Chase grinned. "Sure mate." He said. Cheren and chase marched over to the battle field they discussed for a while what kind of battle it would be for a while then decided on one pokemon pokemon that faints, loses.

"Zebstrika go!" Chase called out his large zebra like pokemon.

"tepig i chose you!" Cheren said a bit unsure of himself. The tiny pig pokemon leaped out of the ball and landed firmly on his feet.

"Since im nice, you can have the first move Chershon"

Cheren's face reddened. He hated it when people got his name wrong.

"It's Cheren." he corrected.

"Cheren? Isnt that like... a girl's name." Chase chuckled.

"Can we just get on with the battle?" He asked. Clearly annoyed.

"sure mate."

Cheren hated being called his "mate." "Mate" is another word for friend and he was NOT his friend.

He ignored this though and told tepig to tackle.

The pig pokemon leaped at the Zebstrika and tackled it. It didnt take off much damage.

"Zebstika thunder bolt!" Chase called out.

Zebstrika shot several thunderbolts at tepig, though he dodged most.

Still, it took of quite a bit of damage.

Tepig's health was down to about half and he looked a little tierd. In one more move tepig would be almost knocked out.

"Ember!" Cheren shouted,starting to worry.

The little pokemon shot (despite his size) a pretty big fire ball.

Zebstrika almost didnt even try to dodge and it hit him square in the face.

Chase noticed zebstrika was also starting to get tired.

"Shake it off Zeb" He called.

Without even being asked Zebstrika shot more lightning bolts at Tepig.

This time he dodged barley any. He looked like he could fall over at any second.

Cheren was starting to lose hope "Please please please!" he thought before telling Tepig what to do.

"Ok Tepig you can do this!" He coached.

"FIRE SPIN!" He shouted.

Tepig gathered up all the strength he had. He knew how much this meant to Cheren.

The little pokemon sourounded himself in a spiral of flames and charged at zebstrika!

Zebstrika just looked stunned as tepig stepped away.

A few seconds later he fell to the ground. Knocked out.

"Wow Cheren great job!" White called as she ran over to him.

Cheren was trying not to jump up and say "I beat you Chase! I proved to white that im a better trainer!"

but he didnt.

"Wow mate, good on ya" Chase said.

"Thanks" he replied.

"WOAH whats going on over there!?"

White asked in amazement and pointed to where tepig was.

He looked like he was doing another fire spin,but in just one place.

Soon they understood. Tepig was evolving!

A pignite emerged from the flames and made his way over to Cheren,who was relived that he had finaly evolved.

"Yes!" he smiled.

White smiled back.

"Now both our pokemon have evolved!" she said. He nodded.

"Welp, its almost ten o'clock. We should probably get to sleep." White observed.

"You're right." Cheren agreed "Thanks for the battle chase!"

"No problem. Anytime!"

Cheren and white walked side by side down the hall to their rooms.

"Tomorow we will battle Lenora and get our second gym badge!" Cheren said breaking the silence.

"Yup! We sure will!" She replied.