Chapter 9: The first step; part 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon but I do own the characters in this story that I've made up.
Krath: welcome back readers. Sorry it has taken so long to do this chapter but once again I've been busy.
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(What happened last time)
The trio arrived at the Petalburg gym where they discovered that all the gym leaders had been called away but they also met Max the gym leader's son who agreed to a battle with Adam. Adam had chosen his swampie where Max was using an unknown pokemon called Murasame.
We left Adam last time in a desperate situation; his swampie was charging towards the enemy who had unleashed a strange attack called "fire seed", Adam needed to do something but what?
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Back at the gym
Adam watched as Max ordered his pokemon to use a strange attack at Swampie; what shocked him was the speed of the attack, he had to do something but he couldn't think instead he took a deep breath which weirdly felt like time had slowed down. Adam looked round the gym then back at his charging pokemon;
"That's it, quick swampie use water gun on the floor," shouted Adam
Swampie nodded as he blasted out a water gun onto the ground and the force pushed the little mudkip up into the air, at the same time the fire seed went through the water gun; at that moment Adam noticed that the flames on the seeds were gone after they went through the water and that the seed themselves didn't look that great, Adam guessed it was due to them being on fire which might make them weak without the flames, this information he could use.
"Oh cool, when did swampie learn water gun?" asked Louise.
Adam sniggered and replied, "Well all those times me and my team went off to train, I realised swampie was squirting out a little bit of water so I had him try and use his water gun to break through rocks; eventually his water gun got stronger and he was able to break through the rocks."
"WOW," shouted Johnny and Louise.
"That's impressive but it won't help you, now Murasame use bullet seed," ordered Max.
"Mura…" replied the fungus pokemon who unleashed a huge amount of seeds out of his mouth towards swampie, in return the little mudkip tried to dodge the attack but it failed, it was a direct hit that flung swampie hard onto the ground.
"Ar… are you ok swampie?"
"Mudkip" replied swampie as it stood up ready to continue the fight.
"Ok now use growl to weaken murasame's attacks then go into a tackle"
The small mudkip replied with a nod again as it let out a small growl then it quickly began to charge forward towards the Murasame.
"A great defense is an awesome offence, now Murasame return the attack with fireblast," ordered Max while pointing a finger into the air.
"Mura…… mura…… murasame," shouted the fungus pokemon as it shot out a fire ball out of his mouth towards the mud fish pokemon.
"Quick use water guns to block the attack," the small pokemon unleashed a jet of water which again extinguished the flames, "yes, it worked now continue the tackle…"
"I don't think so, now use bullet seed once more," ordered Max. The fungus pokemon obeyed and fired a huge amount of seeds towards the small blue pokemon who was still shooting out a small amount of water; the seeds traveled through the water and smacked swampie in the face which forced him onto the floor, "now use bullet seed for the last time and finish him off". Again the fungus pokemon opened his mouth to unleash a furry of flying seeds but this time he held his hands to the side of his mouth as if it was signaling the end of the battle; the seeds flew out of the murasame's mouth at extreme speed that it was unlike the last two bullet seed attacks.
"Quick use mud-slap and fling some mud into the air to block the attack." Swampie swung its tail through the ground and flung some mud into the air which acted like a shield against the hammering of the seeds, however it wasn't able to stop all the seeds…
"Swampie is unable to battle, Max is the winner," shouted Johnny as he lifted his right arm up to signal that the side Max and murasame was on had won. Adam was stunned at how easily he was beaten and that he wasn't able to land one attack on this unknown pokemon.
Adam knelt down at his injuried pokemon, "are you ok?"
"Mudkip" replied swampie with a smile.
"Good, you battled great you should be pleased of yourself."
"Yes he did and you're a great trainer; using the water gun onto the ground to push swampie up into the air and then using the wet ground as a shield, now I can tell your gonna be a great trainer all you need is more experience," stated Max who was once again pointing into the air.
"Thank you I have learnt a lot," said Adam as he returned swampie back into his pokeball.
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10 minutes later.
The trio and Max were standing outside the gym; the sun was going down in the background and a couple of Pidgeys were flying above.
"So you're all going to spend the night at the pokemon centre before you head out?" asked Max,
"Yes we are," replied Louise,
"Well I have something for you two, will you give me your pokedexs for a second?" asked Max,
"Urm, yeah sure," replied the twins who reached into there pocket and handed Max their pokedexs.
"Thank you," said Max who attached a small device onto both pokedexs then returned them back to their owners, the twins just looked puzzled at these small grey telescope looking devices at the side of their pokedex, "Haha, these attachments will help identify unknown pokemon like my murasame, also on yours Adam I have inserted data on where I caught my murasame and Louise I hear you're a coordinator; just like my sis, well I thought you would like to know that there is a contest in a small town west of here called Sandcliff town."
"Thank you," shouted the twins with excitement.
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Few minutes later
As the trio was walking down a path towards the pokemon centre they were looking backwards waving goodbye to Max. Adam had his first experience of a gym battle; he knew he needed that badge but until that day he was going to get stronger and also get himself a murasame. Louise couldn't wait for her real adventure to begin; her first contest was around the corner and Johnny well his just Johnny.
"I'm so gonna get myself a murasame," screamed Adam,
"SHUT UP," shouted Louise and Johnny as they began to laugh.
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Well that's it I hope you enjoyed it and please read and review, if you have any trainers you wanna see in this fic please suggest them and I'll see if I can place them into the story.