POKEMON Golden Sun Series
Aspendragon

Part Fourteen-Water Victories!

	“Here you are,” Nurse Joy said, putting a tray down in front of our 
heroes, Coco Tradet, Squall Togoroti, and 
Bayline Silverson.
	“Thank you,” they said together, as Coco grabbed Firestorm’s ball first 
than picking up her pikachu, 
Peppermint, who was sitting on the tray, eating an apple. Squall picked up 
Fruity’s poke’ball, along with his new 
pokemon, Granite, a sandshrew. Bayline picked up her pokemons’ poke’balls too. 
There was Honey the eevee, Jenta 
the metopod, and Blossom the clefairy.
	“Pika!” Peppermint squealed as she finished her apple and handed it to 
Coco before jumping onto her 
shoulder.
	“Ugh! Thanks,” Coco said with disgust, throwing the apple away in a nearby 
trash bin. Peppermint giggled.
	“Come on, I’m starving!” Bayline cried, as she pointed towards the buffet, 
to their left. Coco spotted a few 
trainers at the buffet.
	“All right, come on Pep!” Coco shouted, running towards a girl trainer, 
she had blonde hair in a boyish 
haircut, complete with light green eyes and light skin. She was wearing jean 
shorts, a T-shirt with a muk on it, with 
black, finger-cut gloves, and brown, cowboy-like boots.
	“Excuse me!” Coco yelled, the girl turned around.
	“Hi, do you want to battle?” Coco asked as she stopped in front of her. 
The girl cocked her head to the side.
	“Sure, why not in the front of the Pokemon Center?” Coco nodded, Bayline 
and Squall sighed.

	“This will be a two-on-two battle!” Squall began, “When both pokemon are 
unable to battle! The opponent 
wins! BEGAN!” The girl threw a poke’ball first.
	“Go! Sassy!” she shouted. A meowth appeared.
	“Cool, but your pokemon won’t be cool for long with this pokemon! Go! 
Firestorm!” Coco yelled, releasing 
her charmeleon.
	“Char!” she growled as the white light vanished.
	“Sassy! Scratch attack!” Sassy the meowth drew out her claws and began 
running towards the charmeleon.
	“Dodge it!” Firestorm jumped high to dodge the fury of the cat pokemon’s 
claws. She landed behind Sassy.
	“Use Ember!” Coco commanded. Firestorm took a deep breath before spinning 
an around, but not like when 
she was a charmander. As she spun, she stood on one foot, her tail freely 
spinning. More embers escaped from her tail, 
also, they were larger.
	“Oh no!” the girl screamed as Sassy was engulfed in several flames. When 
the fire cleared, Sassy was limped 
her way towards Firestorm. Coco saw the girl bite her lip.
	“Finish it off with your Flamethrower!” Coco ordered. Firestorm nodded and 
lunged her head forward, 
releasing a blast of red and yellow flames. The meowth fainted as soon as the 
flames hit her. The girl returned Sassy to 
her ball when the smoke cleared.
	“Good job girl” Coco shouted at her charmeleon.
	“Char!” she called back.
	“Go! Squirt!” the girl yelled, releasing another pokemon.
	“Squirtle!” a blue turtle cried. Coco took out Dexter.
	“Squirtle, the Water, Tiny Turtle Pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “After birth, 
its back swells and hardens into a 
shell. Powerful sprays foam from its mouth,” Coco put Dexter away.
	“Be careful Firestorm!” Coco shouted to her pokemon. Firestorm nodded, 
then went back to staring at her 
opponent.
	“Resume the battle!” Squall shouted, by now, many people and trainers 
began to watch the battle from the 
sidelines.
	“Firestorm! Tackle!” Firestorm ran towards the turtle pokemon, lowering 
her head.
	“Don’t fight head-to-head combat with a water pokemon!” Squall yelled at 
Coco. Coco smiled as the girl 
commanded Squirt to use Water Gun.
	“Use your Flamethrower to fly!” Coco shouted. Everyone gasped. Firestorm 
blew her attack at the ground, 
pushing her into the air, higher and higher, until she thought being above the 
trees was high enough. Squirt’s Water Gun 
missed by much.
	“Use Flamethrower!” Coco yelled, Firestorm released her fiery blast at the 
squirtle. The squirtle went into his 
shell. The blast hit him forcefully. Firestorm crashed into a few trees below. 
Squirt poked his head out of his shell, 
finding no Firestorm, he got up.
	“Firestorm! Tackle!” Coco commanded, thinking that Firestorm’s fine. A few 
trees bent out of the way as 
Firestorm rampaged through the woods and onto the field, she tackled Squirt into 
a fat oak behind him. His eyes were 
swirls as he hit the ground after sliding off the tree.
	“Squirt is unable to battle! This battle goes to Coco!” Squall shouted, 
people clapped as Coco and 
Peppermint ran to Firestorm, while the girl returned her squirtle and ran 
quickly into the Pokemon Center unnoticed.
	“Gee, I hope I wasn’t hard on her,” Coco said to herself as she returned 
Firestorm and Bayline and Squall 
joined her.
	
	“The Cerulean Gym is right around the corner!” Bayline shouted, after 
Squall told her as he looked down at 
his map. They were walking down the road from the Pokemon Center. The girl Coco 
battled was Amee Zoezeet, a 
trainer from Saffron, from what Nurse Joy told them. After getting Firestorm 
healed again and eating some food, they 
were ready to do some battling.
	“I can’t wait to see what the gym leader is like,” Coco wondered aloud.

	“I’m Misty! The most beautiful and talented of the Cerulean Gym Leaders!”  
The redheaded girl shouted, she 
was in a two piece swimming suit. Her hair was in a ponyta-tail at the side of 
her head. From Squall’s opinion. All 
redheads were loud mouths and were certainly not pretty. Bayline and Coco 
giggled at the thought of Misty hearing 
that.
	“This will be a two-on-two battle! When both pokemon are unable to battle 
the opponent wins! BEGAN!” 
The referee shouted. Misty’s sisters, Lily, Violot, and Daisy yawned as they 
watched from the high seats above the 
swimming pool.
	“All right! I choose Peppermint!” Coco shouted, as Peppermint jumped onto 
a floating platform on the 
swimming pool.
	“Pikachu eh! Go! Staryu!” Misty yelled. A star-like pokemon emerged from 
the ball. Coco pulled out Dexter.
	“Staryu, the water, seastar pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “An enigmatic POKEMON 
that can effortlessly 
regenerate any appendage lost in battle, its jewel also comes in the shades of 
seven colors,” Coco put Dexter into her 
back pocket as Squall spoke.
	“Trust a girl to show off her jewelry,” Squall said loudly. Misty seemed 
to be steaming when her face turned 
red.
	“Oh! How cute! I have to get a staryu for myself!” Bayline said. Misty 
calmed a little, but when Squall 
laughed a bit, she exploded again.
	“Be quiet and let’s began this battle!” Misty snapped, “STARYU! TACKLE!” 
Staryu started spinning as it 
lunged at Peppermint.
	“Dodge it!” Coco shouted, Peppermint jumped with the help of her tail. Her 
tail was like a spring, just that it 
didn’t wind up.
	“Chu!” Peppermint squealed as she landed behind Staryu.
	“Thundershock!” Coco ordered. Peppermint sent a electric bolt at Staryu. 
Not being quick enough, Staryu 
was hit directly.
	Blink, blink, blink…the jewel on Staryu dinged. Then it went out.
	“Return Staryu!” Misty yelled out. Lily began walking down the stairs 
after having a little pep talk with 
Violot and Daisy and sat down on the bench on the sidelines.
	“You did a good job,” Misty said to Staryu’s ball, then she got out 
another one, “GO! GOLDEEN!” An 
orange and white gold fish-like pokemon appeared, once again, Coco got out 
Dexter.
	“Goldeen, the Water, goldfish pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “It’s tail fin 
billows like an elegant ballroom dress, 
giving it the nickname of the Water Queen,” Coco put Dexter away, she trusted 
Peppermint to finish this pokemon off 
too.
	“Goldeen! Tackle all the platforms out of the water!” Misty shouted. 
Goldeen swam at an incredible speed 
towards the nearest platform. She tackled it out of the water. The referee had 
to run sideways to dodge it. After tackling 
two more out of the arena, Goldeen went after Peppermint’s platform.
	“Thundershock!” Coco commanded. Peppermint threw out a thundershock 
towards Goldeen’s head. 
Unfortunately, the horn started to spin fast, making the thundershock go in 
different directions.
	“Pika!” Peppermint cried as Goldeen hit the platform, making Peppermint 
fly forwards and land in the water 
behind Goldeen.
	“Goldeen! Use Horn Drill!” Misty shouted. Goldeen swam towards Peppermint, 
her horn spinning faster 
then before.
	“Grrr!” Coco growled. Thinking of a counter attack. But electrical attacks 
didn’t work head-on…her eyes 
widened. 
	“Peppermint! Thundershock from where you are!” Peppermint panted as she 
nodded and sparked. The 
whole pool was a lightning blaze when Peppermint released her attack. Coco kept 
her eyes closed, along with 
everybody else.
	“Chu,” Peppermint squealed as the light vanished and she swam towards the 
edge. Goldeen was floating 
upside-down. Obviously defeated.
	“This battle goes to Coco Tradet!” The refree shouted, raising his blue 
flag. Coco ran to Peppermint when she 
found her shaking loose water off her.
	“All right girl?” Coco asked, Peppermint nodded, happy to be in safe arms 
and not in the water. She started 
shaking. The referee handed Coco a dry towel.
	“Thanks,” Coco said, as she quickly started drying her pikachu. Peppermint 
snuggled up in the towel as Coco 
wrapped it around her. Lily walked up to Misty.
	“I’ll battle next, and Daisy volunteered,” Lily told her. Misty nodded as 
she sat down on the sidelines bench. 
Coco walked briskly towards her. Misty looked up as Coco sat down.
	“I think we got off at a wrong start,” Coco explained, Bayline walked onto 
the right side of the field, as Lily 
went to the left. The referee yelled began.
	“I’m Coco Tradet, from Pallet Town, and this is Peppermint,” Coco said, 
lifting her hand. Peppermint smiled 
as she cocked her head to the right. Misty giggled.
	“I’m Misty Waterflower, the fourth sister of the Cerulean Gym, my bragging 
terms were explained clearly at 
the beginning of the battle,” Misty giggled, as she shook Coco’s hand. Coco 
looked at the battle pool as Bayline sent 
out Honey.
	“GO! PSYDUCK!” Lily yelled, a yellow, short duck with a wide beak and a 
tuff of black hair on its head. 
Coco pulled out her poke’dex.
	“Psyduck, the water/psychic duck pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “While lulling 
its enemies with its vacant look, 
this wily POKEMON will use psychokinetic powers,” Misty laughed out loud as Coco 
put Dexter away.
	“That psyduck is mine, but, I made a deal with Lily, I told her, if she 
could train that pokemon, then I would 
get a Water Stone for her,” Misty explained. Water Stone was an evolution stone, 
used to evolve certain water 
pokemon.
	“Did you get one?” Coco asked, Misty nodded.
	“Bill lives in a lighthouse in the Cerulean Cape north of here with his 
grandfather,” Misty explained, Bayline 
ordered Honey to use Swimming Tackle.
	“His grandfather used to travel the world before deciding to stay at his 
grandson’s because of his age, so now, 
all he has is a bunch of stuff, he doesn’t give it out for free mind you,” Coco 
asked what kind of things or money did he 
as for.
	“He doesn’t ask for money, he asks to see rare pokemon, like, I got a 
Water Stone from him by showing him 
my staryu,” Misty said. Lily told Psyduck to dodge it and use Confusion.
	“Awesome, she trained Psyduck well,” Misty complimented, as Honey was 
swiftly lifted off the ground and 
at the wall. But quickly stopped as Honey grabbed the side of the pool. Gripping 
tightly till Psyduck’s Confusion wore 
off.
	“Where did you stash the stone?” Coco asked. Misty said in her room.
	“Our house is behind the gym. There are four rooms, for four sisters,” 
Misty said with a giggle, “The first one 
you see with a seadra is Daisy’s, the door with a dewgong is Violot’s, Lily’s 
door has a seaking on it, and mine has a 
poliwag,” Misty’s voice faded as she said poliwag.
	“What’s wrong with poliwag?”
	“You see, my mother comes home every five months, because she’s a Marine 
Scientist and studies water 
pokemon in their ocean environment. When she comes home and sees how well each 
of us do our chores, she upgrades 
our sign, Daisy’s used to be a horsea, Violot’s used to be a seel, and Lily’s 
used to be a goldeen…” Misty’s voice 
trailed off. Coco looked at the battlefield, Bayline won the first match when 
Honey tackled Psyduck continuously and 
got him tired, making it harder to swim. Misty quickly explained that Psyduck 
had a hard time trying to swim before 
Lily trained it.
	“GO! BUBBLES!” Lily shouted, releasing another pokemon after recalling 
psyduck. It was a Horsea. Coco 
pulled out Dexter.
	“Horsea, the Water, seahorse pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “Known to shoot down 
flying bugs with precision 
blasts of ink from the surface of the water,” Coco put Dexter next to her on the 
bench, tired of getting it out of her back 
pocket.
	“You know, you share a lot of similarities with a person I once knew,” 
Misty said, patting Peppermint again.
	“What similarities? And who?” Coco asked.
	“His name was Ash Ketchum,” Misty began.
	“Whoa whoa whoa! You used to know Ash?” Coco yelped.
	“I used to travel with him all the time, I traveled with him for two and a 
half years,” Misty added, “Me, 
Brock, and Ash went through Kanto together, then Brock left and Tracey came. Ash 
then competed in the Orange 
League. Later, Brock came back and Tracey stayed with Professor Oak,” Misty 
sighed, “We then traveled through 
Johto, then I had to stay here and wait for my sisters to come back from a world 
trip…”
	“Do you know what happened to him after you left?”
	“No, I haven’t seen in a while, but when Brock called and said that Ash 
decided to leave to go to another 
league all by himself, and May, Max, Tracey, Team Rocket…”
	“Team Rocket!”
	“They were Jessie, James, and Meowth. Not a very good trio, but they 
helped out every now and than. In 
the end. Than went on in a normal life, keeping in touch, last time they wrote, 
they said their honeymoon was going 
great and were at Olivine City Beach,”
	“Oh, so, everyone in Pallet misses him huh?” Coco asked.
	“Not just Pallet, every city he entered misses him, he helped anyone at 
anytime, no matter how big or small,” 
Misty said, “I even remember the first time I met him. I believed he didn’t care 
about his pokemon, but when caterpie, 
his first pokemon evolved, I changed my mind,” Coco bit her lip, but turned her 
attention to the battle. Bayline recalled 
Honey a few minutes ago due to a Bubble Beam Attack and sent out Blossom, who 
waded since there was no 
platforms. When Misty spotted the clefairy, she burst into questions.
	“How did she catch it? Where did she find it in Mt.Moon? How long has she 
had it?” Coco sweatdropped.
	“BUBBLES! BUBBLE BEAM!” Lily yelled out. Bubbles shot out several bubbles 
at Blossom.
	“Metronome!” Bayline shouted out quickly. Blossom waved her fingers in the 
same rhythm. They started to 
glow blue. Bubbles stopped her attack (all the bubbles popped before reaching 
Blossom) and stared wide-eyed at 
Blossom, as if she was hypnotized.
	“Clefaiirrrryyyy!” Blossom rode on a small tidal wave.
	“Surf!” Misty yelled, Coco pointed Dexter’s sensor at the attack.
	“Surf, a Water type attack,” Dexter beeped, “Known as the strongest Water 
attack,”. Blossom’s wave landed 
on top of Bubbles, when everything became calm. Bubbles surfaced with swirls in 
her eyes. Blossom swam to the right 
side of the pool to Bayline.
	“The winner of this battle is Bayline Silverson!” the referee shouted as 
he handed Bayline another towel. 
Squall quickly shoved a platform in the water due to his not-very-good-swimmer 
Fruity and Granite. Bayline walked 
over to the bench, Lily did the same.
	“Hey! Like! Bayline!” Lily yelled, waving her hand.
	“You like, need something from this gym to prove your victory,” Lily said, 
handing her a badge, it looked like 
a sky-blue raindrop.
	“The like, Cascade Badge,” Lily said. Bayline patted Blossom on the head 
and put her badge in her pocket.
	“Oh! Like, don’t put your badges in pockets! Wait here!” Lily ran into the 
other room as Squall and Daisy 
went to the pool.
	“This will be a two-on-two battle, when both pokemon are unable to battle! 
The opponent wins! BEGAN!” 
	“GO! POLIWAG!” Daisy shouted, releasing a tadpole-like pokemon with a 
swirl on her stomach.
	“Poliwag, the Water, tadpole pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “It’s newly grown 
legs prevent it from running. It 
appears to prefer swimming than trying to stand,” as Coco laid Dexter on the 
bench next to her, Lily returned with three 
small, rectangle boxes. Each one had a pokemon on the top of it. Lily handed 
Bayline one with a Butterfree on it and a 
pink background, and Coco with a Raichu and a golden background.
	“Can you give this to Squall when he’s done battling?” Lily asked, giving 
Coco a similar box with a Onix on it, 
and with a silver background.
	“Sure,” Coco answered, as Lily ran up the stairs to Violot. Misty jumped 
out of her daze and handed Coco a 
badge too.
	“Sorry, forgot,” she said quickly. Coco smiled as she took out her Boulder 
Badge and snapped it and her new 
badge on the fabric that was on the inside of the small case. Bayline did the 
same.
	“FRUITY! RAZOR LEAF!” Squall commanded. Fruity swung her leaf arms 
forward, making razor sharp 
leaves shoot out at the poliwag. The poliwag seemed a little shaken after the 
leaves hit her. But she wasn’t out.
	“Don’t let that bellsprout get you out yet Poliwag!” Daisy yelled, “Use 
Water Gun!” Poliwag shot out a 
watery blast from her mouth at Fruity. Fruity stretched out of the way. But the 
water attack hit Squall instead.
	“Thanks a lot!” Squall shouted. Shaking loose water from his hair and 
clothes.
	“Your welcome!” Daisy laughed.
	“I was being sarcastic,” Squall growled. “Fruity! Use Vine Whip!” Fruity 
lunged her vine at Poliwag, who 
dodged it by diving underwater.
	“Grr…cheater,” Squall growled. Fruity was waiting for the next command.
	“So, how long have you been traveling?” Misty asked Coco and Bayline. 
Peppermint rooted Squall on.
	“A month and a week I think,” Bayline said, counting her fingers.
	“Wow! Really, it took two months for Ash to get two badges!” Misty yelped.
	“Oh no!” Daisy cried, as Fruity’s fishing technique as her vine as the 
line grabbed Poliwag and threw her into 
a wall. When she landed on the ground, swirls were taking place of her eyes.
	“First round goes to Squall!” the referee shouted. Daisy returned Poliwag 
to her ball, then sent out another 
pokemon. Coco got Dexter ready.
“Shellder, the Water, shell pokemon,” Dexter beeped, “its hard shell repels any 
kind of attack. Vulnerable only when its 
shell is open,” finally, Coco thought it was safe to put Dexter away in her back 
pocket.
	“Shellder! Ice Beam!” Daisy shouted. Shellder’s floating body opened. A 
black face appeared with two eyes 
and a tongue. A silvery-white beam shot out at Fruity. Fruity was a popcicle 
when the flash vanished. Fruity was 
frozen in the same position it was in when Daisy released Shellder. Squall 
returned his bellsprout.
	“Good job Fruity,” he said, then he threw Granite’s ball out.
	“Ready to avenge our fallen friend?” Squall asked his sandshrew as the 
flash vanished. Granite nodded as it 
looked at Shellder. Daisy laughed.
	“Your sandshrew doesn’t stand a chance against a water type, let alone 
being surrounded by water!” Granite 
turned to Squall.
	“Shrew shrew!” he squealed at Squall. Squall smiled as he nodded.
	“Don’t ever underestimate my pokemon!” Squall said, as he stared at the 
ceiling, everyone else did too, 
wondering what he was looking at. They heard a small splash, that’s what brought 
them back to the battle. Everyone 
gasped except Squall. Granite was gone.
	“Like I said! Never underestimate my pokemon! Ecspecially Granite!” Squall 
shouted at Daisy, “Granite! 
Time for a Tackle!” A large splash from where Shellder was appeared. When the 
splash smoothed out with the rest of 
the pool, Shellder was shaking terribly. But a soaking Granite was fine upon the 
used to be empty platform.
	“Granite told me just after you laughed that he was part Water!” Squall 
chuckled, “So, I used that as an 
advantage, and to make sure it was a surprise, I made a diversion, quite 
ingenious if I do say so myself,” 
	“Youuuuuuu,” Daisy growled, it was obvious that it was going to take 
awhile to recover from the surprise 
attack, because Shellder’s eyes were widened in fear as it looked at the part 
Water sandshrew.
	“But how can it be part Water?” Misty asked loudly. Everyone was clueless 
about that. Granite lowered his 
head, showing that he didn’t know either. But quickly told Squall that he found 
out when he fell into a small water pool 
in Mt.Moon and knew how to swim perfectly. And the water didn’t bug his skin. 
Squall translated it.
	“Shellder is unable to battle! This match goes to Squall Togoroti!” The 
referee yelled as he noticed Shellder 
wasn’t up to battle further. Daisy returned Shellder and walked towards the 
other side of the pool. Where Squall was 
patting Granite on the head. (Boys don’t like hugging)
	“I present to you, like, the Cascade Badge!” Daisy said, handing him the 
raindrop-like badge.
	“Thanks!” he said, Coco and Bayline ran to him.
	“Here, it’s for to store your badges, Misty gave them to us,” Coco said, 
handing him the Onix case, then 
showing him hers. Bayline did too. Misty walked up to them. He attached the 
badges to the inside of the case.
	“It’s getting late, do you want to stay here?” Misty asked. Coco and 
Bayline nodded at once. Squall returned 
Granite, mumbling something about, ‘I rather sleep in a john…’ Coco giggled. 
Bayline rolled her eyes.
	As the sister trio left. Along with Misty, Coco, Peppermint, Bayline, and 
Squall. Misty started giving out 
tips on their clothes, and in a great need of a bath…
	“Pika pi?” Peppermint asked.
	“Yes Pep, its going to be a long night,” Coco answered with a chuckle. 
Squall growled as Misty started 
commenting about his clothes and dirtiness.

	‘I have talked to Golden Sun, he said she is making progress, and already 
has two badges in less then two 
months,’ Ho-oh chuckled. Ash scowled. Pikachu scratches his ear.
	“All right, I am almost done with the project I’m working on…” Ash said, 
avoiding his past embarrassment.
	“Pikachu!” (How much longer? I want to meet her pikachu!) Pikachu 
squealed.
	“Just a little longer,” Ash answered.
	“Pi,” (Whatever,)
	‘I shall be here for whatever you’ll need, there is no need for work now, 
not until Team Rocket does trouble 
again…’
	“Team Rocket’s back!” Ashe yelled.
*Pokemon Theme*
To be continued…