Disclaimer-I don't own Pokemon or any of its rights and privileges I am
just some bum trying to write a somewhat decent fan fiction and failing
horribly at it.
Kurai and Fiorie had been traveling most of the day and into the night to reach the nearest town to Jade City. The little town was called Fickona, the town really could not be called a town by rights it was more of a village with little people in it. It had a pokemon center and that was all they really needed right now, but when they got there they realized they may just need a hotel.
The place was crowded to say the least, people filled the tiny place to the brim with injured pokemon of all types, and in the midst of all the commotion was a worn out looking nurse Joy. Kurai and Fiorie slowly made their way to the back of the Poke Center where they stopped to talk to the nurse.
"What happened here?" Fiorie asked.
Nurse Joy turned to address the pokemon trainer who had spoken to her, "A boy in town by the name of Rubius has challenged anyone willing to fight him, and he says he will give the winner a special prize." The nurse Joy took a look around the room at all of the trainers "So far no one has won and I am just one person trying to cure all of these pokemon." She slumped down against the wall.
"I can help" Kurai suggested, "I used to be an apprentice of sorts to the nurse Joy of Diamond City."
Nurse Joy looked up at Kurai and smiled her thanks, with new help nurse Joy also had new hopes of getting all of these pokemon treated, so her and Kurai set to work. Kurai and nurse joy worked on the pokemon while Fiorie straitened out the chaos of who would be next to get their pokemon treated, Ember, Flamina and Shadow helped carry patients in and calm them down. They also got supplies when needed and by 1:00 in the morning they had all of the patients cleared out or in beds, and the trainers went to a hotel, stayed there in the poke center or went home.
Nurse Joy slumped down into a chair in the back of the center with Kurai and Fiorie. Flamina, Shadow and Ember were all resting inside their poke balls, being the last ones treated. "Well that was fun" Fiorie stated.
"Yeah but its going to be the same tomorrow." Nurse Joy commented, weariness heavy on her voice.
Kurai growled, "Well someone is just going to have to beat that guy."
"Oh yeah and who would that be?" Fiorie asked a bit doubtfully.
"Me" Kurai stood up with renewed vigor.
"How, his pokemon are really strong." Nurse Joy asked worriedly.
"Have either of you heard of Kaiygan?"
"Yeah he is supposed to be the hardest gym leader to beat, with his combination pokemon and there vast levels he makes a very difficult opponent." Fiorie answered "But we are going to fight a guy named Rubius, what does the leader of the Diamond gym have anything to do with it?"
Kurai motioned to Flamina's poke ball, which was resting in its place at her belt then she motioned to the necklace around her neck. "Kaiygan is a friend of my families and like a big brother to me, when I told him I was going on this journey he gave me Flamina so that I could win. She is his second strongest pokemon and Shadow is a natural fighter, of that I am sure."
Fiorie nodded and then looked up at Kurai " And with my Rapidash you will make an unstoppable team."
Kurai looked Fiorie in the eyes "What do you mean your Rapidash, what does Ember have to do with any of this?"
Fiorie chuckled "I will let you barrow my Rapidash for tomorrows battle so you have a better chance of winning."
Kurai nodded her thanks and sat down in her chair again, she was lost in her own thoughts about the battle that was to commence the next day and barely heard nurse Joy say they should get some rest. Kurai nodded again and laid down to go to sleep, it was fast coming and her last thoughts were of her victory tomorrow.
When Kurai woke up the next morning the first thing she was met by was a crowd of people all wishing her luck on her battle that day. It made her exceedingly nervous, what if she failed? Noticing her nervousness Nurse Joy went to stand by her "don't worry you will do just fine and if you do loose no one will be mad at you or blame you. No one here expects you to win or loose, they expect you to try your hardest and do your best." With those words in mind Kurai left for the stadium where the battle would be held.
When Kurai got there she stared in awe, for such a small town they had a grand stadium. Fiorie chuckled at her awe, "Didn't you know silly, the gem league preliminaries are held here." Kurai just nodded and the two of them went in where they were met by a stadium that would make a football field seem small, it had four arenas in it. Ice, Rock, Plains and water. Kurai looked nervously at the water arena and prayed that they would not be fighting over there.
Just then a voice interrupted their thoughts, standing at the other side of the field was a little girl about 9 years in age. "Are you here to battle with my brother?" She questioned. Kurai just nodded. "Then come this way." The girl disappeared down a corridor with Kurai and Fiorie following closely behind.
The girl stopped at a door at the end of the hall "My brother is waiting inside for you" With those words the girl left the two to choose whether to go in or not.
Fiorie held out Ember's poke ball, "It's not to late to turn back now and continue on our way."
Kurai reached out and took the poke ball from Fiorie, hooking it in a slot she had emptied earlier. "We got this far we might as well go through with it."
Fiorie nodded and pushed open the double doors to reveal the kind of arena Kurai was used to, this arena favored no type. It was a plain arena that they would use in the minor leagues, or for a simple challenge. Standing on the other side of the room was a guy with a cloak pulled over his head.
"Goody, more challengers to beat, which one of you shall I fight?" He asked.
"Blunt isn't he?" Kurai thought to herself; out loud though she said, "I am the only one you are going to fight today."
The guy merely nodded "bold words, I have heard them before." He stepped up to the opposite side of the ring and waited for Kurai to take her position, she did.
"We may each use as many pokemon as we match, the first to loose all of their pokemon looses the match, begin" With this said he took out a poke ball and threw it to the floor to release a Pidgeotto.
Kurai thought a second before pulling out a poke ball that had a dark ring around the release button. "Lets battle Shadow!" She yelled as she threw down her poke ball to release a battle ready Sneasel.
The two combatants stared each other down as they waited for the first commands "Ok Pidgeotto lets take down this little cat, use your quick attack!"
Kurai looked at Shadow "Shadow dodge with you agility and then come back with a slash" She commanded.
Shadow heard the command and jumped to the left just in time to avoid Pidgeotto's razor sharp beak. Turning his torso in midair the small and agile cat struck downwards with his claws catching the giant bird on the nose with his attack. Pidgeotto railed against the attack and flew up high in the air to keep from further damage.
"Your good, but not good enough I am afraid" He looked at his injured partner once before shouting a command "Ok Pidgeotto they got lucky before, this time give them an whirlwind attack!"
"Use agility again, and this time shadow end it with a fury swipes" Shadow's only response was an evil cackle.
Pidgeotto flew up a little higher and started to flap its wings at a fast pace creating a giant tornado and with one caw the tornado was sent hurling toward Shadow who tried to dodge but was just no match for the high winds, the cat was tossed around inside the whirlwind like a rag doll. While the cat was occupied, Pidgeotto dove into the tornado and that was all they saw of either of them until the high winds cleared and Shadow fell to the ground in a heap.
"Shadow!" Kurai screeched as she ran to her fallen friend and cradled his torso to her chest. "I am so sorry, I shouldn't have sent you out against that Rubius' Pidgeotto" Kurai apologized as tears ran down her face.
"Do you give up now?" Rubius asked with a victory laugh.
Kurai went to stand in her position once again, Kurai handed Shadow over to Fiorie who started to wrap some of his wounds with the supplies that nurse Joy had given them. Kurai took out another poke ball with a flame etched on the side and threw it down, "Lets kick this creeps ass Flamina."
"Gladly" Flamina took a fighting pose and faced the bird with a maniacal gleam in her red eyes.
"Flamina wrap that birdie up in a fire spin attack" Before all the words had even left Kurai's mouth Flamina jumped into action and spit a fire in the shape of a tornado at the bird. The Pidgeotto disappeared from sight as the torrential fire beat at its body. The Pidgeotto tried with all the strength in its body to escape the white-hot flames but failed and in the end succumbed to the darkness clawing at the edges of consciousness.
Kurai gave a victory sign when the fires cleared and an unconscious Pidgeotto fell to the ground.
"Luck" Rubius muttered as he sucked him pokemon back into its respectful poke ball. Without a second though Rubius then grabbed the ball right next to it and threw it down "Go Umbreon!"
The black cat jumped onto the battlefield with a primal cry. The Umbreon faced its opponent with an unwavering gaze.
"Ok Flamina we are not going to loose to this kitty are we?"
"Never" Flamina responded meeting the gaze of the black cat with the same amount of intensity.
"Ok Umbreon tackle attack now!"
"Wait for my command Flamina"
The Umbreon charged the still fox and with a the sound of body again body the tiny cat slammed into the stunned fox. "Now Flamina use your tail whip" Complying with the order Flamina brought all seven of her tails around and smacked the stunned cat into the earth.
"Flamina jump up and use your flamethrower!" Kurai ordered.
Flamina did just as she was commanded and launched herself into the air, then turning her body she spewed fire over the cat before it had time to recover from the last attack. The flames engulfed the cat's body and when they cleared they showed an unconscious Umbreon.
Flamina landed gracefully and looked at Kurai and Fiorie whom were both smiling at her with Joy and excitement. Rubius growled and returned his pokemon to its poke ball. Again without looking her selected another poke ball from its container, throwing it to the ground with a smirk he did not even bother calling out its name.
Kurai groaned when she saw the form of a Croconaw, Kurai knew that her fire type would have some type of weakness to his water type. "Be careful Flamina he is a water type so we are going to have to beet him with our strength and speed."
Flamina nodded and stood ready for her first command, which came shortly after "Flamina quick attack." Flamina complied and ran straight at the crocodile with extreme speeds.
"Ok Croconaw use water gun and douse that little doggie." At his command the Croconaw blasted water from his mouth at the running fox.
"Quick, dodge and then continue on, Flamina don't let that water touch you." Flamina threw herself to the side and out of the way of the water, as soon as her paws touched the ground though she was off like lightening. Dodging then charging, dodging then charging this continued until Flamina was a foot away. The Croconaw gave one final huff and hit Flamina straight in the face but this did not cause the fox to alter its course it simply shot through the water attack and slammed into the surprised crocodile with all the force that it could muster.
The force of the impact sent the Croconaw stumbling backward and knocking it slightly off balance. "Flamina use confuse ray now!" Again the fox complied and closed her eyes, focusing on sending out her attack, which came out as a blue ray and hit its target this time sending the creature careening across the battle field to land on the other side. "Good Flamina now finish that baby off with another quick attack!"
Flamina launched into the attack and in seconds hurled herself into the body of her opponent sending him into the walls of the stadium where he rested. Rubius cursed and brought his poke ball up to return the beat pokemon. Kurai laughed and turned a smile to her friend Fiorie who for the most part looked worried. Shrugging her friends worry off she turned back to her panting companion. "Two more to go Flamina and we are home free!"
Flamina nodded her shaggy head and turned her attention back to the dazed looking Rubius. "How?" He questioned.
"Well you are not fighting any regular Ninetails, this one was trained by the best gym leader ever!"
Rubius cursed and took out a totally blue poke ball, this time though he did look down to see what he picked up. He smiled when he saw the oddly colored poke ball and threw it down. The poke ball hit the floor once and let out the gigantic dragon like creature onto the ring. Flamina, Kurai and Fiorie all gasped at the sight before them. Sitting not 10 feet away from the silver fox was a Gyarados.
"Ok Gyarados let's defend your companions, use a hyper beam!" With the command in heart the Gyarados stated to build up its attack.
"Hurry Flamina, quick attack!" The wolf sprang in to action as the order left her trainers mouth and she ran full speed at the dragon. As soon as she got there the dragon turned its head downward and fired a huge yellow beam of pure energy at the unprepared fox. Hitting Flamina Square in the forehead and sending her crashing to the ground.
"Flamina get up quick!" Kurai shouted.
"Hurry Gyarados before she gets up use a bite attack!" The Gyarados bent down quickly and snatched up to injured fox by the foot and with amazing for sent her hurtling towards her trainer. Kurai opened her arms and felt the air rush out of her when the fox hit her chest with amazing force. The two slammed against the floor with great speed and didn't get up. Fiorie ran to her friends to see if they were all right, when she got there she saw Kurai stroking the fox's head. Finally pushing the fox off of her gently the stunned teen got up and returned Flamina and Shadow to their rightful poke balls.
Kurai stood back in her spot and turned to Fiorie holding out Embers Poke ball "Are you sure you want her to go out onto that battle field?" Fiorie reached out and pushed Kurai's hand closed around the poke ball.
"Beat the crap out of that dragon" Fiorie cheered.
Kurai nodded and turned back to her competitor, throwing down the poke ball she let out a cry "Your our last shot Ember make us proud!"
With her trainer's call the fire horse appeared in a flash of red light, the Gyarados looked as if it might laugh, that's if a Gyarados' could laugh. "Ok Gyarados this is another fire type so let's start off by using a hydro pump!" The Gyarados complied by sending a long and thick stream of water at the Rapidash.
"Hurry Ember, dodge with agility and come back with a take down!" Ember complied by throwing her weight to the side then using her bodies momentum she threw herself full sped at the Gyarados and took him by surprise by hitting him in the chest with her head. The Gyarados staggered back then launched into an attack of its own. Still using agility Ember was able to dodge the rampart Gyarados.
The Gyarados dived down at the Rapidash's turned back in a bite attack, but Kurai was quick to instruct. "Ember use your tail whip now!"
Ember swung her tail and hit the Gyarados in the eyes; the Gyarados reeled and screamed as it tried to get as far away from the horse as possible. "Ok Ember use your stomp attack!"
"Gyarados quit fooling around and use rain dance!" But it was to late, the speedy Rapidash was already reeling back to strike and with a downward thrust she hit the Gyarados with her momentum and sent him staggering back out of the ring. Rubius cursed his luck and withdrew his wounded Gyarados.
Rubius took out his last poke ball and smirked at Kurai, "You might have gotten lucky by beating my Gyarados but you will not beat Lasher at all" He then threw down the poke ball to release a fierce looking Dragonite.
The Dragonite stared at Ember openly before crouching down and taking off into the air.
"We can beat this guy Ember, he is going to use the air to his advantage so lets use the ground to our gain" Ember nodded her head.
"Just tell me what to do" The Rapidash whispered in a soft feminine voice. Kurai nodded and waited for her opponent to make the first move.
She was not disappointed "Ok Lasher use a wing attack!" Rubius obviously thought she could not defend against an aerial attack with such a big pokemon. How wrong he was.
"Lets go Ember, jump into the air and use stomp!" As Lasher dove towards the Rapidash she jumped into the air. Once she left the ground her hooves started to glow a bright red. Ember slammed her hooves down into the back of the unprepared Dragonite sending it into the ground.
In seconds the Dragonite was up and ready for the next command "While she is turned use your slam."
The Dragonite snatched the horse's leg and swung the poor creature downwards to slam into the ground. Kurai heard Fiorie whimper behind her, as Ember tried to get up, obviously her leg was not in the best conditions though.
"Ok lest try another wing attack Lasher" The Dragonite soared into the air and then came back down.
Ember remembered the words that Kurai had said in the beginning of the match, he is going to use the air to his advantage so lets use the ground to our gain. Ember waited until her opponent was dangerously close before using agility and jumping out of the way. Lasher slammed into the ground, unable to stop himself. Ember did not stop there though; she turned her head and used her most powerful attack. Fire Blast. The attack reined down on the wounded Dragonite and knocked him out cold. Rubius stared in shock at his Dragonite and then at the two girls running joyfully into the ring where the victorious Rapidash was waiting when she was finished congratulating Ember Kurai walked over to the stunned Rubius who was returning Lasher to his poke ball.
Kurai extended her hand to Rubius "You fought hard and I respect your challenge" She had heard Kaiygan use those lines before.
Rubius shook her hand and looked into her eyes, he really had no prize because he never expected to loose, he thought for a second then smiled. He took out his pokedex and put his poke ball up to one of the little slots. The poke ball was sucked up and in its place another appeared. He handed it to Kurai with an evil smirk on his face. "Here's your prize," he stated before walking out of the arena.
"I don't like the way that guy smiled at you when he gave you that poke ball" Fiorie said as she returned Ember.
"I don't know what you are talking about, come on out" Kurai commanded as she threw down her new poke ball which was an eerie purple color. Out of the beam materialized a very dark Espeon. This Espeon was not the normal lavender color like other Espeons were, this one was an amethyst color.
"Well for your unique coloring I am going to call you Amethyst." Kurai stated to the bored looking Espeon.
So the two left the gym with one more pokemon and three injured ones, but what was Rubius smiling at when he handed her that Espeon, find out in the next chapter of Kurai's Destiny.
A/N- Well I promised a longer chapter and I gave you a longer chapter I also promised more action and again I gave you more action. I know that was pretty gay at then with the whole narrator thing but I thought I would give it a try. Anyways please review this, I might not write anymore if I don't get any reviews because without feedback I loose my interest in writing something.
~Raven Darkheart~
Kurai and Fiorie had been traveling most of the day and into the night to reach the nearest town to Jade City. The little town was called Fickona, the town really could not be called a town by rights it was more of a village with little people in it. It had a pokemon center and that was all they really needed right now, but when they got there they realized they may just need a hotel.
The place was crowded to say the least, people filled the tiny place to the brim with injured pokemon of all types, and in the midst of all the commotion was a worn out looking nurse Joy. Kurai and Fiorie slowly made their way to the back of the Poke Center where they stopped to talk to the nurse.
"What happened here?" Fiorie asked.
Nurse Joy turned to address the pokemon trainer who had spoken to her, "A boy in town by the name of Rubius has challenged anyone willing to fight him, and he says he will give the winner a special prize." The nurse Joy took a look around the room at all of the trainers "So far no one has won and I am just one person trying to cure all of these pokemon." She slumped down against the wall.
"I can help" Kurai suggested, "I used to be an apprentice of sorts to the nurse Joy of Diamond City."
Nurse Joy looked up at Kurai and smiled her thanks, with new help nurse Joy also had new hopes of getting all of these pokemon treated, so her and Kurai set to work. Kurai and nurse joy worked on the pokemon while Fiorie straitened out the chaos of who would be next to get their pokemon treated, Ember, Flamina and Shadow helped carry patients in and calm them down. They also got supplies when needed and by 1:00 in the morning they had all of the patients cleared out or in beds, and the trainers went to a hotel, stayed there in the poke center or went home.
Nurse Joy slumped down into a chair in the back of the center with Kurai and Fiorie. Flamina, Shadow and Ember were all resting inside their poke balls, being the last ones treated. "Well that was fun" Fiorie stated.
"Yeah but its going to be the same tomorrow." Nurse Joy commented, weariness heavy on her voice.
Kurai growled, "Well someone is just going to have to beat that guy."
"Oh yeah and who would that be?" Fiorie asked a bit doubtfully.
"Me" Kurai stood up with renewed vigor.
"How, his pokemon are really strong." Nurse Joy asked worriedly.
"Have either of you heard of Kaiygan?"
"Yeah he is supposed to be the hardest gym leader to beat, with his combination pokemon and there vast levels he makes a very difficult opponent." Fiorie answered "But we are going to fight a guy named Rubius, what does the leader of the Diamond gym have anything to do with it?"
Kurai motioned to Flamina's poke ball, which was resting in its place at her belt then she motioned to the necklace around her neck. "Kaiygan is a friend of my families and like a big brother to me, when I told him I was going on this journey he gave me Flamina so that I could win. She is his second strongest pokemon and Shadow is a natural fighter, of that I am sure."
Fiorie nodded and then looked up at Kurai " And with my Rapidash you will make an unstoppable team."
Kurai looked Fiorie in the eyes "What do you mean your Rapidash, what does Ember have to do with any of this?"
Fiorie chuckled "I will let you barrow my Rapidash for tomorrows battle so you have a better chance of winning."
Kurai nodded her thanks and sat down in her chair again, she was lost in her own thoughts about the battle that was to commence the next day and barely heard nurse Joy say they should get some rest. Kurai nodded again and laid down to go to sleep, it was fast coming and her last thoughts were of her victory tomorrow.
When Kurai woke up the next morning the first thing she was met by was a crowd of people all wishing her luck on her battle that day. It made her exceedingly nervous, what if she failed? Noticing her nervousness Nurse Joy went to stand by her "don't worry you will do just fine and if you do loose no one will be mad at you or blame you. No one here expects you to win or loose, they expect you to try your hardest and do your best." With those words in mind Kurai left for the stadium where the battle would be held.
When Kurai got there she stared in awe, for such a small town they had a grand stadium. Fiorie chuckled at her awe, "Didn't you know silly, the gem league preliminaries are held here." Kurai just nodded and the two of them went in where they were met by a stadium that would make a football field seem small, it had four arenas in it. Ice, Rock, Plains and water. Kurai looked nervously at the water arena and prayed that they would not be fighting over there.
Just then a voice interrupted their thoughts, standing at the other side of the field was a little girl about 9 years in age. "Are you here to battle with my brother?" She questioned. Kurai just nodded. "Then come this way." The girl disappeared down a corridor with Kurai and Fiorie following closely behind.
The girl stopped at a door at the end of the hall "My brother is waiting inside for you" With those words the girl left the two to choose whether to go in or not.
Fiorie held out Ember's poke ball, "It's not to late to turn back now and continue on our way."
Kurai reached out and took the poke ball from Fiorie, hooking it in a slot she had emptied earlier. "We got this far we might as well go through with it."
Fiorie nodded and pushed open the double doors to reveal the kind of arena Kurai was used to, this arena favored no type. It was a plain arena that they would use in the minor leagues, or for a simple challenge. Standing on the other side of the room was a guy with a cloak pulled over his head.
"Goody, more challengers to beat, which one of you shall I fight?" He asked.
"Blunt isn't he?" Kurai thought to herself; out loud though she said, "I am the only one you are going to fight today."
The guy merely nodded "bold words, I have heard them before." He stepped up to the opposite side of the ring and waited for Kurai to take her position, she did.
"We may each use as many pokemon as we match, the first to loose all of their pokemon looses the match, begin" With this said he took out a poke ball and threw it to the floor to release a Pidgeotto.
Kurai thought a second before pulling out a poke ball that had a dark ring around the release button. "Lets battle Shadow!" She yelled as she threw down her poke ball to release a battle ready Sneasel.
The two combatants stared each other down as they waited for the first commands "Ok Pidgeotto lets take down this little cat, use your quick attack!"
Kurai looked at Shadow "Shadow dodge with you agility and then come back with a slash" She commanded.
Shadow heard the command and jumped to the left just in time to avoid Pidgeotto's razor sharp beak. Turning his torso in midair the small and agile cat struck downwards with his claws catching the giant bird on the nose with his attack. Pidgeotto railed against the attack and flew up high in the air to keep from further damage.
"Your good, but not good enough I am afraid" He looked at his injured partner once before shouting a command "Ok Pidgeotto they got lucky before, this time give them an whirlwind attack!"
"Use agility again, and this time shadow end it with a fury swipes" Shadow's only response was an evil cackle.
Pidgeotto flew up a little higher and started to flap its wings at a fast pace creating a giant tornado and with one caw the tornado was sent hurling toward Shadow who tried to dodge but was just no match for the high winds, the cat was tossed around inside the whirlwind like a rag doll. While the cat was occupied, Pidgeotto dove into the tornado and that was all they saw of either of them until the high winds cleared and Shadow fell to the ground in a heap.
"Shadow!" Kurai screeched as she ran to her fallen friend and cradled his torso to her chest. "I am so sorry, I shouldn't have sent you out against that Rubius' Pidgeotto" Kurai apologized as tears ran down her face.
"Do you give up now?" Rubius asked with a victory laugh.
Kurai went to stand in her position once again, Kurai handed Shadow over to Fiorie who started to wrap some of his wounds with the supplies that nurse Joy had given them. Kurai took out another poke ball with a flame etched on the side and threw it down, "Lets kick this creeps ass Flamina."
"Gladly" Flamina took a fighting pose and faced the bird with a maniacal gleam in her red eyes.
"Flamina wrap that birdie up in a fire spin attack" Before all the words had even left Kurai's mouth Flamina jumped into action and spit a fire in the shape of a tornado at the bird. The Pidgeotto disappeared from sight as the torrential fire beat at its body. The Pidgeotto tried with all the strength in its body to escape the white-hot flames but failed and in the end succumbed to the darkness clawing at the edges of consciousness.
Kurai gave a victory sign when the fires cleared and an unconscious Pidgeotto fell to the ground.
"Luck" Rubius muttered as he sucked him pokemon back into its respectful poke ball. Without a second though Rubius then grabbed the ball right next to it and threw it down "Go Umbreon!"
The black cat jumped onto the battlefield with a primal cry. The Umbreon faced its opponent with an unwavering gaze.
"Ok Flamina we are not going to loose to this kitty are we?"
"Never" Flamina responded meeting the gaze of the black cat with the same amount of intensity.
"Ok Umbreon tackle attack now!"
"Wait for my command Flamina"
The Umbreon charged the still fox and with a the sound of body again body the tiny cat slammed into the stunned fox. "Now Flamina use your tail whip" Complying with the order Flamina brought all seven of her tails around and smacked the stunned cat into the earth.
"Flamina jump up and use your flamethrower!" Kurai ordered.
Flamina did just as she was commanded and launched herself into the air, then turning her body she spewed fire over the cat before it had time to recover from the last attack. The flames engulfed the cat's body and when they cleared they showed an unconscious Umbreon.
Flamina landed gracefully and looked at Kurai and Fiorie whom were both smiling at her with Joy and excitement. Rubius growled and returned his pokemon to its poke ball. Again without looking her selected another poke ball from its container, throwing it to the ground with a smirk he did not even bother calling out its name.
Kurai groaned when she saw the form of a Croconaw, Kurai knew that her fire type would have some type of weakness to his water type. "Be careful Flamina he is a water type so we are going to have to beet him with our strength and speed."
Flamina nodded and stood ready for her first command, which came shortly after "Flamina quick attack." Flamina complied and ran straight at the crocodile with extreme speeds.
"Ok Croconaw use water gun and douse that little doggie." At his command the Croconaw blasted water from his mouth at the running fox.
"Quick, dodge and then continue on, Flamina don't let that water touch you." Flamina threw herself to the side and out of the way of the water, as soon as her paws touched the ground though she was off like lightening. Dodging then charging, dodging then charging this continued until Flamina was a foot away. The Croconaw gave one final huff and hit Flamina straight in the face but this did not cause the fox to alter its course it simply shot through the water attack and slammed into the surprised crocodile with all the force that it could muster.
The force of the impact sent the Croconaw stumbling backward and knocking it slightly off balance. "Flamina use confuse ray now!" Again the fox complied and closed her eyes, focusing on sending out her attack, which came out as a blue ray and hit its target this time sending the creature careening across the battle field to land on the other side. "Good Flamina now finish that baby off with another quick attack!"
Flamina launched into the attack and in seconds hurled herself into the body of her opponent sending him into the walls of the stadium where he rested. Rubius cursed and brought his poke ball up to return the beat pokemon. Kurai laughed and turned a smile to her friend Fiorie who for the most part looked worried. Shrugging her friends worry off she turned back to her panting companion. "Two more to go Flamina and we are home free!"
Flamina nodded her shaggy head and turned her attention back to the dazed looking Rubius. "How?" He questioned.
"Well you are not fighting any regular Ninetails, this one was trained by the best gym leader ever!"
Rubius cursed and took out a totally blue poke ball, this time though he did look down to see what he picked up. He smiled when he saw the oddly colored poke ball and threw it down. The poke ball hit the floor once and let out the gigantic dragon like creature onto the ring. Flamina, Kurai and Fiorie all gasped at the sight before them. Sitting not 10 feet away from the silver fox was a Gyarados.
"Ok Gyarados let's defend your companions, use a hyper beam!" With the command in heart the Gyarados stated to build up its attack.
"Hurry Flamina, quick attack!" The wolf sprang in to action as the order left her trainers mouth and she ran full speed at the dragon. As soon as she got there the dragon turned its head downward and fired a huge yellow beam of pure energy at the unprepared fox. Hitting Flamina Square in the forehead and sending her crashing to the ground.
"Flamina get up quick!" Kurai shouted.
"Hurry Gyarados before she gets up use a bite attack!" The Gyarados bent down quickly and snatched up to injured fox by the foot and with amazing for sent her hurtling towards her trainer. Kurai opened her arms and felt the air rush out of her when the fox hit her chest with amazing force. The two slammed against the floor with great speed and didn't get up. Fiorie ran to her friends to see if they were all right, when she got there she saw Kurai stroking the fox's head. Finally pushing the fox off of her gently the stunned teen got up and returned Flamina and Shadow to their rightful poke balls.
Kurai stood back in her spot and turned to Fiorie holding out Embers Poke ball "Are you sure you want her to go out onto that battle field?" Fiorie reached out and pushed Kurai's hand closed around the poke ball.
"Beat the crap out of that dragon" Fiorie cheered.
Kurai nodded and turned back to her competitor, throwing down the poke ball she let out a cry "Your our last shot Ember make us proud!"
With her trainer's call the fire horse appeared in a flash of red light, the Gyarados looked as if it might laugh, that's if a Gyarados' could laugh. "Ok Gyarados this is another fire type so let's start off by using a hydro pump!" The Gyarados complied by sending a long and thick stream of water at the Rapidash.
"Hurry Ember, dodge with agility and come back with a take down!" Ember complied by throwing her weight to the side then using her bodies momentum she threw herself full sped at the Gyarados and took him by surprise by hitting him in the chest with her head. The Gyarados staggered back then launched into an attack of its own. Still using agility Ember was able to dodge the rampart Gyarados.
The Gyarados dived down at the Rapidash's turned back in a bite attack, but Kurai was quick to instruct. "Ember use your tail whip now!"
Ember swung her tail and hit the Gyarados in the eyes; the Gyarados reeled and screamed as it tried to get as far away from the horse as possible. "Ok Ember use your stomp attack!"
"Gyarados quit fooling around and use rain dance!" But it was to late, the speedy Rapidash was already reeling back to strike and with a downward thrust she hit the Gyarados with her momentum and sent him staggering back out of the ring. Rubius cursed his luck and withdrew his wounded Gyarados.
Rubius took out his last poke ball and smirked at Kurai, "You might have gotten lucky by beating my Gyarados but you will not beat Lasher at all" He then threw down the poke ball to release a fierce looking Dragonite.
The Dragonite stared at Ember openly before crouching down and taking off into the air.
"We can beat this guy Ember, he is going to use the air to his advantage so lets use the ground to our gain" Ember nodded her head.
"Just tell me what to do" The Rapidash whispered in a soft feminine voice. Kurai nodded and waited for her opponent to make the first move.
She was not disappointed "Ok Lasher use a wing attack!" Rubius obviously thought she could not defend against an aerial attack with such a big pokemon. How wrong he was.
"Lets go Ember, jump into the air and use stomp!" As Lasher dove towards the Rapidash she jumped into the air. Once she left the ground her hooves started to glow a bright red. Ember slammed her hooves down into the back of the unprepared Dragonite sending it into the ground.
In seconds the Dragonite was up and ready for the next command "While she is turned use your slam."
The Dragonite snatched the horse's leg and swung the poor creature downwards to slam into the ground. Kurai heard Fiorie whimper behind her, as Ember tried to get up, obviously her leg was not in the best conditions though.
"Ok lest try another wing attack Lasher" The Dragonite soared into the air and then came back down.
Ember remembered the words that Kurai had said in the beginning of the match, he is going to use the air to his advantage so lets use the ground to our gain. Ember waited until her opponent was dangerously close before using agility and jumping out of the way. Lasher slammed into the ground, unable to stop himself. Ember did not stop there though; she turned her head and used her most powerful attack. Fire Blast. The attack reined down on the wounded Dragonite and knocked him out cold. Rubius stared in shock at his Dragonite and then at the two girls running joyfully into the ring where the victorious Rapidash was waiting when she was finished congratulating Ember Kurai walked over to the stunned Rubius who was returning Lasher to his poke ball.
Kurai extended her hand to Rubius "You fought hard and I respect your challenge" She had heard Kaiygan use those lines before.
Rubius shook her hand and looked into her eyes, he really had no prize because he never expected to loose, he thought for a second then smiled. He took out his pokedex and put his poke ball up to one of the little slots. The poke ball was sucked up and in its place another appeared. He handed it to Kurai with an evil smirk on his face. "Here's your prize," he stated before walking out of the arena.
"I don't like the way that guy smiled at you when he gave you that poke ball" Fiorie said as she returned Ember.
"I don't know what you are talking about, come on out" Kurai commanded as she threw down her new poke ball which was an eerie purple color. Out of the beam materialized a very dark Espeon. This Espeon was not the normal lavender color like other Espeons were, this one was an amethyst color.
"Well for your unique coloring I am going to call you Amethyst." Kurai stated to the bored looking Espeon.
So the two left the gym with one more pokemon and three injured ones, but what was Rubius smiling at when he handed her that Espeon, find out in the next chapter of Kurai's Destiny.
A/N- Well I promised a longer chapter and I gave you a longer chapter I also promised more action and again I gave you more action. I know that was pretty gay at then with the whole narrator thing but I thought I would give it a try. Anyways please review this, I might not write anymore if I don't get any reviews because without feedback I loose my interest in writing something.
~Raven Darkheart~