"Francis, greet Nier with a opening quick attack!" Danilo raised his staff pointing it towards Nier, and Francis fly up and went directly towards the growlithe aiming to hit him into the forehead.

Nov couldn't help but laugh as the bird collided straight into Nier's face, barely knocking the dog back but noticeably doing a bit of damage right off the bat. Fighting against a flying type was going to be... fun. Nier was pretty agile, but they'd have to rely entirely on Ember if the Fletchling was going to fly high the whole match. Luckily, for now Francis was in close proximity due to its physical attack and with enough speed, they could try for their own physical counter-attack. Swinging his arm out dramatically, Nov called out his command. "Nier, get 'em with a Bite, quick!"

Francis was seemingly prideful that he hit the other pokemon and stayed still close to the earth. The bite came surprising him and landing square over his left side. Chipping in bit of pain, he flapped his wings until the Growlithe let him go. "Francis, you are doing fine." Danilo encouraged the little bird. It could still fly but the bite made it slightly painful to fly as agile as before. "Let's get the wind itself to help us. Tailwind! ". Danilo spoke, and Francis started to flap fast a turbulent whirlwind starting to build up from the motion of its wings.

Both Nier and Novis were pretty excited to have gotten a good hit in after such a silly start, and as soon as Francis managed to shake Nier off, the Growlithe went in for another Bite as soon as it could. Unfortunately, in the time it took for Nier to gather himself, the Fletchling had whipped up a powerful wind that pushed and pulled Nier around while allowing Francis to glide around significantly faster than before. This, of course, meant that Nier's attempt for a second bite was hopelessly lost in the whirlwind and got him nowhere fast. Instead of playing a game of unwinnable tag, Novis knew they weren't gonna get up-close to that bird if they didn't want him to. "Aim where he's heading with Ember, Nier!" At that, the Growlithe reared up and mustered up some flames from its snout, throwing sparks of fire into the whirlwind. Most were swept away, but the stronger flames went somewhere alright.

Danilo knew with the set of things Francis knew they would have to sooner or later get in contact with the other pokemon and without opening themselves for another contra bite. When the first flame sparks came from Nier lips Danilo hummed. Novis had that advantage, a range atack.
The whirlwind all but scattered the weaker ones, "Francis, up!" He called to his fletchling as the stronger ember was coming in. Francis fly from down to up and the flames burnt his tail feathers. A angry chip left Francis, as he was quite proud of those. "Slip under his feet and tackle up!" That command was something Francis more than gladly wanted to do. With the help of wind that was making the flying more effortlessly he went to do just what he was told aiming to hit a tackle into Neir belly.

Nier's flames didn't do all to much besides singeing a few tail feathers, so he just watched as the bird went for a direct body-slam. The Growlithe could feel the flames rising in its mouth as Francis came closer, but he had miscalculated where the Fletchling was going. Instead of a head-to-head clash, Francis had instead opted to try to get underneath Nier and knock him off balance like that. It worked presumably as planned, though, as Nier was caught off guard by such a tactic. With the force of the bird slamming into him, Nier tumbled back with Francis, but before the bird type could get away, he spewed all the flames he had built up, setting the zone around them both ablaze. After, Nier caught his balance and re-situated himself away as Francis followed through with the momentum. As it was his first battle, Nier was already pretty shaky from the hits, especially since he'd hurt himself with his last attack. Novis gave a little sigh, but they could still try to make it work. "Nier, use Morning Sun! Don't let them hit you too much anymore!"

At that command, Nier lifted his head and let out a howl. A faint glow enveloping the Growlithe's body, slowly beginning to clear up any wounds. However, this was the first practical usage Nier had of the move, and, combined with the heat of battle and the injuries, it took sheer concentration to actually use. He was left wide-open as he tried to rejuvenate himself.

The tactic worked but not with out its own price. The suddenly reled ember took Francis completely by surprise and was hit with it face first, the flames pushing him away and he rolled over the ground. Danilo could see that it was quite a bad hit, yet before he could say anything Francis started to shake his head as if to orient himself again. The wind was still on their side. A howl filled the surroundings and Danilo recognized the atack. A quite beautiful display. A chip brought Danilo back to the fact he was in a battle. "You can go on?"

A stubborn chip.

"Silly me, you will evolve into a fire type. Good. Put you all into this!" At this point Danilo could see the wounds vanishing on Neir, and he wasn't gonna let them all heal up. Francis was again circling on the wind, raising up and up getting a lot of attitude. They both were thinking of the same thing. The winds would start to weaken real soon and with out them his fletchling would be left with out a natural ally while his wing hurt. "Tackle into the back!"
From high above Francis closed his wings and started to fall head first, trying to add the force of the natural fall to his own tackle.

Novis could do nothing but watch as the events unfolded. There was no way that Nier was gonna deal with what was coming, not while trying to use Morning Sun. As the Growlithe poured all attention into conjuring sun energy, Francis had recovered from their last attack and had flown high up into the air, circling around Nier as it went up. Nov could feel the winds dying down, and all he could do was hope they would die before Nier finished. Danilo must've felt the opposite though, as he commanded Francis to strike while the iron's hot. The tiny bird closed its wings and suddenly dropped. With the winds behind it, the velocity of such a fall would seriously add to the force of the dive-bomb. "Nier, dodge!" Novis called out, but even though Nier almost immediately cancelled the ability, he couldn't figure out where the attack was even coming from before it was too late. The Fletchling crashed into Nier's back, slamming into him with such force that it send him sliding across the floor. Even after healing some of its wound, Nier didn't have enough strength left in him to deal with the attack, and instead just laid there. With a wave of his arms above his head, Novis signaled the end of the battle and ran over to where Nier was laying down. "You ok, buddy?" Nov asked, scooping up the Growlithe in his arms. The sparks still on his fur stung his skin, and Nier whimpered in apology.

Novis turned towards Danilo, giving him a sincere smile. "That was a pretty close match, especially for Nier's first fight. Your Fletching's pretty good, but I didn't expect Nier to do that well to be honest."

It sure was a powerful tackle, but Francis small body wasn't build to take such a force. The impact pushed Neir but Francis felt some bit of recoil himself. Only managed to flap twice to get a bit of distance before he landed on the ground exhausted and a hurting head. At this point even the last of the wind was gone.

The battle ended, and Danilo came closer to Francis, kneeing beside the bird. "Fabulous." He silently said to him and it was returned with a tired chip. Danilo lowered his hand and Francis curled into the soft glove as if it was a bed. Eyes barely open to observe the pair he fought.

"His Morning Sun was quite breath taking for using it in his first fight. " Danilo smiled back in return at Novis.
"Maybe a bit more to work on moving faster and he may have doged that last hit. Francis could not change the direction while he was failing. Burn tail feathers." Danilo looked around and spoted the healing machines along one side of the pokepark, pointing at them. "Lets heal them up. And I sure hope we get a rematch somewhere down the road. It would be a spectacle, one that will have legends told about!~"

"Yeah, but I guess that thing comes with experience, huh? Either way, good battle, dude." Novis looked over to the healing machines situated at the side of the park. "Maybe next time you'll see him as an Arcanine, and then he'll show you guys. Legends are waiting to written! ... But first, we should really get these little guys healed up, huh?"

Roxy grinned widely as she stood a fair distance away from Aiden, stretching her arms out before calling back out to him. "Good luck! You're gonna need it~" The confidence in her tone was intentionally challenging. "Lucina, you ready?" The Riolu pulled her bandana over her face; she thought it made her look intimidating, but Roxy always figured she looked adorable. "Alright Lucina, use Force Palm!" Lucina's right paw lit up a bright blue, as she charged toward Zorex and attempted to slam her paw into his forehead.

Aiden was ready for her and as she gave her challenging words he returned in kind, "I'll make sure to go easy on you!" Then in that rush of action with Lucina charging after Zorex he issued his first move, "Zorex! Use Sand Attack!" Instead of trying to dodge he made sure that he'd have an advantage later. So Zorex took in a deep breath and quickly exhailed it, washing a flurry of sand in a massive cone out at Lucina as she ran right towards it.

In that moment though the original attack was made to strike and so it found it's place on Aorex, perhaps not on his forehead like she aimed for but it still struck him good sending him a bit away from the blast. Still he was ready for a good fight and while he did winch, he stood ready for more.

Roxy couldn't help but wince as a flurry of sand went straight into Lucina's face. "So that's how you're gonna be, huh?" Lowering her accuracy...not a bad move. But she did hit him, and as far as she could recall from her time in the Trainer's School, Gibles weren't all that fast. That meant it was harder to dodge Lucina, right? "Alright Lucina, use Screech!" The Riolu took a deep breath before releasing a loud, high-pitched shriek, manifesting itself as dark blue circles moving straight toward Zorex. The hope was that he'd reflexively cover his ears, leaving him open for an attack.

Aiden watched as his attack went threw partly blinding the Riolu and making it easier for his best friend to dodge the following attacks. Still he wasn't done and when the Screech came after Zorex he had only one thing, "Cover your ears!" To which Zorex happily did to reduce teh impact of the attack, "Now use Sand Storm!" Again Zorex listened as again he breathed in deeply before unleashing a torrent of whipping sand that engulfed the entire field, cloaking Zorex and making the whipping sand beat against Lucina.

Roxy's eyes widened as the entire field was covered by whipping sand; she hadn't been expecting that. "Lucina, cover your eyes!" The Riolu immediately heeded the advice, covering her eyes with her arms. It made her exceedingly vulnerable to an attack, which...definitely wasn't good. Time to play defense, then. "Lucina, use Quick Attack to move back away!" The Riolu whipped around, moving at an extremely quick pace to try and back out of the storm. Roxy figured that this way, she put more distance between the two Pokemon so that it would be easier to dodge Zorex.

The storm Zorex kicked up seemed to enpand more and more as He puffed more and more wind up to amplify it, still he couldn't keep it up forever and eventaully had to stop, mostly because Aiden said, "Zorex! Use Sand Attack, send that storm after Lucina!" WIth that Zorex took in another deep breath casting out the entire storm after the Riolu as well as aiming to further reduce her accuracy. Letting the whipping sands do the part of damage dealer.

Roxy had to give Aiden props; he was actually really clever. But that wasn't going to stop them now, was it? Sandstorm was moving toward them; surely he couldn't maintain it forever, right? "Lucina, shut your eyes." This was going to be risky. "Use Quick Attack, rush straight through the sandstorm!" Lucina took a deep breath, shutting her eyes and sprinting straight toward Zorex. There would be some damage dealt; the sand whipping at her face created small scratch smarks. But she emerged out of the sandstorm as determined as ever, heading toward the Gible and hoping to slam into him with her whole body.

With Lucina so far back and blinded by all the sand Zorex had plenty of time to brace and ready himself for the charging Lucina. Taking his moment to prepare Aiden yelled out, "Now Zorex! Finsih this! Dragon Rage!" At the words of his best friend Zorex inhaled once again, letting a sharp blue glow rise from his large mouth before bursting forward in a large, ball of blue fire, lashing out directly for Lucina as she hid her eyes and had sand in them all the same. His only goal, a direct hit with all his might!

In a certain sense he was successful. His sttack struck true and blasted Lucina directly, but becuase she was already so close to Zorex he was also caught in the blast, feeling the effects as well as both Lucina and himself were blasted in seperate directions. Zorex rolling a few times before standing up ready for more, though it was clear that didn't feel good at all.

"Lucina!" Roxy couldn't help but be fearful for her companion as she watched her get blasted backward before shakily rising back to her feet. That was surprising in and of itself; Dragon Rage was very strong for Pokemon at their level. What could they do at this point? Zorex hit harder, but Lucina was still faster...perhaps if she could hit him and back up quickly, he wouldn't be able to retaliate. "Okay, Lucina! Use Quick Attack, then rebound off of him!" It was a maneuver they'd been working on a bit, but it might be their last chance. Lucina crouched down, before sprinting toward Zorex at an extreme speed. Her plan was to jump and kick him back, then bounce off of him to back away quickly.

Aiden and Zorex both watched as Lucina wasn't done yet. She was tenacious and determined that was for sure. In a certain sense of the word he wasn't even expecting it and that left Zorex open for her lightning fast attack as she leaped forward and struck true on Zorex, kicking him and making him roll once again back only to stand right back up after giving a rough flinch and grunt. Now it was his turn though and with the sand storm still behind Lucina Aiden said, "Zorex! Keep it up and use Tackle!" Aiden's hope was that with Lucina being so hurt from the blast and with all the sand effecting her she'd be slow enough to take teh full effect of Zorex's Tackle.

Roxy was hoping he'd try to hit her with a physical attack. She was worried he'd try to use Dragon Rage again, though it'd be terribly risky. But he was going for tackle...Lucina had a special move for suck an occasion. "Quick, Lucina! Hit him with Counter!" The Riolu became outlined in a silvery, reflective sheen as she prepared for his attack, bracing herself to take the attack and crossing her arms over her face. As soon as Zorex hit her, the silver switched to a dark orange as Lucina attempted to slam her paws into Zorex's body to knock him back away from her.

Aiden saw what she was doing only at the last second and in a last chance to help Zorex he yelle dout, "Zorex! Stop! Don't Tackle her!" But it was too late. Zorex had enough time to reduce his speed which in turn would reduce the damage he recieved, but even then when the orange blast burst out he flew back once again, rolling some more before stopping on his belly. Still, he wasn't done and stood up with a bit of a struggle, this wasn't done. Aiden yelled out once again, "Zorex! Use Dragon Rage while she's recovering! Don't hold back!" And of course Zorex was much abliged, so he sucked in air, making the blue glow once again before firing a massive ball of blue fire directly at Lucina.

Roxy's eyes widened as she saw the blue blast headed straight for Lucina, immediately shouting "Lucina, dodge it!" But there wasn't anything the poor Riolu could do; she took the hit square in the chest, getting blown back several feet. Roxy knew that her poor friend was done in, and let out a defeated sigh. Even her bandana was singed at the edges. "Wow. That was...that was a great battle!" She laughed a bit before hastily walking toward Lucina, gently lifting the Riolu up. Thankfully, they had a healing station in the Lab, as her friend was completely knocked out. "We'll get you next time. I'm sure of it," she added, winking at Aiden before sending Lucina back into her Pokeball.

Both Aiden and Zorex watched as the Dragon Rage struck true, ending the fight and making them the winners. Of course the two were happy to be the winners, but Aiden wasn't one to rub things in and Zorex had taken a beating so all he could do was let out a triumphant roar to which Aiden said, "Great work buddy!" Before runnign out onto the field to pick him up. The champ wasn't gonna walk to teh healing staion that was for sure.

At Roxy's words Aiden smiled at her and said, "I agree that was awesome! I trust that it will be teh same next time and we'll have to watch out. You almost had us!"

Yet before he left, his eyes were drawn to another trainer. The trainer with a aura and appearance ready to show to the world without a second thought. She was breathing the theme, one could say. The Drifloon floating close to her clearly her partner. Danilo just had to introduce himself to her and learn her name.

With sure steps he approced her.

"Forgive my interruption, but I simply must know the name of such a shining twilight star as you are." He made a deep bow in front of her, once more the hat doped into his waiting hand and out of it Francis head poked out, chipping at the girl and he stood upright again leaning on his staff. "My friend here is Francis and my own name is Danilo. If I am not horrible wrong, we are both going to meet on the stage of contest arenas. I can already tell that it will be a mesmerizing display, indeed. " He placed the top hat against his chest, allowing Francis to still watch everything from sitting inside it.