Pokémon Ultra Sun 2 (GladionXReader)

Chapter 3

I stretched and yawned as I lounged on my throne in the Pokémon League. There hadn't been a single challenger all day and honestly, this was more boring then battles I knew I could win without even trying. I had nearly fallen asleep with my legs propped over one of the armrests and my head leaning back against the other when I heard a voice.

"Should the Island Champion really be lounging around like that when there's a challenger here ready to take her on?" The voice sounded strangely familiar, like a deeper tone of a voice I knew.

I jumped, not expecting it. My knee hit my forehead and then my head went back and hit the arm rest. Pain lanced from both sides of my head and I had to take a second to fight off dizziness and regain my composure. It took longer than expected and when I finally did, I had maneuvered myself into a sitting position to look at my challenger.

He looked older than a lot of the people who came to challenge me, aside from Lusamine, Guzma and Kukui. There was something strangely familiar about him, too. He was tall and lanky. I didn't think he weighed more than a buck fifty... wet. His hair was a pale almost white blonde and fell over one side of his face, obscuring it. He wore mostly black and red tattered clothes. The hood he had pulled over his head was reminiscent of Hau's Decidueye's hood except black. There were slashes through the black denim of his pants. I couldn't make out his face but something about him reminded me of someone. I just couldn't place who he was.

Since he saw me lounging, I felt that I shouldn't bother keeping up the pretenses of professionalism as I spoke. "If you had to sit around all day waiting for challengers like me, you'd understand just how boring it can be."

"Then how about I help cure that boredom," said the man. "And take your title as Champion."

"We'll just have to see if you can beat me," I said and pulled off my first pokéball from my belt, tossing it up and catching it. "I haven't stayed the champion for ten years for no reason."

"Then show me those skills you talk so highly of," the man said and tossed out a pokéball onto the field.

Crobat appeared on the field and I threw the ball out that I was holding. Charizard appeared before me, hovering over the ground, ready to listen to my instructions and take on this mysterious challenger. We stood there for several breaths, evaluating the Pokémon sent out and the best way to take them down. Just when I opened my mouth to shout a move, the challenger beat me to it.

"Crobat use Cross Poison!" he shouted.

"Charizard get out of the way and then use Dragon Pulse!"

Charizard dodged opened its mouth, directing a the beam of its Dragon Pulse at the batlike Pokémon. It was a solid hit, but not enough to cause the Pokémon to faint.

"You got this, Crobat," the challenger said. "Use Steel Wing!"

I didn't get a chance to tell Charizard to get out of the way as the Crobat flew at my Pokémon. Its wings slashed into Charizard, knocking it back a bit. Thankfully my Pokémon stayed standing. I reached into my bag, thinking that I could use a potion, but when I got a good look at the Crobat, I noticed that I think Charizard could handle the one more attack it would take to bring it down. I smirked.

"Charizard use Inferno!!" I shouted and watched as my Pokémon's fire engulfed the challenger.

The arena lit up with the fire and when it died down, the Crobat was on the ground, knocked out. The challenger tsked and pulled the Pokémon's ball out and recalled Crobat before throwing out another one. My heart nearly stopped when a Blastoise pop out of the pokéball.

"So you're from Kanto, too?" I said.

"Guess again. I've just spent some time there," the challenger replied. "Blastoise use Surf!"