“You aren’t nervous are you?” Roxanne asked with a smirk from the other side of the field.
“Oh hoho well aren’t we high on our throne?” I grumbled to myself as I tried to stop my knees from shaking. But I couldn’t blame her, my expression was that of a wish to melt into the ground right then and there. It didn’t help that Chaka was shaking as well.
“Well, let’s get started then. Shouldn’t take too long.” Roxanne casually tossed out a pokeball and folded her arms, getting rather smug at the fact that I had only barely passed the exam, and the fact that I was shaking like a leaf.
“Nosepass, rock throw!” Roxanne called out as Chaka started to cry, rocks falling all around her as she ran around trying to avoid them.
“Chaka, dodge and use Focus energy!” I called, my voice cracking as Chaka jumped out of the foe’s range, a serious look on her teary face now. And my confidence was nothing less but boosted when I saw Chaka surrounded by yellow flame-like balls with a red glow, billowing up and disappearing.
Roxanne seemed unfazed by this, as it made nearly no effect on her own pokemon, but her next move would definetly make a move on mine “Nosepass, use Earthquake!”
And how I wished that Chaka was a flying type when she was shaken off her feet. Without arms, Chaka struggled to get back up as Roxanne ordered a tackle from her pokemon.
But out of pure dumb luck, when Chaka finally got back up, she tripped backwards again, and Nosepass totally missed!
“What?!” Roxanne cried, as Chaka stumbled back to her feet.
“Yes!” I squealed “Go Chaka use ember!!” I pointed at Nosepass, his massive nose making him struggle to get up just as much as Chaka did.
And as fine orange-red diskette’s flew towards him, the pokemon was helpless but to let himself get pelted by burning disks of compressed fire.
“And now use Peck!” I called out, Chaka jumping deftly towards her foe, stumbling slightly as she landed, but managing to jam her beak onto the Nosepass, knocking it back onto it’s nose.
“Nosepass, use Thunder Wave!” Roxanne said quickly, as a bolt of thunder shot out of nowhere, paralyzing the little chick pokemon into utter frozen stupidity.
As trainer, me, and gym leader, Roxanne, sweatdropped at the scene, one pokemon struggling to get up, and the other struggling to move, I commanded a final blow-Ember!
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It was merely a blur as the judge held up a green flag, signaling Roxanne’s defeat, a blur as Roxanne placed a badge in Sapphire’s hand, and a blur when she returned to the pokemon center to the cheering arms of her dad.
The blur? Oh that was just tears. Of joy and happiness, and little bit of disappointment. Ruby would’ve been really proud to see her win for the first time…against a real opponent anyway. But as she wiped them away, not even her argument with Ruby would dampen her spirits tonight. And she smiled as she clutched Chaka close to her, spreading warmth to every finger and toe.
“WHOOOO!” Sapphire screamed as someone jumped on top of her, cheering about something “You finally got a badge!!!”
“You’re making a scene again.” Just by the snippy remark and bored drawl, Sapphire knew exactly who the two were. Blue and Green, one in a great mood and the other as sulky as ever.
“Nice.” Red pointed out as Blue made a strange face, pulling both lips apart with her fingers and gritting her teeth, crossing her eyes.
Green sweatdropped and folded his arms, turning away as to pretend he didn’t know her.
“Your dad got us some liscense’s. You have to wait for me and Red to get our badges, but it shouldn’t take too long.” Blue said grinning at me.
“Hey, what about me?” Green asked peevishly “I’m getting a badge too.”
“Really?!” Blue said in mock surprise slapping her hands to her cheeks, “I would’ve never guessed.” She smirked and turned back to Sapphire “He’s been grouchy about me dragging him away from Kanto. The guy gets homesick.”
Green flushed and snapped “What?!”
Red sighed and interferred before another famous fight broke out, saying, “So, why don’t we ask Sapphire what Roxanne’s pokemon are, and what moves they use?”
Green folded his arms and snapped “I already know.”
Vein pop. Blue folded her arms and glared at Green “Oh? Please do enlighten us your greatest bestest majesty.”
“Bestest isn’t a word,” Green started, “But anyway, Roxanne trains stone pokemon, possesses one graveler and one nosepass, weaknesses to water, and grass for both pokemon, and ground, steel and fighting additional weakness for Nosepass. Roxanne is an honor student at Rustboro Academy.”
“Wow, it’s like you’re studying to woo her or something.” Blue stated bluntly, and Green turned red, more out of annoyance then embarrassment.
“I apologize if I like to brush up on information before battles, instead of charging head-on into something with absolute stupidity like yourself.” He said coolly.
“Oh?” Blue said dangerously “Well I’ll have you know that I knew Roxanne had a Nosepass, and my Turtley can beat that rock pokemon any day!”
“It’s a one-on-one battle!” Sapphire piped up “And Nosepass uses Rock Throw, Thunder Wave, Earthquake, and Tackle. That’s all I know of.”
Blue gave Green a smug grin, and dragged Red and Sapphire off to go celebrate, leaving Green to study and prepare strategy for the gym battle the next day, grumbling about how he hated parties and celebrations.
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“It’s puny.” Blue said without shame as she stood behind her blastoise, Turtley, as she stifled a laugh. Turtley however, stood looking down at the Nosepass who was more then three times smaller his own size before Blue commanded, “Go Turtley, use hydro pump!”
Whoosh!
Nosepass lay dripping wet and fainted at Roxanne’s feet, who was also soaked to the core as she gaped, more at the fact that Blue had gone to the extent of getting her wet as well rather then the fact that Blue had defeated her in a single move. And the fact that she’d barely gotten a single step of her Nosepass into the battle before it was over. The gym leader in question groaned, knowing she’d be dealing out at least four badges in less then two days as Green stepped up to the trainers box, one of Roxanne’s students letting his Macargo and Pidgeotto act as a blow dryer.
In a very smooth and casual way, Green tossed up and down a pokeball, his eyes showing nothing but his absolute boredom and confidence in his victory. Of course, this very cool action was good enough for the lasses and the female students, who were all whispering excitedly amongst themselves, or squealing to cheer on a boy who was doing little more then ignoring them.
Blue rolled her eyes and folded her arms at these ridiculous attempts to catch Green’s attention, herself knowing the only thing that would even spark a meager interest or a word of acknowledgement towards anyone’s existence would be a girl who was good at battling.
“Geodude!” Roxanne called out, as she was at least half-dry, “Let’s rock!”
“Golduck, Go.” Green tossed out the pokeball, and after a flood of water caused by surf, Roxanne’s geodude lay wet and fainted, blown to the walls behind Roxanne.
Roxanne let out a frustrated cry as she returned her geodude “What is with all these pokemon?!”
“Kanto elite trainer’s Miss!” A girl piped up excitedly, ready to recite facts, just like Green had the night before.
“I know that!” Roxanne snapped in a flurry of embarrassment at being seen defeated so easily as she tossed out another Geodude, Red easily stepping up after Green who sat in silence next to a cheering Blue.
“Ready?” Red asked Roxanne before sending out a towering gyrados.
Roxanne sighed and muttered “As ready as I’ll ever be.”
“Gyara, Hyper Beam!” Red commanded as Green and Blue stood up in confusion. Why not use Hydro pump instead of draining Gyara’s energy? Nonetheless, the giant water serpent made no thoughts like the onlooking duo but instead sent a gold explosion glowing red right at the geodude which was blasted into the ground, the hyper beam pushing the mud and dirt everywhere. When the blinding light had disappeared, Gyara appeared untouched, slightly exhausted, and before him, a hole the size of a snorlax with a simple geodude in the very middle.
“Why’d you do that?” Blue asked, interuppting Green as he opened his mouth to ask the very same question.
Red flushed as he mumbled “I haven’t used hyper beam in awhile and I just wanted to see how strong it was now.”
“Yeah and nearly killed Roxanne’s geodude in the process.” Green said raising an eyebrow as he folded his arms.
“Er-“
And before the foursome knew it, out the door the flew, everyone but Green literally kicked out of the gym and pelted by three badges. Green of course had left before Roxanne had the chance of kicking him out, but still got a dead ringer badge to the head.
“D*mn she’s got good aim.” Blue complained as she rubbed her forehead, red from the impact of Roxanne’s stone badge.
Sapphire managed a weak laugh as she stumbled to her feet, glad the battling for the day was over.
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“Augh!” Ruby yelled, slapping his hands to his ears as the puny whismur before him opened it’s mouth wide and let out an agonizing cry “Shut up!”
But the comment only made it cry louder, immobilizing Ruby until he was sure he’d go deaf due to the ridiculous pokemon before him.
It didn’t help that Nana was howling in his own pain as he covered his ears with paws that didn’t really help.
“Nana return!” Ruby shouted, though the words were drowned out by the scream of the whismur, but Nana disappeared in a flash of red, making the whismur cry ever louder.
Ruby felt his face go slack as the whismur stopped crying. With wide eyes he stammered something he didn’t even whether or not was a real word or not, but nonetheless, the thing that was coherent, and quite clearly a word was what he screamed next.
“EXPLOUD!!!”
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“Remind-me-Nana-to-never-catch-a-whismur.” Ruby panted as he leaned against the exit to Rustboro tunnel, the sight of Verdanturf near, though as he stared at it he cursed and knew that it was definetly not worth the trip.
“Remind me to laugh at you when you don’t look so pathetic.” A voice said as Ruby jumped sky high. Could it be? Could be her? Could it be Sapph-Er…No.
“Who’re you?” Ruby asked bluntly.
“Mind your manners before you daddy whips you’re a*s.” The girl sneered, her blue eyes narrowing to get a better look at a dirty and scratched up Ruby. She had chestnut brown hair that reached her shoulders and with her red T-shirt and slightly too-large blue jeans, she had a ‘don’t mess with me’ kind of expression as she stood before Ruby, arms folded.
Ruby scowled and said “Don’t ever-“
“Say anything about my dad, yeah I know.” She shrugged “Norman told me how bad you were at pretty much everything. No need to explain your daddy’s disappointment in you.”
She obviously knew she was poking into tender territory as Ruby flared, Nana bared her teeth and she kept calm.
“No need to get into a big hotflash over it, Professor Birch asked me to find you and make sure you didn’t get eaten by the Mightyena, speaking of Mightyena…” She whistled, loud and clear as the sun reflected off her gold colored necklace, a simply flat disk that resembled a marsh badge.
It was when she brought her hand up to place her forefinger and thumb into her mouth to whistle when Ruby saw the spiked bracelets on either wrist. What a scary girl. She vaguely reminded him of Sapphire in a different, more bold way.
But Ruby’s thoughts were interuppted when a Mightyena came bounding up to the girl, sitting down and waiting patiently for instructions.
“My name is Cammy, and I saw you at the party. Though I sort of ditched Toren and Eliadon, I don’t travel with those two bimbo’s because they’re slow. I’m a Hoenn Elite Trainer, and it would be nice to meet you if you weren’t a newbie trainer.” She patted the Mightyena on the head, straightened up and planted her fists on her hips “Norman says you like contests.”
Ruby had officially deemed the girl ‘talkative’ ‘rude’ and ‘brash’ but he slowly answered “Um…yeah…”
“Good. Cause there’s a contest here next week,” She jerked her thumb over her shoulder and Ruby was sure the spikes on her bracelets would someday stab her, “Right over there in the contest hall. I’m stuck here with you for awhile apparently, so maybe we should drag Toren and Eliadon around too.”
“Who’re they-“
“As I said, Bimbo’s who managed to become Elite Trainers like me.” Cammy said, as she began the walk towards Verdanturf.
“You seem independent.” Ruby started.
“Yup.” Cammy replied.
“And head-strong.”
“Yup.”
“So why’re you helping me just because Professor Birch asked you to?” Ruby asked stopping and folding his arms, showing his demand for an answer.
Cammy turned around, a bored expression on her face as she answered, “Well, wouldn’t you?” And without further ado, grabbed Ruby by the wrist, much like Sapphire used to, and dragged him into Verdanturf, refusing to answer any more questions until they were in the pokemon center.
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Just me, or did that seem short?
Cammy belongs to AquaKirbyYoshi
Toren belongs to .:Tempest:. whose original name is Kai
Eliadon belongs to DeathSpector
