p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"It was a frosty atmosphere inside the classroom. Everyone could see something had happened between me and Mallow. Maybe it was the fact we sat next to each other and we would just ignore everything we did. Eventually, Kukui got tired of the silence./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Alright you two, what happened?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Maybe its got something to do with her ignorance." I remarked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Or maybe your lack of care towards your Pokemon." She replied, just as sassily/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Alright! Look, we are going to be practising some double battles today, and you two are going to have to sort it out as you two are going together!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"I groaned. I couldn't be dealing with this./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It will be a 2 on 2 double battle! Both pairs of trainers will use 2 Pokemon, one from each trainer. /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The battle will end when all Pokemon on either sides are knocked out. The trainers will be: Ash and Kiawe vs Toby and Mallow. /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Begin!" Kukui was /span/spanthe referee here, as Ash and Kiawe brought out Pikachu and Marowak. span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Me and Mallow brought out out Eevee and Steenie. As much as I didn't want to battle, I did want to win. So did Ash and Kiawe, and you could see in Marowak's eyes he wanted revenge. He mustn't of taken /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"that loss to Eevee to well, and he was certainly fired up. Mallow on the other hand? Well let's just say she was yawning before the battle had even started. I sighed. This was going to be a long day./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Let's start this Pikachu! Electro Ball!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Knock it back Eevee with Quick Attack!" I cried, as Eevee shoved the glowing yellow ball back towards Pikachu, who deflected it back./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Turtinator! Flamethrower!" Ordered Kiawe, fiery passion burning in his eyes. The behemoth of a Pokemon roared, flames spitting from its jaws before a stray Double-Edge from Eevee sent it flying out of the battlefield. You wouldn't want to mess with Eevee, I tell you./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"As the battle continued, it was clear how it was going to go. It was effectively a 1 vs 2, with Turtinator and Pikachu focusing on Eevee, with Steenie using Double-Slap occasionally to fend off attacks. As far as I could tell, Steenie was getting annoyed at Mallow's instructions, as despite whatever dispute me and Mallow had, Steenie still had that bond with Eevee. And Ash took this as his opportunity./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Electro Ball Pikachu!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Steenie look out!" cried Mallow, noticing far too late./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"The energetic yellow ball caused an explosion, and a sharp yelp confirmed Steenie had been hit. But as the dust dissipated, there was a different Pokemon lying next to Steenie./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Eevee!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"I ran as fast as I could over to Eevee, only to find her out cold. I hated seeing Eevee hurt. So did Steenie, apparently, as she strode over, a look of concern on her face. Unbeknownst to me, Ash, Kiawe and Mallow were just standing, a surprised expression on their young faces./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Suddenly, Eevee stirred. "Oh Eevee" I thought. "What am I ever going to do without you?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""This battle is over!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Turning, I saw Professor Kukui making his way over to us. Nonetheless, I was surprised/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""But Steenie's still able to battle!" I argued "It' still!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""No. This battle was meant to solve your differences. I think you and Mallow have done that."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Again, I turned, only this time towards Mallow. Again, I was surprised. Mallow was crying, tears were welling up in her eyes. In a move strangely similar to a quick attack, she rushed over to me and hugged me. Still crying, she spoke softly:/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""I was wrong. You do care."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""So does Eevee. She wasn't going to let Steenie get hurt."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""And Steenie didn't agree with my instructions. I've never seen her so attached to a trainer and a Pokemon thats not me or one of mine. You have a way with Steenie, Toby."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""No, Steenie just likes Eevee, thats all."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I smiled and turned to the recovering Eevee/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Really? Risking your life to protect your friend just so we could solve a dispute? I swear we watched that film the other day!"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ee-vee!"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Eevee stood proud, but soon sat down due to fatigue./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on Eevee, take a rest. I believe there is some of that leftover stew for dinner as /span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"well."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"For the final time, I turned./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt;"Which reminds me, you lot still need to try that stew!"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Alright you two, what happened?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Maybe its got something to do with her ignorance." I remarked./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Or maybe your lack of care towards your Pokemon." She replied, just as sassily/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Alright! Look, we are going to be practising some double battles today, and you two are going to have to sort it out as you two are going together!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"I groaned. I couldn't be dealing with this./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It will be a 2 on 2 double battle! Both pairs of trainers will use 2 Pokemon, one from each trainer. /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The battle will end when all Pokemon on either sides are knocked out. The trainers will be: Ash and Kiawe vs Toby and Mallow. /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Begin!" Kukui was /span/spanthe referee here, as Ash and Kiawe brought out Pikachu and Marowak. span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Me and Mallow brought out out Eevee and Steenie. As much as I didn't want to battle, I did want to win. So did Ash and Kiawe, and you could see in Marowak's eyes he wanted revenge. He mustn't of taken /span/spanspan style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"that loss to Eevee to well, and he was certainly fired up. Mallow on the other hand? Well let's just say she was yawning before the battle had even started. I sighed. This was going to be a long day./span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Let's start this Pikachu! Electro Ball!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Knock it back Eevee with Quick Attack!" I cried, as Eevee shoved the glowing yellow ball back towards Pikachu, who deflected it back./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Turtinator! Flamethrower!" Ordered Kiawe, fiery passion burning in his eyes. The behemoth of a Pokemon roared, flames spitting from its jaws before a stray Double-Edge from Eevee sent it flying out of the battlefield. You wouldn't want to mess with Eevee, I tell you./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"As the battle continued, it was clear how it was going to go. It was effectively a 1 vs 2, with Turtinator and Pikachu focusing on Eevee, with Steenie using Double-Slap occasionally to fend off attacks. As far as I could tell, Steenie was getting annoyed at Mallow's instructions, as despite whatever dispute me and Mallow had, Steenie still had that bond with Eevee. And Ash took this as his opportunity./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Electro Ball Pikachu!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Steenie look out!" cried Mallow, noticing far too late./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"The energetic yellow ball caused an explosion, and a sharp yelp confirmed Steenie had been hit. But as the dust dissipated, there was a different Pokemon lying next to Steenie./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""Eevee!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"I ran as fast as I could over to Eevee, only to find her out cold. I hated seeing Eevee hurt. So did Steenie, apparently, as she strode over, a look of concern on her face. Unbeknownst to me, Ash, Kiawe and Mallow were just standing, a surprised expression on their young faces./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Suddenly, Eevee stirred. "Oh Eevee" I thought. "What am I ever going to do without you?"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""This battle is over!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Turning, I saw Professor Kukui making his way over to us. Nonetheless, I was surprised/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""But Steenie's still able to battle!" I argued "It' still!"/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""No. This battle was meant to solve your differences. I think you and Mallow have done that."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"Again, I turned, only this time towards Mallow. Again, I was surprised. Mallow was crying, tears were welling up in her eyes. In a move strangely similar to a quick attack, she rushed over to me and hugged me. Still crying, she spoke softly:/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""I was wrong. You do care."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""So does Eevee. She wasn't going to let Steenie get hurt."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""And Steenie didn't agree with my instructions. I've never seen her so attached to a trainer and a Pokemon thats not me or one of mine. You have a way with Steenie, Toby."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left""No, Steenie just likes Eevee, thats all."/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I smiled and turned to the recovering Eevee/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Really? Risking your life to protect your friend just so we could solve a dispute? I swear we watched that film the other day!"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Ee-vee!"/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Eevee stood proud, but soon sat down due to fatigue./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on Eevee, take a rest. I believe there is some of that leftover stew for dinner as /span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="letter-spacing: normal;"well."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;"span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"For the final time, I turned./span/span/span/p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #14171a;""span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"span style="font-size: 12pt;"Which reminds me, you lot still need to try that stew!"/span/span/span/p