Chapter 19- The struggle
"Too late now you have to battle me with the rest of your pokemon." I should of seen that one coming but I was too prideful to even see it. I sent out Speedy reluctantly. He was still standing but he was probably weaker than Quilava.
"Too bad it isn't that Totodile. But this pig will be equally as fun." I wanted to just tackle her to the ground when she insulted my pokemon. But then I thought I'd just surprise her with my pokemon's speed.
"Let's start out with an Ember. But be gentle wouldn't want it to lose a leg or an ear." She laughed at my pokemon's misfortune. Her mistake. Now my pokemon was all fired up.
"Water gun." The stream of water poured all it's power onto Quilava. The look on both of their faces was the best part of it all too. But she hadn't seen anything yet.
"Fine she's asking for it." What was I asking for? "Flame wheel." I had to admit she was stepping up the game a little. "There's no way Slowpoke can escape this." Yes there was it was called Speedy.
"Dodge it." Gabrielle didn't believe me by the look on her smug little face. But I enjoyed watching Slowpoke being chased around by a giant ball of fire while the look on Gabrielle's face I wanted to just sit there and laugh.
"Stay still while I run you over with Flame wheel!" She screamed. Okay I lost it. I was rolling on the ground laughing, hard. This only made my rival angrier.
"Use a water gun now." I snickered as Quilava was pushed down by the torrent of water. This was amazingly entertaining.
"Quilava no!" She cried picking her pokemon up. She looked at me and growled. "All right it's on now. Get ready for a real battle." This was getting much more serious. "Geodude." She called out. The rock pokemon buffed itself up while I was changing my attack strategy. I also became more cautious with this pokemon.
"Bite." I ordered.
"Smack down." She laughed. The tables had surely changed.
"Slowpoke no! Let's use water gun," The water stream worked but it wasn't enough to change the fact that she was going to attack us.
"Tackle." The pokemon slammed into mine. This Geodude was fast, maybe even faster than Speedy.
"Body slam." I ordered.
"You too Geodude." The impact of both attacks threw both of them to the ground in a heap. We waited to see who would get up. To my horror it was Geodude.
"Ha!" She said gloatingly. "You aren't as strong as I thought." Yet I beat what looked like her toughest pokemon.
"Bellsprout go!" I said regretting my choice. But it was also the only choice I had. "Vine whip." The grassy vines struck at Geodude.
"Tackle." The rock pokemon slammed into mine. Bellsprout got up slowly tears stained into it's eyes. No! I thought it couldn't do that now! "Weakling of a pokemon. Body slam!" My pokemon was being pushed around but still stood. But it still was crying in fear. Soon it hid behind my legs and cowered there. "Face it Desiree Magikarp are stronger than that weed." That comment hurt I could see it in Bellsprout's eyes.
"Hold on Gabrielle let me handle this one." She looked at me and said "Five minutes. You have five minutes or the battle is mine." Pressured I talked to my pokemon very slowly to try and convince it to battle.
"Bellsprout what's wrong there's nothing to cry about. Ignore what that bully just said to you. I ignore it." I wiped the tears from my pokemon. "If you go out there and battle you never know what will happen." I pointed to Geodude in context. "I hear Geodude are just a big pile of rocks."
"I heard that." Gabrielle barked.
"I know you did." I continued to speak." Did you know when I was a kid I cried a lot too." My pokemon was silent. "But my mother told me that if I quit I wouldn't get half the experiences I had today. I was always scared of many things but that never stopped me and it shouldn't stop you." I felt horrible as a pep teacher.
"Two minutes tick tock tick tock." Gabby said rudely.
"Be patient!" I yelled back at her. "Do you want to battle now?" Bellsprout nodded and waddled back on the field. I sighed in relief everything would be fine now.
"Let's start out with poison powder." I called out as the purple dust poured out on the Geodude who coughed and hacked in response.
"Body slam." Bellsprout was pushed away and for a moment I saw my pokemon just stare at the other pokemon as if she was about to cry. "Oh no." I whispered to myself expecting to go through that again. But Bellsprout talked itself through it and stood its ground.
"Great how about a vine whip." Bellsprout had no problem lashing Geodude with the vine whip.
"Kick dirt at Bellsprout." Cheater! That was a dishonest move by her. Bellsprout moaned as it tried to remove all the dirt in it's eyes. "Bellsprout!"
"Geodude Body slam." Bellsprout was once more pushed to the ground.
Then something totally new happened I watched as a glowing light flashed through the dust and dirt. Only one thing could have been happening. Bellsprout was evolving!
"Weepinbell." The new pokemon chirped. It looked like a giant pear with a mouth. "Weepinbell that's great! What can you use?" I looked it up on my pokedex "Acid, Poison powder, Stun spore, and Vine whip." The pokedex rolled off all the moves.
"Use acid." I asked and got what I asked for. Geodude struggled to get itself up. Gabrielle was thinking hard. I knew she had one more pokemon in her arsenal, which made it much harder if Weepinbell was knocked out.
"Self destruct but grab Weepinbell too." What a dirty trick. Boom! Weepinbell stood there a minute stunned while Geodude was out for the count.
'Apparently that's what she wanted' I thought to myself. Who was next? I had no idea who was next?
"Stantler go!" The next pokemon reared its head or antlers. "Use Hypnosis." I covered my eyes as Weepinbell fell asleep. She wasn't much help right now so I recalled her.
"Unown go." Gabrielle raised her eyebrow as she stared at my attempt to thwart her. " Use hidden power." It hit it's mark.
"Confuse ray." Unown stared at Stantler and I was confused if it worked or not. It was hard to say who was confused but by Stantler's look on its face, who knew? "Try a take down." The pokemon tried to hit Unown but he still stood there. Stantler stood there even more confused.
"Hidden power." The attack hit its mark.
"Stantler no!" The pokemon hit the ground and collapsed in exhaustion. I couldn't believe it I won with Unown?
"Fine I guess I lost but good game Desiree. I'll be even stronger next time." I watched her as she fled from the town. That would probably be what I needed to do next but where do I go?
"Excuse me sir how do I get out of Azalea?" I asked a man who walked right up by me. He was wearing a suitcase and was carrying a briefcase I knew he was probably going to work.
"You have to go through the Eterna forest." I gulped I heard stories about that forest and how many people were reported missing. I didn't want to go in there.
But it seemed that I would have to or I'd never move on. I had to sacrifice my own comfort to my journey. How fun was that? Not!
Before I could even move a footstep I heard a frantic man's voice "Help me. Somebody help me!" A man in a white jacket and glasses came in town like a herd of angry Tauros seeking help from someone. "My father's Farfetch'd are missing!" Missing? That's horrible! I hope someone helps that poor man. Oh wait a minute! I'm someone! I realized as he came up to me. I was moving very slowly for a trainer wasn't I?