StevenZ12: Hello y'all, StevenZ12 here. Here I am for the 5th chapter of the story. I'm really happy about the fact that the readers seems to be enjoying the story and also happy that I can still use the Pokemon Sage Pokedex. By the way, have you guys seen the latest Mega Pokemon, Lagann bee and Bird Jesus? I have a feeling that these two will become quite popular. Tell me your thoughts on it on reviews for example as I have no Idea on polls loll. Anyway let's get this chapter under way.
In the last chapter, Andre and Snow (although unconscious at that time), entered the Green Oak Pokemon Lab and national reserve. Once she had woken up, they were presented with the starters as the Regional Professor Forrest made the circumstance speech. As the morning arrived, Snow decided to take Foliat as her new partner and Andre decided to take an ever forgotten Aguade as his starter and first Pokemon. Snow didn't lose time and challenged him to a Pokemon battle.
Chapter 5 Aguade vs. Foliat
(Andre's P.O.V- 11:30 am)
I couldn't have felt happier than this moment. And it's with eagerness that I looked at my water type partner and said: ″Yes Snowhead, I know. I challenge you to a Pokemon battle. Prepare yourself.″
″This ought to be interesting. What do you think Gilla?″ Sven whispered to his purple Pokemon who answered by an approving ″(Gil!)″
The Pokemon professor looked at both of us and smirked. ″Well since I still want my place to be intact as you will fight, I suppose that we can move to our grass zone outside. The other Pokemon living here might want to watch a spar.″
I looked over to my white-haired friend and asked her if she was ok with it.
″No problem at all Andre. Get going though, unless you want Floral to attack you first″ she teased while dashing of, quickly followed by both Vulpix and Foliat, who could run rather quickly to compensate for her lack of flight abilities.
I smiled and ran after her, Aguade still in my arms.
We soon arrived to a great clearing. Big trees flourishing with luxuriant foliage, berry trees that incensed the place with sweet smells, a crystal clear water that flowed on a stream river nearby. The scenery complemented with some Pokemon sleeping or playing on the trees and some basculin swimming the river at counter current, as if they were training. Both I and Snow observed the scenery with wonder. We were amazed by the nature and the purity of his safeguard.
Unknown to us, the professor and the backpacker smiled and felt their chest filling with pride.
″We take pride of preserving nature here in this natural park. This is Nuevo's nature. Not all of our region is as breathtaking as it is represented here, but where it is, you'll be amazed by how human have learned to live with their natural environment and this, despite the advances of technology.″ Forrest calmly stated, arms crossed in approval.
″Now we would like you to battle, but be careful about your surroundings.″ Sven tipped, stepping in the middle of the two trainers with one red and green flag in each arms.
I looked and him and cocked my head to the side. ″Hum what are these for Sven?″
Snow looked at me like I had three head, but before she could answer… or cross the clearing to slap some knowledge into me, Sven beat her to the punch.
″These, my friend, are the flags I'll be using to signal our position to this flock of Necrow so they can take you to the spirit world″ He stated, dead-serious.
I felt my heart sink. ″S-spirit world… why would you do that?″ I answered before actually understand the dumbness of my question, having watched countless Pokemon matches on television. I slapped my forehead in realisation… hard.
″Oh have you finally eaten you dreams and woken up for real rookie?″ Sven teased, getting this time slapped by Gilla. ″(Dude, just ref, you're getting worse at this.)″
″Oh really Gil? I feel like I'm becoming even better and better″ Sven laughed before becoming instantly serious and collected, which made me and Snow jump a little, startled by his sudden change in attitude.
″ahem! The first match between these trainers will now commence. Trainers one step forward and state your name!″ the ref introduced.
″ Andre Cauthemoc Aegis!″ I shouted, striking a up-down foot pose.
″Snow Nightshade″ my travelling companion shouted back, striking her pose that included running her hand swiftly through her hair and finishing by a classic two finger salute.
Taking back the situation in his hand, the ref continued with the battle explanations.
″This battle will be conducted with one Pokemon each and no time limit. The Pokemon that will stay on the ground not twitching for 10 seconds will be declared KO and the trainer of the standing Pokemon will win the battle. Battle with respect and honor. Now send your Pokemon″
″Alright, come on out Floral!″ Snow said, sending her Pokemon forward. The little chick Pokemon growled cutely but did looked like quite a fighter.
I thought that this would be the perfect time to use my pokedex for the first time so I opened it and held the camera in front of me. The scanner recognized the form of Foliat and gave me the pokedex entry.
″( Foliat, the fledgling Pokemon. Although Foliat is unable to fly, it maintains the extremely high metabolism of its evolutions. It's often found feeding on sugar-rich fluids in plants and other Grass-types.)″
I nodded at the description and then sent my Aguade.
″Keep it salty Aguade!″ I eagerly roared, to that war cry, Aguade looked focused and clapped his hand together. A moment later, he looked at me with a demand in his eyes.
″(Agua! Aguade!)″ he seemingly asked, gesturing from Floral than to himself.
″What would you want little guy?″ I asked, unsure of that it wanted.
Thankfully, Sven came to my rescue. ″I think that Aguade wants a nickname just like Floral.″ He remarked.
I thanked him and turned back to my partner. ″Is that so?″
″(Aguade!)″ my Pokemon happily nodded.
″Then let's see. How do Iztatl sounds?″ I asked.
The professor raised an eyebrow and smirked, I didn't gave it much attention doe and shifted my attention back to my water starter just in time to intercept his crash course to my arms. He happily nuzzled me and then got back in the battle field.
Snow used this opportunity to scan my Aguade with her own pokedex.
″(Aguade, the Hatchling Pokemon. Its face is armored with hard rock salt. It uses its head like a hammer to break open nuts and block attacks.)″
″ Be careful Floral, he look like a tough customer.″ Snow warned, pulling her hair in a ponytail with a strap. That gave her a much fiercer appearance as she told me these words
″ I may be sweet, but underestimate me and you'll be on your knees faster than an Arcanine's Extremespeed attack!″ She almost cockily warned, a bright competitive gleam shining through her crystal eyes.
I was greatly taken aback by this. I gave myself a good two hand slap to focus or I would have stared in her eyes for hours without even noticing it. Yeah the magnetic power of her eyes were that bad, I will shamelessly admit it.
″Alright Izatl, let's go for the win!″ I eagerly shouted, getting in a fighting stance.
The ref, seeing that we were ready, gave us the signal we all waited for.
″Aguade vs. Foliat, battle, set, BEGIN!″ he indicated, raising both flags.
″Aguade, use scratch at full speed″ I commanded, clenching my fist then making the scratch motion.
″Foliat, growl!″ Snow countered swiftly.
Izatl went for a scratch attack but Foliat let go a very cute cry that seemingly made the water Pokemon feel bad and lessened his attack power.
″Keep ups them scratches coming Izatl, don't let up.″ I encouraged, making many swiping motion with my hands.
″Foliat, use growl once more then evade the claw swipes″ Snow commanded quickly as the birdie evaded more claw swipes coming her way.
″Change course! Izatl, get back and use water gun″ I commanded.
Izatl took many step backwards and shot a stream of mildly pressurised water to his opponent.
If the attack didn't do much damage, the leafy skin of Foliat started to dry up rather quickly. Foliat didn't like it and started to vainly scratch her body with her beak and wings.
Snow looked worried and surprised about that. ″Hey Floral, what's wrong? What did you do to her you bully?″ She asked her Pokemon before looking at my Aguade, a look of pure fury in her eyes. I couldn't answer much anyway, so I turned to the Pokemon professor.
″The Aguade line are Pokemon that have lived in extremely salty rivers and deltas. As a result, they have developed hard salt helmets and protrusion, as well as a body able to convert salt into rock. That means that they can raise the salt rate of her water attack to a high degree. It is enough to severely rash the skin of any grass or ground type Pokemon that possesses skin.″ The professor explained while I smiled at my Aguade.
″Hurray, let's keep it salty my friend. Use Water Gun once more.̋ I commanded, thrusting my fist forward.
″Foliat, run to gain speed and use peck!″ the white haired counter commanded, smirking and panting from the heat of the battle.
I didn't let up however. ″Izatl, prepare to intercept with scratch!″ I warned my white helmeted Pokemon, starting indeed to pant as well from the blazing feeling I felt. I knew I loved Pokemon battles. Seeing them in TV was already nice, but being there was a whole different story.
My friend stayed on her feet and warned her Foliat to watch out for the cross counter scratch that would follow her peck attack.
Proving to be much more resilient than what it looked like, Floral ran through the water gun attack and despite her terrible need to scratch herself landed a peck attack and was mildly affected by scratch, since my Aguade had his attack cut by around half. This attack, plus the effort of concentrating salt in his attack took a lot out of my starter.
″(Gua..Aguade…)″ He grunted, falling to one knee.
″Come on Izatl, you can stand up once more can you haibo?″ I cheered. ″We're almost there bro!″
This is where it became very difficult for me. I just understood just how good she was at deceive other. I looked to Snow's direction and her eyes gleamed strangely, mesmerizing me for a short period, but during that time, I could see that the same gleam of defiance had appeared. It didn't took me long to have a really bad feeling about it.
″That what you think Black Night!″ Foliat, Synthesis!″ She ordered.
My eyes became as blank as Parasect's ones. I knew what synthesis was since my mom's Tangrowth knew the move. I was more than surprised to see all damage inflicted to the fledgling disappear, same goes for her rashes.
″(Guade? Ag…)″ My water companion gawked, completely speechless.
When I finally got my speech back, I asked this simple question.
″What have happened, why did you restore so much vitality and why'd your Pokemon rashes disappear?″
(Omni's P.O.V)
During the fight, many Pokemon had gathered to see the skirmish. From grass dwellers to flying types, they were all represented in this spectator circle that formed throughout the battle. Forrest and Sven smiled at the girl's quick thinking.
″She might be an even gutsful trainer than you are Sven. She possesses strength″ Forrest noted to the backpacker, who slightly nodded in approval.
″Andre's doing well for his first battle, but to be honest, hiding Synthesis and using it right when Andre's had found a glimmer of hope, she's quite the manipulator.″ Sven added, turning back the battle.
(Andre's P.O.V)
Snow laughed, but this one wasn't the normal sweet laugh I knew. It was cocky and condescending, and made my heart sank because she was stating the truth. She had me completely fooled.
″Synthesis is a defensive move that heals a Pokemon health, I'm pretty sure you know that. But if you remember, this grass type move comes from the plants photosynthetic abilities. The intense sunlight raises the amount of stamina my Pokemon restores and creates, just like photosynthesis, a lot of water and sugar. In other words, it completely regulates any salt exceeds in any organs, and since skin is an organ, it cleans up any salt depot and evacuate it with the resulting water, healing the rashes in the process.″ She explained, completely baffling me.
″This is not happening…″ I said, feeling a sudden weakness in my knees and falling on them.
Exploiting that moment, Snow decided to put an end to the battle. ″Now Floral, take them out, use Absorb.″
″Stand your ground Izatl. Show them your inner strength!″ I cried out, standing up. I could feel tears of shame lurking their way to my eyes, given how she had played me like a fool, but I refused to give her the satisfaction of complete defeat.
″(Foliat! Foliiiiiiaaaaaaatttt)″ the pseudo-bird Pokemon grunted, releasing a tornado of grass energy that engulfed Aguade.
″(Guaaaaaaddddde)″ the salt lizard cried in pain. A long shriek of pain and fright, being caught in a maelstrom of pure grass energy with vampirism properties.
I stopped think starting this moment. I jumped, much to the surprise of Snow, Foliat and most probably all the spectators into the maelstrom and I felt the attack sucking my own stamina but I didn't care. I made my way to my partner who was weeping in fright and patted his back.
″I know it's scary Izatl. But I believe in you. Make her pay for what she did. Do it now!″ I whispered before feeling light headed from the attack effect and felt out of the storm with a big problem in my equilibrium.
″(Agu….)″ Aguade stuttered, before turning to Foliat and being engulfed in a light blue aura that blazed toward the sky and illuminated the entire clearing in a neon blue light.
Struggling to keep me standing, I saw Aguade looking at me with a smile. I returned him the smile and trusted forward with two fingers. At this, Aguade started to concentrate blue and red aura around him and stomped the ground, making electricity crack around him. I couldn't believe it. Aguade was performing the ever so sacred Dragon Dance.
I felt somehow his energy entering in me, clearing my senses so I could command him once again. I knew it most probably was his last strengths so I gritted my teeth, feeling strangely connected to my Pokemon and stood beside him, ready for the final act.
Snow looked at me, completely baffled by the recent events, she slapped her cheeks to get her focus back.
″ Foliat, don't let their will overpower us! Absorb into Peck to finish. I will give you credit for resilience Andre, but this battle is ours to win″ She shouted, trusting her fist forward as Floral jumped to release another green maelstrom.
″Aguade, cover your claws with hard salt and put all of your energy into it. Use dragon scratch″ I commanded, preparing my claw motion.
Foliat released the stream of green energy and jumped right in the middle of it as Aguade's right hand became entirely white and his claws became slightly longer. The blue and red light from the dragon dance fused together to make a purple veil that covered Aguade arm and he shot out at the encounter of the bird Pokemon.
(Aaaaaaaaaa!) Both I and Snow shouted, completely lost in the heat of the clash.
Both Pokemon collided, Foliat beak's longer and covered by a magnificent deep green smoke that had silvery spores in it and Aguade purple clad claw.
For a moment, a green and purplish light clashed each other, each rivaling in power and magnitude. In the middle of it all, Foliat's beak and Aguade's claws tried to overpower each other.
″You can do it Aguade, just a little harder my boy!″ I cheered with all my might.
″Blossom with power my little Foliat!″ Snow shouted, making a single palmed thrust motion with her hand.
As on cue, Aguade's light vanished and he was struck by the grass type, hard.
Like an arrow, the poor Pokemon flew straight at me and I caught it, the force of the impact made me fall over and trailed on some meters. When I looked to Izatl, he looked still conscious. So he lept over me and tried to resume the battle. Wobbling, he came to scratch Foliat, who had frozen in place, unable to believe that he could stand up and keep on fighting. All the Pokemon there fell silent. The unwavering resilience of the runty Aguade had completely made speech impossible for the viewers. The little salt Pokemon didn't talk even once while it walked toward Foliat and we knew then what was the situation. He was unconscious. Out cold in fact and it's with reason that he fell once he tried to scratch Floral. The move motion made his last light fade out and he fell, muttering a soft ″guade″ that I intimately meant I'm sorry. I soon followed him in darkness, unable to stay conscious any more.
Before I slipped into unconsciousness, I heard the words I had feared ever since I wanted to be a Pokemon trainer.
″Aguade is unable to battle. Foliat is the last Pokemon standing, the winner of this battle is Foliat and Snow Nightshade″ Sven gloomily officialised, happy for Snow but full of sorrow for me and Aguade.
End Of Chapter.
StevenZ12: Whew, that was quite the chapter. I hope you enjoyed the fight, please make part of your impressions in reviews. As of today, I wish to implement music from the pokeverse whenever an important battle occurs or when they have to pass through an important place or route. The music will be taken form either the official Pokemon franchise or out the many fanmade music out there on youtube. I will always credit the composer since I'm using their works. That's too bad that Aguade lost his first battle but he put out a good fight. Anyway stay tuned for the next chapter of Nuevo: Legend of Quetzar.
New Nuevo [Urobos] native Pokemon Used in this chapter ( They all belong to VP)
Necrow: wiki/Necrow
Music that I feel that would go great with the chapter.
When discovering the clearing that will be used as a battlefield: watch?v=z8QNZisb9D4&list=PLEC319B2BF45F101B&index=27 ( Credit goes to Shinji Mirasaki from Pokemon company/Game Freak)
When engaging battle with Snow:
watch?v=x0olxepXyY8&index=11&list=PLkbvrtTIWj62igSWciePsw7gAhdLhdIqZ ( Credit goes to Abnegation's team from poke community)
When the battle between Aguade and Foliat climaxes:
watch?v=2tAvX3BolsY&index=22&list=PLvUInkAfZ-kowIl2F9C7A3_l4F3IPdyJl