pokemon adventure

chapter hundred - ten

Chapter 110

Meeting Nando,

Turtwig,

And Bewilder forest

On the way to Jubilife City, Dawn was showing the boys her Burmy and shiny Ariados, and she told them how she captured Ariados. "Wow Dawn," said Ash "I call that lucky because when I caught my Ariados in Johto I had to battle it. And you getting a shiny pokemon on your first day is lucky too". "Do you have any shiny pokemon Ash?" asked Dawn. "Yes my Noctowl, my Milotic, my Aggron and my Arcanine are shiny too" answered Ash. Dawn was amazed. "Are you going to use any of them in contests Ash?" asked Dawn. Ash explained that he would only use the pokemon he catches in Sinnoh, as well as Pikachu, and the pokemon he caught back in Kanto for the contests and gym battles. (Only the pokemon from the Battle Frontier arc, and he will use Glaceon and Leafeon too) "All of my older and stronger pokemon have had their turns in leagues and contests and other tournaments, so now it's my new pokemon's turn to shine". "I think I've got the message" said Dawn. Truth is she didn't understand it yet, but it was Ash's decision and not hers.

Suddenly they saw the move sunny day with gleaning sun rays in the sky. "There must be a pokemon nearby," said Ash "let's check it out". But they didn't need to because the pokemon that was using sunny day came up to them; it was a Budew. A man who was a minstrel was standing by it; he was Budew's trainer. He had a golden harp in the shape of a Mew. The man introduced himself as Nando and the gang introduced themselves to him. Nando explained that he and his Budew travel around brining joy to everyone. Just then Dawn asked Nando if she could battle him; she wanted to show the boys how strong she had gotten. "Are you on the quest to battle the Sinnoh League Dawn?" asked Nando. "No I am on the quest to win the Grand Festival" answered Dawn. Nando accepted the challenge and suggested they do a contest battle.

So Dawn and Nando got into position for their battle. Ash and Tomo wondered if Dawn will be alright since this was her first battle, but this was a good start to try battling. Dawn sent out her Piplup to battle Budew. That wasn't the best choice of course since water had a disadvantage over grass, but Dawn was more in sync with Piplup at the moment than her other two pokemon. Dawn started by telling Piplup to use peck; she knew that grass type pokemon were weak against flying type moves. But Budew dodged and used bullet seed. Knowing that grass was stronger than water, Dawn told Piplup to dodge and use bubblebeam. The bubbles directly hit Budew but it didn't do much harm to it. "Water type moves don't work much on grass type pokemon Dawn" Ash called out. Nando told Budew to do solarbeam. Dawn knew that solarbeam takes time to charge up so she told Piplup to use peck. But Budew didn't need to charge up and fired solarbeam. Piplup got hit by it and fainted.

Dawn was confused that Budew did solarbeam without having to charge. "It's because of the bright sun Dawn," explained Ash "you see if the sun on a sunny is shining very bright or if a pokemon used the move sunny day pokemon can use solarbeam without having to charge up. And it can make a fire type's move very strong as well". Dawn still had much to learn. Nando told Dawn that for her first battle she did very well; she was a kind man. Then Nando left.

For the rest of the day Dawn couldn't stop sighing; she realised that she was not good at battling at all yet. "Don't let that lost get you down Dawn," said Ash "remember this is your first time as a trainer. And nothing will always go the way you want at the beginning, especially when you first try catching a pokemon or pokemon battling. All beginning pokemon trainers go through hard times like that". "Ash is right and that lose will help you to grow stronger" said Brock. By now it was nearly getting dark. Brock had a map book of Sinnoh and it read that there was a pokemon center nearby. Dawn was happy to hear that because she would prefer sleeping in beds rather than tents. Her mother had packed a tent and sleeping back for her. Before heading to the pokemon center Brock revealed that he had brought his Bonsly and his Nosepass with him to Sinnoh; all of the others had been left back at Pewter Gym. He also explained to Brock that his family ran the Pewter Gym and Brock was an ex gym leader because his brother Forrest was running it now.