Chapter 4

VV could hear Shadow grinding his teeth as he picked up his Poochyena.

"She must have cheated..." He mentioned to himself under his breath.

"What did you just say?" VV's hands were on her hips, and Patch frowned because he didn't like VV's unhappiness.

"I said nothing." Shadow lied.

"You said I cheated, didn't you?" VV guessed what Shadow had said partly because she heard bits and pieces of what he said and partly because she though he had a big ego.

"I didn't say anything."

"Sure you didn't..." VV stated sarcastically as she rolled her eyes. "Stop sulking. I beat you fair and square. "

VV quickly turned to Sonic, obviously back to her giddy self. "Guess what,Sonic?"

Sonic shrugged." What?"

"I heard about this contest in Jublife City. Top three winners get to be in a movie!"

"What kind of contest?"

"A Pokemon Contest, of course! The second round is battling, so if you and your Charmander can wow the judges in the appeal round, it'll be perfect training for your battle with Roark in Oreburg."

"Cool!"

"Yup! The 6 pokemon who win- Uh oh..."

"Huh?"

"The battles are double battles, and you only have one pokemon!"

"Well, I'll find one. When's the contest?"

"Two days from now..." VV froze up.

"Two days?!" Sonic screamed in shock.

Shadow thought that the pair screaming was entertaining and could hardly hold in his laughter, even though he wasn't the type to laugh at anything. So much so, that he didn't even notice something rather important.

"Shadow! Pay attention will you?" VV's hands were on her hips again. "Look! It's a flock of Grass type Pokemon! "

Sonic was already looking at them, his eyes glimmering with excitement. Maybe the contest wasn't down the tubes after all!

"VV! Which one should I try to catch?"

"Doesn't matter! Just pick one,and I'll help you though the battle!"

"That one!" Sonic was clearly very interested in this one, a Shroomish.

"A Shroomish it is then. Good choise! They usually don't appear around here..."

Before Sonic could even call out an attack, somebody was screaming.

"Get...it...off!" Shadow was frozen solid from paralysis of a wild Seedot's Nature Power. It clung to his head tightly.

"Sonic! Tell your Charmander to use Scratch on Seedot! Shroomish will have to wait!"

Sonic nodded. "Now! Charmander! Scratch that Seedot!"

Charmander lunged for Seedot , claws shot out in front of him.

"Charmander! Char! Char!" It screeched his battle cry.

Seedot was taking a serious beating.

"Sonic ,stop!" Sonic quickly had Charmander finish off his rally of attacks. "Let's have the Poke Ball finish this off!"

The red and white ball tossed and turned before it finally stopped. VV had caught the Seedot.

"You have it. I don't need it." VV shoved the Poke Ball at Shadow until she forced him to take it. "He likes you."

Shadow grunted as he put the ball somewhere VV just couldn't figure out. Seeing Seedot captured, all of the grass types fled, with the excpetion of a Shroomish. VV could tell this was the one Sonic wanted to catch,for her gut feeling is usually right.

"Sonic, I think Shroomish wants to battle."

"Right!" Sonic pulled out one of the Poke Balls Professor Rowan gave him.

"Try using Ember! It's super-effective on Grass types like Shroomish here!"

"Let's go Charmander! Jump into the air and use Scratch! Get behind Shroomish!"

Shroomish quickly jumped forward to use Tackle, but Charamander was behind him! The mushroom like pokemon had no time to dodge Charmander's next attack.

"Now! Ember!"

Charmander shot fire out of its mouth ,and like VV said, it was super effective. As the Grass type struggled to get up, Sonic swiftly threw the sphere, capturing Shroomish before you could have even said Shroomish.

"Nice technique, Sonic. The gym badge is practically already in your hand!" VV grinned. " We better start practicing those three spots ain't ours yet!"

"Three? Don't you mean two?" Shadow growled.

"No I said three and I meant three."

"What if I don't want to?"

"What if I have Pepi maul you until you say yes?" VV tossed the Poke Ball up and down.

Shadow had obviously had enough pokemon beating on him for one day. "Fine, but I won't like it."

"Good. That's what I wanted to hear. To Jublife City we go!"