Chapter 51 - Sparring

"You two are awesome!"

I never knew that there would be so many people watching the fight between Lucina and me. I know that the Official battle will be a public battle where many people can watch but Holy Moly. At least a hundred spectators are watching the fight between Jojo and Uni.

After fighting and healing our pokemon, we walk away from the Gym, but we are greeted by a child who looks at us with a star inside his eyes.

"Can you guys teach me how to train your pokemon to be this strong?!?"

I smile a little at the little guy before saying.

"The first thing you need to know is that you need to train your pokemon every day. However, remember that don't push your pokemon too hard as they are also a living being who needs rest and to eat. Second, let your pokemon gain experience by fighting against a wild pokemon or sparring with another trainer. Lastly, do a weekly check-up in the Poke Center."

The child nods his head so fast that I fear his neck will be broken.

"Will you guys participate in the Official Tournament next week?"

"Official Tournament?"

"Yes! It was a monthly event held by the Gym! All of this battle is an official battle! There is an Amateur battle, Mid-Class battle, and High-Class battle!"

"I see. Where can we register ourselves?"

"You can ask one of the Gym members to register you!"

"I see. Then we will participate in this tournament."

"Then I will cheer you guys!"

I smile a little at his enthusiasm before looking at Lucina and saying.

"What do you think? Do you want to participate in this tournament?"

"Of course. Let us join this tournament."

I nod at her before walking inside the Gym once again, and when I meet our referee from before, I ask him about the tournament. He then led us to a computer room where he showed us how to register and told us to insert our ID into the computer.

The process takes us one minute before we are fully registered as the participant in the Official Tournament of Violet city.

With our pokemon inside the Pokeball, we walk to the forest to the east. As we arrive in front of the eastern gate of Violet City, I can see that the Route in front of us is Route 31. I take out the map I bought in the Pokemart and see that we are not too far away from Dark Cave.

"Do you want to explore the cave nearby? Or do you want to follow the path to the other city?"

"Hmmm… Let us explore the forest. I want to let Uni evolve once again."

"I see. Then we should search for a place to make a tent."

We then walk into the forest and follow the pathway to the other Route. However, after five minutes of a silent walk, we decide to explore the forest. When finding a perfect place to set our tent, I take out the tent from my pocket dimension.

With a flick of my wand, the tent finished being built in a few seconds. After setting the tent, I release Jojo from his Pokeball. He released a cry and began to nuzzle me with his head. Lucina also does the same thing.

However, before we could do anything, I heard a growl coming from the bushes. Coming from the bushes is a pack of Growlithe. I can see five Growlithe growling at us.

"Jojo. Do you want to fight them? Take this as an experience for you in case you fight more than one enemy."

"Pi~ Pi~."

"Then go ahead."

I look at Lucina, who nods at Uni, who also flies toward the pack of Growlithe.

Jojo and Uni start their attack by charging toward the enemy head-on. Both Jojo and Uni start with a close combat fight. While both Jojo and Uni are outnumbered, their size and power are larger than the Growlithe.

When the Growlithe spewing fire from their mouth and our pokemon dodge it, I take out my wand and make the fire vanish before it could burn the forest.

The fight between Jojo and Uni against the pack of Growlithe has passed the ten minutes mark. I can see the Growlithe begin to lose their morale to fight. One of the Growlithe looks at its friend before growling. The other Growlithe whɨnėd a little, but the pack leader (I ȧssume it was the pack leader) growled once again.

After hearing it, the other Growlithe begin to run away, leaving their alpha behind. Even when he is in his last leg, the alpha stood there ready to give his life for his pack member. I can respect that.

The Growlithe fought for another minute before his body gave up and was knocked unconscious. I picked up the Growlithe and cast a Rain of Kindness. All the injuries our pokemon and the Growlithe have slowly disappear.

~Fifteen Minutes later~

"Growl!"

I look away from my food and see the Growlithe already wake up. I smile a little before saying.

"Hello there. How are you doing?"

"Growl?"

"You guys are the ones that attacked us in the first place. We come here not to disturb your territory but to train."

"Growl? Grrr Growl~."

"Sure, you can stay here and watch our training."

"Growl!!!"

"You are welcome."

After saying that, I give the puppy pokemon a piece of meat for him to eat (I can see his PP from here), and after we finished eating our food, Both Lucina and I take a good distance between us before we suddenly charge at each other.

When I say training, I don't mean training our pokemon. All of us do a two v two spar—Lucina with Uni and Jojo with me.

With Jojo fighting Uni in the air, I fight against Lucina with my spear in hand. When Lucina is within my weapon range, I thrust my spear at her, and when I see her dodge it, I immediately make a swing attack, which gets blocked by her.

I widen my eyes when her weapon begins to glow, and a second later, a wind blade flies toward me. I reinforce my spear and cut the incoming wind blade; however, as I block the incoming wind blade, Lucina appears next to me with her weapon raised and ready to attack me.

I use my green magic, and suddenly a wall made of wood appears between Lucina and me. However, it can only hold her for a few seconds as the wooden wall gets destroyed by her. Sadly for her, that few seconds is good enough for me. With my body getting reinforced, I thrust my spear at high speed.

While Lucina can block most of the attacks, she cannot block all of them.

"And the first blood goes to me."

"Heh"

Without saying any more words, Lucina's body begins to glow a little, and suddenly she disappears from her previous position, leaving a crack on the ground. My instinct screams at me to dodge, and I obey it. As I leap away from my previous position, I see an explosion happening.

As the dust is gone, I see Lucina on the ground with her ax in hand, and under her feet is a crater created by her. I swallow my saliva for a second as I know that a person with Physical energy inside their body is a tough enemy in close combat.

While my reinforcement is good, it cannot be compared with an individual that has Physical energy inside their body. There is only one thing I can do in this situation. Use my magic.

I flex my green magic, and suddenly many tree roots come from the ground and lock Lucina's movement. I also make the root to take away her weapon from her. I know that it will not last longer than a few seconds, but it was enough for me. When she is struggling to move, I charge at her and thrust my spear at her.

With one of her hands break free, she breaks the rest of the roots that hold her and holds my spear with her left hand. I tried to break free my weapon from Lucina's grip, but it did not move even an inch.

While her other hand is holding my spear, she uses her other hand to punch me. Seeing the situation, I decided to release my grip over my spear and block the punch.

*Crack*

Urgh. Holy hell. Her punch is heavy enough to make my bone break. After blocking her attack, I kicked my weapon away from her hand and then moved to the right and punched her in her head. My punch is strong enough to throw her away.

She shakes her head a little before standing up with a smirk on her face. She takes a stance without her weapon in hand. Seeing Lucina decide to fight me without a weapon, I throw away my spear as well and take my own stance before charging at her and trying to punch her face.

Lucina blocked my punch with both of her hands. I do a left hook and try to hit her head. However, before my hand could hit her, Lucina duck down and dodge my attack, she then does a quick uppercut to my chin, but as she hits my chin, I grab her hand and hold it down before doing a round kick.

We continue to do fast hand to hand combat. Punch, Block, Dodge, Counter, we continue to do it for another fifteen minutes before I successfully take Lucina down and lock her movement with my hand and leg.

"I-I give up!"

I take a relief breath before releasing her and looking at my surroundings. The clearing inside the forest is filled with crater either from my fight against Lucina or the fight between Jojo and Uni. I look to the side and see Jojo and Uni lying on the ground, exhausted.

I raised my hand and activated the Rain of Kindness. I can see my injury begin to get healed in a second, but the fatigue is not gone. I look at our only spectator and say.

"What do you think?"