Chapter 7: How are you? Eggcellent
Hey guys, thanks for the reviews (even though I didn't get any). So I would like to remind you about my new character competition is still open. Yea... the title is pretty straight forward. Enjoy.
"Not so fast, charmander flamethrower" The boy shouted out to his pokemon
"haha, sableye shadow ball" James ordered his sableye who launched the shadow ball through the middle of the incoming flamethrower. It struck the opposing charmander straight in the chest, knocking it out.
"hahahahaha, you need to train more" James mocked the kid
"oh yeah" the kid said as he angrily stomped on James's foot before walking away
"AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA" Dawn burst out when the kid was out of sight
"WHAT?!" James said angrily in pain
"haha, you kinda deserved it" Ash chuckled
"Ok maybe I shouldn't have mocked him, but he was a noob" James defended
"Whatever" Said dawn once she recovered "Can we just get to oreburgh already"
"sure, If you're so desperate, then no stops till we get there" Ash said looking up from his map
"Good" Dawn said smugly as she walked on
James glanced at the map and let out a chuckle
"Hey Dawn, you know oreburgh is 20 miles away right" James chuckled
"WHAT?!" Dawn said shocked
"haha, I hoped he would keep his big mouth shut" Ash chuckled "If you want to go 5 miles with no breaks, be my guest. If not, you're doing things our way"
"grr, fine" Dawn said as she crossly followed the two older boys
After 2 hours of walking, the gang finally reached a good spot by the river to camp for the night.
"Come on guys, let's set up camp" Ash said sleepily
They all put together to set up logs and their sleeping bags
"Well goodnight" said James as he fell back on his sleeping bag. Three seconds later he got up and said "I'm hungry"
"Piplup, get us some fish" Dawn said as she released the penguin pokemon
Five minutes later piplup resurfaced with two fish
"ok chimchar, light a fire" Ash ordered the flame monkey
The pokemon unleashed an ember attack on the logs setting fire to them far quicker than they could have
"Thanks Chimchar, return" Ash recalled the fire type
"Let's cook some fish" Dawn said picking up a stick, spearing the fish and holding it over the fire to cook
"Good idea" Ash said as he did the same
"Well, I think I'll just sit here and wait" James said as he lay back on his sleeping bag
"James feed the pokemon" Dawn ordered him
"You're not the boss of me" James said mockingly
"Do It James" Ash said simply
"Yes sir" James muttered as the opened up 3 cans of pokemon food "come on out everyone" James said as he released all of the gang's pokemon
After 10 minutes dawn finally said "Done"
Ash checked his fish as well and sure enough it was.
"Excellent, I'm starved" Said James as he dag into his piece of fish
"mmm, this is good" Said Ash as he continued to eat his fish
After a good meal, the gang returned their pokemon and went to sleep
The Next Morning
A loud scream was the first thing that James and Ash heard when they woke up
"What?" James said wiping the sleep from his eyes
"Quick it's dawn, go Chimchar" Said Ash as he released his pokemon. It took a while foo figure out that nothing was in the camp, just dawn standing over something
"Dawn what is it" Ash ran over to his little sister
"I woke up and found this in my bed" Dawn said
"Wow an egg" James said "cool, Dawn's going to have a kid"
Both kids simultaneously smacked James in the back of his head
"Ow" James said in pain
"Dawn mammal, Mammals no lay egg" Dawn said as though she were talking to an idiot
"It must be a pokemon egg" Ash said "But the question is, which pokemon is it?"
"Well, since it's green, I'm guessing a grass type" Dawn said
"Don't pokemon centres have those pre child scanny thingys, we could ask nurse Joy if she could identify it" James said
"James, that is the smartest thing I've ever heard you say, well done" Dawn congratulated
"haha" James said sarcastically as the gang began to pack up camp
An hour later
"Well, this sign says that oreburgh is only 10 minutes away" Ash said confidently
"Let's go" Dawn said as the gang headed toward Oreburgh
30 minutes later
"Well looks like the sign lied" James said as the gang entered oreburgh city
"Oh come on, just like pokemon, trainers have to keep fit to" Ash said as he headed toward the pokemon center
"Whatever" Dawn said out of breath behind the two boys with the egg in her hands
In the pokemon center
"Hi nurse joy" Ash said cheerfully as he entered the pokemon center
"Hello, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asked
"Could you check on our pokemon?" Ash said as the other two arrived
"Sure thing" Nurse joy replied as the trio handed her their pokemon
"Oh nurse joy, we also found this pokemon egg in the forest, we were wondering if you could indentify it for us" Dawn said as well
"Oh my, an egg, Let's see it shall we" The pink headed nurse replied as dawn put the egg on the counter
"Hmm, well judging by the colour of it, I would say it's a grass type. As for which pokemon, we're going to have to use an ultra sound to identify it" The nurse analysed
"Could you?" Dawn asked hopefully
"Sure" The nurse replied as she took the egg in to her lab for examination
After the analysis Nurse joy said to the gang "Well the pokemon inside that egg is a Budew"
"A Budew?" James searched in his pokedex
"Budew, the Bud Pokémon. In winter, it keeps its bud closed to survive the cold, but then opens it again in the spring." The pokedex reported
"Wow, that's cool. I can't wait for it to hatch" Dawn said excitedly
"Well, you might not have to wait too long, it should hatch in 3 maybe 4 days time" The nurse said wisely
"Wow really? Awesome" Dawn said happily
"Thanks Nurse joy" Ash thanked the nurse for her help
"It's no trouble at all" She said in response
After the trio left the pokemon center James said "Now that that's sorted, Oreburgh gym, prepare to give away that badge"
"First one there is the first one to challenge" Ash said as he sprinted toward the gym
"Not if I can help it"" James said as he chased after Ash
"Boys" Dawn said as she walked toward the gym which was in the opposite direction in which the two boys were running
Ash and James
"I owned you" Ash said to James who rugby tackled him to the ground
"Now who's owned" James said
"Still you" Ash said smartly
"How so?" James asked getting up
"This isn't the gym smartass. This is the Mining museum" Ash said letting out a chuckle
"eww, knowledge" James said
"Well, I'm a man of my word" Ash said as he sprinted towards the real gym
"Grr, you got a head start again" James said as he chased after Ash
The Gym
"Where are those idiots?" Dawn thought to herself
As if on que, Ash burst through the door and said "My name is Ash Ketchum and I challenge the Oreburgh gym leader to a battle for the Coal badge"
"Me to" Said James out of breath behind him
"Well, it would seem that the boy training for the badge finally has his chance" Said Roark looking at James "Well since Ash was here first, it is only common curtsey that I let him battle me first"
"No problem" Said James who was still trying to recover his breath, he took a seat next to dawn and said "Thanks for the warning" before turning around to watch the battle
"This will be a two on two battle. The winner will be decided when a trainer has no pokemon able to battle. Only the challenger is allowed to make substitutions, there will be no time limit. Begin." Called the referee
"Ok, I choose you Geodude" Roark said releasing the rock type
"Wow a geodude" said dawn as she searched her pokedex
"Geodude, the Rock Pokémon. Geodude is often found on mountain roads with half of its body buried in the ground so it can observe mountain travellers" Said dawn pokedex
"Damn this could be tough" Ash thought to himself "All my pokemon are weak to rock types, I need to chose wisely, Dustox should be a good choice, Now chimchar has good attack and speed but low defence and has a bad type advantage but starly however has high speed and decent attack and defence but once again a bad type"
"Ok I chose you, Chimchar" Ash said as he released the loyal fire type
"What is he mad" Dawn said
"Well, if you consider it, none of Ash's pokemon are exactly built to fight rock types like geodude, I'm sure he's planning on using chimchar's speed and attack to his advantage" James said in response
Haha, I'm going to be mean like you people and end it there, the actual gym battle will happen next chapter in "The Battle for the Coal Badge." Anyway. R&R, Please. Anyway tune in next time if I can bother to update.
