THE POKENINJA, ADVENTURES OF THE MAELSTROM POKEMON
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Chapter 16: Restoring Bonds and Busting Up
Naruto and the gang were walking along the road, when suddenly someone appeared on the road and stood in their way.
She is a girl with pink hair, wearing a long dark teal shirt, underneath a teal blouse with yellow buttons. The girl also wears dark teal socks, teal boots with dark heels, as well as yellow hat and gloves, and a collar around her neck.
"You're Iris? I've been looking for you. My name is Georgia and I'm a dragon buster," said the girl.
"A dragon buster? What does that mean?" asked Naruto curiously.
"See, my thing is to defeat dragon type Pokémon. Especially dragon types from the village of dragons!" said Georgia much to Iris's surprise.
"Why are you so obsessed with dragon types?" asked Cilan.
"A long time ago, my Pokémon and I were beaten in a battle of the village of dragons,"
"So that's why you're a dragon buster?" asked Ash.
"What's it to you?" she asked arrogantly.
"I rather see it as childish and that of a sore loser, don't you think so Iris?" asked Naruto with deadpanned expression.
"You're right about that, what a kid," said Iris.
"You humans tend to bear grudges on the most trivial things like this girl here," said Kurama.
"So what if I'm a kid?! So go ahead and run away if you're scared," said Georgia.
Iris growled in anger at the implication "Look if you want to battle me then I accept!"
Then they walked to a clearing for the incoming Pokémon battle, George took out her Pokéball and threw it "Beartic, Let's go!" the Pokéball opened to reveal a giant bear standing on its hind legs, it has bluish white fur with a saggy tuft at its rear and three spikes of ice that hang from its lower jaw to form a beard. Its large forepaws have black claws and paw pads.
Ash took out his Pokédex to scan it.
[Beartic, the Freezing Pokémon. Beartic's frozen breath can create fangs and claws made of ice. It lives in frigid northern areas.]
"It would make for her to have an ice type Pokémon to battle any dragon type Pokémon since she proclaims herself to be a dragon buster," said Naruto.
"You're right about that Tokala, but I wonder how Iris will approach this battle?" said Ash as they watched from the sidelines.
Iris shivered a bit at the sight of the ice type "As much as I don't like ice types, I'll have to battle them like Naruto told me," She turned to Axew who was in her hair "Alright Axew, let's show her what we can do!"
"Okay Iris!" Axew jumped off and into the battlefield to Beartic who began to yawn as if bored "Hey, don't look down on me!"
"Couldn't you have used a better Pokémon than this one, how can I call myself a dragon buster if I can beat a humongous dragon type Pokémon," Georgia scoffed haughtily much to Iris as well as Naruto's annoyance.
"Are most trainers this arrogant?" thought Naruto.
"Aside from Ash and the rest, I'm beginning to think that there are," said Kurama.
"You save that attitude after you win. Axew use Scratch!" said Iris, Axew charged at Beartic with his paws reared back to attack.
"Beartic use Slash!" Beartic's claws glowed white as it reared it back before swinging it at Axew, sending him flying back much to Iris's dismay.
"This could end badly for Iris and Axew if they're not careful," said Ash.
"You're right, especially with the size difference," said Naruto in agreement to what Ash said.
"Now use Icicle Crash!" Beartic opened its mouth to release a frosty breath which form a cluster of spears made out of ice which descended towards Axew.
Iris worriedly called out "Axew get out of the way!" Axew was able to dodge a few but still got a hit by one, inflicting super effective damage on him.
"Alright Beartic, use Ice Beam!" Beartic opened its mouth and a blue orb of energy forms in front it before firing multiple beams at Axew.
"Quick Axew, use Dragon Rage!" Axew got up and unleashed dark blue energy which took the form of a dragon and clashed with the Ice Beam. Both attacks struggled for a few seconds but Beartic's won as it broke through the Dragon Rage and slammed into Axew, leaving him lying in a crater with swirls in his eyes.
"Axew is unable to battle, therefore Beartic is the winner," said Cilan who was standing in as the referee, Iris and Naruto quickly ran over to Axew to check up on him.
"Axew, are you okay?" Iris asked worriedly.
Axew opened his eyes and responded weakly "I'm okay now,"
"That's a relief, but you tried your best and I'm sure you'll do better in the next battle," said Naruto with a smile.
"Is that the best you can do? If so, then I'm disappointed. Now bring out your next dragon type," said Georgia.
"Actually, Axew is Iris's only dragon type," said Cilan.
"What?! And you call want to be a dragon master? How can you achieve that when you don't even have more than one dragon type Pokémon?" said Georgia in disbelief.
"It's none of your business," said Iris.
"You know for someone who is from the village of dragon, you sure weak,"
"You better watch what you say or your next opponent will be me," Naruto said with a glare, causing Georgia to take a step back, she was about to retort when they heard Iris speak.
"Even though it's not a dragon type, I have a Pokémon who can beat yours hands down!" She got up and took a Pokéball out of her sleeve.
"If it's not a dragon type then I'm not interested,"
"Then that makes you someone who is a coward," said Naruto.
"What did you say?!" said Georgia angrily.
"He's right, if you call yourself a dragon buster then that probably means you can't beat any other Pokémon types," said Iris.
"That will definitely rile her up enough to battle, but if Iris intends to use him then I don't know how this battle will go," said Kurama.
"I'm thinking the same thing Kurama," thought Naruto.
"Alright then, I accept your challenge!" said Georgia.
Awesome, Excadrill come on out!" Iris threw out her Pokéball to call upon Excadrill who only emerged in his drill form. Naruto could still sense the anger from the Pokémon, Ash took out his Pokédex to scan.
[Excadrill, the Subterrene Pokémon, and the evolved form of Drilbur. Excadrill can dig maze-like tunnels for over 100 meters and is powerful enough to cut through thick iron plates using its steel claws.]
"Hey is this a battle or nap?" said Georgia.
"Excadrill is taking a nap as he doesn't see this battle is worth his time," said Iris "I'm sure Excadrill will battle if Beartic provokes him,"
"In that case, Beartic wake it up with Slash!" Beartic charged forward and lashed out with its claws glowing white which sent Excadrill crashing into a tree trunk.
After a few seconds, Excadrill exited out of his drill form to reveal a small long and thin white face tipped by his pink nose with two thin and red stripes under his eyes. A large blade roughly twice as large as his face extends from his forehead with the top containing two smaller blades resembling fins, his arms are thick and have three large blades instead of fingers, with two smaller ones on top of the middle ones.
"Whoa he looks strong, makes me want to battle him," said Naruto with Kurama nodding in agreement.
"Okay Excadrill, use Dig!" but Excadrill rather charged forward with his claws taking on a metal sheen to show that he's using Metal Claw "As I thought, he's still not listening to me,"
"Beartic, use Icicle Crash!" Beartic fired another volley of ice spears at Excadrill who was knocking aside with his claws and was still approaching "Now use Ice Beam!" it shot another beam of ice, but Excadrill used Dig to burrow underground and appeared underneath Beartic with a powerful uppercut.
"That's perfect Excadrill, now use-," Excadrill ignored Iris as he went into drill mode to use Drill Run before spiraling towards Beartic.
"That's almost like Kiba and Akamaru's Fang over Fang jutsu!" said Naruto with a look of surprise.
"Beartic, use Rock Smash!" Iris let out a gasp at what Georgia had just said, something which Naruto was quick to notice. Beartic's arm glowed red as it slammed into Excadrill and sent him crashing through a boulder and he laid on the ground unmoving.
Iris ran over Excadrill with a look of worry "Excadrill, are you okay?" Excadrill slowly raised his head to look at Iris before turning to his drill mode again "No wait, please!"
"Is that it? Are you giving up?" asked Georgia.
"I guess… I forfeit the match," said Iris sadly.
"Humph then I guess all that talk from before was just that, talk. Battling a trainer whose Pokémon doesn't even obey commands is not worth it, try fixing that problem before you even think of battling me. Ta ta," Georgia walked away after calling Beartic back into its Pokéball.
"Iris are you okay?" asked Ash with a look of concern.
"That girl certainly has a demeanor peppered with attitude," said Cilan.
"I'm okay…but I'm rather worried about Excadrill, we were beaten by that very same move before," said Iris.
"Does it have something to do with that girl telling her Beartic to use Rock Smash?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah, it was the first battle that we ever lost and Excadrill had been hiding ever since then,"
"Could you tell us how all this happened?" asked Cilan, with Iris nodding in affirmation.
Later on they had gathered around the table as Iris began her tale "When I was still living in the village, I often play with the wild Pokémon whenever I have free time on my hands. Then one day, one of my friends a Patrat got kicked out of its burrow which happened to be by a Drilbur,"
"I'm guessing that was Excadrill before it evolved right?" asked Ash.
"That's right, when it refused to listen I tried to knock some sense into him and get him to leave but I ended up getting knocked around. Ever since then I've been trying to beat Drilbur only to get knocked out again and again until one day I finally got a solid hit on it. Drilbur tried to attack me with Drill Run, but I was able to knock him off balance, sending into a tree and getting entangled in vines and hanging over a cliff. I quickly moved in to rescue him and since then we became best friends,"
"That sounds awesome Iris, I bet you two had your fair share of Pokémon battles," said Ash.
"You can't be anymore right Ash, we had been winning every single battle together. Then after a bit of training, we entered the annual village of dragons battle competition in which one of the battles Drilbur had evolved into Excadrill and we had winning streak going,"
"Then what happened that got Excadrill to stop listening to you?" asked Naruto.
"After winning the competition, I met a man who goes by the name Drayden, a dragon master. When I learnt who he was, I requested for a battle which he accepted, I used Excadrill to battle against his Haxorus but no matter which attacks we used it didn't do a thing, and then Haxorus used Rock Smash that completely knocked Excadrill. When I went to check if he was okay, he went into drill mode and refused to listen to me. Even when I left the village, Excadrill refused to listen to me no matter how I tried to cheer him up. Maybe losing was more than it could handle," said Iris sadly.
Naruto was deep in thought before he finally spoke "I understand everything now, but the reason why Excadrill doesn't obey happens to come from you Iris,"
"What do you mean by that, are you saying that I was being a bad trainer?!" Iris asked angrily.
Naruto shook his head in a negative "I didn't mean that, you should look back at what happened. You went up against a dragon master, someone who had way more experience and trained his Pokémon much longer than you did. Also didn't Excadrill somehow act differently from usual?"
"Now that you mention it, he began to hesitate after using Metal Claw, what do you mean by that?"
"That's because he began to realize that this is an opponent he had no chance of defeating, something you failed to notice and continued to have him battle,"
Iris thought back to the battle and realized what Naruto was talking about "I was so overconfident that I didn't even pay attention to Excadrill's feelings?" Naruto simply nodded.
"Naruto is right, maybe you should consider Excadrill's feelings, if you do that then you might be able to restore the friendship the both of you had back then," said Cilan, Iris took out Excadrill's Pokéball and looked at it while deep in thought.
Later that night, Iris had let Excadrill out of his Pokéball although he was still in drill mode and laid next to him and was staring at the night sky.
"Excadrill, I don't know if you're listening to me but there's something I want to tell you," said Iris.
"What is it that she wants to say," thought Excadrill, but his eyes widened in surprise at what he heard next.
"I'm sorry about what happened back then, I failed to notice how you felt, that we were battling someone who was way out of our league and yet I pushed you to keep on battling. I hope you can find it your heart to give me one more chance, and I promise to do everything I can to restore our friendship back to when we were younger,"
"Does she really mean it? Should I give her that chance for her to make thing right again?" thought Excadrill as he listened to Iris sobbing quietly, then he remembered the times he spent with Iris back when he was a Drilbur.
He exited from his drill mode to see that Iris had fallen asleep, he got up and walked away and deep into the woods. Once deep enough, Excadrill tried to execute an unknown attack by focusing a ball of blue energy between his claws, but the ball distorted and exploded a bit. He tried repeatedly only to get the same result and had become a bit tired, he was about to try again when he heard a voice from behind.
"Excadrill?" he turned around to see Iris emerging from behind a bush "Was that Focus Blast you tried to use?" he turned away from her before giving her a silent nod "Well…would it be okay if I trained with you?" after what seemed like a minute, Excadrill nodded again much to her joy "Thank you Excadrill, let's master Focus Blast together,"
A small smile appeared on Excadrill's face "Just like back then,"
"Okay Excadrill, use Focus Blast!" Excadrill tried once again to focus energy into ball in between his claws only to have it explode once more "There must be something that we're doing wrong,"
"Actually there is," a voice spoke out of nowhere, surprising them to look around in search of it "Up here," they looked up to see Naruto sitting on the branch of a tree and looking down at them.
"Naruto? What are you doing here?" asked Iris while Excadrill was looking at him with interest.
"Well I was woken up by a certain noise so I came to check it out only to see Excadrill practicing, and then I saw you arrive," said Naruto.
"Okay, so what were you saying that we were doing wrong?"
"When I was watching, I noticed that what you guys were trying to do has some similarities to when I was trying to master one of my techniques back in my dimension, so I might be able to help you,"
"Really, thanks for helping us Naruto," said Iris happily.
"It's no problem at all, first you must gather the energy and focus it to a certain point, second form it into a ball, and afterwards you throw it at your target. Keep these two steps in mind and you should be able to master the attack," Excadrill and Iris nodded in affirmation before resuming the attempt to master the Focus Blast.
Soon, the sun had risen over the mountains. Iris and Excadrill were finishing up on their training in the attack.
"Excadrill, use Focus Blast!" Excadrill put his claws together as a blue orb of energy forms between them, then he pulled one of his claws back while holding the orb before throwing it at a boulder, shattering it into pieces "You did it, Excadrill!" Excadrill turned to smile at her but was surprised when she suddenly hugged him.
"Congrats you two," said Naruto with a smile.
"It's thanks to your advice that we were able to do it," said Iris happily.
"Yeah thanks," said Excadrill.
"Hey guys," they turned to see Ash, Pikachu and Cilan appear from the bushes "I bet you guys are hungry after all that training so Cilan has made some breakfast for us, he even prepared ramen for you Naruto,"
Upon hearing that, Naruto started to drool and was giddy to get to the breakfast table "Well what are waiting for let's go!"
They headed back to the campsite only to let out shouts of dismay as they didn't meet the expected breakfast since a certain someone by the name Georgia had eaten it all.
"Not our nice breakfast!" said Ash sadly.
"Noooooooo, ramen-chaaaaaaaan!" Naruto cried anime tears at being denied his favorite dish, Kurama simply shook his head and how his friend is overreacting.
"Oh so that was your breakfast? It's no biggie, you can just make some more," said Georgia nonchalantly, Naruto was fighting the urge to turn shift into his Combo mode and perform a Thousand Years of Pain on her.
Iris stepped forward "Georgia, Excadrill and I would like to challenge you and your Beartic to a rematch,"
Georgia simply looked at her and scoffed "Okay then, I hope that you would disappoint me this time," then they headed back to the battlefield as they faced off once again.
"This will be a one-on-one Pokémon battle, begin!" said Cilan to signal the start of the battle.
"Beartic, Slash let's go!" Beartic charged forward with its claws glowing white.
"Excadrill, use Metal Claw!" Excadrill charged forward with his claws taking on a metal sheen, they clashed attacks only to jump back to signal a draw.
"Now use Icicle Crash!" Beartic launched a volley of ice spears as they descended towards Excadrill.
"Excadrill, dodge it with Dig!" Excadrill quickly burrowed underground and appeared before Beartic with an uppercut, sending it flying into the air "Now show them your new move, use Focus Blast!" Excadrill formed the blue energy orb and flung it at Beartic which made a direct hit, inflicting serious damage due to the type advantage "Follow it up with Drill Run!" Excadrill shifted into drill mode and spiraled towards Beartic, and slammed into it.
"Beartic, use Ice Beam!" Beartic fired a beam of blue energy which hit Excadrill, freezing him solid.
"Break out of the ice with Metal Claw!" Excadrill's claws glowed before it shattered the ice prison, freeing himself in the process.
"Use Icicle Crash!" another volley of ice spears were aimed towards Excadrill.
"Use Focus Blast!" Excadrill fired a blue orb at the spears, which shattered a few but the rest were able to hit him, damaging him to the pointing of dropping to his knees "Excadrill please hang in there,"
"No! I won't lose like this!" Excadrill got back to his feet, much to the relief of Iris and Naruto smiled in approval.
"Finish this with Rock Smash!" Beartic charged forward with its glowing red arm reared back.
"Let's do the same with Drill Run!" Excadrill shifted to drill mode and charged forward while rotating rapidly.
Both attacks collided at the same type before passing each other, Excadrill stopped spinning to collapse to the ground much to Iris's dismay. Georgia smirked thinking that she won again, only to drop it when she saw Beartic collapse to the floor as well with swirls in his eyes.
"Both Pokémon are unable to battle, then that means this match is a draw!" said Cilan.
Georgia growled in anger before calling Beartic back into its Pokéball "Unless I'm battling a dragon type Pokémon, I could care less. Until then, I'll see you guys later," then she walked away haughtily.
"What a sore loser," said Naruto.
"Makes me wonder how sore she'll be when she battles us, I look forward to that reaction," said Kurama with smirk.
"Me too," thought Naruto as he drew close to Iris who was checking up on Excadrill.
"Excadrill, are you okay?" asked Iris worriedly, Excadrill opened his eyes and gave a nod of affirmation "I'm glad, even though it was a draw, we still had a great battle,"
"I have to agree with Iris, you two were in total sync! It even makes us want to battle you!" said Ash with Pikachu nodding in agreement.
"I agree with them on that one, especially the battle part," said Naruto with a foxy grin.
"I'll make sure to notice your feelings next time and will get better and better, so could you hang in there with me until then?"
"Of course I will, we're friends aren't we?" Excadrill hugged her happily which she responded with a hug of her own as the others watched with smiles on their faces.
"It's good to see that their friendship has been restored," said Naruto, then he looked into the distance "Makes me wonder what else we'll encounter,"
This is Hussbek online with another chapter, looks like Naruto has helped Iris patch things up with Excadrill so what else will the gang encounter? Would Naruto have to take the stage once again? Find out on the next chapter. Read and Review as always.
This is Hussbek from Ghana.
Signing out.
