Chapter 56 - The Viridian Gym Battle (Part 2)

At noon Alex and his friends are standing in front of the Viridian Gym. Lorelei asked him," Are you sure you want to do this, Alex? I heard that Mr. Giovanni is a very strong trainer and he doesn't hold back much even in his gym battle."

If I was afraid of a lose I won't be a trainer now. And I also want to let my old pokemons have some fun too." He answered.

Lance then asked him," What are your other two pokemons except Pidgeot?"

Alex didn't answer them and just answered that they will know when the battle begins.

The doorman then told them," The gym leader is ready and is awaiting you. Please follow me."

He then opened the door and headed inside with the three others following behind.

Inside the gym along with Giovanni, Agatha and surge were present there too. Giovanni sat on the couch up high on the platform whole the other two sat in the audience.

Both Lance and Lorelei joined them on the audience dier and Alex stood in front of Giovanni for the battle.

The referee for the bout said," This is a three on three official gym battle between Alex Bart of floral town and the gym leader, Giovanni. Please send out your pokemons."

Giovanni sent out a Rhyhorn on the battlefield.

Agatha asked the two young trainer," Do you know which pokemons he might use?"

" we only know that he might use some old pokemons of his. And we only know about Pidgeot." Lorelei answered

" So he is using a Pidgeot. Can he control it." Surge asked sceptical that a young trainer can command a Pidgeot.

" Yes he told he raised it since he was five and so it shouldn't be a problem." Lance told him

Surge then just grunted while looking at the battle. Agatha too wanted to see how he battle Giovanni. Even Giovanni wanted to see what skills he possess that he attracted the attention of the old monsters.

In the battlefield,

Alex took out a pokeball then looked at it intently while saying," Let's show how powerful we are together. Go, Pidgeot."

Then a mighty Pidgeot was revealed. It was different from other Pidgeot because it was of different colour as well as slightly bigger than average.

It released a " caww" and floated slightly on the ground then settled on the ground.

It was eyeing intently it's opponent. It has faced many pokemons over the years. Some wild and some Pokemon Trainer which came near the town and this was it's first battle against a truly powerful Pokemon. It's eyes glowed with a fierce battle d_e_s_i_r_e.

Seeing the battle d_e_s_i_r_e, Rhyhorn too heavily pounded it's front leg on the ground in admission to it's battle request.

Seeing this, Giovanni too knew that his Rhyhorn wanted to face him on.

Soon the referee said," Let the battle begin."

The first one to open the battle was Alex. He commanded," Hurricane."

And a fierce wind blew in the battle, obscuring the vision and Rhyhorn was attacked by sharp wind blades.

When the winds subsided the Rhyhorn was seen having surrounded by a rock wall which now had deep cut marks as well as the weaker parts now had been completely cut off.

Seeing the impact of this attack, shocked all the people.

Giovanni said," Impressive. To think you could damage the rock wall so easily. And even wounded my Rhyhorn . I am really looking forward to this battle more and more. " As he was the only one who knew how strong the defensive ability of his Rhyhorn was.

In the audience ,

With Agatha she said," Very strong wind power and cutting force. It is already an Elite level pokemons."

Surge eyes too brightened as he could see what this move was truly capable of.

Agatha also added," Only the rock wall and the surrounding is damaged. The control for this level of attack is also impressive."

Lance and Lorelei now saw the gap between them. They too raised their initial Pokemon from early on. And to think their friends was already so strong was both gratifying and sad.

In the battlefield,

While others were impressed with this attack, Alex and Pidgeot were more vigilant. This attack was to see the battle instinct as well as it's first reaction.

The most basic reaction of this Rhyhorn was defense and this put the two in disadvantage.

While Pidgeot was strong in it's attacks it had weak defense as well as endurance.

Alex decided not to waste time and signalled Pidgeot," Pidgeot command the air."

On hearing it he cawwed loudly and the wind started to flow softly around. This move puzzled all

Giovanni commanded Rhyhorn," Rock blast."

Big rocks the size of Rhyhorn was slammed towards Pidgeot but it easily dodged them and attacked it on it's back with air slash and a mighty air slash headed towards it but it was destroyed by ice beam.

The two trainers only said attack names while the pokemons countered the others move themselves.

Pidgeot always tried air slash, gust and twister to attack Rhyhorn while it either defended with rock wall or used rock edge or something to attack it.

None of the attacks were making contact on each other. Rhyhorn was using it's rock and ground attributes for defence while Pidgeot just glided and dodged out of the way.

Whenever it seemed like an attack was making contact.a strong wind blew and pushed him out of harms way.

This irritated both Rhyhorn and Giovanni. Earlier it seemed impressive but now it was getting on his nerves.

In the audience,

Agatha and Surge were impressed with his battle performance so far. It's control over the wind , it's cutting power and attack force a were impressive.

The whole ground was littered with rock fragments or with crisscross cut signs.

Alex " Command the wind" gave it an edge in dodging the attack

In the battlefield,

Giovanni suddenly told Alex," You are really a genius battler. You used different subtle moves to make my attacks weaker. Your featherdance and some sand attack to disturb it along with the wind attacks. You are truly impressive. Using attributes decreasing moves or how you used agility along with wind. "

Seeing that Giovanni saw through his tricks he was alert,

He continued ignoring Alex's Expression," But now enough playing Rhyhorn, show how the ground crushes everything beneath itself."

This time Rhyhorn glowed with a brown aura and it roared loudly.

Alex urgently shouted," The true battle begins now. Go wind force."

This affected Pidgeot and the entire room had heavy winds blowing around. It too glowed slight blue.

This truly shocked the three experienced trainers and Giovanni said," Wind Force."

to be continued