Here's the second part because my compy is short on disk space as is XD:
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The inside of the passageways was dimly lit by hanging lanterns strung haphazardly across the ceiling. Hills of rock separated one road from another, as well as the travelers from the perils of the inner mountain. The caves were full of people to the point that Gina started to wonder how everyone fit. Both she and Sproing gazed about in awe, neither of them having ever seen much outside of the fields surrounding Sunrise City.
As she finished taking everything in, Gina shoved her way through the crowds and, after many failed attempts, she managed to find herself a small spot on a bench. Sproing hopped into her lap, chirping excitedly, as his partner pulled her guidebook out of her bag.
I wonder how you find any Pokemon in here, Gina thought aloud. Sproing gave a chirp of agreement. He wouldnt like to live with so many people. Well, apparently, Gina continued, we can find aron, larvitar, geodude, machop a lot of Pokemon in here. I wonder if this thing tells me how She continued to scan over the pages for a minute or so, before finding the passage she was looking for:
Though Cuamenara is littered by hundreds of people at a time, it is still possible to catch Pokemon. In each of the four tunnels, there is a reservation where Pokemon may roam undisturbed by the crowds, and a set number of people at a time may enter to catch however many of these Pokemon they like. Some of these include: larvitar, aron, lairon (rare), pupitar (rare), magnegram (exclusive to Widows Peak area), and bagon.
Gina sighed, Well, apparently we cant train or catch or whatever until we decide which way we want to go. But with all of the people here, maybe we can get ourselves into a real battle. Most of them look like us. New to this, I mean. So I bet they have some Pokemon from the cave, which might give us a slight advantage. Okay so we dont have any Pokemon from the cave yet but we will!
Sproing squawked happily, jumping down to the ground. His new mission, all other thoughts aside, was to find someone for them to fight. As soon as Gina was ready to start heading back toward the entrance to the cave, the little bird shot out into the crowd, looking for someone he found suitable. He paid no mind to the girl running after him, shoving her way through the hoards of people. Finally, he came to someone sitting on the ground, playing with a small Pokemon. He recognized this Pokemon. It had spines and was striped brown and an off-white color. Its little face scrunched up as its human offered it food. It was a zigzagoon.
Gina, panting, ran up to her catiel, Sproing! Never, ever do that again! I couldve lost you, buddy!
Sproing gave his best pitiful look before pointing his foot toward the small rat. Gina looked the pair opposite them over before she replied, Spro, I dont think we couldnt beat the wild ones, and that one is bound to be better. Its with a partner. Sproing shook his head defiantly and continued to point. The zigzagoon wasnt taking food from its human. It didnt trust the boy. They would have an advantage.
She sighed, Alright. Well give it a try. Theres a Center right outside if we need it, I guess. Sproing jumped and gave an elated chirp. He ran up to the mouse. Gina followed.
Hi she said, not entirely sure of how to go about this, My catiel really wants to battle your zigzagoon for some reason uh do you mind?
Gina figured she had said something right, because she didnt receive a strange look and there was no sarcasm in his voice when he said, Oh, sure. Sounds like fun. We need to find a place, though
Well the crowd seems to have just stepped aside for those two over thereMaybe we just start, Gina suggested, not having thought of this problem.
Maybe we should meet outside just in case were not supposed to, or something, the boy offered, Why dont we meet by the map table in front of the Pokemon Center in about a half-hour. Sound good?
Alright. Ill see you then, I guess, Gina agreed. She scooped up Sproing, waved to the boy, and started to head out of the tunnel.
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The Pokemon Center was huge. Though that was something, Gina realized, that she should probably have expected. Then again, it looked like the normally sized one in her hometown from the front. But it stretched back into a crag, making it, from the inside, seem very much like a hotel.
The rooms were very much like that of a hotel also. They each boasted their own bathroom, something Gina was extremely grateful for, as well as a bed and television. Unlike most Pokemon Centers, however, this one required a small fee per night. It didnt surprise Gina that a place like that couldnt run on donations alone.
Gina wasnt sure whether or not being fashionably late applied to Pokemon battles, but she had no interest in finding out. She stood in front of the map, by her time five or so minutes early. The boy showed up soon after. The acknowledged each other, and then started to head away from he mass of people and Pokemon.
Alright, are you ready? the boy asked, calling his zigzagoon out of its Pokeball.
Yup! Gina replied, nodding to Sproing. The Pokemon took their places between the two trainers. Oh! This is a one-on-one, okay? Gina said to the boy. He nodded in reply.
The zigzagoon puffed itself up, and Sproing bounced in place, each awaiting an order from their nervous trainers, each of whom was about to participate in their first battle. Gina finally took a deep breath, and said quietly to Sproing, Alright, Spro, you wanted to do this do your best. Lets try the uhwell, the butt-peck thing again. That we did to that first zigzag. The catiel cocked his head to the side, considering for a second, before nodding, and charging at the zigzagoon.
Alright, Spiny! the boy shouted, excitement taking over, Charge him!
The zigzagoon, presumably named Spiny, complied and rushed at Sproing. Sproing jumped over the little animal and tried to peck his backside, only to tumble in the dirt. He righted himself, and Spiny turned around for another charge. The command Tackle! rang through the small battlefield, but Sproing wasnt sure who had said it. The zigzagoon didnt make any move to answer it, and instead curled himself into a ball and shot forward at his opponent. Sproing made the quick assumption that the tackle order hadnt been for him, and he jumped the rollout.
Spiny uncoiled himself, much to his trainers delight, but still refused to listen to the order of tackle. Gina stood attentively, hoping that Sproing understood that their original plan was still in play. The two small Pokemon stood, staring at each other, for several seconds before the zigzagoon raised its spines, put its head down, and charged in full headbutt.
Sproing again leaped over this attack as well, but managed to land a hard peck on the unprepared zigzagoons backside. The small mouse squealed and swung its tail around vigorously, trying to hit a Sproing who had already retreated.
Okay, Spro, razor leaf! Gina ordered.
Cmon Spiny, rollout! the boy pleaded.
Sproing quickly called upon foliage, and Spiny, realizing that his mentor had chosen the best possible strategy, tucked himself into a ball.
Sproing! Uh can you fly? Not like the attack! Just normal flying! Gina shouted at the battlefield.
Sproing nodded, and flapped his wings, rising just enough off the ground to avoid the zigzagoons charge. He came down with a plunk, as well as to the command, Quick! Jump! He jumped, but to late. His small legs were kicked out from under him and he fell backwards hard.
Oy! Cmon, Spro, you can do it. Razor leaf again! Gina called. Sproing stood up and shook himself off.
Spiny! Rollout! the boy shouted.
The zigzagoon looked at his trainer, his face harboring an awfully malicious expression. Sproing stood in place, near his end, waiting for the rat to move. Gina stared on.
If he listens, he wins.
It came to everyone at the same time.
It was out of their reach now, Gina realized. Whatever happened, her catiel had fought well. They just needed to lay off those zigzagoon for a while.
Day THREE
I skipped yesterday. Nothing really happened. Spro and I got sorta discouraged, and we lost to some zigzagoon, so we just moped around all day, and went in earlier than we did the night before. But we also won our first battle against some meditite. It wasnt as glorious as I thought it would be. Sure, Spro jumped up and down and I hugged him, but that has happened before. I thought it would be a little more exciting, but it just happened. Then, boom, it was over. I can go on with my life. I wanted something much more, well, clich.
So, anyway, we finally got to Cuamenara Pass. Its this huge mountain that people wont excavate or spelunk (which is an awesome word, by the way) because its unstable. So its just these four separate tunnels. Worse, its overflowing with people. Its like an amusement park. You look up; youre going to lose whoever youre with. Thats what happened, actually. Spro and I went into the caves to catch Pokemon ( which, incidentally, we couldnt do because there are only certain areas near the intersection of the tunnels where you can catch themyou really need to decide where youre going before you can get anything). Well, we found we couldnt. So I said to him, Maybe we can find someone to battle instead. There were hundreds of people who only had one Pokemon, and plus, the guidebook said that a ton of new trainers gather there. I feel really clich this time, at least.
Anyway, Spro took that as, Go find someone for us to battle! That was really not cool because he shot off into the crowd! He ended up picking this kid with this awful disobedient zigzagoon. Seriously! He picked a zigzagoon, the one Pokemon (well, not the one, but one of the Pokemon) we havent been able to beat yet. So this guy and I decide to meet later for a zigzag vs. Spro match.
You would never believe this Pokemon center. Getting back to the whole amusement park this, it is a HOTEL! The place is huge! It has a swimming pool, for Gods sake! I got a hotel room! Theres this awesome, weird-smelling bed and a T.V. with one of those little controllers that you can play Super Nintendo games from (Kirby rules), and a cute little bathroom complete with mini shampoo bottles. Yeah, I did have to pay a little to get in, but its worth it. I could live here for the rest of my life with the fee they charge. And, hey, I could make money by battling people like that guy and his zigzagoon.
Anyway, that guy yeah, we battled him. I think Spro saw the zigzagoon, Spiny, being a jerk to his partner, so he thought it would be easier if the Pokemon we battled didnt listen. Wrong. It was much harder. We never knew what he would do. It was like battling a much stronger wild one. We actually did well for a while, Sproing landed a lot of pecks and a razor leaf, but the stupid little porcupine knew rollout.
So we eventually got to a bit of a dead heat, and nobody was landing attacks. Spro was starting to really get tired (though I guess it would be hard for anyone but me to notice; he was still bouncing around like a lunatic), and then this guy, who had been shouting tackle and headbutt the entire time, finally decides to order rollout, which would obviously be enough to finish the battle. I almost exploded. I felt so bad for poor Spro. I really wanted to do something, but I couldnt think of anything but to wait and see what this little rodent would do. He looked so evil.
I guess it was only a few seconds worth of suspense before the zigzagoon shifted that mean little glare of his from his trainer to Sproing, but it felt like forever. He tucked his head down and pulled his legs in. I really wanted to close my eyes, or run for the guidebook. They need to put like a Strategies for Defeating Zigzagoon thing in there or something like that. So, this zigzagoon starts to rollout, but suddenly, he changes his mind and unrolls, running to tackle Spro instead. Sproing was totally unprepared, and so was I, so he took the full force of the attack. This wasnt extra-effective like rollout, so he was able to get up. I was about to call him back, but he charged at Spiny, who thought he had won by surprise. Instead, Spiny got pecked in a really uncomfortable place.
So now Spiny is running in this little circle like a delibird with its head cut off, squealing. Sproing is just standing there chirping loudly. I swear he was laughing. I think, to him, it was like payback to all of those zigzagoon we lost to that we were able to see this evil, juvenile little zigzagoon acting so ridiculously. Maybe it was kind of mean to laugh (which I didnt), but it was great to see. The guy was just standing there, totally stunned. Once the zigzagoon calmed down, which was almost a full minute later (which is actually a pretty long time to run in little circles squeaking), he rolled himself up and did this full-on charge at Spro, who wasnt ready for it. So, yeah we lost. But it was worth it to a surreal degree! I seriously think we can beat the next zigzagoon. Last time I was wrong, but I have a good feeling now.
On another note, I think were going to head toward Widows Peak tomorrow. So, next time I write, Ill probably have a new Pokemon! Well, I hope so, anyway. I hope its as bright and fun as Spro. It must really stink to be stuck with a Pokemon with a bad disposition. The fun part will be naming it.
Yeah, right.
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