"Venomoth, poison powder" Screech yells, as Venomoth releases a toxic poison. "Shit" Hikari says, quickly signaling Staravia to blow it away before she's put in a bad situation.
"Staravia, Ariel ace" Hikari says, as Staravia sharply flies in to cut Screech's final pokemon. "Quick Venomoth, use poison powder and shield yourself in a mist of poision" Screech says quickly, as Staravia is going to fast to simply stop, intoxicating Staravia.
"But by doing so you also poisoned your own pokemon" Hikari says to Screech. Screech laughs "Venomoth practically breathes the stuff anyway, it did come out of his mouth in the first place, so naturally he has some defence built up against it" Screech says, as Hikari starts to get angry.
"Now Venomoth, Stun spore!" Screech laughs, to Hikari's quick temper. "Shit" Hikari says, motioning Staravia to fly out of there immediately, but due to the poison powder's effect and a now weakened Staravia, Staravia is able to narrowly avoid it, paralysing Staravia's left wing.
"Bye bye birdie" Screech laughs, as Hikari decides to hit this with an all or nothing. "Staravia ariel ace directly at Venomoth now!" Hikari yells, as Screech gets Venomoth to cover itself in a mist of stun spore. "Now Staravia, gust, blow it away!" as Staravia flaps its wings as the ariel ace is about to hit, revealing Venomoth under the mist.
"Venomoth, dodge" Screech says, with a wide grin on his face. "Now what will happen is Staravia will ariel ace thin air, and with that paralysed wing, crash down onto the stadium floor to show everyone that I am victorious! Its over, Hikari." Screech mocks, as Staravia rips through Venomoth, as Screech predicted everything perfectly, except it was Hikari who is the winner for all to see.
"What? how?" Screech yells. "Simple" Hikari says "I knew you'd use your mist trick, but stun spore isnt like poison powder" Hikari continues "Poison pokemon are immune to poison, but Venomoth isnt immune to being paralysed. Your mist created the scenario where Venomoth couldn't dodge even if it wanted to, compensating for Staravia's numb wing"
"Hikari is the winner, she will be moving onto the finals!" the announcer yells, as Hikari silently walks back to her cabin, getting tense over her near loss battle.
"Dammit, why are all my battles so close" Hikari says to herself as she takes a warm shower to try and relax. "I can't afford to have close battles all the time" she says, adding shampoo to her hair.
After a while, she heard knocking on the door, as she quickly got a towel and prepared to open the door. "It better not be that nerd" she thought to herself, wondering if anyone would notice if she pulled him inside and committed murder.
"Hey" the bad boy Jason said, noticing Hikari with a towel, as they both felt awkward. Hikari quickly slammed the door in his face. "One minute" she said, as Jason laughed it off.
"this is good food" Jason says, as he and Hikari started eating at a local cafe. "So what brings you here" Hikari says, as her Cascoon tries to eat one of Jason's sandwiches. "Came down here for the gym badge, only four more to go" Jason said, to Hikari's displeasure. She knew she only had two, with her third inches away.
As the two were eating together, Hikari noticed Nepolean ordering a milkshake and a snack, and Hikari invited him to their table, wanting to interrogate him about Blake's battle with Nepolean. "Great" Jason thought, when Joe was gone and he had Hikari to himself, another guy jumps into the fray.
"How was your battle with Blake, are you my opponent for the finals?" she asks. "Nah Blake's really good, beat me to a pulp." Nepolean said. "He's a complete pyromaniac, all three of his pokemon are strong fire types." Nepolean commented again.
"Well I should probably use a water type them" Hikari said, looking at her Poliwag. "Don't underestimate Blake." Nepolean says bluntly. "I saw his Combusken from other battles, so I used a mix of rock and water pokemon." Nepolean says, a bit down on himself.
"Well i'm sure i'll think of something" Hikari says nervously. Hikari was strong, but all the tension can really make a person uneasy. Hikari wasn't sure what to do. "Hey whether you win or lose, theirs a cool beach I want to take you to if you wanna come tommorow tonight" Jason says, Hikari not sure if he's trying to hit on her or if he's just trying to help.
"Well whatever the case, I should get some serious training done before tommorow" Hikari says, as she returns all her pokemon after they've all eaten, and returns to her cabin. "That mist technique was pretty good" Hikari thought as she remembers the battle with Screech, as she sends out her Poliwag. "You ready for tough, down to earth training?" she asks Poliwag with a very serious face, as Poliwag nods it's head.