My life as ash

Chapter 36

The next day

I left yesterday and I am currently walking towards Norman's gym, why you may ask? For a battle of course. I am gonna be using riolu. Riolu has been training very nicely with aura. He doesn't have a power limiter and is similar to Pikachu. Of course I have made riolu train both his

Aura and body to the maximum along with aura weapons.

Of course I will only be using him for this battle cause I had him for almost 2 months and I have been training him for a while. The sheer amount of progress he made impresses me. Of course he is the weakest on the team and as such he has been training much harder.

It took almost a day to reach Norman but when I reached littleroot I found a cozy comfy title town with a gym in the center. Norman is a pretty good gym leader in my opinion. I hope he provides a good challenge to riolu. I was also welcomed into the town as the townsfolk were very friendly. Pretty friendly to a random stranger but I am not complaining.

After asking for a few directions I reached the gym. Knock knock. I knocked on the door a few times before it opened and I say a little girl with long brown hair tied in a cute manner, I guess this is may." Hello little girl, can I know where your father is? I am here to challenge him to a gym battle."" but dady told me to never talk to strangers"" don't worry I am not a stranger and aren't you a good little girl. Listenening to your father. You deserve a reward here. Take this candy bar."

I had gotten the candy bar too munch on while eating. What I get bored of walking as well. Anyway I patted the little girl on the head before she ran off to get her dad. I had to wait for a few minutes but I was greeted by a normal looking man who was most likely Norman. The normal type gym leader.

"Hello Norman, How are you?? Little Steve has already told you about me right?"" You must be ash, yes I have heard about you. So you wanted to challenge me?"" Of course."" Why are you challenging me now. You could just as easily backtrack a bit?"" Wynaut."...... I heard a great amount of laughter from behind the door corner and I saw may and max on the floor laughing. Guys it's not that funny. Meh.

" Well since you asked so nicely. I accept. Let's go to the battlefield."" Sure sure."

Norman was a good guy, a bit of a family guy but I respect that. He was a bit overprotective of his daughter but I was never a father so I don't know much regarding that. We had a good conversation until we reached the battlefield where he tried to trash talk me. Tried being the keyword.

"You are gonna lose little boy. Just don't go crying to your mom" Oh he didn't just insult me. You don't insult the guy from the 21st century where roasts are hotter than the sun. I guess I should hold back a bit since I can feel max and may listening in and I he is only playing in jest

" Well at the very least the post code for my eyes aren't at a different axis and I do my hair with a comb, not a iron and gel." You don't mess with me. Hahahahahaha, his expression was priceless. Of course our audience of 2 were also extremely surprised." We gonna talk or are we gonna fight?"

"Sure. Go slakoth use body slam " riolu go. Bone rush, agility and swords dance.." slakoth jumped into the air and came down onto riolu only to be met by a bone in the face and stomach. Riolu had used slakoth sown momentum against it, and then used swords dance and agility.

By the time slakoth had gotten back to its feet, riolu had reached 5 swords dance and 4 agility which was its current limits. Of course I had riolu bone rush straight into slakoth. Knocking it out of stage." I should have seen that coming but meet my second strongest pokemon slaking."" Riolu staff and remember what I taught you. Use close combat and counter"

Riolu created an staff made of aura out of thin air and rushed towards the slaking who was trying to feint attack. As riolu was approaching, slaking brought down his hand almost like a hammer but riolu jumped onto soakings arms and used the newly created staff to hit slaking in the face with a full power bone rush. Before slaking even had the chance to prepare for another attack, Riolu struck once again with close combat.

In the end the slaking fainted and fell under its own weight. The amount of dust particles that fell and the position of riolu and slaking reminded my of David and the Goliath. Still Norman had one more pokemon to go and riolu was getting a bit tired." Go slaking, this is my most powerful pokemon. He hasn't been beaten for quite a while. Use hammer arm." Shit.

"Riolu dodge and keep on using extreme speed. Whittle down the pokemon and use close combat and use counter if necessary. Shunpo." Shunpo is the art of lowering ones gravity while using extreme speed and agility along with max sword dance to become a blur and to create a platform of aura just under ones feet to use as a stepping stone.

Riolu essentially turned into a blur who disappeared and reappeared around the field and near slaking. It would randomly attack slaking from different sides at random intervals. Slaking attacked the ground and flung its hands around for the chance of randomly hitting riolu. The uneven ground made it much harder for Riolu to hit slaking but slaking was hit with a close combat in the face and was knocked out.

When the dust settled a panting and with a major bruise on its arm. It turns out that slaking had managed to hit riolu in the arms. Anyway after the referee proceeded to end the match, I walked to riolu and gave him a good little hug and congratulated him properly. Of course Norman came out to me.

" You did very well. It was my fault for underestimating you. You have earned this badge. Take it."" Thanks Norman"

I guess this isn't so bad huh.