The big battle against the Red Gyarados shall begin. Now.
by lord Martiya
TALE 04: VS SHINY GYARADOS
I arrived in the center of the lake, where a bunch of Gyaradoses was resting. A Gyarados immediatly attacked me with Bite, destroying my boat, but thanks to my training I dodged the attack and jumped on his head.
''You're very rude.'' I said, unleashing Snyer on him. ''Snyer, freeze his assets.''
Snyer froze the Gyarados with Ice Beam. I suppose that Gyarados just evolved, normally a Pokemon like him is not defeatble so easily. However, using the frozen Gyarados as a platform I called and Ambrosio and shouted: ''Leader of the bunch, I challenge you to fight! Show yourself, if you dare!'', hoping that only him reacted.
My hopes were immediatly crushed: the entire bunch charged at me in rage, trying to eat me. Luckily, I was prepared. Maybe I should say that Ambrosio was prepared: thanks to Rose he evolved in Kingdra, and thanks to Meowth he learned the right move for the occasion: Draco Meteor. Text books describe Draco Meteor as a mass destruction move, but I believed it an exageration. I was so wrong that I almost got to be killed. How? HOW?! HOW, HE ASKED! HOW!! H...
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Anto', the next time you knock me out you'll taste Rui(1)'s cooking. I'm serious.
Well, president Goodshow(2), you asked me how Draco Meteor nearly killed me. Well, that move summons meteors(3) from the sky, and even the minuscole ones(4) summoned from the move had an incredible destructive power. That Meowth knows a lot of terrible thing... Luckily for the rest of the world, he can't use these things. While I was understanding what is the Draco Meteor, the SURVIVED Gyaradoses escaped in fear.
''Uh? Was the target disintegrated?'' I wondered when I finally realized what is the Draco Meteor.
I recalled Ambrosio and called out Federico to search for the body of the Red Gyarados, but then he emerged, revealing even being extremely large and ranting because I interrupted him. Snyer laughed, and the Gyarados 'shouted' that he was only eating and attacked us with Hydro Pump. A bad and predictable move: as I planned, Snyer blocked the Hydro Pump frozing it with Ice Beam, and while the Gyarados trashed around for the pain (can you imagine how much painful is have the mouth blocked while you are expelling water at high pressure? I can't, but apparently is VERY painful) Federico attacked him with a powerful Thunder. I throwed an Ultraball and hit the Gyarados, but he struggled and destroyed the ball, exiting with his mouth free. While dodging his Dragon Rage, I finally understood why Will said that I couldn't win. After the Dragon Rage, he began to perform a Dragon Dance. He believed that the waves caused by his dance would prevent attacks against him, but he was wrong: I ordered a Zap Cannon from Federico, and the attack hit, damaging and paralizing him. But in face of the paralisys, he Bited. Or, better, he tried to Bite, but I was little enough to enter in the mouth without be destroyed.
I managed to grap his palate and not be swallowed, and then I called out Eugenio and Aureliano.
''Now, guys, we need to exit immediatly.'' I said. ''Act at my order. Eugenio, Giga Impact on that thoots. Aureliano, Steel Wing high. NOW!!''
The double hit forced him to open the mouth, and after exiting with my Pokemons, and while Snyer and Federico were attacking respectively with Blizzard and a poin-blank Earthquake (given not on the inexistent terrain but directly on the back of the giant, scarred Shiny Gyarados), I throwed the Ultraball. That time, I succeded. No, we succeded, without my Pokemon I would be eaten. We saw the face of the Death, but we survived and won.
I recalled Snyer and went on Federico's back to return on the land, but then the Gyaradoses returned to kill me. To make the thing worse, the Red Gyarados popped out, tired but yet strong. I was fearing death, but then the Red Gyarados ordered the pack away: he accepted the loss and the capture, so I had a new Pokemon, who I later nicknamed Raimondo. I returned to the land riding on him, and stunning all the people who was expecting my body. Arrived at land, I recalled all my Pokemon and saw principal Karen relieved, an overexcited Meowth, Will, who was noting down that I succeded, and Rose, who, in her new A-rank uniform, ran to me. And punched me.
''You idiot!'' she shouted. ''You made worry!''
She turned away and was about to left, but then immediatly punched me again.
''See, the thing that I value most is my indipendence, even sentimentally. But, apparently, you managed to win my friendship, this is why I just punched you again.'' she said. Then she kissed me on my cheek and said: ''And this was because you returned alive.''
A few day later Domino and Andreas returned, the first with 10 Pokemon (a Dratini, a Dragonair, a Lickitung, a Lickilicky, a Shiny Tauros, an Happiny, a Chansey, a Blissey, a Kangaskhan and a Exxegcute), the second with a Tyranitar somehow lured in enter a TRBall. Both of them received a punch for having won Rose's friendship. After that she offered us a dinner in a restaurant to celebrate our promotions. An once-in-a-life event.
We just sit when a waiter approached our table and gived us exactly what we wanted to eat.
''Hey, what's happening?'' Domino (maskless, that time) asked.
''Those two girls offer you this.'' the waiter replied.
He pointed a table, where Sabrina and another scary girl (one with emotions) were finishing their dinner.
''Oh, not again...'' I commented.
''Do you know them?'' Rose asked.
''Only the emotionless one. She's named Sabrina, and I met her just before my test.''
A book and a pair of gloves appeared before me. I turned to Sabrina and her friend, but they were disappeared. I picked up the book and found in it a paper with these words:
This will help you to reach your full potential. Read it carefully and think about your life bofore our paths cross again, or you will suffer.
Signed
S. and D.
footnotes
(1)Character from Pokemon Colusseum. She's an Aura sensitive, and helps the main character Wes in identify Shadow Pokemon to snag and purify them. Her cooking 'ability' is my own invention
(2)Yes, Enrico is telling his tales to Charles Goodshow, president of the Pokemon League.
(3)Well, the description in the games tells 'comets', but we can forgive the error to our main character...
(4)If you don't know, the meteor of the Tunguska Event, an explosion of power between 10 and 15 megatons (powerful enough to devastate an area of 2150 square km), was a 30 meters wide rock traveling at 15 km/s. This is why the comets summoned are minuscole (bigger ones would destroy the lake).