Hi again, everyone. Chapter 12. Wow, I think I've come a long way in writing. I mean, in terms of chapters, this story is now on par with Truth of Usagi, but the chapter lengths are way bigger...maybe when I'm done with this, I'll re-write the story and get more involve with telling it for those of you, who loves my Sailor Moon stories. Oh well, chapter 12, the battle against Vermilion Gym.
The group walked up to the gym, fully prepared for two battles. Since they knew that only tended to use his Raichu, they only needed to prepare 1 Pokemon each. Being Pikachu for Ash and Roselia for Cynthia. Misty, Luchia and Brock smiled, knowing that they were in for a treat from the newly declared couple. Yeah, it seemed that Ash was more confident in talking about his relationship then her twin sister, being that he told the rest of the group the morning after their first kiss, even though it was clearly an embarrassment for Cynthia.
Cynthia smiled down at her poke ball that contained Roselia. Whispering softly, face gleaming with a smile. ''I know it's only a defensive strength, but I hope you do your best. His Raichu can't be that strong, even Ash said that it was like it evolve too early.'' She smiled, as the group decided it was time to enter that Vermilion City gym and have their battle.
It was quite a desolate gym, made perfectly to work with a high amount of electrical. On the other side of the door was a much older man, with a Raichu by his side. He grinned, walking closer. Looking especially at Cynthia and her curves. ''So your my challengers, I see.'' He gave a little chuckle, in the delight of having such a beautiful young lady in his gym.
Cynthia grimaced, feeling very uncomfortable in the stare that was receiving. Ash growled, getting in front of her girlfriend. ''I'm sorry, mister, but she isn't up for grabs. I am her girlfriend already. But to answer your vague question, yes we are your challengers for the Thunder Badge.'' Her Pikachu nodded in confirmation, smirking at the Raichu before him in order to taunt it.
''Well, we'll see about that.'' said , slightly annoyed with the tomboyish girl's attitude. He looked down at Raichu. ''You ready to give his baby Pokemon a beating.'' He got a 'Rai' in response, as the Raichu was just as annoyed from the taunting.
Ash decided to annoy the Electric-trainer more, by saying. ''Technically, Pikachu isn't a baby Pokemon because he's the middle stage of an evolution line. His pre-evolution Pichu is the baby Pokemon.'' She giggled a little. ''I thought you were a gym leader, but obviously not if you don't know the smallest of details like Pikachu's evolution line.'' It did bring a small question into her mind though. 'I know I just said that, but when I got Pikachu, he didn't seem very impressed by humans. So, how did he evolve from Pichu as there is no way he hatched as a Pikachu...Hmm, I'll ask him later as he has to have an explanation for his Volt Tackle anyway.'
''Well, lets get this battle started, kid.'' said the electric trainer, angry that he had been showed up by a kid, a girl trainer no less. ''Raichu, use thunderbolt on his puny Pikachu. Show him a thing or two.''
Ash's Pikachu jumped off her shoulder and unto the battlefield as the Raichu released his attack. Ash grinned. ''Pikachu, you know that to do in this case. Show them that your talents aren't puny.''
Pikachu giggled, knowing what he had to do. He stood there as the attack hit him, but within seconds, the attack was pulled into him and increasing his power. The gym leader gasped, in horror. Ash smirked, deciding to explain. ''Y'see, . When I was training Pikachu a little while back. I discovered that electric attacks don't effect him, one bit. In fact, they increase his power. This is due to his ability, Lighting Rod. A hidden ability that Pikachu can gain through breeding.''
Everyone was shocked, with the exception of Ash and Pikachu. They had no idea that Pikachu's ability was Lighting Rod, as they assumed it would be Static like most Pikachu. Ash giggled, cutely. She knew that this battle was gonna be easy. ''Pikachu, use Volt Tackle. Just be careful not to activate Raichu's static, so don't try and make much contact.''
''Pikaa!'' nodded Pikachu, as he ran towards the Raichu with a swirl of electrical energy around him. Both him and his trainer due about the damage recoil, but had no real reason to worry. When the move hit the Raichu, sure it wasn't effective but it send the Raichu back a bit.
''Now use Quick Attack!'' The Quick Attack caused more damage, much to the Raichu's shock as it couldn't even get an attack in with the immunity that Pikachu had and it was started to have some serious pain in it's body from the attacks. ''Keep using Quick Attack, Pikachu. Knock it out!''
Pikachu grinned as he preformed yet another Quick Attack, causing the Raichu to be temporarily taken back. ''Now finish it off with Thunderbolt!''
''PIKA-CHU!'' cried the Pikachu, as he let out a strong electrically field that caused the rest of the group to duck, to avoid getting hit by the attack. Raichu, however, wasn't so lucky as it fainted before them.
The gym leader gasped, knowing he had lost. To his Pokemon's pre-evolution at that. He grimaced, getting out a Thunder Badge. ''Here you go, Kid. As much as I hate to say it, but you deserve that badge for taking down Raichu.'' He recalled Raichu to it's poke ball. ''Just let me heal Raichu, then I'll back for the other battle.'' He left the gym, after saying it'd probably be an hour or so before he was back.
During the wait, Misty decided she was bored and wanted to do something. She turned to her girlfriend, who was holding Charmander, Riolu and Sylveon was sat next to her. ''Hey, Lucie. Mind having a battle whilst we wait. I wanna see how good your battling skills are, I've only ever seen u do basic move calls.''
''Ohh...'' This made Luchia nervous, but she smiled softly. ''Okay, I'll try...but how many Pokemon each?''
''4 each, since you have 4 Pokemon now. And I think Gyarados might be itching to battle.''
''Okay...'' Luchia whispered, as she looked at her Dragon's poke ball. She didn't care if Gyarados wasn't a dragon-type; to her, it didn't make any real difference in what she was. ''Guys...I want an element of surprise in this battle. So, mind returning to the poke balls until I call you out.'' Once her 3 babies returned to their poke balls, she walked over to where Misty was waiting.
Misty giggled, happy to be having a battle. She could see Brock, Cynthia and Ash watching from a distance. ''Come on out, Wigglytuff!'' She called out her only normal-type, secretly hoping that Luchia called out Charmander as she wanted her girlfriend's lizard Pokemon to evolve whilst battling a normal-type, since it had the weakness in her other types.
Luchia looked at her girlfriend's choice and considered her options. She wanted Charmander to evolve, and she wouldn't have that lucky of a chance with Misty's other Pokemon, due to the knowledge of Misty being a general water-type trainer. She nodded her head, grabbing the poke ball and calling out her fire-type. ''It's time to shine, Charmander!''
Misty giggled, smiling. ''Use Disarming Voice!'' The Wigglytuff smiled, using the attack on the Charmander.
''Charmander, counter it with Flamethrower!'' cried Luchia, as a scene replayed in her mind. The moment when she checked Charmander's data in the pokedex. She smiled to herself, as she let her memories distract her.
Flashback
Charmander smiled up at her new trainer, who was tearily smiling back. They hugged gently, knowing that they were now gonna be together as partners and friends. Luchia managed to get through her small emotional thing. She pulled out her pokedex, and gently checked the Charmander's data. The Charmander simply waited for the pokedex to register, as she smiled happily.
Charmander, the Lizard Pokemon. The flame on its tail indicates Charmander's life force. If it is healthy, the flame burns brightly. This Charmander is female and knows the moves Scratch, Ember, Dragon Claw, Flamethrower, Fire Blast and Overheat. It also has the egg moves Metal Claw. Note to the trainer, this Charmander is close to evolution.
That was an amazing move pool and it didn't do much more then make Luchia smile gently. ''Charmander, I hope you'll always be by the side.'' She reached down and hugged the Charmander, happily.
''I will be, mommy. You saved me from abuse and now I'll evolve only for your sake!'' replied Charmander, telepathically whilst smiling up at her new trainer, knowing they would be together always.
The flamethrower landing on the Wigglytuff, dispelling the Disarming Voice, brought Luchia back to the present. Her Charmander was waiting for her next command, so she got herself together and called out the next move. ''Fire Blast.'' The Charmander understood instantly and began to prepare her attack, by breathing out a bunch of fire.
The Fire Blast made the Kanji symbol for fire, as it went towards the Wigglytuff, instantly knocking it out as it did a lot of damage. Ash, who had decided to work as the referee in the battle, made the call. ''Wigglytuff is unable to battle, Charmander's the winner.'' Misty recalled Wigglytuff, saying. ''Have a good rest there, Wiggly. You done your purpose. Well, Charmander's going down soon enough against my water types.''
However, 'Charmander' wasn't standing in front of her anymore, as the Lizard Pokemon began to glow brightly. She got bigger and darker in color. When the light vanished, Charmeleon was in the place of Charmander. Luchia was shocked, as she looked at her evolved Pokemon. She rummaged around in her bag for her pokedex and quickly checked her evolved Pokemon.
Charmeleon. It lashes about with its tail to knock down its foe. It then tears up the fallen opponent with sharp claws. Upon evolving, this Pokemon learnt Dragon Rage and Brick Break.
Luchia smiled as she went over and hugged her Pokemon. ''Wow, I can't believe you evolve, Charmeleon!'' She had tears in the corner of her eyes, as her Pokemon grinned back. ''I'm so proud of you! Lets win this thing!''
Misty smiled from the distance, as she watched Charmeleon hug her trainer back. ''They have a beautiful friendship...I so glad I could help Luchia evolve Charmander, but now I won't go as easy on her.'' She grabbed her second poke ball, and smiled as she threw it onto the battlefield. ''Prepare yourself, Luchia. 'Cause here comes Goldeen!''
The Goldfish Pokemon appeared, but due to the fact it was a fish and needed water, it simply flopped about, very much helpless to quick attacks then would do healthy damage. Now Luchia was confused, and giggled softly. With a small movement, she look at Charmeleon and said slowly. ''Uh, Charmeleon, put it out of it's misery with Brick Break.''
''Meleon!'' cried the Flame Pokemon, as it went and attacked the Goldeen.
Misty simply smirked, knowing that Luchia would underestimate her Pokemon and called to it. ''Goldeen, Waterfall!''
The water-move was too strong with Charmeleon, with it's water weakness. Charmeleon was instantly knocked out due to that. Ash grimaced, knowing that it must have hurt pretty bad to cause that much damage in only one attack. She quickly made the call to announce the winner of the round. ''Charmeon is unable to battle, Goldeen wins!'' Luchia recalled her Flame Pokemon, unsure on her next step.
Luchia sighed, she had underestimated the Goldfish Pokemon and now she wasn't sure who to send out as she didn't have a Grass or a Electric Pokemon. She smiled all of a sudden, knowing who to send out. She grabbed her Pokeball, kissing it softly. ''Go, Sylveon!'' And with the call, the fairy-type appeared on the battle field, gracefully crying out her name and wrapping one of her feelers around Luchia's arm, in happiness.
Misty knew this was just a break even battle. It was whoever fainted first and she knew that she needed to make the call as quickly as possible, so yelling as loudly as her lungs would take it, she called out her move to her Pokemon. ''Goldeen, Water Pulse.'' The Goldeen summoned the attack and began to shot it towards the Intertwining Pokemon.
''Sylveon, dodge with your swift moves then attack with Dazzling Gleam!'' Sylveon jumped and rolled over the Water Pulse then summoned the Dazzling Gleam attack that hit the Goldfish Pokemon, as Misty wasn't able to prepare for Sylveon being able to basically use her dancing skills to dodge the attack. Sylveon gracefully gleamed in response, as she weaved her feelers around her trainer.
Misty snarled a little. ''Goldeen, Horn Attack!''
The Goldeen began charging at the Pokemon. Luchia simply smiled, knowing that Sylveon knew what to do. The Sylveon suddenly looked up, with Fake Tears in her eyes as she prayed not to be hurt. This stopped the Goldeen in it's tracks, as it thought Sylveon was in pain or something, allowing for Luchia and Sylveon to call out the next move. ''Sylveon, use Fairy Wind!''
Sylveon jumped into the air, using her feelers to summon a large amount of wind that wrapped around the battle field. It instantly knocked Goldeen out as it already had low health. Sylveon simply giggled, letting out a graceful dance in cheer. Misty sighed, recalling her Pokemon. She couldn't believe her out-doing was a egg-move that she didn't even know Sylveon had. ''You battled well, Goldeen. Have a good rest.'' She didn't bothered waiting for Ash to make his call, as she knew what had happened. She grabbed her 3rd poke ball. ''Go, Corsola!''
The Coral Pokemon appeared on the battle field. Misty was quick to announce her attack. ''Use Brine, Corsola!'' The Corsola made the attack quickly. It didn't give much chance to allow Sylveon to dodge. The attack hurt, but Sylveon was quick to stand back up. She wanted to continue her fight, as she growled out 'Sylve!' in an angered response to the pain.
''Sylveon, Fairy Wind again!'' Sylveon smiled, letting the attack fly. Luchia didn't allowed Misty to call in another attack, by yelling out again. ''Dazzling Gleam!'' The two attacks allowed Sylveon to knock Corsola back. ''Now, Draining Kiss.'' Sylveon smiled as she walked over to the Corsola and kissed it, taking away nearly all her remaining health and restoring some of hers.
''Ahh!'' cried Misty, frowning as she noticed her near-unconscious Pokemon. ''Corsola, use Recover quickly!'' The Corsola glowed as she recovered her health. ''Use Bubble Beam!''
The bubble beam hit Sylveon. ''Sylveon!'' cried Luchia, as the bubbles burst around Sylveon, until eventually the poor Fairy-type fainted. Luchia gasped, as she ran over to her unconscious Pokemon and hugged her. ''Take a good rest, Sylveon...'' She recalled the Pokemon, crying a little at the pain the Sylveon had to face prior to fainting. She grabbed her 3rd poke ball and held it close. ''Mist, this is turning into a water-battle, right now. So, lets go outside. I noted a beach nearby. Plus, I don't think will be happy if we destroyed his gym.''
Misty nodded, picking up Corsola and walking outside. Ash followed them, but Brock and Cynthia choose to stay behind to wait for the gym leader. The group arrive on the beach, where a battlefield for water battles had actually been set up. Misty and Luchia climbed into the opposing platforms that were above the water. The battle was now 2 to 2, so a even break. Misty let Corsola jumped into the water, whilst Luchia called out Gyarados.
The Gyarados turned before the battle started and snuggled against her trainer. Luchia giggled, gently petting the Gyarados. ''Do your best, okay. And don't hurt Corsola too much, she's only tiny compared to you after all.'' The Gyarados nodded in understanding. Ash called out that the battle was to restart. ''Gyarados, Thunderbolt!'' The Gyarados cried out to the skies, summoning a massive amount of thunder, that turned into a singular bolt that landed straight on the Corsola, who due to already being weak and the super-effective move was knocked out. Though, with how deadly the attack was, it knocked Gyarados back a bit.
Luchia sighed. ''Guess we need to prefect that attack before the next battle we have.'' She muttered to herself.
Misty didn't here, as she fumbled with her last poke ball, hoping that it would last and beat both Pokemon. ''Go, Starmie!'' The Starmie appeared in the water before Gyarados. ''Starmie, use Psyshock!''
The Psyshock ran through the water around the Starmie, hitting the Gyarados. The attack sent Gyarados flying back towards her owner's platform and due to being unable to control herself, her tail smacked into Luchia by accident. Misty's eyes diluted as she saw her now bruised girlfriend flying through the sky and into the water below. She would have reacted quickly, if Gyarados hadn't beat her to it. She had no idea what happened, but watched as Gyarados came back flying in the air, with her unconscious girlfriend on Gyarados's crest. She ran over to the beach, as Gyarados placed Luchia down on the sand.
''LUCHIA!'' Tears were rolling down her face, as she ran by a stunned Ash. She instantly grabbed a hold of her girlfriend and began shaking her, hoping that Gyarados got her in time. ''Please...come on, wake up!'' She quickly checked the unconscious trainer's pulse, only to find it near gone. Her eyes widened with horror, but eventually the thought of S.P.R crossed her mind and she pressed hers and Luchia's lips together, forcing the other girl to breathe. She keep her hand clasped with Luchia's, hoping that the forceful breathing would wake her up. The tears that rolled down her cheeks were blinding her, as she stopped kissing to allow herself to breathe. She pressed her free hand on Luchia's chest to force the water out before going back to the mouth-to-mouth method.
Eventually, it finally worked as a twitch ran through Luchia's hand and into Misty's. She felt the splatters of tears on her face as she slowly opened her eyes and looked at Misty. Misty gasped as she hugged Luchia, just as Ash ran close with worry written across her face. ''I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that 'Psyshock'...'' Misty whimpered, as she thought it was her fault that she almost lost her girlfriend.
''Shh, it's not your fault, Mist...it's nobody fault, just an accident.'' Luchia croaked out, through her weak voice. She managed to move her arms and hug her girlfriend back in hopes that she could comfort the girl. ''If anything, I'm probably more at fault for saying to come out here...''
She managed to sit up and gently pressed her lips against her girlfriend's. ''I'll be more careful in the future...but I think for now we should call off that battle.'' She gave a weak smile. Misty instantly nodded in agreement. Luchia picked up her poke ball and recalled Gyarados, whilst Misty did the same for Starmie.
Misty managed to crack a small smile. ''Even so, with the way we were going, you would have won.''
''How can you be so sure, my last Pokemon was Riolu, which isn't very good with water and he's a fighting type, so weak to Starmie who's Pyschic/water?'' She giggled gently, even though towards the end it sounded more like a wheeze, with her trying to keep her breath together from almost drowning.
''Because, Gyarados knowing thunderbolt would have meant to would have won, even if it involve knocking Gyarados out as a tie round.'' replied Misty, with a small smile. She hugged Luchia, before helping herself and her girlfriend up. They made one last hug. ''Just never scare me like that again...I thought you were actually going to die...''
''I promise...'' whispered Luchia, slowly. She couldn't help, but internally grimace. 'Great...so the one time that something happens to me, not relating to my stupid ability is me almost drowning...that isn't very good...I just hope that something like that never happens again, I don't wanna risk Misty getting upset over me, just because of a simple accident. I'd rather go out saving her or through my visions then by accident.'
Cynthia and Brock suddenly ran over, with smiles on the face. They obviously didn't know what had just transpired. Cynthia quickly hugged her still worried-looking girlfriend and said. ''Ashy, I got the Thunder badge!''
Ash smiled, happy for her girlfriend. ''That's great...it's just, something just happened and I cannot be fully happy for you.'' This caused Cynthia and Brock to look at one another, with confusion and worry. ''Lucie, she almost drown, when Gyarados accidentally knocked her off the platform she was standing on...''
''Oh my...'' gasped Cynthia, with horror written in her eyes as she looked at the two girls, who were still hugging with relief on Misty's face. ''I'm guessing Misty was the one to save her?''
''Not exactly...'' answered Ash. ''She did and she didn't. Gyarados got Luchia out of the water, with just enough time for Misty to preform mouth-to-mouth to save her life...''
''I see...'' Brock said, sadly. Cynthia nodded in agreement. The rock-trainer then managed to smile a bit. ''Well, at least she's safe now. How was their battle, did they complete it or are they holding it off.''
''They agreed to put it off for a bit, until they are ready to face another battle against one another. Misty is very concerned that she may accidentally hurt Luchia again, so it's easy to see why. And Luchia just doesn't wanna upset Misty...'' replied Ash, as she looked at her twin and Luchia's girlfriend. They were chatting more calmly, but still you could see the relief in Misty's eyes.
Cynthia then smiled a bit, deciding to lighten the mood. ''Well, Ash. After our battle, he gave me 5 tickets for the S S Anne , saying that we should go on it. It'll take us to Lavender Town and from there, we can head to Saffron City as I know you don't have the badge. And when I tried to battle Sabrina, she told me that I needed a minimum of 3 badges.''
''3 badges...'' whispered Ash, knowing that to battle, she needed to get the Cascade badge from Misty first. But then she smiled, the S S Anne seemed like the prefect place to have a battle. But the best thing for them to do first was to rest up and calm down after this incident, because it wasn't gonna go away just like that. Plus, she could see that Luchia just wanted to collapse again and fall to sleep. ''Well, lets get back to the Pokemon Center first and then we can decide.'' The other two teens nodded in agreement as they headed over to reunite with the other girls.
When I was writing a earlier chapter, I thought I wrote about Charmander, ah Charmeleon's data and how close she was to evolution, but looking through it again. I cannot find the scene so I decided to re-write it in this chapter. Also, how long is this chapter? It's the longest chapter I've wrote...
I'm getting some glitches with saying the gym leader's name, so sorry that it's not mentioned. But welp, Charmander evolved and they have tickets to the S S Anne, so this chapter was important and dramatic.
Pokemon
Ash
Pikachu (Male)
Pidgeotto (Female)
Butterfree (Male)
Dratini (Shiny)(Female)
Bulbasaur (Male)
Squirtle (Male)
Luchia
Sylveon (Female)
Riolu (Male)
Gyarados (Female)
Charmeleon (Female)
Gible Egg (No gender yet)
Misty
Starmie (Genderless)
Staryu (Genderless)
Goldeen (Female)
Wigglytuff (Shiny) (Female)
Corsola (Female)
Brock
Geodude (Male)
Onix (Male)
Kabuto (Female)
Golbat (Male)
Cynthia
Gible (Female)
Togetic (Male)
Lucario (Female)
Roselia (Female)