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The judges’ decision came to declare Shalin as the winner through a time-out. Elise doesn’t hold it against the other woman that Shalin and Queen Zing did their best together. Returning her tired Mismagius inside her Moon Ball, the royal ambassador embraced Shalin back. “You did great too, Shalin. I was sure that I would be a little close to winning at that second.” Facing her fear with Queen Zing in the middle of the battlefield would make the ambassador feel a little better though the memories of her childhood fear still remain.[break][break]

“I would be delighted to, Shalin. We haven’t spoken to each other much, so I am curious to see how you will do in the sixth round of your match-up.” Elise replies back to the green-haired woman with a smile. She might have to cheer Shalin on in the crowd somewhere or watch one of those matches on stream too.

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For an explained reason, his Absol had anticipated the Thunderbolt and dodged out of the bolt’s way. The Mismagius’ mouth gives a frown since she had hoped her electric type attack would hit the dark type, but the incoming attack from the female Absol makes a surprise from the ghost. Cordy’s Night Slash hits the Mismagius for super effective damage and Mana screeches from the pain. Moving a bit back from the Absol, Mana’s red eyes watch for another move on the Absol.[break][break]

“Hit back with Power Gem!” Elise orders her ghost type Pokemon and her Mismagius cackles with the female ghost’s chest jewels glowing white. In seconds, the Power Gem’s move tries to strike at the female Absol with an array of sharp magic rocks from the Mismagius casting her spell! [break][break]

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She tunes into one of Josh Devlin 's matches with another challenger on her smartphone to watch for a bit after finishing her lunch at the cafe since his Zeraora was his strongest battler. Elise did get the highest praise she can get from her fellow gym leader and she was happy to stay in the Minor League to train some more. The notification from her smartphone lets her know that she has a match to get to as her Mismagius nudges her to one of the open air arenas nearby.[break][break]

The name of the challenger was Aaron Faust, a person she hadn’t met with before. When her opponent arrives not long after the royal ambassador and her Mismagius settle into their positions in the arena, Elise bows her head in greeting. “It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Elise Calcifet.” [break][break]

Of course, the princess doesn’t skip out on her own manners as a member of the Galarian royal family.

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While she had met with the other woman at the league holiday party only once, the ambassador is happy to see the silver-haired woman again. “Hello to you too, Illeana. It’s nice to see you again.” She gives Illeana a smile and responds to the woman’s second statement with a nod. “I’m looking forward to seeing what you got as well.” So far, she had gotten bested by Josh and Shalin who were able to go to the next round in their matches. For the partner Pokemon that Illeana brought with her, a little Eevee barks in greeting.[break][break]

Elise’s Mismagius joins up with her mistress as Mana greets the Eevee with an excited sound that sounded like she was chanting a magic spell. “I’m ready too. Your Eevee is very cute, but I should think it’s a great battler.” Elise responds to the silver-haired woman while her Mismagius gets into her battle position to face Illeana’s Eevee in battle.

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While the Mystical Fire washes over the exhausted Zeraora, the referee stops them since the match winner was decided through time-out. She doesn’t think that the last move didn’t net them the win and that their last stand was in vain. Sure enough, she could hear the name of her boss in the referee’s call too when time had saved the thunder cat from being defeated.[break][break]

“The winner is Josh Devlin from Mauville City!”[break][break]

Elise closes her eyes for a small moment, the feeling of hopelessness started to wash over her. When she opens her eyes and returns her tired Mismagius inside her Moon Ball, the female royal takes Josh’s hand. “You were very good too. Now I’ve seen Raikiri in battle when he’s not racing.” A smile came on the ambassador’s face when she’s glad to have the match with him. “Thank you, Josh. I wish you good luck too on whoever you’re paired up with in other matches and I’ll watch you too.”[break][break]

After giving Josh his handshake, the ambassador goes to meet up with her next opponent in the tournament at the other arena and her Mismagius follows.

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“I did not see any more of those Iron Bundles coming after me, no. If they did harass me, Mana would have taken care of them herself.” A little laugh came from the ambassador since she knows they won’t be attacking her as long as her Mismagius had anything to say about it. The bell rang to let her know that it was the start of their battle as Jack’s Absol began with Swords Dance. It was a move that increased the attack of one Pokemon though since the Pokemon Jack used was a dark type that Elise owned herself, she had to be careful.[break][break]

“We should start too.” The Galarian royal spoke over to her ghost type and called out the first attack. “Thunderbolt now!” As soon as the command was given, the floating ghostly witch cackles and her red chest jewels glow bright yellow as Mana sends a Thunderbolt to rain down onto the Absol. [break][break]

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In her time as royal ambassador to Galar, the minor Galarian aristocrats that settled in Hoenn with their children didn’t appear to be adverse to their sons and daughters training their Pokemon. She’s always happy to see the little ones with their small basic stage Pokemon run around though some of these children were slightly under the age of being a trainer. [break][break]

“Take it as well.” When her mistress ordered, the ghost takes the Payback move from the Bewear and feels the sharp pain of the attack increasing in power. “Now, let’s show them how we fight. Psychic!” The royal ambassador gives her second order of attack as the Mismagius’ three chest jewels glow bright blue with her body taking the blue aura to release a strong Psychic blast towards Kazuya’s Bewear![break][break]

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Though she had refused to get a badge from CIAN MAHER here since she wanted to earn it in a future gym challenge with the guy, the ambassador had ate her fill of lunch at a Paldean sandwich place before she heads over to where her match with her challenger would be. Stepping into her place at the arena, Elise sees the familiar face of Jack Napier who she met last December to cull the amount of those damnable Iron Bundles and save Christmas. [break][break]

By her side, the floating female Mismagius yawns a little and looks over to the Absol beside the white-haired young man. “Good day, Jack. I think you are my opponent for this match.” The dark magenta haired woman bowed her head in greeting to Jack. “I would hope our match will be fun for both of our Pokemon to partake in.”

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The Electro Balls stop from the thunder cat to the Zeraora only sending in one Electro Ball. In this final round, everything would go to the victor and Elise had to surpass Josh if she wanted to prove her worth in the Hoenn league. Surpassing her boss and the Mauville gym leader himself meant that she had improved on her battling skills from the last time in the conflict at Route 105’s island. That Rocket lady who injured her would be wrong now.[break][break]

Elise was stronger than she was then.[break][break]

In meeting with the Zeraora’s electric attack, the floating witch ghost’s chest jewels glow bright red as Mana sends a fiery Mystical Fire and attempts to make the match for those watching in Mauville an even exciting one in the finale. Blue flames release themselves from the fiery ring to head straight towards the battered thunder cat![break][break]

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While the pink crystal terastalization protects the Mismagius from the venom from the giant shiny Beedrill’s last attack, the mega evolution’s energy had run out on Queen Zing which would give the ghost some time to think on which move to use for this round. On the Vital Gear, the score was 2-1 which meant that Elise needed to mount a little comeback to get back on the lead. She did have fun in battling it out with the ranger captain of Rustboro City nonetheless![break][break]

A white glow came onto the chest jewels of the Mismagius’ robe as it’ll send a barrage of rocks launched from Power Gem towards the gigantic shiny Beedrill. The Twineedle ends up missing the floating ghost as she moves out of the way of the needles being shot out. [break][break]

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After leaving the lakeside and going into the other wooded area, it would not be long until the ambassador and her Dragonair find an old Johtonian looking shrine in a large clearing with spruce trees surrounding it. A wooden table is next to the shrine and bowls of tea were inside. Working on one of the tea in the bowl was a lone wild Poltchageist and when it sees the ambassador and her Dragonair approach, the little ghost hides behind the shrine.[break][break]

“Are you shy around people? I’m sorry about that. Knowing you, I also know what it is like to be shy and timid around other people.” Elise kindly spoke over to the timid little ghost and looks down to the tea. “I like the tea that you brewed here. It looks really good, but I won’t taste it if you were still working.” As the wild Poltchageist peeks out from behind the shrine, it floats slowly from behind the shrine and shows itself.[break][break]

A smile came from the royal ambassador when she sees it come out. “Did you want me to help you?” The Poltchageist nods and the princess gets to work on the other bowl that it wasn’t working on while the Poltchageist floats over to work on its own. Though it was normally shy, the ghost was actually a bit more comfortable around her now.[break][break]

Her hands would skillfully stir the tea and the tea leaves together to brew into a green tea worthy of her maternal grandmother’s attention. Finishing the green tea, the Galarian royal looks over to the Poltchageist stirring the tea and the tea leaves with its hand, so she watched the ghost finishing the tea itself.[break][break]

“That wasn’t so bad now.” Elise smiles down to the Poltchageist as Bavsargra looks over to the other bowls of green tea with curiosity. “If you come with me, I can have you help with making the tea for every season.” [break][break]

The wild Poltchageist ponders over the offer and after it thinks on it, the ghost confirms its answer with a happy noise. [break][break]

When Elise takes out a Dusk Ball from her pack, her gloved hand takes it out for the wild Poltchageist to get inside. “I’m happy that you came around for me. I loved doing tea ceremonies ever since I was a child.” [break][break]

As the hand of the wild Poltchageist presses on the button of the Dusk Ball, the red light sucks in the ghost type Pokemon.

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The battle was now finished with the body of the Hisuian Samurott marred by the flames and Yuina had a lot of fun with their match too. “I’m glad we got to battle each other like this too. You did good as well, Yuina, and I hope we can do it again sometime.” The ambassador smiles at the other woman and gives her Mismagius a pat on her head for a good job. With the day being in the late afternoon, Elise waves good-bye and leaves the arena to get something to eat for some lunch at a burger place. [break][break]

Because nothing would make her ghost happier than to give her a burger to eat.

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The match had been really close with the total on Elise’s Vital Gear showing that they both have 1 HP each for each of their Pokemon. Her Mismagius watches the Hisuian Samurott attempt its final Razor Shell as the attack would work through the flames. Mana knows what to do, she floats up as she watched the Samurott slash through the fire and cackled. The three red jewels on the chest of the ghost glow red as she creates another ring of blue fire.[break][break]

And that fiery ring releases another Mystical Fire towards the Hisuian Samurott. Blue fire tries to finish off the other Pokemon that she wasn’t able to in the last round.[break][break]

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