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"Alright, one more time, Electrive." Paul huffed.

"Triiive." The electric hissed, his twin tails swinging back and forth confidently.

A bright light erupted from his tails as electricity scattered across the field. The spikes on the field launched up, earning squawks from the Skarmory up above.

"Grahh!" Barry screeched from across the field, the static from the excess. "Skarmory, use Steel Wing!"

Skarmory screeched from up above, the loud sound making everyone in the stadium cringe. Its Metallic wings snapped shut, dropping down towards the ground beak first. Black eyes glared heatedly, as its wings glowed a vibrant gray. Paul smirked.

"Grab it and use Thunder!" Paul announced darkly.

He had absolutely no mercy for assholes like Barry. Electrive roared, digging his feet into the ground before holding his hands out. The impact was harsh. Electrive skidded back holding onto Skarmory in pain as the steel flying type slammed its steeled wings onto his side. He let out a grimace, roaring as it pushed multiple volts of electricity into the bird Pokémon. The bird screeched as everyone flinched from the bright lights emitting in the field.

The attack ended and Electrive threw the bird towards the other side of the field.

"Skarmory use Payback!" Barry grinned.

Paul felt his eyes widened as fear settled in his stomach, he blinked and quickly growled.

"USE LIGHT SCREEN ELECTRIVE!"

The two separate Pokémon screeched at the same time. A pink shield appeared around Electrive before settling on his limbs as an armor. Skarmory was surrounded by a dark aura, screeching loudly as it charged forward, rushing swiftly on its legs as it flapped its wings.

'That's Impossible.' Paul thought, as he glanced at the running bird. 'It was hit by a super effective attack head on, not even a champion's Pokémon can take an attack like that and still run around like that.'

Skarmory slammed its body against Electrive earning a cry from the humanoid like Pokémon. The electric type was thrown back, rolling across the floor as his light screen shattered.

Skarmory screeched again, rushing forward with vigor as it attacked once more.

"Quick use Lightning flame punch as a finish!" Paul called.

Electrive looked up in pain, grunting as his hands glowed with flames and electricity, he slammed the super effective attack on Skarmory's head as the bird inched closer. The ground shattered beneath the two, causing a minor earth quake to echo across the field. Paul winced, but grinned as the referee called out Skarmory's defeat.

"Skarmory is unable to battle, Trainer Barry please choose your last Pokémon!"

"Empoleon let's go!" Barry growled, pointing towards the field. "Now use Hydro Pump!"

"Electrive, use Thunder one more time!" Paul growled.

Empoleon let out a huff, breathing in deeply, before expelling the water drenched within his gut. The full powered water attack slammed into the electric type pushing him back as he executed his move. The electricity plowed through the water and into Empoleon's body. The water type felt nothing.

Electrive flew back, slamming into the ground next to Paul. Paul felt shocked, and quite concerned. Electrive was one of his most top notch Pokémon, and to be defeated by a WATER type was quiet shocking to say the least. He knew the electric type move hit Empoleon full forced as could be seen from the burn marks and scabs on the birds once pristine feathers.

He shook his head, and recalled Electrive, thanking him before looking at his other two members. He gave a nod, causing one to jump into the field with vigor.

"Empoleon one more time!" Barry called out in a smug manner.

"Gliscor, Guillotine." Paul growled.

Barry felt his world go numb, when he witnessed the Gliscor call out in enthusiasm. Both of Gliscors' pincers began to glow a light blue, as the scorpion like Pokémon bounded off its tail and into the sky. Empoleon let out another Hydro pump, slightly weaker than the first, towards the flying Pokémon. Unfortunately, he couldn't keep up with the erratic movements of Gliscor. The poison type screeched in joy, as it wrapped its pincers around Empoleons throat, flying low so that he was dragging Empoleon's bruised body across the ground. He twisted up, and flipped, Empoleon's body following the movement before it was brutally slammed into the ground. Gliscor twisted and flew back, calling out its name as its eyes glinted towards the unconscious Pokémon.

"EMPOLEON IS UNABLE TO BATTLE, PAUL WINS AND WILL THEREFORE CONTINUE TO MOVE ON IN THE TOURNAMENT!"

A loud eruption of cheers drowned out whatever Barry was saying as he returned his Pokémon.

"Thank you, Gliscor, Ursaring."

Gliscor grinned.

"Not a problem boss." He stated casually.

Ursaring grunted in agreement.

"Alright let's go you two." Paul muttered. "We'll get Electrive and the two of you healed, okay?"

The two nodded in agreement.

They began to walk outside, calm as mostly everyone avoided them. Well, almost everyone.

"Great Match Pal." Ash smiled as Pikachu crowed from his head.

Paul nodded, nearly scowling as the other group began to walk towards them as well.

"Great job, Paul." Brock smiled.

"Yeah that was awesome!" Max cheered along with Bonnie.

Paul nodded in thanks, smirking lightly as Ash began to drag him towards the Poke-center, both Ursaring and Gliscor following in amusement.

"Pika!" Pikachu growled, cheeks sparking.

Everyone turned to see Barry storming up, pushing past everyone as he got up in Paul's face.

"You!" he yelled, poking Paul's chest with his forefinger. "I'm fining you for humiliating me and making me loose my battle!"

Iris snorted, covering her mouth when the blonde turn to growl at her.

"Wow only a kid would blame their loss on somebody else." She smiled earning laughs from everyone, including Paul and Ash.

She felt the world brighten around her when they smiled in her direction.

"It's not my fault Paul drugs up his Pokémon!"

The laughter stopped, and everyone around them turned to look at them. Barry flailed his arms to gain more attention as he pointed at the lavender headed trainer.

"That's right! You abuse and Drug up your Pokemon, You make me sick and disgusted! How could you do that!?"

Paul glared, lips twisting in a snarl. He stepped up, and nearly pushed the blonde onto the floor if it wasn't for his Gliscor and Ash.

"How dare you!" Paul snarled.

"That's some straight up Tauros crap!" Ash hissed.

Barry sneered, crossing his arms as he twisted his head up, and glanced at them with a smug look.

"Well it's pretty obvious don't you think? How could someone like you even beat someone as strong and as talented as me?" Barry placed his hands on his hips. "Besides during Sinnoh all you ever did was go around calling trainers pathetic and weak, then telling the same thing to your Pokémon and beating them. it's OBVIOUS that someone like you can't take care of your Pokémon let alone beat anyone who treats their Pokémon with care!"

Paul growled angrily, motioning to the two Pokémon by his side who were growling and hissing as well.

"DO MY POKEMON LOOK ABUSE OR DRUGGED TO YOU?!" He roared. "THEY CAN MOVE AROUND FREELY, AND ACTUALLY HAVE A SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY, WHY THE HELL WOULD I BEAT MY POKEMON WHEN IT'S EXTREMELY OBVIOUS THEY DO SO MUCH FOR ME. I DON'T CALL THEM WEAK NOR PATHETIC, AND TRY MY BEST TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO BETTER. IF ANYTHING YOUR POKEMON ARE THE ONES BEING AT LEAST DRUGGED, WHAT KIND OF POKEMON DOESN'T SCREAM OUT IN PAIN OR FLINCH WHEN HIT BY AN EFFECTIVE ATTACK?!"

Barry, screwed his moth shut, eyes going wide and mouth drawn to a thin line at the accusation.

"Champion level Pokemon."

"TAUROS SHIT!"

Ash pulled on Paul's sweater, giving him a hard stare before motioning with his head towards the opposite direction. Paul gave him a look, staring at him for a second before nodding his head, turning and beginning to follow Ash towards the inside of the Poke-center.

"You're leaving because You know it's true!" Barry smiled in his self-proclaimed victory.

"I'm leaving because you are making a fool out of yourself, and I have a better way to waste my time then listen to you spout lies out of your ass." Paul snapped.

Everyone stood still as the groups walked into the center without further interruption.

"Paul who was that?" Serena asked.

"That was Barry, an old friend of mine." Dawn stated instead.

"And an old stalker of mine." Paul grumbled. "I have zero fond memories of the boy. And absolutely despise him in every way possible."

"That use to be me!" Ash chirped, causing Paul to laugh suddenly.

"To be fair I thought you as an obstacle." Paul teased.

"You never could climb over me!" Ash boasted proudly as Paul handed over his lone poke ball to the Nurse.

"I know, it's like I kept building you up till I could no longer jump over it." Paul grumbled. "It took me so long to realize you left footholds so I could climb up easily at first."

"I knew it." Brock muttered shaking his head.

Ash laughed in amusement.

"Footholds? Walls?" Cilan asked, extremely confused.

Ash smiled, waving them towards the seats in the lobby. They stood around confused before following the boy to the seats, easily overcrowding the once empty lobby. Ursaring and Gliscor sat down behind the two boys, both of them playing with the other two Pokemon out, Wisp and Pikachu.

"You see, When I was in Kanto, I wasn't good at first, but I got better when I knew what to do. It's how I got placed in the top sixteen. In fact if it wasn't for Charizard disobeying me at the time, I might have gotten farther, but I don't want to assume. After that, I trained for a week or two than left for Johto, I got better there as well, using my old team while also going to the orange islands." Ash smiled. "I kept progressing, then went to Hoenn and eventually Sinnoh. During Hoenn Pikachu and Charizard beat their first legendary Pokemon. No one expected it from them, but they did. But the thing most people will never know, is that they were on par with Legendaries before that, Never actually beating them but getting the upper hand a couple of times. Soon enough we went to Sinnoh."

"Wait," Iris interrupted. "This can't be true, you lost to a new trainers Snivy when you came into Unova, how can a Pikachu that defeated a legendary be so easily creamed by a new Pokemon and several other after that?"

Pikachu jumped onto the table with his tail swaying side to side.

"I did it purposely." Pikachu smiled. "I was way too strong for most of my battles that I could cleanly one-shot most of them without a single raise of my paw. It wasn't fun and soon me and Ash grew bored of that. When we went back home and faced Gary and his Electabuzz, I just took the hits and decided that this was stupid and lame and let myself faint. Its easy, a little too easy to pretend that I faint."

Everyone looked shocked at the revelation.

"Practice battles?"

"Faked."

"Important battles?"

Pikachu and Ash shrugged sheepishly, awkwardly mimicking their movements as they both simultaneously placed their respective arms behind their heads.

"For Unova we actually bailed on it," Ash admitted. "It was our vacation time, we didn't plan to compete in the first place. Some of them we do actually try however and we get beaten by someone more experienced."

"Well than shouldn't you stop playing around and pretending to loose when you should be fighting to get better!" Max cried. "How do you expect to win any hard fights if that's all you do?"

Ash smiled.

"That isn't all we do." Ash said.

"They tend to have practice battles and real battles against each other." Paul offered. "Practice matches between them are subdued and very average but when you see them have real battles, it is terrifying. Despite the fact their nakama, it's very hard for them to control their battle lust."

"Nakama?"

Paul sighed heavily, giving them an annoyed glance.

"Don't you uncultured swinub's know anything? It means Ohana, Family."

"Where did you learn that from?" Bonnie asked incredulously.

"Our Pokemon actually." Paul smirked. "Not many people have that privilege so feel lucky."

Everyone blinked.

"Anyway, you haven't seen any intense battle between Pikachu and Charizard, or Sceptile and Charizard. It's very intense." Paul hummed.

"We should have a battle than!" Ash smiled, jumping on the floor in excitement.

Paul gave a smirk and nodded.

"I want a rematch Ash!" Iris smiled.

"I would like a battle as well." Cilan smirked earning a nod from Clemont.

"Same here!"

"Alright let's head outside!" Ash squawked, scrambling towards the door with Pikachu and Wisp in tow. "I'm having Leaf battle today, and maybe Deino!"

"Nice baba!" Wisp chirped happily.

Iris jumped off her seat and followed Ash excitedly, grabbing a poke ball from her belt as she rounded into the open fields along with everyone else.

Ash twisted in place, holding out a poke-ball before throwing it out. Erupting from a red light was a small little dinosaur with a black fur coat and blue scaled. It smiled wildly, crouching low while placing it's tail onto the floor.

"Deino!" They cried happily, pawing the dirt in excitement.

"So cool!" Iris squealed, barely able to contain her excitement at the dragon type. She shook her head, and enlarged her own poke-ball, tossing it out to reveal a Gible.

"Gib Gible!" The Pokémon crowed.

Ash smirked, closing his eyes as he let out a breathe. When he opened them up he gave a nod to Iris and crouched lower, almost as if he were ready to tackle a grown man.

"Alright, the one-on-one battle between Ash and Iris will now begin!" Paul called out.

"Gible let's start with dig!" Iris called out, than whispered to herself in a low tone as she analyzed the field. "All Deinos' are blind so let's use this to our advantage!"

The little land shark barked out in conformation, placing it's claws onto the ground beneath it and drilled under, aware of everything about it with the use of the special vibrations each living being let out. He drilled toward the vibration that resonated from the dragon type.

"Deino get ready." Ash called out.

He let out a breathe, stomping his left foot.

"Scary face!" Ash smirked.

Deino pivoted to the left, pushing himself backwards but keeping his head facing his original position. His face twisted into an angry terrifying snark. Gible popped out surprise filling his face when he completely missed his target. He glanced around, feelings his muscles tense and freeze at the fierce look from his fellow dragon type. His claws dug into the dirt, heart pounding as all he could focus on was the blue dragon.

"Ice fang follow it up with iron tail on my signal." Ash called.

"Gible use take down!" Iris called desperately.

Gible didn't hear, flinching when Deino raced forward. The dragon let out a roar as his fangs grew in size along with the temperature dropping a few degrees. Ash drew a straight line with his left foot, Deino copying his movements with his entire body. He raced forward and clenched his teeth around the first thing his body collided with. He tossed him into the air all the while forcing his tail to grow silver. He paused waiting, crouching low while he raised his tail up into the air.

Ash stomped his right foot in two repetitive motions.

Deino paused, waiting for a second before he swung his tail in a wide arc. At his highest point, he felt it connect with the falling dragon type, unaware of which direction the Gible flew.

"Gible!" Iris cried when her dragon slammed into the pavement.

The ground dragon type, growled, snapping his maw heatedly as he forced his body up. Iris felt concern growing in her head, she was being badly beaten by a blind Pokemon. How had Ash trained him so well, most Deino trainers she had known had planned battles so their Deino's could evolve, but this was a legitimate battle that had an actual trainer use it to it's full potential by some odd means.

"Gible please get up!" Iris called, cheering when she saw her Gible struggle to stand. "Please use sand Tomb!"

"Deino, follow my lead!" Ash called.

Gible roared, launching upwards and placing both claws on the ground beneath him. He clawed the dirt, focusing his energy to create rocks in mid air. They slammed down roughly, rubble shooting out to hit his enemy should he manage to escape his trap.

Ash, glanced up, watching as the rocks fell in a random order, he would need all his skills to make sure Deino didn't get hurt too much. He shuffled back, at a right angle, causing Deino to mimic his movements. He slid to the left, and jumped back, making sure to make some sort of noise when he both jumped and landed.

Deino barked, slipping under a course of rocks and jumped back, managing to keep his feet rooted to the ground the moment he landed.

"Rock smash, follow up with Dragon Pulse on my mark!" Ash called.

Deino chirruped in agreement, forcing a glowing blue energy in his front legs. Ash shifted to the left and he followed racing forward to meet the Gible head on. Ash shifted his foot in place, forcing Deino to look up and slammed a rock with his paw. He jumped off to the side, pausing for a second to recollect his bearings. In a second he rushed forward with all his might. Ash slammed a foot into the ground, causing Deino to skid to a stop, raising his two paws into the air and slamming it down directly.

"GIBLE DODGE!"

Ash once again shifted his foot in place, then slid it left. Deino grunted, turning a quarter left and slamming his paws into the air. He felt scaly skin against his claws, he rose his arms higher and slammed it down harshly, hearing a cry of pain, along with rubble from the cracked ground.

Ash shifted his right foot back and paused. Deino charged up a dragon Pulse in his maw, waiting as Iris called out an attack.

"Gible use Dragon Claw and get out of there!"

"Gib, Gible!" He snapped.

The blue finned dragon rose up to it's haunches letting blue Draconian energy build up around his arm. He rushed forward and slashed, catching the Deino by surprise as he was launched back.

"NOW!"

Gible felt his body grow cold, watching as a dragon pulse rushed toward his frame. He was too tired to actually dodge, feeling fatigue overcome his mind. He cried in pain when the sphere collided onto his small frame, thrusting him back a couple feet. He fell onto the ground in an unconscious heap.

"Gible!" Iris called.

"Gib." Her Gible moaned from his unconscious state.

Iris recalled her Gible in shock, congratulation him softly while looking up to see Ash cheering his Deino own, who was oddly fatigued for the use of five simple moves in the entire match.

"You did awesome Deino!" Ash smiled.

"Hell yeah you did! You are so much better than when we first started!" Pikachu grinned.

"So cool, I wish I could do what you do!" Wisp whispered in awe, amazed at what his dragon type companion could do.

"Thanks guys!" Deino chirped. "I can't wait to evolve so I can see what I'm actually doing!"

"You bet big guy, do you want to go on or no?" Ash asked calmly.

Deino grunted standing up as he 'looked' at Ash.

"I'll pass, my body is starting to ache a lot." He admitted.

"That mean's you'll get ready to evolve son! Uncle Gabite was complaining bout that when he was a Gible and he's evolved now!" Wisp chirped excitedly.

"Hey Ash," Iris called jogging up to him. "Great battle quick question though."

The other gathered around congratulating both before Iris asked her question, Cilan stood by the side, in a struck awe that everyone missed.

"Thanks you guys." Ash smiled, before looking towards Iris. "You had a question?"

Iris gave a tight nod, gazing at Deino with a mix of jealousy and awe. She fixed her gave back onto Ash, placing her hands on her hips as she looked back at the dark dragon type.

"How in the reverse world did you train him?" Iris nearly yelled. "Let alone, fight with him like that!"

"What do you mean Iris?" Clemont asked, his voice conveying his confusion.

"Yeah he should have trained it like any other pokemon." Max added.

"Are you being a sore looser?" May teased lightly.

Iris flushed and shook her head fervently, denying nearly everything.

"No it's not that it's just that Deino's are very special cases." She grimaced. "And it's quiet shocking to see one trained to fight a real battle like this."

"Why's that?"

"Deino, the irate Pokemon. They cannot see, so they tackle and bite to learn about their surroundings. Their bodies are covered in wounds." Cilan recited, bending to his knees to get a better look at the dragon.

Cilan outstretched his hand, acutely aware that he might be hit in the process. He tensed when Deino shifted, yet all the dragon did was lean his head forward into Cilan's palm, chirping at the connoisseur in happiness. Cilan looked on in astonishment, looking at Ash who smiled brightly.

"Oh yeah." Ash smirked. "Deino's are blind, that can't see anything, so it was harder to train him like every other Pokemon I had."

"So how did you train him?" Brock asked amazed.

Ash and Paul smirked as one.

"That was a lot of bruises we got from that training session." Paul grimaced, subconsciously rubbing his stomach at the memory.

"I'm not going to lie to any of you but I actually got it from a cartoon." Ash shrugged. "This one character was blind, and she used her feet and limbs to locate her enemy with this thing called Seismic sense, basically it was different in the cartoon obviously, where she'd use a special type of magic to help her see." Ash placed both feet on the ground, forcing nearly everyone to assume he was mimicking position the character made often.

Both feet were close together, right foot an inch in front of the left foot, both hands were close together mimicking the position of Ash's feet.

"At first she used to detect people like this, but we later on learned it was easy from any position or movement she made as long as she was touching the ground." Ash elaborated. "So we taught it to Deino with the use of the other ground types and our Pokemon who know dig."

"Why would a Pokemon who knows dig help?" Dawn asked slowly. "Don't they just lock on to their targets like that?"

"Not in the slightest," Paul huffed. "Pokemon who go underground, use their own versions of seismic sense in order to locate their target, Pokemon like Pikachu, usually base it on the electricity in one's body, while Ground, normal and rock types base it on vibration. Fire types base it by heat in certain area's and so on and so forth. Unfortunately for us, we didn't know how dark types or dragon types identified those signatures so we opted to use Ground type identification to teach to Deino."

Ash nodded excitedly.

"It was really difficult, so we had to do a bunch of things and protocols in order to actually get it to work, it took us a little over a week, but we managed right Deino!"

"Right Ash!" Deino chirped, small tail wagging excitedly, all the while startling Cilan immensely.

"Oops sorry Grass human." Deino chirped, jumping behind Cilan and proceeded to push him up. "I forget I'm scary to some people."

"Thank you Deino." Cilan laughed breathlessly, unaware of what the dark type said.

Ash smiled, clapping his hands gaining the attention of the group.

Serena smiled slightly, along with Dawn and May. Something happened that made Ash, be more like, Ash, and it was quiet refreshing from his more secluded attitude.

"SO, Cilan a battle?" Ash asked eagerly. "Leaf's been dying to have her own turn in a battle lately, she's really fired up!"

Cilan gave a nod, smirking as they both began to prepare for their battle. Before anything could happen, or either could call out a Pokemon, both Ash and Cilan were barreled over by some trainers, pushing them aside as they ran to the Pokemon center.

"ASH, CILAN!" everyone called out, running over to them to help the two up.

"I'm fine, Cilan?"

Cilan let out a breath of air, grimacing, as Iris helped him up.

"I'll be fine." He breathed heavily, turning to look at the group of trainers yelling as they began to overcrowd the center. "I wonder what's going on."

"That's a big line, how am I supposed to heal Gible now?" Iris murmured.

Brock perked up, raising an arm towards Iris who looked confused.

"I'm a certified Pokemon doctor, I can heal him up in no time." Brock smiled, earning a sigh of relief from Iris.

"Thanks Brock."

The boy hummed, smile falling slightly as he dug through his backpack for the materials he needed.

Ash watched carefully, eyes squinting as he took note of all the beaten Pokemon trainers were holding. He heard hints of Darkrai and some odd trainer who beat their Pokemon down mercilessly. Ash looked confused, tensing before looking up at the sky, as if expecting to see something happened. He blinked when he saw Darkrai soar above him, following the Pokemon with his line of sight he noted the trainer who recalled him.

"Tobias." Ash stated blandly.

This competition just grew to be twenty times harder.

A/N: So yeah this was kind of short, next chapter is Ash's battle, and more insight on he tournaments difficulties. Team Rocket will show up soon, again. And trainers questioning their ability to be trainers.

That Cartoon was Avatar the last Airbender btw! I had to I watched it recently and I like both Toph and Zuko so much XD,

This story's just about to get darker folks.

Sorry for the delay, I don't have any excuse or reason why. I just sort of lost my motivation. But since I have my own laptop now, I pray it should be easier to send these stories out.

One more thing before I go. If you want to see specific scenes drawn out feel free to tell me, I have my own deviant art in which I posted a few scenes already. Just one as of yet.

If you want to check it out go here, just erase the spaces. /

Anyways that is all and I will see you all in the next one.

-Maiden Out.