Chapter 8: A Fight Worth Fighting
Lukari had been in countless battles with Raphael. The boy had finally tamed that Tyrunt as well. But this particular battle gave Lukari a strange feeling that he'd never felt before. They were in Shalour City. They stood against the gym leader, Korrina and her final pokemon, a Mega Lucario.
"Ready Lukari?" Raph asked.
"Rawr." He flexed his muscles.
"Let's do this!" The boy cheered. "Use earthquake!"
"Luuuu!" The ground began shaking violently.
The opposing Mega Lucario looked slightly surprised as it dodged falling rocks.
"Lucario!" Korrina ordered. "Use close combat!"
The other pokemon rushed forward, hitting Lukari with fast, powerful punches. Lukari smacked onto the ground and slowly got up.
"You okay?" Raph asked.
"Rawr."
"Use focus blast!" His trainer yelled.
Lukari started lighting up a giant ball of energy and shot it at the mega pokemon, which dodged it.
"Again!"
"Use aura sphere!" Korrina shouted at the same time.
The two balls of energy collided, filling the battlefield with smoke as the two pokemon landed, facing each other.
"Brick break!" Raphael screamed.
"Hyper beam!" Korrina countered.
Lukari leapt into the air and tried to hit the Lucario before it began its attack, firing a white beam. The beam hit Lukari, but he fought against it.
"Rawwwwwwwwwr!"
Lukari began to feel immensely powerful. His body began to change and grow larger.
There were gasps from Raph and Korrina.
"It's evolving!" Korrina exclaimed.
"Rawwwwwr!" Lukari let out a growl, realizing his voice was much deeper.
He broke through the hyper beam and lit up a blue aura-like ball. He fired it at the Mega Lucario, knocking it from the air. Lukari landed not far away.
"Bone rush!" Korrina screamed.
The Mega Lucario got to its feet and a bone appeared in its hand. It broke the bone into two. Lukari found that he could do the same thing. Both pokemon faced each other, ready to go into bone combat.
Lukari charged at the mega pokemon and they began attacking and defending each other with the bones. Lukari dodged one that would have sent him across the battlefield and whacked the other pokemon in the side of the head, making it fly over to Korrina's feet.
"Get up Lucario!" She begged.
"R-rawr." Mega Lucario let out a groan as it got to its feet.
Lukari braced himself, aiming the bones at the opposing pokemon.
"Shadow ball!"
"Focus blast!"
Lukari dropped the bones, which faded upon touching the ground and then shot a white ball of energy at the purple one and they combined, continuing to fly at him. He jumped to the side to dodge it, but the energy hit him in midair. He slammed into the ground and tumbled over to where Raph stood.
"Please, get up." The boy urged.
Lukari slowly pushed off of the ground, got on one knee, and stood up. He turned and looked back at the boy, giving him a curt nod to show that he was alright. He turned back towards Mega Lucario.
"Aura sphere!" Both trainers shouted.
Lukari leapt into the air and shot the ball of blue light at the opponent, which was looking around for him. He watched with satisfaction as the energy hit the pokemon and exploded, filling that part of the battlefield with smoke. He landed on the ground and watched as the smoke cleared.
Mega Lucario lay on the ground unconscious as the mega evolution wore off and it returned to normal.
"Lucario is unable to battle, so Raph and his Lucario win!" The referee announced.
Korrina returned her pokemon to its pokeball and walked towards them, holding an embroidered cushion with a small object on it.
"Congratulations!" She smiled. "Now, to prove your victory here at the Shalour Gym, I present to you the Rumble Badge!"
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Raphael and Lukari walked out of the gym.
"Good job." Raph smiled.
"Rawr."
"Let's get to the Pokemon Center now, shall we?"
Lukari nodded in agreement. Pokemon and trainer began walking down the street, side by side in the fading sunset…
End of story.