Blaine also returned his Pokemon and said “You two make a good team! Still, there are things you can do better. So…If you don't mind, we can start training right away. Ladies first!”

“OK then, Ty, you're up first!” I told him. Both me and Blaine burst out laughing, while Tyler was standing there…blushing.

“Ha ha, very funny, Chelle!” Tyler muttered back.

“Oh come on, Ty. It was just a joke.” I tried to make him feel better.

“Alright,” said Blaine, recovering from laughter “Let's start anyways. Magcargo, go!”

The Lava Pokemon entered the field.

“I'll go with Poliwag.” Tyler also sent out his Pokémon.

I desided to sit down, eat some leftover salad and to watch Tylers training. 

"Poliwag, bubble!"

"Stone Edge, Magcargo!"

Oh, so they were working on Bubble.

I didn't focus on their trainig too much, just hearing voices.

"Maaag..." the Lava Pokémon cried.

"Good job Poliwag, now charge and use Double Slap!"

I put the empty salad box back in my bag. I was tired, a small nap won't hurt me.

"Great job, Poliwag."

"Ok, Tyler, now try something like this with Water Gun. Magcargo, Gyro Ball and Flamethrower."

I slightly opened my eyes to see a flaming ball charging towardas Poliwag.

"Poliwag, use Water Gun...ergh...Aqua Wheel!"

The Tadpole Pokémon,  surrounded by water, rushed towards Magcargo.

I closed my eyes again, hearing the two Pokémon crashing into each other multiple times and cryes.

It had bren about five minutes when I felt bright light coming through my eyelids.

Opening them I saw Poliwag using the so called Aqua Wheel, but glowing in a blueish light.

Tyler, Blaine and Magcargo were standing, mouths oped and I think we all knew, that little Poliwag is evolving.

The Tadpole Pokémon crashed into Magcargo. Bouncing back he got rid of the water a revealed his new appearance.

The small Poliwag had lost his tail and mouth, now having two arms and two legs. The spiral on his stomach also grew bigger. All that gave him a touher look.

"Great job, Poliwhirl!"

"Magcargo, return!" Blaine said, now turning to Ty.

"What an improvement, Tyler. I'm impressed - by the way you battled and your new friend."

"Thanks, Blaine." Ty answered, returned Poliwhirl and walked back to the benches.

Now it was my turn. I ran to the battlefield,  Magbys Pokéball in my hand.

"Go, Magby!"

"Hmm..." mumbled Blaine.

"I think I have the best training partner for you. Go!" he yelled.

His Pokémon enteeed the field.

It had a red and yellow body with two strong legs. Both of its hands had five sharp claws on it and at the tip of te tail had a powerful flame on it.

Magmar, the evolved form of Magby.

"Ok then, let's go, Magby. Use Feint Attack!"

Magby disappeared. 

"Use Ember!"

The Live Coal Pokémon appeared behind Magmar, but she was too slow.

"Magmar, Fire Punch!"

Magby flew back against a rock, but she hadn't taken much damage.

"Great, Magby. No try Feint attack once again with more speed!"

Magby vanished, this time she was faster. 

"Oh now you don't!" yelled Blaine. "Fire Punch, Magmar!"

But this time we were smarter, at least we thought so.

When Magmar tried to hit Mgaby, the Live Coal Pokémon rushed back into the shadows and came up from another side. But unfortunately Magmar wasn't so easy to fool and still managed to punch Magby.

We tried again and again, but each time Magmar was faster. No matter what we did, Blain predicted all of Magbys moves.

Then, an idea poped up.

"Magby, Feint Attack!"

Blaine was ready, but not for what I was going to do.

"Ember to the left!"

Magby shot an Ember from the upper left corner (from my point of view). 

"Flamethrower, Magmar!" 

Blaine was really confident, but not for long.

"Opposite, Magby!"

While Magmar was firing a Flamethrower to where Magbys Wmber had come, the Live Coal Pokémon quickly rushed to the right and slammed Magmar from behind.

"Oh, what an excellent strategy!" Blaine complimented.

"Thanks a lot, Blaine. We were really struggling." I answered, also being proud of myself.

"Now, how about I teach you something. You could call it a Fire Tornado. I'll be using Magmars Flamethrower, but your Magbys FIre Spin should work, too. Let me demonstrate."

Magmar started spinning and creating a tornado of fire around itself. When it was big enough he stopped and shot it towards Magby.

"Dodge!"

And Magby jumped out of the way.

"Ok, now you try it!" commanded Blaine.

"We'll try. Magby, Fire Spin!"

Magby started creating the tornado. When she reached the perfect size, she shot it off, but the tornado exploded.

"No worries!" smiled Blaine "It takes a little practice."

That was no little practice. Again we worked for I don't know how long and we even made some progress, but not enough.

Magby was getting tired and I knew that she'll be out sooner or later.

"Come on, Rochelle!" shouted Blaine "Show me your best!"

OK, we can do this.

"Magby, Fire Spin, full power!"

Magby started spinning and surrounded herself with a fire tornado. This time there was power, a lot of power.

Then she stopped and unleashed it. 

A full power FIre Tornado was heading straight towards Magmar, but we weren't finished.

"Follow up with Feint Attack, Magby!"

Magby rushed to the tornado and disappeared into it. 

"Counter with Thunder Punch, Magmar!"

But the tornado swallowed the Spitfire Pokémon. When flames were clearing, a smile broke on my face.

Magmar was knocked out and my victorious Magby was standing proud. Exhausted, but proud.

"Magmar, return!" Blaine called. "Wow, Rochelle, I'm impressed. That was really something. I think this time I should take notes."

"Oh, yeah, well it wasn't easy as you could see. But were happy." I replied returning Magby. "I think we should be going now."

Tyler walked down from the benched with our bags.

"Rochelle, wait a minute!" Blaine shouted right before we were going to exit the gym.

"I have something for you. Agh…were is it…" mumbled Blaine while scoured his pockets. "I wanted to give you a…oh I know it's in here somewhere…here!…a Magmarizer. This will help your Magby evolve when the time is right."

"Thank you, it means a lot!" I took the Magmarizer and put it in a pocket on my belt.

Me and Tyler walked to the airport. It wasn't too late and we decided to take a plane to Johto, Blackthorn city.

This time our flight wasn't that eventful. We both slept through it and when we landed in Blackthorn it was already dark outside.

The airport was located at the outskirts of the city, so still had to take a walk. But we didn't mind it.

It was cold outside, even if it was already May and since by jacket wasn't warm enough, I was shivering.

"Hey, Chelle, are you cold?" Tyler asked me.

"N-No, I'm f-fine." I answered. Yes, I'll admit, I was feeling cold a little bit, but I didn't want him to know.

"Well ok then, but I could lend you my jacket if you want." he offered.

"N-No, again, I-I'm fine." I tried to act as brave as I could.

But no matter how long we argued it still ended up me wearing his jacket. So much for my arguing skills.

When we reached the Pokémon Centre I gave him the jacket back and thanked him awkwardly. 

We took a room and with no further thinking we laid down on our beds and fell asleep.

* * * * * * * * * *

I opened my eyes. The sun was rising and I took my watch to see the time. 7 AM. I stood up, stretched a little and walked up to the window. 

I looked out of the window and for some reason I started thinking about Alice. 

I picked up my phone and called her. It was a Sunday morning so she didn't have school.

"………Oh, hi, Rochelle!" Aliced moaned.

"Well hi! I see it took some time to pick up the phone." I replied.

"Come on, Chelle. It's 7 AM on a Sunday morning. I'm SLEEPING!" she argued back.

"Sorry, I just wanted to hear your voice." I tried to cheer her up.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm just tired." said Alice, now with more happy tone in her voice. "So, how's it going?"

"Great! We've already visited the Sunyshore and Cinnabar Gyms! It was so awesome!" I rejoiced.

"Talking about "you", how's it with Tyler? Are you already dead?" She wondered.

"Yeah, about that. He's actually been really nice to me. I'm surprised. And…umm…I think I don't hate him that much." I explained.

"Uuuuh, Chelle's in love!" Alice teased me.

"Oh shut up!" I shouted. "Maybe I like him a LITTLE bit, but…well…umm…something has kept me thinking. I have a feeling, that maybe, just maybe, Tyler…

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