Kurotsuki007

  With the roar of the crowd, I slowly unch my hands from the bar I was holding. For some reason the bar no longer feels round. I look down at it and find the bar twisted and crushed where I was just holding it. I blink in surprise before remembering to grab my pokeball for Zephyr and recall her from the slowly dissipating blizzard. Once she is ba her ball, I notice Misty leaviform and walking towards me, so I quickly but gracefully step down from my ptform and walk to meet her in the middle.

  “gratutions on your victory Frost.” Misty said to me as she held out her hand.

  “Thank you Leader Misty. You gave me a run for my money and I nearly lost. If not for the st minute evolution I wouldn’t be standing here.” I reply as I shake her hand.

  “Speaking of your pokemon's evolution, I was aware that you had a variant Fletder but this evolution seems different. Please make sure that you get it checked over by an expert before your battle.”

  “I pn on calling my Grandpa while I wait for my friends.”

  “Good, Professor Oak will surely take care of everything for you. On that note, I am aware that using oves is a good way to break the flow, but if properly trained a pokemon's base moves be extremely powerful. oves also have unknowhality. I warned you earlier about the spear you used but if it was used by a more powerful pokemon or was allowed to grow further it could easily kill a pokemon. If you pn on using oves iure, please make sure you test them thhly so acts do not happen.”

  I hang my head a little at the reprimand but I make sure to internalize her words. “I uand. I will keep that in mind for future battles.”

  “Good. Once again, gratutions Frost Oak on winning the Cascade Badge. I hope you make it to the end.” With that Misty hands me a teardrop shaped badge.

  I thank her while taking the badge as the arena roars with cheers. I turn on my heel and start walking back to the corridor. My music pyer takes this time to turn itself up with every step I take away from Misty while pying “Finish Line” by Skillet. A smile threatens to break my mask as my steps feel light as I disappear into the corridor.

  I follow the signs for the exit a my winnings deposited into my at. I look around for a pce where I wait for Bea and Fnnery while watg their matches. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to make it to the stands. I find a room off to the side with a TV on the wall that is currently dispying the gym. It looks like all the damage from my match has been taken care of already so I sit down to wait for my friends on a Wailmer bean bag chair that makes me sink in fortably.

  I shimmy around to get perfectly fortable and pull out my cell phone and notice a few messages. My brother sent me a message saying grats as well as a sticker of himself with a thumbs up and a picture of the third badge in his hand. I reply ba, a little astounded by the fact that he already has three badges. I wonder how he traio get ahead of me so quickly even though we left at the same time. Maybe it was my week in the forest. Mentally shrugging I see messages from Fnnery and Bea, both gratuting me as well. I let my mask slip and smile happily at their messages before sending a good luck message to both of them, making sure to send something flirty to Fnnery.

  The three of us banter bad forth until Bea sends a message that it is her time. I watch the s as Bea walks out with a fident smirk on her face. I know that she is going to do just fihe one I am worried about is Fnnery but I will have some faith in my firecracker that she win. I watch as they gh the speech at the start of the matd then as two pokeballs fly out, starting the match.

  Bea starts with her Tyrogue and Misty sends out a Krabby. I frown a little at the match as Krabby potentially defeat Tyrogue, but only if it hit. Misty starts out by firing off water guns that Tyrogue easily dodges as he approaches Krabby. As he gets within two meters of Krabby, Tyrogue rushes in and hits the crab pokemon with a quick punch. Along the bottom of the s, it shows that the move was Mach Punch. The punds on Krabby and lifts it into the air where Tyrogue follows up with a sed punch that doesn’t ect but I see Krabby boun the air from getting hit by something. Acc to the s it was a Vacuum Wave.

  Krabby retaliates with its cw shining silver and smming down hard, which causes its floating body to twist in the air. Tyrogue side steps to avoid the cw but the twisting motion causes him to misjudge as clipped in the shoulder sending him spinning and flying back about half a meter from the ued hit. Tyrogue recovers quickly, getting back to his feet the same time that Krabby sms onto the ground, sending small waves into the water from its impabsp;

  With their positio, it doesn’t take long before the fight turns into a slug fest of trading low damage, but fast hitting blows. This bad forth tinues until Tyrogue uedly blocks another Metal d turns a Vacuum oint bnk into Krabbys face. The crab pokemon falls to the floor and is unmoving, granting the first takedown to Bea. As Tyrogue lifts its arm in triumph, it starts to glhtly. As the glow subsides a moment ter, a new pokemon is standing in its pce. The pokemon is brown and blue with a point on its head and two skin fps that look like hair hanging off its head.

  The s shows a gratutions message as it dispys a pokedex entry for Hitmontop overid on the arena as Misty grabs her pokeball. Bea’s challenge is a Quagsire, something that take a lot of hits. Hitmontop performs a handstand and then starts to rapidly spin and move around the arena. He approaches Quagsire faster than the pokemon move away and quickly hits it with a Triple Kick before moving away before it be attacked. Quagsire takes the hit before it starts slinging mud around at random. A glob of mud hits Hitmontop causing it to slow down some but does not stop the pokemon from moving around the ter of the arena.

  This bad forth happens a few more times until Bea recalls her battered and muddy Hitmontop and sends out Machop instead. No sooner does Machop appear that he dashes forward with a silvery fist for a Bullet Punch but just before it hits the color shifts to yellow with some sparks fshing around his fist. The Thunder Punch hits, sending Quagsire tumbling backwards until it colpses at the edge of the water. A few seds pass and the s says that Quagsire is out, ing Bea one more take down and she still has all three of hers ready to go.

  Misty sends out her st pokemon, a Politoed. As soon as Politoed appears oage, the pokemon leaps high into the ware and out of camera view. Luckily, there is a sed camera that shows the pokemon high in the sky and hat the move Bounce is being used. I frown slightly as the move has a type advantage against Machop but I’m not sure if Bea has anything that ter it. I gh the moves that I know, which are admittedly few, but nothing rings a bell on what could be used to ter it.

  I raise an eyebrow when I see Machop setting up a Thunder Punch again, but this time he stands still and is looking up. My jaw drops slightly as I see Machop fire his punch towards the sky as a bolt of lightning shoots out of his fist and sms into Politoed who is still midair. I see that Politoed is hurt as it hurtles back towards the ground where Machop is waiting in a horse stance. Politoed sms butt first into Machop, causing the pokemon to slide backwards some from the speed and power of the attack. It is at this moment I notice a brownish red energy enveloping Machop as he grabs onto Politoed and sms the pokemon into the ground with a vengeance. A huge burst of dust appears, c the view of the gym cameras.

  A few seds pass as the dust settles showing a heavily breathing Machop and an unmoving Politoed. Uo help myself I cheer loudly seeing that she won with no knock outs which is much better than I was able to get away with. If it wasn’t for Zephyr, I might have lost… I o make sure I train again before the third gym or else I will lose.

  On the s I see a smiling Bea as she steps off the ptform to speak to Misty. I grab my phone and quickly text her a grats and where she fi is about five mier when a tanned head topped with messy silver hair pops in the door.

  “Frost! grats on winning!” Bea says as she finds me and walks into the room.

  “grats yourself. You pulled off a fwless victory.” I reply with a big smile on my face.

  “I wouldn’t call it fwless, there is a lot I could have doer.” Bea responds as she makes her way over to the Wailmer chair I am sitting on and flops onto it beside me, causio burst out in a fit of giggles. I throw an arm around her shoulder and give her a friendly hug.

  “We are all improving, but three-nothing? eon, you must be happy about that!”

  “Oh don’t get me wrong, I am super happy I won.” Bea gives me a cheeky grin before tinuing. “I was just saying it wasn’t fwless. Oh and grats on Zephyr’s evolution. Did she evolve into a new breed? The s in the waiting room didn’t have any information as your pokemon was already unique before the fight.”

  “Ah, yeah… I haven’t checked yet as she is resting in her pokeball and from what I could tell earlier, she is quite rge now so I didn’t want to release her while still at the gym.” I answer sheepishly. “Speaking of evolutions, I see you now have a Hitmontop. Is that what you were going for with Tyrogue?”

  “I would have been happy with any of the evolutions so I let Tyrogue train how he wao and this is the result. Now we just o get into some heavy training again.”

  “I’m with you on the whole needing to train part.” I sigh and lean bato the beanbag more. “I nearly lost. If it wasn’t for Zephyr’s early evolution I would have to fight Misty again, but this time I wouldn’t be able to catch her off guard with my moves.”

  Bea makes a sound in agreement before turning to the s. “Looks like Fnnery is up now, I hope she win, she is at a total disadvantage here.”

  I look at the s to see my fme haired friend move to the ptform and listen to the rules for the match. “I believe in her, she will domihe fight just like you did.”

  “I hope she does! This is going to be a great fight.”