Disclaimer: I do own Pokémon, not yet.

A/N: Hello all, welcome back. This is the start of a brand new Pokémon arc, so I hope you like it as much as the last one. This is the Orange Island Archipelago arc, though it may be the shortest of the arcs I hope you will find it as enjoyable as the first one. Without further ado, let's get on.

A Champion

He landed atop his Dragon remembering the last time he had a good battle.

It was at least four years ago, that was also the last battle he lost.

Since then every trainer had not been as up to par, they had been too easy, no other trainer had even reached his Dragonite.

He returned his Dragonite and walked toward the battlefield.

One time he had almost a whole year with no challengers, the trainers weren't skilled enough to take on him, they weren't able to beat the Orange islands four gyms.

The boy who beat him came with Pokémon that were not native to the Orange islands, they were from another region, a region further away that Kanto.

This boy battled with so much ferocity, it was hard to tell if the boy was angry or it was just his battling style.

No doubt Drake liked the battle as it gave him some self of adventure something he hadn't experienced in a while. Something he almost yearned for.

Drake jumped off his Dragonite and made his way to the stone torch that was embedded into one of the stadiums walls, there were peices of ash in the torch still smouldering.

Drake knew that if Moltres didn't show soon it would be a bad year, and he didn't want another bad year.

Any minute now the next challenger would come to face him, he saw the boy with all four badges in the palm of his hand off the coast of this island.

Flashback*

A boy with striking red hair that was in a mess came onto the battlefield as if he didn't care that he was there.

'Welcome to the Orange Islands Pokémon league, congratulations on making it this far, but you know I won't take it easy on you.' Drake said.

The boy didn't say anything, he just had his head hung.

He took out his first Pokéball and threw it onto the field.

Drake wondered why this boy didn't seem like he cared about this battle, not many people could say they have won in the Orange Archipelago Pokémon league.

Flashback*

Drake knew that this league was different from the other Pokémon leagues. This league wasn't set like the others. You have a year to win all eight badges and compete in the Pokemon league, but in this Pokémon league if you have beaten all four Gyms you can go straight to battle Drake.

Another difference was that the only member of this Pokémon league was the champion, Drake.

The Gyms were challenge enough, they were not like normal Pokémon battles, they weren't just battling, they showed that both Pokémon and trainer had skill.

It made sense that the first three Gym leaders had water type Pokémon since they were in the Orange island archipelago so they were surrounded by water.

But the leader of Kumquat islands Gym preferred to use Pokémon that were not from the water type category.

Drake had travelled to all the other islands in the Orange archipelago, but not all islands were that similar.

Most people would assume that since the islands are classed as an archipelago people would call it a region and have a belief that all the Pokémon were the same, but it was known that no two islands hold the same type of Pokémon, each island shows a Pokémon that might have a noticeable difference. Not all Pokémon were like this, but Drake knew that this was not uncommon Hmong these islands.

That's what the professor here did.

Like all regions they each had a professor, this regions professor was professor Felina Ivy.

She studied the physiological differences in Pokémon on the many different islands and why they were different.

The professor resides on Valencia island, but she does travel quite a lot, she does have a good expanse of Pokémon in the lagoon, or Pokémon reserve. All the Pokémon there are kept safe and are forbidden to capture, it's not just there, a few islands in the archipelago do that to ensure the diversity of the Pokémon doesn't change it would traumatically change the way the people and Pokémon live on these islands.

Drake loved travelling the island when he had time, it was good to get away from his post of being champion, plus those challengers could always wait, not all battles he had were as soon as the challenger got to the league stadium.

Drake had to admit that in the last few years that the stadium he battled in had changed dramatically, not only was it much larger and could hold more people it had become much more modernised.

Before his stadium was built it was dusty and it had two almost semicircular sandstone stands that could about fifty people at a maximum.

Now his stadium stands were at least five meters from the battlefield lines. The battlefield was now grass also.

The stadium was round and it had two entrances, one on each side, his and the challengers. The stadium could hold at least a thousand spectators. The spectators had a circle roof above them while the middle of that circle was missing.

Drake believed that every trainer he battled could battle in any weather, so he didn't ask for a roof over the battlefield only over the spectators.

The Orange islands league had grown more popular in the last ten years and this helped Drake build a stadium that he now stood in, true it was vacant at this point, but Drake had never seen it so empty in the last three years it had been standing.

Drake thought his team was good and strong, an all rounded good solid team, sure he had weaknesses, but he also had those covered.

Though his pride Pokémon was Dragonite, that didn't mean that he didn't take pride in his other Pokémon, they were all huge assets, but he believed that Dragon Pokémon were the best.

Drake was told a few hours ago by Kumquats island Gym leader Luana that there was a new challenger on the way, so Drake flew back to where his stadium was and was now waiting for either the stands to fill up, or the challenger to appear. Drake had learnt that not all challengers had many spectators, some didn't even have one, but Drake didn't mind, he wasn't here for the spectators he was here for a good battle, a good time with a trainer that was worthy to battle him.

It was true that the Orange island Gym leaders were the hardest to beat as they not only had skills, but they weren't bad at battling either.

Drake hadn't noticed, but a few spectators had entered the stands.

He stood in his battle box.

Another trainer was to enter the stadium now.

He saw only three spectators in the stands.

One had black hair that fell just to cover his ears. He had a red headband that covered the GOP of his forehead and kept his hair up.

He wore a green t-shirt and red shorts. To the left of him was a girls with chocolate brown hair that fell to her armpits. She was wearing a white sun hat with a baby pink bow on it. She was wearing a mint green top and a white skirt that fell to just above her knees.

There was a second girl to the first girls left, this girl had blond hair that fell to just below her shoulders, she wore a cream fedora hat a green t-shirt and a fluffy pink jacket that had a hood. She was also wearing blue denim shorts that fell to halfway up between her knee and hips. She had a Pikachu sitting on her lap. Drake could see the Pikachu had a pink bow at the base of its left ear.

I wondered the challenger that would have only three spectators.

A boy with black hair and a red and white cap came in, he had a black short sleeved t-shirt with grey outlines, he had a green jacket hoodie with a single white stripe going along the sleeves. He was also wearing blu faded jeans. His trainers were white and red. He had a Pikachu on his shoulder. The boy had a grey messenger bag and the Pokéball belt was around his waist, he had a premier ball and a great ball strapped to it.

'Hello, challenger. My name is Drake, I am the champion of the Orange islands league.' Drake welcomed the challenger.

I know this is extremely short, but it didn't need to be long it introduces one of the characters, plus I thought it would be okay for you to see someone elses point of view and not Jordans, but rest assured next chapter will be longer, in Jordans point of view and a year before this event takes place.

Anyway, until next time.