Opening Contest [Z] [Maya] [Zandrophin] [Akane]

Z straightened his cloak and walked onstage.  He pulled a pokeball off of his necklace and enlarged it with the push of the central button.  He then stood in his place waiting for Zandrophin so they could begin their match and so he could see what kind of countermeasures he would need depending on the pokemon that Zandrophin would choose to fight him with.  'if he uses his abra, then I should go fore attacks that hit a wide area to counter his teleport,' mused Z, 'if he uses that squirtle, then I should be able to counter whatever he decides to throw at me.'

The small bow was appreciated and at least she apologized but Maya wondered if this woman had a humble function. Maya at first thought her comment was offensive but reconsidered and realized that she just got plain unlucky.

She returned to the stands, Bo walking along beside her happily, much perkier now that she was treated. Maya made a note to sit a little bit further away from Akane, Bo sitting happily on her lap, clearly already forgotten the battle and happy to watch. She absently stroked the wool at Bo's neck, as she waited for the next battle to start. As she did so she realized there was something in her sleeve. As she shook it, a worn and almost blank cleanse tag fell out of her sleeve. She snatched the paper off the ground and shoved it in the bag.

"Ah..." She said, looking around and fishing for another cleanse tag. She was running low...

"Let's go, Pokeball!" said Z as he tossed his ball, releasing Axew onto the field, "You ready for this partner?" asked Z.  "Axew." said Axew *of course.*  The two of them waited for the match to begin.  The residual charge wasn't doing much to Axew due to dragon types being resistant to the electric type. 'He's using the Abra,' mused Z, 'I hope this doesn't complicate things, but I'm glad I switched out otherwise I'd get pounded into the dirt.' Z took a knee and patted Axew on his head, "let's give them a good show, and maybe we can even win this battle."

"Let's start this show off," said Z, "Axew, use Dragon claw on Mentus!"  Axew charged forward, gathering energy in it's claw.  the glowing claw reflected off the surface of the ice, giving Axew a slight aura of light as the little pokemon ran.  "Use the ice," said Z, "Don't fight it."  Axew nodded and switched from running across the ice to gliding across it as if it were wearing ice skates on its feet.  The small pokemon glided around the arena, afoiding damaged parts of the stage as it closed in on mentus. 'Alright,' thought Z, 'let's see how you dodge.'

Z had to shield his eyes from the rainbow light effect as so not to be blinded by the display.  'good move,' thought Z, 'use teleport to dodge and refract the light from flash.  but can you dodge this?'  "Axew!" yelled Z, "Use Draco meteor!  Don't worry about aim, blanket the arena!"  Axew charged up energy in it's mouth and fired it into the sky.  the energy ball began to rain meteor like blasts of energy on the arena, leaving little room to dodge, even with teleport and pretty much trashing the ice arena with the force of the blasts.  'you're move good sir.'

Zandrophin saw all of the balls of energy come raining down towards the stage. He was worried...he knew Mentus wouldn't be able to dodge all of them. So, he tried a different tactic.

"Mentus," he said "let's make some fireworks."

As he dodged, Mentus managed to redirect some of the energy blasts into each other, creating many decent-sized explosions of light, color, and sound. When he got the chance, Mentus also took many of the smaller orbs and sent them towards the little dragon that created them.

Let's see how he likes his own attack, Sir.

The attack kept coming...and what Zandrophin had predicted came into being. While he dodged many of the falling orbs, Mentus was struck, full front, by one of them. The ball of energy exploded on contact. Mentus began to spiral down towards the stage, recovering just in time. He landed perched atop one of the shards of ice on the stage.

Sir, I can't keep this up for too much longer...the electricity is still affecting me.

Just hold on for a bit longer, old friend...let's see what he does next.

Axew was struck by the blast that Mentus had sent back at him and was sent flying across the ice, only stopping when he hit one of the broken pieces of the stage.  "Axew," yelled Z, "are you ok?"  "Xew," said Axew weakly.  "Can you fight?" asked Z.  "Axew," nodded the small dragon pokemon as he pulled himself to his feet.  "Alright then," said Z, "let's hit him with another wide attack.  Use rock slide!"  Axew jumped into the air and raised it's hands.  Rings of energy appeared around him and rocks emerged from the rings, raining down onto the arena.