Working on this project can be tiresome, but I'm glad do say this chapter is finally done!
Who will win the battle between Cynthia and Kato? Only one way to find out.
So, again thank you for continuing to read my poor story and I hope you keep on reading
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Chapter 3: End Game
Repeated clashes of water and fire echoed throughout the field as the battle between my Volcarona and Cynthia's Milotic drag on. Despite the obvious type advantage that Milotic has, both sides seemed evenly match as one attempt to overpower the other. Both combatants traded blows while pockets of heat and mist form when each attack collide.
"Flamethrower!"
"Hydro Pump!" Another explosion of fog filled the area, one too thick to see through. I plan to use that to my advantage.
"Volcarona, Acrobatics!" Using the mist as a stealth tactic, the moth pokemon flew in with a light blue aura.
"Attack him Milotic with Aqua Tail!" Cynthia commanded, hidden within the mist. Milotic began charging an aqua tail as she waited. The moment the fog shifted, Milotic swung her tail and my moth pokemon grunted in pain as he was knocked back.
"Don't think I'll fall for that trick so easily!" commented Cynthia as the fog quickly clears, "We're just getting started! Milotic, use Surf!" Letting out a loud roar towards the sky, Milotic summon a huge wave of water.
"Over Heat!" I exclaimed, putting much effort. Volcarona let out his own screech as he sent out a wave of heat, evaporating the water as it came close.\
"Now Volcarona, use Hurricane!" Cynthia step back in surprise as the fog was quickly lifted with a large tornado appearing in the middle of the battlefield, pulling Milotic in and flying her up towards the sky.
"Now combine it with Fire Spin!" I boomed out load. As Volcarona beat his wings back and forth, the regular tornado soon became a gigantic fiery one, inflicting more damage onto the water pokemon which cause her to cry out in pain. Cynthia's gaze panic for a moment at the combine move.
"Milotic! Use Hydro Pump!" Cynthia countered with a small frustration in her voice. Struggling to break free, Milotic had little choice and launch out a powerful beam of water out of her mouth and aimed it at Volcarona. The beam of water knocked Volcarona back and made him let go of his attack, letting Milotic fall with a loud slame onto the battle floor.
Looking at the heavy breathing of my pokemon, I knew that Volcarona won't last long if I keep this up. I'll have to push my plan into play sooner than I hope.
"Alright Volcarona, keep it up just a bit longer and use Sunny Day!" The fatigue Volcarona let out another screech and the sun began to shine strongly through the stained windows on the ceiling.
"Milotic, can you keep going?" Cynthia asked with concern and Milotic nodded back in assurance. "Alright then, use Hydro Pump again!"
"Volcarona, fly up and use string shot." I called out. The fire bug pokemon quickly shot up into the air and avoided the hydro pump. Then a web of string shot out of Volcarona's mouth and covered Milotic in it, reducing her movement.
"Now use U-turn!" In quick succession, Volcarona dash downwards in a spinning movement and struck Milotic. After the attack, Volcarona was then sent back into his poke ball and I drew another one out.
"It's your turn Torterra!" I released my strongest pokemon out into the battle field, his face ready in anticipation. You got to love U-turn, being able to switch pokemon mid battle while also doing damage can bring in a huge advantage. Especially with the situation Milotic is in right now.
Realizing what my plan is, Cynthia quickly took on a panic expression and urge Milotic to get out of the string shot web. "Milotic, use Ice Beam!"
"Not this time!" I exclaimed, "Finish it Torterra with Solar Beam!" Using sunny day to charge up, a white aura cover his tree portion of the body. Then Torterra launch out a powerful white blast of energy from his mouth. At the same time, Milotic had launched an icy beam attack and the two moves collide.
The clash shook the area and it was a stalemate, but Torterra's solar beam quickly tore through Milotic's attack. Cynthia's pokemon was force to look as the giant white beam came crashing down on her. After a brief explosion, Milotic laid fainted in defeat.
The referee rush up into the middle of the battle field to get a closer look at the water type pokemon. "Milotic is unable the battle," he declared, "Torterra is the winner!"
Cynthia took out a ball and return Milotic back.
"I must admit Kato," She said folding her arms and smiling. "That was impressive."
"Thanks Cynthia, but this challenge is still not over yet." I said eagerly. "Let's keep on going."
"My my Kato, you seem to be a bit impatient with this battle. Do you not like the company that I bring?" Cynthia asked with a tone of hurt in her voice.
"What? N-no I just," I stuttered a bit in embarrassment, looking down and rubbing the back of my head. "I didn't mean to sound like that..."
To my surprise, Cynthia just responded with a hearty chuckle. "Don't worry, I'm just teasing you a bit that's all," She said this laughing with one hand on her hip. "I guess some things still stay the same no matter how old you get.
"Yea, uh Cynthia-"
"You still have that hint of being thoughtless when you become embarrass about something." She continued "Oh remember when you were having so much trouble talking to those girls back at Eterna City! Now that was adorable!"
"Yea, well, I prefer not to remember the past too much." I complain with a bit of embarrassment.
"Sorry, sorry; but hey, if you hadn't done that you wouldn't have met me remember?" mention Cynthia sympathetically.
I look back up in nostalgic. It was a weird but good memory of meeting Cynthia back in Eterna City. While the champion was there doing research in a library, I was there training for a gym battle. We eventually cross path and I guess Cynthia saw something in me to make me her friend. Or it was probably pity after I met two trainer girls and she saw that I kind of made a fool of myself.
"Sorry about rushing things. I just want to get this anxiety out of my system already." I Implied.
"Well then, I guess it's time for my next partner to come out." She took out another ball from underneath her black coat and threw it. Out from the ball came the famous blue and black hound pokemon, Lucario. Despite his early fight, his posterior looked ready for the next fight, but I knew deep down he's still worn out.
"All right Torterra. You ready for this?!" I called out enthusiastic. Torterra glance in my direction and responded with a confident nod before looking onward against his opponent. Cynthia's may have a strategy somewhere that I don't know about so I'll have to finish this quickly.
The referee came up again before saying, "Let the round between Lucario and Torterra commence!"
"Torterra! Take him out quick with Giga Impact!" Torterra charged forward at high speed of purple and white aura towards his opponent.
"Lucario, stand your ground with Force Palm!" commanded Cynthia. Focusing white energy into his hand, Lucario put both of his palms forward and took on the impact of Torterra head on. The impact pushed him farther back, but Lucario kept his stance and withstood it.
"Strike back Lucario with Close Combat!" Stepping forward, Lucario first began with an upward kick that knocked Torterra's jaw up following up with a series of punches and kicks, but Torterra stood his ground with annoyance.
"Torterra, grab him with Crunch." I called out. Torterra enveloped his jaws in dark energy and began to bite at Lucario furiously. However, the nimble fighting type pokemon kept on dodging each attack while simultaneously continuing his close combat. A routine of dodging and countering each attack.
"Lucario, get on top of Torterra's back!" Jumping upward to avoid another bite from Torterra, Lucario landed on top of the shell pokemon and held on as the grass starter shook side to side in an attempt to get him off. "Now finish it with Ice Punch!"
"Stop it with Frenzy Plant!" I said quickly panicking on the situation. Torterra made a short stomp on the ground and as Lucario's icy fist went flying, it was unfortunately (and thankfully) stopped by an erupted large vine quickly grabbing his arm. Soon more vines came out of the ground and threw Lucario off Torterra's shell.
"Now Torterra, finish it with Earthquake!" With one last and powerful stop on the ground, Torterra shook the battlefield and the ground beneath Lucario exploded. As the ground settle Cynthia's pokemon was fainted.
"Lucario is unable to battle, Torterra wins the match!"
"It was a close battle there," Cynthia admitted, "But I already knew I was going to lose that either way."
"Every battle comes a strategy and every strategy comes from a battle." I commented in acknowledgment.
"Oh good, so you do remember that." said Cynthia impressed.
"I learn from the best."
Cynthia smiles at me and brought out another poke ball. "It's about time we get this battle wrapped up soon. Let us dance Togekiss!" Released from her pokeball came a pure white bird like creature with triangle specks of red and blue feathers on its chest and head. Togekiss flew through the air as a flying a fairy type.
I withdrew Torterra.
"All right, come on out Mawile!" I sent out my steel and fairy type pokemon mawile. She was an innocent looking small, yellow and black creature with a gigantic steel jaw on the back of her head. She held a hand to her mouth with a yawn and looked behind me with a sleepy gaze. I nod to her and I connect our minds to communicate.
"You okay Mawile?" I asked.
"I'm just a little nervous, that's all. And a little bit sleepy. I never thought I would come face to face with the real life champion." She said in a timid voice.
"Hey, don't be scared after all we've been through. Just trust in me, I've got your back."
"Okay, I trust you Kato."
"Its been a while since I've seen your Mawile in battle." Cynthia commented as I disable our connection, "I remember that she hasn't been the greatest help to your team when you were still battling the gym leaders."
"I know my Mawile hasn't been very good at battling in those days, but I have all of my pokemons for a reason, regardless of how strong they are when I first met them. Besides, Mawile has grown very much since those days." I look to Mawile who gave me a thankful smile.
"It seems to be a pattern." Cynthia looked towards the referee and motion him to come forward.
"Let the next battle begin!" He said.
"Mawile, use Iron Head!" I exclaimed as soon as the referee finished. Mawile took off charging forward towards Togekiss, her body consume in a silver aura.
Cynthia lifted her hand in elegance as she commands, "Dodge Togekiss!"In response, Togekiss flew upward and Mawile went past her.
I saw an opening in her dodge and I took it, "Go back and use Thunder Fang!" Mawile manage to stop her charge and leap back, her giant steel jaw generating for an electricity attack. But as soon as the thunder fang came close, Togekiss flew out of the way with extreme agility.
Looking at how Togekiss moved, I could tell its style was based on one of those hit and run type pokemon. If I want Mawile to hit it, I either need to slow its movement or catch it off guard.
"Your Mawile has grown a lot, I can even feel the power behind each strikes." commented Cynthia, "But even if you have the type advantage, it doesn't mean you have won. Togekiss, use Sunny Day." The window on the ceiling shine brightly again as the sunlight came down. "Now use Flamethrower!"
"Dodge it!" Mawile duck and rolled to her right as the enhance flame beam came. "Now use Stone Edge!"
"Avoid them all Togekiss then use Aerial Ace." The white fairy type flew swiftly around the battlefield as large stone pillars erupted from the ground and her front body became envelope in white.
"Mawile, use Iron Defense!" Mawiles whole body began to glow silver, strengthening her defense. But Togekiss's power overcame and threw Mawile backwards.
"Now use Dazzling Gleam!" commanded Cynthia. Togekiss emitted a blinding light from her body and caught Mawile in surprise. Then I saw an opening and I took it,
"Don't let her recover Mawile! Use Flash Cannon!" From the giant jaw part of her body, Mawile shot out a beam of silver towards her opponent, but Togekiss was able to escape its range as it came. I bit my lip in frustration, but then an idea suddenly came to me. "Now cover the field with Stone Edge!"
Togekiss maneuver swiftly around the area as stone pillars erupted from the ground. I called out to my pokemon, "Jump across the pillars to get in close and use Thunder Fang!"
"Stop her Togekiss with Fire Blast!" Mawile's steel jaw became consume with electricity as she jump from pillar to pillar towards Togekiss, who in response shot out a fire blast back. Since Mawile was in mid air when the fire attack was shot out, she had no way of dodging it and was soon knocked to the ground from the blast, slowly getting back up in a tired expression.
"Mawile, you okay?" I asked. Even though our minds weren't connect, I could tell she wanted to keep on going from her expression. "Just hold on a little more, I'm probably going to do something risky okay?"
Mawile's lack of concern from that statement shows how much she trust me, so I held my head strong. "Alright, get into Togekiss's blind spot behind those pillars." With stone edge still active, Mawile ran around the base to hide from Togekiss's view.
"Using stone edge as a cover against my attacks huh," Cynthia said figuring out a part of my strategy, "But that won't work; Togekiss use Fire Blast consecutively!" Fire blast was shot out of Togekiss's mouth, destroying all of the stone pillars that Mawile ran under. Once Mawile was behind the last pillar, Cynthia went for the victory. "Finish it Togekiss with Flamethrower!"
I took a swallow, hoping this would work. "Now Mawile, come right at her with Iron Head!" Before the beam of fire collide, the stone pillar crumbled as Mawile shot through it with her silver aura towards the flamethrower. But to Togekiss surprise, Mawile didn't stop when she enter the flame beam. With Iron Head still active, my steel type pokemon travel straight through the fire and dealt a direct hit onto Togekiss.
"What?!" Cynthia said as her pokemon grunt in pain from the super effective move.
"Thunder Fang!" I shouted. In mid air, my steel type pokemon swung her giant electric jaw and caught the daze Togekiss. "Flash Cannon!" The inside of Mawile's giant jaw began to glow white. Before anybody had time to react, a silver beam of energy was shot out of Mawile's mouth in an explosive fashion and the battle ended with the Togekiss falling onto the ground in defeat.
"Togekiss is unable to battle!" The referee announce. "The victory of this match goes to Mawile!" Mawile stepped back to her spot, panting in exhaustion but eventually gave a wide grin.
"Yea!" I cheered to my pokemon. Cynthia had no words to say at all, but she didn't looked shock nor amazed, more like a face that was in serious thought.
"What's the matter?" I asked with a wide grin. "You want me to tell you how that little event happen?"
Cynthia ponder the subject for a second before answering. "No need, I already figure it out. When Mawile was behind the stone pillar, you had her carry one of those rock in secret and then used said rock as a shield when she went into the flamethower with iron head. Then once Mawile got close, she combine her attack by smashing the rock right into Togekiss along with iron head to add more damage. Am I wrong?"
My grin faded quickly from Cynthia's monologue, and this time it was my turn to be amaze. "Wow, I-I mean, no you're not wrong. I didn't expect you to figure that one out so quickly."
"Well I have been doing this for quite some time now, so don't underestimate me." she said smiling while bringing Togekiss back into her poke ball and pulling out another one from her coat.
"You don't seem worried or upset." I commented, making Cynthia look back up. "You only have one pokemon left while I have five. I would have image that you would at least look nervous."
"That may be the case, but you need to keep in mind that a good majority of your pokemon are all worn out and weak from fighting. If my last pokemon lands a solid strike on each of them, then the match is mine. Victory isn't gone from me yet Kato."
I smiled at her answer. If there's one thing I've learned from her, it's that she doesn't give up so easily. Although, neither will I.
"I think it's about time this battle nears its end." Cynthia said as she prepared the poke ball in her hand. "Garchomp, battle dance!" Cynthia release pokemon, a dragon and shark like creature with three fins on its arms and back stood on her two legs. Its overall body was a dark blue color except for the red chest and the yellow forehead and lower chest area. The intimidating pokemon let our a loud roar to announce its presences, shaking the arena in the process.
I entered Esprit and connect Mawile's mind. "How you holding up Mawile?" I can still hear her tired breath as she spoke.
"I-I'm fine, don't worry about me. I now I'm not as strong as the others, but I'll give it my all!"
"All right then, but don't push yourself too hard." Mawile took her stance in preparation.
The referee came back up and announce the battle again. "Let the next battle begin!"
The first thing I needed to do was take advantage of Mawile's fairy type to Garchomp's dragon. "Mawile! Take him out quick with Play Rough!" A pink aura surronded the steel and fairy pokemon. Garchomp stood ready as my pokemon charge forward for an attack.
"Dig Garchomp." said Cynthia calmly. Swiftly, Garchomp dive straight towards the ground, making Mawile's attack miss. Mawile quickly stop her charge attack, only to be caught off guard when Garchomp break out of the ground in front of her. "Now use Poison Jab!"
"Iron Defense" I said quickly. My pokemon held up her hands in defense and glowed with silver, raising her defense. Garchomp attack with full force and knocked back Mawile across the field. Fortunately, she still manage to stay up, but not for long.
Before I had time to plan, Cynthia took the opportunity to continue her assault. "Finish it Garchomp with Fire Blast!"
I had no time to think. "Counter it with Fairy Wind!" Fire blasted from Garchomp's mouth while Mawile swung her massive jaw, launching a gust if wind with sparkles in it. The two attacks collided, but the fire blast went right through the wind and directly into Mawile.
Following that was a huge explosion and Mawile laid fainted in defeat. "Mawile has been defeated." the referee declared, "The round goes to Cynthia."
I rush onto the arena to my pokemon. Kneeling by the side of Mawile, I look to her with a calm and gentle expression as her eyes look back with a sadden one.
"You all right?" I asked with concern. She didn't say anything when I connect our minds, but she reassure me with a small but noticeable nod. It was obvious that she was hurting emotionally inside. Throughout my journey, she kept admitting that she was the weakest pokemon compare to her companions and she had a difficult time keeping up. She always thought of herself as a burden to the team, so she hated and blamed herself whenever lose a match.
I pulled her in for a hug. It's all right, I said to her. Don't go blaming yourself. Come on! It took the great and powerful Garchomp of Cynthia to bring you down. So be proud of yourself, and make this lost another reason for you the get stronger.
It wasn't much, but eventually Mawile look to me we a sad looking smile. All right. She transmitted quietly.
I sent her back into her ball and stood back up, where Cynthia greeted me from her side of the field. "I told you your pokemon were too tired to fight again. If you want to beat me, you'll have to send out your strongest pokemon.
I look to her with serious, but quickly took on a smirk and said, "All right then, you want my Torterra so badly, I'll show you him." While heading back to my original spot I pulled out Torterra's ball. I knew she was baiting me to do this but in reality I had no choice. "Torterra, our hearts are one!"
I notice a small peak of a smile from Cynthia's face when I sent out my stater pokemon. From that little clue, I could tell she was waiting for this, I have to keep my guard up. Torterra let out a loud roar as he was released into battle. After seeing Garchomp as his opponent, he look back at me with a nod, showing he understood the situation.
Cynthia expression turned soft for a moment. "It really been a long time since we've first met, hasn't it?" I gave her a questionable look, wondering what she was going on about..
"Yeah, it has." I agreed
"Back then, you were such a frail child. Always stuttering around people and always taking your journey so seriously. Thinking back, it was actually kind of cute."
"Uh," I blushed a little and looked away.
"But look at you now," She continued. "Like a pokemon, you didn't just change, you've evolved. Becoming something greater while retaining a part of your old self that made you special in the first place. It almost makes me jealous that I couldn't do the same." She lowered her voice at that last part but I still picked it up. Was there something I'd miss?
I shrugged it off and looked back at her with resolve, "Cynthia, I've given up my family's respect and devoted a third of my life to be where I am right now. I've went through so much, and everything, all of my life right now, is dependent on this one battle." I clench my fist in reassurance. "I'm putting all I've got into this, so I want you to come at me with everything you've got!"
Cynthia gave me a sly grin, "THAT's the spirit! Now show me how you fare against the strongest trainer in Sinnoh!"
The referee came up once more. "Let the battle BEGIN!"
"Torterra use Giga Impact!"
"Return with Dragon Rush!"
A clash of power shook the battle field as both pokemons collided in a blaze of aura.
Cynthia acted first, "Fire Fang Garchomp!"
"Use Crunch Torterra!" I said in response. The two drop out of their attacks. Elemental fire and darkness erupted from the named pokemon's mouth and began snapping at each other furiously.
Torterra's body clashed into Garchomp, both wrestling and thrashing at one another in an onslaught. This continue until Garchomp successfully landed a flaming bite onto his opponent's shoulder.
Torterra shriek in pain and Garchomp followed up by shoving my pokemon away from him.
"Torterra, you all right?" I asked as he sled towards me. He gave me a slight nod and a grunt without turning away from his foe.
"Don't leave him any room to recover," Cynthia ordered, "Flamethrower!" Garchomp's mouth erupted with flames again and shot out a powerful beam of fire.
"Intercept with Stone Edge!" Torterra stomped the ground and a stream glowing stone pillars rises in front of him, blocking the fire and speeds towards his opponent.
"Dragon claw." Garchomp slash the oncoming stone away and leap at my pokemon overhead.
A bit my lip in a frustration, "Leaf Storm!"
The impact blast a gust of wind and dirt all around us. When everything clear, all was silent. Cynthia at this time had no expression on her face. No sense of her usual outgoing attitude. Instead, she just keep on looking at me.
Before I could open my mouth, she quickly cut me off. "What are you doing Kato?" she said. Soon after, she held up her hand and snapped her fingers, resulting in a Garchomp suddenly bursting out of the vines and landing safely to her side.
"W-What to do you mean?" I said taking aback by this.
"I've notice a weird change in your fighting." She responded. "Before, all of your previous pokemons have been fighting their hardest with you. You've displayed amazing tactics before hand. But the moment I brought out Garchomp, something felt strange."
She paused a moment to fold her arms. "Do you remember the three essential traits as a trainer?"
"What? O-of course, but-" But she immediately cuts me off.
"The power of ones pokemon, the mind of the trainer, and the hearts of both combine," she stated counting on her fingers. "These three traits are what defines a great trainer, as well as the aspect of a battle. However, you seem to be missing one of these. Or rather, you haven't been using these to your fullest."
I stood back a bit, releasing what she means. "So let me rephrase my question," she said in a pure serious tone. "Why are you holding back on me?"
I remained silent, thinking on what I was about to say. "What makes you think that?"
"I've seen what you could do during your adventure Kato." Cynthia stated, "I witness all of the amazing things you've done with your mind alone. Yet, now your doing simple things instead of expanding them."
I let out a sigh. I never really told her about my Esprit, but despite everything she still is trying to force me to use it. I've never really liked using my power because it felt wrong somehow. Like I'm using strength that isn't my own.
Telling her my real reason to why I won't use it would take too long and would ruin the battle, so I settled with the obvious answer.
"You'll know everything once this battle is over." I said. Despite how vague my response was, Cynthia just gave me a small smile as well as another sigh.
"In that case, why don't we just end everything right here with a final attack?" She motion to her Garchomp, who in return took on a threatening stance.
"As you wish." I said with a smirk. Torterra took on his own stance to compensate Garchomp.
For a moment, a second of silence tension pass. Then it all happened so fast.
"Garchomp! Use Draco Meter!" In a flash, Garchomp shout out a blast of energy into the air. The energy separates and a hail of meteors began to fall out of the sky.
"All right Torterra, give it everything you've got! Frenzy Plant!" Vines erupted on Torterra's command and they collided with the meteors.
As this was happening, Garchomp was already running towards Torterra.
"Use Fire Fang!" Cynthia exclaimed. Mouth bursting with flames, Garchomp launches herself forward in flight.
"Torterra watch out!" Noticing his opponent, Torterra summon two of the vines to stop her, but Garchomp's superior agility allowed her to evade it with ease and it wasn't long till the two pokemon came face to face.
In the end, I knew what was happening, yet the only thing I did there, was smile.
Garchomp struck Torterra with such force, a small explosion soon follow afterwards. A moment of silence past as the dust settles in.
"Torterra is unable to battle!" The referee announce revealing my fainted Torterra. "Cynthia is the winner of this match!"
When the ref finish speaking, both Cynthia and I started walking onto the ring until we stood a few feet apart. I could see a faint smile on her face so I return the expression.
The referee looked at both of us in confusion."Uh," he began.
"You don't have to continue anymore," Cynthia said cutting him off while turning to the ref. "The match has already been decided.
"Yep," I agreed, "I forfeit."
Despite that, the referee looked even more confuse.
A sigh from Cynthia held my attention, "You never had any intentions to become champion, didn't you" she said.
I smiled to reassure myself. "I knew you'd figure it out during our battle." And I truly believed that. I've seen first hand how scary Cynthia's intelligence can be, and I trust that she knew me well enough that I would be holding back.
"What I want to know is why?" Cynthia asked, "Explain it to me.
I looked to my side where Torterra was slowly getting up. "I've always wanted to beat the Sinnoh league and become champion, don't get me wrong. That's been my entire goal since the beginning." I turn back to Cynthia, "But, I still have things I want to do and becoming champion won't allow me to do that yet."
"I know that feeling." Cynthia mumble looking a bit down.
"I'm sorry Cynthia," I said truly feeling bad. "But I can't accept myself as champion yet. There still a group of people that I have to make peace with after all these years."
"So you challenge beforehand to get knowledge of what my strategies." Cynthia looked back at me and nods, "I understand, but you still want to obtain the title of champion?"
"Yes, but after I take care of whats going on first. Besides," I put on a confidant smirk and folded my arms, "I wasn't the only one holding back in this battle."
At that, Cynthia looked startled all of a sudden, a rare sight for her. "W-what do you mean?"
"I know your getting tired as champion Cynthia. You've been holding this title for so long, yet you keep hanging on to it to find somebody worthy to take over your place. Subconsciously, you've been holding back in hopes that I or somebody else would remove this burden from you. Even if you never mentioned it before, I can tell from all the battles I've seen you fight."
At this point, Torterra finally got up and walked to my side. I place a hand on his head and he smile.
"I don't want to win this way." I continue, "and I'm sure you don't want to either." For the first time in this entire match, Cynthia was speechless. I didn't give her room to talk either.
I stood back and gave a quick bow, "Thank you, Cynthia, for bearing with my selfish request. But I want you to know that next time I will win." With that I turned to walk away towards the exit, my Torterra limping besides me.
"Oh!" I jump suddenly remembering something. I look back at Cynthia, "Next time, I'm looking forward to seeing what your Mega Garchomp can do." And with that, I continued forward and I activated Esprit.
Are you sure your going to be okay with this? Torterra message to me once I made the connection.
"Don't worry buddy, this isn't the end."
In response, Torterra gave a little grunt along with a smirk. Regardless, the next time we fight that pokemon again, we will win. I'm with you no matter what partner.
Garchomp, who had remained at Cynthia side all this time, nudge her trainer as she remain still. The last thing Cynthia could do was give a small smile.
"That kid is really something."
A/N: Finally! You don't know how long this took me to make. I really need to get better at writing action scenes.
Hopefully now that this long term battle is done, chapters will be easier to write. Again, writing action scenes are really hard and I find it more enjoyable to write other things.
Anyway, I'll keep this short since I'm tired. Thank you so much for reading my story.
Question of the day/chapter, if you were to own a gym, what would be your theme, type, and setting? Mine would be a post apocalyptic city theme grass type gym in an abandon city. Grass covering the buildings, giving a sense of mystery, and perhaps a maze to confuse players. I dunno, I think that would be a good idea.
Again, thank you for bearing with me and I hope you'll continue on, if I keep writing that is.
Signed- The Grand Enchanter