Chapter 34

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 the sighed 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 and another trainer from johto began.

Elsa has sent out her glaceon, the ice type evolution of Eevee, while her opponent has his grass flying Pokemon, jumpluff out.

In this battle, Elsa has complete advantage, for her opponent still has an arrogant grin on his face irrespective of the fact that he has an ice Pokemon as an opponent .

The fact that her opponent revealed a ice type yet he is arrogant made Alex curious whether he knows if it is an ice type and his words confirmed that he is unaware of his true type.

The opponent snarled at Elsa," Girl, you don't think your water pokemon can beat my jumpluff. He can fly away from the attack and his grass moves are super effective. It will be good for both of us if you just gave up."

Elsa just huffed and didn't speak back.

As soon as the referee orders the match to initiate Elsa reveals ber viciousness.

" Blizzard"

Before anything could happen, a blizzard initiated and the cottonweed Pokemon was frozen solid under the attack.

Jumpluff never got the chance to attack. Because Elsa ordered the final move, " Hyper beam"

Glaceon did as ordered and when the smoke settled, jumpluff was out for the count.

The referee as well as the audience were shocked by how fast the battle has come to an end.

While Elsa's opponent.was still in shock, Elsa smirks at Alex and then returns her glaceon as she walks away.

Alex can infer from the attacks that glaceon was an advanced level Pokemon and also that Elsa is quick to Anger. The most conservative way to win her is anger her, endure her anger for sometime and then beat her pokemons when they are tired.

Flashback ends.

This time Alex faced a fifteen year old trainer named Brook from Sinnoh. He used his quagsire to fight in the last match. The slippery body of the quagsire made sure that tentacruel cannot grab on quagsire body, but tentacruel became an easy target and lost in the end.

Alex's match was the first match of the quarter match round.

The fact that Alex defeated Julian a possible winner for the tournament made Brook vigilant about Alex.

The two stood on opposite sides and when the referee issued the command they released their pokemons at the same time.

Brook choose a staraptor, and unlike last time Alex did not choose a Pokemon who can fly but a normal type scratch cat Pokemon, Meowth.

Alex thought of using the pokemon who isn't at advance level and don't have much fighting experience to battle in the tournament.

It will be a good fighting experience for him. Also the water field makes sure that meowth have a decent advantage against pokemons regardless of what staraptor can do.

The fast speed of Meowth is enough for him to dodge most of staraptor's powerful attacks.

As soon as the referee initiated the attack, Alex started the match with a rain dance. The rain cloud gathers over the field and rain begin to fall.

Brook on the other hand ordered staraptor to use quick attack followed by wing attack.

The quick attack hit Meowth and hurt him but Alex's command of thundershock prevents staraptor to continue the attack.

The shrieks of staraptor rang through the arena. The taunts of Elsa made Alex feel that he needs to show Elsa she wasn't as powerful as she thought herself to be.

Meowth knows a move called assist. This move can randomly use any move that the Pokemon in the party knows.

This move brought out giga impact.

The purple energy powered body slam slammed staraptor in the floating platform.

Because of Meowth smaller body frame, staraptor was t out for the count but his wings are damaged so he cannot use his wings to fly.

So Brook ordered him to use hyper beam at the stagnant pokemons who was recovering from the toll of giga impact.

Just as it neared him, Alex orders him to use aerial ace to dodge and end the battle with fury swipes.

With aerial ace be dodged, and with the boost from his technician ability, fury swipes did the trick .

Alex managed to defeat staraptor without much problem. To egg Elsa, Alex made sure to smirk at her direction.