[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 5: Poisonous Battle!
The frog-like creature stood fierce, without moving an inch. "I'll give you the honor to go first" Koga said. "That's gonna be your own mistake, Charmeleon, use Slash!" The red dinosaur Pokémon rushed forward while his right claw started to glow white. But during the time Charmeleon moved around, Toxicroak still didn't move. But at the exact last second, Koga ordered: "Deflect with Poison Jab."
Toxicroak suddenly turned aside and grabbed Charmeleons tail. It threw my poor defenseless Charmeleon to the ground, just to afterwards let its knuckle claws glow purple and hit Charmeleon right in the stomach. "Charmeleon! Charchar! A huge cloud of dust rose up from the ground and my Pokémon was just lying on the ground, heavily hurt. Toxicroak jumped back to its original position. "Now, finish him off. Brick Break!" Toxicroaks palm started to glow bright white and it ran forward. "Charmeleon, dodge!" Still nothing. The roughened palm started crashing down. Once again, a huge cloud of dust reappeared. I covered my eyes against the sand and once I felt that the sand started to fade. When I was finally able to open my eyes again, I was fully confused. Charmeleon stood behind Toxicroak. Even Koga looked surprised. "Toxicroak! Behind you! Poison Jab!" I had already predicted that and said: "Slide under Toxicroak and use Dragon Rage!" Charmeleon ducked down to avoid the Poison Jab and slid under the surprised frog Pokémon. He opened his mouth and a huge beam of blue fire exploded right under Toxicroak. For the third time the battlefield was covered in dust.
I thought the battle was over, I was sure I had won. I already wanted to jump up and yell: "Yeah! Good job, Charmelon!" Until I realized that through the sand I could see two shadows. Both of them were still standing up. Toxicroak couldn't have possible have survived that attack. Unfortunately, that was the case. As soon as I could see across the other side of the field, I saw Koga smiling at me. Now I could see the two Pokémon too. Toxicroak was still standing up and Charmeleon was sitting on his knees right behind it. The Toxicroak seemed to have been able to dodge the Dragon Rage just in time, but was still hit on its back. Charmeleon seemed to have been hurt more, he could barely stand and he seemed to have taken in some kind of poison. "Sorry kid, but my Pokémon's Poison Jab seemed to have worked. You see, Toxicroak is famous for creating very strong poison inside its poison sacs. During Poison Jab that poison becomes attached to the knuckle claws, poisoning any Pokémon hit by the move. Now, let's end this, Brick Break." Koga's Pokémon readied its arm once again, smashing on Charmeleon. My beloved Pokémon lay tired down on the ground, and didn't stand up anymore. The battle was decided.
"Nice try kid, but you never stood a chance in the first place." Koga explained, and he clearly didn't try to hide his smile. "Alright Toxicroak, time to eat, get our friends. Oh and Lucus, let Charmeleon join in too." Despite that I hate losing, I couldn't help to feel happy finally being able to fight such an exciting battle, maybe not on the old man's part, but for me it definitely was fun. With my good arm I held out Charmeleons Pokéball and called him back. "Return! You've fought hard." Koga already went inside and I saw the other Pokémon, Koffing and Muk now also gathering in the front door.
But Arbok was the only one that actually slid into the house, there it sat rolled up in a couch.
"Yeah, Toxicroak would maybe accidentally poison all the food, Muk makes the floor slimy and Koffing makes everything stink. That's why they stay outside." Koga replied when I asked why Arbok was the only one who entered. I also went inside and wanted to sit on one of the chairs until I saw a small Nidoran was sitting on it. Its purple skin was remarkably smooth and it yelled: "Nido nido!" at me. I took a seat elsewhere and Koga came again in. "Here, you can have some of the remaining pie." Furthermore he was carrying four plates; two on each hand. The first one he placed on a small side table next to Arbok. It hissed happily and focused on the food. Koga went outside and placed the other three plates outside before the hungry looking Pokémon. I myself started to eat too. The food Koga served his Pokémon didn't look like real Poke food. Arboks food was colored pink and from what I could see, the other Pokémons food look yellow, green and purple. "Excuse me, but what is it you are feeding your Pokémon?" The man turned at me and he answered: "It's called Poképoffin, it's a special Pokémon treat in the faraway region of Sinnoh. That answers your question?" The man seemed a bit annoyed by all my questions and I didn't want to seem like a fool, so I quickly nodded.
On a wall left of me was hanging the only clock in the house. It was around evening. I couldn't suppress one more question and asked: "Koga, who's on that picture?" I pointed my finger to a quite large framed picture of an old man, no doubt Koga, a young female kid around 10 years and another boy, who didn't look like the other two at all. "The girl is my daughter, Janice. She took my poison gym over when I retired. We fight regularly and she almost always wins. The boy is a childhood friend of her. They became best friend and still are. I treated him as my second child and he now runs my Academy." I looked at him to make clear that I didn't know what he meant with 'Academy.' He sighed and answered: "The Academy is something like a school, that I myself funded. We train young kids to be strong and fierce, after a few years of hard training, they get promoted. You could compare us with Pokémon Rangers, only we use our own caught Pokémon, and are very secluded. But aside from that, why are you so curious about it?" I looked at him like he was nuts and exclaimed: "Because it sounds amazing of course!" The man smiled and reacted on a quite calm tone. "Great, because tomorrow you'll be joining it."
-That's it for today! Peace out, osidien.