Chapter 1: Test Anxiety
As the girl walked to her seat she remembered everything that had led up
to this point. She was a pokemon trainer, taking a test that was needed to
face Roxanne and only the best could do it. She began to sweat as she
thought about the fact that many of the trainers in the room were older
and more experienced than she, after all she was only six. She then
looked down and saw the test sitting on her desk. An announcement was
made on a speaker above. It said,
“Participants in the gym leader challenge exam will soon begin. Please do
not begin your test until instructed to do so.”
The voice sounded like a recording and she decided to scope out the
competition. As she looked around many others were doing the same. She
noticed that many of the ones that saw her laughed and began whispering
to the other participants in mocking tones. She had gotten used to this and
had grown accustomed to having no support other than that of her
Pokemon. They were her only friends, ever since “it” happened. She put
her head on the chair and looked at the ceiling as she stared at it and
thought about that day for what seemed like the millionth time. When she
was a toddler she lived in Cinnabar.
She was out on her dad’s boat with her Charmander, Rex and her dad.
They were out fishing and having fun together, but then a large booming
sound coming from the island. She looked at the island and it seemed
peaceful enough. Then the shockwave from the booming sound reached her
boat. It created very choppy waves, and the sea became rough and larger
waves appeared. Then another booming sound came. This time from the
mountain, and as she looked at it she saw--.
A girl burst into the gym and had a look on her face of arrogance and a
happy grin. Soon after a large number of people followed her. She had
been one of the earlier arrivals, but now the place was packed. The loud,
stupid looking girl followed Roxanne around like an idiot. Many of the
people in the room looked at her and began snickering.
“At least they’re not laughing at me now” the girl thought. She turned her
attention to her paper as she tried to ignore the idiot girl.
She answered the questions to the best of her knowledge now thinking
back to her days studying with her grandmother. After “it” happened, she
had studied with her Grandmother for three years, learning about being a
pokemon trainer. Although most kids her age were playing in mud, she had
no interest in such pointless activities, much preferring doing things that
would get her closer to her dream of being the best. She remembered how
her grandmother, who nagged her constantly do study, had in fact helped
her, and made her a better, stronger, and smarter person.
She answered the questions with ease and afterward turned in her test.
She noticed that she had gotten done much earlier than most of the others,
so she asked one of the assistants if she could get some ice cream. One of
them pointed out the window to an ice cream cart across the street. She
thanked the person and went outside and got her ice cream. She returned
to find that she had been pranced. The doors were locked and she couldn’t
get in. she could her snickering from the other side of the door, and
slammed the door as hard as her six-year-old hands could. She eventually
gave up and ran away crying. She ran into a forest and sat down at a tree
and her crying had turned into sobbing. She sat there sobbing for quite
some time until she heard voices. She hid in a bush and looked to see
whom they were coming from. She saw three people in red uniforms
talking. She listened intently and intrigued.
“So what now?”
“I guess we’ll go back to the boss.”
“Wait till those Aqua suckers realize the trap we set for them.”
“I’d love to see the look on their faces.”
“Those losers don’t even realize that we’re about to make a little repeat
performance of the Cinnabar Plan!”
The girl got a wide eyed look on her face. She now knew that she had to
hear this.
“With the boss’ plan we’ll erupt Mt. Chimney just like Cinnabar!”
“And remember even if this fails, we still have the Meteorite Plan!”
“Mt. Chimney is going to erupt, Aqua will look like fools, and our plan of
expanding land mass will come another step closer to fruition!” “The girl
now once again remembered “It”.
She was on her boat with her friend and her dad, the waves were huge
and she had just heard another loud sound and was thinking to herself that
the last loud sound they heard had created her current predicament and
knew that this one meant things were about t get worse. Then she heard a
sound like fireworks. She looked up and not fireworks, but balls of flaming
ash were flying through the sky. Her dad tried to steady the boat by
working the sail but a flaming ball of ash went through it and caught it on
fire. Then a large wave hit the boat and knocked everyone to the side. The
girl was holding her companion in her arms tightly, trying to protect it. The
wave had knocked her around the ship, but then she looked up. Everything
looked fine, but then she noticed that her father wasn’t there. She ran to
the sides and looked out into the sea. Her dad had been thrown overboard
by the wave and was now gasping for his life, against the raging ocean. He
was a strong man and she believed in him. He looked at her and she at him
and they stared at each other for a moment, but then he got a look of fear
in his eyes. Her companion recognized what was going on and leaped from
his owner’s arms and pushed her. She fell and her companion jumped on
her. She thought he had gone mad and was attacking her but then she
noticed that the flaming mast had given way and would have crushed her if
Rex hadn’t pushed her out of the way. Then she remembered her father.
She looked back out to see, and saw him go under. As he fell beneath the
waves, with his last words he shouted his daughter’s name, “Lulu!!!”
She cried then like no person should ever have to, and fell to her knees in
despair. She had been traumatized by that memory and her childhood
ended that day. She became serious in everything she did and was very
protective of everything she held dear, which was not much, but the horror
did not stop there. The entire boat had now caught on fire. Her Charmander
had gone inside and came back out dragging with all its might, a wooden
table. It then broke off the legs and nudged Lulu and signaled for her to get
on. Rex threw the table in the water and it floated. He grabbed one of the
legs and handed one to Lulu and jumped on. Lulu jumped as well, and they
rowed to the island. The shower of fire continued. Rex as if with strength it
didn’t even know it had batted away the fireballs with powerful Metal Claw
attacks. They eventually made it to the island and there found the entire
town destroyed, save the Pokemon Center. She walked in. there were a
few people there. They all looked up to see Lulu and Rex standing there.
They got up and ran over to them and hugged them. Lulu hugged them back
and began crying again, but this time in joy.
One of the people said, “We’re so happy you’re all right! Everyone here was
the only ones to survive and we thought we had lost you. Where’s your
father?”
Lulu looked down and began crying. The townsfolk put their hands to their
mouths in shock. After a good while of crying she looked up and around the
room. She walked up to one of the people who had been her neighbor and
asked, “Where’s my mommy?”
the whole room got silent and everyone looked down. Lulu realized what
had happened. She hugged Rex tight and began crying once more. Rex,
who was normally tough and arrogant, joined her in mourning. She cried
until she had no more tears and then looked around the room. She saw
their neighbor sitting in a corner staring at something in his hands. She
walked over to him and peered over his shoulder. It was a picture of his
family. He looked at her and grabbed her. He cried over her shoulder. She
gathered up the courage to ask him, “What are we going to do now?” “…I
don’t know Lulu. I don’t know.” She went over to the front desk and reached
her small hand over the top and wrung the bell. The Nurse manning it
peered over the desk and looked down to see the girl and her Charmander
standing there.
“Where do I go now?”
“There’s a fairy coming from the mainland to take everyone there. We’ll
figure out what relatives you have and you’ll live with one of them.”
As the woman said the fairy came and took them to the town of Pallet.
They determined that Lulu’s grandmother was the best person for her to
live with. She rode a bus to Lavaridge where her grandmother lived. She
lived there for three years. Her grandmother was a kind and caring person,
but Lulu insisted that she be her teacher for her stay there. So her
grandmother taught Lulu about being a pokemon trainer which was her only
passion now. Lulu also caught a Torkoal in her stay there that she named
Puff. It became her second companion. Back in the present, Lulu had
decided it was her duty to stop these criminals fr5om fulfilling their plans.
They had gotten far ahead while Lulu was thinking about her past. She
jumped out from the bush and ran at them with a rage like none she had
ever felt.
She stopped and pointed at them as she yelled, “I’m going to make you
pay!”
the group of three looked back to see the six-year-old glaring at them and
laughed. “Ha, ha, ha, ha, sure you will, kid. Well, what if I don’t want to
pay? Are you going to make me, brat?” “I’ll do more than that, I’ll avenge
my parents!”
“And what did we ever do to your parents?”
“You killed them, you murderers!”
“Many people have died in the pursuit of our goal. Your parents were
needed sacrifices to make our boss’ dream a reality.”
“And what dream is that?”
“To expand land mass, to give people and pokemon more room to live and
prosper.”
“You people are sick!”
“You merely do not understand our vision, and it looks like we’ll have to
show you; the hard way.”
“Fine with me.” “Very well. Go Sandslash!” “Go Numel!” “Go Macargo!” a
large spiked creature, a camel with a hole on its back, and a snail made of
lava appeared. “Go Rex and Puff!” An orange lizard with a flaming tail and
an orange Tortoise appeared.
Chapter 2: Rock Bottom
“Macargo! Go into your shell!”
“Sandslash! Pick up Macargo and throw him at Rex!”
The Sandslash hurled the Macargo at Rex with amazing force. “Rex, dodge
it!”
But it was too late, the snail hit into the Lizard Pokemon with great force.
Rex got up and had a look of anger in his eyes. Numel! Use Magnitude on
Puff!” Torkoal use Body Slam!”
The tortoise jumped high into the air, avoiding the magnitude attack and
came crashing down on the Numel. Sandslash! Use swift!”
“Macargo! Use Fire Spin!”
the two attacks intertwined creating one giant attack. “Puff!” intercept it
and use Iron Defense!”
Puff jumped into the attack’s path with his shell facing the incoming stream
of fire and energy. He went into his shell.
“Rex, grab puff and hold him like a shield!”
Rex grabbed his partner and held him. The attack made contact. Rex dug
his feet into the ground and with all his might held the deadly combo back.
The attack was about to stop when Lulu said, “Rex, use Metal Claw on both
of them!"
Rex ducked under the attack. Puff was sent into a tree behind him. He
came out of his shell and slid down the tree, a bit dazed but all right. Rex
ran with the skill of a ninja in between the two pokemon that had launched
the attack and slashed them with a mighty Metal Claw. They got up not
willing to go down.
“Macargo, Use Rollout! Sandslash, give Macargo a push!” Sandslash
grabbed its partner and threw it with a mighty underhand toss. Lulu was in
a pickle. Then she got an idea to stop Macargo in its tracks. “Puff, use
Sludge Bomb on Macargo and keep it up!” Puff shot a barrage of balls of
sludge at the snail. The sludge slowly began building up on it and the
stickiness began slowing it down, but it was heading straight for Rex and
was still going to fast.
“Rex use Metal Claw to throw it into the air!”
Rex threw the Snail Pokemon up into the air.
“Macargo, Body Slam that little gecko!”
The snail came out of its shell and began its decent towards Rex.
“Get out of the way!”
Rex moved but Macargo made its mark. Rex was trapped under it. Then
Rex began to glow. He grew in size and when the light faded, had become a
Charmeleon.
“Macargo use Smog!”
the snail bent its head down and began spewing purple smoke. Rex
coughed.
“Rex, use Dig!”
The Flame pokemon dug a hole and escaped the toxic gas.
"Numel, Macargo, use Magnitude!”
the pokemon made the ground shake which was bad news for Rex.
“Rex, come up now!”
the Flame pokemon burst out of the ground.
“Sandslash, Swift!”
The Mouse pokemon jumped into the air and began spinning. Then stars of
light began shooting from it and headed straight for Rex and Puff.
"Rex, Puff, use Flamethrower!”
the two opened their mouths and huge streams of flames shot out like
water from a bursting dam. The streams both hit the mouse pokemon and
blew away its Swift. The Sandslash fell to the ground defeated. The trainer
that owned it returned it to its pokeball.
“Numel, use Magnitude!”
“Stop it Rex with Metal Claw!”
Numel lifted its foot preparing to slam it down, but Rex once again
displaying its ninja speed, ran at it and slashed it, creating a very large
gash along the side of it. Numel let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground.
Its trainer returned it.
“Macargo, use Body Slam!”
“That won’t work this time, Rex use Flamethrower!”
the snail jumped into the air and Began falling just like last time, but this
time Rex raised up his head and shot a stream of fire at it that kept it in
the air much like a ball is bounced around when placed on top of a fountain.
“Puff, use Sludge Bomb!”
The Coal Pokemon shot a large amount of Sludge balls out of its mouth
that blew the Snail away. Its trainer returned it too. The match had caught
some attention and the girl now no longer focused on the match looked
around to see a large crowd cheering for her. Then some police officers
came out and placed the agents of Team Magma under arrest. The girl
waved to the crowd and then noticed the people who had tricked her out of
the gym before were there muttering to themselves. Lulu walked over to
them and then very politely said, “Why did you do that? I was following the
rules and you tricked me.
“We don’t like little kids in our gym. This is for grown-ups, why don’t you
go play with your dolls or something?”
“Yeah babies don’t get to play the big kid games, so get out of here, you
brat!”
“Is that so gentlemen? said a new voice.
The bullies turned around and got pale. The gym leader had been standing
behind them and had heard every word they said.
“The age of a challenger does not matter. As long as they follow the rules
and are trainers, they are allowed to take the test. In fact this girl tied with
the person who got the highest score. Normally we have a match to break
ties, but the girl was gone so I had only the other person to face. After the
match I heard the commotion and investigated. I saw the end of your
match young lady. I commend you. We can’t allow scum like Team Magma
to dirty our streets and speaking of scum you should be ashamed of
yourselves, cheating this poor girl out of her chance for a badge. Therefore
you’re all fired! You no longer work for the Rustboro Gym. You may pick up
your things from the gym and then leave. I don’t want to see your faces
there ever again!”
They all stared at the young girl with loathing in their eyes and then
walked away.
“Now that that’s over I think you have earned this.”
She held out a Stone Badge. “But don’t I have to beat you for that?”
“You displayed more than enough fighting prowess in that battle, and when
you stood up to those bullies you showed your own courage, dignity, and
that you have what it takes to go very far in this world. Don’t lose that
drive you have. It will lead you to great things.”
“Thank you…”
“Roxanne, my name is Roxanne. What is your name?”
“Uh...Lulu, my name is Lulu. I thank you again, but now I gotta
go.”
“Lulu, that girl will go far. She’ll face many challenges, face many
obstacles, and probably fail a few times, but it will only make her stronger.
Lulu…I will hear that name again, I can feel it.”
As the girl walked to her seat she remembered everything that had led up
to this point. She was a pokemon trainer, taking a test that was needed to
face Roxanne and only the best could do it. She began to sweat as she
thought about the fact that many of the trainers in the room were older
and more experienced than she, after all she was only six. She then
looked down and saw the test sitting on her desk. An announcement was
made on a speaker above. It said,
“Participants in the gym leader challenge exam will soon begin. Please do
not begin your test until instructed to do so.”
The voice sounded like a recording and she decided to scope out the
competition. As she looked around many others were doing the same. She
noticed that many of the ones that saw her laughed and began whispering
to the other participants in mocking tones. She had gotten used to this and
had grown accustomed to having no support other than that of her
Pokemon. They were her only friends, ever since “it” happened. She put
her head on the chair and looked at the ceiling as she stared at it and
thought about that day for what seemed like the millionth time. When she
was a toddler she lived in Cinnabar.
She was out on her dad’s boat with her Charmander, Rex and her dad.
They were out fishing and having fun together, but then a large booming
sound coming from the island. She looked at the island and it seemed
peaceful enough. Then the shockwave from the booming sound reached her
boat. It created very choppy waves, and the sea became rough and larger
waves appeared. Then another booming sound came. This time from the
mountain, and as she looked at it she saw--.
A girl burst into the gym and had a look on her face of arrogance and a
happy grin. Soon after a large number of people followed her. She had
been one of the earlier arrivals, but now the place was packed. The loud,
stupid looking girl followed Roxanne around like an idiot. Many of the
people in the room looked at her and began snickering.
“At least they’re not laughing at me now” the girl thought. She turned her
attention to her paper as she tried to ignore the idiot girl.
She answered the questions to the best of her knowledge now thinking
back to her days studying with her grandmother. After “it” happened, she
had studied with her Grandmother for three years, learning about being a
pokemon trainer. Although most kids her age were playing in mud, she had
no interest in such pointless activities, much preferring doing things that
would get her closer to her dream of being the best. She remembered how
her grandmother, who nagged her constantly do study, had in fact helped
her, and made her a better, stronger, and smarter person.
She answered the questions with ease and afterward turned in her test.
She noticed that she had gotten done much earlier than most of the others,
so she asked one of the assistants if she could get some ice cream. One of
them pointed out the window to an ice cream cart across the street. She
thanked the person and went outside and got her ice cream. She returned
to find that she had been pranced. The doors were locked and she couldn’t
get in. she could her snickering from the other side of the door, and
slammed the door as hard as her six-year-old hands could. She eventually
gave up and ran away crying. She ran into a forest and sat down at a tree
and her crying had turned into sobbing. She sat there sobbing for quite
some time until she heard voices. She hid in a bush and looked to see
whom they were coming from. She saw three people in red uniforms
talking. She listened intently and intrigued.
“So what now?”
“I guess we’ll go back to the boss.”
“Wait till those Aqua suckers realize the trap we set for them.”
“I’d love to see the look on their faces.”
“Those losers don’t even realize that we’re about to make a little repeat
performance of the Cinnabar Plan!”
The girl got a wide eyed look on her face. She now knew that she had to
hear this.
“With the boss’ plan we’ll erupt Mt. Chimney just like Cinnabar!”
“And remember even if this fails, we still have the Meteorite Plan!”
“Mt. Chimney is going to erupt, Aqua will look like fools, and our plan of
expanding land mass will come another step closer to fruition!” “The girl
now once again remembered “It”.
She was on her boat with her friend and her dad, the waves were huge
and she had just heard another loud sound and was thinking to herself that
the last loud sound they heard had created her current predicament and
knew that this one meant things were about t get worse. Then she heard a
sound like fireworks. She looked up and not fireworks, but balls of flaming
ash were flying through the sky. Her dad tried to steady the boat by
working the sail but a flaming ball of ash went through it and caught it on
fire. Then a large wave hit the boat and knocked everyone to the side. The
girl was holding her companion in her arms tightly, trying to protect it. The
wave had knocked her around the ship, but then she looked up. Everything
looked fine, but then she noticed that her father wasn’t there. She ran to
the sides and looked out into the sea. Her dad had been thrown overboard
by the wave and was now gasping for his life, against the raging ocean. He
was a strong man and she believed in him. He looked at her and she at him
and they stared at each other for a moment, but then he got a look of fear
in his eyes. Her companion recognized what was going on and leaped from
his owner’s arms and pushed her. She fell and her companion jumped on
her. She thought he had gone mad and was attacking her but then she
noticed that the flaming mast had given way and would have crushed her if
Rex hadn’t pushed her out of the way. Then she remembered her father.
She looked back out to see, and saw him go under. As he fell beneath the
waves, with his last words he shouted his daughter’s name, “Lulu!!!”
She cried then like no person should ever have to, and fell to her knees in
despair. She had been traumatized by that memory and her childhood
ended that day. She became serious in everything she did and was very
protective of everything she held dear, which was not much, but the horror
did not stop there. The entire boat had now caught on fire. Her Charmander
had gone inside and came back out dragging with all its might, a wooden
table. It then broke off the legs and nudged Lulu and signaled for her to get
on. Rex threw the table in the water and it floated. He grabbed one of the
legs and handed one to Lulu and jumped on. Lulu jumped as well, and they
rowed to the island. The shower of fire continued. Rex as if with strength it
didn’t even know it had batted away the fireballs with powerful Metal Claw
attacks. They eventually made it to the island and there found the entire
town destroyed, save the Pokemon Center. She walked in. there were a
few people there. They all looked up to see Lulu and Rex standing there.
They got up and ran over to them and hugged them. Lulu hugged them back
and began crying again, but this time in joy.
One of the people said, “We’re so happy you’re all right! Everyone here was
the only ones to survive and we thought we had lost you. Where’s your
father?”
Lulu looked down and began crying. The townsfolk put their hands to their
mouths in shock. After a good while of crying she looked up and around the
room. She walked up to one of the people who had been her neighbor and
asked, “Where’s my mommy?”
the whole room got silent and everyone looked down. Lulu realized what
had happened. She hugged Rex tight and began crying once more. Rex,
who was normally tough and arrogant, joined her in mourning. She cried
until she had no more tears and then looked around the room. She saw
their neighbor sitting in a corner staring at something in his hands. She
walked over to him and peered over his shoulder. It was a picture of his
family. He looked at her and grabbed her. He cried over her shoulder. She
gathered up the courage to ask him, “What are we going to do now?” “…I
don’t know Lulu. I don’t know.” She went over to the front desk and reached
her small hand over the top and wrung the bell. The Nurse manning it
peered over the desk and looked down to see the girl and her Charmander
standing there.
“Where do I go now?”
“There’s a fairy coming from the mainland to take everyone there. We’ll
figure out what relatives you have and you’ll live with one of them.”
As the woman said the fairy came and took them to the town of Pallet.
They determined that Lulu’s grandmother was the best person for her to
live with. She rode a bus to Lavaridge where her grandmother lived. She
lived there for three years. Her grandmother was a kind and caring person,
but Lulu insisted that she be her teacher for her stay there. So her
grandmother taught Lulu about being a pokemon trainer which was her only
passion now. Lulu also caught a Torkoal in her stay there that she named
Puff. It became her second companion. Back in the present, Lulu had
decided it was her duty to stop these criminals fr5om fulfilling their plans.
They had gotten far ahead while Lulu was thinking about her past. She
jumped out from the bush and ran at them with a rage like none she had
ever felt.
She stopped and pointed at them as she yelled, “I’m going to make you
pay!”
the group of three looked back to see the six-year-old glaring at them and
laughed. “Ha, ha, ha, ha, sure you will, kid. Well, what if I don’t want to
pay? Are you going to make me, brat?” “I’ll do more than that, I’ll avenge
my parents!”
“And what did we ever do to your parents?”
“You killed them, you murderers!”
“Many people have died in the pursuit of our goal. Your parents were
needed sacrifices to make our boss’ dream a reality.”
“And what dream is that?”
“To expand land mass, to give people and pokemon more room to live and
prosper.”
“You people are sick!”
“You merely do not understand our vision, and it looks like we’ll have to
show you; the hard way.”
“Fine with me.” “Very well. Go Sandslash!” “Go Numel!” “Go Macargo!” a
large spiked creature, a camel with a hole on its back, and a snail made of
lava appeared. “Go Rex and Puff!” An orange lizard with a flaming tail and
an orange Tortoise appeared.
Chapter 2: Rock Bottom
“Macargo! Go into your shell!”
“Sandslash! Pick up Macargo and throw him at Rex!”
The Sandslash hurled the Macargo at Rex with amazing force. “Rex, dodge
it!”
But it was too late, the snail hit into the Lizard Pokemon with great force.
Rex got up and had a look of anger in his eyes. Numel! Use Magnitude on
Puff!” Torkoal use Body Slam!”
The tortoise jumped high into the air, avoiding the magnitude attack and
came crashing down on the Numel. Sandslash! Use swift!”
“Macargo! Use Fire Spin!”
the two attacks intertwined creating one giant attack. “Puff!” intercept it
and use Iron Defense!”
Puff jumped into the attack’s path with his shell facing the incoming stream
of fire and energy. He went into his shell.
“Rex, grab puff and hold him like a shield!”
Rex grabbed his partner and held him. The attack made contact. Rex dug
his feet into the ground and with all his might held the deadly combo back.
The attack was about to stop when Lulu said, “Rex, use Metal Claw on both
of them!"
Rex ducked under the attack. Puff was sent into a tree behind him. He
came out of his shell and slid down the tree, a bit dazed but all right. Rex
ran with the skill of a ninja in between the two pokemon that had launched
the attack and slashed them with a mighty Metal Claw. They got up not
willing to go down.
“Macargo, Use Rollout! Sandslash, give Macargo a push!” Sandslash
grabbed its partner and threw it with a mighty underhand toss. Lulu was in
a pickle. Then she got an idea to stop Macargo in its tracks. “Puff, use
Sludge Bomb on Macargo and keep it up!” Puff shot a barrage of balls of
sludge at the snail. The sludge slowly began building up on it and the
stickiness began slowing it down, but it was heading straight for Rex and
was still going to fast.
“Rex use Metal Claw to throw it into the air!”
Rex threw the Snail Pokemon up into the air.
“Macargo, Body Slam that little gecko!”
The snail came out of its shell and began its decent towards Rex.
“Get out of the way!”
Rex moved but Macargo made its mark. Rex was trapped under it. Then
Rex began to glow. He grew in size and when the light faded, had become a
Charmeleon.
“Macargo use Smog!”
the snail bent its head down and began spewing purple smoke. Rex
coughed.
“Rex, use Dig!”
The Flame pokemon dug a hole and escaped the toxic gas.
"Numel, Macargo, use Magnitude!”
the pokemon made the ground shake which was bad news for Rex.
“Rex, come up now!”
the Flame pokemon burst out of the ground.
“Sandslash, Swift!”
The Mouse pokemon jumped into the air and began spinning. Then stars of
light began shooting from it and headed straight for Rex and Puff.
"Rex, Puff, use Flamethrower!”
the two opened their mouths and huge streams of flames shot out like
water from a bursting dam. The streams both hit the mouse pokemon and
blew away its Swift. The Sandslash fell to the ground defeated. The trainer
that owned it returned it to its pokeball.
“Numel, use Magnitude!”
“Stop it Rex with Metal Claw!”
Numel lifted its foot preparing to slam it down, but Rex once again
displaying its ninja speed, ran at it and slashed it, creating a very large
gash along the side of it. Numel let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground.
Its trainer returned it.
“Macargo, use Body Slam!”
“That won’t work this time, Rex use Flamethrower!”
the snail jumped into the air and Began falling just like last time, but this
time Rex raised up his head and shot a stream of fire at it that kept it in
the air much like a ball is bounced around when placed on top of a fountain.
“Puff, use Sludge Bomb!”
The Coal Pokemon shot a large amount of Sludge balls out of its mouth
that blew the Snail away. Its trainer returned it too. The match had caught
some attention and the girl now no longer focused on the match looked
around to see a large crowd cheering for her. Then some police officers
came out and placed the agents of Team Magma under arrest. The girl
waved to the crowd and then noticed the people who had tricked her out of
the gym before were there muttering to themselves. Lulu walked over to
them and then very politely said, “Why did you do that? I was following the
rules and you tricked me.
“We don’t like little kids in our gym. This is for grown-ups, why don’t you
go play with your dolls or something?”
“Yeah babies don’t get to play the big kid games, so get out of here, you
brat!”
“Is that so gentlemen? said a new voice.
The bullies turned around and got pale. The gym leader had been standing
behind them and had heard every word they said.
“The age of a challenger does not matter. As long as they follow the rules
and are trainers, they are allowed to take the test. In fact this girl tied with
the person who got the highest score. Normally we have a match to break
ties, but the girl was gone so I had only the other person to face. After the
match I heard the commotion and investigated. I saw the end of your
match young lady. I commend you. We can’t allow scum like Team Magma
to dirty our streets and speaking of scum you should be ashamed of
yourselves, cheating this poor girl out of her chance for a badge. Therefore
you’re all fired! You no longer work for the Rustboro Gym. You may pick up
your things from the gym and then leave. I don’t want to see your faces
there ever again!”
They all stared at the young girl with loathing in their eyes and then
walked away.
“Now that that’s over I think you have earned this.”
She held out a Stone Badge. “But don’t I have to beat you for that?”
“You displayed more than enough fighting prowess in that battle, and when
you stood up to those bullies you showed your own courage, dignity, and
that you have what it takes to go very far in this world. Don’t lose that
drive you have. It will lead you to great things.”
“Thank you…”
“Roxanne, my name is Roxanne. What is your name?”
“Uh...Lulu, my name is Lulu. I thank you again, but now I gotta
go.”
“Lulu, that girl will go far. She’ll face many challenges, face many
obstacles, and probably fail a few times, but it will only make her stronger.
Lulu…I will hear that name again, I can feel it.”
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But you get the idea.