Pokèmon Legacy (Pokèmon Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter 5 - Evolving Matters!

“Jaymes…Shoreman?” I replied quizzically.

I looked up to see Headmaster Rowan, Toby, and a medical team rushing towards me. The flutter of a cape in the corner of my eye told me that Jaymes, or whoever the masked man was, had gone.

“Sam! Are you OK?” Headmaster Rowan asked me.

I simply nodded my head and glanced around the stadium, trying to find Jaymes. Wherever he had gone, he was no longer in the stadium, I thought silently.

“Sam, can you still battle? I hate to say it, but Kyle’s ready to continue.” Toby told me.

Instead of replying, I instead stood up and began walking towards the battlefield where Kyle stood waiting.

“I didn’t think you’d get back up, Sam. I respect you for that.” Kyle began saying when I finally reached the battlefield. “But that doesn’t change anything! Me and Charmander are still going to take you down!”

“As much as you may try to unnerve me, I’m not going to lose this.” I replied, matter-of-factly.

“Kick his butt, Sam!” I heard Toby call behind me, before quickly departing to the stands.

I looked at Torchic, who nodded at me and turned to face its opponent: Charmander. It was time. Time to beat Kyle!

“Battlers, are you ready to resume the battle?” The referee asked us now that we had both resumed positions. Me and Kyle both nodded.

“I’m not wasting anymore time! Charmander, blast Torchic off the battlefield with Flamethrower!” Kyle told his Pokémon.

“Torchic, dodge the attack and use Quick Attack!” I ordered Torchic.

As Charmander’s mouth filled with fire, Torchic was already running at tremendous speeds towards its opponent. Just as Charmander released the fiery spew of hot fire, Torchic swerved to the left and avoided the attack, and then quickly rammed into the side of Charmander, which knocked the fire type Pokémon to its feet.

“Damn! Charmander, quickly get up and use Slash!” Kyle told his Pokémon, who quickly picked itself up and swiped at Torchic with sharp claws.

Luckily, Torchic managed to dodge the sharp attack from Charmander by jumping over its opponent. Now that Torchic was behind Charmander, I knew I had an opening for an attack.

“Torchic! Use Low Kick!” I said to Torchic, who swiped one of its small legs against Charmander, once again knocking it to the ground.

“Charmander, use Dragon Rage!” Kyle shouted to Charmander, who twisted its body to face Torchic and then proceeded to breathe dark blue fire at my partner, sending Torchic flying across the room and landing with a thud near my feet.

“Are you alright?” I asked my partner gently.

Torchic simply got to its feet, made a small chirping noise and then began to glow silver all across its body.

“What? What’s happening to Torchic, Sam?!” Kyle shouted at me, who appeared to be quite astonished as to what my partner was doing.

“Torchic is…He’s…evolving!” I stuttered.

“WOAH!” The announcer shouted. “This is amazing, folks! We are now watching the evolution of a Pokémon right before our very own eyes!”

“Torchic’s…evolving?! No! This can’t be!” Kyle exclaimed in apparent panic.

As the evolution commenced, Torchic grew larger in size, with long arms growing from its sides and its legs becoming much more refined. As the evolution finished, the silver glow disappeared from my partner Pokémon, who had now become a Combusken!