Part SIx: The First Gym
The next day took us through some woods. We all caught Caterpies and Weedles. We were running short on Pokeballs. We needed to find a Pokemart. The next town we reached had a Gym! The town was small but was full of Pokemon maniacs. I heard that the Gym Leader had all Grass Pokemon. Growlithe would have no problem. We agreed that we all would get one chance to fight the gym leader. Many people wanted to trade in the town square. I made one trade. A kid about my age wanted to trade me a Zubat for a Bulbasaur. Since Venasaur was my favorite Pokemon I took the trade. I found out that the gym leaders name was Allen. We walked in and were totally bombarded by people slamming and putting down our Pokemon and us. What kind of gym was this? We elected A.J. to go first. Alex was extremely rude too. We were lead to an underground arena. We were told it was a one Pokemon match, and there was no time limit. A.J. chose Persian. "Goo, Ivysaur" Alex yelled! The fight began with the two circling the arena. A couple of vine whips missed Persian. Finally Persian made a move, it jumped at Ivysaur and used pounce. Ivysaur stumbled back, with no time to lose Persian scratched Ivysaur. Pounce, scratch, pounce, scratch, pounce, scratch, this was the best way to defeat Ivysaur A.J. thought. A.J. and Persian had planned this before the match. After about three minutes of non-stop pouncing and scratching Alex called back Ivysaur. Mike and Tauros were next, "Go Tangela" Alex yelled! Right off the bat Tauros charged at Tangela, It was trampled. Tauros turned around and stomped on the poor thing. It constantly stomped for about a minute and then charged. Stomped some more until Alex called back his defeated Tangela. It was finally my turn. Jynx would be my Pokemon. "Go Nidorino" Alex yelled! Jynx quickly used Psy Beam, and then rushed over to tackle Nidorino. She did and almost knocked out Nidorino. Jynx was about to use double slap when Alex though small pokeball out. Nidorino ate it. It was a Super Potion. Jynx tackled but it didn't do much. "Horn attack" Alex commanded. Jynx was hurt. "Psy Beam" I called. They both were hurt about the same. Nidorino was about to use horn attack for the KO "He's gonna use horn attack Jynx, watch out." I yelled. Jynx quickly moved out of the way of the stabbing horns. Jynx powered up Psy Beam and KO'ed Nidorino. "You are all very good" complemented Alex. You all get the Forest badge and my favorite TM, Razor Leaf. Teach it to you best Grass Pokemon. After he was defeated he seemed a lot less rude.
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