[IC] Pokémon Tech. [PG16 for later purposes/started/accepting in OOC thread]

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy gasped as she saw the Hoppip leap up, hoping it wasn't too late. "S-Sparky! Dodge, and the-" it was too late. The Hoppip's attack hit her Shinx, which was thrown towards her and landed by her feet, fainted and exhausted. It had slight bruises on its body, and he whimpered slightly. Wendy was absolutely terrified by this, and kneeled down, picking him up and hugging him. "S-Sparky... y-y-you did a good job..." she said to him, trying to comfort him from his loss. But the one needing a comfort, was really her.

'I-I lost... I should have seen it coming, though... I'm not good at fighting. Why could someone like me be chosen to battle? I... I dunno if...' she held herself from crying; she didn't want to be harrassed.

[Master Red]

((OOC: I'm back, and good going with the battling guys ^^ In future battles between characters it's good if the two involved decide things over PM, such as who should win and how or just major twists in the battle to keep it from going on too long etc.))

Beau had watched the battle eagerly, but he couldn't say he was surprised that Mark had won. Wendy obviously didn't have much confidence and that would hinder her, not only in battles but also when it came to coordinating. Confidence was something that you needed to have a chance at battling, Sparky probably felt the insecurity spewing out from Wendy and that would make him more hesitant and nervous too. Mark, however, seemed very confident and Beau guessed that he had battled before, his stance and unusual tactics were good indicators of that. He also had confidence when he ordered his attacks, even when he ordered his Hoppip to use Splash, he seemed sure of what he was doing.

[i]"I wonder if we will all get to battle someone today or if she'll just pick a few so they can show what they've got for Jenna?"[/i] Beau thought to himself, fiddling with Princess' pokéball in his hand.

[CrystalCyae]

Matthew sat, as asked, then, only moments later, was dismissed. "Perfect timing, huh Flare?" He commented to the Numel. Flare gave what she could call a grin.
"Ok, next class is Practica Battling." He said, folding his homework and placing it in his well organized bag. "We'll get to battle!"
Flare went a ghostly shade of white. "Num... Numel?" She squeaked.
Matthew gave Flare an encouraging hug. "Don't worry! If our battle gets out of hand our dangerous to our Pokemon, the stop the battle! They don't want our Pokemon to get hurt. I don't either. Just listen to what I say, and you'll do fine!" He stood back up. "C'mon, let's not be late like last time!" And with that, he and Flare jogged away.

*********************

Matthew watched the battle between the girl, Wendy, and the boy, Mark, come to a close. From Matthew's point of view, Wendy had done well, but she didn't seem to want to believe that. But that didn't matter, right? It was only the first real battle. Out of the how-ever-many kids there were here, only half would succeed. The others would lose, but learn from any mistakes they made, and become much better at battling. But to get that far, you have to lose sometimes.
Flare broke through his thought by gentling headbutting him. "NUM!" Matthew bent down and put a hand on her mouth. "Flare, what is it?" He asked. The Numel squirmed, and mimiced battling, before going white like before.
Matthew let out a low chuckle. "C'mon Flare. You are strong, cool and amazing. You have a great moveset, and some great speed. I've got thinking. Combine those aspects, we're unstoppable! So stop worrying!"
Flare shook her head, and jerked it towards Sparky, Wendy's Shinx. "Num?"
"Weeell...... Sometimes you lose. But even if we do, we'll just try harder next time! Besides, I got an.... Whatchimacallit... Oran Berry in my bag, so when the battle is over, you can be happy and healthy again!"
Flare gave another grin. "Now c'mon return." Matthew said, returning Flare to her Pokeball. He stood up straight. Maybe he'd get picked for a battle next.

[GreyCat]

Getting caught sneaking in didn't embarrass him as much as it annoyed him. For an old lady, she was sharp. He would have to take more care around her. Ling on the other hand didn't have a care in the world. He skipped happily around in his feet as he walked, doing what looked like some kind of war dance. Queer little deerling he was. The were supposed to be all nervous and shy. He managed to pin the oh-so-active pokemon down by the time they reached the practical field andheld him restrained to his chest. After evading a good deal of eager licks, Ling settled to watch the matches with him.

[Master Red]

Jenna clapped her hands after the battle between Mark and Wendy had ended and walked up to wendy, handing her a revive for her pokémon. "Now, I know that not all of you will like battling, and that is something I have complete understanding for." Jenna said, turning to the crowd of students. "Battling is not for everyone, but all students at this school are required to learn the basics of battling as it would be terribly dangerous if we let you out in the world and you don't know how to use your pokémon to protect not only yourself, but them as well" She continued, starting to pace about a little as she seemed to have a habit to do. "The goals of this class is not to make you all fantastic battlers, but to make you safe battlers, so you can handle a battle in a manner that will be safe for everyone involved in it" she continued, knowing that the students were most likely not aware of this. "The battle you just witnessed was terribly amateurish from both parts, but that is to be expected when it comes to beginner trainers, but first and foremost, this battle wasn't especially safe" Jenna started, stopping with her pacing and looking out over the students once again. "On Mark's hand you witnessed someone who's a bit reckless with how they order around their pokémon, something we call overconfident" She continued, looking at Mark and grinning a bit at him. "Wendy on the other hand, is his polar opposite, being terribly in-confident and that is something that is very dangerous when it comes to battles, does anyone know why?" She continued once more, looking at Wendy for a second and then finishing with a question.

Beau thought he knew this one and as such he raised his hand, and spoke up as Jenna nodded in his direction. "Pokémon pick up on human's 'energy' more than our words and if you're uncertain and in-confident they will grow nervous and wary as well" He said, recalling what his sister had been telling him over the years. She had been much like Wendy, uncertain and insecure, and that had caused her Carvanha to make mistakes and not moving quick enough so she had told him that he always had to try to be confident with what he did or it would end up badly.

Jenna smiled and nodded to Beau before starting to pace about once more. "That is indeed correct, pokémon act on instincts rather than reason and logic, this is why they read the energy of a person rather than listening to what they say. Pokémon are known to understand some human speech, but most of the time they just read our energies and pick up on that. As Wendy was very insecure in her manners this caused her Shinx to grow more wary and thus not being as quick as he needed to be, so if you are insecure you need to either find a way to fake confidence very well or to over come your insecurities somehow" She explained and then looked at Mark once again, "Do not however, grow over confident like Mark here, because that will cause your pokémon to become way too rough and that is extremely dangerous for the opponent's pokémon. Also, as his Hoppip was using double-edge it was a lot more dangerous for her as well." She finished and then came to a halt from her pacing looking over the students once more.

"Battling Lesson number 1: Control your energies and keep them balanced, without that you will never become a great trainer" She recited, putting a finger up in front of her as she did so.

"I want you all to battle once today so I can see what you know and what you need to work on, remember the theory lesson and what I've just said!" She exclaimed throwing her hands out and starting to pair students up with each other so they would be able to battle. "I know some of you have entirely water based pokémon so I will be changing all the fields to the water fields, don't worry though there will be floating platforms for the rest!" She proclaimed, pressing a series of buttons on a remote which converted all five battle fields to swimming pool like fields with floating platforms scattered about in them.


((OOC: Crystal, you may not give your characters random berries like that. No trainer owns any items at the moment as such things will be awarded for doing certain things, taking certain classes and so on and so forth.))

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy responded with a silent 'thank you' when Jenna handed her the Revive, which she used on Sparky to make him conscious again. The Shinx woke up, eyes fluttering and tail-tip sparking as he looked around, then saw Wendy. "Shi! Shi, Shinx!" he said happily, and Wendy smiled back. "You're still happy after we lost... I, guess that is a good sign." she smiled and hugged him, standing up and listening to Jenna. It sort of made her feel bad hearing she was too insecure and in-confident. She couldn't help it if she was so worried. She had never liked fighting since she was little, but she knew she had to grow up at some point. She couldn't be insecure and worried all the time, as her battle with Mark had just proven.

'S-Stronger...' she whispered to herself. "I-I need... to become stronger! I need to get more confidence... but how?" she then overheard Jenna saying that to overcome one's insecurity, you had to find a way to overcome it on your own. 'Huh? I need to overcome it... myself? But I don't even know what makes me so insecure...' she sighed and went back to the crowd after their fight was over, her Shinx following. Now that she observed him, Jenna was true; Sparky looked more nervous and wary right now, while she was being nervous.

"Shi?" he asked warily, nuzzling Wendy's leg. That's when she realized; she had to stop worrying so much. If she worried, she would become nervous. And when she was nervous, Sparky would get in a bad mood, too. 'T-That's it! If I can just be a little less worried... I'll be fine! But... it's gonna take awhile to get that much confidence...' she sighed and kneeled down, petting her Shinx while smiling. "You did a great job, Sparky."

[Naimo]

Chris couldn't help but cry "Spheal!" somewhat loudly at the sight of the pools. If he had done this earlier, Clover would have been horrified at being picked; now, though, she was a bit more lax about it. She had a seal-like Pokemon, she wasn't exactly expecting it to want to stay on the ground forever; not to mention she had almost forgotten that he was dual type Ice/Water.

She took one small step forward, so as to get a better view of what the battle grounds were now like. She had enough confidence to put Chris down; he sensibly stayed on the spot, although he seemed to long to just dive into the water.

[Master Red]

"Hey, I'm Sally Stevenson, miss Jenna said we were to battle!" Sally chirped happily, lisping as always on her s'es and holding out a hand for Clover to shake. "I really like your Spheal, he's so cute!" She then added, smiling down happily at the Spheal by Clover's feet. "This here is Tubby" she said, pointing to the snoozing Gulpin that laid on her head, snoring a bit. Hearing that he was snoring seemed to annoy Sally a bit as she made a face and poked the green ball like pokémon in the side. "Where's your manners Tubby, at least say hello!" She scolded him, and then smiled apologetically towards Clover. "Excuse him, he's really lazy" she laughed, "Shall we begin?" sally added, pointing to a nearby field that was unoccupied.

Beau looked around himself being a bit confused, everyone else seemed to have gotten someone to battle but he was left without an opponent and as such he walked up to Jenna to ask her about it. "Um.. excuse me, miss Jenna?" He said as he walked up to her, she just looking questioningly at him. "Who am I to battle?" He mumbled, looking around as all the other students stood in pairs, chatting or starting their battles.

"Oh, well you'll have the great honor of battling me dear!" Jenna exclaimed happily, throwing her hands out as she did so. "WHAT!?" Beau shouted in shock, "B-but your pokémon have to be really strong! I-I can't possibly stand a chance against you!" Beau studdered, his mouth agape at this sudden turn of events. How could he possibly battle her, an experienced trainer!?

"Oh don't you worry dear, I won't be attacking, only blocking and avoiding" Jenna reassured him, patting him on the shoulder and then walking over to a nearby field. "You ready then... what's your name?"

Beau pulled a sigh of relief when he heard she wouldn't be attacking him, that way Princess would at least be safe and then walked up to the battle field standing opposite from Jenna. "Y-Yeah, I'm ready!" He exclaimed picking up Princess' pokéball. "And my name is Beau, Beau Fortescue" he added, before throwing Princess pokéball out releasing the beautiful Goldeen into the water.

[Naimo]

Clover smiled. "Hi Sally. Your Gulpin's quite cute as well." Chris agreed with a confident "Spheal!", and he was even speedier than Clover as he rolled onto the field. She stopped behind him, and then said, "So, er, me first? - OK, er ... er ... Chris, erm ... I know! Use Powder Snow!"

"Spheal!" There was a brief pause, in which nothing happened, before Chris suddenly strained his face, and a sharp, somewhat shocking gust mixed with decievingly innocent powdery snow blew directly from the left of the field. During this time, eyebrows materialised on Chris' face, meeting at the tips to make a V shape.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

After Wendy had made sure her Shinx got better - as he was now running around on the ground in front of her feet - she was sitting down and thinking over what she had done wrong; according to Jenna, she had been to nervous and in-confident to win the fight, so she had to think of how to deal with it. She had a few small ideas on how to deal with it already, but they were sort of one-second ideas she knew wouldn't work. She had to think hard and thoroughly on this one.

'I must get braver somehow... I mean, I'm just a girl now... but I got to get braver if I want Sparky to defend himself.' she thought to herself. She twiddled her thumbs a bit as she then stood up, watching the others looking at the next battles, and was surprised to see Beau fight the teacher. But she went up and watched the fight near the pool, between Clover and another girl named Sally.

[Master Red]

"Go on then Tubby!" Sally shouted as she picked up the Gulpin from her head and threw him out onto one of the floating platforms on the water field. The gulpin was still sleeping as he flew through the air and then bounced around a couple of times on the platform as he hit it, waking up and looking around rather puzzled, yawning a little and smacking his lips.

"Tubby we have to get closer to attack so start jumping across the floating platforms towards her Spheal!" Sally exclaimed, clenching her fist a little as she gave the command. Her lisp made her commands sound a bit less serious than they actually were. While the Gulpin made it's merry way across the pltform it got pushed back all of a sudden by a minor snow storm, which Sally had made no attempt to avoid for some reason. "Hang in there Tubby, just jump across that last platform and use pound!" She cheered, jumping a bit as she called out her commands.

[i]"Fortescue... I recognize that name"[/i] Jenna thought to herself as she picked up a pokéball and threw it out on a nearby platform, letting out Frosty her Snover. "Okay then Frosty, you know the drill, avoid attacks and block, don't attack his Goldeen back!" She commanded, Frosty looking back at her smiling and shooting her a thumbs up.

"Okay then Princess, start out with a tail whip!" Beau commanded and Princess dove under the water swimming around for a while before jumping up and across the platform on which the Snover was standing, wagging her back fin beautifully as she did so. The snover seemed to be compelled by the colors and flowyness of the Goldeen's tail and let his guard down slightly. "Now Princess, use Peck!" Beau commanded, remembering to stay confident and knowing the Jenna wouldn't actually let her Snover attack his pokémon was reassuring so there was really no need to be worried or nervous. It was all in good fun really.

"Frosty, blizzard on the water and skate across!" Jenna commanded, sounding quite calm yet her voice was loud and clear so her Snover would catch what she was saying and understand. At those words the Snover skipped towards a patch of water and breathed out freezing air on it to create an ice block to land on. When he landed he kept up the attack however and created a small road of Ice for him to skate around on stopping when he came to the platform near Beau. as he came to a stop he waved casually to Beau and then started to dance around on the platform. [i]"That pokémon can never stay serious, can he?"[/i] Jenna thought to herself and sighed a bit.

Princess missed the Snover by a long shot and skid across the Ice for a while before plopping down into the water again, jumping up through the water angrilly for a while, being annoyed that she couldn't hit the darn Snover and that it was obvious he was just toying with her.

[Naimo]

Chris suddenly looked a little terrified as Tubby pounded onto his head. An advantage of having bobbed in the water is that when the Poison Pokemon slammed onto him, he immediately bobbed under the water, and spun his way through the water and shooting up from the water. Clover, who had genuinely yelled and panicked at what had happened, regained her head, and cried out, "Water gun!"

Chris pouted slightly, and a firm jet of water shot out from his mouth, and at Tubby. Again, Chris hadn't bothered to get onto a platform; it gave him an advantage anyway.

[Master Red]

"Tubby avoid that Water Gun!" Sally yelled, jumping about even more than earlier, which looked quite humorous. The Gulpin jumped, but got caught on it's tail bu the jet of water which caused him to catch a momentum, sending him into a tumble. He spun around in the air for a while and then crashed down on a platform, bouncing and skidding on it for a while before managing to get up once more. [i]"The positioning of her Spheal in the water is very troublesome and gives her an advantage, I could make Tubby jump out there and pound it by the Spheal can easily avoid him by diving under water..."[/i] Sally thought to herself before looking at Tubby on the platform. "I forefit" She stated quite calmly and then looked at Tubby and smiled, motioning for him to come back to her.

"Calm down Princess!" Beau pleaded, seeing his goldeen splash about angrily in the water, still being upset with the way the Snover was behaving. "Use Tail Whip again" He commanded, Princess splashing about for another second before she dove under the water and jumped up from it, whiping her back fin around once more prettily. Frosty was once again intrigued by the pretty colors and gazed upon the fish as she whipped her [s]hair back 'n forth[/s] back fin around. "NOW, use Peck!" Beau exclaimed as Princess was quite high up in the air and she then made a small volt before diving down towards the Snover with her horn aimed at him.

"Block it!" Jenna called to Frosty and he just nodded, standing there watching the Goldeen plummet towards him. Princess did hit with her Peck, but as she did Frosty grabbed the fish with his both hands and jumped around from platform to platform with it, laughing. This agitated Princess of course and she splashed around for all she was worth in his grip, trying to get loose, but it was useless.

"Water Sport!" Beau yelled and Princess immedeately started to spray water in the Snover's eyes, causing it to instinctively cover his eyes with his hands and thus loosing his grip of the fish. "Yeah, good going Princess!" Beau cheered, throwing his arms up in the air, laughing. Princess jumped up through the water a couple of times looking proud and smug at this, even sticking her tongue out at the Snover once before she dived down again.

"Good work Beau, but I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today. You have to work more with Princess' mood though because you can't afford having a pokémon splashing about in anger over a missed attack or jumping around in pride when she does something well." Jenna praised him and then added what he needed to work on with his pokémon.

"I will miss Jenna" Beau responded, smiling, it had gone a lot better than expected, but he had wished he would've been able to battle someone else so he could really get a feeling of an attacking foe.

[Naimo]

Clover smiled happily, and as Chris pushed himself onto a platform, happily clapped his flippers together and cried "Spheal! Spheal!" As Clover walked over to Sally, Chris leapt into the pool again and purposely spent some time swimming around; he hadn't really had much of a chance to go swimming, and goodness knows when the next one would be!

"That was a great match," said Clover. "I've never really seen Gulpins before; they're quite cute in a way." Just then, Chris shot out of the water once more, and landed, albeit dripping, into Clover's outstretched arms. It was a good thing her blazer was buttoned up.

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy had watched the whole battle between Clover and Sally, and she smiled as Clover succeeded. She was sure a calm and collected girl, unlike her. She had to get some tips from her after this class. She smiled and clapped her hands, while Sparky was clapping his front paws a bit. "Shi! Shi!" he shouted, as if to cheer on Chris, and Wendy joined in. "Great going, Clover! You're such a good trainer!" she smiled brightly. But merely by observing her, she had already gotten some hints; Clover did freak out a bit when the Gulpin landed on Chris' head, but she kept her calm and instead focused on the battle. 'Focus on the battle...' she made a mental note to remember.

[Master Red]

"Thanks, I'm sorry for fore fitting so quickly, but I knew that I had no chance and I'd rather admit defeat than letting Tubby get more hurt than he has to" Sally said, shrugging a bit and scratching the Gulpin in her arms on his belly. Tubby looked content and then started snoring, having fallen asleep again, causing Sally to laugh a little. "I don't understand how he can be so tired all the time" She laughed, letting the green blob sleep on.

"Good going you two! And I must praise you Sally for fore fitting instead of risking unnecessary damage to your pokémon!" Jenna chimed as she walked up to the two girls, socializing after their battle. "Thanks miss Jenna!" Sally exclaimed happily, being happy that she was being praised. "The only bad thing about you fore fitting is that I didn't really see much of your skill today, but there is plenty of time for you to show me that, todays lesson was after all to give you a taste of battles and battling in a safe way while controlling your energies" Jenna then added, before turning on her heel to talk to some other students on what they did good and what they needed to work with.

Sally's smile drooped a bit as she was told that it wasn't all good that she had fore fitted so early, but she couldn't help but agree with Jenna's opinion.

"Hey, how'd your battle go?" Beau asked as he ran up to Clover and Sally, wanting to hear how they'd done. He was still very happy with how he'd done and especially since he had been able to work with Princess a bit too.

[Naimo]

Clover recalled the battle with much enthusiasm. As she did so, Chris' face appear to droop, and he weakly kept moaning "S...pheal. S-Spheal." Such moans were quick to alert his owner - she suddenly feared that Tubby's only hit had somehow injured him - until she realised he had just fallen asleep, and was merely mumbling. She nervously giggled, as if to say "OK, let's just ignore that". She then turned to Jenna.

"Miss, do you have any towels I can dry Chris with?"

[Super Chaos Sonic]

Ethan continued to watch the students battle each other with they're Pokemon. With this, it just got his blood pumping. [i]Even though our Pokemon are at the same level...the type advantages may or may not matter. T-These battles are making me wanna battle right now![/i] Ethan thought with a smile. He looked at Rai and saw in his eyes that he thought the same thing. "M-Miss Jenna, I would like to battle next...if that is alright." Ethan said to Jenna as he petted Rai's head.

Rai looked at Jenna and nodded slightly as he let out, [b]"RHYHORN!"[/b]

"Seems you're all fired up, Rai." Ethan said with a smile.

[fenrir]

Mark had observed both battles very keenly, he needed to see who could become a challenge to him. Beau did okay against Jenna, being able to make good use of the water arena and Princess's attacks. Clover also did quite well, if a little slow. If Mark were her, he would have abused the water much earlier. Simply popping out from behind the Gulpin would be fine, two or so water guns and the match would have been over. Sally did pretty bad herself, although granted there wasn't much she could do in the first place. The arena was terribly imbalanced for a Gulpin, especially considering Chris's moveset.

[Master Red]

"Over there" Jenna simply called back, pointing to a couple of benches just a rockthrow (harrdiharrharr) away.

As Jenna was approached by a kid she became a bit perplexed, she thought she had split everyone into teams already. "Oh dear, did I not assign you a partner?" Jenna gasped, scratching her head and looking around. Everyone else seemed to be battling, she could of course ask Beau as his Goldeen handn't really taken damage, but as they dealed with young pokémon she didn't want to strain them more than needed. "Well I guess I'll have to battle you myself then but seeing as you have a Ryhorn I think we better set the field to normal again. The floating platforms might sink from his wight" She laughed a bit and then kneeled down and petted Rai's head gently, before resetting the nearest field without a battle going on back to normal.

"The battle went very well, at least on Clover's part" Sally giggled as an answer to Beau's question. "I don't believe we have met before, my name is Sally" She then said, holding out her hand for Beau to shake, while balancing the sleeping Gulpin on her head.

"Well congrats to the win then Clover" beau said and then, smiled towards Sally. "I'm Beau, nice to meet you Sally" He added and shook the hand of the pink haired girl.

[Super Chaos Sonic]

Rai smiled some as Jenna petted his head, letting out a soft, [b]"Rhy..."[/b]

Ethan swallowed hard a little, thinking about him battling Jenna. She was the teacher, PLUS, the fact that she had a lot of Pokemon experience. [i]I'm gonna have to put it all out there in this battle.[/i] he thought as he and Rai moved towards the field. Ethan looked over at Jenna and said,"Can't wait to see what Pokemon you'll be using." He looked at Rai and said,"Give it all you got Rai!"

[b]"RHYHORN!!"[/b] Rai yelled as he stood on the field, ready to battle.

[Naimo]

Clover walked to the towels, and as she removed one, sat down cross-legged and laid the towel out on her lap. She placed him on, and then began to dry him gingerly. He mumbled several times, and snuggled close to the towel, and Clover continued to dry him, though there was a very broad grin on her face. By the time he was dry and fluffy, he was still fast asleep, and Clover gently kissed him on the forehead, whilst hugging him quite tight. She could already hardly imagine herself without him; to seperate from him now would be like seperating her heart from her body. Nonetheless, Clover got up again and walked back to Beau and Sally.

(OOC: Rarity, you wrote Naimo instead of Clover xD)

[.:Abarai Renji:.]

Wendy had decided to at least be a good sports-man... err, woman... and congratulate Mark for his victory. She didn't want to appear as a sore loser, which was the worst thing to do, according to her father. Sparky was walking alongside of his trainer as she went past the other trainers, and up to Mark, who was busy looking at the other trainers like she had been. She smiled gently at him and held out her hand. "Hi again... umm, thanks for a good fight! I was kinda surprised how you could use Splash so effectively."

[fenrir]

Mark turned to the person bothering him; it was Wendy. He nodded at her statement but did not take her hand, "Yeah, whatever." Sat stared profoundly down at her master, why did he refuse her hand? Mark quickly walked away from Wendy, returning to Beau and the others. He was sure Wendy would follow, as he recalled her talking to the other girl, Clover was it? As he approached Beau and the others, he yawned. "Good matches. Beau, you should have used Horn Attack under the ice, to break the ground. That way the Snover would have been forced to stick to the platforms, or risk fighting Princess in the water." He looked at Sally. "No comment for you." he stated rather dryly.

OoC: Dammit.

[Master Red]

"Go Skittles!" Jenna chimed as she threw out a pokéball, sending out a very tiny Raichu. It was increadible how small he was, probably not much larger than a normal Pichu, his tail however, was the same size of a noram raichu's being horribly out of proportion. "Rai?" It squeed, looking around curiously and then scratching itself behind it's ears.

Now, choosing an electric type against a ground type would normally be a horrible move, but Jenna never attacked students (unless they were seniors and wanted her to do so), she simply avoided and blocked. Sometimes she would use an attack that wasn't directly damaging, such as Forrest's spikes to further test the student. But in this case Skittles was perfect, he was speedy as hell and his double team attack would make it even more difficult for Ethan to actually land a blow.

"I know ladies are supposed to go first, but in this case we'll make an exception" She said, winking and smiling towards Ethan.

"Oh well look at the time, it's almost lunch!" Sally exclaimed as she looked down at her watch and then picked the gulpin up from her head, to carry him instead, of course he didn't wake up. "I'll have to go eat, and I'm guessing Tubby is real hungry too. But I'll see you guys around for sure, we're in the same class after all" And with a wink and a giggle she was off towards the main building and the cafeteria.

"I'll wait around for some of the others but I'll see you later!" Beau said and waved Sally off, smiling. [i]"She seems nice"[/i] he thought to himself and then sat down on the ground to watch the battle between Ethan and Jenna. It would be interesting to see another of her pokémon in action as well as Ethans Rhyhorn.