A/N: Things get started and explained in this chapter.

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Chapter 12- Inauguration

"The one and only Ash from Pallet Town!" Ash exclaimed with determination showing the siblings it really was him.

"I can't believe it! Where have you been?" Clemont asked in surprise as Bonnie tackled Ash into a hug.

"Training, Serena and Night also trained with me," Ash explained.

"So the rumors were true about you guys," Clemont said explaining what the rumors of Night and Serena vanishing after an event was.

"Well, still," Night added walking over to Clemont and Bonnie. "We are anonymous so do not tell anyone about us, even if they know Ash. When in public call me Antony, call Serena Juliette… and call Ash Romeo."

Clemont got the hint. He had noticed some affection during his travels with Serena and Ash but he did not expect it to somehow become a thing. Bonnie snickered, she understood it.

"I have to get out of this medical attire and into my normal look," Night said. "If you will excuse me, I will be right back!"

"Guys, why don't you help us with the pizza? I kinda won it," Serena asked inviting her friends.

"We'd be honored," Bonnie accepted and Clemont nodded. When Night came back looking like himself he went on to join the others for dinner. Since it was late, after they ate, Clemont and Bonnie went to their room while Ash, Serena and Night went to sleep. On the fourth bed, the two Pikachus, Sylveon and Jolteon went to sleep.

The next morning at 7:00 Ash, Night and Serena woke up rested, but the pokemon were still asleep. When the trio looked over they saw Serena's pikachu's head on Ash's pikachu's chest and right to that sylveon was doing the same with Jolteon.

The trio just looked at the scene and snickered as they left out the door for breakfast. Night then looked at Ash and Serena and practically had a heart attack.

"I'M NOT ANTONY!" he yelled in surprise while running off. "See you after my speech at the inauguration!" he yelled as he left leaving Serena and Ash alone.

"That was a close one," Serena remarked while walking with Ash.

"Yea, thank god he noticed," Ash added. "Hey Juliette, after we eat want to go play some games before inauguration?"

"Sure thing Romeo…" Serena said while blushing a bit. 'Did he just ask me out?' she asked herself.

Just then, the duo went and got some breakfast at a food stand. The food didn't last as both Ash and Serena were so hungry they finished in two bites.

"Juliette, let's play that game!" Ash exclaimed as he saw a game that included throwing a dart at a target.

"You want to play? You know you are better at these things," Serena asserted with a smile. Ash nodded and asked for some darts which the attendant gave him.

"Rules are simple, you have 3 chances to hit the middle and if you do you get a prize!" the attendant said.

"ok," Ash said as he stood back. Ash just simply threw all three darts and landed all of them on the bullseye, in fact, all of them were overlapping one stabbing the other.

"Uhhhhhh…" the the attendant said i'm surprise. "Pick a prize then!"

"Umm, can I have the fennekin one please?" Ash said choosing the Fennekin plushie and going over to Serena.

"Here Juliette, it's for you. I thought you might like it so I want you to keep it," Ash explained.

"Oh As- I mean Romeo, thank you," Serena said accepting the gift and blushing a bit.

'There it is again!' Ash thought to himself. 'Why do I make her blush so much?'

"Let's get going back to the main stadium, the inauguration is going to start soon!" Ash told his friend while involuntarily grabbing her hand to lead her there. Ash didn't notice this as they walked, but Serena was blushing violently to the point that she looked like a tomato berry.

"Here we are!" Ash said as they reached the entrance of the Colosseum. Ash finally let go of Serena's hand and he ran inside.

As Ash was running inside, he ran into someone face first… when Serena saw who it was she had a heart attack.

"Sorry," Ash said while bowing to show respect while apologising.

"Yea, that's right bow down to me and get on your knees loser," Callem called out. This made Ash furious.

"Hey! Don't talk to him like that!" Serena said coming over to defend Ash.

"What are you his girlfriend?" Callem replied venomously. "I bet you he can't even please you one bit."

"I don't see your girlfriend chump!" Ash exclaimed getting up. Ash was about to beat this guy up if he talked once more.

"I already do, she's the Kalos Queen Serena, you can go cry in a hole of jealousy because she is a billion times better at anything than your waifu." This made Ash angry, 'was Serena really this guys girlfriend?'

"What was that?!" Serena spat venomously at Callem. "You can tell that girl Serena of yours how disgusting you are to other people! Not only that, if she knew how you acted, she would never date you!"

Ash looked in surprise at Serena. Ash realized Serena knew this guy, but she never liked him. Ash knew this guy was playing a bluff.

Ash had to do something, so he said something to try and get him out of the situation. First, Ash looked at Serena and whispered, "Play along." Serena nodded and he started to speak to Callem. "I don't care, Serena is out of my business because I love someone already," Ash started. Serena was starting to get depressed, was he really meaning this even though it was cosplay? Serena was snapped out of her thought when Ash grabbed her hand. "I love Juliette with all my heart and so I don't care about anything but her. So get out of my house now!" Serena blushed now, same thought but happiness rushed her.

"Fine… pathetic anyways," Callem said as he left.

"Thank you Romeo," Serena said as they walked away of the situation and towards some seats overlooking battlefields.

"No problem, and in all seriousness…" Ash whispered now. "Is he really your boyfriend?"

"No," Serena replied. "He is disgusting and I hate him," She responded making Ash take an inner breath. 'Why am I so relieved she does not like him?' Ash thought as the event started.

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the stage the champions of all regions!" Professor Sycamore announced as a stage portrayed 6 trainers. Everyone was cheering at the 6. Ash looked at them and was surprised.

Ash and Serena along with the rest of the crowd cheered on as Lance, Silver, Steven, Cynthia, Iris and Night were standing on stage.

"Welcome our Kalos champion Night to the stage!" Professor Sycamore.

The crowd was roaring as Night stepped up to the podium.

"What is up guys!" Night exclaimed into the microphone making everyone cheer.

"We love you Night!"

"Please be single please!"

"Represent us man!"

"Ok, ok, fair warning I am not good at these speech thingies," Night said rubbing the back of his head. "But in all seriousness, I hope that during this tournament that is held every 10 years, we get to experience the bonds we all share with our pokemon. With that said we await to see amazing strength, courage, determination and most of all that we all have fun!" Night went on.

"The rules are simple. Win the matches or get eliminated, no hard feelings. We value everyone's attempt at the tournament and to show how far you have come, pat yourselves in the back!" Night continued as the crowd roared. "the winner with a perfect streak will go through 2 matches, these will be 1 on 1 battles in the pre-eliminatory round. Then we will have 3 3 on 3 battles in mid-preliminaries and finally 5 six on six battles in the Champions round."

Everyone understood including Ash, Serena and their friends as everyone on the stadium turned their heads to the big screen.

"Here we have the matches!" Night said. "Check back on these every day to see who you are up against and when!"

The names scrambled and revealed that Ash would battle Callem first. This made him clench his fist in anger.

Serena noticed this and put her hand on Ash's shoulder to calm him down. "Relax, you will win," Serena assured as she turned to see who her match was. She was going up against the unova champion Iris. Serena was a bit intimidated but got determined as well. Night was going up against someone someone called Mike.

"Now, I want to explain some other rules," Night began. "substitutions are allowed mid battle except on 1 on 1 battles (of course), mega evolutions and synchro burst is allowed (obviously). Steroids are not allowed, earpieces or anything that could assist you mid battle are prohibited. If you want to do research on opponents do it using your computer at the hotel room."

Everyone was paying attention now for what the next rule was.

"Thanks to someone that was setting this up having to rely on three of these to win a battle (caugh caugh) Brandon (cough cough)," Night began.

"HEARD THAT!" Brandon the frontier brain exclaimed.

Night sighed, "Legendary pokemon with the exception of Arceus, Mew, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Kyogre, Groudon, Ho oh, Lugia, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Zekrom, Reshiram, Kyurem, Yveltal, Xerneas, Zygarde, Solgaleo and Lunala are allowed… Happy Brandon?"

Everyone laughed, this troubled Night because legendaries still are powerful.

"Most of all let's have fun!" Night exclaimed causing everyone in the crowd to road in cheers.

"As champion of the host region, I use my power and declare that the Tournament of the Decades BEGIN!" Night called out as the champions opened a basket allowing regional birds to fly out. The roar of the audience was so large in fact this event was witnessed by thousands to millions of people all over the world.

"Night really did a good job with the speech," Serena asserted as people started to leave.

"I agree, let's go wait for hi- I mean Antony at the front gate," said Ash twisting his tongue. 'Ugh, that guy Callem is pissing me off, I probably need to talk to Night about this, something is not right' Ash thought.

A while later, Night came back in his medical attire to meet up with Ash and Serena. When he saw the duo, he noticed that Ash was in a pensive mood. "Ummm, Earth to Romeo," Night said snapping Ash out of his thought. "Something wrong?"

"No, not really," Ash lied, but he was going to have to talk to Night later about what was going on with him and Serena. The trio started to walk back to the hotel just then.

At the other side of town:

"Night was really good out there," Remarked Clemont. "I really think he sticks out of the champions which is why I am happy Kalos hosts this tournament."

"I didn't know Iris was champion, I think she will wipe the floor with that Juliette girl," Dawn asserted.

"I might have to disagree with that, I have a feeling that if Ser- I mean Juliette does her hardest she will win," Clemont added twisting his tongue. This earned him a pinch from Bonnie telling him to be more careful.

"What worries me is the Callem guy, he uses a Darkrai and I think he might get far in this tournament," Sawyer replied.

"Darkrai?" Max asked.

"Yea, he defeated Clemont with it for a gym battle," May responded.

"The only person I have seen defeat that Darkrai was Night himself, I am scared though, sadly I feel bad for the trainer who has to face him," Sawyer called out.

Both Bonnie and Clemont got a sick feeling when they remembered looking at the screen and seeing that Ash was battling Callem.

"Ugh… Bonnie and I hav le to run," Clemont said as he started running and Bonnie followed behind him. Clemont was running and not falling behind, 'I have to warn Ash' he thought.

"What's with him?" asked Max, he had just met the boy yesterday as well.

"I don't know, but I have never seen him run like that," added Dawn.

Back at the Hotel with our heroes:

Ash, Serena and Night walked in to see that their pokemon were watching TV. When the pokemon noticed their trainers they went to then with smiles, they had seen the inauguration on TV because if they went they would spoil the disguise.

"Hey Pikachu and Sylveon, did you take good care of Ash's Pikachu and Jolteon?" Serena teased her pokemon as both female pokemon blushed.

"Jolteon/Pikachu, nice to see you again!" Night and Ash said at the same time hugging their electric partners.

Suddenly, a knock was heard on the door. Actually it was more like a pound.

Serena went and opened the door to see who was there. "Clemont? Bonnie? Is everything alright?," Serena asked seeing her worn out friends.

"Ash, we need to talk about your opponent, Night I need you there too," Clemont said bringing Night and Ash with him.

Back at the living room, Serena and Bonnie shrugged and started to talk. Serena, your opponent is a champion, what are you going to do?" Bonnie asked.

"I have been training hard for a year, keeping this between you and me, I have been able to withstand against Ash and Night and battle," Serena said.

"You are that strong? Wow!" Bonnie called out. "Just a question, is that your Pikachu snuggling with Ash's?"

"Oh, yea, my Pikachu kinda has a crush on Ash's," Serena whispered.

"Ironic, like trainer like pokemon," Bonnie said with a smirk causing Serena to blush a bit.

Back at the kitchen Clemont started the conversation, "Ash I need to warn you about Callem."

At the sound of that name, he knew it was the guy he was facing making him clench his fist hard. This was noticed by both Night and Clemont.

"Ash, what's wrong?" Night asked. "I know what Clemont is talking about, let us help you."

"It's not that!" Ash shouted making the others flinch. "I already met him on the stadium, he said some things to me that made me angry."

"What did he say?"

"He… he told me to get on my knees for him… then Serena defended me saying that he should leave… Then he called Serena a "unpleasing girlfriend" for me even though he was referring to the disguised Serena. Then he said he was going out with the real Serena making me really mad," Ash sighed. "Serena told me she does not like him, but for some reason it pissed me off that someone had the nerve to compare the disguised Serena to the real Serena and to say those offensive things to her as well."

"Dude, I think you are starting to have a crush on her," Night simply responded.

Ash blushed. 'Do I actually have a crush on her?'

"whatever, you have to eliminate Callem, Ash, for your sake and Serena's sake too," Clemont responded trying to warn Ash. "He won't be an easy opponent I will tell you that."

"What do you mean?" Ash asked confused.

"Well… you see Ash, that guy likes to use a Darkrai all the time," Night said.

"Darkrai huh?..." Ash said in a pensive mood.

"Ash, he swept my entire team when I battled him," Clemont responded. "He starts off with dark pulse and then uses dark void. Dream Eater the defeats your pokemon in one hit."

"I was able to battle it once too," Night started getting Clemont's attention.

"Right, you defeated it, tell me what you did," Clemont said.

"Simple, Callem is all power and no head. If you have something like a poison heal Gliscor you can't be out to sleep so that makes it easy. Also putting darkrai in a status condition helps," explained Night.

"I know now, I am going to use one of my newer pokemon then," Ash responded. "I am glad me and Serena get this over with tomorrow, I think we can win!" Ash said with determination.

"Great! Now that that's over, why don't we all go to eat with friends?" Clemont said.

"Sounds like a good idea, but remember we are not Ash, Night and Serena when we go out there," Ash said.

The three males then met up with Bonnie and Serena, said goodbye to their pokemon and left the hotel.

After a while of walking, "There you guys are!" May said walking over to the group. The sight of the people made the original trio all go wide eyed, specially Ash and Serena.

"Hey, we were going to get something to eat," Clemont said. "Wanna join?"

"Sure!" Dawn said. "I'm Dawn, nice to meet you!"

"I'm May! Hey!"

"I'm her brother Max!"

"I'm Sawyer!"

The group of Clemont's current companions presented themselves.

"Hi, I'm Antony!" Night said cheerfully. "Nice to meet you!"

"I'm Romeo! Great to see you here!" Ash said with a smile.

"I'm Juliette, it's a pleasure," Serena said in a sweet voice. After hearing that name, Dawn and May snickered. 'Are these two dating?' they both thought.

The group went to a restaurant where they ordered hamburgers and french fries. The group sat down at a table and started to eat when the food arrived.

"Well if it isn't the loser I am going to battle tomorrow."

"What do you want?" Ash exclaimed attracting attention.

"I don't know, just wanted to wish you bad luck for tomorrow," Callem insisted making everyone at the table angry. Bonnie gave a disgusted look, Dawn was grabbing a pokeball from her belt and May clenched her fists.

Clemont and Night were about to interveen when someone spoke up first.

"Leave him alone Callem! He has done nothing to you!" Serena exclaimed with rage in her eyes.

"How do you know my name? I guess that the Kalos Queen probably told you Serena wannabe how much cooler I am than that runt," Callem said while hammering his fist into Ash's head.

"Why you little…!" Serena started, but Ash kept her on her seat.

"Relax Juliette, if we hurt him we will be no better," Ash told Serena making eye contact to calm her down.

"Aww, you want to be a hero, well let me teach you a lesson!" Callem exclaimed as Night grabbed a pokeball from his belt. "Darkrai use Dark pulse!" Callem shouted revealing Darkrai.

Darkrai charged up the attack at Ash and Serena. Everyone braved themselves except one, "Greninja matblock!"

Everyone looked up to see they were fine. "This is getting out of hand. Leave now!" Night yelled at Callem as he stood up, the Greninja appears to have been his.

Callem returned Darkrai with a smirk and left. After that was cleared Night returned Greninja and returned back to his seat.

"Thanks Antony," Ash and Juliette both said.

"No problem!" Night responded while turning to the others. "You are all ok right?"

"Yes thank you for protecting me and Bonnie," Clemont responded.

"Max is ok, thank you," May responded.

"Thank you Antony," Sawyer and Dawn both said.

Sawyer then questioned something, "Antony, how did your Greninja change color?"

Night simply said, "Protean, this ability changes a pokemon's typing to the typing of the move thus the color tells me what type Greninja is at the moment."

"So cool!" Sawyer exclaimed while writing something in his notebook.

"Nice keystone Sawyer," Ash said out of the blue spooking him.

"You saw it?" Sawyer asked.

"I know what it looks like, look at my necklace," Ash said showing them his keystone.

"Check out my stethoscope," Night continued.

"Wow, you must be strong battlers if you have one!" Max exclaimed. "I want to battle one of you guys now."

"Maybe later," Ash said as the group left the restaurant. "It's getting late and we have our s tomorrow, see ya!"

"Bye" everyone said as they parted ways.

"Romeo, do you have a strategy for Darkrai tomorrow?" Serena asked.

"Yeap Juliette, you are going to be impressed at how smart I am!" Ash responded.

"Are you planning on doing something unpredictable?" Night asked.

"You will see during the battle!" Ash responded with determination.

A/N: we are going straight into the battles next time and it is going to be epic! Pokemon that you may not know these people have will battle.

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