In the m, I wake up slowly and gnce around the room. It takes me a moment to realize that it was still dark outside despite my ability to see the room perfectly. Seems like my eyes are getting strain, at least I won’t have an issue in caves. I go about my m routine before I recall Zephyr and head down to the lobby to have breakfast with the girls and so that we go to Fnnery’s battle.
We arrive at the gym and find that it is nearly barren of people, unlike Bea’s match yesterday. I think about it for a moment then I realize that most trainers are teenagers. Teens are notoriously bad at waking up early in the m. The only reason I wake up as early as I do is due to my meditation and out of habit as ba earth I hated ms with a passion.
I give Fnnery a quick hug as she runs off towards the waiting room in the back to wait for her match. Bea and I make our way to the stands and notice that they are mostly empty. There are a few trainers but they either have a match after this one or they are the rare m person. It only takes aen minutes before Brock walks out from his side of the arena and Fnnery es out from the opposite side with a fident grin on her face.
“Good m Pewter City! Is everyone ready for another day of matches?” The Referee calls into the microphorying to hype the m crowd. After a few ckluster or sleepy cheers, he starts to expin the rules of the gym.
“Tough crowd this m. For those of you that are new here, let me expin the rules! In each gym you are allowed to use one more pokemon than the number of badges you own plus your starter. That means for your first badge you are allowed to use two pokemon, for your sed you use three and so forth up to a maximum of six pokemon in your team. Leaders are limited to a siype of pokemon, so trainers, if you pn well you might just get an advantage. Leaders, as the challenged, are allowed to set the number of switches allowed in a sich. Once a pokemon is knocked out, no further moves are to be used on the downed pokemon or else it is an immediate disqualification for the battle. Any move that will iionally cause perma damage or death to a pokemon will cause you to be banned from the gym challeil you are reviewed by the League.”
“Now without any further dey because of me, let us wele Leader Brod his first Challenger of the day, Fnnery!”
Brod Fnnery both wave and I cheer and give her a whistle. As the stands are nearly empty, I be heard clearly which causes the few people there as well as Fo look at me. I flush a little uhe gazes but I smile at Fnnery who returns it with a smile of her ouffs out her chest in fidence. My eyes linger on her body for a bit before pulling my eyes away and I happen to catch Brock doing the same thing. He notices my look and fshes me a small smile before tinuing the match.
“This match will be a two on two with zero switches. Let’s see your skill!” Brock calls out, indig the match is starting.
“Geodude, go!”
“Mags, time to go!”
As both pokemon appear on the field, the fight starts right away. Mags glows bright red for a moment before sending a blinding orb of light towards the ceiling. As the move reaches its apex, I start to feel the temperature of the stadium increasing slightly. Geodude responds by rubbing its body with its hands until it gleams slightly in the light. Geodude then glows a brownish color and rushes towards Mags while rolling, making the ground shake slightly.
“Mags, use Rock Throw, knock it off course!” Fnnery calls out.
Mags glows brown slightly and starts to pick up a ro front of it, albeit slower than it should. The rock lifts its closest edge off the ground just as Geodude rolls on top of it, causing Geodude to soar into the air and sm full speed into the shield behind it. I see Geodude is slightly dazed from the hit, as Fnnery as she calls for an Inferno. Mags spits out a bright blue globule of fire at Geodude. Geodude starts to move, trying to get out of the way at Brock’s order but the daze causes it to dey its retreat. A momehe attack hits as we hear Geodude cry out in pain as it is engulfed in blue fire.
Brock cooly orders atack from Geodude as it picks up rocks from around it and starts throwing them at Mags. Unfortunately fs, the rocks fly much faster than it move and the poor this pelted multiple times, causing the magma it is made out of to start to scatter around. Fnnery calls for a yawn, but just as mags attempts to follow the order, it gets hit square in the mouth, causing more magma to sptter around and doesn’t tih the attack.
“Slugma is uo battle. Challenger please select your pokemon.” I see the Referee flinch slightly as he looks at Fnnery who looks like she will set someone on fire before she recalls her pokemon. She grabs a different pokeball and whispers something to it before tossing it out onto the field.
“et, time to go! Avenge Mags!” pears on the field is a horse type pokemon with a fming mane and tail, both of which have a few blue sparks ing off it. The pokemon looks over at Geodude and squints its eyes at it before rushing towards it as Fnnery calls out another and. “Horse Kick!” The pokemon appears in front of Geodude and spins around quickly, using its hio send out a kick my eyes ot tratil I hear a bang as Geodude sms into the psychic wall again, much harder this time. There is a slight hush iadium as Geodude doesn’t get back up.
“Geodude uo battle. Leader Brock, send out your pokemon.”
“Not what I was expeg, but I hope you trol your temper a little.” Brock calls out to Fnnery as he reaches for another pokeball and tosses it out. “Onix, go.”
pears is a bunch of boulders that start to move and a head lifts from the pile to show a snake made of boulders that looms over Fnnery’s Ponyta. et glows green for a moment as Fnnery calls for a Sor Beam, and at the same time Brock calls for a Double Team for Onix. Onix seems to shimmer for a moment before seemingly splitting in two. et lets loose a bright white beam of pure sunlight at the twin Onix but the attaly makes one of them disappear.
Fnnery calls for the attack again, but as it is charging up for a sed attack as the formerly bright pseudo-sun dims from its power being drained i attack, Onix starts hurling brown glowing boulders at et. This forces the pokemon to have to move around to dodge the boulders. As it weaves across the ground, glowing brighter green, one of ets hind legs gets hit by a boulder which causes her to flind start limping slightly. The green light around et disappears, along with the sun overhead which causes the stadium to start cooling down again.
“et, Low Horsepower!” Fnnery calls out desperately, as the attack from Onix seems to have done more damage than she wao admit. et dashes across the ground towards Onix as it dodges the attacks being flung at it as it grows closer. Brock calls for a Rob when Ponyta is only a few steps away and the ground starts to quickly grow around it.
“Use Fme charge to dodge et! Press the attack!”
et lives up to its namesake and turns into a fiery et as it races across the ground even faster before jumping just before reag Onix and smming its hooves hard into the pokemons head which causes it to crash to the ground hard, making everything shake. Ponyta nds a moment ter, and stumbles on the shaking ground. Fnnery calls once more for a Sor Beam, causing Ponyta to start glowing green again.
Brock calls for Onix to use Rock Throw to interrupt the attack, but Onix is moving slowly from the st attack. Onix does get a few good hits in, which causes the green light to dim slightly on each hit but the moment another blinding white beam shoots from ets mouth and sms directly into Onix. Ohe beam dies down, Onix is still standing and staring at Ponyta for a moment before it crashes to the ground.
“Onix is no longer able to battle! Challenger Fnnery wins!”
As the referee calls out the winner, I see Fnnery jump in the air in joy that she won. She recalls her pokemon as she and Brock approach the ter of the arena. Like he did with Bea, he hands her the Boulder Badge and talks to her quietly. I see Fnnery nod and then look down, seeming ashamed at whatever Brock was telling her. After I see Fnnery head back down the Challenger hall, I grab Bea’s hand and head out to go meet with Fnnery.
As we step outside of the gym, I notice that it is still devoid of trainers or anyone else that wants to watch a match. I feel bad for Fnnery as she had su epic fight but hardly anyone saw the match. Fnnery spots us a moment ter and rushes over to us. In her joy, she gives me a tight hug and picks me up slightly spinning me around, muy shock. I see Bea give us a wry smile before hugging us both. Fnnery starts to giggle and I follow suit shortly after as does Bea.
Once she releases me from her hug I finally get to gratute her as I try to stop myself from giggling at her antics. “G-great job Fnnery! Yht was awesome! I just wish that more people could have watched the fight as well. If only you had a crowd like Bea did yesterday, you might have had a ton of fans!” No sooner do I say that, I get an odd look from both of them. They look at each other and then back at me before Bea speaks up.
“Frost, you know that the fights are recorded right? After your match, it is posted on the Gyms page on the forums. Each year they out the unsuccessful battle from the page, but every person who won a badge has their videos saved for others to study.”
I blink slowly as my brain processes what she just said as my cheeks start to blush fiercely. “I-I didn’t know…” I reply quietly as I look away from their eyes as even my ears start to turn red. “A-anyways! Let’s go see what there is to have fun in this city! I don’t have my fight until tomorrow evening so we have all day to have fun!”
I hear Fnnery giggle at my attempt to ge the topic but allows me t them off into the city. We first stop by the Poketer so that her pokemon get healed up while we are out. We stroll along the streets looking at the different shops and boutiques around the city. We stop in a couple of clothing stores and have fun pig out different styles of clothes. I found a lot of cute outfits that I would love to wear, but the moment I tried any of them on I felt like I was boiling. This damn bloodline of mine o have an on/off switch. I want to wear cute clothes too!
To ease my poor heart, I enjoy the fashion show that Fnnery and Bea put on. Seeing Bea in a lolita dress is an odd sight but her looks plement it well. Fnnery oher hand is trying out all sorts of boyish styles that pliment her curves in all the right ways. I end up buying a couple more outfits simir to what I already have so that I wasn’t wearing the same old clothes I had brought with me. After our foray into clothes, I drag the two of them into a makeup store as I haven’t gotten a ce to buy any makeup since I arrived in this world and I was missing having some. Not that I , but that doesn’t mean I ’t elevate my look more! I want to look cute! Now, I am just going to push how much I just spent on makeup into the bay mind.
We spend the rest of the day enjoying what the city has to offer before we head back to the Poketer for the night. I miss going out with friends like this, so the fact that I now have two new friends to hang out with eased a part of my mind I didn’t knoressing on my psyche. After wishing the two of them a good night and sneaking in a hug, I went up to my room a about my nightly routine before settling on the bed and beginning to meditate.
As I meditate, I notice that I feel the elemental energy produced by Skadi and Zephyr much more clearly than before and my body has a feeling of fullo it. As I practice my cultivation teique, I see the interior of my body and it looks to be full of thick mist. I trate and try to push the mist along with my teique and I feel it start to move under protest. At first it feels like I am pushing a single droplet of the mist but gradually the rest of the mist starts to swirl and follow my guidance. I guide the mist through my body as the teique says to and gradually, the faint outline of a snowfke appears, c the ey of my torso. After the snowfke forms, all the mist disappears and is repced by a pale blue liquid that tio tra outline of a snowfke inside of me.
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