Gyms.
9:33 AM 06/22/2010 I must say that, after that adventure that spand the length of apparently 6 days, I was more than happy and contented to sleep in a Pokecenter bed.
Nurse Joy gave me a new Pokedex that PROF. Ash had payed for.
Maybe he doesn't hate me?
I found that everything on my Pokedex was automatically backed up ever so often to my online trainer account.
I made a mentle note not to put anything very personal on my Pokedex.
I only realized later that the information was kept private, even from police officers, accept in case of murder, and The professor.
It was a rainy day, and the temperature fell all the way to 66 degrees.
I wasn't eager to get up this morning, June the twenty-second, because my body was sore from the last week's torment.
I finally got up when my Piplup pecked me on the ear.
"Ouch!" I yelled.
I went over in my mind wether or not to scold him, but I decided he was just trying to awaken me, and that I should just lieve it alone.
It was 10:05 AM when I strolled out of the Pokecenter in to the crowd of Gray River City.
I wasn't sure where to go next, as I had no clue where I was at all.
"You a trainer?" A stranger asked me.
I was well aware of the cruelty of some strangers, even more so because of the previous days.
"Yes." I said.
I must have been looking nervous, cause he said "My name is Marcus Aurelius."
"I suppose you're looking for the gym?" He asked.
"There's a gym here?" I asked.
"por supuesto mi amigo!" He said, in what I thought was Spanish.
"There are 8 gyms in this region." He said, holding up 8 fingers.
"Brion, the water gym leader of Gray river city, Amber, the fire gym leader of mount prothius, Joshua, the Flying gymleader of aerial city,
Proxis, the Ghost gym leader of shadow canion, dracko, the Psychic gym leader of fullmoon city, Suzanne, the Normal gym leader of palace beach,
Drew, the Dark gym leader of Dark Haven, and finally, Marcus Aurelius, the gym leader of magma town." He said, taking down a finger with each gym.
"Wait." I said.
"What did you say your name was?"
"Marcus Aurelius mi amigo." He told me.
"But you said that marcus was the 8th gym leader." I said confused.
"S ." He said.
"Then you are the 8th gym leader?" I asked, but I didn't need to hear him say "s " again to know that I had guessed correctly.
"Could you take me to the gym?" I asked.
"ciertamente!" He said.
I took this to mean he would, but I had no clue what "ciertamente" meant.
So, finally, after my over half a munth of traveling, I ended up at the first gym.
I walked inside, with Piplup guiding me so I didn't run in to any thing or any one.
The gym really had nothing to make you suspect that it was a water type gym.
It was a straight forward gym.
Literally.
"AH!" A young sounding Male voice said.
"I finally get to battle the first blind person, atleast in the last 5 centuries, that has ever received a Pokemon training licence!" He said, excitedly.
"PROF. Ash told me about you starting a journey, but I had my dou-." He cut off in mid sentence.
I was left to guess what he was going to say, and I'm pretty sure that my guess hit home, or very near it.
"Well well now." The Gym leader said, "Let's start the battle."
"It shall be a 2 VS 2 battle, with no substitutions for the Gym leader.
The challenger is aloud to return his Pokemon." The referee said all this as if he had been saying it all of his life, which he probably had.
"I'll start with you, Oshawott go!" The gym leader said, followed by a pokeball noise.
"W-who?" I thought.
I had never heard of Oshawott before.
"oshawott fights using the scalchop on its stomach. In response to an attack, Oshawott retaliates immediately by slashing.
The scalchop on Oshawott's stomach is made from the same elements as claws. It detaches the scalchop for use as a blade.
Be careful around this Pokemon." The Pokedex said all the information in a simi-monotone.
"I've never heard of this Pokemon." I said.
"It is a Unovian starter Pokemon." The gym leader said.
"Unovian?" Is that the region we're in?
"No, and you miss understand me." The leader said.
"Unova is the region that Oshawott is from."
I was confused.
How come I had not heard of this Pokemon?
note:
Notice the date that I got warped to the Pokemon world. June 1st 20110.
I would have only known vaguely who Oshawott was, and I would have thought of him as mijumaru then.
end note.
So, now I am faced with a new Pokemon.
How can I handle this?
I contemplated which Pokemon to choose.
In the end, I decided to go with Natu.
"Go Natu!" I said.
"Natu!" The Pokemon said joyfully as it came out of the ball.
"Oshawott get ready!" The leader said.
I was nervous that he was odviously expecting me to make the first move.
Just to be sure, I waited a few seconds.
When he did not order Oshawott to attack, I decided I must attack first.
"Natu, use confusion!" I said, trying to sound confident, so that my Pokemon wouldn't question my order.
"Oshawott, use Water Pulse!" The leader said, just as confident, if not more so, then I sounded.
"Teleport out a there!" I said, paniced.
I had a reason to panic.
The confusion completely failed, and Natu didn't have time to use Teleport.
"Urrr!" I growled, barely resisting the urge to sware.
"Natu, Peck!" I said.
Natu flew toards the pokemon, and pecked it viciously on the head.
"Wott wott!" The Oshawott cried in protest.
"Oshawott, use your water gun attack!" The leader comanded in a not unkind voice.
"Natu Teleport!" I yelled.
This time it worked.
Wether it was because Natu wasn't already using an attack, or because Water gun was weaker, I didn't care.
All I knew was that maybe, just maybe, I could use the teleporting strategy to win this battle!
A minute past, with me telling Natu to run toards Oshawott and then teleport away.
Finally, the gym leader told his Oshawott to use Tackle.
I told Natu to stay in place, not to teleport.
Then, I told Natu to teleport behind Oshawott, and lift it with a Confusion attack.
I could tell that all the teleporting was making Natu insanely tired, and I vowled not to use the Teleporting strategy to this extent again.
However, this time, the strategy did work.
Oshawott was lifted up in to the air, being levetated higher and higher.
When Natu couldn't take the strain any more, he let Oshawott fall to the gym floor.
Oshawott fainted, and Brion returned his Oshawott to it's ball.
"Oshawott is unable to battle, Natu is the winner!" The Referee said.
"Now, time to get things really started." The leader said.
If I was nervous before, then I was really nervous now.
"Go, wingull!" He said.
I sighed with relief.
A wingull.
How hard could it be?
I didn't even think that it could possibly be difficult.
I was used to the games.
Wingull wouldn't be a problem on the games, so he can't be that bad in reality, right?
Wrong!
"Natu, confusion!" I yelled.
"Wingull, use stockpile!" The leader said.
I didn't pause to worry about this, not at all.
"Natu, use nightshade!" I said.
"Stockpile again!" He said.
Stil no wavering hope from me.
"Natu, use leer!" I yelled, wanting to take down the rising defenses.
"Wingull, use stockpile one more time!" He said, and Wingull complied.
"Natu, Peck!" I said.
*Why isn't this Wingull going down!* I thought.
"Wingull, spitup!" The leader said.
I don't know what happened next.
All I know is that a second later, the referee was saying "Natu is unable to battle, Wingull wins!".
Now, I finally was beginning to worry.
Even more so when I sent out Piplup, and Wingull used Roost to completely heal itself.
"Urrr!" I growled, just like before.
There's no need writing down the next couple of minutes.
It can easily be summed up as humiliation.
Piplup uses watergun, Wingull stockpiles, Piplup uses Peck, Wingull stockpiles, so on and so on.
The spitup was just as powerful this time, but Piplup was far enough away that it didn't hurt him as much.
And then, like a Pikachu's Thunderbolt, it hit me.
I needed to attack it before it could stockpile or heal.
It loses it's defenses when it uses Spitup or Swallow!
Also, my Leer with Natu wouldn't hurt, either!
My heart was racing with anticipation.
What if I stil pull this off?
"Piplup, use Peck!" I yelled.
"Wingull use-." The gym leader was cut off by Wingull's inraged cry as Piplup hit home with Peck.
"Uh." The leader said, "This isn't looking pretty."
"Piplup, follow up with a Bubblebeam!" I said.
Piplup shot the large spray of bubbles at the apposing Pokemon.
Then, it was over.
The announcer was announcing my victory, and then a cold gym badge was being pressed in to my hand.
"Y-Y-YES!" I said, not believing that I actually won the battle!
When I returned to the pokecenter, I awarded my pokemon by taking them to a local restaurant.
It didn't even take half of the prise money!
Even with the taxy cost included!
We were all full, and in Piplup's case, sick.
"You shouldn't have aten so much Piplup." I scolded him, but I wasn't mad.
I had my first gym badge, plenty of money, and a full stomach.
Well, how did this one turn out?
Did I forget something?
Did I mess anything up?
Please review this one, because I put a lot of effert in to this one!