There were a few moments of silence as the two trainers had a mini staring contest. Clair was clearly waiting for Lia to give a command and Lia seemed to be in a similar position. Fenne kept making glances to it's trainer as it waited for instruction but Trix seemed to be expecting something.
"A Fennekin..." Lia's voice trailed off. Lia put a slight change of tone as she named the Pokemon. Trix seemed to have noticed this, his ears perking up but gave no other sign that anything was different and remained glaring at Fenne. Lia had discovered some time ago that it really helped being subtle about communicating a plan of action between trainer and Pokemon. Clair apparently dismissed the remark before Lia continued. "Yeah, I guess that suits you..." The blue eyes of Clair narrowed to slits trying to figure out the point of what was being said, but rather than replying she issued an attack.
"Flame charge!" The fire type almost seemed to have spontaneously combusted and it charged towards Trix with more speed than it had displayed earlier.
"Fury swipes!" The zorua readied himself and just before the attack hit, he leaped up and shifted to look exactly like Fenne, who was completely confused after bringing it's fiery charge to a stop and turning to face Trix again. Albeit, not for very long, as Trix was charging after, his fennekin claws were holding the same glow as when he used fury swipes before. Within the moment of hesitation that the confusion brought, Trix had landed 4 good blows to his opponent before the Fennekin recovered and landed a ember attack in close range right onto Trix, sending him flying back. The illusion had worn off and Trix was now a Zorua again and he stood, catching his breath and Fenne seemed to be doing the same.
"Use ember again," There was a slight note of uncertainly as Clair spoke, but the fire type was compliant and it reared up to launch the attack. Trix dodged said attack with a high leap into the air and he landed nimbly not long after.
"You're going great buddy," Lia praised, Trix replied with a "Zoru!' shout, as if to say 'obviously'. Aurelia cracked a small genuine smile, enjoying the battle. "Don't let him hit you, use pursuit!" The Zorua raced towards his target.
"Flame charge." Clair seemed to be growing impatient at this point, or at least, there was a change of tone that resembled impatience. Fenne did what he did earlier, cloaking himself in flames and charging forward, even faster this time.
"Trix" Lia shouted vaguely, but it seemed that the Zorua had an idea of what it was being told to do. As the two pokemon ended up rushing towards each other, Trix turned away while there was still some distance between the two, now apparently focused on avoiding the attack. With the Fennekin gaining on him, he stopped and created a illusion to make himself look like the largest pokemon he had ever seen, which was a Hariyama. At this point, Fenne was used to the fact that his opponent could change his appearance by will and kept on charging. Trix, just as the Fennekin had his course set shifted once more into a... Flabebe? From the apparent size change, he was hard to locate initially, but could be seen landing onto the ground and shifting back into his normal form. Before the fennekin was able to relocate his opponent, Trix charged full force into Fenne from behind. Fenne, it seemed, was unable to battle.
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1) Fury swipes
2) Critical hit