UGH!

[shauni]

The Ho-oh flinched a little and shied away from the attack, but immediately followed it up with a flamethrower. There was no way he wanted to lose to a smaller pokemon again!

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Sandslash moved again and used Rock tomb followed by rock throw.

[shauni]

The ho-oh was considerably weaker at this point, but still had a fierce glint in its eyes. It wasn't through yet. At Shauni's command, he hurdled toward the Sandslash with a fly attack, cutting through the sandstorm in a final attempt to make himself useful.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the sandslash used rocktomb right as Ho=oh finally hit him dead on.

[shauni]

The last Rock move had fainted Ho-oh, and because of all the dust, Shauni couldn't see the impact that had been made to the Sandslash. She could only hope it had fainted.

" Return!"

She released Nightfire as soon as she had called ho-oh back, and they stood, tense, awaiting signs of the ground-type pokemon.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Sandslash was still standing, but it definetly was looking ragged at this point.

[shauni]

" Ice-beam!"

Nightfire opened his mouth wide, firing an ice-beam at the sandslash, and at the floor for good measure.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Sandslash used an earthquake attack on the ground before he was hit and frozen fainted.

[shauni]

Nightfire fell to the ground as the earthquake hit, but managed to pull himself up. It had been a powerful attack however, so he was anxious that the next pokemon might be too much for him.

" Hold in here ,buddy!"

[Alexander Darkmew]

Jax recalled the sandslash with a grin as he called the next one out which was a graveller. "I told you it wouldn't be as easy," Jax said as the graveller used Sandstorm to reduce nightfires sight.

[shauni]

" So I can see," she muttered, grimacing as Nightfire rubbed the stinging sand out of his eyes.
" Try another ice-beam!"
He fired directly into the heart of the sand-storm. Would it work?

[Alexander Darkmew]

the graveller had used digand came up in a different part of the storm and used earthquake

[shauni]

" Quick, Ice-beam launch!"
Nightfire quickly launched himself into the air with ice-beam, like he'd done at the first gym, flipping out of the way of the earthquake.

" ember!"

Nightfire fired a few embers at the rock-pokemon.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Graveller did'nt seem to mind as he used Rockslide.

[shauni]

" Ice-beam, then ember!"
She pointed at the rocks, and Nightfire froze them, and then followed it up with a powerful ember, breaking them apart before they could pound his head. The combo had taken a lot of energy however, so Nightfire quickly jumped back and tried to coat the floor with ice, hoping it would buy him time to power up again.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Graveller pounded the ground with an earthquake followed by another rockslide.

[shauni]

The Rock slide hit dead on, throwing nightfire several feet.
" Nightfire!"
Nightfire lay motionless on the ground for a few moments, but eventually forced himself up. He had one eye closed, and was badly bruised. He wouldn't last very long.

<CHAR!>

He rushed toward the rock pokemon, firing an ice-beam.

[Alexander Darkmew]

the Graveller barely got out of the way and used Earthquake

[shauni]

Nightfire fell to the ground, knocked out from the force of the impact. Well, this wasn't too good. SHe only had one pokemon left.
" Go, phoenix!"
The odd pokemon was in his large form.
"Body slam!"
He rushed toward the Graveler and tried to smash into him.

[Alexander Darkmew]

The Graveller dealt with the impact by rolling backwards and using sandstorm.