Episode 46: Proving your worth
Black and Anto stared as a man with similar clothing style to Misoka stepped out of the trees.
Out walked another man, around his twenties with his green hair and bangs covering his left eye.
"Kiyomi, so it looks like you lost against a kid." There was a cocky tune in his voice as he folded his arms.
"Haruto Izuru…" The silver haired girl paused. "W-What are you doing here?"
The green haired man laughed. "What? Don't tell me you forgot our agreement?"
Misoka tensed while Black and Anto seemed confused.
Haruto gave off a smirk. "We were supposed to battle in the league to prove which dojo was better. And I recall that if I won, you would surrender your family dojo to us. That was the agreement, wasn't it?"
"The agreement was that we had to battle for it!" Misoka screamed.
"But we can't now, because you're no longer in the tournament." Haruto pointed at her directly. "And since you obviously can't fulfill your part of the bargain, your family dojo is forfeit."
"You bet your family dojo?" Black asked in shock.
"It is a very long story." Misoka turned back to the two boys. She looked at Anto and then looked down. "I had… underestimated the other trainers severely."
"Your family has obviously grown weak, Kiyomi. To lose to a child of all things."
Anto glared; unfortunately he was ignored like he wasn't even there.
"Hooooolllllddddd it!"
All four of them turned in surprise of the voice. There was a tall, confident woman with bright gold eyes, dark brown short, spiky hair and a very dark tan wearing a thick white coat with red Poké Ball designs and very tight leg pants screamed out with her hands pushing both sides.
Misoka and Black looked surprised, which made Anto surprised because it seemed like Black recognized that woman.
"Candela Onee—I mean, Candela? What are you doing here!?" Misoka cried out in shock before saying something else.
"Wait, Candela!?" Black looked at the newcomer and back at the silver haired girl back and forth. "As in, Candela, leader of Team Valor: a growing Pokémon community dedicated into learning about Pokémon through strength!? That same Candela that is said to be one of the three trainers that are direct assistants to Professor Willow and are rumored to each have a legendary Pokémon!?"
Candela grinned at Black. "Well that's a mouthful. I think you and Blanche might get along if you like researching." Her grin went down as she turned to Haruto and pointed to him nonchalantly. "Anywho, the reason I came here was to put a hold on your little plan to take over the Kiyomi Dojo."
"You have no say on this!" Haruto exclaimed. "She lost before her battle even began, which is the same thing as forfeiting!"
Misoka looked down in shame while Black was really started to get annoyed by this Haruto guy. However, Candela still seemed calm. In fact, she was smiling again.
"Spending time with the world's greatest bookworm has rubbed off on me, so I took a look at the contract you made." She put her hand near her mouth and cleared her throat. "A student of the Lotus Dojo, Misoka's family Dojo, will face a student from the Steel Arcanine, Seaweed Head over here…" She motioned to Haruto who glared while Black and Anto held in a chuckle. She then continued on. "… Within this Year's Unova League. Whoever wins between them will determine the fate of the Lotus Dojo."
"Yes! And now that Misoka has lost, she is unable to fulfill that contract!" Haruto folded his arms.
Candela folded her own arms, still not losing her smile. "Hold on there, Seaweed Head, you still haven't had your battle yet. How do we know you won't lose as well? Secondly, the contract is still fair game."
"What are you talking about?" Haruto demanded. "Misoka lost! And I won't make that mistake for sure!"
"What I'm trying to say that there's another Student of the Lotus Dojo that's still in the league and can still represent Misoka's Dojo." Candela stated, surprising the four of them. "And best of all, he's already on the second round."
"What!? There's another student!?" Haruto exclaimed.
"There's another student!?" Even Misoka was surprised.
Candella pointed her hand to the sky… then right down to Anto?
"What!?" Everyone cried out.
"He's not a student! I've never seen him in the dojo!" Haruto exclaimed while Misoka had to begrudgingly agree.
"The thing about Contracts is that you shouldn't make it too vague." Candella commented to herself before explaining out loud. "We all saw that last battle didn't we? That kid's Patrat moved exactly like one of the sword users just like in the Lotus Dojo, I should know, I've studied there for years before becoming the official leader of Team Valor."
Anto tilted his head. Takezo moved just like someone from that Dojo? Well that does explain why the sword fight looked similar… wait but what are the chances that Takezo is connected to Misoka's Dojo? He always said he trained alone with an old man.
… What was his previous teacher's name?
"What are you suggesting!?" Haruto screamed. "That some random Patrat with a blade is a student of the Lotus Dojo!? They're the most common Pokémon in Unova with nothing special besides being an extra pair of eyes at night!"
"Candela! My grandmother never thought a Patrat! I'm sure!" Misoka declared.
Hold up—that got gears cranking on Anto's head.
"Wait. Did you say, grandmother?"
Everyone but Black turned to Anto in surprise. The mute sighed before briefly explaining again that he was technically a psychic and communicated speech through telepathy at times.
Despite their reactions, the amnesiac pressed on for Misoka to confirm she learned how to fight from her grandmother to which she did admit to being taught by her a grandmother, a female.
The mute's Patrat always mentioned a male teach though.
Anto took out his Poké Ball and brought out Takezo.
"Takezo, out of curiosity, do you know the name of your first master?"
"Ishimaru Kiyomi, why do you ask?" Takezo answered as Anto's eyes widened in shock. Takezo didn't recognize Misoka's name before because he was never there whenever it was announced! Not to mention on the fact they were so focused on the battle at the time, he probably didn't take a good look at the guy's granddaughter!
Anto turned to Misoka uneasily. "Umm, does the name, 'Ishimaru Kiyomi', mean anything?"
The silver haired girl, even Haruto, flinched in surprise. "How do you know my grandfather's name!? He left when I was young because he didn't want to burden us with his Alzheimer's…"
"Well uhh… Takezo here trained under him." Anto motioned to his Patrat who turned and seemingly stared at Misoka.
Candela looked as shocked, but she also seemed to be happy. "I knew that fighting style was familiar. I saw master Ishimaru fight a few times when I was still a rookie in his dojo. He had the same grace and skill your Patrat showed when he wielded that blade," She then turned towards Haruto. "Well then it's decided, unless you also lose on the first round, you have to beat Anto here to get the Dojo."
"Wait what?" Anto turned to the red themed woman suddenly forcing him into an agreement he did not sign up for.
"You think some nobody can defeat me? Ha! Fine then, not only will my family get the dojo, but I can completely humiliate you Mioska in front of all of Unova by winning the league and beating that child!" He huffed as he walked away.
"What a jerk! He thinks he's going to win!?" To Anto, Black was getting angry for the wrong reasons.
"Onee-san, how did you know about Anto's Pokémon?" Misoka asked.
"I recognizing fights pretty well. He moved way too skillfully to be a coincidence. Though I did have to admit I was going on a feeling. Spark would be proud." Candela offhandedly mentioned before looking towards Anto. "So uh yeah. Mind helping out my friend?"
The black haired boy simply stared. "Why do you ask me now that I have no choice whatsoever?"
The leader of Team Valor scoffed. "No way I'm letting that bigot and his family going to trample over my friend's dojo. I trained there as a kid and honestly? Master Ishi might not have been the most competent of teachers, but I strangely learned the most from him." She reminisced fondly.
"Grandfather was never good at actually teaching. Grandmother always reprimanded him for not taking things seriously." Misoka sighed.
It was around this time she turned towards Takezo, who was still staring at her. "Yes little one? You have been staring at me for a while."
"You have the same eyes as him." Takezo answered out in a human language, surprising even Black.
Everyone once more seemed surprised until Anto had to explain again he had the power to translate between the two languages.
"OK you have to meet Blanche and Spark one day." Cadela exclaimed. "They'll have field day with you."
But Misoka looked back to Takezo. "So it is true, you must be the egg my grandfather took with him before he left."
"He never told me about you or your family. Later on I just assumed that he didn't want to talk about it." The Patrat answered.
Misoka sighed before looking towards Anto. "I'm sorry you got caught up in this mess."
"Ehh, I've been through worse." Anto dismissed. By now he should have been used to stuff like this.
A sudden beeping noise made everyone turn to Black.
"Oh." Black stated as he looked at his Xtransciever.
"What is it?" Candela wondered out loud.
"My match is coming soon! Hey Anto, why not check it out? I know you haven't seen my Pokémon yet." The teen admitted.
Anto was curious and easily agreed. Black had a victorious smirk on him. "I have a feeling you should know who you're facing against, so don't you dare lose to that seaweed head!"
"You know there is the chance I probably am not going to fight him, right?"
Black raised a brow.
"… Don't give me that look. It's statistically improbable for that to happen!"
"Actually, one out of sixteen isn't that improbable." Black pointed.
[Meanwhile…]
He saw the battle. His Pokémon were very impressive for being so strange. However that didn't change the fact that he was far away from where he was.
He needed to get to him soon. He had a feeling that if he waited any longer, he might miss his chance to get that kid and ask for his help.
[Later…]
The stadium roared battle after battle, and right now it was the last battle of the preliminaries.
"Helloooo everyone! We have one of the last matches of the day! We have our contestant in the red corner, Black! One of youngest and newest contestants here in the Pokémon League!"
"What does he mean by that?" Benga asked as he turned towards the group, which had grown quite a bit and was now consisting of Misoka, Candela, White, Wes, Jamie, Bianca, Anto, and Tiana.
"Oh he means newcomers. People in their first league tournament are referred to as 'new contestants' since usually there are other people who have been in other leagues or the previous leagues before. I think Anto also was briefly introduced before he had his first match." Tiana explained.
"Come to think of it, there are a lot of older people here aren't there?" Jamie thought out loud.
"Yeah, I checked. Including that Bianca, Anto, and Black kid, there are only four newcomers for this tournament. There might have been more if the date was pushed two weeks earlier." Candela noted.
It was then that the Mc turned over towards the blue corner. "And his opponent, with the age of 23, Carl Forray!"
A blonde man with short hair and green eyes wearing something like a fisherman's clothing except the hat stepped into the side.
"Sup kid." Carl waved. "Good luck."
"Thanks, but I'm here to win!" black declared as he got a Poké ball ready.
Carl chuckled. "Funny. Last time I checked, I was planning on beating you and getting into the next round." He took out a Lure Ball
"It seems our contestants are rip and raring to go! Remember, the 3 versus 3 rule is still in effect! So trainers, on your mark, get set… go!" Guyver cried out as Black and Carl threw out their Pokémon.
Right off the bat, Carl brought out Rapidash as Black brought out a Galvantula.
"Wait, but you had a Lure Ball!" Black cried out. That Poké Ball was commonly used to bring out water Pokémon since it was made to catch water Pokémon easier.
Carl calmly smiled. "It's to trick sharper people into choosing a different type. Come on kid, this is the big leagues. I'm sure you've heard of mind games before."
Black gritted his teeth as the field set off around them. The symbol on the screen was electric and suddenly magnetic platforms and conveyer belts filled the whole field.
The match was on and Carl was suddenly crying out to his Rapidash to use Flame Wheel.
Black did not expect the fire type to run at him even faster than he had expected and quickly told his Galvantula, Tula, to web into one of the platforms and barely get away from the fast moving Rapidash.
"How did that Rapidash move so fast?" White asked as they all stared at the battle field.
"I think that fire type used Agility." Wes spoke out.
"Good, I wasn't the only one to notice it," Candela commented. "That's a well raised Rapidash to use set up moves very quickly."
Quickly, Rapidash fired a large spread Heatwave, at the platform Tula was on. Seeing no way out, Black ordered Tula hide behind the platform.
"That was a bad move." Candela commented, making everyone but Wes look at her.
As the attack died down, the platform Galvantula was on started to heat up and slowly melt. Not only that, but the metal platform crashed into the ground, making Tula flop into the ground in shock.
"So those were held up by magnets." The Orreian teen commented before briefly explaining that if you heat up magnets, they start to lose their magnetic field—which happened right now with Rapidash heating up one of the magnetic platforms to the point it couldn't hold itself up anymore.
Things were looking bad for Black. But there was still one thing about the field he could use.
Carl told his Rapidash to use another Heatwave while Black told his Pokémon to jump to the right.
The bug electric type quickly hopped and found himself on a conveyor belt that quickly got him out of the range of that attack.
Black ordered his Pokémon to get behind several rows of conveyor belts then fire Electro Ball at his opponent. However, the Rapidash was boosted enough to avoid the attack.
Rapidash shot another Heatwave but Tula launched another Electro Ball in retaliation.
However, something small shot out of the smoke and hit Rapidash on her neck.
Suddenly, the Rapidash was shocked by several hundred volts of electricity. Quickly, Carl recognized the string as web and ordered his fire type to flare up and melt the web off her.
As the smoke died down, Black's Galvantula was back on top of one of the magnets platforms, but this time he had webbed half a dozen together.
Black knew he had a type disadvantage, but that wouldn't stop him from this battle. He trained his Galvantula to weave web as quick as possible since that's what made their specific species so powerful in the first place.
It was tricky, but Tula had launched a web right after the Electro Ball since Black knew the attacks would cancel each other out. It let him use Electro Web to finally score a hit, but Carl was obviously disciplined enough to react quickly.
The next move surprised Black as Rapidash was ordered to move right towards him with another Flame Wheel. There was the problem that between Rapidash and the electric Pokémon, there were at least half a dozen conveyor belts moving quickly in different directions. The footing of the horse Pokémon would be horrible in a straight charge, which was why Black had ordered his Pokémon to retreat behind them so the footing would be horrible.
It was a good plan.
It just wasn't good enough at this stage of the game.
Rapidash wasn't tripping over the different moving conveyor belts; she was jumping on them. She was gracefully moving with the fast moving conveyor belts and now forming a form of zigzag pattern towards the bug type.
Black started to sweat and quickly ordered his Galvantula to fire Electro Ball in a rapid fire. However, the new pattern was far more unpredictable for his electric type to pin down. Hastily, the teen told Galvantula to quickly use his web to move away from the platform as it was rammed through by Rapidash.
The strange thing was that because that platform was connected to others by web, the fire spread out into the other nearby platforms as well. The heat weakened the magnetic platforms and some started falling into the conveyor belts patterned on the field.
Everyone in the audience was wondering why Black would have his Pokémon web up all the platforms together? He was running out of places to run. Yet from the crowd, Anto was silently staring at what the melting metal was doing where they all fell.
Galvantula moved to an area that was behind more conveyer belts but for some reason it was more towards the area where his web of platforms fell and burned.
Rapidash fired another Heat Wave while mid air, actually catching the bug type in flames as fired seemed to cover the spider's body. The action caught Black off guard, as Carl ordered his Pokémon to finish it all with Flare Blitz.
It was then something strange happened as Rapidash made her way towards the burning Pokémon.
When she jumped on one of the conveyor belts, one of her feet dug into the rubber.
"What?!" Carl screamed out.
"Now, Galvantula, hit Rapidash with your best Electro Ball!" Black quickly cried as the spider launched a much bigger electrical sphere at the still but moving fire type.
The attack exploded and out of the dust, Rapidash was knocked out of the now broken conveyor belt and was unconscious.
"How did that happen?" Carl asked as he recalled Rapidash and the field started to fix itself back to normal.
"Did you think only the magnets would be affect by heat?" Carl looked over to Black. "If rubber melts, it becomes sticky and liquid like. I had an idea that I could pin down you Rapidash in the melted rubber since I've seen you melt the webs quickly, but I knew that I didn't have long to dodge all those fire attacks you were throwing. It's why I had Tula web all those platforms so they would catch on fire faster and fall on rubber conveyor belts to speed up their heating. Then all I had to do was wait until you got stuck on one and finish you off."
"Well, I know someone who would fit perfectly in my friend's Team Mystic." Candela commented from the crowd.
Carl laughed. "So you're telling me, I'm facing off a kid genius. Swell!" He took out a Net Ball and threw it out into the air.
The next Pokémon to come out was an Espeon.
With how weakened Tula was, Black recalled his dual type then brought out his own psychic Pokémon, Musha.
The field started changing. This time a wind symbol appeared on the largest screen and the filed changed into an area where there was a lot of metal chain fences beneath both psychics then a sudden and powerful turbulence shot them upward.
The MC briefly explained that the wind arena blasted powerful winds from beneath the entire field. Musha already was having trouble levitating in place due to the strong winds.
The buzzer rang and the second battle began. Espeon quickly tried to create a Shadow Ball, but the wind's distracted him and made his aim go away from his target, even though the Musharna seemed to have trouble actually moving against the strong winds.
"As we have seen so far today folks, The Wind Stage always seems to imbalance any Pokémon! Even flying types have trouble moving within this stage, so how will these trainers handle such strong winds blasting beneath them!?" Guyver cried out.
A thought came to Black as he motioned his Munna to look at him before he gave a hand signal with his fingers pointing up.
The Unova psychic had its eyes glowing as it suddenly lifted the chained fence beneath Espeon into the air, making it panic mid air.
To his credit, Carl acted quickly once more, telling his psychic Pokémon to move himself through his own psychic powers.
Strangely, Carl ordered his psychic to fly upward before suddenly dropping his psychic hold.
Black was to slow to notice that Espeon had aligned himself right in front of the sun to Musha's angle and the dream Pokémon suddenly flinched and looked back down as Espeon fired a fast Shadow Ball, despite Black's cries to dodge the attack.
The evolved psychic type surprisingly found himself falling upward—strange as that was—since the turbulent winds below were still blasting strong winds.
Amazingly, Espeon was still in the air, but his descent was slowing down because of the strong winds. After gaining his balance somewhat, the psychic eeveelution fired another fast Shadow Ball.
This time, Musharna quickly recovered and teleported out of the way before flying back and using psychic.
The Espeon prepared himself and used his own psychic defensively in an orb. However, for one split second, he did not feel anything attacking his shield.
The next split second was him falling down into the ground at normal gravity. This was because Musha used psychic to freeze the fan directly under Carl's Espeon.
The psychic type promptly fell into the chained fence with his forcefield breaking because he lost focus.
Then Musharna seemed to glow as he fired a mutli colored shock wave that blasted Espeon with horrible pain.
"What attack was that!?" Carl cried out.
"It's called Synchronoise! A powerful psychic move that does more damage to Pokémon that have the same type even with Resistance!" Black cried out as Musharna Blasted the attack again, knocking Espeon off its feet and knocking it out cold.
"Alright… looks like Musharna can handle other psychic Pokémon…" Anto noted carefully.
Carl laughed. "Not bad kid," He recalled his Espeon. "But here's where I make my comeback! Go Gyarados!"
The mighty water and flying type Pokémon revealed himself with a mighty roar as the field returned to normal. What Anto noticed right away was that this Gyarados was wearing a special jewel.
Black and his Musharna were ready, so they stayed until the field turned into the ice field and froze the entire floor over, not that the Pokémon needed to stand on the ground, but…
Black started off the battle by ordering his Pokémon to launch a psychic attack.
He wasn't expecting his opponent to take out a wrist band with a colored stone on it.
Suddenly, he threw the bright colored stone in the air as the stone with his Gyarados, enveloped itself in rainbow light.
"Not that again!" Wes exclaimed as the group all shielded their eyes.
When the lights died down, Gyarados had Mega evolved into a much bulkier and scarier version of itself.
"Huh? What happened to my attack?" Black wondered. He saw the evolution, but for some reason the attack just bounced off.
Black snapped out of it as soon as he realized the Mega Gyarados was using Dragon Dance.
The mega surprisingly rushed towards Musha then promptly smashed it downward with his tail, cracking the entire ice field below them.
Out of the dust, Musha was knocked out cold.
"H-Hey! What kind of Pokémon is that?!" Bianca yelled in surprise.
"You haven't heard of them? Their called Mega Pokémon. Some Pokémon have the ability to evolve further if they have certain conditions met." Candela explained while Black brought out Costa, his Carracosta. "They're very powerful and that Gyarados was already powerful by itself. Mega Gyarados is one of the few megas that change their type. Instead of flying and water, it's dark and water, so psychic attacks no longer work on him, but bug and fighting now do."
"I'm getting flashbacks back to Nimbasa where we had to fight an army of these." White muttered even when this next round began back in the Water field.
"It probably doesn't help the fact we've actually never defeated more than one mega at a time, does it?" Wes stated, recalling their many encounters with Pokémon usually stronger than them. "And our only win was because several of our Pokémon ganged up on one of them."
"They're that strong?!" Bianca cried out.
"They are stronger, but not invincible." Candela added as the battle waged on as Black tried to use Costa to hit Gyarados with Stone Edge. However, the bulky Pokémon was surprisingly speedy and flexible enough to dodge all rocks and slam into the rock water type. "Megas are allowed in this league tournament, and apparently that Battle AR device the mute psychic used in his battle with Misoka." Candella added in.
Thankfully, Costa had some amazing defense and shrugged off the boosted attack. However, he couldn't land a clean hit and Carl ordered his Pokémon to keep a good distance away from the Pokémon.
Black gritted his teeth. If Carl's Gyarados got through Costa, Tula was a sitting duck! He went through a lot to get here, and he was not getting knocked out on the first round!
The teenage Unovian trainer threw his hand out. "Costa! Use, Shell Smash!"
In a bright light, Black's Pokémon started moving faster and fired another Stone Edge at the Gyarados. This time it hit, but the Mega shrugged the damage off.
Carl saw this and quickly ordered another Dragon Dance as the Gyarados avoided more boulders. With more speed, the large blue water Mega weaved past the fast moving stones.
Black gritted his teeth and ordered another Shell Smash. However, as soon as he did, Carl ordered another Dragon Dance.
"They are both calling out boosting moves." Jamie stated.
"They are planning to end this soon with one hit." Misoka offered. "However, is there a move good enough to hit Gyarados with his speed boosted that much? Even with his own boost, I cannot see Black's Pokémon scoring a direct hit onto the opponent."
"So kid, I think it's time we ended this. How about the last attack to decide the match?" Carl offered.
"Hey! I still have one more Pokémon than you!" Black quipped back even though there was sweat going down his forehead. Tula didn't stand a chance against a highly boosted Pokémon like this.
"You and I both know you're bluffing, so here we go! Gyarados, use Waterfall!"
From high in the sky, The Gyarados rushed for Costa like a bullet multiplied with the speed and mass of a giant meteor.
Black's mind went into overdrive in an instant, trying to figure out a way to stop that kind of power even with all of his boosts.
He only had one choice.
"I was planning to save this for later but… Costa, use Mystic Gaia!" Black cried out.
Costa's eyes actually glowed white and suddenly cackled with mystic light as he summoned a levitating boulder right in front of him that shot right for the speeding Mega.
People weren't expecting the one boulder to do much against the Pokémon charging at amazing power and speed right towards it. However, they also did not expect the boulder to suddenly grow in size and form quickly into a giant spike.
"What!?" Carl cried as the attack connected with Mega Gyarados.
The attack created a deafening boom and everyone shielded their eyes and felt blown away from the impact.
Afterward… a normal Gyrados was seen falling into the shallow water, cold an unconscious.
"What the heck? I have never seen a move like that before!" Carl cried out as he recalled his Pokémon and went to black over the reformed arena.
Since the end of the battle was decided, The Mc declared Black the winner and the whole arena cheered wildly, except for a certain group.
"I got the idea for it from a friend." Black responded as he shook hands with Carl and then glanced over to Anto.
Everyone in that group stared in surprise.
"What was…" Candela asked in shock.
"That?" Tiana finished.
However, those traveling with a certain mute knew exactly what that was.
Jamie spoke out next. "Did Black just…"
"Yes. I think he did." Wes confirmed.
"So…" The amnesiac continued to stare at Black waving at him. "Black also knows Fusion Moves."
[Later]
"So you can combine Pokémon moves together. Wait till professor Willow and Blanche hears about this!" Candela exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah and that last move I used was a Fusion Move of both Ancient Power and Stone Edge. Apparently it just makes one giant and very, very hard to stop rock then shots it." Black had just finished explaining what Fusion Moves were and who made them. The entire group was in the main lobby discussing their battles.
"How did you learn about it anyway?" Wes asked Black. "I know Anto used them several times over his battles, but I don't know how you figured it out."
"White told me about it, when she saw you guys training them once." Black responded.
Everyone turned to the girl with a cap that had the same color as her name. "We keep in touch some times and it came up in conversations."
Anto felt a little bad though. He never mentioned it was a secret, but he liked to think of Fusion Moves as his own signature thing with him and his group.
"That's not fair! I wanna learn some of those cool moves too!" Bianca whined.
"By the way Bianca, have you seen Cheren? I saw him among the contestants, but I never got to meet with him." Black asked.
The blonde girl sighed. "I tried to meet with him, but I couldn't find him. It's not usually like him to be so hard to find."
… While the conversation was going around, Candela noticed that her friend, Misoka was deep in thought as she looked down on a tablet.
"Are you alright?" The leader of Team Valor asked.
"The schedule for the next round has been updated." Misoka declared, getting everyone's attention. She showed everyone her tablet. "These are the next 16 battlers and who they are facing."
They all scanned the remaining sixteen contestants.
"I'm against someone named Jakob Forrest." Bianca stated.
"I have a girl named Velora Juldias." Black mentally noted to get a video of her match later.
However, Anto looked for his specific picture…
"AWW COME ON!?" He stood up and psionically shouted.
It showed that his next match was against Haruto Izuru.
[Elsewhere…]
Drip.
Drip.
Drip Drop Drip.
The rain continued to hammered hard back at Icirrus City.
Despite the heavy storm, four figures stood in front of the collapsed Dragon Tower.
"Welcome, one and all. How long has it been since all of us got together like this?"
"Four months."
Thunder boomed.
"… Really? I thought it was two hundred years."
"No, we met prior due to the birth of Subject Five."
Another voice inquired, "Remind me again why we didn't just meet with him and tell him about us?"
"It was in preparation for the rebirth of the dragons. We all know what happened during ancient times, and what their rebirth means for us. We basically didn't have much time to try and 'recruit' him."
"The timing after their rebirth is short. We've been slowly collecting power over the fragments for millennium just for this moment."
"It is a shame that one of the Mew clones detected us. We used much Essence to trap something with that much power."
"Does it matter? We still have enough to open the seal."
"She's right. In fact, everyone get ready, we're going to start the weakening process. It's time for the eternal chains… to finally break."
{Author Notes}
So honesty time, I do like battles as much as the next guy, but even I am worried that I might be pushing it here in the league where there are battles galore. Thankfully, I have a few ideas to keep the battles interesting or at least give them some meaning to the overall plot.
However, I have a nasty feeling that you guys might get bored of the battles very quickly, which is a shame since I'm planning some crazy battles as the tournament comes to a close.
So what do you guys think? I try my best to make the battles not as predictable as possible, but I realize that not all battles are interesting mostly due to the fact that this is text and battles look a lot better on a screen that being described in words.
{Extra: On the GO}
Anto: You keep mentioning your friends, Spark and Blanche. Who are they?
Candela: Well they are the leaders of Team Instinct and Team Mystic respectively. Blanche is the smartest person I've ever met. Blanche is always one of the most annoying people to battle against since that person uses some annoying tactics.
Anto: … Why did Black ask if Blanche was a girl or a guy? What is Blanche's gender?
Candela: …
[Flashback]
Team Mystic Recruit: Blanche, what are you?
Blanche: I am the leader of Team Mystic.
Team Mystic Recruit: No, I mean uhh… what's 'in your pants'?
Blanche: Wisdom.
[End of Flashback]
Candela: … And then there's Spark! The Dauntless Leader of Team Instinct! He is… he is… umm…
[Flash back]
Candela: So quick question Spark, how do you keep your hair like that?
Spark: Oh. I can show you. It's a cool trick I learned.
Blanche: (In Blanche's thoughts) I wonder what kind of technique keeps Spark's hair so pointy even in water?
Spark: (Pokes an Electrode with a fork that immediately shocks him.)
Candela and Blanche: Yeah that makes sense.
[End of Flashback]
Anto: …
Candela: …
Anto: …
Candela: … So…?
Anto: …?
Candela: Do you wanna hear about Professor Willow?
{Author Notes}
In all seriousness, I love Pokémon Go. Been playing it for a while but I've stopped a bit recently since it drains my battery like crazy.
I am not going to tell you guys what Team I am on, because let's face it, we can get pretty petty when it comes to game rivalry and I don't want to cross that line.
You may think that I am Valor with my inclusion of Candela and the little skit I made above. If so, you can believe that if you like. If you believe I'm in the other two teams, you can also believe that.
However, I won't deny that I've seen a lot of comics of these three and I sort of fell in love with their characters. You can expect Spark and Blanche making an appearance soon {As soon as I either figure which gender I want Blanche to be in this story, or if Pokémon Go is going to release his or her sex in the near future}
Anyway, see you guys soon.