Pokémon Black and White
This chapter will consist of more pokemon battles and capturing pokemon and getting to know each other before going to the next town. Before their first gym battle I may add some more stuff.
Me: I choose you Oshawott!
Oshawott: Osha! Oshawott!
Me: It's so cute 3
Me: Ok, I know…disclaimer. I do NOT own pokemon
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Pokémon Language"
/Last time Whitney woke up to realize she had overslept and that her friends Cheren and Bianca had left without her. Running over to Professor Juniper she managed to get Oshawott as her first pokemon. She met Blake in Route one trying to get a pokemon and after capturing pokemon they agreed to travel together to the next town where she meets Cheren and Bianca. She also had her first run in with Team Plasma and their goal of making pokemon and human equal as well as a mysterious trainer known as N. The day ends with Whitney deciding to stay with Blake and have them travel together./
"Go Pokeball!" Blake tossed a pokeball to the fallen Purrlion it came into the pokeball and within moments the ball stopped moving.
"Alright! Good job Patrat" Blake said as he captured his third pokemon thanks to his trained Patrat.
The two trainers have been traveling down Route 2 for most of the morning. Whitney had been training her Lillipup and Oshawott this whole time while Blake was trying to get another pokemon.
"Nice job Blake. I take that you caught a purrlion?" Whitney asked.
"You bet I did, that guys Purrlion looked kind of cool. So I figured I'd catch one myself and next time he shows up I'll battle him and win! Brushing me off like that was so rude" Blake said with a frown.
"Pay him no mind. Though I did like how he was able to understand our pokemon… I wish I could do that" Whitney said finding his ability pretty cool.
"Yea…I admit that was awesome…to know what Tepi was saying" Blake said and then his stomach growled.
"Hehe guess I'm hungry now" he said laughing just a little.
"Oh come on let's eat then" Whitney replied opening her bag and once opened it was full of food. She also made it her business to buy some pokemon food from the pokemart earlier this morning so that the other pokemon could eat.
"You really came prepared" Blake said munching on the lunch he had made before going on his journey.
"Yea, if it's one thing mom taught me was to be prepared…and she packed extra food in case I did end up going with Cheren and Bianca…but well it turned out differently of course" she comments as she took a bite of her sandwhich her pokemon ate happily, chatting to each other as they ate.
"Hello there, welcome to the group" Tepig talks to Purrlion as he munches on his food.
"Thanks I guess…so is this guy…good?" he asked as he nibbled on some of the food.
"Of course! He's awesome. You won't regret being part of our team" Tepi replies as he eats his food.
"Looks like Purrlion is getting along alright" Blake said looking at his group of pokemon.
Whitney ate her sandwich as she looked up at the sky, flocks of Pidove were flying and it was quite a relaxing experience. Suddenly a Pidove had landed in a nearby tree. It looked down and saw the food and started chirping.
"Oh look a Pidove" Blake said.
"It looks hungry too…" Whitney offered some pokemon food in her hand. "Here you can have some but you have to come down here" she said to it.
"It's ok we are friends!" Oshawott waved it's tiny paws as it talks to the Pidove.
Making up its mind it swoops down and accepts the food from the trainer, when it finished it looked up at her expectantly, wanting more food.
"Ah here you go" she said handing him some of her food which he accepts happily and chirps loudly to show it's pleasure.
By the time they had finished eating and packing up the Pidove was still there chatting with Oshawott.
"Alright Oshawott let's get going" she said returning her pokemon and her pokemon went into their pokeballs.
"Alright you guys, let's get moving" he said returning his pokemon.
"Alright Pidove it was nice having you with us for lunch" Whitney said to the bird pokemon and the two head off into the distance.
They paused as they heard a cry, they turned and it was a Pidove flying after them. "Hey isn't that the same Pidove?" Blake asked as the bird lands in front of them.
"I think it is" Whitney said as it looked at her and chirped at her again.
"You know…maybe…it wants to travel with you Whitney" Blake said after observing it for a moment.
"Wait…do you want to come with me?" she asked holding out a pokeball.
It taps the pokeball with its wing and allows itself to be captured. The pokeball didn't move around for nearly as long as it usually would before it stopped. She held the pokeball before turning to Blake in surprise. "Can pokemon do that?" she asked wondering if pokemon can just capture itself.
"Well…I guess if the pokemon wants to be with a trainer they can let themselves be caught. You should be lucky you got a free pokemon without even battling it" he said.
"Good Job Tepig!" shouted a familiar voice.
"Bianca?" Blake asked turning to Whitney to confirm the voice.
"That is her" Whitney and Blake went up ahead to see happy Bianca and Tepig.
"Hey Bianca where is Cheren?" Whitney asked when she approached.
"Hey Winney! Hi Blake!" Bianca said cheerfully. "And nope he left after that weird guy lectured us about pokemon being mistreated by humans and stuff. I think you really upset him by the way Winnie cause afterwards he just said it's probably better if we all split up…seeing as we are now all considered rivals" Bianca said sadly.
"Rivals…" Whitney said she didn't consider the three of them rivals, sure they had the same goal in mind but she just assumed their friendship came first and that win or lose against each other they would be friends still.
"I guess that's true…then I guess it makes us Rivals too huh?" Blake said to Whitney even though they were traveling together they were still Rivals.
"I guess…well I guess I'll let him cool off before talking with him Bianca" she said knowing she could just as easily communicate with the xtransceiver.
"Hey don't be sad Winney you are better when you're happy…hey let's have a friendly battle to kick off our journey as pokemon trainers" she said and Tepig looked ready for battle.
"Awesome our Tepigs should so battle sometime" he said taking an interest in the other tepig.
"We should. Ok Whinney…make this a one on one cause so far I've been training my Tepig" she said.
"Only one? I've got three so far" Whitney said appalled at how she had not captured a pokemon yet.
"Yea yea I know, I just haven't found what I'm looking for yet" she said. "Now go Tepig let's battle!" she said excitedly.
"Alright Oshawott!" she said tossing out her pokeball and the pokemon was ready for battle.
"Oh right I forgot you have an Oshawott…no matter…use tackle Tepig" Biance said determined to put up a good fight type disadvantage or not.
"Teeeepig!" it ran for a tackle.
"Water gun" Oshawott shot out a jet stream of water which Tepig barely avoided.
"Flame charge"
"What?" Blake said unsure what that move was.
It's feet stomped on the ground and it's body was cloaked in flames as it charged towards Oshawott but it was fast and the attack hits.
"Oh no Oshawott" Whitney was concerned for her pokemon. But it gets up quickly, the fire move having little effect against it.
" Ok let's have a tackle" she said and Oshawott ran towards Tepig and this time it was able to move faster.
"Oh…I see…flame charge increases the speed…" Blake said and Whitney realized this as well. Tepig can possibly win if it was fast enough to avoid the opponent's attacks.
"Flame charge again" she said and Tepig cloaks itself in flames again and charges towards the pokemon.
This time Whitney waits and Oshawott in turn waits for command. "Water gun!" just as tepig gets close Oshawott uses a powerful water gun and flies backwards.
"Tepig is unable to battle, Oshawott is the winner" Blake said as Tepig had fainted from the water attack.
"Darn it…well good job Whitney" Bianca said returning her pokemon.
"Sorry if I went overboard…so may I ask was that why you were cheering? It learned that move" Whitney asked.
"Haha, yes it just did when we battled a wild pokemon. It was great. I'll perfect my skills next time and we will battle again" she said to her. "Well I'm off to take a break, after training and battling I think Tepig and I need it. I'll see you around" she said running off, leaving Blake and Whitney alone again.
"So what is the deal between you guys?" Blake asked as they continued their journey through Route 2.
"What do you mean?" Whitney asked.
"Your relationship with those two, especially that Cheren guy who seems to hate me ever since I came back a year ago" Blake answered becoming curious after meeting Bianca.
"Well…after you left… she began.
-FLASHBACK-
A little girl was crying in the park as some kids were playing and people walking by with their pokemon.
"Why are you sad?" asked a little boy with glasses, on the ground beside him was a ball that was colored like a pokeball.
"My…my friend…moved away" the young Whitney sniffled as she looked up, her eyes brimming with ears. "I don't…have anyone to play with anymore" she said looking down again.
She looked when she saw a small hand extend towards her. She looked back at the boy his cheeks were rosy like cherries which stood out against his pale skin and dark hair.
"I'll be your friend…I'm Cheren…" he said. "So please don't be sad anymore ok?" he asked.
"Ok…" she sniffled and wiped her eyes before looking at him. "My name is Whitney" she said.
"Cheren!" a little blonde girl came running over, nearly tripping as she approached them. "What's taking you so long?" she asked starting at Whitney.
"This is Whitney…she's was sitting by herself so she's going to play with us now" he said to her.
"Whitney…how about we call you Winney? And I'm Bianca by the way" she said with a smile.
"Winney?" she questioned, it was what her friend and her mom affectionately called her. "Ok…nice to meet you Bianca…Cheren" she said to them both and smiled for the first time in weeks, feeling a little better already.
Soon the three kids was tossing the ball around at each other.
-END OF FLASHBACK-
"That day was the start of our friendship and where my nick name was born" she said thinking back it was Bianca who called her Winney again as after Blake left she didn't want to be called that anymore. Eventually Cheren started using the name too and not long afterwards she started calling him Cherry, the three of them became good friends afterwards.
"Cheren was the first person to talk to me and offer to be my friend after you left…" she added.
Blake was deep in thought after hearing the story "You know…I'm sorry I had to leave you alone Whitney…I didn't want to…but you know my dad liked traveling and at the time mom wanted to travel with him…so it meant I had to go too…" he said holding his head down.
"I know, it's ok" she said not sure why he was so sad, it was in the past now, after awhile she wasn't sad anymore.
"I made friends too but I always thought about my friend…my best friend…and when I was told I was moving back to Nuvema Town again I was happy. I thought I can finally catch up on old times…Cheren hates me and you wouldn't talk to me at all…I thought you hated me too" he said rubbing the back of his head "I see you don't so that a good thing" he said with a laugh.
Whitney looked at him, though he was laughing she could see the clear relief on his face.
"No, I didn't hate you…I just kinda let Cheren keep me from seeing straight. I but you know what I'm just glad this journey will be a way for us to get back on track ok? So don't worry about it ok, now let's head to Striaton City" she said deciding to end the serious stuff, if it one thing she noticed about Blake is that his face was meant to be silly and happy.
"Alrighty then" he said.
"Hey you guys, you are almost at Striaton City" it was a young girl with pigtails.
"But would you care to join us for a friendly battle?" it was another young girl who looked just like her, they were twins.
"Sure why not!" he was itching for a battle as usual.
"We do everything together so let's have a double battle, winner knocks out all pokemon of the opponent" said one twin.
"Lilli/Puppi!" they both called out, each of them having a Lillipup of their own to battle with.
"Purrlion!" Blake calls out his newest pokemon.
"Pidove!" Whitney calls out her newest pokemon and it looks ready for a battle.
"Quick attack let's go!" Pidove flew in and dived low and hits one Lillipup.
Before Blake can say a command it's paw lights up and creates a orb and out came an ember attack from the orb.
"Woah what's that?" Blake asked surprised when it hit's the other Lillipup.
"Assist, when it takes a move that the other pokemon you own already knows, it just took your Tepig's ember attack" Whitney quickly explained.
"Lilli tackle" Lillipup runs towards Purrloin.
"Scratch!" with a hiss Purrloin's claws extend and scratches at a Lillipup.
"Oh no Lilli! A girl called when her Lillipup was unable to battle.
"Don't worry sis! Take down Puppi!" she called and her Lillipup charged towards Pidove. When it jumped into the air Whitney quickly acts.
"Gust let's go!" and Pidove flaps it's wings, creating a gust of wind but it was going so fast that the wind didn't knock it off its course. At the last possible second it used Air cutter, blue energy came from its wings just Lillipup collides with it and both fall to the ground.
"Pup!" the girl calls.
"You got this Pidove!" Whitney calls to her pokemon. Sure enough Pidove was on it's feet and Lillipup had fainted.
"We won!" Blake said and the two high fived each other.
"Aww…sis we need to train more huh?" said one.
"Yes…"
They looked a bit down but turned to the trainers "That was a fun battle!" they said together.
"Are your Lillipup ok?" Blake asked.
Both of them were standing in no time barking to confirm they were ok. "Yea, and I'm Rina" said one of them.
"I'm Tina!" said the other.
"Nice to meet both of you" Blake said happily "You guys have really tough pokemon…I never owned a pokemon till just yesterday" Blake said amazed how younger kids got a pokemon.
"We begged our dad for a pokemon and he caught us a Lillipup" each girl said clutching their pokemon.
"The town is just up ahead. So good luck against our town's gym leaders" they said together and went off to probably play with their pokemon.
"Gym leaders?" Blake asked.
"I guess we will find out" Whitney said and the two of them continued on, seeing the city over head.
"Come on let's race!" he said running and his Purrloin following him.
"Hey you cheater!" Whitney and her Pidove went after them, racing towards Striaton City.
The two made it to the city "Alright let's challenge the gym leader!" Blake said eagerly.
"Hold on a moment…we were training our pokemon pretty hard…not to mention we just battled two Lillipups. We need to rest up at the pokemon center first." She said.
"Aww…fine" he frowned a little.
"Hey!" Whitney said as a kid bumped into her, he was younger maybe six or seven and had wild curly blonde hair. As he bumped into her he fell and some of her pokeballs fell.
"Sorry" the kid quickly got up and ran off before they could ask if it was ok.
"No manners…we weren't like that" Whitney said as she watched the kid run off and she bent to pick up her pokeballs and paused. She didn't have all of them and she froze, recounting them.
"What happened?" Blake asked seeing her expression.
"That kid…took my pokeball…and it had Lillipup in it!" she exclaimed.
"When he bumped into you…" he pondered.
"That brat…Pidove! Follow him!" she said and with a cry it flew of her shoulder and into the air, tracking the kid in the sky which wasn't hard for the pokemon.
"Come on I got to get my pokemon back" she said following her Pidove with Blake right behind her.
'I can't lose my pokemon…what kind of trainer would I be if I let anyone take them?' she was becoming worried yet curious as to why a little kid would take someone's pokemon.
"Don't worry, we'll get Lillipup back!" Blake said with determination.
Sure enough Pidove called from above before desending. "See he's found that kid" Blake said and the two of them kept running till they ran into a park. Pidove's talons had hooked onto the kid's shirt. The kid was struggling, clutching the pokeball in it's hand. "Let me go!" he yelled.
"Not till you give me my Lillipup you little theif!" Whitney said storming up to the kid and snatching her pokeball back.
"Hey!" she held the pokeball into the air out of his reach as he jumped up and down trying to get it back.
"Why did you take my pokemon?" she asked once he had given up and his brown eyes was tearing up.
"Because…I just need it" he grumbled looking away.
"You know…that's not a good reason…if you need help…tell us…and we may be able to help" Blake said, his voice softened as he kneeled down to the kid's level.
"You can start with your name" Whitney said, calming down now she had her pokemon.
"Tommy" the kid said.
"Mind telling us what happened?" Blake asked.
"This other boy always picks on me at school…always bragging he's going to be the best trainer ever once his dad get's him a pokemon…" said Tommy his tiny hand balled into a fist. "Yesterday he bragged that his dad gave him a Sewaddle and I said I could beat him in a pokemon battle…" he paused.
"And you don't have a pokemon" Blake pointed out.
"And I have to face him today and I don't have a pokemon…my parents won't let me have one and I don't know anyone who would lend me their pokemon. I saw you guys with pokemon and just knew if I can just take one of them I could battle Ben and then find you and just apologize, figuring if I was just nice and cute enough you wouldn't get mad" he said explaining his original plan.
"Whitney ruffled his hair, finding him cute once she saw he had good intentions "I see…so you are just trying to show him you not weak…well…you could have asked…you see you scared me by taking my pokemon…because they mean a lot to me…" she said to him. "Of course you can borrow my Lillipup…would you like to meet him?" she asked.
Tommy's face lit up, in a way that reminded her of Blake when they were kids, "Can I?" he asked.
"Come out Lillipup!" she tossed her pokeball and out came Lillipup who looked around for a battle but looked at Whitney in confusion.
"No battle here…well…actually this kid would like to use you in a battle" Whitney explained and the pokemon instantly turned to Tommy, it's eyes looked energetic and ready and gave a bark.
"You're so cool…you can surly beat that stupid Ben's Sewaddle!" he said and he held his head up high, taking the compliments.
"You'll give him a big head…he's very determined when it comes to battling" she said now that she thought about it this will be Lillipup's first battle since she's caught it.
"Strong and determined! Just what I need" he said petting Lillipup "Will you battle with me?" he asked it.
"Of course!" he looked excited as he confirmed that he was going to help.
"Thanks so much miss" he said.
"Winney" she said deciding since he was a kid he could use her nickname.
"Thanks Winnie! You are the best. I promise I will return him" he said hugging onto the pokemon.
"You have to promise not to steal pokemon again, you can get into trouble" he said to him.
"I promise!" he said. "Oh what moves does Lillipup know?" he asked.
"Bite and Tackle" she said to him.
"Awesome!" he said. "Ben will be here soon…he'll never let me hear the end of it if he saw I borrowed someone pokemon…I'll just say my parents won't let me keep it" he said.
"Alright we'll hang around. I'll be watching" Winney said, returning her pokemon and hhanding him Lillipup's pokeball.
"Calling out your pokemon will look like a real trainer" she explained to him as she and Blake went off but stayed close.
Soon another boy appeared with a teal shirt and blue shorts, under his blue hat as black hair. His green eyes were filled with young boy confidence it was apparent he had a pokemon as he couldn't contain his smile.
"Hey Tommy ready to lose?" he asked.
"Who say I'm going to lose?" he said clutching his pokeball. "I'm going to win!" he said.
"So you do have a pokemon...alright then. Let's battle! Go Sweaddle!" he said tossing up his pokeball and his pokemon came out ready to battle.
"Lillipup I choose you!" he said tossing up his pokeball and Whitney's Lillipup leaped out ready to go.
"Tackle let's go!" he said and Lillipup charged at Sweaddle.
"You use tackle too" Ben called and his pokemon moved towards Lillipup. They collided and kept trying to push the other back. "Bug bite" he said and his pokemon started biting Lillipup.
"Use Bite" Tommy said and Lillipup bites down on Sweaddle. "Throw him off!" he said and Lillipup shook and tossed Sweaddle off him.
"String shot" the bug pokemon shot out silky thread.
"Dodge and just tackle" he said and Lillipup dodges and charges for a tackle only for Sweaddle to move out the way.
Lillipup suddenly started to glow red much to Blake and Whitney's surprise. "I think that's Work Up…raising attack power, if it hits with a tackle this time it will be a sure win" Blake said softly so the kids wouldn't know they were being watched.
"Wow his first battle and he learns a new move" she said being proud of her pokemon.
"Woah Lillipup try another tackle" Tommy said unsure what happened but wanted to continue.
"Use string shot to keep it from attacking" Ben called. Sewaddle shot out another string shot as Lillipup was attacking. He jumps to avoid string shot and collides into Sewaddle hard thanks to the attack raise and Sewaddle faints.
"HA! I won, good job Lillipup!" he said as the pokemon ran into the kid's arms happy that it won it's first battle.
Ben frowned, returning his Sewaddle "Well…I can't believe you won…I guess you will be a worthy opponent in the future" he said walking off.
"Good job you two" Whitney said and Lillipup ran and jumped into her arms.
"Did you see how awesome I was?" he was eagerly seeking her attention which worked because she held him and scratched his ears.
"You did great learning Work Up" she said to him and turned to Tommy. "You will make a great trainer.
"Tommy! Where that pokemon come from?" came a shrill lady's voice and Tommy flinched. Whitney and Blake turned to see a older woman with blonde hair. "I saw everything that took place there how did you get a pokemon to battle?" she asked.
"It was my pokemon ma'am, I let him borrow it to battle that kid because he told me he wasn't allowed to have pokemon" she said to the mom.
"I hope he didn't bother you, he's been asking for a pokemon lately out of the blue" his mom said and Tommy held his head down.
"No, no trouble at all I think he will become a great pokemon trainer" Blake said ruffling his hair.
The woman's face softened "Seeing you battle realized how I was with my pokemon" she said thinking back to her childhood. "It was only a matter of time…well I think showing me you can battle with a pokemon that's not yours proves you will be responsible…" his mother said and his face lit up.
"So I can have a pokemon?" he asked.
"Yes"
"YAY!" he said jumping up and down.
"What pokemon do you want?" she asked him.
"I want a Lillipup like Winney's pokemon so I can train mine to be as tough as her's" he said pointing to Whitney's pokemon.
"Alright we will get you a Lillipup but you have to take care of it" she said and he nods. "Thanks for watching over Tommy, he was supposed to be home awhile ago and I got worried" she said turning to them.
"It was no problem" Whitney said and watched as the mother and son walk off together.
"That was a great battle, who would have guessed it would be a battle to get your pokemon to learn a new move" Blake said happily.
"You have a good rest, return" she said calling back a proud Lillipup. "Yes I thought it was great, it just shows me how determined Lillipup can be…I need to battle with him more" she said turning to Blake.
"You can use it for the gym battle" Blake said as they headed back into town so that they can hit a pokemon center.
"I guess I could, depends on what specialty does the gym specialize in" she said and soon enough they came to the pokemon center and Nurse Joy and her Audino was ready to accept their pokemon.
"Winney I see you've made it already" they turned as Cheren approached them.
"Ah, hey Cherry. How long have you been here?" she asked him.
"For awhile now. I gotten my first badge already" he said and he watched as their face had fallen. "Don't tell me neither of you gotten the Trio badge yet?" he said.
"We just got here…long story but we wanted all our pokemon to be in tip top shape" Whitney said.
"So what is the gym leaders here?" he asked.
Cheren just ignored him and turned to Whitney "You sure you don't want to come with me? I mean we could both be ahead of the game" he said implying that her being with Blake was slowing her down.
"Why you have to be so mean Cheren you don't see you making her upset?" Blake asked when he noticed her eyes fell.
Cheren just sighed and rubbing his ear "You really are loud for no reason…" he remarked and turned to his friend. "By the way the gym leaders are three brothers, each having a specialty in either water, fire, or grass. You get to pick which one of them you want to battle" he said revealing what the town's gym would be like.
"Thanks Cherry" she said to him and his face tinted red at his old nickname.
"Well I'll see you around" he said walking off.
"Here you go" chimed a cheery Audino.
"Yes our pokemon are ready" he said taking all his pokemon back.
"Thank you" Whitney said getting her pokemon back as well.
"NOW gym leader time" Blake said. "My obvious choice will be grass so that my Tepi can shine for sure" he said as they left the pokemon center.
"I guess that makes sense, guess Fire would be my choice." Whitney said the two trainers headed off to find the town's gym.
They found the gym at last which looked like a real fancy building and the only way they figured it out was a gym sign on top of the building.
"Let's goooo!" Blake ran inside and shaking her head she follows him in.
"It's a café?" Whitney was confused by the fancy scenery and tables where people ate, after awhile she noticed majority girls was here.
"Cress!" they all squealed as a boy wearing a waiter like outfit with blue hair, his bangs covering one side of his face and had eyes as blue as his hair.
"Settle down ladies" he said with a charming smile and looked up and spotted them. "Brothers, we have new customers" Cress said and he approached the trainers along with a boy with wild red hair and eyes to match as well as a boy with green hair and eyes.
"Hello there" Cress said sweetly to Whitney and gently took her hand to kiss it turning her face a rosy shade of pink.
"Cress you have a big enough fan club" the red head remarked.
"How may we serve you today?" it was the green one.
"Oh, we came to challenge the gym leader…this is a gym right?" Blake asked.
They looked at each other and threw off their aprons "We are the gym leaders of Striaton Gym" they said together. "Follow us" they said going to a door in the room showing stairs leading downwards.
When they got to their destination it was a large gym battle field with a rocky field which was probably obstacles to better advantage their pokemon.
"I am Cress, I specialize in water pokemon, my partner is Panpour" he said tossing out his pokemon.
"I'm Cilan, I specialize in grass pokemon, my partner is Pansage" he said letting out his pokemon.
"And I'm Chili, my specialty is fire pokemon, my awesome partner is Pansear" he said letting out his pokemon.
Pointing their pokedex at each one Whitney and Blake determined each pokemon were similar only that each of them were a different type and color.
Suddenly a crowd started forming and taking seats, wanting to watch a battle and Whitney and Blake turned to see.
"So which one of us will battle one of us first?" they asked together.
"Ok, I choose you Cilan" Blake said eagerly figuring he had this in the bag thanks to his Tepig.
Alright miss how about you wait right over there as he battles, you get up close and personal with the battle more than anyone" Cress said gently.
"Oi, oi mister charmer go referee the battle will ya?" Chili said as he leads Whitney to a better spot.
"Alright today ladies we have a match between Cilan and the Challenger" Cress said, his voice amplified by a microphone and the crowd started cheering.
"I'm Blake, and Tepi I choose you!" he said calling out his starter pokemon.
"Ah fire against grass, a smart choice" Cilan said. "It's tasting time! Pansage bullet seed" he said and his pokemon fired out a round of bullet seeds at Tepig.
"Tepi use tackle" he said and Tepig charged at Pangage, avoiding the bullet seed and Pangage jumps out the way in time.
"Use ember" and Tepig fires out embers from its nose and directly hitting Pansage but it gets back up obviously the type advantaged attack did some damage.
"Bullet seed" he said again this time it sent Tepig into a rock.
"Tepi you can do it buddy!" he said cheering on his pokemon realizing thiese rocks on th ebattle field can be a pain. Tepig stood up again blowing smoke out its nose. "Tackle attack" he said.
Tepig's body became surrounded by flames as it ran for a tackle surprising Blake. "Flame charge Tepi!" he said realizing it learned the new move. "CHARGE!" it called as it ran into Pansage in a fiery tackle.
When the dust settled the grass monkey pokemon was on the ground trying to get back up breathing hard. His hands were glowing, charging for a solarbeam.
"Alright Solarbeam!"
"Quickly Flame charge" Blake said relying on extra speed that Flame charge provides. Tepig stomps on the ground repeatedly till it's covered in flames again and charges, moving faster.
Pansage lets out a solarbeam.
"Get out the way!" Blake called out to his pokemon but Tepig charges on through, flames tearing through the beam of light and collides into Pansage. The blast made more boulders crumble and dust fly in the arena.
When it settled again both pokemon were on the ground. "Oh Pansage are you able to move?" he called. Pansage got to its knees trying to stand.
"I know you can do it Tepi" he said and Tepig stood on shaky legs too. It became a standoff, waiting to see who would fall first.
"Such a spicy energetic taste! Only the taste of a fire pokemon" Chili said as he watched the stand of with Whitney.
"That describes them alright" Whitney said in agreement, her being so excited that she was gripping her hand onto the seat the entire time.
Pansage was unable to hold on and collapsed.
"Oh! Pansage is unable to battle, Victory goes to Blake and his Tepig, give it up for our challanger" Cress said and some girls who were cheering on Cilan were sad but majority of them were clapping. Just at that moment Tepig collapsed seeing that it won it's body finally gave out.
"You deserve a rest, return Tepi" Blake said calling back his pokemon.
"That was great battling, you earned your Trio badge" Cilan said giving him the badge.
"Awesome!" he said holding his badge into the air. "That was an exciting battle" he said and the two of them shake hands and more clapping rose from the audience.
"Now who will you choose? Me or Chili?" Cress asked and the audience start shouting out names as Whitney took a moment to think.
"Alright, I want a challenge…I choose Cress" she said and Cress smiled and hands the mic to Chili.
"ALRIGHT! This final battle is a match between Challenger Whitney against my brother Cress!" Chili said with such energy.
"I don't understand…she could have had a type advantage if she battled Chili…" he said sitting on the bench where she sat during his battle.
"Probably wanted to try something a bit different" Cilan said. "Great battle by the way, you really worked up the audience." Cilan replied.
"Thanks, you put up a good match despite being a type disadvantage…but water battle sounds interesting" he said watching and hoping his friend wins this battle.
"Oshawott it's on you!" she kissed her pokeball before tossing it into the air. Her cute water pokemon came out causing some of the girls in the audience to squeal.
"So cute!" was the common phrase girls used.
"You can win Cress!" his fans called out.
"It's tasting time! I can see you and your pokemon have a strong bond. Lucky pokemon" he said with a charming flip of his hair while riled up his fans.
"Use water gun!" they said together, each of their pokemon shooting out a jet of water at each other. They collided together and started pushing against each other.
"Come on Oshawott I believe in you" Whitney said seeing their watergun was stronger and it needed a push. Oshawott pushed back.
"Show them who's the best" Cress said rather calmly and his pokemon turned on the pressure and overpowered them.
"Look out Oshawott" Whitney said as his watergun was coming for them. Oshawott used it's shell to deflect the water gun attack.
"Let's go in for a scratch" he said and his panpour charged, ready to attack. Whitney waited till it closed in.
"Use water gun to dodge" she said and Oshawott used water gun on the ground which pushed it off the ground a few feet.
"Use water gun while it's in the air" another stream of water gun comes at Oshawott and this time the shell forms blue energy at the end looking like a blade. And it sliced through the water just in time for the water monkey to leap up with a scratch.
They land and they instantly turn and wait for an order.
"You aren't very bad there with that Oshawott" Cress said flipping his hair.
"Not bad yourself Cress" Whitney returned the compliment with her own.
"Watergun."
As the jet or water came at them again Whitney looked to her Oshawott "Razor Shell!" she said realizing its move was called. Oshawott formed the blade like blue energy at the tip of its shell and it charged towards them, it's shell deflecting that the blade didn't slice through and in no time collided with Panpour and it knocked into a rock.
"Water gun" she said not allowing it time to move again. Oshawott lets lose a powerful stream of water at the pokemon.
"Oh no Panpour!" Cress said and many gasps and murmurs filled the crowd.
When the water died panpour slid from the boulder, unable to battle.
"I never thought I say this but it was an energizing water battle. Sorry girls but Cress is unable to battle! Challenger Whitney is the WINNER!" Chili loudly announced most girls were sad and it was easy to see who the favorite was.
"Oshawott you are amazing!" she said holding her arms out and Oshawott leaped into her arms. She was so happy she won their first gym battle and as it crawled up to her shoulder she leaned and nuzzled the top of its head with her cheek.
"Well I must say I don't lose very often" he said smirking as he called back his panpour. He approached her and smiled "Congrats you surly earned this Trio badge" he said holding out a badge with three diamond shapes stacked on each other the top one being blue, middle was red and the bottom was green.
"Thanks a lot Cress" she said taking her badge.
"Now now ladies let's not have a sour taste" Cress said to his fans.
"That's all for today please head to the exit" Chili said as Blake grabbed Whitney's wrist and tugged her on out and up the stairs.
"Hey not so rough I know you are eager to keep on moving but I need to move at my own speed" she said tugging her wrist from his grasps.
"Come on before those fans get crazy, especially since you beat their favorite gym leader" he said turning around to face her before opening the door again to the café part.
"All healed again" he said as they left the pokemon center. "You know that was a really great battle…I thought it would have been easier to fight pokemon that gives you a type advantage but Cilan put up a fight…it would have been kind of embarrassing to lose" he said.
"Well I saw you and all your energy…and it just made me want to challenge myself for the next battle so I decided to battle water against water instead" she said as they walked around town.
"Ouch!" Blake was hit hard by something and fell down. He looked to see a pokemon on his lap.
"What is that?" he asked pointing his blue and black pokedex at it.
"It's a Munna" Blake said. "Are you hurt?" he asked and the pokemon shook it's head no and floats up into the air again.
"I'm sorry! So sorry" a woman with long black hair and a pink flower clip in her hair came running up to them. "It's just that I lost my other pokemon Musharna. It's out on its own bit and now I can't find it." She said. "And I'm Fennel, pokemon dream researcher" she said.
"A professor?" Blake asked.
"Yep, would you mind helping me please? I really need Musharna for my research" she said.
"Sure let's go" they said running off to go help her.
"Any idea where it went?" Whitney asked.
"Ah I have a feeling, an abandoned research lab known as the dream yard" she said as she ran through the city and into this secluded woods with an old torn down building.
"Woah what happened?" Blake asked.
"Well…an experiment went wrong awhile ago and Musharna's powers went crazy and basically blew up the lab" she said rubbing the back of her head.
Munna floated ahead and called out to Musharna.
"Musharna, where are you?" Fennel called out.
Soon a cry sounded not long afterwards "I hear her" she said and took off with Munna.
"Hey wait" Whitney said running after her and. As they approached closer to the building they saw Musharna trapped along with a few other Munna. Standing nearby were people in silver knight outfits.
"Team plasma?" Blake asked.
"Oh not you guys again go away" Whitney said.
"We need dream dust from these pokemon so that we may learn to control the minds of humans since they refuse to let pokemon go free" said team plasma members.
"Well you are being a hypocrite because you are holding these pokemon against their will" Fennel said.
"Go Patrat!"
"Go Purrloin!"
Each Plasma member sent out their own pokemon Blake and Whitney looked at each other "Alright then Tepi let's take them out" he said.
"Oshawott let's show them" she said calling out their starter pokemon.
"Scratch."
"Tackle."
Purrloin went for Oshawott and Patrat ran for Tepig.
The battle didn't take long, both pokemon being pumped after learning a new move and beating a powerful gym leader's pokemon they easily took out Plasma Grunts' pokemon.
"You will pay for interfering!" they returned their pokemon and ran off.
"Razor Shell" Oshawott took it's shell and managed to slice through the bars of the cages they were in and all the Munna floated from their confinement and Musharna floated back to Fennel and her Munna.
"Thanks so much for returning my pokemon to me" she said to them. "What are your names? Everything was happening so fast I didn't ask.
"Blake."
"Whitney."
"Oh I've heard about you from Juniper, we work together sometimes. She will definitely hear about you from me. You guys can explore if you want, many trainers train here and pokemon have been seen around here too but I have to go back home now" Fennel said walking away with a happy pokemon.
"It feels good helping people out" Blake said. "Hey…what's with the face?" he asked.
"Well…there's a Munna behind you" she said and sure enough it was a Munna there, soon all the captured Munna appeared.
"Oh you are welcome, no need to thank me you are free now" Blake said and the pokemon all thanked them happily before flying off.
"That wasn't half bad you guys…guess I miss out" Cheren said coming from behind them.
"Oi Cheren!" Blake said anxious from the battle. "Battle me" Blake said holding up a pokeball much to Whitney's surprise.
"A battle huh? Did you guys even win against Cilan, Cress or Chili yet?" he asked.
Whitney and Blake held out their badge "Yep we sure did, you should have seen me Cherry, Oshawott learned Razor Shell and it came in handy against Cress" Whitney said happily.
"Wow Snivy learned a move too against Chili" he said.
"Woah you battled Chili? With a grass type too that's awesome" he exclaimed.
"And lemme guess you battled Cilan?" he asked.
"Why does it sound like a bad thing?" Blake asked not seeing why battling smart was wrong.
"Well fine, I don't have much time, I'd like to be well into route 3 before nightfall. So one on one battle against our starter pokemon" he said confident from his gym battle.
"Alright but if I win you will have to do something for me" Blake said grabbing onto Tepig's pokeball.
"Tsh as if, Snivy let's go!" he called and out came his Snivy.
"Tepi let's go!" he said tossing out his pokemon and Tepig looked ready for battle. "Alright lets do a Flame charge" he said and Tepig started stomping on the ground.
"Snivy vine whip" he said knowing what Flame charge would do. Two thin vines came out and swatted at Tepig before it could start it's attack.
"Tepi use tackle" he said as his pokemon was trying to dodge the vines.
"Wrap!" suddenly the vines instantly wrapped tightly around Tepig and started to squeeze him the fire pokemon struggled with the vines but was only being squeezed.
"Oh no Tepi! Use ember" he said and the embers hits Snivy, taking some damage which cause it's vines to loosen.
"Hold on tight now and use Slam!" he said and Snivy quickly raised it's vines down before slamming back down and letting go.
"Tepi flame charge" he said this time Tepig was covered in flames and charged at Snivy and hit's sending Snivy flying.
"Vine whip on the trees and swing back in" he said using the trees to their advantage as Snivy use vine whip on the tree and the momentum from being blasted away was used to swing around the tree and come back at Tepig for a flying tackle.
"Tepi move out the way" Blake called out but it was too late as the attack had landed the attack however had knocked both pokemon out.
"Aw that was awesome battle, return Tepi" he said calling back his pokemon.
"Return Snivy" he said calling back his pokemon and turned to Whitney. "I'll battle you next time" he said heading off and stopped turning to Blake. "What was it you wanted from me anyway?" he asked realizing since he didn't exactly win or lose he might as well hear Blake out.
"Oh I almost forgot. What I wanted was you for to not make Whitney sad anymore about not traveling with you" Blake said his cheery face turning serious.
"Blake…" Whitney said unsure what to say but she did feel bad for not traveling with Cheren and Bianca like they always planned.
Cheren sighed, his whole face changing when he looked back at Whitney "It's kind of hard to stay mad anyway…I won't bother you about it anymore. Well I'll see you around alright?" he said heading out the forest.
"That was so nice of you Blake" Whitney said wrapping her arm around his shoulder.
"Well of course, we're friends and we have lots of adventures together and pokemon to catch" he said.
As the day nearly draw to a close Whitney and Blake head out of the Dream yard to continue their journey on becoming a pokemon master.
Well this is chapter two, full of pokemon battles, will be evolution time at some point as well as capturing more pokemon. And of course new character time too join us next time.