Ray stood by Elliot and smiled as he said, "I think that Flora's pokemon will win.  I mean it'll be a close battle but I think that the mentor has more experience."

Then the battle started and it was indeed close.  Ray excitedly watched these huge pokemon go at it.  It seemed the toad was going to win, by dodging the first attack and landing a hit with a attack of its own.  Impressively the big green tree like pokemon was able to withstand an ice attack and take it like a champ.  [i]Wow, these pokemon are pretty tough.[/i]

Then more types of attacks happened, none of which are the tackle sort.  As ray watched his eyes widened further, it excited him that one of his pokemon would grow to be as strong as theirs one day.  And so he was so excited when at last the big grass pokemon won, Ray threw his fist in the air, then cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled.  "Great battle you two."  

Ray then marched up to Flora, and whispered in his ear, "um psst, sorry to bother you, but um can we go catch pokemon now,  I want to find more Pokemon and grow them to be as strong as yours."