It's time to announce the winner of the contest last chapter! Drum roll please?

*drum starts rolling down a hill and Holly hands me an envelope*

Leaf: *opens envelope* And the winner is... *takes paper out* Contestshipping123! I have already contacted you so the Pokémon you chose will be appearing next chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Holly or her Pokémon!

Chapter 4: Training

"How long until we're out of this forest?" Sparkheart asked, annoyance edged in her voice.

Holly sighed as she unwound the bandages on Emberwing's wings. They were in a clearing with a star filled sky and Calem tending to a fire in the middle. Holly then took the bandages and placed them in her bag and turned to the yellow mouse.

"I have already told you. We will be out tomorrow morning!"

"That's not soon enough! I want to battle!"

Holly stopped and had a thoughtful look in her eyes. She went over to Calem as he placed a piece of wood on the growing fire. Holly tapped his shoulder and he turned around to face her.

"I'm going out into the forest with my Pokémon to train."

"Be careful out there. We don't want to deal with any unwanted Pokémon."

"Got it!" Holly yelled over her shoulder with her Pokémon trailing behind her.

They went into the forest far enough away so that no stray attacks will hit the camp, but close enough to where Holly could get help when she needed it. Holly turned to the small bird, blue frog, and yellow mouse.

"Here's the plan." Holly said clapping her hands together. "I'm planning on challenging the gym in the next town and we need to be prepared for it."

"Do you even know what type of Pokémon this gym has?" Emberwing asked, stretching his wings out and flying on holly's shoulder.

"Not a clue!" At this statement, all the Pokémon fell to the ground.

"Then how are we supposed to train if you don't know?" Bluestream demanded, his large, yellow eyes sparking with anger.

"I want you three to be prepared for the battle! You all need to be ready!"

All three Pokémon simply looked at each other before nodding.

"All right! What do you want us to do?" Sparkheart asked, electricity crackling from her red cheeks.

"How about we start with accuracy? Emberwing, i'm gonna throw a stone and you try to hit it with Ember."

"Let's do it!" Emberwing yelled out before flying out.

Holly threw a stone high into the air as Emberwing let out small embers that missed the stone by a few inches. He landed on the ground with a huff and his wings lying on the ground.

"Hey! don't worry about it. That's why were working on it."

"That's easy for you to say!"

"Let's just continue training. Now I'm going to throw three stones and you all try to hit them."

Holly threw the three stones in the air. Emberwing hit the stone and let out a cherrup of excitement. Sperkheart launched a Thunder Shock, but missed her stone and she let out a growl of frustration. Bluestream hit his with a Bubble attack and sat down with a smile on his face.

"Good! Let's keep going!"

They all continued that for st least ten more minutes where Holly decided to have the Pokémon fight each other.

"I almost forgot!" Holly yelled out, pulling out her Pokedex.

She held it up to to Sparkheart and listened as the Pokedex started listing the yellow mouses moves.

"This Pikachu knows the following moves. Growl, Thunder Shock, and Quick Attack." The machine replied in a happy tone.

"Sparkheart, I want you to have a battle with Bluestream."

"Are you sure about that? Sparkheart is an electric type." Bluestream asked, worry clear in his voice.

"I will make sure that you won't get hurt."

"If you say so." Bluestream said before launching himself at Sparkheart and hitting her with Pound.

Sparkheart growled and used Quick Attack, leaving a silver streak behind her and hitting the blue frog with enough force that it sent Bluestream off his paws. Bluestream smiled and jumped into one of the trees above Holly and her Pokémon. The blue frog sent down showers of Bubble attacks onto Sparkheart as the electric type cried out.

"Good job Bluestream!" Holly yelled out as she picked up Sparkheart. " But you over did it a little bit."

Bluestream smiled and then laughed when Sparkheart duck her tongue out at him.

30 MINUTES LATER

Holly walked back into the campsite where Calem had just put out the fire and set his sleeping bag out for him to go to get ready for the night.

"How did the training go?" Calem asked with a smile.

"Went really well!" Holly said before returning Sparkheart and Bluestream to their Pokeballs. "They improved in their accuracy and became quicker as well."

"That's great." Calem said yawning "We better get to sleep now so that we're ready for tomorrow."

"Okay. See you tomorrow." Holly said before getting in her sleeping bag and falling asleep for the night.

Authors Note:

This chapter is late I know. I was meaning for it to come out last week, but I ran out of time. I also need to tell everyone that the next chapter will be the last one for a while.