"THUD!" the moment the gss nded I started Vul off strong with a double leer taia's defense dramatically. She grit her teeth as this forced her to stop her rock polish and go for an iron defense instead. "Get close , stomp!" I anded capitalizing on the short time frame between Gaia switg moves. Vul dashed forward immediately with full trust in my ability to and it correctly. Gaia finished her Iron defense and I could see her trying to find a way out of this sticky situation. Her speed was currently a good k lower than Vul's and he was already getting within rao use his move after all.-

  I went full bore on pressuring her out the gate in hopes the stress would force her to evolve without the o get injured. Vuls paws glowed white as it leapt into the air and came down at Gaia hard. She then did something that left me speechless , Gaia quickly reached down and grabbed a handful of sand before throwing it right in Vuls face before he crashed into her. This wasn't the move sand attack at all but ft out fighting dirty and it totally surprised me since I hadn't taught her to do that.-

  Still it paid off as Vul was forced to close it's eyes and look away which let Gaia shift the spot it was going to nd to her shoulder instead of her head. "BOOM!" the move struck her loudly and spider web cracks appeared all over her carapace causio cry out in pain. "Back away a use leer to the sand out of your eyes!" I shouted and Vul retreated and did as I instructed. The thing about pokemon move energy is that is starts iheir bodies before bei out in various ways.-

  Thanks to this using leer ur sand in a pokemons eyes that cked move energy sent the sand out of the eyes without missing anything. As an added bonus Gaia also got hit with a defense drop again which forced her to waste time using iron defense again. Pretty much I had forced her bato that desperate position but this time she was damaged as well and we were wary of her pying dirty. "Lava plume while she 't evade!" I anded and Vul raised it's head and howled with it's entire body glowing bright red.-

  The red glow sank into the ground and a moment ter super hot magma exploded from all around Vul including where Gaia was standing. I admit the "while she 't move" part of my and hycological trick against Gaia to make her think dodging this move was actually possible. Iy I was aware that only something like protect could save one from this move so long as they were in range. Gaia had celed her iron defense in order to try and dodge which meant even though it wasn't supper effective against her it still hurt far more than if she finished her move.-

  She seemed to realize this if the gre I got was any indication while her carapace was faintly glowing and steaming from the heat. "Swagger then ch!" I anded and Vul immediately started to glow white as it snorted in a disdainful manner. I holy 't say how this move works but it does for some reason. Gaia immediately grows angry and fused while her form seems to grow slightly rger from the buff in attack. Vul immediately follows up with ch as ordered which much like bite covers it's fa dark type energy.-

  ch differed from bite however in that the dark type energy was much stronger and covered a wider area as well. In other words it was like an upgraded version of bite that also had the added bonus of having a small possibility to lower the oppos defeat. Vul leapt forward and the giant bck purple energy jaws closed around Gaia's mid se causio cry out in pain. Her eye were quickly losing focus and she was uneasy on her feet meaning she was close to getting knocked out. -

  I didn't give Vul any more orders but I didn't o either as Gaia grit her teeth iermination and cried out "LAR!" before a huge spike in energy erupted from her body ing her in a huge rainbow colored orb of energy that rested in mid air a few feet above the ground. "At a girl!" I cheered with a wide smile. Even Vul seemed to be happy faia though I was unsure weather that was because this meant her power was closer to it's or not. This transformation was nowhere near as fast as depicted in the games and took nearly a whole hour to finish.-

  I wasn't surprised that it took so loher sin evolution was just as the name suggested so it taking a bit of time was to be expected. The end of the evolution wasn't all that grand as the "co" of energy simply turned into fkes of light that fell away until the ehing was gone revealing Gaia's new form to the world. To my great surprise she wasn't light purple like shiny Pupitar normally are at all but rather steel grey with light purple stripes like a tiger.-

  Other than that she looked the same as any other Pupitar minus the fact that she was twelve feet tall from top to bottom. Gaia didn't get the ce to celebrate her evolution however as exhaustion overcame her and she fell to the ground knocked out. I chuckled at that aurned her to her ball sihat was the only way she was getting back to the cave. While she was there I checked her status s and leasantly surprised.

  [Pokemon: Larvitar{Gaia}

  LEVEL:30

  Moveset: Bite(E) , Leer(A) , Sandstorm(E) , Iron defense(Egg Move)(E) , screech(E) , rock slide(E)scary face(A) , thrash(A) , dark pulse(J) , payback(A) , rock polish(J) , metal cw(J) , sand bomb(J) , )

  Variations: Royal , Shiny(stage 2)

  Attack:90

  Defense:90

  Sp. Atk:65

  Sp. Def:70

  Speed:50

  Ability: Sand veil(J) , shed skin(N)]

  There was a couple of pretty big ges iatus s woing over for crity. The first was of course the ge in the shiny variation Gaia had went from pin to type two. I actually had to really go digging for this o eventually found out that shiny variation had well variations.-

  A stage two shiny was ohat basically got a drastically different coloration from the standard color s of shinyism (is that a word? Fuck it! it is now.) Basically it was the cooler looking improved version of the shiny variation. Apparently all variations had the ability to do this if the pokemon exceeded it's racial norm in some mahrough training. Not sure what Gaia exceeded on herself since I am not an expert in pokemon stats but good news is good news. The final big ge woing over was the fact that she actually kept her sand veil ability after evolving instead of sing to just having the shed skin standard of her species.