A Pkmn Story: Chapter 12 - Aerodactyl

A Pokemon Story

Chapter 12
Aerodactyl

The icy Froslass-lady came out of Chris’ pokeball and swirled around for a while, then touched the ground in an elegant manner and smiled playfully, waving its scarf to its opponent. Espeon made a step forward, knowing it was meant to battle alongside her partner for Chris.

The girl smiled.
‘We never even got to know each other properly. My name is Rebecca and I saw that Azelf first.’
Chris let the Azelf out of his arms and it hovered down to its legs, where it hid behind him.
‘Seriously, you bore me. It’s because of you that I came out here at this time of day, seeking for something that apparently doesn’t exist, and now you’re getting on my nerves with your stupid attitude. You’ve still got time to flee this battle.’
‘You have to be kidding me, please tell me so’ she replied. ‘Your cutie-pie pokemon won’t even stand a chance against my dessert-colossus! Garchomp, use Earthquake! Aerodactyl, Rockslide that Froslass!’
The Aerodactyl, being the fastest between the pokemon, hit the area with a schockwave from its wings, rocks started falling on both of Chris’ pokemon but he didn’t even flinch.
‘Rock is powerful against ice; your Froslass shouldn’t even have survived that!’

Chris grinned. Her Garchomp was getting ready to attack by accelerating itself into the sky and falling to the ground with immense prowess and speed.
‘Froslass, Ice Beam.’ he almost whispered. A bright flash of light escaped from the rock pile and hit the Garchomp while it was still in mid-air, freezing it completely, making it fall to the ground inelegantly and ineffectively moretheless. The Earthquake attack was blocked successfully.

Rebecca just stared towards her fainted Garchomp, large ice parts still shattering around it.
‘My Froslass is wearing a focus sash, allowing it to survive any instant k.o. attack aiming at it.’
Froslass appeared out of the rock pile, seemingly wounded but still intact. It almost looked like it had an evil smile painted across its cute little face. Its breath was crystallizing the air around it as it had cooled down extremely to shoot that ice beam into the gigantic dragon.
‘Espeon, blast that cocky Aerodactyl away!’
Rebecca gasped in horror, as her pokemon was thrown onto her fainted dragon by Espeon’s psychic powers. It still managed to escape fainting, or worse, and hardly made its way up in the air again, confused by the surprising hit.

‘As you see, you’re one hit away from losing this battle. You may or may not be able to hit one of my pokemon, but the other one is still going to drag you down to your last health points. Better give up now to preserve the last bits of dignity you still have left on you.’
Rebecca looked around, obviously anxious by her losing control of the battle just like that. She started jumping around in anger, waving her arms up and down, screaming stuff Chris didn’t understand. The situation had gotten very puzzling, him not knowing what had gotten into her at all.

‘You little… Aerodactyl, crunch that Azelf to death!’ she yelled, and her pokemon immediately reacted flying over the not-so-well-hidden Azelf that was still waiting behind Chris. Chris, obviously shocked by her weird and perfunctory mindset, was unable to counter her attack, and just in the last seconds before the Azelf was going to be crushed inside that prehistoric monsters mouth, his Froslass shot instinctively another ice beam towards the flying relic. Aerodactyl was dislodged and hit the crevice behind it, falling down to the ground, unable to move any further.

‘You son of a-‘ Rebecca started swearing and threw an empty pokeball towards the agitated Azelf. The pokeball, which was meant to catch it, or better, to try to catch it, hit the pokemon and fell aside. No reaction. No sucking in, no fancy colours, nothing.

‘You can’t catch that Azelf, you know.’ Chris said quickly.
Rebecca just stared at the still empty pokeball, to Azelf and then to Chris’ direction.
‘It’s yours, isn’t it?’ she replied calmly.
‘It’s mine, yes. Sorry if it got you into any…trouble.’

The sarcastic answer he gave her wasn’t worth her time probably. She returned her pokemon back to their pokeballs and run away.

A Pkmn Story: Chapter 10 - Hippowdon

A Pokemon Story

Chapter 10
Hippowdon

 

The Sandstorm got worse by the minute and as the area got more uphill and hard to overcome, Chris started losing his endurance and patience. He was sick of walking alone for so long, may it have been forty minutes or three hours, so he decided to stop only caring about the health of his pokemon but to use his companions to make the journey a little more enjoyable and easy.
‘Espeon, use Morning Sun!’ he murmured, as he drew the pokeball out of his pocket and pushed the release button. Espeon run around its trainer, its four standing up due to the severe weather conditions. It closed its eyes and its third eye started glowing. A dim circle of light appeared around it and started worming its way up to the sky, through the sand clouds and the brown matter, seeking its way to the sun. The ray got stronger and lapped the pokemon in it. Chris entered the circle and everything got faint. The sound of the storm, the wind, everything lost in volume. He fondled his Espeon’s head and they kept walking. 

They didn’t even have to walk this way for over five minutes when suddenly the storm disappeared. Espeon scanned the area and let the Morning Sun shield down, since the wind had calmed down and the dust in the air slowly sank down to the ground. Then it looked back to Chris, who just casually stood there, obviously distracted and puzzled by what just had happened. Was the wild Tyranitar dead already, or worse, did someone else catch it before him? The different scenarios kept coming to him and got him more devastated every time he could thing of a new one. It was already late in the afternoon and the soon was about to set. What should he do? Should he return?
Espeon blinked and growled silently. Chris felt a fresh sensation running through his veins. ‘Thank you Espeon.’. His pokemon had given him a psychic power push, feeling him with positive energy and warm energy. Espeon hadn’t given up, how could he? ‘We have half an hour before we should head back so we don’t get caught up in the dark. Piece of cake, huh?’ Espeon purred and smiled and they continued.

And they wouldn’t even need to walk for more than ten more minutes, even if it was intensive walking. Somewhere under the cliffs, a girl was training with her pokemon, a massive Garchomp and some other ground types. Chris recognized her instantly, the girl from the tournament. She certainly wasn’t a contestant in “who do you wanna bump into next?”, since she just reminded him of that arrogant wimp he lost against, but a little human companionship after half a day would certainly do him some good.

‘I am training down here with my party; since we lost in that final and didn’t get that surprise invitation we’re really upset. What you did in that last battle of yours was remarkable dude. Like, you were so out of order but still thought about your team and forfeited. Good call right there, shows you got the stuff. What are you doing down here anyway?’
Chris was confused again. Didn’t she feel the sandstorm? But how couldn’t she, she was practically in the middle of it. He glanced over to her Garchomp, which was seemingly exhausted by the hard training. Then he was enlightened.
‘You have a sand team, right?’
‘Yeah, didn’t you see my match?’
He didn’t. How could he, he had left the arena and never spoke about that tournament to anyone.
‘I didn’t. What’s your weather inducer?’
‘My Hippowdon. It’s in a pretty bad condition though; we’ve trained for hours today!’

Chris sighed. Hippowdons also have the ability sand stream, just like Tyranitars. He obviously had mistaked the girls’ pokemon’s ability for a random act of luck, obviously no Pupitars had evolved around here. The whole journey and expectation for nothing. He would have probably known, hadn’t he overreacted so badly and had he stayed to watch the final match against that girl and ‘accent boy’. He couldn’t tell her that he made such a big mistake now. ‘Play it cool, Chris.’ he thought to himself.
‘We trained too but were about to head back now. Anything else of significance around here?’
The girl looked at him in question.
‘No..Not that I know of…’ she stuttered.
‘Kay, see you around then.’ 

She obviously had something to hide.

A Pkmn Story: Chapter 8 - Azelf

A Pokemon Story

Chapter 8
Azelf

Today

The amount of news about the tournament on the television was quite high, they died down though, as the days passed. At first everyone wondered about their local favourite and the reasons behind his resignation, but interviews with his opponents revealed that his behavior was clever and protective over his own party. Although he struggled in his last battle and underperformed, continuing battling could end up lethal for his pokemon, his Togekiss being in a bad state, and his Espeon not having any way to attack Irene’s Honchcrow directly, since Dark type pokemon stay unaffected by Psychic moves. 

Dan won the tournament in a quick battle against that other girl in the finals, and except for the appraisal, price money and the medal, got, as a surprise win, an official invitation to the Grand Tournament, happening at the end of the summer like every year. Only trainers that aspire large aims and win special tournaments held around every region are invited to this occasion, a gathering for the crème de la crème of trainers to crown the best of them. The invitations though were very personal, and handed out on secret happenings or on short notice, like in this occasion, which produced even more hatred and despair against that person. For no absolute reason. 

The haunt for Tyranitar had become a serious thing, a good addition to his team and a strong ally to crush his next opponents and maybe get an invitation to the Grand Tournament. He never had the need to participate in it, Dan being invited though made it a personal manner. The Grant Tournament had acquired legendary status around the regions, but nobody really talked about it, since nobody knew anything specifically. 

The TV flashed in bright colours as they reported of the sighting of a small blue pokemon named Azelf around the mountain crevices. Azelf was said to be a myth, and little was known or recorded about its way of living. The legendary pokemon teaching mankind willpower was now shown on picture, as a small blue dot with ears and tails hovering above a small watery area. Or at least a blue dot assumed to be Azelf itself. Chris turned off the TV and sighed. He threw some things in his backpack and called his Espeon inside. Espeon turned its head towards his calling, stood up and ran inside. There it rubbed itself on Chris’ leg and purred joyfully. 

‘Ready Espeon?’
The pokemon nodded and they left the house together .

A Pkmn Story: Chapter 3 - Kingdra pt.1

A Pokemon Story

Chapter 3
Kingdra pt.1

The crowd had gotten very silent, as the anxiety was building mercilessly.
‘Espeon, come back.’ Chris pulled out another pokeball and lifted it up. A bright red light flashed through the arena and a big white bird appeared.
‘Togekiss, show him your Air Slash.’
‘A flying type to abuse your type advantage over my grass type pokemon, huh? But what if you get hit by a devastating Ice Beam?’ He was right. Devastating was just the right word for him to use. ‘Ludicolo, Ice Beam!’
The Togekiss flew up high in the air and hit the air with its fluffy wings. Currents formed themselves and hit the enemy hard on its chest, pushing it back as massive sand clouds got wiped up due to the collision. The rain quickly made the sand and dust disappear, leaving a paralyzed Ludicolo with and open beak, ready to fire its attack that would never occur. ‘Ludicolo! I said use Ice Beam!’ The pokemon looked terrified to its trainer. Its breath was frozen, but no Ice Beam happened.
‘Air Slash can make your pokemon flinch, you know, making it unable to fight for a little.’ Chris said without changing his facial expression. ‘Looks like I’m lucky with this, aren’t I?’ A dim smile appeared on the end of his lips. ‘Togekiss, keep on spamming Air Slash!’
Togekiss let a very high-pitched noise out of its mouth and flapped its wings continuously, producing laminated air currents that hit Ludicolo directly everywhere. It was again pushed back until it fell to the ground and the Slashes didn’t let it stand up. ‘Ludicolo, Ice Beam! Use Ice Beam!’ Dan shouted anxiously, while having to witness how his pokemon was going down. The curing effects of the rain clouds weren’t enough to make up for the super effective damage that was dealt. Suddenly an Ice Beam was emitted out of the dust cloud of Air Slashes and hit Togekiss directly on its right wing. ‘Yes! At last a hit! Yes!’ The Ludicolo got a second to catch its breath. It looked extremely harmed and probably had very little health left. Togekiss fell out of the sky but got itself together right before the crash and opened its wings to regain momentum and height.
Dan lost his breath. ‘But wasn’t that supposed to make it faint? It doesn’t even look damaged at all!’
‘Well,’ Chris replied calmly, ‘my Togekiss has exceptional special defense. Your attack probably didn’t even get it to half its health. Nevertheless, watch this. Roost!’
Togekiss landed on the ground and closed its eyes. A light shimmer covered it and disappeared again.
‘Now my health’s full again! ‘, he smiled. Dan cursed something in his own language and looked at its Ludicolo that tried to regain health with its ability. There was no point in even calling it back, since it would easily be defeated at some other point without any health.
‘Togekiss, Aura Sphere.’ Togekiss opened its eyes and spread its wings. A white sphere of light appeared over its head and flew over to the wounded Ludicolo. Total silence.

‘Did your father buy you these pokemon?’ he smiled delighted, as the Ludicolo crashed into the ground.
‘LUDICOLO CANNOT BATTLE ANYMORE. PLEASE PROCEED TO YOUR NEXT POKEMON.’ The voice filled the stadium and echoed, and the crowd jumped in excitement.  

 
‘My Togekiss has the ability Serene Grace, which makes secondary effects of any attack more likely to happen. It’s a wonder you even got to attack in the first place. Did I get some sand on your designer-jeans? Sorry about that.’ Chris mocked his opponent.

Dan looked seriously over to him, then started laughing. Chris' smile vanished.
‘Finally I get to battle someone up to par with me. Want to get going? I have more to show you than just designer clothes!’
That was enough to get the crowd and Chris fired up for anything.
‘Kingdra, show him what we’re made of!’  He threw his third pokeball in the air and a big blue seahorse appeared on the battlefield. The rain got stronger.
‘A dragon type. Good choice,’ Chris responded, ‘but as long as my Togekiss is faster, which it is, you will struggle even dreaming of attacking me.’
‘Don’t underestimate me my friend.’ He said with that weird accent of his. ‘Seedraking, go!’
The Kingdra moved forward and reached vertiginous speed in a matter of nanoseconds. It was almost like it rode the rain.
Chris gasped in horror. ‘Don’t tell me...’
‘Indeed.’ Dan smiled. ‘Swift Swim doubles Kingdras speed in rain! Waterfall attack!’
The Kingdra appeared behind Togekiss from nowhere which was still grounded due to its use of Roost some time before. A giant geyser of water emitted from the ground and drifted the bird up in the sky where the Kingdra followed and hit it with adjacent powerful hits.
‘You may have amazing special defense, but your regular defense will be good in the best of situations. How many Waterfalls will you be able to resist?’
‘I can’t beat you if you’re faster. But what if you aren’t?’
Togekiss crashed into the ground and a dust cloud filled the arena. ‘Well, try it.’ Dan answered.
Chris winked. ‘Togekiss Extremespeed!’

The Togekiss appeared out of the cloud and rocketed towards its enemy. Dan started trembling as the foe accelerated seemingly endlessly. ‘Waterfall-full power, NOW!’ The geyser appeared again from underneath Kingdra and pushed itself up till over the rainclouds, making both pokemon disappear under the heavy masses of both water and dust.