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Chapter 5: The Accumula Town Battle Chateau: Part 2!

Ash, Brock and Iris met up with Hilda; the latter looked like she has been hit in the gut. Not that they could blame her considering she had just lost her first battle as a Pokémon trainer. Ash walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"It's alright, Hilda," Ash said in a comforting tone. "Everyone loses from time to time. It's what you learn from your losses that makes you a better trainer".

Hilda gave a slight smile and turned towards him. "Thank you Ash".

"He's right, Hilda." Brock agreed "With a little more training with your Pokémon, you'll be strong enough to compete in the next Battle Chateau we visit."

"Yeah, you shouldn't have to take your first lose to hard, okay?" Iris added.

"Thanks guys, I really appreciate it".

Later in another room Ash was facing off against a Baron named Jacob.

"Trainers, choose your Pokémon!"

"Pidove, I choose you!" Ash exclaimed, throwing the red-and-white sphere into the air. Bright light spilled out and formed the Tiny Pigeon Pokémon.

"Pi-Dove!" the Normal/Flying-type cooed.

"Magmar, let's go!" Jacob threw his Pokéball into the air and released a bipedal Pokémon with a red body that had yellow flame designs on it. A row of red spikes ran down its back, and there are two lumps on its forehead with a flame on top of each one. It had a puckered, yellow beak-like mouth and small eyes. Its thighs were yellow, and it had red feet with two, clawed toes each. Its arms were covered in rigid, red scales and it had red hands with five, clawed fingers. It had black, metal shackles on its neck and ankles. At the tip of its yellow tail had a flame.

"A Magmar," Hilda said with interest as she pulled out her Pokédex.

"Magmar, the Spitfire Pokémon, and the evolved form of Magby. Found near the mouth of a volcano, Magmar's body temperature is nearly 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit"

"Let's start this out strong, Pidove use Quick Attack." Receiving its order Pidove took to the air with a silver streak trailing behind it.

"Use Dig, Magmar!" Jacob ordered.

The Spitfire Pokémon dug a hole at high speeds to escape underground dodging the Quick Attack.

Pidove scanned the battlefield looking for any sign of its opponent when a hole opened up and out jumped Magmar, springing itself into the air right behind Pidove.

"Look out, Pidove!" Ash warned the Flying-type.

"Fire Punch!"

Magmar came down with a fist wrapped in flames, narrowly missing Pidove as it flew out of the way.

"Use Air Cutter!"

Pidove waves its wings, released blue blades of air, which struck Magmar consecutively just as it landed.

Magmar quickly recovered and prepared to counter. "Flame Charge!" Magmar became surrounded by orange fire then launched off the ground and smashed into Pidove.

The Tiny Pidgeon Pokémon let out a pained cry as it struggles to remain it the air. "Hang in there Pidove, use Quick Attack again!" Pidove's speed once again increased dramatically as a trail of energy followed its movement. Magmar jump out its path then watch as it circled around for another pass and dodged again.

"Alright Magmar, Flamethrower!" Jacob directed.

"Maaaaaag-Maaaaaar!" Magmar fired a powerful burst of flames from its mouth.

"Counter it with Air Cutter!" A white aura outlined Pidgeot's body then two rings of white orbs circled Pidgeot in an X formation then disappeared as Pidgeot fired a beam of energy that collided with the Flamethrower. Unfortunately, the Flamethrower's power proved to be greater and easily blew right through the Air Cutters, hitting Pidove and knocking it out of the air.

"Pidove!" Ash cried out for the Unovan Flying-type. He ran forward and caught Pidove before it hit the ground.

"Pidovce is unable to battle. Magmar wins."

"Pi…" Pidove cooed sadly, obviously upset about losing its first battle as Ash's Pokémon.

"It's alright Pidove, you did your best." Ash assured it. "We'll just have to train more."

"Looks like Ash lost too." Iris noted.

"The competition is really getting stiff". Brock added.

The Next match was between Mike and Emily.

"Go, Fearow!" Emily yelled upon throwing the Pokéball.

In a flash of light, the Beak Pokémon appeared in the air and let out a fierce shriek.

"FEEEEEEAAAAARRRRR!"

Mike stared up into the eyes of Emily's Fearow. Just by looking at it, it had seemed to emanate power and violence.

Mike looked at the Pokéball in his hand. Out of all of the Pokémon that he had, this was the one he was confident could beat a strong Pokémon like Fearow.

Mike threw the ball up into the air and yelled, "Flygon, come on out!"

Light erupted from the Pokéball and it materialized into what looked like a large, insectoid, dragon. It was primarily light green and had a pair of large rhombus-shaped wings with a red trim, toeless hind legs, and skinny arms with three-clawed hands. Its tail had several dark green stripes and three small green rhombus shapes with red trims at the end. It had large eyes, and a pair of green antennae that point back. The eyes have red covers.

It let out a mighty cry, "FLYYYYYYYY!" before glaring at the Beak Pokémon.

Hilda stared at the Ground/Dragon-type in complete awe. "Amazing!" she said as she pulled out her Pokédex.

"Flygon, the Mystic Pokémon. Flygon whips up sandstorms by repeatedly flapping its powerful wings. Because of this, it is known as "The Desert Spirit."

"Flygon versus Fearow! Begin!" The referee said to the battlers.

"Flygon, up into the air!" Mike instructed.

With a flap of its wings, Flygon took off into the air high above the battlefield at an unbelievable speed.

"Follow it!" Emily ordered.

Fearow rocketed up into the air after its opponent, causing the entire crowd to turn their gaze to the skies above.

Soon, both of them were at a standstill in the air, gently flapping their wings as they prepared to battle.

"Flygon, use DragonBreath!" Mike bellowed.

Flygon opened its mouth and released a light blue beam of air out at its opponent, who flew up further to dodge the attack.

"Fearow, retaliate with Hidden Power!" Emily directed.

Fearow's body glowed a transparent green before it put its wings together, and as it spread them apart, a green ball of energy began to form before the Normal/Flying-type fired it at Flygon.

"Knock it back with Dragon Tail!" Mike ordered.

"Goooon!" Flygon's tail glowed light blue as it struck Fearow's attack like a whip, sending it back at its opponent. Fearow tried to dodge, but the green orb ended up hitting its back. Fearow began to hurtle towards the ground before it managed to break into a glide. It landed back onto the field, looking up at Flygon in anger.

"Fearow, let's show it your Drill Peck!" Emily declared.

Fearow's beak began to glow white and it then flew up towards the Mystic Pokémon, spinning rapidly like a drill.

"Flygon, use Screech!" Mike said with determination in his voice.

Flygon shook its wings and they became surrounded in a white aura. They soon sent out purple shockwaves at Fearow, who stopped in mid-air. Its face became contorted with irritation as the piercing sound hit its ears.

"Now, Flygon, use Steel Wing!" Mike yelled.

Both of Flygon's wings took on a metallic glow as it flew straight at its opponent. Flygon struck Fearow in the chest with one of its wings and began dragging it down to the ground. With a quick flick of its wings, Flygon launched the Beak Pokémon towards the ground.

As it hit the ground, the battle field was suddenly filled up with a multitude of large cracks.

The others stared in astonishment at the power displayed in Flygon's attack.

"I bet that did a lot of damage!" Ash noted.

"Pikapika!"

After Fearow finally pulled its head out of the battlefield, it let out an ear-splitting shriek before taking back off into the air.

"Fearow, use Sky Drop!" Emily practically shrieked.

Fearow flew at Flygon at a blinding pace and grabbed its shoulders with its talons. They soared up higher into the sky before Fearow began a plummeting dive towards the ground. Just before they were about to hit the ground, Fearow threw Flygon at the field. Flygon crashed into the field.

"Now, get ready for a Hyper Beam!" Emily shouted.

Fearow opened its beak and began building up energy inside.

"Flygon, get up! Please!" Mike cried out desperately to Flygon, who was cringing in pain, "You have to!"

Emily appeared to be completely ecstatic. "Finish them!"

"ROOOOOOOOW!" Fearow released a devastating beam of pink-and-white-colored energy at its downed opponent, who finally pushed itself up and saw the incoming attack with wide eyes.

"DODGE IT!" Mike roared.

With a flap of its wings, Flygon narrowly evaded the Hyper Beam, which created a massive explosion in its previous spot. With a valiant cry, Flygon emerged from the smoke cloud and levelled itself a few feet in front of Fearow, the sharp glare from its eyes promised payback.

"Way to go, Flygon! Time to turn things around; use Tailwind!" Mike called out.

Flygon's body momentarily took on a white glow as air power was gathered to enhance its speed.

Emily gritted her teeth at her opponent's persistence.

"Get up to Fearow using Faint Attack!"

Flygon flew up into the air before disappearing and reappearing several feet above Fearow, who looked up at the Mystic Pokémon in surprise.

"Now, use Draco Meteor!" Gavin commanded.

Flygon began to glow orange and an orange ball of light appeared in its chest. The glow faded and the orange orb reappeared in front of its mouth. Flygon fired the orb up into the air and the orb then exploded, releasing multiple orange spheres at Fearow.

The Beak Pokémon attempted to dodge the falling meteors, but eventually, one hit it and sent it plummeting towards the ground, where it landed with an extremely loud thud.

As the smoke cleared, Fearow's body was seen lying on the ground. Its eyes were now swirled in its unconsciousness.

"Fearow is unable to battle! Flygon is the winner!" The referee announced.

As the crowd cheered at Flygon's victory over the Beak Pokémon, Mike walked over to the tired looking Ground/Dragon-type. After congratulating it for a well fought battle, he returned Flygon to its Pokéball.

"I guess we'll have to do some more training, huh Hilda?" Ash said.

Hilda sighed, "Yeah, I guess you're right."

After the final match of the tournament all of the contestants had met in the main hall. Turner was standing on top of a stage with the winner of the tournament: Mike Shamock.

"I would like to present the winner of this weeks tournament, Mike Shamock", the rest of the contestants applauded as Mike and his partner Houndoom bowed in recognition.

"As for the rest of you, I am pleased to say most of you have earned a rise in rank." A maid walked up to Ash and the others.

"I am pleased to tell you that all the males are now at the rank of Baron, and the females are Baroness."

"Awesome!" Ash said.

"That's great!" Hilda added.

The group had returned to the Pokemon Center. Hilda gave her Tepig to Nurse Joy, who graciously accepted her Pokemon and took him to the back room to heal him. She had told them that her Pokémon's wounds weren't very severe, which was a great comfort to Hilda.

While Brock and Iris had gone to their rooms, Hilda and Ash were left sitting on a couch in the lobby, the former musing to herself how she could make it as a trainer if she were always going to lose this badly.

"Hilda, are you okay?" Ash asked.

"I'm going to be okay, Ash." Hilda assured him.

The Pallet Town trainer was not convinced. "You don't look like you're doing okay. Hilda, something is bothering you and you need to tell me."

She sighed. "It's just, I can't help but feel I let my Pokémon down. I mean how Emily treated me and I let her get away with it. I mean how could I just let Tepig down?" She stated.

"Hilda, you can't people like Emily make you feel inferior. You may have lost the match today but you learned from it, you and your Pokémon. Your Pokémon know this as much as you should. They know you did everything you could and put all your effort into it, and in the end that's what really matters."

Hearing Ash say this made Hilda think and realize he was right.

"And Hilda, no matter what anyone says know that you will become a great Pokémon trainer, and that you have a great relationship with your Pokémon and that's all that really matters."

Hilda's face started to blush.

Just then, the busy signal went off in the back room, signifying Hilda's Tepig was out of examination. Nurse Joy and Audino then came out with Tepig behind them.

They both went over to see Tepig almost as good as new.

"I was able to treat your Tepig with a super potion, you'll be glad to know it's back to full health." Nurse Joy smiled.

"That's great!" Hilda said as she got a happy look on her face. She then remembered she had something to do.

"Hey, Tepig. I'm sorry, I was really rash to put you into a battle facility for our very first match. I promise I'll make better decisions from now on." She assured the Fire-type.

"Pig," Tepig nodded. He trusted his trainer and was certainly not going to hold a grudge after one mistake.

"Thanks!" Hilda said gratefully before hugging Tepig.

After today, Hilda realized she still had a lot of growing up to do. Becoming a Pokémon trainer was a big responsibility. She would have to make a lot of rational decisions from now on and would need to mature in order to make it as a trainer. Maybe the loss was just what she needed to get her serious about her career as well. She had set out on their journey to become a great trainer, and that's exactly what she was going to do!

My apologies but the long delay in posting chapter 5 and I'm certain that many of you won't have liked the chapter length either after the long delay but I WAS busy with college, plus exams. Besides, it's pretty hard to get motivated into writing more chapters with the lack of feedback I get from readers. Reviews are what motivate me after all.

My Pokémon story is just a side-story and my main story are the Ben 10 ones. Recommendation and request to all to read them and review.

Got any ideas; make sure to share them and if I like it, that one will be included in this story. This story will be updated upon the response it will receive so make sure to let me know whether this story is worth updating or not. Delay doesn't imply that this fic is dead.

Anyway, reviews and constructive ideas and critics are always appreciated. So, don't forget to leave a review. After all, we writers also need some motivation and keep us fuelled.

HOWEVER, I'm considering revamping this story if it doesn't get the appropriate amount of feedback. If this story doesn't reach at least 60 reviews by June next year, then I definitely might start over.

Ash

Pikachu (M)

Pidove (F)

Hilda

Tepig (M)

Minccino (M)

Brock

Sudowoodo (M)

Crobat (M)

Croagunk (M)

Snivy (F)

Iris

Axew (M)

Excadrill (M)