Little Tsu: Welcome ta the next chapter of this excitin', funny, & heartwarmin' journey. I hope you all enjoy the next installment.
On with the chapter!^^
Ch: 11
Battles continued to rage on as trainers fell to their defeat while fewer trainers rose up voctory with each round that arrived till finally only four remained as it was now the sem-finals and thus were now a three-on-three battle. Two suck trainers that had made it this far was of course his own trainer, Kira, but also that girl, Aku that he found himself wanting to face more and more with each battle she went through. However, this entire time, she had only ever used her serperior, Axel. Not once had he seen her flygon, Rivan fight nor did he know what her other pokemon were. Maybe the semi-finals would finally allow him to see. In the meantime, it was his own trainer's fight first and as he sat there off to the side a bit on a bench with his mentor, Shadow, the opponent stepped up on the other side. Something about that older human looked familier...
It was then that realization hit him hard. That was the trainer he had fought in his first ever battle as Kira's pokemon!
He looked a bit different though now...
He took note that his light brown hair wasn't neatly stylish anymore but hung down around his face with the back halting just barely above his shoulders. That wasn't all that had changed about this teen though. He also noticed that his clothes weren't all dressy and 'neatly pressed' as people would call it. Instead he wore light blue jeans, sneakers, a red t-shirt, and an unzipped white jacket with a black furred collar. In all honesty, he was surprised that he even reconigzed the human at all; the change seemed so different from a year ago since they met.
As he drifted his gaze off of the trainer though and onto his own, he spied that Kira had reconigzed him as well and even seemed surprised by the sight of him. Grumbling lightly under his breath, he remained where he was. After all, he had promised to stay out of the remaining matches till the finals so that the others got their chances and that was just what he planned to do no matter how much he suddenly wanted to beat this guy himself. In fact, that urge was especially strong when the older boy spoke; his right eye twitching faintly.
"It's so good to see you once again Kira. When I heard that you were in the Nimbasa Tournament, I could hardly believe it. After all, the last time I saw you was a year ago now. You've become a lot stronger, I see and from the looks of it, you look even more lovely than before." It was then that the trainer gave Kira a closed eyed charming, yet sweet smile, causing the girl to blush faintly.
Oh yeah...He definately was struggling to restrain himself and keep his promise to his companions.
Who did that Martin think he was anyways; moving in on his trainer? Did he think he had a chance with her just cause he was a human too? Kira was HIS.
It was then that the first of the semi finals began; both his trainer and Martin releasing their first of three pokemon. While his Kira had gone with her meinshao, Saici, he spied that her opponent had chosen a Leipard. Well, he saw this first battle was already an easy win for his trainer. Smirking faintly to himself, he watched as the battle commensed; both pokemon rushing in to attack.
"Saici, you Force Palm!"
"Leipard, Fake Out!"
Leipard quickly side stepped and smashed her head into the side of Saici, causing the fighting type to flinch; his own attack canceling itself out. Stumbling slightly at this, he hissed at his opponent as she had made a yowling of her own in challenge towards the male pokemon. Quickly rushing in, her claws sharpened as she leaped up as she lashed out with a Slash attack, only to have her attack dodged with fluid motions that seemed almost like a graceful dance by the meinshao.
Chuckling lightly, he shook his head. Only his fellow fighter on the team would move in such a graceful dance-like fashion in his battles. It was then that he watched as his companion fluildly dodged yet another Slash attack, only to then dodge once more, but this time in a back flip as he distanced himself a bit from his opponent. Yeah, his fellow fighting type partner definately had a lot more grace than he did. Much different compared to his own more brawler fighting style.
Saici calmly shifted on his feet as he studied his opponent and fluildly moved his arms; the whip-like fur on them shifting in a manner as if they were streamers. "Saici, move in quickly and use Force Palm once more." Nodding his head lightly, the fighting type rushed in and managed to dodge a Night Slash this time as he collided the palm of his paw into Leipard's side, sending her flying and crashing into the ground. Thinking that was the end of the battle with the female cat, he turned his back onto her and rested his paws against each other in front of himself as he bowed to Kira, much like a martial artist would to their master in a show of respect.
However, the match had not been over yet...
"Leipard, Assist!"
The sight of what Chrono saw next took him by surprise as he watched Leipard stagger in her rise back up onto her feet and used Assist, only to actually unleash Psychic, knocking Saici for a loop and sending him flying as his friend smashed into the stadium call, causing a small crater as the young meinshao was taken out. The shock that he held within himself at this outcome was unexpected to be honest. That final shot at an attack towards Saici - a pure all up to luck - kind of skill had taken his fighting companion out.
Snapping out of his shock, he quickly brought his own gaze onto Kira as he saw her own shock as well before she finally managed to bring herself to return her pokemon and bring her gaze down towards the dusk ball in his grasp. "...You did good Saici. Rest up now, kay?" Watching as his trainer grabbed another dusk ball, she released the pokemon within, revealing it to be her braviary, Falcon as he whipped out his wings and released a fierce cry. He could tell that this bird definately wanted thie fight. He knew, because the instant the next match began, Falcon whipped his wings in front of him fiercely and slammed blades of slicing wind into Leipard as he used Air Slash, taking her out to finish what Saici had started.
Watching Martin return his pokemon, he saw the human smile gently down at his poke ball before grabbing another, releasing his male Unfezant; the very pokemon who had evolved from the Tranquill he had fought a year before. The bird had been strong back then...He could only wonder how strong he was now. Either way, he knew one thing was for sure. Both of the trainers were going to take this next match to the skies, though the tournament was indoors.
"Falcon, take ta the skies!"
"Unfezant, you too!"
"Air Slash!"
"Razor Wind!"
Unfezant cried out as he swiftly dodged each slicing of wind directed at him as he began to whip out wind around his body before finally, the bird pulled up and flapped his wings hard ince front of himself once, releasing a multitude of slicing winds hurtling towards the braviary as he unleashed his Razor Wind attack, which caused the smaller bird to narrow their eyes as Falcon equally sliftly dodged the barrage.
Watching the air battle from his spot on the ground, he could see that it was pretty evenly matched. It could really be either one's victory as they continued to clash with one another all over the place in the air and as he continued to watch, he couldn't help but actually feel a bit inferior in that instant in time; wishing that he wasn't grounded and instead could fly like them...
Managing to gain the upperhand, Falcon knocked Unfezant back with his Crush Claw attack and quickly flew in to strike again, this time with an Aerial Ace, to which the smaller bird managed to recover from the attack and even manage a Double Team, causing the braviary to rear back in his attack and beat his wings hard to halt himself in the air. Glancing around him at the afterimages, wondering which one was the real opponent, the larger bird was taken by surprise from behind as they used Quick Attack, collided their beak right between his wings.
Falling through the air, towards the ground, Falcon managed to right himself and pull up once again; just barely missing the ground below as the tips of his large wings skimmed the battlefield ground before accending to the skies once again to continue the fight.
"Falcon, we need to finish this fight now. Take Unfezant out with Brave Bird!"
"Unfezant, don't let that Braviary overpower you! Use Sky Attack!"
Both birds cried out in determination at they became engulfed in what seemed like flames as they bulleted towards each other and collided in a halfway meet in the center of the battlefield high above it, causing a clash of will and a fierce explosion that sent both birds rocketing backwards and out of the sky as they hit the ground below. When the dust and smoke cleared from the collision with the ground, it was revealed that both birds were down for the count...
A double K.O...
Now that was a fierce match between flying types if he had ever seen one, which he had in fact, seen plenty. As he watched Kira return Falcon back into his pokeball to rest while Martin mirrored that action, it was finally down to the last match. Both, his trainer and her opponent were down to their final pokemon so this would ultimately be the deciding match on who would be going on to the finals. He could only hope that his trainer pulled through on this victory and moved to the finals. He wanted...No...needed...To battle Aku and her pokemon...But not just any of her pokemon...No...He wanted to fight her flygon, Rivan...
As he saw Martin release his final pokemon, a Reuniclus, he could only smirk as his trainer didn't say anything on who she was going to bring out.
There was no need to...
Stepping forward onto the battlefield was none other than Kira's strongest pokemon and his very own mentor and best friend,...Shadow.
Shifting lightly onto his feet and flexing his crimson claws faintly, he couldn't help but chuckle lightly as he closed his eyes gently and lifted his paws as he rested them on his headphones; bringing them to rest on his head between his second and third sectioned crest that was on the top of his head in a mohawk fashion. He knew that stance all too well. This battle was already over before it even began. He knew it all too well because he had seen it plenty of times before in the last year that he'd been with them. That...Was Shadow's serious mode...A series of motions just before a battle that showed he was about to get serious to an almost scary degree...
The bell chimed for the match to begin and before Reuniclus could even hope to react, his mentor was suddenly behind the psychic type in a knelt position with his head tilted down slightly, his eyes gently closed, and his claws resting against his chest and shoulders in an 'X' fashion while still glowing a neon purple. When his eyes slowly opened in an icy blue narrowed fashion, his opponent finally fell out of the air and hit the ground a few feet below him. In a single blink of an eye, Shadow had taken his opponent down with two blinding strikes of his Night Slash...
As his trainer was announced the winner and would be one of the two that would be in the finals, he saw Shadow return back at Kira's side and it was times like this...After seeing just how frightening his mentor could really be...
That he was all the more glad...that he was not on the receiving end...
To be Continued.
Little Tsu: Ok, yeah. Lots of intense fights & then...Well, Shadow's "I'm not gonna drag it on, I'm taking them out now" fight. Leave it to Shadow to not waste any time at all when he gets like that.
Anyways, this story is sadly comin' ta a close people so stay tuned for the final two hair raisin' chapters of "From the Life of Scrafty"!