Rota City is located on the mountain ridge north of Mt. Moon. Its main attraction is the Cameran Palace, which is a large ancient castle located on the island in the middle of a beautiful clear blue lake. A high bridge in the lake was built from the shore to the island in the middle of the lake.
Since it's a Pokémon battle celebration related to Aura Guardians and Ash remembered there was a movie or something like that about it, he and the rest of the group of course went to join in the fun.
From the moment Misty's three sisters arrived at the bridge, they quickly put on the costumes they brought. They said their goodbyes with the group and left along with the crowd on their own. On the contrary, Ash and his group, who were still wearing casual clothes, seemed a little out of place.
"I get it! To participate in this event, you have to wear befitting clothes!" May was very excited, but also a little troubled. Before they left, she asked if the sisters had any extra clothes to lend her, but their answer left her somewhat depressed.
Brock looked at the travel guide book and said with a smile, "May, don't worry, there are large rooms prepared for traveling Trainers like us in the city!"
For such a big celebration, there must obviously be rental clothing, so Ash was not worried. Instead, he smiled and said, "Max, look at your new PokéNav. There should be a legend about the past of this place."
"Oh yeah!" Max opened the PokéNav Ash higher him, "It really does have some long history!"
It turns out that a long time ago, in an era when there were no Poké Balls, there was a big war near this place.
Pokémon were covered in heavy armors and were used as soldiers and weapons.
The war raged on and became more and more intense, until both sides could no longer remember why they were fighting, only filled with rage, threatening to completely destroy everything there was.
Rota City, then known as the Kingdom of Rota, was caught in the flames of war, and was in immediate danger of being destroyed at any time by the two much larger and stronger neighboring kingdoms.
At this time, Aaron, known as an Aura Guardian, calmed down the hatred and anger of both armies with his mastery of the Aura Force. With the armies no longer wanting to battle, the war ended, and the crisis was finally resolved
From then on, the legend of the Aura Guardian has spread everywhere. Every once in a while, celebrations will be held here, now just Rota City, to praise the Aura Guardian Aaron. If one can win all the battles of this tournament, they will get the title of Aura Guardian and be respected as such… until the event ends.
It's a bit like the Whirl Islands tournament Ash and Misty competed in a while ago, where the winner also gets a rather cool title and gets Lugia's Blessing.
Well, other than the title, in that tournament, the blessing was real. Tho, the one Ash received from Maya, his dear girlfriend, was much stronger than any past ones.
But then again in comparison, the scale of the celebrations in Rota City was a little smaller, but as long as there are good battles involved, Ash would gladly come to take part in.
"Wow, are we going to choose our outfits here?"
When she came to the place where the clothes were rented, May immediately cheered up. Although the clothes here were not in the same pristine condition it would have been if they were the ones to bring it, they were still in very good condition, more than enough for them.
She quickly picked out an elegant dress. What attracted her was the Beautifly decorative buckle at the waist, which matched her very well.
Max and Brock also quickly changed into their own clothes, but their vision was quite different. They just dressed for fun, not to look like nobles.
But what caught Ash's eyes was the same kind of clothes as the legendary Aura Guardian Aaron. No matter in terms of body shape or style, it fit him very well, as if it was just customized for him specifically in mind.
But how can that be?
"Wow, Ash, this looks great on you!" May couldn't move her eyes away. Her boyfriend was full of heroic charm at this moment.
Just when Ash was changing his clothes, Pikachu found a random Pichu behind the curtain, but when he went over to take a look, he saw that it turned into a Treecko, jumped out of the window, climbed the wall and left.
Even someone like Pikachu was confused and left stunned for a while, but he didn't take it to heart when it came to these kinds of things, he experienced too much to stay like this.
Putting on the Aura Guardian clothes, Ash also dressed up by Pikachu, Eevee and Ralts around him.
Pikachu and Eevee wore the same hats as him and matching clothes, they looked very adorable to say the least.
His little girl Ralts was wearing a very cute little white dress, so he picked out a small pendant for her. The little one liked it very much.
May couldn't get enough of the trio's clothes, so she took lots of pictures to send to the other girls.
"The Pokémon battles are about to begin!" Brock urged as he looked at the time, and the group packed up and hurried to the venue.
The place is already buzzing with people, everyone looking forward to the start of the grand battles.
"We welcome Her Royal Highness Ilene, the Queen of Cameran Palace!" Just as everyone was expecting the battles to begin, a very elegant and beautiful young lady dressed in luxurious clothes appeared on the stage, holding a Mime Jr. in her arms.
This Mime Jr. is the form of Mr. Mime before it evolves. This is a Pokémon that can sense subtle changes in the opponent and immediately mimics those movements. It was rather cute, but who would've guessed this same Pokémon would evolve into Mr. Mime.
It and Her Highness Ilene waved in sync to everyone present, and then heard Her Highness Ilene announce, "The grand Pokémon Battles dedicated to the Aura Guardian who saved the world, Sir Aaron, begins!"
To Ash, for some reason he felt very attached to Ilene, even though he never met her. It was just like his first encounter with Maya… in fact, Ilene was even looking directly at him.
When the two looked at each other from a distance, Ash smiled and Ilene returned it. And she unexpectedly hid her face and stepped backwards.
'Ciel, babe, I knew I look handsome, but damn,' Ash called out.
[Uhhhh, my guess is that she's one of the people who are more tuned in with Aura than usual. So she can sense your vast reserves.] Ciel gave her two cents before going to bed.
Anyway, Ash was quite lucky as he was the first to battle. His opponent was dressed in a rather interesting looking costume, an ancient jester outfit.
"Eevee, let's go. This will be our first real battle together."
After this period of training, Ash knew that the level of his new Eevee was not low anymore, and it also had the ability known as Adaptability.
The ability Adaptability will increase the power of moves with the same type as the user. In other words, when his Normal-type Eevee uses a Normal-type attack, the power will be doubled.
Just when Ash sent out Eevee, the person opposite smiled triumphantly and threw out their Poké Ball, which turned out to be a Breloom, a Pokémon with the Fighting-type.
Normal-type Pokémon are very mediocre in terms of type resistance. Almost all the types have neutral effects on it. The highlight is that Normal-types are immune to Ghost-type attacks, and the same is true the other way around. Its only weakness is the Fighting-type.
But fighting against type weakness is exactly what Ash is an expert at.
"Eevee, Swift!"
Ash was not polite and went first. Eevee's Swift immediately dealt some heavy damage to Breloom, especially because the power was directly doubled.
"How is that possible?" The man in the armor exclaimed, and unfortunately he couldn't react at all with the next attack.
"Quick Attack!"
Ash didn't give him a chance for his opponent to counterattack at all.
The power of this Quick Attack was also doubled.
Breloom was knocked away and lost his fighting ability immediately. It couldn't even do a single thing about the battle.
The applause started, and no one noticed that a Treecko appeared next to His Highness Ilene's Mime Jr..
Just when Mime Jr. looked at it, it changed again and turned into another Mime Jr.!
The two Mime Jr.s instantly became friends. They were immediately mimicking each other and then Ilene. It was actually pretty cute.
Unfortunately this same thing would become a Mr. Mime if it decided to evolve.
The overall levels of the Pokémon Trainer participating in this competition were actually all pretty good, with most of them about the level of your average official Badge 5-7 ranges and some a little lower. However, the only one that caught Ash's attention in the first round was a person in armor who appeared last, using a Weavile. The Weavile in question was trained well, being very agile and had great overall combat power.
At the end of the tournament after many battles, this knight was also the one who had reached the finals along with Ash.
"Swift!"
Ash still used Swift to start the battle. This skill was one of the few that was always bound to hit. If the opponent wants to follow up with this move, they must react quickly enough.
However, without needing to hear any commands, Weavile used its claws to use Slash to directly cut all the Swift pieces repeatedly, which was actually very satisfying to watch.
"Weavile, use Icy Wind!"
This conniving and cool looking Pokémon was a dual Ice-type and Dark-type, and its Ice-type attacks are also one of the stronger ones amongst the overall Ice-types. It blew freezing wind from its palm, but Eevee easily avoided it, leaving only a piece of ice crystal on the ground.
"Take Down!"
Ash launched his kill switch this moment. The already powerful Take Down skill was far more terrifying with the help of an overpowered ability like Adaptability.
Eevee lowered her head, her speed suddenly increased, and she jumped and knocked Weavile away.
"Weavile, use Dark Pulse!"
After listening to the order, a medium sized dense dark ball with rings around it appeared in Weavile's palms, and before he could stabilize his body, he hit Eevee in the air.
However, Ash smiled and said, "Do you really think I haven't used that same thing before? Swift!"
Although the command of the Pokémon Trainer in front of him made full use of Weavile's advantages and the attack was airtight, after all, it was a hasty attack, making the power behind the move rather insufficient to do enough damage.
However, Eevee's Swift has still been strengthened with enough time and doubled with Adaptability, making its power far more astonishing. With just a couple mini stars, the Dark Pulse was crushed, and the love still had enough power to knock Weavile back again.
This was another decisive opportunity for Ash to end things for all. "Take Down to finish this!" Eevee boosted fast, her speed continued to increase. Weavile had been beaten to the point where it couldn't even react fast enough to its Trainers commands, so there was no way to avoid the oncoming minivan Eevee. Weavile was knocked out and lost its ability to fight the moment it hit the stone wall.
At that moment, there was thunderous applause from everywhere.