Glory's Long Road: Episode #13 "Unlikely Allies"
A final breath of air, and Erik threw his pokeball into the ring. Pijon appeared, flapping her icy blue wings. Billy, responding to Erik, sent out his pokemon, an Aquila. It was a fully mature one at that, having grown the characteristic white head and tail feathers.
Pijon's main flight feathers began to glow a light blue. "Wing Attack." Billy calmly ordered. Two long darts of pure ice came shot forth from a swing of the wing. Aquila hovered in mid-air as the darts approached. With two mighty swipes, broke the attack. Shards of shattered ice fell to the clay ground.
"Aquila, Takedown." He said, in an unwaivering tone. Flapping his muscular wings, the great raptor rushed toward the hovering ice bird. Pijon quickly wipped up a funnel of cold air, but Aquila flew right through it, tackling sharply into her. Thick black talons tore deep gashes in flesh. She attempted to retaliate back with an Ice Beam. That idea was terminated by two blunt blows delivered by Aquila's wings.
Not a good way to start this off. Pijon was his best air fighter, but was just mauled by Aquila's pure strenght. He had more ice types in reserve, Aquila would fall. He tossed out Rapurasu's capture ball. Raising her slender gem blue neck, she lightly sighed. "Rapurasu, Ice Beam."
A single gust was what Aquila created in an effort to redirect the path of the incoming ice. True it's path stayed, covering much of Aquila in a cold shell. Billy swapped in pokemon, stunning Erik with his selection: A Saidon, swaying it's great bone horn around in the air.
"Surf." Erik would have to dispatch this one fast. From around Rapurasu's body, a wall of water formed. "Fissure." Was Billy's counter. His great bone rhino leapt into the air as best a half tonne creature could, crashing back down to earth. A thin wall of rock, several metres long, jutted up from under the clay, acting like a dam to the water as it held it back.
The two were temporarily seperated from the other, Rapurasu in her mini-resevoir and Rhydon behind the blockade. That meant Rapurasu had the advantage because of her ranged attacks, unless Saidon knew Hyperbeam, which it most likely did. "Rapurasu, Water Gun."
"Saidon, Fissure again." Poor Rapurasu never got the opportunity to fire her gun at Rhydon, as a similar thin vein of rock emerged from under the ground. Erik recalled her, not wanting to even think of the injuries sustained.
He made sure to send out Jugon into the still damp section of the field, although most of the water had spread out. Such a environmental change, however small it may be, might have a use later on. "Saidon, Horn Attack." Ramming through the stone wall as if it were soaked rags, the bone rhino charged toward Dewgong, each step rattling the clay ground.
"Jugon, combine your Aurora and Bubble beams." Lowering his head, the white sealion merged two attacks together at the tip of his horn, creating a dull pink sphere circled by a ring of blue. In a small flash of light, a stream of waterbubbles tightly packed around a core of ice erupted from the horn. The beam struck in the Saidon's chest, eroding away the bone armour and freezing into the pit. Clutching it's frozen armour plate, the Saidon toppled over.
Billy took a brief second to catch his breath, before turning his next pokemon loose. The tall yellow skinned Denryuu towered over Jugon. Oh god, not this. Erik cursed to himself, as the garnet orb attached to it's tail crackles in electrical energy. A single arc snapped from tail orb to wet clay. And Jugon happened to be on said soaked clay. One twitch, and he collapsed into a heap.
"Now." Erik's words were curt and to the point. This was Sandopan's turn in the battle order. The hedgehog threw himself head long into battle. Billy simply ordered one thing of his Denryuu. "Thunderpunch." The attack order so silent, it barely covered the distance between the trainer and pokemon, but the message was conveyed. Fist crackling with electrical energy, the tall yellow ram threw his fist down into the wet clay, discharging a fan of craggy whisps. Skillfully, Sandopan jumped over the spread of thunder, slashing into the attacker as he decended. The quick swiped knock Denryuu back a few paces, allowing Sandopan to land, and complete his triple combo with a fast, but lethal, Earthquake. The ram's legs buckled under the rumbling ground, emitting a distinct cracking sound. A fast change up is enacted by Billy. "Bakufun, go." Erik responded in kind. "Sandopan, back." His hedgehog made way for another pokemon to enter the field, Parushen.
Billy's lanky fire bear stood high and prominant on its two hind legs, towering over the compact Parshen. "Tackle." Bakufun made a charge at the heavily armoured oyster. Not taking a single order, Parushen opened up his shell further, and shut it around the flaming bear. A flashback of a fight previous hit Erik hard. Parushen was once in the exact same position, back in his fight with Kristy Lee. "Oh no. Parushen, let go."
But it was in vain. "Flare Detonation." Billy's words came devoid of any tone, near lifeless. Bakufun, caught in the damp clutches of Parushen, brushed it's fiery fur together. Before the mollusk could react, a red-white explosion consumed the pokemon. Chunks of calcium armour rained from ground zero as the smoke receeded, leaving a broken Parushen in it's wake. What Armouro had damaged earlier, was completely blownoff. All that was left of the once mighty armour, was simply a pair of shattered quarter hulls.
"Get in there." Erik rasped under his breath, recalling Parushen. As to which as burning hotter, Bakufun's fur or Sandopan's rage, remained argueable. Marching like a soldier moving in for war, Sandopan took to the field, an aura of intimidation all over him. A deep guttoral cry broke free of bodily restraints, and escaped into the air. He was off in a sprint. "Bakufun, Swift." Three stars stealthfully shoot from the flame bear. Tucking himself up into a ball, Sandopan became a rolling ball of flat quills breaking up the Swift stars up contact. He broke out of the roll, propelling himself into the air, hacking a claw across the face of Bakufun.
"Flamethrower." A stream, no a flood of scarlet fire burst from the bear's mouth, pouring over Sandopan. The hedgehog did his best to repress any angish felt, though it was of no use. Light brown flesh burned, turning a raw red, and a blistered charcoal. Pressing claws together, pain was returned in full, as Sandopan swing downward.
The thick beam blade was like no other produced, and would have surely beheaded the Bakufun had it hit the neck and not the base of the shoulders. The deep flesh wound exposed virgin bone to the cruel air, washing waves of agony through out the bear's body. It sank claws into the soften clay, thrusting forward with the top part of the head outstretched. Sandopan saw this coming, and with a single spin kick, leveled the incoming bear.
Billy retracted his pokemon, calmy despite nearly seeing it killed twice from the same pokemon. Taking one pokeball from his belt, Billy knew he could end everything in a few short attacks. "Kairyuu!" His deep shout carried through the stadium, almost not needing a microphone's assistance. A hush fell over the crowd with the appeareance of the pale orange dragon, afloat on pathectically small wings for the size of her body. For any that managed to capture a dragon, the rewards, as see, far out weighed the effort to raise them. Her shrill mornful cry split the air cleanly.
"Hyperbeam." Again, the whisper light volume. Two antennae high atop her head flickered in a lightstorm, the Kairyuu's special form of hyperbeam. Orange lids closed over hazel eyes, the storm growing all the more intense. A small sphere appeared in the space between the antennae, and fired. It wasn't a solid beam like most others, more like a thick mass of blue-black bolts forced into the cylindrical shape of a beam.
Sandopan slowly dig his claws into the clay, expecting the worst. What he got was much worse than the worst. The bolt beam struck heavily into his flesh, ripping though like a barb wire yanked against bare skin. Each and every component of the twisted mass bore and slashed an already beleagured body. To his knees he fell.
But no! That would not be the end of him. Sheer mental endurance surpassed physical exhaustion, rising his body from the grave. "Again." Listening to her master, the great dragon fired the beam once more. The lacerations worsened, brown skin staining in ruby red. The pain of torture increased to hellish proportions. But still he rose.
"Again." Billy's voice turned harder, aggitated at the fact that it didn't fall from the first beam. The third bolt brought a splattering of scarlet across the field, now staining the brown clay. Some of the stadium voiced their opinions of this shameful onslaught, hurling words of four letters at Billy and his dragon. "AGAIN!" His voice carried the essance of rage and hate. A forth massive bolt attack sprang from the lightstorm. Heavy thorn whips of energy shredded mangled flesh. The life was fading fast, as was the light of his existance. Once last cry of war and a thrust of his claw. A tragic splash in a pool of blood silenced the crowd for the briefest of instances.
And then it all broke down. Countless members in the audiance all throwing obsensities at once. A match had descended into utter anarchy. Erik boiled in rage, clutching a capture ball in his hand so tighty it could have shattered to pieces. Every muscle in his body cried bloody hell as his recalled the near gravely wounded Sandopan.
"You bastard!" Erik yelled, releasing his final pokemon. Thin foil wings flapped against his iron sides. The great Silver dragon turned to look at Erik, noticing the pool of blood on the clay. He recognized it from a place distant in time. His eyes met with Erik's. Then and there, he saw something hidden deep within his eyes, and something he had failed to see before. Looking back around, the Silver dragon's gaze of molevalence etched through Kairyuu. "You shalt die." Three words preceeded a wide burst of pure blue-white energy. Ungodly speed it possessed, and left zero reaction time for the great marine dragon. A dull thud accompanied a bloodflower. The once proud Kairyuu plummeted to her knees.
The assault continued. Multitudes of thin blue-white beams shot from the Silver dragons mouth, merging at the crippled dragon in a nova-like explosion. When the light died down, the body of the dragon lay, just like Sandopan, on the absolute brink of life.
A pindrop could be heard. Nobody fully comprehened the brutal abuse of two pokemon. But still they watched. "Have you had enough?" The Silver dragon bellowed. "Or must I destroy another?" Through his commanding voice, the dragon made the full impression clear he was not too be taken lightly.
"I... I..." Billy stammered.
"Out with it!"
"I forfeit." His words barely audiable, Billy Sheas retracts the broken remains of his Kairyuu. Erik, for what it mattered, and won.
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"Get out of my sight." Erik cursed at the media, as his pushed his way through a swarm of reporters. All the same questions and mic shoving in his face began fraying nerves. "How does it feel..." One started off in the usual manner, until Erik cut him off.
"How would it feel if I shoved that mic clear up somewhere. And for the last time, get the cameras out of my face." That was not a warning, as Erik swiftly elbowed the nearest videocam into the person operating it. The security line didn't come quickly enough, for both parties involved. A few more mangy reporters fell to his offense before reaching this line of security guards at the airport. Like a dam, the men in blue did their best to hold back the paparatzzi.
"Damn idiots, give them a mic and they trade in their decency." Erik cursed to himself for the nth time, flashing the airport personnel his plane ticket and passport. His flight was bound for South America. Caracus, Venezula to be exact. On the reverse side of that note Guy had given to him a while back held information on the global leagues. The Purple League his next destination.
The stewartess took his coat and bags, placing them into the overhead. He would have a long flight to maul a few things over in his mind. For one, the fessiability of Sandopan ever competing again. Billy's Kairyuu had beaten him to within the last inch of his life. If he was to ever battle again, the recovery time would be astonishingly long and hellish.
Then came the other main though on his mind. That silver dragon. Erik had expected him to attack, but not with such blatant disregard for another's safety. Granted, he did what Billy did, but that was besides the point. Though, the dragon seemed to act on his own feel will to assist Eric, which was most puzzling. Even more so, was the look he gave him before tearing apart Kairyuu. It was like he knew him from somewhere, sometime.
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Deep in the heart of a sweltering jungle, a great beast rested, until now. Rising, broad scales of blood scarlet reflected in the light pouring in through openings in the ceiling and walls. Slowly, the beast marched to the nearest window in the wall, looking out at the emerald tree tops of the tropical plants. "They are coming..." That was all it said.
End Episode #13
Pokemon Report
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Aquila
The biggest raptor around, easily capable of hauling down most aerial fighters, ie Erik's Snow Pidgeon. Actually, there are two types of Aquila. The North American sub-species (the one in this chapter), based off Bald Eagles, and the European sub-species, which are based off the Golden Eagle. The main difference, the European is slightly larger.
Aurora Bubblebeam
Similar to a Bubblebeam, just with a core of ice replacing the water beam that the bubbles surround.
Hyperbolt
A variant to the normal Hyperbeam. Comprised of many small jagged beams, designed to slash and tear flesh.
Translations
Denryuu = Ampharos
Bakufun = Typhlosion
Burakki = Umbreon
Kairyuu = Dragonite
A final breath of air, and Erik threw his pokeball into the ring. Pijon appeared, flapping her icy blue wings. Billy, responding to Erik, sent out his pokemon, an Aquila. It was a fully mature one at that, having grown the characteristic white head and tail feathers.
Pijon's main flight feathers began to glow a light blue. "Wing Attack." Billy calmly ordered. Two long darts of pure ice came shot forth from a swing of the wing. Aquila hovered in mid-air as the darts approached. With two mighty swipes, broke the attack. Shards of shattered ice fell to the clay ground.
"Aquila, Takedown." He said, in an unwaivering tone. Flapping his muscular wings, the great raptor rushed toward the hovering ice bird. Pijon quickly wipped up a funnel of cold air, but Aquila flew right through it, tackling sharply into her. Thick black talons tore deep gashes in flesh. She attempted to retaliate back with an Ice Beam. That idea was terminated by two blunt blows delivered by Aquila's wings.
Not a good way to start this off. Pijon was his best air fighter, but was just mauled by Aquila's pure strenght. He had more ice types in reserve, Aquila would fall. He tossed out Rapurasu's capture ball. Raising her slender gem blue neck, she lightly sighed. "Rapurasu, Ice Beam."
A single gust was what Aquila created in an effort to redirect the path of the incoming ice. True it's path stayed, covering much of Aquila in a cold shell. Billy swapped in pokemon, stunning Erik with his selection: A Saidon, swaying it's great bone horn around in the air.
"Surf." Erik would have to dispatch this one fast. From around Rapurasu's body, a wall of water formed. "Fissure." Was Billy's counter. His great bone rhino leapt into the air as best a half tonne creature could, crashing back down to earth. A thin wall of rock, several metres long, jutted up from under the clay, acting like a dam to the water as it held it back.
The two were temporarily seperated from the other, Rapurasu in her mini-resevoir and Rhydon behind the blockade. That meant Rapurasu had the advantage because of her ranged attacks, unless Saidon knew Hyperbeam, which it most likely did. "Rapurasu, Water Gun."
"Saidon, Fissure again." Poor Rapurasu never got the opportunity to fire her gun at Rhydon, as a similar thin vein of rock emerged from under the ground. Erik recalled her, not wanting to even think of the injuries sustained.
He made sure to send out Jugon into the still damp section of the field, although most of the water had spread out. Such a environmental change, however small it may be, might have a use later on. "Saidon, Horn Attack." Ramming through the stone wall as if it were soaked rags, the bone rhino charged toward Dewgong, each step rattling the clay ground.
"Jugon, combine your Aurora and Bubble beams." Lowering his head, the white sealion merged two attacks together at the tip of his horn, creating a dull pink sphere circled by a ring of blue. In a small flash of light, a stream of waterbubbles tightly packed around a core of ice erupted from the horn. The beam struck in the Saidon's chest, eroding away the bone armour and freezing into the pit. Clutching it's frozen armour plate, the Saidon toppled over.
Billy took a brief second to catch his breath, before turning his next pokemon loose. The tall yellow skinned Denryuu towered over Jugon. Oh god, not this. Erik cursed to himself, as the garnet orb attached to it's tail crackles in electrical energy. A single arc snapped from tail orb to wet clay. And Jugon happened to be on said soaked clay. One twitch, and he collapsed into a heap.
"Now." Erik's words were curt and to the point. This was Sandopan's turn in the battle order. The hedgehog threw himself head long into battle. Billy simply ordered one thing of his Denryuu. "Thunderpunch." The attack order so silent, it barely covered the distance between the trainer and pokemon, but the message was conveyed. Fist crackling with electrical energy, the tall yellow ram threw his fist down into the wet clay, discharging a fan of craggy whisps. Skillfully, Sandopan jumped over the spread of thunder, slashing into the attacker as he decended. The quick swiped knock Denryuu back a few paces, allowing Sandopan to land, and complete his triple combo with a fast, but lethal, Earthquake. The ram's legs buckled under the rumbling ground, emitting a distinct cracking sound. A fast change up is enacted by Billy. "Bakufun, go." Erik responded in kind. "Sandopan, back." His hedgehog made way for another pokemon to enter the field, Parushen.
Billy's lanky fire bear stood high and prominant on its two hind legs, towering over the compact Parshen. "Tackle." Bakufun made a charge at the heavily armoured oyster. Not taking a single order, Parushen opened up his shell further, and shut it around the flaming bear. A flashback of a fight previous hit Erik hard. Parushen was once in the exact same position, back in his fight with Kristy Lee. "Oh no. Parushen, let go."
But it was in vain. "Flare Detonation." Billy's words came devoid of any tone, near lifeless. Bakufun, caught in the damp clutches of Parushen, brushed it's fiery fur together. Before the mollusk could react, a red-white explosion consumed the pokemon. Chunks of calcium armour rained from ground zero as the smoke receeded, leaving a broken Parushen in it's wake. What Armouro had damaged earlier, was completely blownoff. All that was left of the once mighty armour, was simply a pair of shattered quarter hulls.
"Get in there." Erik rasped under his breath, recalling Parushen. As to which as burning hotter, Bakufun's fur or Sandopan's rage, remained argueable. Marching like a soldier moving in for war, Sandopan took to the field, an aura of intimidation all over him. A deep guttoral cry broke free of bodily restraints, and escaped into the air. He was off in a sprint. "Bakufun, Swift." Three stars stealthfully shoot from the flame bear. Tucking himself up into a ball, Sandopan became a rolling ball of flat quills breaking up the Swift stars up contact. He broke out of the roll, propelling himself into the air, hacking a claw across the face of Bakufun.
"Flamethrower." A stream, no a flood of scarlet fire burst from the bear's mouth, pouring over Sandopan. The hedgehog did his best to repress any angish felt, though it was of no use. Light brown flesh burned, turning a raw red, and a blistered charcoal. Pressing claws together, pain was returned in full, as Sandopan swing downward.
The thick beam blade was like no other produced, and would have surely beheaded the Bakufun had it hit the neck and not the base of the shoulders. The deep flesh wound exposed virgin bone to the cruel air, washing waves of agony through out the bear's body. It sank claws into the soften clay, thrusting forward with the top part of the head outstretched. Sandopan saw this coming, and with a single spin kick, leveled the incoming bear.
Billy retracted his pokemon, calmy despite nearly seeing it killed twice from the same pokemon. Taking one pokeball from his belt, Billy knew he could end everything in a few short attacks. "Kairyuu!" His deep shout carried through the stadium, almost not needing a microphone's assistance. A hush fell over the crowd with the appeareance of the pale orange dragon, afloat on pathectically small wings for the size of her body. For any that managed to capture a dragon, the rewards, as see, far out weighed the effort to raise them. Her shrill mornful cry split the air cleanly.
"Hyperbeam." Again, the whisper light volume. Two antennae high atop her head flickered in a lightstorm, the Kairyuu's special form of hyperbeam. Orange lids closed over hazel eyes, the storm growing all the more intense. A small sphere appeared in the space between the antennae, and fired. It wasn't a solid beam like most others, more like a thick mass of blue-black bolts forced into the cylindrical shape of a beam.
Sandopan slowly dig his claws into the clay, expecting the worst. What he got was much worse than the worst. The bolt beam struck heavily into his flesh, ripping though like a barb wire yanked against bare skin. Each and every component of the twisted mass bore and slashed an already beleagured body. To his knees he fell.
But no! That would not be the end of him. Sheer mental endurance surpassed physical exhaustion, rising his body from the grave. "Again." Listening to her master, the great dragon fired the beam once more. The lacerations worsened, brown skin staining in ruby red. The pain of torture increased to hellish proportions. But still he rose.
"Again." Billy's voice turned harder, aggitated at the fact that it didn't fall from the first beam. The third bolt brought a splattering of scarlet across the field, now staining the brown clay. Some of the stadium voiced their opinions of this shameful onslaught, hurling words of four letters at Billy and his dragon. "AGAIN!" His voice carried the essance of rage and hate. A forth massive bolt attack sprang from the lightstorm. Heavy thorn whips of energy shredded mangled flesh. The life was fading fast, as was the light of his existance. Once last cry of war and a thrust of his claw. A tragic splash in a pool of blood silenced the crowd for the briefest of instances.
And then it all broke down. Countless members in the audiance all throwing obsensities at once. A match had descended into utter anarchy. Erik boiled in rage, clutching a capture ball in his hand so tighty it could have shattered to pieces. Every muscle in his body cried bloody hell as his recalled the near gravely wounded Sandopan.
"You bastard!" Erik yelled, releasing his final pokemon. Thin foil wings flapped against his iron sides. The great Silver dragon turned to look at Erik, noticing the pool of blood on the clay. He recognized it from a place distant in time. His eyes met with Erik's. Then and there, he saw something hidden deep within his eyes, and something he had failed to see before. Looking back around, the Silver dragon's gaze of molevalence etched through Kairyuu. "You shalt die." Three words preceeded a wide burst of pure blue-white energy. Ungodly speed it possessed, and left zero reaction time for the great marine dragon. A dull thud accompanied a bloodflower. The once proud Kairyuu plummeted to her knees.
The assault continued. Multitudes of thin blue-white beams shot from the Silver dragons mouth, merging at the crippled dragon in a nova-like explosion. When the light died down, the body of the dragon lay, just like Sandopan, on the absolute brink of life.
A pindrop could be heard. Nobody fully comprehened the brutal abuse of two pokemon. But still they watched. "Have you had enough?" The Silver dragon bellowed. "Or must I destroy another?" Through his commanding voice, the dragon made the full impression clear he was not too be taken lightly.
"I... I..." Billy stammered.
"Out with it!"
"I forfeit." His words barely audiable, Billy Sheas retracts the broken remains of his Kairyuu. Erik, for what it mattered, and won.
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"Get out of my sight." Erik cursed at the media, as his pushed his way through a swarm of reporters. All the same questions and mic shoving in his face began fraying nerves. "How does it feel..." One started off in the usual manner, until Erik cut him off.
"How would it feel if I shoved that mic clear up somewhere. And for the last time, get the cameras out of my face." That was not a warning, as Erik swiftly elbowed the nearest videocam into the person operating it. The security line didn't come quickly enough, for both parties involved. A few more mangy reporters fell to his offense before reaching this line of security guards at the airport. Like a dam, the men in blue did their best to hold back the paparatzzi.
"Damn idiots, give them a mic and they trade in their decency." Erik cursed to himself for the nth time, flashing the airport personnel his plane ticket and passport. His flight was bound for South America. Caracus, Venezula to be exact. On the reverse side of that note Guy had given to him a while back held information on the global leagues. The Purple League his next destination.
The stewartess took his coat and bags, placing them into the overhead. He would have a long flight to maul a few things over in his mind. For one, the fessiability of Sandopan ever competing again. Billy's Kairyuu had beaten him to within the last inch of his life. If he was to ever battle again, the recovery time would be astonishingly long and hellish.
Then came the other main though on his mind. That silver dragon. Erik had expected him to attack, but not with such blatant disregard for another's safety. Granted, he did what Billy did, but that was besides the point. Though, the dragon seemed to act on his own feel will to assist Eric, which was most puzzling. Even more so, was the look he gave him before tearing apart Kairyuu. It was like he knew him from somewhere, sometime.
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Deep in the heart of a sweltering jungle, a great beast rested, until now. Rising, broad scales of blood scarlet reflected in the light pouring in through openings in the ceiling and walls. Slowly, the beast marched to the nearest window in the wall, looking out at the emerald tree tops of the tropical plants. "They are coming..." That was all it said.
End Episode #13
Pokemon Report
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Aquila
The biggest raptor around, easily capable of hauling down most aerial fighters, ie Erik's Snow Pidgeon. Actually, there are two types of Aquila. The North American sub-species (the one in this chapter), based off Bald Eagles, and the European sub-species, which are based off the Golden Eagle. The main difference, the European is slightly larger.
Aurora Bubblebeam
Similar to a Bubblebeam, just with a core of ice replacing the water beam that the bubbles surround.
Hyperbolt
A variant to the normal Hyperbeam. Comprised of many small jagged beams, designed to slash and tear flesh.
Translations
Denryuu = Ampharos
Bakufun = Typhlosion
Burakki = Umbreon
Kairyuu = Dragonite