pokemon adventure

chapter seventy one

Chapter 71

Meeting up with Nicholai,

Fallabor Contest and

The Torchic Farm

Today the gang was taking a break from travelling and May started to practice for the Fallabor contest. She had a new pokemon on her team; a Skitty. The other day May found an unwell Skitty, and she and the boys took it to a pokemon doctor to be healed. After Skitty was healed, May caught Skitty and was happy with her new pokemon. May's current team was Torchic, Beautifly, Azuril, Skitty, Volbeat and Illumise. Ash was training his current too; apart from Pikachu, he had Corphish, Feebas, Zigzagoon, Poochyena and Seedot. Ash had found out that the Lavaridge Town gym used fire type pokemon and he decided to use Corphish and, if he could, Feebas.

Suddenly a white pokemon, with red stripes, ran past the gang. "Hey a Zangoose" said Max, excitedly.

Tomo looked at Zangoose on his pokedex: Zangoose, the cat ferret pokemon. It has feuded with Seviper for many generations. Its sharp claws are its biggest weapons.

"Wow, so does that mean that Zangoose and Seviper fight with each other all the time?" Tomo asked Max. "Yes, and once they start fighting they don't stop until one or the other is defeated". "Gosh" said Tomo. Just then another Zangoose appeared, but it started talking. "Hang on a minute," said Ash "is that you Nicholai?" Nicholai was a pokemon trainer, who liked to dress up as different pokemon and who the gang met in Petalburg Forest.

Nicholai was happy to see the gang again and he introduced Zangoose as his new pokemon. "So how have you been Nicholai?" asked Ash. "I've been great thank you," said Nicholai "I've been to different places, seen some cool new pokemon, as well as catching some new pokemon for myself, and I've been participating in different pokemon battles and gym battles too. The truth is I battled the Petalburg Gym some time ago". "Really, did you win?" asked May. "No I lost; your dad is really strong and hard to beat," said Nicholai "but I plan to try again after I get a bit stronger". "Well then, why don't you have a battle with me?" said Ash. "I accept your battle Ash, but you won't beat me this time" said Nicholai. He and Ash had a pokemon battle together the last time they met, and Ash defeated Nicholai's Zigzagoon with his Taillow.

Ash and Nicholai got ready to battle, and Brock became the referee and declared the pokemon battle a two on two battles. Nicholai dressed up as a Marshtomp and released a Marshtomp from a pokeball. This meant that Nicholai's Mudkip was now a Marshtomp. Ash sent out Seedot to battle; as Marshtomp was part ground type as well as water, electric type attack wouldn't work but grass would. Nicholai ordered his Marshtomp to use water gun, but Ash ordered Seedot to dodge the water gun attack with quick attack. Quick attack was Seedot's egg move. "Fire mud shot Marshtomp" said Nicholai. Marshtomp fired a mud shot attack at Seedot, and Seedot got hit by it. "Use sunny day Seedot" said Ash. Seedot glowed a white color and made the sun shine brightly. "Let's use iron tail Marshtomp" said Nicolai. "Use solarbeam Seedot" said Ash. Seedot fired a solar beam attack from its acorn cap straight at Marshtomp. Marshtomp got hit by the solar beam attack and fainted. "Whoa how did Seedot use solar beam so quickly?" asked Max "usually a pokemon has to store energy first before using solar beam". Tomo explained that if a pokemon uses sunny day it can use solar beam next without having to store energy first. May and Max thought that was a brilliant strategy. "You should teach that to your Bellosom May," said Tomo "that kind of strategy may work for you too in pokemon battles". May thought that was a good idea.

Nicolai returned Marshtomp, changed his costume for a Zangoose costume and called out his Zangoose. "Be careful Seedot," said Ash "Zangoose is no pushover". Seedot understood. Nicholai ordered Zangoose to use sword dance, but Zangoose didn't do anything; instead it started looking elsewhere as if it was searching for something. Then it ran towards some bushes. "Hey Zangoose what's wrong?" asked Nicolai. "Oh-oh," said Max "I bet that Zangoose has sensed that a Seviper is nearby". "What do you mean Max?" asked May. "Well you see as Zangoose and Seviper are natural born enemies, they can detect each other's presence even from a distance," said Max "and once they do they have that urge to fight each other and they can't resist it".