Battling Wulfric
#25 of Cassidy's Journey
She sent out a sneasel first and waited for Cassidy to send out her pokémon.
"First battle, Fen," she said to herself and tossed him onto the field.
Fenny glanced at his surroundings upon being released but quickly focused on the sneasel in front of him.
Trainer Imelda commanded it to use ice shard, and that attack always went first.
As the sneasel hastily prepared its attack, Cassidy knew she had to act quickly. "Fen, try to dodge it and follow up with flame charge!"
Just after Cassidy gave him orders, multiple chunks of ice were flying in Fenny's direction. He darted to the left, efficiently dodging all but one of the projectiles, which forcefully hit him in the center of his chest. He shut his eyes and lowly grunted to himself after the initial impact, but Fenny would retaliate harder. He surrounded himself with a wall of flames and darted at the opponent in seconds.
Imelda hastily shouted at her sneasel to dodge it, but it seemed frozen from the heated attack barreling toward it. It was thrown back upon impact from Fenny's fiery tackle, and it didn't get back up.
Fenny fainted it with a single attack. He didn't even know he had it in him. He stepped back to his original position and stood, watching the blacked-out sneasel get switched out by its trainer and next be replaced with a cloyster.
"That's it, Fenny. That's it..." Cassidy whispered.
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They progressed through the rest of the trainers with little to no setbacks. However, Cassidy gave Fenny a break and used Añu in place for a few battles. When it finally came time for her to fight the concluding battle, she exhaled tiredly. There were two sets of stairs in front of her leading to gym leader Wulfric. Cassidy sluggishly walked up the steps, reaching the top in a minute, and there he stood.
The tall, burly white-haired individual stood on a platform, ready to face whoever would approach, which happened to be Cassidy. His full beard and mustache gave him an intimidation factor. Wulfric gave her a small speech like the last seven gym leaders had before they began their battle, and Wulfric sent out his cryogonal.
"Hm..." Cassidy firmly held Fenny's pokéball, tossing it up a few times before releasing him onto the vast and icy battlefield.
Fenny was intimidated immediately. That was a big pokémon in front of him. He was glad he had a type advantage, but Fenny knew he would take a few hits from the oversized snowflake.
"Flame charge, right away, Fen!" Cassidy commanded.
Fenny heard, but the cryogonal was already creating what looked like a terrifying flash cannon.
"Fenny, dodge it!"
By the time Fenny had a chance to react, he was blinded, then shortly hit by the painfully bright beam of white light shot from his opponent's mouth. The impact knocked him on the cold floor and on his back, but he quickly got up, rubbing his eyes to try and rid of the lingering distortion of vision and wasted no time preparing his flame charge.
Wulfric told his cryogonal to dodge Fenny's attack, so Fenny directed his release somewhat to the right. He guessed the direction his opponent would try and dodge, it hit. It took another flame charge to faint the cryogonal, along with another attack Fenny had to endure beforehand.
Fenny was doing just as well as Cassidy thought he would so far. Whether or not he had a type advantage, this was still a battle at high level, and Fenny wasn't that experienced with it.
Next came Wulfric's abomasnow, and along with the pokémon came its ability to make it hail on the battlefield.
Fenny flattened his ears and shielded his head with his right arm as the hard ice constantly pelted him. He had to faint it quickly.
Another flame charge could burn Fenny out, so Cassidy wouldn't put that on him yet. "Fenny, ember!"
While he prepared it, his foe brewed ice shard. The abomasnow's head looked to the ceiling with an open mouth as it glowed a bright white. 'Oh, come on...' He couldn't beat that attack.
"Fen, get out of the way!" He could endure the pain, but he wasn't used to it. Cassidy didn't want him to faint.
The pieces of ice flew at Fenny, but they wouldn't be easy to evade as the abomasnow spread the attack out. 'U-uh...' Fenny tried to judge it and sloppily stepped to the right; however, it was poor judgement. Two of the chunks pelted him hard, one on his right shoulder, and the other on his cheek. It forced him to stumble back with a pained groan, but he didn't fall over. Fenny held his cheek for a second while preparing ember, eyeing his opponent.
Cassidy hated seeing him get injured, but personal attachment couldn't exist on the battlefield. She had to remind herself of that.
Fenny shot the small burst of flames from his mouth at the abomasnow, which landed on the front of its chest, burning it a great deal before the fire faded.
"Again!"
Fenny built another ember before the abomasnow could retaliate, and he fainted it with his second ember. It must have been a critical hit. Fenny felt physically weak and looked back at Cassidy as Wulfric returned his pokémon.
"Do you need a potion?" she asked, ready to walk over to him.
The truth was, Fenny didn't want the potion, not at all, but he was in a lot of pain right now and could collapse from the very next attack for all he knew. 'Y-Yes...' Fenny glanced ahead and saw a dauntingly large avalugg standing on the other side of the field.
Cassidy quickly walked to Fenny while pulling a potion from her pouch and kneeled on her right knee to spray it on his wounds with his direction. "I can call you in, you know?..." she hinted with concern.
'I want to see if I can do this.'
"...Okay." Cassidy stood and took enough steps back to stand where she was before.
Fenny exhaled, feeling a bit better than he had.
Cassidy wanted this to end quickly, so she'd order Fenny to flame charge the avalugg. "Fen, another flame charge!"
Fenny's attack went first, and the wall of flames as he tackled it wounded the avalugg greatly.
Unfortunately, the avalugg would return an attack a lot more powerful. It took a few large steps back and started to run forward, slowly at first.
"That's gyro ball..." Cassidy spoke lowly and took a step forward. "Fen, you have to dodge that!" she warned.
He heard her every word but was frozen in a state of fear. Fenny took a step back and widened his eyes as the avalugg brought itself to a good enough speed to hop upward and spin counter-clockwise in mid-air. While it rotated, a light blue aura surrounded its body.
"Fenny!" She tried desperately snapping him out of his state, but as much as everything in him wanted to move, he was planted to the ground as one thousand pounds of steel-like ice barreled toward him.
Fenny turned his head to the right, shut his eyes, and raised his arms and hands to block his face, bracing for impact.