ALOLA TO OUR SAVIOUR: Chapter 53 - Round 3 part 2
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon :/
Hau rested knowing his fate was on path right now as he had secured his spot in the quarter finals.
What worried him was that Gladion was there as well.
They heard that Acerola had also made it too the next round, leaving just 5 spots left.
Today was going to be Ash's chance to claim one of these spots as he was versing Emilia.
Zach or Olivia would be joining them in the next round as well. They would miss the first half of the battle due to it starting half way through Ash's match.
The Melemele native slept restless throughout night and still had the daunting thought of his future lingering in his mind.
He woke up at one point and saw it was 5 in the morning.
Groaning, he forced himself out of to go get a glass of water.
He dragged himself to the kitchen tap and poured himself some of the ice-cold liquid.
Hau yawned as he rubbed his tired eyes as he caught a figure outside, just sitting on the rocks.
Due to the dark, he couldn't picture who it was so Hau decided to walk closer to the sliding door and eventually made the figure to be Lana, who was fishing.
Hau just stood there and scratched his head till he decided to go outside and see what was up.
Lana swung her feet over the rocks as she waited for anything to react to the line that was deep within the water.
She hummed to herself but stopped as she heard footsteps coming near her.
She turned around to see Hau of all people.
Thankfully due to the darkness, he could not see the massive blush over her face.
"O-oh! Hau? What are you doing here?" Lana asked with a slight stutter.
"I was going to ask the same thing." Hau questioned as he placed himself down next to her.
"Oh… Fishing. You sometimes get the best results when it's dark." Lana explained.
Hau could tell she was telling the truth but he started to think that there was something else to it.
"Is that all?" Hau asked once more.
Lana paused and looked down which Hau noticed.
"Sigh. Normally I don't do this till like 6 in the morning. But haven't slept at all." Lana muttered as Hu grew more curious.
"Well, you can tell me! If there is something you need to get off your chest, I'm all ears!" Hau told her.
Lana looked right at him and blushed once more, but it was more than a blush of embarrassment.
"4 years ago, today my parents divorced. I just hated it! All the arguing on who is right and who is wrong. Who was meant to do this and who didn't do that. Not to mention the alcohol that got involved. I used to run off and do, well, this. It distracted me." Lana explained with slightly teary eyes. "I wished night after night, they could stop and just love each other like they use too…"
Hau looked off into the distant sea.
"Maybe that is what makes us human…" Hau muttered.
Lana looked at him.
"No one is perfect, and nothing is perfect. But we just have deal with it. That is what makes us stronger than those." Hau explained as Lana looked at him.
"I guess… I should be thankfully I have them… I am so sorry about Hala…" Lana said to him.
Hau sighed.
"Never knew my dad. He never wanted to be known as 'the son of the grand Hala!' And mum died in car crash when I was 2. Now Hala. It's life. As sad as it is, and I miss all them, I have to keep going on to make each of them proud of what I can do!" Hau told her.
Lana was in slight shock about Hau. She knew about Hala but had no idea about his parents. She felt kind of guilty about bringing up her parents. This cheery, fun going boy had lost his biological parents and his grandfather who was practically his dad.
"But I have my Pokemon." Hau added. "Ash and Lillie too. Ilima, Kiawe, Acerola, Gladion and you!"
Lana blushed and nodded.
"Why don't you come and watch Ash's match later today? You can come with me and Lillie." Hau offered.
Lana knew it would be good to continue to distract herself from her tragic parents and decided to take Hau up on the offer.
"Yeah. I'd like to come." Lana responded.
She felt a tug on the line and instantly reeled in a Magikarp.
Hau was impressed at the sheer strength that Lana possessed.
Lana unhooked the Magikarp and released back to the wild.
"I might get some more sleep. I'll met with you when Ash's match is up!" Hau told her.
Lana nodded as the Melemele native walked off.
She turned back to the ocean and smiled.
(Hours later)
As promised, Hau went and located Lana.
Ash had already left to get ready as the pair met with Lillie.
"So, Ash has already versus Emilia, right?"
Lillie nodded.
"Yeah. Ash and Gladion battled her and her older sister before the tournament started." Lillie explained as Lana recalled the little battle the four had.
Hau shrugged his shoulders.
"What's the worry then? He has done it once before?" Hau brought up.
"Just remember, we have no clue what to expect now after Lucinda brought out the mega Absol." Lillie countered.
"Yeah I saw heard about that." Lana added.
Lillie was sure Emilia was going to do anything to beat Ash, but she had full confidence in him.
The three made there way to the stadium and waited for the match to start.
Elsewhere, Ash was waiting in the locker room. He knew this was his last round where he had to only use 3 Pokemon.
He sighed and took a drink of the water he had. He stood up and prepared for the onslaught of sound.
"WELCOME EVERYONE TO DAY TWO OF ROUND 3! WE WANT TO HEAR YOU MAKE SOME NOISE!"
The cheer roared throughout the stadium as Ash smirked.
"WELCOME ON IN OUR BATTLERS! FROM THE SOUTH SIDE, ASH! AND COMING FROM THE WEST SIDE, EMILIA!"
The two appeared and smirked at one another as different parts within the large crowd cheered their names.
"This round 3 battle will be consisted of using 3 Pokemon each. When one trainer can no longer use any of their Pokemon, the match will be over. Each trainer is allowed one Z-move and switch is only allowed when play is at a standstill. Trainers! Prepare your first Pokemon!" The ref explained into the microphone.
Ash was already prepared as Emilia got ready.
"You may bring out your first Pokemon! BEGIN!"
"Let's go Gallade!" Ash said first.
"Volcarona, come on out!" Emilia followed up.
The Sinnoh and Unova Pokemon glared right into each other's eyes as one waited for the other to make a move.
Emilia started the battle.
"Volcarona! Quiver dance!" she shouted as the bug fire type set up.
"Aerial ace!" Ash yelled.
Gallade dashed at lighting pace as he slashed at Volcarona with the flying move. He twirled and went to swipe again.
"Surround him in fire!" Emilia commanded to her bug.
Before Gallade could jump out, he found himself trapped within a circle made of fire. He looked from all directions as the flames rose.
"Hurricane!" she followed up.
Ash kept calm.
"Use psycho cut to slash it in half!"
Once Volcarona had let the hurricane off, Gallade lent his arm back as it glowed a violet purple before flinging it right at the incoming hurricane. On impact, it was sliced in half and faded away. The fire that caged Gallade had faded too.
"Swords dance!" Ash shouted as the swords appeared above the male Pokemon.
"Fiery dance!"
Volcarona twirled as rings of fire formed around him. The bug stopped and aimed them at the psychic fighting type.
Gallade was in a defensive stance as the rings from the powerful fire move were heading right at him.
"Protect!"
Gallade summoned the shield but could feel it was overheating as the fiery dance collided with the shield. A crack appeared on the wall as the shied shattered but Gallade moved away quickly as the final ring from the fiery dance hit the ground.
Volcarona landed in front of Emilia.
"Double team and surround him!" Ash yelled.
Gallade slammed his foot on the ground as lots of copies appeared, surrounding Volcarona in.
Volcarona fired a bug buzz at the one that summoned the clones, but it turned out, that was also a clone.
The Unovan Pokemon looked frantically for the real Gallade.
"Volcarona! Stay calm and be ready!" Emilia said.
She didn't know what Ash had planned. She may have battled him once before but that was only with one of his Pokemon, being Incineroar as the time.
Ash motioned forwards as the clones sprang at Volcarona.
"Aerial ace again!"
"Over heat!"
Before any of the Gallade clones could reach Volcarona, the bug fire type let out a massive over heat to burn the clones to a crisp. However, it appeared Gallade had disappeared as he was not found.
Deep with the forestry area that was the field, Gallade watched on as Volcarona.
He placed his right foot back and ran right at Volcarona, ready to make a devastating blow to Emilia's champion race.
On the back of the giant moth like being, Gallade slash down on the wings as Volcarona fell to the ground in agonising pain.
Gallade now was standing over Volcarona as he waited for the word.
"Close combat, close range!" Ash yelled as Gallade fired the fighting move into the already damaged back of Volcarona as the bug fire type fell unconscious.
"Volcarona can no long battle! Trainers, make any substitutions now!" The ref announced.
Emilia recalled Volcarona and saw Ash was staying in with Gallade.
She had to take advantage so with a little smile, she threw in her Pokemon in the form of a Ribombee.
"BEGIN!"
Ash knew he started the better of the two. Sure, they had lost a work partner while we have to deal with all this.
"Swords dance again!" Ash told the psychic fighting type who nodded and powered up his attack.
Ribombee swayed from side to side.
"Pollen puff surprise!" Emilia shouted.
Ribombee made its usual move but was glowing with pink sparkles spewing out of it. Ribombee flung it and it exploded right in front of Gallade, pelting him with the contents and pushing him back as he felt the pain.
To Ash, it looked like a combo of pollen puff and some fairy move.
"That was a different kind of move…" Lana muttered as Ash watched.
Lillie went on her phone shortly and saw the arguing news headline report. She sighed and turned off her phone and returned to watching the match.
"Fire punch Gallade!"
The blade itself was covered in fire but it travelled up and on to his fist.
Gallade, like before, dashed right at Ribombee.
Ribombee made a daisy-line chain and twirled it around so it became a pollen puff.
The fire punch and pollen puff deflected off each other as Ribombee defended himself.
Ribombee managed to dodge an attack and threw the pollen puff at Ash.
The bug Pokemon move exploded and sent him to the ground.
"Signal beam Ribombee!" Emilia shouted with glee as she started to get back into this battle.
Or so she thought she was.
"Psycho cut!"
Ribombee fired the beam as Gallade flung the psychic slash right down the middle before moving himself.
The signal beam and psycho-cut exploded as Ribombee covered his eyes and was well met to Gallade charging out of the explosion with an aggressive look.
Ribombee panicked as and let out a quick and unstable pollen puff.
The pollen puff landed and sent them both flying.
Ribombee was the first to get up and then followed by Gallade who was wincing badly in pain after the battle he also had to deal with beforehand.
"Dazzling gleam!" Emilia shouted as Ribombee fired the fairy move right at the humanoid Pokemon.
Ash knew Gallade probably didn't have anything left to fight with but wanted to make one final push.
"Substitute!" Ash yelled.
Gallade used a lot of the last energy he had as the sub dummy took the damage.
"Fire punch!"
Gallade made the final push as his hand glowed in the fiery red flames.
"Dazzling gleam!" Emilia yelled.
But at that point, Gallade had his hand which was covered in fire on Ribombee's face as he slammed him down into the ground.
Gallade felt a sharp pain as Ribombee managed to fire the dazzling gleam in the end and at point blank range too.
Gallade went limp and fainted while Ribombee also joined him as the ref examined them both.
"Both Pokemon are unable to battle! Trainers! Bring out your next Pokemon!" The ref shouted as both Ash and Emilia recalled Gallade and Ribombee retrospectively.
Ash still had the advantage with it being 2 – 1 to him.
This was going to be an interesting reaction as Emilia sent out Empoleon who roared at Ash.
Ash motioned for his pocket and revealed a masterball with the camera zooming in on it.
"Oh no…" Lillie muttered.
The Kanto born sent it in to the air as the Pokemon appeared with a vast mix of opinions at the sight of Type: Null.
Emilia and Empoleon both gave looks that could be described by 1000 words.
"GRH!" Type: Null roared as she got ready to battle.
Ash turned to the horrified referee.
"Are we starting?"
The ref nodded.
"B-Begin!" He stuttered.
Emilia shook off the thoughts she had.
"Ice beam Empoleon!" Emilia yelled.
Empoleon didn't know if he wanted to attack this thing or not. But did the attack anyways.
"Block it then use swords dance!" Ash called out to his Pokemon.
"GRRRH… GARH!" Type: Null roared as she smacked the ice beam out of the way with her helmet.
She stood up on two legs while waving her front in the air as the swords above her appeared and charged her attack.
A simple roar as enough to push Empoleon back a step.
"Tri-attack!" Ash shouted as Type: Null flung the three elemental balls.
"Aqua jet to avoid them and slam into that thing!" Emilia called out.
But Empoleon was in a state of fear and wasn't responding to Emilia's calls for attack.
One slammed in to him but didn't do to much damage but snapped him back into reality. Empoleon covered himself with water and easily avoided the other two as Type: Null watched on.
Empoleon attempted to attack Type: Null but every time he got close, she was got deflected.
"Double hit when in close!" Ash said while twirling his hat back.
Empoleon didn't hear that shout thanks to the water as Type: Null allowed the water steel type to get closer than usual. The first hit was with her metal mask as Empoleon fell to the ground dazed while the second hit was with her tail.
"Despite Empoleon being steel, that sure seems like it did a lot of damage…" Lana explained as they all watched Type: Null circle Empoleon.
The emperor Pokemon tried to get up but every time he did, he was slammed with a violent thrust from Type: Null.
"Pol… LEON!" Empoleon spoke to Type: Null who didn't understand.
"Grrrrh…" Type: Null growled.
It was a start as Empoleon got up and had a plan in mind to attack while seeming friendly.
Unfortunately, Type: Null had the same idea as she slashed across Empoleon's chest with a swift x-scissor as the fully evolved water starter of the Sinnoh region fell to the beast.
"E-E-Empoleon is unable to battle! T-T-that means E-Emilia no longer has any more available Pokemon to battle with meaning, Ash is the winner and is going to the quarter finals!" The ref shouted as Emilia was in disbelief that Empoleon was beat that bad. Though she looked on and saw Ash with Type: Null as he gave the weird and mysterious Pokemon a hug, showing off a more softer side to the beast.
Elena was already waiting for Emilia outside.
Her older sister was watching it all as she come out.
"I'm so sorry sis. That thing shouldn't be allo-" Elena suggested before she was cut off.
"It is fine. It's a Pokemon at the end of the day. Just a very different Pokemon." Emilia explained as the two sisters hugged before living back to their living courters.
But as for Ash, Hau, Lillie and Lana, it was straight over to Koko stadium to get some viewing of Zach vs Olivia.
It saddened Ash that he missed half the match and by the time they had arrived, it was all even with their last Pokemon out.
For Zach it was his Lucario while Olivia had her Lycanroc.
"Aura sphere!" Zach yelled.
"Quick attack then rock throw!" Olivia, the Kahuna of Akala Island shouted.
Lucario fired the sphere of energy while Lycanroc dodged out of the way and then began to throw rocks right at Lucario.
"Deflect them!"
Lucario formed a bone and deflected each of the rocks incoming before slamming the bone on the ground to create an earthquake.
Lycanroc felt the effects and tripped a bit.
He was helped up by Lucario only to be slammed in the face with a drain punch following with a jab to the chest and then the side. An aura sphere was fired right into the front of the midnight form of Lycanroc as the pure rock type fell on to his back with swirly eyes. Lucario fell to the ground awake but panting.
"Lycanroc is unable to battle! That means that Olivia no longer has any more available Pokemon to battle with meaning, Zach is the winner and is going to the quarter finals!" The ref announced as Zach was in disbelief he won.
Olivia congratulated him and hugged him with the Unovan born blushing madly.
With Ash watching, that meant him, Zach, Hau, Gladion, Acerola and three others were now the quarter finalists.
It was only a matter of time before someone had a bad matching.
It was later in the night as the three were just chilling when Lillie got a phone call from Gladion.
"Yeah… Oh? You have your match up?" Lillie said loudly so Ash and Hau could catch on. Hau paused the film they were watching.
"You're against Acerola? Oh okay." Lillie said again.
Both Ash and Hau sighed physically and mentally that they didn't have to face Gladion yet.
Though, Ash noticed that Lillie had paled as she expressed a look of concern.
"Oh alright… Night."
Lillie hung up and gulped.
The two boys looked at another confused.
"The draw is out…" Lillie muttered as the pair eagerly pulled out their technical devices and found the draw email.
"On three?"
Hau nodded
So Ash began to count down.
"One!"
Hau had his finger hovering above it.
"Two!"
Lillie sighed as Gladion had told her.
"Three!"
They both tapped it and searched for there names only to find their worst nightmare for now had just come true.
The quarter final match at 2:15PM at the Tapu main stadium was Ash Vs Hau.
Author's note: So next chapter will be focused completely on Ash VS Hau.
Then the semi's, the final, the celebration and then USUM :)))))))
Not much else too say I believe other than shorter chapter.
QUESIONS:
Have you played USUM If yes which starter did you choose
Played Ultra Moon and finished it two times so far. Both times picked Litten. I really don't have a problem with Incineroar, I like the concept behind it.
What are your thought on Pokemon Origins, the Pokemon Sun and Moon anime, Pokemon Generations and Pokemon Mytery Dungeon anime shorts?
- Origins I loved. Very different approach to go by the tell the animated story of the guy that became the very best.
- At first (Which I think I can speak for many) hated the SM anime. The sudden change from XY to the comedy and design change to Ash really threw me off. Battles are still lacking but it's grown a lot on me and I love team rocket more than ever due to them having Mimikyu and with Bewear (Who is a fucking god) looking after them (Two of my favorite gen 7 mons). Now really spicing up seeming a certain parasite jellyfish and Nebby have appeared. Seeming Nebby is here, I suspect we could see the Ultra Recon squad and Necrozma in the anime instead of a film.
- Generations is the same as Origins. I loved the idea, the story and thought of a certain moment that was touched on like 3 seconds in game. I think my only issue is they were only 5 mins roughly.
- Never watched the MD shorts.
can there even be 400 chapters in a fic?
Probably. If you do it all in a day, I'd say spam and it would probs be deleted but over a course of time.
I thought lusamine hated Lillie. Anyway my question is, is the anime Turning out more like USUM?
My exact reason why I think the URS and Necrozma will be anime. Games and anime/film always promote each other.
So will the OCs from the league that have lost come up later in the story? Like at the Battle Tree or The Agency?
Never thought about that so that could work but I have plans for a small hand full :P
If Charizard didn't betray Ash, I'm quite sure it'll be possible for him to get the Mega Stone(s) for him. Will it be X or Y? Or will it be both and he'll change between them?
Could be possible.
But I remembered I put Steve instead of Sean. Why Steve?
Well... The copied version I have says Sean. Rather clearly.
do you upload on the weekends because you have school
I am done for the year for school (Yus!) but I am working, so it's just when it gets finished really.
I dont remember where your from I think it was new sealand or something xD
New Zealand (Time of uploading 1:20 in the morning)
is mallow gay for gladion?
... I am going to assume you're rather young or a troll. If neither, I can't be fucking bothered.
SO as always, Review, suggest or PM me! Spectre out!