pokemon adventure

chapter eighty five

Chapter 85

The Ever Grande Conference

Today was an exciting day because the qualifying battles of the Ever Grande Conference were starting today. Tyson, Morrison and the gang were at the pokemon waiting for instructions of the battles. Nurse Joy told the trainers the instructions; the rules for the qualifying rounds was that the 256 trainers had to battle in three matches, all double battles, and only 32 trainers had to win all three to make it to the final rounds. If they lost just one battle they would be out of the tournament. "Wow sounds like this will be hard, especially since you can't lose one battle if you want to get to the next round" said May. "Yeah, but I'll beat all three of my opponents no matter what" said Ash, confidently. "That goes double for me" said Morrison.

It wasn't long until the qualifying rounds started. These rounds were being held in the mini stadiums that stood in the inner circle that surrounded the main stadium. Right now it was Morrison's turn in his first double battle and Tyson and the gang were watching him. Morrison sent out a Growlithe and Gligar and his opponent, Gavin, sent out a Marowak and Machamp. Max feared this maybe trouble because Marowak had the advantage over Growlithe.

Morrison started off by telling his Growlithe to use take down on Marowak, but Marowak dodged it and used headbutt on Growlithe. Gligar went next by trying to hit Machamp with steel wing, but Machamp counter attacked with karate chop. "Attack Marowak with flamethrower Growlithe," said Morrison "and Gligar use guillotine on Machamp". Growlithe blew a flamethrower at Marowak, but Marowak blocked it with bone club. Then Gligar tried to attack Machamp with guillotine, but Machamp dodged that and struck Gligar with dynamic punch and brick break. "This doesn't look good to me" said May. "Yeah especially since Growlithe has a big disadvantage with Marowak," said Max "and that Machamp is showing no mercy either". "Morrison can do it" said Ash. Morrison commanded Gligar to use guillotine again, and this time Gligar didn't miss. Since guillotine was a one-hit knock out move, Machamp fainted at once. Gavin's Marowak moved in and knocked Growlithe out with boomerang. So now it was one down to one pokemon now for Morrison and Gavin. To Morrison's surprise Gavin's Marowak knew ice beam. "If that ice beam hits Gligar it will be over for Morrison because one of Gligar's weakness is ice" said Brock. Morrison told his Gligar to watch out for the ice beam attack and commanded it to use iron tail. Gligar managed to avoid being hit by Marowak's ice beam and then struck Marowak hard with iron tail. Gavin ordered his Marowak to use headbutt and Morrison ordered his Gligar to use iron tail again. This time the two pokemon collided with each other with their attacks, and then Marowak fainted and Gligar managed to stay standing. So Morrison won and was able to proceed to the next round.

Later that day was Ash's turn to battle and he faced a trainer named Dominick. Morrison was watching this battle with the others. Dominik sent out a Swalot and a Tropius. Tropius was a brown and green grass and flying type pokemon, with four big leaves on its back and yellow bananas on its chin, and it looked like a dinosaur. "Wow what a cool pokemon" said Max.

May looked at Tropius on her pokedex: Tropius, the fruit pokemon. It flies by flapping its broad leaves and gives the sweet, delicious fruit around its neck to children.

Ash knew that Swalot was a poison type and Tropius was a grass and flying type, so he sent out Grumpig and Torkoal.

Tropius started off by flying high into the air and using razor leaf. "Psychic Grumpig" said Ash. Grumpig's psychic stopped Tropius's razor leaf in its tracks and then sent the leaves back at Tropius, who got hit by the leaves. "Hey that's the move Kelly did with her Grumpig at the Lilycove Contest" said May, who remembered that move. "That's Ash for you; he always uses a move that he's learnt about before" said Brock. "Okay my turn to attack," said Ash "use heatwave on Tropius Torkoal". Torkoal blew a wind of flames at Tropius and Tropius got hit by it. "Ash is giving Dominick a good fight out there" said May. "Never a dull moment when it comes to Ash battling" agreed Max. Morrison was impressed with Ash's battling. "Okay let's fight back," said Dominick "Tropius use gust on Torkoal and Swalot use body slam on Grumpig". Tropius flapped its wings hard to try and blow Torkoal away and Swalot jumped to body slam Grumpig hard with its body. "Torkoal stand your ground and use flamethrower on Tropius and Grumpig use protect" said Ash. Torkoal didn't let him-self get blown away from gust and blew flamethrower at Tropius, and Tropius got hit by it. Grumpig created a protective shield, just before Swalot could hit her. "Phew thank goodness that Grumpig knows protect, otherwise Grumpig would have been in trouble" said Max. "Well to tell you the truth all of Ash's pokemon know protect" said Tomo. Ash decided to fight back now; he ordered Torkoal to use over heat on Swalot and he ordered Grumpig to use power gem on Tropius. Grumpig fired power gem and Torkoal fired over heat and Tropius and Swalot got hit by the attacks. Tropius got really hurt by the power gem attack and it fainted, so Dominick was down to one pokemon. "Okay time to attack together," said Ash "Tropius flamethrower and Grumpig psybeam". Grumpig and Torkoal attacked Swalot together with their attacks, and then Swablu fainted. So Ash passed the first double battle round.