Kite fell to his knees and panted heavily as Sarah stared at his smoking gloves, Nincada also panted heavily as a huge hole appeared above where the Grake was once standing. Kite tried to get up but he couldn’t, he had used too much of his magic at once and magic was hard to perform if you weren’t rested every once in a while. A hand popped out of the hole followed by a tall person wearing a puppeter’s outfit, she had long hair and had marionette strings on her pant legs. “You dare to mess with my elemental and destroy it!?!” she asked fiercily as Sarah helped Kite up. “Evil like that does not deserve to be called a elemental, we could not let such a creature exist to do evil!” Sarah shouted back in their defense. “In that case, thank you,” she replied as Kite stared at her in biwelderment as Sarah kept her guard up. The woman opened up her eyes and looked at hem evilly, smiling as she took out a Pokeball. “I know now that my elemental needs to be trained to become stronger than before!” “I am the Arch Leader of the Ark League, I am Tina Parker, Arch Leader of Gem City!” she shouted as a Arados appeared out of the Pokeball. “Good, then I challenge to an Ark battle!” Kite shouted as he stood up and his Tiller, Bulbasaur, and Nincada stood ready. Tina snapped her fingers and the field changed into a gaint battle arena while Sarah stood to the side with two flags in her hand. “Your friend is obvousily familiar with the rules so she will be referee.” “Fine, I know who to Ark battle from my dad, Skye Zygen Angel, 131st generation Angel. I’m Kite Breaken Angel, 132 generation Angel!” he shouted as he felt into his body and bring forth his magic powers. “Good, then you know that you have to risk something, in an Ark battle, you lose and you lose your friend here as well as both of your magic powers.” She sneered as her Arados crawled over to the middle of the battle field. “Let the battle began!” Sarah shouted, please win Kite, she said to herself. “It will be a three on three battle with substitiutions for both battlers.” “Go Gai, let’s start it off with a Razor Leaf!” Kite shouted as a green elemental appeared that looked like a bulb of a flower behind Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur attacked with several sharp leaves as the elemental slowly started to bloom. “Arados, use Poison Sting to block!” Tina shouted as a white elemental looking like a spider appeared and started to spin a web as the Poison Sting hit the leafs. The elemental went back to a flower bulb as the spider elemental started to finish it’s web. “Now Arados, use Mean Look and elemental finish up the web!” “Damn, if she finishes the elemental’s web, her Arados can use the elemental’s special attack!” he cursed as Bulbasaur braced itself as the flower bulb started to wilt. “Arados, use the elemntal’s special attack, Web Trap!!!” Arados absorbed the elemental and spat out a huge magical spider web trapping Bulbasaur underneath. The flower looked as if it might just fall over as Kite fell to his knees, his magic was strong enough to help Bulbasaur. Suddenly, he rembered that his sister had given him Bulbasaur as a present and that she had trained it for two weeks, and if his sister had trained it just for his journey, she must’ve have taught a good move, and he rembered that she had named it herself. “Bulbasaur, use Razor Cut!” “BULBA, BULBASAUR!!!” it shouted as the flower suddenly sprang to life and started to open up in response. Bulbasaur let out another shout and a fierce wind kicked up from it’s bulb and then it let out a cry and the web was torn up to pieces. Bulbasaur turned to Arados and at the elemental and it tackled it head on, the elemental was in full bloom as petals started to unfold. “Arados, finish it off with Hyper Beam!” Tina screamed as her Arados fired off a Hyper Beam and her elemental went into Arados. “Not so fast, Bulbasaur, counter it with Razor Beam!!!” Kite shouted as the elemental grew brighter and it looked like a real flower as Bulbasaur started to charge up for a solar beam but it started to suck up air and sunlight. “Bulbabulbabulba, saursaursaursaur, BULBASAUR!!!” Bulbasaur shouted as the elementals combined with the Pokemon and the flower went into Bulbasaur’s flower. The Hyper Beam was met with a suprising blue beam the came from the bulb on Bulbasaur’s back and a huge wind was following it, Arados tried to stand it’s ground but it was blown off and nailed with a deadly beam attack. “Bulbasaur is the winner!” Sarah announced as she raised the red flag for Kite. Tina returned her Arados to her Pokeball and she put it back on her marionette strings and she took another off and released another Pokemon. A strong looking Banette appeared as Tina caught the Pokeball and another elemental appeared to replace the last one, it looked a floating ghost ball. “You did your part Bulbasaur,” Kite said as Bulbasaur returned to his and the elemental changed into a white ball. Kite turned to his Tiller and he nodded to him, Tiller walked into the middle of the field and stood ready, the elemental changed into a glowing black sphere with a small scythe. “Come on Tiller, let’s show them what we can do!” “Yes master,” his Tiller responded as Sarah looked at Tiller, instead of the regular black armor, it had light blue and gray armor. “If your so confident, then let’s see how much you already know, Banette, combine with the elemental!” Tina shouted as Banette and the ghost elemental started to glow and then they melded together. “Banette, Curse and then follow up with Hypnosis!” “You know what to do Zodaic!” Kite said to his Tiller, he nodded to his master and he stood his ground, his elemental started to twirl it’s staff and mimicked Tiller. The Curse attack hit Tiller who slightly flinched and the Hypnosis caused him to get drowsy and fall asleep. “Banette, use Ghost Ball!” Tina ordered as Banette fired off a huge and nasty dark blast, just as it was about to hit, Tiller swiftly deflected the shot just in time. “Okay Tiller now, follow through with Break Maker!” he shouted as Tiller’s scythe glowed and he nailed Banette in the head and the elemental started to twirl it’s staff continuily. “Now Tiller, let’s get this one in the bag, use Death Scorpion!” “Death Scorpion!!!” Tiller shouted as he sped up, go around Banette for a while and then he gripped his Scythe and K’Oed Banette in the back of her head. “Impressive, not many have gotten this far in their Ark Battles, congratualions.” She smiled as Banette returned to her Pokeball and she picked out her Ultra Ball. “But no one has ever beaten Marionette!” “Third battle, begin!” Sarah shouted as a new Pokemon appeared, Kite whipped out a not-to-thick looking Pokedex and he scanned the Pokemon. “A Chimeco, damn,” Kite grinned hopelessly when suddenly his Tiller wlaked over to Tina’s side. “I didn’t knock out your Pokemon fast enough to stop the Possesion attack.” “Go ahead and choose your next Pokemon, by the way, Marionette and I have trained so it can use it’s elemental immediately after I call out two more Pokemon.” Tina smiled as Kite started to panic but he looked at Tiller who seemed to restrain himself. “So, now, use Hope Crush, knocking out your Pokemon in your Pokeballs!” “Tiller, use your Trance attack!” Tiller started to stand perfectly still as Nincada went over to the middle of the field. Tiller tried to hit Nincada but then it returned to his Pokeball, Kite smiled but he knew that Tiller was still under Possesion. “Trance allows me to return him to his Pokeball anytime he wants,” “Who cares your Pokemon will lose to Marinette!!!” she confidently laughed as Nincada’s elemental appeared, a bee looking one. Kite was putting all his faith in Scorpion and he knew that it wouldn’t lose or let him down. “Use Psychic!” “Scorpion, hang in there!” he shouted as his Nincada opened its eyes to see Sarah’s Ninjask. Nincada looked at Kite and knew that it would not let it’s master down any day. “Use Psybeam, wipe it out!” Tina ordered when Nincada started to glow as Chimeco stopped its Psybeam attack. Nincada glared down at Chimeco as the glowing light faded, suddenly Kite heard a beep from his Pokedex. “Needle Cannon, and Needle Fury; Needle cannon is one of the rare bug moves that few Pokemon can even use. Needle Fury; it is a creation of both Spike Cannon, Pin Missile, and Fury Attack,” his Pokedex spoke as Kite grinned as Nincada’s elemental combined with Nincada. “Scorpion, Needle Cannon!” Kite suggested as Nincada’s mouth opened up and energy gained up in front of it’s mouth and then it shot out a long round of small needles. Chimeco dodged most of them but the rest hit it dead on target. “Now try your Needle Fury!” “Nincada, Nin, Cada, Nin,” he replied as Nincada’s arms glowed and then he pointed them at Chimeco and nailed her with a massive barrage that kept up for thirty minutes if Chimeco hadn’t used Confusion. “Face it Kite, you lost,” she sneered as Chimeco charged up for her Psybeam. “Not quite, now Scorpion, use your specialty to win this,” Kite asked as Nincada nodded, despite its bruises, and scratches he still wanted to fight for his master. “Use Needlespike Missiles!!!” “Nin-ca…..” Nincada grunted as it charged up the last of it’s energy to use it’s elemental’s special attack. He let the elemental fully work with him and his whole body glowed white and then his body shined with light while he planted himself firmly with his glowing arms and legs. “da-NINCADA!!!” “What!?!” she screamed as Nincada let out a howl and several spiked needles the size of small and short arrows flew towards Chimeco and nailed her hard. Chimeco seemed knocked out as Nincada turned its back towards it, Chimeco jumped up for a Hyper Beam but Nincada turned around and fired off one final Needlespike Missiles. Tina looked amazed as well as Kite, he didn’t expect Nincada to use a move like that twice but he was still happy that he had won. The field dissappered as Sarah ran over to Kite with her Ninjask beside her, she hugged Kite unexpectedly. “Sarah, you know I wouldn’t let a friend like you get hurt.” “I’m sorry for what I did but I still am surprised that you defeated Grake. He really was a rogue elemental that I tried to control bu he must’ve tricked me,” Tina said, Sarah broke off the hug as she turned to Tina. “Being in the magic forest too long must’ve strengthed it’s power, you truly deserve this badge, it’s called the Net Badge,” “Wow, I already have a badge and it’s not even one day!” Kite announced as Sarah smiled, Tina looked at her and stared at her. The Net badge looked like a web but it was decorative, the strings made small little designs in the badge. Kite’s magic flared up as he threw his fist in the air and twirled his badge around between his fingers. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to travel with you, not many trainers find this gym for a while and I need a rest.” “Why not, where is the next badge at Tina?” Kite politely asked. “It’s probably going to take us a while, it’s in Cincut Town and that is pretty far from Gem City.” Tina replied. “Well then, let’s rest here for the night and head out in the morning.” Kite suggested. That night, Kite and his Nincada slept peacefully as Sarah talked with Tina, Tiller was up looking at the stars. “Does also know that your-“ “I have wanted to tell him but I just can’t.” Sarah replied, Tina sighed as Kite woke up from Nincada slobbering on his arm. “Come Sarah and Tina, we’ll have to get up early in the morning.” Kite said as Sarah yawned and Tina went into her sleeping bag. Kite was about to lay back down and go to sleep when he heard some ruffling and he turned to see Sarah searching her bag. “What’s wrong Sarah?” “I forgot I didn’t bring my sleeping bag, I’ll just have to sllep without one.” She sighed as her Ninjask; Jeane, flew over to the tree stump Kite was leaning on and fell asleep, Scorpion got up and looked at where Tiller sat and went to sleep. “Here Sarah, my sleeping bag is homemade so my mom made it a bit bigger.” He offered, showing that his had enough room for two. She looked a bit embrassed if someone else or Tina came along, she ignored the thought and took off her jacket and rolled it up like a pillow. She climbed in and Kite was right, they could even fit Tiller in it as well, she snuggled up against him unknowingly and went to sleep. Kite looked around and snapped out of the awkward moment, he put his arm around her and fell asleep. Tina looked at the cute young couple and felt sorry for them, if only it weren’t so… Kite woke up just as Sarah turned over to wake him up, they both stared at each other awhile, both deeply blushing. “Come and wake up you two, start off the morning with a nice and friendly kiss!” Tina suggested and they both screamed bloody murder. “Chimeco, chim-meco, chim!” Her Marionette chimed as Sarah turned bright red because she realized her cheeks were red. “Tina, she doesn’t have a sleeping bag, I let her sleep in my sleeping bag. I wouldn’t let my friend sleep out in the cold.” He replied as Sarah blushed a little less as Kite stood up out of his sleeping bag. “You mean wouldn’t little Romeo and Juliet!” Tina teased as Kite ignored it but he still blushed bright red. They up their sleeping bags and packed their stuff, Tina made a breakfast of bacon and eggs while they walked, using her magic. Sarah ate her egg sandwhich while Kite munched away silently on his bacon and egg sandwhich. Out of no where, two figures jumped out in front of them, blocking the path. “Who are you?” Kite shouted as his Nincada stood all tensed up while Tiller and Bulbasuar waited to be released. “Your worst nightmare little boy,” the taller figure replied, Kite ground his teeth as he got ready to use his magic. Seems familiar right, I had to tweak my rough draft a little, Part 3 is shortly being worked and the journey will really start up.