Chapter 7 is up! Sorry to anybody who was looking forward to it yesterday. I wasn't able to type it up yesterday, but I, of course, was able to today.
Chapter 7: The Legendary Beasts Appear
The area grew quiet as Ashley shouted those fated words. The people looked across the Underground at the tunnel worrisomely, waiting with bated breath for the Beasts to arrive. Suddenly, a frosty, chilled wind blew into the room from the tunnel, causing everyone to shiver. Then, a blue dog-like Pokemon with what looked like a purple cloud on his back jumped out of the tunnel and landed gracefully on the ground.
“S-Suicune!” Ashley shouted. He looked straight at Ashley with a face that could send the toughest opponents running away like scared little Ratatta.
She froze in place with a look of terror on her face.
Where are the other two? Brock thought to himself.
No sooner than he said that did he hear a growl from behind him. He slowly turned around and caught his breath as he saw a brown-coated lion-like Pokemon with a gray cloudlike cape flowing out behind him.
“Entei.” Entei’s ears perked up at that, and he gave a smug look at Brock.
“Oh, come on, people, you’re seriously gonna let these two weaklings scare you? I could take both of you down in a matter of minutes,” Shane stupidly said. A fork of lightning came down from above and hit him, causing him to fall over and shake violently.
Everyone looked up at the tunnel’s entrance and started shaking themselves at the sight of the final Beast. A fierce-looking tiger-like Pokemon with long, sharp fangs sticking out of his mouth and a majestic, cloudlike light-purple cape flowing out over his back was standing in the entrance.
“Raikou!” Ashley exclaimed fearfully.
He jumped down and joined Suicune as Entei joined them. They roared for the second time, only louder this time. This, surprisingly, seemed to snap Brock, Ashley, and Shane out of their fear, and they each sent out a Pokemon.
“C’mon, Turtwig, we can do this!” Ashley confidently said, and Turtwig looked at her with fear in his eyes, but stepped forward in a battle stance.
“Go, Ludicolo!” Brock threw a Poke Ball into the air, and out popped a plump green-and-yellow Pokemon with a sombrero-like lily pad on his head. He started dancing immediately as his feet touched the ground.
“R-ready to beat these three weaklings, Rampardos?” Shane weakly said as he tried to get up, but stumbled and fell down again. Ashley ran over and tried to help him get up, but he adamantly refused.
“I don’t need help from a girl!” He retorted, and finally succeeded in getting up, albeit still shaking.
Ashley shook her head and quickly looked around and found that everyone had vanished; however, she had no time to figure out where they were, as Brock and Shane already started to fight Suicune and Entei. Raikou looked at her fiercely and fired a bolt of electricity at Turtwig. It made a direct hit, but Turtwig was surprisingly able to keep its ground.
“Turtwig’s not gonna let an Electric-type attack faze him! Turtwig, Energy Ball at Raikou!” Turtwig started forming a green ball of energy in his mouth, then opened it and fired it at Raikou. It rammed into his head, and he seemed fazed for a few brief seconds, but he quickly shook it off and growled a deep growl. He dashed to Turtwig and bit down on his shell with his sharp fangs. Turtwig cried out in pain.
“No, Turtwig! Use Mega Drain!” The leaves on Turtwig’s twig started to glow a bright green and two “arms” of energy shot out and implanted themselves on Raikou’s body. They started to glow brighter as Raikou’s life force was slowly sucked out of him. He loosened his grip on Turtwig, and Turtwig jumped out.
“All right, Turtwig! Now, use Razor Leaf!” Turtwig reared his head back and shot it forward, leaves flying toward Raikou as fast as lightning. They made direct contact, but it only seemed to make him angrier. He roared as loud as he could, and suddenly the blackest of thunderclouds appeared at the ceiling of the Underground. A huge lightning bolt shot out of the epicenter of the cloud, and it hit Turtwig with such force that he flew back and crashed into Ashley.
“Turtwig! Are you OK?”
He looked at her with hurt eyes, and then started crying out, seemingly in pain. But this was different. He was glowing!
“Turtwig, what’s going on? What’s happening?” Ashley asked.
“Put him down! He’s evolving!” Brock shouted over to her.
“Evolving?!”
She watched as Turtwig’s body started to grow larger, his shell and legs growing bigger. His twig disappeared, only to have small shrubs appear on his back.
“Grotle!” It said after the process finished.
“A Grotle? Awesome! OK, Grotle, use Energy Ball!” Grotle flung another green ball at Raikou, only to have him jump out of the way.
“Now, Grotle! Grass Knot!” Just as Raikou touched the ground, four grass roots shot out of the ground and tied his legs to the ground. He was unable to move.
“Grotle! Finish it off! Sunny Day, then SolarBeam!” Grotle looked up and shouted his name triumphantly. The black thundercloud that had been lingering at the ceiling gave way to beams of light that looked like they were snatched from the sun itself. At once, the shrubs on his back started to glow a bright white, and he shot out a powerful white beam of light out of his mouth. Raikou was released from the grip of the roots by the force of the attack, but he proceeded to fly back and hit the wall. He slumped down in defeat.
“Yeah, Grotle, we did it!” She ran up to Grotle and hugged him, but her victory was short-lived as she realized that the other two Beasts were here, as well. She looked around and was shocked to find them lying on the ground in defeat too. She turned to look behind her and saw Brock and Shane watching her.
“You two already beat them?”
“I told you I could beat them quickly,” Shane proudly stated.
“Wow, Ashley that was some battle! You battled like a pro out there, though it’s no surprise since you have two great Pokemon trainers’ genes running through you,” Brock declared. “How long have you been using Turtwig-I mean-Grotle?”
“This was his second battle, after him and Rampardos fought.”
“His second?!” he said, shocked. “And he beat a legendary and evolved?! You are so much stronger than I thought.”
“Thanks. Now, we three need to get to Mt. Coronet and soon! There’s no telling when more will strike.”
“Wait. Did you say three? I don’t remember you beating me in a Pokemon battle,” Shane said.
“Would you rather I beat you in a Pokemon battle or beat you up?” She said with so much intimidation in her voice that she was actually able to shut him up.
“Now. We need to figure out a plan if we want to get to the summit alive,” Ashley said.
As Brock, Shane, and she started to think up a plan, The Legendary Beasts slipped out unnoticed.
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“You incompetent fools! How could you let her beat you?” The woman said as she slammed her fist into the desk.
They only whined in reply as they couldn’t actually speak at all. It didn’t matter, though, as the woman appeared to understand what they said.
“
They were strong? You fought three people?” Her anger turned to worry as she contemplated this. “Oh, no. She’s bringing along two other people. Well, we can’t have that. You are dismissed.” They weakly limped away.
“No, we can’t have that. . .” she mumbled to herself.