Chapter 2: - Sealed
Miko slipped into the CEO of Paradius' offices for the second time that week. During their first meeting, he had given her a once-over, asked her a few probing question about her service with Galactic and how she had felt since receiving the Orichelcos stone. He'd also given her a deck of Duel Monsters cards and told her to get to know them, and to talk to Alister if she had any problems or questions.
So far, she'd had neither. Still, she couldn't work out what the boss might want, unless he had a mission for her already.
"Ah, Nanoha." Dartz glanced up from the paper he was going over. "Good to see you're a punctual type. Take a look at this, tell me what you think." He pulled out the drawer in his desk and retrieved something, which he tossed to her. She caught it in both hands, then turned it over.
"A... Pokeball?" She asked, blinking. "This is a seal ball."
"Very good." Dartz smiled. "This is the seal." He told her, passing it over. She examined the slip of foil, frowning slightly.
"This is the symbol on the Seal of Orichelcos card you gave me." She realised. "I thought the Orichelcos was a stone?"
"Very good," He smiled at her. "The Seal is a way of channelling power back into the Orichelcos stones. However, it also forms a link with the stone – your Shedinja gave me the idea. It draws power through the seal on its forehead. The seal ball should let the Pokémon inside do the same thing. I want you to switch over to these for a while and field-test them. If it's successful, we'll be spreading them to the rest of our forces... then nothing will be able to stop us. We'll be able to do away with those Galactic idiots, and then... well." He smirked. "Then things will finally return to the way they should be."
"As you wish," Miko nodded, squashing her nervousness along with her reluctance to hurt people. Game face time. "Do you have a target for me?"
"Of course." Dartz chuckled. "There's an emergence point containing a store and a few houses nearby. Raphael will supervise, you'll be taking a helicopter then approaching on foot."
"As you wish." She nodded. "I'll need twenty minutes to transfer my Pokémon."
"Very well. Meet Raphael on the roof in twenty minutes." The CEO nodded, and went back to his work. Miko bowed and left, closing the door gently.
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"Help!"
Jamie's eyes shot skywards at the cry, Mai's following just seconds behind, just in time to see a child float past clinging on to a group of Driftloon.
"Arceus damn it!" Jamie snarled, reaching for her belt only to remember that she didn't have Iblis on her.
"Chika!"
A woman burst out of the nearby trees, staring skyward, chasing after the floating girl.
"Pyre, go!" Jamie snarled, midnight blue eyes flashing as she mounted her Ponyta and darted after the Driftloon who were slowly vanishing out of sight.
Mai sent out Gale, who swooped after the group, pumping his wings as he tried to reach the same altitude as the Driftloon, wary of attacking since he wasn't large enough to catch the girl if she fell, before swiftly catching up with the woman who she assumed was the girl's mother.
"Help me." The woman begged, "My daughter..."
"Working on it." Mai promised, watching as Gale reached the right height and screeched at the Driftloon, who merely carried on floating by, ignoring the Flying/Normal Pokémon.
Ahead of them Jamie was cursing her stupidity. She hadn't realised how much she relied on the huge Fire/Flying Pokémon until she no longer had him with her. She should have at least carried Iblis with her, even if she hadn't kept everyone else with her.
Below her Pyre was tiring, the young Ponyta not used to travelling with someone on his back at speed for any length of time, before too long she was going to have to dismount and the Driftloon were picking up speed, trying to escape the pursuit of Mai's Staravia.
Then an idea hit her, "Pyre, get ahead of them."
The Ponyta picked up speed, becoming a ball of flames as he dashed ahead of the Driftloon and deposited his Trainer far enough ahead of her target to start her plan, sending out Aisu and getting the Glaceon to start creating a wall of ice that extended upwards, staying well back from it as Mai caught up to her on Tinder's back, the blue flamed Ponyta breathing heavily as she and the girl's mother dismounted.
"Jamie? What...?"
"Get Gale to herd them lower." Jamie told her as the ice wall grew higher and higher. "If they hit the wall the girl'll slide right down to us."
"Gale! Get them to fly lower!" Mai, who was unsure that this would work, bellowed up at her Pokémon. She didn't know if he heard her or not but the Staravia flew above the group of balloon like Pokémon and used Wing Attack to scare the ghosts lower and lower.
It appeared to be working until the little girl, too tired to hold on any longer, let go and Gale went tumbling as one of the Driftloon attacked him with a blast of darkness.
"CHIKA!" The girl's mother screamed as the girl fell, too far away from the ice slide to reach safety.
Gale righted himself and dove for the girl, folding his wings, trying to pick up enough speed to reach her. As he dove he started glowing with a bright white light.
As they watched from below the light changed shape and even before it had finished dying out, a much larger, much more powerful Gale, with huge wings and a red comb on his head, had caught the girl and started swooping down to his Trainer.
"He evolved!" Jamie's tone was one of amused awe. "He's a Staraptor now!"
"What?" Mai asked, stunned by this turn of events as Gale landed at her feet. Jamie didn't get a chance to answer as the girl's mother screamed and pulled her daughter off of Gale's back, hugging her tightly.
"Thank you. Thank you." The woman repeated, bowing to them as best she could each time. "Thank you."
Jamie watched the skies a few moments longer, watching as the group of Ghost/Flying Pokémon floated away and scowling slightly as she wondered where they'd come from before giving Mai an amused look.
"Gale must have been better trained than I thought." She said before she turned to the woman, "I'm Jamie Francis and this is Mai Valentine." She indicated them both in turn, "We were looking for the local village. We need some supplies."
"I can show you." The woman looked pleased that there was something she could do for the two girls, as the pair recalled their Pokémon, "If you'd just follow me."
"Thank you." Mai bowed back to the woman, who, still clinging to her daughter, shook her head.
"No, thank you. When those creatures took my daughter..."
Jamie bit her lip, concern in her sapphire eyes, as she nodded, not quite sure what had just happened but understanding that it had involved Pokémon.
"There should be a warning about those balloon things." Mai nodded at the woman.
Jamie frowned slightly. If they were the Pokémon she was thinking of, then Driftloon only kidnapped children who tugged on their 'strings' repeatedly, mistaking them for a balloon, but she didn't think the woman would want to hear it and they needed her help.
"What were they?" Mai asked Jamie as the woman led the way back, the path easy to find among the singed grass that had been left in the wake of the Ponyta.
"I didn't get a good look, but I think they were Driftloon. They're part ghost balloon like Pokémon who originate from Sinnoh."
"So we must be close to the Rend, right?" Mai asked, hoping so because she would really, really like a day to rest and they generally only stopped for any length of time when they hit a Rend Point or a major City, neither of which they'd reached in the last week.
"I think so. If the Pokémon have spread out though, it'll be difficult to find it." Jamie mused aloud, "We'll hit the village first, then we'll go looking. Sound good?"
"As long as I get something to eat soon, it sounds excellent."
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The League may have folded but Canalave City, under the leadership of the Gym Leader, Byron, still stood firm.
Team Galactic weren't happy about it, of course. If the city wasn't attacked on a daily basis, then something big was going on. Luckily for them there were plenty of Pokémon Trainers around that could defend the city. They'd even managed to repel, not defeat but repel, Palkia twice.
Not that they were sure they'd be lucky a third time. They weren't even sure how they'd managed it the first two, but they'd done it and it had both upped the moral of the oppressed masses and severely pissed Team Galactic off.
One of the biggest problems of the city being a bastion of hope, besides the regular attacks, was that Canalave's Pokémon Centre was full to overflowing with Trainers who had come to the city as their last safe haven.
The Gym was hosting some, the library yet others but it had long ago passed the point where the Pokémon Centre could keep up with the demands on their services and, where people had taken Trainers in to start with, there was just no more room and some Trainers were sleeping in the streets.
This was where Lizzie, Jack and Will found themselves.
The three of them had had a hell of a time getting from the port at Sandgem Town to Canalave, having had to fight their way through several Galactic sympathisers and it hadn't helped that Lizzie looked so much like her big sister that at least twice she had been mistaken for the supposedly dead Trainer, if not more.
The first time it had been vaguely amusing, as the Trainer in question had screamed like a girl and run away, the second time though it had been a Galactic Grunt, who had wanted to know how the hell she'd gotten back from the Otherworld.
Of course when he'd realised his mistake, mostly because Jamie didn't have a highly ticked off Swampert, he'd called in that 'Francis' little sister was in Sinnoh' and attempted to bring them in.
Tide, the Swampert that had once been Jamie's starter Pokémon and now belonged to Lizzie, had had none of it and the Earthquake attack that the huge blue Pokémon had loosed had severely damaged the roads and the local cave system, meaning that they'd had to climb up the cliffs rather than use the much safer river route.
It had confirmed Lizzie's suspicions though. The League had announced to one and all that Jamelia Francis of Littleroot Town had been killed trying to stop Team Galactic, but they were wrong. Her sister was alive.
Not that Lizzie knew how she was going to get into the Otherworld to help Jamie, but she at least had that much where she hadn't a couple of months ago.
The three of them had arrived in town during an attack and joined in the defence of the Pokémon Centre, earning themselves a free meal for the evening (though drinks cost extra). Like all the Trainers who were currently staying in Canalave City, however, they were expected to find their own accommodation.
Of course the main problem with that was while they were off fighting they'd had their stuff moved around a couple of times by new Trainers who had arrived and either decided that they could squash up and shoved them all to one side, or worse, rolled up the stuff of one of their group and moved it and then 'forgotten' where they put it.
Luckily since they'd put their names on their stuff the moment they'd seen how packed Canalave City was, it was normally quite easy to find it again, mostly because it had become common courtesy, if you found someone's stuff in your spot, to shout round and, if a shout round was going, keep the message going down the line.
It was difficult but the three of them were willing to put up with it, mostly because Lizzie needed the help of the boys and Will and Jack were determined to keep an eye on Lizzie in order to make sure she didn't get caught or Rended. It would have been much easier if Lizzie hadn't wanted to get Rended in order to help her sister.
At least there was a huge advantage, at least to the minds of the boys. With the Trainer horde that had taken over, Team Galactic appeared to have completely forgotten about the fact that Jamelia's sister was in the city. They'd been able to spread word that the stories, of a Pokémon Champion who was fighting Team Galactic and stopping them from taking over there too were true.
Of course this didn't mean anyone could relax. Just because the Otherworld was under the protection of a Champion, didn't mean that it was safe, nor did it mean that they could stand back during the attacks on Canalave.
Today was no different.
"We got incoming!"
"Oh Arceus! It's Palkia!"
Lizzie blanched as she wheeled around, sending out Tide and her Metang, Nickel as she did so, Jack and Will just milliseconds behind, with their starters, Blade the Grovyle and Sikaran the Combusken.
In front of her a huge portal was forming and huge white talons appearing through it, followed by a huge white arm.
"Nearly through!" Someone shouted, the cry spreading out among the Trainers that Palkia was coming.
"Third time's the charm." Palkia's handler, a young man with very pointy blue hair and a continuous sneer, sniggered as he looked over the Trainers he had appeared before, "Nothing but children and weaklings although I didn't expect to see you here." He looked at Lizzie with a curious expression as he yanked on the Red Chain that was wrapped around his hand and Palkia emerged from the rift with a roar, "How did you get back, Francis?"
Lizzie stared at Palkia for a moment, shaking in fear, wondering if this was how her sister had felt when she had faced Palkia, then Saturn's words sank into her mind and she glowered at him, "I'm not my sister, but you will return her to me."
"Oooh." Saturn chuckled, eyes widening slightly for a moment, then he gained a smirk, "I think you'll find, little girl, that we're the ones doing the ordering around here. You're coming with me. We could use the bait for your sister. PALKIA SPA..."
"Hydreigon! Hyper Voice!"
The bellow of the three headed dragon Pokémon from the Unova region drowned out Saturn's orders and knocked Palkia three foot backwards, causing a tidal wave as it splashed into the docks.
"I won't let you Rend this city."
"Katrina!" A joyous cry erupted from the lines behind Lizzie as the Unova League's Winner stepped forward, putting her hand on Lizzie's shoulder as she passed, having arrived just moments ago.
"So, a two for one deal." Saturn grinned, "Francis's sister and the failure of a Dragon Trainer who couldn't even beat that fool, Alder."
Katrina let out a growl that matched her Pokémon's as the black haired, brown eyed Trainer watched Palkia getting back up. "Hey kid..."
"Lizzie." The much younger, much less powerful Trainer interrupted, "My name's Lizzie."
"Lizzie." Katrina acknowledged, "May I assist?"
"Sure." Lizzie nodded, not stupid enough to think that she could take on Palkia on her own and grinning internally at the fact that Katrina hadn't just asked her to step aside.
"You can't defeat me even if you team up." Saturn snorted, unimpressed.
"Bring. It. On."
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"Mai?"
"Yes, Jamie?" Mai asked, amused by her travelling companion's stunned tone, though she too was just as shocked as Jamie.
"Did we slip through a Rend when I wasn't looking?"
"No."
"Am I dreaming?"
"No."
"Are you sure?"
Mai pinched Jamie who yelped and gave her a disgruntled look for about five seconds before her gaze was drawn right back to the wreaked green where a group of children were playing with a group of Bidoof while Buizel sunned themselves next to the pond and Aipom and Pachirisu played in the trees.
"This," Jamie breathed as a group of Combee buzzed past her face, "Is pretty much what a village back home looks like."
"There was a huge storm," The woman, Karachi-San, told them, "And there was this huge light show on the village green and when it died down there were these creatures everywhere. They're in the reservoirs and the local woods too."
"They're Pokémon." Jamie breathed, still in the grasp of shocked delighted, "They're Pokémon and they're thriving."
"Unfortunately." Karachi-San replied with a dour look on her face, "I take it those creatures this morning were 'Pokémon' too?"
"They were called Driftloon but…" Jamie paused, looking at the woman, concerned. Her anger towards the Driftloon was understandable, but she hoped that it didn't continue over to all of the Pokémon in the local area, especially considering that to her eyes it looked like Galactic had Rended a whole route and the Pokémon that had been caught up in it had settled down rather well. She did have one question though…
"Was there a building that appeared out of nowhere when the Pokémon appeared? Or a group of people or something?"
"There was a building, it had people in that called themselves 'Pokémon Trainers', they called it the 'Airworks' or something like that."
"Windworks? The Valley Windworks?" Jamie asked, blanching slightly for a moment, before the part about other Trainers sunk in, "Are they still there?" She asked, excited.
"No. They moved on months ago." Jamie's face fell, "However there were some people there in grey, white and black uniform with greeny blue hair in funny cuts. They come and go regularly."
"Galactic." Jamie's tone shifted from the friendly tone she'd had before, to a darker, angrier tone. "Are they there now?"
"I'm not sure." Karachi-San said thoughtfully, "There were some around yesterday but..." She frowned slightly at the pair, "I'm not sure that approaching them is a good idea. They haven't been particularly... friendly so far."
"I could clear them out if they've been causing trouble." Jamie offered without a second's hesitation, causing Mai to look at her travelling companion properly, confused as to the sudden attitude change.
"No. No." Karachi waved it off, "They haven't caused any trouble other than to rile up the... Pokémon? Was it? Every so often, taking a few away at a time."
Jamie's scowl only deepened at that, but before Karachi could ask what was wrong Mai changed the subject, "So where's this shop?"
"Just this way." The woman said, heading swiftly for the locals shops. Mai and Jamie had to rush to catch up with her and in doing so the pair missed the attention they'd gained from a couple of the children, one of whom had darted off the moment that the pair's attention had turned away from the group, heading for the remains of the Windworks.
"So?" Mai asked as they started stocking up on supplies, "What's the plan?"
Jamie sighed as she thought about it, trying not to be concerned that she was having blackouts again and wondering whether she should see a doctor or something, "We're going to have to stick around a little while or get Kaiba to send someone out to do so if the Pokémon are going to live around here on a more permanent basis."
"Can't you just get rid of them?" The shop keeper, who worked the only checkout in the tiny shop asked, having overheard their conversation.
"We don't have enough Pokeballs to catch them all and it's really easy to live alongside Pokémon, as long as you don't do anything silly like tug on a Driftloon's string and they can be really useful. Pachirisu for example can be used as emergency backup generators, though I wouldn't suggest using them as a power source long term." Jamie tried to defend the creatures from her home world, "You just have to know how to treat them. I can teach you that."
"You mean those squirrelly things that have moved into the trees are useful?" The store keeper asked.
Jamie nodded as she picked out a few energy bars that looked vaguely like food. "The others around here too, well most of them. Bidoof can be a bit of a pain. They like building dams and they get everywhere."
"So they're beavers?" Mai asked, having wondered since she'd seen their teeth.
"I suppose..." Jamie gave her travelling companion an odd look, confused since she wasn't sure what a beaver was.
Mai didn't get a chance to tell her as the sound of screams interrupted any conversation going on.
Jamie darted outside, hoping that it didn't have anything to do with the Pokémon outside only to find a Trainer outside causing trouble, their Pokémon, a huge red and black crocodile and an odd chandelier like creature with green flames going after the wild Pokémon and not being careful to avoid the children.
"Cut it out!" Jamie snapped as she sent out Aisu, the Glaceon appearing with a cry. "You should know better!"
"Ah there she is." The Trainer, a blonde haired, blue eyed man, sniggered as he turned to look at her, "Krookodile, Chandelure say hi to the guest of honour."
Jamie let out a sharp hiss as the pair turned to face her. Both Pokémon's eyes were glowing with some kind of green light and there was a weird symbol on the forehead of the Krookodile and the bulb of the Chandelure, a symbol that glowed with the same light as their eyes.
"What have you done to those Pokémon?" Jamie growled, confused as to what the hell was going on and what was wrong with the pair.
"You're holding something I need." The Trainer replied, "And I've been given a gift, a gift that will allow me to take it."
"I don't know what..."
"You have Dialga." Jamie froze up completely at that, wondering how he knew. "And I plan to take it. Take it and use it against Team Galactic and get us all home safely."
"Gale, g.." Mai attempted to send out her Staraptor, only to be interrupted by the appearance of a pair of green circles of light, one smaller than the other, runes written in green light between the pair which spiralled around out of the sky and settled on the ground around her and a second newcomer, a woman with black hair and brown eyes, before giving off a bright green glow around the edge, creating a barrier as a star appeared in the centre of the smaller of the circles.
"Mai!" Jamie, who'd been knocked away from her friend by the light, tried to dart into the circles, knowing somehow that this wasn't good, only to bounce back and hit the floor hard.
"Oi, Francis, pay attention." The man snapped, his Krookodile attempting to take a bite out of the Trainer as he did so, only to get hit by an Icy Wind attack and knocked flying, "I'm your opponent. Let those losers play their game."
"Who are you?" Jamie demanded as she got to her feet, hoping that Mai could handle herself as the woman started spouting something about becoming the best female duellist in the world and using the Seal to do it, "And how did you know about Dialga?"
"I'm Leon Rendell, of Driftveil City." The man informed her, "And unlike you, there are people around who're trying to help us. People who are willing to give us the strength to fight legendary Pokémon."
"We're Trainers. We don't get given strength, we earn it." Jamie snarled, midnight blue eyes flashing.
"Heh. Then show me how strong you are. If your power is so much better than mine, then prove it. I challenge you."
In her world, in the position she was in within the league as it had once stood, she had no rights of refusal. She had to accept his challenge. However, here in the Otherworld, she had a choice. Or she would have done had there not been the little matter of her pride being attacked.
"Single battle only." Jamie nodded, "But I accept your challenge."
"Of course you do. You're a Trainer, you feel the rightness of settling it this way." Leon sniggered, "Krookodile." He gestured and the huge Dark/Ground Pokémon moved forward, glaring at Aisu, who pawed the ground and growled at it. "Earthquake!"
"Ice Beam!"
Even as the ground started shaking, Aisu was already launching her attack, the ray hitting the Krookodile and distracting it from its attack, though the tremors continued long enough to scare the villagers into running for the hills.
"Jamie?" Mai shouted over the noise of the quake, concerned.
"Concentrate on your fight." Jamie snapped back before wheeling on her opponent, "If you're going to use attacks like that we should take it out of town."
Leon sniggered, "I suppose you're right..." He looked around, "And yet we stand in the middle of a village green, with no building closer to us then the stands are in stadiums..." He shrugged, completely unconcerned, "Krookodile, Outrage!"
Aisu narrowly avoided being flattened by the rampaging Pokémon as Leon gave his answer to Jamie's comment.
"Oi, Valentine." The woman growled, her eyes glowing green and the glowing symbol on the ground resting on her forehead, as Jamie snapped out a counter attack, drawing Mai's attention to her, "Turn your Duel Disk on or forfeit."
Mai hesitated. She hadn't duelled since her game with Marik and she didn't feel ready to fight, but she had a funny feeling that if Jamie couldn't get into the strange green circle, then she wasn't going to be getting out of it. Not without fighting and, knowing how these things seemed to go, not without winning.
"Fine." Mai unhitched her Duel Disk from her backpack and shuffled her deck before putting it into her Duel Disk and, nervously activated it. "Why are you doing this anyway?" Mai demanded as she drew her first hand of the game. "Who are you and is this seriously about the title of 'Best Woman Duellist'? Because if it is, that's a really lame reason to call something like this..." She gestured to the glow around them.
"I'm testing it out." The woman shrugged, "My name's Kate Inchly and I have bigger fish to fry then you, but the title of Best Woman Duellist is something I've coveted for a while, so fighting you to test this new card is ideal."
Mai grumbled slightly. She'd known her standing had gone down amongst Duellists because of her losses to Joey and Marik. Losing to Yugi didn't matter, it had hit slightly but since he could beat Kaiba and Pegasus, it didn't affect her rankings too much. No it was the losses to the supposedly unimpressive newcomers that had done it.
Still she didn't want to fight, not now and certainly not with magic involved. She had thought the weird stuff had only followed Yugi around. Obviously she had been wrong.
"I played my field card, so I suppose that means I get first turn." Inchly snorted, "I play two cards face down and a card in defence mode, your move..."
Mai drew her card, only to pause, distracted as huge spikes of ice appeared on the battle field, created by the Ice Beam attack that only narrowly missed its target. froze over snow swept through the battle field, ushered in by Aisu's Blizzard attack, the wave of ice sending the Krookodile crashing into someone's garden. When the huge crocodile didn't get back up, Leon snarled and recalled it.
"Chandelure! Fire Blast!"
Jamie let out a startled yell and dodged out of the way of the oncoming wave of flames, narrowly escaping being burnt. "Aisu! Blizzard!"
The ice type attempted to blast the ghost/fire type, but it wasn't particularly effective. The chandelier like Pokémon spun around in the wind, its flames blazing brightly in a tornado of flames that shielded the Pokémon inside from the snow.
"Arceus damn it." Jamie hissed as the flame tornado died down. The Chandelure was much more powerful then she had anticipated and she had nothing that was strong against it, plus she knew the rumours about Chandelure's flames, that they could consume souls.
"Aisu! Hail!"
Everyone who hadn't already taken cover did so as huge clouds appeared out of nowhere and showered the field with hailstones. Almost instantly Aisu practically vanished from view.
"A little warning next time, Jay." Mai complained as she played two cards face down, "I summon my Harpie Lady!" The harpy appeared on the scene with a screech, "Attack!"
Inchly's Star Boy disappeared from the field but the other woman didn't seem all that worried.
"That ends my turn."
Inchly sniggered as she drew, "You really think your Harpie Lady can take down my ocean beasts?" She asked as she summoned her Mermaid Knight, "Attack!"
"Mirror Wall!"
A wall of glass appeared in front of the Mermaid Knight, but before the mermaid could hit it Inchly activated one of her face down cards, Dust Tornado, to destroy it.
"I don't think so!" Mai shouted over the sound of the wind, "Mystical Space Typhoon!"
The second gale slammed into the first stopping it in its tracks and the mermaid slammed into the wall hard. The Aqua monster bounced back, losing 1000 attack points and Mai's Harpie struck it down.
"Still dismissive of my Harpies?" Mai asked, smirking herself, hiding the fear that was running rampant through her mind, "I'm not one of the world's top..."
"AISU!" Jamie's yell interrupted her as the Glaceon slammed into the barrier of green light. "Aisu! Get up!"
The Glaceon attempted to get to her feet, letting out a weak whimper as she did so, before collapsing to the ground, the hailstones dying out as Jamie demanded that her Pokémon get to her feet.
Leon glowered at Jamie before turning to his Chandelure. "Flame Burst!"
"Return!" With a reaction time that startled Mai, Jamie had enlarged Aisu's ball and caught the Glaceon in the beam of red light that had shot from it, recalling the Pokémon before the green flames had a chance to hit her again.
Jamie reached for the other Pokeballs on her belt with a snarl. She didn't have anything she could use against the Chandelure. Not effectively. Pyre, her Ponyta, was exhausted and she couldn't use the other pokeball on her belt.
"Are you going to send out another Pokémon or is this battle over already?" Leon demanded, ill amused.
"Pyre, I cho…"
"Floatzeeeeel!" Before she could finish sending out her tired Ponyta, a burst of water from over by the pond slammed into the Chandelure, knocking it sideways. Both Jamie and Leon turned to find out where it had come from, only to see a rather pissed off looking Floatzel stalking towards the battlefield.
"You stay out of this." Leon growled at it as his Chandelure spun around and around until it was upright and spat flame at the Floatzel.
"Zel. Floatzel Float." The Floatzel stomped over and put itself between Jamie and the other Trainer, "Zel, Floatzel Zel Floatzel Float. Floatzelzel Floatzel Float."
Jamie watched the apparently lecture in amusement, waiting till it had stopped ranting in order to ask, "So I take it you'd like to help?"
Meanwhile Mai had managed to get out her Harpie Lady sisters and Inchly's water monsters, which could have all done with a Legendary Ocean card on the field in order to activate some of their abilities, were getting stomped.
"I suggest you give up." Mai told her as she went to activate her face down card, "These things are never a good idea," She gestured to the glowing circle around them, "And you can't win."
"I have three monsters on the field, all with more attack points than your Harpies. The only reason I can't get to them is because of your blasted Mirror Wall and that'll be torn down soon enough. I'm not surrendering."
"Then I'm sorry." And she was. She didn't know what would happen when she won the duel, but she could guarantee it wouldn't be good for the other Duellist, "But I activate Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation!"
Her three Harpies swooped into the sky, transformed into a single blue flamed phoenix like bird and then swept across the field, destroying all three of Inchly's monsters.
Inchly's lifepoints hit zero as the combined attack points of her monsters was deducted from her life points.
"What?" Inchly yelped as her Duel Disk shut off of its own accord, its job done, but the Seal didn't vanish. Mai, who had suspected something like this, watched fearfully as the seal closed in around Inchly. "No! No! NoNoNoNo! It wasn't supposed to be me!"
She'd known that the loser would suffer something for losing? And she'd still gone ahead with it? Mai was shocked out of her thoughts by Inchly's despairing wail as she vanished in a green glow, a wail that cut off moments before the glow died and left behind a body that toppled forward and hit the ground hard.
"Floatzel! Aqua Jet!" Jamie was aware of the battle's end but didn't let her emotions get in the way of the battle in front of her, not that it mattered, the already weakened Ghost/Fire type was sent ghosting through its Trainer by the water type attack and it didn't get back up again.
"I… Lost?" Leon asked, shocked for a couple of moments, before the Pokeball in his hand glowed brightly, resonating with the green stone on the leather cord around his neck and the seal appeared beneath him.
He had time to let out a yelp then he too was lost to the bright light. Mai darted to Jamie's side as the Trainer's body hit the floor.
"What was that?" Mai demanded of her travelling companion.
"I have no idea." Jamie growled, darting forward to check him over and growling when she found him completely unresponsive, "But if I had to guess I'd say that someone's mixed your world's rules with those of mine and created something dangerous."
"We should warn the others…" Mai bit her lower lip, wondering how bad it could be and becoming surprised when Jamie shook her head.
"Not yet. There's someone I want to speak to first." Jamie flipped open her phone and hit the speed dial, leaving Mai to deal with the crowds that were slowly emerging from the houses around them. "'Kura? Hey. We need to talk."