[tourney] Locke vs Eldes

[lou]

ROUND 1
Locke vs. Eldes
BATTLE COMMENCE

[eldes]

For the first time in a very long time, Eldes felt exhilarated. For the past three weeks he has done nothing but travel and wander, putting aside battling in favor of progress to his goal. All he has thought about was getting to Hoenn, Hoenn was all that mattered…but then temptation had caught his eye. Eldes didn’t get far through Sinnoh before hearing about the big tournament being held at a place known as “The Battle Frontier”. The name itself made Eldes’ insides boil with curiosity, but he kept firm and ignored these advertisements.

However, the longer he ignored them, the more curious he became. Eventually he decided not to ignore them and to quench his curiosity with simple knowledge of the event. What he learned did not help him forget. The tournament supposedly was going to have trainers use randomized rented pokemon, a true test of skill. Eldes had never heard of such a thing, the coliseums on Orre could never hold such events thanks to the overall scarcity of pokemon.

Eldes did his best to resist the urge to enter, but he made the mistake of entering the city nearest the Frontier, and after only as few hours the hype and jubelation consumed him. He marched to the frontier and without a second thought put his own name into the tourney’s roster. At last Eldes would get to battle again, this time in a true test of his will and ability.

It was now the day of the tourney’s first rounds, and Eldes was as giddy as could be. He stood in a large waiting room, six rental pokeballs lay out before him on a tray. He needed to choose three but it was a rather hard choice. All of them were quite fantastic, and he just couldn’t choose one over the other. After careful consideration he picked the three most intriguing pokemon and then waited for his name to be called. Soon enough his name was announced, cueing him to enter the arena. Eldes’ heart was beating at sonic speed; he could hardly contain his excitement. At last he would have a release of all the stress these mainlands had given him, and be able to show that true power comes from Orre. Eldes took his place, ignoring the large crowd around him. He was now in his “Battle Mode”, all distractions faded away. It was just he and his opponent. He released the contents of his first pokeball, a Zangoose, and waited for his opponent to do the same. Eldes did not plan to show mercy, this was his time to shine.

[locke]

workin for cipher again wasn't going to be in the works. i haven't had the time to give a fuck about that sinking ship in years. yeah, yeah, they took me out the slums and taught me how to read, but fuck 'em. they're too uppity, too self-righteous, too not-run-by-me. cipher, they got ideas.

me? i got better ones.

but you know how these main-landers are. they see a kid from orre, and they see an idiot. they don't see a creative genius. they see some poor kid who ain't good for nothin'. that's why i ran, right? right.

but it seems the place is crawling with cipher. like mr shades and shit. one of those brothers. someone told me ardos is dead. i haven't bothered nazziekins in years but man, i wouldn't put it past him. guy's always been a fucking power-hungry creep, and ardos is the same way. makes sense they'd fight over the position.

makes sense nazkar would win, too. had this been ardos, i wouldn't be sweating right now, but fuck, i had to get the competent twin.

fuck my life.

but hey, man, would wes give up? would he?

if rui told him to, he would. but rui ain't here, now is she? anyway, my orders are clear. enter the tournament, raise some hell, and as soon as the thing's over, blow up part of the stadium. but man, those tournaments give out good prizes.

i almost want to win. maybe stealing wes's face will work. and then i get to blow up the stadium, disguise myself as someone else, and fucking run.

they'll never know it was me. except wes, that is.

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and the man who walks out might as well be wes with the way he looks. there's a smirk on his face as he faces his opponent.

"g'luck to you, mate."

and then he throws down a pokeball, one of his three. it's a minun, not nearly as big as the zangoose, but she's got a few tricks up her sleeve. and fein (locke now) prepares for the worst.

"nasty plot," in true locke fashion, "then thunder."

the minun presses her paws together and begins giggling as she plans all sorts of evil ideas. and then she looks up at her opponent and lets a massively-charged bolt of electricity fly, the thunder ripping through the stadium and so bright that locke has to look away.

[eldes]

Eldes recognized the man who walked out, he was that Wes kid. Eldes remembered his dad ranting and raving about how he was going to have this kid’s head on his fireplace one day, he made wanted posters and everything. However just like everything that has bothered Eldes’ father, he got over it rather quickly. Mostly because the kid disappeared off the face of the earth and was quickly forgotten. Eldes wondered if he was in the mainlands the whole time, bah what did he care the guy was going down either way.

Eldes watched silently as Wes put out his own first pokemon, a humble minun, and gave it its first orders. Eldes didn’t like the sound of the whole nasty plot and thunder combo, if that thing hit the Zangoose would be fried. As the roof of the stadium began to shatter to make way for the bolt of Thunder, Eldes quickly said, “Detect”.

The Zangoose’s eyes flashed and as the bolt came absurdly close, it jumped out of the way. The bolt hit nothing but the ground, letting off a loud boom and a flash. When the dust cleared all that was seen was a couple of sparks. Eldes let out a brief and very small smile but knew he wasn’t at all in the clear yet. He needed a plan to get close to the Minun for maximum accuracy opportunity. If only he were using his own pokemon, at least with them he had a bunch of pre-made move combinations and techniques to use (a habit of his entire family).

He would just have to improvise and hope nothing bad happened. With a short huff he said, “Move in carefully.” The Zangoose nodded and began edging toward the minun, preparing himself for any sudden surprise attacks.

[abyss]

VICTORY: ELDES

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