Chapter 37

Chapter 37

With a bang, the spear of ice disappears into the water, causing a frozen tunnel to appear where the spear passed. A split second later, it slams into the side of Finizen and explodes into hundreds of icicles that pepper the pokemon, drawing some blood. The explosion under water causes a bubble to appear that causes Finizen to shoot out of the water from the pressure. Finizen crashes into the water a moment later and floats there unmoving. The battle pauses for a beat as I watch Finizen, fearing that Skadi might have over done it, but I let out a sigh of relief as I notice the pokemon still breathing, just passed out.

“Finizen is unable to battle! Leader Misty, send out your final pokemon.” Misty quickly recalls her pokemon before staring at me for a moment before she speaks up.

“Trainer Frost, consider this a warning. That move of yours is too powerful for a gym battle of this level. This is only a warning as you stopped your pokemon from building it up, but if you did not I would have had to disqualify you.”

I take a deep breath before bowing to her slightly as an apology. “Thank you Leader Misty for your warning. I will keep that in mind for future fights.”

Misty nods as she hears me admit my fault and grabs her last pokemon. “Seeing as how you understand your mistake, I will not punish you but I will push you harder. Go, Vaporeon!” As the light from the pokeball fades, a beautiful blue pokemon with fins on its head and a white frill around its neck appears with a cheerful cry. With a cat-like flick of its mermaid tail Vaporeon looks around the arena and finds Skadi who is still looking like a pissed off wet cat. “Quick attack!”Alll latest novels at novelhall.com

“Powdered Snow the ground and dodge!” I order as Vaporeon glows white for a second before rushing towards Skadi at a speed I almost can’t follow. Skadi follows my command and a burst of snow appears around her as she leaps to the side. Unfortunately, Skadi doesn’t move quick enough and is sent tumbling across the ground. On the bright side, my move seems to have worked as Vaporeon skids across the now frozen ground, sliding away from Skadi and giving her a chance to recover.

Misty calls for another quick attack and this time as Vaporeon is closer to me, I notice that the pokemons mouth also glows in a black energy. I call for a Confuse Ray to try and buy time as Vaporeon is a tanky pokemon. Vaporeon darts at Skadi once again only this time she is able to dodge the attack and sends a bright purplish beam at nearly point blank range. She jumps away from the pokemon to give herself some space.

“Shower it with snow!” I call out while Vaporeon turns around and I can see the purple-pink hue in its eyes showing that it is affected by a status affect. Skadi starts to shoot off bursts of snow at Vaporeon as she slowly moves around it. Vaporeon on the other hand fires off a Water Pulse but the attack goes wide and misses Skadi when it stumbles slightly in its confusion. The match turns into a shooting game as Vaporeon starts to fire off Water Guns at Skadi while trying to hit her and Skadi sending back bursts of snow. Skadi unfortunately gets hit by one of the shots causing her to tumble across the floor again from the force of it but at the same time notice the status effect wear off only for Vaporeon to get blasted by a bunch of snow which causes it to freeze.

“Skadi, return!” I take the moment to use one of my switches to let Skadi rest. I grab Zephyr’s pokeball and toss it into the arena. “Let’s go Zephyr! Start it off with a Frost Breath!”

“Frozen Moon!”

From within the blizzard, a beam of neon pink and icy blue energy shoots out and slams into Vaporeon causing it to stumble but not fall. Vaporeon takes advantage of the fact that Skadi had to reveil herself and attacks with a Water Pulse. I see the attack burst in the blizzard followed by a splash that makes my heart sink.

“Vulpix is unable to battle! Challenger, send out your last pokemon!” I recall Skadi using her pokeball and take a moment to take a deep breath trying to think of how to win this. My mind races with options as I fear that Zephyr might not win as I hear the referee call once more. “Challenger, send out your last pokemon or else you forfeit.” Knowing I can’t delay any further, I toss out Zephyr.

“You are the last one standing! Acrobatics and then Quick Attack! Don’t get hit!”

Zephyr appears again looking worse for wear than I thought. That water gun earlier really did a number on her. I see her quickly take flight into the heavy snowfall before disappearing from sight as her speed picks up, causing the snow to swirl behind her. Misty has Vaporeon trying to hit her with Water Gun again but the snow is working to my advantage. I see a blur slam into Vaporeon before it flies back up into the snow. Vaporeon stumbles but doesn’t fall and fires off a Water Gun at the retreating pokemon. My eyes widen as I watch the Water Gun clip her wing, sending her spiraling towards the floor.

“ZEPHYR!”

I scream as she disappears from my sight as the snow fall suddenly intensifies into an actual blizzard this time. I completely lose sight of the two pokemon as I stare into a solid wall of white in front of me. Everything goes quiet as we watch the storm, waiting for it to disappear. I clench my hands tightly to the railing in front of me as hard as I can as I wait, hoping that everything is okay. A minute later, the storm starts to dissipate as two shadows can be seen, one standing tall and the other on the ground. The standing pokemon suddenly moves as it grows larger. As it’s back is to me I can finally make out the shape of two enormous wings as the pokemon in the center of the ring lets out an ear bursting cry, letting the world know of its victory.

“FROSTRIX!”

“Leader Misty’s Vaporeon is down. Challenger Frost Oak wins!”