bohren_rpg | Lumeloch Town Festival

Viktor took his place on the side of the field and looked down at his belt, debating which one to call first, he selected a ball and looked up at Skyler, "I hope you know, I am not going to go easy on you. Lets begin." He pulled out the pokeball and threw it toward his side of the field, "Go! Drifblim!"

There was a flash of light and purple smoke, Viktor liked seals, and Drifblim spun into the air, "Bliiiiiim~" it stopped which cause the smoke to vanish. Slowly, Drifblim floated down to the field.

"Wouldn't be any fun if you did!" she said, selecting a pokeball. It was predictable, but she always sent out the same pokemon first.

"Lucky, go get 'em!" she shouted, tossing Lucky's pokeball into the air. The Lanturn came out mid-throw in a backflip, landing in the water with a neat splash. He popped back up, his anntena bobbing in the water, and gave a glance back at Skyler.

"Sorry about the battles so close together, buddy - you know how tournament season is."

"Lantuuurn," he said, flipping his fin in a little shrug.

Viktor smiled, a Lanturn, he always love interesting type combination's. He wasn't sure what to expect, "If you don't mind, I'll take the first move. Drifblim..." he paused.

The audience was silent. Viktor ate it up.

He lifted up his arm pointing toward Skyler's end of the field, "WILL-O-WISP!"

"Driiiif!" Blue fire surrounded Drifblim, spinning quickly, "Blim!" the stopped spinning around him and started to spin around Lanturn, closing in until they finally connected, burning it badly.

"Turn!" Lucky said indignantly, scooting backward in the water. He glanced up at Skyler again, almost like he was asking 'are you sure about this?'

Skyler grinned. Lucky hated to get hit. "Come on Lucky, use Rain Dance and then we can really kick this thing off."

Lucky swam steadily around in circles, faster and faster until the clouds began to gather overhead. The onlookers, having learned from her last battle, stolidly pulled out their ponchos and umbrellas.

Viktor had sewn a hood to his cape just for this kind of thing. Now he could watch the battle and keep his hair neat and tidy. Drifblim was looking around at the Rain, a little surprised but it was used to it since they had flown through a partically nasty thunderstorm that was cause by this exact pokemon, "No worries Drifblim! Stockpile!"

"Bliiiiiiiiiim" it slowly sucked in the air around, inflating itself and glowing just a bit.

"That's great Lanturn!" Skyler said, looking over at that Drifblim a little worriedly. She knew that Drifblim was partially a flying-type, so why Viktor hadn't taken it out of battle as soon as he saw Lanturn was a little puzzling.

"Use Thunder!" she said, and Lanturn's anntena began crackling with power, a bolt of lightning zigzagging through the air to Drifblim. She would start this battle off with some fireworks.

Drifblim would have easily been taken down by the Thunder if he hadn't stockpiled, but it took the thunder. It was kicked back but flew back to its position, it's eyes closed, "Bliiim" his eyes turning back toward Viktor, it already knew the call that was about to be made, but it waited patiently.

"Drifblim, Stockpile." this was the boring part. But soon things would be beyond exciting. Viktor could barley wait, this was the first time trying out his new battling strategy.

"Bliiiiiiiiim!" Again, Drifblim pulled in more air, expanding more and its light glow intensifying two fold.

Again?

Skyler wasn't really sure what he was doing. That Thunder had taken a good chunk of Drifblim's HP away, so...

"Lanturn, use Thunder again!"

Lanturn looked at her, and Skyler hesitated for a moment. Her pokemon trusted her, but Lanturn seemed to think she wasn't doing something right. Still, it turned back around and fired off another Thunder despite it.

Drifblim took the Thunder again. This time he was only knocked back half the distance as before, but like a champ, it flew back to its position, eyes closed and focused. Its defense on both ends was almost at its peek. Viktor hesitated for a moment. He had two options here, he decided to check in, "Drifblim."

"Dri...?" It opened on eye looking back.

"One more?" The Drifblim nodded, "Excellent, Stockpile one last time!" he said this a bit more dramatically. The audience seemed to be just as puzzled as Skyler was, they were silent, whispers shaking about.

"Bliiiiiiiiiiim~" Expanding to his maximum, its glow so bright now that it was lighting up almost the entire field in the heavy rain.

Lucky flicked his tail. "Turn turn, Lanturn!" he said, his antenna crackling with energy. He could tell that Drifblim was almost done for, but his defenses were so high now.

"Thunder!" Skyler shouted, and the Thunder came down from the clouds in a huge, sizzling bolt.

Drifblim didn't even move. But it was starting to shake a bit, Drifblim was at its limit. But it's time was up. Viktor smiled and grabbed its pokeball, "Drifblim, BATON PASS!" Drifblim opened its eyes and vanished in the pokeballs light. Left on the field was a perfect replica of the pokemon, made completely of the bright blue light. The audience ooh'd and ahhh'd. Viktor smiled, "Go! Dusknoir!"

The Dusknoir appeared directly behind the light, "Noirrrr" The pokemon grabbed the light and opened the large mouth on his stomach, absorbing the light which suddenly wrapped around the pokemon, which was now glowing the pale blue. The light slowly faded, but it was obvious that the Dusknoir had absorbed all of Drifblim's raised defense stats.

The Thunder struck, but the Dusknoir didn't even move. Lucky backed away in the water so fast he left a wake, looking back at Skyler and shaking his head.

"Well alright," Skyler said. She'd learned to listen to her pokemon when they gave her obvious signals like that, and she held out Lucky's pokeball to return him, her hand falling to another on her belt.

After a brief moment of hesitation... "Go, Bluegull!"

Altaria whistled happily as she was released from her pokeball, soaring up into the stormclouds and gathering bits of them on her wings. She spiraled back down and eyed the Dusknoir disdainfully.

Dusknoir was full of itself, literally. Viktor had only practiced this new strategy within his own pokemon and a few trainers that worked at his Gym. When absorbing the large amounts of stockpile, Dusknoir seemed to bet a little...overpowered and possibly a little deaf. Viktor would like to blame that for the mistaken Earthquake that Dusknoir suddenly threw out into the field once the Altaria was thrown onto the field, which completely missed and smashed into one of the arena walls where luckily no one was sitting. Viktor waved his arms and caught the Dusknoir's attention, "Noir?"

"Dusknoir! Focus! Focuuuus!" He had to remind the Dusknoir to not let the extra bulk get to his head.

Bluegull spiraled down to the water, landing neatly as a ballerina, her cloudpuff wings floating on the surface of the water. She seemed utterly calm, eyeing Dusknoir haughtily.

"Good girl, now how 'bout showing off a little?"

The Altaria preened, fluffing her feathers out. Blue energy began crackling along her wings as she lifted them and took off, spinning through the air in a gorgeous twisting flight pattern.

Skyler grinned as the audience ooh'ed. This was why she loved this pokemon.

Although he was a little surpised by the Altaria, he knew that gym leaders didnt have to always have their type. Altaria had a purpose. And Viktor knew he had plenty of time with Dusknoir to figure out what. But first, "Dusknoir, she's a little too showy. Lets put a stop to that..."He pause and crossed his arms, staring directly at Skyler, "Gravity."

Dusknoir focused and energy shot from hits hands toward the Altaria. Now it would stay within range of Dusknoir's power.

Altaria was busy pulling a graceful loop-the-loop when the attack hit. She let out a most undignified squawk and hit the water on her back, flapping ridiculously until she was righted.

She fluffed up her feathers, the long crest on her head rising, and hissed at Dusknoir like an angry goose.

"Man, he messed you up," Skyler said with a chuckle, and Bluegull glared back at her. "Come on, don't act like that. Dragon Claw." Flapping her wings - not that it did much good, she propelled herself across the surface of the water to his side of the arena, striking out with one blue-covered claw.

Dusknoir barely flinched at the sharp hit. It was obviously powered up to after that Dragon Dance. Viktor was pleased as Dusknoir shook off the Dragon Claw and crossed its arms, awaiting its next command, "Now, Earthquake." Dusknoir nodded.

"Dusk-!" it raised one hand into the air and the dove it into the ground, "Noooir!" sending a powerful earthquake directly toward the Altaria, the rain above them vanishing.

No more rain, Skyler thought to herself. Bluegull was busy getting flung off the platform and back into the water, thrashing around and squawking at Dusknoir. She was definitely angry now, trilling sharply at the other pokemon.

"Chill, Blue," Skyler said. "How about a little more dancing? I'm sure you can show off just as well even when you aren't flying."

Bluegull flipped her cloudy wings and energy began crackling around her once again. When she began moving, she moved like a bird bathing, flipping water and blue clouds everywhere.

Viktor nodded. She was pumping up. He needed to end this quickly. He could hit it with another earthquake, but he was afraid it would avoid it in the water, "Fire Punch Dusknoir!"

Dusknoir's hand was engulfed in flames, "Noir!" it dove directly at Altaria. Viktor just hoped this would do more damage than the earthquake, but he had a bad feeling

The punch connected - well, it connected and knocked Bluegull aside... not far. The water flying from her wings put out the flames with a useless hiss.

The Altaria briefly stopped in her dance, looked back over her shoulder in an unmistakably dismissing stare, and resumed what she was doing with a fluting whistle.

"There you go, Miss Blue," Skyler said, leaning on the rail of the platform. "Make the people love ya."

Viktor huffed. He didn't want to resort to these measures, but the Altaria was ticking him off and he wanted it gone, "Dusknoir! Curse!!!"

The audience gasped as the Dusknoir created a large nail out of energy and jamed it into its stomach, "Noooir..." it moaned, while a purple mist creeped from the ground around him and crawled around the Altaria.

The Altaria tossed her head, her whistle scaling up to piercing levels, flipping her wings at the mist that was shrouding them. She fixed the Dusknoir with one beady eye and fluffed her feathers up, making a noise remarkably like an angry turkey.

"Alright, alright, but before you get him how about you Roost first?"

Bluegull hunkered down on the water, tucking her beak into her fluffed-up chest feathers, wiggling like she was about to settle down for the night. The mist still hung off her like an ill-fitting cape, and she still glared murder at the Dusknoir.

Viktor chuckled at the Altaria, the pokemon was making some of the most interesting noises he had ever heard during a battle. He shook it off and focused, "Dusknoir, hit it while it's recovering! Another Earthquake!"

"Noir!" It dove its hand again into the ground, sending another earthquake directly toward the Altaria.

She bobbed around crazily in the water, waves half-drowning her, and shook herself off until her feathers stood out in... interesting directions. She reared her head back from Dusknoir and hissed again, glancing back at Skyler.

"Alright, Blue. Get him!" Skyler leaned over the railing eagerly - that was three Dragon Dances under the Altaria's belt, and she was sure this Dragon Claw would do a lot more damage than the last one.

Altaria whistled her assent, spinning to catch the Dusknoir with her claws. Curse had done a great deal of damage and she was going to compound it until he gave in.

Dusknoir barley moved. Viktor laughed a bit as he watched Dusknoir basically bounce the Altaria back to its side of the field. She really had no clue what Stockpile was. Even with three Dragon Dances under her belt she would barely scratch the surface especially since he had tucked in a nice leftover for him to restore his energy on, "Dusknoir, another Earthquake."

"Nooooir" He dug is hand in once more, sending another massive earthquake in the Altaria's direction.

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