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The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

Immediately after her first battle she took Budew to the healing station inside the gym as Brock had advised her to do. She kneeled down to pick up her pokemon when the tiny bud suddenly began to glow intensly, a bright white light surrounding her small body until that was the only thing Rose could see. It startled her and she took her hands away from Budew right away. The young trainer began to panick and didn't know what to do. She hadn't told Budew to use any moves and Rose was pretty sure Budew couldn't use a move that did that kind of thing. Her pokemon kept glowing and as Rose watched in amazement Budew slowly started to change shape, growing in size and took on a completely different form. Suddenly it hit her......

Budew was evolving!

The evolution process felt much longer to her but in reality it took a mere couple of seconds for Budew to evolve into a beautiful Roselia. Fully evolved Roselia stood on two small feet, a long leaf covering her body with three very sharp looking thorns on her head. She had similar shaped eyes to her previous form only now with longer lashes. In her dainty hands she carried two beautiful roses, one colored red, the other blue. It was the moment Rose had been waiting for ever since she knew she needed to step up her game in battles. Budew and her had earned this together and now she finally evolved. Rose was barely able to contain her excitement at what felt like a new pokemon entirely, but deep down she knew it was still the same pokemon she grew up with. It just looked different now, prettier in a way.

Roselia smiled at her trainer and twirled around proudly, displaying her newly earned beauty. They made their way over to the healing station together and quickly got back to the arena to watch Matthew go up against Brock.
The first battle with Geodude was intense and Rose got very excited when Matthew decided to use the Hoppip who never seemed to stop floating around his head. She didn’t know if it was actually his pokemon but he seemed to listen well enough. Despite the type advantage it wasn’t easy for Hoppip to win the fight. It made Rose doubt if having the type advantage would help her at all. It didn’t seem to do much for Matthew and Hoppip, yet in the end they won.

The second battle with Onix was intense and had Rose on the edge of her seat, in a matter of speaking, considering she was standing. She watched and held in her breath as a charged up force palm took out the huge snake like pokemon. Rose was incredibly proud of Matthew, even more so because this battle had earned him a badge.

She smiled when Matthew walked up to her and showed him his newly earned badge. His excitement and happiness were contagious and Rose felt just as happy as he did even though she still needed to win the badge for herself.
“Way to go you two, that was so awesome!”
Completely out of nowhere Rose felt the urge to give Matthew a hug, so she did and squeezed his shoulders.
“I’m so proud of you, you should have seen yourself.” Rose said happily. Now it would be her turn to face Brock and with Rosella at her side she felt like she actually stood a chance. Maybe she could win this badge.

Brock the gym leader was ready to start the second battle and after Brandon finished the announcements Rose was standing in the arena once again, full of nervous excitement. The stern looking man took of one of the poke balls he carried on his belt and released his geodude onto the field. It looked he was going to use the same pokemon he'd used in his battle with Matthew.
That's good. Rose thought, at least she would partially know what was coming. She'd handled a Geodude in her previous battle and it went well for her. Though this was obviously a different trainer, a gym leader. Something told her this Geodude wasn't all that easy to beat. It had put up a pretty good fight before. Rose wanted to save Roselia for the battle with Onix but she didn't have any other pokemon......or did she?

There was the Machop she borrowed from her brother, but she'd only used him once, using in the sense that he got out of his poke ball by himself and attacked Ashley. Maybe he wouldn't even listen to her. Maybe he would only act if she was in danger or in some other kind of trouble. Those were a lot of maybes but she didn't really have another option. Rose had to trust in her brother and the pokemon he gave to her. Still slightly hesitant she carefully got out Machop's poke ball and it immediately started to move opening on its own with a bright flash, causing Rose to drop the poke ball on the stone ground. Machop jumped into the arena, looking ready for action.

Brock watched the entire scene unfold and he only raised his brows. The way Rose was handeling this battle was nowhere near the confidence she'd shown with Budew.
"Is that pokemon yours?" Brock called out, raising his voice in a questioning manner.

Rose immediately felt her cheeks heat up in embarassment. Practically she hadn't caught Machop but he was hers to use for as long as she needed it, as per her brothers instructions. She struggled to find her voice and calm herself. She took a deep breath to settle herself down before answering.
"My brother lend it to me, but he's......part of my team now" Rose said not completely sure Machop felt the same way and when she glanced over to him he gave her a thumbs up, like he'd done when he beat back Ashley. It made her feel relieved and happy at the same time. Machop most likely felt the same way, even if he may just be with her temporarily.

"Alright then let's begin!"
"Geodude use rock throw on Machop" Brock immediately got into the offensive, he probably knew he was at a disadvantage with Machop being a fighting type. He planned to take it out before it could take it his Geodude. Rose hesitated and realized she didn't know most of the moves Machop could use. She'd seen him use karate chop before but that was it. She opened her mouth to say something but Machop knew what to do. He punched through the rock using karate chop and went into battle leering at Geodude to lower its defenses. When Brock realized what Machop was doing he ordered Geodude to up its defense using defense curl.

Rose struggled to maintain a clear head and think of some kind of strategy. Maybe a full on offensive would work best, even with an increased defense Geodude was still weak to fighting type moves.
"Machop, go in with a low sweep!" Rose called out to her pokemon who was beating through multiple rock throws of Brock's Geodude. As soon as it saw the opportunity it went it sweeping Geodude of its feet with surprising speed and power. It landed on its head and couldn't get back up no matter how much he struggled. Brock called his pokemon back looking somewhat dissapointed but Rose couldn't tell if he was dissapointed with his pokemons performance or hers.

She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, knowing the most difficult battle was about to come. Machop retreated into his poke ball and she sent out Roselia, who wasn't all that imposing or tall to begin with but next to Onix she was the size of a weed. The battle commenced before she had time to think and Roselia was nearly swepped up into a constrict attack, she barely dodged Onix's huge tail. Alright Rose time to focus.

"Onix go in with a tackle attack!" Onix charged at Roselia with its huge body and Rose couldn't bear to look, let alone tell her pokemon what to do. Luckily Roselia countered with an attack of her own stopping Onix mid way in its charge with a scattering of glowing light green leaves coming out of the roses in her hands. The crescent shaped leaves spun around with amazing speed cutting away at the stone snake and it crashed into of the replaced boulders in the arena. It recovered quite fast and with a sweep of its tail it sent Roselia flying through the arena, nearly crashing into a boulder but ultimately she rolled over the ground, to the far end. Roselia was equally fast at recovering which both surprised and amazed Rose. She was relieved to see Roselia had a bit more endurance now that she was evolved.

They charged at each other again, a combinating of a tackle attack and magical leaf. In the end it was Roselia who was barely standing on her tiny feet, keeping herself standing by supporting herself on a fall rock.
"Alright that is enough" Brock stated, calling back his defeated Onix.

Brock present her with the same badge he had Matthew and Rose carefully accepted it, stunned again to have won another pokemon battle. He patted her Roselia on its head which she seemed to enjoy.
"Your Roselia is tougher than she looks, size isn't everything and that's a valuable lesson in becoming a pokemon trainer" Brock said, offering them his sage advice.
"Both of you were quite something, I haven't had such thrilling pokemon battles in a long while"
"My guess is you two are going to get really far, I see a lot of potential"

He hesitated for a moment going from Rose to Matthew and back.
"I'd say you two would do well to stick together, if that's not the case already"

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That's okay we can add it in later as a flashback of some kind.

The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

I got of to a good start with my post but it has been an expectedly busy weekend. I have more time tomorrow so I can write the rest of it ;)

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I've been quiet for a bit but I'm working on a collab with TJByrum. We think Warren and Floure could know eachother so we're using that in our collab too.

The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

Loved your post!
I'll write one up for me tomorrow :)

The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

I feel the same way so we should just move on ahead to the gym fight and continue our journey. I can't wait to get to Mt Moon for starters :)
I'll have Budew evolve for the start of my post and write the battle with Brock after that. There isn't really much to see in Pewter aside from the museum which is pretty boring in my opinion XD
There are real fossils at Mt Moon!

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And here I was trying to avoid Terryn XD

The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

Alright I posted yaaay!
I wanted to save the evolution for my next post. Are we going to battle Brock right after this?
What do you think?

The Start of a New Adventure (Pokemon)

Her happiness for Matthew and Hope was short lived as she was immediately called to the arena by Brandon and the excitement she felt turned into nervous butterflies fluttering inside her stomach. Matthew had been incredible the way he took out Oliver's Rhyorn with just one blow. Hope had been readying herself for an attack the entire fight and that one hit was enough for an instant KO. She doubted her and Budew would be able to do the same. There were still a couple of things working in her favor, one she had the type advantage with Budew being a grass pokemon and if she played her cards well and worked together with her pokemon she might evolve. Evolution would really help her in the battle with Brock. So Rose decided the goal of this battle was going to be to get Budew to evolve.

Before she made her way into the arena she quickly high fived Matthew and smiled, winking at Hope who was standing next to her trainer proudly.
"Good job you two!"

Rose walked out onto the stone floors of the Pewter Gym, the rubble left behind after Oliver's and Matthew's battle was still spread across the field. There were no more stones left to hide behind so she couldn't use the same strategy as Matthew had. In fact she hadn't even thought of a strategy at all. It was difficult to plan out a strategy when she didn't know her opponent before hand. All she knew was that she would be facing a rock pokemon and hopefully that would be enough. There were two other apprentice trainers left standing next to Oliver, a girl and another guy both equally though looking, boasting some serious muscle. It was kind of intimidating to go up against.

Let's just hope for the best. Rose thought as she retrieved Budew's poke ball from her bag. She threw it gracefully up into the air and it burst open followed by a brief flash of light. After the light had dimmed down Budew revealed herself standing idly on her tiny feet, watching her surroundings with a look of wonder in her eyes. Rose wanted to make sure Budew knew what was going on and that she was about to battle an actual pokemon owned by another trainer. It wouldn't be so easily chased away by a stun spore attack.

"Budew!" Rose called out to her pokemon. It turned its tiny body to face its trainer, holding her vines to one side to let Rose know she was listening. Rose took a deep breath, trying to calm her beating heart. It was fluttering like a hummingbird inside her chest.
"We....We're going to battle another pokemon......" "You just need to try your best and........I believe in you" She added with a smile of encouragement. It was true, she believed Budew could do this and if anything looks could be pretty deceiving. Rose looked from Budew to the apprentice trainers to see who her opponent was going to be. They were talking among themselves and she couldn't hear them from the other side of the arena. Usually she didn't mind waiting but she was already incredibly nervous and she just wanted to start this thing. Budew and here were as ready as they'd ever be.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity the only girl in the group of apprentices stepped forward taking out her own poke ball. She pointed at Budew who was standing ready, a determined expression on its small face.
"Are you sure you wanna use that pokemon?" The girl had a questioning look on her face, seriously doubting Budew was capable of battling another pokemon. The fact that an apprentice trainer in a gym doubted her choice of pokemon caused her Rose to momentarily doubt herself too but she quickly brushed it off, determined to let nothing get in the way of her goal.

"I am sure, I trust Budew" Rose replied without an second thought, her earlier doubts completely gone away.
"Alright then it's your funeral" Oliver who was standing behind the girl snickered quietly.
"Don't be mean Jen, I like her she got guts" Oliver said to Jen after he gave Rose a quick wink. Rose pretended she hadn't noticed and focused on the arena as the battle was about to start.
Jen threw her poke ball straight at the ground with what felt to Rose as unnecessary force. It released a tough looking geodude, with two massive arms and no visible legs. Her opponent wasted no time and immediately sent Geodude after Budew, luckily it wasn't particularly fast.
"Geodude use tackle now!"

Rose was about to call out to Budew and tell her to dodge but instead Budew jumped up with surprising speed something Rose had never seen her do before. It left her baffled for a few seconds but she quickly remembered they were battening and she had the perfect opportunity to land an attack now.
"Budew use stun spore on Geodude." It would make the already slow rock pokemon even slower, making it easy picking for Budew. The tiny bud released a orange yellowish cloud of spores from the two vines on her head. The cloud made its way to Geodude and it followed Budew as she landed on the ground after her jump. Geodude got completely covered in it and looked severely hampered by it.
"Damn it" Jen growled as she watched Geodude get the full force of the stun spore attack. Now she would have no chance to hit that annoying bud even if she wanted to. Jen attempted to hit Budew with a couple of tackle attacks but they all failed, Geodude was slowed down too much.

"Be careful Budew" Rose said, warning her pokemon. Budew was darting around Geodude but if it managed to struggle through its paralysis she could easily be hit.
"Keep your distance from Geodude" Then seemingly out of nowhere and with speed Rose hadn't expected Geodude suddenly hurled a piece of stone straight at Budew. What Rose hadn't seen was Jen using the rock polish attack in between her attempts at hitting Budew, so Geodude was faster than normal right now. The rock throw attack hit Budew and Rose gasped fearing for her pokemon. She had to keep herself from running into the arena and check if she was okay. Budew fell face down onto the ground and couldn't get up right away. She struggled and used her vines to push herself up. When she was standing Rose could see the attack had done some pretty big damage. There was a way she could turn this all around and if her plan worked she'd probably win this battle in no time.

Rose kept a close eye on her opponent and her speedy Geodude. Another stun spore wouldn't work so she had to face it head on.
"Budew, get ready!" She called to her pokemon. Budew shook off the impact of the fall and looked ready to continue fighting.
Good... now let's do this.
"Now use absorb on Geodude"
Budew began to glow with a soft green light standing perfectly still. Jen saw this as an opportunity to land another attack sending in her Geodude to tackle Budew but before he made it over to the tiny bud he began to glow with the same green light. Only where Budew was looking peaceful and restoring her health Geodude was being drained of his. After the attack was done Budew was as good as new but Geodude couldn't even lift his arms anymore. It had no juice left in him to continue and Brandon saw this too. There was a moment of silence in which Rose just couldn't believe what had just happened.

Brandon pointed at Budew and her a cheerful smile on his face.
"Geodude isn't able to carry on fighting. Rose and Budew win!"
"Congratulations!" Brandon called out to her with a happy wave.

I can't believe this, she was stunned. Rose didn't know it could be this easy, did she just win her first pokemon battle. The young girl just stood there not really knowing what to say. She looked over her shoulder to face Matthew, with a look of disbelief on her face.

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