It was a bright and shining morning when Yasmin woke up the next day. A lot had happened the night before but she had to forget that.
"This is perfect weather for our battle today!" Yasmin stretched as she stared out the window to the garden behind the center. She was smiling and was thinking more about strategy.
"Good morning." Josephine yawned as she sat up in her bed.
"Good morning you guys." Dawn rubbed some of the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hey Jose, do you think Professor Elm would be okay with Dragonite now?"
"I'm not Jose!" Josephine yelled at her, resulting in Dawn to giggle a bit. "Yeah, I think Uncle Elm should be okay with Dragonite. Remember he said," She tried a different voice. "Dragonite seems to be missing you very much! I'm going to send it over to see you if that is okay."
"What are you guys talking about?" Dawn questioned, still not knowing much about the other two girls.
"Oh well, I actually caught Dragonite when it was a little dratini back in Johto. The poor thing missed me so Professor Elm, Josephine's uncle and the guy who's taking care of my pokemon, sent Dragonite over here to Sinnoh. I'd rather use the pokemon I caught in Sinnoh rather than use my old ones though." Pika, who was lying on the bunk where Yasmin had slept, lifted its head. "Except for Pika and Eevee, I mean Leafeon."
"Oh okay. Ash did that too." Dawn was commenting on how the trainers were alike, which she hated because there were so many reasons.
"Yeah I know. That's why Professor Oak can't keep my pokemon at his place. Ash's pokemon take up some space and the rest is taken over by Gary Oak's pokemon." Dawn's heart skipped a beat at the mention of another boy of her affection.
"Yup so they're at my uncle's place since Yasmin's house is too small." Josephine laughed as she stood up and put her arm around Yasmin's neck.
"My house ISN'T too small! It's just right for my mom, me, pika, and my mom's flareon! Plus the rest of her pokemon take up the backyard during play time so." Yasmin paused and quickly changed her tone from anger to sly. "At least I don't live in a log cabin." Yasmin smirked to Josephine as she crossed her arms and looked at the coordinator.
"It's not a log cabin! It's just made out of wood! The houses in New Bark Town are all real houses!"
"But you don't live in New Bark Town. You live outside of it near the river. I should know. I passed out near a river when I was little. Plus Azumarill followed you home from its happy Marill home land." Yasmin pointed to the pokemon that was acting like a pillow on Josephine's bed.
"Hey don't bring Malilu-chan in this!" [A.N. Azumarill is pronounced Maliluli in Japanese and chan is put at the end of a name for girls as a nickname.]
"Whatever! I need to call your uncle so if you'll excuse me." Yasmin casually walked away and grabbed her normal clothes as she walked into the bathroom.
"Do you guys have fights a lot or something?" Josephine had noticed that the two would bicker very much for being such close friends.
"We aren't really fighting," said a much calmer Josephine. "It's more of Yasmin is a tsudere."
"A what now?" Dawn made a funny face as Piplup was now waking up next to the blue haired girl.
"A tsudere. It's like she can be really nice and awesome one moment and then be evil and violent the next. Like last night she ripped her skirt because she suddenly got angry." Josephine was remembering the pretty little skirt that Yasmin had hated so much but wore on many occasions.
"Oh yeah. Why was her skirt stuck though if you two were just looking at the stars?" Dawn was questioning the two's mysterious acts from that night.
"Uh well," Josephine sometimes would have a hard trouble lying, especially since she had to lie to someone who basically hated her.
Lucky for Josephine, Yasmin walked out of the bathroom and said "I'm gonna use the phone in the lobby and then check on the guys okay. You two get ready cause we're gonna start the battle even if you're not there." Yasmin laughed coyly as she walked out of the room with Pika on her shoulder.
In the guys' room, Brock was already awake and was just leaving the small bathroom. Pikachu was sitting on the window sill and looking out at the springs, wishing he could have enjoyed the waters too. Ash was still deep asleep as always. It was eight thirty in the morning and the trainer would soon awake from hunger.
"Hey Pikachu, I'm going to check how's it going with the girls to see if I can wake up Ash." Brock told the little mouse, resulting in Pikachu nodding its head and Brock leaving.
Brock closed the door quietly to not disturb the loud snores coming from the raven haired boy.
Brock knocked on the door and asked "Can I come in?"
"Sure," responded a voice that came through the door.
Brock opened the door to see Josephine and Dawn standing on opposite sides of the room. Josephine was putting in her contacts as Dawn was still fixing her hair in the mirror. Neither of them was talking to each other, making the room dead silent.
"Uh so when are you two going to get dressed?" Brock felt weird now breaking the silence but saw that they were both in their jogging suit like pajamas, Dawn's pink and Josephine's red.
"In a minute," Dawn said as she fixed her clips onto her hair.
"Okay." Brock said as he looked around the room. "Where's Yasmin?"
"She went to use the phone." Josephine said as she stood up. Her brown hair went down to her ankles as she walked to the door, passing Brock. "I'm going to see if she's done so I can use it.
"Okay, be back soon." Dawn said in a monotone voice, trying to say something nice so Brock wouldn't say anything.
Josephine walked out into the huge lobby to find a few people sitting at tables and eating breakfast. The smell of eggs and toast caught Josephine's attention before she went back to her mission. She went to the row of computer telephones.
"Okay thanks a bunch Professor. Yeah I'll tell her you say hi. Okay bye." Yasmin hung up the phone as the picture went blank. She stood up from the chair to see Josephine sitting next to her, on the phone with Josephine's mom.
"Yeah mom can you send it over as soon as you can? Oh you already got it offline? Yeah send it right now! Thanks mom! Bye!" Josephine hung up the phone as she ran over to the mail sending kiosk in the Pokemon Center. Josephine was jumping until Yasmin walked over.
"What'cha doing?" Yasmin asked on her tippy toes as she swayed back and forth.
"Oh just getting an outfit from my mom. I saw Dawn had this outfit for the battle so I wanted one like it but in different colors. Also they're your favorite colors!" Josephine was jumping from one leg to another.
"You're not gonna make me wear whatever this is right? Cause I'm totally gonna lose if you make me wear something different than normal." Yasmin put her hands on her waist.
"No it's for me! My mommy bought it special for me."
"Why do you always buy clothes? You should make your outfits, like I designed this outfit." Yasmin held out her hand as she spun around in her normal, long, purple shirt, light blue belt, and navy blue shorts. Her low ponytail with side bangs perfectly aligned to not mess with her viewing.
"That's too hard. I'll buy my stuff." Josephine said and waved her hand at trainer. Soon the stand started to beep, meaning an incoming package would arrive. A box soon appeared. Josephine grabbed the box and ran off, back to her room. She was soon followed by Yasmin, casually walking through the lobby and opened the door. Brock was still in the room, helping Dawn brush the knot out of her hair.
"Oh there you are Yasmin!" Brock said as she walked in. Josephine was opening the box on her bunk and grabbed the clothes and went to the bathroom.
"Hey could you do me a favor?" Brock stood up and walked over to Yasmin.
"Uh sure Brock, what is it?" Yasmin inquired, noticing Dawn was now wearing a pink cheerleading outfit for some reason.
"Can you go wake up Ash. It's nine o' clock and he's still not awake. I would think with a scheduled battle like this he'd be up and ready to go."
"Yeah I sure was this morning. So I'll go get him." Yasmin said as she opened the door and left the room. She walked across the hall and knocked on the old wooden door. "Ash? You awake?" There was no answer. Since the door was unlocked she thought to let herself in. She did have permission from Brock to go in.
She slowly opened the door and popped her head in. She looked around and saw Pikachu was on one bunk and Ash was asleep in the other. She walked in and Pika jumped off of her shoulder and ran over to Pikachu's bunk.
"Pi Pikachu!" Squeaked the mouse pokemon as she hugged the once resting Pikachu.
"Pi Pika pi." Said an embarrassed looking Pikachu back to little Pika.
Yasmin giggled from the two and looked over at Ash. His blanket was half on the floor, not covering him. He was slightly drooling and had his mouth wide open.
I'm surprised nothing's flown in there yet. Yasmin thought. You know he looks really cute when he's asleep. Yasmin smiled.
Ash started to move his legs. He then mumbled "Must run faster. But I smell so good." Ash then moved his arm to his mouth and bit his arm softly.
Pika, Pikachu, and Yasmin were all looking at Ash with bizarre looks. "Does he think he's the gingerbread man?" Said the girl to the two pikachus.
Yasmin shook her head and put her hands on the boy, lightly shaking him. "Ash, you need to wake up." She said peacefully.
Ash then kicked his legs more and yelled out "Don't eat me!" and turned over in the bed.
"Uh I'm not going to eat you..." Yasmin had pulled her hands away but went back to him. "Ash you have to wake up. We need to go battle." She was shaking him a bit faster than before.
"Pikachu don't eat me!"Ash shouted out, making Pikachu become scared from the outburst.
"You know," Yasmin was sitting on the bed opposite to Ash's. "Josephine did want me to tell you something. And since you think you're the gingerbread man you won't remember it. So Ash, I love you, okay." Yasmin smiled but then her expression turned to fear as Ash turned on his side, facing her. He opened his big mouth and said "I love you too milk and gingerbread lady!" Ash smiled, back in his happy dream land.
Yasmin sighed. "Close one." She stood and went to Ash. Yasmin leaned down so her face was in front of his. "Sorry about this." She whispered before she yelled out "Wake up!"
Ash then swung out of bed, hitting his head on the top bunk. "Ouch! What was that?" Ash rubbed his head before turning around. "Oh hey Yasmin, What's up?" Ash yawned and moved his legs over the bed as Yasmin stood up.
"It's time to get up. We have our battle today remember?" Ash stood up now as Yasmin was grabbing Pika.
"Oh yeah. But first I'm hungry." Ash grabbed his stomach as he walked to the small bathroom.
"Yeah same here. Everyone's waiting for you. We're gonna go sit down and you can join us when you can okay?"
"Kay." Ash said as Pikachu was running over to Yasmin to get breakfast.
"Oh and after we eat I'm gonna be a bit mean cause we're rivals and junk like that. So don't take it personal." Yasmin opened the door.
"Yeah okay. Just hope you don't get too upset when you lose."
"Dream on, gingerbread man." Yasmin laughed as she walked out of the room. Once the door closed Ash said to himself, "Was I talking in my sleep or something?"
Once everyone was done eating they all went to the battle field in the back. The sun was high in the sky and it was about eleven in the morning.
"Brock, will you be the referee?" Ash asked his older friend, who normally took that job during a battle.
"Okay! Coin toss time!" Dawn shouted as she moved her hand in front of her. Her Pokétch was set to its coin toss application.
"Uh I choose heads?" Yasmin didn't know what it was for, but heads was normally lucky.
"Okay I get tails then." Ash retorted as Dawn tapped the screen. The magikarp coin flipped in the air of the screen and soon landed on tails. "Ash gets the first move!" Dawn shouted as she then started to run up the bleachers with her Piplup, Buneary, and Pachirisu all wearing matching cheerleading outfits.
"Oh it was for who goes first. Well that's okay. I hate to go first." Yasmin smirked at Ash, trying to threaten him with her knowing most about his skill level. If we both rely on luck than I hope I'm just a little luckier. Yasmin thought.
They then heard running and everyone turned around to see Josephine and her Azumarill and her Pachirisu wearing outfits like Dawn's cheerleading one but in purple with blue accents instead of pink and red. "Wait for me!" Josephine yelled as she reached Yasmin and stopped to catch her breath.
"What are you wearing?" Yasmin asked as she glared at the girl.
"Well I saw Dawn wearing one so I thought you needed some cheerleaders too." Josephine smiled, trying not to make Yasmin angry.
"Oh," Yasmin became calm again. "Well when you put it like that, you're being really nice to me." Yasmin smiled but added. "Just don't get in my way. Like don't distract me or my Pokemon."
"Fine fine." Josephine ran up the bleachers to Yasmin's side. The two coordinators glared at each other, as of to fight.
The trainers walked to their respective places, each one's Pikachu sitting on their shoulder until jumping onto the ground next to them.
"This will be a six on six full Pokemon battle!" Brock shouted as he held up his arms from his side box in the middle of the field. He then looked at the two of them and said "Begin!"
The trainers both grabbed a pokéball from their belts and enlarged it. They threw the orbs at the same time both yelling "GO!"
There was a flash of light on Yasmin's side and lovely Beautifly popped out. It fluttered its wings, did a twirl, and then waited for its master's attacks.
On Ash's side the bright flash turned into his Buizel.
"Lady's first, Ketchum." Yasmin smirked as she pointed out to Ash that he had won.
"I'll show you! Buizel start with Aqua Jet!" The weasel then turned into a powerful jet of water and shot fast to the butterfly like pokemon.
"Beautifly fly up and then use Silver Wind!" She ordered and the pokemon quickly obeyed. Before Ash's Buizel hit it, the pokemon flew up and flapped its wings furiously, letting off silver like scales out to hit it. That stopped Buizel's attack and made the pokemon fall over.
"Buizel stand up!" Ash cried out. "Buizel! Buizel! Fight! Fight! Fight!" Dawn cheered.
Buizel stood and Ash yelled out "Use Water Pulse!" Buizel then started to form a ball of water energy in its hands and sent it flying to the other pokemon.
"Beautifly, use Gust to blow it away!" The pokemon flapped its wings again to slow the water down enough to make it fall to the ground. "Now Beautifly, Giga Drain!" Yasmin commanded. The bug pokemon sent out a strange green energy rays out at Buizel, binding the pokemon with the green rays. Buizel then started to act as if it was getting attacked while it was trying to get free. Beautifly was draining Buizel's energy for its pleasure. Buizel was soon released and fell to the ground.
"All Right, Beautifly!" Josephine yelled out as Dawn shouted, "Buizel, keep fighting!"
"Buizel get up!" Ash yelled. "Pi Pikachu chu!" Pikachu was telling Buizel to keep fighting.
Buizel started to stand. Ash began to smile as Buizel shot Ash a thumbs-up, telling his master that it was still good to battle. "Buizel, get ready to use Ice Punch!" Ash commanded while punching the air.
"Beautifly, stay where you're at." Yasmin said as she and her pokemon watched the aqua weasel's hand turn light blue with power and shimmer in the sun. It began to run towards the fluttering bug with its paw getting more ice power by the milli-second. Right when Buizel was about two feet from the butterfly pokemon, Yasmin commanded, "Now Beautifly! Use Psychic!" A blue aura quickly appeared around Buizel, stopping it. Beautifly's eyes had turned a pure blue color. Buizel was then picked up into the air and the blue aura disappeared. Buizel plummeted to the ground, picking up dust from the impact. When the bit of dust cleared, Buizel was lying on the ground with Xs on its eyes. "Buizel is unable to battle. Beautifly is the winner." Brock announced.
"Alright!" Yasmin yelled as Beautifly happily flew back to its trainer. "Great work Beautifly! Return!" Yasmin held out the pokéball, a red line flew to Beautifly, and the pokemon was quickly put away.
"Buizel!" Ash yelled out after he saw the pokemon lay there. "Return." He said as the weasel left the field into its cozy home like orb. "You did great out there." He said to it and grabbed another pokéball. Yasmin had done the same and the two were standing there, Pokéballs at hand.
"Go!" The two yelled out. They didn't want the other to know what type of Pokemon was next to battle, so that one could have the type advantage by chose. Ash's Staraptor popped out and Yasmin's Wigglytuff was on the other side of the battle field. "What a cute pokemon." Ash complimented. "Wiggly may be cute but it's pretty powerful." "Wigglytuff!" Said the pokemon as it switched from adorable to scary.
"Alright Wiggly! Go beat the snot out of that bird!" Josephine cheered as her Azumarill and Pachirisu followed suit. The three were doing some sort of weird dance. "Josephine! Stop distracting me!" Yasmin shouted at the dancing trio.
"Sorry. I'm just trying to be helpful."
"Well go be normal! I need to stay on track remember!"
Ash sweat dropped and said "Yasmin? Remember the battle."
"Oh Yeah, sorry!" She said as Wiggly looked at her with anticipation. "You can have the first move this time Yasmin. Lady's first." He said in a mocking way.
Yasmin growled, "Wiggly use hyper voice!" Wiggly then puffed up and opened its mouth, releasing powerful waves of sound. Everyone, except Yasmin and Wiggly, quickly covered their ears in pain from the high frequency sound. The waves started to hit Staraptor until Ash shouted out, more screaming to overpower the sound, "Staraptor fly up and then use wing attack!" The bird pokemon quickly flew up in the air, being followed by the sound waves. Staraptor then flew down, ignoring the waves, which grew less powerful the closer it was to Wiggly, and hit the normal type with a powerful wing. It flew back and bounced around until it stopped and stood up. "Wiggly use Sing!" "Wigglytuff wigglyyy tuff." Sang the balloon pokemon, making Staraptor flap its wing slowly and soon lay on the ground asleep. The music also made Ash feel sleepy. "Staraptor wake up." Yawned the boy trainer as the girl smirked at him. "Now Wiggly, use Double Slap!" The pokemon quickly ran to the sleeping bird and began to slap it constantly with rapid slaps. Staraptor was still asleep through the whole ordeal until it had been slapped about ten times. Staraptor woke up and Ash commanded, "Use Close Combat!" Staraptor started to claw at Wiggly with its talents and hit the balloon pokemon with its large wings.
Damn it Ketchum, Yasmin thought. Fighting types are strong against Wiggly. Let's just hope we can get through. Oh wait! Yasmin remembered a special move that Wiggly knew. "Wiggly! Quick, use Mimic!" The Pokémon's paws started to glow. "Now Wiggly, counter Staraptor's Close Combat with your own!" "Wiggly!" It then started to hit Staraptor back with its arms and legs.
"Staraptor! Fly up and use Brave Bird!" "Star!" The bird flew out of Wiggly's way, making it fall on its face. Staraptor then flew high up into the sky, and flew back down fast, changing from being surrounded in fire with its wings tucked under it. Once the wing were let out, Staraptor turned blue and hit Wiggly, making it fly in front of Yasmin. Wiggly's eyes had Xs on them as Brock announced, "Wiggly is unable to battle. Staraptor is the winner!"
"Good job Staraptor!" Ash said happily as he returned the pokemon.
"Wiggly!" Yasmin said sadly as she returned it. "You fought great and did the best you could." She smiled lovingly and put the pokéball back on her belt. The two grabbed another pokéball and glared at each other.
"I can't believe how powerful of Pokemon she has. I guess she isn't all talk is she Piplup?" Dawn was saying to the blue penguin next to her. "PIP Lup." It nodded in return.
"Let's do this! The battle is only beginning, Ketchup!" Yasmin shouted as she grabbed her next pokéball.
"It's Ketchum!" Ash growled back as he grabbed a pokéball too.
"Go!" The two shouted as their pokemon appeared. Yasmin had her Kingdra and Ash had his Gible.
"Woah!" Dawn said as she pulled out her pink pokédex. "Kingdra, the dragon Pokemon. It lives in caves on the seafloor and creates giant whirlpools every time it moves." The pokédex responded to the sea horse like pokemon.
"Yup, Yasmin would still have a Seadra if it wasn't for me trading with her." Josephine smiled at Dawn, but then quickly looked at her with anger and walked back to her side.
Type advantage. Yes! Yasmin thought as she saw her pokemon float there somehow. We also have our special moves. Yasmin smirked as Ash was thinking about what attack to start with.
"Gible! Use Rock Smash!" Ash yelled. Gible's hand started to glow and Gible ran to its opponent.
"Kingdra, wait for the moment to use that attack." Yasmin said, reassuring her pokemon. As soon as Gible was close enough, Kingdra opened its snout and released a powerful Dragon Pulse on the little ground shark pokemon. It then flew backwards, to everyone's shock.
"How did it know that?" Ash questioned the powerful trainer.
"I guess my water pokemon are just that great." Yasmin smirked and command to Kingdra, "Quick, while they're distracted, use Bubble Beam!" Kingdra pointed its head to the Gible lying on the ground and quickly shot a literal beam of bubbles.
"Gible use Dig!" Ash yelled out right in time before the bubbles hit. Kingdra was looking around its surroundings. Since it was on land, it couldn't use its speed to swim fast. It was in Gible's element.
"Don't worry Kingdra! I have a plan." Yasmin said, trying to calm down her pokemon.
Back up with the cheerleaders there was a mini fight going on. Dawn was cheering and so was Josephine, both trying to outdo the other in loudness. Only thing was that Josephine did not want to disturb Yasmin, or she'd get beaten into pulp later.
"Gible! Now!" Ash commanded back on the battle field. Kingdra was ready to attack until Gible popped up behind it, hitting it over the head and onto the ground.
"Kingdra! Use Ice Beam!" And with that rays of ice shot at Gible, throwing it back. Gible was now on Yasmin's side and Kingdra was on Ash's.
I hope this works. Ash was praying that the attack might work for once. "Gible use Draco Meteor!" Ash commanded.
"Duck!" Dawn shouted as Piplup covered its head with the pom-poms.
Orange light began to surround and grow within Gible. "If you're gonna use it then we will too. Kingdra use Draco Meteor!" The two pokemon were glowing brightly and sent the orange ball of light up at the same time. Gible's ball exploded, sending random spheres of energy trough the area. Kingdra's attack not only hit the ones closest to its self and its master, but also hit Gible. Gible flew back, behind Yasmin. It was laying there as Ash called out its name. Gible soon stood up, it was wobbly but could stand and fight. Gible went underground and 'swam' through the earth until it reached in front of Kingdra and hit it was another Rock Smash. Ash was surprised though since he didn't tell Gible to do any of that. Luckily for him, that was enough to knock out the dragon.
"Kingdra is unable to battle. Gible is the winner." Ash jumped a bit. He was thinking that Gible really was going to be a goner, but won either way. "Return!" Ash said as the land shark returned. "Great work."
"Return." Yasmin said. By this time she was quiet upset. Two of her powerful pokemon had been defeated. She looked sadly at the orb with Kingdra in it, her bangs covering her eyes incase she began to cry. Why is this happening? I thought I was one of the top trainers. How can two of my pokemon already lose? And Wiggly and Kingdra. I caught Kingdra as a Horsea in Sandgem. It was my first Sinnoh caught Pokemon. "Chu pi?" Said Pika suddenly, pulling on Yasmin's sock. "Chu pi, pika chu chu pi." Said the little mouse, knowing how her trainer felt. "No it's not time to be sad. We can still win this!" Yasmin said as she wiped one of her eyes and smiled at the pokéball. "You did very well Kingdra." Yasmin said calmly before getting another pokéball from her belt.
"You okay over there?" Ash had been waiting for Yasmin to call out her next Pokemon.
"Y-yeah. I'm totally okay!" Yasmin smiled as she enlarged the red and white sphere. "Let's do this!"
"Go!" The trainers shouted happily together.
Okay, that was a long chapter. Since It's a full battle and we're half way through it. I'm going to split the rest of the battle to the next chapter. It's kinda hard to put in so many details when I want people to talk more. Dang it people talk! Hehe sorry I get a little angry sometimes (as u can tell from the story). Btw readers (if I have more than just Josephine), I'm going to write another story about Josephine's and my adventures. It's mostly gonna be just chapters on different locations through everywhere we've been. But that's not important right now. What's important is that you guys NEED to review! I legit think no one is reading this! You guys are gonna make me cry if you don't review. So yeah thanks readers! :D