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53. Wild battle

"I heard of this boy. He always challenges Dukes or Duchess."

"I saw him fight one time. He defeated duchess Robin in a few moment."

"Same here. I think it will be an interesting battle."

Girls listened to the conversations while looking at the both persons on battlefield. Lysandre pulled out only pokeball, but Ash pulled out black with yellow stripes.

"For a good battle." both of them said and stepped to their sides. Lysandre threw his pokeball, revealing a male Pyroar. Ash opened the Ultra ball, reavilng Rhydon. Rhydon looked around for a moment before seeing Pyroar. Rhydon fell on his front paws, slamming with them and breaking the stone floor. It let out loud roar to which Pyroar replied with its own.

"Battle begin!"

"Rhydon use Drill run." Rhydon let out huff before letting its horn spin and in a moment, changing into spinning drill also.

"Dark pulse." Pyroar created a beam of dark energy before sending it at full power. It hit directly Rhydon in not stopping waves, but it didn't seem to slow down or stop Rhydon. At the last moment, Pyroar stopped to quickly jumped away. When Rhydon finally stopped spinning, it turned around with rock in its paw and throwing it at Pyroar. "Pyroar use double team." the stone flew through a clone right before more appeared.

Rhydon looked around angrily, seeing multiple copies, Rhydon started to create more rocks and throwing them at the clones. When it was finally finished, there were no clones left. Before Rhydon could do anything else, the ground underneath broke and Pyroar slammed into Rhydon. Rhydon's head hit a ground, but when the dust got out of its way, a big eye with full of anger looked through. Pyroar looked to side, seeing a big tail slamming into him.

Pyroar landed on its four before looking back at Rhydon who stood back up. "Pyroar use Dark pulse." Lysandre reacted first and Pyroar let out another pulse of dark energy.

"Rhydon use multiple Rock blasts." Rhydon slammed its paws before creating stones and throwing them at the energy. As the attacks clashed with the smoke creating in the middle, not letting each side see each other.

"I see Rhydon is pretty wild." Korrina said as they watched the battle.

"Yeah, Ash caught it when it almost hurt Serena with her pokemon. He put Rhydon against me in a battle, but it didn't really listen to Ash last time. I am not sure if anything changed." Clemont replied as they saw the battle.

Suddenly, from the never ending clash of attacks was slowly coming through Rhydon, still repeating the same attack. When it got close, hearing the command 'Thunder punch' it attacked Pyroar, receiving a hit from the dark pulse, but still slamming the fist into Pyroar.

Pyroar still flew in the air, receiving a command in midair. "Flamethrover." Pyroar boosted himself up with the flames, hitting the pokemon hard, but it didn't even make Rhydon flinch. When Pyroar finally landed, growling at the opponent, who replied with roar, Rhydon was suddenly trapped in flames.

"Don't tell me you planned for this." Ash mumbled to himself, while Rhydon shook its body to try putting out the fire. "Rhydon use Drill run." Rhydon looked back at Ash for a moment, seeing a lazy smile on his face. This made Rhydon to let out huff before running, turning into living drill.

"Pyroar double team!" Pyroar's clones appeared again. Rhydon went through them before none stayed there. Rhydon stood back up on its back, looking around and seeing another hole.

"RHYYYYYY!" When the burn hit again, Rhydon let out loudest roar that made everyone except Ash cover their ears. People expected it would be roar of pain, but it was battle cry.