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Debonaire Dragonair/VS Dragonair

VS ハクリュー

VS Hakuryu

Info

Series

Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Blackthorn City Blackthorn Gym Dragon's Den

Debonaire Dragonair or VS Dragonair (Japanese: VS ハクリュー VS Hakuryu) is the 123rd round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

The evening after Crystal starts looking for Suicune, it appears in Blackthorn City thinking about the Gym Leaders.

At the Blackthorn Gym, Clair is battling her apprentice Ryu. Ryu is using a Seadra and Clair is using her Kingdra. Seadra uses Twister, then Smokescreen. Clair switches out Kingdra for her Dragonair and has it use Safeguard, protecting itself. Then it uses DragonBreath, knocking out Seadra and defeating Ryu. He mentions that she is the Gym Leader of Blackthorn City and the grandchild of the leader of the clan. When Clair wonder if there is anyone who is strong enough to battle her, Ryu mentions that she once lost to her cousin Lance. She lashes out at him and tells him to never speak of him. While heading to the Dragon's Den, Clair wonders where her cousin went.

Upon arriving at the Dragon's Den, Clair calls out to the Dragon Pokémon to battle with her. Three Dragonite and three Gyarados rise out of the water, but do not attack. Instead, they make way for Clair peacefully. Suddenly, Suicune appears and attacks. Clair jumps onto Dragonair's head. Dragonair blocks Suicune's attack with its tail, but one of the crystal balls on its tail shatters. Suicune jumps behind Clair and creates a mist. Clair, seeing a silhouette, has Dragonair use DragonBreath on it. Suicune jumps out of the way, and the sound it makes causes Clair to think its body is made of crystal. She then throws a Great Ball at it, but the Great Ball bounces off. Clair sees the block of ice she attacked and realizes the real one is in the mist. She turns around and sees Suicune, who promptly uses Bubble Beam, defeating her. Suicune then leaves.

Afterwards, Clair's grandfather and the chief appear. Clair's grandfather talks in a language that only the chief can understand.

"Hmmahmhm, hmma." (You fought a Suicune.) "It's one of the legendary Pokémon of the Burned Tower. It has awakened at last and, as the prophecy foretold, set out upon its journey to places unknown." "Mahha hamma hamma." (It is said that Suicune tests Pokémon Trainers it deems worthy of the challenge.)

Clair wonders if Suicune is searching for a Trainer.

Major events

• Suicune begins its journey of finding a worthy master.
• Clair is the first Gym Leader Suicune fights.

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

• Clair

Characters

Humans

• Erika (fantasy)
• Sabrina (fantasy)
• Morty (fantasy)
• Chuck (fantasy)
• Pryce (fantasy)
• Clair
• Ryu/Ron
• Dragon Clan Elder
• Chief

Pokémon

• Kingdra (Clair's)
• Dragonair (Clair's)
• Seadra (Ryu's)
• Suicune (Adventures)
• Dragonite (×3)
• Gyarados (×3)

Trivia

• In the Chuang Yi version, Lance is referred to as Clair's brother instead of cousin.

Errors

• In the Chuang Yi version, Blackthorn is misspelled as Blackhorn in two panels.
• In the Chuang Yi version, Clair's name is misspelled as "Claire" when Ryu mentioned Lance being the only Trainer Clair lost to.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		VS 哈克龍 (Taiwan) VS 哈克龙 (Mainland China)
European French		Le défi de Suicune
Korean		VS 신뇽
European Spanish		Contra Dragonair

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.