Collecting Zubat and Charmanders pokeballs, Dante couldn't help be proud of the two, they had done admirably in their first fight against a trainer. Walking out of the pokecenter and onto the deck, Dante noticed the sun just as it was about to set. He decided to stay there and watch the sun setting, something he hadn't done in a long time. "And…..now it's night time," Dante said as the sun went away, not to return for another day.
From out of nowhere, someone tapped Dante on the shoulder. "Excuse me young man, I request a pokemon battle", said the voice behind Dante. Dante turned around to see an elderly gentleman wearing a brown suit and hat, white scarf, and a cane. "Does a 2 on 2 battle sound appropriate young man?" said the old timer. "Absolutely!" Dante replied as he and the old timer took position, 30 feet opposite from each other to begin the battle. "Charmander, Zubat, I choose both of you" Dante said as he tossed their pokeballs up into the air, releasing the 2 pokemon from their pokeballs in front of him. "Alright, go Raticate and Mankey" said the old timer, as his pokemon appeared before him.
"Charmander smokescreen, Zubat use supersonic!", Charmander unleashed a cloud of smoke onto the deck as Zubat unleashed a confusing attack onto the raticate. "Mankey, use karate chop on that Charmander, raticate, hit the Zubat with a hyper fang." Mankeys attack hit Charmander, slightly injuring the pokemon, however the Raticate ran into the side of the ship in its confusion, unable to find its enemy. "Charmander, hit the Mankey with an ember, Zubat leechlife the Raticate.", Charmanders ember hit the Mankey hard, and Zubats leechlife somewhat weakened the Raticate somewhat. "Mankey, Raticate, karate chop and hyperfang again!", the smoke had reduced the Mankeys accuarcy and Charmander was able to dodge the karate chop, although Zubat was hit by the hyperfang, the Raticate had snapped out of its confusion. Zubat was visibly angry at being bitten, before Dante could say anything, Zubat attacked Raticate attacked Raticate, not with leechlife, but with Bite attack. "Wow, looks like Zubat's becoming a lot tougher" Dante said. "Charmander, finish the Raticate off with an ember", Charmanders ember was enough to finish of the Raticate, who was quickly returned to its pokeball. "Mankey, take out that Zubat with karate chop, it greatly injured your team-mate" said the old timer. Although the attack hit Zubat, the type advantage insured that the attack did almost no damage. "Lets end this, Charmander use ember, Zubat, use bite!", the combo of attacks was enough to finishing the fighting-type. it was out for the count. "Mankey, return" said the old timer as he returned it to its ball. Dante did the same to his pokemon. "Good show young man, that was a tougher battle than i thought", said the old timer as he pulled something out of his pocket, "I'd like you to take this", he said. It looked like a pokeball, except blue instead of red on the top, with a red center and 3 yellow stripes. "It's a lure ball, works better on pokemon you fished out of the water than a regular ball, hang on to it, I'm not sure if Kurt is still alive or not, so it may be among the last apricorn pokeballs out there, have a good evening young man" said the old timer. The old timer left before Dante could thank him. "He's pretty quick for his age", Dante thought aloud.
After 2 big battles, Dante started to feel tired again, so after running his pokemon by the pokecenter, he returned to the room, crawled under the covers, and fell asleep.