24 The Jordan Tournament (Part 1)
I was walking through the stone mines, I had a smile on my face. I saw an opening out of the cave and ran through it, I found an area where Pick-axes were lined up, as if the miners were looking for something in here. The Scanner detected pieces of moon stones underneath the earth so I sent out Graveler.
"Graveler, There are stones under the ground, Can you bring them out?" I asked.
"Gravel," It said with confidence and dug its hands into the ground and used Earthquake. Several moon stones rose above the ground and even some Water stones rose above the ground. I smirked as the Scanner identified them as Mid-Quality Moon stones and they were 20 in number but most of them were broken and not of much use and only 15 were at least complete, I put them into my bag and smiled. This area was big enough for training all of my Pokémon.
I opened my bag before sending out all of my Pokémon; Raichu, Scyther, Butterfree, Wartortle, Haunter, Hitmonlee, Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Nidorina...although I wasn't going to use Squirtle, I wanted to give it as a gift to Ran when we're leaving Cerulean City for good, after all, Giovanni's orders are: Ran is your personal grunt.
As soon as Charmander saw me, It released a Flamethrower which was then stopped by Wartortle who glared at Charmander.
"What are you doing?" Wartortle asked in an angry tone.
"Why was I caught?" Charmander began shouting and releasing Flamethrower.
"You really are an idiotic one," Butterfree said.
"Say that again and..." Charmander was about to say but I interrupted it.
"Shut up, All of you!" I shouted and they all turned to me.
"I want everyone to listen up because this is the last time i'm going to say this, WE ARE BEGINNING THE FIRST JORDAN TOURNAMENT!" I said with a smile, "It's a Tournament where all of you except for Zorua will participate,"
Caterpie had a Black (Monstrous) potential so I was going to sell it once I got out of the mines. After I said that, Zorua walked next to me and I carried her in my arms.
"This is very easy, The battles will be held and the winner will be decided as my strongest Pokémon but there is one rule...No killing," I said.
The Tournament Timetable went like this:-
Hitmonlee vs Charmander------->
Scyther vs Wartortle------->
Raichu vs Haunter-------> Finals: ??? vs ???------->?
Squirtle vs Graveler------->
Bulbasaur vs Nidorina------->
"There are prizes for 1st and 2nd place so let us begin the FIRST JORDAN TOURNAMENT with Charmander vs Hitmonlee!" I said with a smile. Everyone cleared an arena in between and several ghosts even lined up near the walls to watch this Tournament. All of them had Red potential so they would cost a lot of money when I caught them.
Charmander and Hitmonlee made their way to the arena, Hitmonlee raised its right leg for an intimidating pose. I couldn't help but analyze the two Pokémon.
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CHARMANDER
o Pokémon Name: Charmander
o Pokémon Nickname: None
o H.P: A
o Attack: C
o Defense: C
o Sp. Atk: A
o Sp. Def: B
o Speed: C
o Move List: Scratch, Ember, Flamethrower, Flame burst, Metal Claw, Rage.
o Level: LV. 14
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HITMONLEE
o Pokémon Name: Hitmonlee
o Pokémon Nickname: None
o H.P: C
o Attack: B
o Defense: D+
o Sp. Atk: D
o Sp. Def: C-
o Speed: B
o Move List: Mach Kick, Bulk-up, Quick Attack, Blaze Kick, Thunder Kick, Ice Kick, Lock-on, Mega Kick, Jump Kick, High Jump Kick, Power-up Kick.
o Level: LV. 20
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The battle began right away while I sat on a rock nearby. Charmander prepared and used Metal Claw on Hitmonlee who jumped out of the way.
"Come on, Do you think such a slow attack will hurt me?" Hitmonlee asked while using Bulk-up. Charmander used the opportunity to use Flamethrower which hit its mark but sadly it only inflicted 10 HP damage.
After Hitmonlee had buffed itself up, It used High Jump Kick and Charmander ducked, Hitmonlee hit the cave wall which caused Hitmonlee to lose about 20 HP. Charmander smiled before using Metal Claw once more and it hit its mark, piercing Hitmonlee's right leg. Hitmonlee screamed in pain before using Mach Kick on Charmander sending the Pokémon flying.
Charmander lost 40% HP after that attack, I assumed that it would take Hitmonlee about 2 hits before Charmander fainted. If only Charmander had a higher move set, It would have been able to stand up to Hitmonlee properly.
Hitmonlee used Quick attack to even the distance between the two Pokémon and then began charging a Power-up Kick (Same reference to Power-up punch). Charmander got hit by the attack and lost a lot of HP, It was down to 10 HP.
"Are you done?" Hitmonlee asked and Charmander's tail suddenly released a more blazing flame and its eyes became red. It unleashed a Super Flamethrower which blasted Hitmonlee head-on. After the flames and the smoke cleared, Hitmonlee had fainted.
I opened my AIDEX and viewed Charmander's ability; Blaze. A combination of Blaze and Rage would be enough to take out a LV. 25 Pokémon which was neutral to Fire-type attacks and enough to kill a LV. 25 Pokémon which Fire was super effective on.
I returned Hitmonlee to its Pokéball and healed Charmander with a super potion before announcing the next battle.
"The first battle of THE FIRST JORDAN TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN GREAT BUT NOW WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT BATTLE...Scyther vs Wartortle!" I shouted and Zorua even exclaimed with glee.
The two Pokémon made their way to the arena and the crowd was cheering for them, Zorua was rooting for Scyther to win while I was pondering ibwho would win this battle.
If Wartortle gave Scyther enough time to buff up, Scyther would be invincible...Well, Let's see who will win this battle.
"Let the next battle of THE JORDAN TOURNAMENT COMMENCE!" I shouted as the two Pokémon took a fighting stance.
"You will lose this battle," Wartortle said before unleashing three Water photons at Scyther.
