The Cheri Berry

Short story- The Cheri Berry

Bayleaf and I were walking in a swamp, a dark, damp and smelly swamp. My paws squished against the rough ground, squwash-squish-drip, squwash-squish-drip, squwash-squish-drip, again and again that's how it went for the last three hours.
Our mission was to retrieve an item for a client named Frogadier, his daughter had wandered off and dropped a precious item called a Water Gem.
The trees seemed to hover above me, and even their drooping ever green leaves looked gloomy. A dark grey sheet of clouds wavered in the sky ready to pour down their azure tears.
My vision fixed on the sky, I soon bumped into an orange mound of fur. The Pokemon had two beige spots on its back along with a set of twin tails. It immediately started to growl at me turning around down it revealed a growling Buizel.
The Pokemon quickly leapt at me it's eyes burning with cold hatred and annoyance as deep as a stormy sea.
My facial expression turned from blank and bored to excited and determined in the timeframe of a millisecond. I tried to jump out of the way only to be hit with a powerful slam attack.
Grunting I jumped out of the way of a water pulse. In the air I charged my own attack, a crackling Spark. Soon the electric orb was too powerful for me to contain and so I launched it at my opponent the Pokemon was blown back from the small explosion and as an aftermath was hit with the sparkling electricity slowly paralyzing him even if he hadn't noticed it yet.
Both of us were now covered in cuts and bruises evenly matched as we were at the beginning. Each of us knew the next attack would finish the battle, before each of us could react to each other's attacks the Buizel launched multiple golden stars aimed to rip my ears off, taking action I jumped landing on the ground my electricity charged claws unsheathed. The crackling pulse erupted on the battle field it's yellow hue cascading across the damp ground. Before he had time to dodge I preformed my own move, a powerful Wild Charge attack. Running ahead of my own Thunder Wave I rammed into the orange Pokemon knocking the poor thing off its feet the Thunder Wave attack fully enveloping the Pokemon paralyzing fully.
Grinning proudly at my work I walked over to my partner who quickly preformed a synthesis healing my wounds.
Bayleaf continued walking along the hazy path leaving me to pick up our treasure bag.
Picking up the pouch with my teeth I looked back at the fainted Buizel, his body still crackling with electricity. Feeling sympathy for my opponent I dropped the bag, looking inside I quickly selected a bright scarlet berry from its contents. Walking over to the Orange Pokemon I dropped the Cheri Berry next to his wounded figure.
Already having travelled back to our treasure bag I picked it up coming into stride with my partner. Looking back once more at the Buizel I smiled and continued on with Bayleaf.

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