247 Chapter 34 (1/2)

There was just ten minutes break after the knockout round ended.

Alex was thinking about Elsa and Julius battle in the knockout round and tried to infer the battle strategy and attics of the two, such as whether they were speed fighters, power hitters or long term fighters.

Flashback

Alex is currently at the audience and watched the match which is going to start between Julius and another girl from Unova named Aurea Juniper.

She is a very beautiful light brown haired girl with green eyes. Alex felt like he heard her name somewhere , but he couldn't place where he saw her.

Julius is standing wearing his characteristic white diamond-shaped chest plate cut off above his lower abdomen, and placed over his shoulders are a pair of white spaulders with rerebraces set under them.

Meanwhile, Aurea is wearing a green mini skirt and a red tank top. She has a cheerful smile on her face.

Both were of same age, in their teen years ranging between 15 to 18 years.

Alex knows that Julius is stronger than most participants in the tournament, but the fact that he remembered hearing Aurea name somewhere, keeps reminding Alex not to forget her.

So he looks at the knock out match.

The referee starts with the introduction of the two participants,” This is a one on one Pokemon battle between Aurea Juniper of Nuvema Town and Julian Arc of Almia City.

Please release your pokemons.”

Both of them used a water type Pokemon for this match, where Aurea sent out the water ghost type Unova native Pokemon, Frilish, while Julius released his water electric type Pokemon, Lanturn for the fight.

The two stayed at the surface of the pool before the match started and as soon as the referee started the match, they dived into the water.

Unlike the match with Alex where there weren't much command issued, the two sent out rapid orders for their pokemons.

” Jump on the platform”” Dive into the water.” Both said in unison and the did the same.

So frillish jumped on the floating platform while Lanturn dived into the pool.

Both trainers know that if the two were close by, they may fall prey to the opponent. If Lanturn touch frillish he may fall prey to her cursed boy whereas if frillish is close she may get hit and knocked out by electric attacks.

Frillish on the platform was in a lookout for the Lanturn who is underwater. Juniper knows if she doesn't act fast she may be in disadvantage so she initiated the attack.

She orders her frillish,”use omnious wind and bring out Lanturn from the water.”

She unleashed the ghost type attack and the waves generated in the pool. There is a circular water current generated in the pool and Lanturn who was out of the range seems to be pulled into the current.

Julius who sees this seemed troubled and shouted out,” Use discharge and stop this attack.”

Lanturn on hearing this command, jumped out of the water and sent out an electric discharge at the jellyfish Pokemon.

The power behind the attack was enough to disrupt the momentum of frillish on the battle, so Aurea orders,” Dodge frillish and use ice beam.”

Frillish jumped sideways and dishes the attack while retaliates with ice beam. Lanturn shrieks in pain as he is hit by the ice beam.

Instead of worrying, Julius smirks as he watches Lanturn slowly inching closer to Frillish.

When Lanturn was close enough, Julius ordered,” Confuse Ray and discharge.”

Under the influence of confuse Ray, Frillish lost control over his body which frightened Aurea but the true terror came from discharge.

Of course Aurea wasn't willing to go down easily and orders the last move,” Omnious wind.”

The wind currents hit Lanturn directly and he almost crashed in the walls of the pool. If not for frillish losing conscience It would be Lanturn's loss.

Frillish couldn't last long under the electric move and finally fainted.

The referee states,” Frillish is unable to fight, This match belong to Julius Arc of Almia City.”

Aurea returns her pokemon back disappointed at the loss but she isn't too.much affected, Julius on thesighed in relief that he won the battle for the battle was a close on.

Alex who watched this battle inferred that Julius wasn't as calm in battle as he normally seem for he tried to defeat his opponent with power. There are multiple ways in which Julius could have won without much problem, but his battle behavior reveals flaw in her battle.

The next battle between Elsa Reid andanother trainer from johto began.