Late chapter is very late and I apologize for that, anyway here's the 40th chapter.
"Alright, looks like my team's ready to go. What about you two?" Solomon asked.
"Always ready! Let's do this, sis!" Julia answered excitedly. The three of them took their places at the arena.
"Just like before, this'll be a double battle." Solomon stated, sending out his Haunter and Mismagius.
"Let's do this!" Renée exclaimed. She sent out her Flaaffy while Julia sent out her Jigglypuff. "Huh? Why'd you send out Jigglypuff? Normal type attacks can't hit Ghost type pokemon."
"But Ghost type moves don't hurt Jigglypuff either! Besides, I trained Jigglypuff to completely counter ghosts!" Julia replied, her voice shaking slightly. Renée noticed her sister's shaky voice.
"Y-you alright sis?"
"I hate ghosts... I just really, really hate ghosts..." Julia answered.
"Well, come on, we have to win!" Renée exclaimed, cheering up her sister a bit.
"You two can make the first move whenever you're ready!" Solomon announced.
"Ok, Flaaffy use Charge Beam!"
"Jigglypuff, use Disarming Voice!"
The two pokemon sent out their attacks, Solomon's pokemon didn't seem too worried.
"Mismagius, Phantom Force. Haunter, Protect." Solomon ordered. Mismagius disappeared into the shadows while Haunter formed a force field around itself that blocked the attacks.
"What?! Where did Mismagius go?" Diego asked.
"Behind you!" Solomon chuckled, Mismagius revealed itself behind Flaaffy, the Wool pokemon looked back fast enough to see the attack coming, but it wasn't fast enough to stop Mismagius from hitting it. The attack didn't take Flaaffy down, but it did some pretty big damage.
"Man they're strong..." Renée said, she turned to her sister. "We need a strategy."
"Ok, you take one and I'll take the other." Julia answered. "Jigglypuff, use Draining Kiss on Mismagius!"
'Good plan sis.' Renée thought to herself. "Flaaffy hit Haunter with a Shock Wave!"
Jigglypuff charged at Mismagius while Flaaffy sent the attack towards Haunter. Haunter took some heavy damage, but it was still ready to fight.
"Both of you, use Confuse Ray!" Solomon commanded, the ghost pokemon sent out rays of purple spheres at Jigglypuff and Flaaffy. The rays hit dead on, Jigglypuff was still charging towards Mismagius when it was hit.
Being confused, Jigglypuff wasn't sure who it's target was. It ended up running towards Flaaffy and attacking FLAAFFY instead.
"Hey! Keep your Jigglypuff under control sis!" Renée scolded her sister.
"I - it wasn't my fault!" Julia said, recalling Jigglypuff back to its pokeball, curing it of its confusion. "Ok, let's see what you can do Snorunt!"
Julia sent out her Snorunt, which looked nervous since this was it's first battle.
"Flaaffy, please focus and use Electro Ball!" Renée pleaded, Flaaffy managed to break through the confusion and send the Electro Ball towards Mismagius, though the attack did not connect due to Mismagius' superior speed.
"Snorunt, use Icy Wind!" Julia ordered. Snorunt, blew a cloud of wind towards the ghosts. The two ghost pokemon didn't try to avoid the attack, they took the damage without even flinching.
"What, how could be so bulky?!" Diego asked in shock.
"I trained my pokemon with Mr. Fuji, they can take a lot of punishment!" Solomon answered. "Haunter, use Shadow Ball on Flaaffy, Mismagius, do the same to Snorunt."
The ghosts sent out the Shadow Balls, Flaaffy was easily hit and went down quickly. Snorunt ran away in an attempt to avoid the attack, but it lost its footing and tripped onto the arena floor, causing it to be hit by the Shadow Ball and knocked out.
"Aww what!" Renée said in shock. "I guess it's up to you now." Renée sent out her second pomemon, which was revealed to be Joltik.
"I was really hoping to see what Snorunt could do..." Julia said, sending out her Jigglypuff again.
"You're free to make your move girls." Solomon said.
"Ok Joltik, hit them both with an Electro Web!" Renée exclaimed, Joltik spit out an electrically charged webbing at the ghosts. Haunter managed to get caught in the web, but Mismagius avoided it at the last second. Haunter looked like it was about to collapse.
"Oh come on! Just go down already!" Renée said, getting a bit impatient.
"Both of you, hit them with another Confuse Ray!" Solomon ordered. The two ghosts sent out the rays again, Joltik managed to easily avoid it, but Jigglypuff wasn't so lucky.
"Urgh, this is getting bad. I have to use my trump card!" Julia said.
"Sis wait! You don't know what's going to happen if you use that move!" Renée warned.
"Is she going to do what I think she's going to do?" Diego asked. Solomon raised an eyebrow, he was intruiged as to why the trainers looked so worried.
"Jigglypuff, use Metronome!" Julia ordered. Jigglypuff shook it's head, breaking through the confusion, and it then began to wiggle it's finger. A transparent white ball of light began to form at its finger tips. This ball suddenly popped, leaving everyone in silence, they were anticipating what move would come from the Metronome.
Suddenly, Jigglypuff began to quickly expand, small orange balls of light began to form in the air but they were absorbed by Jigglypuff as quickly as they were formed. Jigglypuff then began to glow in a harsh white light and suddenly the entire room was enveloped in this light, the sound of an explosion rattled the area.
When the dust settled, Jigglypuff and Joltik had fainted while Mismagius and Haunter took absolutely no damage.
"What. Just. Happened?" Julia asked in pure shock.
"Oh, I'll tell you what happened! You just had to take a gamble using Metronome and it just so happened to end up being EXPLOSION OF ALL MOVES! NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU JUST COST US THE BATTLE! UGH!" Renée shouted, startling everyone else.
"Woah, Renée chill! It was an accident!" Diego said, trying to calm Renée down. Solomon approached them, he looked upset.
"You two need to work as a team, you two are sister's, correct? Sister's should be closer to each other, understanding the faults and strengths that the other has. Until you learn to do that, you can not earn the badge." Solomon said.
Later that day in the Pokemon Center, Julia was feeding her pokemon some Poffins. Renée entered the room and approached her sister.
"Listen sis, I'm sorry about what I said back there. I guess I just got so caught up in winning that I failed to cooperate with you." Renée stated.
"I'm sorry too, I should have never taken that gamble." Julia replied.
"If we're going to beat Solomon then we have to work as a team, and to do that we should train together. We can come up with some killer combination attacks and take his ghost pokemon down!" Renée suggested. Julia was quick to agree and the twins set off to begin their training.
As they left the Pokemon Center, the Misdreavus from the House of Memories watched them from the shadows, it seemed interested in them...
End of chapter! And I promise that the next chapter will be out a lot faster, just please be patient.
