Author's Corner.
White: Sly's feeling sick today so I'm going to right this page hahahaha!
Alphinia: *Yawn* Sorry trash but that guy's already prepared a page in advance just in case his pathetic excuse for a body catches a cold. He woke me up just to tell you that.
White: Awwww, but I wanted to write something.
Alphinia: There's always the disclaimer you little bug…I think I'll go back to sleep now….Zzzzz.
White: Alright Pignite, let's write the best disclaimer ever!
DISCLAIMER: SLYBILL DOESN'T OWN POKEMON. ELSE, WHITE WOULD'VE BEEN IN IT BY NOW!
Cruise dock, Castelia City, Unova Region.
The Royal Unova, a state-of-the-art ocean liner, docked between the two large ports jutting out from the city's wharf and a loud horn blared signifying the end of the ship's journey. As its many passengers alighted through its flank, one familiar pompadour-er-head stood out among the rest. The tall, tanned man, dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts, strode down the gangplank with his ever noticeable air of pride and deep black sunglasses.
"Hello sir and welcome to Castelia City, Unova Region," the unsuspecting attendant greeted with a smile and bowed. Lifting her head, she continued, "If I may just see your passport ple-"
"Lady, d'you know who I am?" the man cut in sharply. The woman stared for a second before putting up another smile.
"No sir. That's why I'll need to see your-"
"Lady, you're talking to a man who pretty much owns Unova along with the rest of the world!" the man exclaimed as he whipped out a comb from nowhere and ran it through his pompadour. The lady kept up her long-suffering smile.
Uh oh, looks like we've got a live one here, she thought to herself, sweat dropping as the man made a dramatic turn towards the sea.
"I'm the man who can take down ten wild Garchomp with his bare hands. I'm the man who can give the hunting god a run for his money! I'm the man who can dance his way out of any tough situation! I'm the man who needs no permission or proof from anyone to cross borders. There is no mountain that I have not climbed, no ocean that I have not crossed, no pokemon that I have not found and definitely no woman I have not wooed cos Sweet LP always gets his mark and Reshiram shall be no exception!" he cried spreading both arms wide in the air and attracting unnecessary attention. His fake moustache flew off his face as the sea breeze blew dramatically over the pier.
"….You just blew your cover, didn't you Mr Hunter?" the attendant asked with a smile as she whipped out a walkie-talkie.
"Did I forget to ask for your number?" he asked nervously before breaking into a run as the woman shouted "SECURITY!"
Underground Plasma Hideout, Castelia City, Unova Region.
Salamence was gone. Disappeared without a trace. Scarlet was confused. Very confused. A second ago, Alphinia had just ushered her declaration of war and in the blink of an eye, the hulking beast beside her vanished without a trace.
"Alright Blondie, spill it! What kind of trick is this?" the hunter asked warily at the smiling face above him. Raising a finger, the self-proclaimed knight tilted her head slightly before pointing at him. In an instant, her dragon pokemon appeared right above the teen and almost flattened him if not for his Jolteon pulling him out of the way. Shaking off the shattered pieces of concrete on its blue hide, Salamence gave a roar and disappeared again.
"Scarlet, are you okay?" Violet cried and was about stepping towards him when Scarlet raised a gloved arm towards her.
"Get back Vi! I don't know how but that Salamence can use teleport and since that girl keeps pointing at me, I'm guessing I'm it in this twisted tag game!" He exclaimed before picking Jolteon and jumping to the left, instantly dodging another deadly body slam.
Burgh stepped over to Scarlet and sent out his Leavanny.
"If you want to deal with a teleporting opponent, wait for the precise moment and use a wide ranged move. Nice thinking Mr Gym leader," Scarlet remarked as he eyed the stance that the man and his bug/grass pokemon were taking calmly.
"Leavanny! Leaf Storm, Now!" the artist cried suddenly and Leavanny nodded before spinning around and generating a flurry of sharp leaves. Sending them skyward, a roar was heard as they made contact with the materializing Salamence. However, grass moves didn't do much damage to the dragon as it shook the attack off. Taking this chance, Scarlet ordered Jolteon to use Iron tail.
Launching himself off the ground, the lightning pokemon was about to deliver a hard smack on the Dragon Pokémon's jaw when it teleported itself out of Jolteon's reach. Still in mid-air, Jolteon was subjected to a rather brutal dragon rush before being slammed into the ground by Salamence's own Iron tail attack.
"Jolteon!" Scarlet yelled as he ran towards the crater where his pokemon had landed. Jolteon himself was still conscious but badly shaken by the force of Salamence's blows. Scarlet looked up at the dragon and hissed as it vanished once again. Appearing behind him, it opened its jaws to snap off his head but was stopped once again by Leavanny's annoying leaves. Blowing a powerful stream of fire at the annoying gym leader and his pokemon, Scarlet turned to see Alphinia's finger pointing towards Burgh.
"Burgh, be careful!" Violet cried out as Burgh's Leavanny blocked the flamethrower with Protect. However, once the barrier was let down, the dragon had charged another brutal rush at the bug pokemon instantly knocking it flying into a table. Burgh wasn't spared as a long tail rammed itself into his side sending him into a couple of chairs.
"Burgh!" White screamed as she rushed over to the gym leader. His Venipede chirped in worry as his trainer wasn't moving.
Meanwhile, Jolteon had charged Scarlet's gloves with electricity and the hunter proceeded to ram them into Salamence's neck, hoping to hit a pressure point. Unfortunately, he missed as the dragon had teleported out of his reach and reappeared behind him. Slashing at his back, Scarlet only received a shallow cut and a rip on the back of his shirt as he had jumped forward in time to dodge the deadly strike. At the same time, Jolteon bit down on Salamence's neck and unleashed a powerful discharge attack. Unfazed, Salamence shook the electric pokemon off its back and smashed its tail against him nailing Jolteon into the ground. Scarlet spotted an opening and jammed his fists into the dragon's neck discharging all his electricity into it. This time, the dragon roared in pain and teleported out of sight for the time being.
"Jolteon, are you okay?" the hunter asked as he picked up his pokemon. Jolteon gave a small nod and got back on his feet slowly. Scarlet charged his gloves once more and awaited, with bated breath, the next wave of attacks.
While all this was going on, Violet had crept up close to Alphinia and was going to knock her out when her arm felt paralyzed. Turning her head slowly, the blonde smiled ominously at the struggling huntress while cradling a Natu in her arms.
"You don't think I'll let another fly touch me, do you?" she asked quietly. The huntress smiled back however.
"Oh I'm just the distraction," she snapped as Espeon leapt at the knight from behind with its paw raised and dark shadow-like energy swirling over it. "Shadow Claw!"
The balcony exploded as the move collided with Natu's Light Screen. On instinct, Scarlet turned to face the blast and was caught by Salamence's dragon rush. Reeling from the impact, the hunter hissed in pain as the beast's tail crashed into his ribs. As the pokemon hammered at him, Scarlet held up his gloved palms and caught an oncoming crunch attack. Using all his strength to keep the dragon's mouth open, he glanced at White who was trying to revive the gym leader.
Swallowing his pride, he called out to the trainer, "Hey White! Burgh may be unconscious but he's gonna be fine. We won't if your Pignite doesn't help out!"
"Okay! Pignite, use Ember!" she ordered and even Salamence sweat dropped at the order.
"White," Scarlet said, voice clearly strained from his current task, "…use a normal move!"
"But it's been so long since Pignite's used those. It could take me a while to remember…" White replied as she sat down to think.
"Oh take all the bloody time in the world…" Scarlet growled sarcastically as his muscles began to weaken. Salamence had a flamethrower brewing and it wouldn't be long before Scarlet was toasted, literally. Jolteon had been pinned under Salamence's heavy tail and no matter how hard he struggled; he couldn't free his light frame from under the thick tail.
"This is why I never take Salamence jobs," the hunter hissed as he prepared for the worst.
"I got it! Pignite! Take Down!" White cried and the fire pig charged into the dragon knocking it away from Jolteon and making it miss its flamethrower attack on Scarlet. Dropping to the floor in fatigue, Scarlet quickly caught his breath as White padded towards him.
"Good," Huff "thinking," Huff "airhead," he panted as he stumbled over to Jolteon. Seeing the large bruises on his partner, Scarlet felt that the electric pokemon could use a rest. Taking out a pokeball, he pointed it towards Jolteon. I know you don't like it in here but I'll never forgive myself if I lose you, the teen remarked inwardly as he zapped Jolteon into its ball.
"How kind of you to take your innocent pokemon out of this fight," a familiar tired drawl remarked from behind. Turning, Scarlet and White saw Alphinia stretched out comfortably on a pile of rubble with the tell-tale sign of blood dripping trickling down the right side of her face. Perching on her head was an injured Natu catching its breath.
"What happened to Violet?" Scarlet growled menacingly. Alphinia raised an eyebrow before pulling out a badly wounded Violet from the debris.
"You mean this?" She asked with a sadistic smirk. "Relax scar-face, I didn't do this to her. The sow must have cracked her skull on the floor or something and I may not be a doctor but she looks pretty dead to me."
"You bitch…." Scarlet muttered as his fists tightened in rage.
White placed a hand on his shoulder. "She's not dead. It's faint but her chest is heaving," she whispered as she dug into her bag and pulled out a dusty pokeball.
"Thanks for ruining the fun kid, now I'll never get some entertainment," the knight snarled as she roughly dropped her prize on the floor. "She won't be alive for long though and same goes for the rest of you trainer-trash."
White turned to face Scarlet. "Your gloves…" she murmured pointing to the items, "…they absorb elemental attacks from a pokemon right?"
Scarlet nodded solemnly as an infernal roar resounded through the atmosphere. Did White have an idea? Dusting the pokeball in her hand, the trainer asked Scarlet another question.
"How much damage would an ice-type do on that Salamence?"
The roar got louder as the dragon got closer.
"It'd be doubly effective if the pokemon's strong enough," Scarlet replied. Did she have another pokemon?
The roar was booming now as the dragon was just a few steps away.
"Then this guy should do just fine," White remarked before a burst of light enveloped the battlefield. Alphinia had to shield her eyes at the light's blinding intensity. A loud CRASH was heard in the midst of the event and the scene slowly came back into view.
A moment later….
For the second time in her life, Alphinia was mildly shocked. The sight before her stirred a feeling deep within that she never thought she had.
To the left, Salamence was lodged head-first into a wall and was struggling to get out. To the right, a teenage boy with icy blue gloves and a large bear-like pokemon stood back to back in what looked like a punching pose. Beside them stood a female trainer and her Pignite also in a punching pose. It was obvious by the two black eyes and knocked out fangs on Salamence's now free face that the dragon had taken two ice, one fire and one human punch to the face.
Scarlet spat out blood as he cracked his knuckles. "If you had told me you had a Beartic, maybe we wouldn't have gone through this whole mess in the first place," he remarked with a scowl as the girl rubbed her sore fist.
"I was told never to use him except in an extreme emergency so I never brought him out until now, something to do with having unfair advantage," White explained giving the arctic pokemon a pat on the back. As the enraged Salamence roared and teleported again, Scarlet picked a broken fang from the floor and turned to White.
"White, time for a quick lesson on battling," he stated as he stabbed his palms with the fang. Letting his gloves trace the DNA from it, he gestured to her Pignite. "Dragon slaying 101," he exclaimed as his gloves took on a royal purple colour. His eyes flashed red and his canines elongated slightly.
White nodded with a look of determination and confidence in her golden eyes. Both teens stood back to back as the distinguishable roar came again.
"Step One," Scarlet cried before breaking off into a run. There was a noticeable increase in his speed as he dashed for the throne. "If the dragon pokemon can teleport, wait for the precise moment and use a wide ranged or 100% accurate move!"
"Beartic, Icicle Crash!" White called and the bear pokemon opened its mouth to form a humongous ball of ice. Launching it skyward, the ball burst into numerous large icicles and rained across the room. Seconds later, an agonizing roar was heard in the air between the entrance and the throne. Salamence materialized and shook its pain off as it started a Dragon Rush towards Scarlet.
"Step Two," Scarlet yelled as he ran up the wall behind the throne and back flipped causing the dragon to bulldoze the hard throne and slam head-first again into the wall. "A dragon pokemon's strength can double as its greatest weakness too. All you have to do is use it to your advantage."
The Salamence tore its head out of the wall and stomped loudly before charging straight for White.
"Step Three," the hunter called out from above. "If the dragon pokemon goes for a direct attack, take it head on with an even bigger amount of muscle and strike!"
"Pignite, Arm thrust! Arm thrust! Arm thrust!" White ordered while pumping the air in excitement. Pignite barrelled over to the dragon and hammered away into the dragon's snout thus stopping its movement.
"And Step Four ?" White yelled as Scarlet rolled in mid-air before dropping down like a meteor. "Always have a training coach with a handy pair of dragon-infused booster gloves!" he finished as he brought his boots crashing down on Salamence's skull.
The titan gave a heave as it slammed into the floor with a mighty THUD!
Alphinia simply stared at her defeated dragon before looking at the wobbly hunter as he wiped his bloodied chin and gave his trademark toothy grin.
"And that's Dragon Slaying 101. If you ain't cool with it, then get the hell outta here, Bitch!"
Author's Corner.
Scarlet: And that's the way you end a fight! DOH!
White and Alphinia: Woooooooooooooowww...