"Latios, dive at full speed!" But Latios had already recovered from his stiffness. At Tobias's command, the freely falling Latios suddenly opened his eyes and flew toward the ground at full speed. Yet he still couldn't shake the other Latios, who kept flying vertically alongside him. Just then, the other Latios fired his Dragon Pulse.
"Light Screen!" A high-speed descent placed extremely strict demands on flying technique. Even a Flying-type Pokémon could break bones with a single careless mistake. In such a critical situation, Latios had no chance to turn around and counterattack. To avoid taking too much damage, he could only weaken the incoming attack as much as possible. At the command, a yellow-green glow spread over his body. Then Dragon Pulse struck again, exploding with a boom. Latios used the force of the blast to dive toward the ground even faster.
"Latios, Purifying Light Wave!" Tobias's command came at that moment. Just before reaching the ground, Latios stopped abruptly. Watching the other Latios dive toward him, he swiftly gathered pink energy and fired it in a column.
"Latios, Dragon Claw!" Liu Qing responded immediately. The diving Latios tilted his wings, slipping past the straight-line attack with his back skimming the Purifying Light Wave. Then he spiraled around the beam and hurtled toward the opposing Latios, white light gradually shining from both claws.
"There it is! The spiraling descent that Liu Qing's Pokémon take such pride in! Latios has dodged Purifying Light Wave!" the announcer declared over the spectators' enthusiastic cheers.
"Latios, dodge!" Tobias was getting anxious, too. He hadn't expected Latios to execute such a difficult aerial maneuver at that speed. What he didn't know was that Liu Qing's training of Flying-type Pokémon ranked among the best even within the Namikaze Family. Unless an opponent's strength surpassed Liu