PXR Shiny Event: Writing Contest!

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Here's my entry:

Spoiler:

The Shiny Adventure

Dear Diary,

Oh, today was amazing! I can't believe my luck! I was searching around the Sprout Tower for a rare Pokémon, when I found a Shiny Gastly! I don't know how it happened, but who was I to complain? Here's the whole story, starting from a short time before I saw it to my first battle with it:

Me and Rocky (my Combusken) were strolling around the boutiques of Violet City, thrilled after winning our Zephyr Badge. The rest of my team had fainted, so I went to the Pokémon Centre to heal them up. Whilst I was there, Nurse Joy told me a story about there being sightings of rare, mysterious Pokémon in the Sprout Tower recently. Intrigued, I knew I just had to catch one of them and show it to Professor Elm.

When I arrived, shivers were sent down my spine; this place was just so creepy! There were vines all over the place, and Bellsprout were congregating in hidden alcoves. However, they all seemed perfectly normal – there wasn't one with an unusually small/large size, a weird body, or a different colouration. This was from what I could see, anyway... Trying to avoid the hordes of Bellsprout, me and Rocky silently crept towards the ladder that would take us to the next floor. To my surprise, none of them seemed to notice us.

Now, this next floor was more lively! Rattata were sprinting around, happily gnawing at some of the vines that carried over to this floor through the tiniest gaps. Like the Bellsprout, they lurked in the shadows, so I couldn't identify any subtle physical features. Rocky was terrified of the rat-like Pokémon, so we quickly tiptoed towards the next ladder. Shockingly, we managed to get to this ladder without being confronted, too.

After climbing up this ladder (which seemed longer than the other one), this floor was way creepier than the first two. The ghostly Pokémon, Gastly, seemed to own this floor. Scanning the area for any rare Pokémon, I noticed one thing; one of the Gastly had a blue gas surrounding it, as opposed to purple. Quickly, I ordered Rocky to use Flamethrower, followed by a Flash. He nodded, and then Gastly was hit by a fiery beam, and then blinded by a bright light.

It was Gastly's turn to attack, now. It used Psychic, and then went with a Toxic. The first attack did a lot of damage to Rocky as he is a Fighting type, and the second one gave him a purplish hue. He then started coughing up some kind of gunk, but we weren't losing this battle.

Hoping to catch Gastly quickly, I asked Rocky to use Will-O-Wisp, and he happily obliged. The Fire and Fighting type sent a twirling, flaming ray towards Gastly, which made it turn a reddish colour. It began moving, but it was much slower than before. Seizing this chance, I threw a Great Ball at it, and it opened up, trapping the monster in a beam of light. The ball closed, and then it began shaking wildly. The ball released the Gastly (who was surprisingly, still that shade of red), which made me stamp my foot in anger. The tower shook slightly, but that didn't bother me at all; I was way too focussed on catching that Gastly. Sadly, I didn't notice that Rocky was still trying to get rid of that toxic gunk infecting his mouth.

Thank Arceus it was still moving as slow as it was, or I wouldn't have been able to quickly throw that second Great Ball. Like the first one, it surrounded Gastly in a white light, and then the ball closed. It shook less than it did the first time, before it eventually stopped and some small, star-shaped lights were released from the ball.

Me and Rocky danced as we celebrated our new friend (who I decided to call Shadow). Rocky coughed even more, though, so I ran to take him to the Pokémon Centre. Nurse Joy told me that he'd been badly poisoned, and I felt terrible about it; I spent so much time trying to catch Shadow, that I didn't pay attention to how ill that Toxic attack had made Rocky. Nurse Joy said it would take at least six hours to heal... It took longer than that. At the beginning of the sixth hour, I was feeling really flustered and hot, so I went outside for some fresh air, and Shadow followed.

Suddenly, some trainer introduced himself to us. I've forgot what his name was, but I think it was Barry. He was really impatient, but he challenged me to a battle, so I accepted. He sent out a Piplup, and I decided to let Shadow have her first battle. I was moving first, so I told Shadow to start off with a Toxic attack, and then follow it up with a Shadow Ball. Shadow nodded, and she chanted so that some toxic bubbles appeared. None of them hit, though, because Piplup was too fast. It counter attacked with Bubble Beam, which sent Shadow flying into the air. It fell to the floor, and then Piplup used Ice Beam. Luckily, Shadow never froze, but I told it to use Psychic to throw Piplup into the air, and then to Shadow Ball it to the floor. Psychic worked, but Piplup used Water Gun to slowly return to the floor, and it dodged Shadow Ball many times.

I knew that my current strategy wasn't going to work now; Piplup was too fast, and it could move in the air with ease. I decided to use its secret weapon – a little attack that goes by the name of Thunderbolt. The charged beam of electricity came from the sky and delivered a massive electric shock to Piplup, who looked as if it'd been frazzled by the intensity of the attack. After trying to maintain its current, standing up pose for a couple of seconds, the Water type collapsed, and its eyes became swirly, just to signal that it had fainted. In my first battle with Shadow, we won!

That kid (Barry?) thanked me for a great battle, and gave me some money as a kind gesture. It's nice to get money for battling, but that's not important... What is important is that after the battle, me and Shadow returned to the Pokémon Centre, and Rocky was no longer hooked to that poison draining machine, so the three of us were reunited at last.

When we were about to leave the Pokémon Centre for the night, when Nurse Joy appeared behind us. She told me that Shadow was one of the rare Pokémon she was telling me about earlier today, and that I should be very proud to own one. Obviously, I told her I was more than proud of my new friend Gastly, as well as my good friend Inkay.

Really, though, I just can't wait to hear what Professor Elm says about my Shiny Gastly! I'll hopefully be the star exchange student now! Take that Calem!