Here is the 2nd chapter, tell me what you think
Chapter 2. Rival Battle! Anthony vs. Rena
All of a sudden, Anthony heard a mysterious voice he has never heard before. A girl with blonde hair with a green headband around her head, red shirt with a white open button down shirt with blue stripes on it, blue jeans, and a tan messager bag comes out of the bushes and says to him,
“Your pretty good for just a newbie trainer, though I think your strategies are a little sloppy.” The girl explained.
“Huh, what do u mean sloppy?” Anthony said confused
“I mean, instead of using that defense curl, you could’ve used an attack that would’ve not also countered Spearow’s, but also do damage in the process, instead of just telling your Pokemon to curl into a ball.” The girl said.
“I did just fine for my first battle, and I also won too, so I think I'm doing a good job so far.” Anthony explained.
“You may have won this time, but if you battle like you just did again against a stronger Pokemon, I guarantee you will lose” The girl said.
Anthony chuckled and said, “ I don’t believe you.”
The girl had a confident smirk on her face and grabbed a pokeball out of her bag, and said, “fine then I challenge you to a Pokemon battle!”
Anthony was surprised, yet excited that he would have his first official Pokemon battle on the first day of his adventure. Anthony turned to her and said, “I accept” with a self-assured tone in his voice.
Anthony took out his pokeball and yelled, “Go Phanpy!”
The girl with the headband screamed, “ Go Duskull!”
Duskull is a ghost type Pokemon, the first kind Anthony has ever seen or encountered. Duskull has a small hooded masked form in a black robe with a cross-bone drawing on its back. Its mask looks like the front of a skull. It has only one, red eye, which can float freely inside its head.
Anthony yelled the first attack, “Phanpy tackle!”
Phanpy ran towards Duskull and made contact with him, but it didn’t do anything. Anthony was surprised so he hastily told Phanpy to use tackle again, but it didn’t work.
“Haha!” the girl with the green headband said. “You can’t attack Duskull with normal type attacks like tackle, it doesn’t have any affect on him because he’s a ghost Pokemon.”
Anthony couldn’t believe what he heard, since tackle can’t do any damage to Duskull and defense curl isn’t an offensive move, then he couldn’t do damage to him.
Anthony thought to himself, “What should I do?” “I don’t know any other Attacks to tell Phanpy to use.” “Wait!” “I remember Rob using a certain attack that he told his Donphan to use, and also Phanpy can use.” “Crap, what was it…” He thought hard of recalling the attack that Rob used. “! That’s it!”
The girl said to Duskull, “ Use night shade!” a sinister shadowy beam came out of Duskull’s eye and went straight toward Phanpy.
“Phanpy quick use defense curl!” Phanpy promptly got into a tight ball to reduce damage done from the night shade.
“Heh, not bad, but not good enough!” “Duskull use disable!” The girl screamed. Phanpy got out of the ball right as the disable took effect.
“What’s going on?!” “How come Phanpy got out of the defense curl?” Anthony said, puzzled.
“I’ll tell you,” the girl said with a snarky laugh. “ When Duskull uses disable, the last move your Pokemon used, can’t be used for quite a while.”
“What?!” Anthony said, mystified by the fact that Phanpy’s defense curl was rendered useless.
“This is it!” the girl screamed. “Duskull use night shade to finish off Phanpy!”
Anthony suddenly said, “Phanpy use your rollout attack!”
“Rollout?!” the girl said baffled by the fact that she was going into a trap, since Duskull is using night shade.
Phanpy went into a firm ball, like it would in defense curl, but instead of staying in one place, Phanpy rolled while in a ball, and would tackle the opponent, and the more momentum it picked up from rolling, its power would amplify.
Phanpy dodged the night shade and tackled Duskull with the rollout attack, and was continuing to roll and tackle Duskull again.
The girl was astonished that Anthony had taken control of the battle, but she still had a plan. She yelled with a forceful tone of voice, “ Use confuse ray!”
The confused ray struck Phanpy and Phanpy went out of control rolling at higher speeds, until Phanpy hit a tree and knocked itself unconscious. Anthony was staggered that he lost, as he had almost won his first official Pokemon battle.
“I didn’t expect you to be that strong of a trainer when I saw you battle that Spearow.” The girl said. “You had some good strategies and the timing of the strategies was almost perfect.” “Oh I guess in all of the excitement I forgot to introduce myself.” “My name is Rena.” “What’s your name?”
“Uh, my name is Anthony.” Anthony said.
“Well Anthony I guess your going to be competing in the Pokemon League, right?” Rena said.
“Yeah, my brother told me to start out by going to Viridian City.” Anthony said.
“Well here’s what you should do, after u go to Viridian City, go to the Viridian Forest and once you get past the forest, go to Pewter City, and battle this Gym Leader named Brock. You need to win 8 different Gym Badges in order to compete in the Pokemon League. “So this will be your first step, as well as mine.” Rena explained to Anthony.
“Ok, thanks, then after I get to Viridian City, I'm going to go through Viridian Forest and then go to Pewter City to win my first gym badge.” Anthony said with a fiery confidence tone in his voice.”
“Alright then, I guess I’ll see you in the Pokemon League, and if not then, before that, until then, see you later.” Rena said with a smile.
“Bye Rena, remember next time we meet, I'm going to beat you!”
Rena waves and smiles, then walks away, as Anthony goes back to relaxing then moving toward Viridian City.
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