Chapter 171 - Fighting Korrina
"Let's fight." The map of ancient ruins has gotten Itsuki really excited. Itsuki doesn't mind fighting Korrina if he can get the map from her.
"The fight will be 1v1. You can choose your Pokemon. My Pokemon is Lucario." Itsuki nodded and then looked at Lucario's stats.
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[Pokémon: - Lucario
_Level: - 40
_Type: - Fighting and Steel
_Species: - Aura Pokémon
_Ability: - Steadfast, Inner Focus [Hidden Ability:- Justified]
_Gender: - Male
_Aura Sphere | Close Combat| Meteor Mash| Blaze Kick| High Jump Kick | Bone Rush]
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"Before we start, you still haven't told me your name yet." Itsuki was a little surprised. Since nowadays most people would recognize him, Itsuki assumed that Korrina would also know him.
"My apologies, My name is Kagami Itsuki." Hearing Itsuki's name Korrina began to think.
"I feel I have heard this name before." Korrina has been staying in this forest for almost a year now. Because of it, she is unaware of the earth-shaking changes in the Kalos region.
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'I wasn't expecting Korrina's Lucario to be this strong. It looks like I will have some fun.' Itsuki was itching to fight someone stronger.
"Anyway, let's start. Lucario, come out." Korrina raised her eyebrow in surprise. She and her partner Lucario wasn't expecting Itsuki to have Lucario as well.
Lucario!
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[Pokémon: - Lucario
_Level: - 42
_Type: - Fighting and Steel
_Species: - Aura Pokémon
_Ability: - Steadfast, Inner Focus [Hidden Ability:- Justified]
_Gender: - Male
_Aura Sphere| Endure | Force Palm | Sword Strike | Crunch| Close Combat| Extreme Speed| Meteor Mash| Blaze Kick| High Jump Kick | Bone Rush]
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After 14 days of training, Lucario finally managed to break through his current level. There was no doubt that the intense battles at the Indigo League had pushed Itsuki's Pokemon. Lucario also progressed with Aura. Now he is only a step away from breaking into the next level.
'If my prediction is correct, if we continue with our current progress then Lucario should break into 5th mid-order before the Kalos League starts.'
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Standing 60 meters away, Korrina observed Itsuki's Lucario. Korrina has been training Lucario even since she was a child. Just from a glance, she could tell that Itsuki's Lucario was more powerful than her Lucario.
But that doesn't mean she is going to give up. "Aura sphere"
A blue vortex ball the size of a human head formed in Lucario's palm. Korrina's Pokemon then threw the sphere at Lucario who was standing with his arms folded on his chest.
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"Lucario uses Aura barrier" Under the surprised and shocked gazes of Korrina and her partner, a dark blue energy barrier formed in front of Lucario.
The Aura sphere hit the center of the barrier with a loud explosion sound.
Boom!
The sphere was destroyed but the barrier was still intact. "What type of move is that?" Korrina has seen many defense types of moves but this was the first time she had heard of the Aura barrier.
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Actually, the concept of the Aura barrier was really simple to Aura users. After Itsuki's fight with another Aura user, the idea of using Aura to make a barrier came to Itsuki's mind. With the amount of Aura Lucario has, the barrier can even resist attacks from level 43 Pokemon.
For the first time after defeating 499 opponents, Korrina felt so frustrated. "Since long-range attacks are not going to work, how about close-range attacks? Lucario uses Bone Rush." Korrina decided to go with close-range attacks knowing that Lucario would be able to counter them because of his high level.
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Korrina's Pokemon rushed at Lucario as two 1-meter-long bones made up of white energy formed in his hands.
Since both Itsuki and Lucario were Aura users, in their eyes Korrina's Pokemon's speed was really slow. Itsuki also quickly lost his interest in the battle.
'Maybe I should have used my weakest Pokemon to fight Lucario. That way the battle would have been much more interesting.'
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"Lucario, use Meteor Mash"
Lucario rushed at Korrina's Pokemon as both of his arms were wrapped with dark blue energy.
Swoosh!
Lucario moved faster than the wind. Korrina's Luarcario was forced to stop as he couldn't find Itsuki's Pokemon anymore.
But suddenly in less than 3 seconds, Lucaria was sent flying by a strong and powerful punch.
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Boom!
Korrina watched something that she would never forget. Korrina has fought more than 499 opponents and has managed to defeat all of them. Korrina would never expect her Peak 4th order Pokemon to be defeated this quickly.
Itsuki's Lucario appeared and punched her Pokemon, the entire thing happened so fast that her Pokemon never saw it coming.
Lucario who was sent flying like a cannonball hit the trunk of a tree and then fell to the ground, losing his unconscious.
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Korrina was so shocked that she didn't react until she heard Itsuki's voice. "Are you not going to check on your Pokemon?"
It was only after hearing Itsuki's voice, that Korrina rushed at Lucario only to find him seriously injured. Korrina hurriedly gave a healing portion to Lucario which stopped his bleeding. It would take at least one day for Lucario to recover.
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'I lost. The battle ended in just one minute.' Korrina felt all of her confidence shattering. She couldn't believe that she lost in less than one minute. Even though Korrina has faced many strong opponents before, she never lost a battle this fast.
Even when was battling a level 43 Pokemon a few days, Korrina managed to defeat the Pokemon despite her Pokemon being Peak 4th order. At first, Korrina thought she would be able to win even though Itsuki's Lucario's level was higher. But now Korrina felt she has been over-confident this entire time.
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"You lost." Korrina looked at Itsuki with a conflicted expression.
"Don't be too sad. Once you go out of this forest, the whole world will tell you who I am. At that time, you will know what you were up against." It's not that Itsuki had become arrogant after reaching the final of Indigo League, rather he said those words to make Korrina think who was her opponent.
Korrina bit her lips and looked at Itsuki. "You can't defeat me unless you mega evolve your Lucario. I hope you will wait for me at Shalour City Gym."
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Hearing the last part of Itsuki's words, Korrina finally regained some of her confidence. Since Itsuki was going to challenge her in the future, she will another opportunity.
"Lucario, take a good rest." After recalling Lucario in the Pokeball, Korrina took out a map from her backpack and gave it to Itsuki.
"I kept my promise. Next time I meet you, I will defeat you and that's a promise."
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The only that was on Korrina's mind was to get strong enough to defeat Itsuki. She wanted to defeat Itsuki and regain her former confidence.
'I have to go back and get the mega stone from Grandpa.'
"Thank you for the battle. I will wait for you at Shalour City Gym." After saying that Korrina quickly left. After almost one year, Korrina was going back to Shalour City. Little did she know, that when she steps out of this forest, she will be shocked once again.
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"Let's see." Itsuki curiously opened the map which looked like it was more than a hundred years old. The map was drawn on leather.
"I have no experience with maps. System, scan this map."
[Master, I have done scanning the map."
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"So what did you find?" Itsuki asked as he began to pack his stuff.
[The system couldn't find anything. This map doesn't show any resemblance to the map of Santalune Forest.]
Itsuki stopped walking for a moment. "Does that mean Korrina gave me a fake map?"
[I don't think so. This map is over 200 years old. In 200 years, this forest also has changed a lot. Maybe if we search this forest, we will be able to find something.]
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Sigh!
"Whatever. I don't have time for that. Now that I have reached the peak, soon I will break into the next level. These coming days, I will be busy with training." Itsuki then packed everything and also left the Santalune Forest. Searching the whole Santalune Forest also came with risks. Till now, Itsuki didn't dare venter into the core part of the forest where even a normal Pokemon level is mid-5th.
Tomorrow, Itsuki had to join the auction and buy the keystone.
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written by Azure_warrior
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