The League of Leagues

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Reika grinned at Charlie. Fancy seeing him in the PokeMart. "Well, to answe your question, the sky is way up there but I'm guessing that's not what you mean-"

Ringing from her phone cut her off. Holding a finger up to signal for Charlie to wait a moment, she mouthed 'phone'. Her phone was ringing loudly and she was worried, it would disturb the other customers so she stepped outside before answering.

"Hello? You've reached Reika"

A short conversation ensued, ending with Reika smiling from ear to ear. "Sure, I'd love to go for a swim. Where? PokeCenter? 'Kay, I'll be there in a few"

She ended the phone call and popped her head into the Mart. "Charlie, I'm going to the PokeCenter. See you later, alright?"
 
Kyle pressd the button to end the call.

His head was still echoing with Charlie's question.

"You really like, don't you Kyle?" It played over and over in his head. Kyle always saw Reika as the cool and funny swimmer girl who he enjoyed being around. He never really considered it anything more. But, then again, he never really considered it. But now, Kyle was thinking, reika and him had some awesome moments together, be it in the pool or out. Kyle also realised that reika was quite attractive. That was when kyle's stomach felt all funny and his head became a little light. Was he in love?

"Hey guys. Did I hear your going for a swim, Kyle? If so, Axle, want to go grab rooms upstairs before they're all taken?" Kyle's thoughts were yanked back to reality. Ryan was standing behind him, Kyle whirled around to face him.

"Yeah, i just phoned Reika, she says she'll be here in a minute, we'll probably do some training, but you guys can come too if you want."
 
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Jogging back to the PokeCenter, Reika couldn't help but notice the different sights along the way. There was an elderly couple exercising with a Machoke, a flower garden in front of a shop, and quite a number of people handing out flyers for a sale in a different city. She smiled. It was so nice to be in a cheerful bustling city.

Turning on a corner, she came face to face with the big building that was the PokeCenter. She stopped, panted, and wiped beads of sweat off her face. Her bag was really heavy from all that stuff. She was worried it might get too full so she decided to drop off some stuff at the Center first before meeting up with the guys. She stepped into the Center, carrying Leafeon who seemed very pleased at being carried.

Reika grinned at the nurse and asked her to watch over Leafeon for a while since she was going swimming. Besides Leafeon was probably tired from walking so much, not to mention chasing after Reika. The nurse agreed and Reika dropped some of her stuff at the storage area.

Looking across the room, she saw Kyle, Ryan, and Axle. A mischievous grin slipped onto her face. Time for some fun. She tiptoed towards them and yelled "BOO!"

Without waiting for their reactions, she laughed and stepped closer to Kyle. "So ready to swim? My pokemon are just dying to go swimming after sooo long"
 
"Wow, I really don't like swimming that much..."Charlie said once Reika was out of earshot. He began to start out of the pokemart and back toward the Pokemon Centre,"But I guess I shouldn't be wandering alone..."

A sleeping Elekid still in his arms as he approached a video phone and dialed a number. It rung a few times, and finally a voice answered with a "hello?".

"Hey, it's me Charlie!"the red haired teenager exclaimed, obviously talking to a family member. The conversation went like so for a few minutes, but he was glad to keep it going seeing as he didn't like to swim.
 
Ryan rubbed the back of his neck, "Heh, you guys go ahead. But remember to meet us back here in an hour and a half. We should have a group training session and maybe we'll go eat out since we've got all this money laying around.."

Ryan followed his statement by pulling out a large chunk of pokedollars he had gotten from smacking down a bunch of trainers on their way here. As he thought about who they had defeated, he thought of the Ghost catching contest and then realized he had something in his PC.

"Oh, oops, uh, so yeah I'll see you guys later, I'll go get us some rooms upstairs before they fill up. Axle if your not into swimming, we can figure out strategies later." He dashed over to a group of PCs in the corner used by a multitude of trainers. Putting in his own Trainer ID he logged into the phone and called Professor Oak.

"Hey Professor! I was wondering if you could send me the little one I sent over back in Lavender Town."

"Oh of course," Oak replied, "she's doing fine, very curious and for a ghost type she's none too scary."

"Hm, maybe we'll have to change that?" Ryan joked as his Pokeball zapped in next to him. He picked it up, thanked Oak and said his goodbye. With a toss a white light enveloped the floor and out came a Drifloon from the ball.

"Drii..?" it looked around confused before it saw Ryan. It casually floated up into the air to look him in the eyes before tilting it's head. It didn't act much differently now then it did when it was a wild Pokemon. Ryan took it gently by it's balloon-string hand, "Hey Drifloon, it's good to have you on the team! How about meeting some of the others?" He tossed the rest of his Pokeballs revealing a peppy Squirtle that climbed up on his back and sat on his shoulder, Poliwhirl who waved at the balloon happily, Graveler that still looked dazed from earlier and a sleepy Fearow who opened one eye and closed it, noting that there was nothing of particular interest to her here.

The Nurse told him not to release all his Pokemon in the lobby so he brought everyone upstairs to the three rooms he reserved for the group and used a key to open one, getting Drifloon more acquainted with the team.
 
"Heh, you guys go ahead. But remember to meet us back here in an hour and a half. We should have a group training session and maybe we'll go eat out since we've got all this money laying around.."

Turning back to Ryan, Reika nodded. "Sure, I'll be sure to be back here by then. If I'm not... Well, I do miss the water" She then waved goodbye to Ryan who was walking off to the PCs.

She turned back to Kyle and grinned. Hopefully he was just as excited to go swimming as she was. Then she remembered Axle who was also with them so she grinned at Axle too.

"So do you want to swimming with us? I get the feeling Charlie won't be coming with us and Ryan already said he didn't want to come along. So it's either you, me, and Kyle or..." She got a playful look on her face. "Like I said, it's either the three of us going for a nice relaxing swim or it's a date between me and Kyle"

Reika continued smiling, not noticing anyone's reaction. "Of course, if it will take you a little while to decide, I could always go ahead" She paused. "Or we could go together, Kyle"

Without waiting for an answer, Reika went ahead. "If you guys are going swimming, go ahead and catch me!"

It was a typical childish thing of Reika to want a race even though she often lost. Running ahead, she wondered if she would win by default if they weren't going to follow or if she was really going to win for once. A silly smile pasted itself on her face. Win or lose, she was going to find out soon.
 
Axle jogged up the stairs towards his own room. In an instant he placed his saddle bag on the bed. Quickly taking a pokeball from it.

Just in case

He placed the pokeball in his pocket and went downstairs again. However he had no reason to go swimming since he didn't really care for it. So he went towards the pool deck. But instead of going towards the change rooms he went towards the rim of the pool. He quickly sat down at a deck chair
 
Kyle sprinted down the corridor, he had to catch Reika, they both took their racing seriously, even if it was in the name of fun. So far the two were tied on "Wins" 37-37.

Kyle saw Reika just before the changing room doors, he put in an extra burst of speed. As he drew up behind her, she turned around.

"Let's save are energy for the pool!" Kyle panted. "Are you taking in any pokemon or not?"
 
"I'm thinking that Goldeen's still sleeping but Mantyke and Piplup have been bugging me to let them swim. So those two will be swimming" She paused and a smile spread on her face. "Hey, I won, didn't I?"

Without waiting for an answer, she skipped into the locker room. "First person into the pool gets some rice cakes!"

She stepped into a shower stall and tore her clothes off. The excitement of swimming made her move faster than usual. In a few minutes, she was out of the locker room again. This time in her swimsuit.
 
Kyle was about to open her mouth to protest over Reika's "win" but she had already disappeared. Damn! She always full of energy Kyle thought. Zip and Wano would join Reika's pokemon for a swim Kyle decided. Poppet could teach Snatch to swim if he did not know already. Poppet was a fairly strong swimmer despite being a Hoothoot. Being in a group of swimmers and water lovers, it was hard not to enjoy splashing around. He turned to Poppet who rested on his shoulder,

"You can teach Snatch to swim right?" Poppet nodded and grinned with excitement. "If Snatch can already swim, i want you two to play in the shallow end today, just to be safe." Poppet showed no signs of protest, so Kyle released Snatch the Aipom. The purple monkey danced around and made some light chattering noises. "Hey there Snatch, Poppet is going to be your swim instructor today, Okay?" Poppet swooped off of Kyle's shoulder and landed next to Snatch. The aipom smiled at Kyle, then at Poppet and the hoothoot and aipom rushed off through the locker room. Kyle smiled and then remembered Reika's next contest. He tore of his t-shirt, trainers and socks right there in the corridor. He did not care who was looking and what they thought. He wanted to be swimming- with Reika, he also wanted to win.

Kyle sped through the locker room, out onto poolside, where he dumped his bag and clothes on a chair next to Axle and did a running dive into the pool.
 
"Hey Ryan, you aren't swimming either?"Charlie asked, walking into one of the rooms that Ryan had reserved. "Nice Drifloon..."the red haired teenager commented walking farther into the room, and taking a seat on one of the beds. "Listen, I think that while the others are splashing around in that pool we may as well do some training. We just need to find Axle, I don't think he's swimming with Ryan and Reika...That or we could make fun of the happy couple,"he smiled, once again teasing at Ryan and Reika's relationship.

As he spoke, Charlie brought a small bottle up to Elekid's mouth, who happily excepted the drink. He had released Quilava and Oddish as well, who were laying on the bed with beside him.

"Also, I think it's time that Elekid learned to walk, he's starting to get heavy now," Charlie said as the electric pokemon dozed off. He layed it down on the bed, snugly wrapped in blankets.
 
Axle released the pokemon he was holding. To his surprise Aron apeared in the flash of light.

"Well now. This is a surprise. I thought I got Pigeotto's ball"

Aron still just looked at him but acted like he didnt care. But it didnt matter. Axle knew that Aron was probably a real softy under the rock hard exterior.

"Come on. I have to get to my bag. It holds all my other things."

Axle got up off the chair. He began to walk back to the interior of the center with Aron behind him

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Axle made it back to his room. He returned Aron back to his ball. Then slumped onto the bed. It had been a while since he had done any lounging. So he might as well be productive

Axle took a book out of his bag. It was labled "The Adventures of Blaziken."
 
Ryan was patting Drifloon and learning what moves it knew when Charlie walked in. "Practice? Hm, sure. We can make it a double battle. I'll use Poliwhirl and Drifloon here," the balloon Pokemon looked startled that it would be used in combat so soon. Ryan assured her it would be just fine in battle.

"We can practice in the garden by the pool, then we can make fun of the lovebirds," he said with a grin. He nodded Charlie out of the room after leaving Graveler and Fearow to rest, bringing his other three team members down to the pool area. He walked past Axle/Kyle's room, "Hey Axle, if you'd like to read by the pool we'll all be down there. If not, catch you in a bit!" he said as he passed the doorway slowly. Down to the pool they went as many other trainers came upstairs to get rooms before the rain-rush. It began storming harder. Luckily for the group, the garden was under skylights indoors. A glass wall seperated the lush, flowery area from the pool and it's deck.

Ryan stood on one side as some trainers sat idle by the tables, watching the training session start. He let Squirtle frolic (sp?) with Kyle's pokemon in the shallow end, the playful turtle just spinning on it's back in the water. The rain poured down on the skylights as Poliwhirl and Drifloon took their places, the ghost Pokemon a little shaky.
 
"Well, I guess I still need to choose my team...Oddish needs a little training, I know that..."Charlie said, releasing the weed pokemon from it's ball. "As for my second...Go Chimecho!!"Shocking all of his teammates he sent out a bell shaped ghost pokemon, a pokemon that no one had realized Charlie had caught. "I still can't believe you thought I didn't catch anything at Lavender Town..." The Chimecho responded by calling out it's name with delight.

Charlie was glad he had the element of surprise in this battle, though it probably wouldn't last long, after all he hadn't known about Drifloon. Though they were in a garden, which should give Oddish an advantage.

"So, what do you say we get this started, Ryan?"Charlie said, a wide grin on his face, his large red bangs hiding his determined eyes.
 
"Sure thing!" With a point of his finger Drifloon floated above the opponents curiously as Poliwhirl went in for attack mode. Ryan shifted his weight and shouted.

"Go! Poliwhirl use Bubblebeam on Chimecho, Drifloon use Gust on Oddish!" Drifloon swirled with great speed creating a large twister that was narrow in size but all the same effective as it collided down to where Oddish stood. The bubbles released from Poliwhirl's gloves sped toward Chimecho from behind, the toad Pokemon using Drifloon's overhead as a distraction to run around it's opponents.
 
"Oddish, dodge the twister and use Razor Leaf on those bubbles!"Charlie shouted to his Oddish. In response it rolled to the side just in time to escape the twister, which compared to Oddish was pretty big. It lifted itself back to it's feet quickly, and fired a series of spinning leaves toward the bubbles that were headed toward Chimecho. Each of them exploded before reaching their target.

"Now Chimecho, use confusion toward Poliwhirl and Drifloon!" Chimecho followed the orders, turning around quickly by firing a strange beam of many colors toward Poliwhirl. It kept rotating slowly, causing a ring of the confusion beam moving outward from it. Oddish ducked to to the ground to dodge the ring, which was now headed toward Charlie's opponents.
 
Poliwhirl thought for itself even before the confusion landed a hit. It used it's gloves as a buffer out in front of him, sending a wild blast of Hyponosis to meet the opposing psychic attack head on. Drifloon floated casually overhead as Poliwhirl held off the beam.

"Drift, take Chimecho down with a Shock Wave!" The Drifloon blinked before floating high above it's opponents, sending a shock right to the ground that sped out in waves; one toward Oddish and the other straight back up to Chimecho.
 
"Oddish, use Ingrain to hold yourself to brace yourself!"Charlie yelled over the sound of the powerful shockwave, "Chimecho dodge the other Shockwave!"

At Charlie's command Oddish spread it's roots into the ground, holding itself to the ground. The shockwave hit Oddish and the small pokemon shook violently but wasn't knocked onto the ground. At the same time it was absorbing nutrients from the ground. Meanwhile it was much easier for Chimecho, who simply hovered to the side, causing a subtle ringing sound.

"Hang in there Oddish,"Charlie said as Oddish began to regain it's bearings, "Use Stun Spore!"

The tiny pokemon began to shake it's head, sprinkling a shower of yellow spores down on it's foes, paralyzing them on contact.
 
Poliwhirl was stunned for a moment while Drifloon sped down for a tackle of some sort. The Pokemon continued battling for awhile until all four were breathing heavily. Ryan suggested they took a break for a bit and check out what the pool-kids were doing. He walked inside, letting Poliwhirl jump in the pool. Ryan sat back against a chair as the storm continued outside in the garden onto the sunlight, the trainers had disperesed talking about the strength and strategy Ryan and Charlie used in their practice.
 
{{ Hey, guys, sorry for disappearing. My internet went wacko on me. It just disappeared and now it's back! }}

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Reika grinned at the rest of her groupmates. She was glad that they were so serious about the League, but at the same time it made her feel bad. Her own determination was nothing compared to theirs. Did that mean she did not take her pokemon training seriously?

She sighed and glanced at the new entry into the pool. Poliwhirl. Ryan's Poliwhirl. She wondered if she could give the Poliwhirl a hug. It looked adorable. She tiptoed closer, trying not to make any splash. She was about to glomp it when bubbles splshed onto her face.

"Aaaaaaah!" she screamed.

When her vision finally cleared, it revealed her Manytke, floating in front of her. She glared at it and gave its sentence.

"Okay, 50 laps back and forth! Then you're out of the water"

The Manytke paled and Reika grinned. "Don't worry. I'll give you a treat afterwards" Her expression darkened. "Even if you don't deserve it"
 
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