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In the last chapter, Dan lost and got very fucking emotional so now it will be training and a small adventure for Liz.

NOTICE: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON, NEVER DID, NEVER WILL!

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Dan's POV

I looked at my watch and it said 5:10am. Connor should have been here by now. I was still pretty shaken up by that weird dream I had and what happened yesterday but I feel way better now.

Today was also the day Connor would start training me. I hope I can learn a lot from him and I hope I can live up to his expectations.

I sat there on a chair in the lobby with Jordan on my shoulder and with Luke on the chair beside me. I tapped my foot absentmindedly on the ground and thought "Where the heck is Connor? He said 5am but where is he?"

My eyes scanned the lobby and there were several trainers up and about probably going to train for the tournament. There was also Nurse Joy who was already taking several Pokeballs for healing. A thin guy with a green shirt was also leaning on the counter and he seemed to be talking to Nurse Joy who gave him no attention. Another person who had curly red hair and was wearing all blue was brushing her Luxray's fur.

Everyone was already up and doing something while I was here waiting for my mentor to start training. Luke looked at me and said "Dan where is he?"

Jordan popped his head out of my bag with crackers in his mouth and he said "Ywah Dwan, hwe diwd say fwive."

He swallowed the food and gasped for air. Luke rolled his eyes while I said "I dunno guys but I'm as excited as you guys are, Connors a great trainer and I want to learn a lot from him but how can he do it if he isn't here? So best thing we can do is to wait."

Five more minutes passed as me and my two partners sat in the lobby. Luke had fallen asleep on his chair while Jordan was stuffing his face with the crackers in my bag. Suddenly the center's door snapped open and Connor ran in with Animus by his side.

He was in his usual attire of a black long sleeved shirt with his sleeves rolled up, an open gold vest with a Pokeball symbol on it, blue jeans and red and blue sneakers. He was carrying two bags on his back, his regular backpack and his guitar bag. His messy brown hair had twigs and leaves in it and his eyes were covered by his shades as he grinned at us.

The brown haired teenager stopped in front of me and said "Hey Dan, so you ready?"

I stood up and said "Yeah I am, but not to be rude or anything, where did you come from and why does your hair has leaves and twigs in it?"

He scratched the back of his head nervously and said "Hehehe… well about that, I usually sleep in trees, not beds. So that hopefully explains the bed head and I was getting us application forms for the Battle Tournament."

My older friend held three papers in one hand and he said "One for me, one for you and one for Liz. Fill it up first and then we can begin. Leave Liz's with Nurse Joy and just tell her to give it to her. They nearly ran out of forms because there are only 16 slots per tournament."

I took two of the forms and me and Connor went to the counter to fill up the forms. He left Animus with Jordan who was laughing as the golden Lucario poked the sleeping Luke.

I read the form and it said "Cerulean Battle Tournament form. Please fill in the blanks with your name, age, hometown, name and amount of badges or name and amount of ribbons and the chosen tournament to join. High tier tournament requires three or more ribbons or badges from any region while low tier requires none to two badges or ribbons for registration. The battles will be one on one until the top four where it will be three on three. The prize for the low tier tournament will be a Pokemon egg and for the high tier tournament will be a cash prize of 20,000."

My gloved hands quickly filled up the form. I looked at Connor and he just finished signing his form, he gave it to me and said "Dan you mind if I let you handle this, I forgot something back at my tree."

He handed the paper to me before I could protest. Why he was sleeping on tree was waaaay beyond me, but he's the expert. I watched him quickly sprint out of the Pokemon Center.

I glanced t both of our papers and I decided to take a look at Connor's. I couldn't really read it that much because it was private but I saw names and things like Ilene, Cameran and other stuff I didn't recognize. Man Connor was one weird guy but he was a great friend.

Nurse Joy approached me and I said "Hi Nurse Joy, could you take these forms."

She took the forms form me and she said "Sure, anything else?"

I held the blank form and said "Could you give this to my friend Liz later? She's got one long brown ponytail and she's crazy about denim."

She nodded and said "No problem."

I smiled and turned around but I came crashing into someone. I fell hard on my butt on the ground and so did the other guy, I shook my head and said "I'm so sorry."

He stood up and stuck his hand out to help me up and said "No worries bro, the names B, B Andy."

I grabbed his hand and he helped me up. I dusted my jacket and said "B? What does B mean?"

He waved his hand and said "Doesn't matter bro, and you are?"

I shook his hand and said "The names Dan, are you joining the tournament?"

The skinny guy out his fist to his chest and said "Yep, B Andy will be joining the low tier tournament. Will you?"

I nodded and said "Yeah, so that means we might battle."

The guy grinned and said "Alright bro, I'm looking forward to it but now I have to go score myself some ladies." He looked a t me and at Nurse Joy with his eyebrows going up and down. I laughed and walked away from him.

I sat down beside Jordan and Luke, I shook Luke awake and said "Dude are you Narcoleptic or something?"

Luke rubbed his eyes and said "Narcoleptic?"

My eyes drifted towards the door and I saw Connor running back with Auroris and I said "It means you randomly sleep."

He shrugged and said "Then that's a no."

Connor entered the center again and said "Alright, I got my stuff. Let's Rocket!"

SCENE CHANGE

TRAINING AREA (PARK)

I and my two partners just arrived at the park to train with Connor and Animus. Connor kept whistling some song the entire way but anyway he put his stuff down next to mine and said "Alright Dan, show me you're Pokemon first."

"You got it!" I stated. I threw three Pokeballs in the air and out came my remaining three Pokemon. My enthusiastic Mudkip, Matt, my shy Snivy, Hannah and my battle ready Braviary, Emil all appeared before us saying their names.

I clapped my hands and said "Alright guys! Line up!"

My Pokemon quickly went into their positions in line according to height. I looked at Connor and said "So what now?"

Connor stepped in front of me and inspected each of my Pokemon. Emil stood tall with his chest puffed out while Connor scanned him with his shade covered eyes. Next, my friend looked Luke who had his arms crossed and at Matt who held his head high. Soon after looking at them he pulled his shades down a little revealing a pair of emerald green eyes; he looked at Hannah who nervously stood there besides Jordan who grinned at his overseer.

After looking at each and every one of them, Connor looked at me and he removed his shades and said "They're all weak and they're not in top condition."

Ouch, that was a tough blow. All my Pokemon ha different reactions to his statement, Emil's once proud and Matt's smug expression fell into a jaw dropped face of shock. Luke just stood there as with a blank expression as usual. Hannah looked down to the ground sad and upset while Jordan stomped the ground and said "Pichu! Pichu Pichu Pi Pi Pichu Pi! (What?! This guy can't possibly be right? We train really hard and we work to the max!)

Connor raised brow at Jordan and said "Jordan, I am right. I can guess that you train hard but maybe not enough. Dan, show me how you train them."

I nodded and said "Sure Connor but wait…How did you understand Jordan?"

Me looked at me with a sarcastic expression and said "I know what you have Dan, I have it too."

He pulled up his right sleeve even higher and there was the same symbol that was on my palm but his was golden. My jaw dropped and I said "But how? But…"

He held up his hand and said "We have time for this for later. Now show me how you're training starts and give me a 25 minute run down."

My head nodded at his command and I told my Pokemon to start doing laps. They ran and flew as much as they could in five minutes. After that the battles began.

First up was Emil and Hannah, Emil started off with an Aerial Ace which Hannah was hit directly with. The grass type flew back and got back up; she leapt into the air and fired an Energy Ball with an expression that just showed hesitation. Emil quickly dodged by flying to the right and he quickly used an Air Slash attack towards Hannah who was too frozen to dodge it. She stood up once more after taking another super effective attack but she quickly fell again after being hit with a followed up Quick Attack.

The battle was over and Emil helped Hannah up who was clearly disappointed by her defeat.

Next up was Luke and Matt, Matt started with an Aqua Jet and he flew towards Luke who just stepped to the left to dodge the attack. Matt gritted his teeth because Luke dodged so easily and he used a Dig attack to go underground. Luke stood there in his battle stance waiting for Matt's attack, the water type came bursting out of the ground with an Aqua Jet attack but Luke leapt into the air and dodged the attack and followed it up with a powerful Focus Punch. The water type came crashing to the ground and Luke landed in front of him. Matt got up and fired a Water Gun attack that hit Luke directly. Luke took a few steps back with the impact of the attack but then he ran forward and delivered a Force Palm attack at Matt's chest, sending him into the air. The fighting type bent his legs, put two hands by his side and charged an Aura Sphere attack in his palms. He threw the attack at the falling Matt but the water type saw it and tried to counter it with a falling Aqua Jet but the fighting type attack proved too much and he came crashing to the ground unable to battle.

Connor nodded approvingly with his vision locked on the battlefield. Jordan was up next and he walked to the field. My shaded friend said "Hey Dan, I know your Pichu is kinda strong so try pairing him up with Emil and Matt."

Jordan stood on one end of the field, grinning with his arms crossed while Emil and Matt stood on the other side ready for battle. Connor then said "Begin then!"

Jordan uncrossed his arms as he started to run towards Emil and Matt with an Agility attack. Emil nodded towards Matt and the water type fired a Water Gun attack on the ground to slow Jordan down. The electric type leapt into the air to avoid slipping and then he used a Thunderbolt attack towards the two Pokemon. Emil dodged the attack and so did Matt, the flying type used an Brave Bird attack towards Jordan who dodged by running towards him and then sliding on the ground using the water. Matt used a Mud Sport attack to weaken his electric capabilities. Connor smiled a bit and said "How do you think he'll deal with this?"

Jordan still ran towards him but this time on his two feet, his hands were at his side and they were emitting a yellow white glow. I recognized the attack as Charge Beam, he fired it towards Matt who was knocked out due to the Super Effective attack even with the affliction of Mud Sport. Emil turned and saw that his partner had been knocked out, he fired several Air Slashes at Jordan but the Pichu countered it by standing there and forming a Light Screen to deflect the attack. Jordan grinned at Emil but then the Flying type desperately used a Brave Bird to knock out Jordan and then the electric type started to run and use Volt Tackle. When the two attacks collided, there was a large explosion and there stood Jordan, he was grinning towards us and a fallen Emil was unconscious on the ground.

Connor nodded at me and said "Okay Dan, I've seen enough. Please set your Pokemon in one line, I'll have to explain something to you."

After my Pokemon had been lined up, I sat down with them while Connor sat down as well with Animus by his side. He took a stick and said "Dan, to bring out a Pokemon's full battle or contest potential, these five points must be kept sharp at all times."

He drew a pentagon on the ground, marked the top most point of the pentagon with a small circle and said "Number one, Training."

Animus stood up and demonstrated some agile and strong fighting moves while Connor said "Training is the most basic thing to keep sharp with a Pokemon. They must be pushed to their limits as in battles so they will learn and become stronger physically. In your team, all your Pokemon are lacking in training because your training method only makes them sweat and work out, not pushing them to the limits of their capacity. In order to do this, you must make training tougher like making them take super effective attacks and giving them tasks that require time and several hours of training to master like with Animus and his physical strength. When he was a Riolu, he was strong yes but after several hard weeks of boulder training he can easily lift boulders twice his size."

My Pokemon looked at Animus with awe and then Connor said "Number two, Skill."

Animus put his fists to his side as if he was in fighting position and one of his fists burst into flames while the other one crackled with electricity, Connor drew a star on the second point of the pentagon and said "Skill is the second most basic thing to keep sharp with a Pokemon. This involves two things, training their strength in Special Attack by making them repeatedly use their moves and improving them and their move set's diversity. In your team, several Pokemon could use some move diversity because most of their attacks are just one type like Matt and Emil for example. Matt's attacks mostly consist of Water Gun and Aqua Jet but he can improve by giving him other moves like Ice Beam and Iron Tail, Emil's attacks are mostly flying type like Aerial Ace and Brave Bird but you could teach him Superpower for rock types and Flame Charge or Wild Charge for other types. Animus' skill set is very diverse from Thunder Punch to Close Combat. Poison Jab to Fire Punch and even some unique moves like Dragon Pulse and Bone Rush. Your Pokemon must also be improved in this by giving them some new moves that are not their type and making them as strong as natural element attacks."

I nodded and took out a notepad. Connor face palmed and said "Dan, no notes. This must be put to heart my friend." I nervously laughed while putting it away.

Connor drew a triangle on the third point and said "Number three, Confidence."

I looked at my group of Pokemon who were listening attentively while Connor said "Confidence is very difficult to reach because of a Pokemon's common nature but you can improve this by not physically training but by letting the Pokemon participate in battles and giving the Pokemon encouragement. Most of your Pokemon are just brimming with confidence, all except one."

I turned and saw Hannah look at Connor with a sad expression while he said "Your Snivy is a strong Pokemon, I can tell, but she needs to be watched over because she is very hesitant in battle. Confidence is important in a Pokemon because if the Pokemon doesn't believe that he or she can win, then it will not happen so I will aid you in training your Snivy's confidence."

Hannah gave a small smile and nodded while Animus sat down with them as Connor drew an eye at the fourth point and said "Number four, Will"

I looked at him with a confused look as he said "Will is also very important with a Pokemon. This involves them wanting to battle wanting to continue even with the conditions. Your Pokemon all have the will to battle thus making this already accomplished by you."

I sighed and thought "At least I got something down."

Connor drew a star at the final point and he said "Finally the most important part…Trust."

"Trust" he stated. "Trust is all about the bond and friendship you have with your POkemon, this is also the most important of all the five points because without this, it will be as if your Pokemon is just an object, not a living being. This must be put above all but I hate to break it to you but the Pokemon you have that needs their work on trust is Jordan."

My jaw dropped, Jordan? Jordan, my first Pokemon, my best friend, my little buddy? That Jordan? How could he not trust me?

Jordan shot up from his position and said "Pi Pichu Pichu Pi! (Hey! I trust Dan!)"

Connor sighed and said "I'm sorry you two but when I watched your battle it was just a simple give order, follow order sequence. There was no teamwork, no initiative just plain old do this do that."

Connor stood up and erased the drawing with his foot and said "What your status is now doesn't matter, I will help you reach their potential so don't worry Dan."

I smiled at him but his gazed drifted away from us and his expression turned serious. I turned and saw a girl fighting a Sceptile in close combat. She delivered kicks and punches towards the Pokemon and the grass type dodged it and the Pokemon returned the attacks with equal vigor.

The girl leapt a few feet away after the Scpetile tried to sweep her feet and she frowned and went back into fighting position. Connor then said "That Pokemons out of control stay here Dan. Animus let rocket!"

I watched as Connor ran towards the girl but then I realized. That was Quincy.

Connor's POV (1st ever!)

Dan was a good trainer, he just needed some help that's all it is. Just like my mentor taught me, what you learned, you can teach but all that was interrupted when I saw this crazed Sceptile attacking a trainer.

I then said to Dan "That Pokemons out of control, Dan stay here. Animus Lets Rocket!"

Me and my golden partner started to run towards the pair while Dan started to yell something at me. I couldn't really hear what is was so meh. Animus mentally spoke in my mind "Connor, I feel like there's something not right here."

I nodded and said "Yeah, there has to be a reason why the Sceptile is attacking the trainer."

Animus started to say "But Connor I feel that…"

"My friend" I interrupted him. "I want you to protect the girl, I got the Sceptile."

He rolled his eyes and said "Whatever partner, but don't say I told you so."

The girl was just hit in the gut by the Scpetile and she flew back a few steps, the grass type quickly ran towards her. I had to act quickly; I leapt into the air and said "Back off!"

I kicked the Sceptile in the chest while Animus helped the girl up. The girl then said "Stop!"

I turned to her and said "I will, as soon as this Sceptile gets under control."

The grass type glared at me and I went into my fighting position and taunted him by doing the 'Come on' gesture and I said "Let's Dance."

Animus pulled the girl away into a distance, she was struggling with Animus' grip and then the Secptile experimentally jabbed at me but my teacher Fecilia taught me to take advantage of that, as soon as his arm was in arms reach, I grabbed his green arm and I flipped him the ground with an expert maneuver.

I grinned at him and said "All you've got?"

The Sceptile got back up and said "Tile Sceptile Sceptile! (That's more like it!)"

He ran towards me with a Leaf Blade ready and I said "Oh boy"

I ducked at his first swipe and I avoided his second arm swipe by grabbing his shoulder and vaulting over it. When I got behind him I kicked him from behind, knocking him back a few feet. The grass type glared at me once more and I did two back flips to make some room and I went back into fighting position with a wink. The Sceptile growled and fired a Bullet Seed towards me but I knew I had to end this. I ran towards the attack quickly dodging it as it closed in on me and I delivered a flying kick at the Sceptile's face.

The grass type flew back with the impact and he fell down unable to get back up. I looked at the girl who Animus was holding and my partner let her go. She slowly walked towards me with an angry expression. When she was right in front of me, I never knew what would happen next.

SMACK! She slapped me, hard, on my left cheek. The hit was so strong I felt that there was a mark there, my shades were dangling a bit off my face because of the impact and she said "YOU STUPID IDIOT! I WAS TRAINING MY POKEMON! LEO WASN'T ATTACKING ME! HE WAS JUST DOING OUR ROUTINE!"

My eyes widened as she walked right past me and she said "Come on Leo; let's find somewhere else to train."

She returned her Sceptile into his Pokeball and she walked past me again without looking at me. Animus, Dan and his Pokemon approached me and Dan said "I didn't know she had a Sceptile."

I glared at Animus and mentally said "Not a word."

He chuckled and said "How about three? Told you so."

I looked at Dan while I fixed my shades on my face and I said "She's a feisty one, who is she Dan?"

Dan's eyes drifted towards her disappearing figure and he said "All I know is her name is Quincy and she helped me and Liz against Vincent a few days back."

I shook my head to get rid of my daze, my eyes drifted to her disappearing figure and I straightened myself out and said "Well if she helped you with Vincent she cant be all bad. Well Dan, let's begin."

Liz's POV

I was just entering the lobby after I ate breakfast with my Pokemon. I was in my usual denim wear and I didn't see Dan or Connor around. I figured that they were training as they said last night.

Last night…Last night was so nice, it was just nice being on the rooftop with Dan and them music. Even if Connor was there I didn't mind. I approached the Pokemon Center's counter and I rang the bell on the counter.

Nurse Joy took my Pokemon with a smile and I sat down on one of the lobby seats waiting for my name to be called. I wondered if I should call home, Sero and Sheila might get worried, mother and father wouldn't be at home until next month and my brother would still be somewhere doing who know what.

I scanned the room while I was eating the take out sandwich but then I nearly fell over as a large black Pokemon leapt at me and snatched my food. I stood up and said "Hey!"

A female trainer who had curly red hair and who was wearing almost blue everything, blue shirt, blue jeans, blue shoes, blue socks, ran towards me and said "Luxray! Sit girl!"

The Luxray ate the sandwich heartily while her trainer stopped in front of me and said "I'm so sorry, she just acts this way, I just fed her a while ago."

The Luxray was a beautiful looking creature with its groomed fur and well conditioned form. I looked at her trainer and said "No problem, that Luxray looks pretty good, are you a coordinator?"

She put her hand to her Luxray's head and said "My name's Seaerral. And yup you guessed it, I'm a coordinator and I'm here for the high tier tournament."

"High tier tournament huh?" I said. "By the way my name is Liz, and then you must be pretty strong."

She shrugged and said "I guess, I'm just here for the fun of it."

Just then the bell dinged and Nurse Joy called out my name, I nodded at her and said "It was nice to meet you Searerral, see you around."

I approached the counter and said "Thanks Nurse Joy."

She smiled and said "No problem and by the way a purple haired kid told me to give this to you."

She handed me a form and it turned out to be a registration for the low tier tournament. I instantly knew the purple haired kid was Dan that was nice of him to give me a form. I filled it up immediately and since I was going to join the tournament, I had to get some work done.

I decided that I would get some training done in the nearby forest so after I reclaimed my Pokemon. Me and Squirtle headed on out to the forest. The forest was very thick so I had difficulty finding a good spot.

After several hours of walking to no avail I stooped and sat on the ground and said "Hey Squirtle I don't think this was such a good idea."

Squirtle nodded and said "Squirtle Squirtle Squirtle (Yeah, I'm beat.)"

I just guessed what he said; Luke would be kinda helpful right about now. I nodded and said "Wait you hear that?"

I and my partner went quiet as we heard a somewhat familiar voice say "Again Dex!"

Squirtle got up off the ground and so did I; wherever that voice was coming from we just had to find out. After several minutes of walking we came across a large lake, the scene was great. The water was deep blue and clear, the sky was blue and not too cloudy, the trees and atmosphere complimented the nature's beauty but what caught my eye was a girl throwing something towards a small floating Pokemon by the side of the lake.

The girl was throwing what looked like a Frisbee towards the floating Pokemon, the Pokemon once again got hit and she said "Come on Dex, you have to work harder."

I and Squirtle crept closer and she once again threw the Frisbee, the Pokemon fired like a rocket to dodge the attack but alas it was too slow. I pulled out my Pokedex and it spoke "Beldum, the Iron Ball Pokemon. Belldum floats by emitting magnetic waves from its body to repel the Earth's magnetic field. They launch their claws into cliffs where they sleep."

The girl looked at my direction at the sound of my Pokedex and she said "Dex, Take Down!"

The steel type flew towards the tree we were hiding and me and Squirtle came out and said "Sorry! Sorry! We didn't mean anything! We just stumbled here by accident."

Before the Beldum could hit the girl said "Dex stop!"

The steel type stopped and I opened my eyes, the girl was the girl that helped me and Dan a few days back, the one with the Salamence. She eyed me slowly and said "Sorry, I thought you were someone else."

I nervously laughed along with Squirtle and said "No problem, what are you doing out here?"

She turned to face her Pokemon and said "I went here because some jerk interrupted my training a while ago. Arceus, he thought my Sceptile was attacking me? We were just training."

Man this guy sounded like a jerk. I looked at her and said "Are you going to join the tournament?"

She threw the Frisbee again and said "Yeah, high tier tournament. How about you uhhh sorry I forgot your name."

"Liz" I said. "I'll be joining the low tier along with Dan."

She nodded and I said "Why do you train on your own? Don't you have someone to train with like a friend?"

She walked to the disk to pick it up and she said "Don't you ask too many questions?"

I shrugged along with Squirtle and I said "I dunno."

The teenage girl sighed and said "I don't have friends. Happy?"

"Don't have friends? That's unheard of!" I said.

Quincy rolled her eyes and said "Believe it. So unless you want a battle, its best you leave."

I got up and said "Alright! Let's battle!"

The blue eyed girl smirked and said "Now you're speaking my language. Dex, Call of the heavy metal!"

The steel type floated in front of her and I thought "Okay steel type, Pidgeotto is a no, so is Clefairy, Eevee or Squirtle then."

I pointed and said "Squirtle shine bright!"

My loyal water type leapt to the field and I said "I'll go first! Squirtle Water Gun!"

He fired a torrent towards the Beldum but then Quincy said "Dodge with Take Down!"

The steel type propelled itself like a rocket towards Squirtle and he was directly hit with the attack. I watched Squirtle get back up and I said "Okay Squirtle, regular attacks aren't going to work so use that new move! Rock Smash!"

Squirtle's tail shined with a faint red color as he ran towards the Beldum. Quincy pointed and said "Strike back with Take Down!"

Beldum pointed towards Squirtle and fired like a rocket once more. When Beldum was close enough, Squirtle leapt up and smashed his tail onto Beldum who crashed to the ground.

I cheered and said "Nice work Squirtle, let's make some new combos with your new moves! Use Aqua Jet and Rapid Spin!"

The water type flew into the air surrounded by water as he started spinning. Quincy then said "Dex get up!"

The Beldum got up and used Take Down once more but Squirtle's attack proved to be too much and the steel type came crashing to a tree. Squirtle stood proudly in front of me as Quincy approached her Pokemon and said "Come on Dex! You have to win!"

The Beldum started to glow a shade of white and started to change form. After the light had faded there was a large blue Pokemon that looked like a floating robot. I pulled out my Pokedex and it spoke "Metang, the Iron Claw Pokemon. Metang is the evolved form of Beldum. Its highly developed intellect and strong magnetic force allow it to create powerful psychic energy."

Qunicy grinned and said "Nice work Dex!"

I smiled at the evolved form and said "Now Squirtle use Rock Smash!"

The starter ran towards the evolved steel type with his tail glowing but then Quincy said "Confusion Dex!"

The steel type's eyes turned into a shade of blue and Squirtle stopped in mid air. He squirmed to get away from the psychic grip but then Metang threw Squirtle back. Squirtle grinned and I said "Now Squirlte let's go and finish with a triple combo! Aqua Rapid Smash!"

The water type propelled himself in the air while being surrouned with water and he hid inside his shell, all except his tail which was glowing a shade of red was sticking out. He flew towards the steel type while he was surrounded by water and spinning with his Rock Smash ready.

Quincy eyed my attack and said "Nice combination. Let's try mine. Dex use Take Down with Zen Headbutt!"

The steel type locked his arms to his side as he charged towards Squirtle like a rocket with his head glowing with an eerie glow of energy. The two combination attacks collided and then it caused a small explosion. Squirtle and Metang were both on the ground unable to battle.

Quincy returned her Metang and said "Nice work Dex, you finally evolved. And Liz, as a coordinator you wouldn't be a bad trainer."

I scratched the back of my head and said "Hehe, thanks. I think I got it from my brother and Squirtle is my strongest battler."

She picked up her bag and said "Wanna go back?"

I picked up Squirtle, thanked him and nodded and said "Sure, so does this mean were friends?"

She gave a small smile and said "I'll think about it."

Jordan's POV

Training went pretty well today and it was a pretty eventful day. It was very tough compared to our regular training but I could feel the results would be great. Connor really knows how to train Pokemon and something very eventful happened that would really help Dan at the tournament.

We were heading on back to the Pokemon Center along with Connor, Animus, Luke and Dan. I took several direct hits from Emil's Brave Bird because it was supposed to make me tougher; everyone else seemed pretty tired with training all except Luke. He was just quietly walking without the slightest sign of fatigue, heck even Animus showed some.

Connor was slapped on the face a while ago by the Quincy girl Dan was talking about and everyone was laughing so hard because of what he got but Dan and me were surprised that Connor could take on a full grown, trained Sceptile in close combat.

I was on Dan's shoulder as always and I said "So the tournament is in three days right? We have to train pretty hard until then."

Dan nodded and said "Yep, but if we keep training like this I bet we'll be as tough as Connor."

Connor chuckled and said "Sure Dan, so same time tomorrow and we'll start the next part of weekly training."

As we entered the Pokemon Center, there was a crowd surrounding someone. Connor went to the counter while Dan stepped through the crowd to see what it was. There was a guy with short honey brown hair with brown eyes. He was wearing a dark blue shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. He was sitting on a chair talking about something while his legs were propped up on a table.

Dan had an angry expression as the guy spoke "Yeah, those two? The Champion's kids Bella and Black was it? They were so easy to beat I took them down with my weakest Pokemon while they battled me in a double battle. I wiped the floor with them while the guy was so pissed that he lost and the girl tried asking me out but I turned her down. I can't believe they are champion's kids and I bet when I win this league I'll sweep he elite four and the champion considering how weak the champion's kids are."

He continued on and on as Dan's expression got more and more deadly with each word passing through this guy's mouth. He was talking trash about Dan's siblings and Dan was very sensitive about his family. From what I heard from Dan, Bella and Blake were nice people and trainers, they were good and practically undefeatable together.

Dan spoke up and said "What are you talking about! You can't beat my brother and sister in a double battle! Only a few people could do that!"

The guy glared at Dan, stood up from his seat and said "Brother and sister? So you're the little runt they have of a little brother."

Dan glared at him back and I face palmed. Dan was a nice guy and pretty polite but if you piss him off you meet his sharp tongue. He looked the guy in the eyes and said "Yeah I'm their little brother and I may be a runt at least I'm not some tall tailing liar!"

The guy went down to meet Dan and said "Why don't you go back to daddy and say the new Kanto Champion is here."

I glared at him and so did Dan and he sharply retorted "Why don't you go back home. Tell your mother that she taught her kid some manners that match an old rabid dog!"

The guy grabbed him by the shirt and said "You know who you're talking to runt! I'm Ken Gilmore! I could probably kick your ass with me not even paying attention to our battle like I did to your stupid brother and bitchy sister!"

Dan's hands clenched and he punched Ken in the face with a good right hook. He staggered back while Dan spat "I don't care who you are! You have no right to talk like that about my family!"

The guy lifted Dan and pinned him against the wall while I was ready to shock him but then a hand grabbed his shoulder and the voice said "Drop the kid. You don't want to do this, unless of course you're just asking to be beaten."

He dropped Dan to the ground and there stood a guy with cropped black hair that had streaks of blue. His black shirt had the design of a blue bolt and his jeans were black as night. His eyes were lightning blue like his shirt design.

Ken poked him in the chest and said "Who the fuck are you? What makes you think I'll just drop what he did? The kids got a fucking huge head, thinking that his family is unbeatable."

He turned to Dan and raised a fist but then from his side came a rock that hit him on the right side of his head and he said "Who the hell threw that?"

We all turned and saw a girl who had long reddish brown hair and blue eyes glaring at the bully. She had Liz, wait what, Liz by her side? Our brunette friend approached Dan and said "You okay Dan?"

Dan stood up and said "Yeah, this guy was talking trash about my family, I couldn't just do nothing."

Ken glared at the familiar looking girl and said "Quincy…"

The girl was Quincy! The girl who knocked Vincent off his socks! Does she know him?

The girl glared at ken and said "Hello Ken, I see you're still picking on little kids. People your age too tough for you to battle?"

He then spat back "Says you? Do you remember how I beat you in the Sinnoh League!?"

She shook her head and said "That was two years ago. I see you're here now, still picking on people. Grow up will you?"

She turned around but then Ken tried to deliver a hit to her while Quincy's back was turned but then someone kicked him from behind making him fall over. The guy said "My my, who hits when the person is turned around and who would hit a lady? That's not very gentleman like."

Dan and all the others looked and saw that it was Connor. He looked at Dan and said "I leave you for five minutes and this happens? Oh well."

Ken got up and said "Know what? Screw you all! I'll just win that tournament and show you how pathetic you all are!"

He stormed out from the crowd while Connor approached Dan and said "You okay?"

He nodded and said "Thanks to them."

He pointed to the blue wearing guy and Quincy. Connor shook hands with the blue streaked guy and said "Thank you, my name is Connor Auroris and this is Dan and Liz."

He shook his hand back and said "Name's Sky, Sky Larrison."

Dan's head shot up at his name and he said "Sorry, I thought you were someone else when you said Sky."

The guy nodded and said "Glad I could help."

The guy walked away while Connor turned to Quincy and said "I'm sorry for our early rocky start."

He pulled his shades off, revealing his sapphire blue eyes. He bowed as he always did and said "Connor Auroris at your service."

She walked right past him while Connor put his shades back on and said "Excuse me ma'am. I'm just trying to be polite here."

She glared at him and said "Well save your politeness for someone who cares."

Quincy walked over to the counter while Connor said "Well I'll be. She's a rude one is she not?"

Connor and Liz laughed at Connor's situation and then Dan said "It's your fault."

All of us laughed and even Luke cracked a smile

AN

This turned out longer than expected. Super filler, tournament starts next chapter! It will kind of short coz all battles but I'll try to make it long!

PLEASE REVIEW! I'm at 29! I LOVE ALL YOU WHO READ, REVIEW, FOLLOW AND FAVORITE!

So I'm not here right now at home and my buddy probably lately posted this so sorry!

Stay tuned for next time guys! Tournament begins and fierce battle will ensue!

This is Roy Markov…Signing off….