Me: No one guessing who Harry is? :( Oh well, its revealed in this chapter anyway.

Chapter 10

A boy, around 13 years old sat in the quietest corner of the prep room. He had green hair, Brown eyes, and wore a Tux, for the contest. Sitting next to him was a Roselia and a Vibrava.

"Well, Rose and Fly, looks like we have dad's old rivals friends kid in this contest, easy to beat, hehe…" He smirked.

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Pearl and Alessandra had stopped cheering and started to get ready for the battle round.

"Ok, unlucky us don't have any other Pokèmon to use, so the same ones, damn." Alessandra said.

"Actually, I have a Chikorita too; we got two starters as my dad's the Professor." Pearl grinned. Alessandra scowled.

"Aww man! That sucks!" She pouted.

"You did too!"

"One of mine's only just hatched, I can't use him yet! Oh! The match ups are ready!" Alessandra exclaimed.

"Ok! Here are the first round match ups!" Lillian announced.

The eight pictures turned over and shuffled around, then turned back so you could see the faces, lines appeared showing who was against who. To the friends' horror, they were pitted against each other.

"What?!" The both exclaimed.

"We-" Pearl started.

"-have-" Alessandra added

"-to face-"

"-each other?!" Alessandra finished. "OMG!" The two friends stared at each other.

"Well, I'm gonna win!" Pearl smiled.

"Don't count on it!"

Soon it was time for their battle.

They walked out onto the stage, both still worried about battling their friend.

"We have 5 minutes on the clock, now, let's, get, BUSY!"

"Go Piplup!" Pearl said. The small blue penguin popped out surrounded by pink and blue bubbles spinning around it. Then Piplup pretended to swim in the air, popping the bubbles with peck, making everyone laugh, again.

"C'mon out Blaze!" Alessandra shouted. The Chimchar popped out, surrounded by red flames and sparkles. He did a spin in the air and kicked all the flames making them burst into sparkles. Blaze landed on the ground after doing a back flip in the air. The girls nodded at each other and called out an attack each.

"Piplup use bubble beam!"

"Use ember while spinning!

The ember surrounded Blaze, creating the same wall of fire from the appeal round. The bubbles hit the wall, extinguishing them but not managing to reach Blaze.

"Now use Flame wheel!" The Chimchar breathed fire from its mouth and did a gambol, making the flame surrounded the whole of him as he rolled towards Piplup.

"Quick, use bubble beam to extinguish the flame wheel!"

The bubbles fired yet again, trying to stop the attack, which would do little damage anyway.

(I apologize if this is crap, but I'm rubbish at battles, I'm gonna skip til there's 1 minutes left, sorry Legendary Fairy if you wanted a big battle….)

Both girls had only about ¼ of their points left on the board.

"Now were down to the one minute mark! Which of these two girls, both in their debut, will win?" Lillian said.

"Use scratch Blaze!" Alessandra commanded.

"Quick use peck Piplup!" Pearl ordered. Piplup's beak grew and shone white. The super effective attack managed to hit, making the already exhausted fire type to fall back unconscious.

3 X's appeared on the judges screens.

"So Pearl Oak advances to the semi-finals!" Lillian announced.

"Yes! We won! W-hooo!" Pearl cheered. Piplup jumped up and down with her. Alessandra smiled at her friend, returning her fainted Pokèmon and walked back to the changing rooms to get back into her usual outfit.

Pearl noticed her friend leave and followed.

"Alessandra?" She asked when she came back from getting dressed.

"Hey,"

"Are you Ok?"

"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?"

"You lost your first contest, to me, your friend, if it was me who lost I wouldn't be ok." Pearl said.

"I'll be ok, we're all gonna lose at least once, and, you had the advantage too." Alessandra smiled.

"Yup, now you stay here with me, I'm not sitting here on my own."

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Ruby was in shock after the battle that had just occurred.

"Whoa, I never saw that coming." Ruby said.

"Why?" Torchix asked.

"'Cause I didn't, so stop being a nosey Pokèmon."

"Hmph."

About 15minutes later the other battles were over and it was about to be revealed who Pearl would be facing.

The 4 cards on the screen mixed around before stopping and turning over, showing the next match-ups.

Kerrie Hanson was up against someone called Thomas Donald. Leaving Pearl up against Harry Blackthorne.

Ruby's eyes widened in shock as she suddenly recognised the name of the boy Pearl was against.

"Blackthorne? I know that name…"

Flashback….

A younger Ruby was sitting in the living room with her 2yr old baby sister asleep next to her. Suddenly her mother burst through the front door crying. Her father had heard and ran over to her, grabbing her in a hug.

"May, what's wrong? What's happened?!" He exclaimed, May continued to sob.

"D-Drew…"

"What about him?"

"I was walking to the shops, and he came up to me, we started talking and he bloody kissed me! He has a wife and a 9yr old son for god's sake! He just won't stop trying to make me love him, when I love you and only you! He wouldn't stop, I had to kick his nuts to stop him, I couldn't brake away! " May sobbed. "I only hope his son Harry doesn't turn out l-like h-him…" Ash suddenly let her go, his hands clenched into tight fists, blood seeping from between his fingers. "Ashy?"

"That bloody *******! Blackthorne is gonna pay, I swear!" He yelled.

Poor Ruby was getting scared at her father's anger, and quickly ran off upstairs, neither of her parents noticing as May kissed him to stop his outburst.

End of Flashback… (Weird I know…)

"So, she's facing mom's rival's son?!" Ruby yelled suddenly.

"WTH?!"

"Torchix, shut up. Pearl's going against mom's rival's son, and from what I remember about mom and dad's conversations about her rival, he wasn't nice. I think he split with his wife last year."

"Whoa, rough."

"Uh-uh. He's a jerk, mean man from what I remember about mom and dad's conversations about him. Drew I think his name was…"

"Ah well. IDK, let's just watch the battles!"

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Me: Well, only 1 battle in this chapter, but I hope you liked it! R&R!