Episode 59! Heh, Storm finally evolved! I know some people talked earlier about why she didn’t evolve. Well, now you know.

Disclaimer: Shadow does not own pokemon. Accuse me and I will disembowel you. Steal Destiny, Charlotte, or anything of mine and I will personally satirize your fic and flame you. It’s known as asking permission.

Notes: <> indicates mental communication, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates pokespeech! Yeah!

Ranma – humor + action = good, Hehehehe. Thanks!

Inami – really? Well, yes, it was supposed to be serious, but humor is good too.

Pikacar/Marle – thanks! *Guardians eat cookies happily* Of course Dragonami is pretty! Why make an ugly pokemon if you can make a cute one?

Eevee Angel (Eevee99) – it’s fine! Thanx for reviewing

Digifan – interesting, Ok.

Nikki Wind, Crystal Wind, and Abby the Absol – thank you!

Fire Eevee – hold on. Well, Lorelei is telepathic because she’s an ice master and lapras and jynx are kind psychic, and Agatha is because she’s a ghost master, but Bruno isn’t.

Tmp – one thing at a time. Yes, lance is part of the Elite Four. Yep, Dragonami is one of my new pokes. I just threw in the part w/Lorelei for fun.

Severus’ potions mistress – a platform is what the challenger and other trainer stand on, the stadium is between them.

Silver #2 – Um, Daemon card is a demon, and I wanted to spell it kind of ancient. So that’s how I got it.

Episode 59: Practice makes perfect

“Thundershock!”
The lightning streaked towards Ash, who barely managed to roll out of the way. “Fine! Earthquake!”

Charlotte jumped clear of the attack and formed a ball of glowing energy in one hand. “Fireball!” The charged flame energy roared at Ash, who shrugged and negated it with a flap of his wings.

“Pretty good!” Pika-chan called.

“This is pretty intensive training.” Teresa said as she taped. “What if Ash gets hurt?”

“It won’t happen. He’s too good at dodging.”

“If you say so…” Teresa said worriedly. * Oh Ash, what’s going to happen? Can’t you see how you could get hurt? *

Charlotte concentrated and suddenly flung an armful of somniferous powder at Ash. Ash blinked, but than began to fall asleep.

< Ash! Snap out of it! What if Bob uses this on us?! You have to be prepared to defend against status change attacks! > Charlotte yelled.

Ash jerked awake, and quickly used a fire spell to incinerate the rest of the Sleep Powder.

< Hang in there, Ash! I know this is hard, but you can do it! > Pika-chan told her chosen. Ash nodded before he formed something in his hands that Charlotte couldn’t see. A pale blue glow winked in for a moment, before he shot his attack at her.

“Bubblebeam!”
“Not bad!” Charlotte said as she quickly began dodging the bubbles. “Pin Missle!” Sharp pins of electricity began flying at the beams, bursting the bubbles easily. Ash didn’t move though. He seemed to be hiding a smirk…

A few seconds later, all the remaining bubbles combined into one and smacked into Charlotte, knocking her out of the air and drenching her with gallons of water.

Vulpix-chan quickly dashed over to her terrified Chosen and doused her with a dose of Hyper Potion.

“Thanks, Vulpix-chan.” Charlotte said as she stood up shakily. “Hey, that was really good, Ash!”

Ash smiled and did a ‘V’ for Victory.

Charlotte glowed as she used Recover, before standing up and shaking off all the excess water. “Okay, let’s go!”

Meanwhile…

Bob growled as he dumped some Potions over himself. “I shall have my revenge! Foolish children, you know not the true power of Bob the Dragon-Mage! As soon as the rest of the shadows finish gathering, this world shall be mine! Mwahahaha!”

Bob’s dragon growled also.

“Thunderbolt!”

“Sorry, but that trick won’t work twice!” Charlotte said as she dodged out of the way. Instantly, the electricity melted into bubbles of water.

“Really?” Ash asked impishly. “Target!”

“Eep!” Charlotte said as she jumped around. “Okay, Agility Swift!” Her form blurred as her speed went up immensely. * At this range, I can’t miss… * A burst of acid shot out of her hands and landed on Ash’s hair.

Ash quickly doused himself with potion. * Wow, that was pretty close! I’d better try harder! *

He concentrated and sent a ring of psychic energy at her.

“Eh?” Charlotte asked as the ring tightened around her waist. “Oh… Tomite’s trick! Okay, Teleport!” She vanished and reappeared behind Ash. A mallet formed of fire formed in her hand and she brought it down upon his head.

Ash dropped like a rock.

Pika-chan shook her head as she brought the Wand of the Water Guardian over. “Keep trying, Ash.” Ash winced as she bonked him lightly.

“But it’s so hard!”

“I know.” Pika-chan replied. “But we have to work harder! There’s something we didn’t tell you earlier. The longer Bob stays alive, the harder it will be to defeat him.”

“Why?” Charlotte asked as she landed on the ground next to Ash.

“Because Bob sold his soul to gain his magic. Day by day, demons, beings of darkness, shadowspawn, ghouls, etc, are gathering in his fortress. They are drawn by the dark power he possesses. If this continues, you will soon find yourselves dead or drained.”

“You’re not very optimistic, are you?” Angel asked as he peered out of a leafy bough.

“Of course not.” Pika-chan said derisively. “Come on, this is going to become a life or death situation soon! We should prepare them for it!”

“In that case, shouldn’t I be working on card transformations?” Ash asked a bit timidly.

“Well… we’re afraid that you’ll be too drained to defend yourself.” Sabrina said as she materialized out of thin air.

Ash freaked out for a second before he realized it was just Sabrina.

“Oh, it’s only you. But I’ll be okay!”

“If you say so… we could do card training…” Charlotte said. “I could always create more… so could you…”

The guardians held a quick whispered conference.

“It’s fine with us.”

“Costumes!” Teresa shouted.

Ash just looked bemused as Charlotte bolted.

Finally, Charlotte was dragged out of a bush. But instead of agreeing to Teresa’s costumes, Charlotte pulled a gold star-shaped charm on a blue chain out of her pocket, pressed the button, and chanted a spell.

“Across the power of time, surpassing the power of distance, I summon thee Raikou, my mashin! Star of light, created by Raikou, Star of darkness, blessed by Seiryu, Star of hate, star of love, grant the power of the stars above!” When the light cleared, Charlotte was wearing golden armor over her normal school uniform.

“Is this good enough?”
Teresa stared. * Shoot! How did she get that? It’s going to be so hard to make Ash a costume like that… Aaahh! *

Ash shrugged and his eyes glowed briefly. In a second, he was wearing his own gold armor and holding his staff. “Ready?”

“Hai!” Charlotte said, winking. “Okay, what can’t we use?”

“No mind-control spells or Attract. Other than that, anything goes!”
The two Chosen grinned and took their positions. Teresa whipped out her camera, put in a blank tape, and began to tape.

End Episode 59! Flames will be used to forge Earthy, so she can engulf Nelvana in earth, or bury them a million miles underground! Comments and constructive criticism are very welcome!