Chapter 104 - Indigo League; Itsuki vs Suzune

Itsuki walked down the entrance like every other participant did, but the amount of cheers Itsuki received was simply colossal. Suzune looked at Itsuki who was walking and waving his hand towards the crowd.

The only thing that made Suzune interested in Itsuki was his mysterious Pokémon Zeraora. Other than the curiosity of knowing more about Zeraora, Suzune didn't cared about anything. Her goal was to win and get recognition from her parents.

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[I won't say the rules since you two must already know about it. Without further wasting any time, match number 7 battle begins.] Both Suzune and Itsuki tooo out their Pokeball at the same time.

"Came out Luxray."

"Come out Zeraora."

The arrival of two electric type Pokémon caused a loud cheers among the audience.

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[It's a battle between one 5th beginning order and another Peak 4th order Pokémon. Two electric type. I can already feel the electricity of this heated battle.]

[One side we have the mysterious Mythical Pokémon Zeraora. The other side we have the rising Pokémon and Trainer from Orange Island.]

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[Pokémon: - Luxray

_Level: - 43

_Type: - Electric

_Species: - Gleam Eyes Pokémon

_Ability: - Intimidate

_Gender: - Male

_Electric Terrain | Wild Charge | Discharge | Bite | Double Team| Hyper Beam ]

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[Even though Zeraora is only Peak 4th order, she doesn't looks least bit afraid standing in front of Luxray.]

[Jerry, I don't know if it is a illusion or what but I feel that Luxray and Zera are standing at equal power level.]

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[Pokémon: - Zeraora

_Level: - 40

_Type: - Electric

_Species: - Thunderclap Pokémon

_Ability: - Volt Absorb

_Gender: - Female

_Plasma Fist | Wild Charge | Close Combat | Quick Attack | Grass Knot| | Fire Punch| Counter| Flash Steps| Aura Sphere| Aura Sword| Lightning blast| Lightning Strike]

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'Last time Zeraora managed to fight equally fight Luxray but this time Luxray have leveled up once and I think our chances of winning this battle is higher than before. But again I can't bet my luck against Itsuki when Itsuki is full of mysterious and strange tricks.' Suzune decided to start the battle.

"Luxray use Double Team and then use Wild Charge."

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[A combination type Move. This type of moves can be deadly if Itsuki doesn't find a counter for it.]

More than 50 images of Luxray surrounded Zeraora from three sides. Luxray runs at the Zeraora as its body then becomes surrounded by yellow electricity.

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Itsuki looked at the horde of Luxray charging at Zeraora. 'My Zeraora base stats is equivalent to level 42 Pokémon. And by using Aura to enhance her body, her base stats would increase even further.'

"Zeraora it's time to bring out one of our newest moves. Use Aura Sword." Two Katana like swords formed in her hand.

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Like a ancient mighty Japanese warrior, Zeraora charged towards the real Luxray hidden within the images. Zeraora was able to find the real Luxray by tracing its Aura.

Zeraora kept swinging both of her Katanas and destroyed all the fake Luxray as she made her way towards the real Luxray.

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After destroying all the fake images of Luxray, Zeraora and Luxray looked at each other eyes. With loud roar Luxray increased his charging speed to maximum. Zeraora also did the same but in the last second, Zeraora shifted her body to the right side while horizontally slashing Luxray with both Katana at the very last moment.

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Both Luxray and Zeraora stood opposite to each other with their backs facing each other. The audience wanted to see the result. They were curious about the outcome between two fierce moves.

The next second, everyone found the answer as the right side of Luxray's body opened up with two horizontal straight lines. Blood began to roll down Luxray body.

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[Wow! Miraculous! Jerry did you see that? A Peak 4th order injuring a beginning 5th order Pokémon. Zeraora was able to overcome the huge level gap and managed to injure Luxray.] Suzune eyes were wide open. It happened just like she had thought. Itsuki bought out another surprise move and injured her Luxray.

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On the stadium, Oak, Ash and Gary all the of them looked at Zeraora like they have seen a ghost.

Ash mocked Itsuki saying that his Zeraora would forever remain in 4th order but Itsuki slapped back his words with his action. Right now Ash felt very humiliated.

"I should have taken Zeraora when I had the chance." Gary felt regret that he didn't choose Zeraora. If he had chosen Zeraora then he would be the one receiving all the cheers.

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Despite being injured, Luxray looked full of energy and looked like it could fight for an long time. This actually surprised Itsuki as he didn't expect Luxray endurance to be that high.

"Zeraora use flash steps with Aura swords." Everyone heard Itsuki's words but they were confused by the move name.

[What is this flash steps?] Everyone wondered.

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But those who have seen Zeraora fight before clearly knew what flash steps was and how terrifying this move could be.

Blaine and Koga remember how his Pokémon was almost beaten to death by this move. Koga remembering how terrifying Zeraora was, felt pity for Suzune and her Luxray.

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Blue lightning started to crack around Zeraora as the lightning started to be engulfed around Zeraora body. Even the Aura swords held by Zeraora had blue lightning running in them.

Everyone heard the cracking sound of lightning.

Suzune had a bad feeling about it. "Luxray stop Zeraora by using Hyper Beam." She decided to try of stopping Zeraora.

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Luxray opens its mouth and an orange ball of energy appears in front of it. It then fires an orange beam of energy at the Zeraora from the ball.

Just when the hyper beam was fired by Luxray, Zeraora also made her move. She suddenly disappeared from her position and appeared in front of the orange beam.

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The next second she again disappeared and appeared in front of Luxray as the orange beam was cut horizontally into a two and exploded behind Zeraora.

At that moment Luxray felt like He had seen the worst nightmare of her life. Before he could even move his body, the pair of Katanas slashed at Luxray and sent him flying.

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Bang!

Luxray crushed on the ground with a loud sound. Everyone hurriedly looked at Luxray and found another two straight wounds on Luxray back.

More than 80 percent of Luxray body was now covered in blood. Luxray was struggling to even stand. A 5th order Pokémon struggling to stand up from Peak 4th order Pokémon, what kind of situation was that?

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"How did Itsuki do it?" Kagami couldn't help but ask out loud. Kagami was a scientist so he knew the huge gap between a Peak 4th order Pokémon and a beginning 5th Order. Before this match, Kagami believed that it was impossible for a Peak 4th order Pokémon to defeat a Beginning 5th Pokémon. Yet his own son had done something which made him question his own research life.

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Itsuki ignored the shocked reaction that the crowd was giving him. Even Itsuki didn't expect such good results from Zeraora attakcs.

"It's time to end this. Zeraora use Fire punch." Suzune gritted her teeths. It was already her bad luck that most of her attacks were electric type meaning her attacks won't be useful against another electric type Zeraora. Her biggest bad luck was that her opponent had multiple moves which were effective against her Pokemon.

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The Katana in Zeraora's hands disappeared. Under the gazes of more than millions of people watching this match live, Zeraora again disappeared and reappeared behind Luxray who has just managed to stand up. Luxray instinct kicked in as he felt something very dangerous behind him.

The next moment Zeraora's punch sent Luxray flying 5 merers back.

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Bang!

When Luxray landed on the ground, his entire body was suddenly engulfed in red hot flame. That flame was burning Luxray alive. Luxray was unable to endure the pain because the flame was directly burning his exposed meat from his wounds.

Luxray!!!!!!

The loud roar of Luxray made the referee and Nurse Joy standing near by shudder in fear. Just imagining this kind of thing happening to their Pokémon made their blood ran cold.

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Suzune clenched her fist so tightly that her nails pierced into her flesh as blood started to drip from her palms.

Suzune had worked day and night for this but she didn't expect to lose in the end in such way. Suzune's strongest Pokémon couldn't even land a single attack on her opponent. Suzune at that moment felt all of her hard work was for nothing. At that moment Suzune wasn't feeling the pain of her wound, she was feeling pain of her Pokémon and pain of her wounded heart.

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Few seconds later Luxray lost consciousness and lost the battle. The battle which was supposed to be dominated by a Luxray was instead dominated by her opponent.

[Luxray is unable to battle.]

The referee declared.

[Michael what did we just witness. A level 40 Pokémon defeating a level 43 Pokémon. No the entire battle was one sided domination from Itsuki and his Pokémon Zeraora.]

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