Sunburst: Thank you for the review. As a author I always tend to see the worst in my stories so it's nice to see that's it might not be as bad as I imagine it in my head.
bwburke94: Sorry for the similar name, but to be fair I came up with the name before I realised it was arleady used in a game and it was either that or Pokemon Paradise and that also had arleady been taken by Pokemon Gates To Infinity.
Anthony Staffenhagen: Hope you enjoy both World of Elestia and the coming chapters of Daughter of Time. And yeah I had to throw a reference to Zelda somewhere, it's actually my favorite game series of all time. I'm kind of shocked I haven't made a fanfic about it but I guess despite my love for it inspiration never struck me.
In case you haven't seen my edited note in the last chapter. World of Elestia: The Winter Dragon is now avalaible on Fictionpress! you can read it here. s/3343678/1/World-of-Elestia-The-Winter-Dragon-Book-1-Spring. Also I decided to start posting both Daughter of Time and World of Elestia on Ao3 to get my stories as exposed as possible.
Okay, okay. this is the last time I'm advertising my original story. I'm sure some of you are arleady annoyed about all the advertisement I did in the last few chapters. But I have to advertise it somehow if I want some feedback and start writting seriously.
But enough about shameless self promotion, you're here for some Pokemon and that's what I'm delivering so enjoy the chapter.
The day had come, as soon as they all woke up the group of three trainers and their twelve Pokemon made their way toward the large stadium smack dab in the middle of the entire city. They had to walk through a large corridor before they came across a bored looking Gardevoir wearing glasses.
All three of the stared incrediously at the Pokemon. It wasn't just because she was wearing glasses but also because she didn't looked like a normal Gardevoir her green head and green arms were replaced by a blue hue. When she noticed them the Gardevoir sighed and putted an irritated scowl on her face.
''Yeah, yeah, I'm a shiny Pokemon, yada yada yada. I get the same reaction everytime, can we just get this over with?'' She said curtly.
The group looked sheepish and Luna was the one to break the ice. ''We're here to register for the tournament.'' At this the shiny Gardevoir sighed and gave them three sheets of paper and pens.
The three trainers filled the paper as quick as they could it was filled with basic question. Like what was their names, what Pokemon were they gonna use, how old were they and for some reasons they also asked if they were honorary Pokemon. To that question both Paradox and Elliot answered yes while Luna answered no.
As soon as they were done they gave the paper to the shiny Gardevoir and she quickly read over them. But then she frowned. ''Each of you have only four Pokemon which is okay for most of the tournament but you won't be able to participate in the final if you make it that far.''
''We're planning to use each other Pokemon in case that happen.'' Luna replied immediately and the shiny Pokemon frowned.
''That is highly irregular, but fine. But next time you come here you better have a full team because I won't be so lenient, understood?'' With a gulp the trio nodded their heads in understanding.
Before the tournament could really begin they had to hold preliminaries to weed out the weaker teams. Nothing really important happened during that time. Paradox, Elliot and Luna curb-stomped all the teams that challenged them. None of them had seen Croagunk and were hoping that maybe he hadn't showed up.
But that hope was dashed away after the preliminaries ended when a Loudred presented all the teams that had made it. Sure enough just as Paradox had predicted Croagunk was acting as the trainer of his team.
Before any real matches could begin the announcer had rounded up the eight teams that made it out of the preliminaries and made them walked into the stadium. Paradox almost froze in the spot as she walked into the battlefield and saw an enormous crowd of Pokemon cheering as they came into view. The announcer walked in front of them and took a microphone in his hand.
''Ladies and gentlemon welcome to the weekly tournament of power!'' The announcer which happened to be the same Loudred as earlier yelled in the microphone which made Paradox cover her ears in pain. But the crowd seemed to enjoy his loud voice as they cheered even louder than before. ''Now with this week tournament you're all in for a treat! Because today our Queen Ho Oh has decided to attend the tournament!'' Just as he said that the legendary Phoenix flew overhead and landed in a large seat reserved for her. The crowd went wild as she extended her wings and screeched loudly for everyone to hear.
Once the crowd had calmed down the Loudred began to yell once again. ''But that's not all! We have another guest coming all the way from Hoenn! Everyone please welcome the lady of hopes and dreams herself, Jirachi!''
Suddenly a bright light focused on a small Pokemon. And Paradox had to admit Jirachi was one of the cutest legendary she knew, along with Mew and Celebi but she might be biased for that last one. Someone had putted a microphone in front of the legendary Pokemon so she could give a speech of some kind but the wish Pokemon had her eyes closed and everyone in the stadium could hear her snore.
Everyone sweatdropped as a Greninja ran toward her and tried to wake her up. ''Huh? What? Where am I?!... Oh right hello everyone. Arceus says I haven't realised enough wishes lately, because I'm always sleeping on the job. So I thought I would give a wish to the winners of this tournament to make it more exciting. Now with that see you at the final.'' As soon as she finished talking she had closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep again.
The same Greninja as earlier quietly dragged her away and everyone sweatdropped again. ''Anyway! Now that the presentation are done we will go to our first match. The first Match is going to be Team Elliot vs Team Luna!''
Both trainers were shocked at this. They were so busy looking if Croagunk had made it that they didn't even checked who they were fighting and now they realised one of them would be eliminated for certain since they had to fight each other. That would be one less chance to stop Croagunk.
But then Luna took a serious expression and turned toward the Luxio. ''No matter what, we must fight with our full strenght. If we want to beat Croagunk the best one of us must go ahead. Don't hold back just because you don't want to hurt my feelings, there's too much at stake.''
Elliot seemed to hesitated for a second but then he smiled determinedly and nodded toward the Zoroark. Paradox walked away with the rest of the teams and for a second she looked back at them with a worried frown but then she smiled when both of them gave her a thumbs up... Well Elliot tried anyway but it was kind of hard to do with paws.
Luna and Elliot walked in opposite direction until they both reached a place with a small white rectangle on the ground. The Zoroark was the first to make a move as she pointed toward her alolan Vulpix.
''Snowbell I choose you!'' The white Vulpix leaped toward the grassy battlefield with a excited smile on his face.
Elliot seemed to think for a moment. ''Alright Thomas I choose you!'' He pointed toward the Growlithe.
The canine seemed surprised at his choice. ''Oh my gosh I didn't expect to be chosen so soon! My first official battle, this is amazing!'' He said excitedly as he ran into the battlefield and the Luxio couldn't help but chuckle at his enthusiasm.
''Alright Thomas use Leer!'' Elliot yelled toward his new Pokemon.
Luna smirked in response. ''Snowbell use Mist!'' She yelled toward the white Vulpix. He proceeded to cover himself in a blanket of cold mist. The cold temperature did not bother him since he was made to live in cold environments. But more importantly the white blanket stopped any attempts at lowering his defense.
Elliot cursed under his breath, Luna had reacted so fast that she had completely negated his plan. ''What do I do now mister Elliot?'' Thomas asked his trainer with an unsured frown. As he looked at the young Growlithe he pulled himself together. Losing his cool now wouldn't give the little Growlithe any confidence in his new trainer. If lowering defense didn't work then he would just have to take the upper hand with his type advantage!
''Thomas what fire attack do you know?'' Elliot really liked being able to understand Pokemon usually when he caught a new Pokemon he had to just guess.
''I know Ember and Flame Wheel.'' Thomas replied while looking down as if he was ashamed he didn't know better attacks. But Elliots smiled that would be more than enough. If it was against any other of Luna's Pokemon he might have been in trouble. but both Pokemon in the field right now were pretty young so they were pretty much at the same level as each other. Snowbell had a bit more experience but they had the type advantage, he hoped that would be enough.
''Alright then throw Embers at it until I tell you to stop!'' Elliot ordered.
''Snowbell dodge the attacks!'' Luna countered. The snow white Vulpix managed easily dance between all the volleys of fire that were sent his way. But after a while Luna could see he was getting tired from dodging so much. She sighed, she had a plan in mind. But it unfortunately relied on a move they didn't had the time to practice as much as she would have liked. She hoped it worked. ''Alright use Double Team!''
Snowbell managed to created dozens of copies of himself and the Growlithe looked around in confusion and fear as he was surrounded by all side by identical Vulpix. Luna smirked at the Pokemon confusion.
''Alright Snowbell, use Aurora Beam!'' The Zororark yelled. Every Vulpix created a beam of multicolored light aimed toward the Growlithe. The poor canine was too confused to dodge and took the full brunt of the attack.
Elliot looked at his Pokemon with a concerned look. ''Thomas! Are you alright?!''
''I'm... alright.'' He said while panting. Once he had recovered the dog Pokemon realised only one of the beam had actually hurted him the others were illusions. Without hesitation he threw an Ember attack toward the Vulpix that had hurted him but his eyes widened in shock when the Vulpix he had aimed at simply disappeared in a puff of smoke.
How had he switched place arleady? He hadn't seen him move at all! Elliot on the other hand looked at all the clone and began to notice something was off. When it clicked in his head he grinned and pointed to a specific Vulpix.
''Thomas use Flame Wheel on this one! He's the only one that has a shadow!'' The canine immediatly followed his command and surrounded himself in fire before charging toward the unsuspecting Vulpix.
When the attack made contact the real Vulpix was sent skidding on the ground before his shaky legs finally gave out and he fell on the ground. The many clones of Snowbell all began to dissapear and the poor unconscious Vulpix with swirly eyes was left alone on the ground.
''Vulpix is unable to battle! The first round go to team Elliot!'' The announcer yelled loudly. And the crowd all clapped in response. Luna cursed under her breath she knew she shouldn't have relied on a move they hadn't mastered yet. She was about to put Snowbell in his Pokeball but as she put her hand where her Pokeballs usually were she just found empty air.
''Oh right, no Pokeball.'' With a sigh she ran toward Snowbell and took him in her arms before bringing him with her in the painted rectangle area dedicated for trainers. As soon as she did that however she was surprised to see an a Chansey run toward her. The Chansey took her Pokemon with her when she saw the look of confusion the Chansey explained herself.
''Ah you must be a new here right?'' At this Luna nodded. ''Well usually trainers put their Pokemon in their Pokeball until they can heal them and that stop the Pokemon from suffering any longer. But we don't have that luxury here, so we will take your Pokemon to the Pokemon Center to be healed immediatly after they faint, now if you excuse me.'' With that the Chansey ran away and Luna was left with trying to choose her next Pokemon.
Luna wanted to use a specific Pokemon unfortunately the Pokemon in question wasn't with her right now. But she had asked the shiny Gardevoir if there was a way to use her and the Gardevoir had said she only needed to call her name and the stadium staff would accommodate for her. She didn't know what she meant but she tried right now.
''Aria I choose you!'' Luna yelled, at first nothing happened. But then the ground began to shake and a hole opened in the middle of the stadium said hole was fillled with water. Without any warnings a figure came out of the water splashing water in every directions in the process. Once the ripples in the water calmed down a familiar Lapras was floating there with her usual posh smile.
''Look at that! Team Luna has revealed a new Pokemon and it's a water type! That is very bad news for team Elliot's Growlithe!'' The Loudred screamed excitedly.
''Aria let's not give them any chances, use Rain Dance!'' Luna ordered to her Pokemon,
At this the Larpas sighed and developed a frown on her face. ''As you wish.'' With an embarassed expression Aria performed a little dance in the water and when she was done rain began to pour in the entire stadium. Some Pokemon in the audience groaned as they were being drenched by the Lapras move.
''Thomas do you have any move that could deal with her?'' Elliot asked with a worried frown.
''Well I did learn Iron Tail a while ago but I'm not sure I completely mastered it.'' The Growlithe responded nervously.
Elliot nodded and with a determined frown he yelled. ''Alright then! Use Iron Tail!''
Luna smirked confidently in response. ''Aria use Hydro Pump!'' She yelled toward the Lapras.
Elliot eyes widened at that. ''Thomas dodge!'' The Lapras spited out an enormous stream of water that headed straight toward the Growlithe. But much to Elliot relief the little canine managed jump out of the way of the powerful attack just in time and deliver a strong blow on the head of the Lapras with his tail.
But Luna didn't looked worried at that. ''Okay then try to dodge this, use Surf!''
''Oh no.'' Thomas whispered as a gigantic wave of water barrelled toward him. There was nowhere to dodge and so the canine was forced to take the full hit. He yelped in pain as the water hit him and the wave was strong enough that it carried him all the way at the feets of Elliot.
Thomas laid on his side unmoving the only sound he could create was a little groan of pain. ''Growlithe is unable to battle! The second round goes to team Luna!'' The announcer yelled and the crowd cheered, but some of them were still a bit miffed that Luna had commanded her Pokemon to make it rain in the stadium.
Just as with Luna, the same Chansey from earlier ran toward the fallen canine and picked him up in her arms before running back from where she came from. Elliot had a thoughtful look on his face. How would he deal with Lapras? The safest choice was probably Zeus but Luna probably expected him to pick the Flaafy. So he decided to be a little more unpredictable.
''Saria I choose you!'' Luna had a surprised look on her face as the Chikorita ran toward the battlefield.
''What are you doing choosing Chikorita? Are you throwing the towel? You know Lapras is part ice type right?'' Luna asked with a confused expression.
''Saria is my first and most trusted Pokemon! It will take more than a type advantage to take her down!'' He said with a confident grin.
Luna shook her head. ''Maybe if she was evolved I could take her as a threat but there's no way a little Chikorita can take down my Lapras. Aria use Ice Beam!''
''Saria dodge!'' But the attack had been too quick and the Chikorita yelled in pain as the cold ice clinged to her body. Fortunately it did not freezed her completely and she managed to shake the ice away from her body. ''Okay I didn't want to use it right away but screw it, use Sunny Day!'' The rain was banished away and was now replaced by a strong piercing sunlight. A lot of Pokemon in the crowd were relieved at the change of weather.
Luna was confused, why would he bother teaching a move that make Fire type moves stronger to a grass type? But her eyes widened in horror at the next command of the Luxio. ''Alright! Now use Solar Beam!''
The Chikorita smirked. ''Ah! You thought I was just a weak little Chikorita right? Well then take this!'' She said before throwing a huge beam of sunlight toward the Lapras.
''Aria go underwater!'' Luna yelled, the Lapras immediatly did as commanded and the huge beam of light harmlessly pass where the Lapras used to be.
Elliot smirked at this. ''She will have to emerge eventually! Saria as soon as Aria come back blast her with another Solar Beam!''
Luna cursed under her breath but then she had an idea. ''Aria emerge and immediatly use Hydro Pump!'' The Lapras errupted from the water, as soon as she did Saria sent a huge beam of sunlight toward her. The transport Pokemon immediatly countered it with a huge torrent of water. The two attacks collided and created an explosion in the middle of the battlefield.
''Amazing! It seems like Lapras and Chikorita are evenly matched despite their size difference!'' The Loudred screamed excitedly. The Lapras growled in frustration how could this little runt be so powerful?! Was that the power of trained Pokemon? Would Luna be able to make her that much stronger?
''Chikorita Solar Beam again!'' Elliot yelled again and immediatly Aria tried to counter it with another Hydro Pump but unlike Chikorita who regained her stamina with the strong sunlight she had spent a lot of energy with the last attack and it came to no surprise when the Solar Beam overpowered her attack and she was hit by the powerful grass type move.
Aria cried out in pain as the move did critical amount of damages. How was she supposed to beat this?! The Chikorita was able to spam her strongest attack as much as she wanted there was nothing she could do against this!
But her chance came when the sun stopped emitting such a strong glare and returned to it's normal state. Seeing this Elliot glance warily at the sky. ''Chikorita do another Sunny day!''
But before she could do as commanded Luna snarled. ''Oh no you don't! Aria use Ice Beam, quick!'' Before she could do another Sunny Day the Chikorita was suddenly struck by a beam of ice that completely frozed her to the bone.
''Saria no!'' The Luxio screamed in defeat when he saw his Pokemon completely frozen in a block of ice. The announcer was about to declare Luna the victor, but just before he could do it something happened that shocked everyone.
The frozen form of Saria was suddenly engulfed into a white light and the ice all around her began to melt. Finally the Pokemon broke the remaining ice and roared as she felt a newfound power. The Chikorita was gone and in it's place stood a much bigger Pokemon.
''I can't believe it! Just when all seemed lost Chikorita evolved into Bayleef and literally broke the ice!'' The Loudred yelled in the microphone making the two trainers winced at the loud noise. The crowd on the other hand went wild at the newly evolved Bayleef.
Elliot smiled proudly toward Saria. She had always been insecure about how weak she thought she was but seeing her like this he could see that she had overcome some of her doubts about herself. ''Alright! Saria let's finish this with a Body Slam!''
''Aria use Body Slam too!'' Luna yelled, the two Pokemon collided against each other at full speed. The impact sent both of them crashing at opposite directions causing two clouds of smoke in the process. When the smoke cleared both Pokemon had fainted and laid unmoving.
''It's a double knock out! The two Pokemon were evenly matched until the very end!'' The announcer cried and the crowd began to chant their name.
''Aria! Saria! Aria! Saria! Aria! Saria!'' Ir was only now that Elliot realised the name he had given to the Bayleef was very similar to the name of the Lapras, oops? He hoped Luna wouldn't be too mad he honestly hadn't noticed before.
Just like before Chansey came into the battlefiled but she frozed when she saw the size of the two Pokemon. With a sigh she began to whistle loudly. A raichu came toward her but something was strange about that Raichu. His fur was a darker shade of orange, his eyes was completely blue and he was floating on his own tail.
The Raichu turned toward the Lapras and Bayleef and used his Psychic power to transport the two unconscious Pokemon. The Chansey followed closely behind him. Elliot was confused, since when could Raichu have psychic powers? But shaking his head he dismissed it he had more important things to worry about.
''We are now in the final round! Whoever knock out the next Pokemon will win the entire match! Who will the trainers choose as their last Pokemon?!'' Both trainer seemed lost in thoughts. Both of them had only two choices At first Luna was about to send Noelle but as she turned toward the Pokemon she could see she was watching the crowd nervously and she was trembling in fear as Pokemon began to watch her since she was one of the potential canditate.
Noelle was her strongest Pokemon but her nervousness from the crowds could cost her the battle right now. She would need to work on her shyness for the next round that is if she managed to beat Elliot. With her choice made she pointed toward her Glaceon.
''Eve, I choose you!'' She could hear Noelle sighing in relief at this and the pure ice type made her way into the battlefield.
Once he saw what Pokemon Luna had choosen Elliot didn't even have to think about who to choose. ''Ivy, I choose you!'' The Espeon sighed and walk toward the battlefield.
Once the two Eeveelutions were close enough to hear each other Ivy rolled her eyes. ''First Vivi and now you. Why do they always make us fight each other? Don't they know we're sisters?''
Eve shrugged with a smile. ''I think it's symbolic you know. since we're all Eeveelutions and they catched us at the same time. Just like how humans usually make their starters fight every chances they get.''
''Well I find it silly, beside we all know who's going to win this fight you never managed to beat me in a battle.'' Ivy said in a haughty tone.
At this Eve glared at her older sister. ''That was when we were Eevee, I'm a lot stronger now that I'm a Glaceon!''
At this the Espeon rolled her eyes with a smug smirk. ''Oh please I'm a psychic type, one of the strongest type in the world. I'm not saying Glaceon is bad, but you don't stand a chance.''
''We'll see about that.'' Eve replied angrily. It was personal now she had to prove she could be stronger than her older sister no matter what!
''Ivy start with Swift!'' Elliot shouted at his Pokemon.
''Eve Mirror Coat!'' Luna yelled toward her own Eeveelution. Eve took the full hit of the Swift attack. But once it was done a mirror-like object appeared in front of her and replicated the attack with double the power. The Espeon cried in pain as the attack hit her.
''Ivy! Are you alright?!' The Luxio asked in concern. His Pokemon responded by wincing before nodding her head.
''Eve use Baby-Doll Eyes!'' Elliot was confused at this didn't Luna knew that Espeon was a special attacker why did she waste her time by making a move that had no purpose? ''Alright now use Icy Wind!''
''Ivy dodge!'' The Espeon followed command and dodged the attack but Luna didn't looked worried.
''Eve use Ice Fang!'' Why was she spamming attack like that? She wasn't even waiting for a opportunity to strike she just carelessly use move left and right. It didn't make any sense to the Luxio.
''Ivy dodge again!'' And sure enough the Espon easily dodge as the Glaceon but empty air.
''Eve use Barrier!'' The Zoroark yelled and now Elliot was really confused first a move that lowered the Espeon's attack and now one that raised her own defense? Did she truly think Espeon had a powerful physical move? The only physical move she had was Quick Attack and it wasn't that powerful.
But then after Eve had used the last move Luna developed a smirk that sent chills down his spine. ''Ivy use Psybeam!'' He better deal with her before she enact whatever plan she had.
''Eve dodge this and use Last Resort!'' As the Glaceon dodged the beam of psychic power the Luxio face pales. Last Resort? Now he understood why she had been spamming moves that didn't make sense. Last Resort was a extremely powerful move, but you could only use it once the Pokemon had used all the moves he or she know. Most people didn't bother with the move saying it was too tedious to use. But it could be a very powerful trump card in good hands and now he saw that he had been completely outplayed.
He had been so busy being on the defensive and trying to figure out Luna's plan that he completely failed to go on the offensive until it was too late. The Luxio winced when the Espeon was hit byt the devastating attack.
Ivy was still standing after the attack but she was wobbly and completely dazed. She had a proud expression on her face as she looked at her youngest sister. ''You became so strong Eve... I'm...so... Proud of... you.'' And with that the psychic type fell on the ground with her eyes closed.
The young Glaceon looked at the unconscious form of her eldest sister in shock before a smile crossed her face. She had finally proven to be strong enough! But she knew it wouldn't be the last time her and Ivy would fight she would surely try to become stronger and get her revenge for this. But she could enjoy her victory while it lasted.
''And Espeon has fainted! Team Luna will advance to the semi-finals!'' The crowd cheered and hollered and Luna waved around with a proud smile. Eve ran toward her trainer and jumped in her arms.
''You were amazing Eve! I wouldn't have won without you!'' Luna exclaimed with a proud expression and the Glaceon smiled happily in response.
Once they went outside they saw Paradox she was watching a TV screen that displayed the battlefield. Maple was laying on the couch with her her head resing on the Braixen's legs as she snored silently. Paradox smiled at Luna and Elliot when she noticed they were there. ''Congratulation on your victory Luna! You were amazing too Looker.''
''Can you stop calling me that? It's supposed to be my codename if you always say it everyone will know my secret identity.''
Paradox rolled her eyes. ''What secret identity? You don't even cover your face, everyone would recognise you the instant they saw you anyway.'' The Braixen replied and to that Elliot had nothing to say because she was right. Maybe he should learn to disguise himself? But that was a thought for another time.
''So who are you going to fight Paradox?'' At this she shrugged.
''I'm battling a Wigglytuff, I don't really know what his team is like.'' Luna and Elliot shared an incredulous look. A Wigglytuff Pokemon trainer? That was a pretty weird concept. Wigglytuff were cheerful creatures that had their head in the cloud most of the time. Would one of them have enough focus to be a good trainer?
The Luxio and the Zoroark made their way to another door and the room there looked like another Pokemon Center they could see the Chansey that carried their unconscious Pokemon talking to an Audino.
''Nurse joy you work here too? Or are you another Nurse Joy that also happened to turn into an Audino?'' Elliot asked curiously.
The pink Pokemon shook her head with a smirk. ''No as far as I know I'm the only Nurse Joy of this city I work here everytime they hold a tournament.''
Luna looked confused at this. ''So there's no one working at the other Pokemon Center right now? Isn't that dangerous?''
Nurse Joy shrugged at that. ''Not really every Pokemon know where to find me when the tournament is held and even if they somehow don't I have written a note and put it on the door. Pokemon rarely fight each other on days like this, they're too busy watching the tournament unfold. But in case something does happen we can still take care of them here.''
''It must be incovenient to have only one nurse for an entire city. I think Goldenrod city has like at least three Pokemon Centers.'' Elliot said with a thoughtful frown.
''I'm not the only nurse. Chansey is also a very competent nurse she help me when there's too much patients and she's always here with me when we hold a tournament since we can expect a lot of fainted Pokemon today. But yes it does get a little inconvenient sometime. But fortunately most of the time Pokemon fight one on one outside of tournaments. So we don't have to deal with mutliple hurted Pokemon at the same time like the nurse in human cities do.''
''Still that seem pretty dangerous for such a big city.'' Luna replied and the nurse reluctantly nodded.
''Yes I guess you're right, but it's not like you will get a lot of Nurse Joy willing to stay as a Pokemon for the rest of their life. We might recruit a few more Chansey and maybe they could open a Pokemon Center of their own. Unfortunately most Chansey are taught to be assistants so they would need to learn to be more independent first.'' Nurse Joy said with a frown on her face.
''By the way how long will it take for our Pokemon to be healed?'' Elliot asked her.
''Well for Luna they should be ready in a few minutes. But I'm sorry to say your Pokemon have lower priority mister Elliot since your participation in the tournament is over.'' At first the Luxio was angry that the nursed dare say his Pokemon were less important but then he relaxed himself. No it did make sense, Luna's Pokemon needed to be in top form for when they had their next battle. His Pokemon on the other hand had all the time in the world to recover so the nurse could leave them alone for a while. He didn't liked that his Pokemon were left unatended but he understood that the nurse couldn't be everywhere.
''Well with that said me and Chansey should really return to work. Your Pokemon will be ready for your next battle miss Luna, so come a few minutes before then alright?'' The Zoroark nodded and the two pink Pokemon walked throught a door and closed it behind them.
Once they returned to the room where Paradox was waiting they saw that Croagunk was fighting another trainer. He was using the Kadabra that had teleported him away yesterday. They saw the Psychic picking up a Tauros with his mind and slammed him on the ground with a loud thud. The Tauros laid unmoving.
''Incredible! Kadabra just beated three Pokemon on his own! Team Croagunk advance with a flawless victory!'' All three people in the room gulped nervously. How were they supposed to beat someone that could beat an entire team with a single Pokemon?
''I thought Croagunk was a joke yesterday but the Pokemon working for him sure aren't'' Maple said from her spot on the couch having just now woken up.
''Maybe his opponenet is just really weak?'' Paradox suggested with a hopeful expression.
''I hope so because otherwise every honorary Pokemon in this city is in big trouble.'' Luna said with a grim expression. The Zoroark then looked around the room. ''Noelle I know you're here, show yourself.'' The ice and ghost type appeared out of nowhere and she had a basheful look on her face. ''Look I didn't choose you last round because I knew you were nervous. But next round we're going against Croagunk we can't afford to lose and you're my strongest Pokemon so you will need to fight for me.''
''B-but there so many Pokemon looking at us.'' The Froslass replied with a nervous squeak.
''I know but just imagine there's no one other than you and your enemy.'' Luna said with an encouraging smile.
''I don't know if I can.'' Noelle replied with a shameful expression.
The Zororark sighed at this. But then she had a wondeful idea and she whispered about it in Noelle ear. The Pokemon immediatly perked up. ''Maybe that might work.'' The Froslass said with a shy smile.
Pretty soon it was Paradox's time to battle, she was the last match before the quarter final. Before she could make it into the battlefield she bumped into the Wigglytuff and his team. Accompanying him was a Chatot, a Bidoof, a Dugtrio, a Sunflora, a Corpfish and finally a Grovyle.
''Hello happy friend! I hope we will have a fun battle!'' The Wigglytuff said cheerfully.
''Umm, sure I hope so too.'' Paradox replied a little confused. He sounded like he wanted to make friends more than he wanted to battle. If that was the case why was he here?
Once outside they made their way to each of their corner and the same Loudred as before began to yell in the microphone. ''Alright here we are the last match before the quarter-final! On one side we have team Paradox! And on the other we have the legendary Wigglytuff's guild!''
The crowd of Pokemon all cheered exctedly at that. Paradox for her part was confused, what was Wigglytuff's guild? As if sensing her question the announcer began to explained.
''For the uninitiated Wigglytuff's guild is a group of Pokemon that acomplish missions outside of our city into humans territory. They're the ones who have found the technology necessary to create honorary Pokemon! On multiple occasions they have infiltrated the most dangerous labotary in the world! a place so confusing the humans call it the Mystery Dungeon!''
Paradox was shocked at the revelation the Pokemon in front of her didn't really looked that impressive but if what the announcer said was true they were kind of a big deal. Paradox gulped, the road to victory had become even more complicated...
I think I said a while ago that I took some inspiration from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers for this story. Well next chapter will probably be the most direct reference to that game in the whole story.
In case you're wondering no this is not the exact same Wigglytuff's guild but more like an alternate version of them that live in the regular Pokemon world. But personality-wise they should be mostly the same.