<Celeste>
“And moving right along to the next match, Ninetales versus Toxapex! BEGIN!”
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Toxapex>
The Hail began to lighten and eventually stopped within a few moments. But it didn’t matter now, the temperature of the arena was still on the decline as Kayo’s entire body began to glow with Ice energy.
Xoa immediately hunkered down using Baneful Bunker and hid within her tentacles as she was suddenly encased within a large ice crystal, Kayo’s Freeze-Dry was no joke. Ceres’s melodies now were slower and longer. Xoa roared in anger and effortlessly broke out of the ice block then leaping into the air, sending large shards of ice at Kayo and attacking with Sludge Bomb.
Kayo glowed green with Protect, soaking the damage without harm as Ice Shards formed around her, she began her endless barrage of Ice Shards again. Keeping in tempo with Kayo’s barrage, Xoa began shooting out massive amounts of Poison Stings out from her tentacles matching each of Kayo’s Ice Shards.
Kayo was utilizing her superior speed to the fullest, running circles around Xoa, but Xoa didn’t seem too bothered, she was calm and collected. She stopped shooting out Poison Stings and hunkered down once more with Baneful Bunker, but this time the spikes on the outside of her protective tentacles began to glow a vibrant purple before launching out showers of Toxic Spikes.
Kayo had to stop and use Light Screen to prevent herself from being covered with the Toxic Spikes. Xoa rapidly shot out three layers of the Spikes in rapid succession before she stopped and moved right along into her next attack. As soon as she emerged from behind her tentacles, her entire body began to glow with Poison energy and she hopped slightly into the air and slammed back down into the ground releasing a massive Sludge Wave.
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Ninetales>
Kayo used Protect once more as the Sludge Wave hit her, but was unprepared for Xoa now descending down on her from above. Xoa had followed her Sludge Wave attack and used it as a way to pin Kayo so she could get close. The ends of Xoa’s tentacles were glowing with Poison energy as she descended. Kayo began blasting Icy Wind upward into Xoa, it didn’t do much damage but it did slow her enough for Kayo to fully charge a Freeze-Dry and unleash it onto Xoa, critically hitting her actual body and not her protective tentacles. The temperature of the arena was frigid now, the flowing lakes and ponds had completely frozen solid, the grassy hills and plains were chilled and stiff
Xoa fought through the pain and pushed through with her attack, slamming into Kayo with a vicious assault of Poison Jabs and Venoshocks.
Suddenly from within the dust cloud of the impact site, a frozen solid Xoa shot out by a tremendously powerful Frost Breath at an amazing speed before being stopped by a rock, completely shattering the rock, but she remained encased in ice. Kayo emerged from the dust cloud, limping, badly poisoned, and fighting to remain standing, but looked super angry. The rainbow colored lights her Aurora Veil began glowing around her again and shattered like stained glass as the effect wore off, without it Kayo would have been a goner.
“Kayo, set up and pass.” Celeste said with a tone of sadness in her voice. Her team of Pokémon settled down some hearing her words and they all nodded at Kayo. Kayo nodded back in return without looking back. With the last remaining bits of strength and energy she began glowing bright light blue as a transparent blue and white tinted bubble formed around her protecting her, and soon, the rest of her team with Safeguard. Kayo collapsed onto the ground right after, succumbing to the poison.
“A Double KO! Ladies, Gentlemen, and Pokémon, this is a rare occasion indeed!” the announcer shouted as the Jumbotrons around the arena replayed the final exchange between Kayo and Xoa ending with Xoa was ejected from the dust cloud as a block of ice. The dust cloud was too thick and obscured anything that happened inside.
Celeste returned Kayo to her Pokéball, “You did perfectly, rest now.” Celeste said replacing the ball onto her wristband where Kayo was always placed. The four remaining Pokémon around Celeste cheered for their fallen teammate one last time before settling down and waiting for Celeste’s final choice.
<Ceres>
Ceres returned Xoa with a tear in her eye. “I’m sorry….” She had misread Celeste and Kayo, and failed Xoa resulting in her loss. To the uninitiated, the battle would have seen close, but the reality was, Xoa was in complete control and dominance, winning should have been easy. Ceres was able to see everything now, Kayo had been setting up to take out Xoa, Ferris, or Moegami during her battle with Snips. Ceres watched the replay of the final moments of the battle on the Jumbotron. The arena had been chilled to a ridiculously low temperature throughout the entire time Kayo had been battling, the final Freeze-Dry hit Xoa hard enough that her Poison Jab’s power was weakened, that along with Kayo’s Aurora Veil, allowed Kayo to withstand the Poison Jab and Venoshocks long enough for Kayo to use Sheer Cold. With how cold the arena got along with the final blast of cold from the Freeze-Dry, Kayo’s Sheer Cold was almost instant, and with how close Xoa got, accuracy was not an issue, Xoa practically fell into the attack. The dust cloud they were in was not dust at all, it was actually the aftermath of Kayo’s Sheer Cold, leaving a cloud of near absolute-zero temperature air.
The sound of the crowd erupted as Celeste sent out the last Pokémon for the exhibition match. Sylvia eagerly skipped her way into the arena and sat down waiting patiently for her opponent. Her ribbons were slightly more extended but still posed elegantly around her. Sylvia’s confidence in battle is only rivaled by her best friend Lucas.
Ceres sighed and took a few more drink of water, Celeste was not making things easy, and why would she? Sylvia was Celeste’s official starter Pokémon as an Eevee, with Lucas being the first Pokémon she caught, as a Riolu. “Very well then, Moegami, take the stage….” The Striker Pokémon nodded excitedly and walked out onto the arena carrying a certain level of pride and confidence.
The Toxic Spikes around Sylvia failed o activate due to Kayo’s Safeguard. Sylvia was seemingly smiling at Moegami.
“Our final match of the night ladies, gentlemen, and Pokémon! Sylveon versus Cinderace! These are the starting Pokémon of both of these Spire Masters, they are really closing this battle out with a BANG! AND BEGIN!”
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Cinderace>
Right as the battle began Sylvia stood up and performed a rather strange looking dance and flourish with her ribbons that ended in what appeared to be a full-fledged dab towards Moegami. Upon closer inspection her ribbons were slightly glowing during the gesture.
Ceres began playing her music, this time was a quicker paced militaristic-like march, in which Moegami’s feet instantly ignited in brilliant flames and stomped the ground in front of him. A small set of three rocks were bounced into the air to which Moegami skillfully juggled all thee, igniting all three, and kicked them out in rapid succession, in a mere manner of seconds he fired three Pyro Balls.
Sylvia extended her ribbons further and had them poised so the four ends of them pointed to the center forming a rough X shape in front of her. A brilliant pink transparent wall appeared, Reflect. Sylvia had angled it in a way that when the first Pyro Ball was reflected it would hit the second. As the first two Pyro Balls exploded in a spectacular explosion of fire and molten rock, Sylvia stood her ground and used Protect as the third Pyro Ball struck her harmlessly but still covered in smoke.
“SYLVIE!” Sylvia’s voice echoed in the arena as countless bright pink colored stars began shooting out at Moegami, Pixilate turned Swift into a Fairy type attack.
Moegami’s body flashed a light purple of Psychic energy as his own ability, Libero, kicked in and he used Agility to dodge the Swift attack.
Just like Kayo before with her constant barrage of Ice Shards, Sylvia was doing the same with Swift, all four of her active ribbons were glowing brightly with Fairy energy and with a swipe of a single one, a small barrage of Swift would shoot out, she did this succession resulting in a never ending barrage.
Moegami did not seem stressed at all by this, instead he ran faster and faster around the arena dodging the fairy stars. His feet were still ignited scorching the ground where ever he ran, and setting things on fire that could be lit. Then like he flip of a switch, Moegami changed directions and charged towards Sylvia’s position his body flashed bright red as he swapped back to a fire type, his whole body ignited in flames.
Sylvia immediately stopped Swift when she saw Moegami change directions and with the still charged up ribbons erected a Reflect just in time as Moegami’s Flame Charge hit, but it was not over, they both knew that these types of exchanges between them was a game of rock-paper-scissors, and chicken. Sylvia’s Reflect faded after absorbing the Flame Charge, leaving her in melee distance of Moegami, he used Fire Punch and it hit a Protected Sylvia, then attempted a sweeping Blaze Kick to which Sylvia gracefully back flipped over to avoid the attack. In mid-flip Sylvia’s entire body emitted bright Fairy energy and an explosion of light erupted from her entire body in Dazzling Gleam.
This time it was Moegami’s turn Protect. When the light faded Sylvia was gone, there was a hole of where she should have been. Sylvia had used Dig.
Moegami hopped high into the air with Bounce and projected himself even higher by breathing out a downward Fire Blast, aiming it mainly at the hole on the ground that Sylvia dug.
Sylvia emerged from the ground before the Fire Blast hit and erected a Light Screen to protect herself from the powerful fire attack, crouching low to withstand its power. Moegami suddenly appeared next to her using Agility and flashed white as he switched to a Normal type and Mega Kicked Silvia on the side.
Silvia took the direct hit and was sent rocketing and skipping across the arena before slamming into an upturned rock and cracking it as it stopped her. Silvia slid onto the ground still standing but looking like she was on her last leg. Just then, a bright shooting star streaked over the arena lighting up the arena even more. Sylvia began to glow and she healed up almost completely save for some minor scratches from the Wish. She smiled slyly and mischievously at Moegami as she dab-ed at him again with her ribbons faintly glowing.
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Sylveon>
Moegami and Ceres knew that Sylvia was the true attrition battler, Sylvia may seem cute, friendly, and overall kind and gentle, but in reality everyone who has battled Celeste in the past have the hardest time dealing with the little pink Eeveeloution.
Sylvia jumped into the air with the assistance of her ribbons before refocusing them into an X in front of her and firing off a small but very concentrated Shadow Ball.
Moegami flashd yellow as the flames on his feet faded and instead surged with electricity. He quickly formed an Electro Ball and kicked it to counter the Shadow Ball. The two spheres collided in the air nullifying one another in a large cloud of smoke again, but it was quickly blown away as Sylvia’s voice echoed loudly in the arena overpowering the entire crowd. The sound emanated from Sylvia as she glowed Pink with Fairy energy her ribbons swirling around her, her voice spiked for a second and a powerful invisible directed force pulsed from the Fairy type at Moegami at near lightning speeds. Moegami barely managed to Protect before the force hit. Sylvia’s voice however still rung in the arena increasing in volume, she was holding a singular note. Another spike in her voice and another invisible force pulsed and shot towards Moegami, even stronger and faster this time. Moegami was forced to move out of the way. The invisible force shot past him and exploded a collapsed piece of building that was part of the arena. The echo in the arena go even louder a third time, it was loud enough now that Moegami was forced to cover his ears. He looked at Sylvia who was still emanating the noise and glowing even brighter with Fairy energy, she seemed so happy and peaceful completely un-phased by the sound. A third spike in her voice and the sound got even louder. The invisible force pulsed, and another invisible projectile shot towards Moegami, the projectile was more like a massive shockwave than a projectile.
Moegami was running out of options, Sylvia’s Echoed Voice was something that countless Pokémon had fallen to, including members of his own team. His guidance from Ceres was gone and he was on his own for now until he can shut Sylvia down. Watching the massive Echoed Voice attack rapidly approaching him, tearing apart the arena like paper as it traveled, Moegami crouched low and braced himself. He took in a deep breath as his body flashed bright red, switching back to a Fire type. Time slowed down even more to him, his entire body ignited in brilliant flames. With his hands still holding his ears down, he began to charge forward at an incredible speed. Moegami’s Flare Blitz hit the force of the Echoed Voice. He tried to push his way through but felt he was getting pushed back, his flames were failing. Drawing from his primal instinct to survive he charged forward the best he could, keeping his eyes on his target, he exploded with renewed flames. With a guttural roar, Moegami managed to push through the Echoed Voice, but his triumph was short lived as Sylvia’s voice spiked for a fourth time, the volume getting louder for the final time, and the Echoed Voice that pulsed out of her was like an expanding bubble.
Moegami was too far invested into Flare Blitz to properly cancel to use Protect, but he was not giving up. The flames of his Flare Blitz were greatly weakened when he pushed through the Echoed Voice, so he decided to preserve what flames he had left and began to charge Protect as his body flashed white. He hoped the residual flames and the half-baked Protect would be enough to mitigate the Echoed Voice enough for him to follow through with an attack.
The fourth Echoed Voice hit Moegami harder than a flying airplane. It stripped away his remaining flames like nothing and he took a severe hit through the half-baked Protect, sustaining heavy damage. What was worse, was that the Echoed Voice had stopped, and Moegami was now twisted up and intertwined within Sylvia’s ribbons. She had dashed forward after the fourth Echoed Voice shot out and caught Moegami in midair after his flames and Protect had been stripped. Sylvia slammed Moegami into the ground head first stunning and dazing Moegami, using the downward force of the Slam to lift herself into the air. Sylvia released Moegami as she seemed to levitate and glow brightly with Fairy energy as she raised her four ribbons into the air framing them around the moon in the sky.
“SYLVIE!” Sylvia shouted as she seemed the throw a massive moon at Moegami with her ribbons. The Moonblast collided into the ground crushing Moegami below into a crater. Sylvia landed as a shooting star shot past overhead and she began to glow as her Wish healed the rest of her injuries, Sylvia remained focused and ready, her jovial disposition was completely gone.
“CIN DERRR!” Moegami’s voice echoed through the arena from below the Moonblast. The Moonblast began to rise out of the crater, Moegami was on his back pushing the Moonblast out with his feet coated in flames.
Sylvia wasted no time, her ribbons flashed as she prepared another Wish while moving them in front of her into an X. Dark purple energy gathered in the center of the X as a large Shadow Ball formed and shot out, but it was too late.
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Moegami>
Moegami barely managed to kick the Moonblast out, in fact he managed to kick it out of the arena, and it exploded into a shower of white and pink sparks. Obeying the slight tonal shifts and rhythmic changes to Ceres’s music, he knew that an attack was incoming and preemptively charged and used Protect as he finished pushing the Moonblast out. The Shadow Ball hit him with no damage. Still obeying the sounds and rhythems Ceres’s music Moegami kicked up a rock as his body flashed red, his feet lit ablaze as did the stone light into a large ball of fire and he kicked the Pyro Ball out of the smoke with enough force that it left a perfect hole. He kicked up two more rocks and shot out two more Pyro Balls in succession before he flared with purple with psychic energy and used Agility to reposition.
Sylvia easily evaded the three Pyro Balls, as they were only aimed in her general direction, the speed of which they came flying at her was more startling, but nevertheless, the Pyro Balls had done their job, Sylvia had been displaced to a less favorable position, and in a match up where Moegami’s speed was so much greater than Sylvia, her positioning needed to be perfect. She was on higher alert and focus, there are two abilities that Moegami has that can, and will, take her out. Iron Head and the more devastating Gunk Shot.
<Battle Momentum Shift --> Sylveon>
Sylvia flashed green again with Protect as Moegami suddenly appeared next to her with an attempted Mega Kick like before, but was blocked. Sylvia glowed with Fairy energy once more as she slammed her body into Moegami in a close ranged Quick Attack, wrapping Moegami in her ribbons again in doing so.
Moegami was taking no chances this time and began to Overheat, setting himself ablaze and turning himself into the core of a huge inferno. Sylvia was caught within it but her grip tightened and Sylvia bit down onto Moegami’s leg using Draining Kiss to sustain herself.
As Moegami’s Overheat faded, his body flashed a lighter purple as he looked like he was about to throw up. Sylvia knew right away that Moegami was about to fire off Gunk Shot, so in response her body flashed pink as sphere of bright yellow, white, and pink, quickly gathered in front of her mouth Pixilate had turned Sylvia’s Hyper Beam into a Fairy type attack. A light blue sphere of light shattered and faded to nothing as Kayo’s Safeguard wore off. Normally their battles were not this scrappy, but this was a special occasion and both their trainers were just experimenting and so were their Pokémon.
Due to the energy that Sylvia had just drained from Moegami Sylvia’s Hyper Beam charged far faster than Moegami’s Gunk Shot.
There was a bright flash of pink and white light as Sylvia blasted Moegami full on with the Fairy Hyper Beam, she released him as the beam was fired, sending him away with the attack. The Hyper Beam was extremely powerful, annihilating anything that was caught in its path carving out a deep trench in the ground. Ceres was forced to sidestep along with her remaining Pokémon team rapidly clearing a path as the Hyper Beam blew past them with immense force that Ceres’s Milotic had to hold her with her tail to keep her from getting blown off her feet. Moegami was at the end of the beam before he hit the arena wall behind them blowing out a huge crater. He was motionless and out for the count.
Sylvia stood her ground looking completely exhausted and weary. A bright shooting star flew overhead and Sylvia began glowing white and looked restored, as her Wish was fulfilled. She spun her ribbons around and dabbed one last time at her opponent as the announcer’s voice echoed in the arena.
“Cinderace is unable to battle! Match set! Celeste Masters is the winner of the battle!”
Every layer of the LED screens turned to Celeste’s colors as confetti began to fall. The crowd roared and cheered. Sylvia ran back to Celeste and hopped into her arms as the two waved at the crowd. The rest of Celeste’s team leaping with joy, even though it was only an exhibition match a victory against another Spire Master was still something of a spectacle.
Ceres returned Moegami and smiled as she looked back at Celeste and Sylvia. The two trainers walked into the center of the completely wrecked area and shook hands, the two were grinning from ear to ear as their remaining Pokémon lined up and greeted each other.
“That was so close!” Celeste shouted over the cheering crowd of the stadium.
Ceres nodded, “I’d never thought it would have come down to a coin toss! I guess I got unlucky this time!” she laughed. Ceres knelt down in front of Sylvia and scratched her behind the chin and pat her gently, “You are quite amazing, yea?”
Sylvia affectingly rubbed back into Ceres’s hand in approval.
Nevan joined the two Spire Masters in the arena shaking both their hands and congratulated each of them on a spectacular battle. “Now ladies, gentlemen, and Pokémon!” her voice echoed in the arena, “I hope that battle has inspired you all for what’s to be expected here at the Battle Spire! The opening Ceremony is officially over! Please exit the arena in a neat and order fashion, and if you would rather fly out, please be cautious of others! Now go on and get some rest! Or perhaps some of you are eager to battle now? Either way, enjoy yourselves! And remember to always, RISE TO THE CHALLENGE!” Nevan spoke giving the quick closing speech as she knows that every trainer is eager to head out for battles, get dinner, or to rest for the next day.
Celeste and Ceres nodded at one another one last time before turning around and walking out of the arena.
The arena had already started its self-repair systems regenerating the terrain slowly back to how it was before the battle.
<Kari>
Kari had been on the edge of her seat the entire time watching everything unfold before her. It was a delight like no other. Several of her own Pokémon were in awe. They were no strangers to Celeste’s team of Pokémon, but they had never witnessed them battling an opponent of equal skill and power, it was daunting in a way. “WOW! That was so awesome!” Kari screamed, stretching and standing up. “I can’t wait to battle, and eventually challenge those Spire Masters.” She looked at her team, they looked at her with confidence and nodded. “We’ll get there some day.” Kari said to herself looking down at the arena.
The scar left by Sylvia’s Hyper Beam served as a reminder of just how powerful each of the Spire Masters were. Each battle lasted maybe five to seven minutes tops, yet so much destruction was sown, so many attacks, and the matches seemed to be won within a singular instant. Which actually had Kari wondering in the back of her mind,
how did their Pokémon manage to use so many moves so quickly and rapidly? They seemed to use multiple moves at once with how fast some of their attacks were flying out of them… and their ability to time near perfect Protects with nearly no charge up time. Images of Lucas and Snips’s battle flashed into her mind, though it was one of the shorter battles in comparison to the other, it was definitely the most volatile of all three battles.
Kari felt her phone vibrate in her kangaroo pocket of her jumper. She pulled it out and it was a text message from Celeste.
“
Tomorrow morning, wanna do breakfast?”
Kari grinned and replied
YES.
(Sorry it took so long, the ceremony is over and the RPis basically opened up now!
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