"I call this one 'Venom.'" Damian said to Zoe as he sent out a huge Ariados. The sight of the large spider pokemon was enough to send trainers running. "Poison jab." With one brutal stab, Petal was pushed into a wall. A final burn confirmed her defeat.
"I might end up use this one in the tournament. Go Flare!" Zoe sent out a beautiful Ninetales. Now believing she had the type advantage, Zoe was swift to act. "Flamethrower!" Flare fired away. Venom jumped up into the air.
"Poison jab!" Ariados came from behind Flare, catching the pokemon off guard. Zoe, who had seen the pokemon respond in such an unpredictable way ordered an attack, but Flare did not listen. Instead, Flare got hit by the poison jab attack and was poisoned. The Ninetales struggled and then Venom somehow pinned the pokemon down, with a web attack, which Damian explained was a Sticky Web attack that Venom often used. Flare struggled again as it got hurt from the poison. A Bug bite attack confirmed the pokemon's end. Flare fainted and Zoe was shocked, believing she had the upper hand. It appeared both of them had been played.
Zoe's final pokemon was a Jynx named Jane. "You think you caught me off guard? Jane, let's show him."
"Bug bite Venom, we can do this." Venom went for the bug bite attack, but missed. Jane moved to the side. Successive bug bite attacks tried to infiltrate Jane's defenses. They ultimately failed.
"Psychic!" Zoe ordered. Jane flung the spider pokemon into the air and slammed it against the wall. When it looked like Venom was still active, Zoe ordered an Ice beam attack. The cold beam froze Venom from all sides, cornering the pokemon, the spider pokemon fainted.
Now Damian was reduced to one pokemon, a Murkrow, that had somehow been living inside one of Damian's bags. "This is Rook." The Murkrow roared as he flew onto Damian's arm. "Rook use aerial ace." Rook struck Jane first. The attack, although seemingly powerful, did nothing to Jane's health.
"Is that all?" Zoe laughed. "Ice beam Rook, Jane." Jane fired the cold beam once more. Rook flew up high, avoiding the attack.
"Shadow ball!" Rook fired a darkened ball onto Jane's face. "Now Foul Play!" Rook crashed into Jane's body. Jane fell down. It looked like she had fainted but, no, she hadn't, for she got up, with a determined expression on her face.
"Blizzard!" Zoe commanded Jane. An ice cold wind breezed into the room. Rook tried to fly away from it but then found his feet frozen to the floor. Then Rook felt a surge of coldness and froze, and fainted. Zoe's Jynx, Jane had made a comeback and she had won the battle. Jane passed out though.
"Wow, you're good...really really good..." Damian whispered to Zoe.
"Thanks." Zoe replied. "But you really were looking like you were going to win at one point. I thought I had it in the bag but then your pokemon shocked me! You're just as good if not better..."
The battle had bonded the two together. As they healed their pokemon with the ever angry nurse Joy, they knew they were friends now. Both Damian and Zoe went to apologise to the other trainers about the inconvienience caused by the battle. The two trainers then went to the canteen to get something to eat. They sat opposite each other and started talking to each other intensely.