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CHAPTER 1 -Memory
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1 am......3 am.....5am. Another sleepless night for Averill as he worried about his younger brother Maurice, who lay in
a hospital in a coma. This had been the 7th night in a row where Averill had kept himself up blaming himself and
questioning his skill as a trainer. That day two weeks prior rolled in his head like a film used for torture, Averill was
out by the nearby pond Just west of his home in Fallarbor with KAME his wartortle where they trained by breaking
rocks and shooting the pieces into the pond with water gun while Maurice and Averill's meditite played together with a
kickball.
"OK good, now try to control the rocks with your water gun so that the rocks stay ahead of your attack " Averill said as
he analyzed the previous attack.
But before they could continue they were interrupted by Averill's long time rival Orez Porter. He has had it in for Averill ever since they were 15 after Averill beat Orez in a challenge cup match where
Orez lost using a gloom against a sandshrew.
"Well what do we have here,a chump and his sorry excuse for a pokemon. "
"What are you doing here" Averill replied angrily
"Im just here to return a favor" Orez said as he reached into his red overcoat and retrieved two great balls.
" What are you talking about...and what are you planning to do with those?!?. I hope your not planning to battle me
because I have serious training to do"
"You were always scared to fight trainers and even wild pokemon A.V. well if you wont fight me maybe your brother is
up to a battle"
Just as he said this Orez tossed one of his pokeballs toward Maurice and unleashed his golbat and with a sinister grin commanded it to launch an air cutter attack. Before Averill could react meditite jumped up instinctively and took the damage from the fast moving wind. "MEDI!! no!" exclaimed Averill as he ran toward his fallen pokemon.
" Mr. Vicks, are we going to fight or is my golbat going to have to put you and you brother out of commission"
Averill's face began to blaze as red as Orez's coat as he turned.
"That is it!. We fight now!...GO KAME!" Wartortle jumps between Averill and the golbat, with its ears pulled back wile
leaning forward and growling deeply.
"Did you expect me to fight fair..haha..I want your defeat to be brutal" said Orez as he tossed the other pokeball. Our
came a medicham ready to strike. Orez then ordered them both to attack
After that surprise attack MEDI is in no condition to fight...damn!! Averill thought to himself as he stood to his feet.
"medicham go thunderpunch golbat air cutter" medicham leaped into the air as his right hand began to glow a bright
yellow. golbat flapping its wings wildly creating a beam like focus of air.
"KAME move and water gun medicham" KAME then quickly dodged right narrowly avoiding golbat's attack. At that
moment medicham was launching his attack from the sky and was about to strike when KAME attacked with water gun.
KAME landed a direct hit but medicham was too close for KAME to avoid the electrical charge that had accumulated on medicham's hand. Both attacks landed massive damage to their opponent which launched both of them 10 or so feet in opposite directions.
Medicham struggled to its feet holding his mid-section with water dripping his chin and arms as KAME laggardly rose on all fours letting out a low cry of agony WAAARRRRRR as sparks jumped off of his body.
"YES I will have my revenge for that day...that day you stole from me...I should have won the challenge cup and the
pokemon prize...that squirtle should have been mine!" Orez shouted as he pointed at Averill
"Is it my fought that you messed up by using only acid and leech seed...Is it my fought that YOU couldn't figure out how to stop my sandshrew dig/aerial ace combo...Get over it, it was just one battle"
"Because of you I lost my chance at an extremely rare pokemon. Even though my dad has some rare pokemon , all them are from the Hoenn region"
"Is that where you got that medicham...thats just like you...always wanting something with out working for it!" stated
Averill as he clinched his fist.
"Golbat! Medicham! attack again!"
"KAME dodge them both!" but it was useless for the thunder punch had paralyzed him, making him too slow to avoid the incoming attack. Averill frantically thought "RAPID SPIN" he shouted as the air cutter accelerated toward KAME. The rapid spin only reduced the damage as KAME was blown into the pile of rocks the were practicing with earlier.
In that moment MEDI began glowing a bright blue as she got up and leaped in the air toward medicham. All were dumbfounded as they saw the bluish white light fly up toward while hearing a high pitch cry MEEEDDDIIIIIIII. When the light collided with medicham it faded to reveal a dark blue medicham kicking Orez's red medicham in the face. The two medichams then both fell to the ground with a large smash quickly making the battle one-on-one.
"Golbat quick attack!" golbat then zoomed toward KAME with great speed. Without hesitation Averill yelled "water smash!"
KAME then positioned his head behind one of the rocks but paused unsure the choice of move.
Averill exploding in his rage screams "DO IT NOW!" Then with out hesitation KAME forced the small boulder with its
water gun. The two attacks collided with the rock pinned in the middle.KAME's water gun then grows three times in radius.
"Did he just use hydro pump?" Averill thought to himself as he saw the boulder shift toward gold at a high speed.
Golbat is then struck by the attack and sent flying backward where he slams into Maurice.
Orez quickly returns his pokemon as he runs away with a final cry
"This isn't over!"
Averill then asked his pokemon to stay with his brother as he went for help. While running home the tears spread across his face and clouded his vision to the point where it seemed that he was under water. He soon ran into someone and began telling them the story. As he looked up and wiped the tears from his eyes he saw that it was his mother.
Later at the hospital the doctor approach Averill's mom "Mrs. Vicks I am glad to say that you son is stable but unfortunately regret to inform you that Maurice has slipped into a comma" She then grabbed Averill's hand and asked if they could see him as tears rolled swiftly down her face and
collected on her chin and fell to her bosom.
In his brother's room the sounds that fill the room began to fade into Averill's mind as he stood at the foot of his brother's bed. Averill stood there for four hours causing his senses to become numb. Vision became tunneled and grey until him mother hugged him from behind and told him that they had to go.
