A Royal Battle [Z][CLOSED]

The red woman laughed heartily. Where will we have this battle he asks? A cruel smile played across her face.

“Why Z,” she turned around, her arms outstretched making her look tiny in the much larger gothic style arena, her grew louder, “We are going to do battle right here!” Her smile was a mixture of pride, bloodlust, and a dash of crazy.

She waited for him to remove his blazer. His team looked ready. Especially the combusken; the sun was shining very brightly in the arena today. The fire types will be very tough today. She had to mentally prepare herself though. Battles were very important to her. This is not a life or death battle, M’Lady. Her royal guard’s voice rang clearly in her ears. You do not need to win this one. His voice soothed her. Her guerilla tactics in battle have long since been not needed, yet inside her being they were deeply seeded.

Her thoughts were interrupted when her houndoom nudged her hand. He indicated he wanted to go first; the direct sunlight revitalized him. The red woman knew this would be a close battle, namely because her houndooms dormant for so long flames would be extremely hot and poisonous today. Houndoom stepped forward and raked the earth with one paw’s claws where he stood, indicating a charging stance. The red woman waited to see which of Z’s pokemon would step forward.

Fire versus fire eh? This will be interesting. Akane curled her arms in tight. She and Z probably would both get burned from any intense fire today. Akane smiled at this. She waited and asked politely if Z was ready, and when he replied that he was, houndoom howled and lowered his head for a charge.

“Houndoom, use fire spin and trap combusken!”

Doom quickly covered the ground between the duo and before sparky could react, a wide, spiraling tower of fire engulfed her, and was sure to slow her attacks and make visibility poor until she left the vortex. But Akane’s plan was based solely on houndoom’s speed. But she had to be careful because if houndoom fell within its fiery walls, he too would be immensely slowed and his accuracy lowered; but at least she didn’t have to worry about damage from its fiery walls unlike the poor combusken.

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Interesting. Teaching her dig to combat other fire type pokemon. Not that it matters. Houndoom is tough, even with a lacking defense.

”Houndoom, stay!” Now houndoom would stand in that spot until ordered. ”Now use sludge bomb and coat the ground underneath you in a thick, poisonous layer.”

Now, even though it would hurt houndoom, Sparky would also get severely poisoned if she dared come up underneath him. The extremely concentrated, potent liquid bubble and sizzled in the exposed air. A foul stench began to clog up the air around the trainers. Akane watched as it gradually oozed farther out away from houndoom. Four generally aimed sludge bombs could coat the entire arena floor. She waited to see if Sparky would take her dare and risk getting cripplingly poisoned; at least if she surfaced under Doom.

Cheeky Chicken. The red lady mused. Sparky was severely poisoned and would soon faint; but not before she could make several shots on her handicapped houndoom whom was dangerously infatuated with the smooth combusken.

“Houndoom!” She knew he wouldn’t attack sparky, and she had been in love before; she could not talk him out of it. “Houndoom, use a dark pulse to push her away from you and out of the poisoned muck! Save her!” Houndoom’s tail rose and he looked towards the ceiling building up dark energy within his body before releasing it in a gentle wave, just enough to push the combusken away with no damage inflicted at all. It wouldn’t matter. He was going to be hard to work with, and he didn’t even push her that far away. But the more she had to move, the more the poison could set in. Akane began to grow frustrated because no matter times she ordered him to attack after the initial dark pulse, he dared not listen. Maybe if Sparky hit him he might change. Maybe it would take dozens of hits. Maybe he wouldn’t change at all.

Akane knew this would eventually happen. The sun’s light only amplified the blaze-infused fire. Though it removed all of the vile liquid, houndoom emerged from the massive fireball. The shock waves seemed to really rattle him deep, but the energy he reaped from the intense flames outweighed it. Thanks to his flash fire ability, Doom’s fire was more powerful now than they ever would be; the flamethrower being infused with a the blaze ability.

Akane praised houndoom’s strength, but she knew he would need immediate attention after the battle. The red woman looked over to Sparky who did not come out of the blast as well as houndoom had. Her trainer must not have known houndooms have flash fire. Akane ordered houndoom to deal his own heavy hitting move. She ordered him to create a fire spin and trap the severely crippled combusken. Akane would not be surprised if the fire spin alone was boosted enough to take her out, but then again, she was not surprised at the strength of a combusken.