the other, showing it was female. The other had a scar on its left eye. Jack took This opportunity to scan them with his pokedex.
'Ralts: the Feeling pokemon; It is highly attuned to the emotions of people and pokemon. It hides if it senses hostility.'
"It hides if it senses hostility? Maybe that's why it was hiding from us!" Renée proposed
"But if that's the case then can't it sense us now?" Jack asked "What do you think Julia?" There was no answer, Julia was approaching the Ralts who already knew they were there, they didn't run from Julia as they sensed that she meant no harm. The others also approached the two Ralts who still did not run away, though the one that was not ill seemed to be defensive and protective of the one that was sick.
"Julia, you shouldn't run off like that!" Renée warned
"Oh, sorry sis! I just wanted to try and help the Ralts, this one looks really sick!" Julia replied, she was also correct, one of the Ralts was lying down with a fever, it's body turned purple for a few moments before returning to normal, this repeated multiple times.
"So how can we help it?" Diego asked, he approached the sick Ralts, but it's brother seemed to get defensive again and stopped Diego from getting any closer. It did not want anyone going near his sister. Jack took note of this.
"Ralts, it's going to be fine, we're not going to hurt your sister, I promise!" He said, smiling at the pokemon, the Ralts looked him in the eye and returned the smile, sensing that Jack was telling the truth. Julia took out a Lum berry from her bag and fed it to the female Ralts, who became fully healed, it looked up and smiled at Julia.
"So Ralts, do you want to travel with us?" Julia asked the female Ralts, it agreed without hesitation. Julia took out a pokeball and captured the female Ralts. It's brother looked surprised at his sister's eagerness to travel, but he knew that she would be safe with Julia. He faced Jack and gave him a confident smile. Jack understood that the Ralts wanted to travel with him, and he captured the other Ralts.
"Well I guess that's it then!" Diego said "So I guess you're going to go find Alan and battle him?" He asked Jack, before Jack could answer, someone spoke up.
"We're definitely battling now!" The voice said, everyone turned to see Alan watching them, he saw Julia and Jack catch the two Ralts. "And you're going to use that Ralts in battle!"
"You're on!" Jack said eagerly
They all went back to the spot where they were going to battle earlier, both trainers taking their positions to battle
"This battle will be 3 on 3!" Alan announced
"That's fine with me!" Jack answered
The two trainers sent out their pokemon, Jack sent out Ralts while Alan sent out a Gastly, Julia went pale when she saw the Gastly
"A g-g-g-ghost! Why did he have to send out a ghost?" She complained
"Gastly, use Lick!" Alan ordered, Gastly charged at Ralts, it's tongue hanging out of its mouth
"Not so fast! Ralts, use Confusion!" Jack responded, Ralts began to glow with a blue aura, it reached out its hand and used it's Psychic power to stop Gastly right in its tracks! It then forcefully shot Gastly away from himself, inflicting some noticeable damage
"So that Ralts is strong!" Alan noted "But that won't stop us! Gastly, use Hypnosis!" Gastly's eyes began to glow yellow, and it began shooting waves of energy at Ralts
"Ralts, use Shock Wave!" Jack ordered, Ralts began charging electricity from its horn and shot it at Gastly, destroying the Hypnosis waves and knocking Gastly out
"Not bad Jack, but we're not done yet! Pidgeotto, come out!" Alan said, sending out his Pidgeotto, Jack recalled his Ralts
"Its far from over! Poochyena, come on out!" Jack responded, he sent out his Poochyena, both pokemon looked ready for battle "Poochyena use, Bite!" Poochyena charged at Pidgeotto, biting it's leg
"Pidgeotto, use Gust!" Alan ordered, Pidgeotto flapped it's wings, flicking Poochyena off of its leg
"Smart! But we're not giving up! Poochyena, use Play Rough!" Jack commanded, Poochyena charged towards Pidgeotto again, knocking it down.
"Pidgeotto, use Aerial Ace!"
Pidgeotto recovered from Poochyena's attack and flew towards Poochyena at an incredible speed, the attack connected knocking Poochyena out
"Well that stinks!" Jack said, Alan didn't really seem too impressed though
"Alright Ivysaur, show us what you've got!" Jack said
"Spinarak!" Alan sent out his ace pokemon "Use String Shot!" Spinarak shot out its webbing just as it did when it was trying to catch Ralts earlier
"That won't work! Ivysaur, use Sleep Powder!" Jack commanded, Ivysaur bombarded Spinarak with the spores, dodging the String Shot in the process. The spores hit Spinarak, causing it to fall asleep
"Now use Take Down!" Ivysaur dashed towards Spinarak, knocking it back a few feet and into the air "Now let's end it with Razor Leaf!" To finish the battle, Ivysaur sent a barrage of Razor Leaves at Spinarak while it was in the air, since Spinarak was asleep and in mid air, it couldn't counteract, the attack, knocking it out and giving Jack the win!
"Yay Jack!" Julia cheered
"Thank goodness, I couldn't bear looking at that bug anymore!" Renée added
"That was wicked!" Diego exclaimed
"Good battle Alan!" Jack said, he went in to shake Alan's hand but Alan refused
"I don't think 'good' is a word I'd use to describe that battle!" He said, the others looked confused, Alan released his Pidgeotto from its pokeball, when he sent it out however, a red light flashed when he sent it out, rather than the usual white light
"Go on." Alan said, Pidgeotto flew off into the sky
"Why did you do that?" Diego asked
"That Pidgeotto was weak, it didn't meet my expectations." Alan responded
"But it won the battle it was in!" Renée stated
"It's weak, I dislike weak pokemon! Rest assured Jack, next time we meet I will win the battle!" Alan proclaimed, he walked away, the group glared at him as they went, from the skies above Pidgeotto watched Alan walk away, it had a sad look on its face...
And so ends chapter 15! How do you feel about Jack and Julia's new pokemon? What's Alan's deal? Stay tuned!
