Chapter 21

Chapter 21

“Alright Nitro, String Shot!” Virah swept her arms in front of her at the same time as her Kakuna fired a line of string towards a nearby branch, “good! Now use Poison Sting!” Nitro followed after her command and the two scythe-like appendages below his head glowed before shooting off two purple spikes at the branch of the same tree, “Great! Now Harden!”

“Kaaaaaaaaaa-” Nitro's body glowed white.

“Keep it up! Use String Shot again!” Virah repeated the series of orders again for the fifth time and Nitro successfully used String Shot, Poison Sting, and Harden consecutively without getting tired.

After getting a Black Sludge and connecting it to Nitro's pokeball, she knew that her Pokemon would currently have a lot of energy to spare and his state would continue throughout the day. Right as long as Virah gets conservative with the Black Sludge's output that is.

And she was, mostly because she's studied the item- as well as a few others, - several times back when she was bored at the breeding center.

She knew that the Black Sludge would be fine after everything and through it, Nitro would be able to keep up with the constant training she was putting him under- will be putting him under for the rest of the morning and then later, after school ended, the entire afternoon.

Nitro kept up his move usage until there was only an hour left before school and after that, Virah recalled him back to his Pokeball and left the battle plaza.

The training she was putting Nitro under was to increase his stamina and use more moves during battle, and repeatedly using their known moves was a common way for a Pokemon to do just that.

But that wasn't everything though as Virah also wanted Nitro to get used to having his current moveset of 5 distinct moves, it's only the first day so she's using the ones natural to his evolution line but tomorrow, she'd start getting him to use Bug Bite and the day after that, Roost.

And once Nitro is used to his current moveset, she'd get him to learn something new- as in that the move is quite literally, not seen before.

Or at least it wasn't officially recognized as a move as the battle that inspired Virah to come up with it- an elite level double battle between a Bug Type specialist as well as an Electric Type one, - had shown the possibilities of String Shot's ability to not just neutralize electricity like she originally thought, but also conduct it.

Electro Web was what she was calling the move, she named it after Elekid, the previous evolution of the Electabuzz which had the bright idea of redirecting his Thunder Bolt at the thin strand of string his opposing Ariados had shot out the turn prior.Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

The resulting electricity crawled through the string like it was a wire, causing the Bug Type hanging on it to spasm from the sudden surge of voltage running through its body.

Copying what the Ariados did during the battle- which was to use its string to detect enemies, - had also been something that Virah considered but she quickly dismissed it since Nitro will turn into Beedrill and has no need to detect his enemies when he can just fly and observe them while in the air.

“I think I'm looking for a new member of my team,” she threw the empty juice box and plastic bag on a nearby trashcan then faced her friends, “what do you guys think I should get? A Grimer or a Koffing?”

“If you want an honest tip?” Grene said, Virah nodded, “then I think it's better if you grab a Zubat, as Gyms have an audience during battles and slow battles aren't really liked by the watchers, and sometimes Gym Leaders get annoyed by them too,”

Virah considered that, her eyes went to the ground and seconds later, she had an epiphany and her head shot up to look at the martial artist, “you're saying that the Gym Leaders don't like to use healing moves?”

“Not if they can help it, no,” Grene shook her head, “but they can be very aggressive if they want,”

“I guess...” Virah considered with a hum, that last point was just obvious, “okay, that's- I think I can work with that,” she nodded thoughtfully, “a Zubat huh?..”

Virah went back to the bench and kept her silence as Grene started her lunch, Whitney talked to the martial artist about her Aura- which the pinkette had unlocked immediately after the martial artist started teaching her, in some ways, Virah did as well but...

Both of Virah's friends went back and forth as to how to properly wield the energy and Virah for the most part tuned them out in favor of thinking about her potential team members.

Personal preferences aside, she wanted a male Nidoran for her second member if she was going the non-stall route for her team composition.

The problem is though, those were rare so finding them is going to be a pain. The strongest male Nidoran also often hide in hard to reach places, areas that, by definition, have a lot of strong Pokemon, which Nidokings and queens- or in other words, their parents, - seem to love for some reason.

Well, they are competitive as a species so Virah didn't think it was that strange.

Moving on to Zubats...

Virah thought that if she wanted a second team member, that Pokemon might just be her best option; as not only are they plentiful- and she means really plentiful, entire species relies on eating them for sustenance even, - which opens up more opportunities for Virah to catch and find a powerful Zubat, they are also quite versatile moveset wise.

And not to mention, their evolution line is also quite strong, starting from the annoying and speedy Zubat to a decent Golbat to the menacing Crobat.

All in all, a Zubat as a second Pokemon for an offensive Poison team sounded... great, neat even, and Virah considered the option but then again, there are other options, an Ekans was great, and a Grimer was also good...

Virah found herself frowning, ‘what do I want?’