So, chapter 9 is here. This is the second day of training for the team, and we find out a little more about Blaze's past with Terry.
Chapter 9 – A Cruel Reminder
The next morning, we got straight into training. The drills consisted of the old rock dodge, and we all faired pretty well. John then introduced a new drill.
What we had to do is work on speed. We were running about 5 laps around this rocky terrain, sometimes having to jump up onto other rocks to get past ditches or high rocks.
"This is hard..." I thought to myself.
As we got onto the forth lap, I slipped when I jumped up onto a rock and was sent tumbling down the side of it. I managed to grab onto a small rock that was sticking out, but it was too weak and crumbled away after a few seconds, and I fell into the ditch below.
Surprisingly, I never hit the floor and split my head open. I was lucky enough to fall into a small pool of water, and it was deep enough to soften the fall. Of course, as a fire type, the water wasn't the best thing to fall into, so I scrambled to shore quickly and lay there for a few seconds.
I was screwed. Stranded in a dark cave, tired, weakened, with no idea how to get out. I decided to just head off in any old direction. As I was walking through the tunnels, I began to hear the sound of training Pokémon. I turned the upcoming corner and my blood turned to ice. There was Terry, training with Gengar. I turned to run but I was surrounded by dark mist. That ugly purple thing then appeared in front of me, with that bone chilling grin on his face.
"Well, look who paid us a visit." Terry said sarcastically.
"Got a bit lost, did you? Or did John just leave your weak body here to die? Once useless, always useless." And with that he kicked me into the side of the rock face.
The impact was so hard I heard a crunch when I hit it, not sure if it was the rock or me that had broke. I bounced of the rock and crumpled to the floor.
"Gengar, make sure he can't go anywhere. He needs to get what he deserves."
Gengar took a step towards me and licked me with his rough tongue. I felt my whole body go numb, and I couldn't move. I could only watch as Terry and Gengar walked away laughing. Sick bastards. This is how he ditched me before, left me in Jhoto's Dark Cave to die. The only reason I had managed to get out was because of the Pokémon rangers finding me. By the looks of things I was deep in the cave, I wasn't sure they came this far.
I lay there for what felt like hours, and the numbness was only just starting to ware off, bringing back the pain. I could just about move the ends of my paws. As more hours passed I could finally get up again, but my movement was still hampered. I think I had narrowly escaped a broken limb, as I could stand on my feet and use my arms. Might just be a fracture somewhere. I slowly stated to move off uphill, as my guess was that it leads to an opening.
As I trudged along, I felt my body get weaker and weaker. I battled on and managed to make it up to the next level of the cave. There were rangers here, and as soon as one saw me I gave up and fell to the floor. I knew I would be safe with them.
I awoke a few hours later in the seating area of the Pokémon centre. I felt fully refreshed and I was able to move without too much discomfort. I had a bandage on my left arm, but otherwise seemed to be okay. I smiled with joy at the sounds of my friends.
"Blaze! You are okay!" yelled Bulb as he came bounding over.
"We thought you were…" whimpered Siria.
"I know, I did too. But I'm okay now."
After that things started to calm down. Me and Bulb were having a chat about what had happed, and he was explaining it all to me.
"We were looking for you for ages, and eventually we had to turn back. We were going to head out again first thing tomorrow, but then the rangers turned you in and we were so relived. What happened down there? Mt. Moon isn't the most dangerous of places, its full of trainers."
"Well, I had a bump into Terry down there."
Bulb's eyes widened in shock.
"What did he do?"
I explained what had happened to Bulb and he sat there for a few minutes to take it in.
"He's such a bastard. Why does he hold such a grudge?"
I just thought. Bulb knows next to nothing about what happened between me and Terry, he was bleeding on the floor thanks to scar at the time Terry said he had trained me. I thought it best not to tell him just yet, he might flip and I really don't want that. I tried to think of an alternative answer, but my thoughts were cut short by John walking over to us.
"Hey guys, someone just challenged the gym and the leader said we can go and watch. I think it will be good to see how the gym leader battles."
And so, ten minutes later, we were in the gym. The challenger was late, so John was talking to the leader and me, Bulb and Siria were having a great time, laughing and joking about that kid in Viridian forest. We were telling Siria all about him, and his 'Ratty'. Then the doors were pushed open and hit the wall, making a loud noise that echoed around the Gym. All heads turned to see the challenger. To my delight, it was Terry. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)
"You're late." Said the leader.
"Do you think I care, you stupid prick? Let's get this battle done!"
"Fine…" said the gym leader. The rules were simple. 3 Pokémon each side, first to lose all Pokémon loses. Only Terry could substitute his Pokémon.
The battle started with the Leader using a Geodude and Terry using his Gengar. Terry sneered over to me briefly before starting the battle.
Geodude rushed forward in a ball, in an attempt to tackle Gengar down. I think that move was called rollout, pretty sure my evolutionally family could learn it. Gengar fired a shadow ball at the oncoming rock, and Geodude went straight into it. it rolled backwards out of the smoke from the explosion, but was still good to fight. It then ripped a rock out of the ground and tossed it at Gengar. That one hit home. Gengar was knocked down, and Geodude wasted no time in following up with another rock, then rollout. Gengar rolled out the way of the second rock, but had no time to avoid rollout. He was sent rolling backwards, and didn't get back up when he came to a halt.
"No!" yelled Terry and he returned Genger.
The second Pokémon sent out was Machop. I think he was a new one, because I didn't remember him from when I was with Terry. Machop then ran forwards, and a white light surrounded his fist. He brought it down on the Geodude, and it was out. The Gym Leader returned his Pokémon to send out yet another Geodude. This one was a bit bigger, so I assumed it was stronger. The two Pokémon ran towards each other, and became locked in a grapple. Machop kept trying to get a punch in, but Geodude was denying him his chance every time. The floating rock then threw Machop to the side, and tossed a rock after him. Machop quickly got to its feet and smashed the rock with a punch, but Geodude was already on top of the situation, and used rollout, impacting right in Machop's face. It staggered backwards a few steps before fainting.
That Machop must have been new; it didn't even get a hit in on Geodude. Terry was burning with rage. He was on his last Pokémon, and he had to beat the leaders remaining two.
Terry then sent out Scar. He looked over to me and gave a sick grin, before turning his attention towards the battle. Geodude went for rollout, and Scar just grinned. He fried off a jet of water, and it hit the rolling rock head on, and it came to a skidding halt. It looked up at Scar, who was calmly swaggering over. Geodude tried to get up, but the area was swamped in water, so it slipped up and fell back down. Scar was now right next to it, looking down. He opened his jaw and an icy blue glow surrounded his teeth. He bit down on Geodude and it screamed in pain. He then tossed the poor Pokémon aside, and it lay there, defeated.
The leader returned his Pokémon and took out his last remaining pokeball. He tossed it into the air and out came the biggest Pokémon I had ever seen. It was a big snake thing that appeared to be made out of lots of connected boulders.
"Onix. This should teach Scar." Muttered Bulb.
I hope I didn't have to face this Onix. It definitely had the size advantage, but Scar had the type advantage.
The final battle began. Onix darted forward in an attempt to smash into Scar, but the blue croc jumped up and landed on Onix's head. He was about to bite down with ice fang, but Onix threw him off. The rock skane quickly turned and brought its tail down on Scar, who had only just hit the floor. He was crushed under that massive tail, and I waited to see what had become of him. Onix's tail lifted, and scar was lying face down, not moving. That was that. Terry had lost. He ran over to Scar and picked him up by the neck.
"What is wrong with you!" he yelled in Scar's face. He then threw him down and retuned him into his ball. He looked up at the Gym leader for a few seconds before running away in anger.
We decided it was best to make out leave. It was late. We got back to the Pokémon centre but Terry was not there, healing his Pokémon. He would be out somewhere, beating them for there failure. I lay back on those comfy seats in the centre and drifted into a sleep. Tomorrow would be the last day of training before the gym, so I needed rest.