“So we have a new challenger! What will it be, one versus one or two versus two?” Asks the fired up redhead.

  “I only have one pokemon at the moment, so one versus one.” I reply while taking my time to check her out.

  She gives me a small smirk as she notices my gaze and shifts slightly, giving me a slightly better view of her curves. She pulls out a pokeball before tossing it onto the field and a Slugma appears. Skadi jumps out of my arms and onto the field fag Slugma while my music pyer starts pying the trainer battle theme from the pokemon games quietly in my ears.

  “Mags, time to go!”

  “Skadi, Let’s do this!”

  “Mags, use Ember.”

  “Skadi, dodge and use fuse Ray.”

  The Slugma, Mags, reels its head bad spits out a small globule of viscous looking fire towards Skadi. Skadi side steps and takes a moment to charge up a small smoky purple ray and fires it towards Mags.

  “Mags, Light S then Fire Rain.” As the redhead calls out the and a transparent s of light pops up in front of Mags and the fuse Ray spshes against it harmlessly. Mags then starts to quickly spit out little balls of fire into the air which arc back down and create an effect simir to rain.

  “Skadi, dodge what you then use Icy Wind and attack from a distance!”

  Skadi yips in aowledgement and starts to run around the field. Some of the Fire Rain grazes her as she lets loose a frigid wind from her body. The attack hits Mags as a small burst of steam erupts around the pokemon. Skadi then summons a few icicles that float around her and fires them off into the ter of the steam.

  “Mags, Ie that id keep pressing with Ember!”

  From withieam, red balls of fire shoot out in multiple dires trying to hit Skadi but her attacks keep increasing the amount of steam, creating a thick fog that makes it nearly impossible to see. This bad forth tinues on for a few minutes as some of the fog begins to float above the field, I get ahat may ge the situation. I have noticed that the embers have gradually slowed down and are only ing every few seds now.

  “Skadi, use Powdered Snow but hold it until you ’t!”

  “Mags, use Light S again!

  The field falls silent for a moment until a bright burst of ice blue light erupts on the field causing the fog on the field to dissipate to reveal a frozen field. Slugma stands in the middle of the frozen ndscape, looking visibly tired and has some dark splotches of cooling stone from where Skadi has hit it. The fog that had turned into clouds in the air, start releasing snow from the sudden drop in temperature. Seeing the snow, I smile and give Skadi, who is currently panting and her fur has visible bck spots on it and her majestic tail is hanging limply showing just how tired she was, a final set of ands.

  “Skadi, full power Icy Wind into the clouds and then finish this with a Moon Bst!”

  The redhead looks visibly flustered as she hears my ands and calls out a set of her own. “Mags, don’t let them succeed! Inferno!”

  Before Slugma get off Inferno, Skadi fires off the Icy Wind which turns the falling snow into a Hail Storm which causes her ability, Snow Cloak, to activate. The inferno brushes past her as she skates on the icy ground as a neon pink orb appears s. The pokemon looks up at the orb and uses Harden in an attempt to ehe attack before a pilr of pink energy bsts it causing a dust cloud to appear and blowing away the hail storm. Everything is quiet as everyone waits to see the results. A few seds ter, the dust settles to show a dusty brown Vulpix, just barely standing on its fs and its once majestic tail hanging limply on the ground, and a passed out Slugma that looks like a pile of cooling magma.

  “Winner, Blue Team!” The referee announces as a wild cheer es from the crowd.

  [gratutions host, you have defeated a strong trainer! You receive one free gacha spin.]

  I dismiss the system message as I walk over to Skadi a her head gently as I tell her that she did a good job, causio purr in te and fall asleep in my arms. As I etting Skadi, I could hear the sound of gravel g as someone approaches me. I look up to see the redhead ing towards me with her fident stride. Due to the steam caused by our battle, the clothes she is wearing look to be nearly painted on her now. I gulp slightly as my eyes start to wander again enjoying the view.

  “Aah~. I thought I had it. Good fight though. I bet if we had a rematch I would win.” She gives me a big smile as she walks up to me.

  I return her smile while looking into her ruby colored eyes. “Who knows? If I had my other pokemon and it was a two on two battle I still might have won.”

  “Let’s test that theory ter then! I’m Fnnery Asuna, the future first female fire-type gym leader!” She offers her hand to me as she makes her introdu.

  “Frost Oak, a budding ice type specialist.” I shake her hand and notice that it is a little warmer than usual. The crowd that was around us starts to disperse as we shake hands. They could see that there is not going to be any drama from the results of the match. A moment ter, Bea approaches us as well. I introduce the two of them and invite Fo join us for lunch as we start walking towards the Poketer to get our pokemon healed up. I still want to do some more battles with Skadi as my match with Fnnery was my first official trainer match.

  “So Fnnery, when is your battle with Brock?” Asks Bea after we handed our pokemon to Nurse Joy. We go over to one of the tables in the lounge and look over the menu tablet oable.

  “The day after tomorrow. I registered a few days ago but felt that I should get some practi before the match.” Fnnery replies as she picks out something oablet to order before handing it to me so I could order as well.

  “Really? Mine is tomorrow and Frost has hers in two days. We registered earlier today.”

  “I had hoped to have mine as soon as possible as well, but my Fletder had an issue when she evolved so the League wanted my sponsor to check her out.” I reply with a sigh as I choose a sandwid a rootbeer float for lund hahe tablet.

  “That’s rare indeed. What happeo your Fletder? They are pretty stable pokemon in general and well loved by the unity.”

  “Well when she evolved, we were fighting a Beedrill hive in Viridian Forest and I passed out soon after from an injury so I didn’t get to che her right away. When I woke up, I noticed that she was about double the size of a normal Fletder and her coloration was off as well. After sing her with the Pokedex she had an ability the species isn’t known for.” I py with my blue bang as I expiuation to Fnnery while we wait for our food.

  “Eh~, that sounds iing. Whes back we should battle again! Of course I will win.” Fnnery smiles fidently at me. A moment ter a sey shows up carrying a tray of food and pces it oable for us before waddling away cutely with her sing-song voice. We spend the forty minutes or so chatting amongst ourselves while our pokemon are healing. I also find out that Bea is also training to bee a gym leader as well, only as a fighting type leader. This surprises me as she had not mentiohat previously, only that she was doing this circuit with a eam because her old one didn’t work out.

  After lunch, Fnnery and I pick up our pokemon and we head back to the training fields for some additional battles. We take turns doing battles with other trainers, but the fights are ckluster at best. Skadi is able to take out most of the trainers in two or three moves due to her training. Mags has the same issue, so I see how Fnnery had been able to rack up ten wins before I challenged her. Bea just stayed off to the side and cheered us on while we fought. As the sun began to fall, we brought our tired pokemon back to the Poketer to turn in for the night. As it turns out, Fnnery was staying in the same Poketer as us and she decided to join me in watg Bea fight Broorrow.

  Once I returo my room I stripped off my clothes ao take a cold shower. I bring Skadi into the shower with me so that I her up from all the battles today. It took almost an hour before I decided that Skadi roperly and nice smelling enough. I grab a fluffy towel from the shelf nearby to dry the bulk of the moisture off of her and allow her natural ice geion to hahe rest. Once I let her go, she hops onto the bed and curls up, falling asleep almost instantly. I give her a warm smile and sit on the bed o her and I open my status to see how many spins I have. When I see that I only have one spin I furrow my brow and think about the message I got earlier in the day.

  “So, it o be a trainer of my skill her to earn a reward? Well, I guess that means there will be no easy farming for points.” I mutter to myself. I shake the thought off and decide to use my spin.

  [gratutions host! You have received an Ice Silk Dress Outfit!]

  As usual, the reward appears in front of me, only this time I am pletely shocked at pears. When I saw the rerompt I thought I would get the same qipao that I had previously, or oh a different design. What actually appeared in front of me could only be described as a work of art. {Author does not currently have the literary skills to describe this outfit so here is a picture, I’m not sure which I like better.}.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]The dress would be impractical to wear for anything other than a special occasion. I get the feeling that the system wants me to wear it during gym battles. After thinking about it, I like the idea as it would give me an image I could work with to promote myself. From my browsing on the forums I found that after trainers get their third badge, panies will reach out to them for additional sponsorships to promote their goods. If I have aablished image already, I won’t o create one for the sponsors.

  I take my new outfit and hang it by the door so I admire the work of art that it is. Once I get myself fortable on the bed and into a lotus position, I begin to rex my mind ale into my nightly meditation.

  Kurotsuki007