"I admit that I was skeptical Birch reended you for a star badge challe you seem like you may be worthy of it so show me how sturdy your bond with your pokemon is!" she said sternly before the referee began to narrate the rules. "The challenger is afforded one switch while the challenged is afforded tacks aimed at the trainer or after a pokemon has been decred unfit to tinue will result in automatic loss. Each party is also limited to two pokemon in total with evolutions mid battle causing the pokemon to be disqualified. You may begin!" the referee finished with a chop of their arm.-
"Gaia set!" "Graveler out!" Roxanne and I called at the same time while tossing our balls out onto the field. Twht red beams of energy flew out of the balls and maed as Gaia on my side of the field and a Graveler oher. "Polish!" I called and Roxanne anded her own pokemon "Defense curl!". Gaia glowed brown as she shuddered to perform the move while the Graveler glowed white as it folded it's four stony arms against it's body. "Defense!" I anded after Gaia finished causio glow silver as she strengthened her own defense.-
"Double- edge!" Roxanne anded and the Graveler tucked in it's arms against its fad rolled it's round body surprisingly fast while glowing white taia. "Up cw!" I said calmly and Roxanne could only narrow her eye in fusion before figuring out what was happening far too te. The Graveler rolled harmlessly under Gaia as she used her air jet to rise into the air , spin and then e down with her jagged edge covered in silver energy onto the fused gym pokemon.-
"GRAAA!" The boulder pokemon yelled in pain as the move caused severe cracks to appear all over it's side from the impact point. "Cw!" "Rollout away!" both of us yelled at the same time and our pokemon moved simultaneously. Gaia went to use iron cw again while the Graveler glowed brown before rapidly rolling out of the way just before she would have hit. 'As far as move mastery is ed retty close but she hasn't used a super effective move yet even though Graveler learn a few.' I analyzed the moves so far seriously. Things were about to get turned up a notch however.-
"Outbreak!" Roxanne anded and I didn't reize the name which made me wary "Up high!" I called and Gaia shot into the air as the glowing white Graveler suddenly glowed a dark red and popped up from the ground taia. 'FUCK! Brick break!' I thought with a small amount of anxioushat I crushed with emotional suppression. "DODGE!" I yelled but Gaia was still refilling her lungs when I did so I could only helplessly watch as the Graveler flying karate chopped Gaia with one of it's stony arms. "MMMMMM!" she screamed in a high hum before turning midair with a determined expression as her backside glowed silver.-
I sighed at this but didn't move to stop her sihe hit had caused a crack to appear on the delicate area around one of her vents and she would be grounded after she nded giving up her mobility advantage. She seemed to uand this herself and chose to trade injuries for the ce at an instant knockout on the Graveler rather than struggling to hit it from now on. Roxanne clearly noticed that Gaia was doing something bad but was helpless to stop it sin mid air Gaia had the advantage and the Graveler had none.-
"CRASH! BOOOM!" Gaia's wreg ball struck true and the Graveler and her smmed into the hard ground kig up a huge cloud of dust. "Graveler is no longer fit to battle!" The referee called and we waited for the dust to clear. Gaia hovered unsteadily he clearly unscious and highly damaged Graveler that was bleeding from several pces on it's body. To be ho Gaia didn't look so good herself as the front of her carapace was covered in thin spiderwebbing cracks as well as deep ohat dripped blood on the ground below.-
Roxanne recalled the Graveler without a word as Gaia unsteadily flew over to her inal starting point and looked at the gym leader fiercely. Roxanne smiled and ughed at that though "How very fitting for a rock type , to the bitter end it is then!" she said before throwing out another pokeball "Aerodactyl out!" she called and my eyes widened when the red beam maed a huge creature with dull stone colored skin and a rge sharp toothed mouth that had two cold brown eyes loto Gaia immediately.-
"AAAAEEERRR!" the a pokemon roared loudly to annouself but Gaia paid it no attention which seemed to set it off. "Leer!" I said knowing that she didn't want to be taken out of the fight even if it would be a good idea. If Roxanne had more pokemon her pliance wouldn't be a factor but this was the st gym pokemon and Vul was still perfectly ready to go. Gaia's eyes glowed white and the Aerodactyl shivered slightly to show it's defense dropped a little. "Take down!" Roxanne anded and the a predator swooped down with a white glow on it's body.-
"Payback!" I called ohe Aerodactyl was too close to back out. The a predator struck first but Gaia exploded with white energy causing damage to the thing before the referee called it on Gaia. She was out cold but I could tell through our bond that she was satisfied with this oute. The Aerodactyl had a few tears in it's skin and one of its eyes took a little damage but it was mostly fine if pissed off. It gred at me while I recalled Gaia before moving back to it's starting point to wait for my pokemon.-
"Vul set!" I called calmly as I tossed the ball out and Roxanne immediately turense as Vul made it knowLY who was top dog here at his appearance. "EEENNN!" it roared and a wave of oppressive heat flooded the field while the Aerodactyl dropped any arroga had and gave Roxanne a look that screamed "Are you fug kidding me!?". Vul was not happy at all after having watched the battle to this point and it was about to make it's displeasure known. Fmes flickered to life around it as the hard stone floor melted beh it's feet.-
An intense red glow filled it's mouth and it shot a sunny day into the air making the rest of the field reach blisteringly hot temperatures. "Rain...!" Roxanne began before energy started to gather in Vul from the sunny day above and her eyes widened in horror with her wetting choked in the middle. Vul draihe entire false sun above and had an oppressive glow gathered in it's mouth , "Sor beam!" I said coldly and a beam the thiess of a barrel bsted forth from Vuls mouth and crashed into the Aerodactyl knog it out instantly before tinuing and crashing against the far wall above Roxanne who was covered in a cold sweat.