Reincarnated in a Pokémon world

39. Battle

As the battle was about to begin, his Pokémon surrounded Lyon, Beautifly, and Dratini while keeping a distance. Other Pokémon also noticed as the commotion was quite loud. Some showed no interest. Some glanced from afar occasionally. Some walked closer to have a clearer view. But the competitors in the middle were ignorant of the surroundings. Lyon, Beautifly, and Dratini all completely focused on their opponent as Riolu, acting as the referee, announced the start of the battle. Immediately, Lyon commanded while Dratini also moved at the same time.

-Psychic.

Lyon chose a customary move to begin the battle. Like many times it did before, Beautifly's eyes glowed and light blue energy waves spread forwards. Dratini moved at the same time. It shot a light blue beam from its mouth towards Beautifly. Lyon guessed that Dratini used Dragon Breath based on the fact that the energy he felt was similar to those he could feel in dragon-type Pokémon.

As two moves collided, the energy was hovering in the air for a while before dissipating. This was just a greeting so both Beautifly and Dratini didn't utilize their full strength. Still, Dratini was surprised when it didn't overpower the opponent. A Beautifly shouldn't stay fine after its blow. Looking at the one in front, Dratini was electrified at how this battle turned out. "Seemed like it wasn't a bad idea to follow this trainer", Dratini quickly thought as it prepared the next move.

Beautifly had already flittered around before the energy in the air dissipated completely. There was some kind of mystical rhythm in its movement and energy radiated from its body. Beautifly used Quiver Dance on its own accord. Lyon didn't instruct further as he saw Beautifly had learnt well and put them into action. He stared at Dratini expecting the next move.

Dratini also realized what Beautifly was about to finish. Blue sparks spread around Dratini's body before converging into a light ball near its forehead then it fired multiple blue rings of electricity at its opponent. Lyon recognized this move was Thunder Wave and directed Beautifly to confront it with Safeguard.

Beautifly immediately dropped using Psychic. Light green energy rippled from its body that helped Beautifly keep flittering in the air and continued performing Quiver Dance. As the electric waves came close, green energy waves formed a barrier to block the attack. Dratini realized Thunder Wave couldn't penetrate Safeguard, it stopped the move and started slithering around with a vigorous tempo. Its body glowed blue and pink and Dratini became even faster.

Lyon frowned at its action. "This is a combination of Agility and Dragon Dance." Not to mention this Dratini had already learnt Dragon Dance, it used Agility to speed up Dragon Dance even further. Lyon felt exhilarated at this new discovery. He would be very glad if such a talent joined him.

Although Dratini could finish its move faster with the combination of Agility and Dragon Dance, Beautifly completed Quiver Dance as it started much earlier. Right now Beautifly needed to interrupt Dratini's movement. So as soon as Lyon saw Beautifly stop flittering, he commanded.

-Bug Buzz.

Beautifly released sound waves from its mouth. It was powerful enough that one could even see some part of the scene blur due to the vibrations. But as the sound waves got close to Dratini, it finished slithering around. Dratini released with a stream of water with rings surrounding it towards Beautifly. Lyon wanted to praise Dratini for its quick thinking of countering sound waves with water waves. He had believed that Dratini would have been hit instead.

As the waves collided, energy blasted out and pushed both of them back. Lyon noticed that Beautifly had an advantage in the exchange because while Dragon Dance and Agility raised Dratini's attack by one stage and speed by three stages in total, Quiver Dance raised Beautifly's special attack, special defense, and speed by one stage each. Bug Buzz, which was already a powerful move, became even more powerful than Water Pulse but now Dratini would be faster than Beautifly.

Fortunately, Beautifly originally had higher speed than Dratini so even after both of them performed their moves, Dratini became faster but not too much faster than Beautifly. Though he needed to be careful of their changed speed, he didn't have to be too cautious. Looking at Beautifly, Lyon perceived that its stamina dropped. Aside from the special attack stat, all the other stats of Beautifly were terrible, including Hp so Lyon had it focus on training Morning Sun, Roost, and Rest to keep up with long battles. Because of its terrible defense and special defense, he also had Beautifly train Protect, Safeguard, Substitute, Double Team, and Psychic as the means to guard against attacks. Quiver Dance could cover the lack of power and String Shot, Stun Spore, Attract, and Flash was to disturb the opponent. Although training the tactic Rest – selective Sleep Talk didn't work with his Pokémon except Eevee which had a special talent for this, Lyon had thought those were already more than enough. But now after observing, it seemed like there were still a lot of places he needed to improve.

Beautifly needed more attack moves of various types in case there was a time in the future it met an opponent which had a good defense against the three types that frequently used. Lyon had decided to put Hyper Beam, Shadow Ball, and Air Cutter on the list. But the most important was its movability. It needed a pair of wings ASAP. If Beautifly had wings, it didn't have to waste using Psychic as a means to fly. It also could finally learn flying-type moves and other moves that needed to be performed with wings, Air Cutter for another means of attack, Whirlwind, Defog, Gust for other means to disturb the opponent, Aerial Ace, U-turn, and also Gust to assist its movability. He crossed Giga Impact from the list because there were more disadvantages than advantages for Beautifly to use.

"Okay. That was a lot." Lyon thought that maybe he was too greedy. But if Beautifly wanted to be able to battle any opponent then it had to complete this list. Knowing Beautifly, the more training would only make it more excited. Lyon needed to control its training schedule.

As he thought, Beautifly and Dratini had exchanged a couple of blows. Beautifly kept using Quiver Dance and Psychic to obtain the upper hand. Dratini then performed Dragon Pulse with the intention of interrupting Beautifly's dance. Turquoise energy waves shot out from its mouth. Beautifly quickly used Psychic to form a barricade once again. But this time blue energy waves were pulsing to offset Dragon Pulse and kept pushing forwards.

Noticing this, Dratini was a bit panicked. It dropped using Dragon Pulse and changed into Agility – Dragon Dance combination to evade the coming Psychic. Beautifly kept using Quiver Dance to power up, didn't mean it would want the opponent to also power up. Beautifly then shot multiple white webs towards Dratini. This was the upgrade version of String Shot that Beautifly had painstakingly trained for a long time. The result was a sky full of white webs. Dratini panicked again and changed into Twister. Its body glowed and it waved its tail, creating a tornado, and sent it at Beautifly. All white webs caught in the gale and were torn apart. The tornado continued moving towards Beautifly. The moment it was about to be hit, Beautifly stopped using Psychic; its body glowed and a green force field was erected, which formed a barrier around it. Beautifly used Protect to guard against the coming attack and followed the flow of the tornado to be pushed further up in the air.

Although Twister succeeded in interrupting Beautifly, it had already completed Quiver Dance the third time. Dratini had wanted to get closer to use physical attack as it had a higher attack stat but ended up sending its opponent farther away. Dratini was annoyed as Beautifly had performed the dance many times and it needed to shoot Beautifly down fast. As its thought processed, Dratini had already prepared a new barrage of attacks. As if Beautifly could sense its opponent's belligerence, it also stared back at Dratini, readied for any moves as the air was filled with tension.

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