Hikari looked around, seeing Marie and Joe chatting at a campfire as Jason was attempting surfing.
She sat up, smelling the morning air. "Shit" she saad, quickly checkng the time. Her match with the Gym Leader was an hour away. She got changed into a tank top and a pair of jeans as she got up, waved to Joe and company as she approached the stadium.
As the crowd seated, she wasn't impressed the crowd was cheering for Tyson.
"Ladies and Gentlemen" the anouncer said. "We bring with you today a trainer who has successfully dominated all stage matches and has earned the right to play the Powerful, the Dangerous, One of the three 'Legends' of our Region, Tyson!" the crowd let out a roar as he approached the stadium. "Are you ready?" Tyson said. He was wearing a tiger patterned suft shirt, she was thinking of buying one as she sent out her first pokemon, Haunter. Tyson sent out Croagunk.
"Begin!" the announcer yelled.
"Croagunk, Toxic Spikes lets go" Tyson yelled, as the feild was covered in them. "Haunter's ability levitate negates that effect" Hikari noted, as Croagunk charged for Haunter.
"Haunter, hypnosis" Hikari yelled, as Tyson countered "Close your eyes". As Croagunk went in, Haunter began creating a shadow ball. "Slam him" Hikari yelled, shooting the shadow ball at Croagunk as he still had his eyes closed. "Right arm, ninety degrees" Tyson yelled, as the shadow ball smacked into Croagunk's arm, back handing it back at Haunter as he was knocked into the ground.
"Dam him, but it'll take aalot more than that" Hikari thought, as Hunter got up. "Phase through the ground, and slice him" Hikari said, Tyson unable to predct where Haunter would go called "Open your eyes". Haunter's claw came up. "Block" yelled Tyson, as Haunter's shadow claw and Croagunk's arm collded, blowing them both back. "Hypnosis, quck" Hikari yelled, putting Croagunk to sleep. "Now, dream eater". Soon enough, the damage collected from the shadow baall collision had been healed, as Croagunk was knocked out.
A bash purple auro came from Haunter. "What?" Hikari said, noticing Haunter had been poisoned. "Your levitate could have proven quite dangerous, so Croagunk repeled your shadow ball allowing Haunter to be smashed into the toxic spikes. Tyson said. "With the toxic spikes in effect, and your first pokemon poisoned, my infinite loop should be ready".
The crowd gave a roar. His infinite loop seemed almost as famous as him. She wondered what it was. "Go, Houndour." Tyson said. "shit" Hikari said under her breath. "If she switched Haunter out because of houndour's dark attributes, she'd have two poisoned pokemon. "Well as long as they don't touch the spikes, they should be fine. I have three pokemon with wings on my team, this should be ok" she thought.
"Houndour, Roar" Tyson said with smirk, sending Haunter back as Hikari froze. "shit" she said. If she got lucky, a bird pokemon would be sent out, but there was always that bit of doubt. her next pokemon was sent out, Aron. "Whoo" Hikar said with a sigh. His steel type also has an advantage. "Aron, headbutt go" Hikari yelled, as Aron charged up, half a metre away from Houndour. "Roar" Tyson said, sending Aron back before his hit landed. "Shit" Hikari said. That word had been her number one word at the moment, she'd said it so often. Dustox appeared.
"This is my infinite loop" Tyson said. "While the toxic consumes your pokemon, all your attacks are repelled by Houndour's roar." Hikari had a small advantage on this. She knew two of her pokemon who were randomly sent out had the advantage over the spikes. She needed to move fast.
"Dustox, silverwind go!" Hikari said, as Houndour performed roar. Hikari grinned. "Roar sends the pokemon back in their pokeball, but the silver wind doesnt get sent back with it" she mocked, as Houndour was hit by silver wind. "Smart move" Tyson said. "Not many have been able to move around my infinite loop" he noted. "Houndour, stand" he said as the black and red dog stood up. "Although your attack hit, it was not enough to defeat Houndour in a single blow, my loop is still in play." he said.
Haunter was sent out, feeling the poison slowly drain his body. "Houndour, roar" Tyson said, switching to Dustox. Hikari cursed under her breath. "Not even going to let me attack now" she said imptiently.
Tyson smirked. "Dustoc, fly in and use supersonic" Hikari yelled, confusing Houndour. "Roar" Tyson said, as Houndour was hurt by confusion. "Silverwind go" Hikari yelled, smashing into Houndour for the second time. "You disabled the loops effect." Tyson said patiently. "Few trainers have done so in the past, very few. I learn from my mistakes". Houndour, letting out a giant fireball, torched Dustox while he was still up in the air, knocking it out.
"Seems your Houndour is an extremist in attack power, his defence might be below adverage then" she thought to herself.
Aron was sent out. "Hmm" Hikari thought. She couldn't touch him. she needed to dodge sound itself or disable roar somehow.
Hikari smirked. "Aron, dig" she said as Aron trailed below. "Houndour, roar" Tyson said, as Aron smashed into houndour's belly, as Houndour quickly lit a blaze onto Aron, as Houndour fell. "For roar to work sound has to travel from one pokemon to the other, seems underground isn't Houndour's strong suit" Hikari noted.
Aron glowed a red colour. "Houndour has been taught that when he is taken down, he is to burn the opposition" Tyson said.
"Damn" Hikari replied back.
"My last pokemon, Ditto" Tyson said, as the crowd cheered. Hkari had a two on one advantage, but Haunter was poisond and Aron was burnt. "What to do?" she thought to herself.
"Houndour's primary use is to play the second fiddle in the infinite loop, but that's not all he does" Tyson said. Why was he still talking about Houndour, didn't she already take him down? Ths talk about Houndour was getting old. "Roar enables me to see all the pokemon you have ready for battle" he said. "A Haunter and an Aron, My best bet is to use Haunter" Tyson said, as Ditto changed shape.
"Ok, this was his last pokemon, I can do this." Hikari thought to herself.
"Ditto, use Hypnosis" Tyson said, as Aron was soon fast sleep. "Not that.." Hikari said frustrated. Tyson smirked. "Dream eater" he said, draining all of Aron's health, knocking it out. "Your last pokemon" He said with a smile. Hikari hated his smile.
"Each have ther last pokemon, Haunter vs Haunter, Go!" yelled the announcer.
"Hypnosis" Tyson's Haunter said, as Hikari's haunter closed it's eyes. "phase underground" Hikar said.
An eye battle. The first one to catch the other offguard wins. The stress and tension was getting to Hikari.
"Haunter pop out and hypnosis" Hikari yelled as a shadow moved along.
"Hit it" Tyson said, as the shadow stopped. Something was wrong. Soon, Tyson's Haunter fell from the sky, fast asleep. "What?" Tyson said.
"See when I raised Haunter back when he was a Gastly, I lerned through experience how his shadow moved. Because you copied Haunter's stats and techniques, you are unable to copy the experience we grew as a team." Hikari said.
"Any experence ghost type trainer could tell tht shadow you hypnotized was a fake, but because you couldn't copy that experience, you fell right for it. Haunter, Dream Eater!" Hikari yelled, draining the weakened Haunter back into a ditto, then into unconciousness.
"The winner is.." the announcer said, as Tyson cut him off. "Ladies and Gentleman, it's been quite a show!" Tyson yelled, the crowd cheering. "Although I have conquered, and although I hve accomplished amazing feats, there come times when trainers surpass me on their journey. I, your host and the Legendary Gym Leader Tyson, give Hikari the 'Tactics' Badge!"
The crowd was both happy and in tears. His battle was defnately amazing, she had doubts as if Blaze would haave really won. She now knew the "Legend Three" were no joke.
As she left the stadium with her third badge, she looked at her map for the aadventures ahead.