Before Whips could connect his punch, he saw Leaf launch several Energy Balls at Demon. His eye's grew wide at the attacks grew ever closer to the Hydreigon, he didn't understand, why interfer now, right when the battle had reached its climax?
("No, I'd rather lose then win like this)", Whips thought as he cut of his attack and threw himself in front of the Energy Ball. True, the attacks were barely effective to Dragon/Flying type like Whips, but he was so exhausted that it didn't matter, and the majority of the attacks struck him with enough force to send him under. He wobbled a bit and for a moment, it looked like Whips was going to hold it together, but ultimately he finally collapsed on the ground.
Whips was out.
"NOOOO, BUDDY!!!! WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR!?!", Embertail yelled at Leaf before he bolted over to his old friend.
"WHIPS NO!!!", Curt cried as he ran to the dragon, "Are you alright? Please say something!". Jasper was quickly behind Curt, equally filled with worry about Whips condition, even an attack like that could have done serious harm in his condition. The entire group knelt down, checking over Whips, before the dragon cracked one eye open and gave them a cocky smile, and they all let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh thank Arceus, can you stand? Here, let's help you up buddy", Curt said as the group helped the Dragonite to his knee's, his pride wouldn't want him laying on the ground for long. As soon as he was on his feet, Whips locked his gaze with Hydreigon, and gave him a smile and a nod. it was a good fight.
"H-hey, you two, great fight,", Curt said as he looked over to Demon and his trianer, "we'll have to battle again soon, next time without interruptions...". Curt threw a quick angry glare at the groups behind them, with Whips complementing that glare.
"(Speaking of which, thank-you at least Nuri, for being wise enough to encourage people not to get involved)", whips said to the Ninetales, giving her a quick nod of approval.
"Soooooo, I guess you guy's get Clover now huh?", Embertail replied with a comic shrug, "I mean, I'm not sure the rest of these guy's will honor our agreement, but we'll keep our word and not get involved!"
"Yeah, we'll stay out of it, besides, we need a minute to get Whips patched up", Curt said with a smile as he began digging through his bag to pull out his medical supplies, "was one hell of a fight though..."
"(Yeah, that battle got me pumped! I kinda want to fight that Mightyena one on one now!)", Jasper added in.