A Trainer Named Lucas

Chapter 9: Lucas vs Gardenia

Introduction:

Hey everyone so here it is my second gym battle. I really wanna know how I did on this so please feedback and reviews are appreciated. Sorry for the late upload somethings came up so the chapter was pushed back a day but we should be back on schedule now. I wanna give a shout out to a story I was recommended called Of Sand and Shadows by HelloYellow17. It is a Pokemon Colosseum novelization and it's great. It's about how Wes is trying to get out of Orre but gets sucked into trying to save the region. It's very in-depth and very well written. Head on over and show em some love! Anyway without further ado here is Chapter 9 and I hope everyone has a great day and don't forget to smile!

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon in any way, this is just a fanfiction. Please support the creators by playing Pokemon Platinum Version wherever sold in your respective area.

AND. HERE. WE. GO.

Guide:

Bolded Italics: Speaking to Audience or Out of Time

Regular Italics: Thoughts

COF: Character(s) of Focus

Chapter 9: Lucas vs Gardenia

COF: Lucas Diamond

Lucas looked up at the gym with a knot in his stomach, after battling Roark and seeing how hard gym leaders could be there was always this thought in his head. Was he good enough? As Lucas approached the entrance he saw the set of rules that are plastered to every gym. Gym battles in Sinnoh and even in other regions are taken very seriously and there are three simple rules all challengers and gym leaders must abide by.

One: No healing items or stat-boosting items are allowed in battle.

Two: No sudden switches, you must wait until your current pokemon faints to use another one.

Three: If you lose a gym battle you must wait one week for another battle.

While these rules are only enforced in gym battles, pokemon league battles, and battle frontier battles everyone lived by them in normal battles.

If anyone broke these rules they would be banned from collecting badges and the badges they did collect would get taken away. The only rule Lucas was ever nervous about was the third one, waiting a whole week for another chance at the badge was a scary thought. A lot of trainers get discouraged due to the wait and give up, this made getting all eight badges even more impressive but Lucas wondered if he was part of that majority.

He walked into the Eterna City Gym to find an interesting sight. It was bright green with leaves painted on the wall. The floor was replaced with grass that gave the building this earthy scent. It was bright and vibrant very different then Roark's gym. This change of scenery was nice for Lucas, most of Sinnoh was filled with dark colors. This building would be hell for Luxio as he seemed to have an allergy to pollen and Lucas could tell this place was filled with it. There was what looked to be a giant hole in the middle of the building On the other side was Eterna City's gym leader, Gardenia.

"There she is, your badge is mine," Lucas said to himself with a serious look on his face.

"Although, how the hell am I supposed to get there," Lucas said.

"You have to beat the trainers," A man said.

"Huh?" Lucas asked.

Lucas turned around to see a man in a suit at the entrance. He had seen someone like this at Roark's gym but never interacted with him.