Sorry for the late update, I've been so busy with school and such recently. Anyhow, thanks to pokestets23, Witsicness, Big B 007, and Owen G2107 for the reviews! Next update will probably be next weekend Enjoy!
Blue light shined brightly on the dull, choppy seawater as Ginan felt a distinct Northward breeze ruffle her hair, and tingle her skin, making goose bumps flare up around her entire body even though it was hardly cold. As she widened her awed eyes, Ginan took sight of what seemed like a creature that was both feline and canine staring back at her. Long, graceful streamers stemming from its back danced gracefully in the wind, and a purple mane floated along with it. It also had a dark blue crown like object sticking up from it head. Its body was the same blue shade as the light, except for a white underbelly and several white diamond patterns on its body as well.
Hands shaking, Ginan withdrew her pokedex, and held it out, pointing the device intently at the pokemon. "Suicune, the Aurora Pokémon. It travels the world and purifies water wherever it goes, sailing on the North Wind."
"Wow…it's so…mystical, and…" Ginan cut herself off as Suicune crouched low. As it stared back at her, the legendary suddenly reared its head and sped off, running on the water as it went, and stirring up more Northern breezes. "Incredible…" The teen eagerly poked around more on her pokedex, suddenly wanting to find out more information about Suicune.
"Oh please, you can't really have seen Suicuine," A cold voice behind Ginan drawled. Frowning, she put away her pokedex and turned around. The redhead menace who'd stolen Elm's pokemon stared back at her, a scoffing glare in his scarlet eyes. "It's practically only a legend, and one of the rarest pokemon in the entire world, I'm surprised that you even knew about it."
Ignoring the fact that she actually didn't really know about Suicune until just before she saw it, Ginan rounded on Silver. "What? Is your ultimate dream to steal that pokemon too or something? To have it in your disgusting clutches?"
He smirked, rolling his eyes at her. "Weak trainers are so naïve…no, I would simply love the prospect of having a powerful legendary like Suicune to command and use."
"Basically stealing it," Ginan growled under her breath. "Well, I doubt you'd ever get close enough to even catch a glimpse of it, it'd probably smell you from ten miles away!"
Silver scowled angrily, taking out a pokeball. "Such impudent and rude trainers like you are going to make this world collapse," He muttered with seething venom. "Go!" The teen boy threw forward his pokeball too reveal a small blue bat like creature.
"Ugh, a Zubat," Ginan wrinkled her nose. "Almost worse than a nasty bug type, let's go, Whiskers!" She threw forward her own pokeball to reveal her battle ready Sentret.
"Use poison sting!" Silver began. His Zubat fired off a small barrage of purple needles at Whiskers, who winced and jumped out of the way as the needles hit the sand.
"Use quick attack!" Ginan yelled back, as Whiskers charged forward with a burst of speed, managing to nail Zubat, and send it skidding backwards.
"Supersonic!" The Zubat scrambled back up, and sent out a high pitched screech that made Whiskers immediately start wobbling around, utterly confused.
"Whiskers?" Ginan asked in awe as the normal type continued aimlessly milling about.
"Finish that pathetic thing with poison sting!"
"Return!" As Silver's Zubat fired off more poisonous darts, Ginan quickly thrust out Whisker's pokeball, recalling the normal type.
"Retreating when things get touch, such a weakling strategy…" Silver snorted with a smirk.
Ginan shot the arrogant red head a glare. "Oh I'll show you weak! Let's go, Bentlie!" Her Eevee jumped out if it's pokeball with a bark, facing Zubat.
"Use leech life!" Silver shouted. His Zubat flew in towards Bentlie, its fangs glowing.
"No, Bentlie, sand attack!" As the poison type hovered near, Bentlie kicked up a gale of sand that clouded the Zubat from sight, as Silver suddenly let out a guffaw. To Ginan's shock, the Zubat flew right through the sand, and sank its fang into Bentlie.
"You must really be stupid!" Silver laughed. A pokemon like Zubat finds its way around by detecting sound waves in the air; it never relies on its eye sight!"
Ginan narrowed her gaze. "You want some sound, Bentlie use growl!" As Zubat bit into the Eevee, she let out an ominous growl, which made Zubat back off at once. "Follow it up with quick attack!" Bentlie shot forth with a burst speed like Whiskers had earlier, slamming into the Zubat and knocking it to the ground, unconscious. "Who's the weak one now?" Ginan taunted.
Silver scowled as he returned his fallen pokemon, and then took out another pokeball. He threw it forth to reveal his Totodile. "Water gun, now!" With a jump, the water type unleashed a small jet of water from its snout toward Bentlie, who quickly jumped aside, yet was still sprayed with water.
"Tackle!" Ginan called as her Eevee charged forth towards Totodile.
"Counter with scratch!" At the same time, the two pokemon impacted, Bentlie ramming herself into Totodile, and the water type running its claws against her. With yelps of pain, both pokemon skidded backwards. "Now, water gun!" Totodile blasted another jet of water towards Bentlie. This time, the spray hit her right in the face, and she was blasted backwards, defeated. Silver smirked. "How pathetic, defeated by a couple sprays of water."
"I'm not done by a long shot!" Ginan retorted. "Finish it, Whiskers!" The Sentret jumped from his pokeball with an eager squeak. "Go for a quick attack!" With another burst of speed, Whiskers flew forward, and hit Totodile in the stomach.
"Use scratch!" Silver barked. His water type nodded and slashed its claws toward Whiskers.
"Quick attack, once more!" The teen girl cried. The Sentret easily outsped Totodile, and nailed it with its high speed attack once more, this time knocking it back into the sand, defeated.
Silver returned his Totodile with a frown. "Once again you cheaply outclass me with ineffective and cowardly strategies," He sighed. "One day, you'll be exposed for what you really are, a weak and stupid little girl."
Ginan rolled her eyes in response. She figured Silver was just probably one of those people who was insecure so he always yammered at people to make himself feel better. What a loser. "Whatever, anything else I can help you with?"
"Nothing, yet…" He growled. At this, the redheaded teen turned and stalked into the bushes and trees bordering Cherrygrove, disappearing.
"He has issues," Ginan shrugged, looking at Whiskers. "Come on, we should get back to the contest hall, I'll bet the results for the next round should be soon!"
"Sen!" He consented as the two turned and jogged back to the hall, eager to see if any results had been posted.
"Oh, there you are!" Angelica grinned as Ginan walked up next to her, panting, in the locker room. "The results are about to be posted," she said nervously, fixed on the flashing screen on the wall. "So, good time at the beach?"
"Kind of," Ginan answered. "There wasn't much to it, but I was confronted by that same guy who I had to track down after he robbed Elm's lab, and he battled me…of course, I won," She said smugly. "But before he came, I think…I think I saw a legendary pokemon."
"What?" Angelica gasped, ripping her fixated eyes away from the screen. "You think so? That's major, Ginan! Which one was it?"
"This one," Ginan muttered nervously, taking out her pokedex and showing her Suicune's data. Angelica widened her eyes.
"Wow….that, well that's incredible!" Angelica breathed. She patted her friend's back. "But maybe it means good luck for your journey, eh?"
"I can only hope," Ginan answered. Just then, the announcer's voice broke through, announcing results for the next round. Angelica tightened her jaw and whirled back toward the T.V, her hands in fists. One by one, four pictures flashed across the screen. There was George's, somebody else's, and then Angelica's. The coordinator gave a mighty sigh of relief upon seeing her portrait, and relaxed, taking out Felicity's pokeball.
"Here I go," She said, straightening her dress and walking out onto the stage.
"And there you have it!" Angelica wins her semifinal match by knocking out her opponent's gloom with her Mightyena's dark pulse and crunch combination! She'll be headed to the final match against her own hometown rival, George!" Ginan grinned and clapped excitedly as this announcement flashed across the screen, excited to see a battle between the former lovebirds and rivals. A few moments passed as a couple of Johto contest advertisements passed by on the screen, and it resumed, showing George and Angelica standing on different edges of the stage, poised and ready. "Five minutes remains begin!"
"Let's do it, Felicity!" Angelica revealed her Mightyena while George released a medium sized green frog like pokemon, which Ginan identified as a Politoad.
"Felicity, start with shadow ball!" Angelica began, motioning at Politoad. Felicity fired a crackling purple orb from her mouth, which sailed toward the water type.
"Politoad, double slap!" George instructed. As the shadow ball came toward it, Politoad suddenly let loose a plethora of slaps, which started tearing the attack apart, creating a dark purple haze in front of Politoad, as Angelica's points dropped slightly.
"Amazing, George used Angelica's own attack against her to create a screen for his pokemon!" The announcer awed as Angelica gritted her teeth.
"Now, use dark pulse and crunch!" She instructed her Mightyena. Felicity started letting forth a wave of crackling dark energy, but bit down on it with glowing jaws as it spread. The result was Felicity's large snout radiating with a fierce purple shade as she snapped at Politoad.
"Water pulse!" George continued. At this, Politoad summoned an orb of blue water between it hands and slammed it to the ground, creating a large wave of water headed for Felicity.
"Iron tail!" Angelica smirked. Her dark type's tail glowed a bright chrome shade as the wave came in, then slammed the appendage against the incoming water, disbanding the wave and creating blue and silver sparkles around Felicity as George's points dropped by a bit. "Dark pulse!" She followed up. Felicity released a wave of dark energy from her crackling jaws, which slammed into Politoad, lowering George's points even more.
"Blizzard!" The male coordinator ordered.
"Throw them a shadow ball!"
Politoad released a mighty gale of icy snow, while Felicity fired off another shadow ball. The ghost type attack met a portion of the blizzard head on, and abruptly froze over as the remainder of the icy attack blew over Felicity, causing a another drop in Angelica's points.
"Quick, iron tai!" Felicity jumped up and slammed her chrome tail into the icy purple orb, sending it zooming towards Politoad. The water type let out a screech of pain as it was hit, this time making George's points drop.
"Use blizzard and water pulse!" He yelled, desperate to counter Angelica's onslaught. Conjuring another wave, Politoad sent it flying with another icy storm. The frozen wave sped toward Felicity, slamming into the dark type as Angelica's points dropped yet more. "Now, go in with wake up slap!" With a glowing hand, Politoad leapt toward the Mightyena, who scrambled back up.
Angelica growled. "No he doesn't! Dark pulse and crunch, again!" Felicity bit into a wave of dark energy once more, making her jaws shine even more. "Now!"
Politoad drew near, ready to slap Felicity, but before it did, the dark type bit into it, hard. Politoad screeched in pain while Felicity threw if roughly across the stage as the buzzer went off.
Both George and Angelica immediately looked toward the scoreboard, where they seemed to be quite even, both having lost over half their points. A small, nerve racking pause ensued, and then the announcer broke in.
"And it looks like the grand winner of the Cherrygrove contest is Angelica!" The crowd cheered and Ginan gave a small whoop of delight for her friend. Grinning widely, Angelica and Felicity bowed, and accepted the red and purple Cherrygrove ribbon from Mr. Contesta before walking off the stage.
You did it, Jelly!" Ginan laughed as she embraced the victorious coordinator. "Nice one!"
"Thanks," She replied, thanking and returning Felicity. "I was getting pretty nervous there. Anyway, I'm thinking we should head to Violet city next. I don't know about you, but I've pretty much seen this whole town already!"
"Agreed!" Ginan smiled. "It's almost even more boring than Newbark. So I guess it's my gym battle coming up soon then!"