[Pokémon] The Secret Academy
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Chapter 14: Double Battle! Combo Attack!
Out of the thrown Pokéballs seal glowed red and the usual red abstract beam was shot out. In the middle of the air, it formed itself together to form a little mouse-like creature without a tail.. It had a long snout, colored dark cream that led all the way to its feet with on each foot two grey claws. On its grey back, that went all the way over its head, were round red spots that had fire bursting out of them and its eyes were half closed. The small Pokémon landed directly onto its feet, letting out a loud cry. Cassie, Astrid and I looked surprised at the quite rare Pokémon, but Fieritis just waited for Astrid to announce the battle. So the local Pokémon Fieritis was talking about must've been a Cyndaquil. But in this region you wouldn't quickly see such Pokémon. Around the town mostly wander Kanto, Kalos and even Hoenn ones, but not Johto. I saw Astrid quickly shaking her head to throw off the amazement and Scarlett looked a little bit scared at us, probably because she's in my eyes so timid.
"The double battle from Cassie and Scarlett versus Fieritis and Lucus will now begin! The rules are the same as always. Each trainer uses his or her chosen Pokémon. The side that has the last standing Pokémon, wins." Fieritis quickly exchanged looks and I saw him grinning. He was clearly excited for the match. On the other side Cassie stood haughtily next to Fieritis' sister.
"I'll kick things off! Marill! Water Gun on Charmeleon!" she exclaimed. The blue mouse Pokémon jumped up, and while in the air, it opened its mouth to fire a small stream of water at my trusty companion.
"Deflect with Dragon Rage." I calmly answered. I knew that a fire type move like Flamethrower would obviously fail, so I choose the dragon attack. My Charmeleon roared out his name and prepared itself for the move. Fieritis also said something to his Froakie, but I was too concentrated on my own fight. Once the water gun was halfway my red dinosaur created a huge beam of blue fire, a less transparent than the Water Gun, that hit the other Water Gun right in the center. The two moves both exploded though a very small stream of the blue fire made it through and hit the Marill, that not much after almost fell. It wasn't a lot, so it didn't really damage the Pokémon, but it was good to know Charmeleon's move was stronger than the Water Gun. When the explosion faded, it appeared that Fieritis' frog Pokémon jumped up in the air to use a Quick Attack. Just when Marill regained balance, the Froakie moved behind it and hit the poor mouse with a strong punch. The Marill flew forward and I saw the opportunity to react.
"Slash!" I ordered. Charmeleon rushed forward, and stopped right before Cassie's grounded Pokémon. He raises his right arm, only to throw it with all his might against Marill. Fieritis smiled happily, and I could feel he was in his element. Froakie jumped and my Charmeleon ran back to their original position, waiting for new orders. The blue mouse seemed quite damaged, but still had enough HP to stand back up, this time with a more agitated gesture.
"That wasn't very nice." Cassie said. I immediately see she was being sarcastic, because her mouth formed a small smile.
"Well, you don't expect us to go easy on you, are you?" I replied. Her smile became even bigger and Fieritis flinched at the sight that Scarlett, who was now also smiling, had told her Cyndaquil to ran behind Froakie. Even though Scarlett didn't say a word, her Cyndaquil automatically started rolling around Fieritis' Pokémon while being covered by rapid spinning fire. The frog Pokémon wanted to escape, but as soon as it tried, the spinning wheel of fire crashed into it. Froakie got hit pretty bad and it flew against a tree, just outside of the battlefield. Even though this wasn't good, I thought I'd make the best of it.
"Charmeleon, Flamethrower at Cyndaquil." Fieritis at first looked at me like I was nuts, he soon realized what I wanted to do. My companion spit out another beam, only red this time, made out of flames. It hit the Cyndaquil while it was spinning, but because of the extra hot ardor, it overheated Scarlett's Pokémon and it stopped twirling. Fieritis and I could clearly see Cyndaquil's skin being burned. Even Fire-Pokémon always have a limit to the enduring of heath. I made eye contact with Cassie and she seemed more pissed off than Scarlett.
"Marill! Attract on Froakie!" She exclaimed. Fieritis was stunned, he didn't know how to dodge it, his small friend was worn out from Cyndaquil's Flame Wheel, so I did that for him.
"Smokescreen." A huge cloud of smoke surrounded the area, covering everything, and so Marill couldn't see and seduce Fieritis' Pokémon. "Alright Fieritis, you know what to do." He grinned at me with his usual laugh when he feels superior to his opponent, and ordered his Pokémon.
"Froakie, use Fling with your sticky bubbles." He called out. All I could see was smoke, so I relied on sounds. I heard Froakie jumping up, and throwing something to the other Pokémon. When the smoke disappeared, Marill and Cyndaquil were stick to the ground. During the Smokescreen, Froakie threw a part of its flexible bubbles that hung around its neck, towards our opponents Pokémon. Cassie became really furious and Scarlett gritted her teeth.
"Let's finish them off." Fieritis said to me.
"Sure thing, pal. Charmeleon, use Dragon Rage at Marill." I ordered. Fieritis turned to his Pokémon and did the same.
"Water Pulse against Cyndaquil!" Both of our Pokémon jumped in the air, opened their and used their attacks. Froakie's liquid was shaped like a ring, and Charmeleon's fervor was just the plain straight beam. The attacks were sure to hit since the Pokémon were stuck, and both moves smashed in the defenseless Pokémon. Cyndaquil nor Marill stood up, even if their trainers tried to pep them back up. The battle was decided. Fieritis and I called back our Pokémon, and glanced at Astrid. She didn't really understand what happened the past minute, but just raised her right hand, declaring our victory. Cassie fell onto her knees, and watched her Marill. For me it was a bit too much drama. She only lost the battle. Surprisingly enough Scarlett called her Cyndaquil back and walked towards Fieritis and me.
"Great battle, boys." She said. None of us could disagree (besides Cassie of course) so we nodded. It sure was a good match.