The Kalos Champion Chapter 11
Paul and Max both released their pokemon at the same time.
Max's pokemon had yellow rings around it's pitch black body and has crimson eyes, that pokemon was the dark eeveelution Umbreon. Max smirked at the pokemon standing directly of Umbreon, there was Dusknoir the ghost type with the similar yellow designs on its grayish dark body.
"Looks like I have this win in the bag, ghost are weak against dark types" Max stated with a smirk.
"Didn't you have an advantage against Barry's Tyranitar but you still got demolished by it" Paul said with a smirk.
Max gritted his teeth while staring down Paul "everyone loses eventually didn't you lose to Ash back in the Sinnoh league" he said clearly trying to rile up Paul.
Paul sighed and smiled "yeah I lost to him but look where I'm at now, I'm a member of the most powerful elite four and I'm second in command to the strongest champion in the world" he said looking at his friends.
"Your satisfied with being second?" Max said.
"Can't say I'm complaining but one day I'll surpass him" he paused and turned his attention to the younger teen "for now your my only concern" he finished.
"Like I said this won't be the same as before, Umbreon go dark pulse!" Max commanded. Umbreon did a stance and launched the dark type move towards Dusknoir.
Paul calmly waited watching the attack draw closer "he clearly knew I was going to use a ghost type but how" he focused back on the battle "Dusknoir deflect it" he said sternly. The ghost type lifted an arm ready to send the attack flying else where, but when the attack connected with the ghost type it didn't suspect the attack to be strong so instead prepared for the explosion.
"What!?" Shouted a confused Paul as he shield his eyes from the debris.
"Told you not to underestimate us" Max said clearly proud of himself.
"It's not his pokemon that I'm sure of now" Paul thought to himself as the smoke cleared to reveal Dusknoir to be perfectly fine. "You alright" he asked his pokemon who shook its head "good, alright they got a lucky hit in but lets finish this power punch" he said.
Dusknoir with incredible speed was in front of Umbreon with fire engulfing his fist. Paul saw the Dusknoir move the fist down and could see the explosion followed by smoke covering that area.
"No!" Max shouted watching carefully "it happened again I lost" he thought to himself as he fell to his knees.
"Get up!" He heard a voice shout "get up!" He looked to where his sister and the others were sitting. It was Gary shouting at him to stand up "Gary" he whispered, he looked to where the smoke was clearing and there stood a perfectly fine Umbreon.
"How!?" He looked down the field to see Paul utterly shocked.
Without hesitation Max stood up "Now dark pulse!" He shouted as the Dark type used its attack sending Dusknoir back and getting hit directly caused some damage.
"Dusknoir counter with your dark pulse" the ghost pokemon used the attack making contact or so it seemed that way but when the smoke cleared it once again revealed Umbreon unharmed.
"Now Umbreon get close too it" Umbreon charged the ghost type waiting for Max's next command.
"Don't let it near dark pulse!" Paul shouted as his ghost launched the attack once again.
"Don't hesitate keep going" Umbreon didn't stop moving forward as the attack try to hit but once again didn't connect.
The Group
"Hey what's happening!? None of Dusnoir attacks are doing damage" Barry said watching in awe as Umbreon was tanking everything.
"Well Dusknoir isn't Paul's strongest maybe that's why?" Bianca said.
"Your right Dusknoir isn't his strongest but it definitely isn't his weakest" Korrina said with an obvious worried expression.
"Ash what do you think?" Clemont asked but got no response.
Ash was busy in his thoughts trying to make sense of this "that is Gary's Umbreon but there is no way it's this strong" he saw Dusknoir use another close power punch but this time he used his aura and what he saw shocked him "that's an aura shield" he said out loud in his thoughts. He than followed the flow of energy to see it coming from Gary "he's using his aura to block the attacks" Ash balled his hands into fists.
"Ash, they're coming here" he heard Mewtwo's voice.
"What do you mean?"
"The people Gary is working with, they are heading to this location as we speak"
Ash gulped nervously "do you know their motivations for heading here"
"My best guess is they are coming to assist the traitors"
"Can you buy us some time my friend" he knew he was asking a lot of Mewtwo but he needed time to evacuate the fans.
"I'll try" with that Mewtwo stopped speaking.
"Now how am I going to deal with Gary" Ash thought glaring at his former rival and friend.
"Ash!" Dawn shouted into the champions ear causing him to nearly fall off his chair.
"Ahhh Dawn" he said rubbing ear.
"Well I wouldn't have needed to do that if you weren't spacing out" she said looking into his eyes to see worry.
She snapped out of it when Ash spoke "sorry just wondering how that Umbreon is able to take all those attacks without a single scratch" he lied.
"He'll be okay right? I mean he is Paul your greatest rival" she said.
"I don't know" Ash said clearly worried.
The Traitors
"Gary you've trained your pokemon well" Professor Oak said watching Umbreon take shots.
"Thanks gramps" Gary said just than Dusknoir managed to hit Umbreon.
"Oh no!" May shouted
"Crap I broke concentration" Gary thought going back to setting up a barrier.
"That attack looked like it took damage" Iris said.
"Please Umbreon is going to be fine right Gary?" Tracy said but didn't get an answer from him.
"Hey Gary you alright?" Drew asked
"He's fine just let him be for now" Brock said.
Misty looked up at to Ash and the others "we'll leave here with at least one more us turning" she thought glaring at champion.
They all stared at amaze as Umbreon and Ducknoir fought to get the advantage on one another.
The Battle
"Dusknoir dark pulse!" Paul shouted as the ghost type once again used the same attack but this time the attack actually hit the dark type.
"No!" Max shouted as Umbreon struggle to stand. He turned to see Gary with a stare he couldn't quite read "is he disappointed with me?" He thought.
Paul looked at the pokemon struggling to stay on her feet now "why did that attack hit?" He thought staring at it.
"Umbreon use rest" he snapped back to the battle as he saw Umbreon healing. "Dusknoir multiple shadow balls" the ghost shot out 10 shadow balls.
"Umbreon snore" the shadow type launched a dark pulse colliding with a shadow ball but the rest were still heading towards it. "No" Max mentally said as he watched the attacks hit there target causing a huge explosion.
Paul smirked as the smoke slowly disappeared "that had to have done it" he thought.
"Please don't go down" Max whispered as the smoke cleared to show Umbreon on the ground "no" Max said.
"Umbreon is unab-" the referee stopped when he saw Umbreon rise on to its feet. It opened her eyes and looked back at Max to show it was perfectly fine.
Max stared amazed, this Umbreon kept taking attack after attack without a single scratch on it. "Alright lets get in its face charge it and use bite" the dark type ran straight for the ghost pokemon.
"You're a complete idiot, Dusknoir power punch" Paul said and just as Umbreon neared its fist glowed with fire and contacted with Umbreon but it did nothing but push the pokemon back. "What the hell is going on!?" Paul shouted as Max commanded Umbreon to keep charing at the opponent.
"I told you this wasn't going to be like my battle against Barry" Max said confident that Umbreon could win this battle for him.
Paul gritted his teeth and balled his hands into fist "I can't lose not to someone like him" he said to himself.
"Prepare to lose, now Umbreon dark pulse!" Max shouted as Umbreon stood firmly and launched the attack.
"Dark pulse!" Dusknoir put both hands together and launched a powerful dark pulse.
This time things were different instead of over powering Umbreon's dark pulse, it was now equal in power. Paul knew what this meant, it meant Dusknoir was getting exhausted and it would soon not be able to keep pace with Umbreon.
"I won't lose, I made a promise to Ash the day he made me an elite four" Paul thought as he watched the attacks push each other back.
Flashback 5 years and 10 months ago
"Ursaring use focus blast and Exploud use hyper voice" both pokemon used there attacked and hit their target. It was a Kangaskhan and it let out a powerful cry to let Paul know it was ready to keep going.
"Still with that rough training I see" he turned around to see the champion walking towards him.
"Don't worry I give them rest now" Paul said.
"I'm sure you do after all you wouldn't want the new champion to teach you a listen" Ash said with a smirk.
"Just because your champion doesn't mean I'm scared of you" Paul said and quickly changed the subject "so have you decided on your fourth elite yet?" He asked.
"No I haven't found anyone at all yet" the champion said smiling.
He knows exactly why Paul asked that question, he already named Bonnie, Korrina and Barry three of his elites and has given each one minus Korrina a mega ring.
"Well you do know a very powerful trainer already" Paul said clearly dropping a hint.
Ash laughed "yes I get the hint Paul you want to be an elite" he said.
"Than what are you waiting for!?" Paul shouted. To say he has been displeased the past two months is an understatement, he was completely pissed when Ash had named Bonnie his first new elite four. Than there was Korrina a girl the champion had only meet two years ago, he's been traveling with Ash longer than that and still hasn't ask him "you do remember the promise you made to me when we started this journey" Paul said.
Ash scratched his trying to remember if he made such a promise to him "I don't remember ever making such a promise" he said.
"Now I'm going to pulverize you!" Paul shouted.
Ash laughed dodging the punch "I'm just kidding!" He shouted dodging another punch.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Paul asked calming down.
"Well you see, I'm worried you might turn on me" Ash's tone changed to a serious one.
Paul could now feel the tension "you still don't trust me" he said staring at the champion.
"You and I are opposites remember, even now we still have our differences" the champion said.
"He's still thinking about what Cynthia told him" Paul thought staring at Ash. "The old way I treated pokemon is done with you know this" he said "and another thing, I've been traveling with you and the brady bunch for 5 long years now" he added.
"Yes but still I can sense doubt in yourself and in your pokemon" the champion said.
"Not possible me and my pokemon have full confidence in our battling abilities" said an irritated Paul.
Ash carefully watched Paul's and Kangaskhan's feelings raise "good thats what I want" he thought eyeing the two.
"Don't just stand there looking like an idiot, tell me what you mean by not having full confidence!" Paul shouted demanding why his friend doubts his abilities.
"What I meant by that was, you and Kangaskhan are afraid of mega evolving" Paul stared down his friend as he continued to talk "you're both afraid that she'll lose control and you won't be able to do anything about it" the champion said.
Paul and Kangaskhan looked at each other "could he be right? Are we afraid?" He thought to himself.
"No they're both losing confidence" Ash worriedly thought "listen Paul I truly believe the two of you can do it" Ash said.
Paul looked at his closest friend "what if we lose control?" He questioned.
Ash smiled at him "simple I'll stop you" he said.
"Alright, I'm trusting you just like you'll always be able to trust me" Paul said as he pulled out two mega stones and gave one to Kangaskhan.
End of Flashback
Paul looked up to the champion, he saw Ash being calm "thats right he has full confidence in my abilities as a trainer" he looked at smirking Max "and I won't let any of these traitors near him" he closed and breathed in and out slowly. "Dusknoir shadow ball and hold it" he said and the ghost did as told.
Max laughed "come on just give up already your Dusknoir is almost worn out and not to mention none of your attacks are doing any damage to Umbreon" the younger teen said clearly trying to make a point.
Paul did one of his 'hmph' and stared the teen down "listen if there is one thing I've learned from being an elite under Ash's watch, it's that we don't give up even when we're cornered, we'll fight because other wise we'll disgrace the elite name, we won't back down right Dusknoir" the ghost pokemon nodded to its trainer as it's stomach/mouth opened up.
"What now?" Max said confused at what the elite trainer was going to do now.
The Traitors
Brock saw Dusknoir holding the shadow ball and opened its mouth and quickly connected the dots "Max end the fight now!" He shouted.
"Why are you so worried now?" Iris questioned him.
"What do you mean why, Paul's Dusknoir is about to increase it's power" he said.
"How?"
"Ash never used the technique where he powers up his pokemon briefly by having them swallow their own move"
"No he never showed me that"
Tracy along the with the rest were shocked to hear this "you mean he figured out a way to do that?" He asked.
"Of course not it was an accident that happened when he was battling against Barry's father of the Sinnoh battle frontier" Brock said.
"So if it swallowed power up punch it could get even stronger? Asked Misty.
"No if I remember the pokemon needs to swallow an attack that is the same typing as it" he said watching the shadow ball get bigger.
"Well in that sense an attack like power up punch won't be affected by the boost of power" Professor Oak said.
"Yeah but it will gain incredible speed as well Umbreon is gonna have a tough time now" he said.
"But none of Dusknoir's attack have been able to do any damage so it should be okay" May said.
"This might be different" Brock said as he saw Dusknoir swallow the shadow ball.
The Group
"Haven't seen that in a while" Clemont said as he watched shadow ball gaining power.
"Now Dusknoir shouldn't have any trouble damaging Umbreon" Bianca said.
Anabel could sense Ash different emotions right now "he's been like this the whole battle what exactly is he not telling us" she thought.
"Hey Ash you think powering up Dusknoir will finally be enough to damage Umbreon" Bonnie worriedly asked her brother.
"I don't know" he said looking at how worried she was for their friend. "I can't tell them the truth, an aura shield can only be broken with aura but unlike Gary's everyone can clearly see mine" he thought as he gritted his teeth "only other option is to stop the flow of energy, I need one of their attacks to be aimed at the audience" he looked back at the field to see Dusknoir still gathering power for the shadow ball.
Korrina than noticed something around Umbreon "what's that?" She could see barely see the aura surrounding Umbreon's body "that looks like aura but I'm getting a bad feeling from it" she thought to herself.
Now Anabel could sense Korrina's feelings they where like Ash's "what's happening to the two of them?" She thought watching them both have the same face expression.
They all watched Dusknoir swallow the now powerful shadow ball.
The Battle
Paul watched Dusknoir gathering more energy for shadow ball "this is our last chance to beat this kid, I'll only have a few minutes with this power so I need to make it count" he thought as he saw Dusknoir swallow the attack.
As soon as Dusknoir swallowed the attack it was surrounded by a massive pillar of dark energy. This created an extreme gust of wind causing Umbreon to slide back a bit "what the hell is this?" Max said as he watched the energy of shadows emerge from Dusknoir.
The ghost pokemon was now covered with dark energy covering its body and the gold markings on its body were now purple.
"Good with this much power there isn't a reason we can't take down this kid" Paul said watching his pokemon power up.
"Umbreon it's not moving so nows your chance go dark pulse" Max said, Umbreon nodded and steady itself long enough to fire dark pulse at the ghost type.
Dusknoir didn't move as the it saw the dark pulse heading straight for him "wait for it Dusknoir!" Shouted Paul.
"Not even going to dodge this looks like I win" Max said watching the attack near.
Dusknoir heard Paul "now deflect it!" And in a split second it sent the attack flying behind it.
"Crap!" Paul shouted as he saw the attack heading towards the crowd.
He worried for nothing as a water shuriken and aura sphere intercepted the attack. He grinned and looked at the champion who nodded at him letting his friend know he'll take care of the deflecting attacks.
Ash sent Lucario and aura Greninja to two different points and all three formed a triangle with that they set up an aura barrier that took the shape of a pyramid.
"This has to be illegal!" Max shouted at the referee.
"Our champion is just protecting the audience from any attacks that reflect this barrier will be allowed" the referee spoke with a firm voice.
"That should even the odds for you Paul" Ash thought as he saw that Gary's aura could not penetrate his barrier.
"Now we can battle without any worries Dusknoir, go shadow punch" Paul said full of confidence. Dusknoir with as much speed as possible charged Umbreon with a shadow image of its fist.
"Umbreon bite the shadow punch and when it explodes use dark pulse to push back Dusknoir" Max said an Umbreon didn't hesitate as it charged the ghost type with the dark type move.
Both pokemon meet and collided attacks Umbreon bite into the the shadow punch making sparks of energy come out from the center of where the bite and shadow punch touched. Eventually the surge of power caused explosion making both pokemon disappear in the smoke.
Both trainers waited to see what happened to their pokemon. They weren't the only ones waiting everyone in the entire stadium where at the edge of their seats awaiting to see which pokemon was more damaged.
As soon the smoke was lighting ip Dusknoir came flying out of it while blocking a dark pulse with its hands.
"Dusknoir!" Paul shouted as his pokemon came soaring passed him.
Now the ghost type hit the barrier, it was managing but just barely, "Dusknoir throw it up!" It heard Paul shouted and did just that with all the its strength it launched upwards causing it to explode on the barrier.
"Don't let up Umbreon go! Bite!" Max shouted as Umbreon full speed ran towards with bite ready.
"Dodge" Paul said as Umbreon ran passed him.
Dusknoir swiftly moved and Paul saw that Umbreon had no where to run as it was backed against the barrier, "now its cornered, power up punch!" Paul quickly said.
Dusknoir with a fiery fist lunged towards Umbreon.
Max with his quick thinking had a plan "Umbreon use the barrier to jump into the air!" He shouted.
Umbreon perfectly understood and ran a bit up the barrier until finally launching up into the air. This caused Dusknoirs power up punch to collide with the aura barrier "dark pulse!" Umbreon launched the attack in mid air.
"Dusknoir turn around and use dark pulse" Paul said. Dusknoir turned around and with one hand launched its own dark pulse causing both dark moves to collide.
Paul covered his face with his arms as the debris came at him and smoked was again engulfed both pokemon.
Umbreon came out first and Paul this as an opening "Dusknoir power up punch" he said. Dusknoir came charging out with his attack ready, Umbreon not knowing where he was coming out from got hit by the attack and was sent back to middle of the field.
Max could see that the attacks were now causing real major damage "what's going just because it got a little stronger its causing a lot of damage to Umbreon that shouldn't be happening" he said to himself.
"Charge it Dusknoir with back to back shadow punches" Paul said as Dusknoir slammed both fist together to make the shadow punches and charged Umbreon.
"Dodge all of it and have bite ready for when you see a opening" Max said.
Umbreon stood on all four with bite ready as Dusknoir charged it. The ghost type began to throw punches and Umbreon swiftly dodged them all using its agile reflexes.
"If it wasn't for that rest from before and Gary aura this match should have ended ages ago" Ash thought looking at Dusknoir struggle to land a hit. "Not to mention Dusknoir has no move that can help recover the energy its already wasted, he might of boosted his power but that didn't help restore energy he is fighting exhausted still while Umbreon still has rest Paul needs to finish in these next few moves" Ash watched as Umbreon leaped behind Dusknoir and now had an opening to attack.
"Dusknoir duck!" Paul quickly shouted as he saw Umbreon jump at Dusknoir's neck. The ghost pokemon did as told and ducked, this caused Umbreon to jump right over and left itself wide open for an attack. Dusknoir took advantage and gave it a direct hit in the gut sending the dark type flying up towards the barriers point. "Now don't multiple shadow balls" Dusknoir launched several shadow balls to Umbreon.
"Umbreon push yourself downwards by using the barrie" Max said. Umbreon quickly flipped itself around and with it's two back legs and went soaring past all the shadow balls. "Use dark pulse!" Max shouted as Umbreon came face to face with Dusknoir and hit it directy with dark pulse at the same time pushing it back to create some distance between them.
Both trainers faced each other, they knew this battle was going to end soon. The questions on their minds was who would win, Paul knows Dusknoir only has enough energy for one more move.
"Umbreon rest" Max said as the dark type closed its eyes and begun healing.
"Now is our only chance" Paul thought examining Dusknoir, the energy he took from shadow ball earlier was about to rub out. "Dusknoir power up punch" Paul said this confused Max who figured that Paul would try attacking while Umbreon healed.
"He's going to try to finish this in one blow, he knows no matter how much damage he does Umbreon well just heal" Ash thought as he watched Dusknoir float with power up punch ready in hand.
"Now Dusknoir I need you to send all the remaining energy you have into that single attack" Paul said. The ghost pokemon began to concentrate all the remaining energy into power up punch, slowly the shadow energy moved towards the fist and the bright flames soon were replaced by dark ones.
Max worriedly watched it happen and at that moment Umbreon awoke from its slumber at the same time Dusknoir had the attack fully ready. "This is it, I'll need Umbreon to use every ounce of power into this dark pulse because if we don't that attack will finish us" Max thought. He breathed slowly in and out "alright go Umbreon charge it!" Max shouted pointing towards Dusknoir.
"Dusknoir its all or nothing charge it!" Paul shouted as the ghost type charged Umbreon.
"Paul has this in the bag" Ash smirked watching the pokemon near each other. "Master Ash I'm sorry" Ash's eyes widen at the sound of this voice and he whipped his head around "Mewtwo" he whispered as the attacks collided causing as massive explosion and due to Ash's lack of concentration the barrier was shattered.
Everyone on the battle field covered their eyes from debris as the pokemon disappeared into the pitch black smoke.
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