Chapter One, Part One of Two: Enter Zora! Her Battle Style is Quite Unique~
A faint light. And then a bright sparkle. More sparkles, and then nothing. Lights. Many lights. Appearing to shine on one point in the ground. Then darkness. Then the same lights, at the same place. A human. Staring into space, she waves to an invisible nothingness. Then, more lights in the space outside of her own, leaving a circle of darkness around her one bit of light. A crowd. Shouting, screaming, booing. And then nothing. At last....
The dim rays of the sun shone on the girl's somewhat tanned face. Ever so slowly did she open her eyes and look out the window. It was the dawn of the next day. Right.... I crashed right after that party.... she thought. Yawning, the girl sat up on her bed, blankets still on top of her. She peered over to the space beside her. There lay a guy. I have got to be dreaming.... She pinched herself in the arm. Nope. This is reality.... Turning to the guy, she sighed.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" she asked him. The guy carefully opened his eyes, and looked at the girl.
"What are ya talking about, baby? I live here, remember?" His words were a bit slurred.
"But...." A sudden recollection of the previous night. Right.... He LET me stay here. But from what I recalled, I preferred to sleep alone. I didn't get drunk or anything....
"Come on, Zora, you know you like me," the guy responded, flashing a very yellow smile. Zora cringed and backed away. "Zora, babe, don't leave me!" But it was too late. Zora was out the door, ready to leave this eternal nightmare. Why does he have to be such a lady's man? Why can't he be a regular idiot like any other man? she asked herself as she ran far away from his place.
It had been a while since Zora had battled, particularly due to her partying every single hour of the day, and gambling at the Game Corners in her free time. She never had time for battling, at this rate. But, nonetheless, her stomach ached for a battle, and she knew she had to go against someone soon. Just then, her thoughts were interrupted by the sudden pitter-patter of steps behind her.
"There she is, bro!"
"Dude, you're gonna pay for walking out on my brother like that!" Turning around, Zora saw the one boy's older brother, someone very buff and thick-headed in many ways. Seeing how she couldn't back down from whatever challenge he might throw at her, she smiled.
"So, two-on-two, then?" she asked, taking out two Pokeballs.
"You're on!" With that, he threw two Pokeballs up in the air. A Quagsire and Magmortar came out. Sighing, Zora threw her two Pokeballs. Out came Serene, the Glaceon, and Bane, the Arcanine. The buff brother couldn't help but chortle.
"Hah, you call yourself a trainer? Quagsire, Earthquake. Magmortar, Protect!" The Magmortar surrounded itself in a green sphere, and at once the Quagsire leaped high into the air and landed on the ground with such force that it started shaking. As the two Pokemon struggled to stay up on their feet, the guy laughed some more.
"Ah, the sun sure is bright out today, isn't it?" Zora asked. The guy looked at her in confusion.
"Excuse me?"
"Bright enough to act as Sunny Day, huh?" Nodding her head, Zora turned to her Arcanine, who was still able to fight. "Bane, SolarBeam on Quagsire." The Arcanine nodded, and turned to the surprised Quagsire. Before the buff brother could recall his Pokemon, Bane unleashed an earthshaking roar, and at once a glimmer came from beyond the stars. No sooner did that glimmer disappear when a burst of light shot down, hitting the Quagsire directly. Falling back, the Quagsire was knocked unconscious.
"And now, for the grand finale," Zora said, her voice calm. "Bane, Rain Dance." Another earthshaking roar, this time shorter and more subtle, and clouds covered the sky. Rain began pouring down within seconds, and Zora smiled.
"Water.... Pulse!" The Glaceon knew that Zora meant for her to attack, and so she opened her mouth. The buff brother seemed to expect a blast as large as the SolarBeam, but instead, the water Serene let out was small, about the size of a regular Water Gun. As it hit the Magmortar, white circular rings began surrounding it and began disappearing as if following the pulse of the large fiery Pokemon. As soon as her attack ended, the Glaceon watched as the Magmortar spun around, obviously suffering from confusion. A few more steps, and it fell down on its belly. Yet again did Zora win the match.
Angered by her easy win, the brothers stormed off, dragging their Pokemon with them. Zora smiled. Too easy. Even the gym leaders and Elite Four members got annoyed whenever I acted completely calm and modest. Goes to show how pathetic these trainers can be. It seemed to be very true. Whenever Zora was calm in battle (which was all the time, for that matter), her opponents would always get frustrated with her and would then stop thinking straight. This usually caused them to lose control of their Pokemon, and lose the match. Quite a unique strategy, but at the same time, it wasn't really that hard to execute. With a small sigh, Zora was out of sight from the battlefield. It was most likely she was going to a Game Corner, but then again, at this point, who knows?