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Round 1 Part 2
Neo stands in his trainer square with his eyes closed and his arms folded as he waits for his opponent to arrive. Allie sits on the ground to the left of him drawing in the thin layer of dust that covers the field. One Neo's other side is a humanoid Houndoom and she looks quite bored picking at her nails trying to get dirt out of them. Behind Neo is a new face to his team. A Sceptile sits cross-legged on the ground seemingly in a meditative state. Neo opens his eyes and looks across the field as a figure walks out onto the field followed by a roar of applause. Nothing special as everyone did this whenever a trainer walked into the arena but Neo's welcome was especially loud as Sinnoh is where his home is and everyone there, for the most part, respected him,
"You think Dawn might want to battle in my next fight Cherokee?" The Houndoom shrugs as she removes a large clump of dirt from her claw,
"We've all been aching to battle for a long time now Neo. We were all a little disheartened when you didn't let any of us fight in the last Pokemon league... to answer your question though... yes. I'm pretty sure she would." Neo blushes out of embarrassment and scratches his head,
"Okay then I'm pretty sure I can have a good amount of you guys battle with me here." The Sceptile opens his mouth to speak not moving any other part of his body,
"Are you and Luna going to be fighting too?" Neo nods as he leans back propping himself back against the grass type,
"Yeah but only if we go up against Stratos. Don't want to make the battles to easy." The Sceptile lets out a short laugh as he opens his eyes and stands up,
"Right, so who're we fighting?" The opponent in question looks around 14 or so and he wears clothing that makes him look more like a Luxray then a human being. On his feet are sandals and his hair is black and spikes in a few places. As he reaches his square he takes out a pokeball,
"Oh wow, you've got some pretty awesome Pokemon dude!!" Neo lets out a small laugh,
"Thanks kid. I'd like to say the same but I haven't seen them yet." The kid laughs as the pokeball in his hand enlarges,
"I'm sure you'll be pretty impressed! I've won a bunch of tournaments so I'm pretty strong." He looks around at all the people, "First time in the Pokemon league though but I should do pretty well. I won't lose my first battle though!" Neo sighs as he looks down at Allie,
"I'm gonna feel kinda bad if I beat this guy now... ALLIE WHAT ARE YOU DRAWING?!?!" Allie grins widely as she points to different parts of the picture,
"Well that's you... and that's me... and that's the bed..." Neo's face turns red as he listens to Allie tell him about the picture and Cherokee peers over his shoulder looking at what she's telling him about,
"Oh wow Neo look at how big she drew..." The announcer's voice booms over the stadium,
"THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN ZACK... as always no last name... AND OUR VERY OWN NEO EON!!!" The crowd bursts into applause that echoes through the stadium, "WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!!!" Zack throws his pokeball releasing a Luxray onto the field. The Lion Pokemon roars mightily and Neo looks down at the Sceptile with a grin,
"I think you should start us off Cloud." Cloud cracks his knuckles as he runs out onto the field Neo only seeing a flash of a smile as he races past. Cloud's arms extend into shining blades and he rushes forward blocking several attempts at electrical attacks with them before he slashes down with a smirk. His eyes go wide as he sees the Luxray's fangs gripping the blade in his mouth and he jerks his neck to the side sending the Sceptile down onto his back and Luxray begins tossing him back and forth before he throws the grass type forward making him skid for a few feet before he stands up brushing some dust from his body. Cloud's smile turns to one of amusement as he runs forward again splitting into multiple images but his eyes go wide as Luxray multiplies as well and every one of his copies is stopped and parried but the lion. Cloud grits his teeth as all of his images along with Luxray's disappear leaving Cloud fairly winded from getting thrown around the field so much,
"Enough of this!!" Cloud summons his leaf blades again and he spins around before slamming the blades into the ground hard. The impact makes the ground rumble for a moment before thousands of roots shoot up from the ground and begin closing in on Luxray incredibly fast. The lion's eyes go wide and he begins dashing left and right trying to avoid the mightiest of grass type attacks but the roots don't stop as they continue for a number of minutes before Luxray finally is at such a loss for energy that he collapses before taking the Frenzy Plant becoming lost from view in the vines that cut and squeeze the Pokemon. Cloud brings his blades from the ground as the roots began to climb into the sky and they vanish in a shimmer of green sparkles as Luxray plummets to the ground hitting hard with a thud completely passed out. Cloud lets out a few deep breathes feeling incredible weakened from his battle and Neo's voice catches his ear,
"You need a rest?" Cloud turns back and shakes his head with a grin,
"I fight till I drop." Zack returns his Luxray to his ball as he takes out another,
"Wow, you're really strong if you can beat my Luxray but I only get stronger from here!!" The pokeball in his hand opens and a Jolteon appears in a flash of light,
"Jolteon!!" Cloud raises an eyebrow at the electric Pokemon having never been around one that couldn't talk,
"Good luck to you." Jolteon nods and the two rush at each other as Cloud brings out his leaf blades. He slashes wildly but Jolteon is simply to fast and he jumps back unleashing thousands of needles and Cloud gags from the pain as they stick into his flesh. Cloud looks down at the ground breathing heavily. He hears movement and looks up in shock before Jolteon runs into him the impact making an explosion of stars that send him flying backwards rolling a few times and he looks up to see Neo looking down at him,
"I think you're done Cloud." Cloud lets out a chuckle as he drifts out of consciousness. Neo moves the Sceptile off the field and he looks to Cherokee with a smile, "Think you can beat a Jolteon?" Cherokee lets out a laugh,
"I'll hit that thing so hard that it'll be seeing stars!" Cherokee walks forward dropping to four legs and she shifts into a normal Houndoom,
"Just watch out for Last Resort or you could be the one seeing stars!!" Cherokee nods as she walks onto the field,
"Yeah, yeah I got it." Neo looks down at Allie, who's still playing in the dust,
"You think she can do it...? ALLIE!!!!" Allie looks up at him with a big smile,
"Look Neo! You're on top this time!" Cherokee runs forward head-butting the surprised Jolteon and she rushes to the side avoiding a thunderbolt attack and she moves her body rapidly avoiding every needle of a pin missile as she closes in on her opponent. Jolteon gulps when his needles run out and he looks up at the fire type who's forming a Fire Blast in her mouth,
"Jolt..." Jolteon is enveloped by intense flames before he takes a pulse of darkness when Cherokee's fangs send lighting bolts of darkness towards him when she uses Crunch. Jolteon wails in pain before he stands and wobbles slightly looking hazily at his opponent. Cherokee walks up to him and blows lightly on his face making him fall over unconscious. Zack shakes his head in disbelief as he recalls his Jolteon,
"Well that was unexpected..." Cherokee smiles as smoke rises from her nostrils,
"All moves can be predicted if you've seen them before." Zack smiles as he takes out his third pokeball,
"Well I don't think you can predict this one." As the pokeball opens all Cherokee sees is a flash of blue and a streak of red as her world suddenly goes dark and she skids across the field till she's stopped by Neo who picks her up looking at her face,
"Well that was a little overkill. What attack was that anyway?" Neo sets Cherokee down as the Salamence that attacked Cherokee sets down with a beat of his wings and roars. Zack grins as he looks across at Neo,
"It was kinda a mixture of Fly and Brick Break. He doesn't wait to attack it's all or nothing." Neo looks down at Allie,
"Allie you're up and be careful... okay you're going to have to explain that one to me." Allie opens her mouth to speak but Neo suddenly covers it, "You know what? I don't want to know. Go get that Salamence!!" Allie grins running out onto the field,
"Right!!" Allie runs forward before Salamence barrels into her sending her flying backwards but Allie vaults on her hands doing a flip to regain her balance before she sees Salamence coming at her roaring fiercely. She ducks to the side avoiding the claws of the dragon and, now under him, she drives her fist into his stomach coating it with lighting in the process and she follows it up with a kick to his gut sending him a few feet into the air. Salamence is on his feet in a matter of seconds charging forward again and Allie dashes to the side to avoid an attack but her entire body is slammed with the dragon Pokemon's wing making her stop in her tracks and fall back onto her behind. She looks up into the blood red eyes of the dragon staring down at her and he suddenly unleashes billowing flames. Allie barely avoids the attack with Extremespeed and jumps onto Salamence's back as her chest spike emerges. She quickly forms an Aura Sphere in her hands that turns yellow and emits thousands of sparks as it grows for a moment before Allie slams her fist into Salamence's back in between his wings directly into his spine resulting in instant paralysis status and the dragon falling over forward defeated. Allie sits cross-legged on the dragon's back and waves to Neo who returns her wave with Cloud and Cherokee healed standing by him. Zack heaves a large sigh as Salamence disappears into his ball and Allie drops to the ground landing on her feet. He smiles lightly looking across at Neo,
"Well I guess you beat me. Oh well I guess there's always other tournaments." Neo smiles as Allie walks over to him taking his hand in hers with a happy smile,
"You've got some serious power though kid. Keep on training and you could go all the way in a Pokemon league." Zack nods smiling a little bigger as he waves turning his back to Neo,
"And I hope you'll be in that tournament so I can wipe the floor with you!" The announcer's voice booms through the speakers as Zack leaves,
"WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW OF POWER FROM OUR TWO TRAINERS!!! AND WITH A CLOSE WIN NEO WILL BE MOVING ON TO THE SECOND ROUND!!!!" The crowd bursts into a huge wave of applause and Neo looks to the three Pokemon before he turns,
"Well our work is done here for now. Come on everyone." Neo walks out of the stadium holding hands with Allie as Cloud and Cherokee walk to either side of them.
As Stratos walks across the battlefield for his match he looks over at Latias nervously as he approaches trainer's square on his side of the field,
"I'm kinda nervous... what if we lose?" Latias looks him directly in the eyes with a reassuring smile,
"Don't worry so much. We're all behind you and we'll fight our hardest. This is your first League battle so take things slow and plan your moves carefully if you have to go out there." Stratos nods knowing that she refers to back when he picked his three Pokemon for the fight being her, himself and Ren. The announcer's voice booms through the crowd of people coming from the speaker phone's set all around the stadium,
"WELCOME ALL TO THE FIFTY-SIXTH BATTLE OF THE FIRST ROUND OF THE POKEMON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT!!! MANY OF THE BATTLES LATELY HAVE RESULTED IN DRAWS MAKING MANY OF THE TRAINERS DROP OUT OF THE COMPETITION!! THOSE NOT DRAWING THEIR MATCHES HAVE CERTAINLY PROVEN THEIR POWER IN THE TOURNY SO FAR. WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO LET ME INTRODUCE THE NEXT TRAINER AND HE'S QUITE THE TRAINER SPORTING THREE ULTIMA BADGES!! PLEASE GIVE UP A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ONE OF OUR FEW TRAINERS TO ACTUALLY BE A POKEMON THEMSELF; STRATOS THE LUCARIO!!!" The crowd bursts into a wave of applause that echoes through the stadium, "AND NOW THE TRAINER WHO WILL BE BATTLING AGAINST STRATOS PLEASE GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO JEREMY DAREEN!!!" Jeremy looks over at Stratos with a grin and Latias looks at him in shock,
"It's... it's him!!!" The trainer who formerly tried to capture Latias back in Kanto raises his arm pointing at her his blond hair is put into a ponytail,
"Looks like you ended up getting captured after all after your little boyfriend got killed!!" Jeremy then directs his attention to Stratos,
"Hey kid!! How about you trade me your Latias and I'll hand over my Metagross?!" Stratos looks at his mother with concern,
"Who is this guy?" Latias doesn't take her eyes off Jeremy as she speaks,
"He tried to capture me in a master ball after he realized I wasn't captured by your father. He has some immensely powerful Pokemon at his disposal and I fear what might happen if we lose this fight." Jeremy's expression turns to one of sadistic joy,
"Oh wait!! He didn't send you out either!! Don't tell me you're still without a master Latias... come to think of it... If a Pokemon is a trainer are they captured themselves?" Stratos looks back to Jeremy still speaking to Latias,
"You're right... don't worry, we'll win this fight."
Up in the stands Drake shifts in his seat feeling fairly uncomfortable and angry with the sight of Jeremy in his eyes,
"I swear... if he tries to catch Latias again I'll break more then his face." Kazamaru lets out a laugh looking over at him,
"I remember that!! That was priceless; I'd pay to see that again."
Back on the field Stratos growls towards Jeremy narrowing his eyes,
"If you want my mom you'll have to go through me!!" Jeremy responds with a red Gyrados that rises with a powerful roar from his pokeball glaring down at the two,
"I don't think that'll be a problem little guy but you never answered my question. Are you captured or can I take you home as a trophy as well?"
"I don't have anything to say to you." Stratos takes the couple's ball from his belt and sets it to Ren with a quick click and the lion rises from the pokeball with a growl and a jolt of sparks. His eyes widen as he stares between Jeremy and the Gyrados. He lets out a short breath calming himself before he narrows his eyes darkly at Jeremy,
"Remember me?" Jeremy lets out a cocky laugh,
"Oh yeah, I remember you alright. What was it again? One hit from my Magikarp?" Ren growls going into a pouncing stance,
"I'll show you one hit!!!" The announcer's voice comes over the intercom,
"SORRY FOR THE DELAY FOLKS BUT WE'RE READY TO START THE MATCH NOW. TRAINERS?! YOU MAY BEGIN!!!!!" Stratos looks over to Latias curiously,
"That thing one hitted Ren?" Latias nods,
"Well it wasn't really a fair fight. That Gyrados still knows explosion, I'm sure of it. But hopefully Ren can take it down before it uses it." Ren dashes forward cloaked in electricity and he pounces upwards ramming directly into the Gyrados' face sending the mighty serpent crashing to the ground. He roars upwards raining powerful thunderbolts onto the serpent making it radiate with the electricity now pulsing through its body and Ren backs away breathing a little heavier from the extreme release of energy. Ren's eyes widen as Gyrados rises back up and shakes off the attacks before suddenly unleashing a powerful hyper beam from its massive mouth. As the burst of energy fades Ren is still standing but looks heavily beaten by the attack and his breathing is deep and heavy,
"You did your best I suppose..." Ren looks up with a smirk and he runs forward cloaked in a Volt Tackle ramming Gyrados as thunders rain down literally making the serpent lost from view in the rain of yellow power. Gyrados takes the attack to the gut along with the beam of thunders and it topples over defeated before it returns to its ball. Ren stands for a moment staring at Jeremy with a smirk on his face before he suddenly loses consciousness and falls forward. Jeremy shrugs as he takes out his second pokeball,
"He did his job." Stratos returns Ren to his ball and attaches it to his belt,
"One for one... that hyper beam did way more damage then it should of..." Latias nods looking at the Lucario,
"His Pokemon are mutated to give them their maximum in power... they aren't undefeatable though." Latias floats out onto the field to join a small Shuckle that simply looks blankly at her before it retreats into its shell. Latias giggles looking over at Jeremy, "I think he remembers me! What do you think!?" Jeremy scowls,
"Looks like he might. Shuckle!" Shuckle comes out of his shell and looks back to his trainer to see him pointing at Latias, "Fight!!" Shuckle nods and turns back around seeing a Dragon Pulse forming in Latias' mouth and his eyes go wide before he retreats back into his shell. Jeremy puts his palm to his face as he shakes his head, "Shuckle!! Just use explosion." Shuckle pops out of his shell and leaps forward and Latias goes wide-eyed as the turtle thing explodes into a huge cloud of smoke. As the smoke clears Shuckle is lying fainted on the ground and Latias is brushing off her shoulder,
"You know how much attack power a Shuckle has... right?" Jeremy returns Shuckle to his ball with a shrug,
"Thing wasn't fighting so I made him faint himself. What're they worth if they won't fight?" Stratos clenches his fists,
"What did you say?!"
"If they won't fight a Pokemon is worthless. I thought I was pretty clear on that." Jeremy's Metagross rises from his ball with a metallic roar, "This big guy is my pride and joy. He's been powered up since our last match and I'm pretty sure he's more then enough to take down a Latias and a Lucario." Latias prepares herself for her attack but Stratos' voice rings through her ears,
"Latias, return!" Latias looks back at her son to see him with an incredibly angry look on his face looking directly at her, "This one is mine." Latias nods and floats back over to him and Stratos strips off his belt and hat before walking onto the field, his anger building, "Let's see just how strong you are you big, overgrown tin can." Metagross opens his mouth firing a Hyper Beam directly at Stratos who counters with Sacred Fire while his eyes glow a dark purple color. The attacks collide and make a large explosion and Stratos dashes forward into the cloud of smoke finding Metagross from his aura signature and he unleashes a Sacred Fire attack on each one of Metagross' legs making them solidify and he dashes back facing Metagross before a smile appears on the Lucario's face and he dashes forward with a yell, his entire body coated in flames. As the smoke clears Metagross still stands heavily burned and bruised in a large puddle of lava and Stratos faces him, "You're done." Stratos turns and snaps his fingers making the Doom Desire take effect knocking out Metagross and Stratos walks back over to Latias picking up his belt and hat and he looks at her with a smile, "Piece of cake." Jeremy stands silent festering in his rage and he returns Metagross to his ball. Stratos adjusts the hat on his heat but stops when he feels something hard strike the back of his head. He turns and kneels down picking a Master Ball off of the ground looking at Jeremy with absolute fury in his eyes. Jeremy simply laughs and takes out another one,
"Well I suppose you are captured after all!! Latias is mine though." Stratos looks at his mother a look of extreme mental conflict on his face,
"What should I do...?" Latias lightly kisses her son's forehead as she smiles,
"You can do what your father did and give him a good punch in the face." Stratos puts the Master Ball into the bag on his belt as he smiles,
"I'll do that." Stratos' ears pick up a whizzing sound and he holds out his arm catching the second Master Ball in his paw. The ball disintegrates instantly when an Aura Sphere begins forming in Stratos' hand and he looks darkly at Jeremy, "Hope he can catch!!" Stratos throws the ball of energy towards the boy and it impacts his full torso sending him flying backwards into the wall unconscious. Stratos and Latias leave and the announcer's voice booms over the intercom as a medical team takes Jeremy away,
"CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT I BELIEVE I SAW THAT BOY AT THE LAST KANTO LEAGUE... NO MATTER. IT IS STRICTLY AGAINST THE RULES FOR A TRAINER TO TRY AND CAPTURE ANOTHER TRAINER'S POKEMON SO JEREMY HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED. NOT THAT IT MATTERS SINCE HE LOST... UMM... ALRIGHT, OUR NEXT BATTLE WILL BE BETWEEN DRAKE AND AMY SO DON'T GO AWAY WE'LL BE STARTING VERY SOON!!!"
Drake emerges from the archway onto the field and he looks up at the sun as the roar of the crowd welcomes him onto the field. Drake continues walking as he raises his hand waving to the hundreds of thousands of screaming people and as he arrives at his trainer square he looks across at his opponent,
"Hi there I'm Drake what's your name?" The girl across from him has short, dirty blonde hair and wears a light-blue, short sleeve shirt and blue shorts,
"Hello I'm Amy! I hope we have a good battle!" She brightly smiles at him taking a pokeball from her belt and she holds it in both her hands. Drake smiles as he looks across at the girl,
"Well it's nice to see a friendly face in the tournament." The announcer's voice speaks next cascading over the crowd of people,
"WELCOME ALL TO THE FIFTY-SEVENTH BATTLE OF THE SINNOH POKEMON LEAGUE TOURNAMENT!! THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN AMY AND... Drake... really? Two more people with no last names...? Okay whatever... BETWEEN AMY AND DRAKE, THE HOLDER OF THREE ULTIMA BADGES RECENTLY BELIEVED TO BE DEAD HE STUNNED EVERYONE BY TURNING UP IN THE OPENING CEREMONIES AND NOW I'M SURE HE'S HERE TO COMPLETE HIS COLLECTION AND ENTER THE ULTIMA LEAGUE!!!" Amy's gaze returns to Drake from looking around the stadium and she grins,
"Oh wow! You must be really strong but I think I can beat you!" Drake takes a pokeball from his belt and holds it out adjusting his hat with his other hand,
"That's the spirit! Let's do this!" The announcer speaks again,
"YOU MAY BEGIN!!!" Amy throws her pokeball releasing a powerful Machamp to the field and the Pokemon flexes his four arms smirking at Drake. Drake threw his pokeball making a flash of light that ends in his Xatu standing in front of Machamp with his wings folded to cover his body. Amy throws her arm forward,
"Let's go Machamp! Take down that midget totem pole!!" Drake blinks at the attack order and laughs lightly,
"I guess she's a pretty competitive battler. Xatu! You know what to do." Machamp rushes forward as he's surrounded by three blue rings that break and form into rocks that Machamp throws forward as his eyes glow blue. Xatu spreads his wings,
"Xatu Xat." Xatu suddenly begins multiplying encircling Machamp and the image of Xatu the rocks flew at disappears. Machamp spins around looking at all of the images as they continue to multiply around the field. Drake, meanwhile, has his eyes closed and his arms crossed. Machamp looks back at Amy for orders when the Xatu images stop multiplying and Drake smiles opening his eyes,
"You've got a one in two hundred chance to hit Xatu. Since he's done this you have three chances to hit him. three strikes and you're out." Amy narrows her eyes looking around the field at all of the birds,
"This isn't fair!! Machamp Stone Edge on as many as you can!!" Machamp forms more blue rings around his body and they break into stones flying in all directions destroying nearly a hundred images. Machamp then repeats the process eliminating all but a few of them, "There we go!" Drake nods and he points around the field,
"You've got three left in a triangle around the field. You've got a one in three." Amy grins as she wags her finger at Drake,
"You forget how many rings there are in Stone Edge!" Machamp forms the three rings again and sends rocks in all directions eliminating the last three images. Amy goes wide-eyed and looks around quickly, "W-wait a minute!! Where's Xatu?!" Machamp begins to glow a light pink color and he grits his teeth before yelling out in pain and he winces looking up to see Xatu dive-bombing him from the sky, "No!! Machamp!!!" Xatu impacts Machamp making a dust cloud shrouding both Pokemon from view. The dust cloud takes a few moments but as it begins to fade away the figures of Machamp and Xatu become visible. Xatu has over three dozen jagged rocks around him with a few sticking out of his wings and body and Machamp lies on the ground next to him. Drake and Amy both stare in disbelief as their Pokemon return to their pokeballs and they both switch out for their second,
"I gotta hand it to ya you're the first to beat my Xatu." Amy grins as she pushes the button on her pokeball enlarging it,
"Well thank you very much." Drake and Amy both speak in unison,
"But you're going to have your hands full with my next one!!" Blaziken emerges from Drake's pokeball and an Infernape emerges from Amy's. Drake raises an eyebrow as he looks at the Pokemon opposing his,
"Well isn't this interesting. The two fire fighting starters against each other but I wonder... which one is more powerful?"
Up in the stands Latias is on the edge of her seat watching the battle,
"This girl doesn't even have a chance!! That Blaziken's no pushover." Vecransyh leans back in his seat holding Aticus in his arms,
"Well the first few rounds should be easy wins since all of us have had so much more training then a lot of the trainers here. When we start fighting each other the battles will really start heating up." Kazamaru nods sitting one row behind him,
"He's right. And who knows if there're going to be any of those trainers who have only trained their entire lives and just walk in here wrecking everything that moves." Stratos folds his arms sitting next to Latias and he looks back at Kazamaru with a grin,
"Losing some of your confidence Kaza?" Kazamaru shakes his head with a laugh,
"Nah, I'm a little concerned for you though since this is your first Pokemon league and everything" Stratos shrugs with a confident smile,
"I beat Jeremy didn't I? don't worry about me Kaza I can take anything this tournament can throw at me... whether I win or not all of us will try our best right mom?" Latias smiles at Stratos patting his head,
"Right hon."
Back on the field Infernape and Blaziken are beating the ever-loving crap out of each other only using fighting type attacks and nothing else. Both Pokemon continue trading blows till Blaziken unleashes a Fire Blast into Infernape's face before delivering a powerful kick to his torso knocking the wind out of him and knocking him out at the same time. Amy returns Infernape to his ball as her expression turns angry and Blaziken turns walking up to Drake and he lays a hand on his trainer's shoulder,
"I am to injured to continue battling master." Drake nods. Unlike some trainer's Pokemon he had trained his to know when they were at their limit. Blaziken disappears into his ball and Drake and Amy take out their finals narrowing their eyes at each other. Amy throws her last pokeball releasing a small white mouse with a blue stripe down her body. The Pachirisu smiles happily as small sparks fly from her cheeks. Amy grins as she looks across at Drake,
"Good luck beating this one!!" Drake falls silent as the pokeball in his hand opens releasing a large, female Flygon onto the field. Amy freezes as her gaze falls upon the Pokemon, "Oh..." Flygon strikes the ground creating an earthquake to throw Pachirisu off balance before Flygon creates a vicious sandstorm disappearing into the flying sand. The only thing visible in the sandstorm after a few moments is a few streaks of silver and an explosion of purple energy and the sandstorm fades revealing Flygon standing next to Drake with her arm on his shoulder. Pachirisu is lying on the ground covered in a layer of sand with cracked ground under her. Drake and Flygon high-five and Amy and Drake both return their Pokemon and Drake flinches as he hears Amy's very angry tone,
"YOU CHEATED THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD HAVE BEATEN ME!!!!" Amy begins stomping around and throwing a tantrum and after about a minute of this she runs out of the stadium swearing. The announcer's voice booms over the crowd again,
"THE WINNER OF THIS MATCH IS DRAKE!! STAY RIGHT THERE BECAUSE THE NEXT MATCHES ARE GOING TO BE STARTING IN JUST A FEW MINUTES!!" Drake walks out of the stadium waving to the roaring crowd and he leaves through the archway taking his other three pokeballs from the tray and his Pichu hops up onto his shoulder squeaking happily.Chapter End Notes:BTW catsithx, i'll be sure to write more when you do ^^ i really like your story :
"You think Dawn might want to battle in my next fight Cherokee?" The Houndoom shrugs as she removes a large clump of dirt from her claw,
"We've all been aching to battle for a long time now Neo. We were all a little disheartened when you didn't let any of us fight in the last Pokemon league... to answer your question though... yes. I'm pretty sure she would." Neo blushes out of embarrassment and scratches his head,
"Okay then I'm pretty sure I can have a good amount of you guys battle with me here." The Sceptile opens his mouth to speak not moving any other part of his body,
"Are you and Luna going to be fighting too?" Neo nods as he leans back propping himself back against the grass type,
"Yeah but only if we go up against Stratos. Don't want to make the battles to easy." The Sceptile lets out a short laugh as he opens his eyes and stands up,
"Right, so who're we fighting?" The opponent in question looks around 14 or so and he wears clothing that makes him look more like a Luxray then a human being. On his feet are sandals and his hair is black and spikes in a few places. As he reaches his square he takes out a pokeball,
"Oh wow, you've got some pretty awesome Pokemon dude!!" Neo lets out a small laugh,
"Thanks kid. I'd like to say the same but I haven't seen them yet." The kid laughs as the pokeball in his hand enlarges,
"I'm sure you'll be pretty impressed! I've won a bunch of tournaments so I'm pretty strong." He looks around at all the people, "First time in the Pokemon league though but I should do pretty well. I won't lose my first battle though!" Neo sighs as he looks down at Allie,
"I'm gonna feel kinda bad if I beat this guy now... ALLIE WHAT ARE YOU DRAWING?!?!" Allie grins widely as she points to different parts of the picture,
"Well that's you... and that's me... and that's the bed..." Neo's face turns red as he listens to Allie tell him about the picture and Cherokee peers over his shoulder looking at what she's telling him about,
"Oh wow Neo look at how big she drew..." The announcer's voice booms over the stadium,
"THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN ZACK... as always no last name... AND OUR VERY OWN NEO EON!!!" The crowd bursts into applause that echoes through the stadium, "WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!!!" Zack throws his pokeball releasing a Luxray onto the field. The Lion Pokemon roars mightily and Neo looks down at the Sceptile with a grin,
"I think you should start us off Cloud." Cloud cracks his knuckles as he runs out onto the field Neo only seeing a flash of a smile as he races past. Cloud's arms extend into shining blades and he rushes forward blocking several attempts at electrical attacks with them before he slashes down with a smirk. His eyes go wide as he sees the Luxray's fangs gripping the blade in his mouth and he jerks his neck to the side sending the Sceptile down onto his back and Luxray begins tossing him back and forth before he throws the grass type forward making him skid for a few feet before he stands up brushing some dust from his body. Cloud's smile turns to one of amusement as he runs forward again splitting into multiple images but his eyes go wide as Luxray multiplies as well and every one of his copies is stopped and parried but the lion. Cloud grits his teeth as all of his images along with Luxray's disappear leaving Cloud fairly winded from getting thrown around the field so much,
"Enough of this!!" Cloud summons his leaf blades again and he spins around before slamming the blades into the ground hard. The impact makes the ground rumble for a moment before thousands of roots shoot up from the ground and begin closing in on Luxray incredibly fast. The lion's eyes go wide and he begins dashing left and right trying to avoid the mightiest of grass type attacks but the roots don't stop as they continue for a number of minutes before Luxray finally is at such a loss for energy that he collapses before taking the Frenzy Plant becoming lost from view in the vines that cut and squeeze the Pokemon. Cloud brings his blades from the ground as the roots began to climb into the sky and they vanish in a shimmer of green sparkles as Luxray plummets to the ground hitting hard with a thud completely passed out. Cloud lets out a few deep breathes feeling incredible weakened from his battle and Neo's voice catches his ear,
"You need a rest?" Cloud turns back and shakes his head with a grin,
"I fight till I drop." Zack returns his Luxray to his ball as he takes out another,
"Wow, you're really strong if you can beat my Luxray but I only get stronger from here!!" The pokeball in his hand opens and a Jolteon appears in a flash of light,
"Jolteon!!" Cloud raises an eyebrow at the electric Pokemon having never been around one that couldn't talk,
"Good luck to you." Jolteon nods and the two rush at each other as Cloud brings out his leaf blades. He slashes wildly but Jolteon is simply to fast and he jumps back unleashing thousands of needles and Cloud gags from the pain as they stick into his flesh. Cloud looks down at the ground breathing heavily. He hears movement and looks up in shock before Jolteon runs into him the impact making an explosion of stars that send him flying backwards rolling a few times and he looks up to see Neo looking down at him,
"I think you're done Cloud." Cloud lets out a chuckle as he drifts out of consciousness. Neo moves the Sceptile off the field and he looks to Cherokee with a smile, "Think you can beat a Jolteon?" Cherokee lets out a laugh,
"I'll hit that thing so hard that it'll be seeing stars!" Cherokee walks forward dropping to four legs and she shifts into a normal Houndoom,
"Just watch out for Last Resort or you could be the one seeing stars!!" Cherokee nods as she walks onto the field,
"Yeah, yeah I got it." Neo looks down at Allie, who's still playing in the dust,
"You think she can do it...? ALLIE!!!!" Allie looks up at him with a big smile,
"Look Neo! You're on top this time!" Cherokee runs forward head-butting the surprised Jolteon and she rushes to the side avoiding a thunderbolt attack and she moves her body rapidly avoiding every needle of a pin missile as she closes in on her opponent. Jolteon gulps when his needles run out and he looks up at the fire type who's forming a Fire Blast in her mouth,
"Jolt..." Jolteon is enveloped by intense flames before he takes a pulse of darkness when Cherokee's fangs send lighting bolts of darkness towards him when she uses Crunch. Jolteon wails in pain before he stands and wobbles slightly looking hazily at his opponent. Cherokee walks up to him and blows lightly on his face making him fall over unconscious. Zack shakes his head in disbelief as he recalls his Jolteon,
"Well that was unexpected..." Cherokee smiles as smoke rises from her nostrils,
"All moves can be predicted if you've seen them before." Zack smiles as he takes out his third pokeball,
"Well I don't think you can predict this one." As the pokeball opens all Cherokee sees is a flash of blue and a streak of red as her world suddenly goes dark and she skids across the field till she's stopped by Neo who picks her up looking at her face,
"Well that was a little overkill. What attack was that anyway?" Neo sets Cherokee down as the Salamence that attacked Cherokee sets down with a beat of his wings and roars. Zack grins as he looks across at Neo,
"It was kinda a mixture of Fly and Brick Break. He doesn't wait to attack it's all or nothing." Neo looks down at Allie,
"Allie you're up and be careful... okay you're going to have to explain that one to me." Allie opens her mouth to speak but Neo suddenly covers it, "You know what? I don't want to know. Go get that Salamence!!" Allie grins running out onto the field,
"Right!!" Allie runs forward before Salamence barrels into her sending her flying backwards but Allie vaults on her hands doing a flip to regain her balance before she sees Salamence coming at her roaring fiercely. She ducks to the side avoiding the claws of the dragon and, now under him, she drives her fist into his stomach coating it with lighting in the process and she follows it up with a kick to his gut sending him a few feet into the air. Salamence is on his feet in a matter of seconds charging forward again and Allie dashes to the side to avoid an attack but her entire body is slammed with the dragon Pokemon's wing making her stop in her tracks and fall back onto her behind. She looks up into the blood red eyes of the dragon staring down at her and he suddenly unleashes billowing flames. Allie barely avoids the attack with Extremespeed and jumps onto Salamence's back as her chest spike emerges. She quickly forms an Aura Sphere in her hands that turns yellow and emits thousands of sparks as it grows for a moment before Allie slams her fist into Salamence's back in between his wings directly into his spine resulting in instant paralysis status and the dragon falling over forward defeated. Allie sits cross-legged on the dragon's back and waves to Neo who returns her wave with Cloud and Cherokee healed standing by him. Zack heaves a large sigh as Salamence disappears into his ball and Allie drops to the ground landing on her feet. He smiles lightly looking across at Neo,
"Well I guess you beat me. Oh well I guess there's always other tournaments." Neo smiles as Allie walks over to him taking his hand in hers with a happy smile,
"You've got some serious power though kid. Keep on training and you could go all the way in a Pokemon league." Zack nods smiling a little bigger as he waves turning his back to Neo,
"And I hope you'll be in that tournament so I can wipe the floor with you!" The announcer's voice booms through the speakers as Zack leaves,
"WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW OF POWER FROM OUR TWO TRAINERS!!! AND WITH A CLOSE WIN NEO WILL BE MOVING ON TO THE SECOND ROUND!!!!" The crowd bursts into a huge wave of applause and Neo looks to the three Pokemon before he turns,
"Well our work is done here for now. Come on everyone." Neo walks out of the stadium holding hands with Allie as Cloud and Cherokee walk to either side of them.
As Stratos walks across the battlefield for his match he looks over at Latias nervously as he approaches trainer's square on his side of the field,
"I'm kinda nervous... what if we lose?" Latias looks him directly in the eyes with a reassuring smile,
"Don't worry so much. We're all behind you and we'll fight our hardest. This is your first League battle so take things slow and plan your moves carefully if you have to go out there." Stratos nods knowing that she refers to back when he picked his three Pokemon for the fight being her, himself and Ren. The announcer's voice booms through the crowd of people coming from the speaker phone's set all around the stadium,
"WELCOME ALL TO THE FIFTY-SIXTH BATTLE OF THE FIRST ROUND OF THE POKEMON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT!!! MANY OF THE BATTLES LATELY HAVE RESULTED IN DRAWS MAKING MANY OF THE TRAINERS DROP OUT OF THE COMPETITION!! THOSE NOT DRAWING THEIR MATCHES HAVE CERTAINLY PROVEN THEIR POWER IN THE TOURNY SO FAR. WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO LET ME INTRODUCE THE NEXT TRAINER AND HE'S QUITE THE TRAINER SPORTING THREE ULTIMA BADGES!! PLEASE GIVE UP A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ONE OF OUR FEW TRAINERS TO ACTUALLY BE A POKEMON THEMSELF; STRATOS THE LUCARIO!!!" The crowd bursts into a wave of applause that echoes through the stadium, "AND NOW THE TRAINER WHO WILL BE BATTLING AGAINST STRATOS PLEASE GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO JEREMY DAREEN!!!" Jeremy looks over at Stratos with a grin and Latias looks at him in shock,
"It's... it's him!!!" The trainer who formerly tried to capture Latias back in Kanto raises his arm pointing at her his blond hair is put into a ponytail,
"Looks like you ended up getting captured after all after your little boyfriend got killed!!" Jeremy then directs his attention to Stratos,
"Hey kid!! How about you trade me your Latias and I'll hand over my Metagross?!" Stratos looks at his mother with concern,
"Who is this guy?" Latias doesn't take her eyes off Jeremy as she speaks,
"He tried to capture me in a master ball after he realized I wasn't captured by your father. He has some immensely powerful Pokemon at his disposal and I fear what might happen if we lose this fight." Jeremy's expression turns to one of sadistic joy,
"Oh wait!! He didn't send you out either!! Don't tell me you're still without a master Latias... come to think of it... If a Pokemon is a trainer are they captured themselves?" Stratos looks back to Jeremy still speaking to Latias,
"You're right... don't worry, we'll win this fight."
Up in the stands Drake shifts in his seat feeling fairly uncomfortable and angry with the sight of Jeremy in his eyes,
"I swear... if he tries to catch Latias again I'll break more then his face." Kazamaru lets out a laugh looking over at him,
"I remember that!! That was priceless; I'd pay to see that again."
Back on the field Stratos growls towards Jeremy narrowing his eyes,
"If you want my mom you'll have to go through me!!" Jeremy responds with a red Gyrados that rises with a powerful roar from his pokeball glaring down at the two,
"I don't think that'll be a problem little guy but you never answered my question. Are you captured or can I take you home as a trophy as well?"
"I don't have anything to say to you." Stratos takes the couple's ball from his belt and sets it to Ren with a quick click and the lion rises from the pokeball with a growl and a jolt of sparks. His eyes widen as he stares between Jeremy and the Gyrados. He lets out a short breath calming himself before he narrows his eyes darkly at Jeremy,
"Remember me?" Jeremy lets out a cocky laugh,
"Oh yeah, I remember you alright. What was it again? One hit from my Magikarp?" Ren growls going into a pouncing stance,
"I'll show you one hit!!!" The announcer's voice comes over the intercom,
"SORRY FOR THE DELAY FOLKS BUT WE'RE READY TO START THE MATCH NOW. TRAINERS?! YOU MAY BEGIN!!!!!" Stratos looks over to Latias curiously,
"That thing one hitted Ren?" Latias nods,
"Well it wasn't really a fair fight. That Gyrados still knows explosion, I'm sure of it. But hopefully Ren can take it down before it uses it." Ren dashes forward cloaked in electricity and he pounces upwards ramming directly into the Gyrados' face sending the mighty serpent crashing to the ground. He roars upwards raining powerful thunderbolts onto the serpent making it radiate with the electricity now pulsing through its body and Ren backs away breathing a little heavier from the extreme release of energy. Ren's eyes widen as Gyrados rises back up and shakes off the attacks before suddenly unleashing a powerful hyper beam from its massive mouth. As the burst of energy fades Ren is still standing but looks heavily beaten by the attack and his breathing is deep and heavy,
"You did your best I suppose..." Ren looks up with a smirk and he runs forward cloaked in a Volt Tackle ramming Gyrados as thunders rain down literally making the serpent lost from view in the rain of yellow power. Gyrados takes the attack to the gut along with the beam of thunders and it topples over defeated before it returns to its ball. Ren stands for a moment staring at Jeremy with a smirk on his face before he suddenly loses consciousness and falls forward. Jeremy shrugs as he takes out his second pokeball,
"He did his job." Stratos returns Ren to his ball and attaches it to his belt,
"One for one... that hyper beam did way more damage then it should of..." Latias nods looking at the Lucario,
"His Pokemon are mutated to give them their maximum in power... they aren't undefeatable though." Latias floats out onto the field to join a small Shuckle that simply looks blankly at her before it retreats into its shell. Latias giggles looking over at Jeremy, "I think he remembers me! What do you think!?" Jeremy scowls,
"Looks like he might. Shuckle!" Shuckle comes out of his shell and looks back to his trainer to see him pointing at Latias, "Fight!!" Shuckle nods and turns back around seeing a Dragon Pulse forming in Latias' mouth and his eyes go wide before he retreats back into his shell. Jeremy puts his palm to his face as he shakes his head, "Shuckle!! Just use explosion." Shuckle pops out of his shell and leaps forward and Latias goes wide-eyed as the turtle thing explodes into a huge cloud of smoke. As the smoke clears Shuckle is lying fainted on the ground and Latias is brushing off her shoulder,
"You know how much attack power a Shuckle has... right?" Jeremy returns Shuckle to his ball with a shrug,
"Thing wasn't fighting so I made him faint himself. What're they worth if they won't fight?" Stratos clenches his fists,
"What did you say?!"
"If they won't fight a Pokemon is worthless. I thought I was pretty clear on that." Jeremy's Metagross rises from his ball with a metallic roar, "This big guy is my pride and joy. He's been powered up since our last match and I'm pretty sure he's more then enough to take down a Latias and a Lucario." Latias prepares herself for her attack but Stratos' voice rings through her ears,
"Latias, return!" Latias looks back at her son to see him with an incredibly angry look on his face looking directly at her, "This one is mine." Latias nods and floats back over to him and Stratos strips off his belt and hat before walking onto the field, his anger building, "Let's see just how strong you are you big, overgrown tin can." Metagross opens his mouth firing a Hyper Beam directly at Stratos who counters with Sacred Fire while his eyes glow a dark purple color. The attacks collide and make a large explosion and Stratos dashes forward into the cloud of smoke finding Metagross from his aura signature and he unleashes a Sacred Fire attack on each one of Metagross' legs making them solidify and he dashes back facing Metagross before a smile appears on the Lucario's face and he dashes forward with a yell, his entire body coated in flames. As the smoke clears Metagross still stands heavily burned and bruised in a large puddle of lava and Stratos faces him, "You're done." Stratos turns and snaps his fingers making the Doom Desire take effect knocking out Metagross and Stratos walks back over to Latias picking up his belt and hat and he looks at her with a smile, "Piece of cake." Jeremy stands silent festering in his rage and he returns Metagross to his ball. Stratos adjusts the hat on his heat but stops when he feels something hard strike the back of his head. He turns and kneels down picking a Master Ball off of the ground looking at Jeremy with absolute fury in his eyes. Jeremy simply laughs and takes out another one,
"Well I suppose you are captured after all!! Latias is mine though." Stratos looks at his mother a look of extreme mental conflict on his face,
"What should I do...?" Latias lightly kisses her son's forehead as she smiles,
"You can do what your father did and give him a good punch in the face." Stratos puts the Master Ball into the bag on his belt as he smiles,
"I'll do that." Stratos' ears pick up a whizzing sound and he holds out his arm catching the second Master Ball in his paw. The ball disintegrates instantly when an Aura Sphere begins forming in Stratos' hand and he looks darkly at Jeremy, "Hope he can catch!!" Stratos throws the ball of energy towards the boy and it impacts his full torso sending him flying backwards into the wall unconscious. Stratos and Latias leave and the announcer's voice booms over the intercom as a medical team takes Jeremy away,
"CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG BUT I BELIEVE I SAW THAT BOY AT THE LAST KANTO LEAGUE... NO MATTER. IT IS STRICTLY AGAINST THE RULES FOR A TRAINER TO TRY AND CAPTURE ANOTHER TRAINER'S POKEMON SO JEREMY HAS BEEN DISQUALIFIED. NOT THAT IT MATTERS SINCE HE LOST... UMM... ALRIGHT, OUR NEXT BATTLE WILL BE BETWEEN DRAKE AND AMY SO DON'T GO AWAY WE'LL BE STARTING VERY SOON!!!"
Drake emerges from the archway onto the field and he looks up at the sun as the roar of the crowd welcomes him onto the field. Drake continues walking as he raises his hand waving to the hundreds of thousands of screaming people and as he arrives at his trainer square he looks across at his opponent,
"Hi there I'm Drake what's your name?" The girl across from him has short, dirty blonde hair and wears a light-blue, short sleeve shirt and blue shorts,
"Hello I'm Amy! I hope we have a good battle!" She brightly smiles at him taking a pokeball from her belt and she holds it in both her hands. Drake smiles as he looks across at the girl,
"Well it's nice to see a friendly face in the tournament." The announcer's voice speaks next cascading over the crowd of people,
"WELCOME ALL TO THE FIFTY-SEVENTH BATTLE OF THE SINNOH POKEMON LEAGUE TOURNAMENT!! THIS IS A BATTLE BETWEEN AMY AND... Drake... really? Two more people with no last names...? Okay whatever... BETWEEN AMY AND DRAKE, THE HOLDER OF THREE ULTIMA BADGES RECENTLY BELIEVED TO BE DEAD HE STUNNED EVERYONE BY TURNING UP IN THE OPENING CEREMONIES AND NOW I'M SURE HE'S HERE TO COMPLETE HIS COLLECTION AND ENTER THE ULTIMA LEAGUE!!!" Amy's gaze returns to Drake from looking around the stadium and she grins,
"Oh wow! You must be really strong but I think I can beat you!" Drake takes a pokeball from his belt and holds it out adjusting his hat with his other hand,
"That's the spirit! Let's do this!" The announcer speaks again,
"YOU MAY BEGIN!!!" Amy throws her pokeball releasing a powerful Machamp to the field and the Pokemon flexes his four arms smirking at Drake. Drake threw his pokeball making a flash of light that ends in his Xatu standing in front of Machamp with his wings folded to cover his body. Amy throws her arm forward,
"Let's go Machamp! Take down that midget totem pole!!" Drake blinks at the attack order and laughs lightly,
"I guess she's a pretty competitive battler. Xatu! You know what to do." Machamp rushes forward as he's surrounded by three blue rings that break and form into rocks that Machamp throws forward as his eyes glow blue. Xatu spreads his wings,
"Xatu Xat." Xatu suddenly begins multiplying encircling Machamp and the image of Xatu the rocks flew at disappears. Machamp spins around looking at all of the images as they continue to multiply around the field. Drake, meanwhile, has his eyes closed and his arms crossed. Machamp looks back at Amy for orders when the Xatu images stop multiplying and Drake smiles opening his eyes,
"You've got a one in two hundred chance to hit Xatu. Since he's done this you have three chances to hit him. three strikes and you're out." Amy narrows her eyes looking around the field at all of the birds,
"This isn't fair!! Machamp Stone Edge on as many as you can!!" Machamp forms more blue rings around his body and they break into stones flying in all directions destroying nearly a hundred images. Machamp then repeats the process eliminating all but a few of them, "There we go!" Drake nods and he points around the field,
"You've got three left in a triangle around the field. You've got a one in three." Amy grins as she wags her finger at Drake,
"You forget how many rings there are in Stone Edge!" Machamp forms the three rings again and sends rocks in all directions eliminating the last three images. Amy goes wide-eyed and looks around quickly, "W-wait a minute!! Where's Xatu?!" Machamp begins to glow a light pink color and he grits his teeth before yelling out in pain and he winces looking up to see Xatu dive-bombing him from the sky, "No!! Machamp!!!" Xatu impacts Machamp making a dust cloud shrouding both Pokemon from view. The dust cloud takes a few moments but as it begins to fade away the figures of Machamp and Xatu become visible. Xatu has over three dozen jagged rocks around him with a few sticking out of his wings and body and Machamp lies on the ground next to him. Drake and Amy both stare in disbelief as their Pokemon return to their pokeballs and they both switch out for their second,
"I gotta hand it to ya you're the first to beat my Xatu." Amy grins as she pushes the button on her pokeball enlarging it,
"Well thank you very much." Drake and Amy both speak in unison,
"But you're going to have your hands full with my next one!!" Blaziken emerges from Drake's pokeball and an Infernape emerges from Amy's. Drake raises an eyebrow as he looks at the Pokemon opposing his,
"Well isn't this interesting. The two fire fighting starters against each other but I wonder... which one is more powerful?"
Up in the stands Latias is on the edge of her seat watching the battle,
"This girl doesn't even have a chance!! That Blaziken's no pushover." Vecransyh leans back in his seat holding Aticus in his arms,
"Well the first few rounds should be easy wins since all of us have had so much more training then a lot of the trainers here. When we start fighting each other the battles will really start heating up." Kazamaru nods sitting one row behind him,
"He's right. And who knows if there're going to be any of those trainers who have only trained their entire lives and just walk in here wrecking everything that moves." Stratos folds his arms sitting next to Latias and he looks back at Kazamaru with a grin,
"Losing some of your confidence Kaza?" Kazamaru shakes his head with a laugh,
"Nah, I'm a little concerned for you though since this is your first Pokemon league and everything" Stratos shrugs with a confident smile,
"I beat Jeremy didn't I? don't worry about me Kaza I can take anything this tournament can throw at me... whether I win or not all of us will try our best right mom?" Latias smiles at Stratos patting his head,
"Right hon."
Back on the field Infernape and Blaziken are beating the ever-loving crap out of each other only using fighting type attacks and nothing else. Both Pokemon continue trading blows till Blaziken unleashes a Fire Blast into Infernape's face before delivering a powerful kick to his torso knocking the wind out of him and knocking him out at the same time. Amy returns Infernape to his ball as her expression turns angry and Blaziken turns walking up to Drake and he lays a hand on his trainer's shoulder,
"I am to injured to continue battling master." Drake nods. Unlike some trainer's Pokemon he had trained his to know when they were at their limit. Blaziken disappears into his ball and Drake and Amy take out their finals narrowing their eyes at each other. Amy throws her last pokeball releasing a small white mouse with a blue stripe down her body. The Pachirisu smiles happily as small sparks fly from her cheeks. Amy grins as she looks across at Drake,
"Good luck beating this one!!" Drake falls silent as the pokeball in his hand opens releasing a large, female Flygon onto the field. Amy freezes as her gaze falls upon the Pokemon, "Oh..." Flygon strikes the ground creating an earthquake to throw Pachirisu off balance before Flygon creates a vicious sandstorm disappearing into the flying sand. The only thing visible in the sandstorm after a few moments is a few streaks of silver and an explosion of purple energy and the sandstorm fades revealing Flygon standing next to Drake with her arm on his shoulder. Pachirisu is lying on the ground covered in a layer of sand with cracked ground under her. Drake and Flygon high-five and Amy and Drake both return their Pokemon and Drake flinches as he hears Amy's very angry tone,
"YOU CHEATED THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD HAVE BEATEN ME!!!!" Amy begins stomping around and throwing a tantrum and after about a minute of this she runs out of the stadium swearing. The announcer's voice booms over the crowd again,
"THE WINNER OF THIS MATCH IS DRAKE!! STAY RIGHT THERE BECAUSE THE NEXT MATCHES ARE GOING TO BE STARTING IN JUST A FEW MINUTES!!" Drake walks out of the stadium waving to the roaring crowd and he leaves through the archway taking his other three pokeballs from the tray and his Pichu hops up onto his shoulder squeaking happily.Chapter End Notes:BTW catsithx, i'll be sure to write more when you do ^^ i really like your story :