Dragonite VS Moltres

Sky Fire fell upon the land, easily igniting the weeds in the wasteland. The scorching flames turned the surroundings into a living hell, with black smoke rising from the combustion.

Such a commotion, even if it was happening in the outskirts, would eventually be noticed by the people in Pingdie Town. By then, they would probably hear the siren of Jenny's police car before long.

I have to finish this quickly.

Mimikyu followed Luo Mu's side, its massive Shadow Claw tearing through the flames. Luo Mu looked up, unafraid, meeting the Moltres's crimson eyes, and shouted, "Dragonite!"

A fierce wind swept towards him. Moltres merely blinked, and Dragonite was already hovering silently before it.

Moltres's pupils contracted instantly. It couldn't afford to ignore its rapidly beating heart due to Dragonite's flight speed. Realizing Dragonite was flying even higher than itself and feeling its authority challenged, Moltres let out a sharp cry, sending a blast of hot wind filled with scorching embers towards Dragonite.

"Buwu!!"

Dragonite flapped its wings rapidly. In an instant, the air currents were churned up. The howling gale seemed to form a domain, not only completely neutralizing the hot wind but also etching its mark on Moltres's body with countless tiny wind blades formed by the airflow.

While controlling the storm, Dragonite let out a sky-shattering dragon roar towards the heavens. Heavy dark clouds instantly gathered, and raindrops as large as beans fell like a waterfall.

Rain Dance and Hurricane formed the perfect combo move. The raindrops evaporated into white steam upon contact with the flames on Moltres's body, swirling around the aerial battlefield. Moltres endured the attack with its seemingly bottomless stamina, but that was all it could do.

With its strength, it was too difficult to escape the cage created by Dragonite.

Moltres tried to clash its own Hurricane against Dragonite's, and it also tried to blast a path with its signature Flamethrower, but all of these were easily neutralized by Dragonite.

Mimikyu's Shadow Claw held above Luo Mu's head, shielding him from the rain. The wind ruffled his clothes. Luo Mu observed the force of Moltres's moves and its demeanor, its experience, and made his judgment.

This Moltres was very young. Its mentality, and the undisguised immaturity when using moves, all spoke of its shallow combat experience and lack of worldly wisdom.

Dragonite's Hurricane and Rain Dance were not impossible to break through. For example, during the Champion Trial in the Paldea League, Poppy's Servant Saber General had broken through with sheer brute force.

While Luo Mu was contemplating, Moltres seemed to have finally found a way. Its flight energy transformed into a brave bird burning with intense sky-blue flames, engulfing its body. At the cost of adding several deep wounds to its body, Moltres gathered all its strength and, with the momentum of an eagle soaring through the sky, forcefully broke through the wind domain.

Dragonite blinked. It didn't feel angry that its domain had been broken through by Moltres, but merely maintained its flying posture and watched Moltres panting raggedly.

Noticing that the wounds on Moltres's body were healing at an extremely rapid rate, Luo Mu marveled at the immense resources of legendary Pokémon, as well as their innate talent. It had so quickly found the weak point of the combo move and decisively broke through at the cost of injury.

His thoughts concluded, Luo Mu, who had been mindful of finishing quickly, waved his right hand and shouted to the sky, "Thunder!!"

Dragonite responded with extreme speed. A muffled thunderclap boomed from the heavy dark clouds. Lightning snakes writhed across the clouds, and in an instant, a vast, golden current streaked across the sky, like a judgment from the God of Thunder. The current transformed into a raging sea of lightning that exploded repeatedly on Moltres's body.

The ear-splitting roar was incessant. Luxray looked towards the sky with its golden eyes and nodded in satisfaction.

Dragonite's Thunder attack had a bit of its Luxray's flair.

At the Pingdie Town Police Station, Jenny, who had received the report, opened the window and looked at the heavy thunderclouds gathered only in that area of the outskirts. Above her head, the sky was still clear and cloudless.

Beside Jenny, Growlithe was trembling uncontrollably, its tail tucked between its legs, yet it still let out a threatening bark at the sky.

Jenny gripped the car key tightly and muttered to herself, "If I die in the line of duty, there should be some compensation, right?"

Farm, lake area.

Luo Mu watched the huge pit rapidly taking shape under Dragonite's bombardment. He asked Mimikyu beside him, "After we draw in the lake water, how about we call this lake Thunderclap Lake from now on?"

Mimikyu, who followed Luo Mu's lead in everything, naturally nodded in agreement.

The roar of thunder lasted for a full minute.

The thunder gradually stopped, the sea of lightning dissipated, and the figure of Moltres slowly emerged, the target of Dragonite's attack.

Most of Moltres's feathers were now scorched black, the flames burning on its body had become extremely weak, and even its flight, which should have been instinctive, became shaky.

Undoubtedly, Moltres was at the end of its rope.

Even in this state, Moltres still opened its dazed eyes, stubbornly refusing to fall to the ground.

"Wow, the stamina of a legendary Pokémon is truly outrageous." Luo Mu exclaimed in admiration, a hint of respect rising in his heart. Moltres's performance was worthy of its noble innate status.

For some reason, Moltres's dazed eyes looked at Luo Mu on the ground, whose figure remained as calm and unruffled as when he arrived, untouched by the raindrops, as if wanting to imprint Luo Mu's appearance in its heart.

With respect for Moltres's tenacious willpower, Luo Mu spoke to bring the battle, whose outcome was decided from the beginning, to a close: "Dragon Pulse."

A pale blue dragon-shaped phantom let out a high-pitched dragon roar towards the sky. Under Dragonite's control, it tore through the air and completely engulfed Moltres's body.

Dragonite VS Moltres, Dragonite wins!

By the time Moltres woke up, it was already evening.

Luo Mu had already made up some excuses to send away Jenny, who had come to investigate. Moltres's scarred body had also been properly treated by Luo Mu, and some wounds that were deep enough to expose bone had already healed about seventy to eighty percent.

"Awake?"

Luo Mu sat on a small chair, adding a log to the crackling campfire in front of him.

Moltres turned its pupils and let out a weak cry from its beak, seemingly wondering why Luo Mu was treating it. It couldn't even feel the restraint of being captured in a Poké Ball.

Although Moltres was young, it knew most common sense.

For example, legendary Pokémon like itself were highly sought after by Trainers. During the period when it was defeated by Dragonite and severely injured, it would have been powerless to resist the strength of a Poké Ball, and the success rate of capture would have been one hundred percent.

Luo Mu tilted his head. Perhaps it was a unique ability of legendary Pokémon, but he could actually understand Moltres's meaning. In response to Moltres's confusion, Luo Mu retorted, "Why would I capture you? Do you want to be captured?"

Moltres felt that it did not want to be captured. If it had woken up to find itself inside a Poké Ball, it would most likely have resisted desperately or refused to obey orders at all.

"Then that's right." Luo Mu brushed the dust off his hands, leaned in front of Moltres, and smiled, "Moreover, your strength is not yet so great that I am eager to capture you."

Moltres awkwardly turned its head away. Although what Luo Mu said was true, after it sobered up from its anger, it could indeed realize that it couldn't defeat any of the Pokémon beside Luo Mu at that time.

However, why was there a trace of loss hidden in its heart, besides unwillingness?

Moltres found this emotion particularly strange.