a champions journey ( Discontinued)

Ch.19: Slateport and memories of the Sea

After easily defeating the Dewford gym the group began to head towards the cave where Steven Stone was. As soon as they walked in Jax felt the presence of several Pokemon working in unison. Jax was happy to feel that the balance has not been shifted here yet. They continued through the cave until they reached a room with a mural of three Pokemon fighting. As soon as the group looked a bit closer Carmen ran straight to him surprising everyone.

Jax, melody, and Gary stood there as Carmen talked with him. After about an hour of waiting Carmen came skipping down with a huge smile on her face. They walked out only to be met with a young girl that everyone except Jax and his Pokemon knew. The girls of the group ran to greet the girl. Carmen introduced her to Jax saying her name was Kumori and that she and Carmen were rivals.

Kumori looked at Carmen, Melody, and Gary with a smile but once her eyes fell on Jax the smile was replaced by a straight face. Jax felt left out but he didn't know why he knew that Carmen had friends he didn't know about so why did this one feel any different. While Jax was contemplating this Kumori decided to challenge Carmen to a battle which ended in Kumori winning due to Carmen having a mental breakdown and running to the Pokemon center.

Jax decided that the best way to get to know someone is through a battle. He challenged Kumori and said that he was willing to wait until her Pokemon were in fighting condition. Kumori gave him a look of approval as she walked to the Pokemon center to get her Pokemon healed up. Jax waited patiently by the gym for her to come out.

Kumori came out of the Pokemon center about an hour later. Jax and Kumori looked at each other with determination in their eyes as the walked to a spot just north of town. It was decided that it would be a 3 on 3 battle. Kumori sent out Sapphire her shiny Ninetails so Jax decided to send out Kurama to combat it. As soon as Kurama looked to face his opponent he was shocked to see a female shiny Ninetails.

Jax commanded Kurama to use confuse Ray to confuse the opposing Ninetails. Kurama just stood there not listening to a thing going on around him as he walked towards Sapphire. Kumori was confused as to what was going on so she told Sapphire to use hypnosis to put Kurama to sleep as it began to attack until Kurama fainted.

Jax thought his next move through very carefully as he decided to send out Jozie the shiny mudkip who seemed to be disappointed in Kurama. Jozie stared at the fire type that was towering over her. This only served to fire her up even more and make her strive to beat the Pokemon her friend could not. Jozie began to move and circle around Sapphire to confuse her before firing off a water gun hitting the Ninetails dead in the back.

The Ninetails yelped in pain as it was hit but stood right back up. Angrier and began to go wild with fire and psychic attacks. Jozie dodged every attack with style and began to use mud-slap to weaken the Ninetails into submission as it fainted.

Kumori looked in awe at the sheer strategy the trainer and Pokemon used to communicate without saying a word. She wanted to test this further. She sent out her Arcanine to battle against the tiny water type. This seemed to confuse everyone except Jax. Jax told Jozie to stay on guard for anything that might happen.

Jozie didn't take her eyes off the fire type as it circled her before it unleashed a thunder fang grabbing the water type into it's jaws. Jozie began to cry out in pain as the grip got tighter. Jax told his mudkip to use water gun straight at the Arcanine's eye to get free.

Jozie concentrated as she let out her high pressure water gun. The Arcanine released it's grip on Jozie as she fell to the ground. She slowly got up and used another water gun to knock the Arcanine out. Jozie felt proud of herself that she took not one but two Pokemon out.

Kumori was intrigued as to how quickly he thought up a plan to get out of the Arcanine's jaws. She sent out her final Pokemon her mudkip which she named mudflap. Jozie was badly hurt from the previous battle but she showed no signs of giving up until her last move. Jax was concerned with her but knew she wasn't going to give up easy.