Jordinio Version - Chapter 39.1

The utter shock of his Dragonite falling, was almost palpable in the air. Jaws opening and closing, failing to find words, eyes so wide they looked like they were almost popping out of their sockets.

And more.

Good.

Lance resisted the urge to smirk even as he recalled his Dragonite while his young opponent whooped and hollered happily as he brought back that incredibly impressive Fearow of his.

It was a victory well earned.

Albeit, one that would have been impossible for the young boy to claim as he and his pokemon were right now, if he and Dragonite had taken them seriously from the start.

It was not a thought to cover any embarrassment from losing a pokemon to a child so young, or anything overly prideful like that, but simply fact.

That did not make it any less impressive in Lance's own eyes. He had a good feel for young Jord, going by the rough trainer profile they had documented of him personality wise and his actions up to this point, and from what he'd gleamed from the boy in the small time they'd spent together up to this point today.

There was a fire to the boy, alongside a cockiness and self assured gait that reminded Lance a bit of himself when he was just starting out, at a similar age as Jord too. Though, while he'd definitely took advantage early on of the popularity he'd garnered when he was younger and foolisher, especially with the opposite sex, he'd definitely not had quite the…grandiose way of going about it Jord did.

Albeit, while he had started out on his journey at thirteen, he'd been training under the masters of the Blackthorn dragon clan, the Wataru since he was but a toddler.

Jord did not have that same backing he did, yet Lance could admit wholeheartedly, that at the same age, he would have been crushed in a battle.

He wasn't quite sure how the boy had gotten to this point, with all the rare and powerful pokemon he'd gotten his hands on, except that he was sure the boy didn't just stumble upon them.

'Perhaps he's a powerful clairvoyant?' Lance mused idly. Clairvoyance was one of the psychic powers humans tended to have the least talent for, and very few came to mind who could drudge up anything worthwhile with the ability, like Olympia the gym leader of Anistair City in the Kalos Region.

It seemed unlikely, but was not impossible.

Honestly, Lance did not really care how the young boy had managed to get to this point. Others might have been suspicious, fearing a threat or just plain envious of the boys success and wanting to share in the pie or drag him down.

Lance was just pure excited to see the kind of heights Jord would reach in the future. And, he wanted to nurture that potential. Which was why he and Dragonite did not go all out to begin with and gave the boy and his pokemon a chance to show off and spread his name.

'Not to mention, with all those rare pokemon, he'll be a target.' Lance mused. That was, unless all those deplorable fools out there saw what he was capable of and thought his strength was too much of a risk to take on for the massive reward.

And he did not disappoint. The physical ability of his pokemon alone was through the roof, though their power did not quite match their physical abilities, but that would come with time and age. Beyond that though, was the sheer courage Jord's pokemon had and the trust they had in him, obeying his orders without hesitation even in the face of his Dragonite that could crush buildings with a swing of his arm.

Give the boy and his pokemon a few years, and they would be true monsters of battle. Lance almost shivered in excitement at the thought.

"Are you ready Jord?" Lance called over as he traded Dragonite's pokeball for another on his belt, a grin on his face that he simply could not contain, "My next pokemon is much stronger than Dragonite." he warned.

There was some that may have admonished him for outright declaring one of his pokemon stronger than the other. But all pokemon were different, where some would have felt admonished themselves for having such a thing said, or become depressed, dragon types were in general a whole other ball game.

Power and strength was the very birth right of pokemon of the dragon type and those with dragon traits. It was their very instinct to seek power and strength, and there was no better instigator for them to grow to new heights than being compared to another and being found lacking.

This battle alone, would for sure push Dragonite to all new heights of strength from seeing that it was not just those above him he would have to worry about, but fear those below like Jord's own Dragonite and Milotic and Fearow chasing after him and possibly surpassing him.

"If I wasn't would it change anything?" Jord called back, raising an eyebrow at him, switching Fearow's pokeball with one of the other eleven on his belt.

Lance merely continued grinning and did not say a word in reply.

"Didn't think so." the boy snorted, enlarging the pokeball in his hand.

Lance did the same, and then both of them unleashed their next pokemon at the exact same time.

A towering Charizard burst onto the field in front of Jord, spreading a pair of massive wings and unleashing a powerful roar that generated enough wind to ruffle Lance's hair from over fifty feet away.

Impressive.

A trio of snarling aggressive roars formed into a cacophony in front of Lance himself though in reply as his Hydreigon appeared in a burst of bright to face off against Charizard.

Quite a few in the watching crowd released cries of shock and fear at his choice of pokemon. And Lance couldn't blame them, Hydreigon's savage eyes filled with a snarling lust for violence and battle, and his trio of roaring, snarling mouths could be quite terrifying.

"Hydreigon, huh?" Jord audibly clicked his tongue, arms crossing across his chest. There was a wariness in his eyes, but no fear.

And his Charizard, did not back down at all, just like him. It stared down his snarling Hydreigon, with an aggressive growl on its lips and fire in its eyes.

Good, good.

It wouldn't do for him and his pokemon to be intimidated by a mere Hydreigon. Granted, his Hydreigon was no…mere Hydreigon and the difference in power between this Hydreigon and the Dragonite he led with-

Was larger than the difference between Jord's own Dragonite and his.

"Hydreigon, Dragon Pulse!" Lance decided to start things off with this round. He wanted to push and see more of Jord and his pokemons abilities when backed into a corner.

A savage howl was released from Hydreigon's trio of heads, multicoloured light exploding into existence in his trio of maws, before unleashing a three piece set of gargantuan multi-coloured beams of pure destruction that formed into a trio of titanic roaring dragon maws of pure power.

One on the right, one on the left.

And one straight down the middle.

And with their sheer size and speed, it cut off any avenue for Charizard to escape between them.

They hit nothing.

When the trio of monolithic beams of power passed by and harmless flew off into the sky in the distance with nothing to show for it, it was to reveal a large hole in the ground.

'Dig, huh?' Lance grinned.

A classic.

Though impressive it could find the time and room to dig such a hole in the face of Hydreigon's attacks.

And going by what he'd seen of Jord so far-

"LR, protect, M, hydro hump." Lance ordered.

The right and left heads of Hydreigon roared, both conjuring a double layered green spherical barrier around his body.

Just in time for the ground beneath Hydreigon to buckle and burst open and a familiar orange scaled winged beast to shoot forth, both arms clad in claws of pure draconic energy.

And a familiar aura of power suffusing around Charizard's body.

'He used Dragon Dance to enhance Charizard's speed and strength to dig faster.' Lance nodded approvingly as the twin Dragon Claw attacked smashed into Hydreigon's twin protect.

A sound like a gong being struck rung out, and the first barrier rippled noticeably under the blow, but that was all.

And Hydreigon was already prepared to counter.

The twin barriers dropped and Hydreigon's main head unleashed a massive spiralling gout of pressurized water point blank at the Charizard.

Only to miss…as Charizard went limp and rolled downwards back into the hole it had previously made.

"Swords Dance, then again!" Jord shouted.

A moment later, Charizard burst back out of the hole, the green aura of Dragon Dance around its body, being infused with a crackling red piercing through it almost like electricity, arms infused once more with twin Dragon Claw attacks.

Enhancing the attack even further huh?

"Surf." Lance commanded simply. The tactic to dodge back into the dig hole was good for sure, but what would he do in the face of an attack so wide and encompassing such a thing wasn't viable?

What would he do in the face of an attack like that, three times over?

A trio of glittering blue spheres of hydro energy formed in Hydreigon's three mouths, before erupting and bursting forth.

A trio of titanic waves, one alone enough to create a fifty feet high and fifty feet wide tsunami, formed into one monstrous wave of all encompassing crushing water.

"BLA-"

He heard Jord begin to shout, before it was drowned out by the roaring monstrous wave, blotting him and Charizard both from sight.

Lance felt the ground shake ominously beneath him as if an earthquake had begun and sweat began to form on his brow as a sudden, roaring heat made itself known.

Bright orange light flashed, shimmering up through the wave before a massive explosion erupted and blew the entirety of the massive wave of water away.

Lance blinked as the entirety of the massively cratered battlefield came back into view.

Steam sizzled from the battlefield into the air, and he found the Charizard down on one knee, one hand clenched into a fist and buried deep in the battlefield itself.

"Oh-ho?" Lance's lips curved into a grin, "Blast Burn huh, that's really impressive."

Not only was it impressive that Jord's Charizard was already capable of using the penultimate fire type attack, but that quick thinking to use it to blow away the convergent trio of surf attacks and actually have the power capable of doing so.

it was all just impressive, very very impressive.

Though, looking at the Charizard, the aura of dragon dance and swords dance now gone, and noticeably exhausted, it did not come without a price.

Despite its impressive size, that Charizard was still so very young, just like its trainer.

He'd like to see what more it was capable of, but now wasn't the time to give them the chance to recover, it was the time to push them further and back them even further into a corner and see how they replied.

"Charge Beam, go." Lance

Hydreigon wasted not a single moment, trio of maws opening and three crackling bright yellow spheres forming in them.

Before unleashing them in a trio of massive yellow electrical beams that converged into one titanic beam of pure electrical power.

"Ground it!" Jord shouted over the roaring beam of yellow power.

Lance watched in interest as the exhausted Charizard forced itself up, claws gleaming silver alongside its tail and thrust both arms out to catch the electrical beam head on, at the same time it thrust its tail down into the ground itself.

And he still watched as the beam of power slammed into Charizard, and did absolutely nothing, it barely even winced as the attack washed over it.

'That's second time he's done that this battle.' Lance blinked. Specifically to electric attacks too.

He wondered how that worked?

He put it out of mind though as he noticed an electrical current form of Hydreigon's body. Perfect, he'd gotten the power boost that Charge Beam could provide.

Twice by his reckoning going by how thick the voltage was.

Charge Beam was perfect for Hydreigon. Each usage had a rather large chance for temporarily enhancing the users power. And Hydreigon could fire three at once, giving three chances at once for the boost.

Now then, what would Jord and Charizard do now? Four times now he and his Charizard had managed to overcome attacks that should he ended the battle right then and there.

What would they do now in the face of Hydreigon with his power boosted twice over from Charge Beam?

"Left, shock wave. Right, Surf. Main, Draco Meteor." Lance grinned as he upped the ante.

An attack that would follow Charizard no matter how fast or much it dodged, a massive wide ranged attack, cutting off any avenue forward and a rain of meteors from above.

Even if he tried to Dig again, the Surf attack would just be drained into the hole and follow it.

"Rush it! Quick Attack, Dragon Dance!" Jord hurriedly ordered in reply.

To his credit, he was very quick on the ball. He already knew there was no chance of dodging here, and Charizard obviously didn't have a move to defend here like Protect, though even if it did, it would have been futile.

With a beat of its huge wings and thrusting itself forward with its tail buried in the ground, the Charizard burst forward at blurring speeds, an explosion of white power erupting from its body at the same time a familiar green aura suffused its body.

It was a very, very impressive speed.

It was just too bad the level difference between his Hydreigon and Charizard, was just so vast.

Before Charizard even cleared half the distance towards Hydreigon, it unleashed its attacks.

A massive blue bolt of power erupted from the left head, while a familiar sphere of hydro power erupted outwards from the right forming into a wave almost double the size and width just one of his previous Surf attacks were.

While a massive orange spere of burning draconic power shot up and out of Hydreigon's middle head and ascended high into the air, swelling in size until it was fifty feet wide, before bursting apart and raining down in a rain of glowing orange meteors, all swerving down towards Charizard.

One of the meteors slammed into Charizard's right wing and exploded. Charizard roared in pain and slammed into the ground, the momentum it had built up forcing it into a roll, dragging its scales roughly across the ground.

It wasn't even down for a blink of an eye before it was up with a roar, but by then it was too late.

The Shock Wave burst forward at blinding speeds and was in its face before it could-

Lance's eyes widened as Charizard's mouth opened and a massive gout of heat exploded outwards meeting the Shock Wave attack head on.

They converged together as they met, swelled up, and exploded.

Charizard was blasted back like a rag doll, bouncing across the battle field like a stone being skipped across the surface of a lake.

'Amazing!' Lance's eyes shone with glee. Such determination! He could feel the blood beginning to pound in his ears, feel his heart beat begin to thunder in his breast.

Barring that Aerodactyl he'd just caught, how did Jord install such determination, such loyalty, such raw refusal to give up in his pokemon?

With the distance Charizard had gained from being thrown back, it avoided the Draco Meteor that had been aimed specifically for where Charizard was rushing.

All that was left, was the Surf attack rushing forward.

But…seeing Charizard weakly trying to push itself up, it was enough.

Or so Lance thought.

"Let's go, Charizard!" Jord's shout was not a counter, or anything close. It was simple encouragement.

A gleam entered Charizard's eyes at the voice of its trainer, and a roaring snarl erupted from its own maw. Lance blinked as a shimmering orange aura of power shimmered into existence around its body and it pushed itself to its feet once more.

"Blaze…huh?" Lance laughed lightly.

"Flamethrower!" Jord punched a fist out towards Lance himself in sheer defiance.

That was it! Yes, this was the kind of person he liked best! To Jord and his pokemon it didn't matter what opponent was in front of them, how overwhelming powerful they were or how big the mountain they had to ascend and overcome was.

They would charge it head on without hesitation!

'Just like us!' Lance laughed inwardly as Charizard's head reared back, red hot flames forming in its maw, before thrusting its head forward and unleashing a massive compressed torrent of flames that could have given one of Hydreigon's dragon pulse beams a run for its money!

The sheer force and heat behind it tore straight through the Surf attack, outright obliterating it and roaring forth towards Hydreigon!

If that was how it was, then Lance wasn't going to back down either. if Jord and Charizard were coming at them full force head on with all their power right here and now, then he and Hydreigon would reciprocate in kind!

"Hyper Beam!" Lance punched his own fist out, mirroring his young opponent.

Hydreigon's trio of heads snarled as one, three pitch black crackling orbs of energy forming in their own maws, before being unleashing a moment later in a trio of massive pitch black beams of pure destructive power.

That then converged together into one titanic, monumental colossal beam of ruination!

Blaze enhanced flamethrower smashed into the convergent Hyper Beam and the sheer force behind their collision, created a shock wave so powerful Lance himself felt himself get pushed back a few steps and even heard screams of shock and fear from those watching even over the roar of the attacks colliding, a circular crater forming under the attacks.

Despite the size difference between them, the blaze enhanced flamethrower held steady in the collision for an impressive two full seconds before the combined Hyper Beam pushed it back and began to steadily overpower it.

Bit by bit, split moment by split moment, the massive gout of flame was pushed back until it was all but dwarfed by the pitch black beam of destruction.

Yet, Charizard did not give in, did not falter and fall.

"Full power Charizard, give it everything you've got!" Lance blinked as he heard Jord's voice roar over the colliding attacks.

He couldn't even see the boy over the massive attacks clashing against each other, he could barely even make out the Charizard.

Charizard's wings flared out mightily, the orange blazing aura around its body roiling like a thrashing wave as it increased with a burning intensity-

And then the white hot flamethrower expanded massively with all the intensity of a supernova, with all the raging brilliance of a dying rebellious star that refused to go quietly into the night.

The massive black beam of ruin was suddenly pushed back massively, Charizard's roar of defiance echoing through the air.

Lance grinned, "Let's give it our all as well then Hydreigon!" the master of the dragon type and champion of two regions declared, "Nasty Plot!"

A crackling aura of pure pitch black power howled into existence around Hydreigon at his order, his already enhanced power rising even further beyond.

And with a roar, the trio of heads using their Hyper Beam, unleashed their enhanced power.

The pitch black beam of power swelled to sizes beyond scope, increasing easily twice over.

And pushed back with monstrous power against the massively blaze enhanced flamethrower, tearing through it with all the power of a raging force of nature, destruction incarnate itself.

The flamethrower was overwhelmed within moments, pushed to the very brink until all that was lift was struggling embers that refused to die-

Before they too were consumed by the beam of pitch black destruction and it washed over Charizard who thrust both claws out to meet it head on as one last feeble resistance.

And then the beam itself having met its target, erupted into a monstrous explosion that dyed the world black for an instant, blotting out the sun itself.

There was silence across the battlefield as it dyed away, only broken by the sound of reigning debris falling from the sky and slamming into the ground.

And when the smoke cleared, it was to show Charizard-

Still standing?!

Lance's eyes widened in utter shock and a howl of excited glee erupted from Hydreigon's three mouths.

Beaten and bloodied, scales marred with wounds from head to toe, the Charizard glared towards Hydreigon with bright defiant slitted green eyes.

And took one step forward, right arm coming out, claws gleaming with shimmering green draconic power-

Before Charizard's eyes promptly rolled into the back of its head and it fell face forward towards the ground.

Yet, its face never made contact with the ground as a familiar red light swept over Charizard's body and it disappeared.

Revealing Jord, pokeball in his hand, having returned the pokemon before it could fall.

And a smile on his face despite the fact that from start to finish, Charizard had been completely overwhelmed.

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Ah yeah, sorry about the last few days of not updating. Frigging tripped over my wire that my internet flows through into the house and ripped it in half, so I'm having to use my hotspot just to get online. Engineer won't be out till monday. Frigging Virgin Media.