*cue battle music* / axel vs. annisa

When my awful cousin became Champion (eugh, *feigns vomiting*), I chopped my hair into rough bangs and dyed it the darkest brown I could get my hands on. Couldn't stand her being the likeness of me. Yeah, she's a few years older, but before she won and got famous, everybody said she looked like me. I preferred that.

But I'll tear that title and the crown from her fake, plastic hands, you'll see. The entire world will. I've always been better than her, better than anyone, really. Beat Axel into the ground more than a few times and Anton boasts more about the battles he's won than actually winning. It's just a matter of time - I'll get all eight badges and shove them right down Anatalia's throat.

Speak of the devil - I mean Axel, I can hear his pitchy voice squeaking from up on the hill. I stop in my tracks, sand pooling in between the cracks in my feet, my eyes rolling into the back of my head. There was a time when I would've been happy to hear him, that was a long time ago. Back when we were kids, we just grew apart and valued different things, I guess.

"I'm bored. let's BATTLE!"

Even in the way he talks, he has this kid-like wonder to him. Like everything's an adventure. I hate it, but..I'll entertain it, for now. Only just to warm up my skills, nothing more.

"Just for you to lose again?"

That's fine with me.

"PRINCESS, don't let him forget whose the boss around here!"

ANNISA sends out PRINCESS (the croconaw)!

 

I always thought Axel wasn't entirely there in the head and he continuously proves me right. Like, using a water move against a water type? It just doesn't make any sense, but he never has. But, if he's gonna grief himself than I'll take full advantage of that. There's no shame, no loss of dignity in taking a free win.

Mickey rears up on his legs, about to make his move. His ugly little face stares daggers at Princess, but that doesn't bother her. An apex predator is not going to fear a homegrown, hideous mud creature. His mouth widens a lot more than it should, a geyser of water spewing from his mouth and slamming into Princess.

Sand stirs from the impact of Princess flying backward, it gets in my face and mouth, I can taste the salty grit of it on my tongue.

"You're going to pay for that one, bro!"

My bottom lip juts out and I gruff. Princess rises from the sand, I can see the rage seething from her scaly skin. She a short fuse and a mean streak, a flicker of flame will set her off. And I, for one, cannot wait to see her tear through Mickey.

"Rip em' to shreds, Princess! Use bite!"

10/20

PRINCESS uses BITE!

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