RE: Mysteries of the Mind - A Trainer's Vision
Okies... it's been tough to do this chapter, but here it comes. Expect something... well, just something will do. I reckon that this chapter should provide a couple of nice moments within it, so without further ado let us begin!
Chapter 13 – The Prophecy Unfolds…
“Marill, let’s go…”
Ryan threw his poke ball in front of Torterra, a little unconvincingly. He knew that there was very little chance that his little mouse would win, but he didn’t know what else to do… he knew that Staravia would be crushed in a second by the massive turtle, and he reckoned that his aquatic mouse would stand more of a chance. Quite how he figured that though was a mystery, even to Ryan himself.
Donald simply stared blankly at Ryan. “What are you doing sending THAT thing out? Don’t you know it’ll be crushed instantly?” Upon seeing Ryan’s blank expression, he simply laughed menacingly. “Fine, if that’s the way you want to be, I’ll simply have to destroy that pokemon for you! Torterra, Body Slam!”
Torterra began to lumber over towards Marill, hauling its humungous weight across the battlefield. Marill just stared at Ryan for something to do… Ryan was quick enough to issue a command.
“Marill, Rollout! Get out of the way of Torterra!”
Marill curled up into a ball and rolled away from the incoming mass that was heading towards it. The nimble mouse was far too quick for Torterra to keep up with. Seeing this, Donald decided to revert to more standard measures.
“Torterra, chase it down with Seed Bomb!”
The tree on the gigantic turtle’s back lit up slightly, as it created a large number of tiny explosive shells. Torterra then launched these towards the rolling Marill, letting out a roar as it did so. Hundreds of tiny potholes appeared in the ground as the seeds exploded just behind the little mouse, who was rolling to save its life. When the seeds finally stopped coming, Marill stopped. He was unable to keep rolling on such a rough terrain – it could hardly move around without falling into the holes created by Torterra’s attack! Seeing this, Torterra got ready to launch more seeds towards Marill… Ryan had to act fast.
“Marill, come on, I KNOW you can do better than this! There’s massive potential within you… a huge power like you’ve never felt before – you need to tap into that just now! Use Aqua Jet!”
Marill shot towards Torterra in a flash, propelled forwards by a large surge of water. It was far too quick for the unmoving turtle, which was struck cleanly by the attack. It may as well not have been though – it didn’t even flinch as the attack landed! It just laughed at Marill’s attempted assault, whilst the little mouse bounced clean off of his shell. Hearing the taunt, the little mouse became angered, and he launched himself at the turtle again. This progressed for a couple of minutes, with each attack rising in power. Soon enough, Torterra was wincing rather than laughing at the attacks – it was starting to be hurt a little by the onslaught it was taking. Marill wouldn’t stop his endless attacking however, as rage had taken over. Soon enough, the little mouse was glowing in the usual white light… and evolving! Consumed by his anger, Marill had amassed so much energy that it was able to evolve just like that! Everyone was completely stunned by this feat, even Marill himself. He sharply ground to a halt, wondering what had happened.
“Marill… how did you evolve like that? That was insane… but now I have an Azumarill! How are you feeling buddy?”
Azumarill turned to face Ryan, a little shell-shocked about evolving so abruptly. However, when he realised what had happened, he held his hand up to Ryan with a jubilant expression on his face. Torterra wasn’t so pleased though. Clearly irritated from the barrage of rapid attacks Azumarill had delivered, he decided to go for an all-out finish, which was promptly backed up by Donald.
“Yeah, that’s right Torterra, you know what to do! Wood Hammer! Pound that stupid, weak rabbit into the ground!”
Torterra wasn’t even listening to the commands that Donald gave any more though – it simply acted out of anger. Turning round to face the turtle, Azumarill tentatively waited for instructions.
“Ok Azumarill, show it what you can do! Ice Beam, let’s go!”
The large rabbit closed his eyes, and then fired a large white beam of freezing energy towards the incoming Torterra. Unable to do anything with himself except charge straight forward, the colossal pokemon was blasted right in the mouth by the frigid blast. Gaping in shock, it came sliding to a halt, frozen solid! Azumarill jumped in circles in front of the humongous block in front of it, clearly happy to see the opponent in a gigantic ice cube. Ryan made sure that it didn’t stay unfocused for long though.
“Azumarill, it’ll thaw out if you leave it like that! Focus again… do so by using Focus Punch to end this match!”
Coming back down to earth by the command, Azumarill closed his eyes and gathered all the energy it could muster. The huge internal power burning within it activated as it attacked the hapless Torterra, causing the ice to smash and Torterra to be sent hurtling into the nearby mountains at an incredible rate! There was no getting back after that; David had once again beaten Goliath in the pokemon world. Torterra grunted as it managed to free himself from the mountain, collapsing to the ground with an incredible thud. Azumarill jumped for joy again, clearly happy to see the opponent grounded once and for all.
“You… why do you always beat us!?” cried Donald as he called his strongest pokemon back.
“That’s easy,” Ryan taunted. “You guys just suck! Even with as huge a pokemon as Torterra, you still couldn’t win. Give up already!”
Donald laughed, clearly knowing something that Ryan and Calum didn’t. “It’s fine… this time. I’ve surely bought all the time I needed to for the townspeople to confess all they know about the pendant, so now they can say goodbye to their town! You’re too late this time, HEROS! HAHAHAHA!”
Having finished his little maniacal speech, Donald hurled a Smoke Ball onto the hole-infested battle zone, allowing him to escape unharmed. Once the smoke cleared, Absol stood in front of Calum once again. Gardevoir let herself out of her poke ball to interpret for the trainers.
“If what that man said is true, we HAVE to get to the town quickly!” He looked gravely concerned for the well being of Rowan Town.
“I can show Gardevoir in her mind exactly where the town is – we can teleport there in a couple of minutes. We must hurry!”
With this said, Gardevoir closed her eyes and focused on the pokemon centre of Rowan Town. A couple of seconds later, Calum and Ryan found themselves in the middle of a small town, completely enclosed by trees. Every street was barren of people, except those from Team Leafre. Quickly gauging how many opponents were around, Calum and Ryan charged towards the nearest members of the team, demanding answers.
“Where are you keeping the townspeople?! Answer us now, or you WILL suffer for it!”
The two grunts just stared at Calum, unsure if they should be worried or not. The decided not as they replied, “what, you think you can beat the answer out of us? Playing hero won’t work kid… Cherubi, come on out!”
Both grunts sent out cherry pokemon simultaneously, stimulating a response from Calum.
“Growlithe, take these guys… Ember!”
Throwing the poke ball out in front of the grunts, Calum’s faithful puppy pokemon appeared, showering the cherries and flames as it did so! It was easy to see why these were grunts – their pokemon fainted after just that. Seeing this, they looked at each other quickly, and then ran off down the road!
“Hey, get back here!” Calum shouted, angry for the lack of competition in their pokemon as much as not getting any answers. “Bleah, they were weak anyhow… let’s keep looking! Gardevoir, care to assist our search at all?”
Complying without saying anything, Gardevoir employed her abilities in order to search for a large number of people in one place. After a minute, she spoke.
“They’re northeast of here, in a large building with several Team Leafre members… it appears to be the gym of the town.”
Ryan just looked at Gardevoir blankly. “You can find ALL that out JUST by looking for people’s emotions?” Gardevoir nodded, prompting Ryan to give an even stranger look. “Weird… wish I could do that though…”
“Well, you can’t,” Calum said, cutting Ryan off before he said anything else that was pointless. “Come on, we have a town to save!”
Having said this, the group made their way towards the gym, easily crushing everyone in their path. Absol assisted in the battles wherever possible, showing impressive slashing attacks of a variety of types. “Remind me never to get on his bad side,” said Ryan as the frenzy of attacks continued. It didn’t take long to punch through the fragile grunts blocking the path to the gym, since none of them could really fight… what the party encountered in the gym would change all that though.
“Release the towns folk at once!” roared Calum as Azumarill punched the doors down. “I’m warning you – release them now or we’ll take them by force!”
“Ha! Is THAT the best threat you can come up with? I expected more from Leafre’s top enemy… guess not EVERY opponent can be good, though. Your friend Jamie though… he wasn’t too bad. But he was FAR too weak to take me down… and you look exactly the same.”
A tall woman dressed in an extremely dark green skirt and blouse came forward. Her attire bore the marks of Team Leafre, but also of heightened ranking. Seeing the upgraded emblem, Calum looked on with caution.
“So… you’re one of Leafre’s admins? I suppose you’ll be a proper challenge then… bring it on!”
The woman laughed. “You’re pretty confident for someone who is about to lose it all! But that’s what makes it so fun… to think that I, Laura, am about to take down Leafre enemy number one… AND obtain that pendant! Go Altaria!”
For the first time, someone from Team Leafre had used a non-grass pokemon. The pokemon that WAS sent out was a large blue humming bird with huge, fluffy wings that appeared to be made of cotton… or clouds. It was gently humming a song with a dark edge to it…
“Ok, time to actually USE this pokemon now! Feebas, let’s go!”
The raggedy brown fish pokemon emerged onto the field, flopping hopelessly all over the place. Upon seeing this, Laura just stared at Calum as if he was stupid.
“Ok, you DO realise that I’m not as weak as the pathetic grunts my organization seems to employ, right? It’s INSULTING for you to send out something so WEAK against me! Not to mention ugly…”
Upon hearing those dreaded words, Feebas suddenly grew angry. Flopping around manically on the spot, the only reaction it got was more laughter. This only made it angrier… until Calum’s command calmed it down somewhat.
“Don’t listen to her, Feebas! Use Rain Dance and show your beauty!”
The ugly fish became somewhat more rhythmatic about the way it flopped on the floor, flopping in patterns across the floor. The result of this odd motion was that a gigantic storm cloud brewed in the middle of the gym! One small peal of thunder followed, before a torrential downpour erupted from the dark grey cloud above. The rain hit Feebas’s scales, causing them to shimmer in a soft, pinkish shade. Not wanting to see what would happen to the fish if left alone, Laura made her first move.
“Altaria, take it down! Dragon Claw!”
“Dragon Claw? But it’s a bird!” Ryan cried, not knowing of the humming bird’s second type. “How can it use a dragon attack?”
“It’s half dragon Ryan…” Calum said, slightly embarrassed by the young boy’s lack of knowledge. In amongst the confusion, Altaria had already flown across to Feebas, and was about to rake it using its talons. However, as it did so, an intense pink light burst forth out of Feebas! The light blinded everyone, causing them to miss the magnificent transformation that was taking place.
The small ugly fish was transforming into the most elegant yellow snakelike creature you could ever lay your eyes on. She had huge red eyebrows, covering captivating eyes that could calm any anger with just a single look. At the base of her body, a tail of shimmering scales resided, catching the sunlight with the most elegant charm one could imagine. Upon completing the transformation, she let out a cry that made everyone in the room stop and stare in awe at the majesty of the creature that was now in front of them.
“Oh yes! I knew those secret beauty poffins would do you a lot of good… Milotic! Let’s show this loser just how badly her weakness can be exploited! Ice Beam, hit it!”
Milotic opened her delicate mouth slightly, launching a potent beam of ultra-cold energy at Altaria. The bird was stunned by the sudden evolution, causing it to reel away from Milotic as she was evolving. Now though, she could do nothing to evade such a rapid burst of energy. Frozen solid within a second, she crashed to the floor and couldn’t move. Laura called her back, fury in her eyes.
“How DARE you! Such a powerful pokemon… I guess I’d better up my game now! Manectric, take this snake down!”
A yellow and blue dog like pokemon burst forth onto the battlefield. Rain was still heavily falling over the field… and the clouds above crackled with static electricity upon the arrival of the thunder pokemon.
“Milotic, don’t give it a chance to start! Use Water Pulse!”
Using the power of the rain, Milotic sent out a pulsing wave through the downpour, heading straight for Manectric.
“Manectric, Protect! Then, Thunder!”
Manectric adopted a defensive pose, brushing the energy wave aside in a flash of blue light. Hardly even taking time to react, it howled up to the clouds above. Before long, a colossal lightning bolt struck Milotic right in the centre of her body! She howled in pain as the effective electrical surge travelled all through her wet body, causing the most intense shock she had ever felt. She wasn’t beaten though… it would take more than that to take such a determined pokemon down.
“Milotic! Are you ok?” Calum inquired, greatly concerned for the well being of his pokemon. Cringing from the impact of the attack, Milotic forced a nod, but Calum wasn’t convinced. “It’s ok, you’ve done well for me… come back for now!”
As he returned the water pokemon, the cloud above the field dissipated. Now that the rain had stopped, Calum could use his next pokemon without hassle. “Growlithe, let’s go!” His loyal puppy came out onto the waterlogged battleground separating him and Manectric. Seeing so much water around him, he shot Calum a quizzical look, as if to ask why he had been sent out.
“Don’t worry, I have an idea,” he assured his pokemon, “Just go for it – Flamethrower!”
Mustering up all of the fire energy it could, Growlithe let loose a large, continuous stream of fire that passed over everything in a blaze of destruction. Manectric ran past it for a short time, but was eventually consumed within the flames as Growlithe torched all that he could see.
“Manectric, no! You have a strong move like that too! Use Thunderbolt!”
Trying to stand its ground, Manectric fired a powerful jolt of electricity at Growlithe. Calum had other ideas though.
“Agility! Show him true speed of attack…”
Obeying the command instantly, Growlithe cancelled his fiery breath attack and darted away from the incoming electrical blast, ensuring his survival in the battle.
“Now, end this! Overheat!”
Charging straight towards Manectric, Growlithe gathered every last ounce of fiery energy it had left, covering itself in a blazing cloak of white-hot flames. Manectric was able to avoid the puppy himself, but far from able to avoid the heat of the attack. Howling in pain, he crumpled to the floor. However, Growlithe very quickly followed him – all of his energy had been sapped, and now the only place left for him was his poke ball.
“UGH, Manectric that was useless!” screamed Laura, who was now very irritated at Calum and his pokemon. “Beaten by a Growlithe… well, this next one won’t be defeated NEARLY so easily! Go Shiftry!
A brown forest pokemon with two large hand fans made from leaves appeared. It had a somewhat ninja-like look about it… Calum was considering who to use in the battle, when all of a sudden…
“I’ll take this one…”
OO, the DRAMA! Surely it's clear enough THIS time what will happen in the next one... I don't think I can fool you guys again so easily
. Marill took on Torterra! And evolved to win the day! Did you see that one coming at all?
So... pretty titanic struggle for the safety of the town here! Who will win? Find out... next time!
